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o i TO MAKE KNOWN THE RESOURCES OF NEVADA VOULVL 25 cents per week CARSON CITY, NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 17, 1919 Five cents per copy Ka 294 - n y Appeal. iMpIi Observer Insists Atmospheric Tur- moil Is at Hand By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dee 17 Profes sor Albert Pofta, scientific observer and forecaster of , Washington, is standing pat on his prediction that . a general meteorological turmoil will affect the earth during the period beginning to day. He said thestorms would strike the Pacific coast about December 19th, and that earthquakes would accompany the storms. mm ill pie i ' tB United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. An un official committee on conciliation is at worlrin the senate in an effort to com promise the treaty controversy. The committee, composed of one Republican and one Pemocrat, is seeking to nego tiate a basis 'upon which -ratification can be arranged. They are ignoring Senator Lodge, Republican Leader, and Senator Hitchcock, the Democratic leader. i cent in the size of their publications le- cause of the paper shortage. The comi j taittee declared that such action is nec- essary to prevent "destruction of a large number of newspapers m smaller cities and towns and irreparable injury to communities served by them." Trying to Hedge On Compensation for Sinking of Fleet ' Lane to Resign TBt United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Secretary of the Interior Lane in a formal state ment made today contemplates resign ing from the cabinet. . He has not yet sent in his resignation to the president. The statement was issued following re ports that he had laid his resignation before the president because of differ ences with the president and other cab inet members. Wants Newspapers to Cut Size fBv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. The house 111 VmilU UliU UVL 11 hJUi111u mpm ill! M Knox Fails Again By United Press ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. For the second timej in a. week Senator Knox of Pennsylvania today made an unsuccess ful attempt to get the senate to consid er his resolution for the ratification of the peace treaty' without the league of nations covenant. Wets Bring Another Suit T1W United Presi WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. The Rhode Island suit against the constitu tional prohibition amendment and the Volstead law was filed with the Su preme court today. Boycotts at Foo Chow at Bottom of Trouble By United Press TOKIO, Dec 17. Following a meet ing of ' the cabinet council, Torikichi Obata. minister plenipotentary to China, was directed to make a strong protest to the Pekin government regarding anti Japanese activities by Chinese, notably the Chinese students, which endanger the. friendly relations between China and Japan. . It is understood the pro test particularly refers to the difficul ties of the Foo Chow boycotts against Japanese merchandise. Tokio Has. Car Strike By United Press TOKIO, Dec. 17. Thousands of res ervists in training are being held in readiness to break the Tokio tram car -strike. This dispatch is the first word received in the United States of a street car strike in Tokio, though mail advice told of trouble between the Yokohama tramway company and em ployes, who demanded wage increases of 100 per cent. - postoffice committee has appealed to the newspaper publishers of the country to make an immediate reduction of 10 per Arizona New Collector for Arizona By Unifed Press WASHINGTON, Dec 17. The pres- ident today sent to the senate the nom- ination of Alfred Franklin of Phoenix to be internal revenue collector of By United Press PARIS, Dec. 17. It wa learned to day that disagreements have arisen' be tween the Allied and German experts as to the amount of compensation Germany will be able to pay for the sinking of the Scapa Flow, fleet. These coming up unexpectedly may prove serious enough to delay the signing of the protocol. The supreme council has decided to grant Austria a loan of $70,000,000. Each ally will be asked to contribute. The council also decided that all German -customs will be paid in gold in the fut ure, this being found necessary because of the varying rates of exchange and decreased value of paper money. The United States heretofore has ' been the only nation paying in gold. Final Note Sent Germany By United Press PARIS, Dec. 17. The peace confer ence expects to submit a final note to Germany this week fixing the time limit for signing the protocol. dybird Dame La and Her Friends Written by Ethel Allen Murphy for the United States School Garden Army, Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior. ' Jews That's Up to the Minute Bv United Press LONDON. Dec. 17. Dispatches from Berlin today said that forty -three were killed and more than 100 injured in a munitions explosion at Wilhelmshaven. The property damage was great. But It Hasn't Bt United Press MEXICO CITY. Dec 17. It is learned that the Mexican government replying to the second American note demanding the release of Jenkins de clares that since Jenkins was freed on bail Mexico presumes that ''ill feeling" between the countries has disappeared. ! forces had captured Kieff and Kup- vansk in Southwestern Russia from the anti-Bolshevik forces; Delayed dis patches Saturday reported that General Denikin had captured Kieff from the Belsbevik early in the month. - Kieff is i the principal city in Ukrania and ap I parently has changed hands several times. IS Ttot Ms ef Otherwise lany Mines Will Be Forced to Close Bolshevists Gain Victory By United Press LONDON, Dec. 17. A Moscow wire less received today said that Bolshevik Was Insane at Time By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17. Evi dence that Edgar Woodcock, perpetra tor of the alleged "flirt murder," was a neurasthenic was introduced in the trial today by the defense. Four doctors tes" tified that Woodcock was insane when he lulled Edward Kelly. Madame Ladybird Tells About the "Ant's Cows" - 'Part I t Then Madame Ladybird began to talk in a singsong voice like a spieler in a sideshow. That's a nice garden you have on your hat. The flowers and the fruits, though,, are a little different from the ones I've known. I've been all over it, and there's not an aphid in sight. I met an ant on my way. She was dis- While Madame Ladybird was talking I kept feeling queerer and queerer. " s I seemed to be getting all thin-like; I mean, loose or or spread, like air; not all solid, you know. I felt sort of the way water might feel. I im agine, when it goes up in the air as wa ter vapor; just all loosened up. you know. Colors blinked before my eyes, in bright blue and yellow spots and flashes. The whole solid world seemed to be breaking up and melting into those colors. I seemed to be getting Newberry and 134 Aids Face Charges By United Press i was one cf the founders of the Michi- GRAND RAPIDS, '-Midi., Dec. 17. gan Naval Brigade and in the Spanish Calmest of all those involved in the in By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Gold mine owners and operators are clamor ing to be permitted to boost the price of gold, fixed by law at $20.67 per ounce. Agitation for the increase is intense. Secretaries Glass and Lane are giving the matter much thought and the Unit ed States geological survey is prepar ing a statement. The need for increased price is described as "imperative." Of ficials have been told thatmany gold mines have closed in order to escape bankruptcy and it is predicted that more will be forced to shut down un less relief is afforded. PIONEER JURIST DIES AT SUSANVILLE Judge William A. Boardman, district attorney of Washoe county from 1870 toJ874, and one of the most prominent early day members of the bar in this appointed because she wanted to get j loose from myself and rising into the some aphids for her tribe. : J air. Mother felt like that ;once, she "The aphids, you know, are the little said, when she took gas to have her green or. white bugs that live on plants by sucking their "juices.. Did you ever see them? Well, yoi shall," by and by. Some people, not very politely, call them plant lice. . . " ' "These aphids belong to the suckers among plant enemies., They; suck out the plant juices and turn them into a delicious' sirup called honeydew. I'm fond of them, myself. All my family are, too. We eat the aphids. My babies thrive on honeydew as human babies do on milk. "The ants they don't eat the aphids. They drink the honeydew. ' "Ants are very efficient insects. Effi cient that's a great word in your world, eh? Well, we're that, in our world, too." The ants, now take captive these ap hids. ; You'd say the aphids are the cows of the ants. The ants milk the aphids by stroking them with their feelers, and the aphids give out little drops of honeydew. "Why, some of these ants actually keep the aphids over the winter time down in their nests. In spring they bring their cows out to pasture on the plants. Sometimes the ants build little cowsheds, veh? What's the matter? You're going through, that's all. tooth pulled. ' - Then suddenly I could see myself sits ting on the bench fast asleep, -and, I was scared and wanted to go back. ' , To be continued ' STOCK IS AFFLICTED WITH STRANGE DISEASE dictments resulting from the investiga tion of the campaign against Henry Ford for the senate, is Truman H. New- lerrv the man alxut whom the whole fight centers. - Charges and counter-charges have been made and reiterated. Supporftrs of Senator Newberry have declared they are proud they were a help in the icam paign to beat FordT and assert they have not violated the law in contribut ing of seeking funds to meet "the ex pense's of the campaign. " Senator ' Newherry, " who beat " Ford, millionaire automobile, maker,' after one of the bitterest campaigns ever staged in Michigan, was not new in politics when he entered the race. Although he had never before run for office! he had been a telling force in Michigan ics and under President Roosevelt one of the university stock specialists, I was assistant secretary of thenavy for According to the Elko Free Press, W. j long A. Keddie of" Fallon, accompanied by polk has gone north to the Keddie ranch, where sixty head of cattle are reported to be suffering with a strange disease. The reports sent to Mr. Keddie are very meagre and he says he cannot under stand and is going to investigate, m .. The cattle afflicted are all ages and both poor and fat, and he believes that three years and finally secretary of "the navy for three months.' When Newberry and scores of his aides were arraigned before Judge Ses sions here December 8th, they stood mute, their attorneys explaining they had mute as a plea of not guilty at that tifne war he served successively as lieutenant, navigator and finally commander. Newberry was born in Detroit, No vember 5, 1864. He was graduated from Yale University and entered business as a railroad superintendent of construc tion. In later life he was connected inJ the development of many of the city's industries and utilities. In Detroit social life Newberry maintains a high standing. Vn - the campaign in which he beat Ford, Nvberry did not participate ac tively. He was still in the naval ser vice at the time. His campaign , was managed by many of his friends, moit of them prominent in Detroit and other j cities of Michigan. His campaign man ager was Faul H. King, then head of the Red Cross in Michigan and now a referee in bankruptcy under federal court appointment. 5 v Ford was a candidate for the sena torial nomination on both the Republi can and Democratic tickets. He was named by, the Democrats and faced Newberry in the general election. For a time following .Newberry's vic- state, died last week in Susanville. . His death removed one of the real old timers of Western Nevada, a man who was on the Comstock during its boom days and resided at Washoe City during the time that, now almost for gotten city, was the county seat of Wa shoe county. ' Judge Boardman served as district judge of the seventh judicial district talking to "small fry" politicians throughout the state. Their evidence was submitted to the federal grand jury sitting here, which, aftera four weeks' session, returned indictments against Newberry and 134 of his associates. from 1883 to 1886. He was a member of the state senate during the eighth and ninth session in 1877 and 1879. He maintained law offices in Reno up to the late '90s, when he removed to Susanville and was considered as the dean of Lassen county attorneys. He was born in the state of New York in 1842, coming to the Pacific coast in his young manhood. Gazette, oo Telegraphic Flashes Bv United Press WOODSTOCK, Dec. 17. The Gray school house erected fifty-two years ago,, and said to have been the first school building in Northern Illinois, was re cently destroyed by fire. advised the defendants to stand ;tor' there was om a rur that. his their sickness is likely due to poison- i would preclude the raising of technical ous plants in 4he hay that is.lieing fed them. They have just been placed on the winter feeding grounds and full 1 27, 1920. ?. questions later. Judge Sessions assentr ed and set tjje trial date for January winter rations given them and. he is in clined to think that some plant in the hay is the cause of the trouble, as the symptoms described ! by the men in charge are strange.. ' Bead the Appeal for world events. the latest in During the war, NeWberry was conv mander of the third naval district He Applies for Letter J. Poujadc, Federal referee in. bank ruptcy, yesterday applied to the district court for letters of administration ir the estate of the tate John affell.t t nomination .and election had not been altogether "above board." The rumor became more pronounced when in Aug ust, 1919, Earl J. Houck and Frank C. Dailey, special assistants to the attor ney generak arrived in ' .. Michigan. Dailey had been active in investigating several alleged frauds in Indiana mu nicipal elections and the inference was drawn that he and Houck were here to prove the Newberry election. The two" investigators worked quietly, 'visiting banks; Inspecting records and The Senate Investigation Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. . 17. Politi cians here and the country over are watching developments in the sensation al Ford-Newberry election case with keen interest. Each party is seeking to benefit Democrats, by claiming . they forced the investigation, and Republi cans by asserting they welcome it Newberry, as is usual with new sena tors during their first term, has taken little active part in the proceedings of the senate. He has made no speeches of length and has only taken the floor at rare intervals to introduce apension bill or a bill for a bridge of local im provement in his home state. The committee on privileges and elec tions is expected to make the investi gation for the senate. Senator Dilling ham of Vermont is chairman. Other Republican members are: Kcnyon, Iowa; Sherman Illinois; Fall, New Mexico ; Knox, ' Pennsylvania ; Spencer, Missouri; Wadsworth, New York; Watson, Indiana, and Edge, New Jer sey. Democratic members are: Pom erene, Ohio (former chairman); Reed, Missouri; Walsh, Montana; King, Utah; Wolcott, Delaware, and Ashurst, Arizona. . Some Cheese TBt United Press BELVIDEKE, 111., Ded 17. A 4.000 pound cheese, said to have been the largest ever brought here, was deliver ed to a grocer in this city recently for the Christmas trade. Painting of Bishop Welch Unveiled tBy United Press DELAWARE, Ohio,- Dec. 17. A painting of Bishop Welch, president of Ohio Weileyan University, has been un veiled in the college chapel. "The Legioaaire' to Be Title (By United Press BISMARCK, N. D., Dec. 17. "The Legionaire" is to be the official title of the magazine published by the North Dakota branch of the American Legion. Miss E. N. Barry of Fargo won the prize for suggesting the name in a state contest. Shortage of Office Room B United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala Dec 17. There is a shortage of office space here. Recently twelve physicians told officials they were unable o find a location. What's In a Name tBy United Press . -LONDON, Dec 17. A woman liti gant at Willesden with'a Spanish Chris tian name and a Scotch sumamertrlaim ed to be Irish, but was born in England and had a Canadian husband.