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WESTERN LIBERAL. WESTERN LIBERAL Lonosuuno - NEW MEXICO Farla V. Bush, Editor and Owner Published Every Friday. It's no crime for any army to forgo ahead. Although tho tussock moth says lit tío It has a way of arriving. London war reports have rondo fish stories dull and uninteresting. Vacation is merely a mad competition to spend In two weeks the savings of a season. Where are the sentimentalists? Why not n nod ft y for the protection of hun gry sharks? Efficiency may be a much overwork ed word, hut that only tends to prove Its efficiency. A Buropean ruler always swolls up and speaks of "my troops" when they're winning. A goodly portion of Europe doesn't care where It oats its Christmas din ner, Just so tit eats. Nobody loves the neutral now, but after the war he will bo hailed as everybody's best friend. Returning vacationists are convinced that nfter all a rich brown tan is not much as a tangible asset. Asido from tho fact that our nero planes on the border will not fly, they are pretty good aeroplanes. Cleanliness Is coming to bo an essen tial to business success In tho handling of foods. This is progress. Soma of tho best road records of tho season are being raudo by Ameri can aviators walking back. "Money makes tho mare go," but owing to high prices of gasoline, it's now an nuto that makes the money go. Tho fault of our time nnd manners is, men are too apt to rcgnrd an ofllco n placo to browse in instead of serve in. Maine flshcrrann says ho knows fish can talk. When they have anything to say they probubly tell it to the marines. Fortunately, it Is not necessary to appeal to the supreme court to decide whether every tennis service Is in or out. Whnt tho world most needs Is a Winstcd hen thnt will lay an egg with the word "Pence" Indelibly etched In the shell. Another costly vnrlety of paper is that upon which ure written the notes that are bases for breach of promise suits. It is announced thnt there Is $380, .01,707 In the Philadelphia mint. Thnt is one of tho finest mint beds we ever heard of. "Few men," sngely observes n wise guy, "know what Is really In them." They should try eating Ice cream with pork and beans. nencnth the tbwnrtod patriotism of tho tens of thousands of prisoners of war In Kuropo there lies the consola tion of a chnnce to live nnd maintain poirfiewilon of two hands and two feet. The man who lends a dunl life Is a consummate scoundrel, but tho mnn who wears himself to a frazzle trying to support one family, stern though he bo In comlcimiutlori of the .fellow who supports iwii. bauds It to him for man agerial genius. Nearly all the members of the mili tia wear wrist watches. Nobody ques tions the utility or desirability of the wrist watch In tho field; It's only tho soft chap who weurs It In the ballroom who makes a Joke of It When n moving picture serial Is giv en the mnnugors should take pnlns to sec that the plot moves along a little every week or so. It seems that It Is n fad of tho North se fixliHrinen to hear the noise nt na val battles thnt never happen. That San Francisco Judge's proposal for shooting feebleminded Jurors hasn't been carried out yet, wo under stand, but the Juries ure still com pelled to suffer the gas attacks of the lawyers. As soon ns n possible shortage of leather was announced Dame Fashion, with characteristic extravNKunce, made the shoetop higher than evtjr. One of the pitiful sights In lío Is to seo a man with u plan for ending the war trying to raise a car window. It must he omhamiHftliig to tho guests at the summer hotels to have to give the orders to college girl wait ers who know how to ironouuco the menus. A Cleveland pastor thinks Darwin is to blame for the war. Still, when get ting right buck to first principles, Adam and Kve were probably funda mentally to bluine. With gasoline and golf balls both cheaper the sufferings of the unfortu nate rich are somewhat alleviated. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OP WIRE8 ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR DU8Y PEOPLE. IVf itrn Nwtptpr Union ttw BrTie. ABOUT THE WAE Italian armies score further ad vances on the Trentino sector. Unofficial advices say a revolution ary provisional government has been set up on tho Island of Crete. Allied transport laden with troops sunk by a submarino in tho Mediter ranean, says Berlin admiralty report. Athens diplomatic circles report that tho Austrlans are about to evac uate Trlest, tho chief port of tho Teu tonic powers on the Adriatic. British troops (M Somme ailvanco a mile, capturing German trenches. Other allied successes reported by French and Brlth war oKlces. Berlin estimates that the entente allied armies on the Somme have lost 500,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners as a result of tho recent offensive over the long front. Ninety thousand Germans under tho personal command of Field Marshal von Hlndenburg cut to pieces by the French on the Somme, according to a report to a Paris newspaper, La Liberto. Two British subjects and thirty-six out of thirty-eight Carranza soldiers were killed when VUllstas raided an oil camp near Tuxpam Sept. 1C, ac cording to ofilcors of tho tank steam er Toplla, which arrived at Galves ton, Tox. Tho tide in tho great battle for pos session of Dobrudja has turned In fa vor of thn Teutonic forces, says Ber lin, claiming that tho flank of the Russo-Uumanlan army has been turned and that the enemy beat a hasty retreat In disorder. Important Teutonic successes re ported from Sofia, which declares Ser bian troops have been routed. Allied war statements forwarded to Paris and London via Salonlki disputo the official reports Issued by war offices of the central powers. WESTERN Butte, Mont., was selected as tho 1918 meeting placo for tho Interna tional Brotherhood of Carpenters. Storming tho Jail, fifty armed men lynched Bert Dudley, avenging the brutal murder of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Muller, for which he was convicted at Olathe, Kan. Hipólito Villa, brother of Francisco Villa, and his financial agent in the days when Juarez was a wide open town, waB released from federal cus tody and set at liberty. Prospectors, speculators and, In one Instance, a Donvor oil company, have been turned back recently from tho I.ost Soldier and Mahoney Domo oil landa in Wyoming by the withdrawal of tho land from entry. Whllo on his way to attend tho funeral of his lifelong friend, Nicho las Entrlnger, at St. ClouI, Daniel Kempf, 92 years old, a Fond Du Lac county, Wis., pioneer, was struck and Instantly killed by a freight train. Military funeral services for Col. John II. Beacom, Sixth United States Infantry, who died recently while commanding this regiment at Colonia Dublan, Mox., woro hold at El Paso,' Tox. Tho body waB sent to Wells vllle, Ohio, his former 'ionio, for burial. WASHINGTON An interest rate of tt1,. per cent for flftcen-duy notes at tho Dallas Fed eral Hesorvo Bank was approved by tho reservo board. Miss Phyllis Julia Nollgon-Torry, tho English actress, nnd Cecil Frank King Ogden, hor manager, woro mar ried In tho British consulate at Now Orloans, La. Austria-Hungary has decided to grant permission for roostablishmont of Amorlcan Red Cross units in tho dual monarchy, withdrawn several months ago bocauso of lack of funds. Two Wyoming National guard In fantry battalions, Troop A of tho Kan sas cavalry and Troop B of thd Wis consin cavalry wore ordered to tho Mexican border by the War Depart ment. The Department of Justice clampod down the lid on the ptndlng black mail prosecutions. Hereafter, offi cials of the dopnrtmont say, the cases "will be prosecuted In tho courts and not in the newspapors." Brig. Gen. J. J. Pershing, com mander of tho American punitivo ex pedition In Mexico and ranking brigadier of tho army, probably will be made a major genoral, a vacancy In that grado having been created by the death of Major General Mills. Consul Genoral Sklnnor at London cabled the Stato Department that two American sailors, William Woottonot Harrison, N. J., and Bernard Sweeney of Bayonne, N. J., wero savod from thn British stoamer Strathtay, torpe doed by a submarine Sept 6 In the English channel. FOREIGN A son was born at Peking to tha wlfo ot Dr. Paul Samuel Belnsch, United States minister to China. Many Uves have been lost and enor mous damago has been caused near Gablonz, Bohemia, by the bursting of a dam In the valley at Wolssendesse. Advices from Constantinople, says the Overseas News Agency, tell ot a mutiny among troops ot the Ilusstan Caucasus army because ot lack ot pro visions. That typhus fever again Is be com ing a serious moñaco throughout Mex lco was the statement of a passen gnr arriving from Ssn Luis Potosi at Laredo, Tex. Tho landsthlng, or upper house ol the Danish Parliament, will finish the readings on the government's bill to sell the Danish West Indies to the United SUtes. Capt David Henderson, son ot Ar thur Henderson, president ot the London Board of Education and labor loader in the Houbc of Commons, was killed In action. Chen Chln-Tao, the Chinese mln lBter ot finance, formally asked thi quintuple group of bankers, for $50,000,000 reorganization loan on the security of tho salt monopoly surplus. A verdict ot accldential death was returned by tho coroner's Jury at Que bee at tho inquest Into the loss ol thirteen lives In the collapse of tho central span of tho Quebec bridge on Sept 11. Tho railway crisis In London aria, ing out of the demand of the men tor an increase of 10 shillings a week in their wages has been settled on the basis of doubling the war bonus. This Is n compromise, giving tho men hall the 10 shillings demanded. SPORTING NEWS Standing of Wmtrrn I.rnuue Clulia. Club Won Lost Pet. Omaha 84 .'.r, .826 Lincoln 84 71 .(42 Hloux City 78 fi'J .531 Des Moines 7i 73 .501 Denver "fi 75 .503 Topeka 17 S3 .HI tit. Joseph 65 S5 .433 Colorado Spring 56 !)2 .373 Lovelaud High school again will make a bid for tho Northorn Colorado Interscholastic football championship this fall, and a squad of twenty-one men are now going through a rigor ous course ot training. J. W. Hubbcl, representing Har vard, won tho individual Intercollegi ate golf championship on the links of tho Oakmont Country Club at Oak mont at PlttBburg. Pa., by defeating I). C. Corkran ot Princeton, 1 up. While leading tho field in an auto mobile race at the county fair at Sturgis, S. D., Bernard J. Webster merchant of Rapid City received in juries from which he died. Tho cat turned turtlo on a curve and Web stcr's chest was crushed. The first accident of tho tootball season In Denver has fallen on a South Side high school player. Jack Salsbury Is carrying his arm In a sling as a result 'of ono of tho first scrimmages of tho team. His arm was dislocated and ho may be out of the game for the entire year. Braden Direct was tho winner ol tho free-for-all pace In tho Groat Western Circuit moot at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield. The horses paced tho second mllo In 2:04, the fastest mllo of tho meet. Baby Helen was winner ot tho 2:20 paco fot 3-year-olds and Marie Constant was first in tho 2:25 trot. Diamond Q. was winner of the 2: IS pace in straight heats. GENERAL Philadelphia was definitely chosen ns the site of the 1919 triennial con clave of tho Knights Templar. Gon. Funston said he placed full credonco In the report of Villa's at tack on Chihuahua city, sent to the .War Department by Brig. Gen. George Boll. r The Mexican conforenco at New London, Conn., reached a stage which enabled the American commissioners to predict that a satisfactory settle ment would be arrived at within twe weeks. At Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Amy E Archer-GllIIgan, charged with poison Ing five inmates of her Homo for EI dorly People at Windsor, was indicted for first-degree murder on five count? by tho grand Jury. Popo Benedict has conferred upon tho Right Rcverond Thoophllo Mcer schnert, bishop ot Oklahoma, who re cently colebrated the twonty-flfth an nlvorsary of his consecration, tho tl tie of count nnd assistant to the pon tlfical throne. Tho suicido of Joseph Tuma, head ot the Tuma Savings. Bank, a private Institution, and tho indictment of four priva to bankers were developments In Chicago's "epidemic" of privato bank failures, and a general Inquiry lntc their Institutions. Katharine Gould, divorced wife ol Howard Gould, Now York multimill ionaire, got Judgment for $11,740.78 against hor stepfather, J. W, Dayan of Palo Alto, Cal., on a noto executed to Timothy Hopkins in 189C and ac quired by Mrs. Gould In 1901. Men of naUon-wido prominence, representatives of educational and financial Institutions, and delegations from civic, historical and political or ganizations, paid tributo to the mom ory ot former Mayor 8eth Low at his funeral in New York, Foreign ships arriving at Newport News for cargo and coal have report ed to the British authorities that thoro is another German raider In the At lantic. The epidemic of Infantile paralysis In New York was declared by Health Department officials to be at an end. NEW MEXICO STATE NEWS Western Ntwipaper Union News Service. COMINO EVENTS. Sept S7-29 First annual CowboyV Oeneral Itoundup at Tucumcarl. Sept. 28 Fair nt Greenville. Oct. 3 Woman's Clubs annual melt ing at Las Vegas. Oct. 3- New Mexico danker1 Associ ation Convention nt CJrand Cation, Arls. Oct. 10-13 Dona Ana County Fair at Loa Cruces. Oct, 6-lfj Annual Convention of South- western Holiness Ass'n at Moriarty. Magdalena is to have better mall facilities. A big barbecuo enmphaslxed beet sugar day at Las Cruces. A riflo meet will be a featuro ot the state fair at Albuquerque. The Camp Demlng Y. M. C. A. hall has been formally dedicated. A political debato was a featuro Jf the opening day at the Stato Fair at Albuquerque. Contrary to the general impression, the CiO-ncro homestead measure is not yet law. Tuscado, a Navajo Indian, was killed near Defiance station by being run over by a train. Demlng now claims tho largest auditorium In the state built by pri vate individuals. Ground has been broken for Magda lena's new high school. Tho building will cost $22,000. The home of Mrs. Jennie Gallegoes. of Albuquerque, was destroyed by fire, with all its contents. Roswell has practically completed a fund ot $12,000 for advertising the climate in the east. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Price Watkins, at Hollywood ranch, near Demlng, celebrated their silver wedding. Cattlemen will go to sugar beet raising In the Mesilla volley according to reports received at Santa Fé. Gen. Eugene A. Carr's saddlo, used throughout his military career, has been presented to the Stato Histori cal. Society. Suit for $5,000 damages for personal Injuries was instituted in Federal Court at Santa Fe by R. T. Holton, ot Curry county, against John N. Janes. AugUBt saved the situation for New Mexico crops, according to the cli matic report for tho month past Is sued by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Louis Caretto, charged at Gallup with seduction, was arrested at Albu querque by Chief J. R. GalUBha and City Marshal Chris Christian ot Gal lup. Geo. Anderson, who lived southeast of Tucumcarl, was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Leo Anderson, ac cording to a confession made by tho latter. The total receipts from the sales and rentals of stato lands In New Mex ico, up to November 30, will likely bo $700,000 this year, a gain ot $200,000 ovor last year. A petition in voluntary bankruptcy has been filed in Federal Court by Austin Hugh Ullln ot Clovls, who gives his occupation as a laborer, bin liabilities at $403.81 and his assets at $82. "Centralization ot the cattle inter ests ot New Mexico is needed," says Senator ,13. F. Pankey ot Lamy, one ot tho executive board of the Now Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers' As sociation. W. O. Van Arsdale, of Wichita, Kas., was in Clovls a few days ago, and an nounced that his company was putting In a, 500 acres in wheat on their largo body of land, twenty-seven miles northeast ot Clovls. Business men of Roswell have taken steps toward a vote of a bond issue o! $100,000 for good roads in Chaves county. Recruits who went to Columbus to entor the National Guard and who wero rejected, or who met delays be fore being mustered In, are to bo re imbursed for their outlay In transpor tation and for loss of time. Governor McDonald has appointed tho following notaries public: Edith Geyer, ROBwell; O. P. Hunt, Capitán; (VI f red II. Long, I'.osa; Alberto C. Or ega, Pastura; J. A. Hurst, Dawson; F. W. Rosonfeld, Silver City. Thirty thousand dollars damages are asked by E. D. Sibley In a suit tiled against tho Santa Fo Railroad Company, Sibley, whllo motoring In tho Mesilla valloy was struck by the train from Albuquerque and received porsonal injuries. With ono accord tho co-eds of tho University of New Moxlco have united to take a swat at tho high cost ol high living. They have put a ban on taxlcabs. That is, they have an nounced they will not ride In a taxi cab with the boys to dances or other affairs. Beginning Oct lit, the El Paso & Southwestern railroad Intends inaug urating a regular dally passenger serv ice connecting with the main lino, which parallels the Mexican border, and Tyrone, where Is located the prop erties of tho Burro Mountain Copper Company, A rattlesnake which modo Its home lit the cellar at tho homestead of J. X. Dunlap In Curry county, sank Its fangs Into the leg ot the 18-montha old child ot Dunlap, Despite all thai medical aid could do, tho child died from the poison. RATON DOCTOR KILLED HURRYING TO DENVER IN AUJO TO MEET FAMILY. Crushed Dody of Well-Known Special ist Found by Tourists on Road 8outh of Pueblo, Colo. Wuttrn Xewtpaper Union Newi Service. Ratón, N. M. Dr. W. S. Connett, 46, of this city, a specialist In chil dren's diseases, was killed almost In Btantly eighteen miles south ot Pu eblo, Colo., on tho north and south highway when his touring car crashed from tho road and turned turtle. Dr. Connctt's body was found by tourists crushed beneath tho engine shortly after the accident. Dr. Connett, alone, was driving toward Denver to meet his wife and daughter. Tho roadway is an almost perfect boulevard where the accident occurred and people who had passed hint a few minutes beforo he turned over say that h- was driv ing at a very moderate rate of speed. Dr. Connet was one ot the most wide ly known physicians In New Mexleo. He wns a thirty-second degree Mason and stood high in his profession. He is survived by a widow and ono daughter. Gerónimo Festival at Taos. Taos It Is evident that this year Taos will celcbrato its typical annual feast of San Gerónimo as never be fore in the history of Taos. Tho busi ness men and other residents of Tao3 have contributed very liberally so thnt the feast may be given all tho importance possible, and that the vis itors from tho dlftercnt parts of the union Sept. 30 will have n good time. The program will be us follows; Foot races and barrel races around the park, band concert, maBquerada carnival, Indian dances, relay races by the Indians, chlfonettes, puglllstlo encounters, matachines by tho In dians, the grandest Indian spectacle in America; horse races, C00 yards; broncho "busting," etc. Tax Board Makes $10,000,000 Raise. Santa Fé After a nine-day session the State Tax Commission haB ad journed. The commission foun.l $304,690,372 of taxable property on tho rolls. It is estimated that about $10, 000,000 in increases has been put on the rolls, bringing the assessable prop, erty to about $315,000,000. Scottish Rite Reunion, at Santa Fé. Santa Fé The Twenty-second Re union of tho ScottUh Rite bodies in this valloy will be held Oct. G, G and 7, at which time all of the Scottish Rite degrees up to nnd Including the Thirty-second degree will be conferred In tho well equipped Scottish Rite Ca thedral in this city. Of Interest to Women. Santa Fé Attorney General Frank W. Clancy ruled upon request of Mrs. Laura Wilson Johnson of Palomas Hot Spring, Sierra county, that worn, en aro not eligible to any offices ex cept those specifically enumerated In the state constitution: county school superintendent or school director. Sugar Beet Acreage Signed Up. Las Cruces Tho result of over a month's steady work by public spir ited citizens of tho Mesilla Valley was brought to a whirlwind finish, when all of the necessary acreage to locato a sugar beet factory at Las Cruces had been signed up. To Resume Surveys. Santa F5 United State Surveyors F. E. Joy and Basil C. Perkins have arrived to resumo under tho direction of Surveyor General Lucius Dills, the BUrvoy ot tho Pueblo grants, begin ning with Tesuque, nine miles north of Santa Fé. Three Arrested for Killing Brakeman. Demlng Jose Murillo, Romulo Mar tines and Paul Carrillo aro under ar rest charged with tho murder of G. C Stevenson, Southern Pacific brake man, shot to death west ot Wllnn. Murillo and Martines wero captured at Gage and Carrillo was arrested at Separ. Carrillo speaks good English and tallies with Brakeman Wilson's description of the man who had no part in tho attack. Carrillo's story does not agroo with that told hero by Brakeman Wilson beforo the cor oner's Jury. Carrillo declared the rail road men woro tho aggressors. Judge Pope Laid to Rest. Santa Fé Evory section of New Moxlco was represented among those who paid tholr last tribute to Federal Judge William H. Popo. Flowers rare and sweet-scented in almost measureless profusion attosted how near to the hearts of many the emi nent Jurists had come. In harmony with the simplicity of his Ufe and conduct there was no ostentation in the funeral ceremonies. Government Given Right-of-way. Santa Fé For tho Federal Court here Judge Robert E. Lewis, of tho United States District Court ot Colo rado, haB handed down an order giv ing tho federal government Immedi ate rlght-ot-way across the Santa Fé railroad tracks and property in Eddy county, in order that tho government may construct protection for the rail road property against possible, dam age from the Carlsbad irrigation pro Joct, where tha reclamation service U building additional spillways. HUSBAND OBJECTS TO OPERATION Wife Cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound D? Moines, Iowa." Foot years ago I was very sick and my Ufo was nearly spent. A no oonsra ta ted that I would nov er get well with out an operation and that without it I wonld not livo ono year. My husband objected to any operation and got me someof Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound. I took It and commenced to get better and am now well, am stout and able to do my own housework. I can recommend the Vegetable) Com pound to any woman wbo is sick and run down as a wonderful strength and health restorer. My husband says I would have been in my grave ero this if it bad not been for your Vegetable Compound." Mrs. Blanche Jeffer son, 703 Lyon St, Des Moines, Iowa. Before submitting to a surgical opera tion it is wise to try to build op tb female system and cure its derange ments with Lydia E. PinVbam's Vege table Compound; it boa saved many women from surgical operations. Write to tho Lydia E. Pinlcham Medicino Co., Lynn, Mass., for advice it will bo confidential. THE HIGHEST QUALITY SPAGHETTI 36 ñe Rtdft Book fm SKINNER MFG. C0 OMAHA, ULSA. IMCIIT MACMOM FACTORY IN AMOICA APPENDICITIS If yon have ben threatened or have (IAIX9TOM1IH, INDIOB8TION.OAH or p&ln In tb rlcbtCDCC lido writ for val able Book of Information r Ilbfc k M, BOWKU, PITT, n.I, II . DliRBOK VTCXZOaM COULD NOT CORNER MIKE Mr. Flaherty Heady With Explanation for Failure to Keep Awake in Church. 7)ne Saturday evening Mrs. Fluherty said to her husband, who Is n success ful contractor: "Mike, Father Burke Is to preach tomorrow nt St. Patrick's church, and you've often told me you wanted to hear him." "Yes, Jam1, I do want to hear hlui. They say he's u line speaker." "Hut, for pity's sake, Mike, If you do come with me, keep awake 1 You know you're always falling asleep dur- , Ing the sermons." "I'll do my best, Jane." Next day, when Father llurke begun to preach, Mike watched hlra for five minutes, and then dropped off to sleep. When they were hack home Jane pive Mike a tongue lushing. "Well, Jane," said Mlko in self-defense, "It's Just this way. When 1 engnge n new hand I wntch him to see If he's on the Job. As soon as I Una he's elllclent and hnrd-working I don't bother about him nny more. Now, us soon ns Father llurke began I suw he was right on to his Job, und so I didn't worry about hlni. And then. In spite of myself, I let go." Hverybody's Magazine. Looks So. Patience 1 si'o sixty Ihousand wom en In London wepo thrown out of work by the war. Patrice Oh, did the war stop bridge whisti Brightens One Up There is something about Grape-Nuts food that bright ens one up, infant or adult, both physically and mentally. What is it? Just ta delightful flavor, and the nutriment of whole wheat and barley, including their wonderful body and nerve building mineral ele ments! A crisp, ready-to-eat food, with a mild sweetness all its own: distinctive, delicious, satisfying Grape-Nuts "There's a Reason"