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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
Matinee at Empress Today

The Selig Red Seal V. L. S. F. feat
ure will be shown again today for the
last time. NO Greater Love" is a
strong feature showing how mother
love will go to almost any limit for her
child. Regina Badet takes the leading
role in this feature and impersonates
Saduna the Partisan dancer. By her
grace and beauty she captiVates a mill
liOnaire who has heavy losses and fails.
Nothing can save him but the death
of his Old uncle who is immensely
wealthy. Saduna knows if her hus
bands wealth is gone her daughter
happiness will be spoiled so she urges
him to the point of making away with
his uncle. Complications arise and at
last it is her lot to give UP, her life to
keep her daughter from knowing the
truth and she gladly pays the penalty
proving that the is mo Greater
Love" than this. The local picture
taken in Phoenix by Romano Fielding
featuring Jack Lawton and Winnie
Burns, will also be shown again to-
night.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
Police Play at Amuzu

All day and tonight the Amuzu is
screening what is said by the film crit
les of the east to be one if not the
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
COLORADO SNOWSLIDES

DURANGO. Colo, Jan. 2S.-Increas-
ing danger to mining settlements in
the Silverton district through snow
slides was reported early tonight. The
compressor house and the machinery
plant at Gold King were struck by an
avalanche last night, it became known
today. The mass of debris rolled
mile down the mountainside, missing
by only twenty five feet a bGnkheusc
in which eighty-four miners We're
asleep.
Huge masses of snow which range
in depth from six to twenty Eight feet,
are reported loosening on mountain
sides in various mining districts en-
dangcring lives and property. Mines
reported threatened tonight include
the Sunnyside. Iowa. Tiger Barstow
Gold Lion. Unity, Gladstone, Boulder
and Red Mountain.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
BIG VERDICT IN
BOOK FRAUD SUIT
Republican A. P. Leased Wire1

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-Harry NJ. Lev
engson, book collector of Saratoga
Springs, n. Y. was awarded judgment
for $4,000 in the federal court today
on allegations that he was defrauded
in a rare book swindle. In his suit he
named William Y. G. Humes, Herbert
o, Tomlinson, James Plunkett Edward
j. McArdle and Samuel Warfield as
defendants.
Levengson paid $61,75O for the 5000
volumes involved. The jury awarded
him this sum, plus interest, less $4,000
which the jury considered the actual
value of the set.
The service in the suit never was
obtained on Warfield and the case
against McArdle was dismissed two
weeks ago. The verdict therefore ran
against only Humes, Tomlinson and
Plunkett.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
MOUTH SERVICE
Of THE PRESIDENT

The habitually joyful face of Sur
veyor General Ingalls, was Swallowed
by a cloud of dark disgust yesterday
morning as he read the headlines of
The Republican. After he had fully
grasped the insult which they flung at
him, he threw the paper on his desk
and with a whirlwind gesture he
pointed to the headline over the speech
of President Wilson before the Rail
way Business association at New
York the night before.
Read that heading he shouted at
a friend who read:
Wilson Says United States De-
mands Honest Service of Public
Men"
Now, what do you think of that
for the president of the United States
to say" said Captain ingalls,, after he
has just fired the only honest man
in the public service and appointed
Frank Trott to succeed him. It's all
right for the president to make that
kind of a talk but it does not fit in
well with his actions"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29

in 1887. Since the beginning of the
flood which held up the mails has
left comparatively little work to do in
the office a number of the clerks have
been set at work rearranging the I'M
told number of old files.
One letter was found from the regis
ter and receiver Of the office at that
time urgently demanding more clerks,
He complained of the work being be-
hind and added: Our small force has
worked since daylight and now it is
dark. We would work after dark if
the government would furnish us coal
oil and wood
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
Blanche Sweet at Arizona Today Onl

The evils of the opium and morphine
habits are graphically depicted in the
Lasky production of THE Secret Sin
which will be at the Arizona today
matinee and evening only, with
Blanche Sweet the brilliant Lasky
star, in the leading role.
The Secret Sim is the seventh pro-
ductior Blanche Sweet has appeared in
since she has been under the direction
Of the Lasky company and for origin
atty of plo- and swiftness of action
this is said to be the best opportunity
she has had
In the cast supporting Miss Sweet
are such well known members of the
Laskv all-star stock company as
Thomas Meighan, remembered for his
splendid performances in "kindling''
and "Out Of Darkness Margery~ Daw,
the clever 14-year-old protege of Ger
aldine Farrar Hal Clements Sessue
Hayakawa, the noted Japanese actor,
Alice Knowland and others.
The Paramount news picture will al
so he shown at the matinee and even
ing today only.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
A Million Mothers behind

4 As6x@AhASA 3fASSAAS1 ~ N<SAAAAAA
the purest, cleanest, most nu-
tritiOuS of all cereal foods
Shredded Wheat. They have
tested it and found it best
for youngsters, best for
grown-ups-a food to work
on, to play on, to think on.
Contains the life of the wheat
in a digestible form puts
gimp and ginger into the
jaded body. Delicious for
breakfast or for any meal with
milk or cream. Made at
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29

best photo drama ever founded upon
the methods of the metropolitan police
in making a suspect confess. There
has been so much written and printed
about the third degree methods of the
great thief takers Of the city of New
York that there exists in the minds of
most every one a curiosity to see thu
way the fellows in the Front office"
as the inspection room is called grill
the poor unfortunate who falls into the
clutches of the law. The agony of
Fear" as the offering at the Amuzu
shows the other side Of the practice
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
JITNEY DRIVERS
BLAME RAILWAY
General Manager Mitchell Says Com
pany Had Nothing to Do With
Ordinance

Il believe the street railway com
pany is behind ordinance Number 105.'
With this statement Mrs. W. S. Brad
ford, whose husband is interested in
the Salt River stage line. condemned
the ordinance requiring the stages and
iitneys to furnish a $1,000 bond.
That the automobile men are of one
mind on the matter was confirmed by
conversation with some half dozen men
interested in the different lines. Mr..
Bradford, who is looked upon as one
of the leaders, is in Globe at present.
According to his wife his views are
identical with those expressed by O. &.
Hall in yesterdays issue of The Re
publican.
at is unfair" said Mrs. Bradford,
in agreeing with Hall. The emer-
sency clause is the final straw. If the
city had not been afraid Of some one
invoking the referendum the clause
would not have been added. 'Neces-
sary for the public peace, health and
safety quoted Mrs. Bradford with
d laugh.
The conditions that exist today are
so different from what they were six
months or a year ago. There are more
accidents caused by people who own
and drive their own cars than by the
| jitney drivers and are they asked for
| a bond? Are women and young boys
and girls who drive about town more
! experienced and better drivers than
the men whose business it is?'
Mr.. MitcheIs Denial
| Manager s. II. Mitchell of the Phoe-
nix Street Railway ompany emphat-
ically denied that the corporation was
behind the city in framing Ordinance
Number 1G5. Mr. Mitchell expressed
surprise that a rumor to that effect
was current on the streets. That the
railway company should be in any way
implicated was d surprise to the
manager
at is a mistake" he declared. THE
idea of our having brought pressure
to bear is absurd. We certainly be-
lieve in bond protection. We think it
| only right that the automobile stage
or bus should be regulated the same
as any public carrier for the public
safety.
Thirty days after the jitneys went
into business in Tucson they were
regulated and that has been the his
tory of the jitney on the.cost. In some
cities they must furnish a bond as
high as 10000"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
Coliseum Theater

Regardless the bad nights we have
been having here of late, the Coliseum
is drawing the crowds, the public must
be pleased and there has never been a
company here that has been as sue
cessful as the one that is now showing
at this popular play house
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
THE OLD LAND OFFICE
AID TIE NEW DIE

Conditions change as time slides
along as is shown IN & comparison Of
the magnificent land office in the fed
cral building with the condition Of the
old land office as it existed al Tucson
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-29
Special Gas Engine Oil

gines of six or more horse power.
so gal. drums, 81 cts. gal.
WILkEY G. WARTMAN OIL co.
Phone 1887. 143 w. Jeff.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
AUTO OWNERS ORGANIZE,
POLITICAL ISSUE OF $4,000

Mcpherson, May 1.-McPherson
county is going to whip into line
with a big country automobile club.
The question is being agitated by
the leading good roads people OF
the country and a meeting will soon
he called. There is in the county
road fund an accumulation of nearly
$4,000 and the auto owners are
aroused over the fact that the COM
are opposed to having
much of it spent on the roads this
summer.
The political issues of the cleo
ton will evolve around the good
roads question for county commits
sioners and a change will likely be
demanded by the people.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
BY JAMES 3. MORROW,
In the Philadelphia Record.

- xONE OF the Weekses. save John
N Wingate, the senator and the
Massachusetts candidate Tor
president-toillng as they all ola
among the granite humps of New
Hampshire-was ever noted for his ac-
emulation OF cash or property
They were farmers mostly, begin
ming with Leonard Weeks, who, emil
grating from England in 1856, became
the head and source of the family
Agriculture sternly practiced among
the embedded rocks and irrcmovable
powders taught them to be resource
full and to keep at least one eye open
TO opportunity.
SO William D., the father OF the SEN
ator was a probate Judge, and once
essayed to be a manufacturer. with
the cooperation of neighbors likewise
alert and adventurous, he started
factory at Lancaster for making starch
from potatoes.
Il will never forget the look on my
fathers face" Captain Weeks told me,
when, on a Sunday morning, just as
we were leaving church, we saw men
and boys running down the street and
heard them crying: The starch fac
tory is burning.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
NO PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
Measure Lost in House by 213 to
1875 Vote

Washington, May 2.-The admin
istration's fight for the senate Phil
ippine bill with it's Clark amend
ment authorizing independence for
the islands within four years was
lost in the house. After voting 213
to 165 to strike out the Clark
amendment the house by vote of
PSI to II passed as a substitute for
the entire measure the Jones bill
providing for a greater measure of
disagreement in the Philippines
and carrying a preamble declaring
the intention of the United States
to grant independence ultimately,
but without fixing a date.
Now the bill goes to conference
between the two houses, with the
opponents of the Clark amendment
satisfied that it is dead, at least for
this session of congress.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
$4,000 HEAR BILLY SUNDAY
Kansas Citfans Waded Rain to Hear
Evangelist

Kansas City, May BILLY Sum
day sledgeAhammered the Billy Sun
day adaptation of the gospel of
Christ intu the hearts and minds of
approximately $4,000 Kansas City
people at the tabernacle, Admiral
boulevard and Virginia avenue, yes
terday.
1t was Bflly Sundays entree to
Kansas City. And it was the begin
ming of the greatest and most spec
tacular spiritual revival this town
has ever known.
There was a tense curiosity as to
what Billy Sunday acted like and
what he talked like.
He is the most remarkable preach
er Kansas City had ever seem He
is different from any other preacher
of the gospel Kansas City has ever
known. Originality marked every
thing that Billy Sunday did.
Approximately $1,000 persons at
tended the three meetings yester-
day. The total collections amounted
to $3,074.50. The seating capacity
of the tabernacle is 10000. Four
thousand more can be accommodate
ed with standing room.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
GEARY COUNTY DRILLERS ON
VERGE OF BIG OIL STRIKE

Junction City, May Confident
that they are on the verge of big
oil strike, the drillers in charge of
the work at the Eastern Geary pros
Pect well are encountering more
trouble right now than they have at
ary time since drilling was begun.
Several days ago the drill bit in
to a deep vein Of oil sand, which IS
now caving in, necessitating fire.
quent stops for UNDERMINING, and
progress is very slow, in spite of
the efforts of the men to rush things
as fast as possible. The drillers are
making wagers that they will strike
oil before 1000 feet is reached. The
hole now is down 1900 feet.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
BISSEL THREATENS SUICIDE
Confessed Child Murderer Despon-
dent in Confinement

LeavenwoPth, May Fired H.
Bissell, the child murderer, is de-
spondent now and he threatened to
commit suicide. He has to be watch
ed closely to prevent his doing so,
and everything has been taken out
of the cell in which he is confined
that might be used by him to end
his life. In addition, guard is
keeping a close watch on him.
BisselI was anxious to read what
the papers had to say about his
confession to the murder of Edna
Dinsmore, and he seemed rather
pleased with the notoriety he was
getting until he came across an ar
ticle in a Topeka paper telling that
his mother was shocked. Then ne
became respondent.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
So KANSAS TOWNS HAVE
ENTERED BIRD CLASS CONTEST

Lawrence, May 1.-The names of
thfrty-five Kansas towns of the
thfBd class, which have entered the
Better Town" contest of the Kan
sas university cAfld welfare depart
ment were announced by William A
McKeever, head of this department.
The contest viii be along lines sim
flar to the second class cities con-
test of year ago, the winners re-
ceiving prizes of $1,000 and $500 re-
spectively. The contest viii close
May rs, 1917, the judges making
their rounds of the towns near that
time. Chapman is entered.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
House and Senate COnferees Make
Changes in Bill
WAR STRENGTH OF u MILLION
Tentative Measure Provides for To-
tai Increase of 100000 Men
and Large Increases in All
Departments

Washington, May "A regular
army of 100000 men at peace
strength has practically been agreed
upon by senate and house conferees
on the army bill.
With the plans for expansion as
provided in the bill which has pass
ed the senate, this would produce
an army of about u million men in
war strength. The bill as it passed
the senate fixed the peace strength
at Il million men.
The agreement on the size of the
army is tentative and dependent
upon settlement of other features OF
the bill still in dispute.
The senate bill provided for sixty
five regiments of infantry, an in
crease of thirty-four, twenty-one
regiments of field artillery, an in
rease of fifteen; twenty-five regi-
ments of cavalry, an increase of ten,
and large increases in the coast ar
tillery, engineers, signal corps and
other branches. The total increase
will be approximately sixty thousand
men over the present authorized
of 10000. The house bill
as passed proposed an army Of
100000 men.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
~. S. VIII Not Withdraw Troops and
Mexicans Are Disappointed
DE FACTo's PLANS BLOCKED
from Washington Re-
ceived with Gravity at Ell Paso
-Carranza Representa-
tive Renews Demands

Washington, May 2.-President
Wilson has not altered his purpose
to keep American troops in the Dor
der region of Mexico until brigand-
age has come to an end.
Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican am
Observation-Disclosures, called on Secre-
tary Lansing during the day Mon
day to renew his argument in favor
of the early withdrawal.
Ell Paso, May 2.-Information
from Washington that Secretary
Baker had instructed General Scott
and General Funston to make 1t
plain to General Obregon that any
agreement reached at their confer
ence here must not be based on any
plan for immediate withdrawal was
received with gravity in Juarez last
night.
General Obregon refused to COM
ment, saying he would await de-
velopments at his next conference
with the Americans.
Secretary Bakers instructions to
the American conferees were re-
garded as completely blocking the
hopes of the Mexican minister of
war.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
KANSANS MAY HAVE TO
USE POTATO FLOUR

Manhattan, May 2.-'It is only a
question of time until the people in
the United States will have to eat
other bread than that made exclu-
sively from wheat flour" according
to L. A. Fitz, head of the milling
department of the State Agricultural
college here.
Professor Fitz was commenting
on the fact that fifteen barrels of
dried or desiccated potatoes had
been received by the department, to
be milled into potato flour.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
PREPAREDNESS WON At KUT
FALL, BIG BEOW TO ENGLAND

Amsterdam, May German
newspapers attribute the fall Of
Kut-El-Amara. says a telegram from
Berlin, to the provisions made by
the late Field Marshal Baron Won
Der Goltz. who died at the Turkish
headquarters April 10.
The Vossfsche zeitung considers
the surrender of Kut-El-Amara the
heaviest blow so far struck against
England. other newspapers write in
similar vein.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
JUDGE SMILED AND THE
DEFENSE SEEKS NEW TRIAL

Topeka. May because Judge
Whitcomb grinned at a witness re-
ply when he asked him a question
during the trial of Albert Taylor on
a charge Of grand larceny, Taylor's
attorney has asked a new trial. The
instance is said to be the first time
a judges smile has ever been argued
in the Shawnee county court.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
1. G. c. CANCELS PROPOSED
MEAT FREIGHT RATE RISE

Washington, May 2.-The inter-
state commerce commission ordered
cancelled, proposed increased rates
ON fresh meat and packing house
products between points in the mid
die west, but held the interested
railroads may file new tariffs pro-
posing minor increases on these
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04

There was no insurance-the pol
icy had lapsed-and the fire swep,
away all of my fathers means and put
burdensome mortgage on his farm.
two and a half miles in the country"
II there had been a navy Of re-
spectacle size In 1881 John Wingate
Weeks would now be captain in
stead Of senator. Nor would he
ever have become a banker and thus
have set at naught all the traditions OF
the Weeks family for self-respecting,
capable and wholesome poverty.
And yet psychological analysis OF
inherited traits might show that the
senator comes naturally by his talents
for public affairs and finance. Any
inquiry into his personality must in
clude the Wingates. the chief of whom,
John, an Englishman, emigrated to
New Hampshire in 1860.
The Weekses and the Wingates In
termarried during the second Ameri-
can generation-the Weekses to con-
tinue as farmers, with an excursion
into potato starch, as has been re-
corded, but the Wingates TO become
soldiers, preachers and statesmen
Paine Wingate. for example, the great
grandson of John, was a member of
the Continental congress and later a
senator from New Hampshire.
A Big Man Physically.
John Wingate Weeks OF Massachu-
setts, In his name, therefore, goes back
to the middle of the seventeenth CEN
fury. Perhaps his gifts are equally as
ancient. Wherever they originated,
he has made good use OF them. He is
Nwell-to-do-but has less money. per-
haps, than is often represented-and
Republicans in Massachusetts, have no
titled the country that he is their can
didate for president. II he is nomi-
mated at Chicago in June, the main
reason will have been that he is a
business man. His candidacy, then,
will be something entirely new In ma
tional politics.
In his measurements, Captain Weeks
Is a large man. A reasonable guess
at his weight would be $50 pounds.
His stature, perhaps, is FIVE feet and
eleven inches. His eyes are gray and
his manner is frank and hearty. While
at the naval academy he could slowly
raise a 112-pound dumbbell above his
head with his right hand. Then, kneel-
ing with one leg, he could slowly raise
an S7-pound dumbbell with his left
hand. More than that he could lower
his hands to his shoulders and slowly
and simultaneously put both dumb
bells above his head the second time.
A muscular youth. he was recon-
mended by his principal to the "pru'
dental committee" that called at the
academy in Lancaster on a hunt of a
teacher for their district school The
school was then closed-a group OF
the large boys having carried the
teacher into the road, slammed him
down in the dirt and warned him
never to return
Lick EN- and lick 'em good" the
prudential committee said. We'll
back you up II you do.
The third day, Captain Weeks
told me, "a big. red-faced boy tool
his pen In hand and laboriouslJ be
gan 10 write a letter that is. he was
seemingly engaged in writing a let
ter. as a matter OF fact, he was show
ing OF before the school and expert
msnting with the new teacher. When
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF
METHODISTS AT SARATOGA

Saratoga Springs, N. Y, May q
Conditions resulting from the Eu-
ropean war caused a vacancy among
the foreign delegations who gath
cred here today for the opening of
the twenty-seventh general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The delegates failed to
choose a, secretary to succeed Joseph
p. Hingley of Kansas, who was not
a candidate for reelection. After one
ballot voting was postponed until
tomorrow. This ballot resulted in
2O7 votes for Edwin Locke of To-
peka.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
MINISTER PREACHED FOR
CONGREGATION OF ONE

Atchison, May 2.-Although there
was only one man in his audience
the Rev. H. A. OFT of Topeka, Lu-
theran missionary superintendent of
Kansas, preached sermon in an Eff
bingham church Sunday. He is try
ing to renew interest in a church
that virtually has been abandoned.
Bad weather kept away all but one
parishoner.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
SHIPS CARRY S1,OOO.O0O IN
POWDER TO EUROPE DAILY

Washington, May 2.-EuroDe's
purchase of war materials in the
United States totaled s340.O0O,OO0
at the end OF the first twenty
months Of var.
Shipments Of high explosives and
shrapnel are crossing the Atlantic
now at the rate OF s1.OOO,O0O worth
daily and vessels are carrying ST.
100000 worth of powder q day.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-05-04
ID. G. H. s. MUSICAL HELD
SATURDAY VERY SUCCESSFUL

Chapman, May 2.-One of the
best musical programs ever held
here was given Saturday night by
students of the Dickinson county
high school. Every branch Of the
music department was represented.
The boys glee club, the girls glee
club, the piano department, orches-
ira and band participated.