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TO MAKE KNOWN THE RESOURCES OF NEVADA
VOL. LV.
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CARSON CITY, NEVADA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918
Five cents per copy
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At Peace Convention Britain Will
Insist No Limitation Be Placed
On Its Naval Program
By United Press
LONDON, Dec. 5. Winston Church
ill, minister of munitions, sptaking at
Dundee, declared that Great Britain is
determined to maintain her naval su
premacy. "We shall enter the peace
conference with the absolute detemin-
ation that no limitation will be imposed
on our right to maintain our naval de
fense. No matter what appeals are ad-
pressed to us, we do not intend to lend
ourselves in anyway to a restriction
which will prevent the navy from main
taining its well deserved superiority of
the seas," he declared. In regard to in
ternal affairs, Churchill said, the gov
ernment had decided upon the nation
alization of railways but had not yet
decided its policy regarding the nation
alization of shipping, which is a com
plex question.
raps III
Already Occupy Gesman Towns
Along the Border
By United Press
HAVRE, Dep. 5. The Belgians have
approached within fifteen miles of the
Rhine, the official communique indi
cates. They occupy Neud and have also
entered Odenkirchen.
Versailles, France: A City With a History
IBy United Press ) Louis XVI did some more building
VERSAILLES, Nov. 16, by mail. and tearing down and improving.
Napoleon neglected the great palace,
and afterwards remarked that he was
sorry he hadn't torn it down while he
this is a great town tor a peace con
ference. Although it isn't quite half as
big as Toledo, O., in point of popula
tion, and has not nearly the hotel ac
commodations available in Salt Lake
City, and has no convention hall in the
class of the Auditorium at St. Paul.
Minn., it has one qualification which ab
solutely puts those American cities out
of the race for the world's greatest
peace conference.
It has background.
Background is as essential to a suc
cessful peace conference as is chile con
carne to a Mexican carnival. It is ex
pensive, and the right kind cannot be
bought in any market any more, the late
war having used up the entire current
output.
The historical background of Versail
les cost France a century of starvation,
an ocean of blood, a cycle of scandal, a
few billion francs, and a heartache that
throbbed so powerfully that it jarred
dynasties and empires off the earth
Louis XIII, who was a goodly king,
went hunting in the woods where now
stands Versailles, one day about 1624.
He had fine luck hunting, but at night
he had to sleep in a hotel where there
were some common foil? sleeping, and
sitting about talking politics ! Sleep
ing in the same building with wagoners J hit
and farmers was shocking to Louis,
for Louis was a regular king. He decid
ed to build a little chateau near his
hunting grounds, where he could sleep
in peace once or twice a year, for he
had no automobile to take him back to
Paris at the end of a perfect hunting
day.
That chateau of Louis XIII, a very
unbeautiful but highly expensive house,
still stands, with the magnificent Pal
ace of Versailles built around it.
The palace itself "could house 10.000
persons easily, but it doesn't, and never
did.
It is used as a museum, and as a
monument to the stupendous extrav
agance, effrontery, and futility of mon
archy. It is used also for peace con
ferences now and then. Usually, when
two or more nations have struggled so
long on the battlefield that all the com
mon folk's money has been spent and
the fortunes of the counts and dukes
' have been threatened, delegates of the
belligerent nations have gathered at
Versailles and signed a peace treaty.
Now it is proposed that representatives
of practically all nations of any import
ance and representatives of all classes
of human beings, meet here to proclaim
the end of war and autocracy.
Louis XIV built most ofTffe palace,
much as it appears today.
Louis XV made some changes and
pretty much got lost in the big corridors.
Cheer Ex-Kaiser
TBv United Press
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 5. Serious
fighting has occurred in Kreuznach
where army officers defeated the revolu
tionists. It is reported the officers
forced the revolutionists at the pistol
point to haul down their red flag. The
offciers cheered the ex-kaiser.
Armistice to Be Extended
By United Press
LONDON, Dec. 5. The Evening
Standard says it understands the armi
stice will be extended.
Albert In Paris
Bv United Press
PARIS, Dec. 5. King Albert of Bel
gium and his party have arrived here.
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Mi Win Well
Wireless Aboard Steamer Keeps
Him In Constant Touch With
National Capital
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The navy
department is in constant wireless com
munication with the presidential ship
and convoy. Prior to 10 o'clock this
morning the department stated that all
were well.
U.S.
Criminal
had a chance.
Louis rhilippe spent a few millions
repairing and restoring the palace and
grounds and carrying out some projects
of his own in connection with it.
And here it stands, ready to furnish
shelter and background for a real peace
conterence.
Nobody ever will know how much the
great palace cost France under the
reign of its builder, Louis XIV. Louis
became badly scared when he received
the bills, because he had heard a good
deal about some disturbers who were
whispering that even a king had no
right to spend so much money for a pal
ace for to house his lady friends when
the nation over which he ruled was
starving. So Louis did what many a
purchaser of expensive hats has done
since tore up the bills and burned'
them before anybody could look them
over.
The palace was not built with an eye
to peace conferences, or assemblies of
democracies. Louis XIV didn't know
about such things. But Louis had a
lady friend, a Miss La Valliere, with
whom he was trying to make a great
She was the same lady who wore
the little decoration suspended about
her neck, from which lavallieres (var
iously spelled and designated in these
days) take their name. A certain Fou
quet, Louis' minister of finance, also
courted Miss La Valliere, and one night
gave a big party to win her heart. He
invited the king, and the king became
wroth that a mere minister of finance
should be able to give such a party and
steal his girl at the same time. So
Louis had Fouquet thrown in jail as a
suspicious character and decided to
build a house that would knock Miss
La Valliere's eye out, so to speak.
Louis was a married man, of course,
but then he was king, and in those days
a king could do no wrong.
Both Louis XIV and his successors
found that the palace was catirely too
big for one lady friend, so they brought
I in several at a time, and yet managed
J to keep them so far apart that the royal
hair-pullings were few indeed. Among
the successors of La Valliere were the
notorious Mmes. Montespan, Mainte
non, Dubarry and Pompadour.
Descriptions of the various rooms of
the palace occupy many volumes, and
descriptions of the gardens about the
palace occupy whole libraries. But the
room of chief interest at this time is
the Gallery of Mirrors. It was here
that King William of Prussia, ancestor
of William Hohenzollern, was pro
claimed emperor of Germany on Janu
ary 18, 18871. And it is here that we
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War Has Shown Necessity of More
Stringent Laws
President Has flight Cold
Bv United Press
By Robert J. Bender
ABOARD THE GEORGE WASH
INGTON, by wireless, Dec. 5. The
president will talk plainly upon the
fourteen principles when he reaches
France. That he will speak is indicat
ed by the concern over a slight cold
which has developed and after dispos
ing of his routine work he rests under
the orders of his physician. Rear Ad-
ship's movies and other functions. The
vessel is expected to arrive at Brest on
the 12th or 13th via the Azores. The
ship's wireless is in constant touch with
the capitol at Washington. The Pres
ident and Mrs. Wilson occupy the
suites built especially for the kaiser
and kaiscrin years ago and the waiter
who served the kaiser and kaiserin is
serving the Wilsons.
To Cut Down Armaments
By United Press!
ABOARD THE GEORGE WASH
INGTON, Dec. 5, 1 :18 p. m. The pres
ident is busily working on the tentative
drafts of the speeches he will deliver in
France. From every indication he will
declare plainly for a grading down of
the armaments on sea and land and that
miral Grayson, though he attends the no sea power shall be supreme.
News Ms Op to the Minute
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Drastic
and sweeping changes in the United
States criminal code will be recom
mended by Attorney General Gregory
in his annual report to the department
of justice. The needs of these changes
are shown glaringly in the war activi
ties of the department, and are much
needed whether war or peace prevails.
The department has faced the greatest
task in the last eighteen months, forced
by the general language and the in
definiteness of the laws to determine
the dividing line between honest criti
cism and insidious, malicious state
ments directed towards hampering war
work. The department is badly handi
capped by self-appointed committees
and citizens either ignorant of or sat
isfied with the present federal laws.
may expect to see William Hohenzol
lern proclaimed nobody forty-eight
-vears later. In fact, many Frenchmen
are so poetic as to hope that by Janu
ary 18, 1919, either the peace confer
ence or some auxiliary court may sen
tence the last German emperor for his
crimes. It was here that a humilitating
surrender was dictated to France by
Bismarck, and it was here that the su
preme war council of the civilized na
tions dictated its grim armistice terms
that toppled over the throne of the Ho
henzollerns in Prussia and the German
empire. In this most extravagant room
of this palace that is recognized as the
supreme expression of irresponsible
autocracy it is likely that the democ
racy of the world will be written into
a permanent covenant and proclaimed
to humanity.
This room is 237 feet long by 33 feet
wide, and 43 feet from floor to ceiling.
On one side seventeen large windows
look out upon the gardens. On the oth
er side seventeen large mirrors, the
same size as the windows, reflect the
glory of Versailles and the scenes of
statecraft that periodically are enacted
there.
Versailles may not have enough hotel
facilities for the conference, but it cer
tainly has the atmosphere, the back
ground. And Paris is but ten miles
away. .
BARTLETT REVEALS
POLE FLIGHT PLANS
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. The dis
charge of 100,000 men from the navy as
soon as convenient has been authorized!
by Secretarv Daniels. He said the!
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forces would be considered as units and ,
no individuals would he dismissed in
Europe.
year-old daughter. A son, aged 17,
i grappled with him and during the strug
j gle Scofield shot and killed himself.
Advocates Government Wireless Control
(Bv United Press!
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. Secretary
of the Navy Daniels advocates the gov
ernment monopoly of all wireless sta
tions in the United "States and its possessions.
Senate Committee Will Not Attend
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The sen
ate foreign relatitns committee killed
the Cummings resolution for a sena
torial committee of eight to attend the
peace conference at Versailles.
BROUGHT IN PRISONERS
Deputy Sheriff John Ewing of Lin
coln county, accompanied by a guard,
arrived on the express tl.is morning
with three prisoners consigned to the
state penitentiary.
Those arriving this morning were the
first to be received at the institution
for a number of weeks.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5. To fly over
the to) o' the world, cast his airplane
shadow on the north pole and continue
on into Asia, an uninterrupted flight of
1,400 miles, is now the plan of Captain
Robert A. Bartlett, who will start from
Etah, Greenland, in July.
"There's no use stopping at the pole,"
Captain Bartlett said, "for Admiral
Peary has already found it. He was
there. I intend to fly over it. FUr go
straight across the pole and continue on
to Cape Choluskin, Asia."
Members of the Aero club of Ameri
ca are convinced that he will accom
plish the feat.
"It is not extremely difficult, though
I admit the danger," Henry Woodhousc
said.
"Probably the principal danger is that
the plane might descend and be wreck
ed. Then the crew would be marooned
on the ice or possibly in the water, but
we are making plans to forestall any
such condition.
"We don't intend to overlook a single
consideration for the safety of the non
stop flight. Captain Bartlett has been
so kind as to ask for an advisory com
mittee from the club. They are Rear
Admiral Bradley, A. Fiske, Henry A.
Wisewood, Alan R. Hawley and myself,
who will act for him and with him."
The plane will mount a wireless out
fit. Its carrying capacity will be some
thing over two tons. As a safeguard
against torced landing it will carry a
dog team of ten huskfes, a sledge, pro
visions for a month for dogs and men
diiu guns lut tiuiiuiig in lasc iiic jicii iy
should run out of food.
Earthquake Shocks Last Four Minutes
By United Press
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5. Hundreds
of persons are believed to have been
killed in an earthquake yesterday which
destroyed Valle Copiapo, Chile. Re
ports from the devastated districts said
that bodies of men, women and children
were still buried in the ruins. The
shocks lasted four minutes.
Carter Glass' Name Goes to Senate
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The nom
ination of Carter Glass of Virginia to
be secretary of the treasury to succeed
W. G. McAdoo has been sent to the
senate by the White House.
Kaiser May Be Seriously 111
Bv United Press
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 5. In response
to a telegram the ex-kaiser's personal
physician arrived today at Amerongen
castle from Germany" by special train.
Man Ran Amuck
Bv United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5. Albert
Scofield, after an absence of twenty
four hours, during which he 'had been
drinking, returned home, struck his
wife, felling her to the floor, and
then shot and killed his 2-year-old
son and shot A but missed a 12-
Judge R. S. Lovett Resigns
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. Judge Rob
ert S. Lovett has resigned as director of
the division of capital expenditures of
the railroad administration. McAdoo
accepted his resignation to become ef
fective January 1st.
Will Stay Until Peace Is Declared
Bv United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. It is the
opinion of Secretary Baker that veteran
divisions in France, such as the 1st, 2d.
Rainbow, New England and National
Guard will probably remain there until
peace is actually concluded.
Latest telegraph and
new in the Appeal.
reliable local
THE DAY'S CASUALTY LIST
By United Press
Killed in action 421
Died of Wounds 310
Died of accident and other causes.... 21
Died of airplane accident 12
Died of disease 431
Wounded severely 344
Wounded, degree undetermined 398
Wounded slightly ...619
Missing in action ..... 474
INTERESTING PAPER READ
Total 3,030
Among the names given are those of
Private William P. Mann of Las Vegas,
Nev., killed in action ; Bill Margeas of
McGill, Nev., died, of wounds; and
Frank M. Madelena of Fernley, Nev.,
missing in action.
At the firgt meeting of the Leisure
Hour club this year Miss Wier of Reno
gave a very interesting talk on the
Great Basin, and last evening Mr.
Fletcher followed this up with a
most interesting paper on "Trappers
and Explorers In the Great Basin,"
giving especial attention to the Smith
exploration expedition in 1827 and the
Walker one in 1833.
During the business session the mat
ter of night schools, with especial ref
erence to the needs of foreigners, was
taken uff and a committee consisting of
Rev. H. H. McCreery, Miss Clara Cris
ler and Mrs. A. Huffaker was appoint
ed to take the matter up with the State
Board of Education and report back to
the club as early as possible.
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Will Meet at Annapolis
The governor's conference which
Governor Boyle will attend before re
turning home will meet at Annapolis,
Md., instead of Indianapolis as erron
eously stated in yesterday's paper.