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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
HERO RESCUEs SIX; FAILS
TO APPEAR SEVENTH TIME

Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. 26.--Thirteen
persons were killed and eight injured
by fire in four-story building, the
two upper floors of which were occu-
pied by the Union Paper Box CON-
pany, here during the afternoon. OF
the dead all were young women en-
ployed by the company, except one.
Many of the bodies were so badly
burned as to make Identification diff
ficult. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong at
once ordered that the police, city
council and the coroner make thor.
ough investigation of the fire.
The flames started ir pile OF straw
In the rear of the feed store of James
Brown and company, on the first floor
OF the building. William c. Kimhel,
general manager OF the box factory,
at once went to the third and fourth
floors and warned the girls employed
there to leave quietly. The flames
gained Roadway so rapidly, however,
that ESCAPE by means of stairways and
fire escapes was cut off.
Bodies Huddled on Floor.
Some of the girls attempted to go
to the dressing room for their hats,
and there, huddled on the floor, are
men found majority of the bodies.
One of the heroes OF the fire was
Peter Vallon, who Is among the dead
When the fire was discovered he was
working In the building. He CROPPED
his way through the smoke to the
street, where he heard girls frantical.
ly calling for help from the upper
floors. Tying a handkerchief about his
mouth he rushed into the building. Six
times he staggered to the street with
the unconscious form of girl i'm his
arms.
When he failed to appear the sew.
enth time, however spectators called
the attention of the tiremen, who in
stituted a search and found Vallon's
eharred body on the second floor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
Crisis in Roumania Near.

London. Oct. Pa cabinet crisis
In Roumania Is imminent, according
to dispatch to the Daily News from
Rome, owing to the resignation Of sew
eral of the ministers. who oppose
Roumania's Intervention In the war.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
MASSACRE EVERYONE IN TOWN
Turks Stay Entire Armenian Popula.
ton of kerasund on the Black
Sea, Says Dispatch.

London, Oct. ga dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Odessa says:
The Turks have massacred the en-
tire Armenian population of kerasund
on the Black sea.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
Greece Pressed by Allies,

London. Oct. 26.-~The Allies have
repeated their request that Greece
decide whether to join them or the
central powers, according to an
Athens message.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28

London. Oct, a6.--King George Is
now In France, whittier he has gone
to visit the British army, He hopes
also to see some of the Allied troops.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
For Nail In the Foot,

Horses and cattle are liable to blood
poisoning from stepping on rusty nails.
For such an injury apply Hanfords
Balsam of Myrrh and get it into the
bottom Of the wound. 1t should kill
the poison germs. Always have a bot
tie in your stable, because you will
hnd different uses for it, Adv.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
M atched.

Did you match that blue ribbon for
me today, Henry?"
Yes, love. 1t was just the color of
the salesgirIs eyes, but they didn't
have any more of the ribbon left"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
MRS. THOMSON
Tells WOMEN
How She Was Helped During
Change of Life by Lydia E.
Pinkllam's Vegetable
Compound.
Philadelphia, Pa. -'T am just 52years
Of age and during Change of Life suf-

AcIcu 1OT SA years
terribly. / tried sew
eral doctors but none
seemed to give mo
any relief. Every
monththe painswere
intense in beth sides,
and m ad e m e SO
weak that I had to
60 to bed. At last
q friend recommen-
ded Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetablo
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28

Truth may be stranger than fiction,
but some men make it hustle to keep
ahead,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
Talked With Won Papen.

Fay confessed that while on the
battlefield he talked with his superior
officers about a device to blow up
ships, that later his idea of coming to
America and carrying his scheme
through was well received by the Ger.
man secret service, that he came we'll
enough supplied with money to act on
his own responsibility and that he
talked with Captain Won Papen, mill.
tary attache, and Captain X Boyd,
naval attache of the German embassy.
about the plan, but they refused to
have anything to do with it,
The confession of Fay, who said he
had been decorated with the Iron
Cross for fighting in the Champagne
district In France. covers his arrival
in the United States on April % last.
his making Of clock-worked bombs
since then and his activities in ex-
perimenting with explosives along the
Hudson river. Quantities of acid in
the room occupied by Fay and Walter
L. Scholz in Weehawken, n. j.. and
boxes, each containing 120 pounds of
chlorate of potash used in making So
called sugar bombs, In a boat house
on the Hudson, had been found after
the arrest of these men on Sunday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28

New York, Oct. 27.-Details of a
plot to hamper the shipment of NUM-
tons of war to the Allies by placing
clock-worked bombs on the rudders or
propellors Of ships, SO timed that the
ships would be disabled on their way
across the Atlantic, were disclosed in
the confession OF one of five men
charged in complaint filed with
United States commissioner with con.
spiracy to violate federal statute.
Following upon the confession of
Robert Fay, a lieutenant of the 18th
Saxony infantry, who admitted that
he came to this country last April
through an agreement with the Ger
man secret service to blow up or de-
lay steamers laden with war supplies
for the Allies, William ]. Flynn, chief
Of the secret service, filed before Unit
ed States Commissioner Houghton q
complaint in which not only Fay but
four other men are charged with pro-
noting the conspiracy. The hearing
on the federal charge was set for
Nov. f.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-28
GERMAN OFFICER ADMITS HE
CAME TO AMERICA THROUGH
AGREEMENT WITH SECRET
SERVICE.
CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE
FEDERAL STATUTE, CHARGE
Plans Of Five Men Arrested Would
Hamper Shipment of Munitions Of
War to Allies by Placing Clock
worked Bombs on Rudders
Of Ships.

Washington, Oct. 27.-if the state
department determines that Robert
Fay Is telling the truth in his story
to the New York police of how he, a
lieutenant in the German army, was
sent to this country by the German
secret service for the purpose of dis
abling by explosives steamships Ieav-
Ing American ports for Europe, the
matter probably will be made the sub
ject Of vigorous representations to the
German government.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Sheriff Killed
With Prisoner
Eight Others Wounded In Fight Be
tween officers and Mob In
South Carolina

Winnsboro, s. c., June 14.-Sheriff
A. d. Hood of Fairfield county and
Jules Smith, negro prisoner were
killed and other men injured
in an attack on the sheriff's party
here today while the negro was being
taken to court for trial on an assault
charge. Clyde Isenhour, one Of the
wounded, died late tonight.
Clyde and Ernest Isenhour, rela'
tives of the young woman Smith is
alleged to have attacked and William
Morrison a brother In law were in
dicted tonight for murder by the Fair
field county grand jury. Witnesses
before the grand jury are said to have
testified that Clyde Isenhour led the
mob.
Sheriff Hood and his deputies had
reached the court house when the
mob tried to seize the prisoner. The
sheriff's warning was ignored and the
shooting began.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

drops and every kind of y vile sub
stitute for decent liquor came into
common use. As a result during that
one dry year we had I'VE times the
number of arrests for drunkenness
and disorder that we normally have.
At the end of the twelve months ev.
erybody voted the town wet again in
order to have not prohibition with its
unlimited booze, but regulation with
its limited number OF saloons, open
and susceptible of police observation
and control, and paying the city a
license of $1,000 each.
THE people of the West will find
as a result of their present expert
ments with prohibition, that they are
lowering, in place of raising, their
civic standard and that they will be
forced back to the license system in
order to bring things back to their
present level. Chicago Evening
Post, April %, 1915.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Texas Has Very
Good Coal Output
Mines Nearly Two and a Half Million
Tons In 1914 Valued at Almost
100000

The amount of coal produced in
Texas in 1914, was 2,323,773 short
tons, valued at the mines at $685.
459.
The coal production of the State is
nearly evenly divided between Ignite
and bituminous coal, the balance be-
ing slightly in favor of the bitumin-
Gus. With the exception Of the pro-
duction in 1913, the production in
1914 was the largest in record ac-
cording to figures compiled by c. e.
Lesher, of the United States Geologi.
cal Survey The total production in
1914 was less than in 1913 by 105,371
tons or 4 "a per cent in quantity and
s366,461 or S.54 per cent in value.
Most Of the decrease in tonnage was
in the Ignite output, which in 1914
ives 1.105,613 tons and in 1918 was
1,1S1,1 1855 tons, difference of 75,543
tons, whereas the output Of bitumin-
Gus coal-1,21S.1 tons In 1914 and
1,247,9SS tons In 1913-decreased but
29,S2S tons. In value, however, the
bituminous coal decreased much more
than the Ignite.
The decreased production Of both
b.tuminous coal and Ignite In 1914 is
attributed to the great increase in
the production Of petroleum In Texas
and Oklahoma, which because Of Its
drop in price, after a record breaking
production has displaced a consider
able amount of coal and Ignite as
fuel, both on the railroads and in the
industries.
The coal mines Of Texas were not
entirely free from labor troubles In
1914, as 220 men were on strike dur
ing the year with an average Of 3
days each Of lost time.
Most of the Ignite produced in
Texas Is mined by hand and of the
bituminous coal produced nearly one
half is shot off the solid. The use Of
mining machines has not made much
progress in the state, and those that
are employed are in the bituminous
mines. The quantity of coal shot
off the solid in 1914 was 612,15S tons
or 26 per cent Of the total.
Washing plants have been installed
at the mines at Eagle Pass in order
to improve the quantity Of coal sent
! to market. In 1914 the quantity OF
. coal washed was 23,6O4 tons which
yielded 19,44O tons of cleaned coal.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Liquor Case iisDecided
Question Of constItutlonaIlty Of Webb
Kenyon Act Still Remains IN
determined However

Washington, June 14.-The su.
preme court today disposed of the so
called Kentucky Webb Kenyon liquor
cases without determining the ton.
stitutionality OF the Webb Kenyon
law, or passing on its construction.
The Kentucky case was a prosecution
Of the Adams Express company for
bringing liquor for personal use from
tennessee into Whitley county, KY.
dry territory.
Justice Day, for the court. held n
was bound to accept the decision OF
the Kentucky court of appeals, tina,
the Webb Kenyon law was not an
plicable. Under that decision the
conviction of the express company
was set as de.
After the decision in the Kentuck,
case counsel for a distilling company
concerned in the West Virginia cases
obtained leave to file copies of a Law
passed by the West Virginia legisla
ture May "a, 1915, amending previou,
legislation so as to provide express
ly that It was unlawful TO transpor
iquor for personal use in the state
counsel in brief urged that was al
indication that the law previous t
that time did not prohibit such trans
portation. 1t was urged the amend
ment was unconstitutional.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

people wish this tendency to contin
ne, they must 90 the limit to bring
modern convcniences to the outlying
rural sect ons.
Rural delivery gives the farmer
daily touch with the markets, so he
can buy and sell intellgently. |,
brings the newspaper promptly to his
door, so that he does not feel isolat-
ed. The little mail cart is the tn n
bread that binds him to the moving
world. Any politician who should
favor cutting 1t out would be regard.
ed as just as crazy today as II he had
suggested spending all this money In
1898,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Steamer Hopen1Ount
Sunk by Submarine
Crew 10 Sheiled While Taking 4
Boats and Captain and Three
Others Killed

London, June 1.-THE crew of the
British steamer Hopemount, OF 5000
tons, sunk by a submarine off st.
Ives, has arrived at Cardiff. The men
report that the Germans shelled them
while they were taking to their boats
and that the captain and three mem.
bers of the crew we're wounded.
The French schooner Diamant has
been sunk by a German submarine
off Pend.ne, Wales. The crew was
given two minutes to take to the
boats and was landed at Plymouth.
Two Danish schooners, the Katrine
and the Cocos Merstal, were stopped
today by submarine. The crew OF
the Cocos Merstal was sent aboard
the Katrine and the former vessel
was then set on fire. The Katrine
has arrived at the Firth OF Forth,
Scotland.
The Danish schooner Marie, which
has arrived at Leith, reports that last
Thursday, while on the passage from
Christiansund she was held up by a
German submarine forty miles off the
Isle of May, Scotland. The crew of
the schooner was ordered to their
boats and the Germans boarded the
Marie with the intention OF setting
fire to her. according to the story
but on the appearance of two British
patrol boats the men returned 70 the
submarine, which disappeared. A pa
troll boat towed the Marie to Leith
Blown Up by Mine
London, June 1.-THE British
steamer Arndale or 1888 tons gross
has been sunk as the result of strik
ing mine in the White sea.
The Arndale presumably was car
rying cargo to Archangel the only
important Russian port bordering OF
the Arctic ocean.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
THE TEACHERS PENSION
MOVEMENT

II is perhaps not generally realized
how much is now being done to pro-
de for the old age OF teachers. The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment OF Teaching made its annual re-
port the past week, showing nearly
100000 paid for pensions for college
professors. But this is only one
phase of the movement. Twelve
states now have general public
school teachers pension law and four
teen have one applicable to the larg'
er towns and cities.
The effect Of this idea, new In the
United States is becoming far reach
ing, though It may not draw a great
many young people into the profes'
son. To girls at the graduation age,
the term Of service required for a
pension looks long, and matrimony
looms large.
But after young woman has been
teaching for four or five years, she
begins to find the sharp limitations
OF her employment, looked at from
the business viewpoint. With the
growing independence Of the sex,
there are a great many girls today
who are not thinking seriously OF
marriage. Their first aim Is de-
pendable life work. A long career
as a teacher at low pay and with
many expenses looks less and less at
tractive as the years go by. There
is no chance to secure reserve for
old age.
Hence many of them find their way
into other employments. They find
more attractive opportunities in bust
ness ventures OF their own, as private
secretaries, etc, and some are going
into farming.
Realizing the growing scarcity of
good teachers, and to hold in their
positions many young women who
otherwise would quit for more high
~ rewarded fields, the teachers pen
sion movement has grown rapidly
1t must tend to concentrate good
teachers in the larger cities and in
states that provide this highly de
sirable incentive. Small places and
states without pension system find
that their schools are considered toe
much as a place to TRY 1t on the
dog" The more gifted girls are APT
to work there only until they reach
q place where the teachers service
is more highly valued.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
THE COST OF RURAL
MAIL DELIVERY

II any congressman in 1898 had
moved that the sum of $47,377O7O be
appropriated for the purpose of car
rying mail around to the houses OF
farmers, he would have been thought
crazy. Yet that Is what the service
cost in 1914, Not merely that, but
the department. has just taken in ST.
$50 more families.
The enormous cost Of this service
causes criticism. The expense per
route Is much more than was thought
in the beginning, The carriers and
Their friends have be,ome powerful
political interest. They demanded
and secure liberal payment.
The people along route are said
largely TO pay for it, by the stamps
they buy and those that are bought
to deliver mail matter to them. Pos
sibly, yet the same people might bC
living elsewhere and buy ng the same
stamps at a regular post office where
there Is no route.
As a time saver the service Is very
effective. It is cheaper for one mar
to spend a day taking mail to a hun
dred farmers, than for a hundred
farmers each to spend an hour o.
two a day driving to the post Office
The critic may say to this, however
that the cost of the service shoult
be paid by the farmer, since he get'
the benefit of this enormous time say
iTg.
Country and city must each thinl
broadly of the interest of the other
There are certain drawbacks Of lon,
loneliness to life on the farms. TIL
has led people 10 rush to the towns
and has made living costs higher 70
all town dwellers. Unless the tow
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Crops in Hungary
Seriously Damaged

Zurich, Switzerland, June 15.-Re.
ports received here are that intense
heat continues In many parts of Hun.
gary and that already serious dam.
age has been done to the crops. 1t
is added that the hopes entertained
for favorable harvest OF oats and
barley must be abandoned. Grain
generally has suffered considerably in
Moravia, Bohemia and Lower Austria
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Black Foxes Hard TO Raise.

Cannibalistic tendencies developed
in captivity by that valuable fur-bear-
er, the black fox. have proved a seri.
Gus drawback to the fox-raising indus
try Of Prince Edwards island. where
300 farmers are engaged in the bust
ness. Pups are frequently eaten by
their parents, and there are also In
stances OF females being killed and
partially eaten by their mates.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

II 1t is proper for the Democratic
press and members of the Democratic
administration to shout themselves
hoarse in laudation Of the alleged
achievements of the Democratic, par.
ty, why is It improper for Republi.
cans to show the failures OF that par.
ty and the misleading nature of its
political propaganda?
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Almost the Same,

did you ever hear of a real goose
laying a golden egg" asked the young
seeker after knowledge. NO" said
his experienced papa, but young
duck-I forget his name-once laid
ten-dollar bet with me and the
money was counterfeit"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

When a man stole six bales of hay
from a freight car in Milwaukee he
was declared insane. Is hay so cheap
in Milwaukee?
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

de Lawd loveth a shurful giver!"
solemnly said Parson Bagster, after
the collection had been taken up.
"But"-the good old man darted a
glance at the we'll nigh empty plate
IL dunno whuh He finds any Of
emf Chicago Herald.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

Subscribers wishing the address OF
their paper changed will please give
former as well as their present ad-
dress. All papers are continued I'M
Gil explicit order is received by us to
discontinue. All arrears must be paid
in every case.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17
Hanued, Then Shot Ia Death

TaHueu, Ihen Shot TO Death
Tocooa, Ga, June 14.-Sam Steph-
ems, a negro, accused Of attacking a
white girl, was taken from the Steph.
ems county jail early today by a mob
of armed men, hanged to a tree and
shot to death.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

Napoleon's handwriting was so bad
that often he could not decipher 1t
himself.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-06-17

Baseball realizes the danger tina
lies In coupling up with gambling.
The Parker post., 1915-02-20
1915 CALIFORNIA WHEAT
CROP TO BE DOUBLE 1914

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16.-At least
twice as much wheat will be grown dur
ing 1915 in California as in 1914. Every
acre that can be utilized for wheat will
be SO employed. The wheat crop of
1915 should be the largest in ten or
fifteen years.
These are the opinions of leading
grain brokers and the estimates of gov
ernment experts, all of whom are work
ing on estimates of the possible crop in
1915.
High prices, due to the European
war, have caused this renewed interest
in wheat growing in California.
According to the best estimates, the
crop in California last year was about
100000 tons. None Of it was exported,
as the wheat supply was not large
enough to meet the California demand,
which was met and is still being met
by shipments from Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho, and as far east as Kansas.
Flour exports to the Orient have
about ceased. The largest foreign mar
kets for California -four are now the
Central American republics, the west
coast of South America particularly
Ecuador and Tahiti.
The Parker post., 1915-02-20
SUPERVISORS TO
REVISE MEETING

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.-The super
visors have decided to make change
in the days for their weekly meetings
They will continue to meet Mondays as
usual, but in case the calendar rs not
completed that day it's further consid-
Grafton will be postponed until the fol
lowing Wednesday. Tuesdays will be
devoted to conferences between the
members of the board, largely for the
discussion of questions of policy.
Under this plan it is proposed to
make each Monday public hearing
day, when persons having matters to
bring before the board will have an
opportunity to do so, and Wednesday
will be the principal calendar consid-
GRAFTON day.
This change in plan was adopted at
the suggestion of Supervisor Hamilton,
who urged that it would tend to a more
systematic transaction of the county's
business and greater efficiency.
The Parker post., 1915-02-20
RIVERSIDE FINDS
SEEDLESS APPLES

RIVERSIDE, Feb. 16.-Having given
to the world the navel orange, River
side is now ready to make another con-
tribution to the horticultural assets of
the country in the form of a seedless
apple that has remarkable promise.
The apple is a Seeding that came
up on the home place of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. G.. Fellows. The tree is nine years
old and has borne prolifcally for sew
eral years. The apples are absolutely
coreless, and have only occasionally
embryo seeds. The skin is very thin
and is dark red merging into green
at the stem end. The pistillate end of
the apple has much the same forma-
tion as the navel orange. Many of the
apples have weighed close to a pound
each.
Mr.. Nicoll, pioneer nurseryman, has
been directed to take 300 CRAFTS from
the parent tree and to graft these onto
nursery stock. The stock thus grown
in the nursery will be available for
testing at various attitudes and in diff
ferent soils. The original tree has re-
ceived no special care, and it is be-
lieved it can be improved by proper
breeding.