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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-22
VICTORY BRIEFLY TOLD.

Berlin, wa Copenhagen and
London, Aug. 22.-A laconic
dispatch of seven words, an
nouncing the entry Of the Ger
mans into Brussels, is the on
ly news regarding the occupa-
ton Of the Belgian capital yet
published here.
Military authorities are
contending themselves with
brevity Of announcement sur
passing that employed by the
late Field Marshal Won Mott
Ike.
Berlin papers express ad-
miration for the swiftness of
the German advance, but make
no comment on the German
tont ioc
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-22
RANGE HOUSE ENTERED.

The steel and concrete range house
on the rifle range of the Calumet En-
gineers, was broken open and entered
one evening last week. Presumably
the lock was shot off or broken with
an axe. Considerable damage was
done and the marauders molested con-
siderable Of the property of the com
pany which is owned by the state The
investigation will be thorough. and If
apprehended the miscreants will be
made to pay a stiff penalty.
Joseph Despot, Nick Yednick and
Joseph Kasun have left for Altoona,
"a where they expect To locate
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-22
ITALY NOW TO WAR
AGAINST THE KAISER?

Continued From First Page.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-22
CARS NAVY IS
WOEFULLY WEAK
Only Four BattIeships Are Capable
of Effective Work

Ever since the disastrous war with
Japan the Russian navy has been con-
sidered TO be OF little value by the 9TH
er powers. Until recently little was
done toward building up the sea de-
lenses or the cars empire. but at the
present time there are four super
Dreadnoughts building, seven Dread
noughts, eight armored cruisers, six
cruisers. forty-five destroyers and
eighteen submarines, a total of eigh-
ty-eight vessels in course Of construc-
tion, or almost twice as many as any
other country has planned.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-22
Ships Ready For Use.

The boats are manned by $4,000
sailors, the majority OF whom are in
experienced landsmen who know very
little OF present day naval warfare.
Russia has a very large reserve list,
which is drawn as follows:
First-All the reservists OF twenty
three whole governments and OF sew
enty-one districts in fourteen other
governments.
SecOnd-Part OF the reservists of
nine districts OF twelve Russia govern
ments and one Finnish government.
Fourth-The time expired Cossacks
of the territories OF Don. Kuban, Ter
elk. Astrakhman. Orenburg and Ural.
Fifth-A corresponding number of
rescrvist officers of the medical and
veterinary service in addition to need
full horses. wagons and transport SER
vices in the governments and districts
thus modified.
Guns Of the Navy.
The standard guns in the Russian
fleet are as follows:
The twelve inch of 40 calibers;
weight, fifty-nine tons; muzzle velo-
city $500 foot seconds; muzZle ener-
gy, $4,000 foot tons This piece has
a nominal penetration of fifteen and
one-half inches Krupp cemented at
5000 yards with capped A. p. shell,
the same as that the United States
Mark III. ten inch. built for the Wash
ington class. 1t is mounted in the old
battleShip CZareVitch For the BOrO-
dino class a siXty-four ton twelve inch
has been designed, but it is doubtful
whether it exists as yet. 1t has the
same velocity (service). but fires n
1900 pound projectile instead of a 1872
pound one, and it has a corresponding
ly increased energy. The nominal vel
ocity is 5000 foot seconds.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-07-16
PHONE ARMADA 95l

The issue in Jefferson County
is the same as the issue in most
every County in the State. Taxes
are increasing and benefits of
county government. getting less.
People are asking why this is so,
and how change for the better
can be made.
Those who expect to be cahdi-
dates this year must be prepared
to answer the questions. A study
of the party catechism will not
produce the answer. 1t must
come from the application Of
common sense, business methods
to public affairs. Has jefferson
County the men and women with
independence enough to spend
the peoples money for public
good, regardless of how some
political machine may be affect
ed? Now is the time for candi-
dates of such character to come
forward. Wheat Ridge News.
The Wheat Ridge News states
the situation squarely. Our con-
temporary. the Sun. says I'VE
should dominate the machine"
but its idea OF dominating it
seems to be to take it apart, add
q few slightly used cogs. oil it
up and start it in motion again.
The fact that so few candidates
are in the field for office just now
may be attributed to the fact,
perhaps, that the old Office seek
ers realize that this is not their
year. The people are looking for
men, not office seekers and good
men are scarce when il comes to
the matter of Offices. because
those best qualified for Office. as
o rule, have business of their own
which would suffer. should they
accept an Office and devote their
time to it.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-07-16

A little spirit is likely to be in
jected into the Jefferson County
Democratic assembly at Golden,
Saturday when it comes to selec-
ting chairman. 1t has been
intimated that F. E. Carringer
of Edgewater, who is an avowed
candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor this fall, will make an eff
ort to be made chairman of the
assembly. This. it seems to us.
is illadvised and can bring no
beneficial results either to Mr..
Carringer nor the party, because
there are some who are not par
ticularly strong for Carringer's
candidacy who would support
him, possibly, even in the pri-
maries, but who will not be in
favor of him attempting to get
control of the county organiza-
tion in this way. Sam johnson
has been mentioned as a good
man to take the Craftsmanship
and as he is not seeking any Of
flee at this time and is we'll ac-
quainted with the situation, and
capable of handling it with equal
Justice to all, it would seem to US
that he would be a logical choice.
The Anti-Saloon League has
been making. Investigations in
towns which have saloons through
out the state, most notably AL
amosa, and, claim to have found
a majority of the merchants of
the town in favor of turning the
town dry, for purely business
reasons. The committee making
investigations claim that the sa-
loon men seem to be the ones
who have been able to accumu-
late large bank accounts while
the grocer, the butcher, and the
other merchantile establishments
have found it hard shedding on
account of the credit system,
which seems to have been in ia
vor Of the saloon man. 1t is
claimed that the average wage
Garner who patronizes the saloon
spends $40 per month therein
and that in some instances men
who earn 500 to S125 per month
spend as high as $50 Of that in
the saloon. The result is that
the other business houses have to
take their chances on getting
their pay for keeping the families
of these men, out Of the remnant
left from the monthly salaries
after the saloon bill is paid.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-07-16
ARVADA ENTERPRISE.
Wv. MoBERLY, Owner and Editor.
MEMBER COLORADO EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION

NOTICE-To our many friends,
Correspondents, MINISTER'S and ali
contributors of news items or no.
tices to the public: Unless re-
ceived by us by O'Clock Wednes.
day p. M. blame no one but your.
self if'they do not appear. We do
our best to please all, but must
establish time limit.
PHONE ARMADA 95l
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-07-16

Chas. H. Leckenby, editor of
the Steamboat Pilot, Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, has announced
his candidacy for State Auditor.
Charlie made the race two years
ago but was defeated in the prim-
aries. He has been identified
with Colorado Democracy ever
since. he established the Pilot,
twenty-siX years ago over in
Routt County, and the Pilct is
quoted. perhaps, more than any
other paper in the state as a
political weather vane. Charlie
is strictly on the square and is a
most likeable and accommodating
fellow. He is entitled to the Of
flee he seeks and should he be
elected will no doubt do himself
and his party great credit. The
editor knows him personally, as
does almost every editor in the
state, and we are glad to give
him a boost.
The Arvada enterprise., 1914-07-16

The announcement of Thos. r.
Dillon, deputy Secretary of State
as candidate for the Office of Sec
retary, seems we'll tined and is
an occasion OF congratulations by
his numerous personal and polit-
ical friends. This is the time to
put efficiency to the foreground
and coupling that with a strong
personality and Il loyalty to duty
you have q fair mind-picture
of the candidate in question.
TON" Dillon has lived the big
gest part Of his life in Denver
and the last l6 years has been
closely identified with Colorado
Democracy. However, this is the
first time he has asked for an
Office and having been in the
Office as deputy for more than
five years and having had much
to do with systemetizing it, he
feels that he is asking for the
Office standing squarely on his
meriis-and is he not consistent?
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
British Cruiser Torpedoed.

Another thrust from the German
Submarine service has robbed the
British navy of the cruiser Hawke, and
has raised the tally of British warships
sunk by the Germans to seven.
To this record must be added the
virtual destruction of the cruiser
Pegasus by a German warship at zan-
dbar.
The Hawke, a cruiser Of 1850 tons,
under command of Captain Hugh P. 2.
T. Williams, was sunk in the North
sea, the graveyard Of six other war
ships, which were the victims Of Ger
man torpedoes.
It was only bad aim on the part OF
the German gunners which saved the
Hawkes. sister ship, the Thesus, and
the doubling of the disaster, for that
vessel too, was attacked, but she es.
capped.
The exact complement aboard the
Hawke has not been announced, but
in ordinary times the men numbered
$50 AS she was built several years
ago it is probable that her crew was
not up to the full cmplement. Accord
ing to one report, she had only 400
aboard. Whatever the number, only
ffty-two men were saved, and there
was not a single commissioned officer
among them.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23

This is the inventor of turpinite, the
deadly gas which has been inclosed
h French shells. 1t is said that one
f these shells weighing fifty-six
pounds will kill every one in a space
Turpin, the inventor, is shown in his
laboratory. Scores of Germans have
been found dead in trenches without
single wound in localities where this
shell has been used. The French, how
ever, are about to abandon its use be-
cause Of the great danger in firing it.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
COON DEN


The heavy rainfall has done great good
and seeding wheat is about finished.
/ Huskirg corn is in progress. and the
crop is ,Irniug out as well as expected
In Ecror of the fifteenth birthday am
u.Veioa = OF Miss Elizabeth Pepper. her
parents gave very delightful dancing
party 20 q large number of her friends.
ana after serving refreshments of ice
cream a'i cake, the party departed wish
ing her many happy returns Of the occa
sion.
After an illness of several davs Lepates
Passwaters Is recovering
Nellie Tatman has returned from
visit to Wilmington
Edward Ellison and wife entertained
her sister from Blauchards last SUNDAY,
and r w. Baker and wife from Green
wool, were visitors with W I. Belts
Arthur Lvnch and wife went to Farm
ington and passed Sunday and Monday
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23

trouble occurred on the east side of
the canal, north Of Gold hill. A large
mass of trap rock, mixed with loose
earth, sloughed into the channel.
There was no disturbance at Cucara.
cha
Colonel Goethals declared that he
was unable to say when the channel
again would be navigable, but that he
hopes within a few days. An accurate
survey is being made to determine the
extent Of the dredging necessary.
The debris now virtually fills the
channel to the west bank, and the
bottom of the channel also is being
forced up by the weight along the east
bank
-Four vessels at Cristobal and two at
Balboa have been delayed, awaiting
The opening of a new channel.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
AmerIcang viz Canadian Troo

Americans win Canadian troops.
Beginning before dawn from sta
tions within a radius of ten miles, Ca
madam troops have been pouring into
camps prepared for them on the Sails
bury Plains, near Salisbury, Eng.
The notes Of ITS a Long, Long Way
to Tipperary," mingled with the Span
ish-American War favorite "There1l
Be Hot Time in the Old Town To
night" and American ragtime tunes,
resounded in the quiet English dales.
Along the roads the troops everywhere
were received with enthusiasm.
Riding at the head of the supply
convoy was a small Montreal news.
boy, who had slowed away on a trans.
port. This little chap, in spite of the
fact that he was almost lost in the
folds of an army coat loaned him by
a good hearted Highlander, was near
ly frozen, but he insisted on practic
ing the bugle, proficiency in which he
hopes will give him a chance to go to
the front
There is a surprising number OF
QdLuIdliAeu AulellCduS dlHOuB LupSt
Canadian forces. A sergeant of Mon
treal regiment, asked concerning his
previous war experiences, replied in
an American drawl. incidentally he
mentioned that he was a veteran Of
Admiral Dewey's flagship in the battle
of Manila bay. In many regiments so
cial distinctions have been obliterated
and men of fortune, with degrees
from American and Canadian colleges
are serving as privates.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
with her mother.

/ with her mother
Elizabeth Martin has been visiting Mrs.
John Thomas this week
Hettie Lecompt has returned from a
visit to Wilmington
Mrs Edward Tatman has been visiting
her mother here
Edna Draper has been visiting Elsie
Sullivan this week
J Carl Nichols and Willis Rusc have
returned from trip to Wilmington
Charles Wilkerson and wife of Lincoln,
were guests of her parents, Dr. Sullivan
and wife, on Sunday last
Ruth Nichols passed part of this week
at Harrington
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
GENERAL Markets

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. steady;
winter clear, S4.60@4.S5; city mills,
barrel.
WHEAT firm; No. 2 red, $1.1O@
CORN steady; No. ? yellow, $50
!. OATS firm; No. 2 white, 529521ac.;
lower grades, sic.
,PoTATOES steady, at 5SQ6Sc. per
POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 100
ff9c.; old roosters, 11@12c. Dressed
lS15c.
h., 34c.
EGGS steady; selected, 81 a S9c.;
nearby, 33c.: western. &c.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
Panama canal Is Blocked.

A serious landslide in the Culebra
cut interrupted completely all traffic
through the Panama canal.
Several ships then in the cana
have been unable to complete their
passage.
The first reports indicated that
there were earth movements on both
sides into the channel from the slopes
of Gold and Contractors hills, which
are virtually opposite each other.
The official investigation by Colonel
Goethals and other officials disclosed.
however, that the west side of the
canal had not been affected. There
was no slide at Contractors hill. ] he
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
REYNOLDS NEWS

The last Saturday evening of October
being Hallowe en- the Ladies Aid of New
Market viii meet Saturday evening, Oc-
tober oath. at the home of Mrs. Arthur
Jones. All welcome. Election Of offic-
ers FOR the coming year.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
FIFTY MILLIONS
PROFIT EHOUGH
10 N3li IoTa Stuck C-'
r..i3 as Wl:ayl
SKIBO'S LAIRD LOOMS
Story Of Gigantic Deal Told In suit
In Philadelphia to Dissolve the Steel
Trust.


Trust.
The United States government
walked out its biggest guns for the
United States Steel corporation in
Philadelphia, in the final hearings
of the dissolution suit instituted in
1911, lifted the lid from the almost in.
credible series Of events which led t1
the organization of the so-called trust
and hung a bright new tale on An.
drew Carnegie.
The governments case is based on
the mass of evidence which, gathered
in the last three years, is intended to
prove that a war Of unbelievable saw
agery existed between the different
steel companies, and that the Morgan
and Carnegie groups of financiers had
amassed untold wealth by getting the
companies together into one solid
working and monopolistic unit.
The federal government approached
perilously near to ironic humor when
in proving that price-fxing pools had
existed between the different steel
companies, it presented what wi
probably become one of Mr. Carne
gie's most celebrated utterances. Il he
steel man wrote from Skibo Castle to
the Illinois Steel company in 1899
two years before the organization oi
the steel corporation, complaining
loudly that his own company WASH T.
getting its share of business unde
the price agreement.
"Should not this order have como
to us?" demanded the laird. "If 70
can fill next years orders at present
prices, you have at least forty mil .
lions profit. 1t may be fifty. To want
more than that" the letter concludei
piously, seems wicked"
The thirty distinguished lawyers il
court for the suit, the three judges on
the bench, and former Secretary Of
War J. NJ. Dickinson, who is prose II
cutting the suit as special assistant at
torney general, couldn't repress their
smiles at the last line.
The government charges that the
profits are unfair, and that millions
of blood money" are distributed
among the different parties of the al
legged trust to keep them out of Ger
tain fields of manufacture. 1t is also
that the steel corporation con.
trolls 80 per cent of the steel and iron
in the United States; that
is impossible against it
and that it made 19 per cent profit on
Its inflated capital last year. 1t in. :
cludes 1870 separate and distinct cor
porations, and is the most colossal
combine in the known world. The gov
arnment alleges that S600,030.000 OF
It's capital is water.
There are also charges that the
financial operations Of the immense
were, at the outset fren.
lied to a large degree and OF a sor,
hat BODIED i'll for the public who had
% meet the bills. Thus it was testi-
led, on the authority Of the govern
nent, that for S25,OOO,0OO in cash and
heir services in organizing the cor
,oration, j. p. Morgan, Charles NJ
Schwab and his associates were given
126,99S,76 of the capital stock.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
Live Stock Prices.

CHICAGO-HOGS lower; bulk Of
sales, $71017.55; light, $4,000 7.65;
Mrixe,d, .$1g7.80; heavy, S6.S5@775;
rough y. $6.85@7; pigs, $450@7.
NAI lie dull; beeves, $6.30d 1890;
ssseersL 5000 $50; stockers and feed
~ $5q7; 80; COWS and heifers, S3.25
WSS;SSg; SS4; calves. $7.25011.
nShEEP firm; sheep, $4.80@6; year
nngs' $5.5O@6.4O; lambs, s697sO.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
Taft cets Another Deoree.

Former President William H. Taft,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Andrew
Carnegie were among the thirty-seven
men to whom honorary degree were
awarded at Brown university at Prov
ldence, r. l.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
General Hamilton Killed.

A casualty list Of the British eXpe'
ditionary force in France, dated Oct.
IA, reports the death of Major Gen.
eral Hubert l. w. Hamilton and ten
other officers, and the wounding Of
twentv-fiYe officers.
Milford chronicle., 1914-10-23
PrInee oscar,s conditlon serIous.

A Copenhagen dispatch to the Paris
Temps says the condition of Prince
Oscar, the fifth son of the kaiser, who
suffered a serious attack of heart trou-
bic after a recent battle in France, is
most serious,
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11
FOR MURDOCH BILL.
Herbert Knox Smith Says Trust Dis
solutions Don't Dissolve.

Washington. Feb. 11.-"Curious and
farcical results followed the Standard
Oil dissolution decree; it did not en-
force competition" Herbert Knox
Smith, former commissioner of corpor-
ations. told the house commerce COM
mittee today. at q hearing on the MUIR
dock trade commission bill. With Will
liam Draper Lewis. dean of the law
school of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania, and D. r. Richberg Of New
York, Mr.. Smith favored the MurdOck
bill, embodying the ideas Of the Pro-
gressive party, as opposed to the Clay
ton administration bill.
They declared the Murdock bill would
be more effective. Besides favorfng
uniform accounting system, Mr.. Smith
urged the possibilities of cooperation
between a trade commission and COR
porations, and declared the publicity
that would follow would be of great
benefit. There must be some admin
istrative SERVICE" he said. THE courts
cannot take its place.
The Progressive witnesses declared
that nine out of ten dissolutions un-
der the Sherman law were useless.
that corporations controlling patent
rights or transportation facilities could
not be effectively broken up by the
dissolution procedure and that leaving
the administration of the present laws
entirely to the courts was too cumber-
some and inadequate. They advoca-
ted empowering an interstate trade
commission broadly to stop unfair
practices
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11
Wants $4,000 for Big Toe.

Declaring that his hair turned gray
from pain and suffering. Harley Har-
per, an employee Of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railway, has filed
suit against the company for $25 900.
The case came to trial in the district
court today. A jury is hearing evil
dence in Judge Whitcomb's division.
The defendants motion to strike out
was Overru1ed.
Harper lost his big toe in an acci-
dent at the shops February 4. 1913; the
toe was crushed. Harper was fitting
cylinder heads on locomotive cylinders
when the iron dropped. He was cared
for at the Santa Fe hospital. and asks
only 500 for medical attendance. The
biggest item in his claim against the
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11
railroad il pain and suffering" which
he rates at $4,000.
REFUSED 4 MILLION.
Did Four BaFtlesville Men for Ca
Leases.

Turning down an offer. of one mil
lion dollars for the oil and gas leases
in Bartlesville. Okla, Jesse Leach.
formerly of Topeka, T. T. Kelly of
Pola, former state treasuye er and two
Bartlesvflle men. will begin the oper-
alton of their wells. These four men
struck what II said to be the richest
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11
gas discovery in years. not far from

yS8IB, l0x Jx0m
Bartlesville.
The report that they turned down
the million dollar offer came to Tope-
ka today from persons who have been
travelling in Oklahoma. The four men
have leased considerable property In
the gas region and own much OF the
land around the latest gas well.
Jesse Leach lived in this city until
six years ago when he purchased the
Bartlesvil1e Enterprise. which he 0till
owns. Tom +. Kelly served two terms
as state treasurer. retiring in 1907.
One of the two other men h q bank
clerk, whose elevation into the mil
lion dollar class is sudden. Leach Wa
q newspaper correspondent in Topeka
for many years.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11

watching his wife grow sick and his
babies thin for the want of employ
ment.
This is the second case of its kind
that has come to our notice in a
week. declared Mr.. Rooney. IF
there's a vacancy in this city. I'd like
to hear OF it,
Any person needing an employee at
unskiEled labor il urged to file his
want with the juvenile court.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11

rant in his pocket. but he didn't
serve it. Otto Novak. big Bohemian,
with a healthy appetite. has been
obliged to support himself. his wife,
two children and a baby Is days old
on SO cents a day. This amount was
withdrawn, and the family is starving.
mo work." said Novak, huskily. to
the officer from the Juvenile court.
That told the story.
Novak was receiving half dollar
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11

a day from the Provident association.
When it was learned that q broad
shouldered foreigner wasn't support
ing his family in any way, the pit
tance was stopped. and a warrant
charging him with being a delinquent
parent was drawn up.
Novak Is we'll, energetic, and will
ing to work. But he can't find it A
job is the only solution to his prob
lem. He il suffering the agony Of
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-11
CANNOT GET WORK,

He's a Husky Man and His Family
Is Hungry.
When Ed Rooney. probation Off
Ger. went to 11O5 North Van Buren
street this morning he found a pitt
able state OF affairs. He had a war