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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
10 INDICTED FOR MURDER
IN "BLACK HAND" STAYING

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, March
l.--First-degree murder indictments
against ten alleged members OF a
Black Hand gang operating In
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Maryland were returned by the
'arrison county grand jury late yes.
terday.
The indictments charge the men
with numbering James Papara, alias
Jimmy Little, wealthy Paramount
merchant.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
AUTO STANDARDIZATION
DISCUSSED AT MEET HERE

Plans for further standardization
OF automobile construction were
laid today in a conference Of au'
tomotive experts at the Department
of Commerce.
Representatives Of the Govern
ment, manufacturers, engineers,
dealers and service men were pres
ent. The conference aimed at
waste elimination, conservation OF
materials, human energy, time and
money.
Among the speakers were c.. F.
Clarkson, Society of Automotive
Engineers, New York, and William
Durgin, chief of the simplified prac.
tice division Of the Department or
Commerce.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
LINEMAN ELEcTROCUTED
ATOP OF POLE At SHORE

ATLANTIC CITY. March o.
While fellow-workmen stood help
less to save him J. William Barrett,
a lineman, was virtually roasted to
death while working atop a tele.
graph pole last night. Sheets Of
flame shot from his body when he
encountered a high tension wire
bearing $4,000 volts of electricity.
Power was turned off before the
body could be removed. Barrett,
who lived at Linwood, N. j., is sur
vived by a widow and four chill
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
LIGHTHOUSE RADIO
OPERATOR SOUGHT BY U. S.

The Civil Service Commission f.
broadcasting call for a radio
operator for lighthouse service at
a salary Of 5000 year and bonus.
The lighthouse is in Baltimore, Md.
The commission is also searching
for a firefighter for the Quarter.
master Corps of Walter Reed Hos
pital at $40 a month, a cement
finisher for the Veterans Hospital
at $3.50 a day, and junior telephone
operator at the Veterans Hospital
at 81 1920 annually. Bonus goes
with all foregoing positions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
FINDS WAY TO FREEDOM
By CLIMBING GALLOWS

NEW ORLEANS, March 9.-The
gallows in parish prison aided a man
yesterday in gaining his freedom.
Cresseslo Romi, held on a minor
charge. made his way to the gallows
room and climbed the scaffold, from
which he passed through a skylight
window and alighted on the roof.
Through difficult feats in root
jumping he eluded the prison guards
and escaped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
CORSET PREVENTS SUICIDE
WHEN STAYS STOP BULLET

MONACO, Pa, March 9.--Mrs.
Agatha Taormina, nineteen years
old, owes her life to her corset.
Attempting suicide she fired a bull.
let into her breast. It struck a
corset stay and glanced. 1t headed
toward another vital spot and hit
another stay. That stopped it. 1t
was found in the corset under the
left arm.
II wanted to die" she said. Eyes,
am happy, but l wanted to die.
My sister died and / wanted to die.
too"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
BY JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS,
Former United States Senator from
Illinois.
Copyright. 1923. by Cosmopolitan


(COpyrlght, 1898, by Cosmopolitan
News Service)
NEW YORK, March al have
been active in every land that
was at war in the late world con-
flict. Russia was the only land
| was not called to visit in the
protection of the interests con-
fided to me. Europe is seething
rs a cauldron and can soon flame
out into another world war. The
United States is the one land that
can avert this disaster.
France Is Suspect.
England suspects France Of mill,
taristic aims in her advance on
Germany. A large portion Of her
people charge France with a secret
intention to take all of the German
Rhineland and to keep 1t in re.
taliation for Germany's having
taken and kept Alsace and Lorraine
This would re-kindle the policy OF
invasion Of territory az a means
for collecting debts or gratifying
grievances and revive the old policy
Of war at every national border.
France charges England with
commercial jealousy, saying that
1t is the intention Of England to
surrender France and the treaty OF
Versailles to cultivate trade with
Germany and to defeat France in
her effort to rehabilitate herself
All this has bred anew mutual
distrust and hatred between these
great lands.
Russia joins Germany in her re.
sentiment against the allies-par'
ticularly as to England, France
and the United States.
The hands of Germany and Rus
sia now are united with Turkey In
her scheme, under Mustapha Renal
to drive out Of Turkey all the ma
tons now claiming territory in
Turkey under concessions from the
old governments under the sultans
The cry in Russia and Turkey Is
like that OF a part Of Ireland: For
ourselves alone"
Will Affect All.
When Turkey begins to assert
by force her intentions of a TurkeS
for Turks, it will be the signal fol
| a general war. England and France
will be engaged in preserving them
| selves against Turkey and Russia
Then Germany will be moved to re
cover where she has lost, Austria
will try to retake the lands lost tc
Rumania and Czechoslovakia. All
the Balkans will be aflame, and, In
the spirit OF desperation voiced hS
the oft-repeated phrase: I'VE can't
lose any more than we have, we
have everything to gain--go for it,
War will be general. Now the
United States will have to protect
her interests by entering into the
strife to save the American schools
and colleges In Turkey and to se
cure the lives of her American
Christians. America can prevent
, these war disasters by announcing
her Willingness to serve as mediator
in the difference of the contestine
lands. This can only be done by
America serving each land as thai
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
Chinese Cabinet Resigns.

LONDON, March 9.-The Chinese
cabinet has resigned. said a dis
patch from Shanghai today. This
Is the eighth Chinese government
change within a year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
AL Semacher Manager
OF Film Stars
Is Dead

Los ANGELES, CAL, March
9.-"Ar Semacher, manager Of
several motion picture stars,
who came into national promi-
hence as manager of Virginia
Rape, who died during a party
given by Roscoe Arbuckle in
September, 1921, died in his
Hollywood Park home here
early today from heart disease.
According to physicians he
had been in failing health for
the last two months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-09
Clifford Twice Wed;
Served Sentence on
COunterfeiting Charge

SCRANTON, Pa, March o.
Patrick j. Clifford, inventor OF the
Clifford automatic train control,
erstwhile railroad detective, barber
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
NARROW ESCAPE
Gunnison Empire.

Gunnison Empire.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Eilebrecht mar
rowly escaped death last Saturday
when the truck driven by Mr.. Ellie
brecht went through bridge on
Spring creek in the Taylor river can
on by the Elmer place, throwing him
into the river and Mrs. Eilebrecht
out of the truck.
The two were driving the car full
of lumber for a new bungalow, up to
Gandy's ranch. When the truck was
entirely on the bridge it gave away
and the car tipped almost on its side.
The jar was so forceful that Mr.. Ellie
brecht was thrown back over the
lumber and through the hole is the
bridge into the water Mrs. Ellie
brecht fell from her seat, but clung
to the windshield until her husband
climbed from the water and rescued
her Neither suffered serious inju-
ries, but both were severely bruised
Mr. Eilebrecht was cut under the
right arm,
The truck was not damaged in the
least; however, it would have fallen
into the water except for the heavy
lumber extending over the back
With the exception of two punches
of shingles, none of the lumber was
lost
The accident was occasioned by
rotten stringers. Last year three new
stringers were put in the bridge, but
that repair was not sufficient. A crew
of men has been sent to the rescue.
A few minutes before the accident
Mrs Eilebrecht hung her pocket book,
containing considerable money, on a
nail in the cab. This thoughtless act
saved the purse probable one-way
trip down the river. Mr.. E. lost his
glasses in the water, but they were
recovered unbroken.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
Culled From the Files si the
Pitkin Miner.

Thos. Kane was in town from Gun
nison.
County Clerk Brothers was in
town on business from Gunnison.
Thos. Huxtable returned from
fishing trip on the Gunnison river.
DIR. Chas. G. Davis was over one
day during the week from Waunita
Hot Springs.
A large crowd attended picnic
at the Red Jacket gulch and all re-
port fine time.
F. p. Winslow and family of VAL
paraiso, Inliana, were visiting his
brother, C. w. of this place.
Mrs. o. M. Carter and daughters,
Misses Leila and Mabel, were in
town yesterday from Ohio City.
John Lynch, mining man of Tin
Cup, shot and mortally wounded VIM.
Connely, also a mining man of that
town. Lynch claimed self defense as
the reason for the shooting.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
TENNIS is IN FULL SWING

Gunnison Empire.
Westerns tennis teams will go to
Salida Saturday to compete in singles
and doubles with the Salida Tennis
Association.
The teams, under the supervision
of Coach Krause, will consist of Mrs.
Victoria Benjovsky, Miss Frances
Boyle, Prof. Damson, DR.. Mcdonald,
Byron Hewett, Charles Graham and
Clifton Darnell.
Monday afternoon at 500 o'clock,
the fifth annual tennis tournament
of the summer school will begin.
First will be girls singles between
the students and the faculty. The
Normal Book Store has offered a
racket and two balls to the winner.
The second match will be singles
between the men of the faculty and
the student body. The prize will be
a small loving cup offered by the
Rexall Drug Store.
The third will be mixed doubles,
the prizes to be book of Cowboy
Songs and Poems by Lomex, of the
University of Texas, and large box
of stationery, both given by the Col.
lege Book Exchange.
On Saturday, August IS, the Salida
tennis club will play return matches
on the home courts A slight admis.
sion of ten cents will be charged each
for the morning session and the af.
ternoon session. This will help de.
Tray the expenses of entertaining the
teams while they are here.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

AT the meeting Tuesday night in
memory of the death of President
Harding, the Council unanimously
adopted the following resolution:
Whereas, the great and beloved
President of the United States, War
rem G. Harding, was suddenly and un-
expectedly called from us,
Therefore, Be it Resolved by this
Council in the memory of the death
of Warren G. Harding, that no bust
ness be transacted at this meeting
and the meeting be and is hereby ad-
journed until Monday, Aug. 13, 1923.
JOHN l.. PASIC, Clerk.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
WHERE THE GUNNISON
RIVER FLOWS,
The Gunnison Empire.


The play of the above name so re-
Gently prepared by Director Wade
Hampton Clack by the aid of strictly
local scenery and mostly local actors,
has been running all week at the
Unique and has been one of the best
and most entertaining plays ever put
on here.
Being a local production might
lead some to consider that it was
probably below the average in point
of artistic ability, but inspection will
remove that doubt.
Gunnison county scenery yields it.
self very gratefully to the produc tion
of this sort of movie and few plays
wherever cast show more beautiful
and striking landscapes.
Truman Gray, Lon and Mrs. Hart
man, Mrs. Rena Hurley, A. X. Stevens,
John Outcalt, and a host of others,
figured in the old time scenes. Bob
Potter carries a strong part, we'll, as
he always does.
we have no idea how far the play
will go as favorite, but we do know
that it was marvelously interesting
to our people and seems to us to
compare very favorably with many
others of the sort we have seen.
One thing to our mind was estab-
lished. and that is that few localities
where plays are made, can furnish
the natural scenery that this county
can. We imagine that the the di-
rector, Mr.. Clack, and his camera
man, Mr.. McClung, are artists in
their profession, for no clearer pic
lures were ever shown on the Unique
screen.
The broncho bucking scenes at the
race track, taken during the recent
celebration were true to life and very
clear and should be of great interest
in the east where such things are
heard of but seldom seen.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
MEMORIAL SERVICE
The Gunnison Empire.


Impressive services will be held
Friday at the court house lawn in
memory of our late President, War
rem G. Harding, under the auspices
of the American Legion.
At two o'clock, all patriotic organ
izations will meet in town and pa
rade to the court house while the
band plays dirge. The invocation
will be made by Rev. Geiser, the
band will play america" while the
people sing. John Heating, superin-
tendent of the Pueblo schools, who
has been teaching here this summer,
will give the address. The trumpets
will call ITO the colors", after which
the band will play 'sThe Star Span
gled Banner. At the close of the
ceremony "taps" will be sounded
while the flag is raised to full mast.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
ONCE TO EVERY MAN

Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, Gods new Messi ah.
Offers each the bloom or blight
And the choice goes by for ever
'Twixt that darkness and that light
Then to side with Truth is noble,
When we share her wretched crust
Ere her cause brings fame and profit
And. tits prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses,
While the coward stands aside,
Till the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they had denied.
Though the cause of Evil prosper,
Yet, tits Truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be Wrong,-
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth One within the Shadow
Keeping watch above His own.
james Russell Lowell.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
20 YEARS AGO
Copied from the Files Of the ElDs
Mountsin Pilot
August II. 1923.

august IL, 1873.
E. r. Warren departed for his
home in Colorado Springs last week.
After weeks visit in Gunnison
Miss Edna Rockefeller returned home
Monday.
Mrs. S. E. Farley has been spend
ing a week with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Cuthbert.
VIM. Hinckley has accepted the
position of blacksmith at the. Au-
gusta tunnel.
P. j. Hurley, county assessor, ar
rived in town Saturday and will re-
main some time.
Mrs. Elfred is now employed in the
store of John McCosker, jamie Will
Hanson having resigned the position.
Jos Block and family accompanied
by Deacon" Hurley departed today
for three weeks outing on Taylor
river.
A contract has been let for the
hauling of 100 tons of Sylvanite ore
to the new mill now building at
Gothic.
Herman Schraft and family have
returned. 1t is strange how the old
timers always return after leaving
the Buttes.
1t is announced that the wedding
of Miss Lavina Charters and Mr..
Charles Young will occur in Gunnison
August 10Th.
Adam Miller, who has spent some
days here visiting relatives and
friends, returned to his home in Dem
YER yesterday.
A jolly crowd consisting of the
Misses Redmond, Mclaughlin and
Bruce, and Messrs w. A. and Edgar
Wilson, climbed Crested Butte noun
tain Sunday, arriving at the top
about one o'clock and reaching home
again at six in the evening.
A very enjoyable party was held at
the home of F. E. Songer last Thurs
day evening, the occasion being Miss
Mabeps seventeenth birthday. The
evening was spent in dancing, Mr..
Songer furnishing the music. Re-
freshments consisting of ice cream
and cake We're served.
The Augusta company shipped a
20-ton car of first class ore last week.
Regular shipments are to be made
from this ore. The high grade going
to the Pueblo plant of the American
Smelling & Refining company while
the second class goes to the U. S.
Reduct ton company's plant at Canon
City.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
WILL INTEREST CAPITAL
Pitkin Miner.

Eithiu mlu6r.
George Brooks, secretary of the
Gold Cup Mine near Tin Cup, and H.
M. Eilenberg, superintendent of the
mine, left here Tuesday for points in
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and New York, to return in
six weeks. Before they left, the two
bought flivver and they expect to
travel east and back in it.
On their trip the gentlemen will
interest eastern capital in the mine
and the adjacent country. The Gold
Cup officials have a vision of the pos
sibilities which lie in that country,
and they are endeavoring to culti-
vate them to the fullest extent.
AT present there are few men at
the Gold Cup, but upon the return of
the promoters, the company will put
larger force of men to work.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
A Course for the Iudge

"How is it," asked the magistrate,
that you managed to take this mans
watch from his waistcoat pocket
when it was secured by a patent
safety chain?"
MY fee, your worship" replied the
prisoner with dignity, "is 80 shillin'
for the full course of six lessons
Daily Mail.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

is often caused by an inf1amed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is infiamed you
have rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing. Unless the Inflammation can
be reduced. your hearing may be de-
stroyed forever.
do what we claim for it-rid your system
Of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
has been successful in the treatment of
Catarrh for over Forty Years.
Sold by all druggists.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo. o.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
Episcopal Church Being Redecorated
The Gunnison Empire.

Extensive decorations are going on
in the Episcopal church under the
supervision of Mr.. Geiser. The
changes were begun about month
ago and the main work is expected
to be completed before the end of
August.
The chancel has been extended sew
eral feet and two extra steps put in.
Before this was done the choir lift,
the organ, and the alter rail were
crowded up against the altar, MAX
ing it inconvenient as we'll as unat-
tractive. This change has decreased
the seating capacity in the body of
the church, but small partition in
the back of the main part of the
building will be removed, and the
material used to build vestibule in
front of the church, thus increasing
seating space and adding a room at
the same time.
The walls are being tinted from a
dirty red to an inviting grayish white
and the beams over the sanctuary
will be stained and decorated with
colors.
The most artistic decoration is the
altar-piece which Mr. Geiser is
painting. The central figures are a
saint with two angels by her feet.
This will be over the altar against
BACKGROUND of blue. When the in
terror is finished it will be one of the
most beautiful in Gunnison.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
PIANO AT A SACRIFICE

Now stored near Crested Butte, and
will sell at big discount for quick
disposal. Terms given reliable party.
Write at once for price and full par
ticulars to The Denver Music Co,
Do,or CoIo 31-4t
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09

Foreman-"Yes, I'll give you job
sweepin' and keepin' the place clean"
But Pm college graduate"
"Well, then, maybe ye better start
on somethin' simpler"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
COMFORT FIRST

To the belle of the Southern Sea,
A good missionary said, said he,
"a calico skirt
Is as cheap as dirt"
But is it as cool?" said she.
Maniac.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
Local and Personal

T. j. Creel is in town from Lake
CITY this week.
Special election at school house on
Tuesday, August IA.
Mrs. Susie Miller of Gunnison,
spent Sunday in town.
The Boyd girls were up from Gun
nison again on Sunday.
-
T. C. Taylor and family spent the
day in Gunnison Tuesday.
Big dance on Labor Day will be
given by the Pythian Sisters.
Paul Panian's name is added to the
Pilots subscription list this week.
Tom Mcneil has purchased the
Dodge car from Mrs. Dora V. Kerr.
The T. C. Taylor family went to
Gothic Wednesday to spend the day.
10
John Arnott, who has been quite ill
at his home here, is improving rap
idly.
Fred Gulliford is driving a new
Ford sedan, which he received last
week.
Albert Soderlind resigned at Smith
Hill Monday and went to Gunnison to
locate.
The o. ]. Ross and Henry Steinberg
families spent the day on Taylor
Sunday.
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Baker,
with Mr.. Tom Sanders, motored to
Gunnison.
A crowd from here is planning to
take in the dance at Pitkin Satur-
day night.
We have been having rain most
every day and the roads are rough
and muddy.
Mrs Herman Voss and Mrs. Harry
Ruff went to Gunnison Friday to get
the Voss car.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Page will oc-
cupy the parsonage when the James
family leave
Tony DAMN and Mrs. Geo. Andre
alta were Jacks Cabin visitors in
town Saturday
Nose Royce, who has been working
at. Smith Hill, left Monday for his
home in Kansas.
j. Q. McNatt, C. F. & I. company
surveyor, came in from Canon City
on Tuesdays train.
-
The Steinberg family motored to
Gunnison Tuesday evening to attend
to business matters
Albert Arzoroli, an employee at the
Pershing mine was injured while at
work last Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary A. Jaynes has been
spending the past week with her
friend, Mrs. Carrie Cain.
The Pythian Sisters will give the
Labor Day dance. Preparations are
now being made for same.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. James are enjoy
ing visit from relatives who arrived
last week from Oklahoma
Mrs. Ida Moffitt came over from
Lake City Thursday and is visiting
her niece, Mrs. VIM. Manley. Jr.
Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Nash,
Mrs. U. S. Bailey and Ernest Botten-
held motored to Gunnison for the day.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Estes are ex-
pecting to leave soon for Santa Bar
bara, California, where they will To-
cate.
Mrs. Moffitt left, Tuesday evening
Tor Lake City, where she will cook at
the Golden Fleece mine. Clem Hell
Trick took her as far as Gunnison.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
Commissioners Meet

The county commissioners held a
meeting at the court house last
Monday. They did their routine of
business and nothing new and start
ling came up.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09

Uncle Josh was comfortably light
ing his pipe in the living room one
evening when Aunt Maria glanced up
from her knitting. "Josh," she re-
marked, "do you know that next Sum
day will be our twenty-ffth anniver-
sary of our wedding?" "You don't
say SO, Maria" responded Uncle Josh,
pulling vigorously on his corncob
pipe. what about it?" Nothing"
answered Aunt Maria, "only I though.
maybe we ought to kill them two
Rhode Island Red chickens" "But,
Maria" demanded Uncle Josh, ''how
can you blame them two Rhode Island
Reds for what happened twenty live
years ago?"-San Francisco Star.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-08-09
Ppfif IurarS

The following is the list of Petit
Jurors drawn for service at the Sep
tember term, 1923: