The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, May 27, 1915, Image 2
,.., ,..p-ti-wMwimr'wi iMiai a 01 RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF 'II i1fH0 UBir-nw- ' wn1 M A L li I H m i i MEXICO III BAD WAY OUTLAW8 THREATENING LIVES OF FOREIGNERS. CITY OVERRUN BY BANDITS Several Popular Demonstrations of Recent Occurrence Because of Shortage of Food Supplies In Capital. Western Newppiiper Union News Heivlce Washington. OuHuwh In Mexico City who assaulted tho Gorman charge d'affaires, now lire threatening tho lives of other foreigners, accord ing lo diplomatic dispatches received here. One message states that "un descrlbably loathsome" conditions pre vnll, und that the, government Is pow erless against bandits. Several pop ular demonstrations becaiiHO of tho food shortage hnvo occurred In tho Mexican capital within tho last few .days. Reports to tho state de partment say thu situation Is sorlous. In Its summary of dispatches thu de partment said: "It Is itated that this condition Is due In a largo measure to thu lack of communication. Tho convention and the local government aro said to he giving consideration to methods for relieving the situation. Tho Interna tional relief committee has purchased In the northern part of Mexico about B.ROO tons of cereals for distribution among tho needy In Mexico City, if satisfactory arrangements can bo mndo regarding transportation mid guarantees from various ofllcials in control of tho different sections through which tho supplies would have to be shipped." California Volcano Active. Redding, Cal. Lassen peak's seeth ing caldron, stirred, perhaps, by some convulsion, bubbled over last week and sent u river of mud cascading down tho mountain side. lint creek valley, In tho eastern part of Hhasta county, wns partly inundated. A num ber of farms were in tho path of the flood and several houses nod live stock were destroyed. Residents of tho val ley fled, however, in time, and no llvofc wero lost. Fred Seaton, n government forest ranger, gnvo timely warning to the settlers. Want Life of Frank Soared. Charleston. Tho houso of delogntes of tho West Virginia legislature has passed n Joint resolution petitioning tho governor of Georgia to commute tho sentence of Leon M. Frank to life imprisonment. Edtson Medal for Dr. Bell. Now York. Or. Alexander Graham Hell. Inventor of tho telephone, was awarded tho Edison medal for meritor ious achievement In eletcrlcal science at tho annual meeting of thu American institute of electrical engineers. The medal Is provided for by trust funds established by friends and associates of Thonins A. Edison and is awarded each year to a resident of tho United StatcB or Canada who has accom plished work of great value In electrl- tth'euglnoerlng or electrical arts. Missouri Puts Up the Bars. Columbia, Mo. A provisional quar antine against nil live stock from the states of Arizona, California, Nevada. Oregon, Utah antl Washington has been declared by tho Missouri hoard of agriculture. Tho board took this atclon to re taliate ngalnst western states which havo placed n quarantine on Missouri breeding cnttle, "unjustly nnd without causo," according to tho opinion of state officials. Tho quarantlno order ngalnst tho western stntes will be ' withdrawn as each state ends Its quarantine ngalnst Missouri. London, Mny IS. Tho announce ment that King George wns about to discontinue racing Is said to have been erroneous, Tho king scratched ono of his can didates for tho Derby, Friar Marcus, and this news wbb given out. From it tho assumption was mado that his majesty was going to stop racing and other horse owners began to follow tho example. Today It developed that tho king still has Sammaroo entered in the Derby. Convicts Cannot Act as Ser ints. Montgomery, Ala. Tho practice of detailing convicts us servants in the homes of Alabama stato ofllcials and as laborers at tho capltol and other state Institutions has been abolished by an executive order by Governor Henderson. - Two Million More Fighters. London. Tho Copenhagen corre spondent of tho Dnlly Mall says he lias learned from an authoritative Her (Un sourco that Germany Is about to icall up two million men. Ophelia Held to Be Lawful Prize. London. The prlzo court hns de cided that tho German steamer Ophe lia, captured In tho North soa by tho British destroyer Meteor In October nnd brought Into Yarmouth, was a law ful prize. Germnny protested that this net of capturo was In violation of Tho Hague convention, declaring that tho Ophelia was, n hospital ship. Tho British government contended that tho Ophelia only purported to bo a hospital ship and thnt as a matter of fact she wan masquerading under falso olors for scouting purposes. AwWMii RAIDING THE (CopyrlKht) VIEWS OF PROMINENT MEN LAKE MOHONK FORUM SCENE OF HEATED DISCUSSIONS. Secretary of War Garrison and Gen eral Leonard Wood Are Pitted Against Norman Angell. Western Newspaper Union Nuwh Service. J Mohonk Lake, N. Y. Thu Lako Mo honk conference on International arbi tration furnished thu forum for n 1 warm debate on armament between ; Secretary of War Garrison und Gen eral Leonard Wood on tho one side and Norman Angell of New York on tho other. Mr. Angell, who Is one of the foremost advocates of disarmament and who recently returned from hos pital sorvico In tho war zone, declared that the words of tho secretary of war and thu former chief of staff of tho army urging tho United States to make greater military preparations wero "precisely the speeches ho had heard so many times In Germnny." General Wood spoke oftur tho secre tary of war had finished n plea for more adequate armament. "We soldiers nnd sailors," said Gen oral Wood, "aro merely your trained servants. You create wars, wo try to terminate them. Nino out of ten wars aro based on trade. The trouble with most conferences of this kind is that they do not look conditions in tho face. Wo must not delude ourselves that our geographical remotoness has made us safe." Improved methods of transport, ho asserted, have Increased tho danger of Invasion. "This Is ono of the grent causes of armament this nnd tho great efficiency of Implements of war. When wo have ceased to fight for our honest convictions wc shall cease to bo worthy to exist as n nation. It la murder for you to send our boys to war untrained when It is possible to train them. All wu soldiers and sail ors want Is thnt you glvo us a rea sonable degrco of preparation so when your boytt como to its to fight the sacrince mny bo as light as possible." Mr. Angell fairly ran to the speak ers' stand to mako his reply. "Nowhere would those speeches havo been so welcomed as In Ger many," he cried. Ho declared that Increased nrmnments offered no solu tion of the peaco problem. "Here aro two nations anxious to keep the peaco by each being stronger than the other. This Is an impossible situation. I do not believe thnt this will be tho war that will end war. The mere piling up of American armament will not help the problem. Obviously tho mili taristic solution of being stronger than the other nation has failed. Do not let us make tho snme mistake as the nations of Europe." This ended the debate, and the con ference session adjourned In a buzz of excited comment. Kansas City. Hundreds of small streams are out of their banks nnd many larger creeks and rivers are ap proaching flood stage In Kansas, north ern Oklahoma and western Missouri. This district has received from two to five Inches of rain. Heavy damage Is reported by truck farmers and orchard growers. Trawler Is Torn to Pieces. London. Tho French stenm trawler St. Just or Arcaehon was torpedoed and literally smashed to pieces nonr Dartmouth. Robber Attacks Diplomat. Washington. Chnrgo d'Affalres Magnus of tho German legation In Mexico City was attacked and slabbed by a robber near tho legation. He re ported the attack to tho German em bassy here, but said It had no politi cal significance. He was not serious ly wounded. Great Rings Around the Sun. Philadelphia. Tho appearanco .of two great rings around tho sun. strong ly pronounced and somewhat re Bombing rnlnbowB, Interested hundreds of thousands of persons In this city nnd vicinity. The rlngH aro known as solar lialos, and aro duo to con densation In tho atmosphere conse quent upon the low temperatures which produced water drops or Ice crystals. Tho refraction and Infrac tion of tho sun's rays through these brought about tho occurrence, which Is exceedingly rare In this latitude. -1 CHINA CLOSET NEW immigration plan is an- NOUNCED. Anthony Caminetti Outlines New Ideas Before Federation of Woman's Clubs at Meeting In San Francisco. Western Newspaper Union News Servlc. San Francisco. A new Immigration policy of the United States govern ment, as brought about by war condi tions In Kuropo, wns outlined briefly by United Stntes Commissioner of Im migration Anthony Caminetti in an ad dress before the California federation of women's clubs. "President Wilson," said Commis sioner Caminetti, "docs not desire to send one single Immigrant back to his country where any danger might come to him. The Immigration policy of tho government goes even further. On ac count of the Lusltnnla Incident, it will not send any Immigrant back to Eng land or France." Mr. Caminetti added that it was now the policy of the federal government to start as soon as possible to make a good citizen out of each immigrant, and to give Instruction to each now citizen such ns would make him proud of his new country. Ho expressed tha bopo thnt the convention would agree to consider co-operation with the United Stntes government In tho mat ter of securing employment for im migrants. Discussing the wearing of bird plumed hats by women. Mrs. Percy H. Pennypacker, general president of tho national federation of women's clubs, asked: "Can women's bird plumed hats pass Jln review before their own consciences?" Women in the convention hnll who were wearing plumes removed their hats nnd plucked out the feathers. Addlcks It In Jail. New York. J. Edward Addlcks, for mcr financier and onco political power In Delaware, has been sent to Ludlow street Jail in default of a payment of J1G.472, due on a judgment In supple mentary proceedings lnslstutcd by Hiram M. Burton, the creditor. Su preme Court Justice Greenbnum signed tho order when Addlcks asserted thnt after several days' effort ho had been unable to rnlso tho money. Addlcks Is sovonty-four years old. Boston. Several new mortars re cently mounted at Fort Andrew and capable of hurling projectiles weighing half a ton olght and a half miles, havo been tested. They are said to be tho most powerful weapons on tho coast. Tho projectiles are not explosive, be ing designed to sink a vessel by tear ing a hole through her by tho force of their fall from great height. Iontfon. Sir Edgar Speyer cannot divest himself of his baronetcy, which In his letter to Premier ABqulth he naked to have revoked. "0 co a baronet, always a baronet," said an olllclal of tho college of arms. ' Sir Edgar may cease to call himself a baronet, but he still remains ono, nnd If ho had any-sons tho eldest would succeed him nil tho same." Frye Case to a Prize Court. Washington, Germany has sent to a prize court the enso of tho American sailing ship Wllllnm P. Frye, sunk in the south Atlantic Inst January by the German auxiliary cruiser Prlnz Eltol Frledrlch. but It Is understood that tho German admiralty took that action be fore It hnd received tho Amorlcan noto Insisting that the damages bo adjust ed directly through diplomatic negotia tions in Washington. It Is said that tho reference of the case to n prize court will not neces sarily prevent diplomatic adjustment. Geneva. Tho German emperor and his staff had a narrow escape whllo watching the operations In n vlllngo near the river San, In Gnllcla. Ac cording to n dispatch from Budapest, which reached hero by Indirect route, a heavy shell burst BOO yards away. It fell among some automobiles, do straying several machines, Including tho emperor's, and killing his qhatif four. Tho emperor had left his car only fifteen minutes before. As more Russian shells were falling in tho neighborhood tho emperor nnd his staff left hastily In mnchinea. i WILL NOT 8E BOUND UNITED STATES DECLINES TO ABIDE BY BRITISH ORDERS. ITALY HAS DECLARED WAR Italian Government Issues Proclama tlon of Mobilization Many Casu alties Occur in Wreck on English Railway. Western Newspaper t'nloti Neus Service Wnshlngton. The determination ol the United States government not tc recognize or be bound by the provis Ions of the British order-in-councll which declared an embargo on all commercial Intercourse directly with Germany, as well as Inward or outward-bound through neutral countries, has been manifested In several ways. The foreign trade advisers of the state department announced that they hnd decided to suspend all conferences with British embnssy officials hero with reference to the Informal arrange ments which had been in progress not CLARK PERKINS Editor of the Aurora Republican who was elected vice-president of the Nebraska Statu Press association at the annual meeting in Omaha In April. For several year? Mr. Perkins owned the St. Paul Republican, which he sold to taku charge of the Aurora Repub lican. For a tlmo he was secretary of thu state railway commission, which position he resigned in order that nt might again enter the newspaper busi ness, in which ho hns always been successful. only to assist Amorlcnn cotton export ers in obtnlnlng payment for cargoes detained, but nlso to secure for Ameri can Importers American-owned goodw now In Germany, contracted for before the order-in-councll went Into effect. ITALY DECLARES WAR. Yields to Popular Pressure and Will Fight Austria-Hungary. Rome, via Paris. Italy is at war with Austria-Hungary. With the is suance of tho general mobilization order tho Italian government Issued a proclamation declaring wnr on Aus tria, which officially began Monday. Prior to this, nnd after a lengthy consultation, thu ministers of wnr and marine proclaimed all the provinces bordering on Austria nnd the Islands and const towns of the Adriatic in a state of war, which was equivalent to tho establishment of martial law, the step usually preceding tho formal dec laration. Although drastic action baa been looked for momentarily, Italians of all classes have been elcctrllled by tho swiftly moving events. Casualties In Rallw.-iy Wreck. Carllslo, Ens. Three trains collided Saturday morning on the Caledonian railway at Gretna, near this city, caus ing tho death of at least seventy-three persons nnd the fatal injury of many others. The total casualties probably will reach 400. Fire in tho wreckngo added horror to the accidont. One trnln was a troop train; another was a local, nnd tho third the express from London to Glasgow, Great Wheat Crop. Topeka, Kan. A yield of 13C,fi00,000 bushels of winter wheat In Kansas this year Is expected on present pros pects by the Kansns board of agrlcul ture. Tho result is given of the board's investigations Into the stnte's crop sltuntlon ns found May 17. Ac cording to the figures the nverago yield per acre would bo lli.fi bushels on tho 8,r8(l,000 acres of growing whent as reported a month ago. Should this yield he realized the crop would be second only to tho stato's record out put of 180,000,000 bushels In 1914. Lincoln. Emll Muzlk, sentenced to die In the electric chair September IB, for tho murder of his wife, wbb brought to tho stato penitentiary by Deputy Sheriff Ed Palmer of Omaha. Muzlk cut his wife's throat with a table knife. Believing the moving pic ture machlno, caged off In tho rear of the dining room at the prison to bo tho electric chnlr In which ho wns to bo placed, Muzlk wns terribly fright ened when ho was taken to the dining room to partuke of his first meal In tho prison, CONDENSED HEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. Citizens of Oakland aro planning a city purk. An automobile association has been formed at Pierce. Plans are being prepared for a new city Jail at O'Noll. A big racing meet Is to bo held at Waltoo, July 7, 8 and it. The United Brethren church of Upland hns been dedicated. A $15,000 electric bond carried at Tekamah by a two to one voe. Tho Gothenburg National bank will soon reorganize as a state bank. Work has starled on the "seeding mile" of concrete roadway at Kear ney. I he Sterling Commercial club dedi cated their new headquarters last week. Thu Beatrice Chautauqua assembly will be held In that city June 29 to July 5. Eight automobiles were sold to fanners In Buffalo county In two weeks. Tho contract for tho new parochial school to be built at Kearney will bo let soon. ' Omaha High school won the an nual high school track and fluid meet at Lincoln. Grnndmn Welmer of Stella cele brated her hundredth birthday anni versary last week. Louis Lnrson, a farm laborer, was run over and killed by a Northwestern train near Albion. The Farmers' State bank of Lewel Ion has received a charter from tho stnte banking board. A new canning company, Incorpo rated at $0,000, will be established at Blair this summer. Sixty of the eighty-five thousand dollars court house bonds of Pawueo county have been paid off. Tho contract has been let for tho addition to the National guard arsenal at the fair grounds, Lincoln. A new ordinance enneted by the Lincoln city council Is expected to drive tho Jitney bus out of business. Tho Douglas County Pioneers' asso ciation will hold Its annual summer picnic June 2li at Miller park, Omaha. Edward W. Marcellus, superintend ent of the Crete schools, has been ap pointed principal of 'the Evanston, HI., academy. A Fourth' of July celebration will be held at Chadron and a number of nearby towns will aid In making tho celebration a success. Nebraska fruit is in excelent con dition, according to a report Issued by Secretary J. R. Duncnn of tho stato horticultural society. Tho two-year-old daughter of L. II. Christensen of Mlnden, who accident ly tipped some boiling water over herself, died from its effects. Charles Sans, who lives near Plattsmouth, was painfully bruised when his automobile turned turtle. Ho fainted while driving nnd the ma chine ran into a ditch. Leonard W. Klein of Blue Springs won the stnte championship high school debate at Lincoln; Aaron S Speler of Lincoln was second and Donald G. Moore of Geneva, third. Chadron Is now entitled to a freo mail delivery as a result of increnso of postal business. An Inspector will look over the sltuntlon ns soon as tho houses are numbered and nil streets are named. Governor Morehead has written Remlell K. Drown, chairman of tho Omaha Commercial club's good roads committee, advising him that he ex pects to proclaim a good roads day this summer. Three thousand dollars has been raised by the Stanton Speed associa tion to be hung up as prizes at the raco meet to bo held In that city July 2 and 3. A new $1,000 amphi theater is being constructed for tho event. Stockmen nnd farmers In tho vicini ty of Holdrege are much Interested In demonstrations of the new Huff Hollcnback silage elevator on tho Jnms McClay farm. The invention makes a boys' job out of what was once a Job for two or three men, for It solves the problem of getting sllago out from tho pit silos. Baseball enthusiasts of "Thayer county have formed an eight club lenguo nnd will play regular games throughout tho summer. Tho towns participating arc Belvidere, Brunlng, Carleton, Chester, Davenport, Desh lor, Hebron and Hubbell. A twenty eight game schedule has been drawn up. Surveyors havo completed the pre liminary work incident to tho con struction of the new power dam at Erlcson on tho Cednr river nnd work on actual construction will begin soon. Beside using the dnm for power It Is expected to mako a sum mer resort of the surrounding coun (ry. The people of Erlcson look for a complete rejuvenntlon of the town ns n result of the project. J. J. Anselmo, one of tho oldest residents of Custer county, was killed In a runaway near Whitman. When Mr. nnd Mrs. David Roberts, who rcsldo near Lindsay, returned to their house after doing some chores, they found their 8-year-old daughter burned to death. Tho most poworful motor ear ever built, tho "M-23," has been complotod In tho Omaha shops of tho McKcen Motor compnny and will booh bo placed In tho service of tho Union Paclfl-i on tho Kearney-Callaway branch. 1EWEATCW BIGGEST YIELD IN STATE'S HIS TORY IS EXPECTED. REPORTS REACH LABOR CHIEF Commissioner Coffey Gets Line On Harvest Hands That Will Be Needed Through Solons. Lincoln. Reports from a half a dozen Nebraska counties received by Labor Commissioner F. M. Coffey In dicate farmers aro expecting tho biggest wheat crop In thu stato's his tory and expecting to need farm hands during the harvesting season. Ono or two reports stnto thu crop vlll double that of the banner year of 1911 and that thu acreage is much larger. Coffey asked members of the legis lature to furnish thu crop reports so ho 'could get a line on tho number of harvest hands needed for this statu. Cairo reports the wheat Is excel lent 'ind harvest hands will bo paid ?2.f0 a day. Boomer reports 10 per cunt better outlook than at the sanio time last year. Amherst says tho acreage Is 10 per cent larger than last year, and prospects 50 per csnt better than at tho same time in 1914. Tho eastern half of Bulfalo county in uso 100 extra men at ?2.23 per day, the report states. Gothenburg reports a lnrgor acre ngu than last year, with chances of double tho yield of a year ago. Two hundred harvest hands at $2 a day can he used. Valparaiso has tho same outlook as last year, the report states, with the farmers needing llfty nioro men at $2 n day. Guneva reports J CO hands will bo needed, with lages at ?2.G0 a day. All reports agree tho harvest will itart about July 1. Settles 3,000 Cases. Nearly 11,000 llnal reports of settle ments effected under the compensa tion law of Nebraska, which went Into effect December 1, last. "have been made to tho state labor commis sioner's office during tho five nnd one half months' operation of the law. This does not Include the large num ber of Incomplete reports tiled. In tho final reports, complete informa tion of the accident is given, with the time lost nnd amount of compensa tion. An overwhelming majority of these reports deal with minor and even trilling injuries, which resulted In little loss of time. Tho law does not allow any compensation for tho first two weeks unless tho incapacity extends over eight weeks. The re ports show the doctors' bills were pnld In most Instances by the em ployers regardless of tho nature ol ho accident. Saving of Over a Million. State Accountant DeFrance, who if employed In Auditor Smith's office, has made an exact comparison of tho appropriations of tho 1913 and 1915 sessions of the legislature and finds thnt the total saving of the latter In making appropriations for tho ordi nary expense of government was ?1, 04C,17:i.28. This does not include school appropriations, but it does In clude cash funds, which were not nvnllnblo in previous comparisons that have been made. Klein Wins Debate. Leonard W. Klein of the Blue Springs High school, won the state interscholastlc championship In debate, when he defeated tho cream of Nebraska High schools at the dis trict debate held hero at tho stato university. Tho question debated was: "Resolved, That tho United States Should Adopt Government Owenrship and Operntion of Rail roads." Governor Reappoints Royse. E. Royse has been reappointed soc refiiry of tho stnto banking board. Mr. Royse is a republican and tho admin istration is democratic. His reap pointment occasions no surprise, as tho governor announced some tlmo ago thnt there would bo no chango In the banking department. Dorchester Man Appointed. Dr. J. D. Case of Dorchester has been appointed stnte health Inspec tor by tho board of health. Dr. Case succeeds Dr. W. II. Wilson of Table Rock, who has hold tho office for tho past eight yenrs. Auto Registration Increasing. Instead qf tho nutomobllo registra tion decreasing after tho first rush Incident to the taking effect of tho new law, It has steadily Increased. Corn and Alfalfa Are First. Corn and alfalfa again ranked first In rate and chenpness of gain in tho ricent experimental feeding of six lotB of steers nt tho agricultural ex periment station, nccordlng to tho re sults mado known at tho beef pro ducers' meeting held recently at tho university farm. Tho oxporlment in dicated not only thnt corn nnd nlfalfa ranked first but that the dlfferenco In favor of this ration Is oven moro mnrked than shown In provloue ox nerlments. N't