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nm HAYS FESS PIT
LOCATE NEW
INDUSTRIAL FARM
Board of Administration Seek-
my a one lur Hiiuuicr
State institution.
BELIEVE HEED IS PRESSING
Temporary Building Near Lansing Is
Already Overcrowded Institution
Will Be First of Kind in Country.
Dr. Wilbur N. Mason, former Gover
nor E. W. Hoch .and Charles W. Green,
members of the new board of adminis
tration, have been making a tour of
the state inspecting sites offered, by
cities and towns for the location of
the Women's Industrial farm. The
board recently located this detention
home for women temporarily at Lan
sing, on the state's farm where wom
en prisoners are kept.
On the big state farm just west of
the state penitentiary at Lansing there
is but one building in which to house
women prisoners. This is an old Leav
enwortn county - homestead of some
dozen or more rooms, and it now is
filled to capacity.
The board of administration, there
fore, sees the pressing need of the es
tablishment of the new Women's In
dustrial farm as provided for by the
last, session of the legislature. The in
stitution must be 'located near some
town and close to adequate railroad
facilities, and the water supply must
be pure and abundant
The Women's Industrial farm is to
be the first of its kind in the United
States, and it is likely that its oper
ation will be watched with much in
terest by other states that have the
same kind of problems to solve.
The board stated recently that there
would be no unnecessary delay in de
ciding on the site, as there is press
ing need now for this institution with
suitable and adequate buildings for
caring for the women convicted of
penitentiary offenses by the district
courts of the state.
Another proposition before- the
board of administration is the re
moval, of the Mother Bickerdyke home
from Ellsworth to the Soldiers' home
at Dodge City, and the use of that
institution . with its buildings and
equipment for the new Women's In
dustrial Farm.
Capper Names Delegates.
The following delegates have been
appointed by Gov. Arthur Capper to
represent Kansas at the annual con
gress of the American Prison Asso
ciation, to be held at New Orleans,
November 17-23, 1917; Judge G. F.
Prigg, Hutchinson ; Judge D. A. Ban
ta,. Great Bend; Judge Charles Fulton,;
Hutchinson; C. M. Harger, Abilene;
W. L Biddle, Leavenworth; A. Q. Mil
ler, Belleville; A. O. Keach, Wichita;
Mrs. Julia B. Perry, Lansing; Mrs.
J. K. Codding, Lansing; J. K. Cod
ding, Lansing; Father J. A. Shorter,
Lansing; Mrs. , Lillian Mitchner, Be
loit; James A. Kimball, Salina; E. W.
Hoch, Marion; Dr. Wilbur N. Mason,
Baldwin; C. W. Green, Kansas City.
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Official Scores Slackers.
Secretary of State J. T. Botkin to
day excoriated the slackers in Kansas
who claim that it is just as patriotic
to follow the plow as it is to go to the
trenches. In a speech at Everest he
said that the supreme test of patriot
ism was when a young men walked
up to a recruiting station and offered
his life for his country's cause, and
that it did not require any patriotism
to raise wheat at $2 a bushel; or to
take refuge in the folds of a woman's
petticoat before the exemption board.
Sues Grocers for $20,000.
x ue eureiy coupon company, a Del
aware corporation, filed suit in the
federal court against three Kansas
City, Kan., grocers. It asks $20,000
damages. The coupon company claims
that they have circulated a bulletin
charging that the company's business
is illegal and infamous.
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Interurban Work to Begin.
Construction work on the Wichita-
Walnut Valley Interurban railroad
will begin on October 1, according to
a permit for the construction of the
road, which was issued by the state
public utilities commission. The state
charter board has granted a charter
to the organization, the capital being
$2,000,000.
Arrested for Failing toJ?egister.
Floyd Brown, son of a wealthy fam
ily at corning, was Drougnt nere on a
charge of being a slacker. He failed
to register but the marriage records
show that he swore he was over 21
years of age last June. Brown claims
he is only 20.
Would Build Concrete Road.
The first petition for the construc
tion of a concrete road in Kansas has
been filed with the state highway com
mission by the Mitchell County board
of commissioners. The petition calls
for the construction of thirteen miles
of road between Beloit and Asherville
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After Beet Sugar Factory.
A beet sugar factory is one of the
industrial prospects or the Kaw val
ley, and many communities between
Topeka and Kansas City are interest
ed in the possible location of it.
No Troops for Country Fairs.
"ine war department will not use
troops as. a drawing card for country
fairs. Such notice has been received
at the governor's office. The depart
ment said that if any troops were sta
tioned at any of the fair grounds while
thefair was in progress they could be
. used for parade and -other purposes.
Dean Drake, a Jineman for the Bell
Telephone Company, was , instantly
killed at Hutchinson when he grasped
& supposed "dead" wire, and -2,200
cits passed through his bod v.
DISTRIBUTE THE WHEAT FUND
Kansas Committee Will Care. for -the
Needs of he Seven Big Grain
Counties First.
Topeka. The Kansas seed wheat
committee has begun the distribution
of the money raised to help increase
the wheat crop in Kansas. The com
mittee, has purchased all - the wheat
the $75,000 subscribed will buy, and
has arranged for the farmers to use
this seed where needed, the commit
tee to receive a share of the crop.
A radically favorable change recent
ly has taken place in the seed wheat
outlook. Kansas again has upset all
calculations. One county, which early
in August called for more than 58,000
bushels of seed -heat to be put out
on shares, has canceled its applica
tion altogether. Another county has
reduced its demand from forty thou
sand bushels' to two cars.
The splendid local efforts of the
western counties to raise money for
seed, the guarantee of a minimum
price of $2.00 for the 1918 crop, and
the 4 to 5-inch rains over the wheat
belt, have largely solved the seed
wheat problem.
However, as it seemed likely the
yield of the state could be increased
by the use of the fund, it was decided
to use the money as far as it will go.
It was decided that the money should
be used in those counties needing
wheat, whose chance of a good yield
was the best.
The fund raised by the state com
mittee will be used mostly in Rooks,
Trego, Hodgeman, Gray, Ford, Ed
wards and Pawnee counties. These
counties are all in the middle of the
wheat belt and the committee believes
that the fund should go into these
counties alone. The committee did not
raise enough funds- to accommodate
the farmers in all of the wheat coun
ties, so it selected the ones where it
thought it should get the best results.
A NEW LEAGUE FOR KANSAS
Farmers' Nonpartisan Party of North
Dakota Planning a Winter Cam
paign for Members.
Topeka, The Farmers' Nonpartisan
League, the organization which has
overturned political conditions in
North Dakota, is just getting a start
in Kansas. The first local league or
ganized in this state was in Hedville,
July 31. A. J. Dille of .Hedville is the
chairman of that local and also the
organizer for Saline county.
J. M. Brewer, an organizer for the
league, was sent into the state late in
July to organize locals throughout
Kansas. According to reports received
here he did not make very satisfac
tory progress because the farmers
were - too busy. Really active organi
zation has been delayed until fall and
winter, it is said.
The Nonpartisan League believes in
state owned elevators, mills, ice and
cold storage plants, packing houses
and similar institutions directly re
lated to farm production. Kansas has
powerful organization that has
many of the same ideas, but is work
ing them out in a different way. It is
the Farmers' Union, with headquar
ters in Salina, and with nearly thirty
thousand farmers in active member
ship. The Farmers' Union, howeverj is
devoting its energies at present into
cooperative ownership of elevators,
mills, stores, coal yards, lumber yards
and similar institutions. It also does
some cooperative Felling of farm prod
ucts.
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Denies Charter to Paper.
The state charter board has refused
to grant a charter to the Appeal to
Reason, a Socialist publication issued
at Gerard, Kan. In denying the ap
plication for a charter the board based
its action on an order by the federal
postoffice department which, accord
ing to members of the board, refuses
the publication the use of the mails.
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O'Connor Buys Newspaper.
The X-Rays Democrat, the only
Democratic newspaper in Topeka, has
been sold to J. Charles O'Connor of
Kansas City, Mo., who will take
charge Immediately. Mr. O'Connor,
who is a former Chicago newspaper
man, will not change the politics of
the paper.
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6,000 in Kansas Home Guard.
At the present time virtually 5,000
men are enrolled in home guard or
ganizations over the state, it wa3 an
nounced here by Colonel Jonathan D.
Norton, government disbursing agent
in charge of home guard organization
work in the state.
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Kansas Board Exempted 267.
Seventy-five exemptions from mili
tary service and eleven temporary
exemptions were granted in one week
by the First District exemption ap
peal board in its consideration of 223
cases. The board has received 1,001
cases, accepting 679 men for service,
exempting 267 and granting tempo
rary exemptions to fifty-five.
Army Rifles for Home Guard.
Kansas will be able to get only 400
army rifles for use of the home guards
throughout the state. The war depart
ment has only 20,000 for distribution
among all of the states and the quota
for Kansas will be about 400.
Promoters Busy in Kansas.
A complaint reached the attorney
general's office against the promoters
of the Non-Partisan League of North
Dakota. It came from MePherson
county. The claim is made that the
men belong to the L W. W.
Limits Gas for Factories.
Commercial houses and factories in
Wichita cannot use natural gas be
tween November 1 and April 1 of each
year. An order to that effect was is
sued by the utilities commission the
other day. - v . .
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Organize for Army Libraries.
A. state UDrary committee ' was or
ganized here recently as the result of
a meeting called by James L. King,
state librarian, to confer with E. Don-
Jones, the representative of the Amer
ican Librarians' Association.
I00VER WILL NOT
SEIZE THE WHEAT
Food Administrator Denies a
Rumor That Grain is to be
Requisitioned.
GROWERS BUSY PLAHTIH8 HOW
Officials Expect Wheat to Begin Mov
ing to Market Freely in a
Short Time.
Washington, Sept. 15. Reports that
the governmet is contemplating re
quisitioning wheat on the farms . to
keep flour mills going were denied
tonight by Herbert Hoover, the food
administrator. Mills generally, Mr.
Hoover said, are running on full time,
although some are handicapped by
shortage of grain.
Food administration officials expect
wheat to begin to move freely within
a short time. Except in limited areas,
where anti-war and pro-German pro
paganda is carried on, there has been
no disposition by farmers, Mr. Hoover
said, to withhold wheat from the mar
ket. Withholding, it is declared, will
have no effect on prices the govern
ment will maintain in its purchases.
Mills Were Short.
Wheat stocks ran shorter this year
than in any period before. At the time
the new crop began to come on the
market there was scarcely any wheat
in the country. If shipments to the
European neutrals had not been stop
ped, it is said, the shortage would
have forced some mills to close.
Reports of the food administration
indicate a greatly enlarged sowing of
winter wheat this fall. Farmers are
so busy planting in some regions they
have not had time, it is declared, to
take their wheat to market.
The food administration authorized
a statement tonight that it had not in
any instance given permission for food
manufacturers to claim their products
have been given the approval of the
administration. On the contrary, it
was said, manufacturers guilty of the
practice will be served with injunc
tions unless it is stopped.
Grain Situation Improved.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 15. Im
provement in the grain shortage situ
ation which for a time threatened to
force the closing of many local flour
mills was reported today by leading
grain and flour men.
SHIPPING BOARD IS AROUSED
Tieups in Various Plants in Northwest
Causing Concern to the Govern
ment Officials. '
Washington, Sept. lS-The labor sit
uation in shipbuilding plants is giving
the shipping board serious concern. A
threatened walkout of iron trade work
ers at San Francisco and strikes at
Seattle and New York present the
most serious difficulties the board is
facing at the moment.
Representatives of both employers
and employes are here from Seattle
and a New York delegation came to
day to take up the situation in New
York repair yards.
With the assistance of its wage ad
justment board the shipping board i3
trying to work out a wage scale by
zones, which it hopes will be adopted
by builders and their workers every
where. The system is patterned after
the navy scale.
The Seattle workers are demanding
a 33 per cent wage increase. If this
were granted and served as a basis
for increases elsewhere there would
be added to the cost of the govern
ment's shipbuilding program more
than 200 million dollars.
BIG CROP OF BEANS IN SIGHT
Five States Will Produce 19,969,000
Bushels Valued at $145,000,
000 Michigan Leads.
Washington, Sept. 15. Beans take
their place this year as one of the
country's most important and valu
able crops. Forecast of production in
the five important bean growing
states, Michigan, California, New
York, Colorado and New Mexico, an
nounced by the Department of Agri
culture today in - a special report, is
19,969,000 bushels, compared with
8,846,000 bushels last year and 10,321,
000 bushels in 1915. Michigan's crop
is 7,380,000 bushels; California, 6,399,-
000; New York, 2,899,000; Colorado,
2,328,000, and New Mexico, 963,000.
More than 1 million acres were
planted in these states.
The average farm price paid Au
gust 15 was $7.24 a bushel, compared
with $4.60 on that date last year. At
the August 15 price the prospective
crop was -worth about 145 million dol
lars. No estimate was made for the
production in other states.
Recruits Back to College.
Washington, Sept. 15 The navy has
become so overcrowded that Secre
tary Daniels has ruled that college
men may return for this winter's
training, although they will be called
back to actual service next summer
when mere ships wili be available.
A Lafayette Flier Killed.
Paris, Sept. 15. Corporal Meeker,
an American aviator, was killed at
Pan on Tuesday in an airplane acci
dent due to his motor stalling, the
Herald announces today.
U. S. Ambulance Man Killed. .
Paris, Sept. 15 R. A. Hall of Minne
apolis, a driver in Section 62 of the
Hartjes-Norton Red Cross ambulance
service, was killed Tuesday while on
duty at an advanced post and was
buried near Avocourt Wood, the Her
aid says today.
Uruguay Guards German Ships.
Montevidio, Sept. 15. Uruguayan
marines today boarded all the German
ships in the harbor here, the govern
ment having heard of "plans to siun
the vessels.
ROBERT S. BROOKINGS
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Robert S. Brookings, a St. Louis
merchant, is one of the five civilian
members of the war industries board
of the council of national defense.
He is eminent in the educational
world as well as in business, having
been instrumental in developing
Washington university, and has oc
cupied positions on the board of
trustees of the Carnegie institution
and the Carnegie peace foundation.
PA
ACKING HOUSE STRIKE ENDS
Federal Mediators Succeed in Settling
Trouble in Kansas City Men
Win Their Point.
Kansas City, Sept. 14. The packing
plant emptoyes strike was ended at
o'clock last night by the signing
of an agreement by the heads of five
of the packing plants and Patrick F.
Gill, federal commissioner of concilia
tion, and the ratification of the agree
ment by. the vote of thousands of the
strikers who had gathered at Shaw
nee park in the packing house dis
trict.
The vote was taken after T. A. Mc-
Creash. organizer in charge of the
strikers, and Fred Schmidt, who con
ducted the packers' strike at Omaha,
had delivered speeches urging the
men to accept the terms offered.
'Now. are you willing?" Mr. Gill
shouted.
"Yes," shouted the men and women.
This Is the article of agreement en
tered into by the heads of Swifb &
Co., Morris & Co., Armour & Co.,
Cudahy Packing Company, Wilson &
Co., and the employes of. each con
cern:
1. All employes to receive 2
cents an hour increase in wages, which
was given prior to the arrival of the
United States mediator.
2. All employes who have been out
to be re-employed without discrimina
tion.
3. No discrimination to be shown
against any man or woman employed
for belonging to the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen
of North America or advocating
unionism in accord with the princi
pies of the American Federation of
Labor.
4. The firm or company to agree
to meet with a committee of Its em
ployes to bring about settlement of
grievances, whenever they strike, ra
a friendly manner and to the best in
terest of all parties concerned.
5. Agree to have the hiring all done
by one man in each plant.
6. Any man dissatisfied with the
treatment he received from the em
ployment agent may appeal to the su
perintendent or manager of the plant.
7. Where common laborers feel that
they are not getting full employment,
if they will take the matter up with
the man doing the hiring, he will use
every effort to place them in a de
partment where they will get full
time.
The agreement is practically identi
cal with that reached in Omaha except
Section 3. It was because of differ
ences regarding this section that an
agreement was not reached earlier in
the day.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
One of the reasons of the high cost
of pork is seen in estimates of the
number of stock hogs in the United
States September L They show a dfr
crease of 8.2 per cent compared with
the supply a year ago." The number
was 60,218,000 September 1 and a year
ago 65,645,000.
Fifteen men from the camp at Co
lumbus, N. M., were put off a west
bound freight train at Hachita, N. M.,
recently. Regular soldiers stationed
at Hachita were said to have assisted
the train crew in handling the men.
Many small children in California
are already slowly starving because
milk is denied them in sufficient Quan
tities, due to the great advance in
price, according to a report made to
the California counsel of defense by
Dr. John R. Haynes, chairman of the
council's relief committee.
There will be no movement of na
tional guard soldiers from Missouri
and Kansas to Camp Doniphan until
after September 24, it was officially
announced at Fort Sill, Ok., the other
day.
General Kcrniloffs march toward
Petrograd continues. The first col
lision between the troops and the gov
ernment forces already has taken
'place,- the followers of Korniioff hav
ing begun the hostilities by bombard
ing government positions with heavy
guns.
The most extensive strike in the
packing house industries in the his
tory of South Omaha has been settled
satisfactorily through, the efforts of
Frederick L. Feick, government me
diator.
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OHMOOtlTAINTOP
Italians and Austrians Continue
Straggle for Possession of
Monte San Gabriete.
BRITISH STOP A GERMAN RAID
Huns Driven Out After Penetrating
Trenches Allied Aircraft Bomb
the Teuton Positions.
Rome, Sept. 14 The battle between
Austrians and Italians for possession
of Monte San Gabriel is waging furi
ously, according to the official state
ment issued today by the Italian war
department.
New Austrian forces yesterday re
newed their attempts to dislodge the
Italians from the slopes of the height
but after advancing at a few points
they were stopped by the main Italian
line of occupation.
Vienna, Sept. 14. "The Italian losses
in the eleventh Isonzo battle," says an
official statement issued today by the
Austrian war office, "have reached al
most a quarter of a million, including
20,000 prisoners."
Huns Fail at Bullecourt.
London, Sept. 14. The British offi
cial communication issued tonight
says :
"Last night, after hours of heavy
bombardment, the enemy raided our
positions east of Bullecourt. He suc
ceeded in effecting an entry in our
trenches, but was driven out after
sharp fighting, leaving a number of
dead and prisoners in our hands.
"Early this morning the enemy
opened a heavy bombardment on a
front of more than a mile north and
northwest of Langemarck and attack
ed in considerable strength. Alter
fierce fighting the attack was re
pulsed with severe enemy losses."
British Bombs in Belgium.
London, SepL 14. British naval air
craft on Tuesday and Wednesday
dropped several tons of bombs on Ger
man military establishments in Bel
gium, hitting their objectives and
causing heavy explosions, an official
statement issued today by the British
admiralty says.
Lull on Mcst Fronts.
Washington, Sept. 13. On the bat
tle fronts the military activity gen
erally is lessening. On the line in
France and Belgium only artillery
duels and comparatively small oper
ations by the infantry are being car
ried out.
Further advances have been made
by the French in Champagne, near St.
Souplet, where General Petain won
three lines of trenches.
Monte San Gabriele, in the Atfstro
Italian theater, has been the scene of
another futile attack by the Austrians.
In the battle of Riga, according to
the German war office, 8,900 Russians
were made prisoner and 325 guns, and
large quantities of war stores were
captured. The fighting on this front
has now dwindled to skirmishes.
Great Britain's losses in large mer
chant vessels sunk by mines or sub
marines last week were the smallest
since Germany began her intensive
submarine campaign. Only twelve
large vessels were destroyed.
Slavs Still Impede Germans.
Washington, Sept. 12. The Russian
troops on the Riga front apparently
are still impeding the Germans in
their attempts at further advances
into Russia and in the south, along
the Bukowina frontier, as in lower
Rumania, where they are operating in
conjunction with the Rumanians, they
Lave taken the offensive and won vic
tories over the Teutonic allies.
Around Verdun there was only in
termittent artillery duels, the Ger
mans having ceased their " violent
counter attacks to regain lost posi
tions. In Champagne there has been
a resumption or somewnat violent
operations in which General Petain's
forces have wop successes.
From the Belgian coast well down
into Flanders violent artillery duels
continue, but with Field Marshal
Haig's guns apparently doing the ma
jor portion of the work. Aside from
the usual trench raiding operations
the infantry Is still keeping to the
trenches.
German aviators continue their
shelling of Allied hospitals behind the
lines. Monday night they carried out
their latest raid in the region of Dun
kirk, where bombs which fell on a
hospital wounded five women.
Italian Artillery Active.
Rome, Sept. 12. There was little
activity aside from artillery engage
ments along the Austro-Italian front
yesterday, today's war office state
ment reports. Some infantry fighting
occurred in the Trentino.
Star German Flier Killed.
Amsterdam, Sept, 14. Lieut- Walter
Hoehndorf has been killed, according
to an announcement in Geimaja news
papers. Hoehndorf was reputed to be
Germany's best aviator after Eoelle
and Immelmann, who were killed.
Reguate Packers Next.
Washington, Sept. 14. Herbert
Hoover has accepted the offer of the
packers to put their plants under a li
censing system and government regu
lation of the meat business will be the
next move of. the food administration.
England Wants U. S. Visitors.
Washington, Sept. 14. An invitation
to Congress to send a delegation to
visit England and the British fighting
front was received today by Vice-President
Marshall from Lord Chancellor
Finlay and J. W. Lowther, speaker of
the House of Commons.
Won't Seize Family Stores
Washington, Sept. 14. Denial that
the government is contemplating re
quisitioning any household stores of
food is made by the Department of Ag
riculture and the Food Administration.
HOBS RIOT II! EUEllOS AIRES
Downtown Section ef City Is Seen
of Wild Disorder Several Ger
man Buildings Burned.
Bfcerios Aires, SepL 13. The down
town section of the city was the scene
of the wildest disorders tonight in
connection with great anti-Germ an
demonstrations In which thousands of
Argentinians took part. Many of
those in the mobs carried firebrands
and as a result scores of buildings
were set on fire. Several blocks of
German business houses in Calle 23
de Mayo were destroyed.
Among the structures attacked were
the German Club, one of the first edi
fices in the city, and the building of
the German Daily La Union. As fast
as the fires in these buildings were
extinguished they were started again.
Mounted patrols and the entire fire
department kept rushing from one
part of the city to another in an at
tempt to quell the riots and put down
the flames. In several instances po
lice who were attempting to shoot at
those wielding torches were set upon
by the crowds and disarmed.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken by the authorities to protect
Count Luxburg. the German minister.
when he arrives here tomorrow after
noon to receive his passports.
The government has issued orders
to the police and the provincial gov
ernments to protect Count Von Lux
burg and his staff. The foreign of
fice expresses its belief that Count
Von Luxburg will reach here tomor
row morning. He has been out of the
city for several days and government
officials do not know his address.
FRENCH SEE U. S. ARTILLERY
American Gunners Practicing With
Famous 75s and 6-Inch How
itzers at Pershing's Camp.
Headquarters of the American Army
in France, SepL 14. American artil
lery was on the job today, blasting
away at distant tree tops -and scarring
erstwhile grazing . fields with practice
volleys.
From the American gun practice po
sitions they are usually bordering on
a woods field wires run to elevated
pavilions crowded with youthful bat
tery commanders armed' with binocu
lars. They observed distant smoke
puffs when the shells struck and tele
phoned back over the field wires pre
scribing corrections in the range until
the puffs struck the targets.
Above, sailing on silver wings in a
fleckless sky, airplane observers with
the American forces practice wireles
ing corrections for range.
Other Americans took turns hanging
in a wicker basket suspended from a
"sausage balloon" making similar ar
tillery observations.
The enthusiasm among the younger
American officers in the artillery prac
tice was manifested today in wagers
laid on the markmanship of every gun.
MORE OF GERMAN INTRIGUE
State Department Makes Public Letter
Disclosing Connection of Sweden
and Germany in Mexico.
Washington, Sept. 14. Another chap
ter of the story of German intrigue
neutral countries and among neu
tral diplomats was revealed tonight
by Secretary Lansing in the form of a
letter to the imperial chancellor from
the notorious Yen Eckhardt, the Ger
man minister at the City of Mexico,
to whom the interrupted Zimmermann
note was addressed.
It discloses that Folke Cronholm,
then Swedish charge in Mexico, was
depended upon by the German diplo
mat to furnish information "from the
hostile camp" and to transmit com
munications to Berlin, and that Von
Eckhardt wanted the kaiser to reward
him secretly with the "order of the
crown of the second class.
This letter was written on March 8,
1916, and apparently has been in the
possession of the American govern
ment for a long time. It was made
public without commeit
LUXBURG GETS PASSPORTS
Government of Argentina Sends Intri
guing German Official Home Ber
lin Must Explain Affair.
Buenos Aires, Sept. IS. The Argen
tine government at noon today sent
to the German legation, passports to
be delivered to Count Luxburg. the
German charge d'affaires In Buenos
Aires. The whereabouts of Count
Luxburg still is unknown to the Ar
gentine government.
The Argentine foreign office today
sent a communication to the German
foreign ministry, demanding an ex
planation of Count Luxburg' 8 action
In sending the secret code messages
to Berlin through the Swedish lega
tion. I. W. W. to Keep Up Strike.
Missoula, Mont-, Sept. 12. Indus
trial Workers of the World in the
Northwest who went on strike late
in June, voted overwhelmingly in
favor of continuing the strike, in
referendum taken last week.
Pray for U. S. War Success.N
Washington, Sept. 12. Proclama
tion by the President of a day of
prayer for American success in the
war is proposed in a bill by Senator
Myers of Montana, passed today by
the Senate.
Fly Old Glory Over Verdun.
Paris, Sept. 12. The American
colors now fly over Verdun. The flag
which was a gift of an American Red
Cross worker to the city was raised
over the ruin of the city hail after a
ceremony attended by the sub-prefect.
Cuts Off Holland's Coal.
Amsterdam, Sept. 12. The Tele
graaf says Germany has stopped
sending coal to Holland- The paper
expresses belief that Germany's at
titude is intended as pressure on Hol
land to grant a lean.
rr HoiUi
0 GIVE UP FIGHT
Leader of Russian Revolt Of
fers to Surrender Under
Certain Conditions.
GOVERNMENT HAS HEW POLICY
Vice Premier aSys No Change in So
cial Bes s cf Ruling Power
Will Ee Made.
Petrograd, Sept. 14. M, Skobeleff,
minister of labor in the Kerensky
cabinet and as member of the council
cf workmen's and soldiers delegates,
announced through the Russian offi
cial news agency today that General
Kornilofrs adventure had collapsed
and that the army at his headquarters
has surrendered.
General Korniioff has expressed a
willingness to surrender on certain
terms. The provisional- government,
however, demands his unconditional
surrender.
Government's Policy Outlined.
A" outline cf the constitution and
policy of the new government and the
future leadership of the army was
drawn tonight by Vice Premier Nek
rasoff. General Russki, M. Nekrasoff stated,
will be named as commander of the
northern front; General Dragomiroff
will command on the western front"
and General Diedrichs will be quar
termaster general.
Colonel Vershofsky, former comman
der of the Moscow military district,
has been appointed acting minister of
war; General Teplovest has been
named commander of the military dis
trict of Petrograd; Mpaltchinski, for
mer assistant minister of trade, nas
been given the post of military gover
nor general of Petrograd, and Admiral
D. N. Verdevski, former commander-in-chief
of the Baltic fleet, has been
appointed minister of marine.
The policy which General Korniioff
demanded for army control will not
be pursued, according to the vice pre
mier. No Change in Government.
The government, M. Nekrascff de
clared, will be conducted on the same
social basis as formerly. The govern
ment will not be a coalition one, he
added, inasmuch as its existence will
not depend upon an inter-party agree
ment. He said M. Pieschehonoff, the
minister of food and supplies, will re
sign, as also will M. Savinkoff, the as
sistant minister of war. He indicated
a change in the ministry of-foreign
affairs was also probable.
SWEDEN REPLIES TO CHARGE
Stockholm Government Says Minister
to Argentina Did Not Know
Contents of Message.
Washington, Sept. 14. Sweden's re
ply to this government's expose of the
German intrigue through the Swedish,
minister at Buenos Aires was deliver
ed orally to Secretary Lansing today.
Charge Akerhielm submitted the
Swedish explanation the same one
given to the press in Stockholm earli
er this week. This apparently closes
the incident so far as the United
States is concerned.
The department revealed today that
the note affair is not a diplomatic inci
dent, since Secretary Lansing merely
read the Luxburg data to Akerhielm
before it was published instead of
sending official notice to the Swedish
government. Sweden, therefore, is not
obligated to make a full formal an
swer. As expected, Sweden contends that
Minister Xowen at Buenos Aires was
acting without knowledge of Count
Luxburgs language when he transmit
ted the German message to Berlin
through the Swedish foreign office at
Stockholm. She adds that other neu
trals the United States included
have acted in similar capacities for
the Central Powers. "
FLIER INJURED AT FORT SILL
Fort Sill. Ok, Sept. 12. Roderick
R. Kennedy, Minneapolis, Minn., pri
vate in the Third Aero Squadron, is
near death as the result of bums re
ceived when he crashed two hun
dred feet to earth in a flaming air
plane at the aviation camp here early
this morning.
Kennedy was burned about the
head, shoulders and lower part of his
body, which post physicians believe
will result in his death. Hi3 eye
sight also is believed to have been
destroyed- He was apparently unin
jured by the fall and leaped from the
machine and extinguished his burn
ing clothing unassisted. He is 24
years old and the son of Dr. J. F.
Kennedy.
Two Student Fliers Die.
San Diego, CaL, Sept. 13. J. E. Line
man and N. A. Walsh, student avia
tors, were killed at North Island to
day when their machines crashed to
gether fifteen hundred feet up and
fell to the ground in flames.
Draft Evaders in Port.
San Diego. CaL, Sept. 13. Escorted
by the United States warship that
captured her the gasoline schooner
AnviL with more than thirty alleged
draft evaders and enemy aliens on
board, has arrived here.
Canada Fixes Wheat Prices.
Ottawa, Sept. 13. The Canadian
board of grain supervisors tas fixed
the prices of the Canadian wheat crop
of 1917 at Fort William and Pert Ar
thur as follows: Manitoba, Northern
No. 1, $2.21; Northern No. 2, ZlSi
red winter No. 3, $2.15.
Cuba Frees Metal Exports.
Havana, Sept. 13. President Me-o-cal
today by special decree removed
the war revenue tax recently Irspcsed
by act of congress on exports cf azp
per and iron from Cuba,