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.0 if? WEATHER INDICATIONS. Kansas Partly cloudy and much' colder tonight and Tuesday, with; temperature near freezing bv Tuesday morning. 'CHANUTE DAILY TRIBUNE AND THE SUN," CONSOLIDATED JULY 1. 1909. Volume XXVII, No.

287 MONDAY Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas, April 7, 1919. MONDAY Whole Number 9388 1 PEACE MAY BE SERGT.lARIf BAR6EE HERE He Obtained, a Week-End Furlough and Visited Over Sunday With Home Folks. FIRST RAINBOW KIPLINGER DEAD OF SHOT His Health Failed Last Winter and He Had Planned to Return Home Today. HELPED BUILD FIRST STAR DRILLING RIG 0 merchandise. He told the proprietor that he was employed at the cement i plant and narrated his story of hav-'.

ing received the check from a roundhouse employee. The next morning, when he discovered that the check was no good, the merchant notified Police Chief Irwin and the two set out to look for the Texan. They found him in a pool hall on East Main street. He had about $3 left, saying that was all that remained after a game in which he engaged. He is being held by the police to await action by the county attorney.

He denies knowledge that the check was no good and has asked tor a ANOTHER OVERTURN IN HUNGARY Altho Lacking Official Tidings, Paris is Inclined to believe the Report. BELA KUN, FOREIGN MINISTER SLAIN Soviet Elections Had Been Planned for Today and General Holiday Proclaimed Washington Hears Communistic Revolution is Imminent in German-Austria. was 1.91 inches, or 0.52 inches above normal. A large per cent of this fell in a great downpour in the lower Smokv Hill and Kansas River valleys on the 15th and 16th, that netted from 3 to 6 inches at a large number of stations and caused widespread floods and washouts. Wheat made a growth that was entirely satisfactory and covered the ground complete!" in the eastern half and in many localities in the western.

No particular damage from insects or other pests was reported. Farm work was delayed" until the closing week by fields being too wet, but it was pushed rapidly as soon as the ground dried, and by the close of the month the bulk of the oats crop was sown, and in the southern nortion was coming up. In the central and western counties a great deal of barlev was sown. The planting of potatoes and of early gardens, was in full swing. Apricots and plums bloomed in the southern part.

EIGHT KANSANS IN ARMY LISTS THREE DIED OF DISEASE, ONE WOUNDED SLIGHTLY. Division Well Officered. He praises the officers of the division very highly, particularlv its 'ommander, Maj. Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur.

"He was right up at the tront all the time the fighting was going on," Sergeant Barbee said. "When he was asked how many runners he wanted to carry messages between his headquarters and the front, he said none, because his headquarters were almays at the front." The Rainbow division was composed of national guardsmen and most cf its commissioned officers were from the national guard personnel, the sergeant said. No Kansas Committee on Job Sergeant Barbee praised very highly the treatment which the people of New York give returned soldiers. The Kansas reception committee is not yet on the job there, he says. He called its office over the telephone and found no one there except a girl at the desk and thereafter paid no attention to it.

NEW MAYOR TAKES OATH OF OFFICE HE WILL FORMALLY GO OX THE JOB TOMORROW. City Clerk AVood Administered Oath Old Time Ceremony of Out-groins Mayor Administering Oath. Dispensed With. Mayor-elect J. J.

Hurt took the oath of. office this morning at 8 o'clock. City Clerk C. G. Wood administered the oath.

The new mayor will formally go on the job tomorrow and will preside at the regular meeting of the city commissioners tomorrow afternoon. It was presumed that the ceremony of administering the oath to the new official would be a part of the regular meeting tomorrow. The plan for many years has been for the out-going mayor to administer the oath of office to his successor and at the same time turn over to the new official the gavel of authoritv. Mr. Hurt, however, chose to do away with the ceremony and buckle right into the job.

City employes who on the job when the new mayor came into the clerk's office ay that he smiled when he entered but was quite serious when City Clerk Wood snoke the words of the oath of office. Mr. Hurt did not linger after the ceremony but went directly to his office. Mayor Hurt Now. Beginning tomorrow, Chanute folk who have grievances and call the city hall will "ask for.

Mayor Hurt. It will take a little time for the municipality to get accustomed to the change, but it may as well begin early. Women who have trouble with their neighbors' chickens, rabbits, pigeons and other things should bear in mind, when they call, that the city has a new mayor. Mr. Hurt will be at his office in the city building tomorrow and he should be initiated in the right stylo.

No statement came from the new official today but Jie will likel, vhayi something to say at the regular meeting of the commissioners tomorrow. Ex-mayor Morrison is now a man without a job so far as holding office is concerned. He is feeling free now, as he expressed it this afternoon, and will devote his attention to his business interests here and elsewhere. rjanv onnM HUI OUUH More Optimistic Tone Was Expressed by Paris Press Today as to French Claims. WILSON TO START FOR HOME MAY Sailing Orders for Transport Not Taken to Indicate Departure Will be Premature.

Lloyd George, the British Premier, Will Make an Important Statement Tonight. Washington, April 7. In connection with the reports from France of plans for President Wilson to return home, many officials said today that no orders had been received in regard, to the transport George Washington, but that the vessel was undergoing its usual "cleaning up" at New York, preparatory to sailing for Brest, France, April 15. This would put her on the other side in time to btart back with the president on board May 1. Oetting the (I.

W. Heady. Paris, April 7. The orders which, it has been learned, have been given ior tne united States transport George Washington to proceed from America to a French port are not taken to mean that President Wilson is contemplating a premjature departure from France. They are thought rather to reflect a belief that the peace conference will be able to effect an adjustment of.

its outstanding problems at a comparatively early date. Paris More Optimistic. Paris, April 7. An extremely optimistic impression now prevails regarding a settlement favorable to France of the questions of her security against future German aggression and the neutral zona on the left bank and part of the right bank of the Rhine. This was voiced todav by the Petit Journal, which, in treating ot the financial aspect, also stated it appears that France will be completely indemnified.

The belief prevails, the newspaper adds, that the viewpoint of Premier Clemenceau of France in regard to reclamation from Germany and a special indemnity for pensions for cripples and war widows will be upheld. Lloyd George to Sjieak Tonight. London, April 7. Premier Lloyd George will make an, important statement tonight concerning the completion of the work of. the peace conference, a Central News Agency dispatch received here today from Paris says.

No Session This Afternoon. Paris. April 7. Because of the indisposition of Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain and the continued illness of President Wilson, the Council of Four did not. hold sessions during the forenoon today.

It was bored to hold a meeting this afternoon. President Still Confined to Room. Paris, April 7. President Wilson's condition was improved this morning, but, by the direction of Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, his physician, the president will remain in his room today and attend no meetings.

Apparently the president's cold is in the last stages of. the wearing-off process. He hopes to be able to resume work Tuesday. Wilson "Steadily Improving." Washington, April 7. President Wilson is "steadily improving," altho still confined to his bed, according to a message received today at the White House from Paris.

Provisional Report on Reparation. Paris, April 7. The peace conference commission on reparation and damages today adopted a provisional report upon the various forms of damages and methods of valuation. The report was presented by the first sub-committee of the commission. COMMANDER 5F RAINBOWS HOME COMING WITH PART OF TWEN-T -SIXTH DIVISION Foi ty-Socond Division Exacted to Re the Next Complete Organization to P.e Returned to This Country.

Boston, April 7. The steamship Agammemnon, third of the fleet ot' transports which is bringing the twenty-sixth division's troops to this city, is expected to reach the Commonwealth Pier today. Maj. Gen. Clement A.

F. Flagler, commander of. the Forty-second (Rainbow) division, also is returning on the Adammemnon. His division is expected to be the next complete organization to be returned to this country. MARCH AN IDEAL MONTH FOR CROPS Abundance of Moisture in All Parts of the State Topeka, April 7.

"March was as nearly ideal for crops as thfS month ever "is. as shown by a summary of the daily reports from 125 stations of the weather bureau that cover conditions in every county," says the monthly weather-crop report issued today by S. O. Flora, federal meteorologist for the state of Kansas. "There was an abundance cf moisture in all parts of the state and while there was less sunshine than usual, the weather was mild enough for wheat to make a splendid growth, but not warm enough to force vegetation ahead of the season.

The month's mean temperature was 44 degrees, which is 10 degrees above normal and 6 degrees lower than March last year. No unusual extreme? of temperature ocurred, the highest reported being 84 at Lakin on the 19th and the lowest 2 degrees at Quenemo and Valley Falls on the 1st. which is the ninth time in 32 years that March has passed without zero temperatures in the state. The average precipitation (rain, melted snow and sleet for tte state. 0 Two 1'ieviously Reported "Died" Killed in Action, One Hearted Missing Killed, One Re ported Missing Wounded.

Washington, April 7. The following army casualties are reported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces: Killed in action, 15; died from wounds, died of accident and other causes, 36; died of disease. 125; wounded severely, wounded, degree undetermined, 13; wounded slightly. 133; missing in action, 2. Total, 317.

Eight Kaunas men are included in the lists. They are: Lieut. Ernest K. Pierce, Pittsburg; died of disease. Sergt.

Abram Traver, Pea-body; died of disease. Private Charles C. McWilliams, White Cloud: died of disease. Private Van Amburg Sickler, Hutchinson; wounded slightly. Private John Frank Frary, Fort Scoii killed in action, previously reported died.

Private Angus W. Ralston, Arkansas City; killed in action, previously reported died. Private Warren Stanley Kline, Lucerne; killed in action, previously reported missing in action. Private Aden Robert Richards, Galena; wounded, degree undetermined, previously reported missing in action. The following summary of the total number of casualties issued for publication to date was also 'announced: Killed in action, including 381 lost at soa, died of wounds, died of disease, died from accident and other causes, wounded in action, more than S5 per cent returned, missing in action, not including prisoners 'iIvased and returned, 5,019.

Total, 271,277. In Marine Corps Washington, April 7. The following marine corps casualties are retorted by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces: Killed in action, 26; died of wounds received in action, 22; died cf disease, missing in action, wounded in slightly, 1 wounded in action, degree, undetermined, 1 Total, 59. No Kan'sans were included in the marine corps list. The following summary of the total number of marine corps casual-lies issued for publication to date was alto announced: Officers Deaths, 98; 121.

Total, 210. Enlisted men Deaths, wounded. missing, 107. Total. r.r,ox.

Grand total, 5.827. MORE RIOTING IN TEXTILE STRIKE Explosion of Bomb Followed by Firing; From Strikers and Police. Lawrence, April 7. Rioting, marked by promiscuous firing bv strike sympathizers and the police, opened the tenth week of the textile workers strike here today. The outbreak occurred in the vicinity of the Everett Mills shortly before 7 o'clock, a few hours after the city had been stirred by the explos- ion of a bomb in a tenement house in the same neighborhood.

Early reports indicated that no one was injured by the shooting, altho several rioters and policemen were injured bv sticks, stones and clubs. Twenty-three arrests were made during the disturbances of the morning. YAQUI INDIANS ARE ON THE WAR PATH Seizing Arms and Ammunition fin the American Side, They Start for Sonora. Nogales, April 7. Yqui Indians yesterday crossed the border from the state of Sonora, Mexico, into the United States, obtained a large amount of arms and ammunition and then recrossed into Mexico, headed it is believed, toward No-gales, Sonora.

This information was brought here today by Mexican offi- cials. LLOYD GEORGE NOT FOR RECOGNITION He has Not SiiRg'tsted Tins for Iius-siaii liolshevik Leader DIVISION MAN BACK His Foot Has About Recovered From Injury Which Kept Him From Germany. He Hauled Last Load of Ammunition to American Front, Going Almost to Sedan. Barbee, first among ine 112 Chanute men in the ammuni- turn train of the famous Rainbow di- arrlve home, returned to ort Riley this morning after being nere for a week-end visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs.

VV. M. Barbee, and friends. He has not yet been mustered out of service but is still Deing cared for as a casual because or tke injury he received last November. "It's an ill wind that blows no Rood," he commented.

"Getting hurt Kept from going on into Germany vith the boys, something I wanted to do the worst kind. On the other hand, it resulted in causing me to be returned to the States ahead of. them, and you can tell the world that I'd rather be at home than in Germany any day of the week." His Foot About Well. Sergeant Barbee does not know how long it will be before he is mustered out. but hopes it will not be long.

He will not be demobilized until he Is discharged from the hospital as recovered. His foot, which was ught under a 10-ton truck and trushed, is about as good as ever. He was wearing shoes with heavy, hobnailed soles when he met with the accident and gives them credit for saving him from permanent injury. Sergeant Barbee has not been with the train since November 2 5. He was hurt November 20 and was so eager to go on with the others that he accompanied them by riding on a truck until his commanding officer ordered him sent back to a hospital.

At that time the train was in Calm-us, Luxemburg, where it remained over Thanksgiving after having passed thru part of Belgium, on its way to the German territory along the Rhine assigned for occupation by the Americans. Took Last Load to Front. "The boys were all getting along at that time," he said. "The train got good billets after it reached Germany, being assigned to hotels and villas in the summer resort towns in Altenahr and its vicinity. I should like very much to have been with them, but my luck went back on me at the very last." Sergeant: Barbee had charge of transportating one of the last, if probably not the last, loads of ammunition that was taken up to the American artillery before the armistice went into effect.

This trip took him within two or three miles of Sedan, the historic point almost reached by the Rainbow division after fighting its way thru the Argon-lie Corest. Perilous Work. "We did not go over the top, like the infantrymen," Sergeant Barbee paid, "but we saw plenty of peril. The bombardment was worse over the area behind the front lines than it was upon the trenches. Each side was on the lookout constantly for ammunition dumps and trains, and every load was marked as targets for artillery fire." The fighting in the Champagne was the worst in which the Rainbow division engaged, in Sergeant Bar-bee's opinion.

It was here that the Rainbow division joined the French army under General Gouraud in beating back the great offensive launched bv the Germans on Bastille day July 14. the French "Fourth of July" when the Huns attacked east and west of Rheims. crossing the Marne east of. Cheteau Thierry. Expected to Rest.

"Maybe it was because we didn't know what war realty was until we got into the Campagne fight, that it seemed so fierce." Sergeant Barbee said. "It was quite a joke on us. We had been withdrawn from service at the front in Lorraine, where we were the first American division to take over a section of the front and served longer in the trenches without rest or relief than any other American division. "Alon- late in June we were told that we were finally to be relieved and to go to Chalons for a rest. Then when we got there the Heinies took It into their heads that thev could break thru in the Champagne and they rushed us un to help the French.

Shock Troops. "We held the line east of Rheims and then when the German advance there has been definitely checked we moved westward into the Chateau Thierry salient, where the Rainbow division relieved five battered American and French divisions and advanced ninety-one and one-half kilometers bv desperate open fighting against choice German troops. It was in the Chateau Thierry salient that a bomb struck one of the trucks beloneing to mv unit and destroyed it, killing the four members of its crew. None of them were Chanute men. "From thn on the Rainbows were a shock division and were to be seen the storm was heaviest.

From Chateau Thierry we went east again and took part in eliminating the St. Mihiel salient, then moved north into the Argonne forest, where we were almost to Sedan when the armistice stopped the fighting. At Montfaucon in the Argonne region one of my drivers was killed one night and another had both his legs off." Chanute Men Lucky. Sergeant Barbee Commented on the good fortune of the Chanute men with the train. "We did not lose one," he said.

"There were a number cf caualtie? in our regiment, but they were mostly among the units that came from the western part of the state, and the men that joined us as replacements." Sergeant Barbee wore a brassard with the insignia of the division a rainbow of three colors, also three service stripes, each one indicating bix months overseas. wasn't there quite the full eighteen months," he said, "but they awarded us the third btripe anyway" preliminary hearing. This was the second bad check experience of Chanute merchants re cently. Earlier in the week two hardware stores were defrauded, one of $25, the other of $26, by a man i who claimed to be employed on an oil lease in the north field. At each store he bought a stove and offered in paymnt a check calling for $25 more than the cost of the stove at one place, for $26 more at another place.

After he got the money he went out, saying he would return with a conveyance for the stove, and has not been seen since. OMAHA SWEPT BV TORNADO Much Property Damaged, Some Injuries Inflicted, But No Loss of Life Reported. FOLLOWED PATH OF TWISTER OF 1913 It Also Started at Seme Time of Evening on Same Day of Week as Other Storm. Southeastern Nebraska Also Buffeted by Severe Winds, Elm-wood Being Hard Hit Omaha, April 7. Heavy property damage, 'ut few personal injuries of consequence, resulted from a vicious tornado that swept across the western residence section of Omaha last evening shortly after 8 o'clock.

Dundee and Clifton Hill suffered the greatest losses, many being residences being unroofed and in some cases practically ruined. It is remarkable that this twister swooped down "upon the city at almost the same hour of. the same day of the week as the more disastrous storm of Easter Sunday in 1913 and nearly exactly six years afterward. Moreover last night's tornado entered Omaha at exactly the same spot, as did its deadlier predecessor and, in general, followed the same path for a considerable distance. KoutheasternrNelwaska Swept.

Lincoln, April 7. Wire communications in parts of Southeastern Nebraska were crippled today as the result of the violent wind storm which swept over that part of the tate lart night. The greatest damage, the report indicates, was at Eimwood, where several farmhouses were badly damaged and telephone poles leveled. No loss of life occurred. COLD WAVE WILL COME TONIGHT IT WILL DRIVE MERCURY IK)WX TO FREEZING POINT.

Change Will Continue Tomoirovv and He Accomnanied by Xotthwest Wind Will Follow Warmest Weather of the Year. Topeka, April 7. A cold wave that will carry the temperature in Kansas down around the freezing point is due tonight, S. D. Flora, federal forecaster, announced today.

Thruout the state, he said, the temperature would range from 30 to o5 degrees. Tomorrow will be cool, 50 degrees being set for the maximum. The ccld spell will be accompanied by a northwest wind. Sunday was the warmest day this year, reaching a maximum of 80 degrees here. K.

U. SCHOLARSHIP FOR MISS BUTLER Former Chanute Girl Will Attend the University of Kansas Net Fall. Miss Leota Butler, a former student in the Chanute high school, has been elected to the Kansas University scholarship at Southwestern College in Winfield, where she will graduate next June with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Miss Butler is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

O. P. Butler. Her father was formerly proprietor, of the Citv Meat Market at 20 West Main street this city. The family moved to Wichita several years ago.

There Miss Butler attended Fair-mount College as a Freshman, going to Southwestern in sophomore year. She will take advantage of her Kansas Universitv scholarship in September, and will take further work at the state university in chemistry, which has been her major study in Southwestern. Not only has she excelled in chemistry but in her other school work as well. In addition she has taken a very active part in society work and in other student activities. KILL, THE CAT-SPAKE THE SNAKE.

Pittsburg, April 7. Kill the cat and spare the snake. That should be the slogan of the Kansas farmer, according to Prof. B. W.

Scheib of the State Normal Training Normal. Cats are the best little disseminators of disease on record." Professor Scheib says. "They carry germs in their fur and car ry them directlv to the places where they would do the most harm. The ordinary Kansas snake is a helper for the Kansas farmer. It catches mice and insects that destroy the farmers' crops and in return is slain by the farmer.

Every snake is a mouse trap, but the farmer re-ses to cooperate with it because it crawls." With Company Since It Organized, Constructing Plant at Akrori, O. and Here. Two Years Ago He Resumed Construction Work, Building $250,000 Block in Wichita Calvin H. Kiplinger of Wichita, for many years a resident of Chanute, was found dying from a bullet wound in his head wrhen employees of the Manhattan Hotel, hearing the sound of a shot in the room which Mr. Kiplinger had engaged for the night, rushed into it to see what had happened.

Mr. Kiplinger was alive and remained so until after a surgeon, who was summoned at once, arrived, but the bullet had penetrated a vital spot and the wound was fatal. The funeral services will be held here at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and the body will be placed beside that of his first wife, who died seven or eight years ago. The place of holding the service had not been decided upon today, but will be announced tomorrow. Helped Build First Star Rig.

Mr. Kiplinger was 54 years old May 8, last, and had had a career of more than ordinary interest as a builder. Until about two years ago, he had been with the Star Drilling Machine Company since it was organized in 1889. He helped build the first drilling machine the company ever made and constructed its original plant in Akron, O. He also constructed the Akron, high school.

He remained with the Star Drilling Machine Company and when it decided to build its plant here fifteen years ago it sent him here to construct it. Afterwards he remained as its foreman until about two years ago, wben he again took up construction work, to Wichita where he planned and superintended the buildincr of a business block costing a quarter of. a million dollars for A. L. Derbv, his wife's son-in-law, a wealthy oil operator.1 Health Failed Last Winter.

Mr. Kiplinger's health failed last winter and he underwent an operation in Wichita ear'-- this year, following which he went 10 his old home, to visit his four brothers and two sisters who live in Ohio and recuperate. He arrived here Thursday of last week, stopping off on his way to Wichita for a visit with his son, Basil C. Kinlineer, and family-He was their guest Friday night and had planned to visit over Saturday nieht with J. W.

Phelps, his wife's brother, and family at T16 South Lincoln avenue. Instead be went to the hotel and engaged a room, where he was found dving at 11:30 o'clock Saturday The bullet had been fired into his right temple, and his position, when found, indicated that he had been standing before a mirror when the weapon was discharged. Planned to Re Home Today. His widow came last evening from Wichita. She expected him home today, as he had written that he planned to be there Monday.

His son here was his only child. After the death of his wife he married Mrs.1 Lydia E. Burks four years ago last summer. Word was received this morning: that three of his kindred were on the way here from Ohio to attend the funeral. W.

O. W. IX SESSION. It and the Woodmen Circle Head Camp Meet in Independence. The head camp of the Woodmen of the World and the Woodmen Circle meets in Independence today and will be in session until Wednesday evening.

Delegates from all parts of the state will be in attendance. Santa Fe train No. 201 carried an extra coach at noon for the accommodation of the Woodmen. The Kansas City, Kansas and the Iola drill teams were on the train along with big delegations from both camps. The Iola party contained forty people and Kansas City sent as many more.

FISH BITING WELL AT AUSTIN Five Hundred Were Angling There Yesterday With C.ood Luck. The river banks in the neighborhood of Austin were lined with fishermen yesterday, and some good catches were made. A. F. Ville-pigue whose veracity is above par on matters other than piscatorial estimated the attendance at Austin as near 500.

The fellows who had the "luck" used worms as bait. One Chanute man brought home a string of a dozen bass and others returned with sufficient fish to make the outing worth while. This report on the good fishing is made in the interest of those who seek to reduce th high cost of living and those who hav fishing tackle to sell rather than to detract from the attendance at church and Sunday school. It is said that the Neosho river fish will bite equally well on week days. TEXAS NEGRO GOT SWIFT ACTION HERE Sold C.un for S12.50, Check Was Xo Good and He Is in Jail.

A negro who arrived from Texas last week found that things move somewhat faster here than they do down in the South. He cashed a check for $12.50 Friday evening, lost three-fourths of the money trying to "fade" the town boys that night and Satnrrtav afternoon was nrrpstprl cause the check was no good. HVf claims it was given to him as payment for a revolver he sold to a negro employed, he said, in the Santa Fe roundhouse. No one of the name signed to the check works there, however. The Texan cashed the check Friday evening while the style show was being held, going into a drug and.

buying about worth of Vienna, April 7. The Hungarian communist government in Budapest has been overthrown, according to rumors current in official circles, the newspaper says. Bela Kun. the foreign minister, is reported to have been assassinated. The reports do not say whether the newly attempted revolution in Budapest was organized by the Socialists or by the bourgeois party.

Were to Elect Today. Paris, April 7. Peace conference circles had received no information this afternoon concerning the rumor from Vienna by cay of Basel, Switzerland, that lie Hungarian soviet government had been overthrown and Bela Kun, its foreign minister, assassinated, but there was no inclination to doubt the accuracy of tho report. Soviet elections had been planned for Hungary today, and a r.onerai holiday had been proclaimed. 'onununiMii in Get Xevt Washington.

April 7. Ad vires reaching the State department indirectly from Vienna say that communist revolution seems imminent in German-Austria. Itavaiian Socialists Oppose Sovi-. t. Nuremberg, Bavaria, a April 6.

(By the Associated Press.) The national conference of Social Democrats here has voted, 4 2 to against the introduction of a soviet republic in Bavaria. No Soviet in Yet. Berlin, Sunday, April By the Associated Press. There hiis been no definite news here concerning the situation in Munich since the reports were received of the early exciting occurrences there. From such news as has reached Berlin, however, it seems probable that a soviet government has not yet been proclaimed in any way that can be regarded as official or binding.

CHANGED TO SUIT GENERAL PERSHING Order I.iinitinu His Authority Oyer. 'Courts Martial llevoked. Washington, April 7. The regulations limiting General Pershing's authority over court martial ceeaings abroad, to which the genera al objected, have been revokfd. An amendment to General Order Nol 84-ot 117, published today-by J-he -war) department, shows that the language making mandatorv on the cler recommendations by' thecling judge advocate general r-in Franc that, sentences be set disapproved or modified, has been stricken out.

JUDGE STABBED BY MISSOURI EDITOR They Were On Opposing Sides in the Kece.i:, Political Campaign. St. Joseph. April 7. Circuit Judge Frank P.

Divilbiss of Itii h-mond. was attacked today Robert S. Lyon, editor of the Richmond Conservator, and was nine times. Fight of the cuts are in the stomach and one in the bre-tst. Judge Divilbiss's condition is critical.

Lyon gave himself up to the sheriff. The stabbing took place in the courtroom in Richmond and Judge Divilbiss was at once removed to his home. It is said that there had been ill fpeling between and since the judge was a candidate; for' congress from the Third distiict tor year, when Lyon supported Uei -sentative Alexander of Gallatin. SECRETARY OF WAR SAILS FOR FRANCE Accompanied hy New Ambassador to That Country and New York, April 7. Newton D.

Baker, secretary vof war; Hugh C. Wallace of Tacoma, th'i new United States ambassador to France; fifteen members ol the house military committee and Warren Pershing, the fJ-year-old son of Gen. John .1. Pershing, commander of the Ameiitan expeditionary forces, were passengers aboard the stcainship Leviathan, which sailed from here at noon today for France. BAND PLAYED IN HUMBOLDT SUNDAY People There Seem Determined to Make Ileeord in Collect hi us.

The Community Band gave its Sun day afternoon concert in Humboldt yesterday, forty-five musicians taking part. The program was the as was given here a week ago yesterday. The opera house was filled and some were turned away. The collection amounted to $G0, Humboldt seemins to be determined to make a record of some kind. Its contribution at the first concert was $102.50, the highest on record, while yesterday's wa the Next Sunday afternoon the band will meet in Humboldt to rehearse a new program which will be played for the public in Iola on the afternoon of Easter COFFEYVILLE'S FIRE CHIEF DEAD Lorcn Harv ey Had Been He id of P' partment Thirteen lears.

Coffeyville. April 7. Loren. Harvey, chief of the Coffeyville Ore department for the last thirteen years, dropped dead of heart diseaso in his home this morning. Radiator work Ford Agency, DRILLING INTO THE LIMESTONE CHANUTE OPERATORS MAKING TEST IX SOUTHWEST FIELD Drill Has Been oviit 240 Into the Lime in Two Weeks in Well South of Vila A test in Mississippi lime is being made in the field southwest of Chanute by H.

B. Scott, F. L. Brey-fogle and William Wells, who have punched into it to a depth of 240 feet in a well two miles south of. Vilas.

The experimenters have ndt fixed any depth as the maximum to they intend to go. All that was -'-nned in this regard was that they would drill down into the lime when they came to it and keep going until thev decided to quit. The well is now down to a depth of 1.430 feet. The going has been slow since the lime was encountered, it having taken two weeks to go the 240 feet into the formation. Work is being retarded not only bv the baldness of the lime, but also by the strong vein of water which was encountered after the drill had gone 100 feet into the formation.

This has filled the hole and is causing considerable trouble. With this exception the formation has been prac-ticaly uniform in its nature. A careful log is beina: kept. A number of wells have been put down into the lime in the southwest field. Two years ago the Empire company, which was operating west of Earlton and Thayer, gave instructions that if any of its wells were put down to the usual depth without success drilling should be continued into the lime, and in one of these ventures a deposit of oil was encountered.

It was not far in the lime, and was considered due to a "break' in the formation which had allowed the oil to seep thru and settle in a pocket, where the drill discovered it. Barney LaDow of Fredonia also did some MississpipDi lime testing in Wilson county and found a number of gas denosits in the formation. Whenever these strikes were made tho, the logs showed that the formation was not uniform but lay in folds. Two years ago there was considerable talk here of making a thoro test of the Mississippi limestone by putting down a deep well, and an organization for this purpose was formed. Just about the time it had named its committee and they had gotten to work in earnest, this country became one of the belligerents in the great war, and attention veered from punching a hole in the ground to driving one thru the Hindenburg line.

Mrs. Henrv Schmidt and Mrs. Ray-Blair left todav for their home in Simla. after being here for a visit with the family of R. H.

Blair. Peoples-Home State Bank F. E. Bodley, President J. L.

Barnes, Vice-President H. C. Bodley, Cashier It. C. Swank.

Assistant Cashier Our entire deposits GUAHANTEED Washington, April 7. Lord Reading, the British ambassador, authorized the statement today that the suggestion that Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain had advised the recognition of Lenine and Trotz-ky, the Russian Bolshevik leaders, was wholly unfounded. I Mrs. George T. Amyx of Ottawa is i here ior a visit with friends and relatives.

First National Bank Rescsrces $1,500,000. i Member Federal Reserve Bank. 4 Interest iff..