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The sun., 1916-01-08
40 CENT GASOLINE
NEAR; OIL FAMINE
Texas Oklahoma Operator
Says Wells Have Slumped
Nearly 80 Per Cent.

DALLAS. Tex. Jan. III. y. Baker.
prominent Texas-Oklahoma oil operator
and chairman of the Dallas Park Board.
has returned from Oklahoma alarmed
over the decreased oil production. lie
predicts gasolene at 40 cents a gallon In
the near future and oil by-products 30 to
so per cent higher than at any time In
the history of the United States.
"In other words the United states.
ne said, "and especially Texas ana the
Southwest, faces an oil famine. u is not
coming, 1t is already here
Baker stated that oil wells in Okla
homa and Texas have slumped IN pro-
ducton from 35 to so per cent
The sun., 1916-01-08
GERMANS SAID TO FEAR
CROWN PRINCES RULE
Kaiser Ill. Heads Of All States
Are Called to Berlin.
Madrid Hears.

PARIS. Jan The N0fM publishes
despatch from Madrid which states
that owing to the Kaser's illness the
rulers OF all the German States have
been called to Berlin. There Is great
anxiety. the despatch says, about what
may happen II the Crown Prince assumes
the governing power
German circles In Madrid, the despatch
adds. are taking the rumors of the
Kaiser's condition 80 seriously that the
concern there Is general
The sun., 1916-01-08
COLORADO FUEL WAGES UP.
Rockefeller Concern Adopts steel
Corpora tiOn BASIS.

DENVER, Jan. 7.--President Welborn
OF the Colorado Iron and Fuel Company
announced to-day that the company will
advance the wages OF It's steel workers
to tho same figure paid by the United
States Steel Corporation
The coTpany employs several thousand
men,
The sun., 1916-01-08
PEACE OFFER MADE TO JAPAN.
German Plea Rejected ny Okuma.
IL Toxic Report.

LONDON, Jan "A despatch from
Toxic credits to Count Okuma, the Japa-
nese Premier. the statement that Ger
many has made overtures FOR a separate
peace TO Japan and Russia, both OF
which have rejected the proposal
The Overtures are attributed TO acute
financial difficulties In Germany.
The sun., 1916-01-08

soIeu.lid service sOuth-"Augusta special"
scu,hern Railway. leave Penna. Station 1908
p M daily for Aiken and Augusta. Draw
ing room, compartment and section Pull.
mans; dining oar. ". Y. once. 26t 9Th Ave,
-/iv, - .-- ...-.
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sEABOARD FLORIDA. LTD. s,i8 y. N.
Quickest, hnest Florida train via short est
line. seaboard Air Line Ry, ilSi Broadway.
ADV.
The sun., 1916-01-08

THE FLORIDA ROUTE
ATLANTIC COAST IINE"N y. 4 Fiorida
sp~c,aL" 3i: p. ~, . other TIsins Daily.
/dp,
The sun., 1916-01-08
Germany Yields on All
Points in the Inland
Sea.
FORESTALLS ACTION
IN THE PERSIA CASE
DisavOwal. RepalatiOn and
Punishment in New
Note.
MEDITERRANEAN NOT
IN ZONE OF REPRISAL
American Safety on Enemy
Ships Guaranteed Under
Law of Nations.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.-Germany. on her
own initiative. has given formal assur-
ances to the United States that her sub
marine activities in the Mediterranean
will be conducted strictly in accordance
with international Law
Count Won Bernstorif. the German
Ambassador. delivered to-day TO Secre-
,ary Lansing a memorandum from Ber-
lin containing the pledges Of the German
Government.
Germany voluntarily assures the
United States that any submarine COM
mander who falls to obey these orders
will he punished /; also that the German
Government will make reparat!on FOR
damage caused by death or Injuries to
American citizens"
While the German Ambassador as
sured Secretary Lansing that his Gov
eramcnt had no information In regard
n the sinking OF the British liner
Persia. with United States Consul Nc
Ne-!y on board. II IL apparent that the
new German assurances have resulted
from that case.
In fact. the Germau Government seeini
to conceive 4, as IA possibility that q
German submariu. may have sent the
Persia to the bottom. for 1t says in the
memorandum:
All cases OF destruction of enemy
merchant ships in tn" Mediterranean
In which German submarines are CON
cerned are made the subject oi o'iiciai
investi.ation. and besides suo'ni''e"
to regular prize court Procee ''"ss'
In so far as American interests are
concerned the Government will COM
run.cnt. the result TO the American
Government Thus also IN the Persia
case If the circumstances should cal!
for Il.
The sun., 1916-01-08

LEAVE NEW YORK, 2lsP. NJ.
Breakfast at Court Ian. Camden. 3. C.-Adv.
The sun., 1916-01-08

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The sun., 1916-01-08
Ne1v Haven Jury LockedUp
After Hours 55 Minutes
TRIAL COST $775,O00
AND LASTED SIS DAYS

Duration OF trial. from October l3.
1915. TO and including January U.
1916. 55 court days.
The sun., 1916-01-08

The p,csentation Of the German memo
,arduu served TO tighten somewhat the
tension that has existed in oihciai ci'-
rlas since the siGS.ng of the PERSIA
The mer. fact that Germany mas seen
MT TO take this step on her own ih''a-
tive. following so closely on the as
surances given by Austria In her reply
to the Ancona note. Is regardea W
Washington officials as sign!ncant.
This action by Germany is taken as
further evidence OF the desire on the
r,rt OF the Central Powers to avoid
break with the United States, and TO &c
as far as possible in satisfying the ae
mands of this Government.
With the receipt OF the German mem
orandum the hope OF this Government
reaching a satisfactory UNDERSTANDING
with both Germany and Austria on all
phases OF the submarine question be-
came noticeably brighter. but Amerlcai
officials have been disappointed 80 many
times before that they refrain from max
ing predictions.
storff presented the memorandum on the
subma rinc activities In the Med!ter'
ranean ne took up with Secretary Ian
sing the settlement Of the Lusitania Case
The United States and Germany ar.
still at deadlock on the form OF I'M
disayowal. Germany contending that hei
assurances not to sink liners in the wal
zone without giving warning and safe
guarding the lives of passengers ant
crew in itself constituted disavowa'
and the United states standing out fol
an absolute disavowal in words
In the opinion OF persons close TO thu
German Embassy the new proposals sub
mitted by Germany have brought the 10
sue nearer a settlement. and the predic
tion was made In these matters that
satisfactory agreement will be reached
n fter one or two more conferences be
tween the Ambassador and Secretar!
Lansing.
The sun., 1916-01-08
G~rmany's step Forward.

In the memorandum which the German
Amt,, ssator has just delivered to the
state Department Germany goes further
in the way OF giving assurances than In
any previous communication. she
promises fatty to observe every Item OF
international law in her submarine
operations in the Mediterranean and de-
oiarcs that instructions to that effect
were given to her submarine COM
manders.
In her previous assurances affecting
the so-called war zone Germany prom
ised merely that liners would not be sunk
without warning and without safeguard
ing the lives OF passengers, In the Medi-
terranean Germany pledges henslf not
to sink freight as well as passenger YES
sells until after the crews and others
have been put in places Of safety.
The difference which Germany points
out is that In the ohse OF submarine
operations In the war zone she has been
Obliged tD adopt methods of reprlsal
whereas in the Mediterranean no such
conditions exist. The United States
never has accepted the German conten-
tion that submarine operations in the
nature OF reprisals exempted her from
the obligations of international law and
this Government still insists that Ger
many has no right to sink freight vessels
without warning and without safegu,r rd-
ing the lives OF passengers and crew.
The presenting Of the memorandum
on submarine warfare In the Medlterra-
mean IL regarded by diplomats as a
| clever move In taking this action Ger.
The sun., 1916-01-08
BRITAIN FACES
ELECTION OVER
LABOR'SSTAND
Government Considers Step
to Avoid Trouble Over
COnscription.
ASQUITH CONFERS
WITH MINISTER'S
London Papers Declare
That Appeal to Country
Is Inevitable.
IMPRISONMENT FOR
EVASION OF SERVICE
Six Months in Jail and
Fines Provided by Com
pulsiOn Bill.
IMPRISONMENT FOR
EVASION OF SERVICE

LoNpoS. Jaa. s Saturday .-premi-r
Asputh had consultation yesterday
with several Of the leading members
Of the Cabinet The situation ~ re-
CARDS the compulsion bill is causing
some anxiety. because, although the
bill ~ assur OF "A majority ia rarlia-
ment ana In the country at large. IL ia
felt that some OF the Labor Congress
spokesmcn have SO pledged themselves
that there may be trouble when the
bill becomes operative The Govern
ment is examining closely such con-
tingeicy, and the possibility of a general
election as solution OF u. present
difficulties is considered
The text of the conscription bill has
been issued. The penalties prescribed
for those who attempt to evade military
service include imprisonment no, exceed
ing six months without hard labor for
persons making fails. statements and "A
fine no, exceeding $50 's2j0) FOR failure
to notify the authorities OF change Il
circumstances
Sir John Simon, who resigned from the
Cablne, AZ a protest aga!ns, the com
pulslon bill, John Burns, the Labor
leader. who resigned from the Cabinet
on Great Britain's entry INTO the war
James H. Thomas, representing the rail-
way men. ami Ramsay Macdonald, La
hor member for Leicester. voted against
the h.ll on It's Introduction IN Parlia-
ment.
The sun., 1916-01-08

Continued on Fourth Page.
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-14

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Isafea To- t0ffi0v 5 q. ~. For infnF-
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SILVER 4 Rumsro.
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Henry raus baggage ard
1t7er T7Cs. Prone o3o.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
TWO MODERN EYES
viii Try the Experiment Of
Living Naked In An
Adamless Eden.

New York, July 19.-Miss Audreta
Griswold and Miss Emily Hammus,
two nice looking young ladies, have
been chosen by Joe Knowles from a
great number of applicants to spend
a month in the Adirondacks living the
primitive life" to prove that women
as we'll as men can live in the woods
by their own devices and with what
nature offers. They will be chaper-
oned by Miss Katherine Baker, Of
eBrooklyn.
? This simple life expedition will be
under the guidance of Mr.. Knowles,
who has enjoyed some publicity OF
late by his advocacy of the "primi.
tive" and who has lived for months
at time in the Sierra Nevada noun.
tains of Northern California, depend.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Two Elopements.

GAINESVILLE, Tenn, July ia
double wedding of Kentucky couples
took place Saturday in the County
Court Clerks office. The contracting
parties were Pearly Bryan and Miss
Willie Smith, of Hopkinsville, and
Lloyd Foster and Miss Bertha Morris,
of Crofton, Ky. Both couples motor
ed from their respective towns. The
ceremony was performed by Squire
John Osborne.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Bluff Slowing Up.

Wall Street betting odds on the
presidential election, which until
very recently have been largely in
favor of Hughes, Tuesday took a de-
cded slump, and according to Ed
ward McQuade, the curb broker,
who handles most big commissions
in the financial district, the best odds
followers of the eX-iustice are now
willing to give 6 to 5, and even his
adherents are offering very little
money.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Recruiting Details.

Adit. Gen. Tandy Ellis has tele-
graphed to the department the follow
ing officers to be detailed for recruit
ing work:
First Regiment-Mai. Thompson
Short, Capt. Ellerbe Carter and Capt.
Robert Cain.
Second Regiment-Capt. C. II.
Back, Capt. Blaine Short and Capt.
Robert Page.
Third Regiment Lieut.. Alvan
Clark, Lieut.. j. D. Sorry and Lieut..
Allen Jenkins.
Field Hospital-Lieut. A.. C. L.
Percefull, Sergt. Robert Pearce, Pri.
vate George Beckham.
Ambulance Company-Lieut. D. L.
Hill, Sergt. Charles Finck and Private
George Stewart.
A Sergeant, a Corporal and two
privates will compose the recruiting
squad with each of the commissioned
officers named.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22

ing upon nature alone to supply his
wants. He will devote some time to
instructing the ladies in nature-craft,
the building of lean-tos, striking fire,
finding of food, and then leave them
to their own devices and retire to his
own masculine Eden.
Miss Griswold thinks she will be
perfectly happy up in the Adirondacks
with only the food and clothing that
nature provides and what she can OBJ
tain through her own efforts. Miss
Hammus will, she says, take dress
making lessons of nature, and has al
ready planned how she will fashion
her Garden of Eden hat.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Missionaries Murdered.

Toxic, July 49, The Rev. w. A..
F. Campbell and his wife, Canadian
missionaries, were stabbed to death
by a burglar this morning in their
summer cottage at Karuizawa. The
weapon used was japanese short
sword, Karuizawa, which is an Amer
lean summer mission center, las been
greatly excited by the murder.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
"Free Partyy Didn't Suit Him.

William had been to several birth
day parties, always taking a present to
the little hostess. When his birthday
arrived his mother told him he could
have a party, but nothing was to be
said about it's being his birthday. He
pouted a while and then said: 81 do
not care for party if l have to have
a free party"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
'Twan't Me, 'Tw as You.

Col. Roosevelt is quoted as saying:
GAS Raymond Robins said, it was not
| who deserted the Progressive party,
it was the Progressive party that de-
serted us. In New York State, for
instance, ! continued to fight hard up
to the time that seven-eigths of our
party left us. 1t then became imposi-
sible for me to accomplish anything"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Looks Like Business.

The Senate Tuesday adopted the
enlarged building program of the
naval bill by a viva voce vote. 1t
provides for the construction with
in three years of one hundred and
fifty-seven war vessels of all classes
and for four dreadnaughts and four
battle cruisers to be built next year.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Her Suppositlon.

Miss Angelina Ito Captain Brown.
who has been cruising in Alaskan wa
ters)-'T suppose, captain, that In
those northern ATTITUDES during a part
of the year the sun doesn't set TIN
quite a while after dark. Christian
Register.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22
Why He Resigned.

Only $500 was found in the treas
ury Of the Kentucky Rural Credit As
sociation, when a thorough investiga-
ton Of its affairs was begun in
Lexington. Former Gov. James B.
McCreary, in a signed statement, says
that the association went on the rocks
as the result of too liberal commits.
sion paid to the promoters.
Says the Cronic Disbeliever.
1t pleases the average man more To
have a woman tell him that he is the
first man she ever loved than to have
her tell him the truth.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-22

$4,000 marched in a preparedness
parade at Milwaukee.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-19
POLITICAL
WiIsonian Fluctuations.

Writing to the Indianapolis Star l..
W. Merriss, a former progressive,
gives a number of reasons why Amer
leans should vote for Hughes and
Fairbanks. The reasons all illustrate
the propOsitiOn that President Wilson
has not made good" In aseries Of
stacCatO sentences, Mr.. Merriss re
cunts as follows some of the prcsi-
dents fluctuations:
He favored the Garrison continent
al plan; he fired Garrison and jumped
that.
He opposed young men being trained
for military service: then he demand
ed that 100000 of them be trained.
He opposed increasing the navy;
then he demanded the largest navy in
the world.
He opposed intervention in Mexico,
and then sent an army to intervene.
He demanded that all the Mexican
claimants get together and establish a
de faCtO government and threatened
n-reCOgntiOn of any one who refus
ed. Then he recognized Carranza, the
only claimant who did not and would
not join the conference.
He favored free Panama tolls; then
he forced the democratic majority to
repeal the free tolls law.
He opposed preparedness last year
and favors it this year.
The assertion that the president has
kept the country out of war with Eu-
rope provokes the Stars correspond
ent to terse comment:
This country has never been in
danger of war with any European ma
ton. Hungry men don't shoot the
cook-at least before breakfast-and
European nations realized that a break
with this country meant an embargo
on foodstuffs; and that, above every
thing else on earth, they could not
have sustained while at war at home"
Can anyone assert that there is a
word in all the above that is untrue?
The foundering in Mexico has been a
serious business, and before the end is
reached it may become more so. At
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-19
4 SERIOUS CONFESSION.

That New York has as clever vioIatOrs
of the law as there are authorities for
seeing that it is enforced is revealed
by the arrest of a middle aged man in
that city on the charge of white slav-
cry. In connection with his arrest and
confession, it is brought to light that
he has been engaged in this business
for the past p years and has not
been taught the lesson which would
cause him to change his methods.
1t is to the credit of the metropoIi-
tan police that he has been run down
and that he has given information
which will lead to the arrest of a gang
of criminals who have been operating
with him, but from the very state
ments of the man himself it is like
wise discreditable that it was possible
to have established such a criminal
record. Apparently he has not suf-
fered from interruption in his ne
farious business. He has no con-
science. His ambition was to get easy
money and this he had succeeded in
doing without giving the least con-
sideratiOn to the effects it was hay-
ing upon the community or humanity
That he was a part of a cIeyerIy Op-
Grated vice ring seems probable.
That he was aided in his operations
through protection given by those who
were supposed to discourage and cor
rect such evils is likely to be proved
and it is incumbent upon the New
York police authorities and the peo-
pie of that great city to see that the
matter is prObed to the bottom and
that no other criminal be allowed to
boast over the fact that he has been
swapping his fingers at the law for
over quarter of a century.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-19

and that respect is being paid to the
lives of the passengers and crews.
This is in direct contrast to former
action.
That the submarines or enemy war
ships have a right to- capture or de-
stroy the merchantmen of beHigerent
nations must be understood provided
it is done in the manner prescribed
by international law. It was because
such respect was not shown by Ger
man submarines and because passen-
ger vessels were being sent to Davy
Jones' locker without any warning or
an opportunity being given to the
people aboard to get to places of safe
ty that this nation was forced to pro-
test to Germany. Since that time
when Germany agreed to stop such
practices there has been a 1ulI in such
operations, but with the resumption Of
their activity improved conditions are
to be noted, as was indicated by the
recent report to the effect that one
submarine had halted six merchant
men at one time. If. however, Ger
many is departing from the straight
and narrow path and proof exists it
needs to be called to strict account.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-19
FACTS SHOULD BE KNOWN.

~ y INV " - = - ENlNC w iNH
. The request of the foreign relations
committee Of the senate for an ex-
PLANTATION by Secretary Lansing of the
various features of the proposition to
purchase the Danish West Indies for
the sum Of $25,O0O,OOO is we'll
founded 1t is but natural that
those who must approve such a
deal should want to know what
they are doing They cannot be ex-
pected to go ahead and give their
support when they know little or moth
ing about the inside details. and
especially when as a great many think
m excessive price has been offered
for the islands.
Like all other propositions which
are brought before the senate it is i'm
pOTtant that there should be a thor
ougl understanding Of all the facts
Following the other efforts to pur-
chase the same islands it was dis
closed that there We're features which
never should have been permitted to
enter into the proposed sale. There is
no claim that such exist at the pres
ent time but past experience cannot
be forgotten and the time to unearth
-hem if they exist at the present time
is before there is any ratification Of
the bargain.
Secretary Lansing is the man who
is in touch with all the details in con-
uectiou with the effort to buy and
oven though such information as he
has may not be given out at the pres
ent stage Of negotiations it is time
that those who are going to be held
responsible for whatever is done
should be acquainted with what they
are doing. Otherwise they are not in
a position to render sound judgment