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The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1916-04-18
TODAy'S AND LATEST
NEWS BY WIRELESS

Sugar, s9e7.
Honoluu-Th Chamber of Commerce will til.
proposition of preventing price cutting
Chiffon Wright Enright and uihu police officers will
the grill for alleged perjury.
More Big Guns
Oahu will of big projection Six
Pinch placed defend shore
line
Deadocked On Sugar
WashngtonThe conference committee Of the Senate and House
deadlock
day. apparently reachiuS
would probably be that the conferees could
Yuan Tries For Peace
TokoYuan making last final overthrow
He cabinet the hope of winning from
the revouonists Former Minister Ling Tuns Yu be cabinet
Chinese the United States striving hard bak tie efforts
Teutons Attack Again
Tuton launch another attack against Verdun and
stopped Terrific infantry assaults between the Meuse and Doua
mont except at point in neghbong wood where
Artillery is attacking French positions.
Russians Defeat Drive
The great offensive Auso Dvina
Iksku has been defeated by Russians.
The Savs have approached to Trepzond.
Aviation Service Shaken Up
WashngtonThe aviation shaking Col
of incompetence
The Case Of Villa
The death of villa has not yet been confirmed n in Vas &
the bandit had been xhumed from Major Hawe u S A.
official by caranza that Villa dead will be
accepted this and will be followed by the Withdrawal
Of American troops from Mexico
Sussex Raider Captured
LondonThe raider which the Sussex has been captured
made by French
warship.
Recruiting In England
Recruiting throughout England Newspapers
demanding enlistment of married well single
Last German Note
WashingonThe Presidents late Germany has been
finally completed The said be the emphatic
ever by Mr.. Wilson
Another Army Bill Killed
Washingon-The ar bill been defeated the
Senate Three and
be considered.
Won Pappn Again
New YorkCaptain Papen former atache of the German
Washington has been indicted here charge of
being concerned plot blow damage the Panama Canal
Monday Afternoon
Washing that General Villa is dead the result
still unconrmed In official circles there
open disbelief of the Hours without confirmation
without United States ohcia
les to lend color to the
Washington anxious and doubtful the authentic
Lcer who chihuahua forwarded
indicating that he places reliance i'll the
AnonioNo General Funston from General Per.
regarding General Villas body had been located
Continued 81
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1916-04-18
tanding of teams
A New Bookkeeper

E. S. Swan has arrived here to
take the place of r. w. 7. Purvis,
resigned, as kookkeeper for Grove
Farm, Lihue,
The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1916-04-18

Arthur II. Rice and DR.. L. c.
Waterhouse, of Honolulu, were
visitors to Kauai at the week.e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
ENGLAND'S ILLS

The ills, political and social, of Great
Britain have nowhere their origin in
democracy, but in governmental abuses
and inequalities against which British
democracy. one of the strongest and
most devoted of all world forces, is
manfully struggling. And the most dis
astrous of all elements of evil, the war
system. is wholly undemocratic. 1t has
been brought on. not because democ-
and disorderly." but because compact
brotherhoods which have been welded
into a family-nation by the fostering
care and the strict discipline of pater-
nalistic Government" have become po-
litically so incompetent that they are
driven like sheep into a war which they
did not want, which could bring them
nothing but ruin and which in it's in
ception and consummatlon constitutes
in itself the most heinous crime ever
perpetuated in the history of Christen-
dom. And all this at the dictation of
a verv few men whom even yet the ma
ton has failed to identify. When the
whole story is told, the lesson we must
read is that the remedy for the short
comings of freedom is more freedom.
that personal initiative counts more,
even in national enterprise, than any
form of enforced efficiency. that the
need of free States is not less freedom,
but more justice. for justice sets men
free, and that the worst possible test
of a nations greatness is found in the
mischief she can do her neighbors in
blind leading of the blind to the field
of battle, That battietlelds still exist
is due to the failure of Justice and ther-
David Starr Jordan in The Scientific
Mopthly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
THE MEXICAN MIDDLE
War From the Side Lines
By Frederic J. Haskin

for the bullet to stop after three hun
dred yards. Had the Mexicans carried
their little program into effect, Doug
las would have been raked by volley
after volley
The American troops at Douglas
were promptly re-enforced by several
regiments from FL Paso, Columbus and
Naco. Major General Funston, in
command of the army along the whole
Mexican boundary, came from San An
tonic to take charge of the situation
in person. American trenches were
dug and manned day and night, facing
the trenches in Mexico. These prepar-
ations threw Douglas into a panic. All
sorts of rumors were rife. Americans
coming from the interior of Mexico
reported that Villa intended to shell
Douglas, that he had promised his
starving troops food and plunder from
the captured American town
Before long there were enough
American troops in Douglas to reas-
sure the most timorous. Carranza' S
commander was warned against shoot
ing toward the United States, and
General Funston himself talked with
Villa at the boundary. The interview
was not made public, but General
Funston reported laconically that
Villas attitude was satisfactory"
Douglas settled down to watch the
fight.
1t was battle that lasted for days.
Those who watched have a new respect
for the Mexican as a soldier, after see
ing him die by hundreds. Villa opened
with a long-range cannonade intended
to explode the two hundred mines with
which the garrison of Aqua Prieta had
sown the ground over which the at
tacking force had TO advance. Many
of these mines were thus set off, but
enough remained to kill later hun
dreds of Villas Yaquis.
On the second day Villa advanced
within rifle shot, and the fight was
carried on hotly with small arms and
machine guns. This was followed by
pare the way for a last desperate
charge. Through a hail of fire, the
flower of Villas army dashed for the
hostile trenches. They never reached
them. Weary and gaunt with hunger
the advance over the mine-torn ground
tangled with barb-wtre barricades, in
the face of a fire from a garrison
newly reinforced and amply supplied
with ammunition, was too much for
the men of the northern chieftain
Leaving the ground strewn with dead
they sullenly withdrew.
From the trenches and the house
tops American soldiers and American
citizens watched the struggle. Stray
bullets few briskly over the border
whining their contempt for interna-
tional law. One American soldier
was killed, several soldiers and two
civilians wounded. For the most part
these shots were the result of chance
but cases were reported where Mexi-
can soldier, craZed with excitement
leaped up and opened wild fire or
! the American patrol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT

TINE apparent yielding of Germany
to the just demands of the
United States with respect to the
sinking of the Lusitania, and the regu-
lation of submarine warfare in gen.
eral, is received with the hope that
Germany really means what the fore
cast of yesterdays message would
seem to indicate. But we have been
so often just on the verge of a full
settlement only to be thrown back into
the slough of hopelessness and
humiliation by a fresh outrage the
next day that the country must be
pardoned If it receives this fresh assur-
ance very guardedly. If no more pas
senger ships are sunk without warning
and If no more American citizens are
murdered under the fiimsy mask of
military necessity. the nation may then
believe that finis at last has been writ
ten to the most disgraceful chapter of
American diplomacy, but not before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08

DOUGLAS, Texas, has just had an
opportunity to study war at
- close range. Schools were
closed, business shut down, children
and women crouched in tn shelter of
adobe walls, while Villa and Carranza
fought out the question of Mexican SUI
premacy q few yards across the bor-
dor.
Hundreds of shots fell in American
territory, wounding civilians and
United States soldiers. Forty bullets
struck an American school building IN
n single night. The Bank of Douglas
and the principal hotel were hit. Every
second man you meet Is carrying a
Mexican bullet in his vest pocket for
q souvenir.
1t was a magnificent chance to
watch a battle from the side-lines.
From the first struggling approach of
Villas advance guard through the
mountain pass IL miles away, to the
last desperate charge of his Yaquis
that hurled itself against the Carran-
"a trenches like a breaker against a
cliff, the whole engagement was
fought in plain view. Most of the
Americans in Douglas gathered to
look on, disregarding the possibility
OF a stray bullet.
On the first day, while the fighting
factions confined themselves to long
range cannonade, spectators crowded
up to the international line itself. AS
the battle lines drew closer and rifle
balls began to fly, the American army
cleared a military zone in Douglas
running back half a mile from the
line, from which all civilians were
excluded. Douglas was emptied up to
Sixth street. Scores of American fam
lilies found themselves ordered to
abandon their homes Many of them
left for Tucson or other nearby cities.
to wait until it should be possible to
sit on their own front porches again
without expecting to have an evening
pipe smashed by Mexican bullet.
But most of them stayed to watch.
The battle of Aqua Prleta is unique
in history. It Is the first battle to be
fought formally under the auspices of
a referee. Enough United States
troops to defeat both Mexican fac
tions together were intrenched along
the international boundary within a
few hundred yards Of the belliserents.
They were there to see that the Mexi-
cans confined their warfare to their
own side of the line.
When it first became evident weeks
ago that Villa would make an assault
on Aqua Prieta, the Carranza garrison
under Gales, following the best Euro
pean precedents, began to dig them
selves in. They Dug trenches facing
the west and south, and also facing the
north, where the town of Douglas lay
only three hundred yards away. They
explained that they could not leave
this side undefended, and allow villa
to slip between them and the Ameri-
can line to take them in the flank.
But the modern high-power rifle has
an effective range of more than a
mile You cannot fire 1t and arrange
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

1t can be taken as certain that with
the end of the war will come such a
read1ustment in politics, business and
finance as the world has never before
known. We apparently are in position
to take advantage of any situation. 1t
will need only wise national policies
and sound business judgment to ac-
complish such a desirable end.-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
1t is said that the grave of John
Brown at North Elba, n. Y, is sadly
neglected. His grave may be neglected,
but who shall deny that his soul goes
marching on?-Kansas City Times.
The social center of New York's
population has moved 500 feet in the
last two years. which shows that the
400 possesses degree of progressiv-
ism not heretofore uspected.-Boston
Transcript.
When Senator Hoke Smith realizes
that cotton is worth twenty cents a
pound in the Berlin market his heart
bleeds for the starving women and chill
dren of Germany.-New York Morning
Telegraph.
The synthetic rubber which Germany
thetic money her printing presses are
turning out that is going to prove the
greatest disappointment.--New York
Morning Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
OUT OF DEBT
[From the Kansas city star,l


The Kansas State officials have
planned pleasant little jollification for
tomorrow morning OH the occasion of
the burning of the last bond outstand-
ing against the State.
a number of years ago Governor
celebration for his State, and one of
the best business men in the State said:
"Dockery thinks ii is a celebration. He
does not know that he is burning his
legs Off" What he meant was that the
development of a State, the going ahead
of the Commonwealth was dependent
upon bond issues. When the State had
no bonded Indebtedness it meant that
progress had stopped.
Here's Kansas burning its bonds to
celebrate its being out of debt, and at
the same time II is celebrating its
golden harvest among all the years. Its
people never We're so prosperous, show
Ing that Kansas is not at all burdened
with debt.
Yet every Kansan who knows any
thing about his own State knows that
its public institutions are suffering
Legislature last winter refused to make
sufficient appropriation for the proper
maintenance of its schools, charitable
institutions or prisons,
The condition of the Kansas prison
at Lansing is a disgrace to the State.
but tho Governor last. winter vetoed an
appropriation for sanitary cells for the
prisoners because the State was so poor.
The Kansas schools are dropping to
second and third rate places among the
schools of tha country. Its public roads
are mud holes. Kansas is first in moth
ing now-except wealth.
TO one who has the right vision of
Kansas it would appear that the burn
ing OF its last bond is anything but an
occasion for celebration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08

sonal supervision cannot be given the
investments.
1t must not be understood, of course,
that every idea which may be devel-
oped in the mind of some visionary is
necessarily practical business propo-
sition. Far from it. Many local enter
prises in the past have failed because
those who invested failed to give the
doubtful propositions careful personal
Investigation, trusting only in the elo-
quent arguments of promoters whose
chief business it was to get their
money and exchange therefor some
beautifully decorated stock certificates.
This is not the sort of investment
which is to be considered
Our Chamber of Commerce has act
ed with discretion and good judgment
in refusing to approve many PROPOSE
tions which have been submitted to
that organization for it's o. K. 1t is
not part of the function of such an as
ISOLATION to promote local or other en-
terprises without first being satisfied
that they are promising ventures with
ordinary safeguards and reasonable as
surance of protection and a fair return
for those who provide the capital.
Our point is that Harrisburg is
better located than the average city
for industrial expansion. 1t remains
for out people to take advantage of
their opportunities and not to assume
that the only place to engage in pro-
titable enterprise is somewhere outside
the immediate range of their vision.
It might be we'll perhaps to have an
industrial survey made of Harrisburg
looking to a presentation of business
and manufacturing opportunities. This
is the sort of work that could properly
be done by the Chamber of Commerce
with view to presenting for the con-
sideration of Harrisburg people and
others the real conditions here.
1t is obvious that we need more en-
ployment and more kinds of employ
ment so that our working people of all
classes may be busy all the time. Our
are doing their part admir-
ably, but unless we have a variety of
labor in our industrial market neither
the merchant nor the professional man
nor the tradesman of any sort can
prosper. There must be community
cooperation in every direction and at
the beginning of the year is a good
time to consider whether there is any
better place anywhere for developing
some line of business that has not al
ready been developed here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
THE STATE STREET MARKET

TO-NIGHT, for the first Saturday
night in more than a half CEN
tury, save only when Christmas
fell on the last day of the week, the
old State street market stands dark
and silent. It's day of activity has
passed. 1t soon will give way to the
beautiful State park that is being
planned to replace the "Old Eighth"
The other market houses are pre-
pairing to absorb it's business, but they
will never quite take the place of the
State street market, which was an
institution quite distinctive of its
kind.
Slowly but surely the old city is
passing and from it's ashes is rising
the new and better Harrisburg so
many of us long have beheld only in
our minds eye. Sometimes the re-
moval of an old building, with the
associations of years about 1t, and the
landmarks of time upon it, is to be
regretted, but in this case the old mar
ket house had outlived it's usefulness
to a very large extent. The people it
had served so long have been steadily
removing from their former haunts
and It's trade had been decreasing
proportlonately.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
g. w. KNAPP
.HE sudden death of C. W. Knapp.
in the office of the New York
Tin,es tn which i,ausnapar n =

TIME sudden death of c. w. Knapp.
in the office of the New York
Times, to which newspaper he
had gone as treasurer after long
and notable journalistic career in the
Middle West, removes from the
newspaper world one of it's most dis
tinguished figures. The son of John
George Knapp, who acquired control
OF the st. Louis Republic in the
forties, and incorporated it as George
Knapp & Co., publishers, he prac-
tically grew up in the office, and on
his emerging from college in 1867
began the career which ended in st.
Louis on Christmas eve and for all
time in the Times office ten days
later. He served the paper as cub
reporter and became it's city editor,
managing editor and editor in chief.
He passed through all the stages of
advertising and business management
and attained to the office of president
and publisher in 1887, which post he
held continuously until his retire.
ment. He was one of the organizers
of the Associated Press as a national
and international newsgathering body
and for more than a quarter of q CEN
tury has sat on its directorate and
been a member of it's executive COM
mittee. He was one of the organizers
of the American Newspaper Pub
lisners' Association and served as its
president.
When Mr.. Knapp entered the serv-
ice of the St. Louis Republic, then the
Republican, his family controlled the
majority interest in the paper, but
this interest, except small part,
descending to Charles w. Knapp.
passed into other hands, and now his
death breaks a long connection that
reminds one of that of the Walter
family which through four genera
tions controlled the London Times
until its recent purchase by Lord
Northcliffe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
NEW LOCAL ENTERPRISES

MTlTH the millions of dollars sub
" ject to loan in this community
it would appear that Harris
burg Is about ready for step forward
in the line of industrial expansion.
Most of our factories and plants are
running at capacity, but there is ap-
parently room for an enlargement of
the activities in profitable local enter
prises.
This city can only grow and prosper
when those who live here develop our
resources and take full advantage of
our unrivaled location as q distribut-
ing center. These matters have been
called to the attention of Harrisburg
by the Chamber of Commerce and the
local statesmen who act as missionaries
in the larger field outside. More than
one plant has been established here be-
cause the peculiar advantages of the
city have been exploited by the public
spirited men who have their head
quarters in this city, but who travel
from day to day throughout the coun-
try.
ing could be done. and 1t might be
worth while considering whether our
merchants and all who have extensive
correspondence should not send tho
message of good will and a word as to
our opportunities far and wide so that
oil who read the message may be ad-
vised OF what is here from an indus
~
The Rev. DIR. Conwell, in his recent
lecture here, pointed out in the most
convincing manner that many oppor-
tunities are overlooked at our very
doors through the mistaken notion
that there are fortunes beyond and in
remote places. We should study Har-
risburg in all its phases and with re-
gard to all its advantages. It is prob
able that there are waiting for IIar-
risburg investors right here at home
much better investments than can pos
sibly be had elsewhere. During the
last decade thousands upon thousands
of dollars were sent out of this COM
munity into wildcat schemes of every
sort which were promoted by glib
tongued individuals with the ability to
persuade ordinarily reasonable men
that the moon is made of green cheese
and that every flash in the sunlight is
diamond ready for the picking.
There is no doubt whatever that all
kinds of opportunities are lying about
us and it would seem to be the wise
course for our men of means and for
those who have funds to invest to first
study the local situation before de-
Gliding TO plant their savings and their
incomes away from home where per-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
4 City Planning Exhibition Is Urged
by a Com m IAAiOner
UF q NWHHHHNIHHIUutT
[ Ernm the St Panl Dismal fch

[From the st. Paul Dispatch.J
A city planning exhibition, in con-
gested by Mayor Powers. is the pro-
posal of Louis Nash, commissioner of
parks. Fairgrounds and public build
inss pa as outlined to the, the city eo1nci
TO know what the city needs as to show
what has to be done. In this way. he
says, Il systematic plan for the future
development of the city Will be assured.
"A proper planning exhibit would
show +ust what sections of the city arc
adapted to manufacturing and jobblng.
and fuel distributing plants, and other
industries dependent upon trackage fa-
cilttics., the proposal recites
His plan would show where the homes
of the employees In these Industries
should be located. 1t would help sys-
tematiZe the laying out of additions
with regard to open spaces. parks. play
grounds school and church facilities
and transportation and harbor accom-
violations would receive due considera-
ton.
In his exhibit he would show the
benefit of systematic tree planting. He
would emphasize this fact by motion
pictures showing what has been done
development between the different de-
partments should be eature. lie says
Housing accommodations for transit
ents of limited means as well as the
worthy poor residents. should receive
consideration. and a city-wide survey
should be made to point out the mis-
tnke3 of tho past. he cites.
the charter, legal and otherwise. might
interfere with an attempt to control the
resources of the citv for the use of all: !:
yolopment: the establishment of build
ing lines, location OF future street car
lines and extensions, and last but not
the Union Depot sn;d its it's Approaches s e5
and the Capitol mall"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-08
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

--Lansdale, Pa. prodigy aged four,
plays piano classics all day long. Fine!
We're glad he lives in Lansdale.
For the benefit of pocketbooks that
are still suffering from that "all-gone"
feeling incident to Christmas, we pause
to remark that Easter does not come
this year until April %.
We wonder If there is anything
significant in the fact Huerta and Boy
Ed both got crowded off the first page
at about the same time.
Somebody's always taking the JOY
out of life. First we couldn't take ad-
vantage of the low price of gasoline be-
cause automobiles were SO high, and
now we can t afford a cheap automo-
bile because gasoline is so high.
New York club women are unani-
nous in the opinion that girls are en-
titled to propose this year. On another
page We read that eleven New York
bachelors have taken up residence In q
houseboat anchored two miles off
shore.