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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-07

and no questions were asked.
A Wonderful Water System
The village of Grand Canyon has
the most unique water system in all
found on the south side of the rim Of
Grand Canyon for one hundred miles
east and west of the station. Engi-
neers have discussed the feasibility
of pumping water from the Colorado
/, river mile below, but any plan pro-
posed would be too expensive. Every
drop of water for the guests, for the
hotels and residences, for washing, for
bathing, for the $50 mules and for
fire protection is hauled on the rail-
roal in large tank cars from Del Rio
springs, 1875 miles away. The whole
institution is under the control of the
Santa Fe railroad, and when water is
sold to private consumers it costs fifty
cents per barrel. When a person
, takes a bath he must pay fifty cents
for the water and twenty-five cents
for the use Of the tub When tank
of water arrives it is pumped into a
large stand-pipe and from this mains
lead to all parts of the village. There
are hydrants for fire protection, and
the use of water is not stinted. For
a long distance in all directions the
country is of desert nature, with lit
tie rain or snow.
The Yosemite
The Yosemite country is noted for
its high falls and big trees. The giants
Of the forest are the largest and old
est living things on the earth. Some
of them are thought to be about 1000
years old and in that event were but
half-grown when Caesar lived High
ways pass through the trunks, and
hundreds of people could stand on the
trunk of one of the fallen giants.
But the valley is visited by thou
sands in order to see the giant walls
and waterfalls A writer describes
the valley as follows;
The Valley and its Waterfalls
''No matter what their expectation,
most visitors are delightfully."- aston
ished upon entering the Yosemite
Valley. The shere immensely of the
precipices on either side, Of the val
ley's peaceful floor; the loftiness and
the romantic suggestion of the numer-
Gus waterfalls; the majesty of the
granite walls; and the unreal, almost
fairy-like quality of the every-varying
whole, cannot be successfully fore
told
"This valley was once tortuous
river canyon. So rapidly was it cut
by the MERGED that the tributary val
legs soon remained hanging high on
either side. Then the canyon became
the bed of a great glacier. 1t was
widened as well as deepened, and as
a consequence the hanging character
of the side valleys was accumulated.
There were hundreds, thousands,
OF other ice-flled canyons in the Ser
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-07

Lyula n. fInkn8Tn 3
Vege table Com
pound. When / was
As an d h ad the
Oh a ng e of Life,
a friend recon-
mended it and it
gave me such relief
from my bad feel
ings that l took
several bottles. I
am now well and
healthy and recon.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-07

Mrs Walter Barton of Rice Lake,
who has been visiting her mother,
Mrs. John Simonds, in Delton, went
to North Freedom yesterday to visit
Mrs. Henry Voll
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-07
ELDERLY WOMEN
SAFEGUARDED
Tell Others How They Were
Carried Safely Through
Change of Life.

Durand, Wis am the mother of
fourteen children and owe my life to
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-07

At the Indian Gardens is a fine
stream and everyone quenches his
thirst. From the drainage it would
appear that all the water, sewer. aka
Ii, was SIRED up together for the ben
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Italians Score New Successes.

Rome.--On the Carso plateau and 10
the east of Gorizia, along the lsonzo
front, the Austrians have suffered fur
ther reverses at the hands OF the
Italians, the official statement says.
Austrian entertainments in both these
regions were captured The state
ment follows
"On the Carso the gallant troops OF
the Eleventh army corps repulsed sew.
eral counter attacks, and attacked the
enemy's lines to the west Of Sainte
Grado and Monte Pecinka. Several
sections or the enemys trenches were
captured and 1,419 prisoners, includ-
ing 81 officers, were taken.
"In the hilly tract east of Gorizia,
after heavy fighting, we carried other
hostile entertainments, taking 220 pris-
oners, of whom five were officers.
"0n the remainder OF the front the
enemy made the usual demonstrations
against our positions; at Monte Piana,
In the Trienz Valley, on the Forame
river at Felizzon, Boite, Monte Colom-
bara, on the Astico plateau at Monte
Cimone and Monte Seluggio, near As.
tico, in the Posina basin and on the
Pasubio He was unsuccessful every
where.
Enemy aircraft dropped bombs on
Monfalcone, Ronci, Saint Cansiano and
Pieris. No casualties or damage re.
suited"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
URGE BOND ISSUE
TO MEET EXPENSES
Big Sum Needed 10 Meet Mexi-
can Expenditures.
MAY NEED MORE MONEY
Department coneurs In Recommends.
tlon That Bonds Be lssued-Amount
Proposed VIII only Meet Require
ment Until December 81.

Washington.-A bond issue OF $780,
OO0,OO to meet extraordinary govern
ment expenditures due to the Mexican
situation was Unexpectedly recon-
mended to Congress by majority mem
bers Of the Finance Committee. with
the concurrence Of the Treasury De-
partment.
The bond issue is urged in the re-
port of the Finance Committee, filed
in the Senate on the $205 100000 Reve-
nue. Bill. In addition to the proposed
issue and the Revenue Bill the Finance
Committee asserts that further appro-
priation of SS6,OOO,OOO will be neces-
sary to defray the expense of opera
tions in the Mexican emergency If con-
dltions on the border continue as they
are now after December 81, 1916. The
$3.50, 0,OO0, 600 to be provided by the pro
posed bond issue, the report says, will
meet Mexican expenditures only until
the end Of this calendar year.
Accompanying the Finance Commit
tee majority's report, submitted by
Senator Simmons, was a general state
ment from the Treasury Department,
estimating disbursements for the fiscal
year 1917 at S1,126,243 600 and receipts
S762 900, 900.
"The total appropriations for the
fiscal year 1917, exclusive OF those car
ried in the so-called shipping bill,
which is to be betrayed by the issuance
Of Panama bonds, will exceed the ap-
propriations for the fiscal year 1916 by
about 69,0OO,00O," says the report.
This increase is represented principal
ly by S167,O00,OOO additional amount
appropriated for the Navy, Sl66, ,O00, 900
additional amount appropriated for the
Army, S2O,OOO,OO0 additional amount
appropriated for fortihcations 1000
600 for deficiency appropriation
about S35, 100000 OF which is due to the
Mexican situation and increased re-
qulrements of the Army and Navy
and S2O,0OO0OO for a nitrate plant,
which Is a preparedness appropriation.
The increase in the appropriation for
the present fiscal year other than for
these extraordinary purposes is not be-
yond the normal increase"
In It's analysis Of the revenue bin as
revised by the Senate committee, the
Treasury Department estimates that
the annual revenue TO be derived will
be: From income tax. O9,5OO 900; in.
heritance tax, s2O,00OOOO for 1917
(after law is in full force approximate
ly SOS, 5,OO0,OOO), munitions manufac
lures tax, $4O,OOO,OOO; miscellaneous
including beer liquors, stamp taxes
etc, S35 500 0OO-a total of S2O5, ,C0O, 900
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
WILSON VETOES
THE ARMY BILL
Resents Section Freeing Tong
ues of Retired Officers.
HAY TAKES BULL BY HORNS
Presidents Action Against Feature
ENempting Retired officers From
courts-Martial Brings Deela-
ration From Hay

Washington.-The Army appropria.
ton bill was Unexpectedly vetoed by
President Wilson because he would
3ot accept certain provisions in the
revision OF the articles Of war, forced
into the bill by the House conferees
and commonly said in Army circles to
be in the interest Of certain retired
officers "at outs" with the Army.
Chairman Hay, of the House Mill
tary Committee, at once reintroduced
the bill with the entire section re-
yislng the articles OF war stricken out
and the declaration that no revision
at all would go through with the bill
in this Congress.
Chairman Chamberlain, OF the Sen.
ate Military Committee, announced
that the Senate would reinsert the re-
vision approved by the President and
the War Department. but stricken out
in the House. and that the situation
had resolved itself into a contest be-
tween the Senate and House on one
hand and Mr.. Hay on the other.
May Delay Adjournment.
The tangle threatens to delay the
adjournment Of Congress and, incl
dentally, completion of the prepared
ness program, as well as TO hold up
appropriations for the Army increases
and all the extra expenses involved in
the Mexican service.
The Presidents veto, one Of the few
he has exercised. marks another stage
in the long fight between the Army
and Chairman Hay. The Army charges
Hay with defeat OF the Continental
Army and universal training plans and
the substitution Of National Guard re-
organization, which it opposed. Army
officers also say certain features OF the
bill we're injected in conference and
never were debated on the floor Of
either house OF Congress.
The articles Of war have not been
revised in a hundred years, and are
said TO be sadly deficient for dealing
with conditions which the growth Of
the Army and development Of the
nation requires. The War Depart
ment is especially anxious for changes
TO enable Army officers to deal ade.
quately with problems arising during
the present Mexican service.
Included In the revision worked out
by Congress. over the objection Of the
President and the War Department,
was a provision which exempted re-
tired officers from courts martial and
Army discipline, IL not actually from
Army control, and placed them under
the jurisdiction OF the civil courts
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
French Advance Az Verdun.
DREADNAUoHT BLOWS UP.
Italian BsttIeship Turns On Side and
800 Are Drowned.

Paris. - The Italian dreadnaught
Leonardo da Vinci caught fire and
blew up in the harbor OF Taranto,
Italy, and 500 OF her crew were
drowned, says a Turin dispatch to the
Petit Journal. The date of the dis
aster is given only as a day in August.
The fire, says the dispatch, was dis
covered in the dreadnaughts kitchen,
and spread rapidly. The captain i'm
mediately ordered the magazines
flooded, and tried to beach the battle.
ship, but one magazine exploded be-
fore this could be done. The vessel
was turned over on her side, and a
large number Of the crew were thrown
into the sea.
1t is believed that the battleship
can be righted and relocated.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
EIGHT SOLDIERS DIE.
Fatal Sickness Among Troops On Bor-
der Exceptionally Low.

washington - Eight deaths from
sickness among the regular and Ma.
tional Guard troops on the border dur
ing the week ending August IL are
disclosed in statistics just made pub
lie at the War Department Medical
officers regard the death rate as ex
ceptionally low since 1t covers a totaI
force Of approximately 10000 in 6eld
camps.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
MINERS TO CONTINUE STRIKE.
Would Keep collieries Closed Until All
Are unlonized

Shamokin, Pa.-Uniied Mine Work
ers at 16 Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iro nCompany and susquehanna
Coal Company collieries in the North.
cumberland county fields at special
meetings determined to continue the
tie.up at all the mines until they we're
completely unionized About 400 men
remain unorganlzed. Sixteen thousand
employees are affected.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
LIGHTNING KILLS SOLDIER.
Montana euardsman Meets Death At
Fort Bliss.

Fl Paso, TeI.-One soldier was
killed and thousands OF others en-.
camped in and near FL Paso suffered
great discomfort as a result Of heavy
rains.
During the all-night storm Private
Charles Johnston, headquarters com
pany, Seventh United States Infantry,
Of Chouteau, Mont, was killed by
lightning in his tent at Fort Bliss.
Other soldiers nearby were stunned.
Water ran through the camps Of the
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Michigan National Guard
nearby, inundating some tents and ran
three feet deep in the company streets
Of the Thirty-frst Michigan Infantry.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
WATER SOLD FOR CHICKEN.
Fowls Fed On Pepper To Make Them
Drink a Lot.

New York--A pepperfed chicken. II
kept thirsty long enough, will drink a
pound Of water and poultry dealers
are bringing to this city chickens with
thirsts excited in this manner and al.
lowing them to drink just before they
sell them. This is what Joseph Harti-
gan, Commissioner Of Weights and
Measures, announced he had dis.
covered.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
URGES BLACKLIST RepRIsAL.
Would Make Refusal OF Cargo
Criminal offense.

Washington Criminal prosecution
Of steamship companies and officials
who refuse American cargo was urged
by Representative Bennett. of New
York. before the House Commerce
Committee as reprisal against the
British blacklist. Chairman Adamson
and other committeeman expressed
doubt that the Bennett bin would rem
edy the situation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
TRAIN TlE.UP IN MINUTE.
A. B. osrretson Says Strike Would
Begin In Twinkle.

Washington.-"How long would II
take to tie up the railroads of the
United States?" A. b. Garretson, head
Of the committee of railroad workers
here, was asked. Il would say that
in one minute after the strike is call
ed the transportation Of the United
States would be paralyzed," he answer
ed. Garretson said that the railroads,
not the men, are responsible for the
movement Of mails.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
THREE ITALIAN SHIPS SUNK.
Part OF Steamer Teti's Crew Was
Landed At Genoa.

London.-Lloyd's reports the sink.
ing of the 2,5OO-tone Italian steamship
Teti in the Mediterranean. The Italian
steamer San Giovanni Battista, OF
1867 tons gross. and the Italian sailing
vessel Rosario are also reported TO
have been sunk. Part of the Teti's
crew was landed at Genoa.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
TO RECOMMEND EueENlcs LAW
Michigan Medical Society Also For
Education On Cancer.

Houghton, Mich. 49, The Michigan
State Medical Society. in session here,
decided to recommend to the next
state Legislature the passage of a
eugenic law, regulating marriage and
prescribing ahealth standard for those
about TO be married The society also
authorized a campaign Of education in
Michigan in the matter OF cancer
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
500 ARMY POSTS VACANT.
That Number OF Second Lieutensnts
Needed For Regulars.

Washington There are now 1900
vacancies IN the grade Of second lieu
tenant of the regular army to be filled,
and that many opportunities, Of
course, for young men to enter upon a
professional army career. The Office
OF the AdjutantGeneral announced
that 800 applicants had been received
for these vacancies and the applicants
had been directed TO take the eXamina-
ton No more applicants will be desig-
mated for this examination, but It is
announced that a further examination
will be held early in 1917 for the over
flow
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
ITALIANS SCORE
NEW SUCCESSES
Enter ToImino As Enemy Evacu.
ates Burning City.
AUSTRIAN FLEET LEAVES
Austrian Fleet Seeks New Base--Sails
From Trieste For Unknown
Destination, Geneva
Reports.

Paris.-Italian troops have entered
the suburbs of Tolmino, which is
under continuous shell fire, according
to a dispatch to La Liberte from
Turin. The Austrians, says the dis.
patch, are evacuating the city.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
sattleshlp Hit, Says Berlin.

Berlin.-The Admiralty announced
that a German submarine sank a small
cruiser and a destroyer near the Brit
ish east coast and damaged another
small cruiser and a battleship.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
MExIcANs HOLD AMERICANS.
United States Agent Seeks Release OF
imprisoned Ranehmen.

Washington.-Specisl Agent Rodgers
reported that two Americans, brothers,
named Hamilton. who own ranches in
the State Of Oaxsca, have been impris-
oned in Mexico City and that he is
seeking their release. One is accused
OF having killed a Mexican in 1912. The
charge against the other is not known
here. According to Mr Rodgers In.
formation, the Mexican referred to in
The charge was a bandit and was slain
BY Mexican federal troops in an en-.
gagement near Hamiltons ranch An
other member Of the band now has
charged Hamilton with the killing
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Uneeasing Drum Fire.
REBELS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Mexican "Legslistas" Capture rs Car
rama Soldiers.

III Paso, Texas.--Sixty reyolutionists
held up a passenger train on the Mexi-
can National Railway last Tuesday
near Aguascalientes, Durango, taking
prisoner the 20 Carranza soldiers who
comprised the escort. according to
passengers aboard the train, which ar.
rived here. Two baggagemen also
we're taken captive, but the remainder
Of the crew and the passengers we're
unmolested, they said.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

Having little faith In banks, Mike
Dolina had secreted $500 behind joist
In his cellar at Tamaqua. He looked
Thursday to find the money had been
stolen.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

Caught under falling rock at the
Maple Hill colliery. Peter Link, OF
Shenandoah, aged thirty-hye years,
was so badly crushed that he will die.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
FUsILLADE ACROSS BORDER.
Negro Troops Exchange Shots With
MeSieans.

Naco. Ariz-More thqr 100 shots
were exchanged ac.oss the inlernation-
al line about a mile west Of here be-
tween patrols belonging TO the colored
militia troops from the District Of Co.
lumbia and a party on the Mexican
side. The miliuamen say that they
halted some Mexicans who attempted
20 cross the line. In answer TO the
challenge the Mexicans fired. In the
fuslllade that followed the only cas-
ualty was the woundIng Of one Of the
Mexicans, who had tried TO cross He
is now a prisoner in the camp OF the
colored troops.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Austrian Fleet Leaves.

Geneva. - The Italian advance
guard, moving southeast from Gorilla,
is within 1S miles of Trieste. whence
the greater part OF the Austrian feet
has sailed for an unknown destination.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

A big cinnamon bear, named Joe,
from Colorado, in the Paxtang Park
Zoo murdered Virginia black bear.
named Teddy. The keepers say Joe
and Teddy had a quarrel over which
was to lie in the sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

Blood poisoning, which developed
from picking pimple, caused the
death of Michael Kolack, fifty years
old, at his home in Atlas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
BRITISH REGAIN LOSS.
Take All Trenches North OF Pozieres
Captured BY Germans Sunday.

SaHAhNSN 0l SCIUldUS OuUud1.
London.-Gains for both the British
and French are claimed in official
statements issued by the War ofices
in London and Paris. The Berlin
statement admits that the British OBJ
tanned footing in first line German
trenches on the Thiepval- Pozleres
front.
Following advances the western
front is comparatively quiet, both Lon
don and Paris announcing that the
situation is unchanged. The usual
artillery bombardments continued at
various places north and south Of the
Somme and on the right bank OF the
Meuse.
In the official British statement it
was claimed that nearly all OF the re-
naming trenches northwest of
Pozieres, on the Somme front, in
which the Germans gained a footing
Sunday, have been retaken.
French Advance Al Verdun.
Paris announced that French troops
captured German trenches on a front
about 300 yards long and 100 yards
deep north of the Chapel OF St Fine,
at the intersection of the Fleury and
Vaux roads on the right bank of the
Meuse in the Verdun sector.
On the Somme front the French
artillery was very active at Belloy.
Estrees and Lihons Elsewhere the
night was calm.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
DEATH CERTAIN
ON FIRST LINE
Soldiers Go to Trenches With
No Hope Of Escape.
PRISONERS ARE DAZE D
Teuton Guns Hurl 1900 Shells In One
Minute and Forty-five Seconds,
Tearing Great Gaps Into
the Advancing British.

German trenches opposite the Brit
ish position at Gommecourt, on the
Somme front.--Half a million British
have been engaged in the effort to
break the German lines on the Somme
front. Often, as in the fighting be-
tween Gommecourt and Hebutorne, the
British outnumbered the Germans six
to one. They have gained ground TO a
depth of from three to five miles over
front of about IS miles, but nowhere
have been able to break through.
More than ever, death has become
commonplace in this most murderous
battle of all times. The Germans in
the first line knew that they probably
will be killed if their positions are at
tackled. Trenches are virtually use
less, for the heavy British shells widen
them into broad channels, affording no
cover Of any sort, The first line
usually perishes.
The advancing British foot troops
are no better off, because the Germans
reverse the process when part of their
positions have been captured.
After the British artillery have
levelled the German trenches the in.
fantry rushes in, often to be thrown
out again as soon as the British ar
tillery ceases fire, which It has to do
owing to the proximity of the oppos-
ing lines. Thus the battle has been
DING on for weeks, the opposing forces
now gaining at terrific cost and then
losing at even greater cost few yards
Of trenches.
100000 Shells Day.
At present all the fighting by the
British is carried from their Pozieres
salient where their drum fire is unceas-
ing day or night. German officers who
we're in the Champagne offensive said
no such artillery fire ever had been de-
veloped previously,
An idea of the intensity OF the Ger
man fire may be gained from the fact
that on certain British troops German
guns threw 1000 shells in one minute
and forty-hve seconds, resulting in
great slaughter.
Often the British assault dies away
before the German second line, from
which machine guns pour out streams
OF bullets which literally cut them into
| fragments.
At one point the correspondent stood
within 500 yards OF the British
trenches near Delville Wood. Nearby
the Germans had just buried 1896
British, as lulls in the firing permitted.
Some 500 British prisoners whom the
correspondent saw behind the firing
line plainly we're still dazed from the
shock. They we're sorry spectacle
glad they had escaped from hell" as
they termed II.
Unceasinp Drum Fire.
The expenditure OF artillery ammu
milton by the Entente Allies on this
front is enormous, often striking the
rate Of 80 shells a second during drum
fire. Not infrequently along the entire
Somme front nearly 10000 shells have
been dropped in an hour. while a con
seryative estimate puts the average foi
the 24.hour perjOd at more than 600