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I S; PAGE THE INDEPEN DENCE ENTERPR.SE, INDEPENDENCE, QREOON f M.tt X Vi l f J IK-. 4 - O stars of Freedom's banner bright That clustered shine in field of blue. From faint, far depths of heaven height Your constellated fires you drew! From starry ways of ages down You bring the light of old renown! Greece first your dawn-bright radiance knew When Freedom's star rose o'er the deep, And Athens' glory full orbed grew When Parthenon crowned the Acrop olis steep. The fame of Greece then brightly shone With splendor since through ages known. But kindled by Promethean fire O'er other lands rose Freedom's stars. Unquenched by blood, they still aspire Where far beyond the old world bars They rose above the new world bright And blent as one their kindred light Long may these stars undimmed still shine In Freedom's glorious galaxy! Long may our land still be the shrine To all the world of Liberty, Whose statue stands at Freedom's gates And for the coming millions waits! H. T. SaJJuth In Ncu York Worfi. I MILITARY POST THAT WAS NAMED FOR WASHINGTON Carlisle, Pa., Claims to Have Had Within Its Limits a Station of Im portance That Antedates the Nation al Capital by Many Years Made First Move for American Liberty. rl ARLISLE, Pa., claims to have " had within Its limits the first J nlnoe fWashinetonburg) in the United States to be named for George Washington and to have the oldest meeting house west of the Sus quehanna, wherein the germ of Ameri can liberty was conceived. Access to hidden records and facts long buried In state archives is re writing history and a lately discovered "Uncompleted Paper" by the late Christian P. Hurarich, Esq., discloses the fact that on the present site of the United States Indian school at Car lisle in prerevolutionary times was an establishment of "recognized Impor tance, and of great historical interest," known as Washingtonburg. No record is found in state or coun ty of its existence, but research shows that It was quite an important place and more than a suburb of Carlisle. It was a national and not a state es- J n V :U ;Vt foj ilk post was the first place in the United States to be named for Washington and that its existence antedates by years Washington, D. C. When General Washington was in Carlisle during the whisky rebellion he, with Alexander Hamilton, wor shtned In the "Old Presbyterian Meet ing House" on the public square in Carlisle, and it was in this identical meeting house, on July 12, 1774, a year before the Mecklenburg declaration, a public meeting of patriotic citizens gathered from the town and surround ing country, condemned the act of the British parliament and urged vigorous measures to correct the wrong. Col. John Montgomery was the presiding officer. James Wilson was present and was appointed one of the members of the committee to meet witn otner com mittees to take action. lie was later a member of the Continental congress, a nf the Declaration and a justice of the Supreme court. Wing's historj states, "and when In the continental mr.m-pci ho rprpived Instructions from his constituents in Cumberland countj to advocate an entire separation trorn the mother country. This was prob ably the first utterance of that senti ment of the country." Bancroft's Tribute to Wilson. Bancroft says of Wilson : "He was an ardent patriot, like many other emi nent men of that day not at firsl avowedly in favor of severance from the mother country, but he desired it when he received definite instruction from bis constituents." Bellman, writing of the potency oJ this meeting held in the "Old Meeting House" on July 12, 1774, says: "The iniluence, therefore, of the meeting, oi of subsequent Instructions to which II gave rise, seems to have determined the action of Pennsylvania in that great crisis which men even like John Dickinson were too timid or too cow ardly to meet." Tho vnto nf Jnmes Wilson deter mined the vote of Pennsylvania. Had Pennsylvania failed to accept the reso lution we today wouia ue uuuer uu- PMinfioinhin mnv be considered "The birthplace of American liberty," but its conception in the "Old rrosnytenao Awinp- House" in Carlisle, Cumber land county, Pennsylvania, made it possible to be born. rri,o Kenteh-Trish rmrt in the Revolu tionary war and the events preceding It Is becoming more apparent aim im portant, and the actions taken in the Pi-oBhutPrinn meeting houses through out Pennsylvania are vital to historic recital. BUNKER HILL PROVED SPIRIT OF COLONISTS In It Consequences Tnat vonmct Ranks as the Most Momentous of All the Struggles of Revolutionary Days Revealed to the British the True Spirit of Their Foes. LITTLE before sunset 143 yours ago, a few huu- ,7U 4i" " Allien ii Hlwjf troops stacked their guns, threw off their packs, selied their trenching tools, and set to work with groat spirit At midnight Bos ton was buried in sleep. The sentry s cry of "All's well !" could be hoard dis tinctly from its shores. At dawn. 143 years ago, tne Ameri cans at work were seen by the sailors on bonrd the British ships of war ami the alarm was given. The cnptnln of the Lively, the nearest ship, without waiting for orders, put a spring upon her cable and, bringing her guns to bear, opened a fire upou the hill. One man, among a number wno nan incau tiously ventured outside, wns killed. A subaltern reported his death to Colonel Prescolt and nsked what was to be done. "Bury him," was the reply. It was the first fatality In the battle of Bunker Hill, one of the most mo mentous coulllcts in our Revolutionary history. It was the first regular battle between the British and the Americans and most eventful in its consequences. The British had ridiculed and despised their enemy, representing them as das tardly and Inefficient ; yet here the best British troops, led on by experienced otllcers, were repeatedly repulsed by an inferior force of that enemy mere vpnmnnrv from works thrown up In a single night, and suffered a loss rarely paralleled in battle with the most vet eran soldiers. According to their own returns their killed and wounded, out of a detachment of 2,000 men, amount ed to 1,054, and a large proportion of them officers. The loss of the Ameri cans was 411 out of 1,500 men en gaged. So the number of casualties in this battle was more than 30 per cent . , ,.i rup nr" wore serl.M.s.y "' ',,. visions, and (lenerm V " . i i.i mm .v tin1 v plated n io'im-.u- . - - - .y end lnl.tsn.'ar('lm,l.-t..u. ",r Chester, nn.l nd.li.eenU".""-. The arrival f mh-u a force of I lie enemy ciiumo t. ,;;;;;; , ..... n r .anted that the Uriusii ........ -. fl, Boston ami Mini u e " - towns. It was to provom ; . . ... ... .nine.l to fortify nun- out of the city ami intreuni u...... iter lMKhts to Hi south of Bo ion, the Continent... poslllou would be made untenable. Prescott's Gallant Act. Not au unnecessary sound wan i.mdo (im.llir ,he long hours of the nlnt.t of June 10, I77.r. d when dnwn camo In trenehn.entH six feet high uloaB shloof the hill were dlselnsod. In the face of the tiro from the enemy whips ami by the battery on Copy's HHI t" Americans kept steadily at work com pleting their IntronchmentM and, when there was n slight show of fullering aft- shot better Mil H APPE OF nnnnr buiwrii Brief Resume Most Important .Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU tins Mfliii UK 1 1 . 'Vs .." iit urrry Over 100,000 Strike in jJ Kvurrvs in MUSIria. Events of Noted t'eopl. Governments and I'scMe Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. 1 Bunker Hill Monu ment. harbor, advanced 1 If iV James Wilson. tablishment, for "Col. Flower, Commis-eary-General of Military Stores," re quests that he might have "Carpenters, Farriers, Gun Smiths, Tinmen, Sad dlers and Shoemakers" for work at this place. Coal Used Industrially. ; Dr. Charles F. Hlmes of Dickinson college writes: "It was, too, an up-to-date, or rather, away-ahead-of-date, establishment, at least In regard to fuel employed, for anthracite coal from Wilkesbarre region was floated down the Susquehanna and hauled In wagons from Harris' Ferry (Harrlsburg) to this point. This was the first use of such coal, on such a scale, and for in dustrial purposes.". Evidence of the large force of workmen employed is found in' a meat bill, dated February 7, 1781 for 150 head of beef cattle to supply the artificers and others at 'Washingtonburg, at the "Continental works near Carlisle." D-inMni Must Be Adhered To. fino nf the statesmen who fashioned Ma owpprnment unon its broad lines that have endured left us the guiding words that "eternnl vigilance is tne -ip nf llhortv." and we should hold fast to that in all our future; that vigilance which shall make us pre pared in peace for possible war, pre pared in war for promised peace, and watchful both in peace and war for the principles and the policies which hnv,a Hnf Pinnirded the constitution and which will save, if anything will save, our republic till nations are no more- Put HI Americanism First. "You must remember," said he who o-af vnmo to lis as Marouls ue la ny ette when he was asked by what title r,oft.rrpd to be addressed when ne was last on these shores, "that I am on Atnprieari general, f - ' . He had renounced meanwhile one of the proudest patents of nobility in France that he might feel strongei within him the call of freedom. Th reply is characteristic of his whole General Joseph Warren. of the number In action, thus placing It amontt the bloodiest battles tnat nau heretofore been known to history. At Waterloo the British loss was less thnn 34 ner cent. No wonder that June 17 is a second Fourth of July. What the Victory Meant. A eallant loyalist of Massachusetts, who foucht so well for King George that he rose to be a full general In the British army, regarded Bunker Hill as a transaction which controlled every thing that followed. "You could not," he would say to his friends on the oth er side, "have succeeded without it." "The rebels." Gage wrote a week af ter the battle, "are shown not to be the disorderly rabble too many have sup nosed. In all their wnrs acainst the French thev have showed no such con duct and perseverance as they do now. Thev do not see that they have ex changed liberty for tyranny. No peo nle were ever coverned more nbsolute lv than the American provinces now are; and no reason can be given for their submission nut tnat it is a ty ranny which they have erected them selves." Bunker IT111 exhibited the Americans to nil the world as a neonle to be courted by allies and counted with by foes. It was a marvel that so many armed citizens had been got together so ouicklv and still a greater marvel that they had stayed together so long. Move Forced on British. After the engagement at Lexington on April 19 the British force under General Gace was Increased to 10.000 men by the arrival of Generals Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne with their com mands from England. These occupied the town of Boston on a peninsula ex tending into the harbor. The naval forces consisted of the Falcon, Lively, Somerset, Symmetry, Glasgow, and four floating batteries. Across the Charles river, at Cambridge, and on the surrounding hills, were encamped jetween 10,000 and 20,000 undiscl osed Americans. The British, thus cut ff from communication with the mam- .liieeted than the oiliers had done Nome execution In the trenches, l'res cott himself i.wiiiiitoil t h e works and march ed to and fro wllh drawn sword regardless of the fact that he was u mark for the Brit ish, Ho thus pre served the cour nge of his men, who hud never be fore been under lire. It was about three o'clock In the afternoon when the British troops supported by a trrlile boiu b.irdioent from the ships In the In solid column against the formications. Confidently they approached the worus or uiu Americans, construing the niloi.ee on the hilltop as timidity, lney chihik-u their attitude on this point when ttiey arrived within a few hundred feet of the redoubt. The Americana had been silent, but they had been ordered to refrain from firing until the command was given. Thus It was the British, advancing over the open stretch of ground, panting from the heat and the -,.i.,i.t nf their knapsacks, nearu me word "Fire!" at the moment of their supreme confidence, and recoiled before volley that mowed down many oi their number. British Line Decimated. A .ipndltf fire wns poured Into the British columns, the marksmen of the Americans picking off the olllcers. Alnntr the whole line of fortifications, from the rail fence to the redoubt, the British troops were soon in retreat. The British columns advanced a sec ond time and once more were met with deadly fire. Now, however, they were prepared for It; although stnggercd by the shock, they soon rallied and con tinued their advance. The Americans fired with such rapidity that it seemed as if a continuous stream of hre poured .out from h e redoubt. Bravely the Brit ish struggled to cross the open place in front of their enemy s po sition, but were forced to give up the attempt, and fled precipitately to the boats. Although -the field was strewn with their dead, the British again attempted to take the American po sition. Prescott had sent for re-enforcements early in the day, and John Stark, with his New Hampshire company, had courageously crossed (Jhariestown jncck under a se vere fire from the enemy. But the haz ard of the attempt deterred other com manders from bringing troops to the support of the brave Prescott. With ammunition almost exhausted and troops tired out from the strain to which they had been subjected. Pres cott realized the futility of holding his position in the face of repeated at tacks by the reformed and re-enforced British lines. Nevertheless he deter mined nciin to measure his streriL-lb with the adversary; and, with a com mand to his men to make every shot tell, he awaited the advance of. the British. Acaln the latter were ner mltted to advance within twpntv vnrrta of the American works before they were nreu upon, ine lsriusn une was broken, but. still It ndvnncod. With their powder now quite exhausted, the Americans met tneir opponents with clubbed muskets and bayonets. The odds were too great and Pres cott ordered his men to retreat. It wns In dolntr this that tho Anwrlmna suffered their heaviest loss ; among ioi i was warren, ono or r.i....i..a t McCarthy was Tuesday , .......i LM.vernor of tho terrl- rv of Hawaii. Hucceedlng Lucius K. plukhain. . i...., u'iiunn will deliver a i rt'Honiii - .. ...... ,.r i.,k. .i.iren at Mount V er ru " '.. ' . .. -i on with a celo- reiirsontatlves of nniuuu in " - allied nations will ntirucipaio. iM..ih..ii,iw i of Instruction in Gor- nt i ho un vormiy in i-n-i announced Wednemliiy. Kuriii ... , ui.,r nr i ii i H vear uu.y uv He. ouu n.'.ii- - - - ; HtudeutH enrolled In Co German cla es. of the American ....i f,..,...u ulillo muklriK a Ilium U,Ull". .w.x..., - ,w,.,,..ll..,l t ( cHoetid Wlinin me 4. .!.,... iin.. ilia comrades have AUoil inn - - - assured heudcpiurters ho was not In Jured. , i).. ,-..., .i:.tiv. of civic organUa .It u'i.Kiiituiton. Oregon and i.inl,., ,.l n i-nnlVri-m-H 111 Heiittla Mon day, adopted a plan of organization for 1 eomtn.HHlon of tile war industries board. Mexican sisal Into an anroeni ministration to 60.t)i0 ba!en of growers have entered nt wills tho food ad m il In this country thin yeur's sisal crop rotvst A ml ratiufj KirohiW' I ji'ri nl"i i'i!iji):yf;iiprrr;ilt General Warren's Monument, others who the most cherished of the popular lead at tt price 3 cents a pounu oeiow iuui received last year. Coal dealers and distributors are nr.ihihitmi in a fuel administration order from adding to tho price of coal they now have on nana me ireiKni rate increases on this commodity which became effective Tuesday. Tho Dublin police have nolzcd 40, nnn moniin nf ammunition found in a consignment of grain In the Smith fi.Od market. It Is believed tho con sigument formed a part of a cargo of arms iuui ammunition landed on the northern coast some time ago. A WnHhlntlon disimtch says the en tento allien are earnestly Hooking a so lution of tho UusHlon problem ono that will assist President Wilson In the execution of his plod no to "utand behind Russia" ami latest reports from Kurope indicate that progress Is being made, Lloyd (Jeore, in dlsciissiag the war situation Monday in tho house of com mons, referred to tho amazing organi zation which was bringing American troops to Prance. "Kuough Americans, " he added, "have, arrived to :itlsfy the allies and to disappoint ami ultimately defeat our foes." Amorienn trnmi fm llirt Murnn front Monday night captured the northwest ern part of Itolleu Wood. The Ameri cans cleared this strategic position of all Germans, raptured some prisoners and took five machine puns. The Americans are now In complete posses sion OL U1U WOOUB. ATnrn than 700 mon of ilritft fti.n unrn rounded up by the New York police In tho Brownsville district of Brooklyn Tuesday and questioned concerning their registration cards. The raid was prompted by local draft officers, who were disappointed in tho registration of Juno 4. The accusation that Alonza Sarcent. engineer of the empty troop trnln which crashed into the UnKenheck- Wallace circus sleepers near Gary, Intl.. causiiiK the death of Rfi nnmnnn. was asleep at his throttle, was made Tuesday by J. McFadden, attorney for tne Michigan central railway A Tirnf'lnmriMr.,1 1caui.l Ti.nci.u.. A dares tho seaport of Traloo, County Kerrv. Ireland, tn ha o unonini miiitn., , w H "t'-""' '""HlftlJ area. This means the sarno Rvstpm nf iiittinui iciw nas oeen applied to Traloe as has been enforced in tho County uare. Permits will bo necessary for persons to enter the prescribed dls- I nfl Annrrinna hn ..t.l- x ..... .j im.u ' u uuitj to make virtually no progress against the t.-:a:u r. 1 ... ui.LiHii iorces noiaing an important stxuon oi me nnn nn tho ita .n f-.,t -..-w .lui.u.i ,lV!lf, says a ionuon dispatch Thursday, Drenching rains on the Flnthnnrl rpsprvnrian Mnnfou j . .un, imvu BUVCU I y-iup u, i,,,.wv;,uoo uusn- cia juai, as larmers were Rettinir ready to turn stock into their fields, accord ing to reports. Only five minutes were required for nassatre Thursili.v hv the annual general pension bill, carrying u,ouu,uou, the largest pension measure by $12,000,000 in the govern ment's history. ers. BREAD RATION IS C i Revolt Followa Itcuuctlon 0f A Germany 1'kiU in Km, n.. 1 - - i rum to Feed Her W.r Ally. Umdon More limn loo.naa k: ... . r nave gone on sir.Ko in the Volii Monal and tho W nmchHlowiiki J works In Vionnn, accurdiiw to pnicn j,nm .uru ri io llis EIr Telegraph. The dispatch addn thnt rilk.. curred at Favoriti-n, M r:erith. I takrins; and llrigittoimy, Vienna. Ixmdon-Serious riotinif tiri in Vienna Thursday, Hut tn T.t,4 Telegraph dispatch from Amtef The mob brokw into a number oi erica, utoited the residence of ti mier and also one of the whip i Holimrg puiace, ui menace tV4 Cavalry is ii-iiig rushed to tt ital to restore order. It in pmb is Muiil, llmt martial law will U claimed. Tho r otimr was in urt the reductions of the hrem nurgomaster e iM-KirchM! Vienna, has informed IVmier Seydler, according to a dispatch Uie Austrian capital trsmmitt. the correnpondent ut Amstwta the Exchange leligraph conj that in view of tho reduction o'l road ration he declines to fnu l order in the capital. Amsterdam A Vienna dipit Berlin newspapers nays mat iw. of the bread ration in Austru li cbusihI immense excitement thr out the dual monarchy. All Auatrian newxpapen w distinction of party protest tRiiiu measure, demaiui tu removal i .j immediate help from GerniMyj Hungary. j Amsterdam A Vienna dispatci. lished in the Berlin Zcitunu Am ! tajr gives an otricial tatement of Vienna city council on the fwd ion in that city. The statcmcntr- "Germany promised some w in h utxta treHtv to linderUke sibility for the food supply f the civilian population ami th whether the supplies wereui- Ukraine, Koummuaor uennai.)' reserve stock. Deliveries at first protr the last eight however, Germany has !een in i of her quota. A 1113 DWIWii'V". ........ - , nr.aU have been sent to the wi ofTiciais, saying; mat io acute, particularly in munition tera. FRENCH TROOPSHIP IS SIT 2130 rasscngcrs on Board; Hiokj Number 151 Paris The transport Sant' A proceeding from BiscrU W was torpecioeu am. m." m., io.li Mrcording to the W Ul v . rf ; agency. There were u soldiers and native workmen, oi 1512 were saved. a ....ii ..i.i.. v,i,rinir records Sanf. Anna as a French limn o-rnss. She WH8 buol - . , , in 1910 and was owneu j line. . . When she left N- tember 8 last, sne c - "mij ian reservists. m& the vessel sent a wireless ". saying she was on hre. , was expressed in some quaHe the fire on board the Sant a the result of a plot to pre" servists reaching theirdestin8110 Grain Elevator Burnei r,....i..,i,.Hfiwan--U11 Moose Jaw, B'-;'"who gap! are pursuing n erSin Charles Hill, manager or hi Nation Coming Into Its Own. Tne nonrt and tne brain of this re public should pause today and thrill with the consciousness of what we have done and what it has been re served for us to do. The' past Is se cure. History has recorded the im mortal thing which we have been. We are standing now upon and across the threshold of our greatest achieve ment and our greatest usefulness. $220,000,000, story. Austria's grain supplies have com pletely run out and such food of this nature as she is from what Germany has allotted to ner irom ,. . . ;r '"""u" Bennies, ac-cordm- to indications in a Copenhagen dispatch to tho London Exchange Tele graph cc mpuny. The Americans in the Woevre sent thair first gas against the German inea from projectors Wednesday morn mg. A German raid at Remieres Wood was repulsed. Some of the vaior at mo, -- , tor um $1500, set fire to tne e'- caped in an auwrn" ound fire was discovered it was the Craik fire engine M pered with and renuereu , was carried half a mue , i j t una uu , bound hana ami jwi , nne a ditch. He said he n. fire captors talking German, stroyed 3000 bushekiofg. Over Loot SU tween Turkey anu u. " "kse session oi io jpp ReplylnR to deUtw-j, m if,.t xT..... T.R(rue, lUI'Klbll liavy , j n inW1"' out that Turkey hf?a8tP' claim to the fleet, Tt garnd vizier," said tw 8v were proceeding be ween 0 , Russia for the handling j over to Germany, ran- wished to acnew. , .tinned- All Bronze "jelf- London-It is reporteu v,f tK r.prman governor s n cueing were Killed and requisitioned all bronse ' "in- "ii rrian nrpunied Ten -