U. S. WARNS BERLIN ROAD WOULD SELL COMMITTEE OF MERCY SAILS TO AID SERBIANS OVERLOOK THE GARDEN. TIMBER EROM LAND Average Farmer Fails to Appre ciate Rare Privilege. Repetition of Sinking of Ships "Deliberately Unfriendly." Oregon & California Asks Court One That li Poorly Planned and Net Well Kept It Anything But Good Advertliement Valut Cannot be Reckoned In Money. (By O. M. CLARK.) The pleasure and profit to be de to Modify Decree. NEUTRAL RIGHTS DECLARED IMMUTABLE Germany Must Adapt Practice to New Conditions or Else Discontinue It, Says Latest U. S. Note. Washington, D. C The text of the American note on submarine warfare, presented at Berlin Saturday by Am bassador Gerard, was made public here. It reveals that the imperial govern ment has been informed it is the inten tion of the United StateB to regard as "deliberately unfriendly" any repeti tion by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of American rights. The United States announces that it will continue to contend for the free dom of the seas, "from whatever quar ter violated, without compromise and at any cost." Contending that "defense of an act as retaliatory is an admission that it is illegal," the American government ar gues that it cannot discuss actions of Great Britain with Germany and must regard as "irrevelant" in the present negotiations the conduct of other bel ligerents. "Illegal and inhuman acts," says the note, "however justifiable they may be thought against an enemy who is be lieved to have acted in contravention of law and humanity, are manifestly indefensible when they deprive neu trals of their rights, particularly when they violate the right of life itself." Pointing out that a belligerent Bhould give up its measures of retalia tion if unable to conduct them "with out injuring the lives of neutrals," the note declares that persistence in such measures, under the circumstances, would constitute an unpardonable offense against the sovereignty of the neutral nations affected. "The United States," it is further asserted, "is not unmindful of the ex traordinary conditions" created by the present war and is "ready to make every reasonable allowance for these novel and unexpected aspects of war at sea," but cannot consent "to abate any essential or fundamental right of its people because of a mere alteration of circumstances." The note says that events of the past two months clearly indicate that it is "possible and practicable" to conduct submarine operations "in sub stantial accord with the accepted practices of regulated warfare." The comment is added that the whole world has looked with interest and in creasing satisfaction at the demonstra tion of this fact by German naval com manders, and that it is "manifestly possible to lift the whole practice of submarine attack above the criticism which it has aroused and remove the chief causes of offense." Idaho Cowboys Capture Boy's Abductor Youth Makes Escape Idaho Falls, Ida. Cowboys late Sat urday night captured the abductor of Ernest Empey, son of a wealthy ranch- er who was kidnaped several days ago and held for $6000 ransom, according to a report received here. The desperado, it is said, came down from Sheep mountain at night fall and was surrounded and taken on what is known as Crane's Flat. Empey escaped from his abductor and was found by United States forest rangers and is now safe at Montpeuer, according to advices reaching here. Empey fled while his captor was asleep in a hut on Sheep mountain, five miles from Empey's ranch, where he was taken at the point of a rifle. Immediately upon recepit of the news of Empey's escape a posse left here to conduct a search for the kid naper. Six thousand dollars in gold was taken to the SDot indicated by the ab ductor for payment for the release of the cattleman In an effort to capture the man. Canal Paying Expenses, Washington, D. C. Counting only the cost of operation; of civil govern ment, sanitary work and the adminis tration and handling of ships, the Pan ama canal is now on a paying basis, according to official reports. Receipts from May not only wiped out the defi cit of $39,480, which had grown since the opening up of the canal, but left a balance of $177,799, which works out a profit of 4.79 per cent on the expendi ture. This, however, makes no allow ance for interest on the vast sum ex pended in the construction. Loss of Warship Denied. Berlin, via London Supplementing the denial made recently that a Ger man warship had been sunk in the Bal tic by a hostile submarine, the German admiralty authorized the statement that in the operations in question no battleship of the Deutschland class was attacked by a submarine, and that no German warship of any kind was sunk. The only loss during the operations was the Albatross, a minelayer, it was said. COMPANY CITES WORDING OF DECISION Railroad Willing to Sell Cut-over Land at Dictation of Government More Litigation Probable. Washington, D. C. The Oregon & California Railroad company wants permission to cut or sell the timber on the unsold portion of its grant before disposing of the land, coupled with au thority to retain all receipts from the sales of this timber. The railroad company has sought to file a petition with the United States Supreme court asking for modification of that portion of its decree of June 21 which enjoins the sale, cutting or other disposition of the timber on the grant pending action by congress. The intimation is conveyed that if this modification is not made by the court further litigation will be insti tuted in the hope of securing to the railroad company full control of the timber. If permitted to dispose of the timber the railroad company is willing to abide by the remainder of the decree and sell the cut-over and non-timbered lands to actual settlers. The decision in the land grant case was rendered at the last day ol tne term and under the court rules parties to cases decided on the last day must at that time ask and receive from the court permission to petition for re hearing or else forfeit that right. The government applied for and obtained permission to petition within 30 days, but after studying the decision the de partment of Justice decided to abide by. the decree as it stood and filed no petition. Its right of petition has ex pired. The railroad company failed to ask such permission and when its attorney undertook to file the brief it was re jected by the clerk of the court on the ground that no authority had been given the railroad company to petition for the reopening of the case. When the court reconvenes in October the railroad company may seek to Bubmit the brief which was rejected. The railroad company cites the Su preme court decision as saying "we can only enforce the provisions as written." The provisos, it contends, relate only to the disposition of the lands, the court having held that the law authorized the company to sell to whom it pleased, and when it pleased, so long as the sales were consistent with the settlers' clause. United States Navy Yards Closely Guarded All Sentries Fully Armed Philadelphia Although officials at the Philadelphia navy yard denied that recent fires aboard battleships had caused them to take extraordinary pre cautions, it is noticed that the guards about the yard had been increased to more than five times the usual number, Where there were formerly only three posts there are now 16 and each sentry carries a rifle loaded with ball car tridges. Some of them said they had instructions to shoot if necessary. The guard at the entrance were also strengthened and strangers passing were closely scrutinized, while nearly all the vessels of the reserve fleet bore signs saying visitors were not permitted. On some of the battle ships, however, it was said that visi tors would be allowed. In addition to the close guard placed around the buildings and warships, extra men have been detailed to guard the avia tion field and the guns of the advance base. The official investigation into the fire on the dreadnaught Oklahoma at the yard of the New York Shipbuilding company in Camden has not been com pleted, but preliminary reports leave the exact cause a mystery. All the water has not yet been pumped out of the compartment where the blaze oc curred, and until this is done it was said the damage would not be known. Two After Each Job. Walla Walla, Wash. Not for years has there been such a plentiful supply of labor for the harvest work, E. L, Wells, government employment agent for this section, says. For every job available south of the bnake river there are two eager, capable men, and most of the big outfits seem to be sup plied. Many of the ranchers own their own outfits and trade work with their neighbors, leaving little for outsiders, Hundreds of men are camped in and around Walla Walla, along the creeks and railroads, living off the country. Grand Duke Is Confident. Moscow Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander-in-chief, received a deputation representing the munici pality here Thursday. He spoke en thusiastically of the Bpirit of the Rus sian Boldiers, all of whom he said were confident of final and complete victory, A commission appointed to investigate charges of inhuman methods on the part of the Germans made a report that they had employed shells with castiron tips filled with prussic acid. Professor Plpln's Columbia university expedition to aid Serbia, known fraphed on the steamer Themlstocles active head of the committee; below the expedition. Within the next few months agricultural land of as great an aera as some of the smaller states will be added to the wealth of the nation through the opening of the Elephant Butte Irrigation project In New Mexico In the valley of the Rlo Grande river. The United States reclamation service Is now putting the finishing touches an one of the world's greatest dams In that river about 150 miles north of the Mexican boundary line, and when the water fills up behind this great wall of masonry a lake 46 miles long will be formed, covering 40,000 acres of land, and with this water reclaiming 180,000 acres of what is now an arid desert. The completed dam will be 18 teet thick on top, 215 feet thick at the bottom and 1,200 feet long. ITALIAN ARMY'S A feature of this new Italian field gun is the base, which can be moved so as to afford wide range of fire. OUR ONLY WOMAN MAIL CARRIER I. If r iWM-M) Miss Ada Pearce of Manhattan, Kan., the only woman mall carrier In the Jnited StateB, Is here seen delivering mall to a farmer. Her route Is 30 nlles long and she covers It each day. as It sailed from New York. At the right Is Prof. Elbridge Colby of Columbia, are Dr. George Baehr, Dr. Peter Obltsky end Dr. Henry Foltt, who went with ELEPHANT BUTTE IRRIGATION NEW FIELD GUN as the Committee of Mercy, photo- DAM SHE REPRESENTS ELECTRA Misa Florence CassaBa, selected to pose for the figure of'Electra In the design that is to be the keynote of the nation-wide campaign preceding the celebration of Electrical Prosperity week, November 29 to December 4. More than 100,000,0.00 copies of the design, on posters and placards, will be distributed all over the land. Lives After Heart Stopped. H. G. Harris lived 20 minutes and retained consciousness after his heart had stopped beating. Harris, a fruit merchant of Los Angeles, was strick en in his shop and was rushed to the receiving hospital, where Dr. A W. Hlller said be was dead, Then Harris opened his eyes and began to talk. For 20 minutes he spoke at Intervals. He was able to tell his name and address and de scribe his sensations. During this time his heart did not beat perceptibly and powerful heart stimulants failed to bring any re sponse. Not all Kinds. "Don't you think, after aM, war It something of a tonic?" "Perhaps It may be, If It's not Teu tonic." Baltimore American. rived from a good vegetable garden is a privilege enjoyed to Its fullest ex tent only by those leading a rural life; but, strange to say, the average farmer painfully falls to appreciate this rare privilege, In fact, in many cases ha neglects this opportunity to such a pitiful extent that we are prone to think that he, more than any other person who pretends to have a garden at all, needs to be urged to have, and Informed how to make and maintain, a good vegetable garden. The farmer used to large areas of general farm crops feels that he Is stooping from his dignity or Is wasting his time when he undertakes anything so small as he Imagines the vegetable garden to be; consequently, he plows It, perhaps, and leaves the planting and tilling to the "women folks." As a matter of fact, there Is not on the farm a piece of land of the same area, the profit of which approaches anywhere near to that of the vegetable garden. An authority on this subject says: "Prom careful observation the statement can be safely made that a well-kept garden will yield a return 10 to 15 times great er than would the same area if devot- A Handy Garden Tool. ed to general farm crops." Besides, the fact that there can be had at a minute's notice a bountiful supply of tresh, clean vegetables Is a value that cannot be reckoned In dollars and; cents. The great question of keeping the boy and girl on the farm would be more than half solved if people would only realize the important part the vegetable garden plays in this regard. It is hardly likely that too much at tention can be given the vegetables, tor if there is a surplus of any kind Df produce, a ready market may be found for it in the nearby towns. In locating the garden, the question of its proximity to the house Is of vast Importance, for naturally moBt of the work is done during spare moments that could not be taken advantage of If the garden were located a half mile from the house. Too often it is tho ;ase that all of the gathering and most jf the work Is done by the farmer's wife. Even where the work Is done by i man, the women of the household go back and forth between the house and garden many times during the year. All these things tend to add to the work of the already overburdened Siousewife, which condition could be materially improved by exercising a little care and forethought in locating the garden spot. The general lay of the land de termines to a considerable extent the earllness of the garden crops. Well grained land sloping gently to tha south or southeast Is preferable for the production of early vegetables. Wind barriers, such as hills, woods, hedges, buildings, etc., on the north ind northwest produce much the same effect. If none of these are so located that they can be taken ad vantage of, a tight board fence will answer the purpose, and at the same time act as a safeguard against farm animals and poultry. Choose a loca tion that Is well drained or bring it to this conditions after it has been chosen. None of the vegetables will tolerate "wet feet." In many cases It will pay a hundred per cent to tile drain the garden. BAD DISEASE AMONG CATTLE Infectious Abortion Entitled to Rank In Importance With Tubercu loid and Hog Cholera. Infectious abortion among cattle has become one of the most serious prob lems for cattle owners so far as in fectious diseases are concerned. It is well entitled to rank In Importance; with tuberculosis, hog cholera and rexas fever. Two new medical treat-v mentt have recently appeared, either 3ne of which may possibly prove to be )t very great importance. One abor tin is used, like tuberculin, as a diag nostic; and the other Is a vaccine, which It Is hoped will Immunize heir ra against the infection. There ia aot sufficient reliable Information tvallable as yet, uptn which to justify tpy definite statement. Breeders should keep these things In mind and Hatch tor future development. ' on o v