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BRITISH INFANTRY CROSSING A PONTOON BRIDGE
MEXICO’S NEW CABINET
CARRANZA ANNULS $10,000,000 PA
PER ISSUED BY CARBAJAL.
Army Is Mustered Out and Federal
Soldiers Given $lO Each and
Ticket to Their Homes.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Mexico City, Aug. 20. —A decree is
to be issued by the government of the
fiylepal district repudiating govern
ment notes of the issue of July 25
last. This issue was made during the
regime of Provisional President Fran
cisco Carbajal on the authorization of
tne $60,000,000 6 per cent ten-year gold
bonds made by the Huerta adminis
tration. About $10,000,000 of this pa
per is now in circulation.
The new Constitutionalist cabinet
was announced as follows:
Minister of foreign affairs, Ysidro
Fabela; minister of interior, Elisio Ar
redondo; minister of public instruc
tion, Dr. Miguel Silva; minister of
communication. Ygnacio Bonillas;
minister of finance, Felicitos Villa
real; minister of war, Eduardo Hay.
The appointment of minister of jus
tice has been deferred, awaiting the
re-organization of the courts.
The mustering out of the Federal
troops is proceeding rapidly. Four
thousand were released, each enlisted
man receiving $lO and his faro home,
while the officers received S2O and
their fare.
While absolute order prevails every
where, the rigors of military govern
ment have been in no way slackened.
Tv/o thieves, disguised in the uni
forms of Constitutionalists, were ex
ecuted at a police station and their
bodies exposed to the view of the cu
rlous crowds.
A committee of American women
journeyed to the headquarters of Gen
eral Carranza at Atzcapozalco to wel
come the chief of the Constitutional
Ists on the part of the women of the
colony.
An order demanding the surrender
of arms by all the inhabitants was
later modified so as not to include for
eigners.
Washington, Aug. 20. —Transfer ot
the departments of the Carranza gov
ernment to Mexico City from tempo
rarv headquarters in Monterey was
reported to the State Department by
Consul Hanna. Mail and railroad serv
ice, the consul says, have greatly im
proved by the restoration of peace.
One of the large American smelters
closed during the hostilities, has re
opened its doors, and there is every
prospect, in Consul Hanna's opinion,
that peace will bring immediate com
mercial prosperity to the district
about Monterey.
Laredo, Tex., Aug. 20. —Resolutions
asking that General Carranza’s first
official act after he reached Mexico
City be a request to the United States
to withdraw its troops from Vera
Cruz, where they ‘‘are an affront tc
the Mexican nation," were adopted at
a mass meeting in Saltillo, according
to travelers reaching the border.
Silver Mine Reopens.
Bisbee, Arlz. —Officials of the Cop
per Queen Mining Company on
notmeed that as a result of the govern
ment’s plan to purchase silver, the
Southwest mine of the company would
be reopened Monday.
Americans Safe in Belgium.
Washington.—Consular reports from
Belgium say Americans and English
in the eastern part of the country ure
safe.
Canada Bank Gives $100,000 for War.
Montreal.—Tho Bank of Montrcul
announced that the directors had uu
thorized a contribution of SIOO,OOO foi
national patriotic purposes.
English Relief Fund Is $7,500,000.
London. —The Prince of Wules Na
tional Relief Fund has readied a total
of $7,500,000.
Clauh at Waterloo Reported.
Antwerp, Aug. 24. —For the firat
time Germany and England huVe inet
tiH enemies, on the great battlefield
of Waterloo, where General Blucher
and the iron Dtiko of Wellington
fought Bide by Hide a tains! the Great
Napoleon 100 years ago. The forces of
the King and the Kaiser clashed to
gether Saturday. The fighting was
carried on with great fierceness by
both sides. No decisive gain wns
made by either adversary, owing to
the advent of darkness, which put an
end to hostilities.
BILL TO BUY SILVER
PASSED BY SENATE BY VOTE OF
39 FOR TO 11 AGAINST.
Purchase of 15,000,0C0 Ounces by
United States Authorized by the
Measure.
Washington.—As a stimulant to the
silver market the Senate Saturday
passed the following legislation:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress
assembled, that the secretary of the
treasury is hereby authorized to an
ticipate the requirements of the treas
ury for the silver bullion for the sub
treasury coinage by purchases of bul
lion to an amount in the aggregate not
exceeding 15,000,000 ounces, such pur
chases to be of the product of smelt
ing works located within the United
States, and to be made from time to
time in his discretion, but limited to
the period of six months from and
after this passage of this act: Pro
vided, that the price paid for such
bullion shall not in any instance ex
ceed the average price of silver bul
lion in the New York market for the
six months beginning with the month
of January, 1914, and ending with the
month of June, 1914."
The vote by which the bill passed
was thirty-nine ayes to eleven nays.
Its passage was resisted by Senators
Burton, Cummins, Norris, Bristow and
others who argued that the govern
ment had just as much right to go in
to the grain market and become an ex
tensive purchaser of wheat to keep
the price of wheat from going down.
This argument was combatted by
Senators Thomas, Shafroth and Smoot
in vigorous speeches. Shafroth said
one reason why the government
should not permit silver to become too
cheap is that very cheap silver would
be a constant temptation to weak per
sons to engage in counterfeiting.
If silver was a cent an ounce, the
temptation to make ninety-nine cents
counterfeiting the coinage of a dollar
would he an incentive to many per
sons, too strong to be overcome, he
said.
Party lines went to pieces in the
vote, although nearly all of the Demo
cratic senators oeted for the hill.
Smoot, Thomas and Shafroth think
it will go through the House without
difficulty.
JESUIT GENERAL IS DEAD.
’’Black Pope” Breathes His Last at
Almost Same Time Pontiff
Succumbs.
Rome. Father Francis Xavier
Wernz, known as "the black pope,”
died from diabetes. His fatal illness
was superinduced by his anxiety over
the war. He had constantly prayed
that victory should be with the Aus
tro-German arms, but he was equally
anxious as to the fate of the Jesuits
In France. Germany and Austria.
Father Wernz was general of the
Society of Jesus and it is considered
doubtful whether a conclave for the
election of his successor can be held
during the war, as the provincials of
the different countries must come to
Rome for that purposo.
Father Wernz, general of the Soci
ety of Jesus, was born in the city of
Rottwell, Wurtemburg, Germany, De
cember 4, 1542. He entered the novl
tiato at Corlieim, at the age of fif
teen; made his studies at Friedrichs
burg and Aix-la-Chapello and Marla
Lanch; taught in the Jesuit College at
Feldklrch.
Mexican Chiefs to Confer.
El Paso, Tox., Aug. 24. —Prepara-
tions were begun for tho conference
between the factions in northern Mex
ico looking toward tho prevention of
further revolution in tho republic.
The meeting will he held at Nogales.
Sonora, Mexico. The delegates will be
compelled, on account of railroad fa
cilities, to travel through the United
Stutes or endure a long, hard over
land ride.
Baltic Brings 1,500 Refugees.
New York. —The White Star liner
Baltic arrived Saturday from Liver
pool and Queenstown with 2,120 pas
sengers and nearly (1,000 sacks of mall.
The passengers Included more than
1,500 American refugees from the war
zene who managed to rcnch olthcr
Queenstown or Liverpool from the
Continent after suffering many hard
ships. Seven hundred of the 1,100 pas
sengers In the steerage were Ameri
cans who had been unable to get ac
commodations in the first and socond
cabins.
POPE’S FINAL MESSAGE
Rome, via London. —The pope in his
final message before his death ad
dressed the following exhortation to
the whole World:
At this moment, when nearly the
whole of Europe is being dragged
into the vortex of a most terrible war,
with its present dangers and miseries,
and the consequences to follow', the
very thought of which must strike ev
eryone with grief and horror, we
whose care is the life and w'elfare of
so many citizens and peoples cannot
but be deeply moved and our heart
wrung with bitterest sorrow.
And in the midst of this universal
confusion and peril, we feel and
know' that both fatherly love and ap
ostolic ministry demand of us that we
should with all earnestness turn the
thoughts of Christendom thither,
“whence cometh help"—the Christ, the
Prince of Peace, and the most pow
erful mediator between God and man.
We charge, therefore, the Catholics
of the whole world to approach the
throne of grace and mercy, each and
all of them and more especially the
clergy, w hose duty furthermore it will
be to make in every parish, as thoir
bishops shall direct, public supplica
tion, so that the merciful God may,
as it were, he wearied w'ith the
prayers of his children and speedily
remove the evil causes of w’ar, giving
tc them who rule the impulse to think
the thoughts of peace and not of af
fliction.
From the palace of the Vatican, the
second day of August. 1914.
PIUS X PONTIFEX MAXIMUS.
Wilson Condoles Vatican.
Washington.—At the request of
President Wilson Secretary of State
Bryan sent the following telegram:
The President desires me to express
his sense of the great loss which the
Christian world has sustained in the
death of His Holiness Plus X. By his
pure and gentle character, his unaf
fected piety and his broad and thought
ful sympathy with his fellow-men he
adorned his exalted station and at
tracted to himself the affectionate re
gard of all who felt his world-wide
influence.
BRITAIN’S WAR SECRETARY
Earl Kitchener, who was recalled to
London as he was leaving England for
Egypt and appointed secretary of Btate
/r-r wnr
Peter V. De Graw Dead.
Washington. Peter Vorhees Do
Graw, former fourth assistant post
master general, died here after a long
sickness, from a complication of dis
eases.
Charles F. Clyne Nominated.
Washington.—Chnrles F. Clyne was
nominated by the President as United
States district attorney nt Chicago.
U. S. to Spend $25,000,000 for Ships.
Washington.—Comprehensive plnns
were mapped out by the administra
tion for building up the American mer
chant marine with government money
for the Immediate purpose of trans
porting the products of the United
States to the warring nations of Eu
rope and to South nnd Central Amor
lea. President Wilson in consultation
with Democratic lenders In Congrdks
approved a project contemplating tho
expenditure of approximately $25,000,-
000 for the purchase of occan-goliig
vessels.
FRENCH ADMIT
MANY REVERSES
PROMISE DEFEAT OF GERMANS
AFTER CONFLICT IS STARTED
FROM NEW BASE.
TO TAKE KONIGSBURG
HORDES OF RUSSIA ANNIHILATE
GERMAN EASTERN ARMY IN
ADVANCE INTO PRUSSIA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, Aug. 25. —The French war of
fice issued the following announce
ment last night:
“The French and English, the plan
of attack having failed owing to un
foreseen difficulties, have retired on
the covering positions.
“West of the Meuse the English
army on our left was attacked by the
Germans, but behaved admirably,
holding its ground with traditional
steadfastness.
“The French assumed the offensive
with two army corps. An African bri
gade in the front line, carried away by
their eagerness, w r ere received by a
murderous fire. They did not give an
inch, but, counter attacked by the
Prussian guard, they w'ere obliged to
retire, only, however, after inflicting
enormous losses. The Prussian guard
Bspeclally suffered heavily.
“East of the Meuse our troops ad
vanced across an extremely difficult
country and made a vigorous attack
when they emerged from the woods,
but were obliged to fall back after a
stiff fight south of the river Semois.
“On order of General Joffre, our
troops and the English troops with
drew to the covering positions. Our
troops are intact; our cavalry has in
no way suffered and our artillery has
affirmed its superiority. Our officers
and soldiers are in the best of condi
tion, morally and physically.
“As a result of the orders which
have been issued, the aspect of the
struggle will change for a few days.
The French army will remain for a
time on the detensive, but at the right
moment, to be decided upon by the
commander-in-chief, it will resume a
vigorous offensive.
“Our losses are heavy; it w'ould be
premature to enumerate them. Tt
would he equally so to enumerate
those of the Germans, who suffered so
heavily that they were obliged to
abandon their counter attacks and es
tablish themselves in fresh positions
in Lorraine.
"We made four attacks yesterday
from our position north of Nancy, in
flicting very heavy loss on the en
emy.
"In regard to the general situation
we have the full use of our railroads
and retain command of the seas. Our
operations have enabled the Russians
to come in action and penetrate the
heart of east Prussia.
"It is to be regretted that the of
fensive operations planned failed to
achieve their purposes as a result of
difficulties impossible to foresee. It
would have shortened the war, hut
our defenses remain intact in the
presence of an already weakened
enemy.
"Every Frenchman will deplore the
temporary abandonment of portions
of Alsace and Lorraine, which we had
occupied, and certain parts of the na
tional territory will suffer from events
of which they will be the theater.
"The ordeal is inevitable, but tem
porary. Thus detachments of Ger
man cavalry, belonging to an unat
tached division operating on the ex
treme right, have penetrated to Rou
baix (six miles north of Lille) and
the Tourcoing district, which are de
fended only by territorial reservists.
"Our valiant people will know how
to find courage to support this trial,
with unfailing faith in final success,
which is not to be doubted. In tell
ing to the country the whole truth,
the government and military authori
ties give it the strongest proof of
their absolute confidence In victory,
which depends only on our perseve
rance and tenacity."
Namur is reported to have fuilen
after the outer fortifications had been
battered by German artillery. The
city was evacuated almost without a
struggle when the outer defenses
were destroyed.
St. Petersburg. Aug. 25. —In a line
of battle extending from the Poland
border to the Baltic sea, the hordes
of Russia are advancing into Ger
many, sweeping the Kaiser’s resist
ance before them like chaff before
the wind.
The advance guard of Cossacks,
which lmd been harassing the enemy
during the advance and concentra
tion of the main body of Russian
troops, has fallen back. The Infantry
and artillery have come to tho front.
The fire of the heavy guns in the
vanguard has swept the Prussian vil
lages along tho frontier out of exist
ence. Like a swarm of locusts the
Czar’s foot troops cover fields and
highways. The German soldiers have
been hunted out of every nook and
cranny along tho entire line of
march und behind tho Czar’s advance
not a German flag or uniform Is left
Half the territory o f east Prussia
Is now under the Russian flag and
Its advance is marked with a trail of
dead and wounded Germans.
SHOT DEAD IN OFFICE
WILLIAM L. RYAN KILLS ATTOR
NEY NEWTON W. CROSE.
Fort Collins Lawyer Was Successful
In Getting Divorce Decree for Wife
of Pool Hall Proprietor.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Collins. —Aftor shooting his
victim three times in one leg and pur
suing him into another office, where
the wounded man had taken refuge,
William L. Ryan, thirty-three, proprie
tor of a pool hall, fired two more
shots into the breast of Newton W.
Crose, an attorney, and mortally
wounded him. Although the last two
bullets penetrated Crose’s heart he
managed to stagger into the hall
while Ryan followed, reloading his re
volver for the third attack. Crose
died a few minutes later.
Ryan called at CroSe’s office and
sent the attorney’s stenographer into
an adjoining room. A moment later
three shots rang out and Crose.
wounded in one leg, ran from his of
fice through the hall to the rooms
occupied by Dr. D. O. Norton. Ryan
dashed past the stenographer and,
overtaking Crose, grabbed him by the
coat, turned him around, and placing
the pistol close to the attorney’s
chest, fired two more shots, both bul
lets piercing the heart.
Crose staggered into tho hall and
Ryan began to extract the exploded
shells and replace them with cart
ridges when he was overpowered by
N. C. Farnworth, who has offices in
the same building.
Justice of the Peace H. C. Lightner
tqok a hand in restraining Ryan and
asked him why he shot Crose.
"He had it coming to him. He
ruined me and now I’ve ruined him,"
Ryan said.
Crose represented Ryan’s wife in a
divorce suit a few years ago and got
a decree for her. It is said that Ryan
threatened “to get even."
Ryan is a son of the late John J.
Ryan, Colorado pioneer, and at the
time of his death, sixteen years ago,
was one of the wealthiest men in this
section of Colorado. For fourteen
years the senior Ryan was a member
of the State Board of Agriculture. He
left a vast fortune to his widow, which
his son is said to have dissipated.
Crose was a son-in-law of F. C.
Avery, president of the First National
bank of Fort Collins for thirty years.
Officers Knights of the Golden Eagle.
Denver. —The twenty-fifth annual
session of the Knights of the Golden
Eagle was held in Fraternal Union
hall. The officers elected for the en
suing year were: Grand past chief.
C. M. Augustine, Denver; grand chief,
F. H. Fidler, Denver; grand vice
chief, S. Christenson, Fort Collins;
grand high priest, P. C. Johnson, Fort
Collins; grand master of records, C.
E. Augustine, Denver; grand sire her
ald, W. Strawn, Denver; grand
keeper of the exchequer, W. H. Wol
cott, Denver; grand first guardsman.
Louis Carter, Central City; grand sec
ond guardsman, Glenn Schaeffer, Den
ver; representative to the supreme
castle, J. P. Armstrong, Fort Collins.
The next session will be held In Fort
Collins, Aug. 12 and 13, 1915.
Negro Chokes Swink Woman.
La Junta.—Attacked and robbed by
a negro, who choked her Into insensi
bility and took her pocketbook on the
country road, two and one-half miles
west of Swink. Mrs. A. Heimback,
wife of a farmer, is in a critical con
dition at her home. In the La Junta
jail, A. Kelly, a negro twepty-five
years old, is locked up, charged with
the robbery. Sheriff Alexander Yant
says Kelly admits that he robbed the
woman.
Hay Shortage Causes Alfalfa Demand.
Las Animas. —Thousands of tons of
Colorado alfalfa are wanted *by Cen
tral and Eastern states because of the
shortage of hay existing In several
sections of the United States, it was
stated by J. A. Rinehart of St. Louis,
Mo. Rinehart is here for the purpose
of contracting for a large quantity of
Arkansas valley hay, and he already
has closed negotiations for several
carloads.
Drinking Bout Ends in Death.
Pueblo. —A card game and drinking
bout, In which 100 Mexicans partici
pated at Boone, culminated In a homi
cide, the victim of which was Fran
cisco Martinez, 23. Romano Torres,
22, narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands of the mob, after he had shot
Martinez with a pistol. He is in the
Pueblo county jail, charged with mur
der.
Auto Ditched; Doctor Killed.
Boulder. —Dr. Grant Safely, a gradu
ate of the University of Colorado med
,cal school, and a former practitioner
at Lafayette and Nederland In this
'ounty, was killed in an automobile
accident at Sacramento, Cnl.
Alleged Wife Slayer Takes Poison.
Grand Junction. Edwnrd Godnt,
• ho, it Is charged, shot nnd killed his
estranged wife at her homo In Price,
Utah, was enptured nt Wellington,
Utnh, and wbilo en route to Price
iwallowed a lnrgo quantity of poison,
ind Is not expected to live. Godnt de
nied shooting his wife, although he
ltd not explain why he wns fleeing. He
wns discovered on n freight train hy a
nrakoman and recognised by his
maimed right nrm. With the help of
tho conductor he wus captured.
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DI8.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OP
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union Nows Service.
WESTERN.
Ferdinand Blesse left Denver for
New York, from whore he will sail
for Hanover to take up arms for the
Kaiser.
Gasoline splashed over a hot auty
mobile engine and, as a result of the
explosion following, seven persons are
dead and two others seriously burned
at Zanesville, Ohio.
Edward Godat, who shot and killed
his wife at her home in Price, Utah,
was captured at Wellington, Utah.
While en route to Price he took a
vial of bichloride of mercury.
An extra session of, the Texas Leg
islature was called by Governor Col
quitt to meet at Austin Aug. 24 to en
act relief measures for Texas cotton
growers, in view of the cotton panic
due to the European war.
When the business farmers of thirty
states assemble in Fort Wells, Sept. 1
for the annual convention of the Farm
ers’ Educational and Cooperative
Union of America, it will be a “coun
cil of war” that will have an import
ant bearing on the business intorests
of the United States.
A plot by leaders of the 4,000 Mex
ican refugees interned at Fort Win
gate, N. M., to tunnel out of the stock
ade, where they are confined, was dis
covered, and as a result the guard
has been increased and extra precau
tions have been taken to prevent any
further efforts to escape.
Among the cables received in New
York from Europe was one from the
Baroness Von Reltzenstein, formerly
Miss Helen Tobin of Denver, sister of
Mrs. James J. Brown of Denver. The
cable merely stated Baron Von Keit
zenstein had gone to the front on the
staff of the German emperor and the
baroness was at Potsdam.
The rails of the Burlington’s new
line through Central Wyoming has
reached Douglas, and there remains
now only the completion of the line
to Orin Junction to close up the only
gap in the Seattle-Galveston through
route, which will give the Hill system
a short route between the Pacific
Northwest and the Gulf of Mexico,
hasten the delivery of freight to and
from the Orient, and permit the Bur
lington to participate in the advan
tages offered by the Panama canal.
WASHINGTON.
The United States government an
nounced itself as opposed to the float
ing of loans in this country for the
benefit of the belligerent powers of
Europe.
Two contributions for use on Euro
pean battlefields —one from rhe
Rockefeller foundation for $10,000 and
one from Mrs. Russell Sage for $2,-
500 —reached Red Cross headquarters
in Washington.
Defeat of candidates for Congress
who oppose woman suffrage is the ob
ject of a conference to be held at New
port, R. I., Aug. 29 to 30 under the aus
pices of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage.
England, Russia and France have
intimated to the United States that
they do not regard the recent applica
tion of censorship to the wireless sta
tions as necessarily requiring similar
restrictions on cable messages.
A resolution directing Secretary of
State Bryan to protest against the an
nounced Intention of Japan to take
over the German leased territory of
Klauchou, China, was Introduced in
the House by Representative Britten
of Illinois.
Sefior Suarez, Chilean minister at
Washington, received word from his
government that the international pan-
American students' congress which
was to have opened in Santiago Sept.
18 next has been called off because
of the European situation.
Reports to the Department of Jus
tice tell of tho creation of artificial
food prices all along the lino. A dis
trict attorney in Texas reportod that
granulated sugar had risen from $4.60
to $7.50 per hundredweight within a
week. Swiss cheese from 25 to 38
cents, flour from $4.75 to $5.10, beef
ribs from 18 to 21 cents per pound,
sirloin 28 to 32 cents, pork loin 18 to
25 centB and smoked ham from 20 to
22 cents.
Because of the unsettled condition
of the cotton markot and fear of tho
results of the wur on the price of the
staple, tho Cannon chain of mills, lo
cated at Concord, Albermnrle and
Kannapolis, the llighlund Park mills
of Charlotte, N. C., and sonio of tho
Gastonia mills, in all representing
about 3,500 spindles, are running but
three days a week.
Stringent regulation of the use of
opium and its derivatives in this coun
try is provided In n House bill passed
by tho Senate and designed to supple
ment. state legislation.