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The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09

E-CesncEImzn Walker Jeff yes terszy for his new business place o1 Nor4h Island. where the newly organized company will operate this zmmez Mr- Walker, who fs part o~le- n the Eew enterprise, will be II charge 0f -Ee mercantile depart uszt-
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09

WASHINGTON. May e--Secre- sary of War Baker, wired General Funston this morning 10 use his own discreatiOa as 10 the pursuit of the bandits and to use all the available troops at his command if necessary. He WAS given the expressed au thority tc send another expedition into the interior of Mexico, prcvid- ed that in his judgment It seems available
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09
ANOTHER EATING PLACE IS
 OPENED.

The New York Restaurant is now open for business The place was overhaulesd and cleared ID and oth- erwise renovated making an ap- getizEng place 10 eat for everybody The management will spare no trouble to keep the place neat at all times
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09

VISITORS FROM KLAWACK.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. c. Hibbs arrived from Klawack yesterday and are registered at the hotel Stedman for 2 few days.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09

but very little official reports leak out get if the plans promulgated are followed, the bandits will not escape So easily this time.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09

Just received Misses and Ladies Spring Coats Wonderful bargains ]. F. Hickman ( Co. 5-33t
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-05-09

We do fine job printing
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' sstss New llh q difiOn Brit; IT
the public has already paid $14,0OO,O0O
of the
Britannica
The Britannica'S Part

The Encyclopaedia Britannica has chroni-
cled all this progress, been contemporaneous
with it. But it has been more than that; it has
deeply contributed to this progress. We know
that far back it was the reading of articles on
Electricity and Chemistry in the Fourth Edition
of the Britannica which turned the mind of
Faraday to scientific research. 1t was the
articles of Thomas Thomsonin the Third Edition
which made known the ideas of John Dalton
which were the foundation of modern chem
istry. The ideas of Nautilus and of James Mill
and many other great thinkers first found
popular exposition in the Britannica All the
notable men of science, scholars, and men of
letters from the days of Sir Walter Scott and
Playfair Thos. Young and Lord Jeffrey down
to the present time have been contributors to
editions And many of its longer articles
have subsequently been published in book form.
Many Of the most brilliant writers the English race
has produced Lord Macaulay, DeQuincey, Huxley,
Matthew Arnold, the poet Swnburne, Lord Morley, Lord
Bryce Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Leslie Stephen
have contributed notable articles.
The Britannica has been and still remains not merely
vast repository of knowledge but II has distinguished
place in English literature we'll And this
true in higher degree than in the Eleventh Edition.
which has brought together contributions of than
1900 of the bestnformed minds living Yet with all
its erudition. its scholarship its brilliant literary STYLE
the Britannica Is the less first and foremost
teal work for everyday by the busy and
ofto-day.
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FOLK MAY BE CANDIDATE.
Prospects Increase for Contest Owe
Vice Presidential Nomination.

Prospects of fight over the selection
of a vice presidential nominee at the
democratic national convention in
creased considerably today, when it was
reported that Joseph w. Folk of Mis-
souri, would be a candidate and that he
would have the backing of William ].
Bryan. Although Mr.. Bryan failed to
be elected as delegate to the national
convention. he expects to be there and
undoubtedly he will make his influence
felt.
1t has been rumored for some time
that the administration did not desire
the denomination of Vice President
Marshall as a running mate for Mr..
Wilson. But the fact that there are to
be elected two senators in Indiana at
the coming election makes it almost
imperative from democratic stand
point that Mr. Marshall, who halls from
Indiana. be given the denomination.
There has been several suggested
candidates for the vice presidential
nomination. including Senator Lewis OF
Illinois. Secretary Baker and Senator
Owen Of Oklahoma.
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4 Long Sweep of Time

The beginnings of the encyclopaedia
Britannica 60 back to a world which would
seem to US very strange-a time when there
were few stage coaches even in England and
very few in America; when the first modest
steam engines of Watt were beginning to make
England the great coal-producing country of
the earth, and her industrial empire was being
founded upon the discovery Of way to smelt
iron with this same coal.
George III was King and the greater Pitt t.
Lord Chatham-was Prime Minister. George
Washington, jefferson. John Adams. were
then little known leaders of the English Colo
MES which sparsely settled the eastern shore of
America. The only American Of European
fame was Benjamin Franklin.
Link-boys with torches still lighted the
gentry through the murky streets Of London.
A candle was the most brilliant light that any
king in Europe could boast Most people in the
Colonies wore homespun clothes. Terrible cpl
denies were frequent; sanitation was almost
unknown and highway robberies abounded in
all the countries Of Europe.
A voyage to America required from six to
ten weeks, or more; shipwrecks were many
and great number died en- route from scurvy
and other diseases.
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The Golden Age

The Encyclopedia Britannica, in its AS years
of existence, has seen and chronicled almost all
the great inventions and discoveries which have
made the modern world what it is It was born
two years after Watt took out his first patents
for the steam engine, and while the spinning
jenny and power loom were being perfected.
of Engand's great manufacturing industry and
then that Of Europe and America; the first loco
motives of Stevenson; the first steamboats, of
Fulton the first steamships to crossthe Atlantic;
the building OF the Great Eastern; the laying of
the first Atlantic cable; Whitney's invention of
the cotton gin; Elias Howe's sewing machine;
Mccormick reapers and mowers; Sir Humphry
Davy's electric light and Faraday's momentous
discovery of machine-made electricity; the first
dynamos; the first electric motors. Morse'stele-
graph; Bell telephone; the development of the
modern piano and the mechanical piano-player;
the photograph and its wonders; the wireless
telegraph and wireless telephone; the motor car;
the aeroplane; the multiplex printing machines
which grind out newspapers at the rate of
100000 an hour-in brief, all the modern mar
wells of human ingenuity which have banished
famine from civilized lands and made this the
richest and most interesting period of human
history.
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LIEUT.. c. A. RICHARDS
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY
Commander of U. S. Destroyer Fan.
ming Electrocuted at Sag
Harbor, L. I.

SAG HARBOR. l.. l., May 26.-Lieut
Clarence Alvin Richards. commander OF
the United States destroyer Tanning,
was instantly killed by an electric
shock in the station of the Sag Harbor
Light and Power Company here early
today. Harry D. Christian. night watch
man at the station. said it appeared to
him that the lieutenant deliberately
committed suicide by taking hold OF
two heavily charged wires.
The flaming was one of meet OF
war vessels which has been rnaneuver-
ing in GARDENERS bay making their
headquarters here. but the vessels were
under orders to leave for Newport at =
am. Why Lieut.. Richards was ashore
after the sailing orders were issued is
unknown
Mr.. Christian said the lieutenant came
to the power station two hours before
the feet was to sail and said he was a
government inspector He pushed
Christian aside and walking into the
station picked up two wires, receiving
tho shock which killed him.
Lieut.. J. c. Jennings, commanding the
shore station. who took charge OF the
body. declined to give any information
other than that he would report to the
Navy Department.
Lieut.. Richards was we'll known in
navy from Kansas and was thirty-four
years old.
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He Rammed a Fokker.

Then we heard the perfectly incred-
lille story Of the man who rammed "A
Fokker in micair-that is it would
he Incredible If it ala not happen to
he true. He had missed his shot. this
man. and climbed again and missed
again, until he lost his temper Or
perhaps. as the story goes he had
determined 10 get" that Fokker even
IL he killed himself Or am a
doubter-perhaps he side-sIipped Al
any rate. on the third SWoop he struck
the Fokker head on. His motor was
torn half loose from it's moorings and
his propeller was spllntered. But he
came to earth. The Fokker fell and
It's TWO riders were killed
What happened to the Frenchma n -
He was reprlmanded-and decorat-
ed But our men have been ordered
not 70 do that again"
Almost as interesting as the planes
themselves were the arrangements for
keeping the German planes out of the
ar Just as ~ IS certainly true that
khe French have won the greater
Nonors IN flying. so IL also seems true
that their auti-aircraft guns are more
ericlent than those Of any other ally
They are sunk OUT Of the enenly's sigh,
in pits shaped like twin bowls and
lined with concrete In each bowl is a
gun. mounted on n pivot. In the neck
which joins the two bowls are two
standards. each tipped with a revoly-
ing arm. on which telescopes are dashed
fast.
Let US see how long il takes these
boys 10 get the rang" Of an enemy
plane" sa id the general officer who aC
Conpanied US.
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Sighting a Filler.

The men were smoking cigarettes in
their dug outs. for this station IS un-
der constant fire. Even as the general
spoke a shell screamed overhead 1t
seemed near enough TO stir our cans
with the wind. 1T is a pleasure to
state that the general proved his
susceptibility TO the commoner human
emotions by duckiug as neatly as the
civilians. The captain in command
nodded and touched the button of an
alarm bell. The general glanced at his
watch.
The men 1eaped from their seats
Three officers glued their eyes to the
telescopes. In the distance French
hier whirled Iazily in the clean blue
air and the glasses were fastened on
IL Two officers shouted something
The third-a lightning calculator IL
there ever were one-cast up sums and
angles in his mind. Then he snapped
an order. The two guns revolved upon
their pivots. their black shouts thrust
Upward and two gunners spoke with
. single breath:
Ready"
What the calculations had been 7 do
not know. ! realize in a dim fashion
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that the angles established by the
three telescopes had in some abstruse
fashion established the height and dis
lance of the swirling plane The math-
ematics played with by that calculator
as his daily task would make Euclid
dizzy. They are practical mathematics.
too. This particular station guards an
important angle of the line.
I'VE have only brought one boche
down. said the officer in command. de-
Jectedly. Then he frightened up. But
no others come around" said he. The
general showed his watch. From
the ringing of the bell to that shouted
ready by the gunners just fifteen
seconds had elapsed
After watching these operations to-
day we appreciate the statement at
tributed to one of the chiefs of air
craft on this front. He had been asked
II he had any plan of campaign in
mind.
But it is quite simple he protest
ed One has but to keep ones own
men in the air and the boches out
of IT.
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GERMANY NOT TO AGREE
TO PLAN TO AID POL AND

THE HAGUE. May -. via London,
May 2e-It is declared here on in
formation from authoritative German
sources that there Is not the slightest
chance that Germany will accent the
British stipulat:ons regarding the plan
TO feed the civilian population OF Po-
land through an American commission.
1t is thers.cre not considered likely
that any relief for the Polish people
will be acco':I plshed this year as fur
Their negotiations would result in the
loss of much time that no food
could reach the country before October
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~ = En
Lie Searchli8ht 5;
|1ls RENS
WxiElcI
EDl)cntol
1IlssihioN
A Railway Dreadnaught.

one OF the newest inventions for ma.
tonal defense is a railway dread
naught. which is nothing more than q
heavy steel car SO constructed that i,
can be firmly fixed upon a concrete
foundation and serve as az mount for
guns Congressman Capstick of New
Jersey stands sponsor for the new in
ventfon to the extent of asking Con-
gress to appropriate $1O,000.O0O to pro-
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German Wheat Stocks Plentiful

BERLIN. May cs.-Herr Michaels. un-
der secretary of the interior. has in
formed the reichstag committee that an
examine zion Of the stocks OF wheat
proved that the new harveS: year wifi
he entered upon not only with the nee
essarE reserve of 400 400 tons hut with
a surplus of 10c 200 tons OF this
amount 100. GOO tons viii be used .,r-
mediatcly to increase the daily bread
ration of those whose chief nourlsh-
ment is bread
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Surgeon Being Rushed to Hill.

ST. PAUL. May 26-Dr. William
Mayo. surgeon of Rochester, Mimi. is
being rushed to St Paul on a special
train to attend James J. Hill, who is
i'll at his home here
His son. L. w. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railway went in a spe-
cial train this morning for Dr. Mayo.
They are expected in St. Paul about
pm
Mr.. Hill. who has been i'll for ten DAYS,
is thought to have taken a bad turn.
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Plans for Naval Bill in House.

With a view to obtaining a final vote
on the naval bill in time for republican
members of the House to catch an
evening train for Chicago next Friday
the rules committee today set o'clock
of that day as the time for closing all
debate on the measure. Eight hours
general debate will be provided, and
the entire bill will be open to amend
ment when consideration of it begins
on the floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-26
National Film Company Chartered

The National Film Company has been
incorporated by certificate filed with
the recorder of deeds. 1t will manu-
facture motion picture films. The capt.
tai stock is placed at $4,000, in shares
of $50 each. The incorporators are
Isaac y. Nordlinger. Benjmin A. Bowles
and George A. Macomber.
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Well Known in Washington.

Lieut.. Richards was vel known in
this city from the fact that his wife
spent much of her time here at the
home of her mother Mrs. Royal Bird
Bradford widow of Rear Admiral
Bradford. at 1922 p street. He served
for several months in 1913 as assistant
Instructor at the Naval Academy and
was then frequently in Washington.
He was graduated from the Naval
Academy in 1904.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-26

John ]. Hoffman, seventy-three. for
many years known as the mayor of
South Baltimore" died at his home.
in that city from heart disease. Born
in South Baltir.ore December ~. 1872,
he spent siNty-eight years in that sec
ton of the city.
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vide for a supply Of these dreadnaush.s

vide for a supply Of these dreadnaughts
as q means of defense adaptable to any
part of the country. They have the ad
to wherever they may be needed. One
Of these cars can accommodate either
fourteen or sixteen-inch guns. and the
demonstration given incline many army
officials to regard them favorably. 1t is
claimed that under modern methods of
warfare the permanent fort is no
longer a practical defense.
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for a total of ouer a million sets
The Huge Outlay Involved

The eleven editions which have appeared at
regular intervals throughout the last AS years
have cost more to produce than any other ten
works (of reference or anything ese) in any lam
guage and more than any twenty other works
published in English.
The English Dictionary of National Biography
has now reached its seventeen volume. The
German Encyclopaedia of Ersch and Gruber, be-
has passed its goth volume. The New English
Dictionary, still incomplete, has cost huge sum,
though largely labor of love. The Century Die
tonary, the greatest of its kind yet published
in America has cost to date more than a million
dollars; and there are other large works of ref
erence in French, German, Spanish and Russian.
And the Encyclopaedia Britannica has cost
more than the ten largest of these together.)
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Archbishop of Dublin Dies.

LONDON. May %, 3:22 pm.-The
Most Rev. Joseph Ferguson Peacocke,
Archbishop of Dublin from 1897 to
1915. died today. He was born in
Queens county Ireland. in 1885.
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when the haryests vii, become avail
able.
This Information is unofficial, as the
German cabinet has not passed tho
British proposals submitted by James
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Ambassador Shea Reaches Chile.

SANTIAGO, Chile. May 2S.-Joseph
A. Shea, newly appointed American
m bassador to Chile. arrived here to-
day Mr.. Shea succeeds Henry P
Fletcher. American ambassador to
Mexico.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-07
ENEMY OF BANANA TRUST
URGES ITS NEW TRIAL PLEA
Bluefelds Steamship Company Says
Court Excluded Strong Evidence

one hundred and four reasons for a
new trial were advanced today by coun-
sci for the Bluefelds steamship Company,
Ltd, before judge Thmopson, in the
United States District Court, where It
lost to the United Fruit Company, the So
called banana trust"
At the first trial the Bluenelds Com
pany spent months and 100000 trying
to prove the United Fruit Company should
nay S15.0O0,00O damages for violation of
the antitrust law
There was less argument this morning
than heretofore. There were fewer law
yers. Whereas IA lawyers were engaged
in the first trial, but three presented pleas.
Among the reasons given by Thomas
T. Gain, partner of State Attorney General
Francis Skunk Brown and counsel for
the steamship company. was Judge
Thompson's alleged error in excluding
correspondence between officers of the
steamship company and the banana
trust" These letters tended to show, he
declared the trusts" determination to
sti1e competition by any means
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GERMANS GAIN
WEST OF MEUSE;;
YIELD ON EAST
Teutons Capture Trenches
Along 300 Yards of Beth
incourt Line
INFANTRY FIGHT GROWS
Berlin Report Claims Kaiser's
Troops Again Hold Call
lette Woods

PARIS, April T.
German troops have made further gains
west Of the Meuse River, whtle the
F,ren III continue to advance east of the
river. the French War Office announced
today
In a furious night attack the Teutons
penetrated the first line trenches OF the
French on the Betltincourt front, north
west of Verdun, but they were thrown
back except on front Of 900 yards.
The Germans drove violently against
the French positions on the Bethincourt-
Cllattancourt road, following vigorous
bornbardment and succeeded In entering
them.
Counter-attacks were Immediately
launched bv the French At every point
except one the Kaiser's men were forced
back
(Bethincourt lies 5h miles northwest
OF VerSlun being the apex of the French
ealient west OF the Meuse River)
The infantry assaults are both
.i preceded and followed by furious ar
tillery duels that rage night and day
The Germans are making violent
efforts to stem the French advance in
the Douaumont region, pouring in
fresh troops for support, but have
seen unable to do So
Infantry fighting is now In progress
over the widest front in the Verdun
sector since the great battle opened
a days ago.
The text of the official communique
follows:
West of the Meuse. in the course Of
night attack, delivered with the
help of violent bombardment
4 against our positions between Bethin-
court and Hill 265, the Germans pene-
trated our first line trenches along
the Bethincourt. Chattancourt road
Our counter.attack Immediately drove
them out of the greater part Of the
position which they had succeeded in
occupying.
The enemy at present holds only
some advance elements on front
about 800 yards long.
4 East of the Meuse there was ain
Intermittent bombardment We have
continued to advance in the enemy's
communicating trenches southwest of
Fort Douaumont.
There we're some artillery squalls
IN the woevre region.
The night was quiet on the rest of
the front
BERLIN, April 7-Caillette Wood, q
small forest northeast of Verdun, for
which the. French and Germans have been
hghtinR desperately for three days and
nights is now firmly In German hands
Official announcement to this effect was
made today by the German War Office.
French attacks west of the Meuse. on
the Verdun front were repulsed.
In the ArgOnne the French exploded
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BIG ITALIAN GUNS SHELL
GORIZIA; FIRING ON ISONZ0
Vienna Reports Repulse of Enemy
Assaults

VIENNA. April Italian forces are
again on the offensive i'm front of Gorizia.
The Austrian War Office announced to-
day that the city is being shelled, and
that the Italian artillery is very active
elsewhere on the 1sonao front.
Adelsberg. behind the Austrian lines,
has been attacqed by italian airmen.
North of Tunale mines exploded by
the Austrians destroyed Italian trenches.
The following official statement was
given out:
Italian artillery is lively on the
Isonzo front.
Gprzia is again being shelled ny
the italians heavy guns.
Two Italian aviators dropped bombs
on Adelsberg. without success
Small encounters took place on the
Tyrol frontier.
In Rauchiofel north of Monte Crts-
tadeI the Italians succeeded in oc-
Cupving q ridge which tire Austrians
afterward reCaptured. one hundred
and two prisoners. among them two
officers and two machine guns, were
captured by us.
North of the Susana Valley, near
St oswald, strong Italian forces at
tackled. but we're repulsed with heavy
losses.
Italian attacks in the Ledfo sector
also failed.
North of Tonale defile some recently
built Italian trenches were destroyed
by our mines.
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THE of thousands of readers who delighted in the
"Tarzan tales and that wonderful story AT the Earths
Core will seize upon this new Burroughs romance with
avidy. In swiftly moving scenes the author shows how
Captain John Carter gentleman of Virginia and hero OF the
Civil War, suddenly transported to the planet Mars,
where he entered upon strange adventures among people
gigantic and hdeous.