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VOLUME SIXTY-EIGHT
Kot Since Spanish War Has
There Been So Much of
Military Activity
MORE THAN 100,000
GUARDSMEN CALLED
My Drilling and Recruit
Work Will Be Done for
the Next Few Days
Washington, D. C., June
19.
While the whole
country was astir today
with the mobilization of
the national guard for
border duty, President
Wilson directed that his
reply rejecting General
Carranza's demand for the
recall of American troops
from Mexico go forward
immediately.
In refusing to withdraw
the troops the United
States reaffirms the
friendly intentions of the
United States toward the
de facto government in
Mexico and sharply re
bukes General Carranza
for unwarranted charges
and insinuations of bad
faith contained in his com
munication.
Galveston, Tex., June 19.
—The Mexican govern
ment in Yucatan has
issued a proclamation
ordering all Americans
out of Mexico and declar
ing a state of war exist
ing between the two coun
tries, according to pas
sengers arriving this
morning on the Norwegian
steamer Nils from Pro
greso.4 American and
other foreigners are being
taken on board an Ameri
can gunboat at Progreso.
Great excitement is said
to prevail.
Washington, D. C., June 19.—Not
lince the Spanish war has the nation
leen such military activity as today.
More than 100,000 national guards
men in forty-live states are under or
ders to mobilize for Mexican service.
They constitute virtually the entire
military strength of the United States.
President Wilson, through Secretary
Baker, issued the orders yesterday
when It became apparent that the
threatening conditions in northern
Mexico were not improving.
Only drilling and recruiting will be
In order among militia organizations
for the present. All must be mustered
Into federal service. Later they will
be sent to the border for patrol duty,
releasing about 30,000 regulars for
"lervice in Mexico if war actually de
velops.
WARSHIPS ARE READY.
Additional warships also are being
made ready today to hurry south and
stand by Mexican ports to protect
tAmericans. Secretary Daniels, after
the militia order was issued last night,
ordered seven destroyers and nine
other small vessels to join the Ameri
can warships already in Mexican wa
ters.
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IflRTUALLY ENTIflE MILITARY STRENGTH OFU.S.
IS BEING MOBILIZED PREPARATORY TO GOING TO
MEXICAN BORDER AS RELIEF TO REGULAR TROOPS
Central States
are Mobilizing
Chicago, June 19.—Plans for the
mobilization of the national
guards of nearly all the states
comprising the central depart
ment, U. S. A., for Mexican bor
der service, were practically com
pleted early today, according to
an announcement issued from the
headquarters of Maj. Gen. Thomas
H. Barry, commanding the de
partment
Shortly before 6 o'clock this
morning, Oen. Barry received in
structions from the war depart
ment, which will be put into ef
fect today. The headquarters re
mained open all night during con
ferences of staff officers.
Telephone calls came from ad
jutant generals in most of the
states nearby, asking for instruc
tions and information as to what
was expected of them.
In Illinois national guard cir
cles there was unusual activity fol
lowing the issuance of the order
calling out all but two of the eight
regiments by Adjt. Gen. Frank S.
Dickson. In Chicago, it was an
nounced, the quota of approxi
mately 4,000 guardsmen from this
city was expected to be on its way
to the mobilization encampment
at Springfield within the next
forty-eight hours.
Officials of railroads centering
in Chicago were early preparing
for the immediate movement of.
troops.
The states included in Gen.
Barry's department are Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, North and
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Wyoming, Colorado, Missouri and
Arkansas.
As an indication of the rapidity
with which officers of the Chicago
regiments worked after receipt of
the news that they had been called
for Mexican border duty, shortly
after midnight, it was stated every
trooper of the first cavalry had
been notified by special delivery
letter to appear today for mobiliza
tion. United States postal special
carriers worked all night deliver
ing these letters to officers and
men.
When 500 men of the first in
fantry, who had marched yester
day before a moving picture Cam
era at Camp Logan, arrived in the
city last night and heard the news,
they refused to disperse and go
home. They formed ranks again
and marched through the down
town district to their armory,
where most of them remained un
til late watching for develop
ments.
It was announced early today
that Chicago manufacturers who
have members of the national
guard in their employ will put no
obstacles in the way of the men
ordered south. S. M. Hastings,
president of the Illinois Manufac
turers' association, said the va
cated jobs will be waiting when
the men come back.
Under the orders of President
Wilson, the following are the
Illinois national guards to go to
the front:
First cavalry, Col. Milton J.
Foreman first infantry, Col.
Joseph Sanborn second infantry,
Col. John J. Garrity seventh
Infantry, Col. Daniel Moriarity
fourth infantry, Col. E. J. Lang
third infantry, Col. Charles H.
Greene eighth infantry, Col.
Franklin Denison. The fifth and
sixth infantry regiments were
not called.
ILLINOIS GETS READY.
Springfield, 111., June 19.—Eight
freight car loads of camp equip
ment were being rushed back to
Springfield today from E^t. Sheri
dan in charge of Capt. A. I. Sim
mons, detailed as quartermaster
at the abandoned summer camp
of instruction there. This was
the first train movement as the
result of the mobilization orders
issued to national guard organiza
tions of Illinois by Adjt. Gen.
Frank S. Dickson shortly before
dawn.
At the mobilization camp in the
state fair grounds", which^ are
dotted with huge buildings in
tended for exhibits of produce and
live stock laid out around a mile
race track, Gen. Dickson and the
assistant adjutant general, Col.
Richings J. Shand, with four regu
lar army officers were fixing up
camp sites for the various organ
izations of the guard. The regu-
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Developments in Situation
Cause Excitement of
Unparalleled Size
MILITARY LEADERS
FEELING CONFIDENT
While Watching Every
Move of the Mexicans
Ttiey Keep Cool
Columbus, N. M., June
19.—More than 100 Mexi
cans employed by the U. S
army in rebuilding the
motor road from Colum
bus to the American field
bases in Mexico quit today
and left camp at Palomas,
eight miles south of the
border, for interior points
in Mexico. They explained
that they feared the ven
geance of Carranza fol
lowers.
El Paso, Tex., June 19—Develop
ments in the Mexican situation, crowd
ing one on the heels of the other in the
last thirty-six hours, caused excite
ment today paralleling that following
the crossing of the frontier by the
American expeditionary command at
Columbus, N. M., more than three
months ago.
American military authorities admit
ted that every preparation had been
made for eventualities but asserted
that no trouble is anticipated in this
immediate locality.
BELL IS READY.
Gen. George Bell, Jr., commanding
the El PaBO military district, seemed
confident today that with the 3,500
troops on station here hue is prepared
to cope with any emergency. Some con
sideration, however, was given a rumer
that a body of Carranza soldiers, esti
mated at 5,000, is encamped about
twenty miles south of Juarez, prepared
if necessary, to reinforce the garrison
of 4,000 and that 8,000 Carranzistas
left Villa Ahumada, eighty-three miles
south, yesterday for El Valle, south
east of Dublan, one of Gen. Pershing's
field bases. This report, however,
could not be confirmed and was not
generally believed.
CROWD IS QUIETED.
Reports also were current that Gen.
Jacinto Trevino, Carranza commander
of the army of the north, is arming all
male citizens above the age of 18, fol
lowing his recruiting campaign for
which orders were recently issued by
the Mexican minister of war. News
that the fourth expedition had been
withdrawn from Mexico, after a brief
campaign and Secretary Baker's state
ment that the new draft of national
guardsmen are for border duty only as
needed and not for increasing Geu.
Pershing's command had a quieting ef
fect in Juarez, aB it filtered through to
the masses of the people. While large
number of persons gathered about the
plaza In the Mexican town, the excite
ment, as in El Paso, was confined
largely to speculation as to eventuali
ties. With the military on both banks
of the river taking increased precau
tions, no demonstrations were ex
pected.
Pershing Plans Dash
Columbus, N. M., June 19.—Notwith
standing the threat of Gen. Trevina,
the Mexican commander, to attack him
if he moves in any direction except
toward the border, Gen. Pershing, field
commander of the American expedi
tionary column in Mexico, is said to Tic
quietly laying plans for quick dashes
north and south at the first sign of
open hostility. His plans, it is believed
by observers, are to gain possession of
the Mexico Northwestern railroad,
which practically commands the terri
tory adjacent to his line of communica
tion.
Gen, Pershing's men slept on their
arms last ilight.
The American commander is in re
ceipt dally of information regarding do
facto Mexican government troops
movement. Natives, treated kindly by
the Americana, have voluntarily sup
plied valuable information.
IOWA—unsettled with ghowera not much change in temperature. Sun rises. 4:28 Beta, 7:88. LOCAL TEMP.—6 p. m.. 70 8 a. m, 67 12 m^ 9 max., 70 mla, 46.
MOBILIZE U. S. GUARD FOR PATROL DUTY
FUNSTONCONTENT
ORGANIZING
E IT HOME
JHINK8 HE CAN USE MILITIA OF
NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
AND ILLINOI8 AT ONCE.
San Antonio, Tex., June 19.—It was
indicated at headquarters of the south
ern department today that Gen. Funs
ton would request the war department
to send him first the militia of New
York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. The
designation of militia units for service
along the Mexican border will be made
by the war department, but it was
pointed out that Gen. Funston believed
he could make practical use immed
iately of the organizations from those
states. He and his staff were quite
content that the work of organizing
and equipping the militia, especially
that from most of the states, be done
at home stations and many of the of
ficers here who witnessed the work of
getting the guardsmen of Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona into shape ex
pressed the hope that none would be
sent south until they had been drilled
for a time and made partially fit at
least for service in the field.
Must Keep Balance.
Gen. Funston and his staff were
chiefly concerned today in a study of
how best to maintain the delicate bal
ance between the United States and
Mexico until the militia organizations
began to arrive. Officers at depart
ment headquarters believed it improb
able that any of the state troops would
get to border stations before ten days
and that even then only a small per
centage of the total expected would be
available for service.
Report* from the border early today
told of no new raids. Anti-American
demonstrations took place yesterday
in Mexican towns and the feeling gen
erally throughout the frontier was
that Carranza's troops or civilian or
ganizations in Mexico might percipi
tate a clash but extreme caution was
taken by American officers along the
line and by Gen. Pershing to give no
cause for aggression.
Will Take Action.
If another raid does occur or if Gen.
Trevino permits any of his troops to
attack Gen. Pershing's lines, swift ac
tion will be taken by the Americans
but if thefre is anything the Americans
can do to avert trouble it will be done.
HEAVY FIGHTING
RllfclANSS AND GERMANS ARE EN
GAGING IN STIFF ENCOUNTERS
CZAR'S MEN LEAD.
Berlin, June 19.—Heavy fighting
is in progress between the Rus
sians pushing toward Kovel and
the Teutonic forces opposing them
In the Stokhoji-Styr sector the war
office announced today. The Rus
sian attacks, says the statement,
have been partly repulsed by
means of successful counter at
tacks.
London, June 19.—Heavy Fighting
between the Russians advancing
toward Kovel and the Germans under
Gen. von Linsingen is reported by the
Berlin Tageblatt's correspondent at
Austrian headquarters, acording to an
Amsterdam dispatch asserts that the
Tageblatt account of the fighting Is
worded so as to prepare Berlin for the
news of another Teutonic retreat.
The Tageblatt says that the Austri
ans have taken up fresh positions be
tween Czernowitz and the Dniester
where they are awaiting further Rus
sian attacks. In the middle Strypa
sector, on the direct line to Lemberg,
the German general, Count von Both
mer, is reported to be maintaining his
resistance against heavy pressure by
the Russians.
RUSSIANS TAKE 3,000.
Petrograd, June 19. —The Russians
took 3,000 prisoners In the city and
vicinity of Czernowitz, the war office
announced today.
SECOND NOTE TO
AUSTRIA ON WAY
Washington, D. C., June 19.—A sec
ond note to Austria-Hungary, regard
jing the attack by an Austrian sub
marine upon the American tank steam
er Petrolite was coded at the state de
partment today for immediate trans
mission to Vienna. It is understood
to demand an apology for the attack
I and Reparation for the damage.
Adjutant General Logan Is
Counting' on Receiving
Them By 6 p. m.
DISCUSS PLANS FOR
TRANSPORTING MEN
Railroads Will Furnish
Specials to Carry the
Troops to Capital
Des Moines, June 19.—In a state
ment made public at 1 o'clock today,
Adjt. Gen. Guy E. Logan of the Iowa
national guard, declared that advices
reaching him led him to believe that
mobilization of the Iowa guard would
be ordered by the federal war depart
ment before 6 o'clock tonight. The
adjutant general would not reveal the
source of his information.
He said everything was in readiness
for troop movements, that every coin
mander in the state was on the qui
vive and that a minimum of delay
would result when the mobilization
order finally was issued.
Muscatine, Clinton, Davenport and
Dubuque guardsmen may be concen
trated at Davenport and brought to
Des Moines on a special. Cedar Rapids
Waterloo, and Marshalltown may be
concentrated at one of the three towns
and brought to Des Moines in a body
or may come separately.
Railroads In Iowa have promised
officers of the guard promptly to fur
nish cattle cars and freight cars for
the immediate delivery of cavalry, ar
tillery and ambulance corps equip*
ment.
Company and Band Ready
The call to arms issued by the presi
dent to the state militia organizations
of the country strikes Ottumwa with
some force for this city has an Infan
try company in the national guard
and a band assigned to the cavalry
of the state militia.
Neither Captain Schamp of Co. G,
third Idwa infantry, nor Director
Cleveland Dayton of the First Caval
ry band have received orders from
their superiors to make ready for
service at the Mexican border.
The guardsmen will have to bnild
up considerable In numbers to reach
their war footing, while the band will
have to cut down as the civilian
strength of the latter organization is
much in excess of the war footing
which Is placed at twenty-eight men.
Capt. C. E. Schamp of Co. says
that the present enlistment of the com
pany is fifty-seven, and to bring it up
to the full strength of war times will
necessitate seventy-five additional
men. Many Ottumwans have oftered
their services in the event of a call.
The heads of both organizations
state that they can be ready in twen
ty-four hours' notice and both are
awaiting orders from their superiors
ready to act at once upon the receipt
of instructions.
Despite the various reports and ru
mors about the streets regarding the
orders' issued to the military com
panies of the state, the heads of the
two local organizations are abiding
their time until the proper authority
and instructions are given. Both men
are aB much at sea as to just what
may be done with the state troops as
is the general public and are not haz
arding any guesses, stating that they
await their instructions from the
proper authorities.
Officers Take Oath.
Capt. Schamp stated that insofar as
the officers are concerned there will
be no need of being mustered into the
.service as the oath taken by the of
ficers some three weeks ago obligates
them to go wherever the war depart
ment orders. With regard to the rank
and file, he said that they are sub
ject to the call of the war department
for duty anywhere in the country and
this would include border patrol duty.
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OTTUMWA, WAPELLO COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1916 NUMBER 133
IOWA OFFICERS
EXPEGTORDERS
THISEVENING
Arrange For Trains.
General officers of the Iowa national
guard located in Des Moines today dis
cussed with representatives of th9
various railroads tentative plans for
mobilizing members of the guard here,
when the call from the war depart
ment arrives.
It was said that the plans provided
for a special train from Glenwood, Red
Oak, Clarlnda, Shenandoah, Ottumwa,
Winterset, Grinnell and Council BlufTs
to bring troops from those districts to
Des Moines. Ft. Dodge and Boone
troops will come in on the interurban,
the others on the Burlington, Chicago
and Northwestern and Rock Island
railroads.
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.otmer
MEXICO ASKS THAT
EMBASSY COMMUNICATION AN
NOUNCES CLA3H BETWEEN
8AILORS AND NATIVE8.
Washington, D. C., June 19.—Com
munications from the Mexican em
bassy announcing that there had been
a* clash between a boat crew from the
gunboat Annapolis and Carranza sold
iers at Mazatlan yesterday and asking
that in the present tense situation no
men be landed in Mexico from Ameri
can warships under any circumstances
were delivered to the state depart
ment today by an embassy secretary.
The secretary sought an engagement
with Secretary Lansing for the ambas
sador designate, Eliseo Arredondo,
but was informed that Mr. Lansing
was very busy and was making no ap
pointments for the day.
Reply to Carranza.
Secretary Lansing announced that
the reply to Carranza would go for
ward to Mexico City during the day.
The secretary also declared the Amer
ican policy in Mexico remained un
changed.
Secretary Lansing allowed it to be
come known that dispatches to the
state department showed increasing
excitement and irritation in many sec
tions below the border. The texts of
the dispatches were withheld.
HUGHES TO CONFER
WITH HIS COMMITTEE
New York, June 19.—Charles E.
Hughes arrived here from Washington
at 7:15 a. m. today to confer with a
subcommittee of the republican na
tional committee, of which W. Murray
Crane is chairman, concerning the or
ganization of the committee, Including
the election of a new chairman. The
conference was called to meet at 2:30
p. m.
The members of the subcommittee
were guests of Mr. Crane at a lunch
eon. Before the luncheon the commit
tee met and discussed the question of
the selection of a national chairman.
It was later announced unofficially
that there was no basis for published
reports that William R. Wilcox, form
erly a public service commissioner,
would be selected. It was declared
also that the name of William Loeb,
once former President Rosoevelt's
secretary, had been virtually elimin
ated.
RUSSIANS HAVE
CONTROL OE CITY
AUSTRIANS LEAVE PRISONERS
AND MATERIALS AS THEY
ABANDON CZERNOWITZ.
London, June 19.—The Russians
are now in full possession of Czerno
witz, capital of Bukowina, the Aus
trians having evacuated the city,
leaving 1,000 prisoners and some guns
in the hands of the Russians.
In Gallcia and Volhynia the Rus
sians are meeting with strong resist
ance from the Austro-Hungarlans and
Germans, some of the latter of whom
are declared b*y Petrograd to have
been brought from the French front
in an endeavor to aid in stopping the
Russians advance.
Petrograd asserts that the Russians
are repulsing counter attacks and
pressing back the Teutonic
allleB
at
the same time taking large numbers
of prisoners and quantities of war sup
plies, but the Austrians and Germans
,claim victories for their arms in Gal
lcia and Volhynia. The Germans say
they captured about 4,000 prisoners
along the Styr river.
Loss Around Verdun
Around Verdun in the vicinity of
Le Mort Homme the Germans suffered
heavy casualties in several attacks.
In the Argonne forest there is much
activity and the French claim to
have used their lqng range artillery
effectively.
On the French front there has been
renewed fighting in the air, the Brit
ish bringing down one and the French
seven German machines. The French
lost one machine.
Have Not Withdrawn.
The Austrians have not yet with
drawn troops from the Italian frontier
because of the Russian offensive and
they are continuing their efforts to
break through the Italian line but
without success, the attacks being put
down by the Italics with heavy cas
ualties.
Rumania Is again a subject of much
Interest since the fall of Czernowitz
and strong pressure Is being brought
to bear to Influence her to join the
|cntente allies.
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£n
IS
FOR STATUARY
Fund to Procure Sculpture
for Public Library Is.
Receiving Support
GRADE SCHOOL BOY
STARTS MOVEMENT
Suggests in Letter City Get
Piece of Edstrom's Work
to Inspire Youth
The committee in charge of the
movement to have a piece of sculpture
made by David Edstrom placed in the
public library, despite the fact that
nothing has been recently announced
as to its activities, is busy with thin
project.
This movement that had its incep
tion in the mind and heart of a young
boy scholar in the grade schools, Is
believed by the committee and many
others to have struck a responsive
chord in the hearts and mindB of a
large number of other Ottumwans. The
letter sent by Master Atherton Manro
on this project and his visit with the
party to whom he wrote, before the
directors of the Commercial club
fair to bear the fruit hoped for by the
lad.
Talks to Directors.
The presence of the boy before
Commercial club board where the pro*
ject was presented to the dlre6tofif»
brought attention to something that
Ottumwa lacked—a more general ap
preciation of the beautiful. The Idea
of the sphool boy was to hare some
piece of sculpture In Ottumwa from,
the hands of the former Ottumwan
who had risen to prominence as a scul
tor, that it might inspire other boys
and girls of the city as well, to strive
hard and make sacrifices if necessary
In order to reach the goal of their
ambitions. The success of David
Edstrom would be an inspiration to
others according to Master Manro.
who would have Ottumwa get soine
of the sculptor's work as a reminder
to the youth of this city of what a
former Ottumwa boy had done.
The committee which was suggested
in the letter of young Manro for hand
ling the project was added to by the
Commercial club and the enlarged
committee has not been idle. The
first visit of Mr. Edstrom here sug
gested the thought to the school boy
and on his second visit the plap had
already taken root and was in effect."
The noted sculptor then lectured af
the opera house to help Ottumwaijs to
appreciate what they lacked in the
aesthetic sense—the proper regard or
appreciation for art and the beautiful
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AERO CLUlTwiLL DO
EVERYTHING TO HELP
New York, June 19.—The Aero 6lub
of America announced today that It
would do all in its power to aid the
United States government in the Mexi
can crisis by providing aeroplanes and
aviators for patrol work.
Alan R. Hawley, president of tho
club, telegraphed to Washington that
some of the thirty national guard of
ficers sent to aviation schools at the
expense of the national aeroplane fund
are ready to pass the tests for atlir
tors' certificates. Many of them, h§
said, need only a few weeks' training
at the army aviation schools to m'ako
them suitable military aviators. J&k
PACIFIC FLEET IS
HELD IN READINESS
San Pedro, Cal., June 19.—Admiral
Winslow, commanding the Pacific fleet",
was in receipt of orders today to select
available vessels and dispatch them tor
join other warships now stationed at
ports on the west Mexican coast The
cruisers Denver and Chattanooga aty
San Diego were instructed to take on
coal later. It was expected that the
cruiser San Diego, the admiral's flag
ship, would sail for San Diego at onoe*
CENTENNIAL BEGINS
FOR ENTIRE WEEK
Rock Island, 111., June 19.—There
was begun today a week's historical
celebration to observe the one hun
dredth anniversary of the establish
ment of Ft. Armstrong on the idland of
Rock Island. At noon President Wilson
touched a button in the white house
formally opening the event Home
coming for former residents of Rock
Island, Davenport and Mollne is also
being observed. Thousands have al-.
ready arrived from all parts of the n*
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