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The
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FEDERAL COURT
KNOCKS OUT TWO
CENT FARE LAW
Federal Judge Sanborn, Hunger
and Pollock Decide Missouri Pa
cifie May Charge Three
Cents a Mile.
STATE MAY NOT INTERFERE
To Put Up Fifty Thousand-Dollar
Bond to Protect Passengers Till
Final Hearing of Case.
. RAISE GOES IN EFFECT AT ONCE
As soon as tbe tariffs can be pre
pared and distributed, the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company will start
charging passengers 3 cents per mile
for riding over its lines in Nebraska.
This will probably be within the next
three days. The federal couri has
decided that the Missouri Pacific may
legally charge this rate and has
granted a temporary restraining or
der against the Nebraska State Rail
way commission, preventing that part
cv the state government from inter
fering in the putting in of the ad
vanced rate.
Before Circuit Judge Sanborn and Dls
trtct Judges Munger and Pollock, J. A.
C. .Kenned, general attorney for the
Missouri Pacirio In Nebraska, haa won
his suit against the Nebraska State Rail
way commission. The decision is based
upon the contention of Mr. Kennedy that
a 2-cent rate on the Missouri Pacific lines
in Nebraska la not remunerative and Is
not a fair and reasonable rate for doing
a passenger business within the state.
- Road Secures Injunction.
At th same time Mr. Kennedy secures
an order from the three 'udges restrain
ing the Nebraska commission from con
tinuing the 2-cent rate In effect on tho
Missouri Pacific. This order also enjoins
the commission from prosecuting the rail
road company or any of Its officers in
the event they charge rates In Nebraska
In excess of 2 cents per mile.
In other words, so far as the Missouri
Pacific Is concerned, the 2-cent per mile
passenger rate law Is set aside and de
clared void until upon final hearing, when
the case comes to trial on its merits, it
may be held to be good.
As a result of the decision of the judges
of the federal court, attorneys assert
that all the railroads operating In Ne
braska will, attaok the 2-cent per mile
law, asking that the railroads be re
strained from enforcing It. It is assorted
that thla was the understanding among
the attorney for the roads at the time
when the Missouri Pacifto brought Jta.
ult some months ago.
Wu a Starter.
It was tbe understanding that the test
case should be made by the Missouri Pa
cific, it being considered one of the weak
lines and one. of the roads having the
most mileage within the state.
That the Missouri Pacific Intends to at
once take advantage of the victory won
by Mr. Kennedy la apparent, for as soon
as the opinion of the court was placed
i on fUe officers of the road telegraphed
to headquarters at St. Louis, instructing
that a force of clerks be at once put at
work, preparing thetariffs for tha 2-cent
rata -within Nebraska.
To protect travelers upon the Missouri
Pacific in the event the court finally de
termines that a higher rate than 2 cents
is not legal, the Missouri Pacific gives
a bond of 150,000, by which It guarantees
to pay beck the excess of 1 cent per mile.
Thla bond has been filed.
Passengers Get Receipts.
That the Missouri Pacific passengers
may have a record of the extra 1 per
cent per mils paid each Missouri Pacific
station agent and each train conductor
will be provided with blank ' receipts.
'When a ticket is bought and paid for
on of these receipts will be given for
all money paid In excess of 2 cents per
mile between stations. Then, at some
time In the future. If the railroad should
lose in the final determination of the suit,
upon th presentation of the receipts the
xcess will be refunded.
Officers of the Missouri Pacific figure
that the decision of the judges will in
crease the passenger revenue of the road,
so. far as Nebraska is concerned, fully
2100.000 within the next year.
Th decision of the court has no bear
ing upon Interstate rates, affecting only
business within tbe state.
The Weather
Forecast till T p. m. Friday:
For Omaha, Council Bluffs nnd Vicinity
Fair, not much change In temperature.
TcnperatiN at Omaha Yesterday.
Hour. Der.
6 a. m 47
6 a. m 45
7 a. m 46
8 a. m 4
a. m w
10 a. m 53
11 a. m 6",
12 m B2
1 P- m 64
2 p. m 64
5 P. rn 64
4 ik m 63
6 p. m 62
8 p. m 60
7 p. m M
i P. rn bi
ComnarnllT Iocal Record.
1915. 1914 1913. 1912.
Highest yesterday 64 62 6S 60
Lowest yesterday 4o 4 41
Mean temperature 64 54 44 M
Precipitation 00 .uu ,uO .00
Temperature and precipitation depar
tures from the normal:
Normal temperature 43
Kxceas for the day 11
Total deficiency since March 1 288
Normal precipitation 06 inch
IDeficiency for the day 05 inch
Total rainfall since March 1.. 25.23 Inches
Deficiency slnca March 1 2.26 Inches
Deficiency, cor. period, 1914.... 80S Inches
Xflclency, cor. period, 1913.... 7.13 Inches
Reports from stations at T P. M.
Station and State Temp. High- Kaln-
of Weathar.
1p.m.
est. fall.
Cheyenne, clear
Davenport, clear...
0cnver, clear
Des Moines, cloudy
.... 64
.... 64
.... 66
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66 .00
62 .00
64 .00
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66 .00
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60 .U0
60 .W
... 62
' North Platte. Dart rlnu.lv F,i
Omaha, cloudy is
I'ueblo. clear
Rapid City, cloudy 52
Salt Ik City, cloudy 70
Hanta Fe, clear hn
Hherldan, clear 58
Sioux City, cloudy 64
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4,200 TEACHERS
ARE REGISTERED
Registered Attendance of Last Tear
is Surpassed by Almost Two
Hundred Persons.
GERMAN TEACHERS HEAR TALK
With practically 4,200 teachers
registered for tbe convention of the
Nebraska State Teachers association,
last year's attendance is far exceeded.
The total attendance last year was
4,005.
More than BOO of the teachers
registered this year are teaching in
western Iowa. They are allowed the
option of attending the association
at Omaha or the Iowa association
convention at Des Moines.
The big attendance means that the
executive committee will have even
more ballots to count In the primary
this year than last. ' Treasurer
Mathews estimates, however, that
the counting can be completed by the
middle 'of Saturday aftemeon," as the
committee will go to work on It with
a corps of assistants early Saturday
morning.- -
Tbe county superintendents of tha
state held a special meeting- at the Doug
las county court house Thursday after
noon with State Superintendent A. O.
Thomas presiding. There are ninety-
thro superintendents in the state and
About eighty of them attended the meet
ing. They voted to take up professional
study of lines of supervision work this
year under the direction of Slate Super
intendent Thomas. There are few or
no text books that cover the parti -u ar
field into which they are launching, but
the state superintendent Intends to out
line a course of study and research work
for them.
' Should Leave Out Politics.
That the county superintendent's office
is an office of Service and one that
should not be shifted for political rea
sons, was pointed out in a talk by State
Superintendent Thomas. "The county
superintendent should be wise enough,"
he said, "not to mix politics with his
service."
Before the German section at tho
Young Men's Christian association rooms
In the forenoon. Dr. Max Grlebsch of the
(Continued on Page Four, Column Two.)
SIOUX CITY MAKES BIG
GAIN IN POPULATION
DKS MOINES. Ia Nov. 4. Sioux City
has had a greater proportionate gain In
population since 1910 than any other city
In Iowa, according to the annual report
of the state department of finance and
municipal accounts, made public today.;
Since 1910 Sioux City has increased In
population from 47,828 to 61,787, the report
states. Des Moines made the largest
straight gain, increasing from 86,368 to
105,538. The report shows the Incorpora
tion of four new cities, or a total of 101.
TIBER OVERFLOWS AND
INTERRUPTS TRAFFIC
ROME. Nov, 4. (Via Paris.) The
floods caused by the overflowing of the
Tiber have interrupted railroad traffic,
uprooted trees and drowned cattle. Many
peasant families have been rescued from
areas surrounded by water. No loss of
life has been reported.
Fine weather has set In and It is hoped
that the floods will soon subside.
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King Peter Goes to the Front to
Encourage the Serbian Soldiers
-AMSTERDAM, Nov. 4.-VU London.)
An off.clal Bulgarian statement re
ceived here today from Sofia says K ng
Peter of Serbia has gone to the front to
encourage his soldiers and take them
the news that French and British fercei
are hastening to their assistance.
King Peter,- one of th most pictur
esque figures of the war has again gone
to the front as he did last year in the
hour of his country's supreme need. The
venerable ruler tie is 71 years old has
been at Topola, tha cradle of the
Karageorsevltch dynasty, ill and weak,
and, according to last accounts, was
waiting to retire with the rear guard of
his troops, menaced on three sides by the
Invading armies.
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Suit Against Rock
Island Officials is
Ruled Out of Court
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Supreme Court
Justice Pendleton today virtually ruled
out of court three Important motions
for. Judgment made by Francis K. Hlb
ben and others In a suit to recover
7,6CO,CO0 from the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railroad company, the Chi
cago, Hock Island & Paclf.c Railway
company ond several directors of the
two companies. The court ruled that the
plaintiffs' "causes of action are not
properly Joined."
Although this ruling leaves the plain
tiffs without a cause before the court.
Justice Pendleton granted them twenty
days in which to amend their com
plaint. Hlbben, a bondholder of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad com-'
pany, and other bondholders brought suit
to recover 17,500,000, which It was alleged
the railroad company had loaned the
railway company upon insufficient bp
curity and lost when the railway com
pany went into the hands of a receiver.
Among the individual defendants named
were Daniel a. Reld, William U. Moore,
Edward O. Moore, Ogden Mills, Henry
IT. Mudge, Francis H. Hlne and William
T. Graham. .... -
Porter Draws First
Prize in Homestead
Lottery at Minot
MINOT, N. D.. Nov. 4.-Charles R.
Porter of Anoka, Minn., won the right
of first choice of a 160-aore tract of land
from the 700 homesteads to be opened to
entry next May at the Fort Berthold land
drawing here today. The first envelope
drawn by a little girl from a large
wooden box on the stage of a local thea
ter contained Porter's name.
The next ebtht winners follow In
the order In which their names were
drawn. ....
H. I Dundall. North Dakota.
O. A. Oberg. Minneapolis. Minn.
Jacob Lenarts, New Itockford, N. l.
Olga Tennyson, Minneapolis, Minn.
F. E. Hlrsch. St. Paul, Minn.
F. A. McQrath, Keokuk, la.
Christ Paulson, Vanhook. N. D.
John Pollert. RoseKlen. N. 1).
Cardinal Farley
Officiates at the
Ridder Funeral
NEW YORK, Nov. 4-The funeral of
Herman Ridder, . publisher of the New
York Btaats Zeltung, was held today In
the church of the Blessed Sacrament In
the presence of many former associates
and friends. Cardinal Farley took part In
he ceremonies. The Publishers' associa
tion of New York City today sent to Mr.
Ridder's relatives a .resolution paying
tribute to his memory, his "stern Integ
rity and upright life."
Von Hindenburg
Retakes Part of the
Ground Abandoned
BERLIN, Nov. 4. (By Wireless to Say
vllle.) The Oerman war office report
given out today announced that the town
of Mlkullschkl, between Iike B wen ton
and Lake Ilsen, which was captured by
the Russians on Tuesday, has been re
conquered by the Germans. It was
added that further south on the eastern
front eneral von liothmer had taken
3,000 Russian prisoners near Slcnlkowce,
On the former occasion King Peter was
credited with having saved the day for
Serbia. Late last year, when his army
was being hard pressed by the AuBtrlana,
tbe king, suffering from rheumatUm.
contracted in the Franco-Pruaiiaa war,
went to the front, and mounting a horse,
rode slowly through the Kerbtan lines,
telling his soldiers their old king had
come to die with them. Ills action In
spired his troops, who expelled the Aus-
trlans from Serbia. 1
"I am but a feeble old man," the kin?
was quoted as having said last month.
but 1 swear to you If a new invasion
shall bring cpon us the shame of be.nj
conquered, I shall not survive the ru n
but I, too, shall die with tbe country."
i
naasaa
YON BUELOW DENIES
ALL TALKOF PEACE
Prince Says He is Not Conducting
Negotiations with Papal Dele
gate or Anyone Else.
"WAR MUST BE FOUGHT OUT"
LUCERNE, Swttserland, Nov. 4.
(Via Paris.) Prince von Buelow,
former German chancellor, Informed
the Associated Press today that he
had not come to Switzerland on a
peace mission. lie declared Ger
many was resolved to continue the
war to Its conclusion by arms.
The prince made it clear that he Is
not going to Washington to see Presi
dent Wilson or to Madrid to see King
Alfonso in relation to terms on which
Germany might he willing to discuss
peace. Nor is he engaged In such
discussions with a papal delegate- or
anyone else.
In addition to disposing of these re
ports Prince von Bueloy said to the
correr pondent todayV " "
"The war must be fought out."
Germany Is United.
At another time during the conversa
tion ha said:
"Germany la united and possesses every
resource In material and above all in
unity and resolve to continue the war
to Its conclusion by arms.
The prince talked of various aspects of
the war with considerable freedom, al-
(Continued on Page Three, Column Four.)
IOWA FACULTY MEMBER
JOINS CADET REGIMENT
IOWA CITY, la., Nov. 4 (Special Tel
egram.) Prof. R. L. Henry, prominent
member of the law faculty of the Uni
versity of Iowa jolnod tho univehsity's
cadet regiment here this week. Ite an
nounces that he believes in preparedness
for war and that every civilian should
come to that realisation. lie states that
It was ruch a renson that guided him to
become a member of the cadet regiment
and drill with the rest of the university
students.
The Day 'a War Newu
1 HOIITHKHN KKRHIA tha Bnl
rarlnns who arc marching" oa Mon
asttr are belnsr held In check Bear
Prlllp, about twenty-five mlvs
northwest of Monasttr, a Solonlkt
dispatch states.
PREMIER I AIM IS of Greece, after
thtt defeat of hie soverameat la
the chamber by a vote of 147 to
114, askril a suspension of tha
chamber', work until a new cabi
net was formed,.
PRINCE VOX UlELOW, former
Uermau chancellor, Is not ia
wltserland ou a peace mission ha
declared today la Lucerne. 11
aUo stated he will not visit Madrid
or Washington on a peace errand,
aa bad been reported. II de.
dared lirrnmr wan united and
was aetermlard to put tbe war to
a conclusion by force of arms.
KIKLI1 MARSHAL Von Hladeabura"
troops have pushed their way back
to the line la th lake district
southwest of Dvlnak, from which
they wer obliged to withdraw
recently under Rusalaa pressure,
tha German war office announces.
IllLUAR TROOPS have alarmed
the towa of Kalafat, tana reachlaa;
a point only aboat sis miles from
KUh.
KINO PKTEH OF SKHBIA la re.
ported In a message from Sofia to
have gone to tho froat to encour
age his troops.
REVOLT Or ALBANIANS la south
westrru Serbia Is reported through
Home. .
TKl TONIC TROOPS pressing th
Serbians southward are inarching
oa Kralleva, aboat twenty miles
southeast of i'aeak, along- the rail
road which runs from northwest,
era Serbia to Nlsh, and approsU
matrly the nam distance aoub
west of Kraarurevats.
UKlMN Hit PORTS th eaptar of
HOO yard of a Preach trench near
Masslge, la th Champagne dl.
trlct. Th current Preach report
claims that th major portloa of
th around gained by th Germans
In th Maaslgea sector was re
gained la counter attack.
Wilson Makes Clear His
Program of Preparedness
NEW YORK. Nov. 4. President
Wilson in his address at the anni
versary dinner of the Manhattan
club hero tonlcht said:
A year and a half ago our thought
would have beon almost altogether
of errat domestic questions. They
aro many nnd of vital consequence.
We must and shall address our
selves to their solution with dlll-
Kcnee, firmness and self-possession,
notwithstanding we find ourselves
in the midst of a world disturbed
by great disaster nd ablate with
terrible war; hut our thoimht is now
inevitably of nvw things shout which
formerly we Rave ourselves little
concern. Wo are thinking now
chiefly of our relations with tho rest
of tue world not our commercial
relations about those we have
thought and planned always but
about our political relations, our
duties ns an individual and Inde
pendent force tn the world to our
selves, our neighbors and tho world
itself.
I.lbertr for Men nnd Peoples.
Our principles are well known.
It Is not necessary to avow them
again. We believe in political lib
erty and founded our great govern
ment to obtain it, (he liberty of men
and of people of men to choose
t ,
FOUR AMERICANS
SLAIN AT BORDER
Killed Near Agua Prieta by Shrap
nel Bomb, it is Reported
at Naco. '
VILLA ESTABLISHES CAPITAL
m u.KTirv.
NACO, Arls., Nov. 4. Four Amer
icans, who left here with hospital
supplies for Villa's army, were killed
yesterday near Agua Prieta by a
shrapnel shell, it was reported here
today. The men were Dr. R. H.
Tblgpen and Dr. Miller of the Ca-
nanea Consolidated Copper company
hospital staff, and their chauffeurs,
Joseph Pylant and A. L. Wilson of
Naco. Their bodies will be brought
here.
NACO, Arts., Nov. 4. Naco, Ponora,
Just across the border, was declared to
day to be the capital of Mexico by Gen
eral Franctsoo Villa, who arrived there
with the vanguard of his army in their
withdrawal from attacks on Agua Prieta.
Naco will be made a base of supplies and
troops ' will rest here for thirty days, it
was said.
Several thousand Villa soldiers have ar
rived at the Mexican town and many of
them have made camp within a few hun
dred feet of homes on the American side.
Other columns of troops were reported
on their way there.
Vacant store rooms were turned into
hospitals today and prepared to receive a
'large number of wounded.
Four Officers nnd beven privates died
today soon after their arrival. Death, It
was said, was caused more by exposure
and privation than by their wounds.
Two troops of United states cavalry are
stationed here to jatrol the border,
C'nrrans Agent Makes Kick.
POUQLAS, Arts.. Nov. 4 Carransa
agents at Naco, Aril., reported that 2u0
Villa wounded had arrived in the Mex-
(Continued on Tage Three Column Hlx.)
Colonel Goodier ,
Tells of Injury to
Number of Aviators
BAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Nov. 4-At his
own request Lieutenant Colonel Iewls
R. Ooodter took the witness stand today
in his court martial on charges of Influ
encing junior officers of the Han Diego
aviation school of tho army to prefer
charges against their superior officer
Captain A. 8. Cowan. Ills preliminary
testimony wss mostly rehearsal of
details leading to the charges brought
last April against Captain Cowan.
He said that he advised lieutenant
Roy Klrtland, who wrote to Colonel
Ooodler's injured son here about the
pending charges, to gather the facts In
the Cowan case before Initiating any
action, and having made certain of them
to let him know what had been done.
Klrtland left Han I Mi-go IS fore the
charges were preferred.
The accused officer referred to the
number of men injured in flying at the
Ban Diego school, one of whom was his
son, still Incapacitated by a fall a year
ago. ,
Serbs Forced to Flee Before
Teutons Without Seeing Them
ROME (via Paris), Nov. I. -The war
correspondent of the Messagsro, in an
undated dispatch from Kraguyevats,
Serbia, says:
'"The Auatro-Cerman forces employed
against Serbia have been obliged to
remedy the weakness of their Infantry
by powerful artillery abundantly supplied
with ammunition. They wer able to ad
vance into Serbia only by deluges of
shells.
"Undlscouraged by the seriousness of
the situation, however, the Serbian troops
are effecting their retreat calmly and
In good order. There are no signs of a
panio among the people, who are depart
ing from their homes in long columns,
sad and resigned, but with certain hope
that they will return eventually.
"One sees long flies of wagons filled
their own lives and of people to
choose their own allegiance. Our
ambition, also, all the world has
knowledge of. It is not only to be
free and prosperous ourselves, but
also to be the friend and thoughtful
partisan of those who are free or
who desire freedom the world over.
If we have had aggressive purposes
and covetous ambitions, they were
the fruit of our thoughtless youth
as a nation and we have put them
aside. We shall, I confidently be
lieve, never again take another foot
of territory by conquest. We shall
never in any circumstance seek to
make an Independent people subject
to our dominion; because we believe,
we passionately believe, in the right
of every people to choose their own
allegiance and be free of masters
altogether. For ourselves we wish
nothing but the full liberty of self
development; and with ourselves in
this great matter we associate all
the people of our own hemisphere.
We wish not only for the United
8tates but for them the fullest free
dom of Independent growth and of
action, for we know that throughout
this hemisphere the same aspirations
are everywhere being worked out,
under diverse conditions, but with
(Continued on Page Two, Column Two.)
Will Sift Plot to
Smuggle Chinese
Into JLS. to Top
BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Nov. 4.-An-thony
Camlnettl, United States commis
sioner of Immigration, was due here to
day from Washington and federal offi
cials here expected that he would take
charge of tha investigation which fol
lowed the dlsoovery of eighty-els contra
hand Chinese aboard tho liner Mongolia
on October 'it when the vessel arrived hers
from the Orient
John V. Freston, United States district
attorney, who Is Investigating charges
connected with the smuggling of Chinese,
said to involve federal officials, said
today:
"The Impression that this Investigation
will be barren of results as far as ar
rests are concerned Is erroneous.
"We are going to sift this matter, not
to the bottom, but to tha top. Wt are
going ' after the higher ups, and the
higher up the better."
Man Acquitted of '
Murder Charge Held
: for Embezzlement
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 4.WlIllam
V. Cleary, former town clerk of Haver
straw, N. T., acquitted last January of
the murder of Ills son-in-law, Bogane
M. Newman, after a sensational trial,
was arrested here today on a warrant
charging larceny of $I0,0U0 from the town
of Haverstraw.
Cleary has been missing from Haver
straw since an investigation of the man
ner in which the murder trial was con
ducted disclosed alleged irregularities In
his office.
Cleary consented to return to New Tork
without extradition proceedings and left
Washington a prisoner at noon today to
be turned over to the sheriff of Rock
laud county.
Wilson Will Speak,
on National Defense
WASHINGTON, I). C, Nov. 4-Presi-dent
Wilson will speak cr. national de
fense before the Manhattan club in
New York tonight.
The speech, which marks trie first pub
lic utterance of the president since the
scope of the administration's national de
fense program became known, .was
awaited today with keen Interest In offi
cial circles here. He was to set forth
the reasons which caused htm to approve
plans for materially strengthening the
army and navy.
I'reolrtent Wilson left early today for
New York, accompanied by Secretary
Tumulty. He will be the guest there
of h i friend. Colonel E. M. House. The
president will return to Washington to-
Coke Production is
Nearly Doubled
CONNKLLSVILLH. Pa., Nov. 4.-Coks
production In the Connellavtlle region has
practically doubled since th first of the
year in the face of the most pronounced
labor shortage the Industry has ever
known. This week's tonnage, 431,000 tons,
was not enough to meet the demand.
About 200 ovens were added to the active
list and more could be fired If the labor
were available.
with, children and women and tha sick,
the oxen led by old men, for all the able
bodied are with th army. The wounded
speak with aw of th terrible artlUey
battles, from the effects of whloh they
are still stunned. They express regret
that they are obliged to abandon their
positions without even seeing the enemy
"The Germans advance slowly, pro
tected by their artillery. The Serbian
officers are counting greatly on the mud
which was a precious ally in the last
campaign against the Austrlans. The con
tinuous rains are making the country
more and more Impracticable for the Oer
man artillery and the Serbians feel thai
if they oould get within striking dis
tance of the Oerman artillery the sltua
tlon would take on an entirely differ
ent aspect,"
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PRESENCE FELT
IN MACEDONIA
Franco-British Contingent ii Re
ported to Have Gained Considerable-
Succesi oh the
Istip Front
SERBIANS STEADILY RETREA1
Fighting Qualities of Army Appar
ently Not Seriously Impaired
by Invaders' Battering.
RUSSIANS MAT RAH) BULGARI
LONDON, Nov. 4. While the Ser
bians are fighting doggedly to keep
the way open tor their retreat Into
Montenegro, their Franco-British al
lies are beginning to make their pres.
once felt in Macedonia, where, ac
jordlng to unofficial reports, they
have gained a success on the Istip
front.
The Serbian army is retreating
iteadliy toward its central defenses,
but its fighting qualities apparently
have not been seriously impaired by
the tremendous battering It has rer
reived from' the invaders.
The only success for the Serbians ad
mitted by Berlin la one along the Nlshava
river, where the Bulgarians have been
thrown back toward Palanka by "superior
forces," but the invaders now are only
twelve and a half miles from the tempo
rary Serbian capital and a check along
the Nlshava la not likely to give the har
assed defenders much respite.
RsmIs Preparing tar Invasion.
From Bucharest comes a report that
the Russians are concentrating great
forces at the port of Rent, tn Bessarabia,
from whloh place they are expected to
make a direct landing on Bulgarian ter
ritory if Roumanla gives an Interpreta
tion of the internatlonallsatlon of th
River Danube friendly to Russia, by
which men and munitions may be con
veyed by the river into Bulgaria.
Along the eastern front Russia con
tinues to claim a series of successful at
tacks on th Austro-Qerman positions.
From the most northerly point along th
eastern battle lines comes a report which
has a Russian source that the Oerman
commander. Field Marshal von Hinden
burg, despairing of the capture of Riga
and Dvinsk, is preparing winter quarters
near his present porltlon along that
front. .
The government revelations relative to
British shipping are exciting great Inter
est in trade clrclos, where the policy al
ready has encountered considerable appo
sition. .
Brltlsk and Fresek Advancing.
PARIS, Nov. 4. The first British con
tingent arrived Friday at Ouevguell Is
the Serbian theater, according to a
(Continued on Pate Two, Column Two.)
Legislature of South
Dakota Can Repeal
Any Initiated Laws.
PIERRE, 8. D.. Nov. 4. Th Richards
primary law case was decided by tha
South Dakota supreme court today, tha
court holding that the legislature had th
power to set aside the Richards primary
law initiated by the people.
The legislature by direct legislation
enacted a new primary law and repealed
the Richards law, which had been in ef
fect for the last four years.
The court holds, In brief, that the
Initiative amendment to the constitution
does not limit the powers of th legisla
ture to enact laws, b,ut only gives to the.
people the power to command the leg J
Islature to act on any measure which
It may desire to have enacted, and when,
enacted the legislation Is subject to tha
same ' action as any other law. $
On the contention that tha legislature
had no right to add the "emergency" pro
vision to the primary law it enacted, the
court held that ao long as no attempt
was made to apply the referendum to tha
primary law, that lssu la not before
the court.
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