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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
Propose Medical un,t for .,I..

st. Paula $275.000 Minnesota
state psycho-pathic hospital on the
University Of Minnesota campus as 4
medical college unit. is proposed in q
bill introduced in both houses Of the
legislature. The bill provides for sss.
900 for maintenance In the biennium.
II established. the hospital also is to
include an "~outpatient' department
with a stan u experts extending their
services over hundreds OF cases In
many parts Of Minnesota according to
=, p. Lyon. dean OF the school OF med
icine at the university
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
SENATE PASSES CAPPER BILL
Credit Measure Adopted Without OPP
position or Roll Call.

Washington-Passage~by the Senate
OF the Capper agriculture credits bill
was followed By arrangements for i'm,
mediate consideration of the supple
mentary farm credits measure. the
Lenroot-Anderson bill. Intervention
of an appropriate bill threatened to
defer opening of debate on the Len.
root-Anderson measure.
The Capper bill was passed without
opposition or a roll call but after sew
eral futile attempts had been made to
amend 1t. Considerable criticism re.
volved about it's sufficiency to aid the
Anderson bill contended that it will go
much further. :.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
FRENCH SEIZE RUHR ROADS
Germany Notifies France and Belgium
Of Danger in Their Advance.

Berlin-Germany notified France
and Belgium there is danger OF a col.
lision between Allied and German
forces IL the occupation of the Ruhr
valley is extended further toward
Muenster.
An Lnconfrmed dIsratch from bort
mind said the French were resuming
their advance toward Hamm, which
Is also in the general direction of
Muenster. Transport and 30 tanks
are moving from Dortmund toward
Dorstield.
THE French have taken possession
of all railway stations in the Ruhr.
according TO dispatches from Essen.
II was also reported they seized offices
of the various coal companies.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
MIKE HOLM PLAnS GAS TAX
Secretary Of State Proposes Important
Changes in Auto Laws.

Observation-Disclosures in the motor
vehicle tax law which would make
clear many sections which are now
vague and which would impose taxes
more equitably are contained in a re-
port to the Minnesota legislature by
Mike Holm, secretary Of state.
A tax on gasoline 10 supplement the
registration tax in order to compen-
safe for the difference between motor
vehicles as to the extent that they
use the highways. is among the ecom
mendations OF Mr.. Holm. The regis
tration tax might then be made pro-
p~ortioratelv lower with a c~orrespond-
ing lever minimum, the report stated.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
BULK OF ESTATE TO FAMILY

Philadelphia Merchant Leaves Mer.
camille Stock to Son.
Philadelphia-The viii of the late
John Wanamaker leaves the bulk of
his estate to members of the Wana.
maker family and provides substantial
sums for religious purposes and for
charity.
Two hundred thousand dollars ia
left to the trustees of the Pre- sbyter;an
general assembly for Bethany Col
iegiate church.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
NOTED CHURCH LEADER DIES
Chairman st. Olaf College Regents
and Formed Head Of l~utherans.

Minnes. olis-Dr. Theodore III. Dahl,
former president OF the United Lu
theran church, one of the best known
churchmen in the United States, dele
gate to Norway's centennial jubilee in
1914, and decorated by King Haakon
of Norway for his services to human
ity. is dead at an e IS. He was
chairman OF the board of regents of
st Olaf college. Mortified. Mimi. Mr..
Dahl died after a long illness.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
TO IMPROVE DAIRY EXHIBIT
Association to Assist Boys and Girls
Clubs II Milk Observations.

Owatonna. Minn.-The Minnesota
State Dairymen's association was held
here. A dairy exposition in connec
ton with the Minnesota State fair, at
ira citing exhibits of dairy cattle. dairy
machinery anG attractive educational
features is promised the Northwest by
the State fair board. II 1t is decided
that the National Dairy exposition is
not to return to the Northwest this
year. A committee OF the board came
before the dairymen's association con
vention and asked for the support OF
the organization in a project to stage
ssch an exposition next fall during
State fair week.
The spokesman said: I'VE offer tc
make possible a State fair exhibition
that will truly reflect the magnitude
and Importance of the dairying indus.
try in the Northwest"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
PEACE MISSION TO LONDON
German ENJOYS Are Reported On Way
to Ask British Intervention.

to Ask British Intervention.
London-A German mission is on
the way to London 10 make a plea TO
the British government for interven.
ton between Germany and France and
for settlement OF the reparatious ques.
ton, according to dispatches to the
London Times and confirmed by a
dispatch from Essen to the Daily
Sketch.
The Essen correspondent OF the
Daily Sketch wires
II am informed in high quarter that
a German mission will leave berlin to
seek the Intervention OF Britain"
A SPECIAL to the Daily News from
Elberfeld states that it Is officially
announced that the French have de-
cided to seize all customs and coal
proceeds, and exploit the forests Of
the occupied territories.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
WAR CLOUDS GATHER
New Peril is Injected in Franco.
German Controversy

Copenhagen-The Polish gov
eminent has begun to conscript
all males between the ages OF 22
and 40 for military service, ac-
cording to information from War.
saw.
General Piisurski, commander.
ln-chief Of the Polish army, has
gone to 3rest-ltovsk to investi-
gate Russian troop movements on
the Polish frontier.
Leon Trotsky, Russian minister
Of war, Is reported to be with the
Russian troops.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
rs indicted in Cleanup.

Harrison. Ark.-Following the In
dictment OF Is former employees. by 6
Boone county grand Try inyestiga
tion was 10 be continued by county
oficials. assisted BY the "I:sizens
court" into bridge bprnings and otief
depredations on the Missouri, and
North Arkansas railway, and the
lynching OF Z. c. Oregon. al alleged
striker.
Judge j. M. Shinn. OF Circuit corrt
announced that Is indictments had
been returned and warrants we're in
the hands OF the sheriff for service.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
GRACE LusK is PaRDoNED
Governor eiolne Frees Former Teach.
er To Save Lite.

Madison-A conditional pardon was
granted to Grace Lusk. Wankesha
school teacher. convicted OF second
degree murder in 1918. Governor
John j. Blaine said 1t was done to
save her life. She Is at present in q
private hospital undergoing treatment
Miss Lusk was convicted Of killing
Mrs. David Roberts. wife OF a Wau-
kesha veterinary with whom she WA
said to be in love.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
EUROPE MUST PAY WAR DEBT
viii Not Consider Plan Providing for
Cancellation, Says Report.

Washington While viewing the
European situation with undisguised
apprehension. and sincerely DESTROYS
of seeing a settlement OF the repara-
tions controversy, this government
will not consider even for an instant
any settlement plan that is based in
whole or in part upon cancellation of
any OF the s11, 600. OO0, 900 owed the
United States by foreign nations.
This fiat announcement was made
at the state department.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
ASKED RAILROAD LAW REPEAL
la Toilette to Lead Farm Bloc In
Drive on Esch-Cummins Law.

Washington, d. C.-Senator La Fol.
lette announced that before the close
of the present session of congress six
repeal of the Esch-Cummins transpor.
tation act and for discharge of the
committee on interstate m
which has been blocking amendments
to the law for more than two years.
La Toilette will have the support
of about half of the democrats and
nearly every member of the farm bloc
when he takes up his fight against
the Esch-Cummins law, 1t is said.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
TO MAKE RUHR NEW STATE
Plan Of French Would Create Autono-
nous Province, Says Paris.

Paris-France has drawn up a de-
tailed plan for creating an indepen-
dent, autonomous state out of the
German Rhineland III Germany re-
fused Frances generous terms for
clared in official circles.
Then new state would include the
Rrhr. 1t not only would be self-sup.
porting but would be capable Of con-
~tributing to the one PREPARATIONS Ger.
MANY was pledged TO pay under the
Versailles treaty.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
U. S. MAY GET WEST INDIES
Prohibitionlsts Declare Acquisition Of
islands Would Stop Rum Smuggling.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sentiment has
developed in both houses OF congress
in favor of the proposal of acquisition
OF the British and French West Indies
In part payment Of the war debts
owed the United States by Great Bri.
tain and France.
Many leaders who favor acquisition
OF the islands in the interest of
strengthening the natrrsl defenses of
continental United States and the
Panama canal have been Joined bv the
drys, who hold that with the West In.
dies under American control the rum
running which Is making a farce Of
prohibition could be suppressed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
Waterman Blamed for Texas Wreck.

washington-Responsibility for the
wreck on the Southern Pacific at
Humble, Texas. on December Is, In
which 20 persons were killed and IL
injured, -ss placed ~ the Interstate
Commerce commission inspectors on
J n, Smith. engine Waterman. who
had been placed in charge OF a light
engine on a sidstraek at Humble.
Smith the Inspectors report said. the
nan track ina a passing passenger
was sideswiped and wrecked.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
Superstition Helps Cat.

In France II is n custom TO give
the cat all Ii al eat on Christmas
eve, for If, by any chance, II news.
bad luck for the household Is sure
to follow.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25

let
alone do my work.
i read some letters
In the papers telling
what Lydia E. Pink
hams Vege able
Compound had done
for others and 1
thought / would try
it. Then a man told
my husband about
his wife and what
good it had done her
and wanted him to
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25

When the unexpected happens a
mans true nature begins to show on
the surface.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25

Luxury Is apt to transform pleas
Nures into burdens.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
WOMAN so ILL
COULD NOT WORK
Gained Strength, Weight and Now
Doing Own Work, by Taking Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Marion, Ind.-'T was all rundown,
nervous and bent over. I could hardly
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25

For FIVE days Ira Colver Sparks
Of Peru, Ind, lived In a wooden
box aboard a Japanese steamer
bound from San Francisco TO Homo
lulu, and kept alive on timed food
and water. Sparks gave himself up
at Honolulu. He obtained the box
In San Francisco, got a bill Of lad
Ing and shipped the box as freight
with himself inside. AS Sparks Is
an American he cannot be an immi-
grant, and as he had $15 In his
pockets and also carried a set Of
carpenters tools he cannot be a
vagrant, and as he arrived by
freight he cannot be called a pas
senger. and as the customs duties
are unpaid the Honolulu authorities
hesitate to send him back which
Is why they are puzzled.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-25
Crime in Rhyme.

Dale Stansbury, "a deputy attorney
general, on hearing that n George
POllOnius was convicted for an act
%felOnious cried: 'Oh, now harmoni-
II 2"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
LIBERTIES OF MINERS
is LIMITED, CHARGE
Teachers and Preachers Com
plain to Conditions to Coal
Commission

Washington, Z. C.-Charges that
employees of many coal mining compa-
MES in Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Alabama are held in a state of
virtual isolation in the towns where
they reside were made in a report ad-
dressed to the United States Coal
Commission by a voluntary committee
OF educators and clergymen.
A typical lease says the committee.
is that used by the II. c. Frick Coke
Company at its operations at both
Fairchance, Fayette County, Pennsyl-
vania, and Mammoth, Westmoreland
County, Pa, which states that the
rights to the premises shall be only
the right of ingress and egress to the
lessee"
The report said that the families of
miners must live in houses in towns
that are situated on company proper
ty, and that before they can have such
houses they must sign leases. Some
of which forbid the miner to receive
in his house any person objection
able to the coal company. They fur
ther restrict the use of roads, alleys.
lanes and other ways leading to the
village homes to the miner and mem
bers OF his immediate family.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
Washinaton Elm Dead.

Cambridge, Mass.-The Washington
elm is dead The official demise OF
the famed tree beneath which Wash
ington took command Of the Contin-
entail army is announced by DIT. G. S.
Sargent director of the Arnold Adore
tum OF Harvard University, in a let
ter TO Mayor Edward w. Quinn of
Cambridge Mayor Quinn, it is learn
ed. is eager to raise a fund from the
school children Of the country for a
shaft to mark the historic spot when
the tree has disappeared The trunk
will probably be cut into small bits
to be distributed as souvenirs among
the museums of the country and the
Cambridge schools.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23

Washington, ID. C.-President Cool.
idge probably will find his recreation
in horseback riding rather than in
golf and motoring the means OF rest
utilized by most presidents of the last
decade. Mr. Coolidge has been TAX
ing walk each morning lately. leav.
ing his hotel about o'clock and re-.
turning before the downtown district
becomes crowded Today his walk
took him to the White House stables.
where he selected a chestnut bay
named General" for his own use. Mr.
Coolidge. during his vacations ON his
fathers farm i'm Vermont, rode fire..
quenty.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
THOUSANDS FLEE
FROM OIL BLAZE
Wide Area in California City
Threatened When 100000
Barrels Oil Ignite
FLAMES 1900 FEET HIGH
Fiery Stream BoiIs over Tank-Fire-
men Build Dykes To Keep Back
the Blazing Liquid - The
Loss Will Be Very Heavy.

San Pedro, Cal. The half million
barrel oil tank of the General Petro-
leum Company here, caught fire from
an explosios believed by company Of
fcials to have been caused by static
ignition, boiled over and transformed
the emergency dykes, hurriedly con-
structed, into lakes of liquid fire.
The dykes were all that held the
blazing fluid from hundreds of homes
on the hillside on which it is located.
as well as from a $4,000 barrel fuel
oil storage tank and a tank of dis
tillate
In an attempt to save some of the
oil the General Petroleum tank
steamers La Placentia and Monte
bello were warped alongside their
dock, several miles away and started
TO pump oil from the bottom of the
naming container.
No accurate estimate of the loss
had been given by company official.
but unofficial observers placed it from
100000 to $1,OOOOOO.
The tanks area is five and a half
acres and depth 80 feet. It's roof was
heaved upward 15 feet by the explo-
sion, according to workmen. II is
estimated that the fire will continue
several days.
Seven hundred men, working within
stones throw of the distillate tank.
endangered by the sweep of flames as
the burning oil boiled over a second
time, kept stolidly at their task Of
throwing up dykes to stop the blazing
stream while on the streets below
guards looked at one another and
wondered if the dreaded explosion
was at hand.
The flames, towering more than
1000 feet above, the tank and reach
ing out to sea under the lash of a
strong southwest wind, soon subsidized.
however, and the vast cloud of smoke
rolled on as before, sombre black with
occasional leaping flares of flame.
Meanwhile the distillate tank. with
its 10000 barrels of highly explosive
fluid loomed up against the dead black
cloud still intact and observers from
the crest Of the hill came down to as
sure watchers on the outskirts of the
safety zone that she hasn't gone
yet"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
Kemmerer, Wyoming, Scene of
Tragic Explosion One Mile
Under earthS S Surface
VOLUNTEERS AID IN RESCUE
Out of a Total of 1873 Miners En-
tombed, Only 39 Living Have Been
Brought to Surface by
the Rescuers.

kemmerer, Wyo-Fighting their
way through the partially dismantled
portions of Frontier Mine No. l, of
the kemmerer Coal Company, rescue
workers brought out alive 81 of the
13S members entombed by blast. 1t
Is feared that the 101 men, still un-
accounted for, have perished.
The explosion occurred near the
LOO foot level. Rescue workers had
penetrated to nearly every quarter of
the way and it was indicated they had
brought out all the survivors. Smoke
blackened embers of mine cars, bur
led in a cave-in on the LOO foot level
in Entry Is, gave rise to the belief
that fire had followed the blast.
The cause of the explosion is pre-
sumed to have been a blowout shot,
according to statement issued today
by the Kemmerer Coal Company.
Throngs of women, many of them
widowed by the blast, and children
gathered about the mouth of the
shaft. Many were hysterical When
trip cars carrying the survivors
came to the surface, the crowd be-
CiitAS tIIIOSI uHCOuITOlldnle ruSllnR
forward in a mad effort to find their
loved ones, and Kemmerer police and
volunteer workers experienced the
greatest difficulty keeping them back.
One hundred volunteer workers
were searching the lower depths.
Mine rescue car No. 2, of the United
States Bureau of Mines, arrived from
Rock Springs where it was intercept
ed and its crew Immediately entered
the mine.
The survivors were found in entries
No. 27 and 80. Nearly all of them
were blackened by smoke and suffer
ing from the effects of the inhalation
of fumes, although there apparently
had been very little gas after the dis
aster
Pitiful scenes were enacted about
the mouth of the mine, as relatives of
the men came out alive rushed into
the arms of their loved ones, while
nearby stood women and children in
deepest grief, fearful lest those they
sought should never come forth.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
Man Lived with Snakes

Poplar Bluffs, -Carman MagiII.
deceased recluse who lived with rep-
tiles in log hut north Of here. was
discovered to have left $4,000 in prop
erty. MagilIs body was found beside
his bed week ago by relatives. He
described the snakes that occupied
his hut as his friends and denied Wis
itors the right to approach. His wife
and two children died so years ago
and he has since refused to eat a
woman's cooking. He lived on birds,
wild animals and herbs.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
Ruins win Be Explored.

Washington, D. ca contract has
just been concluded between the Car.
negie Institution Of Washington and
the Mexican government for extensive
explorations of the Ancient Maya civ.
ilization Of Yucatan The Carnegie
institution will start work early in
January and continue over period
of 10 years. Particular attention will
be given to excavations at the ruins
of Chichen-Itza, the ancient capital of
the Itzaes, which are the largest and
most important groups of Maya ruins
in Yucatan. The Carnegie institution
declared today that the treasurers are
expected to rival those Of Tut-Ankh-
Amen's tomb
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
.BRITONS OBJECT TO
THE SEIZURE OF RUHR
France Informed by England
That Occupation of Ruhr
Considered Illegal

London, Eng-The British govern
ment in the publication of its official
correspondence with the allies since
June, placed on record it's position
with regard to the German repara-
tions problem.
Lord CurZon, secretary for foreign
affairs, in an elaborate note dealing
with all manifold aspects of the
problem, sets forth that the British
government regards the occupation Of
the Ruhr as illegal and unauthorized
by the Versailles treaty thus sup
porting the German contention in this
respect. AT the same time, however,
he offers to submit the point to arbi-
tration at The Hague or by some
other body.
While still adhering to a tone OF
the utmost courtesy and saying moth
ing definite with regard to any separ-
ate action on the part of Great Brit
ain, Lord CurZon emphasizes that
Great Britain cannot agree with the
French policy, which he intimates
plainly seems to point to an indefinite
occupation of the Ruhr
Lord Curzon still leaves it to the
French government to suggest the
method of selecting an international
commission to examine INTO Germany's
capacity to pay reparations, but he
plainly declares that Great Britain
cannot accept the decision OF the
reparation commission on this matter.
since that commission has become
the mere instrument of Franco-Bel-
gian policy.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
Many Wounded in Berlin Blot.

Berlin, Germany.-Police reported
more than a score wounded when a
mob in the Hermanneplatz stormed
a detachment Of police, who finally
we're forced TO use their weapons. In
the BerlineT-Strasse demonstrators
attacked police, who routed the mob
after one man had fired at police.
man. Minor riots we're reported in
the suburb of Schoenburg and other
districts in which some people we're
wounded, but none killed. Nearly
100 persons have been wounded dur
inR the past few days.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
~ Fall Unconscious Under
Blows of Excite d Citizens;
Police PoWerless
RESCUED WITH DIFFICULTY
Visit of klan to Ohio City Results In
Riot-Ten Injured and IL Auto
mobiles Put Out of q.
Commission.

Steubenville, O.-Three thousand
residents of this city attacked 100
members of the Ku Klux Klan, beat
ing all OF them severely and knock
ing score unconscious. They
wrecked and upset IL of the 25 auto
mobiles the Klansmen were riding in
and shattered the windshields of the
others.
a riot call, sounded by four police
men hemmed in by the mad throng,
brought 20 additional policemen and
a force of deputy sheriffs to Main
street. where the fight started. but
they were powerless to do anything
until the anger of the mob had sub
sided.
When order had been restored to a
certain extent, although the streets
were still filled with cursing men and
boys, police by fighting their way
through the frenzied mob succeeded
in reaching the more seriously in
Jured. These victims we're taken out
of the town hurriedly in automobiles
Communicated and sent to hospitals
in nearby cities or to their homes.
No effort was made by the authori-
ties TO learn the names of the victims
or the extent of their injuries
Residents OF Steubenville have been
angered for several months at the ac-
tivities of the Klan, and tonight, when
World War veteran resented the use
being made of the American flag by
the klansmen, he was supported by a
crowd of men and boys who stood
nearby. The riot followed.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-08-23
somerset coal strlke o.

Johnstown, Pa. - Delegates Of 40
local unions Of the United Mine Work
ers in the Somerset field in session
here voted to call of the strike which
has been i'm progress in that field
since April, 1922 Announcement OF
the action was made after the session
by John Brophy, president OF District
No. 2. About $500 miners were in
volved in the strike. The operators
we're not represented i'm the confer
ence, it was said. and no statement in
their behalf was available.