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The Parker post., 1915-09-04
BATTLESHIP CALIFORNIA;
KEEL TO BE LAID SEPT. 10


NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-The keel of
the battleship California will be laid
in the New York navy yard Sept 10.
The California will be the first fight
ing craft in any navy to be equipped
with electric engines for her own pro-
pulsion, although such engines have
been thoroughly tested in their use by
the collier Jupiter.
Material for the construction of the
California has been accumulated in the
navy yard for several months, and
about twelve million pounds of steel
are ready to be used in the building of
the ship.
In most respects, other than the en-
gines, the California will resemble the
battleship Arizona, but will have ton
mage of $4,000 as compared to the Ari-
zona's 81, 400.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
100000 LUMBER LOSS
SUSTAINED IN STORM

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 31.-Damage
to standing timber of approximately
100000, loss to mills of 100000,
smaller output on account of enforced
idleness of the mills and poor logging
conditions is a result of the recent
hurricane in southeastern Texas, ac-
cording to the "Gulf Coast Lumber
man."
1t is stated that 140,000,O0O feet of
standing timber was destroyed and
that the idleness of the mills has cut
down the output about 45,0OO,OO0 feet
since the storm.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
WASPS CAT HOME" IN
GUN; BARRELS BURST

MANILA, P. l., Aug. 30-The death
or severe injury of several soldiers
recently through the bursting of the
barrels of their rifles has been solved.
1t was at first thought that the am
munition had been tampered with, but
at general inspection held at Fort
Lawton this morning eighteen rifles
were found to be clogged with mud
Investigation showed that wasps, at
tracted by the odor of coco oil used to
clean the rifles, had built their mud CO.
coons and deposited their eggs in the
bodies of moths enclosed therein.
Coco oil is now under the ban.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
DEMANDS OF WAR EXPAND
EXPORTS, REDUCE IMPORTS
U. S. NOW HAS GREATEST SUPPLY
OF GOLD IN HISTORY
Per Capita Wealth of California Is
$3,113-Tourists Are Staying at
Home This Year Instead
of Visiting Europe

LOS ANGELES, Aug. Blowing to
the demands of the war, our exports
have expanded at the rate of over
$600,000,000 in six months, and our i'm
ports have been reduced by over a
hundred million dollars. Tourists,
who formerly spent about 100000, 900
year on trips to Europe, are staying
at home and keeping their money here.
Our favorable balance of trade is al
ready at the billion-dollars mark. And
all this means the piling up of gold in
American vaults. The United States
now has the greatest supply of gold in
it's history, over two billion dollars,
and that amount is being increased
steadily as treasure ships arrive at
American ports from foreign nations
that are investing their capital along
the lines of destruction.
The vast additions to this nations
wealth must be invested, not boarded.
Money must be kept at work, whether
it be the millions stored by the war
munitions factory or the hundred dol
lars saved from his salary by the de-
partment store clerk.
Southern California is outside the
zone of trade activity resulting from
the war, and any district so situated
as not to be beneficiary of the con-
fagration abroad is necessarily more
or less a sufferer from it.
But our troubles here are slight
cvompared with those of the rest of
the world at war We have rallied in
year to a degree that Europe will
scarcely equal in a half century after
peace has been declared
Business conditions here are un-
doubtedly not up to what we have
been accustomed to, but it is possible
that we have been slightly spoiled by
the degree of prosperity heretofore en-
joyed.
The fact is that California is very
rich state. The latest available Off
cial statistics show that the per cap
ita wealth is $3,113.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-That it
is financially profitable to- spray citrus
trees in order to rid the fruit of the
citrus thrips is the conclusion reached
by the United States department of
agriculture after an investigation into
conditions in the orange groves of
Southern California and Arizona.
The citrus thrips is a minute orange
yellow insect which sucks juices from
the leaves, the rind and the stems of
citrus fruits much as the mosquito
draws blood from human beings.
Young trees in nurseries are lbighted
and rendered unsightly, and the fruit
itself is reduced in size and it's at
tractive appearance impaired. Since
the eating qualities are not injured,
however, it has been argued that the
control of the pest is more costly than
the damage it does.
Three Grades of Fruit
At the present time many Califor-
MIA packing houses divide their or
anges into three grades, although in
some cases no distinction is made be-
tween the first two. AS far as injury
from thrips is concerned, it has been
calculated that "a per cent of the fruit
is first grade, 43 per cent second, and
% per cent third. First-grade fruit av-
erages 81 cents more box than Sec
ond, and second % cents more than
third. Where only two grades are
shipped there is an average difference
of 81 cents box between the two.
With these differences in prices,
spraying will raise the grade of suffi-
cient number of boxes to return a
handsome profit on the investment.
In order to demonstrate this, the
bulletin takes an acre of eighteen
year-old navel oranges as a basis for
calculation. The total cost, including
labor, Of three applications of lime
sulphur is found to be $14.09. With a
yield per acre of 324 boxes of fruit,
spraying should raise fifty-eight boxes,
or Is per cent, from the second to the
first grade-only two grades being
now considered The difference in
price between the two grades being
81 cents, this means increased re-
ceipts of $29.58, or net profit per acre
from spraying of $15.49.
Sulphur Is Good
The application at high pressure of
contact insecticides, preferably con-
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
WAR COSTS GERMANS
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

BERLIN (via Amsterdam and Lon
dom, Aug. 30.-Dr. Karl Helfferich,
secretary of the German imperial
treasury, speaking in the reichstag on
the second reading of the war loan of
$4,000, 100000, said:
Until now twenty billion marks
have been voted, and our estimates of
war needs still are exceeded by real
expenditures. The expenditure in one
month is higher by one-third than the
total expenditure for the war of 1870,
but every German knows that the sac
rifices will not be in vain.
The heavy burden of thousands of
millions will be borne through decades
by the instigators of the war, and not
by u.s."
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
STOCKHOLM HIT BY
SHORTAGE OF MEAT

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30.-The short
age of meat in Sweden, caused by the
large exports of the past twelve
months to Germany, is beginning to be
seriously felt here, and retail meat
dealers have petitioned the govern
ment to forbid further exports.
During the first three months of
1915 the country's expectations of cat
tie were three times as heavy as a
year ago, and there was similar in
crease in the exports of dressed meat.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
NAVY PLANS MORE
ACCURATE GUN FIRE

WASHINGTON Aug. 31.-Main bat
teries of American battleships here
after will be given an elevation of 80
degrees, practically doubling the pres
ent angle of fire, according to a de-
c1slon reached by the navy department
experts, it is said, after close study of
all available information on naval en-
gagements of the European war. The
change will materially alter the range
of the navy's fourteen-inch gnus and
make gunfire more accurate in rough
weather.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
FLOWING Well off Lono Beach

LONG BEACH, Aug. 31.-News of a
sub-sea well that is spouting fresh
water in the ocean at a point about
two and one-half miles off the entrance
to Long Beach harbor was contained
in story told here today by Capt.
William Graves of the launch Tourist.
Graves says the place is favorite
spawning ground for fish, and that a
line with 800 baited hooks let down in
this spot was so heavily loaded with
fish that in attempting to draw it UP
the line was broken. Only one fish, a
fifty-pound sea bass, was brought to
the surface.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
22.345 Bay District Population

SANTA MONICA, Aug. 31.-The reg
istered voters in Santa Monica number
5,49O, and in Venice 3,448, according
to figures from the registrars Office.
On the regularly accepted ratio of two
to five, the population of Santa Monica
would be 1925, and that of Venice
$500.
This would make a total of 22,345
for the bay district, exclusive of Saw
telle and outlying districts.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Iaps to Build Liners

SEATTLE, Aug. 31.-Orders for six
12,000-ton steamers have been placed
by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha with an
iron works concern in Osaka, Japan,
according to officers of the japanese
liner Panama Maru, which arrived
here from ports in the Orient. Some
of these ships, the officers explained.
will be used in the transpacific service
after subsidies have been arranged
The vessels are to be 425 feet long and
56.6 feet BEAM
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Edison Improves Submarines

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-Thomas A.
Edison's new invention, nickel bat
teries for submarines, is being in
stalled on board the submarine XII.
The new batteries are expected to pre-
vent the escape of chlorine gas and to
make United States submarines the
safest and most effective in the world.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
CHOLERA BREAKS OUT
IN GERMAN DISTRICTS

MADRID, Aug. 30.-According to an
official announcement, cholera has
broken out in Germany in the districts
of Oppeln, Wiesbaden, Breslau, Silesia,
Berlin and Frankfurt.
Riga and Petrograd also are affict-
ed, it is reported.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Water as AutomobiIe FueI

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-That wa
ter can be used as fuel for an internal
combustion engine is the claim made
by George Moriarity, "a Washington
boy, who has been working on this
scheme several years. Moriarity says
he has discovered that with few
slight changes he can operate gaso-
line motor with water at cost of less
than LIZ cents per gallon.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
License Tax Refunded

SACRAMENTO Aug. 31.-The state
board of control has been engaged in
refunding corporation license taxes
enormously collected by the state.
More than $23O,O0O thus collected is be-
ing paid back.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
New Ship Line Formed

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 30.-A message
from Hamburg states that the "Swe-
den-American line'' is being formed to
create passenger steamship line be-
tween New York and Sweden harbors,
employing mostly German ships which
are now idle in American ports.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Submarines to Drill

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31.-The reserve
division of torpedo boats, Stewart,
Hull, Hopkins and Lawrence, the sub
marines HI, H-2 and H-3 and monitor
Cheyenne will go to Los Angeles about
September to engage in torpedo prac-
tice on the drill grounds off Los An
geles harbor.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Report for Military Training

TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 31.-Ninety
business and professional men, includ-
ing one. minister and half dozen capi-
talists, have reported to the camp of
instruction for business men in COM
mand of Col. R. H. Wilson, Fourteenth
Infantry, U. S. A., at Cosgrove, Ameri-
can Lake.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
100000 Men for Field

LONDON, Aug. 30 A dispatch
from Rome to the Daily Telegraph says
the Balkan league is to be reconstruct
ed, with provision for putting a COM
bined army of 100000 men in the
field.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Lumber Leads in California

SACRAMENTO Aug. 31.-Lumber-
ing and logging, with an annual output
of $45,000,0O0, leads California's indus
tries, according to a report by George
Robertson of the state board of agri-
culture.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Fire Destroys Washington Town

MOCLIPS BEACH, Wash, Aug. 81.
Fire of an unknown cause at 2:15
this morning swept away a large part
of this town. The Leland hotel, Nc
Cannon hotel, postofice, beach pavil-
ion and four cottages were destroyed.
Gertz & Sons store and one cottage
were damaged. Occupants of some of
the buildings had narrow escapes.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Shells Ordered

I LAPORTE, Ind, Aug. 31.-The Rum
ley company, manufacturers of agri-
cultural implements, has accepted a
$750,000 order for shells from one Of
the allies, understood to be Italy.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
To Take Over Railway Stock

COLOGNE, Aug. 3O.-According to
the Cologne Gazette, the railways of
Roumania have received orders to
place all rolling stock at the disposi-
tion of the minister of war on Sept. Ia.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Charlton Trial Oct. 5

COMO, Italy, Aug. 30.-The trial of
Porter Charlton, the young American
charged with the murder of his beau
tiful wife, formerly Mary Scott of San
Jose, CAL, will open here Oct. 5.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
COAST HAPPENINGS
M|RRORED HERE
BRIEF OUTLINE OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Condensed Resume Of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
Places Twin Allow Rapid Scanning
Record Olive Crop

REDLANDS, Aug. 31.-One of the
largest crops Of olives on record will
be harvested in the valley about the
first of November.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
TELEGRAPH|C NEWS
IN PARAGRAPHS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HEhISPHERES
Dispatches Petming Developments From tie Out.
side World Stripped Of Unnecessary
Details and Presented In Brief
Forest Fires

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 3t.-For
250 miles along the coast hangs a
heavy pail of smoke from forest fires
which the fire fighters have failed to
check
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Neutrality Proclaimed

WASHINGTON Aug. 30.-President
Wilson recently issued a proclamation
of neutrality as between Italy and Tur-
key. The proclamation was similar to
others which have been issued as vari-
Gus European powers have declared
war;
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
ADDS 100 FACTORIES
TO MUNITIONS PLANTS

LONDON, Aug. 3O.-David Lloyd
George, minister of munitions, an
nounces that his department has taken
over 100 more establishments for the
production of war munitions.
The Parker post., 1915-09-04
Alaska SchooIhouse Order

WASHING TON, Aug. 31.-The
treasury department authorized the
construction of government school
house at Anchorage, Alaska, to cost
$4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-12

[United Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, May 12.-Within a
few days-possibly within forty-eiSht
Wilson will ask Ger
many to explain the sinking Of the
L,lsitania with the loss Of 115 Ameri-
can lives. He will ask also some as
surance that the incident will not be
repeated. He will make no threats,
it was said, but will stand firm In his
insistence that no unarmed merchant
vessel carrying non-combatants be at
tackled in the future without first be-
ing visited and searched, according 10
the rules of international law. The
Gulfight and Cushing incidents ana
the death of an American through the
torpedoing of the English liner Fat
aDa, all will be brought to the Berlin
governments attention. They will be
massed as collective evidence In sup
port Of the complaint Of German dis
regard for American lives and prop
,erty In the recent activities Of sub
marine and aircraft around the Brit
ish isles. Upon the manner in which
Germany receives this commun1ca-
ton, it was admitted, subsequent de-
velopments will largely depend.
That Berlin has receded somewhat
from her early policy Of drastic action
In the war zone," was indicated by
the circular transmitted to the state
department by Ambassador Gerard
Tuesday, promising strict compliance
with the rules Of warfare in dealing
with neutral vessels suspected OF
carrying contraband.
Negotiations 1t is considered GER
tain will continue, possibly for several
weeks, unless the German government
should refuse all that the president
asks in its entirety, an event which
its attitude as indicated by the latest
note was thought to render unlikely.
The suggestion that the United
States sever diplomatic relations with
Germany If Berlin refused to heed our
protests. was considered at the cab
met meeting yesterday. according to
one report.
Secretaries Bryan and Garrison and
Postmaster General Burleson, it was
reported, did not at first approve the
suggestion that diplomatic relations
be severed as a final rebuke to Ger
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-12

limited Press Leased Wire Service1
NEW YORK, May IL III a. M
About three weeks have passed since
the British army. under General Ham
ilton. landed on the Gallipoi peninsu-
la. During that time little progress
has been made in the effort to cap
ture the Dardanelles Notifications
from the rear and England Is being
warned the work will be long and
tedious.
1t is probable the allies once more
have under-estimated the power OF
their opponents. The attempt to
force the Dardenelles showed the ad-
miralties at London and Paris had
not rightly judged the defensive pow
er of the Turkish forts; and now 1t
is beginning to appear as If the war
of France and England
have been similarly remiss. Coinci-
IDENTIFY with the beginning of the Gal
lipoli campaign, a large British force.
estimated at between 10000 and 30
900 men, was thrown ashore at Enos.
the nearest point to Adrianople. on
the Gulf OF SaroS. This army seems
to have been swallowed up. Its dis
appearance from the news Of the Le-
yatine operations, is complete. 1T
cannot have met with any success. or
the British government, desirous of
giving Englishmen all possible en-
couragement, would not have failed
to announce the fact. Nor can the
Turks have inflicted crushing de-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-12
CONTINUED on page 2.)
RUSSIA

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
PETROGRAD, May 12.-Admitting
a gradual retreat and very heavy
losses to their own forces, the Russian
war office today declared that the
losses Of the Germans already are
overwhelming. For nine days the war
office says 4 general frontal assault
on fortified positions has been main-
tained by the Germans and AustrIans.
The enemy has come on in Irresistible
numbers, the report says, and 1t has
been necessary for the Russians grad
uaIiy to retire. In the movement the
Russians have taken all of their can
non, munitions and camp equipment
with them.
Many Russian prisoners taken by
the Germans are said to have been
for the most part wounded, who were
unable to follow the gradual Russian
retreat. The Russian lines in Ga!icIa
are now said to be holding new posi-
tons and checking the German ad-
vance.
In the Baltic provinces, the Ger
mana are now reported to be slowly
retreating, the Russian forces there
having been heavily reinforced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-12
What the War Moves Mean
By J. w. T. Mason, Former European Man
aeer of the United Press.

feat on the invaders and now be keep
ing the matter secret. 1t is more
probable that the force at Enos is
stuck in it's trenches and a deadlock
has resulted which gives neither bel
ligerent an opportunity to make Off
cial announcements.
The E'nos expedition ia therefore
in all probability too weak to exert
any influence on the campaign
against Constantinople
1t is known that the French force
sent to dominate the Asiatic coast of
the Dardanelles was unable even to
hold It's landing point and was driven
back to the anchored transports. Thus
worse prepared for serious resistance
than the English, since the British
troops at least have held tenaciousiy
to their shore lines.
At the very beginning Of the land
operations against Constantinople, it
was pointed out that the greatest
danger to the allies was the possi.
bility that the Turks would be held
in contempt as fighting force. This
blunder now seems to have been COM
mitted. After delaying the move
ment of troops to the 1evant a suffi-
cient time to permit the Turks to pre-
pare elaborate entrenchments. the
allies now seem reluctant to spare
enough men from the west to ensure
Constantinopie's downfall. Luck is
peing trusted TO do the work of eff
cheney.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-12
RANCE
[By William Philip SImms, United
Press Staff Correspondent.

EBy William Philip SImms, United
Press Staff correspondent.l
PARIS, May 12.-German troops In
strong force, by series Of night at
tacks, succeeded in re-taklns a part
Of the trenches before loos,
which were carried by the
French yesterday, according to to-
days official communique. This, how
ever, was the only point where the
French have not either maintained
tho territory taken In yesterdays
fighting or made additional slight
gains.
The French are continuing today
their efforts to break through the Ge :
man lines between Lens and Ar
Already material progress has
made, the French holding the first aS
second lines Of German trenches and
having been able. to bring up addition
al artillery to break down the en-
tanglements which prevent the carry.
ing Of the enemy's lines by storm. The
Germans have been rushing reinforce
ments from their positions north OF
Lens. They have been unable to
check the general French offensive
which is being maintained with the
utmost enthusiasm.
Advices received here today show
that all along the battle line from a
point just west Of Rheims the French
are on the offensive. Because OF the
nature of the ground and almost i'm
pregnabIe positions held by the enc
my, progress must Of necessity be BY
inches and feet rather than by yards.
And at every point the artillery must
break way for the infantry who are
held, chatting In the trenches, until a
pathway can be made In the barri-
cades.
Up to the present, the Germans
seem to have reserved their asPhyxiat-
ing gases for use against the British,
French and Eeieians In the battle
line between the Belgian frontier and
the North sea. No attempt has been
made to use Il against the French
Hires inside ef France or even In the
Vosges operations.
From Rheims to the Vosses, there
have been only artillery dueIs for the
last few days, but reports indicate
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-12
AI7TO TIRE FACTORY LOCATES HERE
BELGIUM

[United Press Leased Wire service1
NEW YORK, May 12.-"Murder,
lust and pilage on a scale unparaflei-
ed In any war between civilized ma
tions during the last three centuries
are alleged against Germany IN con-
nection with her operations In Bel
slurn In the report Of tho British gov
ernment commission, headed by For
mer Ambassador James Bryce, which
wac put on sale by Macmillan q Coz
today. Tho document, an extremely
lengthy ono, rehearses again the vari-
Gus atrocities cited by the Beteian
commission and then explains In do.
tail the proof furnished tho commits
sion which convinced It that the
charges are true. Many OF the out
RACES are declared &c have been due
to drunkenness on the part OF the
soldiers, turned loose without re-
straint of their brutal and bestial ma.
lures and Confusion Of orders, killing
and destruction Of natives attacking
German soldiers. The commission
cites cases where German soldiers
were killed for attacking women.
Summing up it's conclusions, the COM
mission says: 1t has been proven
there have been In many parts OF
tBeIeium, deliberate and systematical'
Iy organized massacres Of the civil
,popuIatlon, accompanied by many iso'
Hated murders and other outrase7.
"That In the conduct Of war gener
ally, innocent civilians, both men and
women, were murdered In large num-
bers, women violated and children
murdered.
"That Iootlng, house burning and
the wanton destruction Of property
were ordered and eountenanced by the
officers Of the German army, that
elaborate provision had been made
for Systematic incendarlsm at the very
outbreak of war and that burning anc
destruction were frequent where ne
military necessity could be alleged
being indeed part Of system G
general terrorization.
"That the rules and usages of wa
were frequently broken, particular.
iby the using Of civilians includin,
women and children as shield fo
advancing forces exposed to fire, to :
less degree by killing wounded an'
prisoners and In the frequent abuse
of Red Cross and the white flag"
Commenting on their conclusions
the commission members say:
"SensibIe as they are of the gravity