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The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
MORE MONEY VOTED
 FEDERAL EMP PLOYEs
SECRETARIES OF REPRESENTA-. TIvES INCLUDED IN THE
 HOUSE BILL.
CAUSE OF MUCH DEBATE
Increases Amount to From 5 to 10 Per Cent For About 16,ooo Employee Secretaries Will Receive $500 d
 Year Advance.

ashington.-Salary or wage in- creases of from to 10 per cent for about 16,000 government employees re- ceiving less than S1,S00 a year and of $500 a year for each representatives, secretary were provided for in the legislative, executive and judicial ap- propriation bill passed by the House without a record vote. The secre- taries now get $1,500 year An at. tempt to provide each representative with an extra stenographer at $75 month during the session failed.
 Discussion of the measure, which carries appropriations aggregating about s39, ,0o0,000, was productive of much debate over the financial condi- ton of the country. Chairman Fitz- gerald of the appropriations commit tee and Representative Rainey of the ways and means committee protested against the proposed increase on the ground that the government already faced huge deficit. Representative Rainey declared the next budget would exceed $1,600 000,O00, and that the country was confronted with the pos sibility of attempting to collect $500 900, 900 more in new taxes.
 How are you going to raise it?" he asked. Restore the Payne-Aldrien bill? That is the proposal some of you make, yet to save your lives you cannot frame tariff bill which will yield over S35O,0OO a year"
 MT Rainey also asserted that the limit in revenue had been reached from income taxes, the present rate being the highest in the world and that nationwide prohibition soon would make it necessary to raise $257,- 000,000 from some new source.
 Republican Leader Mann favored higher salaries for employees, decIar- ing they should share in the general prosperity which the country is ex periencing as a result of the European war. The bill carried appropriations for all of the nine subtreasuries in the country. Representative Sisson of Mississippi made an unsuccessful fight to have them abolished on the ground that the federal reserve banks had made them useless. Secretary Mo Adoo advised Congress in a letter that subtreasuries were needed, although further experience might demonstrate that the functions of some of them might be transferred to Washington.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
GUARANTEES FOR PEACE OF Eu- ROPE NEEDED, SAYS PREMIER
 PREPARATION PARAMOUNT.
JOINT REPLY IS INDICATED
French Premier Said to Have An, nounced That Central Powers Would Be Notified That Peace Proposal
 Would Be Impossible at Present.
London.-sTell US your terms!

'
 Give us guarantees for the peace of Europe from the swashbuekling of Prussian militarisn-guarantee surer than those you have brokenl
 Then, and not until then, will the allies treat with you with regard to ending the war!"
 Reduced to it's sum and substance, that is the answer of Great Britain and her allies to the central powers pro posal to enter into negotiations for peace. It was given by Lloyd George in the House of Commons.
 As for the allies terms-the only terms on which they will give peace negotiations s~ thought-the premier set them down thus:
 Without reparation peace is impos- sible. The allies insist that the only end of the war must be complete guar antee against Prussian militarism dis turbing the peace of Europe"
 And with ringing note of bitter irony he added:
 "All the outrages on land and sea cannot be liquidated by a few pious phrases about humanity"
 At the pinnacle of his political ca reer, In his debut before the House of Parliament as premier and virtual war dictator of Great Britain, Lloyd-George delivered his long-expected address be- fore house thronged to it's capacity and amid deep, almost reverential si- lence, which was, however broken re- peatedly by thunderous cheering.
 The substance of his declaration, he announced, would be sent to Germany within few days. It was not only England's answer, the prime minister emphasized. It was England's "clean and definite" support to the identical statements already given by Russia and France
 It was not a flat-footed, defiant re- jection of peace, this remarkable speech by England's strongest man, :" which the world had waited breath lessly for eight anxious days.
 It was an unqualified, scornful, aI- most contemptuous rejection of the central powers proffer as it now stands. For this proffer, in it's present shape, is nose, with the rope's end in Germany's hands"-thus Lloyd George described it-and the allies "do not propose to put their heads into it..
 Newspaper presses were still rolling off extra editions containing the pre- mier's speech--a new edition for each succeeding paragraph-when the cables brought from Paris the news that Aristide Briand, the French pre- mier. had announced in the Senate that the entente would send joint reply to the central powers, making it known that "it is impossible to take their request for peace seriously"
 Earlier the word had come from Petrograd that the council of the Rus sian Empire had decided unanimously to favor a categorial refusal of the allies to enter peace negotiations with Germany.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Liner in a Collision.

Norfolk, Va.-The Merchants and Miners liner Powhatan, outward bound from Norfolk for Baltimore. with IF passengers, was beached in 25 feet of water on Thimble Shoai, lower Chesapeake Bay, after a coili- sion with an unidentified vessel Wire less reports ssid the passengers and crew, including several injured, had been transferred to other vessels.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Make School the Center.

Washington.-Use of the country's schools for all branches of community work was urged by Miss Margaret Will son, the presidents daughter, before the annual convention of the American Civic Association. The school princi- pal, she said, should not be hampered by restriction 10 irksome school du- ties, but should have a free hand for work along broader lines.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
 Two Killed in Mine.

Silver City, N. M.-Two Mexican la- porers were asphyxiated and third sustained injuries from which he prob ably will die when miners at the Sil- yer Cell mine at Pinos Altos, near here, drilled into a gas pocket Ten other Mexican miners were brought out unconscious, but were resusitated.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Coal Dust For Gas.

Pittsburgh Threatened by shut downs during the winter months on account of a shortage of natural gas, manufacturers in the Pittsburgh dis trict have been conducting expert ments with coal dust. They say their experiments have proved that the dust can be substituted for gas.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
For Relief of PoIea

Philadelphia, Pa.-Nearlv s10 mn TOT the relief of Poles in the war zone was subscribed at a mass meeting nere. lgnace Jan Paderewski was the principal speaker. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Finer gency Aid and the Polish Relief Com mittees.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Exports Still Climb.

New York.-Exports of domestic merchandise, including war munitions of all kinds, shipped out of this port in November, totaled $2S2, ,2S5, ,875 against s1S4,S77S02 in the correspond ing month of 1915. Imports were be low those of the same period year ago.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Cashiers Body Found.

Strasburg, Colo.-The body of J. P. Hardin, aged 50, cashier of the State Bank of Strasburg, was found on va cant lot here with two bullet wounds in the head. MT Hardin went to the bank as usual and found a sign over the door, reading: Closed by order of the state banking commissioner"
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Arkansas Soldier Dies

Deming, N. M.-James R. Ward of the supply company of the First Ar kansas Regiment, died at the base noe pital here of pneumonia, complicated with measles. His body will be son, to his former home at Coldwatar Miss. He enlisted at Fort Roots
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
25o,OOO Prohis Note

Chicago. With official returns from only few states missing, it was said at Prohibition national headouartara that the prohibition vote November T would come within 4,O0o or 5000 of 25o,oOO for president, and 5oO,Ooo for state offices.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
S1o5 nnn Fire Loss.

Columbia, Miss-Fire destroyed two large dry goods stores, a drug store and hardware establishment in this city's principal business block be- fore it was gotten under control. The loss is estimated at more than $125, 900, partly covered by insurance.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
For Families of. Guard.

Washington. Secretary Baker ask ed Congress to appropriate for imme- date use $s,500,O0o required by the War Department for the support of dependent families of enlisted men of the army and the National Guard.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

The engagement was announced of Miss Elisabeth Kempley Reynolds, daughter of MT. and Mrs Edwin Lewis Reynolds, and Norman Hap good.
 A campaign to raise $1,OO0.000 with in 30 days is announced by the Amer ican committee for Armenian and Syrian relief
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Out of Work. Hanns Self

Brownwood, Tex.-Rather than see his wife and children die of starya- tion because he could not secure em. ployment, s. A. Earp, 60 years old hanged himself to limb of a trao here. A note on the body said tbat he had been out of work for several weeks.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Public BuiIdjnos RjII

Washington.-Th $30,000,00O om- nibus public building bill, which fail ed at the last session, was reintroduc- ed in the house in revised form by Chairman Clark of the Buildings Com mittee.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
"Ruffalo Bilw Is H.

Denver. Colo.-CoI. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill'o is seriously ill at the home of a sister here. Members of his family have been summoned from his ranch at Cody, Wyo.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
A La Carrie Nation

Seattle, Wash.-Fixtures and fur nishings valued at $40,O0O in so-can- ed barroom and dining room of the Hotel Cecil were destroyed with axes by the "dry squad' of the Seattle Pc lice Department for alleged violation of the prohibition law.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
Smothered to Death.

Waxahachie, Tex-Harvey Green, 55 years old, was smothered to death here when cotton seed in an oil mill enveloped him. He was missing some time and it is believed he was dead for two hours before he was dug out by another workman
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
For a prier France

Paris--Premier Briand reported to the Chamber of Deputies he had da cided to ask Parliament to enact leo. islation providing for a further 70 striction in the consumption of aloo holic beverages throughout France
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
The Wilson's Celebrate.

Washington.-The president and Mrs. Wilson celebrated their first we'd ding anniversary with motor ride, a family dinner party and visit to the moving pictures
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
WORLD WIDE NEWS
ITEMS OF UNIVERSAL INTEREST
 FOR OUR READERS.
Foreign and Domestic Matters, Per- sonal Mention and Miscellaneous
 Mslanss.
LITERARY.

To encourage youthful authors and develop the literary talents of under graduates of northern colleges. the Association of Northern College Mag azines has decided to offer a chal- lenge cup for the best short story.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
U. S. Shin Is Ahanaaaaa

London,-The American schooner Marcus Lurann has been abandonad = waterSlogged condition, says a dis. patch from St Michaels, Azores, to Lloyds'. so
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
washington.-supplemental es

mates of S1,134,000 were submitted to Congress by the War Department to meet the increased cost of labor and material in the manufacture of guns for the coast defenses at home and insular possessions.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Because he chewed gum in the pres ence of Magistrate Kromel while ask ing for warrant, Frank Bardonnes of New York was held in $500 for contempt of court.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
cnIiene Hall Is Burned.

Knoxville, Tenn.-'rhe administra- ton buildings of Carson and Newman College at Jefferson City. Tenn, burn ed. IL was valued at $6o.000.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The young people of today are leading an altogether too fast a life to live long, declared David Eaton, pio- neer resident of Fond du Lac, Wis. who has just celebrated his 101st birthday,
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
GENERAL,

Calls on every dealer in Douglas, Ariz, for ton of coal resulted in the information that but one had that much in stock and he refused to sell more than 200 pounds to customer, and that at the rate of $1 hundred.
 With almost all old world nations spending millions daily in battle, the Woman's Peace Party closed it's con vention by subscribing $5,O00 "to op- pose war"
 Prince Henri XLd. of Reuss, "A, was killed in battle Nov. 29 on the Rus sian front, according to the Overseas News Agencv Prince Henri was a lieutenant in Prussian cavalry regi- ment.
 A motion picture theater at Kansas City in campaign against men flirts projects a slide at the finish of each performance which says: Ten dol lars reward will be paid any woman sticking a hatpin into a man pest 1"
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
30 Below in Minnesota

Duluth, Minn,-Ely was the coldest spot in northern Minnesota, the mer- cury sinking to 30 degrees below zero.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
LABOR.

Fear of teamsters' strike while the heavy Christmas rush is on has caused Acting Chief of Police Schuet- tier of Chicago to detail police patrols for all express offices, railway sta tions and express company barns.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
FOREIGN.


 FOREIGN.
 Having failed to get satisfactory reply to representations in behalf of safe passage for the new Austrian am- bassador, Count Tarnowski, the state department has addressed a second note to England in the matter
 Paul Albert Pierre Tarascon, the only airman in the French army with an artificial leg, has just been men, tioned in an order of the day for hav- ing brought down his seventh German aeroplane.
 The German commercial submarine Deutschland, completing a quick trip home from the United States, has ar rived off the mouth of the Weser.
 Berlin newspapers have announced that the closing hour of saloons and restaurants in the capital will proba- bly be fixed at 12;30 a. m. instead of at 1 o'clock.
 The steamer Balboa on Dec 3 made the trip through the Panama canal in hours and 25 minutes. When the canal was planned 12 hours was thought to be good record for the trip.
 The election held on the question of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States resulted in 283,- 900 votes in favor of and 157,000 against such action by the nation.
 A new state of affairs in Ireland 'is most desirable" Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Bonar Law announced ;n a speech in the house of commons in praise of an address by the Irish lead CT, John Redmond.
 The new English government in- tends to create ministers of food and labor, Andrew Bonar Law, Lloyd Georges leader in the lower house, announced.
 PESONAL.
 A gold wedding, the first in Iowa, was that of Miss Frances Clarke, daughter of Gov. Clarke of Iowa, to N. c. Kinnick of Adel, Ia The bride was gowned in a gold cloth.
 Mount Discovery, at Glenn Falls, N. Y, has been rechristened Mount Inez" by the people of this vicinity. Inez Milholland Boissevain was buried at the foot of the mountain last week.
 Miss Catherine A. Britton of Wash ington and Prince Alfred Zu Hohen- lohe- e-Schillingshurst, accredited to the Austro- Hungarian embassy, were mar ried in Washington.
 Swat the fly" will now make way for "gas em." Beaumont Alexander of London. demonstrating newly in vented poison gas, killed big cage full of flies with one little spray of the secret compound.
 Putting her hand into the haycutter to show neighbors how her sister had just had one finger cut off, Miss May Poeran of Brewster, N Y. lost two of her own.
 Gov.-elect Cox of Ohio. it became known, is suffering with appendicitis at the home of Representative Tim othy Ansberry in Washington.
 
 After more than 63 hours continu- ous piano playing, E. J. Leach of Knoxville, Tenn, claimed new worlds record. William H. Mover, former warden at Atlanta prison, succeeded Thomas Matt Osborne as warden of Sing Sing prison.
 DOMESTIC. Broadway's celebration in New York will be very brief Mayor Mitch
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
COMMERCIAL.

The Ball Manufacturing Co, mail order concern of Kansas City, was adjudged bankrupt in the federal court
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Erection of government flour mills and bakery in Washington to dem onstrate the real cost of making bread is proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Young of North Dakota.
 An elevator bucket plunged 70 feet to the bottom of the shaft in the Holmes mine at Ishpeming. Mich, killing three of it's occupants and fa- tally injuring six others.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
CRIMINAL

Crazed with his craving for drugs that had been denied him, William L. Cashion, 45, of St. Louis, shot and killed his wife, fired once at an in valid sister-in-law, Mrs. Roy Pryor, and then sent a bullet into his own breast.
 Two minutes after his arrest on a charge of embezzlement Christopher Wagner, president of the Wagner Trading Go, dived from a fourth-floor balcony of the Montauk club in Brook lyn and was instantly killed.
 Four armed bandits entered the Polleston State bank at Gary, Ind, covered the cashier, Herman Butcher, with revolvers and escaped with sev- eral hundred dollars in currency. Campbell Fuel and Transfer Co.'s of flee in Minneapolis and escaped with $1,000, after locking Ralph Leighton and P. H. Johnson in box car.
 
 Mrs. Ella Green, 50, was exonerated by a coroner's jury of blame for kill ing James W. Fisher, 35 years old, near Cairo, III.
 Gov. Dunne has offered reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered William Lee at Danville Nov. 29, 1915.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
DOMESTIC.

Broadways celebration in New York will be very brief Mayor Mitch el said that hotels serving liquor Sun day night must close at a. m.
 
 Declaring that they are overworked, the senior class of the Pulitzer school of journalism at Columbia university is on strike.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Austin c. Kyle of Brooklyn of the Canadian field artillery, known as Daredevil Jack Austin" who used to jump off 40-foot cliffs and ride mo- torcycles off open draw bridges for the movies" was killed by shell on Nov. 10
 Alfred Koplin, his wife. Mrs. Phillip Koplin and Mrs. Doettinger were killed instantly when a Soo line pas senger train hit an automobile in which they were riding at Detroit.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
 Former Presidents Taft and Rooseg welt and all other future presidentsAQf the United States, after their terms expire, may be given seat in the house of representatives, without vote, at a salary of $25, 900.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

The postoffice committee of the house has reported favorably on 8 bill to prohibit the use of the malls for liquor ads. introduced by the Pro- hibition representative from Califor- mia
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Oscar Samuelson, for 10 years an inmate of Chicago hospital as a re- suit of a broken back suffered in an accident in federal reclamation work at Cody, Wyo., is dead.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Charles Ebray, in the Joliet prison, received word that his father was dying from bullet wound. His rec ord was so good they let him go with out guard and he may stay until his father recovers or dies.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Having failed to get satisfactory reply to representations in behalf of safe passage for the new Austrian am- bassador, Count Tarnowski, the state department has addressed a second note to England in the matter.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
PESONAL.

A gold wedding, the first in Iowa was that of Miss Frances Clarke daughter of Gov Clarke of Iowa, tc N. c. Kinnick of Adel, Ia The bride was gowned in a gold cloth.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22
PSYCHOLOGICAL.

John P. Phipps of Shenandoah, Ia. is dead at the age of 105 years His twin brother died less than five years ago.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Paul Albert Pierre Tarascon, the only airman in the French army with an artificial leg, has just been men, tioned in an order of the day for hav- ing brought down his seventh German aeroplane.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Col. Ole Herman Johannes Krag, 79, former chief of ordnance for the Norwegian army and inventor of the rag-Jorgenssen rifle, is dead.
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

Newton D. Baker, secretary of war. said at his hotel he had no official knowledge of what the German peace move revealed but, Hike everyone else. was expecting some such move"
 The plurality of Charles Evans Hughes over Woodrow Wilson in New York state was 118,527, according to figures compiled by the governors of flee force.
 Secretary McAdoo disposed of re- ports that he intended to resign with the following formal statement: T have no intention of resigning from the cabinet"
The Pulaskian., 1916-12-22

The German commercial submarine Deutschland, completing a quick trip home from the United States, has ar rived off the mouth of the Weser.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-23
HORRIBLE KIND IF FRUIT
 BORNE BY MEXICAN TREES

DOUGLAS. Jan. 22.-The state of OaXaca, Mexico, is overrun with ban dits who have been carrying on cam paign of murder and plunder despite every effort of the CarranZa authOri- ties to preserve order, according to an affidavit made today by Andrew J. Trumbo, of Los Angeles, who arrived here early today from Oaxaca, the cap ital of that state.
 Twenty miles southwest of Ejutla, I saw the bodies of six men dangle from trees. I was told by MeXicans that they were Americans" Trumbo stated in his affidavit No one knew their names. About quarter of mile further on l saw two more badly de- composed bodies hanging from a tree I was told they also were Americans but I could not find out their names The bodies all were too badly decom- posed to attempt tosidentify any oi them or to obtain even a general de- scription."
 Conditions became so unbearablt that he could not remain in the MeXi- can state with his family, Trumbo de clared, in his statement in explaining his departure from Mexico. He and hi! wife were mistreated and insulted, h, said
Arizona republican., 1916-01-23
HALF MILLION WILL NOT REPAIR TRACKS
 AND WIRES DAMAGED

The railroads of the state have been especially hard hit by the re cent floods. In speaking of the amount of damage to the various right of ways. as computed in the terms of dollars and cents, a promi- nent railroad man of this city yes terday stated that the loss would probably foot up to nearly half q million dollars.
 Perhaps the biggest loss in any one place was the partial destruction of the Arizona Eastern bridge at Mar icopa. The loss here will probably run to s200,000, as the bridge is re- garded as nearly a total loss, although much of the steel work can probably be recovered when the flood abates.
 The bridge across the Gila on the Arizona Eastern at Winkelman is also destroyed, and this will be a big loss to the big company. Most of the damage, however, was caused by the washing out of the tracks and the destruction of the telegraph lines.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-23
|GILA STUBBORNL DEFLES ALL
 ATTEMPTS TO GET LINE ACROSS
RIVER AT FLORENCE LEAVES |TS
 BANKS AND FARM LANDS RUINED

ar official investigation would be made on Tuesday. We will put the water under the bridge" said the engineers.
 From Another Source
 The state engineers office yester day received word from Engineer Fwitchell, of Tucson, who had gone to Florence to make an inspection of the flood conditions. that a large portion of the south approach to the bridge at that place has been washed out and that the waters were cover ing large part of the low lands near Florence
 Mr TWitchell had gone to Florence at the request of Governor Hunt, and was looking over the situation in view of determining whether or not there should be anything done to prevent the encrOachments of the river in the direction of the cit". He stated in his report to the state engineer that at the present time there seemed to be no great danger to the town, and besides. it was almost impossible to stem the flood just now The bridge was reported to be standing the strain in good shape, and in no danger of being carried away.