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The Parker post., 1916-04-22
OPTIMISM RULES ALL
LINES OF BUSINESS-DUN'S

NEW YORK, April 17.-Dun's re-
view says:
All legitimate enterprise continues
to prosper, the absence of speculative
excesses affording the best assurance
of sustained progress. Fundamental
conditions strengthen as strictly do
mestic influences become increasingly
potent and wholesome optimism char
acterized reports from every leading
center and section.
There is still complaint, however, OF
the annoyances and delays incidental
to the rapid development of trade and
industry. Business in various lines has
already outgrown productive facilities,
and in many cases it is difficult, if not
impracticable, to obtain urgently
needed supplies with which to fill con-
sumers' requirements.
The transportation problem also
continues a hindrance, though deliv-
cries are now effected somewhat more
promptly and the establishment OF
a surplus in idle freight cars indicates
that headway is being made in better
ing traffic conditions. 1t is still re-
markable, in view of the extensive rise
in prices that consumptive demands
are sustained in unprecedented vol
ume. Weekly bank clearings, $4,O34,-
43O,053.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
BOMB RAID ON CAPITAL
PROVES 1T DEFENSELESS

WASHINGTON, April 1S@A theo-
retical air raid on the national capital
on which bombs. were exploded above
the White House, the Capitol building,
the War College and other government
establishments, was carried out by an
aviator who said he made the flight to
demonstrate to high officials the city's
unpreparedness The attack was un-
heralded, and the succession of sharp
explosions and flashes of fire startled
hundreds of people and brought food
of inquiries to the White House offices
and the police headquarters. The
bombs were harmless and were timed
to explode about 1000 feet in the air.
The White House was advised by
War Department watchmen of the avi-
ator's flight and President Wilson
watched the exhibition from the YER
anda. The big searchlight in the Army
War College tried vainly to pick UP the
aeroplane during the flight. 1t could
not be seen, although the night was
clear, until the aviator looped the loop,
with his machine lighted up by mag
nesium flares.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
ALL AIR RECORDS
BROKEN IN MEXICO

WASHINGTON, April 18.-All rec
ords for sustained flight in the army
aviation service were broken when,
according to dispatch received at the
war department from Major General
Funston, an army biplane carrying
Lieuts. Edward S. Gorrell, Herbert A.
d'Argue, arrived at Columbus, N. M,
after a 350-mile flight in four hours
from Brigadier General Pershing's
headquarters in Mexico
The best previous cross-country
flight for the army service was made
by Captain Dood of the signal corps,
who flew approximately 260 miles from
the army aviation school at San Diego,
Cal. Before that the record was held
by Lieutenant Milling, who flew from
Galveston, Tex, to San Antonio, a dis
tance of 220 miles, without alighting.
Both Captain Dodd and Lieutenant
Milling are with the First aero squad
ron in Mexico.
Lieutenant Gorrell was one of the
aviatOrs who was lost for a time in
the flight of the squadron from Co
lumbus to Casas Grandes when the
army first entered Mexico. All four
men are regarded as expert fliers.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
HOLLAND, PREPARING FOR
WAR, SHIP STOPS LOADING

SAN FRANCISCO, April, 1S.-That
the steamer Van Der Dam, sailing un
der the flag of Holland and at present
lying in the port of New York, has
been peremptorily ordered by the
Dutch ambassador at Washington, D
c., Chevalier Van Rappard, to stop
loading, has been communicated by
telegram to Joseph Di Giorgio of Sac
ramento and New York, who is prin
cipal charterer of the vessel and is
now in San Francisco. He is chair
man of the board of directors of the
Tropical Fruit company. He has just
returned from visit to Central Amer
lea.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
PANAMA CANAL RE-OPENED;
16 SHIPS GO THROUGH

PANAMA, April 1.-THE Panama
Canal was reopened to traffic Satur-
day afternoon with the passage of six
teen ships, seven northbound and nine
southbound, including the transport
Bufford. The channel through the cut
was in excellent condition and the
passage of the vessels was without in
cident.
Lieutenant Colonel Chester Harding,
engineer of maintenance; Lieutenant
Colonel Jay ]. Morrow, Commander
Hutch I. Cone, marine superintendent,
and w. P Cumber head of the dredg-
ing department, were witnesses of the
re-opening. They stationed them
selves opposite the Cucaracha slide,
where they had a view of the entire
cut.
The first vessel to use the reopened
waterway was the British steamer st.
Veronica.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
SOUTHERN CHINA MAY
FORM NEW REPUBLIC

SHANGHAI, April 7.-Formation
of a new republic in Southern China
with population of 100,000,000 may
be announced within a few weeks.
Following the lead of Kwang Tung
province, the important maritime prov
ince of the Kiang has seeded from
the authority of President Yuan Shi
Kai.
Emissaries of the revolutionists have
arrived in Canton and are in consulta-
tion there. 1t is thought likely that
Canton will be made capital of the new
republic. Upon reaching there the
revolutionary agents reported that
Huan Fuk Leu and Kwei Chow prov
inces were about to issue declarations
of independence. The movement ap-
pears spreading to all provinces south
of the Yang Tae Kiang river.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
PANAMA CANAL OPENS TO
TRAFFIC ONCE AGAIN
PANAMA NOW FREE FROM DAN
GER OF MORE SLIDES
Construction Work at Terminal Com
pIeted-SmaII Slides Expected
From Time to Time-Canal
Defenses Adequate

PANAMA, April 17.-Gov. George
w. Goethals of the Canal Zone, who
withdrew his resignation and hurried
back here from Washington to, clear
the canal of the Gaillard cut landslides
last September, is expected to reoffer
his resignation to President Wilson if
there is no promise of further trouble
following the reopening of the canal.
Colonel Harding, who has been act
ing governor during Goethals' absence
in the United States, is expected to
succeed Colonel Goethals as governor
when the time comes.
Goethals has not announced that he
will reoffer his resignation, but his as
sociates here feel sure he will because
he asked to be retired under the army
retirement rule before, thinking his
work in completing the canal was
done.
The earth movements blocking the
canal began last September, about the
time Goethals offered his resignation
to President Wilson in Washington. AT
news of the trouble, which prevented
the passage of the Atlantic fleet, which
was to have attended the opening OF
the Panama-Pacific exposition, GOeth.
ais asked the president not to act on
his resignation, and in October he
hastened back to Panama.
The canal builder faced task
slightly less gigantic than the one he
faced in finishing the big project it.
self. Millions of tons of rock anG
earth have been torn from the col
lapsed excavations under Goethals' di-
rection, employing bigger dredges and
steam shovels than ever were used be-
FORE
Construction work at the terminals
also has been completed in the mean
time, and when the big ships began to
pass through the canal it was more ad-
vanced in equipment, more polished
than it ever has been. 1t is now able
to handle ships much more expedi-
tiously than heretofore
1t is not considered improbable that
there will be small slides from time to
time, but no more big ones are looked
for, and what there may be are ex
pected to diminish in size from year to
year. There is believed to be no dan
ger from earthquakes. Goethals says
the defenses of the Canal Zone are
adequate to repel any enemy.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
BELGlANS DENY THAT
ARMY is EXHAUSTED

PARIS, April 17.-German state
ments that the Belgian army has been
reduced to sixth of it's effectives and
has been replaced by British troops
is denied in a semi-official statement
given out at Havre, the seat of the
Belgian government, according to a
Havas dispatch from that city. 1t is
stated that the Belgian army occupies
section of the front, that it's morale
is very good and that it is only asking
for a chance of proving it's superiority
over it's enemies.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
YUAN is HOPEFUL OF
CONTROLLING ALL CHINA

PEKING, April 17.-President Yuan
Shi Kai expressed confidence that the
difficulties presented by the revolu
tionary movement in the south would
be overcome and harmony would be
restored.
He asserted disagreements had
sprung up among the Canton rebel
leaders and he was confident of the
restoration of the allegiance to the
Peking government of Kwangtung
province.
The government announced that
Tsai-Ao, leader of the rebels, has in
sisted that Yuan Shi Kai shall con
tinue as president, with responsible
cabinet and properly elected parlia-
ment
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
DUMA APPROVES BILL
REGULATING MEAT SUPPLY

PETROGRAD, April ia bill per-
manently prohibiting the sale of bev-
erages containing more than a degree
and half of alcohol will be prepared
shortly by the ministry of finance.
The agricultural committee of the
duma has approved the bill restricting
the consumption of meat 1t has rec
commended that the slaughter of cattle
be prohibited on Tuesdays and Thurs
days and the sale of meats in restau-
rants on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
INTERNATIONAL LAW
OF SEAS is MODIFIED

LONDON, April 1.-THE British
government, after consultation with
it's allies, has isued a decree modify
ing marine international law as laid
down in the Declaration of London in
1909. The modification will be effec-
tive during the war.
Henceforth merchandise, whether
absolute or conditional contraband,
will be subject to capture by the mere
fact Of it's enemy destination, whether
it is sent by direct or indirect manifest
or is concealed.
Further, no ship or cargo will be ex-
empt from capture for violation of the
blockade simply because at the time
it was examined it was apparently on
it's way to an unblockaded port.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
$4,000 TO HAIL EASTER
DAWN ON MT. RUBIDOUX
ANNUAL SERVICES ON HISTORIC
MOUNTAIN TOP
MarcelIa Craft to Take Part in I'M
pressiVe Sunrise ServiceI at Foot
of Cross on WelI-knoWn
Mountain

RIVERSIDE, April 1S.-With the ut
most reverence and with a service as
simple as the sunrise itself, another
throng of pilgrims will greet the Easter
dawn under the cross on Mount Rubi-
doux.
Riverside believes that the granite
mountain trail will echo on April % to
the tread of more than 10000 pairs of
feet, the number that last year made
the ascent. The service itself will be
essentially the same as before, for the
idea of solemn praise can be carried
out only in anthem and prayer. But
the least religiously inclined, it is
hoped, will find the way light that cul-
inmates in the supreme Christian mo-
ment, the breaking of light on new
Easter morning.
Rising behind the memorial to Juni-
pero Sierra, the sun will be welcomed
by the notes of a cornet, the player,
Gustav Hifverkus. Then the rocky
sides of the mountain will burst into
song, 'In the Cross of Christ Glory.
A prayer will rise, as on the preceding
year, for the return of the Easter spirit
to Europe and all the world. Marcella
CloAC, viva VI lACCl hdCIO11d1 duu
daughter of the city at Rubidoux's foot,
will sing twice before the people begin
the doxology and the descent
Eight years have elapsed since Jacob
Riis, visitor in Riverside, gave birth
to the idea of an Eastern morning wor
ship on Rubidoux Among the events
of his boyhood in Denmark he recalled
the custom of his fellow-townspeop
who carried torches to the summit !oi
a mountain on Christmas Eve. He
pointed out the advantages favoring
Fsuch an observation in California
where the Easter season insures a
cloudless sunrise.
Scarcely 100 persons attended the
first service. They carried with them
a cornetist and a little hand organ, and
they met the day with "The Holy
City" But they established a prece.
dent which has yearly grown more and
more into the life of Southern Cali.
| fornia.
A part of the ritual, to be performe ed
this year by George Osborne, is the
reading of Henry Van Dykes poem
God of the Open Air." which the au
thor himself recited at the gathering
in 1913. Last year as it was read the
representatives of fourteen nations
among them the belligerents of Eu.
rope, unfurled their countries flags al
the foot of the cross.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
OBEY EIGHT-HOUR LAW,
WARNING TO COUNTY

LOS ANGELES, April 1S.-The SUI
pervisorS issued explicit Instructions
to the head of every county depart
ment that the eight-hour law for wo-
men will have to be strictly obeyed
This was the result of a complaint
from the state labor bureau that the
law was being persistently violated at
the county hospital. H. A. Cable, a
representative of the bureau, stated
that complaints had been coming in
for the last three years, and that an
investigation had shown that some 'of
them were well founded.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
164,877 Autos in California

SACRAMENTO, April 18.-There
are 164,S77 automobiles registered in
California this year, or 1882 more than
the total for 1915. This is the greatest
number ever registered in this state
Through registry of these cars, the
motor vehicle department collected
$1,800,417.95. Of this sum automobile
owneds paid $1,713,569.60.
Registration during the first twelve
days of April totaled $3.50, while reg
istrations in March aggregated 1926
1t was asserted that the high price o1
gasoline has not reduced the number
of purchases of new cars.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Mails From Canada Censored

SEATTLE, April 1S.-All mail re-
ceived here from Canada has been
opened, read and sealed with black
letted strip, reading censored" The
postmaster says no word has been re-
ceived by him from Canadian authori-
ties announcing the censorship. 1t is
believed here that postal cards will be
dispatched quicker than letters to and
from Canadian points hereafter
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
University Regent Named

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.-The
resignation of I. w. Hellman, Jr., as
treasurer of the board of regents of
the University of California was ac-
cepted at the meeting of that body at
the San Francisco institute of art and
Mortimer Fleischacker, president of
the Anglo-California Trust company,
was elected to succeed him.
Hellman's resignation was accepted
by the regents at his urgent request
because of a pressure of other bust
ness. He had been treasurer of the
regents for eight years and a regent
for fourteen years.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
BattIeship Cruise Open

SAN DIEGO, April 1S.-Men be-
tween 19 and As who wish to take a
four-weeks' cruise ON battleship next
fall may secure the privilege by in
forming Captain Ward Winchell, port
commandant here, of their desire. The
war department has authorized train
ing cruise between August Is and Sep.
tember 12
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Travels Mile in 35 Seconds

DAYTONA, Fla, April 1S.-Ralph
Mulford, driving Hudson super six,
today established new worlds rec
ord for stock chassis in 800 inches in
displacement class by covering mile
in 35 12-100 seconds.
Mulford made six trials. All were
under Sc seconds. The time was sane
toned by the American Automobile
association.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Three-Cent Fare Menaced

CLEVELAND, O., April 18.-Cleve-
land car riders fear that Scent street
car fare here will have to be aban-
doned if the company accedes to a
formal demand made by the street car
employees for big wage increase. The
employees union demand 40 cents an
hour for all motormen and conductors,
beginning May 1.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
WEEKS NEWS FROM
NE|GHBOR|NG CITIES
Grief outline OF Current EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
condensed Resume Of ihe Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
PIaees---Win Allow Rapid Scanning
Invited To Exposition

SAN DIEGO, April 1S.-Forty dele
gates en- route to the Pacific coast
from non-sufffrage states have been
invited to visit the Panama. California
international exposition here.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
ZeppeIins AS Cure

LONDON, April lit is noted here
that the Zeppelins, despite their bad
qualities, have had the good effect of
curing Londoners of grumbling at the
weather. In what used to be called
bad weather the Zeppelins don't ap-
pear.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
14,8OO FEET is NEW HIGH
MARK FOR 2 IN AEROPLANE

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April 49,
Reaching height of 14,800 feet, Steve
MacGordon, Curtiss aviator, and w.
A Hudson of Toronto, a student, set
a new American altitude record for
an aeroplane carrying two persons.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
California Fruit Is Seized

CHRISTIANA, Norway, April IL
British authorities halted the Danish
steamer United States en- route to
Scandinavia, and removed 1000 bags
of parcel post and $4,000 boxes of Cali
forlia fruit.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Trench Fever

LONDON, April 17.-Physicians are
investigating a new disease, trench
fever. At first it was thought that this
malady contracted on the battlefront
was some old disease in a new guise,
but research now indicates it is a dis
tinct specific fever.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
End Milk War

CHICAGO, April 18.-The Borden
Milk company, the last of the dealers
to hold out against the demands of
the Milk Producers association, has
given in and agreed to pay an average
price of $1.55 per 100 pounds for milk
during the following six months.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Eleven New Ships Ordered

OAKLAND, April 18.-Ship building
concerns here are elated over the re-
ceipt of orders for the building of II
new vessels, seven steel and four
wooden, to cost $7,325 900, and repre-
senting an aggregate tonnage of $4,000.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Noted Birdmen Compete

SAN DIEGO, April 1S.-Nine leading
civilian aviators and six crack military
birdmen will compete for the Curtiss
trophy and cash prize which started
at daybreak last Saturday The con-
test will be held annually until 1920.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Treaty Ratified

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The Mic
araguan congress has ratified the
treaty by which the United States ac-
quired the $3,00O,0OO Panama canal
route rights and coaling station. at
Fonseca bay.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
China To Take Census

PEKIN, April 17.-China is prepar-
ing to take complete census. The
minister of interior has inaugurated
the work in Pekin and will extend it
to various provinces before the end of
1916. The cost is estimated at $780,
000
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Portuguese Troops Invade Africa

Portuguese Troops Invade Africa
LISBON (via London), April IL
The following statement was issued
by the Portuguese government:
Portuguese troops occupied Klonge,
on the southern frontier of German
East Africa, which was taken from
Portugal by Germany in 1894, in def
ance of treaty obligations"
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
CONDENSATION OF
CURRENT EVENTS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HEMISPHERES
Dispatches PiGtHng Developments From The Out.
side World Stripped Of Unnecessary
Details and Presented IN Brief
Jap Gold in New York

TOXIC, April 1.-THE finance min,
lister says that of Japan's gold reserve
3O,0OO,OO0 yen ($15, 5,OOO,O0O), now is
kept in New York and it is probable
more will be removed there from Lon
don.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
Fire Patrols Must Pay Tax

SACRAMENTO, April 1S-The un-
derwriters' fire patrol autos are not
exempted from the state license tax,
holds the attorney general in an opin-
ion to the motor vehicle department.
The underwriters sought to dodge the
tax.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22

The sardine catch in Europe has
been great failure.
The Parker post., 1916-04-22
the front.

This six-year-old Serbian youngster,
a prisoner tn a German detention
camp, is happy regardless of the fact
that the Whereabouts of his parents
are unknown. His costume Is a non
descript one, being made up Of Sawed
OFF, trousers and cast off apparel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-10-12
UYSXAKEN TESTIMONY

Time Is the test Of truth. And
Doan's Kidney Pills have steed the
test In thousands of cases. Ne one
who suffers backache, or annoying
urinary ills can remain unconvinces
by this twice-tol testimony.
George ID. Chaplin, carpenter. n.
Ottawa ST., Tecumsch, Mich, says:
MY kidneys were disordered ana
made me miserable Knowing of sew
eral people in this vicinity who haa
used Doan'S Kidney Pills with sue
cess, took some. The results were
very satisfactory"
After n lapse of over three years
Mr.. Chaplin sH-G: ~ willingly con
firm the statement | gave before
praiSing Doan's Kidney Pills. They
always act lust rs represented"
Price 5hc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask FOR Il kidney remedy-get
DOan's Kidney Pills--the same that
Mr.. Chapiin has twice publicly recon-
mended. Foster Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-10-12

pleasantly close to his head. Imme-
diatcl, he returned the fire. Forum
ately Juve cried:
"Fandor!''
1t was indeed Fandor, but he had
not expected to find the detective Wis
iting Bercy.
The explanation or the telegram
made 1t plain that Fantomas had lured
Juve to the Kcssler and Baru plant
in the hope of putting him and Fan
dor out of the way at the same time.
Fandor had made his way to Bercy
because he had felt certain 1t would be
here Fantomas would strike next in
an effort to secure the other halves Of
the banknotes.
Before the two friends had time To
more than exchange the slightest ex-
plantations, Fantomas and his gang
were upon them. Both Juve and Fan
dor replied to the fusillade which
came from behind wall of barrels.
The detective was not unwilling to
meet Fantomas in such battle fer
he knew chat the noise would soon
bring aid. Evidently the same thought
was in FantomaS' mind
Break that barrel" commanded
liquor began 10 ilow, he added, Now
set 1t on fire
In another instant the scene was
lit by the balcful glare from the burn
ing barrel. Other barrels were set on
fire. The internal punch ringed Juve
and Fandor about with blazing death
Only the quickest action could save
the two men. The resourcefulness
which had made Juve the greatest de-
tective of France did not desert him
now. There was just one means of
escape. Without moments hesita-
tion he adopted it.
Turning an empty case on its side.
Juve ordered Fandor to crawl into it.
he then followed. BY throwing their
weight on the down hill side they
managed to start the barrel rolling
through the wall of flame toward the
Seine. Fortunately for them the bar
rel rolled true. Through the flames il
carried the two men, and out they
scrambled when it Splashcd into the
water. 1t was necessary for them 20
swim across the Seine. since the
flames were now enveloping the entire
wharf.
BY the time Juve and Fandor were
able to cross the Seine in boat. fire
men had the flames under control
Fantomas and his bandits had disap-
peared.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-10-12
"MessrS. Border.
"Pontarlier, France.

FaDtomaS was wild with rage. lie
needed the money, and now he was
prepared to go any length to get it.
He also sought revenge upon Juve
who was following him with such fen
acity and courage. At the first station
after learning how he had been tricked
Fantomas stopped to send the follow
ing telegram:
detective Inspector Juve,
''Secret Service, Paris.
Everything all right: In order
to make quick capture, be at Ber-
cy warehouse, armed and alone, to-
morrow night at II o'clock near
Kessler wine cellars.
"Fandor."
As soon as the telegram had been
filed, Fantomas started toward Parls
again at top speed.
Juve was caught by the telegram.
Armed or the occasion, he set out for
Bercy. Taking every precaution, he
lodged about in the shadows when
he reached the plant of Kessler and
Baru. Yet his shadow had been seen,
and soon a revolver bullet whizzed un-