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MAJOR BASEBALL.
SEASONS OPENED
'.PLAY BALL" RINGS OUT THIS
AFTERNOON in BIG TIME
CIRCUTTS-NIANY CHANGES
THIS YEAR.

New York City.-With clear and
fair weather reported from seven of
the eight major league cities, the
opening games today OF the baseball
season will probably attract big at
tendances. Boston was the only city
in either of the big leagues where
inclement weather conditions pre-
vailed.
AS is the case each season, the two
major leagues will stage their open
ing games equally between the east
and west. In the National league,
Boston will play at Brooklyn, New
York at Philadelphia, Chicago at
ICincinnati and Pittsburgh at ST.
Louis. Detroit will open at Chicago
in the American league; St Louis at
Cleveland, Philadelphia aa Boston
and Washington at New York.
More than usual interest centers
in the first contest this season on ac-
count of the many changes in the
personnel of the teams and the own
ership of the clubs which has taken
place since the winning of the worlds
championship by the Boston Red Sox
last October closed the season OF
1915. In the interim the Federal
league abdicated to organized base
ball and there followed a general
distribution of the Independent lea
que players among the major and
minor circuits of baseball
Following this reconstruction per-
iod, new interests brought in
to the big leagues in Chicago, Cleve-
land st Louis Boston and other
points. Strenuous efforts We're made to
strengthen the majority of the six
teen major circuit clubs In some
cases the teams were virtually made
over.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
"PROXY FATHERS"
TOWAR BABIES
sLAvoNIAN LABORERs NEAR CHI
CAGO PASS OUT CIGARS WHEN
SONS ARE BORN BACK
HOME.

Chicago, Ill.--Returns from the
war baby crop in Europe are being
received regularly in East Hammond
and foreigners accept fatherhood by
proxy i'll much the same way as they
hail victory for the country Of their
nativity. When it is boy the "dad-s
dy" stands the drinks. sy
Joe Stenoski has received letter.
from his wife telling of the birth Of.
a baby boy and Saturday passed the
cigars around to his friends. He said
he had not seen his wife and family
in four years.
Recently a like incident occurred,
at Gibson, where one Of the foreign.
laborers treated his bosses to cigars,
with the announcement that his wife
had given birth to a war baby. In.
this case also the proud proxy par-
ent had been in. America several
years. 54
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13

London, England.-The fight for
Nerdun, the greatest battle in the
history of the world, entered its tif-
ty second day today, with the crown
prince driving home mighty blows
and the fighting becoming more fur
ious than since the early days of the
campaign.
On an archlike front the Germans
are pounding simultaneously against
the northwestern and northeastern
gates to the French fortress.
Forts arc Holding.
Since the Germans launched the
campaign against Nerdun with an
artillery attack on the night of Feb.
21, they have rolled up the French
lines on both banks of the Meuse,
capturing about $50 square miles of
territory and nearly thirty French
villages.
Despite these successes the most
terrific artillery battering the world
has ever known has won for the
crown prince but one of the forts sur
rounding the city of yerdun. Since
Fort Douaumont fell before the
Brandenburgers' attack in the early
days of the fighting the Germans
have been unable to make another
breach in the French fortress line.
1t is estimated that The losses on
both sides have totalled we'll above
100000 far more than were engag-
ed on botn sides in the battle of
Waterloo
Germans Seek Recovery
Paris, France.-While bringing up
reinforcements to resume their at
tack on Dead Mans hill, the Germans
are trying to recover the ground re-
gained by the French in Caillette
wood, also to the north between
Douaumont and Vaux
The French positions there des-
cribe an arc from a point south OF
village of VauX, a front a little less
than two miles in length. For three
days the only actions on the east
bank of the Meuse have been cen
tered there, with the habtual pre-
paration in heavily concentrated ar
tillery fire and with finishing touch
iii the form of a couple of hours OF
shelling with suffocating and tear
provoking gas projectiles.
Carnage Goes On
!. After bombardment with high eX-
plosives lasting eight hours and the
use of gas for another hour or two
the Germans would attack simulta-
neously on two t1anks. There is
no visible elimination in their cour-
age and ardor: neither did the trench
show the slightest fatigue, with the
consequence that the unprecedented
carnage of the battle of Nerdun goes
on.
Yesterday the whole front was
beaten by gas proiectiles and over
hung by yellowish cloud of chlorine
vapor, which seemed to be suspend
ed from the sky. When the cloud
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
WOMEN ARE PRIZES
TO VICTORIOUS RUSSIANS

Chicago, 1ll.-"When captured
the women of yon village are yours
is the spur used by the officers of the
Cossacll regiments to their men in
their raids and warfare in and around
Galicia, according to Il. j. Ward OF
Ottawa, ILL.,, who is at the Palmer
House
He recently returned from Wis
it to his daughter, Mrs. Anton Maxi
milan Niditz of Vienna, Austria,
formerly Miss Julia Jennings Ward
of ottawa. Yesterday he received a
letter from his daughter describing
many of the atrocities that have
been perpetrated by the Cossack SOL
diers which she viewed in personal
visits made to Galicia during March
and February. Mr.. Ward supplement-
ed the story of his daughter with per-
sonal observations while in Galicia,
and supported all that her letter con-
tanned.
The letter of Mrs. Niditz and state
ments of Mr. Ward We're in part as
follows:
"The Cossack regiments are large
ly recruited from the semibarbarious
tribes found in the Asiatic provinces
of Russia and the men are spured
to atrocities by the officers, who bold
ly cry out, when captured the wo-
men of yon village are yours to do
with as you wish.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
HANEY IS REFEREE
ON POLICY CHARGES
MITCHELL ATTORNEY, FORMER
SUPREME BENCH MEMBER,
NAMED TO INVESTIGATE
JOE KIRBY ACTION.

Pierre. S. DIN the supreme
court today, with Justice Mccoy pre-
siding, referees were elected for the
hearing of the charges in the dis
barment proceeding filed against
Presiding Judge S. c. Policy, the
selections being Judge d. Haney, of
Mitchell, John B. Hanten, of Water
town, and T. H. Hull, of Huron.
The referees will set the date for
beginning their hearings at this city.
In the case of State ex rel Gable
VS.. Young. on an appeal from the
circuit court of Beadle county. the
court holds that the status prohibit
ing the sale of liquor within five
miles of an incorporated town is un-
constitutional on account of the in
sufficiency Of the title of the act,
but that the LEGISLATURE has the con-
stitutional right to enact such legis-
lation.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
HOUSE VOTES FORTY
MILLION APPROPRIATIONS

Washington, D. C.-The annual,
river and harbor bill carrying $40,-
100000 passed the House yesterday
by a vote of 21O to. 1873, with every
item as agreed upon in committee
unchanged. Scores of amendments to
cut down it's items. urged by Repub-
licans who charged that the bill was
"pork barreI' measure, were re-
jected during the two weeks debate,
Just before the final vote an effort
lead by Republican Leader Mann to,
reduce the total to $20,00O,O00 fall
ed.
The entire appropriation except
for $70O,0OO item to deepen the
approaches to the Brooklyn navy
yards is for the continuing of work
already authorized and already un-
der way. The single new plan was
introduced at the suggestion Of Presi-
dent Wilson.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13

code dispatches received here by pri-
vate concerns with interests in the
Parral district. These dispatches
said the American advanced columns
We're now at their temporary base
near Parral and that the motor
truck train had delivered supplies at
this base.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS is DEAD
FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT,
NEWSPAPER MAN AND AU-
THOR SUCCUMBS SUD-
DENLY TO HEART
FAILURE.

Mount Kisco. N. Y.-Richard
Harding Davis, author and war cor
respondent. died at his home here
late last night from heart trouble.
His body was found this morning.
He apparently had been stricken
";,ile at the telephone.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13

sometimes greatly weaken concrete.
''The statement that clean, coarse.
hard gravel is necessary to make
good concrete cannot be too strong
ly emphasized"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
CARNAGE AT VERDUN.
GREA TEST OF BATTLES.
CONTINUES UNABATED
lifted the Gremans bounded for
ward, seemingly Indifferent to the
thick death dealing curtain OF fire
from the French artillery.
Resume Fiercc Attack

| tscSu1lc HlefCc Attack.
Paris, France.-The German as
sault on the Verdun front west of
the Meuse was renewed this morn
ing with great ferocity. Troops adj
/ Nanced on Caurettes wood south of
Cumieres, the war office announced
using flags projectors lavishly, but
were repulsed by artillery and ma
chine gun fire.
East OF the Meuse, in the Douau-
| mont-NauN sector, there was only
artillery fighting, The war office al
so announced that it had been con-
firmed that the German losses yes
terday were extremely heavy.
Turks Defeat British.
Berlin, Germany-Th British
Mesopotamian force, composed OF
troops transferred from the Dardan-
elles, were repulsed by Turkish
troops in a sanginuary battle last
ing six hours near Felabe on April
g. according to the Turkish head
quarters report dated April IL. The
statement adds that more than 5000
British dead were counted after the
battle
Germans Make Advance.
Berlin, Germany-The German
troops in operation against Nerdun
yesterday gained some ground in the
Caillette woods, southeast of Fort
Douaumont, according to the official
statement issued today by the Ger
man headquarters.
No Defeat Coming.
London. England.-On the occas-
ion of the government reception to
visiting French senators at Lancas-
ter House last night, Premier AS
quith took the opportunity to reply
to the speech recently delivered in
the Reichstag by Baron Won Beth
mannHollweg.
Many prominent English ministers,
las we'll as French leaders, were pres
ent at the meeting.
The premier in proposing the toast
"Our Guests" referred to Won Beth
mann-Hollweg' claim to readiness
tiate peace and said:
"The German chancellor wants us
to assume the attitude of defeat
ed enemy, but we are not defeated
we are not going to be defeated
Portuguese Captors
Lisbon, Portugal, The Portuguese
military commander at Porto Amelia
on the east coast of Africa, cables
that he has occupied Kionga, on the
border of Portuguese and German
East Africa, which the Germans sez-
ed i'll 1894.
Russians Stop Offensive
In the Russian theatre an attempt
by the Germans to take the often
sive near the Ikskull bridgehead was
stopped by the Russians. The big
guns on both sides have been busy
elsewhere along the front.
| Petrograd reports that the Rus
slams are continuing to gain ground
against the Turks in the region near
Eizerum.
The Austrians i'm the region of the
Adige and Sugana valley have
brought into the campaign artillery
gun which is described by Rome
as "New and very powerful"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13
SMUGGLED LIGHT
ACROSS BORDER
PHOTOGRAPHIC RAYS ALL THAT
WE'RE CARRIED OVER CANA
DIAN LINE ON PRIZE FIGHT
PICTURES

Syracuse, N. Y, = indictments
against six prominent New Workers
and one Canadian, charging them
with conspiring to violate the law
prohibiting the importation of motion
pictures of the Willard-J ohnson fight
and with bringing into the United
the fight in violation of the law,
returned by the federal grand jury,
have been sent to the United States
district attorney at New York and
the arrest of five of the men is eX-
pected. H&G8
The men are Harold T. Edwards Of
the law firm of Olney and Comstock; !;
Isaac G. V. U1man, manager of the
Duplex Film Co., Harry A Fishbeck,
expert cinnematograph operator, w.
V. Byrmer. James ]. Johnson, man
ager Of Madison Square Garden, Law
renee M. D. MCGUIRE, president OF
the New York Real Estate Dealers
and j. j. Orknay of Canada.
The accused are charged with hav-
ing set up machines on the Canadian
border at Rouses Point for the pur-
pose of transferring from the Cana
0ldI 9ldG VI Cllc LEiC IlCL III Cs
onto American films for exhibition
in the United States.
1 A motion projecting machine con-
tanning the original film of the fight
was set up on the Canadian side of
lthe line and on the American side
within 12 inches of the other ma?
chine a motion picture camera was
set up. Powerful electric lights were
used to transfer the pictures from
the projecting machine to the sensit-
lied film in the camera. In this man
ner the film makers it is charged,
hoped to evade the law.
Doctors C. S. and B. A. Bobb are
Installing a new x-ray machine in
their offices in the First National
bank building. The machine takes
the place of smaller one which the
practice of the doctors had outgrown.
The new machine is one of the finest
in the city,
- :
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Gigantic handles Sur
rounding Forte IS En-
tiers SIND ray.
YELLOW CHLORINE
Clouds overhang Field Of
Strife. Paris Reports
Free ch 'mpregntble
VERDUN GREATEST FIGHT

Marathon-49o B. Cone
day.
Tours-7s2 A. D.-Two days.
Hastings-1066-One day.
Blenheim-17 704-One day.
Saratoga-1777-Nine days
Waterloo-(and allied opera
tions)-1S15-Four days.
Gettysburg = 1863 Three
days.
Ypres (hrst battle)-l914-
Eleven days.
verdun-191s-(still in pro-
gress)-51 days.
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"Blanche-1 made regular fool oi'
Harry last night.
Cora teagerly)-Dld he really mo-
poser .s aniiihrl nv
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-04-13

e-&> u A.1' lNIE0
DR.. Reed startled the medical
world recently when he an
nounced claim that epilepsy is a
germ disease, and that like the
germ of lock-jaw the germ of epi-
lepsy comes from the ground.
Further experiments will be
made.
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AT THE SUMMER RESORT.

May-Dull. isn't itl
Belle-Awfully! We havn't thinl
to do except to explain to one an
other why we are not in Paris. u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05

Progressives on the presidency to
their individual judgment and con-
science"
In closing the conference the re-
port of the resolutions committee,
composed of cambridge Colby. New
York: A. d. Nortoni, Missouri; John
B. Taylor, New York; ]. M McCor-
mack, Texas, and Mrs. Sarah A Lyons.
of Minnesota, was adopted with
cheers. The resolutions demanded
these things:
First. A committee of Is be APP
pointed to cooperate with the Is
members of the national committee
who refused to endorse Hughes in the
Chicago meeting.
Second That the committee call a
conference as soon after January i.
1917, as possible and extend invita-
ties whose principles most nearly
approach those of the national Pro-
gressive party"
Third. That an accounting be re-
quested from George w. Perkins.
treasurer OF the Progressive national
committee, to ascertain if any Pro-
gressive funds were used for any
other political party. ito the end that
such action as may be necessary for
the recovery of said money, may be
taken"
cambridge Colby read the rnanifes-
the country, declaring the Progressive
party still seeks its place in the polit-
ical situation. 1t denounces the ac-
ton of the Progressives who have
gone over to the Hughes camp and
says:
Men whom we have delighted to
honor and whom we have rejoiced to
follow have not only abandoned the
party's cause but have sought to sac
rifice its future and to compromise
the dignity of its individual member
ship by a collusive undertaking with
the Republican party to deliver our
party strength to the Republican
presidential ticket
Can't Be Delivered.
This conference is the eliminating
protest of the party against the trea-
sonable attempt to put it out of exist
ence as a national party and to de-
liver its vote to the Republican party.
The Progressive party cannot be de-
livered. The attempt to do SO has
already recoiled upon its authors and
covered them with discredit and con-
fusion
Leaders said letters were received
from twenty-five states in addition to
the eighteen states which were repre-
scented bY delegates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
MARRIED own SISTER
Arizona Man Finds Himself In a
Strange, Distressing Family Tangle.

Madison, Wis, Aug. 5.-Roger New
ton. a University of Wisconsin gradu-
ate, now a resident Of Globe, Ariz.,
has discovered that his wife, whom
he married nine years ago, is his sis
ter. How to straighten out the kink
in their life story is the problem
which Is worrying them to distrac-
ton.
Newton. whose real name is George
Porter. was the son of carpenter in
Spokane, Wash. When his father was
injured by a fall, George was placed
in an orphanage. Later he was adopt
ed by Howard Newton, who moved
east.
His adopted parents educated him
at the University of Wisconsin. After
leaving college, young Porter, who had
taken the name of Newton from his
adopted parents, returned to the Pa
cific northwest.
While in Portland. Ore, he met a
Miss Elizabeth Porter, who was at
tending a seminary there. The pair
became infatuated and were married
That was nine years ago. The other
day in an old trunk, Newton found a
locket He opened it and found a
tintype likeness of his parents, given
him when he went to the orphanage
in 1880. When he showed it to his
wife. she tainted. The picture was one
of her own father and mother. She
had known of a brother, but had never
heard what had become of him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
JAPS' 15-IN. GUNS
New Japanese Dreadnaught to
Garry Huge Cannon.
Mikado's Navy Adds French
Submarine and Cruiser.

Toxic, Aug. Sit is reported that
guns of fifteen-inch calibre may be
mounted on a superdreadnaught which
has been ordered by the navy depart
ment and will be laid down IN the
japanese naval yard at kure. This
ship was authorized at the last session
of the diet and she will be the largest
battleship in the Japanese navy. She
will be called the Nagato after one
of the provinces in southern Japan.
Although the official figures have
not been announced, it is said the war
ship will have a displacement of 1000
tons and a speed of twenty-four knots.
The displacement exceeds by 1,4O0
tons that of the dreadnaught Yama-
shire which was launched at Yoko-
suka last November. The Yamashiro
is about the same size as the United
States superdreadnaught Pennsyl-
vania.
Bigger Than the Queen Elizabeth.
If the announced figures prove ex-
act, the Nagato will be bigger than
the celebrated Queen Elizabeth of the
British navy, more speedy than the
Yamashiro by two knots and faster
than the Pennsylvania by three knots,
although she could be outdistanced by
the Queen Elizabeth A feature of the
proposed ship will be improved equip
ment for defense against torpedoes
4hC 4dcSltOAA VI main al
seems not yet decided. 1t is under
stood that the navy favors fifteen-inch
guns, but guns of this size have never
been made in Japan. and it is likely
that they would have to be imported
from England. 1t is doubtful if Eng
land could turn them out during the
war.
Adds Cruisers, Too.
The department. has likewise ar
ranged for the construction of two
second class cruisers, each of 3,5O0
tons to be called Tenryu and Tatsuta.
One will be laid down at Yoksuka and
the other at Saseho. A large type de-
stroyer of LOO tons will be built at
Maizuru.
The latest addition to the Japanese
navy is a new and powerful submarine
boat which was built in France and
which recently arrived at the Kure
naval station. Submerged, the boat
can reach a spead of over eighteen
knots. Her displacement is 500 tons,
and she is the largest submarine in
the Japanese navy.
The order. placed with the French
navy yard in 1914, called for two
boats of the same type and dimen-
sions. but one of them was sold to
France at the outbreak of the war in
compliance with the special request
of the French navy. The submarine
was brought here on board French
steamer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
ENJOYS THE RESULTS

MR.. ]. W. BAUM, of 304 Monroe,
says: 1 certainly do enjoy the results
of Hazlett's Wild Cherry Compound;
it surely is a great medicine for ones
stomach and kidneys.
All people that have investigated
are greatly pleased. 1t certainly is a
pleasure to see smiling faces and have
them say I have tried SO hard to get
relief. Your medicine has hit the
mark. SAY what you may, Hazlett's
Wild Cherry Compound has surprised
many that were skeptical. 1t has
made record sale in Topeka 1t has
no short coming 1t is all that il is
claimed for, and is doing wonders in
the way of relieving the suffering.
w. H. Hazlett is now at A. C. Kiln
gaman & Co., 100 E. Sixth st. Call.
He will gladly explain. To convince
you of the merits of wild Cherry
Cmopound, for few days three pack
ages will be sold for $L00. Same
will be mailed you.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
ARE 10000 YEARS OLD
American Scientist Unearths Relics in
Ancient Egyptian Palace.

Philadelphia, Aug. Stone imple-
ments and household tools. estimated
to be 10000 years old, forming part
of collection owned by Meremptah,
son and successor to Rameses the
Great, 1900 years before Christ, have
been unearthed in the prehistoric
monarch's palace at Memphis, ancient
capital of Egypt. Advices telling of
these important discoveries have just
reached the university museum here
from DR.. Clarence S. Fisher, leader of
the Eckley B. Coke, jr., expedition to
Egypt, 1t was learned today.
In full report, DR.. Fisher describes
wandering through the spacious halls
OF the great palace that for centuries
lay buried in ancient Memphis. Gold
ornaments, scarabs, vessels of various
kinds and vases were found Intact,
just as they must have been when the
lords of those days evacuated.
Many of the relics found, says Doc
tor Fisher, date back to the Stone Age.
Traces of fire that must have raw
ished the palace are found on every
side, according to the Archaeological.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-05
FLED TO MOUNTAINS
Americans in Mexico Thought War
Had Been Declared.

Laredo. Texas, Aug. 5.-Thirty-sev-
en- Americans of the Blalock colony.
which left Chamal on June Is and
took to the mountains when informed
that war had been declared between
the United States and Mexico, arrived
here tonight from Osorio in charge of
Dr. NJ c. Cameron and w. C. Frazier,
two members of the colony.
The colony at Chamal was at
tackled by constitutionalist soldiers
June Is and informed that war had
been declared against the United
States. The Americans were robbed
of everything they possessed. then
herded together and told they were
to be informed until the war was over
Later they were given their liberty
by the Carranza soldiers and fled to
the mountains near Chamal. where
they remained until July Is, when
tain Businesses and getting across
swollen rivers and reaching civiliza-
ton at Osorio.
When the colonists took to the
mountains they had a scant supply of
food, but this proved sufficient to
carry them through, though they suf-
fered great hardships from exposure
in the mountains.
Last week the Americans were To-
Gated by representatives of the United
States state department, sent in
search of hem, and brought to Osorio,
where they were put on a train and
train two days ago, reaching here to-
night. In the party are six men five
women and Is childken, the latter
ranging in age from 8 months to Is
years. The party will remain in
Laredo pending further arrangements.