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' ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT
IN RUSSIA WILL BE DIFFICULT
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2. — If any
nation or outside leader attempts to
set up a stable government in Rus
sia they doubtless will find the mer
curial Russians a difficult lot to
satisfy. They have plenty of ideas
and opinions, but lack action.
“The trouble with Russians is
that they believe opinions are
achievements,” recently said a
prominent American who is familiar
with Ruslan affairs. This certainly
characterizes many of the Russians
who are now waiting in Scandinav
ia for something to happen in Rus
sia. They are criticizing the allies
for failure to act more speedily in
Russia.
Their changeableness is surpris
ing. The very leaders who were
loudest in denouncing the Brest
peace treaty were soon hobnoblng
with the Germans. Paul Milyukoff
and other leaders of the extreme
right who had pretended great
IiADIES' AID IS ENTERTAINED
The Ladies’ Aid was delightfully
entertained Friday afternoon by
Mrs. Pauline Mills at her home on
Bellevue avenue. There were many
presetn and new members were re
ceived. After a pleasant business
session and brief remarks by Rev.
John Telfer, delicious refreshments
were served. All present wore
masks, but this did not curtail their
social enjoyment.. The following
officers were elected: President:
Mrs. C. E. Roberson; vice presi
dent, Mrs. Rodney Armstrong; sec
retary, Mrs. Pauline Mills; treasur
er, Mrs. William Myers. There will
be no preaching services or Sunday
school at the M. E. church until
further notice.
JOHN DALEY REPORTED
SERIOUSLY ILL IN SPARKS
John R. Daley, for many years an
employe of the Tribune and who re
cently left to work for the Southern
Pacific company at Sparks, is seri
ously ill there, according to a mes
^Jge received last night by his par
ents, who left this morning for
Sparks. The message stated that
their son was not expected to live.
GOLF IN CANADA THE WHOLE YEAR ROUND
"Victoria. OolP Club
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It is almost as necessary to keep
up the morale of the great citizen
army at home as it is to keep up the
morale of the army of fighters at
the front. That is why theaters are
open, vhy baseball has its devotees,
and why golf is still played. The
vtaen who support the Liberty Loans,
tCAnd the Victory Loan, also the Red
Cross and other great war activities,
need exercise and amusement to
keep them running at top speed in
the great game of business. The
golfers of the Uniten States and
Canada have given vast sums to the
Red Cross; ambulances bearing the
names of clubs are in service at
home and abroad, and golfers have
not only given freely of their money,
but hundreds of them have died in
friendship for the entente turned to
the Germans in an effort to estate
lish under their protection a mon*
archy which would father the poli
cies of the constitutional democrat
ic party.
When it became evident that the
Germans would not enter northern
Russia in large numbers and set up
an aritstocratic government similar
to that of Skoropadsky in the Uk
rains, hourgeoiste leaders who had
turned from the entente to Ger
many, again became friendly toward
the entente and less critical of the
failure of the English, French and
Americans to enter Russia in large
numbers and overthrow the exist
ing government. Entente success
es on the western front and entente
support of the Czechs in their phe
nomenal campaign against the Bol
sheviki further softened the hearts
of Russian leaders of the extreme
right.
ARMISTICE TERMS
WILL REQUIRE
LIMIT FROM
GERMANY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2.—
Information reaching Washington
indicates that the armistice terms
will require the Germans to with
draw 30 miles beyond the Rhine,
leaving behind munitions and roll
ing stock; surrender Heligoland,
the fleet and submarines.
It is believed the terms will be so
drastic that some military experts
doubt whether the Germans will
accept without further fighting.
NEVADA MAN FOUND DEAD
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31.—The
body of George Shoup, a Nevada
mining man, was found in a hotel
room today. The attendants said
they had detected poison fumes.
the armies of Great Britain, Canada,
France, and the United States. More
than 3,500 golfers in Canada have
gone overseas to fight, and more
i than 200 of them have made the su
preme sacrifice.
It may be news to some golfers
that in British Columbia a golfer
can pursue his favorite sport the
whole year around. There are no
winter-killed greens in Victoria or
Vancouver. The Victoria Golf Club
was established in 1893, and its sea
side links at Oak Bay constitute one
of the finest tests of golf in Canada.
In addition to this course, Victoria
has the Colwood Golf and Country
Club, one of the finest inland golf
courses in America and the United
Service Club, a varv irond nine-hole
TEUTONS PLAYING
POLITICS III
AUSTRIA
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2. — A Vien
na telegram says a resolution will
be introduced in the national as
sembly banishing Foreign Minister
Andrassy from the territory of Ger
man-Austria because of his note to
President Wilson. The assembly
will charge that he "was illegally
appointed by former Emperor
Charles.”
Another telegram reports the
formation of a provisional soldiers’
central committee.
Premier Lammasch of Austria
has informed the president of the
state council that he had been em
powered to hand over the govern
ment, as far as It related to Ger
man localities, to the German-Aus
trian council, according to a Vienna
dispatch.
[ The navy department of the Aus
trian ministry'of war has published
an imperial decree permitting all
men who are not of the south Slav
national army to return home on
permanent leave, according to
| Vienna.
The decree ordered the fleet, nav
al works and other naval property
transferred to the south Slav na
tional council.
“FLt'” PATIENTS O. K.
Another case of “flu” came to
light in Goldfield this morning, or
rather the fact that a patient had
almost completely recovered with
out the aid of a physician. Aside
from this, there were no new devel
opments today in the “flu” situation
in Goldfield. In the first case the
patient is recovering rapidly.
NEPHEW OF C. 8. SPRAGUE
DIES OFF FRENCH COAST
A telegram addressed to Charles
S. Sprague was received here this
morning announcing the death “off
the coast of France” of the son of
W. O. Sprague of Chicago, a broth
er of Charles S. Sprague. The tel
egram was forwarded to Mr.
Sprague at La Jolla, Cal. The
young man was In the American
army and on his way to France
when he met his death. No details
were given in the telegram.
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nautfhtiessy
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course.
The city of Vancouver is also a
golf center with several '■'"K
notably the Shaughnessy Heights
Golf Club, an eignteen-nule i- . .e
well trapped and bunkered. This
course is named in honor of Lord
Shaughnessy, President of the Can
adian Pacific Railway, who is him
self an ardent golfer. Other excel
lent clubs at Vancouver are the Jeri
cho Country Club and the Vancouver
Golf and Country Club.
There are scores of other splendid
golf clubs in Canada, including The
Royal Montreal Golf Club, which
was established in 1873, fifteen years
before the St. Andrews Golf Club,
Yonkers, N. Y.t was opened as the
first golf club in the United States
HEAVY DAMAGE DONE
BY BOYS ON EAST
SIDE OF TOWN
•
Depredations by boys were wide
spread in Goldfield last night and
damage done on the east side of
! town was particularly heavy. Dam
! age was done on Wednesday night,
but the activity reached its height
last night, the boys persisting in
| their work of destruction despite
shots fired at them and the screams
of women who were alone in houses
and who attempted to save their
property.
While the destruction on Wed
' nesday night served as a warning to
people in some districts, the activity
last night found most residents un
prepared and the boys worked rap
idly and thoroughly, reports from
different districts being to the ef
fect that the damage reached un
precedented proportions.
Coming at a time when the aver
age Goldfielder can make his dol
lars count in many ways other than
the repair of his property, wantonly
destroyed, it is the general opinion,
widely expressed today, that the
acts of the hoys last night are to be
regretted.
As the boys were not seriously
hindered in their raids last night,
they may continue them tonight,
unless there is more than one
officer to police the town. But,
now that the damage already
, done will serve as a warning to
(property holders who have not yet
i suffered, there is no question but
that the temper of the people is
' such that they will vigorously de
! fend their property tonight and be
better prepared to do so than last
i night.
While injury to a boy would
| be regretable, there is little doubt
| that property holders on the east
' side, aroused as they are by the acts
of last night, will defend them
selves to the limit if in the face of
the destruction already caused by
them, the boys persist in making
raids tonight.
Whoever may or may not be indi
rectly responsible for what occurred
last night, it is the general opinion
that blame for the entire matter
can be placed squarely on the shoul
ders of the boys’ parents, who, It Is
reasonable to suppose, knew they
were turning their children loose on
the two particular nights in the
year when they were liable to do
damage. At least the ringleader of
the most destructive gang was iden
tified last night and his actions
were such, according to reports
from persons who witnessed them,
that could his parents have been
present, they would have been far
from proud of him.
GERMANS WARNED
TO WATCH O.S,
MEN CEOSEEY
—
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN FRANCE, Nov. 2. — Orders cau
tioning German soldiers to be on
the alert in an endeavor to avoid
surprise attacks by the Americans
issued by German commanders were
found by the Americans during the
German retreat from the St. Mihiel
salient.
One document said: “The Ameri
j cans who are opposite us are to be
taken seriously in small enterprises,
j The greatest vigilance is recom
mended at dawn and during the
cool hours of the morning. Surprise
attacks are ordinarily launched at
that hojjr. Sentinels whose strength
and nerves have been worn out dur
ing the night relapse and become
undependable.
“In view of our recent experi
ences it is especially important to
watch our troops at this moment of
! the day. In front of us we find
j the - American division, troops
young, inexperienced and just land
ed.”
STEEL FREIGHTERS TO BE
USED TO RETURN TROOPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31. —
The shipping board has cancelled
contracts for the construction of
$60,000,000 worth of troop ships
at the Bethlehem yards at Alameda,
Cal., because of perfected plans to
convert steel freighters into trans
ports. This made unnecessary the
construction of ships designed es
pecially to bring the American
troops home.
PAN-AMERICAN LABOR MEETING
TO BE HEED IN LAREDO, TEX.
LAREDO. Tex., Nov. 2. — This
border city is hard at work complet
ing arrangements (or the care of
2000 delegates and guests who are
expected to attend the pan-Ameri
can labor conference here Nov. 13,
14 and 15, which will have as its
chief purpose the unification of all
organized workers on the western
hemisphere.
“The immediate object of the
conference is to bring about a com
plete affiliation of organized labor
of Mexico, Central America and
South America with the United
States, the same as now is in effect
with Canada and some of the coun
tries of Europe,” said Herman Ross,
special representative of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, who has
been here arranging for the confer
ence. “The results will be so far
reaching that it is safe to say no
labor conference of equal magnitude
has ever been held.”
SCOTCH LEARN TO
LIKE JAZZ MUSIC
LONDON, Nov. 2. — American
Bailors stationed in Scotch ports are
introducing ragtime dances in Scot
land and jazz bands are displacing
the bag pipe at many Bocial gather
ings there, according to Y. M. C. A.
secretaries on duty with the Ameri
can naval forces.
At one naval base the sailors, aid
ed by Y.* M. C. A. men have re
quisitioned a hall in which they are
dancing with the Scotch girls to
American airs played by naval
bands.
These opportunities are leading
to weddings of American sailors to
Scotch girls. At one place the sail
ors and Scotch lassies were organ
ized by an American actor into a
company which has produced an
American revue in the Y. M. C. A.
huts.
BERtiFBiiius
VICTIM BF FRAUD
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. — The
Prussian state bank in Berlin has
been the victim of a singular fraud,
say German newspapers. A foreign
commercial house transmitted to
the bank the sum of 000,000 marks
to be credited to the account of a
foreign bank. The letter referring
to the .transaction was intercepted
and a forged letter was substituted
in which (he bank was directed to
deposit the sum to the credit of
a Berlin metal firm.
Two days later the metal firm
drew the amount in cash. The
fraud was discovered some time
later when the foreign bank desired
to make use of the money. It was
then discovered that the metal firm
was not in existence.
WALTi;k richardson
IS I>ADI>Y OF RIO ROY
A nine and one-lialf pound baby
lioy was born last evening at Reno
to Mrs. Walter Richardson, wife of
a former well-known linotype oper
ator for the Goldfield Tribune.
Mother and child are reported to he
doing well. Roth father and moth
er recovered from influenza re
cently.
RUSSIANS FACE LONG WINTER
WITH IITTLE COAL OR WOOD
LONDON, Oct. 31. — Russia is
facing a winter of hunger and cold
augmented this year because of the
extreme scarcity of fuel which pre
vails in all parts of that country.
The lack of coal has been keenly
felt ever since the loss of the Do
netz basin to the Germans early last
spring. It affected the railroads
and caused factories to be shut
down.
The Czecho-Slovak operations in
Siberia and in the Ural region have
prevented any relief from that di
rection.
The stores of wood in Moscow
and Petrograd, owing to the lack
of transportation facilities and oth
er difficulties too numerous to
mention, are far from sufficient to
meet the demands of along winter.
I.*tin-Amerlcan labor unions an
nounced that they are preparing to
send many delegates. President
Wilson and President Carranza of
Mexico have been invited and Presi
dent Carranza has telegraphed his
acceptance. The executive council
of the American Federation of La
bor, including President Samuel
Gompers and Secretary Frank B.
Morrison, will attend the confer
ence, as will also officials of the
Mexican Federation of Labor and
governors of many states of the Un
ion and governors of Mexican states.
Mr. Boss said American workers
want such an affiliation that when
a workman visits any other Ameri
can country his union card will be
accepted the same as in his state.
An executive meeting of the
American Federation of Labor will
be held in connection with the con
ference and importation of labor
from Mexico will be discussed.
STRICT HEALTH RULES
TO GUARD GOLDEIELD
SCHOOLS ANI) CHURt'HKH CLOK
KD AND SALOONS MADK
CHA1RLKSS
Over 50 eases of influenza have
developed In Tonopah and four
deaths oecurred yesterday, accord
ing to this morning’s Tonopah
Times. The Klks’ hall has been
converted into a hospital with 20
beds and the Knights of Columbus
hall, with space for 75 beds, has
been placed at the disposal of phy
sicians.
Dr. C. J. Richards, county health
officer, states that a large percent
age of the cases reported are
among Indians and Mexicans and
that influenza is gaining rapidly
among the Mexicans, who take no
precautions against contracting the
disease. “Flu” is spreading rap
idly at Mina.
There are no cases in Goldfield.
Influenza in Reno and other
places in the northern part of the
state is decreasing rapidly. Only
four new cases were reported in
Reno yesterday, a decline of three
from the previous day.
Dr. McCarthy, county physician,
has directed that chairs and tables
be removed from all saloons and
card games prohibited and that con
gregating there ore elsewhere must
be strictly prohibited by owners
and the peace officers of the city
and county.
The Elks had already taken ac
tion along that line.
Dr. McCarthy is very insistent
that all cases of influenza be report
ed promptly to him, as required by
the health regulations of the state,
and unless this be done the control
of the epidemic will be more diffi
cult and the needless sacrifice of
life may follow.
The schools and churches have
also been ordered closed and it is
highly desirable that every person
constitute himself or herself a
guard, if not an officer, to see that
the regulations prescribed by the
law and the authorities are strictly
observed and enforced.
TO 1‘KKVKNT “FLU"
One drain carbolic acid, 3 ounces
glycerine; add two tablespoonsful
i honey. Use as a gargle.
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A Moscow paper estimated some
months ago that the supplies of
wood in that city would hardly suf
fice to satisfy the needs of public
utilities this winter, and that in
consequence all private enterprises
and homes could not hope to get
even a limited quantity of it.
To one who has experienced the
discomforts of a cold Russian win
ter, even under better conditions,
the situation is far from alluring.
The chilly atmosphere of an un
heated apartment, darkness in the
streets and homes, the quiet of a
city undisturbed by the rumble of
street cars and motor vehicles, and,
lastly, the uncomfortable feeling of
an empty stomach, such are the
prospects of the coming winter in
Russia.