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The Lamar register., 1921-10-19

Through correspondence between the
y. NJ. b. A and the Emmer Products
Co. of Denver, the latter organization
has become interested in this section
as the most promising new field for
the promotion of their industry. The
local officers of the Y NJ. b. A. in
vestigated and found the company to
have every indication of being solid
and substantial institution with new
and growing industry. They there
fore on last Saturday evening called
meeting of the farmers of this sec
ton to meet with Mr.. L. II. Blaeser,
representative of the company, to
hear an explanation of the industry
and the proposition they would make
to our farmers.
The meeting was attended by a large
number of farmers from all sections
of the surrounding territory and they
were greatly interested in the talk of
Mr.. Bleaser. He explained many
things in connection with the crop of
emmer. Instead of being a new crop
as most of us believed it is the orig
inal worlds wheat and comes from
Palestine, where it was grown ty ma
tives thousands of years before Noah
spring varieties the same as our wheat.
The main difficulty has been that in
threshing by ordinary methods the
hull remains with the grain, and in
other countries is ground up with it.
The Emmer Products Co., however,
holds the patent rights for machinery
that removes all the hull and leaves
| the pure grain as in other wheat. They
already have mills that make number
of products such as breakfast food
pan cake flour, coffee substitute, etc.
They consumed the crop from 10000
acres last season amounting in all to
25, 100000 pounds, and so far the
market is growing faster than the
capacity of their plant.
The emmer grain is peculiarly adapt
ed to dry lands as it has greater
drouth resisting powers than any other
grain crop. 1t is also noted for its
heavy yield being much more prolific
than wheat. Crops of as high as $50
bushels have been known 20 be raised
under favorable conditions. There
were four farmers in the Lamar terri
tory this season that had contracts
with the company and they averaged
The Lamar register., 1921-10-19
Lamar Men Get Deer

As a result of the hunt Lamar men
brought home two deer carcasses.
Harry Lee, who went up to Rifle to
hunt deer with an old army chum who
has ranch there, is back home and
shipped 1876 pound carcass ahead Of
him. He tramped three days without
seeing one and on the fourth suddenly
ran onto three of them. He got one
easily but was too excited by that time
to hit barn, so the others escaped.
E. A. Purdy and Horace Hardin also
brought back one as the result of their
trip.
The Lamar register., 1921-10-19
TAXATION CHANGES
School Levies Lowered as County Must
Make Up Guaranty Under
New Law.

The new law in regard to teachers
salaries has beer +ound to make quite
a difference in method of raising school
taxes. The old law made it compuls-
cry for the county with the aid of the
apportionment from state funds to
levy an amount equal to $5 for each
child of school age in the county. The
law granting a minimum wage of 800
per mont for school teachers also re-
quires the county to levy tax of s75
per teacher to assist in maintaining
the guarantee. 1t has not been decid-
ed yet as to whether this viii be in ad-
dition 20 the o.ler $5 per capita ap-
portionrnent or rot. The school board
at its meeting last week in view of
this contingency made a levy of 12
mills if only the s75 apportionment
and 10 mills if both are made. The
former ley was 1880 mills. The high
school levy remains the same, 167
mills. This reduction will not result
in the reduction of taxes TO the full
amount as the additional funds, which
the law compels the county to raise.
may result in a slight increase Of
county taxes. The city council at its
meeting on Monday evening decided
to make further reduction of tv'
mills in city taxes thus making the
city levy 90 mills. The changes so
fer from last year are as follows:
The Lamar register., 1921-10-19
DISTRICT CONFERENCE HERE
Methodist Conference for Pueblo Dis
trict Held This Week in Lamar.

The Methodist conference of the
Pueblo district was held yesterday and
today in Lamar at the M. f. church.
There has been large attendance of
ministers and other church workers
from all sections of the G.strict. A
very interesting program has been
giyen Mt all sessions day and night,
End there has been good attendance
,at all the meetings. The church was
c.ow6ed last night to hear Bishop
Mead deliver an BILE and Interesting
lecture on the "Modern Church"
The Lamar register., 1921-10-19

William Logic, who was formerly
in business in Lamar in the early days
of the first boom as a partner of his
brother-in-law, Jar1e5 Swift. the well
known merchant and first stnte legis-
lator from Lamar, has been here the
past week visiting old friends and re
newing early day memories. He is
resident of New Mexico now.
The Lamar register., 1921-10-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Mcintyre of
San Bernardino, California, are here
this week visiting with Mrs. McIntyre's
uncle, P. S. Lynch, and other relatives.
They have been on a motor tour of
the east and arc now returning home.
The Lamar register., 1921-10-19

Mrs. J. E. Gordon of Bristol was
here last Friday evening attending the
Red Cross meeting.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

one feature in common with the Old
Inquisition. It has q tremendously
stern internal discipline. When I was
in Suizran, 8 town on the Volga, re-
Gently the time had just come for a
cleansing" Of the local branch Of tho
party. This meant that special COM
mitteo Of investigation had arrived
from headquarters, which was ready
TO receive and judge accusations
against any raenber Of the local
branch.
Anybody might send IN complaints
against local Communists, accusing
them Of embezzlement, immortality.
cruelty or any other charge, and if the
committee OF investigation decided
that the man or woman accused was
really guilty of the crime and that che
action complained OF was against the
interests of the party as q whole the
guilty Communist would be reprlmand-
ed or, If the charge was q serious one,
expelled from the party; which meant,
of course, the loss o. his position and
Of all the privileges that went with It.
was staying st the time win the
secretary Of the local Soviet. and ]
can certify chat although, so far "a
I could judge, he had nothing OH his
conscience OF any particular impor-
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

vincial soviets who told me that they
would do anything TO get rid OF these
pests, but that their own power is so
much less than the "Cheka's" that they
can do nothing.
The "Cheka" has been responsible
for ali the hundreds Of thousands Of
arrests and executions that have sui
lied the rule of the Bolsheviki. AS I
have said, things are little better
now than they were year CT two years
ago, but they are still very bad indeed.
Every time I went out into the streets
/ wondered il I should get back safe
home, or whether some rowing band of
"Cheka' agents would capture me ac-
cidentally or on purpose and carry me
off TO the dreaded Inquisition in the
Lubianka Square beside the Kremiin.
could never pass this huge building
without shudder for thinking Of the
horrors and misery that had been en-
dured inside its gloomy walls. Often
when | passed | met little group of
men, one in handouts, with downcaat
face and torn clothes and often bleed
ing wounds, walking surrounded by
half dozen villainous guerds, who
proSded him with bayonets to n1cve
him along. This would De prisoner
going off to prison or coming in for
examination. Poor devill There Is
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

| enough to cover them. Some OF them
had taken scanty supplies OF food with
them, and had not these supplies been
generally shared many of the prisoners
would have died of hunger before
reaching Moscow. The trip lasted ten
days
AT Moscow Captain Kilpatrick was
brought up before Bella Kun, the for
nler Bolshevik Premier of Hungary
Bella Kun accused Captain Fitzpatrick
Of being military spy for the Ameri-
can government. Fitzpatrick denied the
charge and insisted that as ne was q
Red Cross officer, lie was entitled, un-
der the rules of civilized warfare, to
an immediate release from prison Bela
Kun refused TO listen to this Plea.
Bella Kun Wanted to Visit
L. s. rs Soviet Agent
In the course Of the conversation
Bella Kun told Captain Fitzpatrick that
he wanted 60 visit the United States
as 4 Soviet agent, but dared not be-
cause he is too well known here.
After this trial Captain Kilpatrlct
was taken before Santeri Nuorteva,
who has Charge of all the Soviet propa-
ganda work in the Entente and Scandi-
navia. Nuorteya was formerly secre-
tary to Ludwig c. A. K. Martens, the
Soviet envoy to the United States, who
WAS deportcd, and had lived in New
York. The hearing before Nuorteva
consisted OF the following:
you are a spy said Nuorteva.
81 am not," Captain Fitzpatrick an
swered.
There is no uae denying it, Captain
Kiipatrick," Nuorteva replied. 81
have ab o'ute proof that you are g spy.
have jast received the following cable
from the American State Departments:
ls it possbl that Captain Ensnet
Fitzpatrick, our military attache with
Wrangel has been shot p"
Captain Fitzpatrick answered that he
was SUR the American S.atc Derart-
ment nal sent no such message, and
hat If any message at ell had been
sent it had been garbled In transmia-
ien. Furthermore, Captain Kilpatriek
ms ste3 that as he was = none rnba-
Mt aith General WTangel's frees, had
been doinG humanitarian work as a Red
Cross officer, he was emitted to an
! Immediate re ease.
Nuorte7a evidently tool this as a
joke. He laughed loudly and made a
number OF remarks about the United
ates and it, attitude toward B3lshe-
vlsn,. These Yenarls Captain Kilpat-
rick said were of 50 lewd nature
that no newspaper could print them
Naorfeva tod Captain fitzpatrick that
il he would renounce his American
citizenship ana become Sovle. agent
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

General Lititski, an oged Russian com
mander, were eli Communist officials
who had been sentenced to death fo9.
graft. 1he place was srewsome, no
light, heat or sir, snd the only outlet
was small hole about fou4 inches
square, which had & sliding panel.
When the guard came to inspect the
cell he would slide the panel back and
peep in. Even this bole was kept
closed.
Every night between ! and o'coes
the executions took place The guards
would stop before ore o. the cells ana
call out the prisoners name When nc
answered, they would tell him 20 come
out with all his belongings They
would stand these men up against the
wall st the end Of the row of cells,
strip them Of their clothes and shoot
them. Captain fitzpatrick said that
night after night he heard the shots
fred and The bodies drop to esrth.
The cell was cold and damp and two
OF the prisoners were tubercular. Cap
tain fitzpatrick, already so weak he
could not stand, contracted 3 Sc
we're Inflammation Of his lungs and
part of the time was delirious. The
two sick prisoners we're being attended
by a woman Comm INST rhy ysic.an, who
on one OF her calls noticed Captain
ilpatrcs was in worse con.
dieion than the others She demanded
Captain Kilpatrick's removal to the
hospital at once, but the Soviet authori-
lies refused to act. The physician rr q &c
six demands for his removal in ali. and
only yong time after the last de7aard
was hs anal y taken cut Il the cell.
When he got t. the hospital the ply
sicians pat nila in the typnas ward
and laid him on bed On which Il
typhus patient had just died. lie tried
TO tell the doctors that he was not suf
fering from typhus bat it was only
after seversl days that he was removed
t. the non-conteSi ward. where he
remained for several weeks.
Upon his cischarre nom the nos
pital Captain ri patrick Was sen to
she Buirsky prison, built by the
Ramanoffs and similar in design to
he fam US prison OF st. Peter and St.
Paul in Petroerad. FIe remained taere
urtii August T, when he was released.
The judge who released hi,n to hin.
It was due TO Soviet aunesEy.' n thing
was said about the demands made by
me America7 Relief Commission for
Sse re'ea g Of al prisoners.
Three days 'ster Captain y patrick
afMyed al the tnefiean Re'ief Co.s-
missions stat'on ard fs-m eaere made
his way 70 Paris. re argiFea from
France on the way 10 his home in Ala
bans last Monday.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23


ing The World War, among
them the King Of Khiva, a small Asiatic
country on the Afghan border, for the
purpose Of exSorting concessions from
countries to which these prisoners be-
long, according 20 Captain Emmet Kill
patrick, the Red Cross officer who was
recently released from & Soviet prison
ct the instance cf the American Relief
Commission in Russia, and who ar
rived in New York from France last
Monday These prisoners have been
subjected TO such cruel and barbaroua
treatment that only the strongest OF
them have survived the life of the
dungeons and hard labor prison camps
in which they nave been confined. Nov
that The famine has made conditions
worse in Russia, hundreds OF them are
dying Of starvation and disease.
Captain fitzpatrick, whose home ia
in Uniontown, Ala, spent nine and g
half months as prisoner in Russia
charged with being spy for the Amer
lean government. When interviewed
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel LAST week
nc showed plainly the results OF his
long incarceration. Blond of medium
height and broad -sh ouidered, he says
he is to-day twenty-five pounds below
his normal weight, although he has
gained considerably since his release
last August He showed photograph
taken of him when he arrived at the
American Relief Commisson's station
just after his release. II showed a
mere shadow OF q man clad in q Bweat-
er, q pair Of baggy trousers and wear
ing the WOO! hood of the Russians in
rlace of hat. His face is lined and
his ph sique has lost entirely its for
mer military erectness. Ris shoulders
are stopped, the result Of long at-
tack of lung disease ne h&d while
lying in a death cell in Moscow.
"Those war prisoners constitete one
OF the saddest sig s. in Russia TO-
day" he said. with the exception of
En~Iand and the United States, practi-
cally every nationality In the world is
represented. There are no Englishmen
that / saw, but there are number OF
British Indians. Many of them are
men with families who left their homes
in 1914 and large uercertage Of
them are Austrisns and Hanearians.
They have done everything rossib,e to
get out Of Russia. but the Soviet au-
thorities, reeliyi9g how dangerous
these men wou'a be to Boishevism II
given tie chance to tell the truth about
conditions, are holding them, stsgving.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

everybody's affairs, but to-day that Is
no longer necessary.
"Why not?" asked. "1t seems to
me that the Bolsheviki are still as sus-
picious of the most innocent move
ments on anybody's part ss they ever
could have been"
"That is So" Is the answer, s'but to-
| day they know that ever body hates
them, so that they don't need inform
ers to tell them that. Then, as the
civil war is over for the time being,
they are not afraid that anybody can
DO them much harm. And, thirdly, and
| this is the principal thing, every mem
| ber Of the Communist part is an
amateur spy, who carries tales to the
authorities for the fun of Che thing"
And they told me that the Commun-
bers, rules the whole country as the
old Inquisitior did Spain. All high au-
/ thorities, both in the center and in the
provinces, are chosen from its ranks,
and the local branches, taking their cue
from the central committees CT the
party, determine all local policy. The
"Cheka" IS body about which few peo-
pie know anything, even in Russia.
Nobody knows for certain who its rul-
ers are or who decides It's policy or
what its relation with the government
really are. But it is generally sup
posed, said my infornlants, that ii is
at bottom the same as the Communist
party, and that therefore the whole
Communist party is nothing much more
in one aspect of its activities than :
huge espionage organization.
The Communist party mas more than
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

in the United States he colid have
his freedom st once
Captain Fitzpatrick refused to con-
slider the proposition. Nuorteva tried
TO pslsuade MIN to change his atti-
tude, made q number Of apologies for
Bolshevik crude manners in handling
prisoners, but when Captain Fitzpatrick
continued to refuse the offer Nuor-
teva cot angry and sentenced the
American TO the prison known in Mos.
cow as "Lubianka No. 2.'
Captain Fitzpatrick was placed in a
cell with eight other men. with no
heat, light or ventilation. The place
was swarming with vernin of ali sorts
The food consisted Of one slice OF
black bread in the morning, fish and
cabbage soup twice day (wiahout
the fish, Captain Fitzpatrick insists
and tsaspoonful Of sugar every othey
day. Tie diet so affected Canta;n Kill
paFrick's health that. already ex-
hausted by hunger and cold, he lost
weight so rapidly that in day OF two
ne was unable TO stand.
. In the middle Of December he was
transferred to She Andronieffsky Prison
in Moscow. Conditions there were
even worse than at Lubianlsa No ..
In this prison he found the King
OF khiva and the entire royal court
OF that country. The King had been
brought 10 Moscow with all his royal
robes and Insignia of Office. The Boil
sheyiki allowed him to keep his belong
ings after they put him in prison.
Slowly all this property went for food
By the time Captain Kilpatrick left the
prison the royal treasury was SO de-
pleted that all the King had left was
beautiful diamond as large as 4
pigeon's egg, which he was trying to
exchange for bread. But no bread was
10 be had.
Fitzpatrick Sentenced 10
Twenty Years in Prism
In February, 1921, Csp+ain xilpatsica
wes sentenced to twenty years inpsis-
onmcnt.
"lt sounded vorse thar i really
was r-ptan Ki . tr;el. sa'a Il knew
20 Soviet sovcrumsut wouid ever asst
weaty years. Fr-tle mare. Faev !
could not live lonssF 1an eight months
under those aonaieions would ether
be free in sight moa-aa or dead
Ir Nf.,} teo4 r-~;
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23
Disease Is Killing
Prisoners BY Thoueands.

"Disease, sucn as typnus ana tpner-
culosis, ia taking them off by the
thousands now. The food they get is
not enough TO keep them alive and the
only way they manage TO keep body
and soul together is by having food
packages smuggled TO them. The prison
ration consists of one slice of black
bread in che morning, soup made Of
rotten fish and cabbage twice day, and
teaspoonful OF sugar every other day
Sometimes the soup has "a FISH scale or
an eye in it, but that is the nearest it
ever gets to the fish, except, OF course,
the smell. I have seen healthy men
and women thrown into prison ana
kept on that diet, only to pe taken out
five or six weeks later dead. Some
times they manage TO get food from.
the outside, but only with the great
est difficulty. When I was in prison
the Czechc~Sloyak Red Cross sent me
fifty parcels OF food. I received only
two Of them, and those had been riaed
before got them.
Every walk OF life is represented
among the prisoners, from the King OF
khiva and his retnue down to the
humbiest peasant. Many Of them are
professional men and men of high
learning, such as college professors,
bishops and archbishops, lawyers and
hn IA :
the mere suspicion that they were hos
tile TO the Bolshevik cause. In Russia
no evidence is needed to put man in
jail a word from any one. of the nail
hons Of spies which Lenine aud
Trotzky are keeping will put q man in
prison for sentence OF indeterminate
length. Besides the prisoners Of war
] met members Of the nobility, former
generals of the Russian army, priests
bishops and archbishops, and even tn,
former president Of the All Russian
Synod, who. hesore 1914. was the head
OF the Russian Church. They are all
dying of slow starvation.
'"Ehe government of Ienine and
Frotzsy IS, in fact. nnthing more than
organized terror. Millions Of les are
scattered throWghous Russia, and in
The City Of Moscow alone there are
ever $4,000 of these SPIES The spies
report e the CRIMINAL courts, the
JUDGES o. which are C9mmanisss whose
qualifications are faDatic SIN and bru-
tally. A Judge, g jsan,aS, uho con-
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

little justice in Russia to-day, only
tyranny, cruelty and anguish.
Practically everybody ife Moscow haa
been to prison once or twice. 1t is as
USUAL thing to happen as it would be
for an American 60 go to q ball game.
You are suddenly arrested either be-
cause you have done something or be-
GAUGE somebody who dislikes or sus-
poets you thinks that you have done
something, and off you go to prison to
await the convenience of thasBoishevist
inquisitors. Innocent people usually
are released after some time, though
many unfortunately have been exc
cuted as the result Of mistakes or false
evidence. People taken as hostages for
the good behavior of other slnembers
of their families have been executed in
large numbers-perhaps the most hor-
rible feature of the whole abolninable
Bolshevist tyranny. However, l have
heard OF times when people Nave gone
willingly to prison! This is when food
has become so scarce for the towns
folk that the prison ration is better
than anything they can get outside
In this case it is better to be q pris-
oner and be fed by the state than to
be at liberty and starving. After all,
in Dolshevst Russia there is not so
much difference between imprisonment
in cell and "libarty' outside.
Every Member of Communist
Party Is an Amateur Spy
People ask me about the Bolshevist
spy system, and J, too, have asked
many Of my Russian friends about it
in Moscow and elsewhere. They tell
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23
Made TO Walk Twenty Niles
Barefooted On Frozen Ground

Captain Fitzpatrick. Wit his secre-
tary and iatesprs er, beth Russisns.
were deprived Of their clotF ine and
made to march tarefocted over frozen
ground to General Budennys head
quarters. distarce of twenty miles. he
was brought up before General Huaenny
and the political Genera Menin and
examined. The examination was 'ong
conversation with these two officers
concerning conditions in Europe and
America.
After the interview CAPTAIN Kilpat-
rick vas put in box car Wit num-
ber oi ether pris ners fouaa fer Mos
COW TIE Red authorities had made 10
provision for feeding any or she pris-
cners. md few Of them had clothes
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

demned to death former professor
Of geology in the University Of Petro-
grad on o fictitious charge. was, be-
fore the revolution, prostitute on the
streets of Petrograd Not one Of the
seven Judges before whom / appeared
even looked like human being"
It is almost impossible to describe
The condition of the Russian prisons.
Captain Fitzpatrick said. In addition
to the dungeons and military prison
camps which the Gar established be-
fore his downfall, the Bolsheyiki have
converted thousands Of monasteries
into prisons ard are also using for that
purpose former arsenals, warehouses;
churches, in fact, any building strong
enough to hold people against thcir
viii, The cells are frequently under
ground, with no heat, light or ventiln-
ton, Sanitary equipment is entirely
lacking, with the result that the stencil
about these places is sickening. Neither
beds nor blankets are provided.
Before America entered the war Cap-
tain fitzpatrick was editing d country
newspaper in Alabama He served as
lieutenant Of field artillery with the
American forces IN France and after
the armistice he was made supply
officer for the American Commission to
Negotiate Peace. When the peace com-
mission left France he Joined the Red
Cross and was sent to Constantinople
for duty.
At Constantinople he was detailed
for duty with the army OF General
Wrangei, the anti-Bo's 'sNevi1 com
mapder, who was campaigning in the
Crimea. On October 90. 1920. while re-
turning from the front, where he had
been doing Red Cross work. the datach-
ment with which Captain Fitzpatrick
was serving, WAS captured in a cavalry
raid by some Of The Red soldiers cnder
command OF Geretal Budenny.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23
Boishevists Retain Worst
Features of Old Regime

TIE parallel is complete. The Boil
shevists have retained all the worst
features of the old regime. and very
often the same men who abused their
power in these positions in the old
days arc The brutal instruments Of
government cppresg2n TO-DAY. have
spoken to numerous members Of pro-