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Equal suffrage for Maine women
was defeated two to one at the special
election Tuesday, according to news
paper returns from two-thirds of the
state.
A 9600-pound elephant, named Judy
and attached to a large circus for
many years, was executed in the rail
road yards in East St. Louis, 111.,
Wednesday in order to relieve its suf
ferings from lockjaw.
The Amsterdam Telegraaf says Ger
many has stopped sending coal to Hol
land. The paper expresses the belief
that Germany's attitude is intended as
pressure on Holland to grant a loan
which thus far has been refused.
American destroyers are believed to
have sunk one hostile submarine off
the coast of France September 6, while
convoying a fleet of merchantmen from
the United States. Two of the mer
chant ships were lost, it is reported,
without loss of life.
How a German submarine hid be
hind his schooner until it got within
range to attack an American tank
steamer and later was sunk by the
tanker's gun crew, was told by the
captain of a sailing vessel at An At
lantic Port Wednesday.
The Austrian government has just
put into effect stringent regulations to
limit the consumption of fuel. The
available supply of coal, coke and bri
quettes will be distributed on the card
system to prevent the recurrence of
the conditions of last winter.
Dallas, the most populous county in
Texas, voted "dry" in a local option
election Tuesday. With but six pre
cincts out of 96 missing, the prohibi
tionists had a lead of approximately
1500. About 19,000 votes were polled
out of a registration of 28,000.
Private Louis Bouschor, of the Ore
gon troops, who was shot Thursday
night on the street in North Yakima,
has been able to make a statement in
which he says he was attacked by two
men he did not know, who waylaid him
and disappeared immediately after the
shooting.
George Lynn, attorney at Linton,
the county Beat of Emmons county, N.
D., was arrested Tuesday by United
States Marshal C. D. Scott on a com
missioner's warrant charging sedition.
Lynn was arraigned at Driscoll and
his bail is fixed at $1000. His hearing
is set for September 27.
The French minister of War au
thorized the soldiers to form and ad
minister co-operative societies for the
purpose of purchasing food supplies
for themselves and families in order to
combat the increased coBt of living.
Membership in the societies will be
limited strictly to soldiers.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Jibuti, Africa, says that a Ger
man named Holts and an Austrian
named Karmelich, who, with 40 Arabs,
have been wandering in the interior of
French Somaliland about two months,
have been captured after a strong re
sistance in which several were killed.
Forty Russian emigrants from Amer
ica have been arrested and detained at
Harbin, Manchuria, because of their
seditious statements and efforts to in
cite anarchy. The detention of these
agitators indicates a determination on
the part of the Petrograd government
to check the inflow of undesirables
who are rushing back to Russia.
The German Crown Princess Wed
nesday gave birth to a daughter, ac
cording to Berlin advices. This ii the
sixth child born to Crown Prince Fred
erick William and the Crown Princess.
Eleven of the militants of the Na
tional Woman's Suffrage party arrest
ed Wednesday while picketing the
President's reviewing stand at the
parade of National Army men were
sentenced to 60 days in the workhouse.
They did not appeal and began serving
time.
Letters found on Austrian prisoners
depict a shocking Btate of affairs in
Austria particularly in Trieste, where
It is said to be impossible to purchase
at any price oils, rice, potatoes, sugar
or coffee. The people of Trieste are
dying from lack of nutrition, lays one
letter.
A large party of American college
men has begun a course in training at
Cambridge, England, for the aviation
service.
Radio reports picked up to westward
ay that Captain Haruhiko Shiouga
and 16 men from the wrecked Japanee
steamer Kotohira Maru have been
picked up off the Alaska cost.
British naval airships penetrated far
inland in Turkish territory Sunday
night, dropping bombs on the city of
Adrianople, about 137 muea nortnwest
of Constantinople, saya an official
statement.
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WEEK
MINISTER IS TO STAY
Swedish Foreign Office Upholds Agent
Who Permitted German Messages
to be Sent Through His Office.
Stockholm Baron Lowen, the
Swedish minister to Argentina, will
not be recalled, according to a state
ment made to the press Wednesday
night by Admiral Liniman, minister
of foreign affairs.
The foreign minister told the news
paper men that Baron Lowen was not
blamable for the tenor of the messages
which passed through the Swedish le
gation, Bent by the German charge to
the Berlin foreign office, and as he had
acted in good faith and did not know
the contents of the dispatches, he
would not be recalled.
The public showed great interest in
the statement of the foreign office re
garding the Swedish-Argentina revel
ations. During the day no officials of the
foreign office were available for ex
pressions of opinion on the situation.
It is the general impression, even
among the strongly-opposed political
parties, that Sweden acted in good
faith in the matter of the German tel
egrams, but public opinion, neverthe
less, ib stirred by the fact that code
telegrams of German origin were per
mitted to be forwarded without giving
the Swedish officials the key to the
code.
The incident is expected to place the
late cabinet in an unfavorable light,
and also to have a great bearing on the
general elections now in progress.
Foreign Minister Lindman added
that he would not be astonsished if
Secretary of State Lansing had more
documents of a similar nature in store,
emanating from the European side and
in good faith and with the consent of
Great Britain forwarded to German
official representatives in South Amer
ica. 2 SHIPS LOST; DIVER SUNK
Error In Transcribing Message Makes
Loss of Submarines Six.
Washington, D. C A typographical
error in transcribing a statement for
the press Tuesday from an official re
port to the Navy department made it
appear that six German submarines
probably had been sunk off the French
coast when they attacked a fleet of
merchantmen, including at least one
American vessel. The facts are, so
far as is known, that one submarine
probably was destroyed and two of the
steamers went down. A corrected
statement was issued by Secretary
Daniels.
The department has only a meager
account of the fight and additional de
tails have been asked for by cable.
The report came from the American
tanker Westwego through Paris, the
vessel apparently having reached a
French port after the fight. The
names and nationality of the two ships
lost were not given.
The Westwego, an armed vessel,
was en route to Europe and was cruis
ing in company with other merchant
craft.
CHILDREN AID IN MOVEMENT
Pan-German Demonstration Against
Wilson's Peace Note Universal.
Copenhagen German children, as
well as German women, are now being
mobilized in the agitation against
President WilBon's Btanpoint. A be
ginning has been made at Harburg,
near Hamburg, where all the public
schools on Sunday participated in a
demonstration at which the usual tele
grams were sent to Emperor William,
Chancellor Michaelis and Field Mar
shal von Hindenburg. ,
The Vorwaerts, of Berlin, points out
editorially that the motive of the con
servative and pan-German wirepullers,
to which attention has been called in
recent dispatches, namely, to utilize
the American note to the pope for ex
citing anew the bellicose passions of
the people, and, above all, for deliver
ing a mighty blow to the democratic
movement, ia steadily becoming more
apparent.
All the resolutions were drafted on
the same model. They commenced
with a display of strong language
against President Wilson and then pro
claimed a readiness to hold out until a
victorious peace is attained. They
contained a more or less open attack
on the reichstag resolution declaring it
to be unrepresentative of the people's
will and concluded with a declaration
of loyalty to the reigning dynasty.
Silver Ascends to 97.
Salt Lake City Silver Wednesday
reached its highest point since 1891,
when the government authorized offi
cials at the local assay office to pay 97
cents an ounce for it
Only a week ago the price was raised
here to 95 cents, or five-eights of a
cent below the New York quotation.
This was believed to be an exception
ally high price, but with developments
in the last week local silver men were
unwilling to give any opinion as to the
top price which might be obtained in
the near future.
Pacific Rates to Drop.
San Francisco The Pacific Coast is
to receive reduced freight rates to the
Orient and there is a possibility of the
transference of Japanese ships to the
trans-Pacific run, according to dis
patches received Wednesday night by
the San Francisco chamber of com
merce from its Wsahington represent
ative. Japan will turn over ships for oper
ation in exchange for steel plates, said
the dispatches.
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GENERAL AIMS
BLQW AT PETROGRAD
Kerensky Orders Commander to
Resign, Causing Trouble.
TREASON IS CHARGED
Korniloff Demanding Supreme Power,
Is Rebuffed by Premier Tracks
Torn Up to Stop Advance.
Petrograd Premier Kerensky has
ordered General Korniloff, commander
in chief of the Russian armies, to re
sign in conseqence of General Korni
loff 's demand for supreme power. Gen
eral Klembovsky was appointed com
mander in chief.
An official statement Bays that Gen
eral Lokomosky'"also proved a trai
tor," refusing to take command of
the Russian armies in succession to
General Korniloff.
The soldiers' and workmen's body,
the statement adds, "has ordered all
the army organizations to obey the
provisional government against the
conspiracy, stating that General Korn
iloff will be punished for treachery and
that General Klembovsky will provis
ionally succceed to the chief command.
The central executive committee of
the soldiers and workmen has suggest
ed to all army corps and naval commit
tees that they refuse to obey orders
from General Korniloff or General
Lokomosky.
According to reports from the Win
ter Palace, where the government
council was in session, a considerable
force of supporters of General Korni
loff has passed Luga, on the way to
Petrograd.
The government refuses to make a
statement, but Foreign Minister Te
restchenko informs the Associated
Press that he believes the Korniloff
forces consist of only a few hundred
men.
The town and railroad station at
Luga are in Korniloff 's hands.
By order of Premier Kerensky the
railroad tracks between Luga and
Petrograd have been torn up in places,
gangs being engaged in the work all
night Monday. On the Petrograd side
of Luga are forces, which so far have
stood firm for the government. Gen
eral Korniloff 'a main support appears
to be the so-called Sikaya, or "savage
division," which was formerly sta
tioned at Pokoff and consisting of
Georgians and other Caucasus tribes
men, who are personally devoted to
Korniloff as a result of his lifelong
interest in Asiatic affairs. With this
force are Tekke cavalrymen from the
trana-Caspian territory, whose wild
appearances created a sensation when
they accompanied General Korniloff to
the Moscow conference.
According to the evening papers the
"savage division" has occupied Vuirit-
za, on the Windau-Ruibins railroad.
BIGGEST TAX BILL IS PASSED
Senate Votes 69 to 4 for Measure That
Will Raise $2,400,000,000.
Washington, D. C. The war tax
bill the largest single taxation meas-
ure in American history was passed
Monday night by the senate. It pro
vides for a levy somewhat under $2,
400,000,000, as compared with $1,
867,870,000 proposed in the bill as it
passed the house May 23.
The vote was 69 to 4, Senators
Borah, Gronna, LaFollette and Norris
being recorded in opposition.
The consumption taxes, of one-half
a cent a pound on sugar, 2 cents on
coffee, 5 cents on tea, 3 cents on
cocoa, and from 1 to 2 cents a gallon
on molasses were cut down by over
whelming majorities. A final vote on
Senator Broussard's motion to elimi
nate them all was 52 to 28.
The great bill, nearly four months in
the making, will be returned at once
to the house and then it goes to con
ference, with enactment within 10
days or two weeks probable. Senators
Simmons, Stone and Williams, Demo
crats, and Penrose and Lodge, Repub
licans, of the finance committee, were
appointed the senate's conferees.
Marne Battle Recalled.
Meaux, France Ceremonies in con
nection with the celebration of the an-
niversay of the Battle of the Marne
continued Monday with a visit to the
field operations on the Ourco river,
General Michael Joseph Maunoury,
since blinded by a bullet received while
on duty in the Aisne, who commanded
the army of Paris, heading the visit
ing party. General Lamaze, one of
General Maunoury s principal lieuten
ants, and several hundred maimed
soldiers who took part in the battle,
accompanied their blind commander.
Rubles Slump One Cent
New York Rubles sold at a dis
count of 70 per cent from the normal
rates of peace here Tuesday. As
their rapid decline continued a further
slump of 1 per cent, bringing down the
demand rates to the new low record
for Russian exchange of 151
Absence of demand made it impossi
ble to find a market except at con
cessions, although offerings were
small and there was little busi
ness.
SHELLS
THE "LEGION OF DEATH"
One of the courageous girls In the
"Legion of Death" on parade. When
the soldiers at the front refused to
light and became laggard of discipline,
n number of heroic Russian women or
ganized themselves into the "Legion
of Death" and took the places of the
men nt the front. They fought furi
ously and the Germans were put to
flight at the sector, where they were
engaged.
The wonderful story of their deeds
has thrilled the world and made his
tory. Every girl In the battalion car
ries n dose of cyanide of potassium to
use In event of her capture. They do
not fear death, but they dread capture.
HUNTS FOR MAN SHE LOVES
North Dakota Girl Travels From City
to City Till Success Crowns
Efforts. '
Eugene, Ore. Mary Dorothy Ford,
eighteen years old, following the
death and burial of her parents
at Dickinson, North Dakota, set
out three months ago to find
Granville E. Wetzell, twenty, from
whom she had been separated for sev
eral years, ner general knowledge
was that he was In either California,
Washington or Oregon. She traveled
to the Pacific coast and from city to
city, paying her expenses by working
as a waitress.
Miss Ford came to Eugene recently
and scanned the faces In the crowd
assembled to celebrate Independence
day here and found Wetzell, who had
been making his home with his father,
W. G. Wetzell, ou a farm near this
city.
Wetzell and the girl first became
friends when both were residents of
North Dakota. The girl's parents mov
ed to another city and the Wetzell
family came to Oregon. Each lost
track of the other. Following the
meeting at Eugene the old friendship
was renewed and Immediate plans
were made for the wedding, which
took place at the home of the bride
groom's father.
FINDS HIS PAPERS VOID
Innocent St. Loulsan Is Unknowingly
an Allen for 17 Years Flies
for New Papers.
St Louis. William J. Muckle, su
perintendent of the American Car com
pany, who has believed for 17 years
that he was an American citizen, has
learned that his naturalization papers
were fraudulent and that he must file
new papers.
Ten days ago Mackle appeared In the
naturalization office as a witness for
an alien. His status was asked and
he said that he had been naturalized
In 1900. The naturalization records
show that around that time about 7,500
fraudulent papers were Issued in an
effort to pad the election registration.
Mackle was told to produce his papers.
These showed that he apparently had
been naturalized October 15, 1000.
The records of the St. Louis court of
appeals show that no papers were is
sued to Mackle. Mackle, an Innocent
party In the matter, surrendered his
fraudulent papers to M. B. Bevlngton,
chief naturalization examiner, and will
file for new papers.
Petrified Oak Under Ground.
Fremont, Neb. Petrified trunks of
oak trees have been found 80 feet un
der ground In sandpits here. A theory
advanced Is that the trees were burled
several centuries ago when the stream
that Is now the Piatt river cut Its chan
nel through here. There are now no
oak trees in the Platte river valley ex
cept transplanted specimens.
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When Word Comes Men Behind
Lines Work With Desperate
Speed.
DELAY MAY MEAN DEFEAT
Road Builders Who Follow Fighting
Ranks Taxed to the Utmost Mo
tor Lorries Play an Important
Part m the Work.
By F. W. WARD.
(In the New York Tribune.)
London. To render an advance pos
sible and to Insure that everything
shall be kept up to date behind the line
Is no small order. There Is no time for
sitting down and thinking things over.
If anything has to be done it has to be
done at once. A few hours' delay
might be very convenient to the organ
izer, but such delay would probably
vitiate any plans he might niuke. That
Is why, when anything has to be done
In the matter of repairs and rearrange
ments behind the line It has to be done
at top speed. There are no "hours" In
the army. If a Job has to be rushed,
then everybody buckles to the task and
keeps on slogging until the job Is fin
ished. Tommy may grouse he wouldn't
be much good If he didn't but he
gets away with the job when he knows
It Is Important.
Once a Job had to be done at a spot
where the Huns had been shelling for
three solid days. It was just the re
moval of stores, and all the spare R. A.
M. C. and A. S. C. men had been
pressed Into the service on this par
ticular occasion. It was carried through
at night, naturally, and there were no
lights to be shown. The party would
have been blown out of the earth If
there had been any Indication of their
presence.
It wasn't an easy job. In fact, it
was real hard work, the loading up of
lorries, wagons, anything that could
be got in the way of wheeled transport.
"Now, then, you chaps," said the offi
cer In charge, "I don't know who you
are or where you come from. But
we've got to get this Job done In about
three hours. If we don't we shall be
shelled to h at daylight." There
was some cheerful growling, but the
job was done well under the time, and
a dixie of tea at the finish put every
one In a thoroughly good humor.
Motor Lorries Used.
This was only a small Job, "some
where In France," but It was typical
of an Infinite number. As things are
now, there are plenty of stores and
material to do practically any Job, but
of necessity they are not as a rule on
the spot, where they are actually re
quired. Rail heads and engineer
dumps cannot be carried forward on
the very heels of the advance. That
can be easily understood. But when
something has to be done in a hurry,
these materials can be brought up by
means of motor lorries, with an A. S.
C. driver at the wheel and an engineer
officer In charge.
Ammunition dumps, with their mil
lions of shells, have to be built so as
to be within easy reach of the trans
port. But other roads have to be
made, leading through the dump from
the main route. This Is necessary In
order that a lorry may be brought In
and loaded or unloaded from either
side. These roads are of the corduroy
variety, a floor of pit props being laid
and made secure, for the time being.
But when It does rain In France well,
you know all about It. It isn't long
before the logs begin to sag, ns the
water gets Into the ground beneath,
and the first thing you know Is that a
lorry dips down at an awkward angle,
one of the wheels disappears up to the
axle, and the logs splay out In all
directions.
That's where the rush begins. A
strong pull and a long pull gets the
lorry out of the way, up come the
loose logs, the ground benenth Is mude
up with brushwood or short lengths of
timber, well pegged down, the surface
Is reluld, and a couple of hours later
things are going on well again.
Perhnps, though, there are not
enough pit props available. Round
rushes an officer, gets a chit from the
office of the chief engineer of the army
corps operating there, hops on a lorry,
and away he pelts to the nearest rail
head or dump. The chit Is banded In
to the officer in charge there, the nec
essary material Is Issued and loaded,
back goes the lorry again, and the Job
Is done.
Perhnps a road Is under water.
Well, Iron pipes are necessary to take
LEAVES MILLIONS FOR
RELIEF WORK ABROAD
New Tork. Mrs. Warren C.
Van Slyke, millionairess In her
own right and wife of a leading
attorney of this city, has sailed
for France to take up once more
relief activities she dropped a
year ago.
She will Join the hospital unit
to which she belongs and which
Is now stationed along the west
ern front Her husband Joined
the Naval Reserves the day af
ter war was declared, although
he Is beyond the military age.
$156.30 IS EQUIPMENT
COST OF EVERY SOLDIER
Washington. It costs the
United States Just $156.80 to
equip an Infantryman for serv
ice In France. Figures made
public show that of this total
clothing represents $101.21,
fighting equipment $47.38 and
eating utensils $7.73.
The soldier's gas mask costs
$12, his steel helmet $3 and his
rifle $19.50.
The first 600,000 to 800,000 of
America's fighting men will be
equipped with the present
Springfield army rifle, those to
follow will carry the Enfield
used by English troops.
the surplus from one side of the high
way to a ditch on the other, and iron
pipes have to be found.' They do not
grow on the bushes by the side of the
road. They are stacked perhaps miles
away on a dump, and they have to be
brought up. Then, and not till then,
the work can be done, and the route
released for traffic again.
Even steam rollers have to be con
sidered, for a steam roller has a soul,
and has to be humored. The first
steam roller I saw In France came
from a London suburb, and she was
resting In a ditch. The next I saw was
one from the county council of a south
ern county. She was In a ditch, too.
Both were got out, of course, but the
edge of a road In France has an un
canny habit of breaking away, and
then the trouble begins.
One roller I knew was the most per
verse creature I ever met. She made
a start by blowing out the plug of her
boiler and had to be assisted from a
small river twice by means of a couple
of "caterpillar" tractors. Then, sud
denly, she ' appeured to change her
mind, and when I heard of her last
was working as though she were at
home. She had to be kept at work,
too, and her repairs had also to be
rushed. When the plug blew out, for
Instance, an officer who happened to
come along took a couple of men round
to a French blacksmith's shop, found
some lead, made the repairs there and
then, paid half a franc out of his own
pocket and wasted only a few hours
over the task Instead of a couple of
days. Economy of time means every
thing, and an hour saved means an
hour gained.
Real Rush Repair.
"Somewhere In France" there Is a
little river about the width of a canal
and with the water confined between
banks some feet higher than the sur
rounding country. The Hun naturally
shelled these banks, with the Inten
tion of letting all the stream Into the
fields. Now and again he got home
on his objective. But In a few
minutes, with sheets of corrugated
Iron, posts, wire bindings, rolls of
brushwood In fact, anything that was
at hand the gap was filled In and
the damage repaired. This was a
real rush repair, and it went on at In
tervals, day and night, for a week or
ten days. Then Tommy shoved the
Hun back, and he had something else
to occupy his attention.
Getting up material for these re
pairs by means of motor lorries Is,
too, not a task for children. When
you walk across a field or through a
wood there Isn't usually much danger
In It. But the Huns know where the
roads are, and he also knows there la
transport coming up or down practi
cally all the time. So, suddenly, he
starts shelling, and then you have to
get a real move on. You are also, I
may add, just as likely to run Into
anything as to run away from It. J
Once a lorry was going down to
fetch some stuff from a dump about
twelve miles back. Then the shells
began to pop over. That meant put
ting on speed, and for five or six miles
It was a race between the shells, the
lorry and a motor car. The trio trav
eled "some," but the car couldn't gain
a yard on the lorry, and eventually
both ran out of range.
When the lorry come back, loaded,
a couple of hours later, It was found
that four shell craters had been blown
In the road, but that the engineers hnd
already been on the spot and repaired
all the damage done.
COLLEGE HEAD "DOING BIT"
Former President of Geneva College
Working as Stevedore Some
where In France.
Beaver Falls, Pa. From college
president to stevedore Is a long step,
but that Is what has happened In the
life of Rev. Dr. William Henry George,
former president of Geneva college
here, who Is doing his bit "somewhere
In France." Mr. George enlisted as an
ambulance driver In the American Red
Cross unit of Harvard university, of
which he Is an alumnus. Arriving In
France, he found that there were more
ambulance drivers than ambulances, so
he volunteered for work In the supply
division. He is now doing the work of
stevedore and ordinary laborer,- ac
cording to a letter received by his sis
ter here.
Stung 100 Timet by Beet.
Huntington, Ind. Elgle Wamper, a
fnrmer, Is nursing a sore and much en
larged head as the result of 100 bee
stings he suffered when he tried to es
cape from a swarm of bees which
alighted on his head and shoulders.
The bees selected him for a roosting
place Just as he was climbing on a
binder. Ross Kaufman, owner of the
farm, rescued him. Kaufman counted
the stlngvya he pulled from Wamper!
head and tihoulders. ,'