The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 3, 1919, Page 4

‘SIBERIA LAND OF BIG RICHES ~ Wealth Buried in Vast, Un- - tilled Siberian Acres BY PE Staff Corresponden WITH TH AME TN SIBERIA, J have just completed 1,000-mile trip into! Northern Siberia. ere is no coun: | try richer, more beautiful, or more Inviting to land-lovers. Its valleys | stretch away into thousands of miles | instead of hundreds. Its hills and| Mountains are stocked, not only | With great forests, but stored with ¢oal and other minerals, | Navigable rivers, well distributed, solve the difficult problem of trans: | portation. In the hands of men like} The pioneers of America, Siberia ‘ould be developed into a strong and ‘Prosperous nation All these years its possibilities We been ignored. Long rows of 4 cks in the villages are “Bleak “reminders that it was once “the dumping cround of intrigue and ‘political tragedy. Great two and three-domed churches tower above the squalor and poverty which, un-| @er the right tutelage and a just government, could be turned into comfort and plenty. Less than one-tenth of this fertile try is under cultivation. There thousands of es of virgin soil it has impossible for Siberian settler to develop more | ‘a small tract with his crude and do tools. All the work is by hand and oxen instead of | horses are used for hauling and Y HULD, of N. EA | x ARMY | I ts AN & Hay is taken to market in small ‘carts or wagons, which necessitates | m ous trips and a waste of time. is transported in the same "way. The ambitious Americans hope ) to imtroduce along with the com-| | modious hay-rack of the United) : man-sized wagons, motor | silos, baling machines, reap- planters, and all the other ap-| ces that make for the cult: | of large areas, | ‘The only horses to be found in the | ng district are small, scrawny churian ponies. A draft argh _ The Siberians are net fast work-| hey plod along, methodically plishing just half as much as put in less hours and more | greese.” "Can you imagine,” said one Amer. | soldier to me, as we stood look: | over a great sweep of unplowed “what 1,000. hard-working hust- Americans could make this / try look like in—well, say, five | 2 Why, it would be a paradise | ‘wealthy homes and communities, | as you'll find in any rich farm. | community in the states.” | I don’t believe he exaggerated. | will not be difficult to win a for- from the much neglected soll of | : of Small Boy Ready to Flirt With Burns on Our Glorious Fourth By 0. B. CAREFUL Our Annual Glorious Fourth «with its Sis*Boom Ah-h-h and several Hun dreds of Ohs and Ouches and Aches |is booked to open in Seattle early Friday morning, if the American Smal! Boy has his way about it. And said A. S, B. proposes to have | his way about it. In fact, the Small Boy proposes to pull off a Powder Burn that IS a Powder Burn. He always does every Fourth. Early Friday morning he will un. limber the punk and proceed to touch off the Red Things. The more ambitious lad will sneak in a few before the official hour. So you se, mothers and fathers, your small boy is due to stage a session of simles and burns. So you'd better grease the way to the family M. D Any way you look at it the family purse strings are in for a yank. In order to spread the kid’s fireworks over the city it might be suggested that you buy a he«upply of noise-makers; divide them into hour- piles, and then slip it to Willie that he is to burn a pile an hour. of course, it’s arnica and a dark room for Willie before the day is done. Painfal Subject I anticipate a great run on the drug stores, This is a painful sub- Ject, I know, but you know the Glor-ee-us Fourth manages to slip around once per annum, and wo've got to make the best of it while 4TH OF JULY BASEBALL SAN FRANCISCO vs. SEATTLE Morning Game . .10:30 Afternoon Game. .2:30 The returns from the Willard-Dempsey fight will be announced by rounds, Saturday game called at 3:00 p. m. Sunday game called at 2:30 p. m. ‘The Only Musical Comedy House Now Open im the Northwest CROWDS are jamming every performance, in spite of the summer weather TO SEE THE TURKISH HAREM DANCE That big sensational novelty from the Winter pretty maidens Garden, New York, with in dazzling costumes —IN— “THREE WEAKS the light-powered attraction of mile-a- minute fun and SPECIAL LADIES’ and CHILDREN’S MATINEES DAILY, EXCEPT JULY 4TH, AT 2:30 10c CHILDREN Se music. NIGHT ..........35¢ Matinees, 2:30 Nights (Two Shows) 7:15-9:15 CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE, JULY 4TH, 35¢ Uniess, | Witlic gets the worst of It. It is an historical fact that the grown up boy nurses a prodigious peeve when Willie ties a pack of | firecrackers to the tail of his pinch | back. At times this mode of amuse ment results in a quick slink on the part of the goat. As @ mere matter tion I, would suggest trick fs played on you, calmly reach around string. You probably with a desire to raviate. Never cf minor men that if this} simply and} and cut the will be seized aviate and even runt If a dog should happen be might make a Something about bitten. to passing he sarcastic crack the biter being | Mothers, Be Patient | | And, you mothers, be patient if| Willie insists on having his new) arm and leg before he scrubs up. 1| understand that the limb factories |turn out nice pink-colored arms and lege these days. The point is that Willie is Mable to roar if any old arm or leg is hung on him. The potash and sulphur fiend is scheduled to sprout, so keep away |from the car tracks. This stuff makes the big detonation but it is |dangerous to monkey with. It is to be hoped that you will put Wil |He wise that the police will raise Cain if they catch any person pour- ing the yellow stuff on the rails. Make it a point to let Willie know this, And if you ride on a street car and from beneath comes a noise and crash like the crack 0’ doom,/| there will be some comfort at least that your future -president was not mixed up in the scandal, May Go Up And another thing: This is the age of daring ventures. Willie, no |doubt, will have a few large sky. rockets in his lineup. It should be remembered that skyrocketing is a nice feature. Only Willie should be cautioned not to get tangled up with a sizzling screamer and give an aerial imitation of Eddie Hub bard. We all go up in the atr oo casionally, but it might hart Wii- Me if he mixed with the busy end of a skyrocket. But above all, plead with Wile to refrain from dallying with the |deadly gas pipe cannon of home lconstruction. If you don't want Willie to earn a golden harp (that \is, tomorrow,) let him eschew the | gas pipe cannon. | This piece of perdition has sub. tracted more digits than all other fireworks combined. ‘Ware the gas pipe cannon, say IM That'll be about all except this: | Remember that boys will be boys. Especially on the Gloree-us Fourth. With his bandageswathed face, Wil- lie will call for father and mother |and a little tear will trickle from jhe only visible eye. | But be patient, mothers and dias |for we're all kids—only of us |have grown up. | By the wa |taboo this si some cannon crackers are in Negotiate U. S.-_ H * | France Alliance |, PARIS, July 3.—4United Press.— The United States is bound “to come | |immediately to her (France's) aid in| | of any unprovoked act of ag | Sression directed against her by Ger-| |many,” according to the provisions | jof the treaty agreement sought be-| |tween Am: and France. A simi-| |lar arrangement is being negotiated between France and Great Britain. | The treaty, which was made public today, must be ratified by the Ameri- }can senate and approved by the league of nations. According to the tentative agree: ment reached, the treaty shall re. main in force until the council of the league of nations agrees that the league itself shall provide sufficient protection, Great Britain is not bound by the treaty unless the United States ac- cepts it, but the latter is bound, re- gardless of British action. ‘The treaty which also defines the neutral zone along the Rhine, is signed by President Wilson, Secre- tary Lansing, Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Pichon. Americans Take 1,600-Meter Relay PERSHING STADIUM, PARIS, |July 3.—(United Press.) — America | won the finals of the 1600-meter re- | lay today, with the Australian and| French teams second and third, re- spectively. H. Liversedge, Oakland, Cal.; Fad. Caughey, Ukiah, Cal, and Wallace | THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1919. A famous trademark—that grand old Bull OU know him well. For over half a century he has been an American institution. How, perfectly he typifies genuine “Bull” Durham tobacco! 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Maxfield, Bloomfield, J., qualified Ie Squadders Lands Him in Bastile Hisakich!, aged 37, was con- bers of the dry squad, exasperated when dt y | “Let us see your cider,” quoth one officers marched into his|of them. of business Thursday morning.| “But Honorables—" protested Ota wns a controlling interest ina) “Never mind that," rejoined the member of the arid section, “let's see your prune juice.” Very well, very well,” returned of |Oto, “You lke to see? Very well, and| then—Banazai," and Ota booted the ma, | contents of several kegs all over his floor, rink stand at 675 Dearborn st thing was lovely Thursday ng. the cider was working in| shape and Ota dreamed and kime over Fujiy rising sun save him. The three soldiers of the anhy drous army mopped up several small bottles full of cider. Now Ota Hisakichi is in the city jail, where he is held on an open charge awaiting the results of the city chemist’s test | MISSOURL RATIFIES SUFFRAG JEFERSON CITY, Mo. J Missouri y ratified the suffrage amendment, ‘The by a vote of 28 to house resolution, senate, What man has done woman thinks 3, adopted the Demobilization | | Camps Cut Down| WASHINGTON, July 3.—The war | |department today announcea Camps Meade, Custer, Bowie, Funs. COMING HOUDIN LEVY’S ORPHEUM that | | | ton, Jackson and Fort Oglethorpe | will be discontinued as demobilization | enters July 10, because of the de-| ase in the number of men return. | ing from overseas. Camp U us a debs ation camp after July 15, | and Boston and Charleston will cease |to be ports of debarkation on the ton will be discontinued | |