DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. T NEW YORK NEAREST OF RE 8ERVE CITIE8 TO PROCUR ING ALLOTMENT. RESULTS GENERALLY POOR $an Francisco, on Face of Returns, Is LaoQlno Farthest Behind Mark Set None of Cities Have Yet Reached Minimum Quota. iFwtfrn Ntwupirtr Union Nw Btnlc. Washington, D. C TotalB of sub scriptions to tho Liberty loan, aggro (rating $1,300,000,000 as announced by Secretary McAdoo wcro mado public by tho treasury department showing that not ono of tho twelve federal re nerve dlstrlcta has subscribed to its minimum allotment, although Now York with the moBt favorable show ing has nearly reached tho minimum. In sonio Instances the amount of subscriptions from federal reserve districts has fallen to less than one third of tho allotments. Tho figures mado public nro based upon actual oubBcrlptlons forwardod to tho reserve banks. They follow: Now York, subscriptions, $588,000, 000; allotmont, $000,000,000 to $750, 000,000. Boston, subscriptions, $125,000,000; allotment, $240,000,000 to $300,000,000. Philadelphia, subscriptions, $61,000, 000; allotment, $100,000,000 to $175, 000,000. Richmond, subscriptions, $35,000, 000,000; allotment, $80,000,000 to $100,000,000. Atlantn, subscriptions, $22,000,000; allotmont, $60,000,000 to $75,000,000. Chicago, subscriptions, $138,000, 000; allotment, $260,000,000 to $325, 500,000. Clovoland, subscriptions, $153,000, 000; allotmont, $180,000,000 to $225, WO.000. Qt. Louis, subscriptions, $27,000,000; allotment, $80,000,000 to $100,000,000. Minneapolis, subscriptions, $50, 000,000; allotment, $80,000,000 to $100,000,000. Kansas City, subscriptions, $34, 000,000; allotmont, $100,000,000 to 9125,000,000. Dallas, subscriptions, $20,000,000; allotment, $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. ' San Francisco, subscriptions, $37, 000,000; allotment, $140,000,000 to 1175,000,000. Tho figures Includo subscriptions which had boon received through all agencies, Including tho banks, by fed eral reservo banks, at tho time Secre tary McAdoo mado his announcement. flan Francisco, on tho faco of re turns, Is lagging farthost behind tho mark sot for her with but Httlo moro than 20 per cent of tho total of hor maximum allotment, and Atlanta, third, with llttlo less than 30 per cent of her maximum allotment. 27 MEN TAKEN OUT ALIVE. But One Miner Dies as He Reaches Surface from the Shaft. Butto, Mont. Twenty-seven men rescuod nllvo from tho 2,400-foot lovol of tho Speculator mlno owo their lives to tho horolsm nnd resourcefulness of Manus Duggnn, a 20-yonr-old nippor, or tool boy. Young Duggan, display ing rare prosonco of mind, showed his older follow workora how to bulkhead themselves from tho dangerous gas, nnd prosorvo their lives until tholr roscuo. Thoro were twonty-nltio mom bors of tho party, and twonty-sovon of thorn aro allvo, tho twonty-olghth man, J. H. Adams, dying dosplto efforts to resuscitate him. Tho fato of young puggan is not known, but it Is bo Uovcd that ho has perished. Quakes Destroyed Villages. San Salvador. According to va rious roports rocolvod horo, tho earthquakes of last week dostroyed numerous villages In tho dopartmont of La Ltbortad. Other vlllagos suf fered considerable damage. Tho larger part of tho coffee crop In tho department of La Llbortad Ih declar ed to have been damaged by the ashes thrown out by tho volcano, Hopo is expressed, however, that tho rain which Is falling will wash off the ashea and thus to somo extent losson tho damage to tho crops. Tboro woro no fatalities in San Salvador as a re sult of Uitj cut Ihijuttke, but tho prop erty damago Is cstlraatod nt several million pesos. Tho government has Issued order providing for tho rollof of porsous whoso homos wore razod. Offers Million to Red Cross. Now York. -A conditional gift of $1,000,000 from Clovoland H, Dodge, chairman of tho finance committee of tho Red Cross wur council, toward the $100,000,000 Rod Cross war fund was announced here. Whilo tho res ervations connected with Mr. Dodgo's offer was not mado known, tho ex ecutive committee said It felt war ranted In regarding It "as in reality a $1,000,000 contribution." Two Die In Crash, Chicago. Sylvestor Justus and Miss May Schaffor. 24 and 23 years old, respectively, woro klllod and six other young men and woman were in jured when an automobile In which they were boing driven at high ppcod crashed into a trolley pole. Tho automoblln was driven by Norman J. Morris, 19-year-old son of Kugono Morris, chairman of . tho Central Freight association. The two wna were killed wero thrown against a building and the six injured wero scattered about tho roadway. S LOAN BUYS BROKE GERMAN LINE Details of Important Allied Vic tory Before Ypres. OLD SCORE IS WIPED OUT Capture of Messlnes Ridges Peculiarly Gratifying, as It Was the Scene of Former British Defeat Defenses Shattered. With tho British Armies in Frnnce, June 7. In ono of the most elaborately planned nnd dnrlngly executed ma neuvers of tho wnr Sir Douglas Hnlg's forces have dealt n mighty blow ugalnst tho German line In Bolglum, nnd been rewarded with notnblo gains in terrain nnd the capture of more thnn 5,000 prisoners nnd numerous guiiH of various caliber. In nddltion they inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans. Tho Germans, though nppnrently aware that the blow wns coining nnd seemingly prepared to meet It, wero driven from their nearly three yenrs' hold on Messlnes rldgp, opposite "poor old" Ypres. Ypres In a sense was avenged today, for Messlnes ridge hns been the vnntngc point from which the Hermans have poured torrents of shells Into tho stricken city. The British nlso wiped off nn old score ngalnst tho Ger mans, for they held the rldgo In Octo ber, 101-1, and with very thin forces, nd vlrttinlly no nrtlllery, fought blood ily but vainly to hold It when tho Prus alnn troops massed their modorn nnd overpowering wenpons of war ngnlnst It. Prisoners taken declared Unit the bombardment of Vlmy rldgo wns child's play compnrcd with tho gunfire turned upon Messlnes rldgo. Triumph for Artillery. This flro reached Its cllmnx Just lis dawn wns graying the eastern skies and whilo tho full moon was still sus pended high In tho heavens. The attack wns accompanied by nil tho arts nnd deviltries of lntter-dny wnr. Tho enemy guns and gun crows hnd been bnthed for days In gaB shells Rent over by tho long-range British (runs. Tho night wns filled with red In ccndlnry flames. Shells thnt spurted lend In streams crashed In nppalllng numbers about tho hends of tho do fending soldiers. Illgh-cxploslvo and ehrnpnel flro was cnrrled out with such rnpldlty that tho earth writhed under tho force of tho nttnek. Mines that hnd tnken two years to dig nnd fill with nn overwhelming ex plosive broko Into nn nvalancho of llnming destruction in tho half light of dawn. This wns Indeed an Ypres day of retaliation nnd victory for tho vicious sufforlngs of two yenrs and right months. Gunners Strip to Waist. It wns n day of lntenso hent, and tho gunners worked stripped to tho wnlst. The attack wont forward with clock llko regularity. The British casualties wero slight. Thrco out of four of tho casualties wcro reported to bo walking cases, who would return to duty In a fow days. Tho attack began nt dawn, nnd the setting wns ns picturesque as can well be Imaginable. Tho dny before had been hot and sultry. Townrd evening thoro wns n series of thunder storms which extended well Into tho night, tho lightning mingling with the flashes of the guns, but the thunder being virtu ally unnoticed amid the din of tho can non. A full moon struggled continu ously to break through the heavy clouds which scudded across the vel vety night sky. Sing on Way to Fight. On the way to tho front wero nil tho familiar pictures of the wnr endless trains of motor trucks; all vnrletlcs of horse transport, tho British sol diers marching to battle light of heart nnd singing songs familiar In every American community. In tho shndow of nn old windmill which has withstood tho storms of n century and been undaunted by nearly three years of war, tho correspondent witnessed the last phases of tho soven day preliminary bombardment and the final outburst of tho guns which sent tho British infantry confidently on their wny to new successes In lighting the greatest mllltury nation tho world has ever known. Krom tho German lino the same lazy, looping rocket signals wero as cending to Illuminate the treacherous bit of ground between the trenches known ns No Man's Land. This night ly "strnlllng" hnd been going on so long that the enemy considered It en tirely normal and took no alarm. Oc cnslonnlly bluo and yellow rockets would be flung Into the air by Germans holding the front line. Ono by one tho guns beenmo silent. There was tho old "grandmother" howitzer of enormous caliber, which kept breaking tho peace at fivo-iuln-ute Intervals, the shock of each suc ceeding explosion and tho shriek of the heavy shells boing emphasized by "tho (.Hence which lay over nil the sur rounding country. Like Volcanoes In Eruption. Day was scarcely breaking when from the dimly visible rldgo n score of fiery volcanoes seemed suddenly to spring from the earth. Tho night "had been filled with nt range noises nnd still stranger sights, but these masses of flame, leaping from the ground, had u meaning all their own. They were the spectncular outward and visible evi dences of more than a million pounds of high explosives which had been buried deep In mines below tho ene my's positions for months. All the world appeare'1 lurid and horrible under the sinister glow. The enrth shook as if torn by n great seis mic disturbance. It wns not a stngU shock. Tho force of tho explosion actually set tho earth rocking to und fro, and under tho influence of tho giant guns, which Immediately bogun to roar from far nnd near, the trem bling continued indefinitely. It was 3:10 o'clock when this flnnl torElflc bombardment began. It has seemed that tho battle of tho Sommo nttnlncd the ultlmntp in tho close nssembly of wnr weapons, but this sudden outpouring on Messlnes ridge wns beyond nil calculation. The lighter field guns far forward set up a perfect curtain fire, under which tho assaulting troops trudged confidently to their allotted goals. Farther back the deep-throated heavies began to pour out torrents of high cxploslv shells on tho German trenches nm. communications, while still other gun enough to win any ordinnry bnttle confined themselves solely to the tusk of deluging Germnn guns nnd gunners In baths of gns tired In shells of ev ery conceivable caliber. The effect of this counter bnttery work was not appreciated until Inter In the dny, when the lnfuntry sent back word Unit their progress hnd not been hampered by the enemy nr tlllery nnd that their casualties amounted to virtually nothing. Enemy Signals for Help. Great black observation balloons hnd stolen skywnrd during tho din of the newly begun battle. In the wood bacjs of the windmill spring birds, nwakened by tho deafening clamor, had begun to sing Joyously. Like so many children who have come Into the consciousness of being in the midst of the wnr, these birds regarded tho np palllng noise of the buttle as a normal condition of life. The smoko of tho giant mines ex ploded nlong the battle front mean time rose In great, curling plumes to ward tho sky and was punctunted by red signnls for help from the stricken Germans in tho front and support lines. Never wns the air filled with moro frantic notices of dnngcr. The cntlro horizon glowed with red balls of fire sent up by tho nervous Ger mans. Afore nnd more British airplanes be gan to make their appearance. One flow over the lines, the flashes of the guns being reflected brilliantly on Its highly glnzcd wings. Under this nppalllng fire trudged for, ward on tho ten-mile front General Plumer's nrmy. At ninny places the men found Germnn troops utterly dazed by tho mine explosion nnd tho ordenl of the nrtlllery fire. First Taste of New Warfare. Many of these troops had but recent ly como from Russia, whero they had spent 18 months and knew nothing of what nctunl warfare was like on tho western front. They had bolted nt the first mine explosion nnd had only been gathered together in groups by their noncommissioned officers when tho British nppeared out of the smoke nnd shells nnd mado them prisoner. They said they had been given to understand by their officers that the British always killed their prisoners. It wns really pitiful in somo instnnces to sco tho manner In which these pris oners cringed to their captors. As a matter of fact, tho British sol dier, when the fighting Is done, Is In clined almost too strongly to treat tho German prisoners as pals. Somo of tho prisoners taken today had only gono into tho German lines last night and hud mado their way forward un der u galling flro nnd had lost henvlly. But tho troops already In tho lino were calling for relief In such a manner that their appeals could not bo denied. Failed to Time Attack. In view of tho fuel Unit tho nttack had beep expected the German com mnndors were endeavoring to got tholr best units actually Into the lighting front, but had underestimated when tho British would strike. Tho troops in u strange line wero utterly bewil dered when tho nttack began and fell cosy prey to tho advancing British. The Irish. New Zealanders and Aus tralians, who had been rehearsed in every -detail of "tho show," know Just what to do from Uio moment the word to advance was given. Tho battlo was far more vlslblo dur ing the first uncertain moments thnn later when tho sun gradually burned its way through tho eustern bnnks of clouds. By that Ume tho smoko of ex ploding shells nnd tho vapors from the blinding barrage, whtch hnd been part of the urtlllery duty, obscured tho moro dlstnnt landscape to such an extent thnt the roaring guns could not be seen at all, although the firing wns almost at one's feet. Tho brilliantly leaping shrapnel shells, breaking far above ground, appeared through a thick mist only as brief nnd brlUlnnt electric sparks. British Planes Rule Air. For n month post, but especially since June 1. tho airplanes on this front hnvo boon indefntlgnbly nt work during every possible flying hour. They had brought down nenrly 50 ma chines In six days as n means of blind ing the enemy. Lntely the Germans have endeavored vnllnntly to obtain airplane observations for their nrtll lery, but their observing machines have soldom been nblo to direct moro than one or two shots before tho Brit ish lighting scouts had pounced upon them nnd either sent them crashing to the earth or had driven them to cover at breakneck speed. Today the British planes flew far and long over tho enemy's retreuting lines nnd worn only cltnlleuged by Miuio very btul-shooting nntl-alrcraft batteries. All through tho day British 1 planes rulc tho air. Thoy co-operated actively with tho British nrtlllery nnd ; Infantry In maintaining the siicce&s of ; this brilliant episode in modern war I fare. SHOULDER ARMS vylo S AY ct ANTS XX'fl YANKEES SINK U-BOAT GUNNERS ON AMERICAN SHIP IN ARTILLERY DUEL WITH DIVER. State Department Report Says Battle Lasted Over an Hour Six-Inch Shell Did Job. Washington, June 8. A German sub marine is believed to have been sunk by an American oil tanker Silver Shell Tuesday In n running light lasting un hour and a half. Thirty-live shots were fired by the submarine and 25 by the steamer. An official announcement by the btate de partment today says the steamer's final shot "apparently struck the sub marine which raised clear out of the water and stood stern end up for a few seconds. It then disappeared." The American liner easily could have escaped without giving battle, but did not do so. When the submarine was first sighted It was some 7,000 yards dlstnnt. The American craft waited for the submarine, hoisting tho Ameri can flag to the foremast and renr flag staff. The fight began at a range of 2,300 yards. Before It ended the sub marine hnd fired 35 shots nnd the steamer 25. The American liner, aft er destroying the enemy, proceeded to its port of destination. LARGER WHEAT CROP FOR U. S. Prospective Wheat Yield of Country as Forecast Shows Total of 656,000,000 Bushels. Washington, Juno 11. Slightly im proved conditions In tho wheat crop throughout the United States Is shown in the June report of Uie department of ngriculture. Better weather, con ditions during May Increased the gov ernment's estimate for the winter wheat yield about 7,000,000 bushels over the estimate put forth Mny 1. The prospective wheat crop of the country as forecast shows n total of 050,000,000 bushels, against 040,000,000 harvested last year. Of this amount 373,000,000 bushels are of the winter cereal nnd 283,000,000 bushels spring. First announcement of the areas planted to spring wheat, oats and bar ley Is contained In this report, which shows 10,030,000 acres for spring wheat, 43,101,000 acres for oats and 8, 370,000 acres of barley. With the 27, 053,000 acres planted In winter wheat, as reported In the May forecast, the total acreage planted In wheat amounts to -10,002,000. HUGE TASK AHEAD FOR U. S. Colonel Fabry of French Army Says America Will Send Great Force to France. Paris, June 0. A grent army Is to be sent from the United States, which will occupy nn ever increasing section of tho lighting front, according to n statement from Colonel Fabry, printed In the Petit Pnrlslen. Colonel Fabry ald thnt General Pershing, the Amer ican commander, will have nn arduous task, but that ho will have a big nrmy, which will be strengthened from time to tlmo with fresh contingents from tho United Stntes. It will be no mere expeditionary corps. Colonel Fabry accompanied Marshal JolYre to the United States. Drop Bombs on Airdrome. London, Juno 0. Another nerlal raid on Belgium is reported by the ad mlralty. Naval airplanes dropped bombs on the airdrome at Nieuw munster, near the coast between Zee hruggo and Ostein!. Death in Petrograd Blast. London, June 0. An explosion In Petrograd harbor as a result of an ac cident caused a Are in which n great quantity of explosives from England was destroyed. A number of persons .ere killed. PRISON RIOT STOPPED ILLINOIS TROOPS FIRE UPON PRISONERS AT JOLIET. One Man Is Killed and Several Hurt in Fight Buildings Burned by Convicts. Chicago, June 7. One prisoner wns killed nnd eight persons, two of them guards nnd ono a prison chnplnin, wero injured in n mutiny in the Jollet penitentiary. Nearly 1,000 convicts took part In the uprising. Fires were set within the prison inclosure nnd several buildings were destroyed or se riously damaged. The bnttle between convicts, guards and militiamen raged In tho prison yard for four hours. Tho dead: Flaherty, life-term prisoner, Cook county; leaped from burning building. The riot broke out ns the result of Wnrden Bowen's order forbidding con victs to receive visits except from rel atives. "The prison hnd been full of wom an visitors every day," he said. "Such conditions could not be tolerated. Ei ther I had to stop it or my successor had to. I stopped it" There was some dissatisfaction, too, tho warden declared, with the army draft, for reglstrnUon which wns held in the prison. The first fire compnny to arrive was greeted with n volley of bricks and stones from the convicts. Chief Koyce of the fire department wns knocked down and rescued by his men. An ap peal was sent for moro fire compa nies and Warden Bowen wired Gov ernor Lowden for soldiers. U. S. WARSHIPS OFF FRANCE Food Ship for Pershing's Army Con voyed Across Atlantic by Fighting Craft. Paris, June 0. The ministry of ma rine announced on Thursday that American warships have anchored off the French coast. A large American transport contain ing wheat for American troops which nro to como later lias crossed the At lantic under the protection of nn American wnrshlp, the Matin an nounces. The transport Is now being unloaded nt a French port, the news paper says. Preparations nre being mado for the reception of Americnn troops, the newspaper says further. A number of buses slmllnr to those of the British army have been organized. Camps have been laid out for in fantry and artillery and nvlatlon parks have been established for American nvintors. Washington. June 0. The naval col lier Jupiter hns arrived In Frnnce, Sec retary Daniels unnounced, laden with 10,500 tons of wheat and other sup plies. FIRE ON SOLDIER GUARDS Hundred Shots Exchanged When Mys terious Assailants Attack Bridge in California. Snntn Ann, Cnl., June 7. Soldiers guarding a railway bridge near hero were fired upon In the night by inn known nsMilinnts. The fusillade which heralded the attack wns returned by the soldiers nnd nearly a hundred shots were exchanged. Suits Against Carnival Company. Clinton. Ind., June 11. Eight suits have been filed ljere ngalnst the Clifton-Kelly carnival, which Is tho first to suffer under tho new state law, which provides that $5 a day for each concession be collected. Man, Wife and Daughter Killed. Flemlngton. N. J., June 11. William II. Queen, his wife nnd daughter, Miss Eleanor Queen, u schoolteacher, were murdered near Mount Pleasant. Hunt erdon county. The farm buildings were burned. GEN. PERSHING SAFE MAJOR GENERAL OF U. 3. REGU LAR ARMY ARRIVES AT BRITISH PORT. BIG ARMY SOON TO FOLLOW From Now on Units of Every Branch of the Service Will Proceed to France by Selected Routes Plans Shrouded In Secrecy. Washington, June 8. "Black Jack" Pershing, soldier par excellence nnd? mnjor general of tho United Stntes regular army, Is In England. Cublo hdvlce announcing his arrival at a British port renched here. With the sense of gratification which was ex pressed by officialdom generally over his snfo nrrivnl came a realization thnt nt last the cntlro united service is la the war. From now on units of every brnnchi of the service will proceed to France by selected routes. Pershing's Inltlnl command will bo mado up of regulars nnd marines'. Other divisions, com prising such additional regulars ns car bo spnred nnd selected units of the Nn tlonnl Guard which saw service on tho Mexican border will take their places on the lino from time to time. Lntor on these forces will bo fol lowed by tho new nrmy to lie made up of the selective conscripted troops, who will be tnken from the more thnn ten million men who registered last Tues day. The French mission told the presi dent nnd his cabinet nnd the Wnr col lego thnt what wns needed most on. the western front wns men. Two clnsses of organizations wero demand ed railroad men to take over the transport system nnd rebuild nnd re organize the railroads of France nnd1 fighting men to replace tho exhausted. Frencli soldiers nlong tho wide battle front. The nppeal wns not allowed to go unheeded. Pershing nnd his troops were immediately put under orders,, nnd then tho Wnr college, working dny nnd night, rushed nlong Its plnns to throw every fighting unit thnt could be spared across the Atlantic so thnt all of the warring people friend nnd enemy might realize that tho United" States Intended enrrying out tho In junction of Its president and utilizing nil of Its mnn power nnd the gold power of the country to secure tho continuance of democracy. Naturally all plans for sending the troops to Franco will be shrouded ir absolute secrecy. Secretary of War Newton D. Bnker has pointed out the danger of speculation ns to who is to go, or the way they are to go. There will be no announcement at any time of units thnt are going, although after certain troops arrive It is expected' thnt the war department will from time to time nuthorlze announcement of their safe arrival. Tho only reports of tho passage of General Pershing nnd Ills staff came to the press associations by cnblc, these cables hnving been passed by Uie Brit ish censors. "We took It as a matter of courso that he would get through all right,"" snld General Bliss, acting chief of stnff. "I presume he will report in bis own good time." Washington, June 8. Iteports reach ing Washington that General Persh ing and his stnff have lauded safely at an English port en route to Franco were accepted ns true by war depart ment officinls. In tho absence of n re port from General Pershing himself,, however, It wns snld that no state ment regnrding the commanding gen eral of tho first expedition to Frnnee or his plans could be made ns yet. It is understood here that General Pershing nnd his stuff, with his force of orderlies, will proceed to Franco without delny. The war department Is anxious that General Pershing shall get down to business ns soon as pos sible. BECOMES MILITARY CENSOR: Brig. Gen. Frank Mclntyre Assumes. Duties and Department Head, Re lieving Major McArthur. Washington, Juno 0. Brlgndler Gen eral Mclntyre, chief of tho lusulnr bu reau of the wnr department, formally nssumed additional duties as chief military censor, relieving MnJ. Doug las McArthur of the general stnff, nn engineer officer who will devote him self hereafter to tho regular staff du ties to which ho wns asigned. Gen eral Mclntyre hns been in cbnrgo of censorship regulations on tho Mexicnm border, Including the scrutiny of tele phone nnd telegraph messages. To Give British War Alms. London, June 7. It was reported lr political circles here that Premier Lloyd Gcorgo will shortly mnko a speech in tho house of commons in terpreting England's war alms. Germany Breaks With Hayti. Amsterdam, Juno 11. Tho Haytlem charge d'affaires at Berlin has been handed his passports, according to it, dispatch from the German capital. The? diplomat hnd protested against unre stricted submarine warfure. I. W. W.'s Sign Draft Cards. Bockford, 111., June 11. Thirty-eight of the 130 Industral Workers of ttiu world who "broke Into Jail." soliciting punishment for not registering, sub scribed their names to draft cards, but they were not released. A i $K 7m