TTEATUETl Maximum yesterday, 97; minimum today, '49. FORECAST Tonight and tomorrow, fair; continued warm.
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tv.HPventh Year,
n-llv Twelfth Yenr.
Frank Little, Member of Executive
.4 Globe, Ariz., Strike, Is Victim
1MEFIBED AT BUTTE promise of 111 HALTS MMM
SIX MASKED MEN SEIZE AGITATOR 101 DENIES VICTORY BY NO MAN'S LAND ALLIES CONSOLIDATE POSITIONS
FROM BED IN LODGING HODSE CHARGES MADE EMPEROR SCENE OF GREAT WON IN YESTERDAY'S FIGHTING
. AND HANG Hi FROM TRFSTI F RY MIRHAFI IS WFI SH VICTORY AND REPULSE COUNTER ATTACKS
diers "Uncle Sam's Scabs in Uniform" and Spoke Slurringly of Gov
ernment and Decried War Warning Is Found Pinned to Body Local
I. W. W. Telegraph for Aid.
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 1. Frank I.it
tlo, member ot tho executive- board of
the Industrial Workers ot tbo World
and prominent in labor troubles in
Arizona, who recently referred in a
speech here to United Stales soldiers
as "Uncle Sam's scabs In uniform"
was taken from a lodging Iioufo at
3:30 o'clock this niorniiiK by masked
men and hanged to a railroad trestle
on the outskirts of the city. Ills body
was Identified by Chief of Police .lorry
Murphy, who cut it down at 8 o'clock
this morning.
Leader of Globe Kirike.
Since his arrival in Bulto recently
from Globo, Arizona, Utile had made
a number of speeches to strikers in all
of which ho had attacked Ihn govern
ment and urged the men to shut down
tjp mines of tho Hutte district. In
tvfj addresses ho referred to United
States soldiers as "Undo Sam's scabs
In uniform" and ho was bitter in his
denunciation of tho government. His
record was under investigation here
by the federal authorities whose at
tention had been called to his activi
ties. On tho other hand, tbo report
was current that Little was in the em
ploy of a prominent detective agency
and ono theory is that ho was tbo vic
tim of the radical element of whom
he appeared to bo a member.
Llttlo-took a very prominent part In
recent labor troubles in Arizona, lie
addressed a letter to Governor Cainp-
hell of Arizona, protesting against the
deportation of I. W. W. members j
from Bisboot. Tills letter was writ-1
ten from Salt Lake. Governor Camn- !
bell replied telling Little ho resented
his interference and Ills threats. Lit
tle was understood to have the confi
dence of William I'. Haywood, secre
tary ot the I. W. W. national organ
ization and, was regarded hero as ono
of Haywood's chief lieutenants. Little
was a cripple, but very active and a
iAlccful speaker.
AVnruliitf of Vigilantes.
On Little's body was a card bearing
these words: "First and last warning.
Others take notice. Vigilantes."
Lltllo was taken out of the Steel
Mock by a partv of masked men who
took him away in an automobile. He.
was not given time to dress. The
Steel block is near tbo Finn hall,
which is headquarters for tho new , ten in red. Tho warnings were usual
Metal Mine wnrkoru union, which re- iv numbered as "first warning," "soc-
cently called a strike of miners and.
which was frequently addressed by
Little.
Tbo raid on Little's room bad been
well planned. Six masked men drove
'P to tho front of the hotel at five
minutes after three. One stood upon
the sidewalk in front of the rooming
houso. The others entered the bouse.
Not a word wa spoken nor a com
mand given. Kverythlng worked by
seeming pre-arrange incut.
Auoko landlady.
Tho men even seemed to have se
lected tho room in which Litlle was
supposed to sleep. Without a word of
Instruction to cacti other, they quick
ly broko into room No. 3 on tbo
found floor. A flashlight was thrown
Into tho room. Tbo men seemed sur
prised to find tho room unoccupied.
f 10 IMPEACH
AUSTIN". Tex.. Aiif. 1-
Cha I lies
de-i-ned to form I he ha-
is nf im-
I'eai'liment prneenlin'.'s ir;ain-l
fnnr James '.. Fcre'im were filed
the house of representatives by
s!eaker Fuller Ibis nflcrnonti. im
mediately after the cotnenin'.' of lf'
h-.-islaturo in called se-sion. lioll
""'I in the homo was answer, d by
members, 17 in ex. e-s of a
I'lonuu.
- " - - V I I I W 111 ItatolW
Committee of I. W. W. and Leader of
of Butte Vigilantes Had Called Sol
Mrs. Xora liyruo, landlady of the
Stceio block, was awake whon the
door to room No. 30 was broken in.
She slept in an adjoining room, at tho
front of tho building.
"Wo Are Officers."
"Where Is Frank Little?"
"lie is in room No. 32," answered
Mrs. Byrne.
The men quickly ran down the
hall, tried to open the door to 32 and
then gave it a kick that broke the
lock off the door. They entered the
room. Mrs. Byrno said she believed
that police officers had arrestod Lit
tle. To Hold Autopsy.
She heard the men coming from
Little's room, saw them half lead and
half carry him across tho sidewalk
and push him into the waiting motor
car. The six men jumped Into the car
besido the driver, and went south on
Wyoming street.
The body was found hanging on the
north side of the trestle. The ties
on the trestle are about 14 feet above
tho roadway. LfUlo'j foer were about
five feet from the ground. On the
back of his bead wa3 a bloody mark.
Lato this morning iho coroner l.d
not determined whether tho mark
was a gunshot wound or an abrasion
from a blow or an old sore. An au
topsy will be held this afternoon.
Little had only his uuderclo:hes on
when taken from ills room in the
Steele block. He is not known to
have mado any outcry or demanded
any explanation, it Is prcsumod that
towel from his room was tied across
I his ninuth one nf the towels left
there by the landlady being missing.
I'pon the part of the underclothing
covering tho man's right thigh was
a pasteboard placard, about six by
ten inches, bearing in red crayon let
ters tho Inscription:
Warning Is I'linlod.
"Others take notice. I'irst and
last warning. 3-7-77. L.D.C.S.S.W.
TV' A circlo was about tho letter '
The. letters at the bottom of the card
Iwere Inscribed with a lead pencil.
The figures "3-7-77" are the old
sign of the Vigilantes in Montana
The custom of tho Vigilantes was to
'send two warnings to a marked mall
' the, third and last warning being writ-
mid warning," and "last warning."
Little began to make speeches on
the dav of his arrival in Hut to three
weeks ago. In all of them he attacked
tbo government and In somo of them
bitterly criticised tho administration
Before a massnieeting oi miners ai
tho baseball park. Little referred to
tho United States soldiers as Undo
Sam's scabs In uniform. In the same
sneech ho said: "If tho mines are
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f, i .lulv Twenty-two ur
vivors have been landed.
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York
lulv " lor (. n-lown. Ireland. The
.. was in coinmniid of Captain
I Straltoii iiml carried a crew o
f
tliirl v-t'"iir men. 'of whom
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lit teen
when
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AMERICAN SHIP
M0T0N0T0RPED0ED
AfEDEORD. OftKflON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1. 19 7
Story of Secret Treaty Between
France and Russia Pronounced
False Chancellor's Version Con
tains "Gross Inaccuracies and Ab
solute Lies," Declares Premier.
PARIS, Aug. 1. Premier Riliot
replied in the chamber yesterday to
the declaration made Saturday by
Dr. Michnelis. the German chancel
lor, that there was a secret treaty
between France nntl liussia having
view plans of conquest. Premier
liibot, alter guying he was convinced
that Kpuin would imply the decree in
terning the German submarine which
anchored in the harbor of Corunnn
.Monday evening, said:
"I wish to reply to the singular
speech which Dr. Michnelis thought
fit to invito tho lierlin journalists to
hear. The German cliuneellor pub
licly commissioned tho French gov
ernment to declare whether in u se
cret session June 1 the French gov
ernment hud not made known to the
clinmlicr of deputies the terms of a
secret treaty made before tile lius
siun revolution whereby tho emperor
bound himself to support French pre
tensions to Germun territory on the
left bank of the Hhinc.
Full of Absolute Lies.
"Tlie chancellor's version contains
irross inaccuracies and nbsolulo lies,
notably regarding the role lie attrib
utes to tie president of tho republic
m giving nn order lo sign a treaty
unknown to Premier liriand. The
handlers know how things passed.
jr. Doimierguo (ex-premier and for
eign minister), alter n conversation
with the eniM'ror, demanded and ob
tained Jf. ISrinnd's aiitliorizalion to
take nolo of the emperor's promise
to support our eiuim to Alsnce-Lor-
ruine'and lo leave us tree lo seek
guarantees against fresh aggression,
not by annexing territories on the
left bank of the Rhine, but making
all autonomous slate of llieso terri-
ories which would protect us and
also Helgium against invasion.
We li ii vi? never llmuglit lo do what
iiismarck did in 1H71."
II
FACES SHE OF
SAX FHAXCIKCO, Aug. 1.
F.ight Ihoiisund five hundred Iruin-
nien employed on the Pacific, divis
ion of Hie SouHiern Pueiiio company
have voted to go on a strike next
Saturday night unless grievance
bums against the railroad company
are settled, it became known here to
day. Although officials of the var
ious trainmen's organizations refused
In discuss Hie prospect of a strike,
Southern Pucil'io heads admitted
that the Irainmen had served an ulti
matum on them. No intimation was
given on what course the company
promised to take.
Six weeks ago the trainmen took n
strike vote based on Hie alleged fail
ure of Hie Southern Pacific company
lo settle about U.'ill grievance claims,
The Irainmen affeclcd arc the en
gineers, firemen, conductors nnd
brukemcn employed on the Southern
Pacific lines from F.I Paso. Tex., tn
Portland, Ore., and on the Central
Pacific line from Sun Francisco to
Ogdcti, I'luh.
Third Death in American Camp
A.MKKICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FUAXCK, Aug. 1. Major-Oeneral
.lohn .1. Pershing arrived today at the
American training ramp and Inspected
tho troops. The third death In camp
occurred last night when ono soldier
kicked another in the stomach In a
quarrel over a (tame of cards. The
victim died later nnd bis assailant was
arretted. ,
OREGON, WEDNESDAY,
In Address to Army and Navy Ger
man Emperor Again Declares Him-
, self a Winner Victorious on All
Fronts War Still Forced Upon
Germany "The Lord God Will Be
With Us" Is Assurance Given the
Fatherland.
HF.ltI.IX, via Copenhagen lo lain
doll, Aug. 1. Emperor William ha
issued a proclamation to the Germun
nroiy and navy and Gennan colonial
forces. It reads:
"Tho third year of the war has
come to nn end. Tho number of our
adversaries has increased, but their
prospects of victory have not in
proved. You crushed It minima In
year. The Hussian empire once more
trembles under your strokes. Hoth
countries sacrificed themselves for
the interests of others and arc now
bleeding- to death. In Macedonia you
forcibly withstood tho enemies' as-
saulls. In mighty buttles on the
western front you remain the mas
ters of the situation, lour lines arc
firm, .protecting" your beloved homes
against the terrors and devastations
of war.
"The nnvy has achieved good re
sults. It lias threatened the enemy's
command of the sen and his very ex
istence. Fur from home, n lillle Ger
mun group is defending a Germun
colony ngninst forces many times
superior.
"Victory in the coming your will
again be on our side, mid on that of
our nllies. Ours will bo the final
victory. y . -
"God Mit l's Hllll."
"With a deeply .moved heart 1
(hunk you in my own iiunie and in
Hint of the fatherland for what you
have achieved ill this last year of
I he war. Willi veneration we remem
ber Hie fallen who guve up their lives
for the greatness and safety of the
fallierlund.
"The war goes on. It is still forc
ed upon ns. We sliull fight for our
existence in the future with firm res
olution mid unfailing courage. As
our problems multiply so does our
strength increase. We are invinc
ible. We shall lie victorious. The
Lord God will be with us.
"WILLIAM, I
I. 1!.
"In the field. August. 1
SENATE ADOPTS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. A resolu
Hon for submission to the states of a
prohibition amendment to tho federal
constitution was adopted lato today
by tho senate. The vote was 65 to 20,
eight more than the necessary two
thirds.
As adopted the resolution contains
a provision that the states must be
asked to ratify the amendment within
six years. The house still must art on
tho resolution.
Senator Keiiyou of Iowa, support
ing Hie resolution, said:
"Why do we prohibit the boys in
the nnny and navy from having
boo.o mill insist that those who re
niiiin at home shall have it T When
they are willing lo die for us should
we not be w illing to go dry for Hieinf
Are we willing lo sacrifice evcrv
thing in the countr-- to will the war
except becrF Whv waslc labor
needed o will Hie war to liinke
beer I"
Senators Mvers and Cummins hoth
spoke in support of the resolution
Senator Curtis said he favored the
Harding amendment to limit the time
in which Hie amendment could be
submitted to the stales to six vcars.
The Ilanluick amendment was re
.jecled by a vote of fi'J to 4, Senators
Hroussard, Ilardwick, Harding mid
Heed supiNirling it. The Ilardwick
amendment was to prohibit the pur
cbnsc and use of liquor ns well ns
its manufacture and sule.
AUGUST
Allied Forces Fought Over Most Dif
ficult Portion of Entire Front
Covered With Marshes arid Mor
asses Country Saucer-Shaped,
With Enemy Holding Rim.
HHITINII FUOXT IX FUAXCK
AXD HF.LGIl'M, Aug. 1 (by the As
soi'iated Press). Welsh troops yes-
tcrduy added a new star to their
crown, for it fell lo one of their regi
ments to administer a crushing de
feat in General Ilaig's grout offens
ive, on the third battalion of iufuii-
try guards, which was Fniperor Wil
liam's crack body of troops. The
terrain in this new battle zone pre
sented tremendous difficulty for the
attacking troops.
lietwceu Dixuiude mid the point
where the .Ypres-Coiuiues canal
crosses the lines on the lower part of
the Ypres salient, tho two great
forces had been imbedded for three
years, and this portion of the tine hud
come to be looked upon us impreg
nable for cither side.
In No Man's Land.
The present battle field liotwVcn
Inxmmlc unit Li.crne was "no mans
land," within whose borders luy
marshes nnd morusses which in win
ter months lire impassable. This
formidable unlurul barrier was ren
dered Rtill si linger by tho inunda
tion of lnrge areas by the release of
waters from tho ennuis. The Ger
m ii ll Si and nllies -alike seeking bits of
dry land for a footing, swung so far
a part in some places thai the dis
tance between Iho lines wits nearly
eo miles. Itclow this section op
posing lines followed cither bank of
Hie Yscr cuiuil mid then went on Hie
Ypres salient, I'uee lo face, but with
the Germans holding the domiiiuling
high Innil nhoul. (lie salient. The
Dixuiude-Li.erne section of the front
is a wilderness of portly inundated
mill descried farms dolled wilb pools
of brakish water and cut into strange
shapes by drainage ditches. There
are but few remaining civilian liabl
lations in this "no man's hind."
Crumbling collage, walls and an oc
casional roofless church roc above
Hie flats.
A Xnsly Problem.
Neither side feared a surprise it I
lack or a trench raid. Since Duke
Albreeht's Wiirtlenibcrg Iroops were
swiillowcil up in Hie flood let loose
by opening up Hie sluice gales ill Oc
tober, 11)1 I, Hie enemy had not tried
lo cross the. marshes nor had Hiey
tried to get over Hie Yscr since Hie
itelgians in Hie spring of WLk after
sanguinary lighting, Hung llicm
back across Hie bridgehead at Li
zerne.
The Ypres salient furnished a
nasly n problem as could be prcseul-
ed lo an iiltaekiug army, I he coun
try here is saucer-shaped and the
Germans had held the lip of this sau
cer. All Hie lower Iviug laud within
this dish hail been doiuiiiuled by Hie
eiiemv, win, could send a slream ol
shell nnd iiiachine gun fire into tin
(roups mid supply columns advancing
across Hie sulicnl.
LA FOLLETTE JOINS
PEACE PROPAGANDA
INKW YORK, Auk. !.- HrMinlor
Itoliert M. LaKollrtto of WhronKln
and Senator A, .1, Crnnna of North
Dakota have fornmlly nllmiod them
Helves with tho pacifist movement, nr
rorflhiK to tHrummR from thorn Klvon
nut horo by tho pnoplu'n council,
which 1h conduct ini a nut Ion-wide
propaganda.
Senator LhKoMcUo wan quoted aH
having wired the, council "not to ho
intimidated hy tho threats of war
tradern,'' tint to hcln at once to work
for tho election of members to con
gresH who would utaiid for the "repeal
of obnoxlouH law.i."
Henator Oronna, tho council an
nounced, had wired that the "conntl
tutton baa not been repealed or sua
ponded."
Thirty-five Hundred Prisoners Taken and Territory Averaging From Two
to Three Miles in Length Over Twenty-Mile Front Captured Heavy
Storm Checks Battle, Forcing Lull Artillery Active Throughout the
Downpour, But Airships Unable to Fly Captured Ground One of the
Most Difficult Sections on War Front.
LONDON", Aug. 1. Telegraphing
froil tho British army hoadquartcrs
In France and Belgium this afternoon,
the correspondent of Hauler's Limited
says:
"Tho rain has almost ceased. The
sky has grown perceptibly lighter and
the guns aro beginning to bark again
In greater volume"
Heavy Itnlii Fulls.
BRITISH FRONT IN FRANC!
AND BELGIUM, Aug. 1. Iloavy rain i
which continued In an unceasing i
downpour since last night, transform
ing tho battlo grounds In Flanders
Into a sea of mud, bad forced a com
parative lull In tho operations this
mornings nt most points within tho
zone ot tho entente alliod offensive
beguns yesterday.
Gonornliy speaking, tho situation
early today was unchanged along the
British front. Several German coun-
tor-attacks wcro repulsed during the
night and the honvy artillery duel
continued but the movement of big
guns has been rendered most difficult
by the rain.
Tho Gorman artillery todny actively
shelled tbo tronches which wore
wrested from thorn yesterday tn No
Man's Land about tho salient and the
Dritlsii guns continued to pour a
steady strenm of shrapnel and high
explosives into the positions to which
tho oireniy had retired..
Tho air squadrons on both sides
were rendered helpless by tho storm
to assist in tho dirocllo uof artillery
firo.
To IjhkI MoiiIIih.
PAMS, Aur. 1. The millle of
Flanders, which Itcan with the
I'Yciwh nnd Hrilish advance yester
day, it is believed, will be I lie ln'i;
ckI, o Hie war and may last lor
weeks or months. The results al
ready achieved lead military observ
ers to sav thai it is not too much tn
hope that the (iermans may soon lie
lea red out of r reach and HclLtinn
Flanders.
l.OXDON, Aiilt. 1. fiennan coun
ter-attacks yesterday al'lenuMin and
laist nilit against the new Itrilisli
posit inns at ha Itussce Ville and
north of the Ypres-( miiries canal in
Helmut were repulsed, the war ol'.
t'ice aamntn I todav.
A nid her derma n count cr-n Hack
further noilh in the neiliborhond ol
the Yprcs-lfoiilcrs railway was
crushed bv the Hritisb art illery.
envy rain 1ms been f'alliuir since
early yesterday afternoon, and the
weal her continues unfavorable for
opel'al ions.
;Ki00 IYImhh'Ih Taken.
With a wide stretch of tcrrilorv
and more than II.Mll) prir-nncrs in Ihci
hands as the result nf he fiiM day'
fichlinir in their new offensive, th
STARVED 10 DEATH
I'AIGS, Au-. I.- I'Vtv thousand
Greek- have been starved lo death in
eastern Macedonia since the Bulgar
ian oectip:ilion hr.fen, according lo
authentic reports received hv tin
Greek iroverninent, says a llavas dis
patch I'm m Athens under Tuesday's
date.
"The Itulirariaiis," add-, the eorre
spondent, "have canicd nn a system
atic pcrvculinn 'f the Greek element
in the population lookim; to its ex
termination. They have inflicted all
sorts of privations upon the
Greeks, burdening I hem with military
work nnd deport intf them to Bulgar
ian localities.''
NO. 112
Hritisb mid French Iroops in Flan
ders spent lust night consolidating
their guilts and repulsing Hie inevit
able Gcrmnn counler-nltacks.
The new line, which along tho
greater part, of ils slreleh is from
two miles lo two and one-half miles
in advance of Hie old, nnd includes
ten captured towns within ils limits,
has been firmly held iilong the entire
front. The consolidation process is
being curried out under n torrential
rain, which is hampering further op
era I ions.
(.nln AM Objectives.
The extent pf lhe permanent ad
vantage gained by tho smashing of
the (Jennan lines in this important
section of the front will have to be
judged by further developments.
Definite objectives were nssitfied
the various allied units Tor attain
ment in (Ins first day's stroke, nnd
these appear to have been gained
almost in their entirety.
Tho logical supposition, with the
history of the Sommo and Arras op-'
erations, particularly the Connor, in
mind, is that the drive will bo renew
ed as soon as the heavy pins nro
1 moved up, in pursuit of thejtlun of
driving a. wede uilo lhe Uerinan
lines by successive sirokos until ft
point is reached when the falling
back of the enemy on a wide front
will be forced.
Kndanucrs Coast JAtn
The importance lo be attached to
a drive into (iermau-held territory in
this sector must be jjnu'd not only
by the reclaimiiifr of Belgian soil from
the invaders, which it makes possible,
but the threat it offers to the Ger
man submarine bases nloiitf the Hel-
Kinti coast, a push niucii lurtlier
(ward alonir the present lino of
advance will be bound to shako tbo
11 lit y of the German coast line,
riie desperation of the German re
sistance, now manifest my; itself ill
furious count cr-a I lacks, bears wit
ness to the importance the Gennan
hiph command attaches to retention
of the present front. This front has
been shown to be not the rijiid one
lhe Teutonic claims have made it
nut. Badly bent by yesterday's at
tack, the immediate future is Jikely
to show whether il can be strained
to (he breaking point.
Itattlo a l.onn One,
Advices from the allied capitals
point to the expectation of lhe bat-
tie opened yesterday conlinuini; for
weeks, if not months. Tho French
(mops evidently were not brought up
to the Belgian front, away from their
former field of operations for any
brief effort at arms.
On Hie French front the Germans
wenl 011 Ihis mornim; with an opera
lion lliey bad been preparing in the
Verdun region, laiinehini: nn assault
between Avoeouil and Hill 'M),
northwest of lhe citadel, in an effort
to regain the positions they lost on
.July 17. Only a few advanced ele
ments 011 the French line, however,
were reached , by the crown prince's,
force-, the French fire stopping
theiu short there.
GLEAVES REPORTS ON
U-BOAT A1TACK
WASHINGTON. An-,'. 1. The da
taller report of liear Admiral
Gleaves re-peetinu the submarine at
tack on the American transMirts of
the fiis expedition to France Was
-en I to the senate military affair
committee today by Secretary Uatl
iels. It probably will be made pub
lie later. The report is understood
lo tell bow Gcrmnn submarines were
driven off after attacking the trans
ports twice, one submarine, nnd
probably others, being destroyed.