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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
FOWL DEED IN
POLK TOWNSHIP.
Owner of Chickens Sees Thieves
Drive Away but Suspects
Nothing.

Knoxville, Ia, Aug. "A rather
peculiar incident in chicken steal
ing is reported from Polk township.
seven miles northeast of town. Mr..
and Mrs. Wander Linden and daugh-
ter attended a meeting Wednesday
night and did not get home until
11:30. Just as they drove up to the
front gate two men with a team
drove out of the barn lot and turned
in an opposite direction.
Mr.. Wander Linden thought it
was members of a threshing outfit
moving their tank wagon but later
learned that the pair had carried off
a dozen or more big chicken coops.
They had stolen every fowl on the
place-over 200.
The discovery was made a half
hour after the thieves departed. Mr..
VanLinden gave chase on horseback
but lost the trail in the darkness.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
Throws Self on Track: Saves

Abba, Ia, Aug. About H.
feet of the Chicago, Burlington i
Quincy track went out west of tow
the other evening just after the ia s
train had passed over it. No.
which was due in twenty mi
was saved from an accident by y
ton man, who threw himself inv
the middle of the track to stop t.
train. When the engineer saw him
he thought he was drunk and re-
fused to slow up his train. The man
then laid down on the track and the
train stopped. The roadbed is now
repaired, and everybody thinks the
section man is deserving of a Car
negie medal.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
RA|D|NC MEX.
leans MURDER
Z AMERICANS
Head of Towns Law and Order
League and His Son Are Slain
By Marauders.
RANCH AND STORE LOOTED.
Party of Rangers Starts in Pursuit
Of Outlaws, Ready to Deal
Vengeance.

Brownsville, Tex, Aug. 7.-Unit
ed States cavalrymen, Texas ranger!
and posses of citizens last nigh
were continuing the search for {
band of Mexican ranch raiders who
yesterday after several weeks Of
outlawry raided the small town OIL
Sebastian, thirty-seven miles north
Of Brownsville. and killed AL Aus.
tin, president OF the Sebastian Law
and Order league, and his son
Charles.
The league recently forced several
men of bad reputation to leave Sc
bastian, which is little more than a
crossroads. About $3.50 yesterday
morning Austin and his son were
running corn shelter when armed
Mexicans galloped up.
Yesterday a band of Mexicans
raided ranch in the Sebastian Sec
ton, stealing five horses, two sad
dies, two rifles and a pistol. They
got the drop on some cowboys on the
ranch. keeping them covered with
pistols for about an hour.
A Sebastian storekeeper named
Alexander said there were twelve
mounted armed men in the party.
All Of them appeared to be Mexicans
OF middle age. They robbed his
store.
Adjt. Gen. Henry Hutchins of
Texas visited Sebastian yesterday
afternoon and personally Investigate
ed conditions there, and will, it was
said here last night, recommend to
Governor Ferguson that a sufficient
force of the Texas National guard be
sent to Cameron county to afford
protection against outlaws.
A young American named Mil
lard, who was witness of the kill
ling Of Austin and his son, said he
recognized five or six of the Mexican
bandits as residents of the Sebastian
community. This information, if
confirmed, would make certain that
Mexican residents on the Texas side
of the Rio Grande are at least re-
sponsible for recent acts of outlawry
charged to raiders from the Mexican
side.
Willard was forced by the Mexi-
cans to drive cart in which Austin
and mis- son we're placed, from their
farm to their home which was ram
sacked. The Austins then were kill
ed. Willard said he recognized one
of the bandits as Mexican to whom |
he had loaned money and, owing to
this fact, thinks his life was spared. |
Two arrests were made last night |
by United States custom river |
guards in connection with the kill
ling yesterday. The names of the
men taken into custody are not
known here. They were placed in
Jail at San Benito, Tex, it is report
ed, and heavy guard placed around
them because of fear of violence.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10

DR.. r. B. Larrabee, Osteopath. DIT
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
PHONE CO. STARTS
BIG IMPROVEMENT
Hundred Men Work on Estherville
Streets-Work to Last Ten
Months.

Estherville, Ia, Aug. with
the arrival of several carloads of ma
terial and tools, and the various
foremen 20 handle the work, 100
men have been put on the streets
here laying conduits for under
ground cables, which are to be part
of the new $4,000 telephone ex-
change to be put in by the Western
Electric Telephone company.
Over twenty blocks Of under
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
Wreck on Rock Island.

Owatonna, Mimi, Aug. IA
Rock Island passenger train from
Kansas City to St. Paul, via Des
Moines, was wrecked several miles
south of here yesterday afternoon.
According to reports all the coaches
turned over but none of the passen-
gers were injured. The conductor
was slightly hurt. The cause of the
wreck is not known.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
U. S. Apples to Holland.

Portland, Ore, Aug. 1.-The larg-
est contract for the purchase Of ap-
Piles this season has just been closed
with Hood river growers, who have
sold to o. Berghuis-Krak, the Meth
erlands' consul here, 100000 boxes
at $3.50 per box. The apples will
be shipped to merchants in the
Netherlands next October.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
HUGE FORTRESS
LEFT TO STOP
TEUTON ADVANCE
Russians Abandon Their Whole
Line Save Massive Fortress of
Novogeorgievsk.
CITY OF IvANG0ROD CAPTURED
Austro-German Forces are Trying to
Forge Ring About Fleeing
Slav Armies.

London, Aug. with the excep-
ton of the great entrenched camp
of Novogeorgievsk, the Russians
have evacuated the whole line of the
Vistula river. Ivangorod, the south
ern fortress, having fallen into the
hands of the Austro-G ermans the
Russians are making their way east
ward to the Brest-Litovsk line.
The decision of the general staff
to leave the parrison in Novogeor-
gievsk is announced in Petrograd
dispatches, to deprive the Germans
of the use of railway communica-
tions and of the Vistula river for
bringing up supplies.
Novogeorgievsk is situated at the
junction of the VistuIa, Narew and
Wkra rivers to the northwest Of
Warsaw. 1t has two powerful
bridgeheads, eight citadels and sew
enty-four redoubts containing elev-
en- and twelve inch batteries. It is
calculated by military observers
here that an army corps can hold
out there for many months as the
camp is protected by massive earth
works.
The laying Of siege to Novogeor-
gievsk may prove one of the most
interesting operations of the war as
it will doubtless show whether
earthworks are less susceptible to
the fire of high explosives than are
cupola forts.
OF the retiring Russian armies
the official reports say nothing. The
Russians, however, destroyed bridges
over the Pistula and took other
means to place obstacles in the path
of their pursuers, while others of
their forces continue to offer stub
born resistance to the Germans and
Austrians south and north who are
trying to forge ring around them.
The general opinion here is the
Russians commenced their retire.
ment in time to escape this inner
ring but have yet to reckon with the
wider out fanking movement from
Lomza, which, if successful, would
turn the Brest-Litovsk line.
An even more serious menace
seemingly is General Won Buelow's
advance in the Baltic provinces.
While, according to Petrograd, the
Germans have been thrown back i'm
south of Riga, they have
made further advance east of
toward the Dvinsk-Vil-
railway.
Some critics believe this move
means the Germans, unless they sue
coed in smashing the Russian army,
intend to make an effort to advance =,
further into Russia and endeavor to e.,
,orce Emperor Nicholas to accept a
separate peace. With the history of
previous invasions of Russia before
hem, however, it is believed in 9TH I
er quarters the German staff would y
hesitate at such a tremendous I'M Y
|
The British consulate at Riga, e
Russian seaport which is being T
evacuated by the civil population, S
las been placed under American pro- s
ection. The same advices state that a
are replacing sailors on VOL
"a river steamers.
Along the western front the Ger
mans have made series Of attacks,
tut all of them, according to the
french report, were repulsed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
Dynamite on Steamer.

New York, Aug. Tt became
known at police headquarters here
yesterday that a stick of dynamite
was found aboard the White Star
liner Arabic the day before she sail
ed for Liverpool July %. The ex-
plosive, in such a state that expa
said it would have exploded at t0b
slightest jar, was found by a stew
ardness.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10

Woman-Why are you tramp?
Wanderer-It's so homelike, num-
not paying for what you eat.-Wash-
ington Star.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10

ground cable will be laid, new
switchboard and central Office in
stalled, automatic telephones used to
supersede the old ones and an entire
new pole and wire system to be
built. When complete, which will be
in about ten months, the exchange
will be one Of the best in the coun-
try
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10
UNITED STATES
TROOPS FIRE ON
THE HA|T|ANS
U. S. Forces Take Charge of Office
of Port, National Palace
and Gunboat.
ONE NATIVE IS KILLED.
Additional Regiments of Marines
Ordered to Reinforce Those in
Island Republic.

Port Au Prince, Haiti, Aug. T.
American naval forces yesterday
took possession of the office of the
port, the national palace and the
Haitian gunboat Pacifique which ar
rived in Port au Prince yesterday
morning.
During the movement to take the
Office Of the port the Americans
opened fire on the Haitians and one
Haitian was killed.
The occupation of the Office of
the port and the national palace
gave the Americans the last posi-
lions held by the Haitians. The pop
ulace has been thrown into conster-
nation by the Americans operations.
The president of the senate, in the
name of the nation, yesterday cabled
Scion Menos, Haitian minister to
the United States, new protest
against the occupation of Haitian
territory by American forces.
DR.. Resolve Bobo, leader of the
revolution, arrived here yesterday
on board the refrigerator ship Gel
tic. On landing he was cheered by
the populace.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-10

Cheapest place to buy oil meal,
shorts, middlings and chick feed. A.
]. ironing, 1. C. elevator. tiff
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
Reauty FlIIa the House.

Pretty? Why, that girl is SO pret- ty that plenty of fellows are glad to call on her father and mother
 Pittsburgh Post)
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
NOTICE

roIephOaa t to The EmpIre. No s7l.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30

our very doors which is being deyei- oped. and that will mean cheaper power and light than can be produced with steam. A franchise has just been granted to install gas and coke plant This will prove great boon to the housewife as she can have Q gas range and do her cooking without the excessive heat and dust and dirt of the coal stove.
 "All these things arc what so to make up the basis for my statement that Juneau is going to have pros porous future in the realty line We have gone through the preliminary preparation and 1t !s due as a natural consequence. From now on outside capital will seek investment here in other lines than the mining indus try"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
ALASKA GAsTINEAU MINING COMPANY,
 Bv B |, THANV.

It's Agent aud Attorney in Fact. UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. Juneau, Alaska, November 10. 1915.
 It is hereby ordered that the fore going notice be published for the statuatory period in the Empire" a newspaper of general circulation pub lished in the vicinity of the lands ap. piled for
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
f5AYDEN-JAckLiNG PROPERTIES DECLARE
 HIGHER DIVIDENDS

The Hayden-Jackllng porphyry pro perties have established a new divi. dend rate, as follows: Utah copper, S6 a sharo; Ray Consolidated. $2; Chino, $4; Nevada, $1.50. The rate for 1915 was: Utah. $425: Ray $125; Chino. $3; Nevada. S1.5O.
 The Boston News Bureau says the new dividend rates are very conserva- tive as the earnings of the companies at present values show: Utah, S14 per share; Ray, S5; Chino, S1O; Ne vada. $4.
 Altogether these four properties win have paid in 1915 over s14.00o,OOO in dividends. made up as follows: Utah, s6S00,OOO; Ray S2,000,0oO; Chi- no. S2,ooO.0OO; and Nevada SS,o0,ooO.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
CHARLOTTE LODE

Beginning at Corner No. ]. whence U. S. M. M. No. 9 bears N. 41e OF 12' W. 4177.55 feet distant: thence g. 3gs 3Y s. 110110 feet to Corner No. 2; thnce N. 8O' 50 E. 60000 feet to Corner Mo- 8 thence N. 55'
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
SOLO LODE

Beginning at Corner No. i, whence U. g. M. M. No bears W. 59' 0o' IF W. l8S9.6S feet distant; thence g. 47' l7' E. S94l6 feet to Corner No. Q; thence s. 47' O1' D. 1149.91 feet to Corner No. g; thence N. 40' 30' D. 366.19 feet to Corner No. { thence N. 17' 48' W. 1l84.10 feet to Corner No. s; thence S. 4O' s0' ". S51.SS feet to Corner No. ]. the place ol beginning. Containing an area Of 12.i67 acres.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30

5T sos w. 5s0.97 feet to Corner No. {; thQnoo y. i6' ll' ". o17e6 foot io Corner Mo- 6; thence g. 60' 50' W. 252.02 feet to Corner No. j. tho place of beginning. Containing an aran of l2.25o acres.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30

bogInning 70 COrner NO. J, Whonce Q. S. M M. Mo- 9 bears N 56' IF 09' W. 4s1B.08 feet distant; thence s. 41e S2' 86D D. 76O21 feet to Cor ner No. 9; thence s. 15' 19' D. 2o4.46 feet to Corner No. 8 thence ". 60' 5o' E. 299.46 feet Co Corner No. {; thence ". 8T' S4 ". 95017 feet to Corner No. Q; thence S. COG 50' ". S80.st feet to Corner No. i. the place of beginning. Containing an area of
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30

Register First publication, November 13, 1915. Last publication January 15. 1916.
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MRs sAELpoN RgoovERlNo

Mrs. T. P. Sheldon Is recovering from the injuries she received from a fall Christmas morning. She is under the care Of Dr. L. P Dawes.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30

Unredeemed diamonds at big bar. gains. Joe Plant. Broker and Jeweler Phone 1s6. ll-2-tf
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LODE

c LODE
 Beginning at Corner No. ]. whence U. S. M- M. No. bears N. 69' 14' 50v W. 1979.27 feet distant; thence S. 47' 4S' 10. l49410 feet to Corner No. 2; thence N. lO' 3V D. 322.21 feet to Corner No. 8; thence N. 39' 02' 30" w. 361.80 feet to Corner No. q; thence 8. 51' 26' ". 19357 feet Go Corner No. 8; thence ". 39' AZ W. 110700 feet Co Corner No. 6; thence S. 40' 30' W. Sl1.9l feet to Corner No. l, the place of beginning. Containing an area of 9.T04 acres.
 Tho names Of tho adjoining claims are as follows: Martin lodge sur. vey No. 754; Gastineau Millsite sur. vey No. 990; Perseverance Placer sur yey No. 605; Perseverance Millsite survey No. S19-B; Perseverance, No. 3 lode survey 6O5; Monitor lode sur. vey No. 163; Perseverance No. 6 and Perseverance No. lodes survey No. 6O5; Perseverance No. 9, Alta No. 2 and Jumbo No. lodes survey No. SEA; Sweden, Vim, Mckinley, Han- no and Fisher Fraction lodes. all of amended survey No. 9SB, all of tho foregoing being patented property of tho claimant. also the Gilded Age lode survey No. 931, patented to the Alan. ka Rubicon Gold Mining Company.
 The conflicting claims are as fol. lows: The Margarite lode of this survey with the Alta No. 2 lode of survey 3l9-A. the area in conflict be- ing 0.087 acres, as shown by the field notes and plat of this survey. Con- flict between the c. lode of this sur vey and the Alta Mo- lode of sur. vey 319-A, the area in conflict being 0.146 acres, as shown by tho field notes and plat of this survey; these conflicts are exluded from this appli- cation. Conflict between the Bess lode of this survey with the Lurvey placer. survey No. 113. the area in conflict being 0.031 acres, as shown by the field notes and plat of this survey, which area in conflict is not excluded from this application. Con- flict between the Margarite lode of this survey with tho Lurvey placer survey No. 113, the area in conflict uSlHb 4.Alo alltnl uuu WAtn luo LuE- vey placer survey No. 114, the area in conflict being 1.205 acres, es shown by the field notes and plat of this survey, tho said area in conflict is not excluded from this application. Conflict between the A lode of this survey and the Lurvey placer survey No. 113, the area in conflict being 1888 acres, as shown by tho field notes and plat of this survey. and conflict between the A lode of this survey with the Luryey placer survey No. 114, the area in conflict being 0.0S7 acres, as shown by tho field notes and plat of this survey. which areas are not excluded from this ap- plication
 The location notices and amended location notices of the ?, Solo No. 1. Bess, Lady Corsen. Margarite, A. V. C. Charlotte. Solo and Q lodes arc re- corded respectively in Book 23 of Lodes, at pages 48 to 53 inclusive, of the records Of the Receiver for the Juneau Recording Precinct. Alaska.
 This notice was posted on the ground on the 29th day of October. 1915.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-30
MINING APPLICATION
 Mo noooo

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
 JUNEAU. ALASKA.
 November. 10. 1915. Notice is hereby given that the AL asha Ga8tlneau Mining Company. a corporation duly organized and ex- isting under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York. and Quali- fled to do and doing business as @ corporation in Juneau. Aaska by B.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02

wage earner's snare in production does
not end with his wages, but that as q
consumer he is benefited BY every dol
lar invested in equipment for produc-
tion and transportation. the weakness
and ignorance Of ninc-tenths Of the a.
taeks upon the existing order are APP
parent.
"1he aim and end Of every man in
acquiring and saving Is 20 increase pro-
duetion on his own account. and tho
inevitable effect Of having production
increase faster than the population Is
that more goods per head are dis
tributed. Goods would pile up, in
dustry would choke down, industrial
expansion would come 70 an end. and
the accumulations Of the rich would
be idle and useless to them IL eonsump-
ton by the masses did not keep pace
with production.
Every attempt on the part Of the
capitalist 20 irGIease his wealth re-
quires him. first, 10 enter the labor
market as a competitor with other EN-
ployers, and. second. 20 use the labor
he hires in rendering some public ser
vice Thus the promptings of self-ln-
tcrest in the individual effect a wide
spread distribution Of benefits. and
what the wage earners seem 20 lose AZ
the source comes back 70 them or 20
their children in the general fruits OF
industrial progress"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02
CONEY'S SHARK
TERROR CAUGHT
Bathers SCamper as Fish
ermen Haul Eight
FOOter from Surf

The Coney Island shark, which had
begun to rival the sea serpent in local
legends. became an established fact
yesterday when he was hauled ashore
at the end of a clothes line, expressing
resentment at this indignity in all the
seven feet, eleven inches of his length.
The great fish was captured after a
stubborn tug of wan between him and
three men, who bear large blistcrs on
their hands as souvenirs of the fray.
Coney bathers for a month or more
have been telling wild tales of a six
foot shark, which hung around just be-
yond the breakers with a hungry look
in his eye. For once fish stories did
not err as to the size of the fish.
Frank Selino, a fisherman, who en-
gineered the brute's capture, measured
him and found he surpassed his ru-
mored length by almost two feet.
Selino was fishing from the pier at
the foot of Twenty-third Street Tues
day, when something took his bait
hook and tackle, and headed out 70
sea with it, From the way it tugged
Selino thought II was a submarine
until he saw a crescent shaped fin
cutting the waves. The fisherman took
Hugh Joyce. a foreman Of the sewer
department, into his confidence. Early
yesterday they returned 20 the pier,
and cast overheard a bale hook, at
tached TO a clothes line, with half
dogfsh for bait.
For a time they received no encour-
agement. They were about TO abandon
the project when the shark took hold
Of the dogfsh and started for England.
Fifty bathers ran screaming for shore
while Selino and Joyce fought the big
fish. A third man wrapped the line
around a timber Of the pier. Each time
the shark broke through the surface in
smother of foam his captors were
able 20 gain little on him. At last he
tired, was dragged in close to the pier
and ha~pooned to death.
The confusion Of the bathers led to
the. report that the shark had attacked
a canoe before taking the bait and had
tried 10 drag down one Of the crafts
occupants. This was later found to be
untrue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-02

der way which may lead to further
extensions Of credit to this country by
this firm and other American hank
ers. Included among these is the Guar
anty Trust Company. which has lust
loaned 100000 to the Santiago Water
Company, the principal'and interest be.
ing guaranteed by the CHILEAN govern
ment.
At the Pan-American Financial Con
ference recently held at Washington
Leopold Frederick. financial adviser Of
the American Smelling and Refining
Company, reported that his plan to
have United States dollar bills Officially
quoted on the Valparaiso Stock Ex-
change had been adopted. In order TO
develop this business in dollar ex-
change he suggested that steps should
be taken 20 have the CHILEAN govern
ment permit exporters 70 the United
States to pay export duties on nitrate
Of soda either by 80 day sight bills
drawn in United States dollars on New
York or by bills on London.
Since the war started the United
States has loaned TO foreign countries
approximately 1867 100000 OF this to-
tai So, 100000 has gone TO nations d.
rectiy involved in the war and has
been spent for the purchase Of sup
plies and munitions IN this country.
OF the South American countries the
Argentine has borrowed SA0,000.000
and the Republic of Panama S3,OOO,OOO.