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New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
State Treasurer Chamberlain Has Plan for Reducing State Debt.
BILL INTRODUCED TOMORROW
Annual Reduction of $5O0,OOO From Present Deficit of $11 ,OOO.OOO in Connecticut Would Bc, Made By State Tax of One-half Mill.

A bill which has the approval of State Treasurer F. $. Chamberlain and which makes a definite provision for the yearly reduction of $500,000 from the state debt will be introduced in the legislature tomorrow, accord ing to a statement made today by MT. Chamberlain.
 Eight years ago the state was out of debt, but since that time the deficit has steadily increased until it is now $11,000, ,000. The increasing debt has been viewed with alarm for some time and those familiar with conditions have waited eagerly for action by the newly elected state treasurer, who is the cashier of the New Britain National Bank and also treasurer of the city of New Britain
 The bill provides that at least S500,000 each year shall be invested in the purchase and cancellation of state bonds now outstanding or the purchase of Connecticut municipal bonds for a sinking fund.
 For the purpose of meeting this sinking fund, the bill provides for the laying of state tax of one-half of one mill per annum upon the towns and cities of the state until such time as the indebtedness of the state is liquidated.
 In the same bill is a provision for increasing the treasurer's authority so that he may issue $5,000,000 of addi- tional bonds.
 The tax to be laid on the towns and cities of the state will mean a revenue of more than $500,000, and as this entire tax is to be used for the liquidation of the state debt the bill says that ''at least' S500,000 shall be in vested in the outstanding state bonds each year.
 AS New Britains grand list is more than $43, 3,0O0,000, the share this city will pay annually toward the reduc- ton of the state debt will be more than $21, 800. It is expected thai whatever opposition the bill may meet will arise on account of the increase in taxation. MT. Chamberlain admit ted today that this might lead to op- position, but he said that the state debt has now reached such alarming proportions that something must be done at once to reduce it. The peo- pie, he said will grow careless as long as the matter is not brought for cibly to their attention and this can be done by a direct tax.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
GERMANY WANTS BAN
 ON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Count Bernstorf Enters Pro- test Against Shipments
 from America.

Washingt on, Jan. 25.-Germany pro- tested to the state department to- day through her ambassador, Count Bernstorff against shipments of American hydroaeroplanes to the Eu- ropean belligerents, on the ground that such aircraft are war vessels.
 A statement issued by the em bassy today says:
 The Curtiss Works at Hamm onds- port, N. Y, have sold and sent to Eng land the well known hydroaeroplane Am erica and five hydroaeroplanes of the same type. Thirty-six hydro aeroplanes of different type have been ordered by England and are un- der construction by the same. firm. Also, Russia has ordered a number of these vessels from Curtiss for use in her navy.
 There is no doubt, and it does not need any explanation, that, from the standpoint of international law, hy- droaeroplanes have to be considered as war vessels and that therefore, b., Article VIII of the agreeme con- cluded at The Hague on October IS, 1907, neutral countries are prohibited to supply belligerent countries with such vessels. The selling of hydro aeroplanes by the Curtiss Works. therefore, constitutes a breach of neu- trality Hydroaeroplanes are not es- pecially mentioned in The Hague agreement for the simple reason that this kind of war vessel did not yet exist at that time"
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
MILITARY TRAINING
 IN HIGH SCHOOL
Mcriden School Board Expected to Launch Idea Tonight-Central La-
 bor Union May Protest.

Meriden, Jan. 25.-The formation of high school battalion for military instructions is expected to be author ized at a meeting of the school board here tonight. The movement was started by School Committeeman o. l.. Dossin, who said he believed school boys should be given military training. Today Dr. David Gibbs, school super intendent, said that about 175 parents of the school boys had expressed ap- proval of the proposal.
 The state, it is said, has offered the use of the guns at the armory
 The central labor union is expected to file a protest tonight against the movement
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
KANSAS COERCION
 STATUTE ANNULLED
Supreme Court Holds As Unconstitu- uonal Measure De.ieued Against
 Labor Unions.

Washington, Jan. 25.--The ksnsae so-called coercion statute making it unlawful for any individual or cor poration to coercs or il 1uence any person to enter into an agreement not to join or remain a mem Der of a labor organization as a condition Of such person securing or continuing in the employment of such individual or corporation, was today annulled as ub- constitutional by the supreme court
 The decision which was regard d as of the first importance in the la- bor world, Was announced by Justice Pitney.
 Strong diss snting opinions were given by Justices Holmes and Day. Justice Hughes concurred with Justice Day, leaving Chief Justice White and Justices Mckenna and Lamar and and Vandevantcr and McReynolds concurring with Justice Pitney.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
OFFTCER'S DAUGHTER
 HAS MAN ARRESTED
Clara Daughter of Officer A0cl Carl son, Complains About Stranger
 Who Followed Her.

For following and annoying Clara, the young daughter of Police Officer and Mrs. Axel Carlson, of No. 67 Prospect street, Paul Colkard was ar rested and locked up at police head quarters this afternoon by Officer George MOffat He is charged with breach of the peace.
 The little girl kept very cool in face Of her trying situation and although the strange man followed her from keeneys theater to the corner of Main and Chestnut streets and then back as far as the Y. M. c. A., she did not lose her presence of mind, and hurried up to Officer Moffatt and told him that the man was annoying her.
 He took the man to the police station, where he denied any inten- tions of annoying the little girl. He said he lives on Arch street and has been in this country but one year, two months of which time he has lived in this city.
 The arrest of Colkard makes the second one within a week where a grown up man has been arrested on the complaint that he was following little girls.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
REV. G. [. PHIL 10 STAY;
 WILL RESIGN NEXT YEAR
Swedish Bethany Church Pastor Declines Call from
 Chicago Church.

Much to the pleasure of his con gregation, Rev. c. E. Pihl announced at the morning service of the Swed- ish Bethany church yesterday that he had decided to decline the call ex- tended to him by the Cuyler Mission church in Chicago three weeks ago and that he will remain here another year at least. lis decision was made largely upon the grounds that it would be inconvenient for his children, Paul, Esther and Mabel, to sever the bonds of school life at this time and that his relations with the congregation are such that he did not feel that he could tear himself away
 However, the popular clergyman in- timated that he would resign his local pastorate before another year has passed, this having been his plan even l before he received the call. He ex- plained that, when he was in Sweden last summer he came to the con- clusion that he would resign from the Bethany church in year, and. to that end, he resigned from the East ern Swedish Missionary associati on and severed his connections with var ious other organizations that he might devote all of his time to his congre- gation during his last year here. It was his wish to be left off the boa rd of directors for the ChiIdrens Home in Cromwell, he said but the other members prevailed upon him to re- main another year.
 Nearly every individual member of his congregation has approached the pastor since he received the call and expressed the wish that he remain here, where he has done so good a work. He has held the local pas torate since 1901, when he succeeded Rev. E. c. Hjerpe, and the Bethany church is the third that he has been the pastor of.
 Upon the motion of Deacon August Ostlund, the pastor was accorded a standing vote of thanks, after he had concluded his remarks in regard to the call. Following the service, each member of the congregation ap- preached him and thanked him per sonally for gratifying their wishes by deciding to remain among them. 1t will be a great loss to the church when he resigns and the hope of all the members is that he will change his plans before the year is out
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
Y. P. $. EX-PRESIDENT
 DIES IN CHICAGO, ILL.
Pleurisy Causes Death of John Peter son, Former Bethany Church
  Cfic.r

After an illness of scH eral weeks John Peterson former president of Swedish Bethany Young Peoples so- ciety in this city and very we'll known in local Swedish circles passed away las night a 2 Chicago hospital, the victim of an attack of pleuTisy. He was thirty-nine years old and leaves a wife and three children.
 MT. Peterson left this city for Chicago about seven years ago, at a time when about t'irty members Of the Swedish Bethany church migrated to the Windy City. 4 year later, he married Miss Esther Peterson, a sis ter of Mrs. Carl F'ridell of Howard street. this city, who also resided here formerly.
 During his stay in New Britain, which extended over C period of about seven years, tho ce ceased man was very prominent an ong the Swedish people and, bes'Gos holding the office of president of he Young Peoples society of the Bethany church. he served as president of Fyrboken so- cietv and Hundred Mems society Gotta, holding the latter otiice up to the time of his departure Cor the west. He was also a member of the Bethesda Sick Benefit society. For many years, he served faithfully as a teacher in the Bethany c1hrch Sunday school and 1t will be with regret that his former pupils earn of his untimely death.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25

Berlin. Via. Jan. 25. 11:30 a. m.-- Remarka ble figures regarding a new German naval gun are given by a German artillery expert. writing in the Atilleristische Monats Hefte.
 In discussing an assertion by the London Times that the German navy possesses a gun which carries three miles further than the best British weapon the writer admits that the krupps are manufacturing a gun whose projectile weighs 920 kilograms (about ton) and which develops @ muzzle velocity of 940 metres (about 3.7OO feet) in second. The expert reckons from these figures that the gun has 5S per cent more muzzle force than the British navy's best weapon and has a range of about 42 kilometers (about 2S miles) while the channel at Dover is only 33 kilo- meters (about 22 miles) wide. He says the figures given, if correct, will permit the Germans eventually to command the English coast from Calais for a distance of nine kilo- meters (about six miles) inland with the new gun.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
NEGOTIATING TREATY
 WITH COSTA RIGA
New United States Pact Supple mentaryto Agreement With Mica
 ragua Now Pending in Senate.

Washington, Jan. 25.-The Latin American diplo1Natic corps manifested a deep interest today in the announce ment that the United States govern- ment had begun to negotiate new treaty with Costa Rica, supplementary to the pact with Nicaragua now pend- ing in the United States senate by which an option in an inter-oceanlc canal route is sought for this govern ment as we'll as a naval base in the Bay of Fonseca.
 With the idea of improving it's re- lations with the Central American re- publics, the United States governm ent intends also to treat liberally with Honduras and Salvador for their rights in the Bay of Fonseca. Secre- tary Bryan also may stop in these countries for an official visit on his re- turn from the opening of the Panama Canal in March. No. price has as yet been determined upon as compensa- ton for an option on Costa Rica' s rights in the canal route.
 The rights of Costa Rica in the River San Juan, which forms pa Tt of the proposed canal route and is tn @ natural boundary between that coun- try and Nicaragua has for some time been the basis of protest against the pending treaty recently reported fa = vorably to the senate. It reached it4 climax when the treaty with Nicar;l- qua was first proposed in the Taft, and later in the Wilson adminsta- = tons, Costa Rica protested that Nic:- ara qua had not lived up to it's bound ary agreem ent not to negotiate for the sale of the canal route without con- sulting her. Costa Rica also insisted that the United States should consider the fact that the river was the joint property of Nicaragua and Costa Rica with many of it's tributaries lying in Costa Rica.
 Honduras and Salvador, who claim rights in the Bay of Fonseca had pro- tested because the sale of the bay is provided for under the pending treaty between the United States and Nicara- qua, without recognizing that the wa- ters of the bay touch their shores as well as Nicaragua.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
FUNERAL SERVICES
 ABOARD SAN DIEGO
Full Naval Honors Paid to Five Vic tfms of Explosion on United
 States Cruiser.

On Board U. s. s. San Diego, Quay mas, Jan. 24,By Wireless to San Diego, Jan. 25.-t'uneral services with full naval honors were held to- day aboard the U. s. s. San Diego for the five victims of the explosion on Thursday, when boiler tubes of the cruiser blew out just after the completion of a steaming trial.
 The bodies were transferred to the U. $. S. Saturn, which sailed for San Francisco, via La Paz and San Diego.
 The San Diego will sail for La Paz tomorrow.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
BARRERS' BALL TONIGHT.
Annual Event Will Be Held in
 New Turner Hall.

The annual ball of the Barbers' union will be held this evening In New Turner hall and a large attend ance is anticipated.
 This event usually attracts large throng of merrymakers and is r1lled with novel features from beginning to end. The committee has made a special effort to make the 1915 ball the best in the history of the or ganiza ton. Lynch's orchestra will furnish music.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
Hero of War.

z : London. Jan 25, 12:36 D. m.-The news of the first battle between dread } thoughts, the naval engagement in the North Sea of yesterday, has aroused much more enthusiasm on the part of the British public than either the fights off He1goland or the Falkland Islands, although both of these en- agreements perhaps loom larger in ac- tual results.
 To the English people the combat \ of yesterday means the justification of their longtime confidence in their big-gun fleet, and it puts a quietus on the fear of the east coast of fre- quent repetitions of the Hartlepool and Scarborough raid. Sir David Beatty, the youngest admiral in the British navy, has become the most popular hero of the war.
 v British Cruiser Sunk.
 The German official report on Sum- days fight admits the sinking of the cruiser Bluecher, but offsets this loss with the assertion that, according to Information available, one British bat tle cruiser was sunk
 This statement is in direct conflict with that of the British admiralty have been lost.''
 This engagement keeps up the repu- tation of the present war for Sunday lighting, which has been so frequent both on land and sea that Sunday has now come to be day of increased vigilance rather than of relaxation.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
British Cruiser Sunk.
Cruiser Bluecher Sunk.

1T London. Jan. "A, 10:00 F. M.-An apparent attempt by a German cruis- er squadron to repeat the attack re- gently made on Scarborough, the Hartlepools and other British coast towns, was frostrated today by the British patrolling squadron and in < running fight the German armored ' cruiser Bluecher was sunk and two German battle cruisers seriously dam aged. The British ships suffered only slight injury So far as known only 123 of the Bluecher's crew of SS5 were saved.
 A battle occurred between the light cruisers and destroyers accompanying the bigger ships, but the result of this engagement has not yet reached the admiralty.
 British Ships Superior.
 The British were superior in Ships engaged, weight of armament and speed and the flight of the German ships into the mine and submarine in tested field possibly saved them from further losses.
 The Bluecher was a cruiser of 15,- $50 tons displa cement and although commissioned in 1900 was completely re-rigged last year. She was not classed as battle cruiser, but was In the next class to those formida ble lighters.
 With her were the Derf1inger, Ger manys latest battle cruiser, which had just left the builders hands, and the battle cruisers Seydlitz and Moltke, the latter a sister ship of the Goeben, formerly of the German navy but now of the Turkish fleet, which was recently reported dam aged by the Russians in the Black sea.
 Beatty on Job Again.
 The British squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty. who also was in command at the bat tie off HeligIand last August, con- sisted of the battle cruisers Tiger Lion, Princess Royal, New Zealand
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New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
VETERAN FIREMAN ILL.
RuIpOrcd That Richard Hartnett May Have to Undergo Operation.

Ii was rumored in fire department circles today that Richard Hartnett, the veteran driver at Engine company No. 4, who has been off duty for the past few days with illness. may have to go under the surgeons knife for a. minor operation.
 MT. Hartnett is one of the veterans of the fire department and in age is the oldest fireman in the service
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
BOUGHT ROTTEN PIG.

Fred Berland, of 76 Cleveland street, hustled into the police station this afternoon to complain that he bought pig for s57.50 and when he cut off a slab of pork it was rotten and not fit to eat. He was referred to the meat inspector, Dr. Crowley.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
TO INTERN EARN.

Washing ton, Jan. 25.--The German government has accepted the alter native offered by the United States in the case of the prize collier K. D. B. formerly the British collier Earn, and has consented to her internment for the war with her crew at San Juan, Porto Rico.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
TAKEN TO TOWN HOME

Julia NaUde CaughIan, Who was found Saturday afternoon asleep in q vacant house on Webster Hill and to Id the police that she was homeless and sick, has been taken to the Town home. She is a sister of Mrs Annie Nash, who served time in jail for violating the drug laws, and it is thought that she is another victim of the drug habit
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
GROCERY STORE ENTERED.

The police were notified this morn ing that Joseph McLean's grocery store on Myrtle street was entered last night. Entrance was gained by removing a board from the rear door and reaching inside to turn the key. AS far as could be ascertained nothing vas stolen, the thief evidently being frightened away.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
ONLY l23 OF BLUfCHfR'S
 CREW OF SS5 MEN SAVED
Sir David Beatty, Youngest Admiral in England's Navy, Who Commanded British Squadron in Sundays En- Popular Hero of the War, Accord ing to London Reports.

Berlin, Jan. 25, via London 11:35 a. m.-The following official announce nSent on the naval engagement in the North Sea yesterday was given out in Berlin today: During the advance of. our armOred cruisers Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Moltke and Bluecher, which, accompanied by four smaller cruisers and two f1otillas of torpedo boats were steaming in the North Sea, sxthese vessels became engaged with British detachment composed of < five battle cruisers, several smaller cruisers and twenty torpedo boat destroyers.
 The enemy discontinued the en- Eagement after three hours time at } point seventy miles west-northwest of Helgoland, and retreated.
 , According to the information avail able one British battle cruiser and one pf our armored cruisers, the Bluecher, We're sunk. All the other German EI1ips returned Go port.
 -. ''VOn Behnke."
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25

NEW GERMAN NAVAL
 GUN SURPRISES ALL
Projectile Weighs About Ton and Weapon Has Range of About
 Twenty-Eight Miles.

Amsterdam, Via London, Jan. 25, 10:15 A. MA German military nav al paper announces that new naval gun, of sixteen inch calibre and with a range of tw wenty-five miles, has been created.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
AUSTRIAN
 RUSS|ANS| THEIR 3D| Cars Forces Cb| and EMCsd fol
 Trenches ll DESPERATE fIC| PROGRESS Il

Trench Near
 Claim Progrci
 East of Ss. G'
 A new attack I has been initiat( junction with tl the east, accord spatches. Austr1 l at their oppone1 mile front. 1 ! progress, but sd l Petrograd no i1 : been achieved \ Of the attack al i Hungary from 1 1 Nasion by leari| 1 Galicia, Bukowi} gary. Vienna Russians alread| in Bukowina. Desperate fgn is in progress in many men havd most determine| posing forces \ ! breaking the d | On the westd encounters contt Argonne. Neil the German of 1 day claims mark the Berlin comI in the lighting
 of Sennheirn, Al i repulsed with German statem4 a trench near was won recent New Aus
 Petrograd. Vi F. M.There H 9 ctivity along
 front of 900 nr few days. This marking the in for an Aus
 movement whic been adopted Il 1ect of clearing from Bukowina northern IIunga In Gaficia be loka and Jasiolh  ty miles cast o Brojcvitz, com Austrian arfrn, ward npoVen end Przemysl. Whet to relieve Przefl under siege for force the Russi Buko wina is nd Ia neous atfac ks Russian positio the vicinity of the south Polis1 and Kielce, aI Inowlodz 10 ku Sobkow, wher ga gements havd
 North ward th been little chan saw, from Radz the Vistula. tl1 the defensive. the Vistuls wa along the Raw stubbornly atte Between Borgiu miles west of VI to hand fightin villa ge of Bor hands several surged back au ports it was nd side, as neither ifs able 10 hold
 Germans
 Berlin, Jan. ra phy to Ssyvi fighting continu ca stern end of extends from fh erlsnd, accordin naent given out eral army hea q Germans claim the atts cks in the French havx In the center the Ger1 of 8 trench to u Au-Bac.
 In East Prus1 to have inficte Russians in northeast of about twenty m sian border.
 The text of req ds:
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 There were lSieuport and To the south W ct Germans lost oi days ago from
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
German
"T'here wer,

There We're ' Nieuport and
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New Britain herald., 1915-01-25

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New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
Beatty on Job Again.

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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-19
Drives 300 Hogs 165
Miles to the Market

g Took shippers have lots of COM
y plants about slowness of trains,
holdups at functions and
switches, most of them just COM
plants and then again some of them
Just complaints. I"
Very rarely does any one think of
improvements that have taken place
and everybody seems ready enough to
give the transportation devil his due
amount of cussing, and then some.
But how would you like to tackle
the job Of getting 800 hogs to mar
ket 165 miles on foot, through sage
brush and sand?
That's the problem that had to be
met by Mr.. Frank Clerf, who lives on
the old Devine ranch, Harvey County,
Oregon, 165 miles from the railroad.
The distance from his home ranch
to Winnemucca, New, is 165 miles by
trail, and they drove 900 hogs this
entire distance over the desert and
sagebrush with loss of but one hog
They sold two to ranchers on the
way which became slow, and one just
naturally got lost entirely.
They delivered the balance in good
condition and were sold in Winnie
mucca. The hogs ranged from light
weights to fairly heavy and had been
raised in alfalfa pasture on the Clerf
ranch
Mr.. Clerf said that by evening of
the first day the hogs became some
what footsore, but after day or two
they got used to the hiking game and
drove like bunch of cattle. At
night they were tired enough so they
would bed down in the desert where
there was no water. Feed was
hauled in wagons for the hogs and
10 days were taken for the trip.
When you consider the character of
the country and the tremendous dis
tance travelled, this must be pretty
near record.