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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. Bock Islaad Member Aadit Bureau ClrealatloM A. B. C. Associated T)res Leased I Wire SIXTV-1 (Jl.'llTII YKAIL XCI. 17. S.VTL'HDA V. MAY 13. 1915. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ED BY CARRA AMERICAN CITIZENS M MEXICO OUTRAG NZA SOLDIERS NOTE HALTED ON ITS TRIP TO GERMANY V."a..,..,.r. .c n Surprised at De Uy Exp nr.cid After R-.Uyed ia Rome. f IS ulUCH SPECULATION I; paper Says Gov- r.: Vu! Ure Arbi it.ir.U. r.-. t :.' m. I n r V . m. i r . .1 it II.- f i 'l i i .1 .- W . . , Ilr .-nt'iu t . 1 1 ...cm m.irn i fir I fti'' r rkn" f I lr .aliitx Ll -ii IH M 6 ? .1-. :, l.-5.v! I" i : .i r-,-.r.. e Ft . i. i. i f ' i ;;.. i r ' ,.,..... . i i i. -..i .in :-. i : ::,.. ' rum, f.-f.'iija i ""! j: 4 ; y ,)::. ,i, t r. " : :. ft.' -f t '! !...!. -! ' IS win !:.-!. r.. - h.t ' ;l ? 'HP'-:'j! . 'i un t -..I' if t.i t::f..iv pr--v.-i;- n,Bt f ! .:'. 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Vr 1S W'lMLam Thaw -..'. -W'll'.latn Thaw of tn u M-rvtric a a asLitntf In m. Sv-.j.rW . : w . . . . i. vorp. hmm brt rr.ri-nrn.ir.! In ertnr rrdr t - M br.Hunt rp!cr an! . farlr.t I Sr prrrftllir f.un,tt.t mil. 'T I' - - ' - cr--. iut bC! - . - ! of I !: war ta tbe An.rrlran M'ADOO IN A DENIAL OF BANK S CHARGES W,hlfctoi. I. May IS. iecre- tary McAdoosnl Coo.pt roltrr Williams flr-4 ta the di.trtrt supreme court to-' dA an aaswer to the Injunction suit i broujtM by the KIcks National back. . harsir.c tbrta f.S conspiracy to wrrck the lnt.tution. Their answer Is a swerp as drcUl tf mZl the Laak'S Utaicea, AMERICA BLAMED BY BERLIN PAPER ' ZrttnniT Saj Cnlrmmml Nbul4 Hae Kr. Il llUrns .! ihr LnltjinU. Ar:Jtrl3. CU Lnlnn). 15. u pJacf, on Vnj novrrr.tr.er t lv the tlerlia V ..,..): ;' Mims of Thurnday. which l.-,-u' j. lht the liner tiok no care to iw: ! liar-rT. ul ron!l ler-l hep prn ti.ti'.n n'itiK In -!lvli:g Atiieriian rampart. Th. nepnprr cr's It was the A ;er. an passet.ers on Uiard u ho r f. eni-ure l!:e i.t cafes of utn- n!!i -n In bef h"!d would not te i t.U' !..!. It Is At:-.i r!ers!i ere Hated that the fact beir.is utlli'.ed f-T this purji-i.-1 naturally wa concealed from ajf.-::;era of that r.ati.iuality. The t:- ".paper xay lh American jtovern u. nt must tart frmi this point, must rtairj h a re.-.pi:isi!ile for the n."!ii!i:ifiil rf th:H ilaiiltvr and con-i:-!er whether it can allow belligerent nates to Make the Uvea of American i!iuvn In .-rder to obtain the convey- ; af:e of contrabantl. ' T , t M fc ,. i t...f. furlh.r enntrfti.1 't:..it after (jrriiuKvV declaration of a! "r tbo t '-lrr Cv- I .rmmei.t o tght to have prevented Its ; .l.jerrm fr-.tn eml'.nrking cm Krltlsn i. n.er-. even thiw on the auxiliary l.t. a In times f peace. Instead Of (--ti.i'.tlig Individual Americans ru:i !::! lancer, the magnitude wL'th tiiry fallt-d to undersiand. to of llin oiilr 80DIES FOR HOME ..rBi-lo f I hlra.nsa. With Those of t barl- I rfa man. ComlDg on Anrriran Llacr. Nr York. My 15 Th bodies of, ! nlr.e of the Lusitania dead. Including ; ... ..,.... !.,..,, r Yor nJ Mr" nJ M" a -- (don of Chlcaco r U-lnjr brought to I Nrw York aboard tee American line stramrr NV Vork. w hich mill leave i Liverpool at 9 ockvcr tonigiii ana is due In Nrw York My L'3. according to a cablrcram tx-elvej here today frotu Liverpool by the line. ALLEGED SON SEEKS PART OF BIG ESTATE Tana. Ill- May 15. Claiming that be U the eon of the late Randall K. Gor- idnn. who left the bulk of a half mll- lio. rf.iltar Miat ta two brothers. AjPhu S. hott Cordon of Decatur yentrrday fled suit !a the county court br. eej.jng to break the will. The elder Gordon, whose home was at StonltiKton. UU died In St. Louis last summer. Hi will gave 9.0.000 to the First Christian church of St. Louis and the balance to two of four of Mr. Gordon's brothers. It was be lieved that he hal died without leaving a direct helrs FRIENDS GET DERNBURGTO ENDHISSTAY Former Attache of German Foreign Office May Go to South America. SPEECHES DISPLEASE Utterances Seeking to Justi fy Lusitania Attack Are Held Menacing. Washington. D. C. May 13. Dr. Ik-riihur l Derr.burg, often referred to a the unofficial spokesman of Eui peror William in the Unite.! States. I.i." mad plans to leave the country of Lis own initiative within a short l.ie. i" tn-. an.e Kr-n i:i o";i iai quarters ; ! here t'Hiay that in J-w of the inti-.' mati.in that JTesi.l.-i.t Vi!mui am! the : talm.-t were lipi.'ase(l with Dr. IH rr.hurR's bprei h Jus-utying the sink- i inc .f the Lusitania anil some of his j other public utterances, which they j Ik !ieve.l m'.pht he calculated to array ; ser.ilinet.l f tU-nnatis l-i the L'tiiteJ j States against the WalltIlgton rov- rrnnient. friends of lr. Dernhurg here J have persuaded him to leave the I'ni-1 t-t! Slates j Just when Ir. Demount would leave or where he would go was not mad-- known; hut it was believed he would fail for Cuba or South Amcr Icji. Dr. I Vrnhurp'H activity In the I'nited States since the beEinnlnfr of the war has been closely observed by the president and other hi.h o:T;cials here, who came to believe in the last week that a continuation of his apcechaji anl statements, might, in the evert of a critical turn in rela tions with Germany, menace the do mestic welfare of America. .Ulcered Mato Denied. If has been repeatedly deried by the tlenr.an embassy as well as by Dr. iKrr.burp; himself that he was a fpokesman for the German govern ment or that he had any official sta tus. In view however, of the fact that Dr. DernburB was formerly colonial secrctarv in the German forelcn office , nr,j ha8 become prominently active in i.i!Uf nf the German cause since the nt,r..B nf w.nr nfTl.-ial.-i here be- jiovo tat German-Americans mlpht i Rtta. l ofllclal weirht to his utterances. Dr. Dcrnburp himself issued a state ment last night declaring lie had nev er discussed matters that had arisen diplomatically between the United States and Germany. Officials here made no comment on that beyond pointing to Dr. DernhurR's utterances In Cleveland and New York recently, neekinc to Justify the attack on the I.usitania. At the German embassy it was learned that Dr. Dernburi? had ex- pressed the wish himself to leave C(unf Embassy officials made leave the e it I very plain that his action was volun i tary. His departure depends on se ' curing assurances front the Itrilish 'urd French, through the mediation of 1 I the state department, for his Immun-iber ity from detention on the high seas. Kcl'usew Comment. Vew Vork. av 13. Dr. Hernhard Dernburg declined today to discuss the I statement from Washington that he i would oon leave the countrv of his own Initiative, jtemaining seriuum i - . see new spaper representatives, tn an i answer to a note enclosing a copy of the Washington dispatch, he returned the reply "no comments." Iowa Department Store Burned. Logan. Iowa. May 15. The depart - rnent store of McCord and Bolter burn ,r,l to.lav. The loss is J120.000 with ,bout ,10000 -n8Urance- rr THE WEATHER J Forecast Till " I. M. Tomorrow, for Hock Island. Davenport, -Moline and Vicinity. Probably thunder showers this af ternoon and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, wanner tonight. Temperature at 7 a, ta. 57. Highest yesterday 65, lowest last eight 52. Temperature at 1 p. tn. today SO. Velocity of wind at 7 a. tn. 16 miles per hour. Precipitation .09 Inch. Relative humidity at 7 p. tn. S3, at 7 a. ra. 73. at 1 p. m. today 59. Stage of water 5.9. a fall of .1 in last Zi hours. J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening stars: Mercury. Mars. Sat urn. Morning stars: Jnptter. Yenns '"Manet Mercury In conjunction with he moon at 2t$ p. m. ' Vancouver, B. C, May 15. An armed raiding party attacked the Pacific cable station at Bamfield Creek on the west coast of Vancouver island early to day. Shots were exchang ed between the raiders and a sentry, who roused the military guard. The at- tackers launch. escaped in It is reported in London that Italy renounced her alliance "with .crn:any and .ufrla a week airo, and news of the final break Is ex pected there. Internal agitation continues in Italy. A strike has been railed at .Milan as a protest against the course of political events. The city Is In the hands of the military. In both the east and west the opposing armies apparently are unable to make great headway at present, although severe iightinc continue-.. The French offenshe nor Mi of Arras has made little fur ther progress. The one important change reported is the shattering of the Austrian line near the Buko. wiu.i frontier. This, a Russian claim. liocer. has not been con tinued from t.erman or Aus trian sources. The Austro-German sweep from the Cracow region eastward through Galicta is said to have been checked, although retrograd admits the western halt of t.nlicla has been wrested from the ltiisians. Anti-German riots in South Af rica have brought abont a serious condition of affairs. In many of the Important cities of the I'nlon of South Africa shops, store houses and hotels owned by Germans or Ausfrlans have been burned or sacked. Tremler Itotha lias ap pealed for order, but the police and soldiers find It difficult to control the crowds. The property damage is heaTy. I SITUATION -SAM IS PARIS REPORT Violent Artillery Exchanges in Vicin ity of Souchez, French I'rogress iug .'()) Vards. Taris. May 15. French official state ment: "There have been no changes in the situation since last evening in the sec tion to the north of Arras. Here the fighting continues under the conditions set forth in our last communication. W'e have progressed 500 yards in the direction of Souchez. In this section there have been violent artillery ex changes." Constantinople, May 15. (via Lon don, 6:02 p. m.) Official announce ment was made in Constantinople to day that the British battleship Goliath was sunk May 13 by the Turkish tor pedo boat destroyer Mauvenet-I-Millet, which returned in safety to its base. Derlin. May 15. (via London, ti p. m.) German official statement: "Near Steenstraete we repulsed at tacks made during the night. On the St. Julien-Ypres road we again attack ed and made progress. Three English omcers and 60 men and one macnine gun fell into our hands. The num- of unwounded prisoners taken by us tn tnis region since .ipni nas Increased to 110 officers and 5,450 men, to which more than 500 wounded men must be added. On the Lorette heights me majority oi uie auwu ai. o. tack made by the enemy were Kept !"" " flm lifirh slone which reached our f. l. , . V, ....... .'f T V, i , . . i irencnei umicu ..... suffered heavily." PRESIDENT IS ON WAY TO SEE NAVY Mayflower, With Wilson and His Par ty Aboard. Arrives in Hampton Koads Virginia. Washington, D. C. May 15. Presi dent Wilson and party were cruising leisurely down Chesapeake bay ear ly today aboard the naval yacht May flower on their way to New York, where the president will review the Atlantic fleet next week. Newport News, Va., May 15. The Mayflower, with the President Wilson and his party aboard, arrived in Hampton Roads at 11:30 a. m. President Wilson came ashore and went to the golf course. APPLICATION FOR PENSION IS DENTED Application of Mrs. Mary E. Ossln- ger, 741 Fourteenth-and-a-hair street, for a widow's pension was denied by Judge N. A. Larson in county court this morning. The petitioner has two children, aged 5 and 2, respectively. War Summary marines be landed to fightyaquis Three American Ranchers Are Reported Killed in Mexico Mob Attack. ANOTHER CRUISER OFF Bandits Hold Up Trains and Destroy Communication Between Cities. Washington, D. C. May 15. Latest dispatches from American Consul Simpich at Nogales, Sonora, say his information of the casualties in the at tack of Yaqui Indians on the Ameri can colony near Esperanza indicated that J. J. Donovan was killed and that Z. O. Stocker was wounded. A report from Admiral Howard, commanding the Pacific fleet, said a band of 500 Yaquis, well armed, began the attack on American ranches May 11 and that Donovan and Jack Wil son were killed that day. In the fight ing the next day W. A. Fay was kill ed and Stocker was wounded. Admfral Howard also reported to day that irregulars, evidently ban dits, had attacked trains at Madrid, 60 miles from Manzanillo, and that communication between Colima and Manzanillo had been cut off. Naval officials are today awaiting a further report from Admiral Howard, and if conditions warrant, he will be ordered to Bend landing parties from the cruisers Raleigh and New Or leans, now off Guaymas, into the Yaqui valley to rescue the Americans. The United StaXta eruiser New Or leans, at ManzaniHeWfs under or ders today to sail from there to Guay mas, Mexico, where (ahe will join the -cruiser Raleigh in 'VarWSding aid, if necessary, to thV-Americain colony in the Yaqui valley, attacked by Indians. The question whether bluejackets and marines will be landed for the protection of Americans will depend on the outcome of an investigation by Admiral Howard. Charges that Carranza troops in Panuco, west of Tampico, have com mitted outrages on Americans and depredations against other foreigners were communicated today by General Villa to Enrique C. Llorente, his agent here. Villa's message, from Leon, in cluded the following telegram signed by five Americans: "Carranzistas In Panuco have com mitted outrages on five Americans and depredations on the persons and in terests of foreigners. Your forces have given us every guarantee and we kindly ask you to notify the govern ment at Washington that Americans in territory dominated by Carranzis tas have absolutely no protection." The telegram was signed by Stegar R. Graham. George Whipp, Wrilson Hombrek, Wooder Acker and John C Love. Mr. Llorente forwarded the tele gram to the state department. In another message from Leon, General Villa claimed defeat of Carranza forces under Obregon at Otales and Pan Anna. Los Angeles, May 13. Fifty Ameri can men are surrounded near Esper anza, Sonora. today by overwhelming numbers of Yaqui Indians, according to advices received here by Charles F. O'Brien, owner of one of the large ranches in the Yaqui valley. According to reliable information the force under General Sosa. a Villa commander, sent to aid the Americans is composed mostly of Yaquis and can not be expected to fight their brothers besieging the Americans. American Yacht Wrecked. Washington, D. C, May 15. The American yacht Ramona, has been wrecked off the Mexican coast near Tepopa, north of Guaymas, without loss of life, according to a report to the navy department from Admiral Howard, who sent the cruiser Raleigh to pick up the rescued crew. The cause of the wreck was not reported. w Faction Against Villa. El Paso. Texas, May 15. Fighting between Villa forces and troops of a new faction was reported last night to American officials here as having occurred south of Sierra Blanca, Tex as. The extent of the battle was not made known. Villa fiat money dropped today to four and one-half cents on the Mexi can peso, its lowest mark. The Car ranza issue remained over six cents on the local market. Ko fighting of great consequence in the central Mexican campaign was reported today by either faction. Harvard Loses to Cornell. Ithaca. N. Y May 15. Cornell's un beaten tennis team defeated Harvard here today, 6 to 3. - .