T tiii: ni;r.: ommia. t.pm;siy. .jamwky . inur. 5 Round Bale Press Company Bankrupt NBW YORK. Jn. 5. -The American IJound Hnle. Press company, a New York corporation with Ss.flnorion authorised, cap ital, filed today a voluntary petition In bankruptcy. In whic h Its liabilities were slven ns $i::4 and . Its assets an flftr nln cotton Bin plant In the south and proven, value, not stated. Paul .Tone, a lawyer of thla city, waa appointor) rrof lvcr under .M.on bond. At torneys for the receiver attributed th failure to ttw European war. "The business of the company baa been proMratcd by paralysis in the cotton trade, rcsnlting from the Kuropean war," their statement read. Thrilling Film Story of 'The Exploits of Elaine Begins with Tragedy by "The Clutching Hand" my own nNK PRmrs 44 Berg Suits Me' C 3 HAVE YOU? taken advantage of our special semi-annual HALF PRICE 'SALE IF NOT, "DO IT NOW V - -- ' .... . Moving with remarkable rapidity, the fllma Introduce u Into the thrilling story of the Exploit of Elaine. We see the tragedy, that la the result of the ter rible work of "The Clutching Hand" and realize with what manner of men we Pave to deal. But we also see th tender nature of the beautiful Elaine, who Is the center of the exploits. It appears that the company of whlrh Taylor Podge Is president haa been robbed. The perietrator of the deed la the master criminal of The Clutching Hand. We see Imp Red conferring with GOYERM BYRNE URGESJSCONOMY South Dakota Executive Asks Legis lature to Keep Expenses Within Estimate of Revenue. FAVORS REFORM IN TAXATION PIERRE. S. P., Jan. 5.-(.peclal.)-In his message to the fourteenth biennial session of the South Pakota legislature, ftovemor Byrne reviews the work of his administration of the last two years and wives his Ideas as to what legislation should be enacted at the present session. In short terms he places the estimated revenues of the state for the next two years at $3,300,000, and asks the legisla ture to keep within that limit. fto shows the state debt reduced $100,000 In the last two yeara nnd estimates that the existing debt of $410,000 can be wiped out with the regular levy of 1 mill. Reform In Tadatlon Needed. He commends the work of the state tax commission and aska for the submission of constitutional amendments which will allow the enactment of a revenue law for the state on lines of modern conditions. Ho believes in a classified syStenv of taxation, and declares the system of fin ing the provident' man . for his thrift, to ttie benefit of the man who Is holding ' property for a raise as one not defensi ble. " He advocates the abolishment of capital punishment in the state and a more hu mane treatment of prisoners toward re formatory result rather than a mere pun ishment, and commends the change at the penitentiary which allows convicts to converse freely at meals and gather for general conversation In the corridor Sun day afternoons. He also recommends the abolishment of contract labor at the pen itentiary and the wiping out of the shirt factory. He also recommends considera tion ot the plan of road work by convicts to at least a limited extent. Agrlrultaral Extension Work, lie .advocates the necessary , legislation to secure the benefits for the state of the Smith-Lever act and the co-ordination of agricultural extension work by cutting out the farmer institute work and devot ing such efforts to the activities of field workers under the federal aid provision. He. also asks for the first steps toward a coiul relic nsive soil survey ot the state. He afks for proper appropriations to c an y on the work of the railway com mission in its efforts tp aid the people of the state to continue their efforts to se cure better freight rates. He rails) attention t,o the report of tho stste investigating committee allowing collection of Interest on state funds by former state trcanurers, and that . the stale legal department has begun suits for, recovery, and that to continue such suits will require legislative action. He closes with a plea for such economy In state expenditures as the estimated receipts will cover, and at the same time not to pare to a point of crippling state Institutions. Beo VVant Ads Produce Results. DAKOTA LEGISLATORS SELECT THEIR OFFICERS I'lERRK, P. P.. Jan. 5. (.Special Tele grnm.1 The caucuses of the two houses of jhe legislature were held last even ing, resulting In these selections for the senate official t-taff: , c. K Amsden. president pro tern: W. X. Van Camp, secretary; Harlan Wisman, fir.-t aasistunt: William Patterson, second nsaislant; W. A. Branch, bill clerk; leiinard P- Robertson, head of engrossing force; Ralph Suthertnnd, aergeant-at-arina; O. A. Overby, postmaster; A. W. l ewis, messenger. Tiie house selections were: C. A." Chriatopherson, speaker; Charles W. iJardher. chief clerk; Charles A. Al eeth, firit assistant;. Perry Teters. second assistant; J. II. Wooley. bill clerk; Ed ward Moscrip, sergeat-at-arma; Ed fltod dard. postmaster; Elwin Bartlett, mes senger. oftea wesieu erta a stroBC coostitutioa Iowa ia aerrow rniHoau, ka fuor aad repeated coLJs. . SCOTTS EMULSION Is helping mousanas every oar; nsrara oil-food enriches ths blood, aid tha Ivors It is a ttrenffth-sastainlar toale rrea from alcohol, try it. Perry Bennett, a young lawyer ssslst ant to Podge. The Clutching Hand hae wronged Red and he is anxious to get even with It. Rennet Is a fine fellow with a pleasing personality and it Is soon ap parent that he has made a deep Impres sion on Elaine Podge. We may suspect that the feeling Is a deep tine between the two, but we may only suspect. The terrible workings of the gang are brought before us. Wie envelope with the gang's trade mark is pinned on Podge's door and he received a mys tcrioua letter with the same insignia at Cash Wheat Rises to $1.36 on Chicago Board of Trade CHICAGO. Jan. 5. Plrectly as a con sequence of the European war. cash wheat In Chicago today sold at $1.364 a bushel, the highest price In more than forty years. Moreover the chief specu lative option, May delivery, rose to $1.37!, 1.37 a bushel, an a ivance of more than 10 cents a bushel since a week ago, an 1 3 cents above last night's figures. The market closed unsettled, but not far from the top level of the day. On the first trades the market jumped as much as 2'4 cents higher than at the close last night, making an advance of 6 cents a bushel since yesterday morning. May wheat touched $1.37 at the opening today, whereas the price last night was JI.34'2, and at the wlndup Saturday was $1.31. Sharply higher quotations from Liver pool and a big falling off in the Euro pean visible supply were chiefly in fluential In causing the fresh upturn In the wheat market here." What the situation implied was em phasized by announcements today that leading brands of flour has been ad vanced 9 cents a barrel over night. Good flour was quott-d at $7. Profit taking by holders of wheat wiped out much of the extreme advance recorded at the outset today, but the market gave no sign of going back to yesterday's prices. It "-was said that farmers were selling no wheat, even at the advance, and that exporters were eagerly continu ing to buy. Court Limits Time Chimes May Ring in Memory of Mr. Lyle NEW YORK. Jan. 5. The chimes on the estate, of Mrs. Julia Gertrude Lyle at Tcnafly, X. J., may be rung three times a day during the week and twice on Sunday, and not. every fifteen min utes, according to a decision yesterday by Vice Chancellor Vivian Lewis In Jer sey City. In the future Mrs. I.yle may have her bell ringer at 8 o'clock every week day morning ring the chimes for Juat thirty seconds. At 4ioon a hymn may be played for three minutes. Again at sunset Mrs. I-yle may play again. On Sundays the schedule la changed. The court's ' pro gram la that tho first chimea must not sound until 10 a. m. Again at sunset tho bells may chime. Mrs.- Lyle spent $7J,000 in having the stone bell tower erected on the estate at Tcnafy In memory of her husband, John L. Lyle. By clockwork the bell tolled every fifteen "-minutes of the day and night. Neighbors testified thsy could not sleep. Two Men Are Killed in Battle Between Police and Bandits CHICAGO, Jan. 5. A policeman and a burglar were shot to death and an alleged highwayman was mortally wounded In twi revolver battles police fought with four robbers, caught In an attempted holdup and a burglary here early today. The dead: JOHN BATSMAN, policeman. GEORGE HEXXESsET, burglar. Tlie wounded: "Jack" Put ton, a police character. Putton and an unidentified negro com panion, whi escaped, shot and killed Sausman as ha attempted to arrest them after an attempted holdup. Putton was shot four Umes by policemen, w ho trapped him a few blocks away from the scene of the killing. Hennessey was shot and killed by Pet ecu ve Axel Jensen, who found him prying open a store window. Canal Fort Guns Big Enough, but Too Few WASHINGTON, Jan. I. - Governor Goethala of the Panama canal sone told the house appropriations subcommittee on fortifications today that while guns and ammunition at the canal wars ample now It waa necessary to have provision for duplications. "Could foreign warships outrange tha guns of the ct, nl fortifications?' asked Chairman KlUgenUd. . "No." replied tha governor. "Our guns are of equal rant;?, so far aa our information goes." Governor Goethala did not Ix-Ucve the j government would be justified in In stalling larger guns. bis office that advises him to destroy directions that be has already reeclved. Rushing to Rennet's house he finds Elaine, Rennet and a young reporter, named Walter Jampson there, conferring Ion the situation. Junrsw, hearing of the I things that Dodge has to tell, rushes to his friend. Craig Kennedy, the fsmoua detective, and enlists his interest in case. Then we come to the trugedy. We see Podge enter his house and take ttie con fession of l.lnipy Red from the safe, a precaution, and place It in a recess In the wall of his room. A moment later ha RACE DP MOUNTAIN SIDE WITtt CANNON French Win Three-Mile Sprint that Turns Tide of Battle for Fos . session of, Steinbach. ANNIHILATE GERMAN BATTERY THANX. Alsace, Jan. .". A race of three miles up the steep sloiie at Engel burg, through thickets and up rocky steps, between a battalion of French light Infantry with mountain guns and a Ger man battery determined the result of the stubborn fight for the Alsatian town ot Stelnbacn. The French surprised a movement of the German battery ascending toward the summit of the mountain by road, and taking a short cut, accomplished what seemed to be the Impossible. 1 The French battalion arrived five minutes before the Germans appeared In an open space and had Just time to put Into position their mountain guns. Five minutes more and all waa over. Too late the Germans attempted to retire and the battery was annihilated. Possession of this point permitted th French to cross the River Thur above the town of Thann and to reinforce the troops operating around ftclnba"h. French Occupy Heights. On the morning of Pocember 31 the French occupied all the licigbta around the town and sent an envoy to the Gor man commandant demundlng the sur render of the placo. The German officer replied: "The German commander-in-chief con siders that our forces are in no wiso cut off. The route to Germany (Bcnnlielm) still is r.pen and retreat always Is pos sible. In any case the emperor's troops aro ready to die; but to surrender, never." At noon on the same day the French commenced an attack which waa con tinued without intermission. The French successes began with tho capture, at tho point ot the bayonet, of a farm com manding the- road entering tho town. Tho French then progressed road by j road, until the village was reached. Ormiaa Defense Is Stubborn. Charges and counter charges of infantry were made amid the continual booming of the' French three-Inch guns from all tho heights to .which the Germans replied with ever diminishing violence which In dicated a shortage of ammunition. The Germans mado a stubborn defense with machine guna and cold steel. at the outskirts of Btelnbach and tho Chasseurs also were met with a murderous firo from the church steeple. Ono French company asked permission to charge. Mjiy soldiers fell before they reached tha German line, hut nothing could stop ths- rest and the German force guarding tho road was surrounded and annihilated. In poasaasion of tho road and the farm the chasscuru .mounted quick ; firing guns on a line of sheds connecting with the village and sweeping along, yard by yard, finally captured the first line of houses. The strugglo was then continued from house to house, ths French losing ono day the buildings captured on the pro ceding one. but always returning to tn charge with greater violence and making a further advance. Kvery alley was an ambush and every house a little fortress. Chare Twice Taken, Twice I.nat. The French finally aucceded in alipnlng around the enemy's right along the .stein bach brook and then commenced a fierce combat for the possession of Ktelnl.a. h Itself. The church and the cemetery twice wer taken and twice were lost. Since hand-to-hand fighting was now go ing on night and day and from door to Ouch! Lame Back Rub Lumbago Or Backache Away1 Kidneys caue Backache? No! Thry havs no nerves, therefore can not cause pain. Listen! Your backaihe Is caused by lumbago, sciatica, or a strain, and the quickest relief Is soot!ilnK, penetrating "St. Jarohs Oil.1' Hub It right on your psiinui tack, and Instantly the soreness, stiffness and lameness disappears. Pon t stay i Tippled! fist a small trial bottle of "Kt. Jarobs Oil" from your druicgtst and Umber tip. A moment after It Is applied you II wonder what liecame of th back, ache or lumbago pain. Hub old. honest "St. Jarolx OH" lieii eer you have ax lath s. neuralgia, rheu matism 'or Muslim, as it Is abcultiMy harmless sud ducHi'l burn the ski. " FOR&:: 1 stens on the Iron radiator in bis room and reaches for the telephone. The mo ment he touches it there Is a powerful electric flash and he drops dead. A few moments later a masked In truder enters the room and In a way new even to professional burglars, blows a hole In the top of the safe, and putting his hand In extracts what he believes to be I.lntpy Red's confession and eacapea. A little later Mmpy Red Is killed in a low dive as the result of his "squealing." Kennedy, with the keen perception of his great mind, fears for Podge, rushes door, the Germans, unable lonaer to use their artillery, resorted to Incendiary bombs and set fire to a number of hams and houses occupied by the French. A changing wind, however, obliged the Germans themselves to quit the first line of trenches, being unable to control the fire, and the flames finally reached tha ammunition reserves. The explosion which occurred when the ammunition caught firo made the little town tremble as though from an earthquake. .still the Germans held on till the morn ing of January 4. when the last courage ous resistance of the defenders waa worn out by the persistent and Impetuous charges of the chasseurs anil the whole town was occupied. ThlH point the gateway to Ccrnay (.Heniihelm), which commands Important routes to the south, to the north and to the east, la no longer tenable for the Germans. fore Throat anil Cheat. yulckly relieved by Pr. Hells Plne-Tar-Honey. It eases the throat, soothes tha lungs, loosens phelgm. Only 2."c. All druggists. Advertisement. TWO GIVEN PEN TERMS . IN FLORIDA. LAND CASES KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Jan. S.-Pr. B. C. 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