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ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY TELEGRAPH SERVICE
FIFTIETH YEAR (Member of Associated Press) ELKO, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1918 Best Daily Telegraph Service in Eastern Nevada. No. 100
eTko man makes seditious talk
AND IS PLACED DIED ARREST
W. P. Machinist Says "To Hell With War and Liberty Bonds''
And Finds Himself Before Defense Council in Jiffy; Feeling
Ran High After Making of Disloyal Speech
A complaint was filed before Judge
Doughty last night, sworn to by E. J.
L. Taber. as director of the county
council of defense, against Joe Han
ford, a Western Pacific machinist em
ployed at the company's shops in tills i
city. The complaint reads as follows: i
-That the said Joe Hanford commit- (
ted a public offense, a misdemeanor,
u follows: that at said time and
place (at the W. P. shops about 4 ill }
the afternoon), said Joe Hanford, in
the presence of at least three persons
namely. P. E. Owens, It. W. Mackey i
and Ed Monahan. wilfully made the;
following remarks: 'To hell with the J
war and Liberty Ponds.' and that by
M> doing said defendant unlawfully
disturbed the peace of the neighbor
hood where said remarks were made,
rlr. the W. P. Roundhouse and shops.
E. J. I, Taber."
ft Is alleged that the matter arose
when some of the shopmen approach
ed Hanford upon the subject-of buy
ing a Liberty Pond. It was then that '
Hanford, seemingly very angry, re-1
torted. "To hell with the war and I
Liberty Ponds." and walked away I
from the solicitors. The uien who
had been Interviewing him spread the
news throughout the shops and in ai
few moments the feeling on the part
of the men was intense. Every man
was highly incensed over tin- unpa
triotic attitude of Ilanford. and it is
raid that it was very fortunate for
the maker of the remarks that ex
treme violent- w.i- not at once visited
upon him. One man in particular,
who has a boy in France, was ex
tremely wrought up over the affair
However, n course of lawful conduct
was finally chosen and the men from
the shop hunted up Judge Taber as
county director of the council of de
fense. The Judge immediately went
to the scene and a meeting was held
with the shopmen outside of the \V.
I'. depot. The Judge interrogated tin
men closely and learnt d that there
were at least tlirie witnesses who
beard the remarks ntade, the men
who were named in the complaint
Judge Taber immediately returned to
the city ami swore to a complaint
against Ilanford. Ho was arrested
by Officer Cotant and brought before
Judge bought) upon a charge which
amounted to disturbing the pence, the
only charge that could be placed
against him by county officials, and
the offender was placed under a two
hundred dollar bond by the city mag-;
Istrate. lie furnished the bond and
was released.
It seems that overnight he regret
ted his unpatriotic utterances und
this morning he hunted up Judge Ta
ber. He stated that his wife had been
ill and that lie' had been under a
great expense and had made the re
ntal ks under stresB of great feeling:
that he realized his mistake and was
extremely regretful over his action
and asked the Judge to dismiss the
charge against him. Judge Tuber in
formed him that so far as he was con
cerned this could not be done but if
the men at the shops desired to dropj
the charges against him that this
might be arranged. A visit was ac
cordingly made to the shops and an
interview with the men held. There
was a disposition upon the part of
some of them to dismiss the charge
against llanford on condition that lie
would buy a Llbert> Ilnnd and remain
at work in the shops here instead of
going about over tlie country upon
diffeient Jobs, but up until this even
ing litis course bail not bi en adopted.
Judge Taber stated this afternoon
that he intended to make a thorough
investigation of the matter and follow
what his Judgment dictated as the
best method of handling the matt. r.
While we expressly refrain from
commenting upon the tin rits of this
case in any way. yet it appear- as an
entirely abstract proposition that if
the r? marks were made us charged In
litis matter, some sort of an example
. should be made in this case as in all
others of like circumstances that may
arise in the future. Similar instances
have occurred'In other counties of
the state ami we have yet to find a
'case where the offender was at all
leniently dealt with. For the sake of
the I'niii d States and its campaign
to win the war. for the sake of our
lads in the trenches, we cannot over
look plain am! otttspoki n sedition A
we have said, if the case against the
accused Is as It Is alleged to be then
lie should not escape without punish
mint. Lenient dealing with sucli
ca-es will only he an encouragement
for their repetition in the future. II
on the other hand tin- charges tire not
true, th< a llanford is iniitleil to hr
reinstated in the ? .-Munition of a com
| inanity that abhors nothing more than
j a stand agaln-t the government dtir
; ing this time of trial.
IHT DRIFT ON
MM SIXTEENTH
Department Calls For Eighty
Nine Hundred Additional Men
For Mechanical Training To
Mobilize Next Month
WASHINGTON, May I A rail foi
eighty nln<? hundred additional draft
men has been Issued by Adjutant
Oeneral Crowdor. These men are to
he sent lu twenty-two different Insli
tutlons throughout the United States
to take up courses In mechanical
sludlen. They will mobilize on May
sixteenth.
What the effect of this call on lOIko
county will be In not yet announced
hut It Is presumed that It will he met
Just as the other draft calls have been
filled and that the men who net Into
'ho army under Its provisions will he
sent not to the training camps for act
l*e army work but to mechanical
schools throughout the United Stales
'or eprcinl training In mcclianleal
w?fk. This draft call will be watched
*lth Interest.
MINNESOTA MAN GETS
? LONG TERM REFUSING
TO BE VACCINATED
('AMI' DOPGK. Mny I.?Klmer (?1
.?on Goodrich, of Minnesota, a mar
ilr.iltnl into tin- national army and i
member of what is railed tin depo
brigade, where the m< n are first plat
ed upon nrrival in camp to drtruiim
the presence of disease among them
was today tried for Ills refusal to In
vaccinated and sentenced upon con
vielion to fifteen years in Graven
worth penitentiary. Ills trial was con
dueled before a court martial.
| LATEST STYLES IN SKIRTS
| BRING LOW STEP APPEAl
HI'OKAN'K. Wash . May 1. Th
new long skirt style edict is helinvi
to lie the cause of the demand of th
good government league that Ho Sp<
kane street car company lower tli
steps on Its cars.
It Is declared to bo difficult nftt
two years of foot freedom during tl
short-skirted era for women to din
aboard cars encumbered by cllnrir
dry goods.
If the company does not cotnp
with the demand it is assorted tl
matter will he taken up with the sin
public service commission.
Mi WHO STARTED I
SAfORLD If! DIES
Prinzip, Who Shot Archduke ,
And Wife and Precipitated
Great Conflict, Dies Near
Prague of Tuberculosis
LONDON*. May 1 ? Cavric Prinzip, ?
famous as the assassin of ArchdukeI
Ferdinand. h?*lr apparent to the Aus-f'
trian throne, and his wife, at Sara- ''
Jevo. Bosnia, died yesterday at a fort- '
ress near Prague. of tuberculosis, ac- j'
cording to tiie correspondent of the '
Exchange Telegraph at The Hague. '
Prinzip shot to death the archduke,
and hia wife while they were visiting
tin Bosnian capital, on June 28. 1911.
and out of this double murder was do- i
velopi d the present great European
war. Prinzip, upon conviction for the
crime, was sentenced to serve twenty
j years in prison. Four other conspira
tors were sentenced to death bv hang-1
i Ing. and one to life Imprisonment
| Earlier on the same day an attempt
upon the archduke's lit*.- had been 1
made by throwing a bomb near his'
I carriage.
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HOME GUARD PLANS AT
CARSON CITY ARE MADE
CARSO NCITV, April 30.?Prelim-!
j Inary steps toward the organization
I of ,i "honio guard" were taken at a
tin ? ing In Id last night, which was
i attended by about loo Carson citi
J 2<*nM.
E S. Farrington. I'nited States dis
j lr:ct Judge, presided, witii E. 11.
I Walker, slate fuel admini trator, act
j ing as secretary of the meeting, a
.
.ton-1-ting in Judge E. S. Farrington,
Judge B. W. Co!, man. Judge I*. A. Mr
j< arran. Prof. \V. J. Hunting and Ilen
j rv Ucidenrlcli which will report Inter
in tlie week.
| As there Is no law in the state of
j Nevada authorizing t?..- formation of
j homo guards the Carson City company
I will be organized on independent
! linos.
SOLDIER'S VOTING ACT
REVIVED. SAYS COURT
CABSON CITY, Apr. 30. The state
I upreme court today wiped away the
'contention that tie act of 1S97 design
ed to gh. nten in the military service
of tlie I'nited States the right to vote
, has been repealed by unanimously dc
?
i; specifically revives the act
I which had been repealed by a pre
jVious act of the legislature. The
court's decision disposes of one of
the reasons urged for ealling.a spec
It! session of the legislature.
The matter was taken to the stale
supreme court by an appeal from a
I. decision Of District Judge I. an gun
I overruling a demurrer to the com
I plaint filed by Dr Donald Maclean of
, | Carson against C.eorgo Brodluan as
, -? eretarv of state and Maurice J. Xul
l Iiviiii as adjutant general to prevent
them taking steps to have election
j supplies prepared for the soldiers.
I'lte court' opinion was written by
? hIt-f Justice McCarrnn.
IMERIGAN TALKS I
ID LEON TIM
University Man Sent to Rus- f
sia to Interview Bolsheviki!
Leader Tells What Occur-;
red
NEW YORK. May 1. Profits * or j t
Russian factory owner:' are to be liin- 1
ited to five or six per cent on their fa
Investment and the manufacturers are j *
to be required to reinvest a quarter
:?f their profits, under the Bolsheviki t
t couoniic plan a- outlimd b> la on <
Trotsky, now Hussinn minister of
war and marine, in an intern i> w with <
Professor E. A. Ross of (he l'niv< r- '
sity of Wisconsin. j?
Professor itoss was sent to Russia I
by the Auieriean institute of Social
Service to study tie social conditions '
of that country and has reported his '
conclusions to tlx- In-Unite. The Bol- '
sheviki revolution took place while
Professor Itoss was .11 Russia. Trot- :
sky was foreign minister when he ex- '
plained the Bolsheviki economic pio- '
grain. ' i '
"is it the intention of your party to 1'
dispossess tin- owners of industrial
plants in Russia?" Professor Ross ask
ed him.
"No," Trotsky replied. "We are not j
ready vet to take over all industry.
That will come in time, but no one
can say how soon. For the present,
we expect out of tlie turnings of a
factory we expect to pay the owner 5
or 0 p. r cent yearly on hi - actual in-1
vestment. What we aim at now ls|
control rather than ownership."
"What do you mean by control.'"
"I mean that we will s< <? to it that
the factory is run not from the point j
of view of private profit but from th?
point of view of social welfare demo
craticatly conceived. For example,
we will not allow tbo capitalist to
shut up his factory in order to starve
lii- workmen into submission or In
cause it is not yielding loin a profit,
if it is turning out econoi'iiiiVTT? a i
j in eded product, it must be kept run-J
ning. if the capital! i abandons it
lie will lose it altogether for a board
'of directors chosen by the workmen
1 will be put in charge.
"Again, 'control' implies that the.
hook - and correspondence of the con-1
' ? 111 Will be opell to tile public :0 that
| henceforth there w ill be no Industrial
. erets."
"Uo you propose that the profits
, earn- d by a concern sluill lie divided
itnong its workt rs?" asked the Pro
lessor.
"No." said Trotsky, "profitsharing'
is a bourgeois notion. The work? r in
{a mill will be paid adequate wages.
All the profits earned will belong to
society. It is only pure profit thatl
' would bo divided."
"Where wll llhe money come from!
that will build new factories?"
"We can Impose on the capitalist
to whom we allow a dividend of five
or six per cent, on his capital, the ob
ligation to reinvest in some Industry
a part, say 25 per cent, of what he
receives."
"If In Russia you hold the capital
Ists down to five or six per cent
while In other countries they can
hope for twice or thrice as much r?
. ? -
turn, won't Russia In* stripped of
capital?"
"They won't bo allowed to remove
Mielr capllnl front Russia at will," anid
Trotsky significantly.
"I submitted tills lb?|-beviki pro
gram to various Russian economists
and all agreed that the .Russian work
men are too ignorant and short si lit
; cd to conform to the sound principles
which may bo held by their lenders,"
| added Professor Ross. "Conscious of
i bcine masters of the industrial prop
erties. they will not submit themselv
es to ludlspenslble dl-clpllno. They
t will not follow the rnutt el of teebni
, cal men and they will 'eat up the rap
1 lint* so tluit I" fop the factories have
! been long in their hands |t will be
j Impossible to keep thr to going."
EEBMIK STUMNED BT REVLRSIL:
HUN DRIVE STOPS FDR THE TIME BEING
rrench Improve Locre Position; British Capture Prisoners
On Meteren Sector. Artillery Active Near Villers-Bretton
eux. Hindenburg's Men Give U. S. Troops A Rest
LONDON", May 1.?The French,
roups last night Improved their poel
ions in t ti ? neighborhood of the \ iil
ige of Locro. The British rushed
?ome (Ii-rman outposts in the Melt r> n
ector and captured many prisoners.
VRTILLERY ACTIVE
DN FRENCH FRONT
PAULS, May l.~ Artillery duels of
?onsiderablp intensity occurred lest
light on tli?> Somme front near Vill
rs-Brottoneu\ and on bo:li Bides of
ho Avre south of Amlenaccording
o today's report.
GERMANS STUNNED .123456 66
3Y REVERSAL
SEAR YPRES
Stunned by the severe punishment
noted out to them by the French and
nritish in the battle of Flanders the
Germans have for the time being gi\
n up their attempts to gain iuvihor
lill positions west of Mount Kemuiel.
Meanwhile it is presunted that 'If
Germans are reforming their battered
forces and bringing up additional re
serves. Apparently the uiiies are con
tent to hold their present line. j
BRITISH ADVANCE IN
MESOPOTAMIA
LONDON. May 1- General Mar
hall, in command in Mesopotamia.]
h". advanced farther north and to the
north* ast of Bagdad, has captured two]
towns and neurlj nine ?. hundred pris-j
oners.
AMERICAN FRONT j
BECOMING SOLIDER
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES I
IN ERANCE, May 1.?The situation
along the American front in the Toul j
eetor is becoming gradually more
stabilized. There have been no in
fantry encounters during the last
foiiy-cight hours although small pa
trol parties or outposts have met in
the darkness and mist in several,
fierce encounters.
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SECRET SERVICE '
GRABS GERM!
PR0FRGA1A REAR:
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Federal Plain Clothes Men Ar- |
rest Naval Commander Said
To Head All Seditious Moves
In This Country
NEW YOIIK, May 1.?Federal au?
Glorifies today acre ;< <1 a German na
val lieutenant coiainander in this city
who is alltgt'd to be the head of all
eneuiy propaganda niovi iu. nl.- in this
country. Pending the arrest of oth
ers averred to be his fellow workers
'In- name of the man arrested has for
tho pre ent been withheld. Whih
the dispatches today do not detail!
either the method nor the great im-l
port.nice of tin* capture, due to flit
"Xprcss seep cy which the govern
iii> nt desire.- to surround its uction.
iii this r. i;:u.I for some days to come,
vet i> is ci a. iall> conceded among 1
i lews pa p< r writers tliat the destruc
tion of the entire German propagantla
jst.'in in the I'nited Slates is innni
n< nt til rough di-< Insures made thru
| the arrest. The efficient government I
secret sa ri ice lie a are making Ger
Iman spreaders of sedition in this
| country hard to catch and the kaiser |
lis heginning to learn that he lias no
J Russian hick in this country through
hi- poisonous spreading of disloyalty.
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onvious
Girls, if you'll llooverize you'll re
duc. and you'll find it ea-icr to make
i both ends meet. St. I,on Is Star.
"HREE MILLION MEN
TO GO TO FRANCE
DURING THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON'. May 1.?Secretary
if War Jt:iker will appear before the
iou: >? military committee tomorrow to
?r> -< in the administrations' program
or increasing the army to meet the:
'..?nnan drive. The exact form of the
recommendations Is unknown. It is,
however, known that the war depart
ment officials, through a survey of
the shipping facilities now at hand, as
well as through a recently completed
compilation'of the supplies ready for
tt-e, have been convinced that it will
he possible to handle at least three
million nun this >ear. and by strain
in? the resources at hand. It Is believ
ed that this number could be Increas
ed.
MERCY! SHE KISSED COP!
THKNTON, N J.. May 1.?A Chi
i ago woman, a blonde, young and at
tracts. , was "invited" to leave the
< it> by .authorities making a "clean
l>" A plainclothes man placed her
aboard a tiain for New York. As the
train pulled out she kissed the "cop"
goodbye.
POPE TO ISSUE
NEW PERCE OFFER
Berlin Receives Information
Sympathetically; Benedict
Chooses White Sunday For
Historic Document
THE HAGUE. May 1.-Cologne
newspapers announce here today that
i'ope Benedict intends to issue a new
[>eaco offer on White Sunday. May the
nineteenth. It is said that the new
locunient is to be more pressing than
tny issued formerly and will contain
concrete offers of mediation by the
i'ope himself, with possible co-opera
lion of neutral sovereigns. It is un
lerstood that similar information has
reached Berlin, where the report says
ihat the news has been received sym
pathetically by the German govern
ment.
LINE ON BOOTLEGGERS
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 1?To de
termine whether negroes were in
Tennessee or Missippi when they
were caught selling whiskey, a survey
of the state line, near Memphis, is
being made, if the negroes were in
Tennessee they will be prosecuted in
the local courts, if in Mississippi they
will probably escape prosecution.
CLUB BANS EVENING DRESS
SPOKANE, Wash.. May 1.?Until af
ter the war no evening clothes will
be worn by the men and women at
the Spokane Country Club. Decision
to bar formal dress has been made by
i the entertainment committee and it is
declared to lie in keeping with other
war economies.
WET AND DRY STATUS
OF TOWN IN DISPUTE
MADISON'. Wis., May 1.?Is the
town of Verona wet or dry? It went
I dry by four votes at the election April
! 8, but ten days later a saloon keeper
, filed a petition demanding a re
count on the ground that the votes
find not been properly scheduled. The
J recount was decided on and then it
was discovered that the canvassing
' hoard had burned the ballots. Attor
neys say that the town Is dry, but
[ ilie buffet proprietors demand the
I proof and the attorneys can't produce
|it.
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