THE O'NEIL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA
The annual mineral output of British
Columbia is valued at approximately
f30,000,000. The figures for 1913 ex
tended that amount, while the product
list year was some $4,000,000 short of
jhat of the previous year. The decrease
r. the value of minerals produced in
Jie province last year, as compared
vith 1913, was due to the European
(car. which disturbed the metal mar
kets throughout the world, producing a
lepressing effect on the industry in
British Columbia.
Ella Flagg Young, long superintend
ent of the Chicago schools, has declarer
in Eos Angeles that the modern girl
may se^m a butterfly, but all rlKbt,
• mi don't any one forget it. "The girls
at today are the happy possessors or
freedom," says Mrs. Young, "and their
viewpoints are different, from those of
$0 years ago, to he sure, but their short
skirts are a vast improvement on
trains. The modern young woman
meets my approval."
There has been Asiatic cholera in
Petrograd all this year, but the au
thorities have forbidden, with heavy
penalties, tho dissemination of the
word "cholera" by print or In speech.
It is called by a word signifying
“chronic diarrhea.” The disease Heems
to be gaining headway, as recently no
tices in big red letters have been
posted up on shops and walls and
fences all over the rity warning tho
population not to drink unboiled water
on any account.
At tho present tiino about 2,200.000
acres are devoted to tho raising of flax,
chiefly in North Dakota, Minnesota.
South Dakota und Montana. The flax
is grown primarily for the seed from
which linseed oil is manufactured. The
annual crop amounts to about 20,000,
000 bushels of seed and is valued at ap
proximately $33,000,000. Tho crop also
yields approximately 1,600,000 tons of
straw, but of this only about 200,000
tons aie put to any profitable use.
At Peterhof, 15 miles west of
Petrograd, the main road to the Rus
sian capital has been prepared for
fighting. Gun emplacements and
trenches have been constructed In
woods nnd gardens along the rondslde,
and platforms, reached by ladders of
spikes driven into trunks of trees, have
been built among tho branches, so that
machine gun lire may sweep long
stretches of tho road.
Buffalo Jones, a famous guide, who
of late years has made preservation of
the buffalo his mission In life, declares
American aren't enough interested In
the bison to mi^ke It worth his while
and that he Intends now to live in Can
ada and breed catulo. This Is a cross
between the buffalo and cow which may
be us large a percentage of one oi the
other as the breeder may see lit to have
It.
Tho two countries benefiting most
ly in Australia in consequence of the
war are the United States and Japan.
The latter has an advantage over the
former so far as shipping facilities and
freight rates are concerned. The reg
ular lines of Japanese passenger and
freight steamers plying between the
ports of Japan and Australia afford
facilities for promoting trade.
Ranchers of the McLucas (N. IX)
school district have solved the prob
lem of winter schooling for their hoys
and girls by converting the schoolhoust)
Into a home for them from Monday
morning until Friday night each week.
Parents planned an addition to the
school and lilted it up as sleeping and
•ating quarters for tho children to live
there In cure of the teacher.
The present membership of the
stock exchange in Sweden consists of
16 banks, eight banking firms or free
brokers, and five brokers in the ordi
nary sense of the term. Substantial
stock exchange buildings have been
erected in both Stockholm and Oote
borg. The unnunl volume of business
amounts to about $100,000,000.
From Japan comes the statement
that the system of prison reform
which Thomas Mott Osborne lias in
stituted at Sing Sing was in use In
that empire as long ago as 1650, pris
oners choosing ttieir own officials for
the maintenance of order and vesting
them witli authority that extended
even to life and death.
Newly formed ponds of water, cut off
from all communication with rivers,
brooks and lakes, are often found, of a
sudden, to contain Msh, the favorite ex
planatory theory being that tish eggs
are carried thither by birds, either In
their good or clinging to the legs of
waders, the crane, heron, bittern and
tiie like.
The prices of antimony in 1915 were
probably the highest known since the
metal became a regular article of com
merce. The high prices were naturally
reflected In far the largest production
ever made in the United States, ac
cording to the United States geological
survey's preliminary figure.!.
Robert I-athan Owen, junior United
States senator from Oklahoma, is of
Indian descent, his mother, us the sena
tor relates in his biographical sketch
printed in the congressional directory,
having been “Narlclssa Chisholm of
the Cherokee nation."
Joseph Denise, of Dayton. Ohio, who
claims to be champion trolley con
ductor of America, has ridden 7 21, WO
miles in street cars, made 10 trips a
day for 22 years, with 4,256,000 stops,
uud collected $1,500,000 for his com
pany in fares.
Miss Mary Hook, of Alpharetta, Ga..
lias a large hickory nut which has beer
a cherished possession of her family for
six generations. It is covered with en
gravings made with a penknife In 1721
by William Kendrick, one of her an
cestors.
A Brazilian doctor, in this count!*
to study snake poisons and try to linil
an antidote for each, has already
achieved one successful treatment, his
patient being an employe of the Bronx
zoological park, whom a rattlesnake
liad bitten.
During the JO years preceding the
outbreak of the war, while Great
Britain was paying off its debt, tier
many and Austria-Hungary between
them increased their national debts by
the enormous sum of $1,500,000,000.
Maine coast lobster fisherman have
discovered that the lobster enters a
lobster trap through the sense of sight
and not through smelling the bait, and
are now baiting the traps with fre. li
Usli sealed in glass jars.
In order to encourage tile sheep in
dustry in Manitoba, the department of
agriculture undertook the handling of
this season's wool crop on :i coopera
tive basis, which has resulted in a sat
isfactory market for the farmers.
Chariots worked on the pi inciple of
the taximeter wore used In China in
the fourth century.
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NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
;OURT REFEREE TO DECIDE
ON OLD INSANITY CLAIMS
j Lincoln. Neb., March 6.—The pro
tests of Stanton anil Gage countie*
against paying the sums of $2,113 and
$3,925, respectively, to the state of Ne
braska for patients confined in state
insane hospitals are being heard be
fore J. H. Broady, appointed referee by
the supreme court. The sum is claimed
under an old statute. When the auditor
and treasurer went over the books a
few years ago they found most of the
counties had not been paying for the
support In the hospitals of persons from
their districts, and a total of $96,000
was found to lie due. Nearly all of til*
counties, except Stanton and Gage, paid
up. It is claimed by these protesting
counties that the stutntc existed prior
to the adoption of the 1875 constitution
and was repealed by that act of the
people. At that time, the hospitals bad
no other means of support, and since
then direct appropriations have been
made that relieve the counties of tin
direct payments of $3 a week provided
by the old law, since they contribute
their Just share under the new one
The attorney general contends that
Stanton county cannot take advantage
of this, because a tax to pay this debt
was once levied and was later turned
into the general fund.
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v’OOL ASKS HIMSELF TO
GRANT PLACE ON BALLOT
Lincoln, Neb., March 6.—Charles W.
Tool, of Hyannls, Grant county, has
tiled a request with Secretary of State
Charles W. Pool that his name go up
on the ballot which the secretary of
state is Instructed by law to make up,
as a democratic candidate for secretary
of state. Mr. Tool will not take any
action on the matter until after the
time for objections haw expired.
Two different kinds of ballots will be
presented for the use of voters at the
coming primary. The law was changed
with reference to those offices where
the party designation is still retained
so that the square will be nt the left
of candidates' names, but the non
partisan judiciary law was not touched
and the names on that separate ballot
will have the square far off to the right.
The change on the regular ballot was
made so that the voter might make
more certain that he is placing the
cross in the right place.
There will be five or six ballots
printed for the use of voters. The re
publicans, democrats, progressives,
populists and socialists are certain to
lie represented, with the nonpartisan
ballot also separate. The prohibition
ists will place no ticket in the field in
erder that the fight for the prohibitory
amendment is not complicated by party
troubles.
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FARMERS MAKE FUSS OVER
RAISE IN TELEPHONE RATE
Kairbury Neb., March C.—A mass
meeting of rural patrons of the Lincoln
Telegraph & Telephone company,
and a committee from the Kairbury
Commercial club was held In the court
house here to argue the matter of In
creased rates fo rural subscribers.
James A. Axtell, chairman of the
committee, presided, and a large num
ber of speeches were made.
Dan Kavanaugh, president of the
Commercial club, made a speech in be
half of the Commercial club members,
saying he thought the farmers were
justified in resenting the increase in
rates.
Jefferson county farmers for over
two months have bitterly fought the
advance in rates, asserting that the
company Is not giving first-class ser
vice and that it failed to carry out the
promises and rebuild its system in Jef
ferson county.
Considerable evidence was introduced
to substantiate ttiis assertion, as farm
ers from all parts of the county testi
fied that the company had failed to
carry out Its contract to the letter.
< i. R. .Tones and H. D. Benson,
I rominent farmers of this county, re
cently appeared before the railway
commission at Lincoln. protesting
against the increase of rates to rural
subscribers.
Jefferson county farmers are willing
to compromise on a straight $1.25 rate.
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COMMISSION INVESTIGATES
CAUSE OF CAR SHORTAGE
Lincoln. Neb., March 6.—The state
railway commission has wired Con
gtessman Sloan, asking him to repre
sent that body before the Interstate
Commerce commission, next Monday,
when a hearing will he had for the
purpose of ascertaining the whyfor
and wherefor of (he existing car short
age. Nebraska has been hard hit for
the reason that the farmers cannot get
thcii stuff on the primary markets,
and some local stringencies have re
sulted. Mr. Rloan will be asked to urge
the Interests of shippers. He is the
father of a resolution Introduced in
congress prohibiting the shipment of
war munitions until the car shortage
is relieved, hut the members of the
commission say they have not adopted
this I booty. Nebraska grain shipments
are 111,000 cars loss during the season
since the harvest than a year ago fo'
that period.
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COUNTY TREASURERS MUST
MAKE MONTHLY SETTLEMENTS
Lincoln. Neb.. March 6.—All count'
treasurers of Nebraska must remit
state taxes collected monthly to the
state treasurer, according to a ruling
tiA ruled down today by the state su
preme court. The decision was on hhe
friendly mandamus suit, brought by
State Treasurer Hall, against Treas
urer W. R. Ure. of Douglas county, to
tes1 the former's ruling for monthly
1 omittances. The court decision quali
fies the ruling to the effect that the
state treasurer must issue a duplicate
receipt for the remittance, the receipt
to be countersigned by the stnte audi
tor. a point for which Mr. i're con
tended.
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CONVICTION REGISTERED
ON MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Lincoln. Neb.. March 6.—William A
May, the Lincoln man, charged with
manslaughter, the victim being his
wife, was convicted by the Lancaster
county district court Jury that tried his
ease. May did not take the stand on
his own behalf. The state charged
that while his wife was ill and suffer
ing he heat her, while drunk. The de
fense was that the woman died from
blood poisoninR
Uruguayan banks have gold reserves
ngregating $20,645,(167.
RAWSON TO WASHINGTON.
Washington, D. March 4.—StuL
Chairman Rawson "ill he here Tues
day or Wednesday, and will be in active
charge of tile Cummins headquarters
here for 10 days or two weeks. This
uas announced by Senator Kenyon,
who returned from Iowa today. An
nouncing the assignment as a tempor
al! arrangement is taken here 1 > in
(liiate that Mr Rawson still has some
Lope of landing the republican guber
natorial nomination, especially in case
tin- decision rests with the convention.
More than feci women are serving in
the Russian army'. .
VIITCHEL AND DAHLWIAN
IN CLASH AT ST. LOUIS
St. Tjouis, Mo., March 4.—Mayo
j John P. Mitchel, of New York, and
! James S. Dahlman, mayor of Omaha.
I clashed last night at a meeting in
I Mayor Kiels’ office of the executive
committee of mayors to outline plan:
for the national defense conference of
mayors, which meets here today.
Mayor Dahlman charged Mayor Mit
chel with trying to "frame up” the con
ference when Mayor Mitchel attempted
to read a typewritten statement out
lining the purpose of the convention.
The commitee finally voted to allow
Mayor Mitchel to read his statement
and Mayor Dahlman said It was a
"tame affair” after all and withdrew
his objections.
j EDGAR HOWARD AGAINST
RULE BY LIQUOR INTERESTS
Lincoln, Neb., March 4.—-Kdgar
Howard, Columbus editor, in accept
ing a filing placing him In the race
as a candidate for lieutenant govern
or on the democratic ticket, declares
that lie "favors the complete over
throw of the organized political hier
archy of liquor interests and promises
to be, in the days to come, in constani
opposition to their claim of divine
right to rule Nebraska. He says:
"I applaud tbe whole course ol’ the
! Wilson administration, save only in
its present advocacy of a prepared
ness program, which seems to be tit
forerunner of American militarism, and
I shall feel it my duty to continue
to plead with our democratic presi
dent to abandon a program which find
so much favor with the beneficiaries
of war. iijul so little favor with the ad
vocates of honorable peace.”
Mr. Howard also declares in favor
of state ownership of water power,
saying that he "cannot believe that
the great God in His infinitte wisdom
Intended that the people of the prairies
should be forever under bondage to
the Philistine coal barons of Pennsyl
vania."
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STATE ENGINEER CLAIMS
BIG SAVING ON BRIDGES
Lincoln, Neb., March 4.—In a re
port to the state board of irrigation
and highways, State Engineer Johnson
says that state supervision of the
building of state aid bridges, anti co
operation with county boards in the
erection of county buildings, has saved
the people of the state over $600,000
as compared with 1914. The figures he
submits show that the cost of county
bridge work has decreased 2fi per cent
and that of state bridge work 40 per
cent. Over $1,000,000 a year is spent
for county bridges in Nebraska and
the state expends $150,000. This sav
ing has been accomplished through
standardizing of bridge building, over
7,000 plans being furnished to coun
ties in the past year by the state
board. The state engineer has also
taken a hand in the matter of bid
ding, making sure that there has been
proper competition.
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ARTHUR C. WAKELEY TO
SUCCEED JUDGE ENGLISH
Lincoln, Neb., March 4.—Arthur O.
Wakeley has been appointed by Gov
ernor Morehead as judge of the dis
trict court at Omaha to succeed Judge
James P. English, deceased. English
was also an appointee of the governor,
named when Judge Sutton resigned.
Wakeley is a son of one of the pio
neer lawyers of the state, and is a
bar leader and also a democrat.
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NORFOLK PETITIONERS
STAND UP FOR DR. GUTTERY
Lincoln, Neb., March 4.—A petition
signed by Mayor Friday and a large
number of Norfolk business men was
filed with the state board of control
today asking the retention of Dr.
Glittery us superintendent of the Nor
folk hospital for the insane. Another
petition of similar import came from
the Women's club of that city.
YOUNG FARMER KILLED
AT NICKERSON CROSSING
Fremont, Neb., March 4.—User Jen
sen, a farmer near Fontanelle, 33 years
of age, was thrown from a wagon
against a Northwestern freight train
at Nickerson crossing when his team
ran away. The team turned sharply.
Jensen died late last night at a Fre
mont hospital. He was born and reared
at Nickerson and leaves a wife and
three small children.
thNUItNUY Ur NAVY IS
PLEASING TO FLETCHER
Washington, D. G.. March 3.—An en
couraging report on the conditions and
efficiency of the nation's sea forces was
given the House naval committee to
day by Admiral Frank Fletcher, com
mander in chief of the Atlantic fleet.
In individual fighting efficiency Ad
miral Fletcher declared the dread
naughts of the United States led tho
world, while in the skill of its officers
and men the navy had no reason to
fear comparison of that of any other
power.
Describing some of the thipgs the
navy is doing in the light of lessons on
tlie European war, the admiral said one
ship of the fleet recently had hurled
seven out of 42 huge projectiles
through a target 20x60 feet at a range
of eight to nine miles, or 16.000 to 18,
000 yards. The longest ranges used in
naval engagements of the European
war thus far, he explained, were 16,000
to 17.000 yards.
DIES WITH DENIAL OF
WIFE MURDER ON LIPS
Ossinning, N. Y„ March 3.—Walter
Watson, of Brooklyn, was electrocuted
ut Sing Sing this morning for the mur
der of his wife a year ago, Watson,
who protested his innocence to the last,
left a sealed envelope to be opened aft
er his death. In it was found a faded
flower and this note:
"This envelope contains a flower
from my dead wife's grave. Please
bury it with me and let it be on m\
breast. It is a token of remembrance
of the wife I always loved and may
God rest our souls in peace."
Watson was separated from tiis wife
at the time of the murder, which lie
was supposed to have committed while
under the influence of drink. His son,
Thomas, saw his father stall his moth
er with a talde knife and assisted in
his capture.
California produces 30,000 tons of r.
fined salt yearly.
HUNDREDS FLEEING AS
LEVEES ARE WEAKENED
New Orleans, March 3 -Apprehen
sion was hold here today for inhabit
ants atiout Torras and Bayou Sara,
where levees last night were reported
to tie weakened by high water. At Tor
ras a private protection levee, which
guards the town, was reported weak
ening. Many persons are taking tem
porary refuge in the highlands.
Soapsuds forms a good fertilizer for
bushes and young plants.
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J NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES j
• WETS" REGARD NEVILLE
AS VERY WEAK CHAMPION.
Lincoln, Neb.. March 4.—Democrats
belonging to the anti-Bryan faction are
not hopeful of defeating C. W. Bryan
with Keith Neville, the man whom the
Hitchcock crowd has brought out as a
“wet” candidate, and have started a
movement to drag Governor Morehead
into the contest. The governor has re
I fused to be a candidate for governor
' again and also resisted the pressure of
. the Bryan folks to get in on their side
as a candidate for senator. Prominent
democrats have undertaken a letter
writing ami personal visitation cam
paign to get Morehead into the guber
natorial race, but he has not shown any
signs of changing his mind. The fact
that he did change it two years ago,
after having emphatically declined to
run, gives them hope that sufficient
pressure can be brought to change it
this year. The governor has told
friends that he has no desire to run
for any office in Nebraska because he
has a hunch this isn’t much of a demo
cratic year.
The progressives made good their
ihreat to enter the state campaign by
filing .1. F. Hanson, of Fremont, as a
■undulate for governor and W. C.
Crooks as a candidate for state treas
urer. In addition to a desire to keep
I heir party on the political map by
having a ticket, there is a chance they
• on’t want to miss of having the pro
Mbition amendment supporters turn to
ihe progressive candidate for governor
in case "wets" are nominated by botti
republicans and democrats.
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SQUATTER CLAIMS FILED
SIX MILES OF NIOBRARA.
Niobrara, Neb., March 4.—J. W.
Smith, W. O. Porter, Sophie Nipped and
Alexander’ Brown, ad from Niobrara,
'utve squatted on government land on
Ihe Missouri river bottom, about six
miles up the river from Niobrara. It is
claimed that this land wasn’t surveyed
on account of high water at the time
the government made its survey. There
are several hundred acres of this land.
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CAR SHORTAGE MODERATED
AND WHEAT WILL MOVE.
Lincoln. Neb., March 4.—The Bur
lington Railroad company last evening
i notified the state railway commission
lhat it would lift the embargo on
| wheat, and that it is now ready to ac
! ept that grain for shipment. For some
I lime the road refused wheat shipments
In Nebraska in order to care for more
i pressing demands on its roiling stock.
! The notice follows an investigation by
■ ihe railway commission of the shortage
if cars, and an order issued by it by
which from 50 to 75 box cars will he
lady returned from the east to deliver
tig roads in tills state, it is estimated
ay the commission that within a short
time 1,500 to 2,000 cars will lie sent
;>aek to the grain carrying lines in
western states.
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CLAIMED BRUTAL TREATMENT
CAUSED WOMAN’S DEATH
Lincoln, Neb., March 4.—William A.
May is on trial in district court on the
barge of manslaughter, the state seek
,ng to prove that his wife’s death was
■aused by ihs brutal treatment while
lie was intoxicated. The state expects
to prove that Mae denied a woman
physician sent by the city, entrance to
the house; that later when the city
physician came May ordered him out
of the house declaring his wife was not
3iek and he was boss. While the doc
tor was out getting the police May at
tacked his wife. She never recovered.
Mrs. May’s sister was present and saw
him rush at his wife with a chair
Heating her with that and his lists.
May’s defense is that he did not beat
•its wife and that she died from blood
iioisoning following an operation for
Abortion: that she did not wish her
husband to know of this and that it
was desired by members of the family
lo have no physician called while tie
was at home.
PAROLED MAN NOT IN RUSH
TO LEAVE PENITENTIARY
Lincoln. Nob. March 4.—It was al
most necessary to get an order of the
•ourt to secure the absence of Samuel
lames, colored, from the state peni
tentiary. James has been serving an
indeterminate sentence in state prison,
and he was ordered released Wednes
day on parole. Warden Fenton was
absent from the city when Samuel was
given his clothes and money. Samuel
wanted to know when he would come
back.
Possibly late in the afternoon, said
the deputy. Whereupon Samuel sat
down and declared lie would wait till
the warden came. And he did, although
it was hours after he was told he
could go. Janies is a graduate of th“
Tuskegee institute, and is going bad;
there to go to work.
NEBRASKA AUTOMOBILES.
Lincoln. Neb.. March 4.—According
to the records of the secretary of state
there are 56.241 automobiles owned in
Nebraska. The secretary issues the
licenses, and this is the total numhe
he lias issued The number is possibly
incomplete, as there are some whose
licenses for the year past have not ex
pired.
BRITAIN WOULD STOP
TRADE WITH GERMANS
Cabinet Considers Prohibiting
All German Imports After
the War.
London, March 2.—The Daily News
learns that the inner circle of the cab
inet will recommend the incorporation
In the budget of an announcement that
German imports will he prohibited aft
er the war and also that measures will
he taken, probably in the nature of
preferential duties, for the purpose of
encouraging exports from the British
colonies to the countries of the allies
• No decision, is likely to he reached in
the matter, adds the newspaper, until
it has been considered by the entire
cabinet, as well as by the economic
conference of the allies. I he forthcom
ing of which Reginald McKenna, chan
cellor of the exchequer, announced in
ids speeeli at the Guild hall yesterday.
' SWEDEN PUTS END TO
FOREIGN PROPAGANDISTS
London. March The correspond
ent at Copenhagen, of the Central
News, says the Swedish government
has decided to prevent citizens of any
belligerent country Iron addressing
public gatherings in Sweden during the
war. Official notification to that ef
fect, ho says, has been issued in Stock -
holm in connection with the invita
tions of student organization** t » Prof,
tlilbert Murray. of Ovford university,
and other foreigners to ad tire? - them.
'BREAK WITH AMERICA
f FATAL, SAYS GERMAN
Reichstag Member Declarer i
Possibilities Should Cause
Berlin to Hesitate.
Copenhagen, (via London), March
6.—Herr Naumann. member of the
reichstag, contributes an article en
titled "Will America Join the Allies?” -
to the Schleswig newspaper Heindall.
the organ of the Schleswig Danes, in
which he says:
"Our wish that the United States I
preserve its neutrality is easily com- I
prehensible. We already have suffic- j
ient enemies and it is a great delusion
to think, as some profess to do, that '
one more can make no difference.
"Declaration of war against the
United States would result in a lleer
numbering, in 1913, 169 units, with
1.531 guns, placing itself on the ride
of Great Britain and thereby increas
ing the possibility of an absolutely
effective blockade. In addition. Here
is the American army, which, it is true,
at present only numbers 90,000, which :
j could be augmented quickly by geo- !
eral recruiting, for which the existing
militia forms an excellent basis. With
in six months the United States would
have a formidable army.
“Our ships in American harbors and
the daily increasing financial power of
the United States would mean an in
calculable part of the war, because
. America would finance all her allies
; for an unlimited period. The Germans
; have learned to assume superhuman
i burdens during the war, but we can
I not shut her eyes to the endless sac
rifices which the war with the United
States would demand.”
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PLEASES E !
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Only Military Triumph Would
Have Given British Press
Greater Satisfaction—
Praise President.
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London, March fi.—Few thing's short _
of an actual military victory could <
have given the F>ritish press greater
statisfaction than President Wilson's
! victory in the Senate. The Manchester
I Guardian remarks editorially that Get
; many, having failed to convince the
i United States, apparently will ignore
sentiment in that country. It con
tinues:
! “Germany has now defiantly as
sumed the line that she is within her
rights and means to abide by the run
sequences. If American citizens In;
their lives she will make no apology >i =
promise of amendments.”
The Guardian says it cannot imagir
that Americans will accept," such
reversion to absolute barbarism,' an 1
therefore regards the decision of tl
Senate as having the greatest sign;
ficance.
The morning papers today dov<>t
many columns to the developments m
Washington under such head lines a. 1
“President Wilson's Great Victory la
the Senate;” “Half the Battle Won I
President Wilson's Policy.” an ! .
ress Shows Its Confidence in the Press- j
dent.”
The Times editorially declares tic ’
the vote in the Senate in favor I
tabling the resolution warning Anus
j icans off armed merehantment. is cot
I tain to exercise a strong influence uu ]
the voting in the House of Bepresenta
tives.
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TWENTY PERSONS KILLED
i BY EXPLOSION NEAR PARIS, j
Paris, March 4.—A detonation which
was heard this morning in the north
' ern part of Paris is now said to have
been a serious explosion which or
curred in a manufacturing establis.
merit at St. Denis, one of the Parts
suburbs.
Later it was ascertained that th"
explosion occurred at Courneuve. near
, St. Denis, at the works called “Double
| Couronne." Twenty persons were killed
■ and a large number injured.
| In parts the ramparts of the east
j fort were blown up. The cause of the
disaster has not been ascertained.
| A quantity of explosives including
' hand grenades, were stored in this posi
tion.
Pire followed and there were further
explosions although of less severity on
account of the flames.
GUNMEN SAYS UNION
STRIKERS HIRED HIM
Was to Receive $100 Bonus
and $25 Per Week For
Shooting Up Guards.
New York. March 6.—William Sher
wood. arrested for the shooting of
Bennie Weinstein, a guard employed t>\
I. Kaplan Sons, shirt waist manufac
turers, confessed today according to tie
police, that he was employed to do tile
shooting by a shirt waist makers'union
the members of which arc now on
strike.
1 Inspector Cray, head of the detective
bureau, says that Sherwood stated that
he was offered a “contract" bv the
union under which he was to receive
$100 and to l>e put on the payroll at
$25 a week in return for his services in
"shooting up" the Kaplan guards,
j "Weinstein and seven other guards
[ were escorting 100 girls to the Kaplan
factory yesterday, when four men open
I cet lire’ upon them. Weinstein was shot
! in the back and is in a serious coneli
1 tion.
AMERICAN CONSUL KELLEY
■ AT ROME IS FOUND DEAD
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* Rome, • via Paris), March -b \Vi? -
j:im P. Kelley, the American consul
here, was found dead in a chair short 1>
before the breakfast hour lobav.
Death v. as probably due to heart dis
t ase.
The cmerrid 'amoves in color l>y
exposure to l .'bt Pearls* kept dark
ness )r. « i!; i* bv-'ter. but remain it on
expo k:*:* to tin* t.n
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FINAL ACTION ON ’
ARID SNIP ISSUE,
White House Issues Denial That ^
President Wilson Contem
plates Resigning From \
Office.
BRYAN SUDDENLY BOBS UP
Lower Branch of Congress Will
Not Reach Vote on Warn
ing Resolution Until
Tuesday.
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Washington. March 6.—William Jen i
nir.gs Bryan came to town today to#
fulfill a lecture engagement here to'
night. Administration leaders specu- \
lated widely over whether Mr. Bryan's \
corning had anything to do with the V
delay on voting on the armed ship is T
sue in the House and the decision of '
tlie leaders there to postpone action un
til Tuesday at least.
"Jr. Bryan said his coming here at
this time had nothing to do with tin
armed ship controversy now in progress
between the congress and the pres#
dent. "I expect to leave tonight foi
New York. My lecture was arranged
for weeks ago. I have no engagements
to see any congressmen and do not
expect to see any.”
News of Bryan’s arrival caused a
flurry on the House floor. Represen
tative Bailey, democrat, his close
friend, met him. and Bailey said they
discussed the warning resolution.
Deny Active Part.
While Mr. Bailey insisted that Mr.
Bryan would take no active part in the
fight, administration leaders saw in
his presence cause for concern. Tlie
mteiest was further aroused when it
was learned that Mr. Bryan expects t i
’ torn here tomorrow and remain until
Monday night, when he speaks in Wil
mington. Del.
Administration leaders expressed
confidence that no influence that Mr.
Bryan might bring to hear would de
feat. the president's determination.
Mr. Bailey said he assured Mr. Bryan
that at heart there was an overwhelm
ing majority in congress favorable to
the warning resolution, but that he
made no prediction as to what the vote
would l>e.
Washington. March 6.—Aroused by
the publication of reports yestc rdav
that President Wilson, because of tin:
strain of the foreign situation, was con
sidering resigning from office, the
White House today issued this format
statement:
"When Secretary Tumulty’s atten
tion was called to tlie story appearing
in certain papers that the president
had resigned, or was considering re
signing. he said:
"An American newspaper that would J
publish a story of that kind In a sit- '
nation like the one which now con- |
fronts America, dishonors itself."
Next Move Tuesday.
The next step in President Wilson's .
fight to dispose of the armed ship ag
itation in congress has been postponed
until Tuesday.
At an early conference today, admin- I
istration leaders in the House derided
not to insist on a vote today. This aft -
ernoon (lie rules committee will meet
to frame a rule to table the Mole more
resolution to warn Americans otf the
armed ships of European belligerents.
The rule will he brought in with the
first business Tuesday, when the ad
ministration forces plan to dispose of
it by a substantial majority. The for- ,
cign affairs committee already has
agreed on the resolution i
Strong Measure Framed.
Administration forces plan that the
action in the House shall give no room •
for doubts of th«> decisive charaeter of
the sentiment in congress. They j bin
that the action to table the Remorc
resolution, will include a declaration
that the president shall handle diplo
matic affairs, without congressional lu
terference.
The leaders are confident they have
the votes to make their victory com
plete and undisputed.
Many Out of Town.
Readers explained that the postpone
ment was agreed upon because of the
absence of so many members on week
end trips. Many left yesterday und
ilie impression, it was said, that th<
House session today, which began at
10 o’clock was to end at noon and
would consider only claim hills.
Administration officials said today
that practically all senators who voted
yesterday to table the Gore resolution,
were voting for the president's policy,
and should the House fail to vote {'• ’
uphold the president in decisive toriu
tlie light might he carried back to the
Senate for a direct vote.
"Gentleman's Agreement."
Majority Reader Kitehin soon after
noon began notifying members that
they would not be needed to vote until
next Tuesday at the earliest.
Th* conference adjourned with no
formal action, except a decision to hold
a rules committee meeting at i! o'< lock
today. A so called gentlemen's agree- 1
nienf was made not to have a vote be
fore Tuesday.
Secretary Ransing announced today ’
that the appendices to the German
:n -morandum regarding armed" mer
chant ships were on board th< steam
ship Rotterdam, due in New Ye-ik Sun- «
day. I
Members ot the Towa delegation it I
the Hoys.- b.-ld a meeting of an infer J
niai t harac-tur this afternoon ug^ dis- *
lsscd the intet national situation.