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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-03-12

FOR TRADE OR SALE: Alfalfa
land. Water right uncxccllcd. What
have have you to offer? J. Taylor. jr.
Florence, Colo.
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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-03-12

BROMO.FEBRIN will cure your
cold. Try 1t. At STRHLHE'S.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
WILSON SUSTA|NS
RAILROAD BOARD
UNIONS REQUEST FOR AN INvES-
TIGATloN OF THE WAGE
DISPUTE is DENIED.
Confidence Expressed by the President
That All Questions Dealing With
Labor and Management Might
Be Left to Commission.

hington.-President Wilson has
refused the request of railroad labor
union representatives that he investi-
gate railroad executives claims be-
fore the railroad labor board, that the
carriers must adjust wages or face
bankruptcy. He also declined to sub
NIT the matter to congress.
Confidence was expressed by the
president that all questions dealing
with railroad labor and management
might be left safely to the railroad
labor board and the interstate COM
merce commission. He accordingly in
formed the labor and railroad repre-
sentatives that he was submitting
copies of kilograms received from them
to these bodies.
The reply of the president, on Sun
day, to two kilograms sent by the rail-
way labor Unions and to one telegram
from the Association of Railway Elk
ecutives is understood to have been
based on recommendation of Secre.
tary Payne. who still acts as director
general of the railroad administration
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
REFUSE TO CANCEL
|NTERALL|E0 DEBT
PROPOSAL BY BRIToNs DOES NOT
MEET WITH FAVOR
IN AMERICA.
England Proposed Cancellation Of All
lnterallied Debts ain the Interest
of Good Relations Amongst
Peoples"

Birmingham, England.-The British
government formally proposed can
collation. of all interallied debts, but
the proposals We're unacceptable to the
American government, said j. Austen
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, in speech to his constituents
here on February A.
ITO make them again." Mr.. Cham
berlain continued, "would be, l think,
beneath our dignity, and would render
us liable to misconception of our
motive"
I'm making Them" he added, tive
sought no national advantage for our
selves. We proposed solution in
which we should have foregone claims
larger than any RENTED to uE and we
proposed it because we believed il
would be in the interests of good rela
tons amongst peoples, the rehabilita
| ton of national credit and the restora
ton of International trade.
| "Our great international debt is due
to the obligations we undertook on be
half of our allies. If we had had only
ourselves to consider we should have
been practically free of external deb
ut the presentNtim
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
BOYS PLAYED WITH EXPLOSIVES
Teacher and Seven Pupils Are Dead
. as Result.

Lawrenceville, Ill.-Eight persons
are dead and another probably fatally
injured as the result Of the explosion
of a can of nitroglycerin at the Cross
roads school, two miles west Of here,
shortly after noon Monday.
Crossroads Is two-room country
school and a small stream runs through
the grounds. At the morning recess
some boys saw a can lodged against
the bank Of the stream and began
throwing stones at 1t. AT the noon In
Permission one Of the boys fished the
can out Of the water with stick and
threw II across the ditch to his COM
pani0ns. They were attempting to
open 1t when it exploded. The boys
were blown from ten to twenty feet by
the explosion. The teacher was COM
Ing cut Of the schoolhouse when the
explosion occurred and was killed. The
bodies Of the victims were crushed and
mangled almost beyond recognition.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
JAPANESE DESIRE PEACE.
Such Is Assurance Of American Trav-
eler Upon Return.

San Francisco.-Japan desires more
than anything else to maintain friendly
relations with the United States, j.
Russell Kennedy, head of the Kokusai
news agency of Japan, declared in an
address before Kiwanis club here Fri
day.
Mr.. Kennedy, who has just COM
pleted a tour Of the United States
after about fifteen years in the far
east, said that everywhere he went he
had been asked whether there was to
be war between the two countries.
IF it were not for the serious side
of that question, involving, as it does
the suggestion of created impression
of possibility, indeed Of probabili
ty, the question in itself would b'
childishly absurd" he declared. .
can give you the most solemn assur
ance that If there Is one thing in tn,
world that Japan wishes to avoid NOR
than another, 1t is the rupture o
friendly relations between this countr,
and herself"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
BRITISH CHIEF SAYS
GERMANY MUST PAY
DEMANDS MUST BE MET, If
TEUTONS ARE CAPABLE OF
MEETING THEM.
Lloyd George Declare Germany is
Morally Bound to Pay for Wanton
Damage She has Inflicted, and
That She Will Pay.

Birmingham, England. Premier
Lloyd George in speech here Satur-
day, February 5. dealing with the re-
cent meeting of the allied supreme
council, said that before the last cleo
ton he laid it down that Germany was
morally bound to pay for a wanton
damage she had inflicted but that one
could only get from a debtor what he
was capable of paying. He asserted,
in this connection, that Germany must
not be allowed to pay in way that
would injure the country receiving
paying by cheap goods, for example
Exchanges will have to be stabiliz-
ed" he said. II have an idea Germany
is not trying to stabilize hers" His
advice was for Germany TO accept the
allies bill and make an effort to pay
it.
Germany, he continued, was strong
and powerful nation and she should be
made to pay. He would tell DR.. Simons
when he met him in London that Ger.
many was not making real effort to
pay her way.
Referring to home conditions, the
premier declared that the nation sim
ply was going through difficulties in
evitable after great war, but he die
not doubt it would weather the storm
as it did after the Napoleonic wars.
"Let us stand together" he adIAon
ished. ut is unity that will enable u.
to win. This is no time to be pulling
both ways"
Mr.. Lloyd George pointed out tina
Germany, being temporarily bankrupt
represented battling difficulty to thu
experts when 1t came to the question
Of her paying outside her own frontier
With all these difficulties in mind, h
said, the allies had reached certain con
illusions last week and had presente,
a bill which was framed on the basi
of German prosperity. If German
were not prosperous, she could not pay
and If she were prosperous she coul
and must.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
MOVE TO RESTORE .
PEACE IN IRELAND
PLAN CONCENTRATES INDUCING
ULSTER LEADERS TO AGREE
TO PARTITION PROPOSAL.
Negotiations Said to Be In Progress
Between British Prime Minister
and Ulster Leader with Hope
OF Reaching Settlement

Dublln.-Interesting rumors are cir
culating in Dublin with regard to fresh
efforts the government is reported to
be making to effect settlement with
Ireland The heller is growing that
an important development may come
10 light when parliament reconvenes.
According to one report, the govern
ment is trying to bring the Ulster lead
ers into line with well-formulated
scheme to persuade the south TO ac-
cept the partition provided for In the
home rule act and work under 1t. This
version of the reputed plans has 1t
that the prize to be offered for ac'
ceptance Is grant of full fiscal
autonomy to both sections of Ireland.
This would be coupled, so far as the
south Is concerned, with an offer to
release political prisoners and grant
amnesty to Irish republicans general
ly, including members of the Irish re-
publican army, and even men ION the
rum"
Negotiations to this end are now pro-
cetulISs IL 10 SStlu, DtlWeeH MT. l1iOyu
George, the prime. minister, and Sir
Edward Carson, Ulster leader, In the
British parliament, on the outcome of
which depends whether the plan will
be formally announced.
Other concessions are said to be con-
templated, particularly with regard to
the amount of taxes payable to Eng.
land under the new act
Representatives Of the Sim Fein
have refused to treat the reported
scheme seriously, saying that unit
some concrete, bona fide proposals had
actually been made they would moi
waste time In speculation.
Prominent Nationalists, when theil
views were sought in the same con
nection, said they had no doubt that o
concession of fiscal autonomy woult
go far toward satisfying the Irisl
peoples demand for independence
and, If offered In a generous spirit
would greatly weaken the position OF
the Sim Fein II the republican parlia
ment should reject it.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
MRS. PEETE is FOUND GUILTY
Life imprisonment Is Penalty Fixed
for Slayer Of Denton.


Los Angeles.-Mrs. Louise L. Peete
was found guilty by a jury, on Feb
ruary 5, of murder in the first degree
for the Staying of Jacob Charles Den
ton. The jury fixed the penalty at life
Imprisonment.
In the trial of Mrs. Peete for the
alleged murder of Denton, which was
begun here January 10, the prosecution
sought to establish that Denton was
last seen alive June 2 last, and an
nounced the theory that he was killed
by Mrs. Peete on that date. A body
found September % in the basement
of the Denton residence was declared
to have been that of the missing man.
1t was shown that Mrs. Peete was
renting the house at that time, Den
ton retaining an apartment there.
Other testimony was that after June
2 Mrs. Peete pawned diamond ring
which belonged to Denton and disposed
of wearing apparel and other of his
possessions, while several witnesses
asserted she had made contradictory
statements about his disappearance
Mrs. Peete declared Denton was
alive after June 2, but she did not
know where he had gone. She as
serted she had his permission to dis
pose of the articles named Her coun-
sci maintained that none of the prose.
cution's assertions in connection with
the case had been established beyond
reasonable doubt.
Mrs. Peete came to Los Angeles from
Denver month after the finding OF
the body, announcing she would assist
the police in investigating the case
Her indictment and arrest followed.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
OVERR|DES VETO Of
PLAN TO GUT ARMY
HOUSE BY EMPHATIC VOTE RE.
JEcTS STAND TAKEN BY
PRESIDENT WILSON.
Chief Executive Declares He Is Un-
able TO See in the Needs of United
States Justification for Reduc-
tion Of Force to 5000 Men.

Washington.-Th joint resolution
directing the stopping OF enlistments
until the regular army is reduced to
1I5.0O0 men was passed Saturday
night, February >, by the house over
President Wilson's veto The vote was
271 TO 10, one member voting present.
The presidents veto message was
not read to the house until six hours
after its formal delivery, but, once
read, action was swift. Those voting
TO override the veto included ninety
two Democrats.
Action was expected to be taken on
the veto early in the week in the sem
ate, where II was said prospects were
favorable for overriding the president
The president In his veto message
informed the house that he was I'M
able to see in the condition Of the
world or In the needs of the United
States any such change as would
justify reduction of the force from
100000 men.
Quoting the resolution as restricting
the enlisted strength of the army to
175,O00 men. the president says:
"No provision is made in the reso-
portionate strength in the combatant
corps of the army and a mere discon-
tinuance of enlistment would, for a
tong time. preserve the staff corps
- 9 tn FOL ictn
combatant corps insufficiently manned
to maintain the instruction and train
ing which ought to be assured II ar
army of 175,0O0 men Is to be efficient
in proportion to its aggregate mum
Der.
''On the 4th day Of June, 1920,
signed bill passed by the presen
congress providing for the reorganiza
ton of the army. Because of the pro
foundry disturbed conditions of thu
| world and in order that full benefi
might accrue to the people of thu
United States from the lessons of tn,
| world war, as to what, under moderl
conditions, is required to be tn
nucleus Of an efficient army, the wa
department had recommended an arm
Of approximately 100000 men.
II regret that am not able to Sc
In the condition Of the world at larg
or In the needs of the United State
any such change as would justify tn
restriction upon that minimum whic
is proposed by the house joint resolu
J ton"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Tennessee Repeats Cigarette Law.

Nashville, Tenn.-The anti-cigarette
law has been failure in Tennessee.
Last week the legislature repealed
the law, there being but little opposi-
ton in either house. For years, prac-
ucally ever since the anti-cigarette
law was passed, cigardts had been sold
In Tennessee by every store or dealer
selling tobacco Of any kind. The
state could sell no licenses to cigar
cite dealers. because 1t prohibited the
sale of cigarettes and was thus losing
considerable revenue every year on
sales which 1t could not legitimately
tax.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
REvoLuTloNlsTs ARE EXECUTED
Men Who Opposed Soviet Government
Face Firing Squad.

London.-A Copenhagen dispatch to
the Central News says the Bolshevik
newspaper Izvestia reports that the
revolutionary committee in Siberia has
been tried by the soviet tribunal at
Tomsk on charge of secret and
treacherous negotiations with Japan.
The foreign minister of the far eastern
republic and five other members OF
the committee We're shot. Six other
members We're given life sentences.
The dispatch says the soviet Is ar.
ranging an agreeent with China
against Japan.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Senate Rejects Ban on Smoking.

Washington.-By an overwhelming
majority the senate on Saturday EN-
phatically declined to embark on the
making Of blue laws and by the same
token rejected an amendment by
Senator Reed Smoot Of Utah banning
smoking In government departments.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
ooodino Asks Cut in Rates.

Gooding ON Saturday called on Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Me-
Chord about plans Tor bringing before
the commission proposal to reduce
railroad rates In the west.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Endeavor. to starve Himself.

Dallas, Ore. George f. West,
charged with having slain his wife near
here three months ago, has completed
his forty,eighth day without food, nc
c0rding To physicians at the hospital
where he has lain since an attempt to
take his own life by drinking acid.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Mexicans Practicing Sabotage.

Mexico City.-The residence Of the
archbishop of Mexico, the Most Rev.
Jose Mora, was bombed early Sunday.
A bomb also was exploded at the en-
trance of the building occupied by
Juergens & Company, American manu-
facturers of jewelry. There were no
casualties. The bombings are declared
to have been attempts at sabotage by
radical labor elements.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Murders Fellow Patient.

San Bernardino, CALM. J. Canen
Of Los Angeles, an inmate of the state
hospital for the insane ut Patton. was
instantly killed by William NJ. Murphy.
another patient OF this city. Murphy
severed Caneff's head from his body
with IN axe.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Bank Robber Captured.

Joplin, Mo.-A masked man held up
the Bank Of Butterfield, In Barry
county, forced Charles Jefferys, the
cashier and his daughter into the
vault and escaped with about $500
The cashier recognized the man and
gave HIS name to citizens who formed
posse and captured Homer Bayless
a son Of a prominent farmer, who con
feSSed
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11

Harlan, Ky.-More than eighty-nine
hours after they began to deliberate,
the jury trying DIR. H. G. WINES for
the murder OF Miss Lura Parsons,
school teacher, was dismissed by the
court Friday afternoon.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Nebraska Bank Robbed.

Omaha.-The Citizens State bank Of
Orchard, Neb., was robbed and between
$4,000 and $4,000 in Liberty bonds
taken. after robbers had bound and
gagged II. II. Browning, cashier and
blown the vault doors.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Boundary commIssIone ,pIes.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. G. bernard,
aged 81, commissioner Of the United
States section Of the international
boundary commission Of the United
States and Canada, died Sunday after
Q months illness.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Soviet uraed in Berlin.

Berlin. Articles urging student vol
untcers to proclaim a soviet govern.
ment IRE being printed by the Neue
Zeitnng. bolshevik organ at Munich
1t Is announced In Munich dispatches
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
APPROVES RELIEF MEASURES
Congress Appropriates Millions for
Hospitals and Roads.

Washington.-Two big relief meas
ures were put through the house in a
hurry Monday and third was beaten
by slight margin.
Called up under suspension OF rules,
q proceeding which required two
thirds vote on passage, the $4,000, GOO
soldier hospital bill was passed by a
rising vote, and the $10O.O00,00O road
fund appropriation won easily.
The big upset was the defeat of the
WinslOw bill to permit partial pay
ments to railroads under the guaranty
section Of the transportation act.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Harrison Resigns Philippine Post.

Manila, p. L-Francis Burton Har-
rison, governor general of the Philip
pines, cabled his resignation to Presi-
dent Wilson, with request that it he
accepted March L.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Plan to Prevent FLIRTING.

Boston.-A request for $2SOOO0 for
lighting equipment to put a check to
flirting In the parks and reservations
under control Of the Massachusetts
metropolitan district commission, was
presented to the legislature Thursday.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Hoo leland Plant Closed.

Philadelphia. Hog Island on Friday
ceased Its shipbuilding activities, so
far az the present management Is con-
cerned and the key to the vast yard
was formally turned over to the United
States shiDUlng board.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
poet Faces Courtma rtIal.

Dublin.--Lord Dunsany, poet and
playwright, who was arrested recently
after search Of Dunsany castle, In
County Meath. will be tried by court
martial for having firearms and am.
muuition in his possession.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
Ar Travel Record Broken.

San Francisco records for
travel between Reno. New, and San
Francisco were declared broken late
Monday when Pilot 8. s. Boggs Of the
air mali service made the 187-mile trip
In one hour twenty-fOur minutes.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11

Pittsburg. Kans.--rhe first strike Of
Kansas coal miners called officially
by the district board Of the union
since the passage Of the Industrial
court law Is in effect. Two hundred
eoal miners were called. out Sunday.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11

Eureka. Cal.--The steam schooner
Raymond was disabled twenty-one
miles sOuth-southeast Of Seal Rock,
near Crescent City, Cal, according to
wireless calls from the steamer Drake
10 this port.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-11
says World War Cost ss4s, ooo. 5000

Says World War Cost $34S,UOO,OOU'UU0
Baltimore. Total costs OF the world
war were declared to be more than
3848. OO0. 900. 900 BY DR.. II, r. Strong.
professor OF tropical medicine at the
Harvard medical school, In q lecture
Monday night.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-06-29


rious thinkers 10 for thing ana yeH
have got this country dead againse ~
and laughing its head OF at u L ooH
care how good it is
I promised to write and tell you
how I took ten strokes off'n my game.
but 1 have been SO busy yawning anu
wondering how ] would get thru tnS
evening on account of the piquet cruz
being broke up for the summer tnal
have not had no time to DO II. A you
will pardon my delay Will write you
the receipt now. and if it does not &c
you any good it could not make your
game any worse, If what tney say
about it are true. The trouble was
could not keep my head down, and
the longest drive 1 got in 1920 was 50.
yards at Cobbs Creek on August d
and it was a sensation to the boy who
had been losing the balls so he couio
so back and find them and sell them
to me for fifty cents apiece. tried
everything 1 knowed. I throwed my
with my putter and putting with my
niblick and pro an con- But notnine
seemed to do me any good and TINS
spring it was the same. Well. one oay
about a month ago was coming down
off the green at No. and says to
the caddie have not touched bras
sey in two years and made solemn
VOW 1 would not never do 1t again, bur
WHAT'S a vow When you are aS HOltSAA
as L am, so he handed me the brassey
and 1 walked up on the tee on No. 10
and much to everybody's surprise I
hit the ball the first time swung ar
it and that is the last anybody seen
it for quite a while. No. 10 is a blind
hole over a hill about 270 yards long
and we kept on walking and when we
finally come up to it all had was q
pitch to the green and I holed out IN
three. Now I am making all my
shots with brassey and have cut
ten strokes offn my game. Just the
other day was playing No 8, which
is a 175-yard hole from one hillside
to the other and when we finally
found the ball it was on the green on
No. 10, which is $50 yards further on.
That's what the one-c1ub game has
done for me. 1 shoot at No. ana
am on No. 10 in one.
had lot of things I wanted to
talk over with you, Warren, but as It
is will get letters from all over the
country saying I am trying to initiate
Ring Lardner and I had ought to
stick to something I know how to do
if anything. I always laugh my head
off when I get one of them letters be-
cause they was talking this kind OF
language in Centerville Township In
1884 and that was before this fellow
Lardner was born. Your friend.
DODD.
The Topeka state journal., 1921-06-29
MEANING OF LEwIs's DEFEAT.

In the defeat of John L. Lewis.
candidate for the presidency of the
American Federation of Labor, at
Denver, government ownership gen.
orally, and the Plumb plan in par
ticular, may be said to have been
dealt a death blow in the house of its
supposed friends. The vote showed
that level headed. patriotic American
citizens are in a vast majority in the
federation.
The federation members showed
clearly by their votes that a program
of Matchmaking the basic industries
cannot be placed upon the American
people, with their backs bowed with
tax burdens. They do not have the
friendly leaning to the doctrine
manifest slightly before we entered
the war. They have learned to look
upon public conducted business as ex-
pensive, dilatory. inefficient and, in
many instances. directed toward the
capture of specific votes.
Altho there is incessant demand
for the government to take up all
sorts of new work and to extend aid
to all kinds of causes, the American
people, as a whole, have less regard
for Uncle Sam as a business man than
ever before. his record in operation
of the railways, in the building OF
ships, in the preparing small and
large guns. in dealing with the air.
craft problems and, in short, in
everything except the mobilizing of
an armys>having been a blow at our
pride as people renowned for doing
things" A vast part of our war bill
represented sheer waste. thru gross
Incompetence.
"While some glowing accounts of
government ownership have been
written" says the st. Louis Times,
mot one has stood microscopic
scrutiny. In some places it is neces-
sary. for other than reasons of cheap
and good service, but at all times and
in all places public operated railways,
urban or general. have meant more
expensive service-altho sometimes
concealed in the bookkeeping and
paid by the taxpayers-and less ef-
ficiency."