THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRinUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA. STATE LEVY SLIGHTLY LOWED MARINES FIGHT IB E LUST CHANGE II RACERS KILLED Reduced One Mill On Account of $10, AMERICAN TROOPS OCCUPY PAL ACE AND THE PORT OFFICE AT PORT AU PRINCE. PAN - AMERICAN CONFERENCE TAKES UP PLAN FOR FINAL PEACE IN MEXICO. 000,000 Increase In Nebraska Taxable Property. AUTO RACES AT DES MOINES RE SULT IN FATALITIES. RUNNING FULL TIME QftJ GUNBOAT PACIFIQUE SEIZED General Bobo Protests Against Occu patlon Patrols Fire on Crowds and Man Is Killed Re-Enforcements Sent to Haiti, Port au Prlnco, Haiti, Aug. United States naval forces under Ad talral Caporton took possession oftbo national palace aud tho ofllco of the port and Bclzed tho Haltlcn gunboat raclfique, which arrived from Capo Ilnltlen in tho morning. Tho crow of tho gunboat was dis armed and landed. They wero grout ed on shoro by a crowd which cried: "Hurrah for Bobo!" During tho operation to tako pos session of tho port offlco tho Ameri can troops wero forced to lire and ono Haitian was killed. Tho incident lias caused a great stir In tho town. General Bobo arrived on tho Contlc from Capo Haltlcn and went to his chambers whero ho Immediately In dicted a protest against tho Ameri can occupation. Tho occupation Is being extended not only on tho palace, tho fort and nil other important places in the town, but thrco miles beyond tho limits. American patrols aro in tho streets maintaining peaco and order, and to night tho curfow law forbidding per sons without authority to pass through tho streets after eight o'clock was put in force. Tho United States warship Connec ticut landed 150 marines, who occu pied tho forts. Washington, Aug. 9. in dispatches to tho navy department Admiral Cap erton announced that revolt had brok en out at Gonalvcs, on tho western coast of Haiti, and asked that re-en-forcemeats bo sent to him. . Admiral Denson, acting secretary of tho navy, ordered tho armored cruiser Tcnnesseo, with 850 marines, to Port au Prlnco. 9 NEGROES HANG IN ONE DAY South Executes Seven by Legal Proc- ess and Two Are Mob Victims. MomphlB, Aug. 0. Nino negrocB wero hanged, soven legally and two lynched, whllo a tenth was being chased In tho Routhcrn Btates on Fri day, Alabama led tho list with four legal hangings. At Evcrgrcon, Robert Wnt kins and John Salter wero hanged for tho murder nnd assault of Mrs. Mary LaBsIter at Cullman. Oeorgo James was hanged for the murdor of Ccorgo Clayburn. Millard Carpenter wus hanged at Birmingham for tho murdor two years ago of John T. Camp, a whlto man. Mississippi hanged three negroes, two of them, Peter Dolen and Jim Scales, wero convicted of murdering another negro. Dunynn Walters was hanged at Fay ettovllle, Miss., for tho murder of Tom Neals. Dispatches from Shawnee, Ckla, tell of a "quiet, orderly crowd nrmed to tho teoth," which hanged Ed Berry to n Santa Fo railroad bridge, rid dled 111 s body with bullots and dis persed In ns orderly a fashion as It had formed In tho early morning hours at Trilby, Fla.. a crowd, hypnotized with fury, lynched Will Loach, accused of attacking a thirteon-year old girl. TROOPS TO SHELL MEXICANS Funston Men Massed Along Lino Near Nogalcs Sco Villa Force Beaten by Carranzlstas. Nogales, Ariz., Aug. G. After defeat ing tho major portion of Governor Joso Maytorcna's Villa army at Mbb carrns, ten miles bouUi, on Wednesday, tho Carranza forces undor Gen. P. KllnB Callcs began an attnek on No- gales, Sonora, whllo American troops lined tho border to enforco If noces Bnry tho order to repel any Invasion of American rights by Mexican fac tlons. Calla soon forced tho Villa troops back to tho Moxlcan town of Nogales. Amorlcans crowded tho hills to watch tho fighting. Tho Amor lean troops, a regiment of cavalry and a machlno gun platoon, lined tho bur dor. Tho Soldiers had orders to bogln firing on tho Moxlcons tho moment bullots How Into American territory. Washington, Aug. 5. Unusual no tlvity in tho war and navy dopart- monts was ovldont during tho day, nnd nn order from General Scott, chief of staff, directing a battory of tho Fifth Hold artillery to proceed from Fort Sill. Oltla., to El Paso, Tox aroused considerable surprise. At tho war do pnrtmcnt It was Rtatcd tho artillery wob ordered at tho roquust of tho Btnto department Eight Villa Troopers Killed. El Paso, Tex.. Aug. 7. Eight Villa troopers wero executed In Juaroz on orders from Gonernl Villa. Tho men It Is said, rodo through Juaroz early in tho day, yelling "Ablo Villa I Vivo Zapata!" (Down with Villa!) New Strike at Remington Plant. Utlca, N, Y., Aug, 7. At a mooting held, on Thursday at lllon, which wbb attended by nbout 1,000 plcco work ers in tho Remington arms plant, a general strlko of all plcco workers was declared, MANY PERISH IN FLOOD CLOUDBURST SWEEPS SCORES TO DEATH AT ERIE, PA. Buildings Are Swept Away When Tor rent Hits City Hundreds Are Made Homeless. Erie, Pa., Aug. G. About fifty per sons reported drowned, nearly ono hundred buildings swept from their foundations, tho city In total darkness, and tho eastern section Inundated and damage to property estimated at sov- oral million dollars Is tho toll of a cloudburst shortly after six o'clock Tuesday night. It Ib ImpoBBlblo to ascertain tho loss of life. Many aro still Imprisoned In their Iioubob y tho waters and tho eastern portion of thp city Is cut off. Hands of rescuers, led by Mayor Stem and raombors of tho city council, res cued families from tho flooded dis tricts. Tho cloudburst camo as tho climax of threo days of steady rain. Mill crcok, which divides tho city, already swollen beyond Its banks, became a torrent when tho clouds oponed up and swept through the city, carrying all before it. Tho business section was flooded to a depth of flvo feet and all lines of communication were blocked. Tho houses and buildings along tho course of tho creek began to tumblo Into tho flood and wero Bwept away. TELEGRAPHIC NOTES London. Aug. G. Tho ministry of munitions has decided to undortako tho manufacture of munitions on n largo scalo in Ireland. A ropresontn- tlvo of tho ministry will rosldo In Dublin and havo chargo of tho organ ization of Ireland us a munltlon-nro- duclng area. London, Aug. G. Tho British or Portia wob sunk by a Gorman sub- marine Tho crow was saved. Tim Portia was captured from Germans at tno Btart of tho war. London, Aug. G. Tho British steam er Costcllo haB boon sunk by a Gor man submarine Ono mombor of tho crow was drowned. WILSON PREPARES MESSAGE President Will Make National Defense .Principal Topic In His Com mui.lcntlon to Congress. Cornish, N. H., Aug. G. President Wllaon Is planning to mako national dofonso ono of tho principal subjects In his next message to congress. Whllo ho will not ducldo llnnlly on tho policy ho will ask congress to approve until after ho has rocolved tho reports roquosted from Socrotarlos Garrison and Danlols. It bocanio known that ho already haB glvon much preliminary thought to tho question. Whllo tho president will mako recommendations to congress on othor subjocts, tho dis cussion of national dofonso Is oxpoct cd to attract much attuntlon. Ho Is expected to dovoto more tlmo to tho preparation of this portion of his mos sago than ho usually docs to genoral rocommondatlons. Sees Slash In Tariff Rates. Philadelphia, Aug. 9. Souator Boles Ponroso announced that ho would In troduce at tho noxt session of con groBS a tariff bill that will contain re ductions of 15 to 20 per cent on many of tho dutlea In tho Payno-Aldrlch bill. Belgian Miners on Strike. Havro, Aug. 9. Miners In tho Moub district havo gono on strike Groups of miners clashed with Gorman sol dlors and n serious riot occurred In which two Gormaus and soven miners wero killed. NO TREATY VIOLATION GERMAN GOVERNMENT OFFERS TO PAY FOR "RYE. Berlin Offers Indemnity to Owners of Vessel and Cargo Under Certain Conditions. Washington, Aug. G. Tho state de partment on Wednesday gavo out tho latest noto of Germany In tho caso of tho William P. Frye, an American ves sel sunk by tho German cruiser Prinz Eltol Friodrlch on January 28. Tho noto rejects the contention of tho United States that in sinking tho William P. Frye, Germany violated tho treaty of 1709-1828. It Insists that tho treaty stipulations merely oblige Germany to mako com pensation for tho damago sustained by Amorican cltizons in tho sinking of the vessel. It suggests .that euch government doslgnato an export, who shall fix tho amount of indemnity for tho vessel and any Amorican property which may have been sunk with ' or. If this plan of settlement is not sat isfactory to tho United States, Ger many suggests that tho entire ques tion of tho application of tho treaty bo submitted to Tho Haguo. RUSSIANS IN MAD FLIGHT Warsaw, Ivangorod, Novo Georglevsk Fall, Kovno Next to Go All Vis tula Forts Lost. Petrograd, Aug. 7. Warsaw and Ivangorod are lost to tho Russians, but latent reports received at the war office indicato that Grand Duko Nicho las 1b withdrawing his main armies methodically, and checking attacks by tho Austro-Qorman forces on both his flanks. Though tho ovacuatlon of Ivangorod was announced only a few hours after it was admitted that the troops left In Warsaw to protect tho Russian re treat had withdrawn, tho abandon ment of tho Vistula river front caused no panic In Petrograd. London, Aug. 7. A dispatch to tho Daily Mail from Copenhagen says the Russians aro evacuating Kovno. The governor and his official staff havo gone Tho population has been leav ing for tho last week. Berlin, Aug. 7. Tho Russian nnal- Hon at Novo Georglevsk, tho only for tress on tho Vistula river still holil liv Grand Duko Nlcholus' troops, has been pierced by tno Germans. HEAVY FIGHTING IN WEST British and Germans Engage in Ter rific Battle Near Hooge, East of YprcB. London, Aug. C. Telegrams from Courtral, by way of Amsterdam, re port heavy fighting botwoon Britons and Germans nour Hoogo, cast of Ypros. Many woundod aro bolng sent back Into Belgium from tho G HnoB. Paris roports tho allied bnttlo lino Is maintained ovorywhero. Ber lin announces tho British havo failed to rocapturo tho ground tho G or in nun rocontly won from tho British at TI 1 New Commander Annolntrri. Paris, Aug. 9. Gen. Maurice Sorall hui boon appointed commander of tho rrcnen forces at tho Dardanelles, was nnnouncou Hero. A moro ener getic oftonslvo by tho land forces sont against tno l urns is expected. Murderer of Two Mnnn.ri Hartford, Conn., Aug. 9. Bornard muniviu, convicted or tho murdor Fathor Josonh Znhrln Andrew's Lithuanian Catholic church in inqw urnain, and Evn Gllmanaltl o, wus nnngeu at wothorstlold, MAY POLICE THE REPUBLIC Commission to Take Over Revolution Torn Country Discussed at Wash ington Cruiser Sent to Republic Artillery to Border. Washington, Aug. 7. Tho A. B. C. conference nt tho stato department with Secretary Lansing forecasts a flnnl decision to renew efforts to havo Carranzn, Villa, Zapata and other Moxlcan leaders compose their differ ences nnd sot up a central government along tho lino of tho protocol adopted by tho A. B. C. mediators at Niagara Falls last year. Should this fail, strenuous action will bo taken, It Is believed. The hope of success along tho lino expressed at tho conferenco was based on the starvation conditions now ex isting in Mexico. No attempt was mado at tho confer ence to reach n final decision on a new move to be taken by this. government and the South and Central American governments participating, acting Jointly to end tho Internal troubles In Mexico. Tho conferenco adjournod after a general exchange of tho Inter ested governments presented by their diplomatic representatives. Different plans for bringing about peace In Mexico wero submitted and aro being considered by tho delegates at an informal session before the con ference Is resumed In earnest again tomorrow. It is understood that no action will bo taken as a result of tho full con ference without tho unanimous con sent of parties to tho conferenco Secretary Lansing laid stress on tho Informal nature of tho conference which ho Indicated might continue some dayB. Tho Latln-Amcrlcan dip lomats, ho said, had onlercd tho con ference on the understanding that Its proceedings should be entirely con fidential. Aside from the plan of settlement among tho Mexican leaders them selves, the proposal to establish a Pan-American commission to take over Mexico, require disarmament, restoro civil government and conduct elec tions has been brought forward again. Another plan for policing Mexico with Pan-American forces nlso has been considered, It is said. Tho diplomats wero only partly ad vised of President Wilson's plan when tho conferenco oponed, TJio purpose of tho conference was to invito their help, in working one out. Their gov ernments already havo signified their willingness to co-operate in the work and after tho conference, it is expect ed, the othor Pan-American countries, including Cuba, not represented In tho conference, will bo asked to join In tho work. In connection with tho conference It was announced that tho cruiser Chattanooga has been ordered to Topolobampo to Investigate condi tions there and at tho mouth of the Fuerto river. Thoro has teen no re port of danger thero, but tho absence of Amorican warcraft for some time has caused civilians to fear Indian uprisings. Thrco hundred marines aro on board tho Hector at La Paz. Lower California, for emergencies. Battery D, Sixth field artillery, has boon ordered to Nogales from Fort Riley, Kan., at tho recommendation of General Funston. Another battery of light artillery has beon ordered to Nogales from Douglas. GENERAL TRACY IS DEAD Stroke of Paralysis Is Fatal to "The Father of the Fighting Navy." Now York, Aug. 9. Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, who was President Harri son's secretary of tho navy, died of paralysis hero on Friday In his eighty fifth year after a period of uncon sclousnea lasting nino days. Threo years ago General Tracy sustained a shock of paralysis, but rallied from It aftor a few weeks and was nblo to resumo his law practice Ho was badly shaken up In an automobllo ac cident last Decoration day, but from this, too, ho speedily recovered. QUITS AS WARDEN AT J0LIET Allen Wires His Resignation to Gov ernor After Latter Refused Plea for Residence In Chicago. . Chicago, Aug. 9. Warden B. M. Al len of Jollot penitentiary resigned his position on Friday. Tho warden sent a telegram to Govornor Dunno giving up his place following a receipt of a letter from tho governor In which ho wns Informed that tho Illinois law ro qulros him to llvo Inside tho prison. Gets Messages of Sympathy. Cornish, N. IL, Aug. 9. Numerous mossagos of sympathy woro recolvcd Friday by President Wilson. It bo lng tho first nnnlvorBary of tho death of his wife Tho president spent sov oral hourB upon tho golf links, $25,0CO,O0O for Evacuation. London, Aug. 9. "Tho Russian war ofllco set asldo $25,000,000 to help nay tho cost of tho romoval of Warsaw mills and factories to Mio intoric of tho empiro," says tho Petrograd corre spondent of tho Tlmos. In view of an lncrcaso of nearly $10,000,000 assessed value of proper ty subject to tnxatlon in Nebraska tho stato board of assessment has de cided to reduce tho levy for state tnxo3 ono mill. Last year the total lovy for state purposes was ,7.8 mills. This year It will bo G.8 mills. The gon ernl fund lovy of G mills was reduced to 4.1 mills and the state aid bridge lovy which the law says shall bo of two-tenths of one mill was reduced tc one-tenth of one mill, No chango wae attempted In the matter of the statu tory lovy of ono mill for the support of tho university, three-quarters ot one mill for the university special building fund or .85 mill lovy for the support of state normal schools. As a result of tho Increased assessed value of property reported by county boards nnd county assessors the state board was able to reduce the levy pne mill and the total amount of taxes paid by the people of the stato foi state purposes will bo about $400,000 less than was paid last year. The In creased valuation at tho former rate of levy would mean an Increase ol about $68,000 in state taxes and the decrease of one mill menns a decrease of $480,000 In state taxes. The receipts In the office of Secrc tnry of Stato Pool aggregated $52, 155.36 in July, as against $45,996.40 in July of last year, the high watet mark. Tho fees for annual permits to corporations to do business amounted to $49,817, indicating that the total this year from this source may reach $100,000. A heavy In crease Is shown in the automobile de partment, some 6,630 licenses on new cars having been applied for during tho month. Thus far in the year, 21,- 715 licenses have been issued on new automobiles, while tho number of re newals Is greatly In excess of that In any previous year. The state of Nebraska Is going intc the electric lighting business rather than pay private companies for light and power at state institutions. The Board of Control has completed ar rangements for installing a new powd er plant to cost $47,538 at the state penitentiary, to be operated by con victs. The Board of Public Lands in charge of tho capltol lias been paying a high rate for lights and current at tho stato house and other state Insti tutions fon some time. Under the new arrangement it is expected the state within a few years will save enough to pay for tho new plant at the prison. Tho DeDartment of Experimental Agronomy of tho University of -Ke-braska believes it would be a good practice for those farmers who have some of last year's seed corn to keep It for seed as an emergency in caso their seed should not ripen satisfac torily this fall. Unless Nebraska should have an unusually lato fall, much corn will bo soft, and it will bo dlfllcult to secure satisfactory seed from many fields. It Is with these facts in mind that tho precaution is recommended. r.nneml decreases In most of tho materials used by railroads are al leged in a brief filed In the advanco mto cases by Exnert U. G. Powell of tho Nebraska railway commission. Of ninety-three articles named by Mr. Powell ns the most important mate rlnlti used bv tho roads. 85 per cent ho says has decreased and 15 per cent havo gono up in price. 'ino ue nrfinses. ho sDCclfles further, have been from 80 per cent at the top to 20 per cent at tho bottom. nnpmtintr twolvo and a half miles of road, tho Omaha to Papllllon line did a total railway nusincss 01 atv ADO 4Vis vnof aniline .Tittir 30. Inst. The facts aro contained in tho annual report Just filed with tho stato rail way commission. The passenger earnings were $3,480, tho freight earnings $35,778, nnd other earnings 1305. Tho total cxpenso or operating this department of the holdings was $31,212. Timrniinv. Kentomber 9. will bo Omaha day at the Nebraska state fair, according to an announcement by Secretary Mellor of the Stato Board of Agriculture Special trains will bo run for tho occasion. Tho town of Bridgeport has regis tered $25,000 of bonds voted for tho construction of a new school building. Tho bonds havo been registered by tho stato auditor and tho stato will buy them. Tho action of tho stato assessment board in reducing tho stato aid brldgo lovy from 1-5 of a mill to 1-10 docs not meet tho approval of Stato Treas urer Hall. Ho says tho legislature fixed tho amount and tho board can not lower it. An, inspection of tho brldgo nld law, however, shows that $150,000 from tho proceeds of tho 1-5 mill lovy is appropriate" and as long as 1-10 of a mill would rnlso tho amount tho board thought It unnecos- snrv fn low tllO fllll 1-5. ThO CXCC88 would only lay in tho stato treasury nA tiitr. la believed not necessary. COOPER AND CHANDLER DEAD Former Instantly Killed When Car Sails Over Edge of Speedway. Chandler Dies In Hospital. Des Moines, la. In a hair-raising: 300-mllo auto raco before several, thousand people Saturday, August 7,. dedicating the new speedway, two men wero killed and three probably fatally injured. Early In the race Joe Cooper ot Sobrlng, O., In his Sobrlng car blew a tire and went over tho track, falllng beneath the grandstand with- the car on top of him, and dying instantly. His mechanician, George Poll, was. probably fatally Injured. He has two broken ribs, a crushed chest and In ternal Injuries. In the 238th lap tho Deusenberg,. driven by "Wlillam Chandler of Fair Haven, N. J., went through the wire fence 'and turned turtle, pinning; Chandler nnd his mechanician, Maur ice Kleler of St. Paul, under the car Chandler was thought dead for a mo ment, and Kleler dying, but doctors found a spark of life and rushed them to the hospital. Chandler died a few minutes nfter. Tho accidents aro tho first reported of a fatal nature on. speedways this year. Immediately after Do Palma was de clared tho unofilclal winner, F. M. Deusenberg, head of tho Deusenber. racing team, filed notice or protest claiming that Mulford had won the race. Later tho judges reversed their decision and gave Mulford first money; which amounted to $3,000. De Palma's time stands as the first world's record for" a sanctioned 300 mlle raco on a mile wooden track. It was the first .time in the history of the A. A. A. that a 300-mile race had been held on a mile motordomo, so whatever time is ofllcially recorded the records will stand and be given official recognition. Des Moines is moved by the bap tism of blood at the opening of tho speedway. Mayor Hanna, Safety Su perintendent Mutchell, Sheriff Griffen nnd a number of leading citizens have protested publicly against further races. The management plans to hold another 150-mile race this fall, how ever. Condemnation of the racing. game Is heard on every side. It is reported ono board was raised, above the track because the trade swelled from tho rains, and that this board caused tho wreck of Cooper. Few Russians Taken. Berlin. Fewer than 15,000 Russian were captured In tho Joint oper ations that led to the capture of War saw and Ivangorod. More than. 100,000 Russians are two-thirds sur rounded In tho angle formed by tho Bug and Vistula rivers. Gorman i forces from north and south of War saw nro trying to close the trap. General Heltz has reached tho Bug river near its confluence with the Na rew and Is attempting to cross tho river to attack the Russian flank. Southwest of Warsaw the Germans are smashing toward tho Warsaw Sledlce railway. They menace tho Russians who retreated from War saw and threaten to pierce the Rus sian lines between Praga and tho region north of Ivangorod. Part of tho Slav force In Praga has begun a. retreat. Rangers and Mexicans Clash. Corpus Christi, Tex. Six Mexi cans havo been killed and three Americans wounded in lighting on tho Norius ranch between a rnlding par ty of thirty Moxlcan outlaws and fourteen ranchmen, it was reported in a brief message from Norias. It was said the bandits raided tho No rias ranch .and drove away fifty horses and took a quantity of provis ions and several rifles. Later tho Moxicans returned to the ranch and a pitched battle started, tho fourteen Americans barricading themselves in tho ranch house They telephoned) from the ranch houso to Snrlta Brownsville and Klngsvlllo for help, beforo tho Mexicans cut tho tele phono wires. Bought 100,000 Boxes Apples. Portland, Ore Tho largest con tract for tho purchaso of npplos of tho season it has becomo known has Just been closed with Hood river growers who havo sold to O. Borg Huls-Krak,. tho Netherlands consul hero, 100,000 boxes. Tho price paid was $1.50 per box. Belgian and French Miners Strike. Havre. Miners in tho Mons district havo gono on strlko. According to ro. ports hero, groups of miners collided with German soldiers and a serious riot followed, during which two Ger mans and seven miners wero killed. Disorders woro reported elsewhere 6 Ear.tlnnd Indictments Predicted. Chicago. At least six persons will bo Indicted by tho federal grand jury Investigating tho Eastland disaster. District Attorney KUno Is reported to havo Bald. V