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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-29
WILLIAM TATE IS
GIVEN s700F|NE
Defendant Pleads Guilty Il
Contempt Charge and
Pays Assessment
GIVE INJUNCTION
AGAINST TWO MORE
Gustaveson and Chapman III
Hall Action Restrained
From Selling

Judge D. M. Anderson finished hila{
two days special session Of the dia#
trict court Tuesday afternoon and r6lS
turned to his home in Abba after diE9
ing Will Tate 500 and costs on CO
tempt charge and granting injunctionNS
against A. j. Carpenter, Al Scott, E. HS
Gustaveson and Jesse Chapman. Jude6$
Hunter expects to take up the acti0|
against Tom Mungoven, in which an
Injunction is sought on liquor charG1k|
on next Monday morning.
During the two days that court ho1s.
been held this week there have been ~
number Of liquor actions disposed ok.
Dan Mungoven was fined 5000 ana
costs on contempt charge, William
Feldman fined $500 and costs and th1S
tax suspended upon similar charge
and the four injunctions mentioned
above were granted and Tate fined. I'M
tho case against Nick Winchell, eli IL.
any action againt Dan Mungoven haog
been dismissed upon motion Of the
county attorney after the defendants
had paid his fine in the other case
Tate entered a plea of guilty and has
paid his fine of $70O and costs.
The title Of the case in which Chap
man and Gustaveson were defendantASs
is the state VS.. w. P. Hall ct al. The
court on July IL, granted an injunction
against Charles Tate, William Tate,sl
Jack White and Harry Herman for
connection with the same case. The
place where they are charged with
having been operating is known as the
Lacledes hotei1at Main and Jefferson
streets. Monday an Injunction was
granted against Everett Austin Grover
Wilford and Francis Doran for connee-3SE
ton with the same place, making a to-
tai Of nine defendants in this action
number OF widows pensions and
delinquent children cases were taken
care Of Tuesday also. Commitments
to the state Industrial school hay0S3
been signed in the case of Mary Ellis
and to the soldiers orphans home illN
Davenport for Beulah Atkins and AM
ME Clemens. The pension Of Lizzie#
Burch is to be cancelled on August 1A
and that of Mary A. Mckenzie has
been dismissed upon its own merits.
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NEW PEACE MOVE
IS ON IN MEXICO
LEADERS or VARIOUS FACTIONS
ARE SAID TO BE DISCUSSING
CONFERENCE.

Washington, D. c., July 2s.-Reports
of new peace move in Mexico at.
tracted attention in official circles to-
day.
Advices received here said that rep.
resentatives of the various factions in
the southern republic were consulting
their leaders in an effort to bring abou.
peace parley either with or without
General Carranza This move was said
to be in anticipation of final appeal
by the United States to the faction
leaders to compromise their difficulties
and restore peace in Mexico.
The United States is said to be con-
templating a restoration Of the ban on
the export Of war munitions to Mexico
as part of its program to end hostili-
ties.
Policy Kept Quiet.
Washington, D. c.. July 28.-Mexico
City was still cut off from the outside
world today and Secretary Lansing
said efforts to get first hand informa-
tion of conditions there had failed.
The forthcoming step to be taken by
the United States with respect to
Mexico he would not discuss
Reports that General Felipe An
geles, Villas military adviser, was
again on the border, were again de-
MED today by Villas Washington
agent, Enrique G. Llorente.
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FAMILY QUARRELS
TO BE RECORDER

Kansas City, Kan, July %. - Installs
alton of phonograph in his couK&
room to reduce to minimum familN
Quarrels is the plan of Police JUDGE
Joseph H. Brady of Kansas City, Kans
Hereafter, when family quarrel4
come into court, Judge Brady announce
ed today, phonograph will take down
each bit of testimony, recording the iils
Elections and Interruptions Of Other
witnesses, then few days later ~
will summon all who took part in the
case, produce the phonograph record9
and have them listen to their test4
mony.
There will be no further need for
judge" said Judge Brady. Those wsil
took part will feel SO ashamed OF tn
entire proceedings they will drop TN
matter right there. No person wouf
quarrel with neighbors if they knee
how the court proceedings would A
pear to others" r
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Aberdeen, Scotland, July 28.-"Ihey
could not have treated US more cour'
teously than they did, was the unan-
imous verdict of Captain Eugene Delk
and the members of the crew OF the
American steamer Leelanaw when
questioned last night regarding their
encounter with German submarine.
They travelled about sixty miles on tne
deck of the submarine and became
well acquainted with its crew, seVerai
of whom had been in America.
One member Of the Leelanaw's crew
remained aboard the submarine at his
own request. He was one of the mess
bows of the American ship and as he
was of German nationality, preferred
Joining the crew OF the underwater
craft to the probability of interment
In England. At Kirkwall another Of
the Leelanaw' mess boys was found
to be a German and was detained.
Captain Delk, resident of Philadel-
phia. made matter Of fact statement
regarding the sinking OF his ship ana
was not inclined to add details to the
main facts as he outlined them.
"There is no story in it, he said.
1--WE stopped when shot was fired be-
hind us. and then we had to leave. Our
ship was shelled, bombed and tor
pedoed but 1t took an hour and half
to sink her. The Germans took us
aboard the submarine, carried us about
sixty miles and then gave lis directions
for getting to Kirkwall, which we
reached safely in about twelve hours
rrha ,oox,haro re tha rraw ~ whom
there are thirty-two besides the cap,
tain, explained that the German com,
mander apologized for the necessity OF
sinking the ship but said 1t was forced
on him by the fact that the Leelanaw
was carrying contrabrand and he was
not in the habit of throwing overheard
contraband cargoes. The crew Of the
German boat conyersed affably in good
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State Grand Jury Works on
Theory That Life Was
Left Unprotected

Chicago, July 20. With thirty
persons either under arrest or de-
tanned as witnesses, official inquiry
into the steamer EastIand disaster
proceeded today In an effort to fix
responsibility and punish the
guilty.
Indictments charging man.
slaughter, criminal careIessness or
conspiracy will be returned by tho
state grand Jury tonight II the evil
dence presented to that body war
rants such action, according to
States Attorney Maciay Hoyne. II
is expected that the coroner's In
quest which may be concluded to-
night, will result IN the holding to
the grand jury Of several persons
which the testimony Of witnesses
had shown to be guilty Of criminal
carelessness or worse.
At noon the latest figures on tho
dead and missing were:
identified dead, 826.
Unidentified dead, 5.
Western Electric Co., revised list
Of missing, $751;,
Total, 1852.
States ATTORNEY Hovne TODAY
'aid:
"The states attorneys office 10
proceeding on the theory that
somebody Is guilty Of mansIaugh-
ter and certainly some owners Of
common carriers are guilty Of
gross criminal negligence. Section
40 Of the criminal code in the lat
ter connection makes it necessary
only to endanger lives Of passen-
gers - they need not be lost.
"There are three contributing
agencies or causes Of this accident,
as see It. They are the govern
rent inspectors, steamboat people
and the operating force or crew Of
the boat"
ime the divers have stopped worl
md the number of bodies in the boa
be determined until 1t is plac
ID on its keel
Secretary William G. Redfield of tn
of commerce, who is cor
lucting an inquiry into the sinking Q
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A copyrighted article in the Chlcago
Tribune written by James ODonnell
Bennett credits the Norst people with
being very much pro-British in their
sentiments while asserting that the
swedes are strongly in favor of the
Germans The article, dated from
Christiana, Norway, says in part:
Norwegian neutrality exists only IN
the letter, state of affairs which Well
enough serves Germany's present ne
cessities.
The western half of the great Scan
dinavian peninsula is surlily anti-Ger'
man and growing more so every week
The feeling is deep and it would be
nassionate if the Norwegians were a
passionate people. 1t would be ugly II
thew were truculent people. But
heing what they are = aloof, self con
tanned and not meddlesome - their at
titude toward Germany can be lndlcat'
ed with reasonable accuracy by the
word surly.
War Makes Norway King Unhappy.
The kings attitude is known to be
somewhat more vivacious. He is rest
less and unhappy over the situation.
His close English relationships cause
him to feel lively sympathy with the
British and the numerous letters he
receives from members of the English
royal family, who dilate on atrocities
naturally strengthens his feelings OF
aversion to the Germans.
In this capital careful speaking
Norwegian made this statement:
"At the start of the war IS per cent
Of our people were truly neutral IN
spirit. Now they aren't per cent"
Other Norwegians in the party nod
ded acquiescence.
After three weeks warderings on
the peninsula, should sum up the
state Of feeling thus:
In Sweden the situation, considered
from the point Of view of the interests
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the Eastland on instructions Of Presi.
dent Wilson, declares that the respon-
sibility for ignoring alleged faulty
construction of the vessel cannot Do
placed on federal inspectors.
There Is no commission, BODY OF
department in the service that has any
power to sit in Judgment on the stapli-
ity OF VESSEL he said. I'm my re-
ports have called attention to the
need of additional powers. A year
ago before the marine association IN
New York, spoke on the necessity
of giving the service greater powers
of inspection over steamboats,"
A. l.. Thurman. secretary Of the in
terror of the department. said. "A man
can build any sort of boat ne sees
At. He can take any mode No a.
sires and get 1t into commission with
out any inquiry at all from the gov
ernment as to whether 1t Is stable
craft. There is no board with author
ity to pass on its design"
Secretary Redfield says his inquiry
will be of technical sort and will
be directed to finding what were the
exceptional circumstances that result
ed in the capsizing Of the boat
At the Inquest.
What happened in the engine room
of the Eastland in the seventeen min
utes just before the steamer over
turned at 7:3O o'clock last Saturday
morning was told at the coroner's IN
quest today.
Fred 8. Snow, assistant engineer,
said that he and Chief Engineer j. M.
Ericsson were busy trying to trim the
by pumping water In the starboard or
dock side water ballast tanks and at
the same time trying to empty the
tanks on the river side.
Snow said that he had been in the
Eastland two days and that he had
worked as engineer on lake boats for
ten years but never on boats having
water ballast tanks similar to the
Eastland.
There were five water ballast tanks
on each side of the Eastlapd," said
Snow "That morning when the boat
was loaded we started to fill tanks
two and three on the dock side and to
empty tanks two and three on the
river side"
"Why did you work only on tanks
two and three instead of On all?" ask
ed Assistant States Attorney Sulli-
van
There were two reasons said
Snow The intake pipe would not fill
all at once and tanks two and three
were supposed to respond more
quickly than the others"
Were the ballast tanks full or
empty when you tied up at the dock
that morning."
'tI don't know 1t was customary to
empty the tanks when the ship dock
(Continued on page 81
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WAR NOT YET NEAR OVER
British Premier Recognizes Facts az
They Are and Compliments
the Russians.

London, July 2S.-The war has be-
come and Is likely to continue for some
time, contest Of endurance, Premier
Asquith told the house Of commons
this afternoon, while making a gener'
al review in moving the adjournment
of parliament from tomorrow until
S september IA.
The premier remarked:
1--WE should be ungrateful and In
sensitive, indeed, if we did not recog-
nize at this moment the indescribably
gallant efforts being made by our Rus
sian allies to stem the tide of invasion
and to retain inviolate the integrity
of their possessions.
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AIR BOMBS hit Marks
United States Army Aviator Proves
Very skIIIfuI In Attack From
The Sky.

Fishkill Plains, N. Y, July %. -
George A. Gray, an aviator assigned to
take part in the military maneuvers of
the second brigade of the New York
national guard in camp here intends
to continue during the remainder OF
the week series of experiments in
bomb dropping begun yesterday. In
his first attempts Gray ascended $500
feet, beyond the reach of available
guns and dropped the so-called bombs
in front of the tent Of Major General
Organ. One pound bags Of -four we're
used to represent bombs in the expert
ment,
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NOT PLANNING STRIKE
Head Of United Mine Workers Denies
That Men and Operators Ex-
pect War.

Wilkesbarre. Pa. July 2S.-The mine
workers Of the anthracite field are not
preparing for strike at the expiration
of the present agreement next spring,
according to statement issued by
John White, president Of the United
Mine Workers of America. He said
published statements to the contrary
were absolutely unfounded." He also
stated he does not believe the oper-
ators were making any pre- nations
br strike.
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Relatives of the Political
Prisoners Executed By
Oscar Get Revenge
U. S. CRUISER IS
RUSHING TO SCENE
People Are Frenzied and
More Trouble Is Feared
By the Authorities

Fort Au Prince, July 2S.-A mob of
lniurlated Haitiens today removed
vllbrun Guillaume, president Of Haiti,
from the French legation. where he
took refuge yesterday. and shot him
to death in front of the building.
This act Of violence followed imme-
diately the burial of the 160 political
prisoners who were massacred in pris-
on yesterday morning at the time Of
the revolutionary outbreak against
President Guillaume.
The mob was composed In very
large part Of relatives Of the victims
OF this wholesale execution The
crowd invaded the French legation
and seized Guillaume M. Girard, the
French minister to Haiti, protested
vigorously but he was powerless be-
fore the fury of the people.
Guillaume was dragged from the
protection Of the legation Once in
the street the crowd surged around
him with imprecations and he was
promptly shot to death
Even then the anger of the people
was not appeased. The body of the
president was mutilated and, tied to
the end Of a rope, it was dragged
through the streets of the city
The people of Port Au Prince are
in state Of intense excitement and
further violence is feared.
The arrival of the American cruis-
er Washington, with Rear Admiral
Caperton on board, is expected at any
moment. The Washington has been
on the north coast of Haiti M. Girard
was counting on the coming of a
cruiser to afford protection to the lega-
tion.
The body of General Oscar, who or
dered yesterdays executions, today re.
manned before the consulate of the
Dominican republic, where it had fal-
len after the Port Au Prince governor
had faced a firing squad. The COVER
nor took refuge at the Santo Domin-
go consulate after his unsuccessful de.
fense Of the presidential palace, but
mob stormed the building and drag
ging him through the streets, executed
him by shooting.
Cruiser Hurries to Scene.
Washington. d. c., July 2S.--The
cruiser Washington, with Rear Ad-
miral Caperton, 700 bluejackets and
an expeditionary force Of 100 marines,
sailed from Cap Haitien last night for
Port Au Prince.
Rear Admiral Benson, acting secre-
tary Of the navy. received a BRIEF
cablegram from Admiral Caperton to-
day saying the Washington sailed at
8 o'clock last night. She should reach
Port Au Prince about noon today. Ad-
miral Caperton will use his discretion
about landing marines.
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RUSSIANS HOLD
INVADERS BACK
Fighting Is Most Intense
Three Points Where
Crisis Is Soon Due
Petrosrad, July e8-An imper-
ri sukase Issued today calls to the
eoiors men born in 1896. II ls re-
ported that governmental order
10 about to be Issued for general
mobilization throughout Siberia.

London, July 2S.-Though the Ger.
mans now hold a great line from the
Gulf of Riga, sweeping southwestward
around Warsaw. thence encircling the
city and stretching away to the
Galician frontier, near Sokal, it Is esti-
mated they have lost 100000 men, per-
haps more, in this, the most ambitious
movement of the war, and the Russian
front is not yet broken.
On the Narew river, north of the
Polish capital, the Russians have
made stubborn show of resistance,
holding Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
for the time being in check, while to
the south the combined Austro-Ger-
man forces struggling to seize the
Lublin-Chelm railway have been for
days on the threshold of success with
out being able actually to achieve their
goal
Fighting on this latter front has
been renewed with great intensity and
the Germans claim to have improved
their position on the extreme right
which is resting on the Bug river.
Warsaw Nearly Taken.
Immediately west Of Warsaw COM
paTdLlVo Qulet prevails anu IL Is dlouS
the Lublin- Chelm sector or in the
Narew river region that it is believed
a crisis will be reached. Which one
of these fronts is Of the greater stra-
tegic Importance London critics can
not agree, but this is irrelevent, as
German victory on either one doubt
less would mean the fall Of Warsaw.
The German forces in the Baltic pro-
vinces along front approximately
eighty miles wide towards Wilma, with
a view to capturing the railway from
Warsaw to Petrograd, are daily be-
coming a more potent factor in the
fighting, for linked up with the forces
to the southwest they give the Ger
mans front of 800 miles with which
to effect vast turning movement north
of Warsaw.
The troops operating against Riga,
from which city they are only twenty
miles distant. are considered in the
nature of an Independent column, and
it is these forces which have come
under the fire of the Russian Warsh1ps..
To Prevent Retreat
In addition to the capture Of war
saw the direct objective of the Ger
man Polish campaign of the past two
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DRIVE ON WARSAW COSTS GERMAN
ARMY HALF MILLION SOLDIERS
Submarines are
Sinking MQny of
British Vessels

London, July 2S.-German
submarines show no cessation
in their activity in the North
sea. The latest reports set
forth that the Swedish steamer
Emma, and three Danish
schooners, the Maria. the Nep-
tunis and the Lena, have been
sunk by them. The crews OF
these four vessels were landed
at Blyth today.
The British trawlers 1oeni
and Salacia were sunk today
by a German submarine in the
North sea. The crews were
landed at Lowestoft, England.
Amsterdam, July .2S.-Ger-
man submarines, according to
telegram received here today
from Berlin, had sunk in the
war zone up to the 25th OF
July 229 English vessels, thirty
other hostile ships and six neu-
trail craft. The latter, the mes
sage says, were sent to the bot
tom by mistake.
Twenty-seven additional neu-
trail vessels, the dispatch adds,
were examined and sunk be-
cause they carried contraband.
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GOES PREPARED
White Star Liner Carrying War Sup
plies Protects Steering Gear
From Shells.

New York, July % The White Star
liner Arabic sailed for Liverpool today
with a number of sand bags surround.
ing the after steering gear as protec-
ton against shell fire from German
submarines
The Arabic carried 10000 tons of
cargo, almost all Of which was war
supplies. Aeroplanes and automobiles
formed the chief portion of the cargo.
OF the 1888 passengers, twelve were
Americans
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CLOUDBURs1 IN WYOMING

Rock Springs, Wyo., July ga sec
ond cloudburst late last night added to
the food which has done serious dam
age and is reported to have caused
one death here. Residents Of G street,
which was exposed to the full force
of the food, left their homes in a panic
and fed to higher ground.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-07-29
STATE CHARTERS
TO PRIVATE BANKS

Des Moines, July %. Eighteen form
err private banks have been chartereds
by the state banking department since
January !, according to report COM
piled by A. o. Wolever, chief Of the
banking department. The report was,
made public here today. A total Of
thirty-eight banks came in under the
state laws. The state now has SAL
savings banks, 319 state banks ana
twenty-one trust companies.
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NO REsHIpPlNe COTTON.

London, July %. The foreign once
denied in the house of commons today
statement published recently IN the
United States that American cotton
saized by the British authorities is be.
ing reshipped to be sold IN neutrai
ports.
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