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m 41 1 1 m i nwwwmmmmmmmm YOUNG GIRL'S ROUGH LIFE ROAD LED TO SUICIDE In the short life of 17-year-old Mil dred Dykstro, who suicided by the gas route in a Clark street rooming house last night, she encountered all the traditional elements of unhappiness that wreck young girls' lives and de stroy potential mothers stepmother of the wrong kind, neglect, a villain ous man, desertion and then suicide. Mildred Dykstro was from Lafay ette, Ind. Two years ago her mother died. The mother had been the girl's companion, her confident. Then her father married again. The girl's life was very lonely after that. The girl said before she died that the stepmother did not like her. Then one day HE came to town, good looking and wise. He is supposed to be an actor. He met the girl, and decided to stay around. In some manner she came to trust him. She told him of how empty her life had been since her mother's death. Then one night she finally yielded and elopted to Chicago with him. He brought her to a rooming house at 950 N. Clark street and paid her rent He told her he was going to get a marriage license. But he never re turned. She went downtown and got a job in a restaurant But the work was too hard for her. She was discharged. And then broke and hopeless she turned on the gas. She was taken to the undertaking rooms at 1104 Wells street o o FRENCH GIRLS COME TO THE RESCUE IN MEN'S JOBSv Paris, Aug. 6. The women of Paris rose today to the emergency created by drafting the men of the city for the army. Society women took the places of men clerks in stores to sell necessi ties. Young girls sold tickets in the underground stations. Other acted as waiters in cafes. Grocery stores and meat markets were run by women. Small boys were put on as guards on the underground trains. The motor men are aged, gray-haired men, in eligible for service in the army. The American' adventurer gets the same treatment from the American embassy as the millionaire. James Gordon Bennett, millionaire owner of the New York Herald, is acting as a reporter for his newspapers, going daily to the American embassy to collect "stories." Up to today 8,500 Americans have registered at the embassy. o o SLIP MADE IN THE ROSENWALD TAXING FIGHT IS ON Roy O. West and Fred W. Blocki, the big duo of the board' of review, appeared in Judge Olson courtroom today as witnesses for Mrs. Julius Ro senwald, who State's Attorney Hoyne is now suing in connection with his tax campaign. Hoyne wants the county to collect on $440,000 capital stock, whereas West and Blocki only taxed on one tenth that amount. West and Blocki testified this morning that they placed a -valuation of $440,000 on Mrs. Ro senwald's capital stock, but they had intended only to tax on one-tenth be cause they figured that nine-tenths represented the good will and man agerial ability. But, through some clerical error, which West and Blocki would not have happen Mrs. Rosenwald for the world, the full valuation was sent to the county treasurer's office. Then West and Blocki got busy, with the result that the stick was re duced. But Hoyne want spayment on full valuation. The other side is try ing, to block. So the fight rests. Judge OIs$h expressed a donbt as to his jurisdiction in the case. o o It will be very remarkable if the Austrian-Servian trouble is "local-izedas-Germany demands. It is a large bone and the dogs of war are I very hungry. AMMMMMMBiMMkAIti