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U. S. SECRETARY OF WAR FINDS
PACKS OF SOLDIERS ARE HEAVY
LONDON, Oct. 26. — Enlisted
men of the American army grinned
sympathetically as they watched the
American secretary of war, Newton
D. Baker, trudging back and forth
carrying the heavy pack of the
American soldier on his back when
he visited a camp of American sol
diers in the Winchester district
while in England. The men were
adjusting their cumbersome kits
when the secretary arrived at the
camp.
“I would like to try one of
them,” said the secretary to the
sergeant.
The lord mayor of Winchester,
the camp commandant and a group
of soldiers all gathered about as
Mr. Baker lifted the pack and ad
justed it to his shoulders. Then
he trudged back and forth two or
three times carrying the 70-pound
load while a pair of heavy hob
nailed trench hoots, swinging from
the bottom of the kit, banged
against his legs.
“It’s heavy, alright,” he com
mented as he unburdened himself,
“but not as heavy as the French- |
man’s pack. I tried one of them
on a few days ago and it gave me
an additional respect for the
Frenchman as a soldier.”
The secretary made himself at
home and was friendly with the
soldiers. Everywhere he carried
his pipe and several times filled it
j from some soldier’s pouch as be
; engaged in a casual chat with the
| men. “The whole country is be
hind you with everything it pos
sesses,” was one of his frequent
messages to the fighting men. In
the Red Cross hospitals the secre
| tary went through the wards and
I had a few cheery words for each of
i the patients.
II. $. $. CAROLA
NEVER 10 BE
LAUNCHED
AMERICAN NAVAL BASE IN
FRANCE, Oct. 26. — The “United
States ship Carola,” a craft that
never went to sea and never will, a
“vessel” with stone walls, under
ground dungeons, 20 miles of tun
nels and a vast bulk of masonry an
chored to mother earth, is one of
the sights at this port.
It is a massive castle standing at
the water’s edge that bears this
strange name. It is an ancient
chateau, built 600 years ago, in the
thirteenth century, and one of
the marvels of Gothic architectural
construction. It is used now as
the United States naval barracks
and, being put to naval uses, it was
given a naval christening as the U.
S. S. Carola.
The way this castle came to be
named as a United States warship
was this: The United States Carola
is in reality, a ..small steam yacht,
used during the Spanish wars. It is
rather out of date and was tied up
to the castle wall. Here it became
very useful in making out requisi
tions and supplies needed in he
castle. To make a requisition for
a castle would seem quite irregular.
And so everything was requisitioned
for the United States Carola, and
in that way the castle got its equip
ment without disturbing any for
malities.
LAS VEGAS BOY HONORED
EAST LAS VEGAS, N .M., Oct.
24. — An unusual recognition has
been awarded a soldier front East
Las Vegas, Lieutenant Leonard Hos
kins, who died on the battle front
in France. A battery of 12-inch
guns at Fort Crockett, Texas, has
been named Battery Leonard Hos
kins in honor of the lieutenant.
The battery was christened by the
secretary of war. Lieutenant Hos
kins was a member of the coast ar
tillery corps. He is buried some
where in Lorraine. General Persh
ing awarded him posthumous honor
in a citation.
FISH LAKE VALLEY
RESIDENTS ARE
ENTERTAINED
Goldfield endeavored on Saturday
; evening to repay the people of Fish
| Lake valley for the evidences of
hospitality extended to the people
of Goldfield on many occasions in
the past. The ranchers from the
valley were entertained at a dinner
at the Goldfield hotel at which
more than seventy people were seat
ed. From the hotel the company
proceeded to the Lyric theater and
after the entertainment there par
ticipated in a dance in Elks' hall
which continued until 4:30 in the
j morning.
Among the visitors were the fam
ilies of Alex and Emanuel Molini,
David Patterson, D. H. McNett and
Bradford Dean from Fish Lake val
j ley and Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Acree,
| Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Parker and Mr.
land Mrs. Ben F. Farrington of Sil
■ ver Peak. -
Refreshments prepared by the la
! dies of Goldfield who had visited
J Fish Lake were served in the club
; rooms. An unusual feature of the
> dance was the compulsory wearing
jf the “Flu” masks, which gave
novelty to the affair, along with
some inconvenience, but everybody
treated the matter as a wise precau
tion.
During intermission in the dance
; Mrs. Theo entertained the company
| with two vocal selections, including
| the Marseillaise, and Jack Aylward,
i always a popular favorite, contrib
uted several entertaining numbers
tr^m his inexhaustible repertoire.
Everybody had a good time and
every effort was made to have the
good people from Fish Lake valley,
who have on so many occasions
opened their homes to the people
of Goldfield feel that there is al
ways a place for them here and a
warm welcome.
LOCATION NOTICES,
I'llOOF OF LAItOK,
And all mining blanks for sale
I Ilie Tribune Stationery Store
Favorite Weapon of Rnmian Rebels
Is lletter Understood
Than Rifle
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KMPIjOYKH IX GOVERNMENT
OFFICES PRETEND TO WORK
E m|M‘ror Nicholas and Kerensky
Government Sueeumbed to
Weapon Used Now
MOSCOW, Oct. 26. — Sabotage
is the favorite weapon of the Rus
sian. He uses it more effectively
than the rifle end understands it
better.
It was sabotage which overthrew
Emperor Nicholas. The Kerensky
provisional government succumbed
to sabotage. In neither case was
there an extensive military charac
ter to the movement which gave
Russia a new government.
And now the weapon which the
liolsheviki and their supporters of
the extreme left used on previous
governments has been turned
against them. In the food situa
tion. on the railways, in various
government bureaus, in public serv
ice organizations of all sorts, among
bankers, business and professional
men, and even among peasants the
government encounters hindrances
and obstruction of a type which can
not be punished and stamped out.
Commissioner Tsurupa, who is in
charge of the national food supply,
recently stated in a speech that
1500 persons in his department
alone had retained positions for
months and pretended to work,
when they were in reality doing all
they could to hinder the food ad
ministration.
Trotzky, Ivenine and other Bol
shevik speakers and agitators have
made the most of the sabotage di
rected against them by loudly pro
claiming in all sections of Russia
that the disorder they inherited
from the Kerensky regime and the
opposition directed against them by
enemies within the government, as
well as outside, has prevented the
soviet republic from bettering the
food situation and getting com
merce and industry back into nor
mal channels.
This view was accepted by the la
boring masses very generally for
some time, but after eight months
of the Bolshevik republic it is ap
parent that the laboring men are no
longer willing to accept abuse of
various anti-Bolshevik factions as a
complete excuse for the deplorable
lack of food.
The loss of the Ukraine grain
supply and the cutting off of the
Siberian wheat stores by the Czecho
slovaks stand forth so plainly that
the dullest workman reads the
handwriting on the wall.
Without grain fields he under
funds there cannot be grain. And
the promise of bread through grain
crusades made by armed forces do
not impress him when he realizes
that the portion of Russia remain
ing within the jurisdiction of the
soviet republic does not contain
enough grain to feed the republic’s
population, even if every bushel
were under government control and
carefully distributed.
WORKERS’ DORMITORIES ON WASHINGTON’S PIA7A
Wartime necessities in Washington have halted the plaza development by which the space between the Union sia
<on and the capitol was to have been converted into a beautiful park. Dormitories for government workers are belu j
•lit on the entire space. It is one of many housing projects under way to relieve an almost unbelievable congestlor
THE LITTLE LADY
By JACK LAWTON.
(Copyright, 1818, by Wwrtero Newspaper I nlon.i
That Is what the people of Farms
dale culled her, speculating as to her ,
choice of their village ns a place of
habitation. With some, the words had j
an affectionate sound, but there were
others who omitted the “little" and
spoke of her with sarcasm.
The appropriateness of the title,
however, could not be disputed. \
"Little lady” was the new inmate of |
the old Parsons place.
Fartnsdale young people were accus
tomed to labor in homes and factory,1
theirs the problem of living. But the
great old Parsons plnce was opened, ;
muslin curtains showing behind gleum- .
lng windows. The tangled garden was
coaxed into order, the town boy i
scouts spending their spare time in
the effort. Happily the little lady
directed them and repaid their labors. ,
“What’s she here for anyway?” they ;
said, and “How is she going to spend
her time?”
But the little Indy only hummed her
tunes, bending idly over the sundial.
A young officer home from camp was
tempted to turn in at the gateway to
ask for a drink from the fountnin;
the day was hot.
One does not realize in tnis peace
ful sotting,” he said, the suffering. the
privation that others are enduring
across the water. War seems very un
real and far away, yet it is there.”
The eyes of the little lady were sym
pathetic. “Yes,” she agreed, but she
stopped as she spoke, to train a rose
about the sundial.
The official frowned as he went on
his way. She hud been much, too
much, in his thoughts, since they had
pointed her out to him, the beautiful
stranger who had leased the old Par
sons place. Why should he sit In judg
ment upon her. If she chose to re
main carefree in times of seriousness
and self-denial, what was thut to him?
▲ girl stood just outside the en
trance looking into the garden; she
was one of the girls from t.»e factory
and her face looked wan ai^d tired.
"I was waitin’ for you,” she told the
soldier; “I wanted to usk about Jim.
When do you go over to France?”
“That we cannot tell, Josle,” the of
ficer replied. “But your brother is
feeling fine. You are a brave girl to
spare him for your country.”
“The doctor thought I wouldn't be
strong enough to keep on at the fac
tory through the summer," the girl
said, “but I reckon I wouldn't try to
hold Jim back ’cause of that.”
She motioned wearily toward the
white-clad figure by the fountain.
“Pretty soft, to be like her!” said
Josie.
And as the soldier went qn down
the path he paused to greet a pale
woman In a wheel chair. Her tall hus
band propelled the chair and his tense
face brightened eagerly at sight of the
soldier’s uniform.
“When are you going back to
camp?” he asked, and when upon some
pretense the wife had sent her hus
band away she raised patient eyes to
the officer’s face.
“It’s so hard for him not to be able
to go,” she suld. "If it hadn’t been for
the accident to my hip he might have
gone with the rest. I think Bert feels
tied to this chair with a ball and chain.
But if I am better, as the doctor prom
ises, next year—
“You are the kind,. Nell!” the soldier
exclaimed, and he pressed her hand.
Yes, she was “the kind.”
Old Henry was glad to see him. He
asked, as he made way on the porch
stone, If Jed’s boat had got over safe;
Jed hadn’t written yet. “And if
’twa’n’t for Mattie here,” he went on,
beckoning an old neighbor from the
next cottage, “her boy Ben would
a-been in the fight too. Mattie’s lame
ness held Ben back.” “If I could only
get along alone,” said the old woman
regretfully. “But I can’t,” she added
and sighed.
Yes, there were those In this fair
country also who realized the neces
sity of sacrifice. As the officer strode
on his way he thought about these
famlllnr people of his boyhood, anxious
In the time of need to do their best.
Across his memory flashed a vision
of the little lady, but he banished the
picture with firm-pressed lips. There
would be one more visit to the town
before sailing; when he came again
he would avoid the road which led
past the great house, so he told him
self ; but that was the very road which
he chose. The grounds had been culti
vated wonderfully he noticed, and in
the background worked a man’s bent
figure; “she” was not lingering near
the fountain. The fact brought unac
countable disappointment. But toward
him, down a winding pathway came
Josie—Josie, brown, radiant, wheeling
an invalid chair and in the chair was
Bert’s wife.
The color came and went in her
face when she saw the soldier. “Come
in.” she called, “and let us tell you
about it.”
“The little lady has befriended us
all,” she answered his questioning
gaze. “It was what she had planned,
she says, to make It possible, perhaps,
for one or two men to serve their
country who otherwise must have re
mained at home. Bert has gone and
Mattie’s son too. Josle helps old
Henry here with the vegetable garden,
while I prepare things for Mattie to
cook. Soon we will be a self-support
ing family.”
“Here comes our little lady now,"
whispered Josle, and the tenderness
of her tone found answer In the light
of the soldier’s welcoming eyes.
GERMAN PAPER WANTS NO BUYING
FROM UNITED STATES AFTER WAR
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 26. — “No1
buying from America if it can pos
sibly be avoided,” must be the Ger
man watchword after the war. is
the assertion of the Rhenish West
phalian Gazette, an important Ger
man industrial organ. The rea
son given by the paper is that, be
fore the war, the balance of trade
between the United States and Ger
many was against Germany to the
extent of nearly 1,000,000,000
marks a year.
Germany imported from the Unit
ed States goods to the value of 1 ,
711,000,000 marks, while German
exportB to the United States
amounted to 713,000,000 marks.
Dividends on German holdings of
American securities, in addition,
helped to pay the bill for goods
bought in America.
“How could we possible meet a
still further increased debit bal
ance?” asks the paper in despair.
"We had to realize our American
securities to pay for raw materials
while the i'nited States was still
neutral to meet demurrage on our
ships held in American ports.”
The conclusions seem inevitable
to the Gazette that Germany must
so curtail her cotton and copper im
ports from the United States that
they do not exceed, or only slightly
exceed, her own. exports of fertiliz
ers, dyes, chemicals, etc. The rest
of Germany’s erstwhile imports
from America, it says, can and
must be stricken off the list.
“Our imports of American agri
cultural machinery must cease,”
says the writer. The openings of
fered in Russia. Rumania and the
Halkans are so great that we must
| push our ow n machinery there with
all our might.”
ORDINANCE MAKES
MASK WEARING
COMPULSORY
The board of county commission
ers today passed an ordinance re
quiring the wearing of influenza
masks everywhere where two or
more persons are liable to congre
gate. The ordinance became ef
fective today. Persons violating
it will be arrested and tried on a
misdemeanor charge. In general,
the ordinance means that masks
must be worn on the streets, in bus
iness houses and in homes and vio
lations will be severely punished.
Three cases of Spanish influenza
in Tonopali have been reported to
Dr. C. J. Richards, Nye county
health officer, and steps are being
taken to combat the disease. The
Tonopah c hapter of the Red Cross is
starting to make enough masks to
supply everyone in the town.
The following are some of the in
structions issued to school children
here this morning:
Avoid the person who coughs or
sneezes, make full use of all avail
able sunshine, keep out of crowded
places, eat good, clean food; if ill,
no matter how slightly, be attend
ed by a physician.
The epidemic is subsiding in
many parts of the country and has
subsided to such an extent in army
camps that military plans will not
be delayed further. It is felt here
that the wearing of masks before
cases of influenza have appeared
may keep it from the town entirely,
or greatly lessen the number of
cases.
Fire Chief Murphy said this
I morning: “A few years ago we had
! the laugh on the dogs and now
the dogs have the laugh on us.”
Even some of the dogs have been
provided with masks by their small
boy owners and at the dance Satur
day evening even the elks’s head
in the hall was provided with a
mask. The masks have proved the
most popular thing for the enter
tainment of the small boys and they
delight in them, as it recalls, at
least to this extent, the days of
i Jesse James and Deadwood Dick.
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NO “KM'” IN GOM>KIBM»
A report gained circulation last
evening that there were four cases
of influenza at the Grimshaw hotel,
but nobody has been able to trace
the rumor to its source. An in
quiry deevloped the fact that there
is nobody ill at the Grimshaw.
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