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\w ?. c*i_ •P* W. -fe *«7 Germany. BOAT OFF COURSE U. S. Vessell Hits Mine But British Steamers Are Sunk by Submarines. l/ondon, Fnslnndi—The' British steamer Oakly was torpedoed by a ijtiorman submarine off Itye yesterday ller civiv was rescued by a fishing -smack anI landed at liumsgate to lnv. Tlie Oakby was in ballast and was struck (m the port side. The main hatches were blown off and the decks .splintered. The fishing' smack Oat in, which was four miles from.the Oakby. I'elt tlie shock ol' the explosion and Itast v«med to the scene. The fishermen ar 'rived in time to take off the crew of the Oakby, none of which were in.jur :rd. .• The |eriscopc of the submarine tvas seen before the explosion by the chief engineer of the Oakby. .An at tempt was made to tow the Oakby to Hover but she sank off i'olkstonc this morning'. Washington. I). Official notice of the sinking' of the American steam er Carib was received at the state de iiartment in a message from Ameri can Minister Van Dyke at the Hague "The C'aiib is reported to have sunk in the North Sea outside the route prescriltcd by the (ierman in stj'uclions." No ie|Hit came today of the miss ing boatload of men from the Amer ican steamer lOvelyn. sunk Sunday. Knglaiid loses Irish Channel. London, Knglaud.—A second American steamer, the t'ai ib has gone t« the bottom in the North Sen with a valuable cargo of cotton and two British steamers have been tor pedoed in the last t.wenty-four hours. a precaution Kngland lias closel the entrance to the Irish Channel, excepting a narrow strip near the.' coast, in which navigation is permit tol only bv daylight. I Thn ScanilinnU.an (/umlries. among' which' Norway arleady has lest four shins are ying' hard to find some solution «.f the problem cieated by the German establishment of the sea war zone, but so far with-, out result:. Although it is purposed tentatively to provide some sort of naval convoy fctr their craft, the mat ter will be discussed further. I'. S. Makes New Proposals. Washington, D. C.—Administra tion officials today continued sunn regarding informal proposals the •United States has marie to Great Britain and Germany for an under- ot A dispatch last night said eigh teen members -th ••. THE SECOND AMERICAN AND TWO BRITISH VESSELS ARE SUNK This Is Days Work of the Blockade by food- standing cn the questions of stnlTs for the cviilian population of! 'belligerent nations and of submarine warfare against mercantile shipping, The nature of the proposals has| not been disclosed on account of the delicacy of the negotiations in dip lomatic circles. However, it is gen erally believed a suggestio nlias been made that American consular rep resentatives or American organiza tions supervise "the distribution ol foodstuffs to the German civilian ••••population. Unofficial advices from Berlin said that Ambassador Gerard had pre sented lo the German government' 'the American proposals for a settle Tiient of the issue. Ad to all blockade guide liritish Transport Torpedoed. Berlin Germany. It is officially an "nounced that the British transpor number 192 was sunk by a Germai submarine off Beachy Head at 1.4: yesterday afternoon. the crew of th Cardiff steamer Chine, a governmen collier, landed there and announcei the sinking of their vessel either b: a mine or torpedo off Beachy Head This is probably hte vessel Berlii ivjT'ors to. Wilhelinina's Cargo for Civilians. London, England.—W. 1-.. Brook ing, a member of the lirm of com niision merchants of St. Louis, own ers of the cargo aboard the American ship Wilhelmina. reached here froir -Berlin in possession of a declaratiot •from the German foregn office sign ed by the foreign minister and at tested by American Ambassador Ger ard, pledging the German governmen not to assume control of the cargo of the Wilhelmina, nor any other ves sel arriving from America. Th ,i declaration says that such cargoes mav be sold on the open market anc -they cannot be used by the army oi navy. The case of the Wilhelmina soo "comes before the British prize court. -She was loaded with a cargo of food products in New York and starte for a German port, but the British 'took her to Falmouth and held her for the prize court. Two Sunk Yesterday. London, England—Another Amer •X jean steamer, the Carib has been de ••i stroyed and a third Norwegian steamer, the Regin, lias been torped oed or destroyed by a mine off Dovei (ContiniWd cn Page 8.) RUSSIANS FIGHT ON FOUR SIDES ONK CORPS Sll!KOi\l)i:i) IN S I S S I A It A II I S I TIL COMI'LKTKI.V HX ll.USTI'.l). London. England.—-Along the Hast Prussian border of Northern Poland, some fierce engagements of the cam paign in the east are occuring. The official statement from Petrograd re ports that in these battles villages have changed hands several times. Tlij-ee German attacks on Przasmysz, where the conflict is sharpest, are said to have been repulsed. The crew of the American steam er Carib, which was sunk by a mine off the German coast, is reported from German sources as saved, but the whereabouts of the sailors are a mystery. It is reported also that part of the crew of the American stpam er, Evelyn, sunk by a mine off the German coast, is being taken to Hol land. There are indications that the allied fleets in the Medditerrean are attacking forts along the Dardanel les in earnest, though there lias been an interruption in the operations on account of weather conditions. Genevji, Switzerland.—Another German aviator Hew over Swiss ter ritory today. Swiss infantrymen fired at him as he was over the village of Beurnevesin, near Bonfol. The aviat or returned to Muelhausen, apparent ly uninjured. One of the largest and newest heavy German guns used in the bom bardment of the Allies near Tbann. Alsace, exploded today, killing the officers and five gunners. Paris, France.—Nicholas Misu. 'Rumanian minister to London will soon return there bearing a note as suring the British government that the Rumanian army will take the field in April, says ilie Martin's Buch arest correspondent. Vienna, Austria.—The government has taken over all the stocks of rye, barley, maize ami flour products. Tiie dsitributiou of bread will be un dertaken in various districts. Berlin, Germany.—-It is reported in influential circles that further ol •stacles have arisen lo prevent the in vasion of Russia. The feeding of the population in the part of East. Prus sia that has been occupied by the Rus sians is preceeding with difficulty. An official report says the Russians have succeeded in crossing the liobr river in Northern Poland, in two places. Russians Fought Till Exhausted. Petrograd. Russia. The desper ate resistance offered by the Twen tieth corps of the Russian army to the advance of the Germans in East Prussia after it had been cut off from the Tenth army, is described in an official communication issued Here last night. The report is bas ed on information received from tnis corps who managed to escape." The Russians claim that although these troops were surrounded by the Gorman army in the territory be tween Goldap and Suwalki, they in flicted heavy losses upon their an tagonists. They repelled attacks on four fronts until "their strength was completely exhausted." Paris llenrs of Itig (ierman Loss. Parie, France.—At lc\-:t 50,0ml men were lost by the Germans in 'heir attack 011 the Russian positions 011 the Rawka river. In the regions of Borjimow and Gtimbinnen. accord ing to Ludovio Naudeau. a Journal correspondent who witnessed th# op bratons. He consideres the general situation highly favorable to the Russians. ON IIIMIKMU*lti'S VICTOKV CUKATKR THAN ISI.IEI The reports say that the achieve lents of the Germans, consisting of eterans and new recruits, seem al lost superhuman. It is stated that duecher's victory at Waterloo in lie pursuit of Napoleon and the an gulation of his best armies are clipsed by the present success. Regardless of the fact that they ere wearied by the incessant! larching and fighting the Germans ept close upon the heels of the Russians and did not let them es-l ape from their grasp. 1 It was stated that "the victory. vhich resulted in the largest mini- |, This statement, seemingly exag- ], VOLUME XXXVI. MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915 WI'AT HF.H'S London, England.- The cial reports from Field .Marshal an Hindenburg in East Prussia low that the victory was lar more jmplete than was at first thought. ism^ V.r.».»J words. Abandoned guns. ''automobiles, wrecked wagons and sledges and ammunition caissious encumbered the way. Rifles, knapsacks and other equipment had been t.hrowii away by the Meeing soldiers and dead horses and fallen soldiers were everywhere along the route. The fighting is regarded as a sec ond Tannenburg. The Russians were those composing the loth ar my and were under the command of General Sievers. By the skillful use of railroads and the sacrifice of entire battalions the Russians succeeded in saving the greater part 01' the artillery. Several thousand Russians still re main in scattered divisions or bands, isolated and offering resistance to the Germans who have formed a ring around the woods and swamps be tween Suwalki and Atignstowo on the German frontier but the capture of these wanderers is expected here and regarded as merely an incident in the campaign to which this stic- It is not believed here that Gen eral Sievers will be able to bring one-fifth of his troops safely behind the fortress Grodno. The first phase of the campaign and the phase resulting in the de struction of the Russian army is compared to the retreat of the Rus sians, who look time only to burn the houses on the German side of the frontier and destroy the live stock to'hich they were unable to latest of-'drive away. This was done so thor oughly that in a 1,7-mile ride from Lvck to the frontier village of Prostken only one house with a roof was seen. On the Russian side of the frontier the houses were un harmed. ALL REGIMENT MEMBERS DEAD SIXGAPOKK. INDIA, Alii: KILL KU, ACCORDING TO ItK PORTS. :er of prisoners ever taken in open hicli revolted at Singapore Kebru jattle, was also the most complete a 0 DOLLAR DAY IN MITCHEUlPWEDNESDAY, MARCH 3RD I'Ol'lt Ill'\l)UK! Ml "Tlx KICKS AT rest of Hatch as reported from Bluff, Manila, P. I.-—Four hundred nicm- 0 the mutinous Indian regiment were killed, as we[l as seven the world's history. (German prisoners from the detention! Delayed Account I camp who joined the natives when I counseled the renegades to surrend Sulwaki, Russian 1 oland, balur-j 'ay, Feb. 20, Berlin to London. reports brought by passengers from but was met with obstinate refusal, "he German* forces under Field Mar-Singapore. The mutineers are said."\v will fight until death," was the hal von Hindenburg, by hard fight- a ng and extraordinary marches, have colonel and then to have attack nflicted such a striking defeat on civilians, several of whom were he Russians in the recent battle of I killed, including one woman. he Mazurian lakes country that the I t] the four days' fighting, are esti- say the rebellious troops were known as Everett Hatch on a charge mated at 30,000. Over 60,000 Rus- ki 11 eel. The non-Hindu spldiers re-j the murder of Juan Chacon, a •ians out of a total of 150,000 en- niained loyal but did iHRl some of sheen herder, March 25, 1914 in aged are now prisoners ot the Ger- tlieir officers including British and, Montezuma county. Colorado. native men. 0 now gained the impression of a detention camp who would join them, 1 been killed and It is lie omplete defeat and demoralization Only seven accepted. The half of the jjeve'd only 100 remain i-SV THE MITCHEIiL CAPITAL. "1V«3SSB"' INDIAN STILL HELD BY POSSE NO TI.IihAY HI WIUT10S Telephone advices to Cortcz, Nav ajo Springs and Colores, Cal., agreed there had been 110 lighting yesterday and it seemed probable that another night would pass before a definite move was made. Whether Indian Agent Jenkins would be able to get in touch with the friendly element 1 among the Indians and secure their, assistance to effect a peaceable ar- still was problematical. Meantime additional men arrived yesterday from settlements far and near to re inforce Nebecker's posse. The body of J. C. Aiken, who was killed in Sunday's battle, was taken to his home at Dolores, Colo, yes terday. ff their freedom, according to' to save the squaws and children" killed all tiie'r officers save 1 tussian remnants are a negligible Half of the Fifth light infantry •uantity in the operations now in' 0 revolt began without warn- Bengales on their way to Egypt, learned -•rogress. I numbering 500, suddently attacked 1 The trouble arose over the resist The Russians, killed and wounded ,i subdued the other half. The re-l Will Fight iitil Death. Mancos Jim, a I'tc chief, yesterday answer. The Indian girl killed Sunday while running through the line of battle has not been identified. The names of the three Indians killed Monday night also have not been a Then they attacked the uscs of .civilians, killing the men, -erated, was vouched for by the sparing the women and children.! mutineers. These troops were join in motoring along the line of the who sought refuge on the transport j,,, Europeans of all ages as vol Vssociated Press correspondent who j^j] he harbor. The.niutiueeps teers In running fights four tussiau retreat oyer roads deep In offered freedom to all Germans in the. ce to arrest of Tse-Ne-Gat, also, a a ted an attack on the 0 •y .vhich could scarcely be conveyed in regiment remaining loyal soon organ- surrounding Singapore. in 4 7 revolting I nr ,* «k —jf "j 1-1 1 1 Ji GEORGE WASHINGTON «AV 13 .u 1 (l iJnriFjnp |{i:- hurge of murder since Sunday have resulted in the deatli of five Indians and a member of United States Alar-J shall Nebecker's posse, is still at large today, according to reports from HI 11 ff, Utah. The mounted In dian police from Ship Rock, are re ported enroute to l!liit'f, to reinforce the whites. Denver. Colo.—A special to the Rocky Mountain News l'rom Bluff, Ctah, last night says that llavane, a ., i'iute Indian, one of the six prisoners' contributed largely to of 1'nited States Marshal Nebecker's f° dlans are said In the' conn- 1 CARNBGtB ADYJS? YR HARRISON LCSLS THE NOMINATION I HTI\( WITH 1*11'TICN YKS- CHICAGO'S MAYOR IS ItKI-KATIOI) AltK I |jy 7.-.OOO VOTKS iM(»i«i:n i"11 \i .\t k\- i--*ic dkmockatic hok COr.VTKK. .1 .. ,, .. Chicago.—Robert Sweitzer de njrango, olo.— Tse-N-Gaf, the a tue Indian whose efforts to elude cratic. mayoralty nomination and Wil .•rrest l\ tederal officers 011 the )j IIY KWKITZKIt ted Carter Harrison for the Demo- a Thompson won oVer Harry Ol- sen for the Republican nomination, at yesterday's primary. Chicago. 111.-—Carter Hart'ison who is finishing his fifth term as mayor of Chicago, was defeated yes terday for democratic renomination in the primary election by Robert Sweitzer, clerk of Cook county by a plurality of over 75,000. Although Harrison was an advo cate of woman suffrage the feminine his de- a f- posse, was shot dead tonight when lie' probably take the ofticial slipped his shackles and make a break count to determine the republican for liberty. nomination. Harry Olson and Wil- Durango, Coyo.—-Three days after liam Thompson are the two candi the first battle'near Bluff, Utah, the dates that are running close. Piute Indians and 1'nited States Mar slial A(|Uila Nebeceker's posse held their positions last night. The In dians with Tse-Ne-Gat (Everett Hatch), who is resisting arrest, were reported entrenched in Butler, Wash., eight miles of Bluff. They gave no sign of yielding. Marshal Nebecker spent a busy day placing reinforce ments to his posse, but gave no in dication of what his next move might be. MILWAUKEE PASSENGER RUNS INTO FREIGHT Albert Le^, Minn.—In a blinding snowstorm the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger train number 23 crashed head on into a freight three miles west of here last night, injuring seven. Engineer David Jones, of Austin, Minn., was the onlv one of the en gine crew who did not jump and will probably die. On account of the blizzard the enginemen saw the freight's locomo tive too late to avert a collision. South .Dakota. Thursday. r— DAWGUNNIT, THE WEATHER MAN'S PUP BOOKON"D\RECT PSYCHOLOGY BUT IF I \T PUBLIC \T CrWEZ ME. CLASS AS 0EAH6-^here. "w'aktellectv -Fair tonight and ?Y-'^ Bill For Its Enlarge ment Given Good Majority. JURY BILL LIVES Senate Puts It On Calendar Despite Adverse Commit tee Repoit. Pierre, S. n. The legislative in vestigating committee expects to get 111 its report this afternoon in bqili houses, if Chairman Vandemark re turns from his home at Alexandria, where, he was called by illness. It will not contain anything of any special importance other than that in regard to the secretary or state's department already reported. Pierre, S. D.- In the house yester day the bill to establish a normal school at Ronesteel was reported in without any recommendation, and the bill for distribution of the supplua of the game fund among the counties, with an unfavorable recom mendation. Ruckman attempted to force action 011 House Bill 38!), which provides for a codification of the state, and have it placed at the head of the calendar for the day. Thi3 was opposed by March, Rinehart and Benson, who could not. see the need of such immediate haste 011 the hill before it was printed and placed on the desks of the members, and the bill went over one day. Attempts to pull back the bill for licensing nurses went down as did the attempt to get back the hill to prohibit the sale of bad eggs in the state, which showed that the "bad egg" men were stronger than the good ones and the bill is in the dis card for good. ltiflehart called up his resolution in regard to the question of dis crimination against normal schools In regard to teaching in the high schools ol" the state, and announced that he had learned that the dis crimination is through an organiza tion of professors and other mem bers of a committee of institutions of the northwest which could not be reached by legislation, and he thought that, so long as such a com mittee controlled the schools, and were outside of legislative control themselves, the slate ought to bring its law into harmony with the organ ization. His resolution filed several days ago was adopted. lil|tior Sule IH1I (iocs Over House bills 251, attempting to reg ulate the sale of liquor by druggists, and HO, providing an appropriation to extend the twine plant at the penitentiary were up as special or ders, and after several amendments had been offered to the drug bill it went over until today for considera tion of the amendments. House bill (iO, was passed, Thompson, of Min nehaha, explaining the needs of the extension of the plant with the con tract in the shirt factory expiring in March, and 110 other employment for the prisoners in sight until the plant for making twine is increased. Ben son supported the measure, and stat ed that the shirt factory plan was put up to defeat the original plan to establish a twine plant at the pen itentiary, that the appropriation asked was rather large, but he stood readv to vote for it. Rinehart sup ported the bill, as did others, and it went through with a good majority. New house bills presented today were: 3 90. appropriation commit- tee, appropriating $120 to pay Sam-u uel Robinson for horses killed on ac-l count of glanders 391, temperance committee, prohibiting 1 lie sale to or giving liquor to persons who have taken a "drivk" cure B!i2, state af fairs committee, placing construction of all state buildings under control of the state engineer VI. J. R- IS, committee of waterways, memoiializ* ing" congress to place its appropria tions for the upper Missouri river in cutting canals through the "necks" of Big Bend and Little Bend. H. J. B. 10. state affairs committee, resolution for constitutional amend ment to remove from the constitution the eight thousand population limit for levies for public utilities and to allpvt additional leves for sewerage. Xo Night Sessions The House took up the third read ing of senate bills, and passed Sen ate bill 120, fixing the,method of di viding school districts 141, regulat ing compulsory education and mix ed up on S. B. 30, which attempts to change the method of oil inspection by giving all deputies in the food and drug department that power, in stead of limiting it to three. A-ft®' a long wrangle the bill was lost with a vote of 50 yes. three slifart of a constitutional majority. Senate bill. 171, appropriating $382.35 deficiency for the executive accountant, ^as passed as was 159. appropriating li76.09 for the bee inspector: 238. appropriating tor fund for transporting convicts to tUe peniten tiarv 161, appropriating $34 to .T. IV. Lockwood for services for ine Stock commission 1 2 $5?'^ A ^,.1 '~V••'•' 3"t v*' S a f",!"?,,' for burial of Francis A. Bartle. an «. 36 PLUMBERS ARE FOUND GUILTY OF ANTI-TRUST PACT Jury at Des Moines Returns Verdict For Government. INJURED OTHERS Evidence Shows They Con spired to Interfere With ..Independent Dealers. Des Moines, la.—All of the 31! master plumbers wli ohavo been 011 trial since February tenth, charged with violating the Sherman anti-trust law, were convicted by a jury in tlio federal district court today. Judge Pollock will pnss sentence later. The men are residents of Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri, Illinois, Michi gan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minne sota. They are members and officials of the National Association of Mas ter Plumbers and also the state or ganizations of that. body. it is charged they conspired to in terefere with the business of plumb ers and plunibng supply houses not members of the association. The men convicted include R. Ei* Knaucr, of Boone and John F. Gar vey and Thomas G. Daly, of Mason City, Iowa. member o£ the state board of regents 1G4, appropriating $150 to N. U. ., Ingalls and N. H. Luger to pay for,'. Blundered horses »and 9 6, giving la borers a lieu 011 mining property for wages. 11, B. 158, appropriating $14 4 4 for assessing and extending taxes in unorganized counties, was defeated. Xcw Senate HHls New senate bills presented were: 275 public printing committee, pro-...c hibiting two papers in any one town as official papers, where there are other towns with papers in the coun ty -70, state affairs, regulating sal aries ot' county officials based on as sessed valuation 277, requiring the county treasurer to endorse 011 the back of each receipt the amount of state taxes involved 278, insurance. requiring securities of surety com panies to be deposited with state., treasurer, Instead of insurance com missioner. On third reading of senate bills, S. 12 !, the park board bill passed* S J. R. f°r quadrennial sessions ot' legislature with members getting ten dollars a day for sessions was de feated S. B. 262, appropriating $6860 for expenses of railway commission passed, as did S. B. 267, appropriat ing $24!), for an adding machine for the state treasurer's office. S. IL 260, requiring farmers to keep the highways abutting on their property clear of weeds and brush, went over a day after a discussion as to whether it is best to cut them at all, or who should pav for the expense. S. B. -68, appropriating $5,000 for a burglar proof safe for the office of the state treasurer passed after a short dis cussion as what was best in the: way of safes 110. appropriating $5!)U.t.* to George Hull for supplies furnish ed the Springfield norma, passed, as did 185, appropriating $5479.18 for national guard deficiency. S. -On. ppropfiating $500 for John Kinnett horess killed on account ot 1 1 A11 effcct to begin night sessions,?: was voted down, as was a motion for a morning session, and the meeting today will be at the regular.hour. in the senate the resolution for ote 011 the question of a constitu tional convention was favorable rec-: omme.nded. ... 231. regulating the is- bonds fo rbuildings in cities, passed. The bill to allow local option Sunday baseball went down with only seventeen votes yes, and S. B. 169, to apportion the surplus in the automobile fund to the countries, went down, after a discussion as to whether it was the best policy to take such action, and the statement that, such move would not be in line with another bill for the use of the fund through the state highway commis sion. S. J. R. 5, the state wide pro hibitory amendment came up, and after the Browne amendment to ex empt beer from its provisions had been voted down, the resolution was made a special order for today at 4 p. 111. S. B. 175, regulating the place of action for personal damages in county of residence, passed. Will Vote on Judy Bill. The adverse judiciary committee report on House Bill for five-sixth jury verdicts in civil cases was re versed, and the bill was placed on the senate calendar, Dailey, Urdahl and Beebe supporting the motion to place it on the calendar, and Stephens and Hayes asking for adoption of the ad verse report. The senate passed house bills-19?-, regulating fish ways 179, appropriat ing $1450, balance on heati,ng plant at state reform school 46, priating $43'o, special fees for town treasurers old soldier 1«3, appropriating for judicial purposes £3?, llmjtln^ to August Frieberg as a OOBtinned OH uCse ~bT $17.60 appro assessment against state property at Vermillion: 228. appropriating $46.38, to pay^ special drainage assessment against state lands in Kingsbury county 162, appropriating $163.41, tax Gregory county refund to 12,. fixing-limit, of 1X8, attach ing Washfebaugh county to Jackson