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Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
Cattle Market
Cattle Trade Slow; Hogs Steady
 Sheep and Lambs Lower

Sl6ep ana LdIIDS LOWCI KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS, Jan. 3l.-Feeders continue to send heavy supplies of cattle, hogs and sheep to Chicago and while more lwestern markets show moderate sup plies they are forced into a weak position because of the decline at the Lake market Prices for cattle here today were steady to slightly lower than week ago, and about the same as last weeks close. Hogs were steady to 10 cents lower, top S950. Sheep and lambs were 25 to IS cents lower.
 Today's Receipts
 Receipts today were 11,500 cattle. 12,0O0 hogs, and $500 sheep, com pared with 11,O0O cattle, 5000 hogs and $500 sheep a week ago, and 13.- 25O cattle, 17,1O0 hogs, and 4.850 sheep year ago.
 Beef Cattle
 Receipts Of fat cattle were about normal for this season of the year, but with Chicago prices lower and slow demand for beef in the east, killers held small orders. Trade opened slowly. Prices were about the same as late last week, and slightly lower than last Tuesday. Best demand today was for handy weight steers and choice light weight heifers and mixed grades. Rough heavy steers and cows sold slowly Most of the fat steers brought $7.5O to $8.50, and bulk of COWS $500 to $5.75. Veal calves were steady to 25 cents lower, top $12.00.
 Stockers and Feeders
 Trade in stockers and feeders was quiet The failure of fat cattle to show stronger tendencies is keeping down demand for grazing cattle will increase demand for stock grades. Few cattle are going on feed and it now looks as though the April run Of fat cattle will be small.
 Hogs
 Hog prices were steady to 10 cents lower, mostly steady. The top price was $9.5O and bulk of sales $9.15 to $9.4O. Pigs sold up to 5000. Feed CTS are making a good profit on hogs fattened on 50-cent corn. In- dications are that receipts in the next 60 days will remain short of the same period last year. Average weight of hogs is holding around 255 pounds or 20 pounds heavier than a year ago. The choice 160 to 2l0 pound grades are bringing good premium over other weights.
 Sheep and Lambs
 Sheep and lamb prices were down 25 cents. Trade was extremely dull until the decline was established and then a fairly good clearance was made Lower prices elsewhere caused the decline here. Lambs sold at 5000 to $9.75, ewes $4O0 to $450, wethers SAYS to $55O, and yearlings SIPS to $S25.
 Horses and Mules
 About 800 horses and mules are in sight for this weeks auctions Early trade was quiet with prices steady with last weeks decline
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
pRORE ARMY PLOT

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5.-More than fifty members of an alleged military ring" have been arrested in this city as a result of the dis covery of forgeries and the alteration of impirtant documents in the war department At least 10000 depart mental accounts have been falsified, says the Excelsior.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
FOUR LIONS IN AS
 MANY DAYS, RECORD
Anvil Rock Rancf1er Has Good Luck
 On Lone Hunt in Triangle N { Country
CFrom Saturdays Daily)

Four lions in four days is a pretty good cat record these days, but that IS the mark established in the west ern part Of the county last week by W. H. Ainsworth, according to word received in Prescott yesterday.
 MT. Ainsworth, of Anvil Rock, went to the Triangle N ranch coun- try on a lone hunt for four days and brought back q lion for each day.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
BOILED ROBBERS

MOLINO, Fla, Feb. 5.-The sher- if is searching for one or more sad ly disappointed bank looters who broke into the state bank here this week. The bank failed month ago.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09

MANILA, P. l., Feb. 7.-Francis Burton Harrison, governor general of the islands, today cabled his resig- nation to President Wilson, with a request that it be accepted March 4.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
SELL MAYER PROPERTY

Word was received here yesterday ot the sale of a parcel of land in the Mayer district to NJ. w. Stewart, of Mayer. The land was sold by Mir. and Mrs. J. R. Wooten, also of Mayer, the deal involving four figures.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09

The Classified Pages of the Jour- nal-Miner contain some of the best bargains to be found in YavapG County.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09

Want to rent your rooms? Use a Journal Miner Liner to do 1t quickly.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
SOLDIER MEMORIAL IS BACKED IN MAYORS
 ANNUAL MESSAGE
CFrom Saturdays paily)

That the old Gubernatorial Man sion, now owned by the state near the corner of Gurley and Mccormick streets could and ought to be made into a beaptiful park is a recom- mendation Of Mayor Goldwater in his annual message to the city council.
 Improvement of the grounds and streets surrounding it IS duty of the city under the agreement made with the state at the time the prop erty was purchased by the state in 1917. Sentiment attaches to the old structure and 1t is hoped that some day it wilR be memorial hall where souvenirs of the earliest American government in Arizona can be accu- mulated.
 Street improvements will cost about $4O0 and a concrete wall around the lot $2,OOO, according to the city's estimates.
 This lot could" says the mayor, If this wall was built, be filled up, leveled and made beautiful park. 1t would be magnificent site for a memorial building erected for use by those who fought and returned from the great war. A tribute to our soldiers, both living and dead. There is no good reason why the state should not bear the cost of putting this ground in proper shape and some effort should be made to secure the small amount needed to do this.
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09

The mayor agrees with the coun- cil that everything possible should be done to make the stay of those sent here to Whipple Barracks as comfortable as possible. He recom- mends that Steps be taken as soon as possible to, have sidewalks built on Sheldon street from Mt. Vernon 10 the city limits and also to have
Weekly journal-miner., 1921-02-09
Horses and Mules

About 800 horses and mules are in sight for this weeks auctions. Early trade was quiet with prices steady with last weeks decline
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Failure Industries Revive
Forced Self Defence
Sene to

You can put the thing simply by saying
that II Germany is destroyed all the world
will suffer from the repercussions of the
collapse, but France least of all, and the
French loss will hardly outweigh the pros
pective French loss if Germany RECEIVERS her
strength and uses 1t. as she openly proclaims
her purpose to use it. namely, In new assault
upon France. The reason for the compara-
tive advantage of France lies in the fact that,
unlike Germany, Italy Or, for that matter.
Great Britain, France is a self contained
country, with comparatively low density
OF population; France feed herself; she
can practically meet all of her requirements
within her own home and colonial area. and
she is not highly industrialized, like her
neighbors.S The foundation of France is the
peasant farm; the character Of France, that
of an agricultural country.
If the French extend their occupation of
Germany If they seize mines and manufac-
turing establishments, If they cut off from
Germany the great Rhine and Silesian CEN
tres, then Germany has lost those work.
shops. those sources of materials by wnlcn
she lives. She cannot import raw materials
to transform and export to pay for the vast
quantities of food which she must annually
import to feed her teeming population. II
French armies move over the country then
there is an end Of foreign credits. for the
risk will far exceed the promise Of profit,
and Germany will thus lose the supplies OF
raw materials which she must transform in
order to earn her food
After ALL Germany is like a factory city.
with vast mills, with a huge population of
operatives. Such a city does not grow its
raw materials or its foods. 1t must import
most Of both But If it be separated from
it's raw materials, from the things which the
factories use, then the factories must close
the operatives must migrate or starve and
the city is doomed to a vast shrinkage in
population and in Industrial Importance.
This is precisely the fate which now over
hangs Germany. a fate which no nation can
avert provided German policy continues to
pursue the same pathways il has followed
during all Of the last two years. Moreover,
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Flying Men Produce New Kind
of Bill Against the Treasury

Flying men have produced a new kind of
bill against the Treasury. In August of
1918 military aviator of the mail service
came down upon a small farm near Jamaica.
The owner put i'm claim which recited sore
damage to the growing crops. According to
the specifications, that airplane must have
spread itself over considerable ground
Families of men who lose their lives in
the service Of the United States often put
in claims typical of which was the request
for compensation for the death OF A. r.
Proctor. who was killed b. malarial poison
ing while working as n sanitary inspector
on the Panama Canal A strange case was
a request for money to repay the cost of
the funeral expenses OF West Point cadet
who had been ordered to Fort Bayard. New
Mexico, to take treatment for tuberculosis.
The Senate committee made this report:
While II is true that there is appro-
priation available for the burial of cadets
who die while at West Point, your COM
rnttee Is OF the opinion that the Govern
ment is under obligation TO treat cadets as
literally az other soldiers. This obligation
should in honor and justice be recognized.
From 1897 to 1906 Gen. Robert H. Patter-
son was Consul General of the United states
ut Calcutta India. Commercial exchange
on rupees fiuctuated constantly and while
the Treasury at Washington demanded ac-
countings at the estimated value furnished
by the Director OF the Mint and as COM
pared to United States gold. IL insisted
on paying the Generals salary on the
cheaper basis. The result was that he lost
pretty tidily on the series OF transactions.
and after his death his widow put In
claim for $4,000 for the relief set forth.
She submitted very fun bookkeeping
statement on the exchange difference in
rupee value over the whole period. The
recent war has produced several cases of
this nature, based on the depreciation of
foreign currency.
Committees of Congress give very thor
ough study to the claims made, neglecting
no demand and often assigning subcommit-
tees for extended Investigations. As a rule
the committees lean to generosity, but many
of their favorable reports are sidetracked
an Congress.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Strange Claims Against L. S. Alive With Romance

cellent reasons why the auditors of the pub
lie funds must scrutinize very closely every
claim made, because many are rather tricky
demands, to say the best about them. 1t
somehow appears that truly deserving
claim meets the chill reception meted to the
disingenuous and fraudulent. Claims cover
every imaginable circumstance.
Senator New of Indiana recently put
forward a claim on behalf Of Con Murphy.
a civilian employee of the post Office at
Cheyenne, Wyo. 1t appears from the record
that there were people around that were
fond of playing rough practical jokes on
Con Once they tripped him and his knee
cap was permanently injured. At another
time they loaded an innocent looking basket
with heavy books and Murphy strained him
self badly in a sudden effort to lift the
weight. He asked for $1,000 having worked
for Uncle Sam for fifteen years as caretaker
and janitor OF the Cheyenne post office.
yice-President Marshall put in claim in
behalf of the Commercial Pacific Cable Com
pany several years ago for money to cover
the cost of repairs made to the cable at
Guam 1t was rather a curious case. "A
boatswain Of the United States Navy was
following the course of the cable and was
buoying its location for a temporary naval
purpose when he lost hold upon a very
heavy anchor This weighty affair went
plunging to the bottom and smashed against
the cable, by i'll luck. The strands We're
crushed against the hard rock of the sea
bottom and 1t cost the cable company
something like $4,000 to put the cable in
repair.
The carelessness or inexperience of Fed
eral employees costs the Government
pretty large sum from year to year, but
persons who base claims upon such inepti-
tude have to make out clear case IL they
get their money. Uncle Sam is not easily
fooled
The New York herald., 1921-04-03

the results of the war and lay aside her
had to pay France and they had to cease
to menace France. II they did both of these
things it lay within the power OF the United
States and Great Britain to ameliorate the
situation of the Germans to assist in Ger
man recovery and thus to save Germany
from ruin.
But the German has not been willing to
pay or to submit He has refused money
he has clung to his arms wherever possible,
he has redoubled his threats of revenge, Of
the recovery OF Alsace-Lorraine. OF the
future destruction of France. He has
silenced the voices and paralyzed the efforts
of precisely those nations whose self interest
and enlightened policy alike contributed to
make them willing to save Germany. and he
has armed the French with precisely those
weapons which must II used be fatal to
him.
We have come now to something like
supreme crisis. AOn the economic side Ger
many has made vast strides toward regain
ing her old position. But all this progress
will come to nothing II she has now to face
an extended allied occupation. the seizure
and operation of her great coal districts, the
ALLEGATION of the Upper Silesan fields to the
Poles and those of the Ruhr to the French.
II, in addition, new tariff walls are
stretched across Germany. If all security
and confidence are destroyed by the advance
of allied armies then the end of the economic
recovery of Germany can be foretold
promptly.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Must Prevent New German Attack
Even if Enemy Nation Passes

A good deal of nonsense has been written
about the whole European situation. but it
was manifest that it was the duty of French
Craftsmanship to provide against any new
German attack, whether such provision
should carry with it the destruction of con-
temporary Germany or not. In the perform
ance Of this duty French statesma nship
could only weigh the interests of France.
They could only consent to run risks with re-
spect Of Germany. provided they were as
sured Of German payments and Of tho pro-
lection Of their allies,
Now without going back over the progress
Of events since the armstice OF Rethondes,
the fact stands out that the prospect Of
French realization on German payments has
diminished with each succeeding month
There Is less chance now Of French recuper-
alton through German reparations than at
any moment since the end Of the war Ex-
actly in the same fashion the prospect OF an
Anglo- American or an English guarantee Of
French security has similarly declined
France to-day faces the moral certainty that
Germany wont pay and the actual certainty
that her former associates win not under
take 10 defend France II Germany does
attack later
Therefore the French people have to ask
themselves the simple question: "Since Ger
many won't pay us, our allies won't protect
lis aud Germany will attack us when she
can why should we let Germany recover to
the point where she will be able TO attack?"
So far no one has found an answer, either
in or out Of France and this fact is the CEN
trail circumstance in the new European
situation. This situation rests on the fact
that France has the power TO destroy and
every right 10 exercise the power. given Ger
man purposes past and present.
German salvation has always rested upon
German willingness TO make enormous pay
ments which despite their magnitude did
not meet the sum total Of German destruc-
ion. and on German Willingness to recognize
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
>MANY'S DOOM SEAL ED BY HER REFUSAL TO PAY

time does not wait and the period in which
change of policy can be made effectively
has become short in the extreme.
No one cares to prophesy about European
conditions now, yet ii seems TO me that OF
all possible developments that which is most
likely Is the progressive ruin of Germany
following the extension of French occupation
and the alienation OF German properties,
such as coal mines and manufacturing es-
tablishments. More than this, if French
armies do begin serious invasion, a march
TO Berlin, we bound to see the seizure of
all elements of wealth which can be con-
sumed upon the place moved to France.
These are not OF great value by comparison
with the sums of reparations which are de-
manded, but they have an immediate value
and the loss of them carries with 1t the fur
:her disintegration of German life.
Bear in mind that for every requisition,
seizure reprisal the French and their allies,
the Belgians. have an appropriate parallel.
All of northern France and much of Belgium
was literally swept clear of livestock by the
Germans during their period of invasion and
occupation. If all reparations save in kind,
are refused France she can at least restock
ner farms and refurnish her plundered
homes, and in doing this do no more than
forcibly recoup herself in part for what was
taken from her during the war. Rumania
occupying Hungary after the collapse of
the Central Powers, similarly recouped her
self. and Budapest having profited at the
expense of Bucharest, the Rumanian capital
in the end had its revenge.
Many of my American friends say to me
that such course by the French would be
dangerously unpopular in the United States
True, but will the United States undertake
to make Germany pay guarantee France
against a new German attack? Obviously
not. 1t is equally asserted that the British
would never approve such a policy. True
again, but will the British insure France
supply the moneys Germany refuses to re-
build France? Certainly not. Then, finally
will the United States or Great Britain 60
to war with France to save a Germany
which refuses all just payment and con
tinues to threaten new invasions and new
devastations? 1t is unlikely.
In the last analysis the power lies in
power carries with 1t the menace to the
future of the great nation, which has had
fifty years of uninterrupted German menace
and not few years of actual German attack
And from the day of the armistice the whole
French people have had but two things in
mind. Germany must pay. or Germany
must be rendered harmless for period well
into the future" Lloyd George Mr.. Wilson.
one statesman after another has sought to
modify French policy. but all have failed
because none was able to modify the German
attitude. From the beginning the sole hope
of saving Germany on the economic side has
been persuading Germany TO meet her obli-
cations under the treaty and discard her
purposes which produced the war.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
By FRANK II. SIMoNDs.

THE moment has arrived in the Ger
man crisis when it is possible even
necessary 10 recognize the fact that
short OF the miraculous Germany the mod
ern industrial Germany. which has developed
In the last half century is doomed.
Within the next ten years we are almost
certain to see a transformation hardly like
anything which has happened since those
remote days when disturbances of food sup
plies set in motion the migration of the bar
baran tribes which totally overturned the
whole Roman world.
In the case of Germany the situation IS
this Industrial development. the fortunate
juxtapostion of coal and iron deposits the
unparalleled gift of the German people for
organization. led to an expansion following
the Franco Prussian war one Of the most
striking details in which was the growth of
German population from 40000.000 TO APP
proAimately 10 600 900 between 1870 and 1914.
This population living on a territory having
a relatively small area, maintained Itself only
through its foreign trade. through its abil-
lty 10 produce manufactured articles which
il bartered against raw materials and food
stuffs.
Were it conceivable that the German hold
upon the foreign market could be broken,
the consequence would be that it would no
longer be possible for Germany to support
her enormously swollen population. since
Germany could not produce the food neces-
sary for her own people. Once the foreign
market were closed millions of Germans
would ne compelled to migrate or perish by
starvation. To-day we have arrived at the
situation where, unless there be a change
swift and still unforeseen, somewhere be-
tween $4,000 900 and 2O,000,000 Germans
must emigrate
In analyzing the situation which has thus
developed it is essential to go back for
moment to the circumstances of the war and
OF the period which has followed the signing
of the armistice and of the Treaty of Ver-
sailes. The war the result of the un-
provoked attack of Germany upon her
French and Russian neighbors. in the course
OF which she destroyed Russia and crippled
France for years. The single chance for
French recovery on the financial side has
lain. and still lies. in the capacity and will
ngness of Germany to meet the reparations
demands fixed in the Treaty of Versailles
and subsequently modified in the several
conferences.
The New York herald., 1921-04-03

protect the settlers of the wild region.
Realizing this, the $4,000 settlers of the from
tier despairing of much from the United
States and abandoned by North Carolina,
organized their own State, naming 1t Frank
lin and made Gen. Sewer the first Governor.
1t endured for three years, with authority
running over 30 100000 acres and 10000 in
habitants, constantly at odds with resentfui
North Carolina: sometimes with two sets of
courts and owo Legislatures sitting simulta-
neously: often with much border pickering
and raiding "Nolachucky Jack" as Gen.
Sewers people affectionately called him,
from the river on which he built his home,
held the State together against enemies and
antagonistic North Carolina and against
even the passive opposition of the Federal
Government from March /, 1855. to March
], 1888.
Sewer was arrested for high treason by
order of the North Carolina courts, taken to
Morgantown and placed on trial. In the
middle of a session his friends from the
Nolachucky rode to Morgantown, entered
the court room, informed the Judge that he
was done with Sewer whether he realized 1t
or not withdrew their hero, set him upon a
fast horse and galloped with him back to
the woods of their own country. And no
effort was made to recapture or try Sewer
or to punish his rescuers.
This brilliant figure of the early days OF
the countryside soldier who took part in
thirty-fve battles and never lost one, who
was thoroughly respected by the wild In
dams of the border and who became finally
the first Governor of the State of tennessee
as he had been Governor of the abandoned
State Of Franklin-hever recovered his lands
and never was able to secure from the Fed
eral Government payment for the lands
For virtually 100 years this claim has risen
to the surface with every new Congress, as
far from settlement to-day as 1t was cen
tury ago.
There are many heirs to the Sewer Claim,
since the General himself had eighteen chill
dren, and the stock multiplied through Ten
nessee, Kentucky and the Southeast. The
claim Is now being pressed by Emmetta
Humphreys, ddnsinistrdtriT de bonis non, as
the legal phrase is. of John Sewer. Sr., and
John Sewer, Jr., against the United States
of America
The New York herald., 1921-04-03
Millions Must Migrate Soon
Or Quickly Face Starvation

Now. when one talks of the destruction of
Germany the words have a peculiar and
limited meaning. Whatever happens, millions
Of men and women will continue to dwell on
German soil, and the nation cannot be
destroyed. What Is meant is that the
economic conditions can be so modified that
millions Of men and women will have to
migrate or starve. and that this enforced
migration will bring about total transfor-
nation Of the situation Of Germany herself