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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
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AT THE EMPIRE.


Patrons Of the Empire are afforded
opportunity to appreciate some OF the
difficulties OF theatrical production in
connection with the bill for the first
half of the week provided by Manager
Charles Berkell The sketch, .decid-
eddy original, is entitled THE New
Leader" with Jack Delman. a clever
German comedian, in the chief role.
He has the assistance of six other peo-
pie, including the stage manager.
props, the hick actor, the leading lady
and the sister team. Deiman presides
over the orchestra, the while indulging
asides with the performers being re-
hearsed by the stage manager. \ pretty
little love story is carried along. The
novelty of the act has a distinct appeal.
The entire Empire stage is used.
While The New Leader is the fea-
ture OF the new bill, it is only a small
part OF the excellent entertainment
that is furnished and which attracted
and delighted capacity audiences yes
terday viii Morris is a pantomimic
comedian who will make you laugh if
there is laugh left in your system. His
troubles in trying to master a bicycle
are enough to crack the face of brass
monkey. De Lea and Orma promise
six Feet Of Comedy" The female
part of the duo supplies the six feet.
She is a scream. That's all that can be
said about her. You've got TO get a
look at her and listen to her TO really
appreciate her. He'll Be Back is a
rapid sketch. Kituer. Hayes and
Montgomery, in "Swells at Sea" have
an unusually pretty singing turn. One
OF the trio appears in black face and
offers some good comedy, Altogether
the bill is high class.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
Note These Prices:

songs and clever dancing given. The
costumes are especially attractive
and special scenery adds to the eff
feetiyeness Of the production. There
is a Hewness and originality about the
play which gives it charm and it is
being given the enthusiastic support
Of the theatre goers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
/ En0d limitation nf Pride.

Osmond Guy struts like a man in
his first dress suit, Desmond Well,
hardly that; he struts like man in
his first rented dress suit.-Boston
Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

The efforts TO use the workingmen
Of our country have been Of two
kinds he report continues, zone 10
get through them the endorsement Of
lhe foreign policy 10 place an embargo
upon so-called munitions Of war. the
other has been to stir up industrial
contentious and disputes and thus in
terfere with the actual process Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
To T0ntinue " Ork.

New York, Nov S.-Frank ?. Walsh
former chairman Of the Federal Indus
trial Relations commission, met here
today with II associates active in III
dustrial reform projects, and organ
lied the Committee on Industrial Re
iations. the object Of which, 1t was
stated. is to continue the work OF the
federal commission and urge on con-
gress the recommendations contained
in the official reports Of the federal
commission which were compiled by
Mr. Walsh and by Basil NJ. Manly,
Besides Mr.. Wash the membership
of the new committee comprises John
2. Lennon, James O'ConnelI, and Aus
tin B. Garretson, prominent labor
leaders. who were members of the fed
eral commission; Amos r. e. Pinchot,
Frederic C. Howe, immigration COM
missioner at New York; Bishop c. d,
Williams of the Episcopal diocese OF
Detroit: Dante Barton, Kansas City
newspaper man: John P. White, presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers; john
Fitzpatrick, president OF the Chicago
Federation OF Labor; Helen Marot OF
the Women's Trade Union league oil
New York, aud Agnes Nestor Of the
Women's Trade Union league or Chi
cage,
Basi1 NJ. Manly and George 7. West
who were connected with the work OF
the federal commission. will occupy
similar places with the new commit
Tee. Otto F. Bradley, who has beer
IN charge of an anti-tuberculosis cam
paign in Wisconsin. also will have 3
place
The announcement Of organization
SAYS headquarters will be opened IN
Washington 10 carry on an active cam
paisn and that the committees pri-
mary object will be to support organ
lied labor. II will have no official
connection with the government as did
the federal commission.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
At THE ILLINOIS,

Enthusiasm over the attraetiveness
Of the new Illinois, which opened yes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

All the news all the time -- The
Argus.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Especial to The Republican,

especial to The Republican,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 25.-At
shortly after 5:45 this afternoon, Pres
ident Wilson entered the room in the
White House where arrangements had
been made for the longest telephone
conversation ever attempted Commu-
nication was soon established with San
Francisco. and the president of the
United States and the president of the
Panama Pacific exposition greeted
each other over $500 miles of copper
wire.
The wire worked splendidly, and Mr.
Wilson said the conversation OF Mr.
Moore sounded as clear as though the
call had been only to Baltimore.
After congratulatory greetings, Mr..
Wilson's phone was connected with
that of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. in
ventor Of the telephone, who was in
New York City. During. the informal
conversations from New York, Mrs
Gilbert Grosvenor, daughter Of DR..
Bell talked with Robert S. Scarburg in
San Francisco. and gained the honor of
being the first woman to talk over the
transcontinental line.
But the longest conversation was the
4.400 mile wire chat between President
Continued on Page Six)
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Rockefeller Says
He Is In Favor
OLaboy Unions
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCH1

NEW YORK, Jan. 25-John D..
Rockefeller, Jr., active head of his
fathers interests testified for five
hours before the Federal Commission
on industrial relations, investigating
great philanthropic foundations and
industrial unrest Rockefeller said
he would do what he could to per-
sonally alleviate bad conditions in
the Colorado coal fields if given in
formation of abuses. He denied he
dictated policies to his executives,
and said he had no knowledge of Ia
Dor conditions. Not only was he
not opposed to unions but favored
them providing they kept within the
law.
He said they ought Ito leave every
worker free to associate himself with
such groups Of work Independently
as he chooses" He said the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company originally
was unprofitable 1t was therefore
reorganized and Rockefeller invested
more. His father invested $4,000,
600 in it. The securities are now
worth s19.O0000 He would have
been better off if he had put the
money in savings bank. While
Rockefeller testified a score of police
and private detectives mingled in the
crowd, and a police lieutenant in
uniform stood behind his chair. The
corridors were cleared of everyone
when he entered and left
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
AR|vACh ONE
TOWNSHIP Of
ANC|ENINESS
Land Grant Made by Mexl-
can Government in 1872
Scene of Latest Arizona
Town-Application Old
est Land Office Record.

Certainly the oldest toWnsite in the
United States made its formal ap-
plication for patents from the gov
ernment yesterday when the resi-
dents of Arivaca, Pima county. Ari-
zona, petitioned the land office for
those official papers which convey
to community the right to incor-
porate itself 1t was in the year 1872,
long before the United States became
possessed of the land which is now
Arizona, that the original grant was
made in the name of Tomas and
Ygnacio Ortiz by the then Mexican
government out of the Arispe land
office, for the tract of land called
La Aribac. and it was not until yes
terday. one hundred and two years
afterward. that the village concluded
to celebrate its existence by be-
coming a town.
Old, yellow, frayed and stained, is
the copy of the abstract of title that
accompanied the application, and this
document was typed in odd characters
in the year 1870. How much older,
yellower and more frayed and stained
the original must be, is known only
to the keeper of the ancient records
of the Ahispe land office in old
Mexico Indeed. there is no evidence
in the sheaf of medieval papers that
came with the application to show
that the first documents in this sim
gular case are still in existence.
Among the interesting exhibits in
cludeded in the file is the aint-inked
minutes of a meeting of the towns
people way back in 1870, when it was
community out of Arivaca. 1t was
noted with all the preciseness of the
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcH1

W WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Suggesting
that it was not unlikely the United
States some day would build another
inter-oceanic waterway to supplement
the Panama canal. Secretary Bryan
explained tonight that he regarded it a
wise precautiOn for the American gov
ernment to negotiate treaties with Nj
caragua and Costa Rica giving this
country an option on a canal route
across that section of Central America.
He also spoke of the Importance of a
naval base in the Bay of Fonseca and
announced the state department was
prepared to treat for this with Hon
duras, Salvador and Nicaragua.
Bryan said anybody interested in
such large enterprise as our canal
can afford to pay a small amount for
an additional route. which for long
time was regarded as the favored
route.
The secretary explained at length the
purpose of the pending treaty with Nj
caragua. which in it's original form
awakened a protest from Costa Rica as
well as Honduras and Salvador. He
expressed the opinion that these pro-
tests had arisen from a misunderstand-
ing of the purposes of the United
States and thought the situation had
now been clarified by the announced
purpose of the American government
to treat literally with Honduras and
Salvador for their rights in the Bay of
Fanseca and Costa Rica separately for
her portion of the river San Juan,
which forms part of one of the sug-
gested routes.
As result of these treaties, the
United States by the payment of
5000, 900 to Nicaragua and about half
that amount to Costa Rica would OBJ
tain an option on any canal route
across those two countries Bryan ex-
,, planned when Costa Rica protested that
her rights were not recognized in the
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Supreme Court Of United
States Holds Employer
Has Right to Insist Oh
Abandonment Of Union
Affiliations.
HUGHES, DAY AND
HOLMES DISSENT
Day Declares the Decision
Would Invalidate Laws on
Like Lines in California,
Colorado and Several 9th
er States.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcH1

WASHINGTON. Jan 25.-Employers
may require employees to renounce un-
ion affiliations as a condition of en-
ployment, the supreme court of the
United States today held. Justices
Hughes, Holmes and Day dis
sented. The decision was made in
the suit over the so-called Kansas
coercion statute, which is held uncon-
stitutional. Day declared the decision
also invalidated laws on like lines in
California, Colorado, Connecticut, In
diana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, New jersey. New York,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wis
cOnsin and Porto Rico. The dissent
ing judges asked why, under the de-
cision, an employe could not be pre-
vented from joining the national guard,
or a certain political party, if pre-
vented from joining a union.
Under a Kansas statute it is unlaw-
full for any individual or corporation
to coerce or influence a person to en-
ter into an agreefent not to poin or
remain a member of a labor organi-
zation as a condition to securing or
employment. The substance
of the opinion is in this paragraph:
Just as labor organizations have
an inherent and constitutional right to
deny membership to any man who
does not agree that during that mem
bership he will not accept or retain
employment in company with nom
union men: just as union man has
constitutional right to decline prof
fered employment unless an employer
will agree not to employ non-union
men, so an employer has a constitu-
shall refrain from affiliation with a
union during his term of employment"
The contention of the dissenting
justices is expressed in the main in
this paragraph of the opinion:
Could an employer not be forbid
den from demanding agreements that
that an employe should not join the
national guard? Could not the state
strike down agreements not to join
a certain political party? Why not
labor unions. whatever the members
of this court may think of these
unions"
Wherein is the right of the en-
ployer to insert this stipulation in the
agreement any more sacred" inquired
Justice Day in his dissenting opinion,
than his right to agree with another
Continued on Page Ten)
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
RUSSIA HALTS
RELIEF PARTY
At THE BORDER
Condition of Prisoners in
Siberia Is Such That EX-
petition Is Organized to
Carry Supplies and Relief
to Them.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-It be
came known that the second request
by American Ambassador Mayre at
Petrograd that two Americans be
permitted to carry supplies to prison.
ers in the detention camps in Siberia
so far has failed to bring a response
from the Russian government. Because
of the reported condition of the pris-
oners in these camps the state de-
partment some time ago authorized
two Americans to take charge of a
relief expedition organized in Peking.
The. expedition has halted at the Rus
sian border.
The action of the Russian govern
ment has aroused anxiety at the Ger
man and Austro- Hungarian embassies
here. Officials of the Austro- Hungar-
ian embassy said that while they did
not doubt that Russia had issued
proper rules for the treatment of pris-
oners, they believed the dulles are not
being enforced in view of the re-
ported extreme destitution among the
foreigners detained in the Siberian
camps.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
C0NSULS Of THE
NEU1RALS LOSE
ALL AUTHORITY
Germany Annuls Certifi-
Gates of Representatives
Of Neutral Countries in
Belgium, but Has Recog-
nized that Of Z. S.
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHJ

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Secretary
BRYAN made public the text of a note
from Germany annull.ng the certifi-
Gates of authority of neutral consuls
in Belgium and issued a paraphrase
of the American governments reply.
While the German note considers the
exequaturs of the neutral consuls to
have expired the American govern
ment takes the view that they have
been merely suspended"
In this way Washington has avoid
ed committing itself to the question
of whether or not the sovereignty of
Belgium expired with the German
military occupation.
American Consul General Fiederich
at Antwerp has already been recog-
nized by the German government
The American government inquired
whether the cOnsuls at Liege and
Brussels, the only other places where
neutral consuls are now permitted by
the Germans to do business, are per-
sonallv satisfactory to the local au-
thOrities.
Germany did not give her reasons
for wanting the consuls excluded from
the military zones. but officials
thought il was not unlikely 10 be a
military precaution aimed to prevent
dissemination Of military knowledge
Some neutral countries have employed
as consuls as we'll as subordinate Of
ficers citizens of Belgium. a practice
not uncommon in many countries be-
cause of the strictly commercial char
acter of the consular work.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Business Man Is Drowned
In Tucson 'Y' Swimming Pool

pleton went to the locker room and
saw Whites clothes laying on a chair.
The water was just fresh in the
tank today and very cold and SO
muddy he could see nothing, so Stee-
pleton asked the boys then swimming
in the tank to dive for the body. 1t
was soon found in the deepest part
Of the tank and brought to the sur
face. 1t had been in the pool three
hours and half. Doctors say there
was no water in the lungs. and there
fore the death was due to a shock.
White was 80 years of age. He
leaves a wife, but no children. He
married Elose Allen eight years ago.
He was born in Santa Cruz, Califor-
MIA, and was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Arizona. B. F. White of
this citv is the only known relative.
He lived on the Speedway.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Senator from New York
Expresses Grave Fear Of
Complications Would
Result If Administration
Measure Is Adopted.
ALLEGES BRUTE
FORCE is USED
Charges Democrats with
Attempting to Rush Bill
Through with Force and
Weight Of Votes and In
dicates Danger.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHJ

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 Grave
fear that the pending government
ship purchase bill, if carried into eff
feet, would involve the United States
in serious international controver-
sizes, was expressed in the senate by
Senator Root of New York. The
senator also charged the democrats
with attempting to rush the bill
through by brute force and weight
Of votcs,"' and solemnly warned his
colleagues against the danger of re-
ducing the senate to a mere regis
terin6 instead of a legislative body"
The majority members, who had
been silent for several days during
the attack of the republican speakers
We're aroused by the speech. Senators
Williams, stone and Simmons made
sharp replies.
Root said the purpose of the ad-
ministration was to buy interned
German ships. He attacked the opin-
ion of Solicitor johnson of the State
Department in this connection, and
was particularly caustic in comment
McAdoo The senator went deeply
into international questions and
pointed out that for the period of
war Great Britain, France and Rus
sia had adopted as a rule modified
form of the rule agreed to in the
declaration of London. that the
transfer of ships during the war
i ho
had proved that the transfer of such
ships was not made to escape the
danger of capture or other conse-
quences of war.
None of these great powers will
permit citizens of an enemy to rob
them of their trade by transfer of
ships they are entitled to capture on
the high seas under a neutral flag, -
Root insisted I'VE cannot measure
the number of our steps. One un-
neutral step will lead to further un-
neutral steps by others until we are
in the thing.
Il am not arguing against buying
ship. If we are maintaining neu-
trality, we must hold close to it.
If you precipitate this country into
an international controversy when
Europe may feel that we have taken
sides we will rend ourselves. The
only course is to keep out of such
controversies
Senator Williams in reply declared
that, in his opinion. Great Britain
(Continned ON Page SKI
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
Bodies and Wreckage Have
Been Washed Ashore on
North Coast of Ireland
and Admiralty Gives Up
All Hopes.
AUSTRIANS CHECK
RUSSIAN ADVANCE
Sudden Stiffening of Front
Checks Invasion of Hun
gary, Which Was Planned
Following the Recent Oc-
crlpatiOn of Bukowina.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

LONDON Jan. 25.-The British ar
mored merchant vessel Viknor has been
lost off Ireland with all hands. The
admiralty officially announced that
hope is gone. The Viknor is supposed
to have foundered or struck a German
mine. Bodies and wreckage have been
washed ashore on the north coast of
Ireland.
She has been missing for some days"
the admiralty statement says, "and
must now be accepted as lost with all
her officers and men. The cause of her
loss is uncertain but as some bodies
and wreckage have been washed
ashore on the north coast of Ireland it
is presumed that during the recent bad
weather she either foundered or was
carried out of her course and struck
mine in the seas where the Germans
are known to have laid them"
The sudden stiffening of the Austrian
front at the eleventh hour checking the
Russian invasion of Hungary which
was planned following the occupation
of Bukowina was the event of chief
military importance. The Russian
movement on the east and west Prus-
sian frontiers seem to excite no fear
on the part of Germany which insists
there is no danger of new advances in
to her territory.
There was no news from the western
front The newspapers give it scant
attention featuring the naval action OF
which there are yet no details. Ruma-
MIA meanwhile has not decided whether
to ioin the war but it is evident things
are simmering in the Balkans and sud-
den action is expected. The Swedish
press is showing renewed irritation at
the British contraband policy and some
Stockholm papers suggest reprisals by
forbidding transportation of goods des-
tined for Great Britain over the Swed-
ish railways.
An Athens dispatch says the Serbian
army has been reinforced by additional
Cossack troops. A considerable guam
titv of war supplies also has been sent
to Servia from Russia.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Venice says it is reported there from
Trieste that an Austrian cruiser struck
mine near Brioni Islands and sunk
The Brioni Islands are at the mouth OF
the harbor of Bola. Austria's big naval
base and arsenal on the Adriatic.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
DESTROY War Automobiles

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25.-The British
air raid last week on Essen resulted IN
the destruction of 400 war automobiles.
according to a correspondent at Han
defsblad. These cars were IN repair
shop wrecked by British bombs.
The loss of this large shop and its
elaborate equipment, the correspondent
continues, has been a serious blow and
the Germans have been compelled TO
take over a private automobile factory
at AK La Ctappelle, where hundreds
of Dutch workmen have obtained en-
ployment.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
BELIEVE GERMAN MINE
CAUSED THE VIKNOR TO
SINK WITH ALL HANDS
EVIDENCE SECURED
ON MOVIE FILM
SANTA MONICA. Calf. Jan. %.

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Jan. %.
Mrs. Frances Peck, recently ar
rested for turning the hose on mo-
vie actors during q battle scene in
front of her house, was again ar
rested for attacking the same COM
pany with a bucket of muddy wa
ter. y photographer stood his
ground and took a motion picture
of her actions, which he developed
and produced at her trial.
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
WILSON To MOORE: ''HELLO";;
WASHMGT0N-FR|SC0 CHAT

the Panama Pacific exposition in San
Francisco, to President Theodore Vail
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company at Jekyll Island, to
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the
telephone at New York and to Thomas
A. Watson, Bells electrician when the
telephone was invented, at San Fran
cisco.
The president congratulated the var
ious men on their achievements and
gave good wishes to Mr. Moore for the
exposition. He said he heard Moore
at San Francisco very distinctly. Dur
ing the conversation across the country
Bell and Vail Listened in"
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26
SUGGESTS ROUTE FOR
ANOTHER CANAL ON |STHMUS

Nicaragua treaty. the American gov
ernment pointed out whenever the ca
nal was dug, and there was any threat
rights, we would take the matter up
with them; but we told them we would
purchase an opIlon at any time
What Costa Rica complained Of
he added, was that digging this canal
would affect them. If you examine
the treaty with Nicaragua you will
find that reference is made to the use
of Costa Rican land in making the
canal. and | told them that whenever
we had to do anything that affected
(C'ontinued on Papa Ten)
Arizona republican., 1915-01-26


TUCSON, Jan. 25.-Edward W.
White, president of the Tucson Realty
and Trust company, while alone in
the swimming pool of the Y. NJ. c. A.
this afternoon, died of heart disease.
said to have been due to the shock of
getting overheated in the gymnasium
and then plunging into the cold water
White, with five others. attended the
mems noon gymnasium class and grew
overheated playing volley ball. When
the game was over the others went
back to their offices, but White was
seen to go to the pool.
J. NJ. Mcbride secretary of the Tue
son Realty and Trust Co., grew nerv-
Gus at O'Clock at the non-appearance
of White and telephoned Physical Dr.
rector Steepleton asking him if he had
seen White leave the building. Stee-