Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 4, 1921, Page 6

t ; ' ? <Page atpe seme TEES Ney GERMANY MUST PAY 296 BILLION MARKS Premiers Reach Agreement on | Reparations and Other Im- portant Questions. Paris —Full agreement on repara- tions, German disarmament and all | other important questions before it had been reached by the supreme coun- cil when it adjourned to meet in Lon- don February 21. A protocol was signed approving the reparations scheme as agreed on by the special committee and also the re-_ port on the disarmament of Germany ae presented by the military commit- tee. Germany must disarm by July 1, | disbanding all her civic guards mot provided fr in the peace treaty. Germany will be called on to pay in 42 annuities on a sliding scale 226,- 000,000,000 gold marks. Her exports, | in addition, bear an export duty of 12 per cent for the allies. On the basis of last year’s exports this would give | the allies 1,250,000,000 gold marks or 12 per cent of whatever money in which the exports are paid for. Thus it is estimated the first payment made by Germany will be 8,250,000,000 gold marks, the export tax being paid in | cash. Seizure of German customs was add- | ed as fourth of the penalties adopted for violation of agreements. The other three are: Extension of the area of eccupation; occupation of the Ruhr | district; refusal to admit Germany to | the league of nations. As to Austria it was agreed that the allies should forego reparations, the | cost of the army of occupation and certain other Austrian debts to enable Austria to obtain aid more easily. It | (The total of 226,000,000,000 gold marks of German reparation payments called for by the plan would equal ap- proximately $56,000,000,000 at normal exchange rates.) U. S. HAS ALMOST 14 BILLIONS IN VAULTS Washington, D. C.—Acting Treasur- er Allen announced that a total of $13,- 883,826.36 in cash and securities was found in the treasury as a result of the count necessitated by the resigna- tion of John Burke as treasurer. This total is about $10,000,000,000 greater than usual and ts accounted for by approximately that amount of notes deposited by foreign govern- ments’ war loans, ‘The actual cash on hand at the time of the count was $97,410,283.02. The last previous count, in 1913, showed a grand total of $1,426,422,- 051.48, of which the total cash amount- ed to $1,199,231,911.90. The present count showed $4,726,- 653.11 in gold coin, $45,790,572 in standard silver dollars, compared with gold coin of $2,505,722.98 and standard silver dollars totaling $153,893,689 in 1913. FARM PEST TO BE GASSED | Barrage in Cotton Beit Expected to | Kill Boll Weevil. | Washington.—The chemical warfare service of the army, in co-operation with the department of agriculture, is preparing to lay down @ barrage of poison gas in the cotton districts of the south calculated to exterminate the boll weevil. Brigadier-General Amos Freiz, chief of the service, said that experiments already conducted promised success. Military gas has already been used against rats in seaport cities and against locusts in the Philippines suc- cessfully, he added, Wilson Refuses to Pardon Debs. Washington.—President Wilson re- fused to commute the ten-year sen- tence imposed upon Eugene V, Debs for violation of the espionage act. The department of justice had recommend- ed commutation of his sentence to take effect February 12 next. Woman Who Saw Lincoln Shot, Dies. Vancouver, Wash.—Mra. Margarete McLoughlin, 110 years old, believed to be the oldest woman in the state and who saw President Lincoln shot by Booth, died at her home near Hockin- son. Mrs. McLoughlin was at the theater the night Lincoln was shot. House Accepts Morgan's Gift. Washington. —The house, sitting as a@ committee of the whole, voted to ac- cept as a gift the home of J. P. Morgan in London to be used as an American embassy and appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of an embassy building in Paris. Lumber Mili Wages Slashed. Hoquiam, Wash.—A meeting of the wage scale board for the lumber mills in this district reduced wages of com- mon labor from $4 to $3.60 a day. The price of board in company camps was ut from $1.50 to $1.30 a day. | PUBLIC Seeeoetontondedoatoctoetocietostoatontentecteteatoeteatont eectoatoatoetectrtratoatentesteetety Seeete Thursday, February 10, 1921 rit SAL Having sold my ranch I will sell at public auction four miles north of Cottonwood near , the Stock Creek School House on Commencing at one o'clock the following described property: FOUR HEAD OF HORSES ONE BROWN MARE, 8 YEARS OLD WEIGHT 1300 ONE 3-YEAR OLD COLT, WEIGHT 1200 ONE ONE AGED HORSE, WEIGHT 1300 2-YEAR OLD COLT, WEIGHT 1200 TWO HEAD OF CATTLE ONE HOLSTEIN COW, FRESH IN MARCH ONE RED COW, FRESH FIRST WEEK IN MARCH SIX DUCKS FARM MACHINERY TWO PITCH FORKS TWO LOG CHAINS ONE POST MAUL TWO AXES ONE LOG SAW TWO HAND SAWS ONE SCOOP SHOVEL ONE PRUNING S FO ABOUT 20 GALLONS OF VINEGAR UR BARRELS 100 FENCE POSTS ON HEAR HALF KEG OF STAPLES HOUSEHOLD GOODS OF ALL KINDS ONE FOLDING S MATTRESSES ONE BABY’S SW FOUR DOUBLE MATTRESSES TWO CHIFFONERS TWO DRESSERS THREE WASH STANDS BEDROOM TABLE TWO WASH STAND SETS ONE 8-FOOT DINING TABLE ONE ONE ONE LARGE RO MICKER ROCKER INGLE COT AND TWO ON ONE ON E SADDLE AND BRIDLE E IRON WHEEL WAGON SINGLE DISC E GARDEN CULTIVATOR TWO SEWING ROCKERS TWO CHILDREN’S ROCKERS ING COT BEDS, SPRINGS AND THREE HARDWOOD DINING CHAIRS EIGHT DINING CHAIRS ONE LIBRARY TABLE ONE PARLOR TABLE ONE CLOCK SHELF CKER ONE EIGHT DAY CLOCK ONE MAJESTIC RANGE THREE HEATING STOVES TWO KITCHEN CUPBOARDS 1 NEARLY NEW DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATOR—SIZE 12 ONE ONE DAKOTA FA ONE GRIND STONE ONE CIDER PRESS RUNNING GEAR FOR WAGON 1 SET BREECHING CHAIN HARNESS ONE 10-INCH GARDEN PLOW ONE MEAT SAFE ONE KITCHEN TABLE SIX SMALL RUGS ONE 3-GALLON CHURN ONE IRONING BOARD ONE CARPET KITCHEN WARE ABOUT 60 QUARTS OF FRUIT AND PICKLES ONE LARD PRESS GARDEN HARROW ONE STUDEBAKER SURRY ONE RUNABOUT SLEIGH NNING MILL FOURTEEN DOZEN FRUIT JARS MANY OTHER ARTICLES TOO NUM- EROUS TO MENTION NO PROPERTY TO BE REMOVED UNTIL SETTLED FOR All sums of $20 under, cash. All sums over that amount time will be given to Oct. 1, 1921 on bankable note bearing 10 per cent interest. R. M. Tombleson,';Qwner H. C. Quigley, Auctioneer First National Bank, Cottonwood, Clerk TAKE BABY HIPPO IN TRAP Hunters Have No Easy Task in Get- ting Youngster From Pit Into Which it Is Decoyed. a wives 1 UNRWEES voUuLuM, in telling of the work of zoologists says: “Pitfalls are dug for the hip- popotamus, which has the habit of allowing its young to trot along in front of it instead of behind, so that it can have its eye open to any danger to its offspring. The young creature appears to vanish into the earth, through the branches which cover the pit, and the terrified moth- er turns and bolts. Then, always supposing that he can annex his prize before a lion or a leopard | strips its bones, the hunter has his work cut out to get the weighty youngster out of the pit. A noose is passed over the neck and the fore- lege, and the legs are bound segurely | togetner. | current is inexpensive. ‘rhen @ sloping patnway | is dug out of the pit, and the baby hippo, a weight of about half a ton, is hauled upon a stout litter through the bush to the fearest river, where | it continues its journey on a native barge. The hippopotamus is mali- cious and dangerous from the day of its birth, and becomes reconciled to captivity only after many months.” | UNIQUE SYSTEM OF HEATING Method of Swedish Inventor Utilizer Electricity Where the Current is Inexpensive, A Swedish inventor has devised a most unique system of electrical heating for houses of from four to | ten rooms, and which is especially intended for localities where electric The system consists of two tanks, a motor-driven | ators ana piping. une or tne tanks is placed in the attic of the house and is thermally insulated. In it are | placed the heating units, which, nor- mally, are only operated at night, when the rates for electric current | are low. In the morning the heat- | ing units are disconnected from the supply circuit and the motor-driven pump started. The water flows | down the piping and through the | radiators by the force of gravity and is collected in a receiving tank in | the basement, from where it is pump- ed and returned to the tank in the jattic. It is claimed that the cost of heating a house by this system is about 12 cents per room, with a current rate of 1 cent a kilowatt hour. WHAT MAKES FOG. London is deenoes for its fogs. =< Why? Because, tor one reason, London is a city. Cities make smoke, and smoke makes fogs. Doubtless London fogs are much thicker and more prevalent nowa- days than a century ago. The city is much bigger, and there is more smoke, A fog is formed by the condensa tion of moisture upon smoke parti- cles and dust particles suspended in the atmosphere. The more smoke and dust, the greater the liability to the formation of fog, each particle furnishing a nucleus for moisture when conditions are right. Thus as a city gains in popula- tion, fogs become more frequent.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. REPAIRING LANDMARKS. The old powder house at Manches- c ter, Mass., and which is a historic landmark is being repaired. the roof shingled and put in general good condition. This building, con- | structed of brick, eight feet square, is Manchester's visible and enduring evidence of preparation during the | days immediately preceding the War |of 1812. It is a matter of historic pride that the bricks for this building were | carried up the steep hill by the wom- en of the town, who piled as many as they could carry into their aprons, The building is still in a fair state of vreservation. —__. 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