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$t Ik BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Hap penings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U. S.Teutonic War News Rudolph Haecht, cousin of Otto H. Kahn, the banker and prominent in so ciety, was taken into custody at ,$few York by federal secret service meirand will be interned on Ellis Island for the balance of the war. Dispatches to Washington announc ing the destruction of the Kansan by a German submarine, said that four members of the crew were missing, but all the armed naval guard was safe. The vessel was valued at $3,000,000. Peace without annexation is not ac ceptable to Germany. Germany can win if she holds out. Chancellor von Eethmaiiii-IIolIweg so declared in a speech before the'main committee of 1he reuhstag at Berlin, according to the Lokal Anzeiger. "I consider it my duty to remain -as chancellor for the protection of the fatherland. I cannot give Germany's peace* terms now," he said. Hard and fast lines are being drawn by the army authorities at Washing ton to cut down the number of ex emptions under the draft and to permit no man to escape military service until his right to exemption shall have been established by Indisputable proof. While becalmed, the American bnrk entine Hlldegard, 022 tons, was sunk by a submarine. The crew Was landed. The submarine fired five shells and then ,ink the ship with bombs. Emma Goldman and Alexander Bejk man were found guilty of conspiracy against the selective draft act at New York. The jury was out but 20 min utes. Federal Judge Mayor immedi ately sentenced them to two years' Imprisonment each and fined each $10,- 000. London says that the American steamer Mnssnpequn was sunk by a German submarine. The crew was landed. The Mnssapequa, 3,193 tons gross, was armed with guns manned by naval gunners. Domestic "A ign of terror" has struck north ern Idaho. Industrial Workers of the World are spreading all over the state. Two thousand troops are needed In northern Idaho to cope with the gi gantic fight being put up by the I. W. W. to pre\ent the United States from getting 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber necessary to carry on its war program. This was the gist of the recommenda tion made by the state defense coun cil In its report to the secretary of war. It was officially announced at Wash ington that the Illinois division of'the National Guard will be sent to camp at Houston, Tex. The Michigan and Wis consin division was assigned to camp at Waco, Tex., and the Iowa, Minne sota. Nebraska and Dakotas division to camp nt Deming N. M. The Nebraska council of defense Is sued a statement at Lincoln, charging "certain professors of the University of Nebraska" and "the conspicuous representatives of the Lutheran: church" in the state with "disloyal ac tivity and passivity that has tended to give aid and comfort to Germany ns an enemy." The street car strike at Blooming ton. 111., is settled. The union con ceded an open shop and the street railway company recognized the union, settling the two big points of differ ence. The men went back to Avork at once. Two dormitories at the university at Valparaiso, Ind., were destroyed by fire. The damage Is estimated at $40,- -000. Several women were slightly burned. Names for four of the cantonment camps nt which the national army will be trained were designated by the war department at Washington as follows: Second division. Yaphank, L. I., Camp Long Island Third division. Wrights town, N. J., Camp Wiightstown Fourth dhision, Annapolis Junction, Md.. Camp Admiral Fifth division, Petersburg. Va.. Camp Virginia. A 3,000.000,000-bushel crop of corn this year is the answer returned b"y farmers of the United States to Presi dent Wilson's call for food for Amer ica's allies in the war. Never before has such a crop been grown. Wheat remaining on farms July 1 is estimated at 15,720.000 bushels. In its first fore cast of corn production this year the department of agriculture at Washing ton announced that July 1 conditions forecast a crop of 3,124.000,000 bushels. A record crop of white potatoes also, is forecast with a production of 452,- 000.000 bushels. T"" "W^i K^y, Sixty Industrial Workers of the World were arrested near Kllensburg, Wash., by federal troops and accused of interfering with crop harvesting and logging in violation of federal statutes. They will be placed in a stockade. Five men are known to be dead, a number injured, following two explo sions in the plant of the Interstate Sanitation company at Cincinnati. The bodies were burned beyond identifica tion. An armed posse of citizens of Wood River, Alton and Hartford, 111., circled a negro camp, in which there were 100 men, and compelled them to take up their journey where it had been stopped. The posse returned to Hart ford. Hartford citizens declare they will not permit the blacks to even loiter in that vicinity. Federal agents at Cleveland, O., ar rested Ernest Wolden, reporter for the, German paper Waechter and Anzeiger, after he bad defied the president's proclamation and entered the barred zone about the armory. Personal Henry Field, grandson of the late Marshall Field of Chicago and heir to one-half of the $125,000,000 residuary estate left by his grandfather, died in New York. The youflg man was mar ried five months ago to Nancy Kean Perkins In New York. Foreign Die Zukunft, Maximilian Harden's publication, has now been suppressed for the remainder of the war, accord ing to the Berlin T^geblatt. Herr Harden will be employed ns a mili tary clerk. German Imperial Chancellor von Rethmann-Hollweg, says the Koel nische Volks Zeitung, promised the relchstag that he would consent to the resignation from the cabinet of For eign Minister Zimm'ermann and Dr. Karl Helffericht, secretary of the in terior and vice chancellor. In addition five members of the Prussian cabinet will be asked to resign. The North China Daily News de clares it Is virtually established that Gen. Chang Hsun, lender of the im perialist forces, is on German fay says a Renter dispatch to London from Shanghai. If the monnrchial movement had succeeded, the newspaper contin ues, the rupture of relations between China and Germany would have been canceled. A sharply censored Berlin special dispatch to Copenhagen says that the emperor at Sunday's audience, ex pressed confidence in the Imperial chancellor and approved Doctor von Bethmnnn-Hollweg's course In oppos ing the reichstag demand to commit Germany to peace without annexations or indemnities. Washington The house at Washington passed the "trading with the enemy" act, giving the president board powers to prohibit trading with firms or with firms allied with enemies of the United States. President Wilson appealed to the country's business interests to put aside every selfish consideration and to give their aid to the nation as free ly as those who go out to offer their lives on the battlefield. In a state ment at Washington addressed to the coal operators and manufacturers he gave assurances that just prices will be paid by the government and the public during the war, but warned that no attempt to extort unusual profits will be tolerated. Unanimous consent to begin final voting on the food control bill and all amendments not later than 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, .Tidy 21, was given In the senate at Washington and the cloture motion was withdrawn. A report on the food situation pre pared for President Wilson by Herbert Hoover, holding that both the farmer and the consuming public are suffering while food speculators make unearned profits from the delay In enactment of food control legislation, was given out at the White House In Washington. It was announced at Washington that James W. Gerard, former am bassador to Germany, has retired from the diplomatic service and returned to private life. European War News Halicz the strategic key to Lemberg. capital of Gitlleia, has been captured by the Russians, says a dispatch to London, from Router's Petrograd cor respondent. Two German seaplanes were de stroyed by an armed British trawler, it was officially announced at London. Four Germans were captured. Italy's total war expenditure to the end of May was $1,000,000,000. *ays a treasury statement issued at Rome. Several villages anl more than 7.000 men have been captured by the Rus sians west of Stanislau in Galicia, the Petrograd war office announces. The Berlin war office admitted gains by the Russians In the region of Stan islau, 60 miles south of Lemberg. The statement says: "The Russians again attacked at Stanislau and gained ground." PRESIDENT HITS DOLLARPATRIOTS Asks Business Interests to Put Aside Selfishness and Give Aid Ho Nation. SHfPOWNERSARECONDEMNED There Must Be but One Price for Gov ernment and for Public, Says WilsonJustice Is Keynote of Appeal. Washington.President Wilson ap pealed to the country's business In terests Wednesday to put aside every sellish consideration and to give their aid to the nation as freely as those who go to offer their lives on the bat tlefield. The president's statement follows: "The government is about to attempt to determine the prices at which it will ask you henceforth to furnish va rious supplies which are necessary for the prosecution of the war, aitd vari ous materials which will be needed in the industries by which the war must be sustained. We shall, of course, try to determine them justly and to the best advantage of the nation as a whole but justice is easier to speak of than to arrive at, and there are some considerations which I hope we shall keep steadily In mind while this particular problem of justice is being worked out. Promises iust Price. "Therefore I take the liberty of stating very candidly my own view of the situation and of the principles which should guide both the govern ment and the mine owners and man ufacturers of the country In this dif ficult matter. "A just price must, of course, be paid for everything the government buys. By a just price I mean a price which will sustain the Industries con cerned In a high state of efficiency, provide a living for those who con duct them, enable them to pay good wages, and make possible the ex pansions of their enterprises which will from time to time become neces sary as the stupendous undertakings of this great war develop, Must Face the Facts. "We could not wisely or reasonably do less than pay such prices. They are necessary for the maintenance and development of industry, and the maintenance and development of in dustry are necessary for the great task we have in hand. "But I trust that we shall nqt sur round the matter with a mist of sen timent. Facts are our masters now. We ought not to put the acceptance of such prices on the ground of patri otism." "Patriotism has nothing to do with profits in a case like this. Patriotism and profits ought never in the present circumstances be mentioned together. "It Is perfectly proper to discuss profits as a matter of business, with a view to maintaining the integrity of capital and the efficiency of labor In these tragical months, when the lib erty of free men everywhere and of industry itself trembles in the bal ance but it would be absurd to dis cuss them'as a motive for helping to serve and save our country. "Patriotism leaves profits out of the question. In these days of our su preme trial, when we are sending hun dreds of thousands of our young men across the seas to serve a great cause, no true man who stays behind to work for them and sustain' them by his labor will ask himself what he is personally going to make out of that labor. "No true .patriot will permit himself to take toll of their heroism in money or seek to grow rich by the shedding of their blood. He will give as freely and with as unstinted self-sacrifice as they. When they are giving their lives, will he not at least give his money? Assails "Bribery." "I hear It insisted that more than a Just price, more than a price that will sustain our industries, must be paid that It Is necessary to pay very liberal and unusual profits In order to stimulate* production that nothing but pecuniary rewards will dore wards paid in money, not in the mere liberation of the world. "I take it for granted that those who argue thus do not stop to think what that means. "Do they mean that you must be paid, must be bribed, to make your contribution, a contribution that costs yon neither a drop of blood nor a tear, when the whole world is in travail and men everywhere depend upon and call to you to bring them out of bondage and make the world a fit place to live In again, amidst peace and justice? Appeals to Honor. "Do they mean that you will exact a price, drive a bargain, with the men FROM NEAR AND FAR With wireless stations powerful enough to reach vessels in all of its waters, the Chinese government will establish a typhoon warning service. Attachments that accompany a watch patented by a New York man enable it to be worn on a wrist or in a pocket, holding it securely in either case. There are some 30,000 craters on the moon, and these are the product of long ages. anmm Tttt"w\ "~"v "ff'Trrt-"-" THE TOMAHAWK, WHITE EARTH, MINN. 4 who are enduring the agony of thi* wur on the battlefields, in the trenches, amidst the lurking dangers of the sea, or with the bereaved women and piti ful children, before you will come for ward to do your duty and give some part of ou life, in easy, peaceful fashion, for the things we are fight ing for, the things we have pledged our fortunes, our lives, our sacred hon or to vindicate and defendliberty and justice and fair dealing and the peace of nations? "Of course you will not. It is In conceivable. Your patriotism is of the .same self-denying stuff as the pa triotism of the men dead or maimed on the fields of France, or else it is not patriotism at all. Full Dollar's Worth. "Let us never speak, then, of profits and of patriotism in the same sen tence, but face facts and meet them. Let us do sound business, but not in the midst of a mist. "Many a grievous burden of taxa tion will be laid on this nation, in this generation and in the next, to pay for this war let us see to it that for every dollar that is taken from the people's pockets it shall be possible to obtain a dollar's worth of the sound stuff they need. "Let me turn for a moment to the ship owners of the United States and the other ocean carriers whose ex ample they have followed, and ask them if they realize what obstacles, what almost insuperable obstacles, they have been putting in the way of the successful prosecution of this war by the ocean freight rates they have been exacting. Making War a Failure. "They are doing everything that high freight charges can do to make the war a failure, to make it impos sible. "I do not say that they realize this or intend it. The thing has happened naturally enough because the commer cial processes which we are content to see operate in ordinary times have without sufficient thought been con tinued into a period where they have no proper place. "I am not questioning motives. I am merely stating a fact, and stating it in order that attention may be fixed upon it. "The fact is that those who. have fixed war freight rates have taken the most effective means in their power to defeat the armies engaged against Ger many. When they realize this we may, I take it for granted, count upon them to reconsider the whole matter. It is high time. Their extra hazards are covered by war risk insurance. Warning Is Sounded. "I know, and you know, what re sponse to this great challenge of duty and of opportunity the nation will ex pect of you and* I know what re sponse you will make. "Those who do not respond, who do not respond In the spirit of those who have gone to give their lives for us on bloody fields far away, may safely be left to be dealt with by opinion and the lawfor the law must, of course, command those things. "I am dealing with the matter thus publicly and frankly, not because I have any doubt or fear as to the result but only in order that in all our thinking and in all our dealings with one an other we may move in a perfectly clear air of mutual understanding. Must Have Same Prices. "And there is something more that we must add to our thinking. The public is now as much a part of the government as are the army and navy themselves the whole people In all their activities are now mobilized and in service for the accomplishment of the nation's task in this war It is in such circumstances impossible just ly to distinguish between industrial purchases made by the government and industrial purchases made by the managers of industries, and it is just as much oar duty to sustain the indus trials of the country with all the in dustries that contribute to its life as it is to sustain our forces in the field and on the sea. Think Not of Self. "We must make prices to the pub lkfthe same a* the prices to the gov ernment. Pricls mean the same thing everywhere now. ifhey mean the effi ciency or the inefficiency of the na tion, whether it is the government that pays them or not. They mean victbry or defeat. They mean that America will win her place once for all among the foremost free nations of the worW or that she will sink to defeat and be come a second-rate power alike in thought and in action. This is a day of her reckoning and every man among us must personally face that reckoning along with her. "The case needs no arguing. I as sume that I am only expressing your own thoughtswhat must be in the mind of every true man when he faces the tragedy and the solemn glory of the present war, for the emancipation of mankind. "I summon you to a great duty, a great privilege, a shining dignity and distinction. I shall expect every man who is not a slacker to be at my side throughout this great enterprise. In it no man can win honor who thinks of hiinsetf." A patent has been Issued for a per forated towel rack for bath rooms that can be connected to a faucet by a rubber tube jaml used as a bath spray. Electrically controlled oilers for moving machinery have been invented, several of which can be operated from a centrally located switchboard. Japan harvested more than 296,000,- 000 bushels o$* rice last year, an in crease of more than 6,600,000 bushels from the previous high record, made in_1914. gggn Doings of Last Few Days Throughout Minnesota Condensed for Hasty Perusal. J. J. Lomen, 61 years old, for*man years active in Minnesota politics, died at the St. Paul hospital of locomotor ataxia after an illness of six years. The thirteenth annual encampment 3f the -Minnesota veterans of the Spanish-American war has been held with almost 300 members attending. The office of Captain H. S. Nelson, regimental adjutant of the Second Minnesota infantry, reports a gain in a week of more than 200 enlistments. Poison beans, shipped into the United States either with intent to cause harm to consumers or sent by mistake, have been found in Minne sota. Authority for the tri-state flood con trol agreement between Minnesota, North and South Dakota is given in the rivers and harbors bill in Con gress. Olga, 8-year-old daughter of John Pakiz, Chisholm, has been lost in the woods. Two hundred volunteer search ers, men and women, were out at last report. The embargo placed by the United States government on the exportation of grain, effective July 15, is already beginning to affect sales of wheat in Minnesota. Less than half the states in the Cen tral Western deimrtment have reached their quota in applications for the sec ond officers' training camp to be held soon. Minnesota's quota is 361 and 225 have applied. Seven persons are believed to have lost their lives when the excursion steamer Muskegon went down on Big Stone lake near here during a heavy storm. Two of the nine persons known to have been on the boat were found lying on- the shore of the lake. Colonel Benjamin B. Herbert of Chi cago, founder of the National Editorial association, who has taken suddenly ill, died at the University of Minnesota farm school hospital. Death was due to heart disease. Col. Herbert had been attending the editors' convention In Minneapolis. A bombardment of the soldiers' home with make believe shells and a battle between the Red and Blue armies for possession of the stone tower at Fort Snelling marked the beginning of the military training week at Fort Snelling. The carnage was mythical and the property dam age slight. Congressional action requiring the Federal Trade commission immediate ly to take over the operation of Ameri can paper mills for the benefit of the war and to import and distribute Cana dian neAVS print paper, was demanded in resolutions adopted by the National Editorial association- in session in Min neapolis. One hundred clubwomen from all parts of Minnesota "gathered at the 3tate capitol for a two-day convention, the like of which no group of club women ever staged in Minnesota be fore. Each of the 86 counties in Min nesota had at least one delegate and all of the 10 congressional districts were represented. Active preparation for mobilization of the Minnesota National Guard units trot already .in the Federal service be gan upon receipt of the expected! or ders calling them hito the Federal ser vice. The guard units affected are the Second and Third infantry regiments, hospital corps, Second artillery, now being organized, and the ambulance company, yet to be organized. Scores of war gardens in Winona are doomed to 'failure because of high water in Lake Winona, which is fed by the Mississippi. Tearing down an American flag and crushing under his heel while utter ing vile epithets almost cost Victor Salmi his life at Kinney, Minn. Winona county has experienced the 'dryest" Sunday in its history. Every saloon in the county was closed in ac sordance with an order issued to the 3aloon men by the sheriff. Herbert C. Hotaling, of Mapleton, Minn., was slated for election as presi dent of the National Editorial associa tion, which met in Minneapolis Mon day for a four days' session. All dental instruments needed by the Minnesota base hospital have been given to the hospital by a group of Minnesota dentists, who raised a fund $1,650 to make the purchase. Fruit raising has received great impetus in the Red River valley, ludging from reports received at the northwest experiment station the strawberry belt has moved northward again. In spite of the late opening of the aavigation season and ice delays after svards, the receipts of coal at Duluth md Superior docks from the East up to June 30 were just 580,000 tons less lian a year ago. State ami civil authorities are con sidering the necessity of calling a bat .alion of regulars from Fort Snelling guard nearly 300 slackers who are ander arrest in the Minnesota Iron ange districts when they are taken to Duluth for trial. The Northwestern Minnesota Young Peoples' league of the Norwegian Jnited church at their annual session leld here elected the following officers or the ensuing year: The Rev. Mr. tfoen, Crookston, president the Rev. V. N. Skogerboe, Thief River Falls, 'ice president Bert W. Lee, Oslo, sec etary Miss Assing, Mcintosh, treas srer. -Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCrum, residing short~ distance from Thief River tils, are in receipt of a letter from Ongressma* Halver Steenerson hanking them for having four chil ren enlisted in the war. ^^ymff"^^" tf^lgyT^ TWENTY-TWO COUNTIES SEND OPTIMISTIC REPORTS TO STATE IMMIGRATION COMMISSIONER. CALLS FOR FARM HELP SEEN Many Localities Indicate Probabls Need of Additional Labor Soon Potatoes FlourishSmall Grains Normal. St. Paul Minnesota crops generally are in good condition and the yield will sur pass that of last year, according to reports from twenty-two counties re ceived by F. D. Sherman, state com missioner of immigration. The po tato crop in particular, the reports, indicate, is in excellent cfindition, while wheat and oats are about nor mal. Corn, however, is somewhat backward and will take several days of hot weather to bring it up to the yearly average. Many of the reports contain state ments that additional farm help will be required soon. Fair to Be Food Camp Model. With noted men of the country as lecturers and an extensive exhibition, of food products, the Minnesota State Fair, September 3 to 8, will be a model for other food training camps to be conducted at state fairs as a part of the government's food conservation program, Ray P. Speer of the Minne sota State Agricultural society, who arrived in St. Paul from Washington last week, sjaid. While in Washington Mr. Speer had a conference with Mr. Hoover and President Wilson on the proposal ami has returned to accept a position on Mr. Hoover's advisory council to be in charge of the fair camps. For School of Mines Building. Changes in the school of mines building and the mines testing works to cost $6,000 have been authorized by the board of regents of the University to meet the requirements of the gov ernment for the establishing of a fed eral mines' experiment station at the university. The board pledged itself to try to get the next Legislature to provide a suitable building for the station. Furtherance of plans to es tablish a school of military aeronau tics was delegated to the executive committee. Governor Visits W. J. Smith. On a visit of the State Pardon board to the penitentiary at Stillwater Governor Burnquist talked with W. J. Smith, former state treasurer, whose application for a pardon has come be fore the board. Governor Burnquist, Chief Justice Brown of the supreme court and Attorney General Smith, who constitute the pardon board, inter viewed a dozen prisoners who have applied for pardons. Crops to Outstrip 1916 Records. Official government crop estimates for July 1 show that, with the excep tion of corn and hay, Minnesota will far outstrip the records of 1916. The, estimate of winter wheat places the Minnesota crop at 1,270,000 bushels. The December estimate was 910,000 bushelB, U. S. Approves Guard Accounting. Approval by the War department of Adjt. Gen. Fred B. Wood's financial account with the federal government, as reported from Washington, means that Minnesota will be able to draw on the government from time to time for whatever funds are needed by state guardsmen in federal service. Copies of Commercial Acts Sent Out, Copies of the uniform commercial acts adopted in Minnesota, printed int pamphlet form, are being distributed! by the secretary of state. Four uni form acts have been adopted, those on negotiable instruments, warehouse re-r ceipts, bills of lading and sales. Regiment In Fine Condition. The enlistment of 22 men has brought the First Minnesota infantry up to war strength. Col. Erie D. Luce says that, he believes his regiment is in as fine shape physically as any in fantry regiment in the United States. Gopher Troops to Go to Fort Sill. Fort Sill, Okla., instead of Deming, N. M as originally selected, will be the training place of the Minnesota national guard, it is said at the mili tia bureau of the War department. Brewers to Fight "Piggers." Minnesota brewers and foreign brew ers who have agencies in the state have formed an organization to make war on blindnigaers, and will act in co-operation with the police authorities of the state to that end. Gravel Road Across State Soon. Within a year Minnesota will have a stretch of 540 miles of gravel road ex tending from the southern border to the Canadian border. This was the prediction of J. H. Beek of St. Paul, president of the Jefferson Highway as sociation, following a tour of inspec tion to points along the highway in Minnesota. "Minnesota will b& the* first state along the highway," Mr. Beek said, "to have its entire line im proved with gravel. At preBent work' is being done particularly wear Thief River Falls.