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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
A SPY SCARE IN NORTHWEST
Big Coast Defense Guns at Forts Wor.
den and FIaoIer on Puget
Sound Damaged.

Port Townsend Wash, June q
An attempt to injure the big guns at
Fort Worden and Fort Flagler, guard
ing the entrance to Puget Sound, was
made several days ago, it became
known yesterday, and as a result all
visitors have been barred from the
forts in this district. 1t is reported
that breechblocks Of four guns were
removed and the loading mechanism
damaged.
The discovery followed a report that
Fort Worden had been photographed
in detail by persons who surreptitious-
ly had entered the grounds. The pho
tographs gave the relative locations
of the big guns and the hidden bat
teries Up to the time of these dis
coveries motor cars with sightseers
were permitted o risit the elevations
where the batteries are located, but
new orders have been issued forbid
ding any person to visit the batteries
without a special permit from the
commanding officer and those who re-
ceive them must be accompanied by
a guard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
Head of Each Faction Notified
that Condition of Anarchy
Must Cease at Once.
STABLE GOVERNMENT NEEDED
United States Ready to Support Man
Who Can Unite Factions-Inter-
vention Is Possible.

Washington, June 3.-All factions in
Mexico were publicly called upon by
President Wilson today in the name
of the United States government to
accommodate their differences" and
set up a government that can be ac-
corded recognition.
Failure to unite in a movement to
bring peace to Mexico within a very
short time" it was announced in a
statement telegraphed to Generals
Villa, CarranZa, Zapata and others,
would constrain the United States to
decide what means should be employ
ed in order to save the people of the
southern republic from further devas-
tations of internal warfare.
Everywhere-in official and diplo-
matte quarters and among Mexicans
of varied leaning-the statement was
interpreted as meaning that the
United States would bring pressure to
bear to unite the factions in the choice
of a provisional president, and failing
to bring all elements together would
give its active support to those ele-
ments which did agree Intervention
was considered as a possible ultimate
development, but only if a hopeless
condition of anarchy followed with no
remedy from within the republic.
After going over the affairs of Next
co for the past few years the president
concludes his statement as follows:
1T is time, therefore, that the gov
eminent of the United States should
frankly state the policy which, in
these extraordinary circumstances it
becomes its duty to adopt. 1t must
presently do what it has not hitherto
done or felt at liberty to do, lend its
active moral support to some man or
group of men, if such may be found,
who can rally the suffering people of
Mexico to their support in an effort to
ignore, if they cannot unite, the war
ring factions of the country, return to
the constitution of the republic so long
in allegiance and set up a government
at Mexico City which the great pow
ers of the world can recognize and
deal with, a government with which
the program of the revolution will be
a business and not merely a platform
1, therefore. publicly and very sol
EMMY call upon the leaders of fac
and to act promptly for the relief and
redemption of their PROSTATE country.
l feel it to be my duty to tell them
that, if they cannot accommodate their
differences and unite for this great
purpose within a very short time this
government will be constrained to de-
eide what means should be employed
by the United States in order to help
Mexico save herself and serve her
people,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
AvIAToRs. FOR WAR SERVICE
A National Reserve Corps Organized
In New York to Prepare for
Emergencies.

New York, May z9.-Fornations of
national reserve corps OF volunteer
aviators for war service is the purpose
of the Aero-Military Service Fe6era-
tion of America, organization of which
was announced here today August
Belmont has been elected president
general and Mortimer Delano Of this
city deputy president general.
Mr.. Delano, in announcing the pur-
pose of the federation, said It was pro-
posed to establish district bases in
New York, Richmond. Chicago, st.
Louis and San Francisco. Aero squad
ron centers are to be in Boston, New
Haven, Albany. n. Y; Buffalo, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chica-
go, Detroit. St Paul, Minneapolis, ST.
Louis. Richmond, Savannah. New Or
leans, Austin, Denver. Kansas City,
Louisville, Omaha, Salt Lake City. Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Portland.
Ore 1t is also intended to establish
fifteen hundred landing stations
throughout the country
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
NAMES ON WORKS OF ART
Men of Genius Have Not Always
Signed Productions That viii
Live Forever

1t appears that many of the works
of the old masters are not signed.
Experts rarely rely on signatures
alone in determining the authenticity
of an old work, but trust rather to
their knowledge of the painters
technic. says the Philadelphia Rec
ord
False signatures can be easily de-
tected- Spirits of wine or turpentine
VIII usually remove a name of later
date than the painting. In the course
of time signatures often become very
difficult to find. Painted originally in
shade slightly lighter than the
ground, perhaps. they sink in, dark
en-, and merge into the ground color
or they are almost rubbed away by
successive cleanings. Recognizable
one day in specially favorable light,
they may not be visible again for
weeks.
Experts speak of "will-o'the-wisp'
signatures. and many collectors have
encountered accidental strokes and
cracks that tantalizingly suggest a
signature. though it can never be
made definite On the other hand.
there have been remarkable cases of
such marks, after careful study. re-
solving themselves into a famous
name.
Sometimes the painters name is
most conspicous. as, for example, in
Raphaers "Sposalizio'' at Milan
Proud OF having surpassed his mas
ter, the youthful genius wrote on a
frieze in the very center of the can
vas, Raphael Urbinas-"
Reynolds hardly ever signed his
work. But upon the completion of
the portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the
Tragic Muse."he wrote his name large
on the gold embroidery of her dress
He was unable, he said. to resist
the temptation of sending my name
to posterity on the hem OF your gar
ment-''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
NATIONS EYES TO THE FRONT
President Wilson's Memorial Day ADJ
dress stirs Veterans at Arlington
Looking Backward Fruitiess.

Washington, June 1.-Eulogies of
Americas soldier and sailor dead we're
voiced here yesterday by President
Wilson, Secretary Bryan, Secretary
Daniels and Governor Willis of Ohio,
at impressive Memorial Day exercises
IN Arlington National cemetery.
President Wilson avoided carefully
any direct reference to problems now
facing the United States. He was APP
plauded when he declared greater
days lie before this Nation than it has
ever yet seen, and the solemn con-
seriousness of those who bear Office in
this time is that they must make their
best endeayor to embody in what they
do. and say the best things in the
United States" The President said
in part:
Il have not come here today TO de-
liver an address, but merely reverent-
ly to take part in expressing the sem
timent of this impressive day. 1t is
necessarily a day of "reminiscences.
"Reminiscences is not always a profit
able exercise 1t generally belongs to
those, appropriately to those only, who
have left the active stage of life and
have nothing to think about except the
things that are gone and dead.
1t does not behoove a nation to
walk with its eyes over its shoulders.
Its business is constantly in the years
that lie ahead of it, and in the pres
emit, that challenges it to the display
of its power. But there are reminis-
censes which are stimulating and
wholesome, and among those reminis-
censes are chiefly to be ranked the
recollections of days of heroism, days
when great nations found it possible
to express the best that was in them
by the ardent exercise of every power
that was in them.
That is what gives dignity to a day
like this. 1t is not q day of regret;
it is not day of weakening memory.
1t is a day of stimulation. But, my
| friends, these stimulating memories
we are sometimes apt to minimize be-
cause we do not see the full signif-
canoe of them. We are constantly
| speaking of the great war of which we
| think today as war which saved the
| Union, but it was a war that did a
| great deal more than that. 1t created
in this country what had never existed
! before-a national consciousness. 1t
was not the salvation of the Union .
| it was the rebirth of the Union. 1t
| was the time when America, for the
! first time, realized It's unity and saw
| the vision of its. united destiny"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
BERNST0RFF SEES WILSON
President and German Ambassador
Discuss Situation in Blue Room
at White House.

Washington, June 3.-Count Bern
storff, the German ambassador, had
an audience with President Wilson
today at noon. The President re-
ceived the ambassador in the historic
Blue Room of the White House.
The President and the ambassador
sat on the davenport in the parlor
overlooking the Potomac and had a
halfhour talk Inasmuch as the con-
ference was of an informal character,
no announcement concerning it was
expected to be made.
1t was understood, however, that the
object of the ambassadors call was
to gain from the President an idea of
the points in the last American note,
which the United States is determ-
ined to insist upon, and to give the
President an idea of the German view
point.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
WIFE PLEADED FOR LEO FRANK
Condemned Man Did Not Go Before
Georgia Prison Commission to
Ask for Mercy.

Atlanta, Ga, June 1.-The hearing
of Leo NJ. Franks application for COM
mutation of sentence from death to
life Imprisonment, which began before
the state prison commission here this
morning, was completed late today 1t
is expected the commissions recon-
mendation will be transmitted within
ten days to the governor, who then
will take final action in the case. No
one appeared to argue in opposition
to Franks application.
The principal features of today's
proceedings were a letter written a
few months before his death by Judge
l. S. Roam, who presided at Franks
trial, in which he sought clemency for
the prisoner, and a statement by Mrs.
Frank describing her husbands ac-
tons on the night following Mary Pha-
gan's murder and denying rumors of
an arrangement between herself and
Frank.
Judge Roam in his letter stated that
at the proper time he would ask the
governor to commute Franks sen
tence to life Imprisonment; that after
many months of elaboration he still
was uncertain of the prisoners guilt,
and that lit is possible 1 showed I'M
due Difference to the opinion of the
jury when 1 allowed their verdict to
stand"
Frank did not attend, but his wife
was present throughout the sessions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
SAYS BECKER MAY CONFESS
Gov. Whitman of New York Hints at
CIemency in Return for Graft b"
Information.

Chicago, May 29.-When asked
about the possibility of a commuta-
ton of the sentence of Charles Beck
er, former police lieutenant, awaiting
electrocution for alleged participation
in the plot to murder the gambler,
Herman Rosenthal, Governor Whit
man of New York before his departure
for the West last night said:
II know that Becker can ten a lot.
There is no doubt about that. will
be back in New York June IS. Becker
is sentenced to die .Jufy.12. Between
those two dates such. matters could be
considered l merely express the
opinion that Becker can-sell much that
he has not told thus far
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

The German ambassador, Count
Won Bernstorff, has given out for publi-
cation the memorial record and &C
companying affidavits, issued by the
German government relating to "atroc-
tiles committed by Russian troops on
German civilians and German prison
ers of war
Berlin advices say the opinion in
German political circles is that Amer
lea not only played into the hands of
Great Britain in her note to Germany,
but that she has entered a formal un-
Outstanding with the Allies
Charging the village officials OF
Hibbing, Mimi, with reckless extrava-
gance in the expenditure of public
moneys. eleven mining companies
headed by the Oliver Iron Mining
Company. have refused to pay $3.50, OcO
OF a $765,000 levy for the year of 1914
White & Sinclair of Tulsa. Ok.
bought Of George Harmon, Edw De
Golfer and others, their interests, con-
sisting of $4,000 acres. in the Mexican
oil district at FL Protero, near Tam
pico. at price said to approximate
three million dollars
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
TO SAVE FAMOUS BR0NZES
Group of GilGed Horses Removed
From Venice Cathedral by italians
for Fear of Damage.

Rome, June 3.-The famous gilded
horses which have adorned for a CEN
fury the principal portal Of the cathed-
raj CT St Marks at Venice have been
removed from the city to a place of
safety because of the fear that they
might be damaged by hostile aviators
or warships.
The four horses of st. Marks, of
bronze, five feet high, are among the
finest of ancient bronzes- They prob
ably once adorned the triumpha1 arch
OF Nero and afterwards that of Traian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
A Danish Ship Sunk.

South Shields, England, May Is
The Danish steamer Betty was tcrpe-
doed by a German submarine in the
North Sea yesterday and went to the
bottom The members of her crew
were rescued and have been brought
to the Tyne.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
pePaIma Wins Fast Race.

Indianapolis, June Ralph DePaI-
ma, driving a Mercedes, won the fifth
annual 500-mile international sweep
stakes on the Indianapolis motor
speedway here yesterday in the re-
markable time of 5 hours, 33 minutes
and 551k seconds.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
Calls Final German Reserve.

Amsterdam, June 1.-The Reichsan-
zeiger of Berlin has published an or
der calling to the colors all first class
members of the landstrum, or the final
reserve forces. not previously sum-
moned-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
Hit GuIfIicht bv Mistake.

Berlin, June 3.-The Nerman gov
elnment has transmitted a communi
cation to James w Gerard, the Aneri-
can ambassador at Berlin, explaining
that the rorpedoing of the American
tank steamer Guiflight off the Sicily
Islands MAY l was a mistake.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
More sIsst Furnaces R.sn.,.

Pittsburgh. May 29.-Blast furnace
operations in the Pittsburgh district
were increased today when furnace
No. 2 of the Carrie plant at Randkin
was blown in the first time in two
years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
Texas Opposes Red Cross Aid.

Austin, Tex, June 1.-The Red Cross
plan to distribute food to starving
Mexico today struck a discordant
note Governor Ferguson of this state
was balky about asking Texas to con-
tribute to the food supply
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
Put on a Cabinet mee+i,,

Washington, May p President
Wilson called of the Friday Cabinet
meeting today because there was moth
ing of pressing Importance ready for
consideration and because he was
slightly indisposed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
EIect sebastian as Mayor

Sebastian. chief of police. is today
mayor-eiect o. Los Angeles, according
to indications of the nearly complete
count Of votes at yesterdays election
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
WHAT OREGON Is DOING.
Conducted by Thoma. =. Horn

news item from Corvallis. Ore.
reads as follows: For the purpose
OF handling poultry products to the
best advantage a Poultry and Egg
Circle has been organized at Corval-
lis under the direction of the experts
OF the agricultural college The new
association has already made ar
engagements to handle the products
of some 5000 fowls.
The eggs will be graded, candled
and marked with the association
stamp. A market has already been
established which will represent a.
marked increase in returns from tn IS
source. If found to work satisfac-
torily it is proposed to organize sim
liar circles all over the state
Here's hint. Think about it. If
it works with other agricultural prod
ucts, why not with poultry?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
TO DISCUSS FARM WOMAN.
Bankers of Nation to Hear About HeI
From ~" Worker.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
July 3O.-Miss Mary Rausch, assist
ant professor of home economics in
the extension division, who carries
the good word in scientific house,
keeping from the university to the
housewives of the state, has been in
vited to present the case Of the farm
woman in the conference of the
American Bankers association, to be
held in Seattle in September.
Miss Rausch's schedule for the
opening weeks of the Oncoming col
lege year already indicates an ex-
Extraordinarily busy year for her. In
Burlington. on September % and 30,
at the Skagit county fair, she will act
as judge of culinary products and
demonstrate in cookery. September
%. 23 and "a she will conduct a
conference in Bothell:
October 6, and 8. conference in
Kirkland, and October -. 13 and IA,
a conference in Everett.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
POULTRY EXPERT HERE
Mrs. Helen Dow Whitaker OF Pull
man to spend Week in County.

Offering the practical poultrymen
of Thurstou county an unusual OPP
portunity for instruction and advice,
Mrs. Helen Dow Whitaker, head of
the poultry department of the Pull
man State College, will spend all
of next week in the county, making
addresses at different points and
spending the rest of her time visiting
as many of the poultry farms of the
county as she can.
Mrs. Whitaker comes to the coun-
ty under the auspices of the Olympia
Poultry association and County Agent
o. c. Van Houten, and will be accom-
panied on her trips through the
county by Van Houten and Thomas
p. Horn, secretary of the association
and poultry editor of The Washing
ton Standard. Mrs. Whitaker will
arrive in Olympia Monday noon and
will devote all her time until some
time Friday to her work throughout
the county.
The schedule of meetings for the
week has been only tentatively ar
ranged. but present plans are for her
to address a meeting of the school
children in Olympia at 3 O'Clock Mon
day afternoon: a meeting for older
people at the Chamber of Commerce
Monday evening; meeting at Little
Rock Tuesday, and other meetings at
points near there during the day; at
Tenino Wednesday evening and
Grand Mound Thursday evening.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
MARKET REPORTS
(FurnIshed by Olympia merchants)
THURSDAY. JULY 20.
WHOLESALE.

Beef-Prime beef steers. 12c to 13c
per ID.
Mutton-13c to 15c.
Spring lamb-15c to 16c.
Hides-Salted, SC per ID.
Eggs-Strictly fresh, 25c.
Poultry-Average loo to 12c lb.
Dressed pork-8c to 10c per ID.
Dressed veal--Small, sc to Ice.
Ranch butter-22hc.
Separator butter-27 Nc.
Onions-1k Nc per lb.
New potatoes (locaD-$2O a ton.
Oats-$29 a ton.
Wheat-$32 a ton.
Cabbage-$20 to $25 ton.
Other observation-disclosures. 81 per
1OO-lb. sack; $40 a ton.
RETAIL.
Lard-5-fb pail, soc; lob pail,
$1.55.
Bacon-25c per lb.
Hams-19c per Id.
Picnic hams-13c per lb.
F'lour-$1.65 per sack.
Sugar-13 lbs. for $500; $7.25 per
1O0-lb. sack.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
To Enlarge Tacoma Smelter.

Announcement that S3,0o0,ooo
would be spent Immediately in en-
larging the Tacoma smelter to more
than double it's present capacity, was
made by the company the fore part of
the week When the additions are
completed the companys output of
copper will be 100000 pounds a
month instead of 100000. The
great demand for copper brought on
by the war Is responsible for the en-
largement Of the enlargement OF the
already large plant.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
WORK THAT Il
WORTH WHILE.

The department of agriculture has
recently prepared large placard,
beautifully printed in red and black
and illustrated with fine half-tone
cuts, showing the difference between
fertile and infertile eggs after pa,
AS, - hours and even after seven
days in an incubator at 1913 degrees.
The engravings and the legends
under them show that fertile egg is
not disable as food after "a hours
at temperature of 1913 degrees,
while an infertile egg is not spoiled
after seven days of incubation at this
heat.
The printed matter consists of con-
vincing argument why infertile
eggs should be produced for market
and gives directions for handling
eggs so as to keep them in good con-
dition until marketed. 1t also says
that the loss on eggs from farm to
market amounts to $45, 100000 a
year (No, this is not a typograph-
zeal error; it really means forty-fve
million dollars, one-third of which
is due to fertile eggs which have
spoiled in summer heat.
These placards have been sent out
to postmasters of the country with
Postmaster General Burleson's in
structions to place them in the lob
bies of the various postoffices
throughout the land. This is work
of real value and is to be highly com
mended.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
Additions to School Buildings.

the two-room addition to be built on
the Rochester school this summer
and on August 2 for the one-roOm
addition to the South Bay school,
while bids for remodelling and put
ting new windows in the Pleasant
Glade schoolhouse will also be opened
August 3. Lyman Fleetwood has the
contract for drilling a tubular we'll
on the South Bay grounds, while
on the school grounds at Buffers
cove. The new school building at
Rainier is nearing completion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30

The results of practical co-opera-
ton is we'll shown by the work ac-
complished by the Missouri State
Poultry association, which has nearly
5000 members. In the past five
years the poultry industry of the
state of Missouri has gone forward
with leaps and bounds and largely so
because the State Poultry association
and it's great membership was con-
tinually on the job. Washington
should get busy, and one way to
point the right path is for Thurston
county to get busy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
81 Violate Wage Law.

Since the first minimum wage
orders became effective last summer,
81 violations have been found by the
industrial welfare commission. In
all cases the employers were required
to recompense girls in their employ
ment for the amounts that their
wages were reduced below the estab-
lished minimum. Sixty-three girls
thus received amounts ranging from
s1.25 to $165. In only four cases to
date have prosecutions been brought.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-07-30
Trade Balance More Than Billion.

WASHINGTON, July 3O.-Exact
figures of the record-breaking Ameri-
can export commerce of the fiscal
year ended June 80, made public this
week, show that the trade balance in
favor of the United States-the great
est in it's history--was $1,O94,422.-
1872. an increase of $623,8OO,OOO over
the year preceding and $42S,0O0,0O0
more than the best previous record
made in 1908. Exports total S2,16S,-
643,532, an increase of S404 100000
over the preceding year. Imports
were $1,674,22O,7 40, decrease OF
100000.