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PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE, 5, 1918. THE DEADWOOD DAILY PIONEER-TIMES yaqees ABUSED YOUTH -LEADS AS IHH DEADWOOD PIONEBR Established 187 TBDB BLACK HILLS TIMES Established 1877 Leo a few years ago are rival chieftains, rival governments, rival forces. There exists today in Russia nothing which can conform to the testa of a government, either de facto or de jure, except under the most strained of constructions. Meantime Kerensky, who seems to have recovered some of his nerve, is en route to this country, if he is not already here; and he is supposed to be plan-, ning to go to Siberia, there to undertake the organization of a government which will be able to extend itself to the west and finally to reclaim Russia. Until something like this can be accomplished in Russia and by Russians it will be well-nigh that they were severely hurt and they could not climb out.

Some of our boys therefore started down into the dugout. As soon as their bodies showed clearly against the route light, the Germans below fired on them. The punishment for their treachery was inatanteous and terrible. Our troops were armed with "flamethrowers" having In self-defense adopted them along with other devilish devices introduced by the Huns. A nozzle was rammed down into the dugout entrance, and the flame turned on.

And those thirty Germans were burned alive. It's an old story to all the allied armies except ours. The British "bomb" the occupied German dug-long ago found it necessary- to outs, because whenever a Tommy SUFFRAGE SCHOOLS TO BE HELD IN STATE Much interest is being shown all over the state in the School of Methods to be held in South Dakota, from June 3rd to 20th, inclusive. The first will open in Watertown, next Monday. Mrs.

Frank J. Shuler, who is coming on from New York to conduct them, has been making a speaking tour through Michigan, but has to return to New York In order that she might not lose her first chance to vote in a primary election. She will come to Watertown direct from her home city. Mrs. S.

V. Ghrist, of Miller, will instruct the members of the Schools in every thing that pertains to Amendment which 1b the amendment to the South Dakota Constitution that will both enfranchise women and prevent the voting of aliens. The situation in this state is unique and much interest is expressed in Mrs. Ghrist'B exposition of it. Mrs.

Grist is prominent through out South Dakota for her social and civic activities. She is Chairman of the Hand County Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense, Vice-President of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League and Chairman of the Hand County Suffrage Campaign Committee. She has a son serving as a Lieutenant In the army and a daughter who has succeeded In get-tig a vote ahead of her as Mrs. Ghrist says, "she has not worked half as hard for It. You see, she was wise enough to marry and live in a state where women are citizens." Mrs.

Albert McHahon of Washington, D. the other member of the "faculty" Is a Field Director of the National Suffrage Association and has BY HUH CAPTORS Treat Prisoners Worse Than Did the Red Savages of Pioneer Days. INFLICT CRUEL PUNISHMENT Americans Paraded Half Starved About Germany and Cheated of Food Offerings From British Prisoners by Swift Removals. The Hague. From irrefutable evl dence obtained by the New York Times correspondent, It is impossible to Close one's eyes to what is going on in the hospitals and prisoners' camps In Germany.

It is a mistake to believe that the treatment of prisoners and wounded In Germany has improved. On the contrary, it Is as bad as it ever was, even worse. The punishments Inflicted are cruel and inhuman. As is well known, prisoners are absolutely dependent upon parcels for food and clothing. A favorite punishment is to withhold these from a whole camp or from large bodies of prisoners.

It has been established beyond doubt that prisoners are employed behind the front and are under shellflre. In deilance of The Hague agreement of 1917. Some prisoners never reach a camp In Germany for six months, meanwhile receiving no parcels of food. Theti condition on arrival at camp, broken down and starving, Is pitiable. Hawked About Country.

The evidence doesn't tend to show that American prisoners are receiving liny preferential treatment. It is reported that the first American prisoners taken were hawked about the country, presumably to show them off to the populace. At Glessen, where, It would seem, American prisoners were kept od two separate occasions, they were prohibited any Intercourse, even by sign language, with other prisoners and were not allowed to receive parcels or gifts from them. British prisoners at Glessen asked If they could give parcels to Americans and finally received permission to do so the following day. But the next day the American prisoners were moved away early In the morning.

British prisoners were able to detect Americans who had been captured any length of time by their appearance and by the state of their clothes. Until parcels for them arrived from Berne their state was deplorable. A British noncommissioned recently obtained the signatures of the first ten Americans captured and talked with them. These men signed the scrap of paper In the hope that some news of them would reach the outside world. They were in poor Dhvslcal health and somewhat de spondent.

Some of the Evidence. A frw recent examples from a largf amount of sworn evidence follows: In February, 1918, 4,000 men wort-sent from a Westphallan camp to within thirty kilometers behind the front. Their guards ran away to escape the British shrapnel fire. The state of prisoners coming from the big Somme battle In the first week of the present month was deplorable. Their wounds had not been dressed in many cases for more than ten days Owing to the lack of dressing, British comrades bandaged their wounds with old towels and shirts.

It was formerly announced by the German authorities in Camp Bonn on April 13 last that two British soldiers, and had been shot near Mlnden for not stopping talking when ordered to do so. In November, 1917, men were brought Into the hospital at con tinually, having been wounded by shrapnel from behind the lines. Wounded men lay for three or four weeks unattended and grossly neg lected. Much of the sworn evidence is so repugnant that it could not be published. There has been talk of reprisals on American prisoners, and even foreigners born in America are Included In these threatened reprisals.

"We will hit America through the allies," one commandant stated. POET REJECTED AS SOLDIER Glbbs of Nowhere Falls to Sing His Way Into Camp of United 8Uts Marines. Buffalo, N. T. A twal wave of poetic verse threatened to swamp the recruiting office of the United States marine corps here recently when Burt Glbbs of nowhere in particular entered the office and burst out: "My country calls, I wish to fight "Pray tell me, am I in right?" His auditors were staggered and one braver than the rest led the poetie Glbbs, still chattering, to the officer in charge.

Glbbs effected a lordly bow and swept his hat to the floor: Tve come to fight to clean the ma, To make it safe for democracy." This was followed with: "Prithee, kind sir, rm known to fame, "Think and reflect Glbbs la my name." But Glbbs may gain, poetical bat never military fame. He was rejected as physically' unfit KILLER OF HUNS British Aviator of Twenty-two Is the Most Successful of Air Fighters. DOWNS 54 ENEMY PLANES Captain McCudden Wins ths Victoria Cross and About Every Other Honor His Government Can Bestow for Gallantry. London. Wherever flying men or men Interested in flying meet today, be It In Britain or at the British front in France, there is only one name on their Hps.

It is that of dipt. James Byford McCudden, who has Just been awarded the Victoria cross, the most honorable decoration that British valor can win, and who, In receiving It, has been officially revealed as the ereatest and most successful air fighter, living or dead, that the allies have yet produced. Captain McCudden, who is only twenty-two, has a bigger bag of hostile machines brought down than Bishop, Guynemer or Ball, or any other flying man that the war has brought forward, with the single exception of Baron von Klchthofen, who recently was killed in action. McCudden's record of hostile ma chines accounted for up to February. 27 was 54.

Of these 42 were definitely destroyed four of them In just 90 minutes, 19 falling on the British side of the lines. Only 12 out of the 54 were driven down out of control. Wins Victoria Cross. No wonder that, in recounting the feats of the young British champion even the writers of the sober Official Gazette are Inspired to use the lun gunge of enthusiastic admiration. Thej tell us that Second Lieut, (temporarj Cuptuln) Jumes Byford McCudden, D.

S. M. M. Royal Flying corps, has now received the V. C.

"foi conspicuous bravery, exceptional per severance, keenness and very high de votlon to duty on various occasions during December, 1917, and January und February of the present year." As the other initials ufter his name Indicate, Captain McCudden also bus the distinguished service order, the military cross und the military medal. Moreover, he has added a bar to both his D. S. O. and his military cross.

"The military medal," says the official announcement, "was awarded this officer (when a flight sergeant In the It. F. for consistent gallantry, courage and dash during the month of September, 1910, In attacking and destroying an enemy machine and forcing two others to land. He also twice-crossed the enemy lines at a very low-altitude lu attacks on hostile balloons, under very heavy fire. "The nillrtury cross was awarded for conspicuous gallantry In action oa February 15, 1917, on which occasion this officer followed a hostile machine-down to a height of 300 feet, and.

drove it to the ground. Conspicuous Gallantry. "Captain McCudden earned the bar to his military cross for conspicuous gallantry, dash and skill during th period of August 15-September 28, 1917, when he took part in many offensive patrols (over thirty of which he-led), and destroyed five enemy machines, driving three others down out of control. "The distinguished service order was bestowed on him for conspicuous gallantry on November 29, 1917, when, be attacked and brought down an enemy two-seater within our lines, both occupants being taken prisoner. He-also encountered an enemy machine during very' bad weather conditions at 2,000 feet and fought It down to a height of 100 feet, when It was destroyed.

Captain McCudden came down to within a few feet of the ground in the enemy's lines and finally crossed the line at a very low altitude, Subsequent to the award of the bar to the military cross he had been respon sible for the destruction of seven ene-j my machines, two of which fell within our lines. "For his skill and gallantry on November 23, 1917, Captain McCudden was awarded a bar of the distinguished service order. On this occasion he destroyed four enemy ma chines, three of which fell within our lines, by fearlessness and his clever maneuvering. He also drove his pa trol against six enemy machines, driving them off." WANTS $25 TAX ON DOGS Oregon Man Thinks He Has Unique Way to Help Win ths War. Cottage Grove, Ore.

O. C. Case of this city, thinks that he has discovered a unique way to help win the war. He wonts a war tax of $25- ploced on all dogs in the United States. The plan would work out as follows, says Mr.

Case: Nine-tenths of the one hundred million dogs in the country would be killed, because their owners wouldn't pay the $25 tax on them taxes on the remaining 10,000,000 dogs would bring the government the hide of the dead dogs would furnish leather for 290,000,000 pairs of gloves for our soldiers; enough food formerly given the dogs would be saved to feed thiity million people. W. H. BONHAM, Publisher Official Paper Lawrence Count. Official Paper City of Deadwood.

Entered as second class mail mat-tar at the postofflce, Deadwood. Subscription--Daily, by carrier, 75 cents per month; by mail 50 cents per month, weekly, 12.00 per year. SALES AGENTS Deadwood Flshnl's Bazaar, franklin News Stand, Van Meter's. Casper, Munson Mo- OUlls. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Starting immediately the following prices for subscriptions to the Dally Pioneer-Times will go into effect.

Prices from which no exceptions will he allowed. Delivered by carrier 75c M. Delivered by carrier 87.50 year In advance By Mail In city 75c By mall In city 87.60 year In advance By mall out of town 60e M. By Mall out of town 85.00 year in advance MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusive ly entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this pper and also the local news pub lished herein. All right of republi- cation of special dispatches herein axe also reserved.

If Holland would rather go hun gry than risk ships, very well! It's almost worth getting into a big war, Just to see former tightwads loosen up the way they-ve been doing lately. Most of the present-day nervous exhaustion and inefficiency are due to the fact that people haven't enough sense to go to bed at nights. We've conscripted our surplus man-ipower; now we're going to conscript our Burplus money-power. The next excess income tax will leave little ground for complaint. I It must be rather a bitter pill for the railroad presidents to swallow, that the higher freight and passenger rates they've wanted all these years are being inaugurated just after they've been fired, Before you kick about your mail service, remember how the postofflce forces everywhere have been shot to pieces by the selective service demands.

The men left are doing the best they can. "Politics is adjourned; elections will go to those who think least of It." says President Wilson. That's the way the public Is looking at the matter. Any party that wants to win in the fall will take heed. A radical member of the British parliament is annoyed because King George speaks of "my army" and wants to know why His Majesty doesn't speak also of "my national debt." Oh, well, kings must have little jokes.

And George Is a scout. Deadwood has one Institution, at least, that la not war profiteering. The bill presented to the Pioneer- Times for electric light and power consumed for the month of May was the smallest of any one month for more than a dozen years. The pow er motors were run more than the average number of hours during the month. There was a slight saving of light on account of the change of time.

This leads to one of two conclusions: Other institutions are (profiteering, or the management is infer ior to that of the Consolidated Light and Power Co. The Pioneer-Times and the Consolidated Co. are the only veaawooa manufacturing concerns that have not increased the prices of their products. Russian Reclamation. Plane for aiding Russia are more or less nebulous but no more so than Russia itself.

The situation re sembles that which obtained in ex- hopeless to attempt relief measures from the outside. Canning Cockerels. The United States Agricultural De partment gives out a method for canning cockerels, designed to save feed and put on the pantry shelves material for a chicken dinner when poul try is high in price. The method Is rather complicated and would require considerable time, more perhaps, than the stuff is really worth, but It is as practical as most of the advice banded out by Washington farmers, and it is here reprinted for the benefit of Deadwood people who find sleep difficult In the early morn ing hours on account of the crowing of a large number of useless cockerels. If the following method is not found to be a satisfactory solution of the nuisance, chop the heads off and throw the body in the Red Creek: "Kill fowl, dress at once, cool; wash thoroughly, draw, then cut into convenient sections.

Dip into cold water to insure cleanliness. Place in wire basket or cheese cloth and boil until meat can be removed from bones. Take the meat off in as large sections' as possible; pack hot meat into hot glass Jars or enamled cans; flss Jars will pot liquid after it has been concentrated one-half; add level teaspoon ful of salt per quart of meat, for seasoning; put rubbers and caps of jars into position, not tight. Cap and tip tin cans. Sterilize for the length, of time given below for the particular type outfit used: Hours.

Water bath, home-made or commercial (quart jars) Zxk Water seal, 214 degrees 3 5 pounds steam pressure 2 10 to 15 pounds steam pressure 1 Remove jars, tighten covers; invert to cool and test joinst." Millionaire Socialists. The conviction of Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes is- the first under the new espionage and sedition laws which has attracted wide attention; and the case will undoubtedly run the gamut of all the courts before it is ended. Mrs. Stokes happens to be of the socialistic turn of mind and she happens to be married to a man of great wealth.

But neither her philosophy nor her husband's money has been considered in the discussion which her case has produced. Her comrades in socialism are, of course, icaustic' in their comment and they indicate a belief that she was tried as much by a deranged public opinion as by a constituted tribunal. This comment is only natural from people whose rea soning powers have led them to the excess of statement from which Mrs. Stokes is now suffering. But if the Stokes case is to be considered from angles than those which the law provides, it may be well to reflect that if she had remained In her native Russia the chances are as one to a thousand that she never would have made an advantageous marriage, that she never would have attained to anything like the position which America has enabled her to take, and that it is mighty poor taste, to say the least, for one for whom a country has done as much as America has done for her to revile the govern ment under which she has made so great an advance.

Retribution. From an American correspondent's story of the dashing capture of Can- tigny, on the second day of the big German drive, we find this signifi cant passage: "Then came the work with bayo nets, grenades and flame-throwers. Thirty Germans were Incinerated in one dugout when they fired on the Americans after crying 'Kamerad! There is a volume of comment in that one short paragraph. It is easy enough to fill in the details. Our troops had 'captured the German trenches.

They were clearing them out. It was necessary to capture or kill all the Germans who remained alive. Our soldiers, playing the game fairly, gave every foe a chance to surrender. As a squad of Sammies approached this dugout, voices below shouted "Kamerad!" which is the universal German word for surrender. The natural presumption was went aown into a note to nelp a "wounded" German he was shot or stabbed.

It is the same ugly fact; demonstrated in a thousand different ways, that no German soldier can be trusted. They must be fought as if they were wild beasts. And it is all so utterly futile Whatever initial advantage they have gained from any particular breech of honor, humanity or law has soon been lost. They have been repaid In their own coin, with interest, in all except the basest indecencies and treacher ies, to which no allied soldier will stoop even In retaliation. One Express Company.

There is now only one railroad in the United States. After July 1 there will be only one express company The Adams, American, Wells Far go and Southern companies are being merged, by order of Director Mc- Adoo. There will be one big private corporation under public management, with a capitalization of $S0, 000,000 or more. It will probably be known as the Federal Express Company an appropriate name and will be run by George C. Taylor, now president of Ameri can Company.

Greater efficiency is the motive. It is expected that better service can be rendered at less cost by the slm pnncatlon and centralization now possible. Equipment will be stand ardized. Present outfits will be pooled. Duplication of offices will naturally be eliminated.

Lack of com petition will make possible a reduc tion of the working forces. The public will gain, no doubt from the greater simplicity of the express business. Shippers will di rect their shipment" by and the goods will be sent by the most direct route. There will be closer co operation with the railroad and the postofflce. It's a welcome innovation.

There never ought to have been more than one express company. A Toast to the Flog (By John Daly, of the Vigilantes.) Here's to the Red of it There's not a thread of it. No, nor a shred of it In all the spread of it From foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing it Red. Here's to the Whfte of it Thrilled by the sight of it, Who knows the right of it But feels the might of it Through day and night? Womanhood's care for it Made manhood dare for it, Purity's prayer for it Keeps it so White. Here's to the Blue of it Beauteous view of it, Heavenly hue of it, Star-spangled dew of it, Constant and true, States stand supreme for it, Diadems gleam for it, Brightens the Blue.

Here's to the whole of it Stars, stripes, and pole of it, Body and soul of it; On to the goal of it, Home or abroad for it, Unsheath the sword for it, Fight in acord for it, RED WHITE and BLUE! The regulai monthly business meeting of the M. E. Ladies' Aid society will be held1 at the home of Mrs. J. A.

Fraser, No. 9 Harrison street, on Tuesday afternoon, June 4, at 2:30 o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all members and friends to attend. Erma M. Kubler, Secretary.

Does it pay to advertise? It pays the Pioneer-Times- But that's an other matter. The question is, does it pay you to sink your mazuma in advertising, Mr. Business Man. The Senior Play answers the question. Good morning! Going war savings stamps.

to boy been appointed State Chairman of Organization for the South Dakota Universal Franchise League with headquarters at Huron. She has spoken in so many South Dakota Towns that she says she is adopting that stale as her home. The places and dates of Schools are: Watertown June 3-4 Aberdeen June 5-6 Huron June 7-8 Pierre June 10-11 Deadwood June 12-13 Mitchell June 17-18 Sioux Falls June 19-20 There will be no charge In connection with them and women from counties neighboring these where the sessions will be held are planning to attend in large numbers. Traffic rules will be strictly enforced and all drivers of automobiles, motorcyces and horse vehicles are cautioned and advised to study the traffic ordinance of this city. Vehicles must keep on the right side of the street, must observe the speed limit of 15 miles per hour and must keep to the right around the standards at street inter-sections.

Violation of these or any other traffir laws will be cause for immediate arrest and prosecution. E. M'GINLEY, tf Chief of Police. Will all gradauate nurses living in Deadwood, Spearflsh, Whitewood, St. Onge and Trojan please send me their names and adadress, and state whether married or single.

This does not obligate you in any way. This Information is asked by American Red Cross. W. E. ADAMS, Chairman B.

H. Chapter A. R. Deadwood, S. D.

Liberty Bonds We have received our full quota of Third Liberty Loan bonds and al) paid up subscribers can now get their bonds by calling at the bank. BLACK HILLS TRUST SAVINGS BANK, Deadwood, S. D. Try a Pioneer-Times want ad. baix.

my Tnriri Stamps and War Sav ings Certificates. "IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE." St. Martin's ACADEMY Is a Standard High School of first Rank. It gives a diploma which admits ita graduates to any Normal or College without examination. It la affiliated with the Catholic University of America, Washington, d.

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