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is Up TO FUNSTON
Washington To Be Guided by
Generals Report.
Seventeen Thousand Troops
Now Along Border.

Washington, Aug. 12.-War depart
ment officials today awaited word
from Major General Funston as to
whether he needed additional troops
along the border to deal with Mexican
raiders. Upon his report will depend
whether the United States forces there
will be strengthened.
Unofficial advices said General
Funston had submitted a report on
the situation, and Governor Ferguson,
of Texas, had appealed to President
Wilson for federal aid, adding that
conditions were ttperilous and grave
Further strengthening of the border
forces will take practically all avail
able troops in the country. There
are said to be 10000 men available
for that purpose. General Funston
has already on the border and at
Texas City about 900 troops.
Officials declared emphatically that
any troop movement or the dispatch
of warships to southern waters had
no bearing whatever upon plans of the
Pan-American conference for ending
tt revolution in Mexico, and would
be merely a precautionary step. Three
IContinued on Page Fourl
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PLEA SET ASIDE
Judge FIannelIy Maintains His
Jurisdiction in Gas Case.
Holds That He Has Power
Above the p. u. G..

Judge Flannelly of Independence
today denied the application of the
Kansas public utilities commission
for an order setting aside his decree
that the new gas rate schedule should
be held up. In passing on the case
the Montgomery county jurist held
that he had full jurisdiction in the
case and was empowered under the
law to act and issue and enforce or
ders as affecting the state commission
Not only did the court hold that 1t
was empowered to try the issues in
the case, but indicated to the state
commission that it would frown on
any delays or technical procedure.
The court emphatically urged an early
settlement of the case. He asked IL
the state commission desired an ap-
peal and indicated that he would clear
preme court. Time was asked by the
state commission lawyers to determine
their method of procedure. The court
allowed five days I'm which to an
nounce further plans
BY holding that he has Jurisdiction
in the case, Judge F'lannelly will force
to early determination the issues in
the controversy between the utilities
commission and receivers for the gas
company. Recently he issued an or
der restraining the enforcement of a
provisional order by the commission
which assumed to increase rates from
25 cents to 2s cents a thousand feet.
The court held that this increase was
not sufficient to justify extensions de-
manded and ordered by the commits
sion. Now the commission seeks to
set aside the Montgomery county or
der on the plea that Judge Flannelly
has no Jurisdiction. y This plea is
indicated that it is ready to proceed
al
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TAKES HER LIFE
Mrs. Mary Ruff, 32O Klein
Street, Commits Suicide.
Shoots Herself i'm the Head
With a Revolver.

Fearing that she might do harm to
someone Mrs. Mary Ruff. wife of
Frank Ruff, a Santa Fe machinist,
shot and killed herself with a revolver
at her home, 320 Klein street, at HAS
o'clock this morning. One bullet
which pierced her heart, brought
death to Mrs. Ruff. DR.. J. H. Rine-
hart, coroner, pronounced the death
as a plain case of suicide.
Before she shot herself Mrs. Ruff
locked herself in a bedroom upstairs
in the house. She scribbled with a
pencil a note telling why she wanted
to die. The note read:
Nobody knows how 1 bought this
gun The last spell L had with my
head l was as crazy as l could be. 1t
is better that something happened to
me. 1 have been afraid of my head
ever since 1 came back from Clovis.
My husband has been as good as he
can be- 1 hate to leave him but it is
better before L do something terrible.
According to neighbors Mrs. Ruff
had been suffering from a nervous
breakdown. She had returned Mon
day from Atcnison where she had been
visiting for a month. Frank Ruff the
husband, was unable to explain the
tragedy. Mrs. Ruff was 30 years old.
She left no children
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WEATHER IS fine.
The Only Exception Is in the North
east Section.

The weather was fine in Kansas this
morning with the exception of the
northeast section where showery
condition prevailed. The heaviest rain
was at Horton. Up to Z o'clock the
precipitation there was 1.10 inches.
Rain fell at Kansas City and st. Joe
this morning. Topeka got an early
morning shower which netted barely
enough moisture to lay the dust.
The Kaw river is falling rapidly
The stage at Topeka today was 1O.S
feet as compared with IL feet even
Wednesday.
The forecast calls for showers to-
night and possibly Friday.
The temperature today at Topeka
averaged seven degrees below normal
for this date. The wind was six miles
an hour from the southeast this after
noon.
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1925 fee paid to Dawson while he was
attorney general and in compensation
for his services to gas company re-
ceivers.
Under no circumstances, Brewster
ruled, is the state concerned in the
fees themselves. The money belonged
to the gas company and was paid by
the court under a direct order. If the
creditors for the company objected to
the payment of the fee, they had
legal right through an appeal to the
higher courts. They have seemingly
slept on this right. AS for the state,
it cannot legally claim the fee and
Dawson either to pay the money back
to the gas company or turn it over to
the state. Under the new law which
compelled the payment of fees into
the treasury, Brewster rules that Daw-
son might still act as a private attor-
ney and claim fee in which the state
could assert no right or title.
The opinion was rendered by the at
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PLUNGE TO DEATH
Quartermaster of Aero Squad Is
Killed at Fort Sill.
Lieutenant Probably Fatally In
jured in Plane Fall.

Fort Sill, Ok. Aug. 12.-Quarter-
master George H. Knox of the First
aero squadron, U. S. A, was killed
and Lieut.. r. B. Sutton. his aide. was
probably fatally injured today when
an aeroplane in which they were fly
ing fell five hundred feet. The squad
ron has just been transferred from
California.
The aviators ascended about 8
O'Clock this morning. They had been
aIott but a few minutes when the
aeroplane suddenly was seen TO be
falling.
Captain Knox and his aide made
desperate efforts to control the ma
chine.
Knox was instantly killed.
sutton was hurried to the army hos
pltal where an operation was per-
formed in an effort to save his life.
me exact cause of the accident has
not been aScertained
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STATE DRAWS FIRST BLOOD
IN TAGGART FRAUD BATTLE

Indianapolis, Aug. 12.-,Judge w.
III. Eichhorn in criminal court to-
day overruIed the motion to quaSh
the Indictment against Thomas
Taggart, Democratic national COM
nlitteeman for Indiana: Mayor
Joseph T.. Bell, Chief of Police
Samuel v. Perrot and 1913 others.
charged with election irregularities.
The court held that fOrty-three of
the forty-ei@ht counts in the in
dictmentS were valid.
The state elected to place Mayor
Bell on trial first. although the dc
fense asked to go to trial with Mr..
Taggart. the first defendant. The
date for the trial was not fixed.
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TROUBLE ZONE
ALONG BORDER
IS SPREADING
e. 5. Forces So Far Unable to
Cope With Anarchy.
Situation Grave and PerilOus,
Says Texas Executive.
ALL TROOPS MAY BE NEEDED
Four More Companies OF Sol
dierS to Brownsville.
Carranza Commander Lays
Brigandage to Huertistas.
ALL TROOPS MAY Be NEEDED
Four More Companies OF Sol
dierS to Brownsville.
Carranza Commander Lays
Brigandage to Huertistas.

Brownsville. Aug. 12.-Three more
Mexican outlaws were today added to
the list of killed in a battle at near
Mercedes, Hidalgo county, thirty miles
northwest of here. No report of
whether soldiers. county officers or
rangers ere in the fight has been re
ceived.
Officers have adopted a policy Of
refusing to give details of fights in
which they were concerned. This is
said to account for the lack of con-
frmation of a report that eight other
Mexican bandits were killed in Hidal-
go county since Friday.
More Troops at Brownsville.
Three companies of United States
troops from Laredo reached Browns
vile today, the fourth company OF the
battalion having been detoured at
KingSville.
General L. P. Naffarette, Carranza
commander at Matam Oras, today de-
MES that thousand of his men could
enter Texas to incite uprising against
the Americans, and gives for his rea-
son that he has only 500 men be-
tween AldamuS ard the mouth of the
Rio Grande- He charges that the brig
audage in Texas is caused by 1Iue4I=
istas in anticipation of Carranza rec
ognition by the United States.
Action by the federal govern
ment in response to the appeal
to President Wilson made by
Governor ferguson of Texas, who
asked for an increase of troops
in the lower Rio Grande valley, was
awaited today by officials, who so far
have not been successful in fully COM
batting the depredations of bands of
Mexican ranch raiders who in the last
several days have caused the deaths
of nearly a score of persons in this
section.
Governor Ferguson. in his appeal,
declared the situation was perilous
and grave and was doubtful of the
ability of the state forces and local
officers longer to control the situa-
ton.
Funston Report Resented.
Citizens of Brownsville and other
border cities did not agree with Cen
eral Funston that the troubles were
due to political feuds in this section,
and protests to his statement contin-
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GOV. FERGUSON FEARS
DISASTROUS INVASION:
MORE SOLDIERS SOUTH
VILLA PROPOSES TRUCE;
TAKES STAND FOR PEACE

Washington. Aug. 12.-GeneraI
Villa has informed the United
States government that he is will
ing to sign a truce of three months
duration with his opponents dur
ing which time peace conference
shall be held.
General Villa, who has been in
conference at lei PaSO and JuareZ
with Major General Scott. chief of
staff of the United States army
and American consul agents, has
expressed i'm a definite way his will
ingnesS to do anything that might
bring about an early peace, ac-
cording to reports from govern
ment agents at the border today
villa is understood 20 have ordered
his commanders to avoid fighting,
eVacuating places threatened with
attack as evidence of a sincere de-
sire to make peace.
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REBELS SOUND TOCSIN
IN UPRISING In TEXAS

In the battle between United
states troops and raiders at Mer-
cedes, Tex, Tuesday night, was
captured a flag bearing the words
Army of Liberty of Mexico and
Texas,
"A hand-biII also was found, read
ing:
''MexicanS! Today we will ac-
cOmplish a sacred deed. The reVO-
luton has acquired in a few days
gigantic proportions. We unite as
brothers to expedite these fortunes
of ours. In the solemn moment we
will Vindicate our right and justice
for all time. May the light shine
upon us in all our undertakings,
and may it crown our forces in all
manners. Contemplate this move
ment initiated in Texas which is of
such consequence as to bring about
the peace and justice we long for"
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with European women in various old
world capitals
Miss Gates, who for many years
sang with the Royal Opera at the
kalser's theater in Berlin, was recent
ly here as a Soloist with the Mormon
Tabernacle choir. She spoke freely
of her faith in polygamy.
"I have" she said, known many
families in Utah where there were sew
eral wives, and 1 have known many
unmarried girls in Europe-where
maIrimony is the only career-and 1
am convinced the woman who Is one
of many wives is happier than the
permanent spinster.
Rather Be a Plural Mate.
MANY girls in the old world have
told me that they would much prefer
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The Money Received as AttOr-
ney Fee in Gas Case
Is His and State Cannot Take Ii
From Him.
GEN. BREWSTER'S OPINION
Attorney General Clears Up
Matter for the Governor.
The Entire Proceeding Was
Regular, He Declares.

Fees collected by John S. Dawson
while attorney general and acting as
an attorney for receivers for the Kan
sas Natural Gas company, do not con-
cern the state and the state has no
right or title to them. Further, Daw-
son was acting within his rights to
appear as a private attorney in the
case. Such was the ruling today by S
NJ. Brewster, attorney general, in a
special opinion to Governor Capper
the legal phase of an S.
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MONEY COMES BACK.
Ford. Will Distribute $3.50 to Pur-
chaSerS of His Cars.

Distribution of rebate checks by the
Ford Automobile company will begin
Monday Nearly nine thousand dol
lars will be given out in Shawnee
county, the district covered by E. G.
Kinley, agent for the Ford in Topeka.
bate of $50 on each car provided 3OO,-
600 machines were sold between Au-
gust. 1914, and August of this year.
That number, and more, were dis
posed of in the allotted time, and the
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ne hourly readings:
MAIL THROWN INTO SEA
Germans Jcttison Packages Bound
for Russ on Neutral Ship.

Bergen, Norway, Aug. 12.-The
Norwegian mail steamer Iris, when
an hour out from this port, was held
up by a German submarine and board
ed by an officer and seamen from
the underwater craft.
According to passengers on the Iris
the parcel post matter destined for
Russia, which the steamer carried,
was jettisoned-
The mail for Scandinavian points
was not disturbed.
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TO RE0RCANlzE
MILLS COMPANY
Growth of Big Topeka Store
Necessitates Change.
Boost Capital Stock From $780,
900 to $45O,OOO.
SALE DEAL WAS ONCE PENDING
ROrabaugh Company Attempt
ed to Buy the Firm.
Stockholders viii Make Plans
Here on August "a.
SALE DEAL WAS ONCE PENDING

Plans for the reorganization of the
Mills Dry Goods company will be
submitted to the stockholders at a
special meeting in Topeka August "a.
The plan under consideration may
mean the complete reorganization oH
the company and an increase of fifty
per cent in the authorized capitaliza-
ton of the corporation. 1t is the
plan of the board of directors to in
crease the capitalization from $780,
900 to 100000 or $450O00.
Recently negotiations were con-
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CARRANzA MASSES TROOPS
ON INTERNATIONAL LINE

Laredo, Aug. 12.-According to
rumors in this city today 1000 ad-
ditionaI forces have arrived to re-
inforce the garrison on the Mexi-
can side.
All is quiet on the American side
of the river.
a local CarranZiSta paper calls
upon its readers to make ready Ito
defend the national honor"
One hundred and thirty rifles
and two hundred and siXty-four
thousand rounds of ammunition
are being held up by the local GUS
toms officials. This war material
was purchased April, last, by the
CarranZiStaS.
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RATHER ONE OF
SEVERAL. WIVES
Women of Europe Ready to
Practice POlygamy.
Prefer This Condition to Spin
sterhOOd, They Say.
USEFUL As A PLURAL MATE
Home and Family Will Mean
More to Country.
Granddaughter of Brigham
Young Opens War Secrets.
USEFUL As A PLURAL MATE

San Francisco, Aug. 12.-Polygamy
as means of repopulating Europe
after the war is being seriously ad-
vanced by Miss Emma Lucy Gates,
granddaughter of Brigham Young, pi-
oneer Mormon leader.
Coming from Europe since the out
break of hostilities, Miss Gates pre-
diets that the women of the war
drained nations are today ready to ac-
cept polygamous marriage. She bases
her belief on twelve years association
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London Aug. 12.-The Baltic flanh
of the German armies under Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg has virtually
attained the banks of the River Dvina.
between Riga and Dvinsk. with Petro-
grad less than 500 miles away in di-
rect line.
Thence southwark the line sweeps
west with the Russian fortress OF
Kovno, still holding out. but next week
may see a great battle on the road
toward the Russian capital.
The second line of defense upon
which the Russians proposed to tall
back after abandoning Warsaw has all
the appearances Of having been rem
dered untenable and the British ana
Russian press is beginning to see in
the Austro- German plan an ambitious
plunge deeper into Russia, with Pet
rograd as the goal.
In the meantime the Russian rear
guards are fighting desperately, espe-
cially in the critical Dvina region and
at Kovno, to capture which the Ger
mans are making a terrific sacrifice
of men.
1t seems plain now the Germans
purpose no great demonstration in the
west, but intend rather to press to
the utmost their so far brilliantly suc~
cessful Russian campaign, on the the
CRY that conditions in France and
Belgium are such that neither the
French nor the British Immediately
will attempt a general offensive.
During the lull in activity on the
front in France and Belgium, the Brit
ish public is looking to the Dardanelles
to bring the relief Russia so badly
needs, though the task of opening the
straits remains a difficult problem
which some think may only be solved
by a change in the Balkan situation.
Both Germany and the entente pow
ers are exerting the hardest pressure
on Bulgaria as that country is con-
sidered to be the key to the situation.
The Paris war office reports re-
newal of German attacks in the Ar
gonne, where the French lines were
penetrated at one point last night.
Assaults are declared to have been
completely repulsed.
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presenting of the checks begins
August Is.
According to Mr. Kinley, about 175
cars were disposed of by his company
in this county during the fiscal year.
The rebate at $50 per car will amount
to $3.50 in Shawnee county alone.
Last year the Kinley agency COW
cred larger territory, but owing to
a large increase in business, their dis
trict was cut down in 1915 and the
company now covers only the home
county.
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FRAMING JAP CABINET
TOkio's Ambassador to France Accepts
Foreign Portfolio.

Toxic, Aug. 12.-Baron Kikujiro
Ishii, japanese ambassador to France.
has accepted the foreign portfolio in
the new cabinet of Premier Count
Okuma. Baron Ishii replaces Count
Okuma, who assumed the foreign min
iStry temporarily on account of the
declination of Takaaki Kato. foreign
minister in the cabinet which resign
ed last month, to serve IN this capacitv
in the new government
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transfer of Topeka's big retail dry
goods store to the Rorabaugh inter-
ests of St. Joseph, Wichita, Hutchin-
son and Emporia. This deal has been
called off and there is now every
prospect that the store will continue
in Topeka under much the same man
IContinued on Page Six
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Court HaIts Hanging.

Fort Worth, Tex, Aug 12.-Thirty
minutes before c. A. Myers was to
be hanged today, the clerk of the
court of criminal appeals in Austin
telephoned to the sheriff to delay the
execution until further notice. A writ
of habeas corpus has been filed before
the court. questioning Myers sanity.
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BASEBALL TO-DAY.
FEDERAL LEAGUE.

At BuffaIo-St. Louis Buffalo. post
poned; wet grounds. Two games to-
At Baltimore-Pittsbur Baltimore.
postponed; rain.
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Postpone X. C. Tennis Games.

Kansas City. Aug. 12.-Matches in
the tournament for the Missouri VAL
ley tennis championship were post
poned this morning on account of rain;
they probably will be played this aft
ernoon on gravel courts.
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new HAITIEN PRESIDENT
National Assembly Elevates General
Dartiguenave; Quiet Prevails.

Port au Prince, Aug. 12.-General
Dartiguenave was today elected presi-
dent of the Haitien republic by the
National assembly. Calm prevails.
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The French airship raid was made
over Rheinish Bavaria. Zweibrueck-
en- is a town of the Palatinate, about
65 miles northeast of Nancy. It is a
manufacturing town of some 5000
inha bitants.
Saint Ingbert is about II miles west
of Zweibruecken. 1t is near Saar-
bruecken, which was bonn barded by
French aeroplanes on Monday
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RAID IN GERMANY
Bombs From Air Dropped in
RheiniSh Bavaria.
Eight Civilians Killed and Sew
eraI Are Wounded.

London. Aug. IA wireless dis
patch received here today from Ber-
lin says that French aviators dropped
bombs at Zweibruecken and Saint
Ingbert. Eight civilians were killed
and several wounded. The property
damage was small.
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Baltic Flank Less Than 300
Miles From Capital.
Great Battle for Russian City
Close at Hand.
.SLAV DEFENSES UNTENABLE
MuscOyites Fight Desperately
Along River Dvina.
Terrific Sacrifice in Vain Effort
to Stay TeutOns.

Berlin. Aug. 12.-(via London)
-AustrO- Ge.nan forces pursuing
the Russians who are retrCatlnG
from the Warsaw salient, have
occupied Lukow. according to an
official announcement by the Ger
man army headquarters staff to-
day. ZambroWa also has been
captured. the statement adds.
Lukow is situated forty miles
northeast of the fortress of Ivan
goTod. ZambroNa lies about
eighteen miles southeast of LomZa
and twenty miles northeast of Os-
trOW.
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Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Showers tonight and probably Fri
day; not much change in temperature
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At Washington - Washington-Do-
troit game postponed; wet grounds.
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Continued on Page 81
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CONTINUED on Page Six. ]
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-12-30
BRTONS FAIL TO ENLIST AND
CONSCR|PT|0N WILL Be NECESSARY

So the excuses went. One said his
wife was Ill; another pleaded that
he was past 40, the maximum recruit
ing age. He did not look II.
A letter sorter in his majesty's
postal service could not leave the
government In the lurch by quitting
his routine task in the post office. Yet
another crossed his heart and swore
he was lame, then limped away,
though previously he had not limped,
The fourteenth man questioned
claimed to be policeman. though
he was in civilian clothes. The next
man. six feet of solid cockney, sneer-
ed at the question.
You're askin' me to enlistg" he
queried "D'ye think that IL shil-
lings and saxpence a week separation
allowance Is enough for muh wife?
No, none o. this army for me-"
To the recruiting officer the pleas
and even the cockney's sneers were
an old story: yet he seemed disap.
pointed.
There's the answer" he said
"They simply won't go. That's why
we're going to have conscription. A
majority OF the recruits now are the
'dregs,. the loafers who join to gel
their meals, Middle class men will
not 80 until they are showed. Weir,
not getting enough hghting men,"
A conference OF trades union lead
ers adjourned without deciding OF
the stand they will take toward con
scription. but they will meet agair
very soon.