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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-19
PROBE 4 GERMANS AFFIDAVIT
Federal Grand Jury at New York
York Starts Inquiry into StahTs
Lusitania Charges.

New York, June IA federal
grand jury Investigation to determ-
inc whether there was a conspiracy
ito defraud the United States" in
connection with the affidavits sub
mitted by the German embassy to the
State Department to prove that there
were guns aboard the steamship Lusi-
tania, was begun here today. It is
specifically directed against Paul
Koenig, also known as Stemler, who,
according to the federal authorities, Is
head of a secret service department
maintained by the neutrality-suspicious.
steamship line.
The first result of the investigation
was the arrest today for perjury Of
Gustav Stahl, a German reseTVist,
who made affidavits submitted by the
embassy and who is alleged to be
closely associated with KOenig The
warrant on which he was arrested al
leges that he committed perjury in an
investigation by the grand jury
against Paul Koenig, alias Stemler,
and others under that section Of the
penal code covering conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States He was
taken into custody Immediately upon
the conclusion of his testimony and
sent to the Tombs for lack of the
$1,000 bail demanded by the govern
ment.
StahI, in his affidavit which he
made before a city notary public,
swore that he visited the Lusitania
on April 80, the day before she sailed
and saw four guns on her deck con-
cealed by leather covers.
In addition to the statement by
Dudley Field Malone, collector of the
port, and by officials Of the Cunard
line that the Lusitania was unarmed,
the government authorities said to-
night that they had evidence by
which they would prove that Stahl
was not on board the LUsitania on
any day before the departure of the
Lusitania on her fatal trip.
StahI was located day before yes
terday in Albany and Immediately
brought here.
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MAY BUY UP U. S. WAR PLANTS
Big American Factories to Be Taken
Over by Germany, Is Report
In East.

New York, June Negotiations are
in progress between the German gov
eminent or German bankers for the
purchase Of the control of the Bethle-
hem Steel Company Of Bethlehem, Pa,
and the Remington Arms Company OF
Hartford, Conn. These negotiations
are said to be on the eve of success
If the Germans get control of the
firms mentioned, the plan is, accord
ing to the reports, to shut down the
works and thus prevent them from
continuing the manufacture Of arms
and ammunition and other war mate
rial contracted for by the Allies
The only recourse Of the Allies
would be to the courts. Undoubtedly
the courts would compel the COM
panies to pay damages, but Germany
could afford to pay them If she OBJ
tanned victory. She would merely add
the damages to the bill for indemnity.
The conflict has come to be Tecog-
nized as one dependent upon supplies.
Germany and Austro-Hungary can turn
out all they require and the Allies
have been short ever since the war
began.
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REFUSE LEO FRANKS PLEA
Georgia Prison Commission Declines
to Recommend Communication of
eentence to Gov. SIaton.

Atlanta, June 10.-The Georgia pris-
on commission yesterday declined to
recommend to Governor S1aton a com
mutation Of the death sentence Of Leo
NJ. Frank, convicted of the murder Of
Mary Phagan-
z. l. Ranye and R. E. Davidson,
commissioners, voted against a recon-
mendation of clemency. Judge T. E
Patterson voted in Franks favor. The
commission submitted its report to
Governor Slaton shortly before noon,
its contents Immediately being made
public by the governor.
The matter now is in the hands OF
Governor Slaton-
The recommendation OF the prison
commission is no way binding upon
the governor who, it was said, will
conduct further hearings before max
ing his decision.
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RUSSIANS FORCE
The TEUTONS BACK
London Sees Repetition of War
saw Campaign in the Cali
clan Situation,
REPORT HEAVY GERMAN LOSS
Many Pieces of Artillery and 5000
Prisoners Captured, Says a Dis
patch From Petroqrad.

London, June 1.-THE success OF
the Russian counter thrust against the
Austro-German lines in Galicia was
the absorbing feature of the days war
news here
The Russian success naturally has
caused qualification and relief, and
now military experts expect there will
be a repetition in Galicia of what Oc-
CURED before Warsaw last winter,
when the Germans suffered enormous
losses in their efforts to break the
Russian front on the Bzura and Rawa
rivers. AS on that occasion, Russian
reinforcements arrived in time to
force back a portion of General Lin
singen's army, which had crossed the
Dneister river near Zurawna before
it could be strengthened and en-
trenched.
The German and the Austrian Off
ciaI reports make no mention Of the
fighting in this region, but from an
account issued in Petrograd the Aus
tro-GeTmans must have suffered very
heavy reverses to have lost seventeen
guns and 700 Oprisoners. In fact,
military men express the belief that
very few of those who crossed the
river could have escaped
Further Gains Claimed.
The Russians also claim that fur
Their up the Dneister, directly south
Of Lemberg, they have pressed their
opponents back and have taken anoth-
er 1000 prisoners, which near Mos
ciska, to the east of PrzemysI, they
say the Germans suffered very severe
ly when they attacked the Russian
position. IN Eastern Galicia and in
Bukowina the Russians continue to
fall back to the Dneister under the
Austrian pressure.
italians Capture Town.
Innsbruck, Austria, June 12-Ital-
ian forces have captured Pioeken, in
Austria, close to the frontier The
possession of this location is impor-
tant, as it endangers Austrian comGnu-
nications.
PIoeken is fifteen miles south Of
the main highway between La1bach
and Innsbruck
An Austrian airship arrived by rail
at Liabach yesterday. An Austrian
aeroplane has bee nreported flying
high above the Stelvio pass.
Udine, Italy, June 12.-Italian
forces are advancing through Predil
pass, on the junction of the Laibach
railway at Jarvis, which lies about six
miles on the Austrian side Of the Dor
der.
Only 20 Miles From Trieste.
Rome, June 12-It is officially an
nOunced the Italians have occupied
Gradisea, six miles southwest Of Co
rizia, in Austria-Hungary.
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health and happiness wrecked beyond
recall.
This may seem an extreme state
ment, but it is amply borne out by
everyday observation.
One of the most striking facts of
modern American life is the prevail
ence of nervous disorders. Hysteria,
psychasthenia, neurasthenia and SINH
lar maladies claim victims from every
walk in life. Oddly. enough, accord
ing to the experience of nerve special
lists, they attack with greatest fire.
quency married people
Now. the recognized causes of
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BRYAN RESIGNS FROM CABINET
Secretary of State Gives Up Portfolio
Following Disagreement Over
Note to Germany.

Washington. June 9.-William Jen-
nings Bryan, three times Democratic
candidate for the presidency and au-
thor OF nearly thirty peace treaties
with the principal nations Of the
world, resigned yesterday as Secretary
OF State as a dramatic sequel to his
disagreement with President Wilson
over the governments policy toward
Germany
The resignation was accepted by the
President The Cabinet then APPROX
ed the response which had been pre-
pared to the German reply 70 the Lusi-
tania note
As Acting Secretary Of State. Robert
Lansing viii sign the document and it
VIII be cabled to Berlin today.
Secretary Bryan viii return TO pri-
Tate life today. when his resignation
takes effect It was learned that he
intends to continue his political sup
port OF the President.
Rather than sign the document,
which he believed might possibly draw
the United States into war, Mr.. Bryan
submitted his resignation in q letter
declaring that the issue involved IS
of such moment that to remain q mem
Der Of the Cabinet would be as unfair
to you as it would be 10 the cause
which is nearest my heart, namely. the
prevention OF war"
The President accepted the resigna-
ton in letter OF regret, tinged with
deep personal feeling Of affection. The
letters constituting the official an
nouncement Of Mr.. Bryan's departure
from the Cabinet TO private life were
made public at the White House at 6
o'clock last night
The official relation Of Mr.. Bryan
with the administration Of the man
whose nomination he assisted so ma
teriaIly in bringing about at the Balti-
more convention OF 1912 came to an
end dramatically. It caused a sensa-
ton in the national capital, scarcely
paralleIed in recent years.
At the German embassy, where Mr.
Bryan's influence had been counted
upon to prevent anything savoring OF
final action by the United States, there
was something approaching consterna-
ton.
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CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Efforts OF Italian troops to force
q passage of the Isonzo river are be-
ing stubbornly contested by the Aus
TRANS, but are meeting with success,
according to q statement signed By
General Cadorna, chief of the gen
eraI staff.
Announcement was made here re-
Gently Of the early completion in the
Pittsburgh district OF three chemical
plants to manufacture a wide range
OF chemical products heretofore i'm
ported from European countries NOW
at war.
Pope Benedict received in audi
ence recently Miss Jane Adams OF
Chicago and Dr.. Aletta Jacobs Of Hol-
land, who presented TO him an en-
bossed set OF peace resolutions. The
pope said he appreciated the senti-
ment with which the whole world now
looks on the Vatican
Two men are dead, two more we're
injured so badly that they may die and
the main building OF the Ponca City
Ice Company's plant was wrecked By
an explosion at POnea City, Okla, The
other day.
A wheat crop OF $50 million bush
els. the greatest ever raised in any
country, and So million bushels more
than last years phenomenal crop. IS
indicated by the June report Of the
Department OF Agriculture The aver
age crop in the five years ending With
1e12<Eas $50 million bushels
A Frisco passenger train was
wrecked nineteen miles west OF Enid,
Okla, and fifty persons injured. eight
fatally. The train rolled down a IS
foot enbankment Just after It had
crossed . high bridge.
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Bad Cooking Wrecks Lives.

Every woman who expects to be
married ought to learn how to cook,
and how to cook well. This applies
even If she be the daughter of
wealthy parents, with the expectation
of never having to do her own cook
ing
She ought to learn how to cook even
then. Otherwise she may find herself
at the mercy of careless or incomPe-
tent servants. And, being unable
through ignorance to correct their
faults, she may soon or late find her
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-19
Globe SIGHTS.

If you haven't time to eat, don't
eat.
At a concert, how long the bad Sc
lections are!
As rule, a boss is a leader of the
opposition party or faction.
Ever notice-how a man whose wife
is away visiting, is watched?
False teeth are the only ones that
can be extracted without pain.
Neither does a cauliflower ear
prove the prowess of a pugilist.
The amateur gardener is usually an
adept at explaining why his garden
isn't better.
A young attorney usually has
plenty of time to consider the ethics
of his profession.
How many times some men can
make fools of themselves without
finding it out.
Some of the minstrel jokes are so
old one wonders how they stand the
strain of travel
If there is anything the matter
with tramp, it is usually something
the rest cure won't benefit.
The average man is always a lit
tie surprised to hear of anyone max
ing a success in the show business.
Referring to other things of i'm
portance, what was the real intention
of the man who invented the sliding
trombone?
The Lancaster Literary Society will
please pause and consider this ques-
ton: Whether it is a greater joy to
run bluff than to call one.
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From everywhere comes the same
story; that feeble mindedness is q
chief, if not the chief, cause of vice,
misery and delinquency; that the
present public provision for the de-
feetive is utterly inadequate; that
nothing but drastic action for the pre-
vention of propagation and for the
care and control of the present gener-
alton can avert grave disaster from
the nation.
The cumulative evidence in the
case of the nation versus the feeble
minded which these numerous studies
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of humanity as well as upon the law
founded upon this principle that the
United States must stand.
The Chance for an Agreement
The government of the United
States is happy to observe that your
excellency's note closes with the in
timation that the imperial German
government is willing, now as before,
to accept the good offices of the Unit
ed States in an attempt to come to
an understanding with the govern
ment of Great Britain by which the
character and conditions of the war
upon the sea may be changed.
The government of the United
States would consider it a privilege
thus to serve its friends and the
world 1t stands ready at any time
to convey to either government any
intimation or suggestion the other
may be willing to have it convey and
cordially invites the imperial Ger
man government to make use of its
services in this way at its conven-
fence. The whole world is concern
ed in anything that may bring about
even a partial accommodation of in~
terests or in any way mitigate the
terrors of the present distressing con-
flict.
In the meantime, whatever ar
rangement may happily be made be-
tween the parties to the war, AMI
whatever may in the opinion of the
imperial German government have
been the provocation or the circum-
of its commanders at sea, the govern
ment of the United States confident
" looks to see the justice and human
ity of the government Of Germany
indicated in all cases where Ameri-
, cans have been wronged or their
rights as neutrals invaded
U. s. Reiterates Its Demands.
The govrnment of the United
States, therefore, very earnestly and
very solemnIy renews the representa-
lions of it's note transmitted to the
imperial German government on the
18th of May and relies in these repre-
sensations upon the principles of hui
| mainly, the universally recognized IN
derstandings of international law, and
the ancient friendship of the German
nation.
The government of the United
States cannot admit that the proc
lamation of a war zone from which
neutral ships have been warned to
keep away may be made to operate
as in any degree an abbreviation Of
the rights either of American ship
masters or of American citizens
bound on lawful errands as passen-
gers on merchant ships of belligeT-
ent nationality. 1t does not under
stand the imperial German govern
ment to question those rights. 1t
understands it, also, to accept as es-
tablished beyond question the prin-
| cipIe that the lives of noncombatants
cannot lawfully or rightfuIly be put
in jeopardy by the capture or destruc-
| ton of an unresisting merchantmen,
and to recognize the obligation to
| take sufficient precaution to ascer-
tain whether a suspected merchant
man is in fact of belligerent nation
atty or is in fact carrying contraband
of war under a neutral flag.
The government of the United
| States, therefore, deems its reason
able to expect that the imperial Ger
man government will adopt the meas
ures necessary to put these principles
: into practice in respect of the safe
| guarding of American lives and
Amrican ships, and asks for assur-
ances that this will be done.
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State AID Interim"
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TO TERMINATE ri TREATIES
United States Notifies Nations OF In
tention to Put Seamen's Law
Into Effect.

Washington, June 12.-Twenty-one
of the principal nations Of the world
have been notified by the United
States that it intends to terminate
provisions Of existing treaties with
those countries which are in conflict
with the seamen's act passed by the
last congress.
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Menace of Feeble Minds.

Studies of the mental defective are
getting to be among the most fire.
quent and serious OF social economic
efforts. Made by state boards or
commissions as in New York, Penn
.sylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, New
Hampshire, Virginia and other states,
or by city departments of education,
as in Cleveland and elsewhere, or by
voluntary agencies, like the Juvenile
Protective Association of Chicago, the
results are painfully alike
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- Wins Earm Honor

San Francisco, June Iowa was
awarded yesterday the grand prize for
the state agricultural exhibit at the
Panama-Paciffe exposition, and all but
four Of 289 individual exhibitors OF
Iowa received prizes or honorable men
ton for AGRICULTURAL exhibits.
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these functional nervous troubles
are worry, anxiety, fear, constant
stress and strain of any sort. This
means that among married people
there must be an unusual liability to
these nerve wrecking conditions.
Neurologists viii tell you that such
is actually the case.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-19
SUES SLAYER FOR DAMAGES

Seattle, June Hilary Lester,
alias C. A. Hudson, alleged train rob
Der, was made defendant today in a
suit for $4,000 damages filed here b.
attorneys representing Mrs. Sophia
Marcy Of Bay St Louis, Miss, whose
son, Peter aaarcey, baggage master OF
the train, was killed In a hoIdup near
that town April "a, last Lester is now
in jail at Bay St. Louis
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Sank : German PIunoer.

London, June I0.-A German subma-
rine has been sunk by the British and
six officers and twenty-one Of its crew
made prisoners. First Lord Of the Ad-
miralty BalfoGr made this announce
ment in the House Of Commons yes
terday afternoon.
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steeI rtase IL EnzndIne,

New York, June 1.-THE United
States Steel Corporations monthly re-
port, issued today, shows an increase
last month OF 102,354 tons in the IN
filed orders on the books, making the
total 4,26z, 5sS tons, which is 266, 43s
tons more than q year ago.
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Mav Mako AII soIdlers,

Albany, n. Y, June 12.-Compul-
sorry military service would be pro-
yided for in a proposed amendment in
troduced in the constitutional conven-
ton today. The term of service would
be three years.
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Sent 10000 Horses to War.

East St Louis, Ill, June 1I-More
than $50, 600 horses have been shipped
from the National Stock Yards here to
the British, French, Italian and Belgian
armies, it vas stated today.
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Paris, June 10.-The Havas Agency
has received a dispatch from its
agent at Madrid, who says It Is off
ciaIly announced there that cholera
has broken out In Vienna.
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Ohio Blast Furnace to Open,

Martins Ferry, O., June 12.-After
an idleness of one year the local blast
furnace of the Wheeling Steel and
iron Company will resume operations
in full July 1. Five hundred men viii
be affected.
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Be Red CO. outft surna.

London, June 11--Buildings cover
ing three acres, 100 Red Cross motor
ambuIanees and 200 army motor vans
all ready for delivery to the govern
ment, we're destroyed by fire today
when the motor works OF Brian,
Hughes & Strschsn, at Park Royal,
went up in flames.
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Where are Yesterdays Dreams7
Do you remember where you Were
ten years ago today? And how many
of the ambitions that you had then
have been fulfilled?
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Few Injured IN Frisco wreck.

Tulsa. Ok, June 10.-No one was
injured fatally when Eestbound pas
se1ger train No. 621 on the Tulsa
Award line Of the Frisco vas wrecked
near Goltry, west Of Enid. last night.
Four were injured severely. The
cause Of the wreck is not given.
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Women are supposed to be vaia, but
nc man is as handsome as he thinks
he is.
But nearly all of us have another
guess coming.
This is the busy season for the far
mer and the hen
Every man has his troubles-snd
most Of them wear SIX
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You may just as well tell your wife
the truth; she'll find it out, anyway.
The world owes much to its writers
and a great deal more TO its cooks.
A cheap man may be bought with
a scent cigar.
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are piling up, must convince the most
hesitating and doubtful of our states
men that the time for some compre-
hensiVe action has arrived.
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Butte, Mont, June IA snow
storm which began at midnight was
still raging at noon yesterday Rail
way traffic was delayed. but no seri-
oas damage TO crops is expected
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CO. kIna Ie Much 80.

Athens. June 10.-King Constaa-
tines condition shoWes marked i'm
provement. yesterdays official bulle-
tia stated He has not yet passed
the danger pcint
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Monroe. La, June 1.-THE Union
National Bank was closed yesterday
4 national bank examiner Is now IN
charge.
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she makes him sleep with dog in bed
and spends his money patronizing
beauty doctors.
Two IibeIs against furs seized by
federal officers asked by q. S. Atty
Clyne. Goods smuggled; to be sold
at auction.
Carl F. Mohr, wanted in Fargo,
N. D., for alleged land fraud indict-
ment, arrested here.
Police decided revenge motive in
shooting of Miles Brooks, 1915 Evans
av., Waterman at Wurlitzer music
store, found dead.
Asst Corp. Counsel Reker asked
Judge Cooper for speed in hearing on
film Birth of a Nation" Fighting
exhibition.
A. M. Jacobs, saloon, $3.50 Prince
ton av., robbed. men. SIS.
Police looking for Henry Stauden-
maier, 2742 Shields aV. Wife ill Can't
provide for 6 children.
DR.. W.. F. Won ZeIinski says 9th
ward is healthiest.
Willard Snyder, Is, shot Kenneth
Larson, Z, 1853 Winona av. in eye.
Air rifle. Eye blind.
Rudolph Ousch, fisherman, dozed.
Fell off pier on rocks. Skull fractured.
Relatives of DR.. H. r. Seal, 1865
Foster av., received wire saying he
was visiting sick sister. Police were
probing disappearance.
Aged sister of ST. May's home,
Jackson blvd, lost cross of order
worn 20 years.
William MoeTIer, 294o Warren av.,
paroled by judge. Bought ring on
time, giving wrong address.
Police holding Herman VoegtIe,
pending inquest over body of Jesse
Irwin, killed in auto accident at War
rem and Kedbie avs, yesterday.
Four schools in Evanston school
district not to be closed this sum-
mer.
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of the clerks of the license commit
tee be turned over to the city prose-
cutor as an aid in making case
against the drug stores.
An investigation carried on under
the lead of Anton Cermack, United
Societies head, showed that in many
South Side drug stores booze could
be bought by children that would not
be admitted to saloons.
Cermack brought this evidence be-
fore the license committee and the
whisky bought from the drug stores
was impounded. Without this the
cases pending in court would be lost,
Mccormick declared.
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Y hichaIks.

Although Englishmen are pretty
busy these days, Vivian Nickalls, ia
nous oarsman, found time to run
over and devote this spring to coach
ing the Pennsylvania crew. He has
them going through their PAGES and
hopes to land the big intercollegiate
race this year. ,-.--