DAKOxA COUNTY HERALD
Motto: All The News When It Is News.
VOL 24.
DAKOTA CITY, NEB., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1015.
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GREATEST WAR BUDGET IN HIS.
TORY PRESENTED IN HOUSE
OF COMMONS.
A JOLT FOR BIG INCOMES
Very Rich Must Contribute Almost
One-Third of Their Revenue Work
Ingmen Earning $14 Weekly Are
Caught In Net.
WUru Ncwupapnr Union Js'twj Htrrlce.
London. The greatest war budget
in the world's history was Introduced
, iu tbo bouse ot commons September 21
Ly Reginald McKcnna, chancellor of
the exchequer, as another stop toward
financing the war. which is costing
Great Britain nearly $26,000,000 a day.
New military requirements and
changed methods of warfare have cre
ated over night additional expendi
tures which had not been reckoned
with, even in tho comparatively recent
estimates of David Lloyd-George, the
munitions minister, necessitating in
this budget, tho third since the out
break of hostilities, tho most drastic
and far reaching taxes in the history
of the country and involving even free
trade.
Hereafter automobiles, bicycles,
moving picture films, watchos, musical
instruments, plate glass and hats will
pay a tax of 33 per cent ad valorem,
though, as Mr. McKenna explained, tho
objects of such taxation are "purely
temporary and without regard to a
permanent effect on trade," being de
signed to encourage imports and rom
cdy tbo foreign exchange situation.
Spirits and beer, which havo been
the subject of so much agitation, re
mained untouched by tho new sched
ules. The principal blow fell on in
comes, tho existing tax on incomes
not only being Jumped 40 per cent,
but its scope widened so as to catch
even worldngmen earning as little as
?14 weekly. Tho very wealthy must
contribute to the government more
than one-third of their revenue
Tho 1-cent mall will bo abolished
entirely and tho weight heretofore car
ried in the malls for 2 cents will be
Teduced.
Tho sugar tax, though largely In
yj?ised, will mean only an extra
iVfcriny per pound burden for tho gen
eral public, for the sale of all sugar
is now regulated by the royal com
mission, which will reduce the price
to refiners and dealers.
CARRAN2A GETTING RESULT8.
Consul Blocker Reports Conditions to
United States.
Washington, D. C Conditions in
Mexican territory controlled by Gen.
Carranza are rapidly becoming nor
mal, according to advices to tho state
department from American Consul
Blocker at Piedras Negras. Tele
graphic communication, which for
many months had been paralyzed, now
is open to Mexico City, as well as to
Saltlllo, Monterey, Zacatocas, San Luis
Potosl, Aguascalicntcs nnd interven
ing stations. Hailroad communication
is in tho process of repair, and rapid
strides are being made, according to
official advices.
The dispatch of mails to Mexico
City has been resumed, according to
an announcement from the postoflico
department, and mail for the capital
and outlying districts, which had been
accumulating at the border, is being
forwarded via Laredo.
Consul Blocker, describing condi
tions at Piedras Negras, stated that
the Carranza administration was ex
tending guarantees to all foreigners
and had distributed circulars to sol
diers warning them that any molesta
tion of peaceable people and their
property would result in severe meas
ures of punishment.
Bankers Endorse Big Loan.
Denver, Colo. Tho investment of
American capital in Europe at tho
present time was Indorsed by tho con
vention of tho Investment Bankers'
Association of America, in session
here. The delegates expressed ap
proval of a policy of extension of for
eign credits, "not as indicating either
partiality or prejudice, but solely as
a matter of business and practically
as a necessary outcome of existing
conditions." Tho sentiment of tho del
egates was crystallized In a resolution
Introduced by V. It. Compton, of St.
Louis, chairman of tho special com
mittee on agricultural credits, and
passed unanimously by the conven
tion. Death Ship to Be Sold.
Chicago. The steamor Eastland,
which capsized in the Chicago river
July 24, drowning 812 persons, has
been ordered sold by Fodoral Judge
Landls to satisfy a claim or $34,500
for the work df raising tho boat from
the river bottom. Tho ship will bo
sold at auction on Docomber 20.
Memphis, Tenn. Polico and dotoc
ttves declaro thoy nro without a tan
gible clow ns to tho identity of the
(9 1
erson who Septomber 21 killed a
,voman known her as Mrs. Marguerite
Favaur, an actress, and J. C. Crowell,
manager of n Greenwood, Miss., oil
mill, in a faslilonablo apartment build
ing hore. The murdoror set flro to
tho room in which the bodies wcro
found, in an effort to hide evidonce of
tho orlme.
Winchester, Va.Wllllam A. Baker,
chocolate manufacturer and banker,
died at his homo here, aged C5 years.
WILSON AND LANSING COMPLETE
NOTE TO ENGLAND SEA
POLICY UNFRIENDLY.
CALL SHIP SEIZURE ILLEGAL
Persistent Oppression of American
Commerce and Blockade of Neutral
Ports Is Denounced In Latest Mes
sage as Unjustified by World Law.
Washington. Sept. 20. -President
Wilson nnd Secretary of Stnto Lan
sing conferred at length on Friday
on tho completed note of this govern
ment to Grcnt Britain, and on the
phnscs of tho controversy with Gor
many over tho sinking of the Arabic
Tho points of tho now note to Great
Britain, as obtained from officials who
havo had part in putting it into pres
ent form, are:
That as tho United Statos has re
peatedly and consistently denied spe
cifically every one of the Justifications
set Up by Sir Edward Grey, tho British
minister for foreign affairs, and Lord
Crewe, his assistant, this government
cannot fall to regard tho persistent op
pression of American commorco as un
friendly. That Great Britain acted illegally
when sho took cases of seizure and de
tention out of tho domain of diplomacy
and made thorn merely matters for
tho British prizo courts.
That the argument by Great Britain
for such action is indefensiblo, because
It Is based on tho ordor in council,
wulch is itself in illegal policy.
That tho establishment of a block-
ado under tho order in council which
prctonds to include neutral ports, is
not Justified by international law on
tho more suspicion that neutral ports
may bo made the basis for unneutral
acts.
That tho contention of Great Britain
that cargoes may bo seized and do
talned on suspicion alone, without any
assertion of reasonable proof, is abso
lutely untenablo under any form of
recognized law of nations.
That tho United States has hereto
fore given Great Britain notice that H
would not tolerate acts such as in the
packers' case, which were based on
tho Illegal wlthdrrwal of questions oi
seizure and detention from tho cate
gory of diplomatic questions. ThQ
United States has in fact filed Iti
caveat, putting Great Britain on no
tice. It is stated that there is in tho not
no suggestion of an ultimatum or a do
raarid for a definite answer frofcj
Great Britain within any specified
time.
STEFANSSON, EXPLORER, SAFE
Discovers New Land Southwest of St
Patrick Island Was on Ice
for Seven Months.
Nome, Alaska, Sept 20. Tho powe"
schooner Rubv arrived from Herscha'
island, on tho Arctic coast .west o! j
tho mouth of tho Mackenzie rlvor
with news that Vilhjalmur Stefansson
the Canadian explorer, who with twe
companions, Storkcr Storkorson ant
Olo Anderson, set out from Martii
Point, Alaska, March 22, 1014, ovel
tho frozen Polar ocean to search foi
supposod new lands in tho Beauforl
sea, Is not only alive and well, but hni
accomplishc'd every purpose for whlct
tho hazardous Journey was under
taken.
Capt 8. F. Cottle, mastor of th
Ruby, says that Stefansson Is on
Banks land, east of the Mackenzio
outfitting for continuance ot tho ex
ploratlons to tho westward to ascor
tain tho full extent of tho now land
ho discovered southwest of St. Pat
rick island. Stefansson discovered s
contlnuanco of tbo continental shell
several degrees west of Banks land
and even determined its southern Urn
its, but was unablo to continue hit
explorations to tho north and west.
BIG WAR 'FUND FOR BRITAIN
House of Commons Gives Premier As
qulth $1,250,000,000 to Carry on
Conflict.
London, Sopt. 17. Tho credit of $1,
260,000,000 asked for by Promlor As
quith to carry on tho war to the mid
dle ot November was formally voted
on Wednesday by the house of om
mons. In making tho motion for tho war
credit tho premier announced that
from July 18 to Fcptcmbor 11 tho dally
not expenditure for tho war had been
J17.500.000.
Tho now credit asked will bring
tho total up to $0,310,000,000 since tho
beginning of tho war.
Tho war cost for tho next fow
weoks will mount still higher, Asqulth
said, approaching $25,000,000 a day.
Tho $1,250,000,000 appropriation, ho
declared, will last only until tho third
week of November,
Anthony Comstock Is III.
New York, Sopt. 21. Anthony Cora
stock Is seriously ill at bis homo nt
Summit, N. J. Tho veteran vlco crusa
der Is In so weakened condition that
It is feared that his soventy-two years
will mnko it dlfllcult for him to rally.
Austrlans Defeat Italians.
Amsterdam, Sopt. 21. After a tierce
strugglo, Austrlans on the Carnlc and
Italian Alps havo captured the Italian
positions over a front nearly two and
a halt miles long, according to dla-
I oatcheB recolvod from Vienna.
U 'ITTSBUROH OUPATCH. i . fcBB.- 7---'
ENVOYS GET THREATS
ALLIES' BANKERS GUARDED BY
NEW YORK SLEUTHS.
U. S. Won't Interfere as Long as Big
Loan Is Used to Purchase Sup
plies Many Protests.
Now York, Sopt. 17. Alarmed by
tho increased flood of threatening let
ters that continued to pour in on tho
Anglo-French flnanco commissioners
at tho Hotel Biltmoro, tho hotel man
agement doubled its forco of dotectlvo
guards and advised tho commission
ers not to aunounco their movements
in advance
Every member of tho commission
is followed by two guards wherever
ho go;s, and they go about separately
to divldo tho danger of attack by anti
allies fanatics.
Moro than fifty threatening letters
havo been received by tho commis
sion. Their contents run tho scalo
from nbuso to threats against the
lives of tho commissioners.
Washington, Sopt. 17. Protests
ngainst tho Anglo-French credit loan
being negotiated In this country wcro
rocoived nt tho Whito House in tele
grams from various parts of tho coun
try. It was intimated that the adminis
tration would not tako any action in
tho matter. As long as tho loan Is in
tended to pay for goods to bo exported
from this country, it was pointed out
that tho country's neutrality is not bo
lng violated.
ARABIC EVIDENCE TO BERLIN
U. S. Sends Data to Germany Wilson
Expects Modified Dis
avowal. Washington, Sopt. 17. All of tho
evldenco dealing with tho sinking of
tho Arabic complied by tho United
States has been forwarded to tho Dor
lln foreign ofllco through stato de
partment sources, at tho request of
tho German ambassador. It will bo
considered by iho Gorman admiralty
in tho light of tho report inado by tho
submarine commanuor
Count vov Bernstorff Is understood
to bellevo that when this evldenco,
much of it tho sworn statements ot
American citizens, is considered, that
part of tho Arabic noto Justifying tbo
action ot tho submarlno will be with
drawn voluntarily and a modified
disavowal, strong enough to satis
fy Prosident Wilson, will bo sub
stituted. ACCEPT BERLIN EXPLANATION
Germany Telia U. 8. That Liner Hes
perian Was Not Torpedoed by
German Submarine.
Washington, Sept. 18. Tho caso of
tho Allan linor Hesperian, which was
destroyed by an explosion about two
woeks ago near Fastnot, has become
practically a closed Incident at the
stato department. Secretary Lansing
received tho report of tho Gorman ad
miralty In this case on Thursday, and
tho department Is disposed to accept
tho German explanation. Tho main
point In tho admiralty roport Is that
tho vessel could not havo boon de
stroyed by a Gorman torpedo, for tho
reason that tho reports from subma
rines at tho tlnio ot tho accident show
that none of thorn was In that locality.
To Admit Canadian Cattle.
London, Sopt. 20. Secrotary Acland
ot tho government board of agricul
ture announced on Friday that the Im
portation of livo Canadian cattlo
would be allowed It they aro slaugh
tered at tho port ot landing.
Dutch Purchaso Aeroplanes.
Washington, Sept. 20. Tho treas
ury department waB notified that the
Dutch government has purchased 20
Curtlss typo neroplunes as tho result
of a series of experiments held at Los
Ancolos.
BRITISH SEIZE MEAT
FOUR CARGOES, WORTH MILLION8
OF DOLLARS, CONDEMNED.
Products Owned by American Packers
Are Declared Forfeited to the
Crown by Tribunal.
London, Sept. 18. Chicago packers
woro defeated In tho British prizo court
when that tribunal handod down a do-,
cision on Thursday confiscating to tho
crown largo Amorlcan cargoes taken
from merchantmen. Tho prizo court
hold that theso cargoos woro ultimate
ly destined for Germany, to bo used by
that country for hor army and navy.
The firms whoso contentions woro
ovorrulod by tho cout woro Armour
& Co., Swift & Co., Nelson Morris &
Co. and tho Schwartzschlld-Sulzborgor
company.
At the conclusion ot Its decision the
court granted leavo to appeal, provid
ed $25,000 socurlty was posted as se
curity for tho costs of further pro
ceedings. Tho Judgmont was delivered by Blr
Samuel T, Evans, president of tho
court It involves tho cargoes of tho
Norwegian steamships Kim, Alfred
Nobol, BJornstJerno-BJomson and Frld
land. All tho goods on theso vessels, con
sisting principally ot Amorlcan meat
products, aro confiscated, with tho ex
ception of a small portion which tho
court released to claimants.
Tho meat cargoes, shipped for tho
most part by tho great Amorlcan pack
ing companies and valuod by them at
$15,000,000, woro found by tho presi
dent to bo destined, except for some
small items, not for consumption in
Denmark, but for delivery in Germany.
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES
Worcester, Mass., Sopt, 17. Mre.
Martha Flako, olghty-thrco yearB old,
nnd Doris Erlcson, sovon months old,
died horo from tho intenso heat, and
Mrs. Cnrrlo Eager, thirty-live, of Provl
donco, was prostrated while waiting
for a train In Union station.
Washington, Sopt. 17. President
Wilson Is going "homo" to Princeton,
N. J., September 22, to voto in tho
Now Jersey primaries, it was an
nounced at the White House. ' Ho will
also go to Princeton October 19 to
voto In tho election.
Boston, Sept. 17. Tho official torn
poraturo in this city at noon was 01.
Schools In nearly all tho cities and
largo towns wcro closed at noon.
Moro seasonable conditions wero pre
dicted for tomorrow. ;
Bmwnsvlllo, Tox Sopt. 20. At
least twenty-two Carranzlsta -soldiers
are belloved to havo been killed on
Friday by Amorlcan troops In two bat
tles along tho Rio Granda Thero
wcro no American casualties.
Both battles wcro started by tho
Cnrranzlstas, who llred on American
troops. Ono took placo beforo Mata
moros, tho Mcxlcun town across the
Rio Grande, tlireo miles from hore,
and tho other at Los Ebunos, fifty
miles north and west ot Brownsville.
As a result of tho attack by Car
ranzlstas on American troops sorlouu
International complications nro
fenred.
New Aviation Record.
Washington, Sopt. 21. A now.Amor
lean noroplano rocord for duration for
pilot alono Is hold by Lieut. Walter U.
Taliaferro ot the army, Ho mado n
mark of 9 hours nnd 48 minutes sus
tained flight nt San Diego.
Burman Lowers Kccord.
Providonce, II. I., Sopt. 21. Hob
j arman In a Pougcot car twlco low
ored tho world's record for ono rallo
on a speedway hero by driving a mllo
In 40 1-5 seconds, following with a
mllo in 45 73-100 seconds.
GREAT RAILWAY CENTER OF RUS
SIA FALLS 8LAV3 FLEE FROM
GERMANS.
TERRIFIC BATTLE IS FOUGHT
Field Marshal Von Hlndenburg Now
Controls Route to Petrograd and
Moscow Czar Loses Important Rail
Lines Defenders Are Routed.
Berlin, Sept. 21. Vilna, tho great
railroad and industrial confer of north
western ltussja, has fallen botoro the
German drlvo, which has tnkon 15
great citlos nnd fortresses slnco tho
capture ot Wnrsaw, capital of Poland.
Tho gonl upon which tho eyes ot
Geuoral von Illndonburg aud all Gor
many has boon sot slnco Warsaw was
entered, was enpturod Sunday by tho
forcos of General von lSlchhorn,
which havo boon lighting stubbornly
eastward slnco tholr capturo ot
Kovno throo wooks ago, Tho most
dosporato Russian reoiBtanco encoun
tered in tho ontlro Gorman offonslvo
has boon crushed, and Germany now
holds tho koy to tho vital railroad sys
tem of Russia.
Tho coveted lateral railway from
Rovno in tho south to Riga in tho
north, with linos oxtondlng from
Vilna to Potrograd, Moscow, OdosBa
and through tho very heart of Rub
sla Ib now controlled by Gorman
forces.
Tho capturo of Vilna, a town of 170,
000 population, and ono of tho manu
facturing contors ot Russia, is tho sev
enteenth similar buccobs attalnod
slnco tho German drlvo, which started
on May 2 against Przomysl, has
crossed Into Gorman soil noar Warsaw
and tho Lublln-Cholm lino in southorn
Poland.
Tho actual capturo ot Vilna, though
prodlctcd as immlnont Blnco tho tall
ot Brost-Lltovsk sovoral wooks ago,
appears to havo boon accomplished at
last by a desporato rush ot Goneral
von isiciinorns forcoB, aldod by a
simultaneous offonBlvo by Gonorals
von Scholz and von Gallwltz and
Prlnco Leopold of Bavaria, conquoror
of Warsaw.
Tho official announcomont that tho
Russians woro routed completely at
tho fall of Urn city loads' to tho a?-,
sumption that though tholr lossos in
men killed nnd wounded woro groat,
no body of troops was surrounded and
captured.
DUMBA PROTESTS HIS RECALL
Austrian Ambassador In Letter
Lansing Snys Action Is Unjust
Sought to Aid Hla People.
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Now York, Sopt 21. Doctor Dumba,
Austro-Hungarian ambassador, has ad
dressed to Secretary of Stato Lansing
a lettor protesting tho roquost for
his recall as unjust.
Tho lettor is dovoted mainly to a do
foiiBo of tho ambassador's plan to find
other work for tho nationals of his
government employed in American
munition plants
Excopt to say that ho takes excep
tion to Mr. Lansing's chargo that ho
confessed to having conspired to bring
about strikes in Amorlcan munition
works, tho ambassador makes uo rot
oronco to tho intercaptod letter to tho
Austro-Hungarian minister for foroign
affairs, upon which tho roquost for hla
recall waB based.
DELAY ACTION ON MEXICO
Mediators Agree Some Faction Must
Be Recognized Aspirants Must
Prove Capability.
Now York, Sopt. 21. Tho Pan-Amor-lean
conference on Mexican affairs an
nounced at tho conclusion of its meet
ing horo on Saturday that each of tho
diplomatic representatives would roc
ommond to tholr government that in
their judgmont tho tlmo has now como
to extend recognition to a government
in Mexico.
Tho faction to bo recognized was
not decided on.
Thoy decided that tho do facto gov
ernment aspiring to recognition must
possess "tho matorial and moral ca
pacity necessary to protect tho lives
(f nationals and foreigners."
MRS. DRUMMOND IS DEAD
Former Mrs. Marshall Field of Chi
cago Dies In England Mother of
Two Richest Boys In World.
Chicago, Sopt. 21. Mrs. Maldwln
Drummond, formorly Mrs. Murshall
Field II, Is dead In England, Mrs.
Drummond died on hor cstato, Cad-
land, near Southampton, on Saturday.
In addition to Marshall Fiold III Mrs.
Drummond Is survived by two other
children Henry and Gwendolyn. Tho
two boys aro said to bo tho richest in
11)0. United StateB.
Germany Will Annex Land.
Geneva, Sopt. 21. Tho Lausanno Ga
tetto says it has lcarnod tbnt tho (lor
man government has decided to lssuo
i declaration nnnoxlng to tho (lerman
emplro tho occupied territories in
franco and Belgium.
French Lose at Bray.
Berlin, Sopt. 21. French forceB But
tered heuvy losses southeast or Uray,
K widespread explosion behind tho
French lines preceded tho opening of
tho tight, which was successful to
tho Germans.
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