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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
TEUTONS CHECKED
RUSSIANS REPORT
RoUMANIANs NORTH OF BUcHA-
REST TURN ON OFFENSIVE
AND DRIVE INVADERS BACK.
Little Fighting in Progress on Eastern
Fronts-BerIin Reports Repulse of
Heavy Attacks by Entente
Troops Near Monastir.

Paris.-Little fighting is in progress
IN any of the fronts except in Rouma
ala. Here the Teutonic allies, accord
ng to Berlin, are still making prog
Jess. Petrograd asserts, however, that
The Roumanians northeast OF Bucha
rest have turned on the offensive and
driven the Austro-Germans back
Along the Pennsylvania Roumanis
frontier Petrograd reports progress fol-
The Russian troops and Berlin admits
the loss of height.
Bulgarians are crossing the Danube
southeast of Bucharest. Seemingly
an impeachment will be placed in the
way of the retirement of the Rouman'
Ians and possibly some of them may
be caught between the Austro-Ger
mans moving east and the Bulgarians
driving north.
Aside from a German attack in the
Vosges region near Col Sainte Marie
which was repulsed by the French
and the recapture by the Germans OF
a sap in Champagne the French had
entered after it's evacuation, only bonn.
bardments and minor engagements
have taken place along the line in
France and Belgium.
Berlin records the repulse of a
heavy attack by the entente troops
near Monastir, while Paris reports the
capture by the British south of Sores.
Greece, of Turkish positions.
A violent bombardment is in prog
ress east of Gorilla and on the Carso
plateau of the Austro-Italian theater.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
MURDER MYSTERY
PARTLY CLEARED UP
HAUNTED BY FEAR, BURGLAR
TELLS POLICE HIS WIFE WAS
KILLED BY ROBBERS.
Declares Woman Who Was Murdered
Near County Jail In Salt Lake Was
Beaten to Death and Robbed
of $4,000 Worth of Jewels.

Salt Lake City.-A murder mystery
which engaged the attention of the
police of several cities in the country
the tragedy occurring in Salt Lake,
was practically solved at Chicago on
December 8, when a man giving his
name as Howard DeWeese and his age
as 81 years, walked into the detective
bureau of the Chicago police depart.
ment and acknowledged that a woman
who was murdered in Salt Lake on a
night about the Goth of September was
his wife
De Weesea admitted to the authori-
ties that he was burglar and that
he was guilty of a number of crimes,
but declared that he was not guilty OF
the murder of the woman His story
as detailed to the police:
"My name is Howard DeWeese. I
am a burglar. On September 20 in
Salt Lake my wife was murdered. Her
diamonds, valued at $4,000, were
stolen. l fed because was afraid,
with my record, would be accused o.
the murder. I want to clear myself.
Under the name of C. D. Robbins I
had been employed in a haberdashery
in New York City and in November,
1916, eloped to Reno, New, with the
wife of the proprietor, Mrs. Harry
Fisher. Mrs. Fisher obtained a divorce
in Reno in August, 1916, and few
days later she and I were married
there"
DeWeese claimed that he and his
wife came to Salt Lake, and that while
he was away from their apartments
his wife was murdered and her dia-
monds and jewels taken.
The mutilated body of woman was
found September "a in a room at
4557a South Second East. Her head
had been beaten almost beyond rec
ignition and the body was partially
decomposed. Indications were that
she had been dead at least three
days. Near the bed on the floor was
fattron wrapped in a bloody towel.
With a man who represented him
self as her husband and who gave his
name as D. C. Robbins, they engaged
the apartment three days before the
body was discovered. Robbins was
missing and the police and sheriffs
force began a search on the theory
that he had slain the woman. The
body of the murdered woman was bur
led in the potter's field after all eff
forts to identify her had failed.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14

bled and steered away from the map,
propriate phrase, came falling from
his lips.
And for many a year." he finished,
may you sit by your own fireside as
the shadows of life lengthen, with this
chair to give you comfort and to re.
mind you of the boys of the old town."
There was nothing for the rest to do
but applaud that speech, to wish
Merry Christmas! !" over and over, to
bend the head for that venerable "God
bless you" and to go quietly away.
The car was turned westward again
before any man spoke a word. Then
it was VIII Stearns:
"WelI, what do you know about
that7"
There's nothing for them now, but
we can scare up something tomorrow
and say nothing about this" said an,
other.
But someone told one of the girls
who knew all about the chair, and at
the collation. the whole story came out,
viii Stearns was even made to stand
up and give that speech. And the
bride declared, and, bless her dear
heart everybody believed her, that she
was glad it had turned out just the
way it did.
Somebody remembered the old lady's
name, and then somebody else remem-
bered that it was said that her father
was the man who planted those elms
on Elm street in the early days of
the town. The bride announced that
she was going over to see the dear old
soul.
She did go, and often, and her nurs-
ing did much to ease that rheumatic.
When Harry and Harriet moved into
the big house they now occupy, paper
among the old residents
bought the bungalow at a bargain
price. There the pioneer was moved
1y "the boys of the old town." where
she could be under the shade of the
aims her father planted. There, for
she was a wonderfully spry old lazy,
the may be living to this day.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
PROTEST AGAINST
GERMAN ACTION
DEPORTATION OF BELGIAN WORK
MEN CAUSES PROTEST FROM
UNITED STATES.
Note CabIed to Berlin Declares Policy
Established by Germans is Con-
trary to All PRESIDENTS and
Humane Principles.

Washington.-A note to Germany
protesting against the deportation Of
Belgians for forced labor as contrary
to all presidents and humane prin
ciples of international practice was
made public Friday night by the state
department
The note was cabled to Charge
Grew at Berlin on November 20, the
day Ambassador Gerard discussed the
subject with President Wilson, with
instructions that ne read it personally
to the German chancellor.
A decision to protest formally
against the treatment OF the Belgians
followed unsuccessful informal efforts
by Charge Grew under instructions
that he say informally to the Berlin
foreign office that the deportations
were having a most unfavorable effect
upon neutrals, particularly the United
States The charge was informed in
reply that the policy was adopted as
military necessity and that Germany
regarded it as legal.
The note, with the departments
statement making it public, follows:
"On November 20, Mr.. Grew, our
charge at Berlin, was directed to OBJ
tain an interview with the German
chancellor and read to him the follow
ing:
The government of the United
States has learned with the greatest
concern and regret of the policy of
the German government to deport
from Belgium a portion of the civilian
population for the purpose of forcing
them to labor in Germany, and is con-
strained to protest in a friendly spirit,
but most solemnly, against this action,
which is a contravention of all prece-
dents and of those humane principles
of international practice which long
have been accepted and followed by
civilized nations in their treatment of
non-combatants.
Furthermore, the government of
the United States is convinced that
the effect of this policy, if pursued,
will, in all probability, be fatal to the
Belgian relief work, so humaneIy
planned and so successfully carried
out, a result which would be general
ly deplored, and which, it is assumed,
would seriously embarrass the Ger
man government
The interview has taken place"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14

bare room, with few old fashioned
pictures in walnut frames on the
walls, some archaic furniture of the
same period, and rag carpet itself
reduced to it's original material.
Not far from the window stood the
celebrated leather rocker, with zane
close at hand. In the chair sat little
old woman, with her face smiling hap
PLY under unkept gray hair. Her face
was white, her wrinkles were many,
but her eyes shone with the real Christ
mas light.
Il can't ask you boys to set down."
she said, trying to turn toward them,
because there isn't much to set down
in except this, and the sofy over there.
But l knew you'd come, and l want to
thank you, / want to thank you all,
and every one of you, for the lovely
present you sent me, and for remem-
BERN an old woman like me. When
it come, and read the card, From the
boys of the old town. the boys of the
boys used to know, for I guess knew
all your fathers, told them to put it
here and would set in it and wait
until you come. Amt you viii
Stearns?"
YES" stammered the chairman,
quite undecided what TO say or do.
81 thought So My, how you favor
your father And 1 was at your
christenin'. l guess that was about
the last time was anywhere when
my rheumatic got so bad. And your
father would "a been proud of you
this day. If he could known what you
was goin' to do for an old friend of his,
God rest him :"
At the mention of his father, the
chairman was astonished to find his
hat still on his head. He pulled it off,
hurriedly, ashamed. Then through
that head went fitting first a quick
memory of his father and then the
most astonishing thing in the world
his carefully-prepared speech to the
bride. He had said it over so many
times TO himself in secret that after
noon, to make sure he would not break
down when the moment came, that now
everything else seemed to have van
ished. Then an even more astonishing
thing happened. 1t astenished him!
and it quite paralyzed the other young
men.
That presentation speech, altered BY
but word here and there as he stunt
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
SPECTACULAR CAREER ENDED.
Noted Tramway Pioneer succumbs at
Advanced Age.

Omaha.-George P. Bemis, who
with his cousin George Francis Train,
built the first tramways in London,
died here Sunday. He had been twice
elected mayor of Omaha. He was IS
years old.
The career. of Mr.. Bemis, who for
many years was associated with his
cousin Train, was unusually spectacu-
lar. In 1870, when the Prussians were
invading France, Bemis and Train at
tempted to found a French republic.
They were condemned to be shot for
melting to treason" but the order
was countermanded
Train, it was reported, snapped his
fingers at the firing squad and he
and Bemis wrapped the American
flag about them.
Train and Bemis campaigned to-
gether for woman suffrage in Kansas
in 1867. Frequently they were sent
to prison for short terms. They
financed THE Revolution" a suffrage
newspaper, established in New York
by Susan B. Anthony.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
POLICEMAN TURNS BANDIT.

Confesses Rohbing Express Wagon on
Busy Street in Broad Daylight.
Los Angeles.-Albert ]. Griffith, a
patrolman on the Los Angeles police
force for four years, has confessed,
according to the police, that he was
the robber who held up an express
wagon Thursday on busy street and
made off with about $4,000 in cash
and $4,000 in checks, drafts and
other banking papers. Most of the
money was recovered.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Field Marshal oyama Dead.

Tokio.-Field Marshal Prince Iwao
Oyama, commander in chief of the
Manchurian army of Japan during the
Russo-Japanese war, is dead. Field
Marshal Prince Oyama shared with
Field Marshal Prince Yamagata the
highest military and civil honors in
the gift of the emperor
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Boycott is Effective.

Seattle.-The effect of partial boy,
colts on foodstuffs by the public last
week brought down the price of but
ter and eggs, failed in regard to pota-
toes and flour, curtailed the move
ment of apples, and decreased the
consumption of nearly all perishable
staples sold in the local markets, it
was announced by boycott leaders
Sunday. Eggs declined from 60 to so
cents dozen, and butted from 60 to
30 cents a pound.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Forest Reserve Revenues.

Observation-Disclosures forest ad-
ministration last year was character
lied, according to Henry S. Graves,
chief forester, in his annual report, by
receipts of s2,SOO,OOO, an increase of
100000; rapid progress in land classi-
fcation, material advance in develop
ment work, particularly road building
and relatively small fire losses.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14

Have you that story all ready about
the boy who ran away from home and
returns Christmas eve to pay the mort
gage off the farm?" asked the editor.
NO" replied Mr.. Penwiggle. THAT
stOry's out of date. I'm writing story
about real life in which the son gets
down on his knees to persuade his
father not to put any more mortgages
on the farm in order to buy automo-
bilcs."
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Liquor contraband in Arizona.

Phoenix, Ariz.-The constitutional
prohibition amendment adopted at
the November election beG2me effect
i've December s, with the issuance by
Governor George w. P. Hunt of
proclamation. Liquor now in that
state, according to the law, becomes
contraband.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
No PROPOSAL for Mediation.

Washington.-Offe of mediation
or suggestions of peace to the Euro
pean nations have not been made by
the United States, and will not be
preached by this government in the
near future, unless there is some quite
unexpected turn in world events.
Those facts are stated authoritative
Iy by one of the highest officials of
the government to counterfeit reports
To the contrary,
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
chamorro Names Advisers,

San Juan del Sur, Nic.-The new
cabinet of President Chamorro will be
made up as follows: Minister of for
eign affairs, Jose Andres Utrecho;
minister of finance, MARITIME Bernard;
minister of war, Thomas Masis; minis
.er of interior, Alfonso Solorzano. min
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Decrease in Navy Food Bill.

Washington.-Despite enormous in
creases in the prices of provisions,
Paymaster General McGowan's annual
report shows that the cost of subsist-
ance in the navy during the past two
years has been lower than it was be-
fore the European war.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14

To Josiah o. Wolcott of Delaware,
a Democrat, goes the title of "5abY
Of the Senate" He is thirty-nine years
old and has Just been elected a mems
Der of the upper house of congress.
He practices law in Wilmington and
Is rated as one of the leaders of the
bar IN the state
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14

He was reading the "IIome Hints for
Handy Helpmates."
You can get some nice presents
from discarded boxes and old tin cans,
honey"
Yes, and you can get some nicer
ones from a twenty-dollar BILL" she re,
torted. This with a irmness that dis.
couraged him from continuing the con.
verSation.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Mine Bureau Produces Radium.

Washington.-Radium worth more
than a million dollars at market prices
has been produced by the federal bu-
reau of mines at cost of $4,000,
it is announced in the bureaus annu-
al report.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
JURYMEN WILL CONDUCT PROBE
Investigation of High Cost of Living
to be Made.

Washington.-Dep of justice
officials announced Saturday that fed.
eral grand juries at New York and
Detroit, probably at Cleveland and
possibly at Kansas City, Minneapolis
and St. Louis, would conduct sweep
ing inquiries into the high cost of liv-
ing. Several hundred witnesses in
Guiding dealers in coal, railroad en-
ployees, and dealers in and producers
of foodstuffs will be examined.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
SLAYER of Husband Acquitted.

Newark. N. Mrs. Margaret Beut-
niger was acquitted by jury of the
murder of her husband, Cristof Beutin-
ger, a well-to-do coal merchant, whom
she shot in their home in Caldwell
last July.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
LIoyd-Georqe Splits Party

London.-Events Friday emphasized
the fact that David Lioyd-George, the
new premier, has split the liberal
party into two factions. The new
cabinet will command more support
from the conservatives in parliament
than from the liberals.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
VILLA LgvIEs $4,000 LOAN.
Bandit Leader compeIs Merchants to
Raise Ransom.

BandIt Leader CompelS merchants 10
Raise Ransom.
Ell Paso, Texas.-FTancisco Villa
forced foreign and native merchants
of Chihuahua City to raise for him a
sum estimated at $4,000 gold after he
entered the state capital, refugees and
letters received from that city Thurs
day stated. Villa also is said to have
announced he intended to kill only
Americans and Chinese found in the
city.
Jose Bovio, an Italian, who was or
dered by Villa to notify the merchants
to meet him and arrange the forced
loan, said Villa offered Carlos Ketel-
sen, the German vice consul, a special
train to send his countrymen to the
border
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Thousand Killed by EXPLOSION.

Berlin.-An explosion in Russian
ammunition plant has caused the
Heath of about 1000 persons, accord
ing to the Overseas News agency,
quoting the Russian newspaper Rech.
The cause of the explosion is I'M
known
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
DYnamiters Sentenced.

Atlanta, CA. A. Wilson and ]. R.
Gunter, striking motormen, convicted
of dynamiting a street car here No
vember 7, were sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment each in superior
court. 1t was the maximum penalty.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
CCopyright.)

CHRISTMAS we'd
ding is always a
very charmin g
thing, The holly
lends such gayety
to the decorations,
and the mistletoe
seems so apprOpri-
ate. Then it makes
one present do
W h ere otherwise
two would have
been required. And
anyone who brings
that to pass is a
public benefactor.
This reference TO
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
clothino Workers Nav Strike.

New York.-Employers in this city
were notified Friday that more than
10000 members of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Of America had en-
powered the officials of the union to
call strike if the workers do not re-
ceive the eight-hour day.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14

New York.-Five more persons, in
GLIDING one young woman whom he
married, recognized in Charles H.
Wax, the man they had known as
oliver Osborne" or under some of
his other assumed names.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
pon,t Want 10 Leave Utah,

Ogden.-Railway postoffice clerks
who reside in Ogden took the field
Monday in an effort to procure revo-
cation of the postoffice department
order which is transferring them from
Ogden to Chicago.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Reiect strike PronosaI.

Tonopah, Nev.-By a heavy ma
jority approximately 1000 mine work
ers in this district voted to reject a
strike proposal for fiat advance of
80 cents a day in wages regardless of
the price of silver.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
chlcano Police Chief 70 ResInn.

Chicago. - Almost simultaneously
with new order from Chief of Police
Charles c. Healey to enforce yigor-
ously the Sunday closing law came
the admission from Mayor Thompson
that the chief of police would resign.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
SIM FeIners Shout Rebellion.

COrk.-Two hundred Sim Feiners
stopped a charitable performance Sun
day night given in behalf of the fam
lies of the soldiers of Cork They
sang Sim Fem songs and shouted:
up rebellion! Down recruiting
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
National Defense Bills.

Washington. Rapid progress in
congress toward framing national de-
tense bills to appropriate about $780,
100000 was forecast Thursday when
the house military committee took up
its share of the work.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
ENGLAND HAS NEW PREMIER.
David LIoyd-George overthrows the
Aso";th Cabinet.

London.-David Lloyd George has
overthrow the Asquith cabinet and
will become prime minister himself
The new government will be coali-
ton, like the old one, but probably
without the same measure Of har-
monious support which attended the
formation of the first coalition govern
ment, because it's birth has created ad-
ditional fractional differences.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Contracts for HydroaeropIanes,

Northumberland for ninety
six high power hydroaeroplanes for
the coast artillery stations in the Unit
ed States, Hawaii, Philippines and the
Panama canal zone were let Saturday
by the war department
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
True Reclamation.

The Spinster Gan invaliO-Is II
true that marriages are made in
heaven?
The Parson-That is the universal
belief.
The Spinster-Well, If that's the
ease, I'll tell the doctor not to call
again.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Probe in Ohio Ordered.

Columbus, O.-Charles Q. Hide
brant, secretary of state, has ordered
a statewide investigation of fraud and
error in the recent election. The
charges were filed with him by the
Republican state committee.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Marines Clash with Natives.

Washington.-In an encounter be-
tween American marines and natives
at Macoris, Santo Domingo, Novem-
Der 20, a number on both sides were
wounded The heaviest losses were
suffered by the Dominicans
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Earl curzon Retrothed.

London.-The engagement is an
bounced of Earl Curzon of Kedleston,
former yiceroy of India, and Mrs.
Grace Elvira Duggan, widow of Alfred
Ouggan, of Buenos Aires.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Cost of Campaign,

Washington.-The final report of
the Democratic national committee on
it's campaign receipts and eXpendi-
lures filed with the house, shows to-
tai receipts of $1,SOS,34S, and total
disbursements of sl.6S4.59O.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Hunt Loses Out,

Phoenix, Ariz.-Thomas Campbell,
Republican, was elected governor of
Arizona at the recent election by a
plurality of 80 votes over Governor
George w. P. Hunt. The law provid-
ing for total prohibition was adopted.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Preacher Advocates Shorter Day.

st. Louisa shorter workday is a
religious necessity, according to Rev.
H. f. Ward of this city, in his ad-
dress before the federal council of
Churches of Christ in America
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
French RattIeship Missing.

Paris.-The battleship Suffren,
which left port on November "a, has
not been heard from since and the
minister of marine considers the yes,
sci lost with all on board.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Confidence in French Ministry.

Paris.-The chamber of deputies,
by vote of 344 to 100, passed a res
olution expressing confidence in the
government in its conduct OF the war.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Minister to the Netherlands Resigns,

The Hague.-Dr. Henry van Dyke
has made it known that he had re-
signed as American minister to The
Netherlands. His reasons are purely
personal and because he desires to re,
sumo his literary work.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Importance of Salt.

Forgetting to salt the cows is
variation from the straight and mar
row way that won't do if you expect
to succeed with cows.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1916-12-14
Some Effort.

"Why do people so often lock the
stable door after the horse is stolen?"
"Just to show what they can do when
they try"