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, 1915-05-13
WESTER N.

Mayor William Hale Thompson is
sued a proclamation fixing July 81 as
Chicago day at the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition.
DRY" legislation got the ak in the
Senate at Springfield, ILL.,, in the same
effective name in which st was
slaughtered in the House.
Forty-one persons were killed or
drowned in recent storms and floods
In Texas, according to a recount Of the
disaster. The property damage, it is
believed, will reach $1,000, 900.
Announcement was made at Spring
field, ILL.,, of the marriage in Picking,
ILL.,. of William Homer Leavitt, former
son-in.law of William Jennings Bryan,
to Miss Clara Killius of Springfield.
Governor Rye, at Nashville, Tenn,
vetoed a bill abolishing the death
penalty, expressing the belief that 1t
would tend to increase mob violence.
The governor also vetoed an anti
tipping bill.
Mrs. Nathaniel Valone of Detroit,
Mich. has given birth to twins. They
are the twenty-seventh and twenty
eighth children of the father, twenty
one of whom are living, all born with,
in a period of thirty-one years. Va
lone, who is So, was married to his
first wife in 1884, but she died several
ear go.
Word received at the headquarters
of the international Dry Farming
Congress in Denver indicates that the
government exhibit in Denver during
the sessions of the congress and the
International Soil Products Exposition
will be the best and most complete ex-
hibit of the kind the Department of
Agriculture has made.
, 1915-05-13
ALMOST MADE HIM MISS 1T
OF Course Wife Mas to Blame Be-
cause Opportunity Nearly Got
Away From the Man.

Opportunity knocked twice at the
mans door and was about to knock a
third time when the door was hurried
lv opened by a woman
where is the mani" said Opportu-
nifty. "ComeI I've no time to lose"
You're the very one he's looking
for" said the oman "But-he's oc-
cupied."
You're his wife. aren't you, Tell
him to come"
"He won't believe me. He'll think
I'm mistaken. He'll think you are
someone else"
"Oh. please don't go. I'll tell him.
I'll try to convince him who you are.
Give me a little time"
THAT isn't my fault. I've done my
duty. Good-day."
Just at this moment the man rushed
out and grabbed Opportunity. Then
he turned roughly to his wife.
"Why didn't you let me know she
was knocking?" he said. "Why she
almost got away. Just like you!"-
Life.
, 1915-05-13
LATEST NEWS
EPITOMIzED
FROM TElEGRAPHIc REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST IN
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPORTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

German submarines SUM three Nor
wegian ships-the Baldwin, Lalla and
American-in the North Sea.
The German official report claims
victories both over the Russians in
western Galicia and over the British
to the east of Ypres in Flanders.
The attacks upon the German shops
we're renewed as the result of the
fury aroused by the sinking of the
Lusitania. Most Of the rioters were
The Turks. considerably reinforced,
attacked the allies camp at Krithia,
according to advices from Mitylene
received from Athens.
An Italian army 600, 900 strong, fully
equipped and ready for the field, has
been concentrated at Kerona, twenty
five miles from the frontier of Austria
Hungary according to a Geneva re-
port.
The British admiralty announced
that the destroyer Maori had been
blown up by a mine. The British
steame Don of Goole has been tor
pedoed by a German submarine off
Coquet island, near the Northumber-
land coast. The crew was rescued.
a dispatch from Bellinzona, Switzer-
land, to the Temps says: "Austrians
and Germans are fleeing from all
parts of Italy. All trains in the d.
rection of the frontier are packed
with Teutonic passengers, including
merchants 9 and officials. Special
trains have brought 5000 Germans
from Rome, Florence and Bologna, en-
route for Germany. Lugano also is
filled with refugees"
, 1915-05-13
ASHlNGTON

Gable dispatches from Picking state
that the ultimatum of Japan to China
reached the Japanese legation.
American Consul Frost at Cork sent
the following cable to the State De
partment: please assume that per-
m not listed as either survivors or
identified dead, are missing and almost
certainly dead Nc news of Wander
bilt, Stone, Shields, Myers, Klein,
Hubbard, Forman, nor of their bod
les"
An American citizen, lawfully in a
foreign country or in a foreign ship,
is entitled to the protection of his gov
eminent" said Senator H. c.. Lodge,
ranking Republican member of the
Senate foreign relations committee.
The fact that an American citizen is
in the country or the ship OF a bel
ligerent does not give an opposing
belligerent the right to kill him wan
tonly and without provocation.'
Destruction of the British liner Lusi.
tania with the loss of man. lives
shocked officials of the United States
government and spread profound grief
I'm the national capital.
The American Red Cross asked c.
A. McIlvane at Balboa Heights, chair
man {. the Panama chapter, to report
II outside aid were required for the
sufferers of the fire at Colon.
Traffic through the Panama Canal
during March was considerably great
or than for any preceding month. A
total OF 1876 s~eagoing vessels passed,
carving G35.O57 tons of cargo.
, 1915-05-13
Robber stranaIes Woman in Home

Cheyenne.-A post-mortem on the
body of Mrs, Annie Kelly Walsen, who
was found murdered in her home, re-
vealed that she probably had been
strangled by the cloth gag which her
assailant tied about her face so tight
ly that the flesh of her cheeks was
torn. This gag evidently was carried
into the house by the murderer. as
was also the silk stocking with which
the woman's hands were tied. No
wound sufficient to cause death was
found. 1t is believed that the aged
woman was slain by some person who
believed she had a large amount OF
money hidden in her squalid home.
Although a county charge, she fire.
%quently boosted that she was rich.
, 1915-05-13
SUBJECT FOR BILL NYE's WIT
Humorist Made Bright Verse Out Of
Question Theatrical People Come
to Dread.

Anybody connected with the amuse-
ment world will tell you hat the dead
Hest and most maddening question is,
Where do you 60 from here?" Bill
Nye, touring the country win James
Whitcomb Riley, had a great many
one-night stands to visit, and came to
suffer acutely through the insistent
repetition of this boob query. At Last
he wrote the appended verse, which,
it is believed, never found life in
print:
where do you go from here?"
asks the landlord of our hotel.
And Where do you go from here?"
asks the boy who W the bell.
And Where do you go from here
Oh! Lord, and Where do you go from
here?"
Till in fancy we stand at the last COM
mand. quaking with sudden fear,
And St. Peter says. ooh, you're those
lecturers. Where do you go from
here?"
, 1915-05-13
settlers Reclaim 1900 Acres.

Riverton.-Without the expenditure
of a dollar for labor, n syndicate of
settlers on lands in this vicinity has
completed an irrigation project known
as Riverton Ditch No. ., which will
reclaim 10000 acres of land which is
expected to be the most fertile in
Wyoming. Contractors who did the
work on the project accepted scrip is.
sued by the syndicate, which will be
redeemed by the settlers with profits
from the reclaimed lands. J. A. Ded-
fielder did the heaviest part of the con
struction work.
, 1915-05-13
GENER AL.

An epidemic OF black smallpox has
been raging in Mexico City for a fort.
night.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is at her
home in Oyster Bay after spending
three weeks in Roosevelt hospital in
New York, where she underwent an
operation.
Wall street shook from center to
circumference when confirmation of
the sinking of the L%usitania was re-
lived. The break in market values
came after three hours of dullness
and irregular price changes.
DR.. Bernhard Dernburg. former CO.
lonial secretary of the German empire,
in a talk with representatives of the
press in New York, said: 81 am sure
that Germany regrets the loss of
American lives through the sinking
of the Lusitania, but sufficient warn.
ing was given"
The trial of William Barnes suit for
libel against Theodore Roosevelt en-
tered into its fourth week in the Su-
preme Court at Syracuse, N. Y.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company has succeeded in ar
ranging for an extension of its $19,-
100000 3 per cent notes for one year
at G e cent.
A verdict of acquittal was returned
after a short deliberation at Mineola,
l.. l., by the jury trying Mrs. Florence
c. Carman OF the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Louise Bailey at Freeport on
the night of June 80 last.
, 1915-05-13
FOREIGN.


A memorial service for the Canad-
ians who have fallen in the var will
be held at st. Paul's cathedral. May
10.
Having reached an agreement with
respect to Japan's demands on China,
the plenipotentaries of the two
countries will now proceed to draft
a treaty.
A committee from the recent inter
national congress of women formally
laid before P. w. A. Cort van de Lin
den, the Netherlands premier. the
peace resolutions adopted at the con-
gress.
A Tiflis dispatch says American
missionaries in the Vilayet of Van,
where the Armenians appear weaken
ing after a fierce resistance against
attacking Turks and Kurds, are re-
ported in grave danger.
Former United States Senator Laf-
ayette Young of Des Moines, Iowa, &C
companied by a former American depu-
ty consul at Berne, Switzerland, was
arrested at Innsbruck, Austria, on sus-
picion of espionage directed against
Mr.. Young's companion. They were
both released later.
Wesley Frost, United States Consul
at Cork, is obtaining affidavits con-
corning all the material facts of the
~torpedoing of the liner Lusitania from
Miss Jessie Taft Smith of Braceville,
Ohio; DIR. HowardF1sher of New York
and Robert Rankin of New York, all
of whom are at Queenstown.
At Nome, Alaska, the vets won in
the local option election called by the
United States District Court to deter
mine whether the people of Nome
wanted the court to license saloons
for another year. The vote was ISL
for saloons and 434 against saloons.
Women voters took a prominent part
in the election.
The owners of the American steam
er Wilhelmina, according to the Lon
don Daily Mail, have received what
they have pronounced to be a hand
some and generous settlement at the
hands of the British government,
namely, full value of the cargo at Ham
burg at war prices, which was more
han double the prices at English
ports, as well as indemnity for delay,
altogether approximating $43O,OO0.
A Central News dispatch from
Queenstown says that according %
the present arrangements for the bur-
ial of the dead from the Lusitania, the
collins will be borne from the town
hall at 9 a, m. but that the funeral
procession proper will leave at 3
o'clock in the afternoon for the GENE
terry. A special high mass will be
celebrated at st. Coleman's cathedral,
and u general funeral service will be
held at the cemetery over the 139 cof-
fins.
, 1915-05-13

At Albuquerque, N. M, Albuquerque
won the fourth straight game of the
series with Douglas, IT to 5.
Jess Willard, worlds heavyweight
champion, appeared with a troupe of
athletes in a performance at the
Princess theater, in Pueblo, Colo.
Benny Chavez and Matty Smith
were matched for a twenty-round en-
gagement before the Eagles Club of
Trinidad. Colo, the evening of June 8.
Jack Hammer, matchmaker of the
Colorado Athletic Club of Denver,
matched Jimmy Reagan of Frisco and
Stanley Hoakum of Denver to box 90
rounds on the night of May IT.
The breeders futurity, the richest
stake of the Lexington, KY, meeting,
was won by Kinney, a bay colt by Dick
Welles, dam Lacy Strothmore. The
youngster is the property of Thomas
p. Hayes, who was enriched $1,000 by
the victory.
A $4,000 purse for the Colorado
derby to be run June &c, at Overland
Park in Denver. during the spring
meeting. is the magnet that has drawn
to Denver as fine a lot of 3.year-old
thoroughbreds as has ever been quart
cred at that beautiful park.
, 1915-05-13
FUTURE OF DRY FARMER
DECLARED BRIGHT BY FEDERAL
AGENT AT CHEYENNE.
Register of Land Office Says Non-lr-
rieated Lands Will Be Foremost
Asset Some Day.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-"Just give the dry
farmers time. Their crops have not
been failures. Testimony of 1000
people given at the United states land
office here is my authority for this
statement" said w. E. Chaplin, reg
lister of the Cheyenne land office, dis.
GUESSING the non-irrigated farm move
ment which has brought 5000 families
into Wyoming during the last five
years.
THE farmer already has seen his
worst days in Laramie county" Chap
lin continued. Conditions last year
were better than they were the year
preceding, and conditions will continue
to improve. The dry farms some day
will be the foremost asset of the COM
munity.
THE majority of the farmers have
been with us barely three years. 1t
takes more than three years to build
up a big business on a small invest
ment such as has been made by the
farmers who came here to homestead.
Some came with barely 500 or 5000
over and above the filing fees. They
are making good, but they cannot be
expected to reap within the first three
years of cultivation of virgin ground
heavy profits such as they eventually
will have to spend"
Chaplin is urging the Cheyenne In
dustrial club to inaugurate a move
ment intended to cooperate with the
farmers in finding ready and profit
able markets for their products, and
to cause the opening for settlement of
100000 acres of valuable segregated
lands in the Goshen hole district.
, 1915-05-13
Mrs. Irish Appointed Secretary.

Cheyenne.-Mrs. Iva Thomas Irish
of Evanston, who was the Democratic
candidate for state superintendent of
public instruction in last Novembers
election, has been appointed secretary
of the State Board of Water Control
and will assume the office May Is.
She will have offices in the capitol di-
rectly above those of her successful
competitor in the race for state super
intendent, Miss Edith X. o. Clark.
, 1915-05-13
orchardist sues Oldest State Senator

Lander.-State Senator Robert II.
Hall, the Oldest man in point of serv-
ice in the Wyoming Legislature, has
been made defendant in a suit by Ed.
Young for 5000 which is based on the
allegation that he fraudulently caused
Young to be deprived of a state fail
apple premium of that amount.
, 1915-05-13
Bio Wood

Rock Springs.-Fifty-eight cars of
Australian wool passed through Rock
Springs for the east. The wool a
valued at about $500, 900. One train
was composed of thirty.two cars and
he second of twenty-seven cars.
, 1915-05-13
A Tale Often Told.

Society is Just now afflicted with
a new species Of bore"
still a%nother?"
TITS the young woman who tells
everybody she meets how the war in
Europe prevented her from finishing
her musical education"
, 1915-05-13

Bacon-I see expert French butter
tasters claim they can perceive the
flavor of the soil over which cattle
feed.
Egbert-Must have sort of a taste
of shrapnel now.
, 1915-05-13
Flour Mill DESTROYED Rx Fir.

Sheridan.-The flour mill of the
Sheridan Manufacturing Company was
destroyed by fire. The loss is esti.
mated at $4,000, partly covered by
insurance.
, 1915-05-13

winter Wneat-May 1, forecast
of production, 1915, bus 1,410,o 600
Final estimate of production.
Rye.condition May /. isi5....."..io
Condition May !, 1o,yr. av.,:;:...s6
MeadowslCondition May l, 1915 100
Pastures-condition May /. 1915 :. SO
sp T i Piow may done done Nay aa; i. ;i5 IS
20 done May l, 10-yr. av. 1929. 81
Spring Planting-% done May lis 40
% done May 1. 9-yr. av. $3.50. 81
Hay.Tons Of old crop oil hand
Tons of old crop on hand May i'''OOV
/, 1914 1O9. 900
PRICES To PRODUCERS
wheat-per bu., May /, 1915 .....s1.2s
May l, 1914 so
Corn-per. bu., May 1, 1915 ...... so
Oats-per bu., May 1, 1915 ....... go
May /. 1914 so
Potatoes-per bu., May /, 1915 :. 80
May l. 1914 rs
Hay-per ton, May 1, 1915 80. $50
May /, 1914 $40
Eggs-per doz.. May ], 1915 ...... 20
May 1, 1914 10
, 1915-05-13
Wyoming CROP Report.

Cheyenne.-The Bureau of Crop Es-
Inmates, in Cooperation with weather
Bureau, United States Department of
Agriculture, reports:
, 1915-05-13
Not Asking Much.

so you are ambitious to have a
little g~arden?"
Yes"
you ought to get a lot of pleasure
out of it."
81 don't expect to get any pleasure
out of it, but If / can get a few beets
and turnips in return for a great deal
of hard work I'll be satisfied"
, 1915-05-13

While the average man would like to
be ahead, he is pretty well satisfied II
he catches up.
, 1915-05-13
WYOMING NEWS
Gathered From
All Parts of the State


July annual Ceie-
bration of Frontier Days, Cheyenne.
Sept. 14-16-Park County Fair at Cody.
Sept. 21-23-Big Horn County Fair
at Basin
, 1915-05-13
SPORT.


At Albuquerque, N. M, Albuquerque
won the fourth straight game of the
series with Douglas, IT to 5.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-14
TWO KILLED
WHEN YACHT
RAMS STEAMER

NEW YORK. June ii--(Spec!an
While the passenger steamer Bun
ker Hill. u the Metropolitan line
bound for Boston. was halted by the
dense fog IN Long Island sound. Just
east % Huntington bay. about !
o'clock Sunday night. she was ram
med and torn open FOR about 100 feet
- the big steel yacht vsnadis. own
ed by G. K g Billings. and two peo-
pie were killed and three Injured.
The Bunker Hin vas carrying ESQ
passengers and crew OF 1870. The
ship seems TO have been hit three or
four times BY the vsnadis The lat.
ter ripped through three decks OF
the Bunker Hill and shattered The
dining room and two OF the cabins
In one of these one OF the victims
OF tho accident was killed. George
II. Hendricks. president OF the Mass
achusetts Packing T. Betting Co, OF
Boston. was Killed instantly In hls
cabin. James Brown. member oil
the crew. Jumped into the water and
was rescued. but died afterwards
from exposure.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-14
CADILLAC

Warm weather has no siackening
effect on the pratlle OF the come
dams and The prancings OF the cho-
rus with The Merry Maid" com
pany in the Cadillac theater. this
week. The entertainers work hard
70 please their audiences, and. FOR.
tunately. the play vehicles are bur
lettas Of the better sort. The com.
edy Is sandwiched between ngmer-
Gus song numbers The chorus girls
have a variety Of pretty costumes Of
a kind tha, require little material.
but careful htting.
A pretentious vaudeville program
is staged between burlesque acts
Helen stuart and Fred Hall have >
song and dance number The vision
"Mysterieuse" is an optical Illusion
built around a series OF living pic
lures. posed 10 represent famous
masterpieces Miss Jane Hall sings
nicely. simone de Beryl IA Mile:
Fih." appears in a very Frenchy
act that will never shock another
Detroit audience after supt. jayne.
~ the recreation commission, ap-
points an Official investigator
Two Cheerful Liars" and Fifty
Miles from Denver are the titles OF
the two snappy skits IN which John
Black. George Clark. Fred Hall. Sam
Carlton. James Cooper. Hugh Skel
Ily. Helen Stuart. Sue Milford. Maole
Clark Ada Lumm and Helen Stan
lev appear with the chorus Helen
Stanley "a a demure little miss who
makes a big hit with her song mum
beers. Claretta dances the whatcha-
mucailit7
The Detroit times., 1915-06-14

TIA, the data Tor the note has nearly
all been complied. officials see la
this admission reflection OF The al.
min.strat.oa's confidence that the
German situation is very greatly i'm
proved
Adyices from Berlin indicate that
there has been a radical change in
The sentiment OF German leaders to-
ward the United States When the
last note vas sent the majority Of
the officials there were opposed 10
any concessions. The contrary Is
declared 10 be the case al present
The only group which IS not quoted
as fsvoring arrangements 10 prevent
further Misunderstanding f. the
small group surrounding Grand Ad-
mirsl Won Tirpitz Officials here say
that when the new reply 10 the
American rejolnder Is completed.
both the imperial chancellor and the
foreign minister will urge the kaiser
TO make concessions 20 the United
States
Oficials here continue 10 believe
also that within the next few weeks
well-defned general peace move
ment will be found under way Just
where e. Is TO be Instituted no one
here seems TO kno. but u Is declared
there are undercover indications
showing tina; the peace suggestions
are no longer falling on deaf ears.
The enormous casualty lisis are
said 20 be SOLDERING Germany. despite
the fact that they are accompanied
by claims OF sweeping success Great
Britain. # ia pointed out, is stIll hav
ing her troubles keeping up her mu
milton supply. and the attacks BY
certain OF her leading officials on the
workers are reported 20 be causing
increasing trictions. Frances neces
slty 10 discharge soldiers from the
army 20 manufacture munitions, and
Russia's inability 20 keep her reserve
armies in satisfactory condition
because Of lack OF rifles and cannon
are subjects OF further comments
The Detroit times., 1915-06-14
CHICAGO
TIED Up By
CAR STRIKE


horsedravn vehicles and tituey
Buses. or stayed az home
President Britton Bgdd, % the
elevated lines. announced just after
laybreak that no attempt would be
mad" 10 -un passenger cars on his
lines today \ similar announce
ment Nas expected from President
Bg,by o.; the surface lines later
Ch'ts ot Police Healy and Mayor
Thompson. Who had been in confer
eGee many hours yesterday ordered
every policeman 20 De- on call a.,
their respective station houses
In the negotiation proceedings
preceding ,Ee strike. be companies
refused % grant the demand, for IN
creased wages on The ground that
they could not AFFORD g., The men
came back aira The proposition that
.he companies throw open their
financial condition 20 an inspection
committee. The companies refused.
The companies offered to appoint
IN arbitration committee composed
o. the following
The companies 20 select one man,
The men one man. and. II those Two
Fere unable TO agree upon a third
within IS hours. Mayor Thompson
vas 20 select one.
This the men refused % do. say
Ing that the ruling against them In
similar proceedings three years ago,
was still fresh In their minds They
also demurred because they said
Mayor Thompson himself owns To-
300 shares % Commonwealth Edi-
sor stock. valued az 800 a share,
which company furnishes the com
panles their power. Furthermore,
they declared that the financial
hackers Of the Edison company are
the men who control the finances
OF both elevated and surface lines
and that Ayor Thompson would be
indirectly influenced.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-14
JOY RIDERS
LEAVE TRAIL
OF WRECKS
tCoatlnued from ragr Onrl

found the wrecked pop corn wagon;
then the mlN Wagon. and finally
found The Sre. of their auto.
The Jov riders had taken their
time rolling The machine away from
ta" damaged 5Iildiur. before they
calmly walked away.
Later tao young men strollcd up
and viewed tho wreckage. Thomp-
son and Whitney were also gazing
al the wreck
why. that's the machine that We
just had ride In said the two
EighJsecrs
Thompson and Whitney nahhed
the strangers. and turned them ar-g
to Dele, lives Smith and Wisniew-
ski, who bad been summoned 20 Ia
vestigate
They admitted the police say.
that three men IN the auto hal IN.
yitcd them to take ride but the
pace was too fast for them. and
they got out They we're not ir
the machine when It irdulzcd IN the
series Of accidents. they said.
They were registered as August
Lottner, q years old. OF No. go
Tonvsend.ave.. a tester. and Hugo
Mcintyre. %. Of No. 6si Canton
ave. an electrician.
Detectives are looking for the
other three members Of the party