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The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
WESTERN.

Brig Gen. William Dougherty, u. S.
A., retired, died at his residence in
Oakland, Cal. He was a native of Ire
land, born in 1841.
Frank Repetto, "the man who never
had "a chance" was hanged at Joliet,
ILL.,, for the murder of Charles Masters,
his cellmate at the penitentiary a year
ago.
Five dead, scores injured and more
than $2,O00,000 worth of property
damaged were the toll of floods
which resulted from torrential rains
throughout central Ohio.
Governor Edward F. Dunno, with his
family and official suite, left Chicago
for the Panama-Pacific exposition at
San Francisco, to be present at the
celebration of Illinois day, July "a.
Funeral services for w. Clyde Spen-
Ger, former Denver cartoonist, who
died in New York city, was held from
the home of the artist in New York
The body of Mr.. Spencer will be
cremated.
Top-hatted reception committees,
policemen, station porters and guards
were swallowed up at San Francisco
in a tumultuous throng which gath
cred to greet the nations Liberty
Bell upon it's arrival from Philadel-
phia.
Ramon Villabolos, one of the five
Mexicans who escaped the gallows
at the last minute, May % last. by
reprieve, opened at Phoenix, Ariz., a
fight to again avoid execution July
80 by appealing to the State Supreme
Court for a new trial
Charles d. Cook, hotel man from
Telluride, Colo, attending the Elks'
reunion at Los Angeles, died from
the effects of poison taken at the
hour set for his wedding to Miss
Elizabeth Wilcox of Bel.flower, a
suburb. Cook, who was about 55
years old, leaves a. stepdaughter, Mrs.
L. G.. Lomax, at Telluride.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24

Some one advised me to take Lydia E.
Pinkham.s Vegetable Compound. I Ihad
taken so much medicine and my doctor
said he could do me no good so l told my
husband he might get me bottle and I
would try it. By the time ! had taken
it felt better. I continued it's use, and
now am we'll and strong.
81 have always recommended your
medicine ever since / was so wonder
fully benefited by it and / hope this
letter will be the means of saving some
other poor woman from suffering. p
Mrs. MARTHA SEAvEY, BOX 1144,
Unionville, Missouri.
The makers Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound have thousands of
such letters as that above - they tell
the truth, else they could not have been
obtained for love or money. This med
icine is no stranger = it has stood the
test for years.
If there are any complications you
do not understand write to Lydia E..
Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfldentiaD
Lynn, Mass. Your letter will he opened,
read and answered by woman and
held in strict confidence.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
FOREIGN.

Fire destroyed the business section
of Valdez, Alaska. The loss was $500
600.
1t is reported at Berne, Switzerland
that the German government will is
sue an order prohibiting the export oi
all German beer
High meat prices threaten to rot
he British isles of their breeding
ST ,ck. Farmers, tempted by the high
prizes offered in the markets, are dis
posing of blooded cattle
Franz Berka, laborer, who
claimed American citizenship, was
shot for high treason at Maprsich-
Ostrau in Austrian Silesia June IA,
according to the London Daily Chron-
icle.
A report on the sales of lots in the
townsite of Anchorage, Cook inlet
headquarters for the Alaska Engineer
ing Commission, up to July Is shows
that $50 lots have been disposed o1
at total of $133,00O.
''Torpedoes fired by submarine oi
German nationality" caused the loss
of the steamship Lusitania and its
passengers, according to the findings
of the court of inquiry at London ap
pointed to investigate the disaster.
The London Financial News dis
plays with great prominence reports
from quarters in close touch with
German sources of information that
Germany is making tentative peace
proposals" through the United States.
The British government faces the
most serious internal trouble since
the beginning of the war. In open de-
fiance of the governments threat to
enforce the war munitions act practi.
cally every coal miner in the South
Wales collieries quit work
The Austrian government has fixed
the following prices of grain unit
the harvest of 1916, per 22O pounds
Wheat "a crowns Ga crown is 241ac);
rye and mailing barley % crowns
other barley and oats 26 crowns
These prices are midway between the
war and the normal ante-war prices
Unemployment having virtually dis
appeared throughout the United King
dom, Edwin Samuel Montagu, finan
cial secretary to the treasury, asked
and was granted leave in the House
of Commons to withdraw the vote oi
$125,000 for work to be carried out
in the relief of the unemployed.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
WASHINGTON.

Austria-Hungary Indictment Of the
methods of warfare of her enemies,
giving scores of instances of "barba-
rous treatment of nationals and pris-
oners and breaches of international
law, was made public in a ''red book
issued by the Austro-Hungarian min
istry for foreign affairs through it's en-
bassy in Washington.
A permit for the free use OF over
eighty-five million feet of timber from
the Chugach national forest to be
used in the construction of the pro-
posed government railroad between
tidewater and the Matanuska coal
field has been granted by the forest
service to the Alaskan Engineering
Commission
With the return to Washington Of
President Wilson, the formulation of
the policy to be pursued by the United
States as a consequence of Germany's
last note on submarine warfare was
begun.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
GENERAL.

The Liberty Bell, Americas chie1
relic of the war for independence, was
installed at San Francisco at the Penn
sylvania pavilion of the Panama-Pa
cific exposition.
The British steamship Howth Head,
on board of which it was feared a
bomb had been placed before she
cleared from New Orleans on July s,
arrived at Norfolk, Va, safely.
Mrs. Grace Bernheimer Guggenheim
who was granted a final divorce in
New York from her husband, M. Rob
\ ert Guggenheim, was married to Nor
ton E. Snellenburg of Philadelphia
The funeral of Archbishop James
Edward Quigley, held in Chicago, was
the most imposing seen there in
many years. In the three days since
the body was taken there from
Rochester, N. Y, where the church
man died, it is estimated that $4,000
persons joined in paying tribute to his
memory.
MIS- w. w. mayo, dSeA W, WluO"
of the late DR.. w. w. Mayo, founder
of the Mayo Clinic ana Surgical Insti
tute, died at the home of her daughter
Mrs. D. X. Berkman in Rochester
MINI. She was married in 1851.
Archbishop James Edward Quigley
left an estate valued at $4,000, it was
revealed at Chicago when his will was
read. The estate consisted of $4,000
in cash and the balance in life in
surance. 1t is understood that the
estate will be equally divided among
the dead prelate's brothers and sis
ters.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
What She Expected.

Look at her." said the ironmonger,
indicating departing customer. "She
sent her wringer here to be repaired.
promised it to her for this week,
provided l could get certain new
part in time from the makers. l
couldn't get it. Now she wants me
to pay a charwoman, who came un-
necessarily, half crown an twopence
for the clothes.i
The ironmonger paused to breathe
heavily.
But that's not ALL Her husband
dimes out on washdays, and as he dined
out on a washday that wasn't wash
day-you understand ?-she says /
ought to pay for his dinner. No, she
doesn't ask anything else. And they
call 'em the weaker sex"-London Tit
Bits.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D JOIN G s, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union NEWS service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

"Rumania has emphatically refused
allow weapons and ammunition to ira
verse Rumania for Turkey"
The Grimsby trawlers Hainton and
Syrian have been sunk by German sub
marines in the North Sea. The crews
of the vessels were landed at Grimsby.
A renewal of desperate fighting in
the West with the crown prince lead
ing the German forces in the Argonne
was reported by both the Paris and
Berlin war offices.
The crews of four Lowestoft trawl
ers-the Woodbine, Purple Healer
Speedwell and Merlin-which were
sunk by a German submarine, have
been landed at Lowestoft, England.
The captain and four members OF
the crew of the Swedish schooner
Daisy were killed when the vessel
was sunk by mine off Floejtans
lighthouse, according to Reuter- dis
patch from Stockholm.
The Cunard liner Orduna, bound
from Liverpool to New York, with 227
passengers, including twenty-five
Americans, was attacked without
warning, it was learned on her arrival
in New York, by German submarine
on the morning of July 9.
Officers casualty list for the week
ending July 5 shows that the British
army lost 254 officers killed, 489
wounded and 33 missing-a total OF
776. Since the beginning of the war
1866 officers have been killed; 1862
wounded and 1,115 are reported as
missing, a total of 12,462.
The London Daily Nails correspon-
dent at British headquarters in France
says: ''The French are arming their
troops with a short knife for use in
trench warfare, thus displacing the
bayonet, which, when fixed in the rifle,
is too long weapon to give a man
free play in the narrow trenches"
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
Life in London.

On the day after the visit of the
German Zeppelins there occurred in
Southwark-so a wireless message
from Berlin asserts-the following con-
verSation:
Betsy whispered Mr.. James, lead
ing his wife into the darkest corner of
the cellar, here is a wallet. You will
find in it all our valuable papers, the
stocks and bonds, my will, my insur-
ance policies, and the lock of baby IS
hair cut off on his first birthday.
Good-by, Betsy. If l fail to return,
bring up our children to be good Eng
lish men and women
"Oh, James, dear, you are not going
on a dangerous journey, are you?"
Yes, dearest. must go up to the
first f1oor.'-New York Evening Post.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
BE KINDER TO YOURSELF
Women Are Often Victims of Nervous
ness Because They Don't Know
How to Relax.

One of the important things to know
in life, especially if you are woman,
is how to let yourself alone, writes
Mary Carolyn Davies in the Mothers
Magazine. The ability to relax, the
art of being judiciously lazy, the tact
to let herself alone has saved many
woman from nervous breakdown.
We all know the housewife who nags
herself into such a state of conscien-
tlousness that she cannot rest. If she
lies down she is continually worrying
herself with thoughts of the work that
she is neglecting
Much of the blame for this state of
affairs lies at the doors of the moth
ers. The mistake is in their training
OF their children, especially their
daughters. They are taught from ear
lest infancy to be kind to others, to
bear with them, to forgive them, to
help them; but from birth to death no
one ever tells them to be kind, also
to themselves.
The woman who nags herself can
make herself more miserable than any
one else possibly could. She can make
her life more of nightmare than any
misfortune could possibly make it, If
such women could learn to be kinder
to themselves there is no doubt that
their own lives would be heightened;
and not only that, but the lives Of
those with whom they come in close
contact would be made far more pleas
ant.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
InsuIted the MaNor.

A company had opened new swim
ming bath in the place, and as com
pliment sent free ticket to the
mayor.
That worthy man was very pleased.
But he began to wonder when anoth-
er ticket arrived.
Sitting down, he wrote to the bath
proprietors as follows:
Gentlemen: Your first ticket re-
ceived as compliment. Your second
strikes me as being rather suggestive.
If you send me third will take it
as a personal insult.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
Health and Excitement.

The sick rate in Russia has de-
creased since the war began. Part of
the ovement-doubtless the great
er parts due to the passing of
vodka, but something must be said for
the curious way in which the human
frame reacts to excitement and de-
velops resistance to disease under the
stimulus of strong interests or emo
tions.
The refugees from San Francisco,
for example, had not been devotees of
vodka, but they showed a wonderful
health record during their period of
enforced open-air life and short COM
mons.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
He Would Nor corrupt lin.

Edmund had just begun to attend
the public school, and had found new
friend, child of whom Edmund's
mother had never heard. who Is
this Walter?" she asked. rs he a
nice little boy?"
"Yes, maam he isl" replied Ed.
mund, enthusiastically. %
Does he say any naughty words?"
pursued his mother.
NO." with emphasis, "and I'm not
going to teach him any!"-Youth's
Companion.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
SPORT.

Manager Josh Clark of the Sioux
City Western League team resigned
The opening of the thirty-day run
ming horse meeting on the Panama
Pacific exposition track has been post
poned from Aug. 21 to Aug. %.
Frank Hall, Colorado College track
captain for 1915 and winner of Sec
ond place in the marathon in Denver
May 80, left for San Francisco, where
he will compete in the Far West mara
thon at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton.
Forging to the front with a cruel.
ling, relentless burst of speed in the
closing stretch, Sam" Stevens was
the free-for-an and amateur speed
division of the big Denver-to- Cheyenne
road race.
Joe Woodman's Boston tar baby
Sam Langford, disposed of, Jack Kan
ner's black hope, Jack Thompson, in
the first round of a scheduled fifteen
round bout before the National Ath-
letic Club in Denver. thirty seconds
after the gong rang.
Miss Edna Belle Rooney who, al
though but 16 years old, was widely
known as horsewoman, holder of the
worlds championship for relay riding
in 1910, and sought as a rider at the
Frontier Days celebration, died at St.
Joseph's hospital in Denver from com
plications following pneumonia. She
was the daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Otis
Rooney ef Morrison.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
CARE FOR cHlLDREN's
Hair and Skin With Cuticura. Moth
ing Easier. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify the
skin and scalp, the Ointment to
soothe and heal rashes, itchings, red.
ness, roughness, dandruff, etc. Moth
ing better than these fragrant super
creamy emollients for preserving and
purifying the skin, scalp and hair
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept Ky.
Boston Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
A Greater Surprise,

Where are you goin', map asked
the youngest of five children.
I'm going to a surprise party my
DEAR" answered the mother.
| Are we all goin', too?"
"No, dear; you weren't invited"
After few moments deep thought:
Say, ma, then don't you think
they'd be lots more surprised if you
did take us all?"
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
THOUGHT SHE
COULD NOT LIVE
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Unionville, Mo- / suffered from q
female trouble and got so weak that

could hardly W a ! k
across the floor with
out b oldin G on to
something. I had
nervous spells and
my fingers W ould
.cramp and my face
would draw, and /
could not speak, nor
sleep to do any good,
had no appetite, and
everyone thought I
would mt 1ivo
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
Revised.

"Is that futurist music you're play
ing?' inquired hubby as his wife
pumped the pianola.
''No, dear; it's Home, Sweet Home
but / think Bobby has been using 1t
as target for his air rifle"
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
Sure Thinu.

Hostess-Sh! that's my neighbor' s
dog. Be careful what you say about
that woman.
Fair Guest-Why that's silly. Dogs
can't understand
Hostess-No, but they carry tails
Philadelphia Record
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
Raw Material.

did you hear about Scribbler?
The police caught him walking out
of a hotel writing room with about ten
dollars worth of the hotel stationery
under his coat"
What did he have to say for him
self?'
"Said he was gathering material for
a novel;"
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24

The more prominent the man, the
more likely the doctors are to dag
nose his old age as rheumatism.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24
Cold Feet.

Are you cool in time of danger?"
Perfectly, but at the wrong end"
Houston Post.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24

Makes the laundress happy-that's Red
Cross Bag Blue Makes beautiful, clear
white clothes. All good grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1915-07-24

Lips are seldom as red as they are
painted.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-10-08
DODd CROSSES DfATn VAllN
Detroit Car Completes Peri1eas Trip
Without MishAp.

A recent issue OF Motor West, the
Pacific coast motor car publication,
contains q story Of conqueEing the
western deserts, particularly Death
Valley, with an automobile.
The trip, which embraced 1000
miles, was not planned rs q car test,
but the party. headed by o. K. Parker,
an engineer, was prospecting for
molybdenite, rare ore used in steel
refining.
The car used was a stock Dodge
Brothers touring car and was nick
named Death Valley Dodge"
Motor West says: 1913
mot only did the Death Valley
Dodge party dare death In most aw-
full forms but they covered region
generally considered outside the pale
of the motor car.
"The topography consists of noun
tain ranges with desert valleys, or
sinks, between the mountains, these
sinks being separated by uplifts of
volcanic origin. The region is the
most desolate and barren in America,
and there are no roads but the trails
of the occasional prospector."
The article here DESCRIBES the trip
across the Mojave deserSDGnd the ap-
proach to Death Valley by way of
Wildrose canyon.
Continuing it says:
"WildrOse canyon grades, are so
steep that they seem almost impos-
sible for an automobile in fact, it
Is right there that many Of the cars
which have essayed the trip have
come to grief, and perhaps this is as
well, for il they cannot negotiate
Wildrose canyon they could not live
through the greater strain to come
in the fight with the sand dunes of
DeAth Valley.
"The Parker party found even
worse conditions than those that led
to the death of Pete Bush, who fell a
victim to the desert last year when
his water gave out miles from a
supply. The winter storms had piled
up the boulders and gravel in Emf
grant canyon until the way seemed
impossible for a burro. However,
they fought their way through, only
to find that when Death Valley was
reached that the whole flat had been
swept with fierce winds until the
sand dunes were veritable sea OF
sandy waves.
ut Vas 24-hour struggle, where
their &1R hinged on the staunchness
OF thtNf. Suffice 1t to say that they
won, With never a break nor even 9
falter in the flight across Death Val.
ley and up the malapi slopes Of tht
Funeral range to Daylight Springs
and an altitude of 4.307 feet.
"The return trip was without in
cident- There were no mishaps ant
no motor troubles, and the closing
run of 407 miles was made in two
days."
The article relates that the part,
was successful in finding traces o
the precious molybdenite ore sough
and that another expedition will b.
fitted out to more thoroughly pros
pect for the mineral.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-10-08
HARVEST DRY FARM CROP
American Falls VIII Ship Million and
Half Bushels of Wheat.

J. M. Bardley, lecturer for the agri
cultural extension department OF the
University of Idaho, and who has trav-
eled the state over within the past
few months, published an article re-
Gently on the dry farm products of the
Snake river valley from Ashton on
the north and east to Weiser on the
south and west, in which he told of
the great production of the state this
year, and that the man who came to
Idaho as many as seven years ago and
stuck" on either dry farm orr an
irrigated farm, is the man who Is MAX
ing good and will make good
The wonderful demand and the
great development of the dry farm Sec
tons during the past six or seven
years and the hundreds of thousands
of acres which have been brought un-
der cultivation is responsible for the
lack of demand for land in the irrigat-
ed sections.
The land in the irrigated sections is
just as good and even better than it
was seven years ago, but farmers and
ranchers beginning to realize the Won
derful possibilities and the opportuni-
ties of the dry farm lands took up that
method of farming and as a result
the demand for irrigated lands at high
prices fell off.
The irrigated lands have come
back" however, and now as the best
sections of dry farm lands anywhere
near close in have been taken up the
aterest in irrigated lands is again In
evidence.
American Falls, which has earned
the distinction of being the second
place In the world in point Of impor-
lance for the shipping Of wheat, will
ship one and one-half million bushels
this season
The dry farm crop the full length
'sof the valley OF the Snake river
through Idaho and for miles on either
side Of the bench lands is producing Z
crop of grain which In itself alone will
make Idaho wealthy. Idaho Falls
Register.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-10-08

EWES FOR SALE

1000 good age, good mouth
ewes. bred to Hampshire bucks
for February Landing. H. r.
West, Kimberly.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-11
PROFITS ON LABOR

PROFITS ON LABOR Socialists
have always contended that the en-
ploying class was rObbing the work
ing class through the present unfair
ness of the profit system, and that if
the workers received the full profit
Of his labor he could live in COMPARE
tive luxury.
With a few of the facts of the
Ford plan" before us let us see if
these contentious are wrong.
The Ford plant is capitalized at
100000. The profits for 1918
were $2O,00O,OOO. Ford's intention
was to distribute in 1914 one-half Of
this profit, or $1O,OOO,OOO, with his
help in the way of increased wages,
but instead Of $1O,0O0,O00 he dis
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-11

see If his pen hasn't acted without
the sanction of his common sense.
The two statements he makes are for
the sake of argument, true. Does
that prove that the K. C.'s are all of
that caliber?
Maybe Mr.. Hall thinks that the K.
C.'s uphold a member who commits
murder. They do most emphaticaIly
NOT.
Murder is a crime, probably the
most heinoUs Of all crimes and must
take the course Of the law.
A knight who commits murder is
no better than any other common
murderer and, as such, we do not up
hold him. The name mentioned as
being an apt one for this order is a
foul SANDER, a monstrous fabrica-
ton and diaboicaI falsehood.
Do we condemn the Masonic order
because one Of its members commits
murder? Do we condemn another
denomination because one of its min
listers falls. For instance, ]. MorTi-
son DarnelL.
Now I give Mr.. Hall credit for be-
ing a gentleman and a broad-minded
one at that. I feel that what 1 have
said should be convincing enough
for any right-thinking citizen. If the
gentleman wishes further proof can
give it to him singly or in volumes,
just as he desires.-Phillip P. Bey-
han, 61s S. DespIaines St
PROFITS ON LABOR Socialists
have aluavS commanded that the en-