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Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
; < 4 *x U. S. ToRPEooBoAT SUMMER IS RUINED.

* NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-The United States torpedobOat Sum- mer which went aground of Bar * negat. E l.. in a fog Monday * night and which has resisted all efforts Of tugs to draw her of the sands. was believed e.rly this morning to be in danger of go- < ing 10 pieces Vessels which had 7 gone 10 her assistance were or ] dered to stand by to take on the members Of the crew who have ss remained on board. The transport began leaking badly early last night and the <; engine-room was flooded before *s midnight. At that hour the Sum- * mer began to settle deeply into ! f the sand and now there is not the slightest prospect that the vessel ! :' can be saved.
 4 Some members of the crew of ! Y the Summer were brought to this , * city yesterday.
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Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
VOTE HER DRY |S NATIONS WAR CRY TO
 CONGRESS
Prohibition Bills Are Filing Up, and Letters From All Over U. s. Tell Congress- men to Get Right.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Legisla- tive measures aimed at destruction of the liquor traffic continue to accumu- late in congress as both houses are deluged with petitions from all parts of the country urging adoption of the national prohibition amendment and passage of other anti-liquor laws in- cluding the Sheppard bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in the District of Columbia.
 May Bar Booze Mail The House postoffice committee re ported favorably a bill by Represen- tative Randall of California designed to close the mails absolutely to ad- vertising of any intoxicating liquors and to deny mail order houses the right to go into either wet or dry territory to solicit sales through the medium of the mails.
 No move was made by prohibition leaders in the House regarding the constitutional amendment adopted by lHt JuulCldIy COIllIlllltt
 Amendment Doubtful
 House members are reflecting on the prospects for its passage and the concensus of opinion seems to be that it cannot get the necessary two thirds majority in the sixty fourth congress. Representative Webb is confident that the amendment will receive more votes than it did in the last congress, when it had 13 more than a majority. By the time the next congress has considered the issue he believes the battle can be won
 The District of Columbia prohibi- ton was under consideration for sev- eral hours in the Senate today but was temporarily laid aside after Sen ator Sheppard had sought an agree ment to vote next Monday.
 When opponents of the measure signified that they would be ready for a final vote at that time, Senator Jones of Washington, as friend of the bill, objected to fixing the date. The debate on the measure and the Underwood amendment to provide for a referendum on the issue to the vot- CTS of the District of Columbia will be resumed tomorrow.
 Bill too Lax
 Senator Smoot of Utah, declaring that the Sheppard bill is a make-shift submitted a substitute today which would not only prohibit the manufac ture and sale of liquor in the capital, but also prevent its importation for personal use.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
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 EVANSVILLE, Ind. Dec. 15.-W. C.. Lee, of Cleveland, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. publicly announced here today for the first time that negotiations are under way between the leaders of the broth erhoods and those higher up in the chambers of the operating depart ments of the railroads. looking to a settlement of their entire controversy on the Adamson law. He said the set clement was in a crude state as yet. MT. Lee made the statement in the course of an address before the Cen tral States Conference on Water and Rail Transportation. which closed its session here tonight
 Both Sides Anxious.
 'I know I am not betraying conf1- dences," he said, when I say some Of the very best brains high up in the
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
s * <. # + S PLENTY OF PIES FOR
 SOLDIERS CHRISTMAS.

FL PASO. Dec. 15.-The plan
 * of the chamber of commerce to
 t furnish the troops encamped here
 t with cakes and pies baked by the
 : housewives of Fl Paso on Christ
 mas day was called off today at
 * the request of the army itself. 4 which. through. it's officers. as-
 # sured the citizens shat the sol
 * diers would be amply supplied
 < with the staples and trimmings ! ' of the traditional Christmas din I
 ner. * Tn thanking the chamber of ] < commerce for 'he offer. General g Bell, commanding the distric,
 * wrote: * "I am constrained b inform you ]
 < with a good deal of personal ! * pride. that the government pro- * vides foodstuffs in bountiful meas ] * ure for it's soldiers through the , # commissary department: and if ] + any man shall be found lacking, 1 x which l doubt, more pies and , + cakes during the Christmas sea l < son than he can possibly get # away with. it will be the ineX- x cusable fault of his immediate l < commanding officer" $ t X X < < < x* % l
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
SALT LAKE GETS
 GOVERNORS IN 1917
STATE EXECUTIVE AT WASHING TON DISCUSS METHODS TO END THE WAR; OTHER IMPORTANT BUSINESS COMES UP.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-The gov ernors' conference in session here, voted today to meet next year in Salt Lake City. Utah. at time to be select ed by the executive committee.
 Governors Spry, of Utah. Capper, of Kansas. Manning. of South Carolina, were named to compose the executive committee. Former Governor Fort. of New Jersey was reelected treasurer.
 The sessions today were devoted to questions of state legislative measures. preparation measures and discussion of means to end the European war
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
DUMA SCORNSr ALL OFFERS OF
 PEACE
Members Unanimously Re- solve Against German Peace
 Plan, After Stirring Speech
 by Cabinet Officer.
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: LONDON, Dec. 15.-A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Company from Pet rograd says:
 "The Duma, has unanimously passed a resolution against the acceptance of the German peace proposals after spirited speech by the minister of foreign affairs
 The text of the resolution as receiv- ed here follows:.
 ''The Duma, having heard the state ment by the minister of foreign af fairs, unanimously favors a categori- cal refusal by the allied governments to enter under present conditions. in- to any peace negotiations whatever
 Is Sign of Weakness
 Tt considers that the German pro- posals are nothing more than fresh proof of the weakness of the enemy and hypocritical act from which the enemy expects no real success, but by which it expects to throw upon others the responsibility for the war and for what happened during it and to eXculpate itself before public opin- ion in Germany.
 Peace Dangerous
 The Duma considers that a pre- mature peace would not only be a brief period of calm. but would in volve the danger of another bloody war and a renewal of the deplorable sacrifices by the people. It considers that lasting peace would be possi- ble only after a decisive victory over the military powers of the enemy and after definite renunciation by Germa- ny of aspirations which renders her responsible for the world war and for the horrors by which it has been ac- companied.'
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
Will Guarantee Protection to
 All Foreigners If the United
 States Will Promise Not To Oppose Him.
WASHINGTON SCORNS
 OFFER OF MURDERER
Villas Peace Envoy at Border Says Bandit Chief has Eight
 Thousand Men and Plenty
 of Artillery.
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' WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Any sug- gestion of an agreement between the American government and Villa is re- garded by administration officials as unworthy of consideration. No official report of Villas alleged proposal that an agreement with him would result in the cessation in the killing of Americans and orders to stop the de struction of American property had reached the state department tonight and some doubt was expressed that he had made such overtures.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
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 HUNT STILL GAINS; IS 16 VOTES BEHIND.

r PHOENIX, Dec. 15.-A half ]
 < dozen more precincts were gone . over today by the inspectors in ]
 E the contest of Governor Hunt 2 against Thos. E. Campbell. The s only developments were a gain of $ three for Hunt in one precinct z and the laying aside Of large ' number of ballots for deterinina- ! ton by the court. This, with 2 previous gains lor Hunt. reduces ' Campbell's majority in the state E to sixteen. The returns from the s missing Wilgus precinct of Co I E chise county in which there is a E majority of nine for Campbell, s have been discovered but whether k they will be taken into account at E this state is uncertain. That will !
 r be one of the matters that will ! k be determined in the supreme S s court
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
DEATH UNREPoRTED

SAN ANTONIO. Dec. E. - Head quarters had not been advised today of the death of Private William Bra dy. Battery C. Iowa Artillery, who was reported to have been killed yesterday shortly after the organization left Brownsville as a result of putting his head out of a car window.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
Shame on Germany, He Cries, 'Tis No Better Than Saw agery: Ills on the Whole WorlS ,esent Outrage.
"VIOLA1ES EVERY
 LAW OF HUMANITY"
In the Face of Open, Fragrant, Contemptuous Disregard of Humanity, We Cannot Re- main Silent, He Says.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Elihu Root was the principal speaker tonight at a mass meeting here called to protest against the deportation of thousands of male Belgians into Germany where they are compelled to labor.
 q should not respect myself if re- mained silent" Mir. Root declared, and I hope and trust. pray, that my country will not remain silent
 Shame of Germany
 Explain it as you may. disguise it as you may, the people of Belgium by the tens and hundreds of thou sands are being carried away into slavery, a thing that has not been done by nations that claimed to be civilized in modern history.
 Martyrs Lot
 Poor Belgium, peaceful, industri- ous, God-fea. ing, law-abiding Belgium She had no quarrel with any one. She sought no nations territory. She GOV eted no neighbor's goods. She threat ened no ones security. But she stood in the way of mighty nations pur- pose.
 Cost of Loyalty
 Her stern and noble resolve to keep the faith was her only crime. and she has been punished as if her people were the vilest on earth. Her towns have been burned, her won'en and children and old men have been murdered, her country has been brought under the sway of a foreign war. She has been bled white by vast exactions of money and of pro- duct. Every effort for her to revive her industries has been denied. And her men are to be carried away to forced labor as slaves.
 Can't Be Silent
 If the civilized world of the twen- tieth century is willing to stand silent and see these things done in cumu- lative progression, in violation of the laws of humanity and of nations. then the civilization of the twentieth cen tury is worse than the savagery of the Romans.
 What we have to do is not merely to gratify our own feelings by express ing them regarding this treatment of the Belgians. What we have to do is not merely to protest in the name of humanity. It is to assert a right, it is to call upon the world to assert right, a right under the law of na- tions for the protection of humanity and of civilization.
 This is our concern. This deporta- ton of the Belgians to involuntary servitude is a violation of our law. of the law We helped to make, of the law which in common with all civiliz- ed nations we have built up genera tion after generation.
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HOLLAND FLEET MAY
 CARRY ONLY FOODSTUFFS

THE HAGUE. Dec. 15.-That Hol land may mobilize her entire mercan- tile fleet for bringing foodstuffs from over seas is foreshadowed by F. F. Posthuma, the minister of commerce, in an explanatory memorial relating to the bill for the requisitioning of ships.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
CROPS ARE RICHEST IN
 HISTORY
 OF J. 5.
Though Smaller, They Bring
 Nearly Two Billion Dollars
 More-All Crops Valued at
 Seven Billions.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-All rec ords for value of the country's import ant farm crops were exceeded this year despite the smaller size of the crops. Their value was placed at s7.641 ,609,- 900 today by the department of agri- culture in it's final estimates of the year. That i. sl.75O.OOO.OO0 more than the same crops were worth last year Higher prices, due partly to reduced production and partly to the demands for American food from the warning nations of Europe. were re- sponsible for the vast increase in val ues.
 Corn is Prize Crop
 Four crops each were worth more than a billion dollars. Corn, with a total value of s2.295. .7S3.OOO. showed the greatest increase. being worth $573. 103 900 more than last years out put.
 Cotton. second most valuable with a total of O79.59S.OOO. increased S474, ,00O over last year.
 Wheat. the third. was worth s1.025. 765.OOO, or sS3.46S,O0O over the year before. when the production was al most 4OO, 100000 bushels more.
 Hay was fourth with a value of S1.- 0OS. .S94,0 900, an increase of s95,25O, 900.
 Garden Truck Costly
 Compared with last years value. other crops showed the following in- creases:
 Oats, s76.673,000; potatoes, s95.071,- 900; tobacco, s72.727, 900: barley. s41. SS3.OOO; rye. $12.774.OOO: buckwheat. s1,521 .O0O; flax seed. s1S,940,O 900; rice. s10.974.000; sweet potatoes. s13,161,- 900; Sugar beets. $4.243.0OO; beans. s15992.OOO; kaffjrs. s2.1125OO; k.n- ions. s1,601. .OO0; apples. s27.S60. .O0O; oranges. s9.545.OOO; and wild hay $11.O5S.O00.
 Final estimates of production show a decrease of 6O.O0O,00O bushels in corn from the November estimate and 32,000, ,000 bushels increase in wheat.
 A revision of the 1915 estimates of crop production was published by the department showing the corn crop to have been 2,994, ,793. 900 bushels last year. a reduction of 59.742,000 bushels from previous estimates. The revised figures showed changes in other crops.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
Over Front of Six Miles the Germans Have Been Push- ed Back, and 7,50O Were Taken Prisoners.
NUMEROUS GUNS ALSO
 CAPTURED BY FRENCH
Elsewhere, in Rumania, Ger many Is Still Gaining and Capturing Prisoners-Brit- ish Defeat Turks.
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PARIS, Dec. 15.-(Via london)
 The French troops in an ad-
 vance today north of Douaumont
 and between the Mouse and Woev-
 re rivers, captured more than
 7.500 prisoners and several heavy
 guns, according to the French of-
 ficiai communication issued this
 evening. The advance was over
 front of 10 kilometers and to
 depth of three kilometers.
 French troops again have made an effective burst in the Verdun region.
 Over Six Mile Front.
 Striking at the German position be- tween the Mouse and Woevre rivers, north of Douamont and north and northeast of the fortress, along front of about six miles, the French forced back the soldiers of the German crown prince for distance of almost two miles. More than 7.500 prisoners and guns were taken from the Germans, Paris announces.
 The German war office admits that advantages" had been obtained in this region by the attackers.
 4,c00 Rumanians Taken.
 Buzeu. an important railroad center northeast of Bucharest, has been cap tured by the Austro-Germans. The re- treating Russians and Rumanians are reported to be burning villages behind them. Four thousand additional pris- oners have been taken by Field Mar shal von Mackensen's army.
 Simultaneously with the taking of BuZeu, the Austro-German Danube army and the Bulgarians have begun an offensive in Dobrudia. The Rus sians, Berlin states, have evacuated their positions under the pressure eX- erted by the advance in great Wal lachia.
 Turks in Retreat.
 British troops have taken the offen- siye near Kut-el-Amara in Mesopot- amia and Turkish positions on the right bank of the Hai River south of have been taken. Lon don announces at one place the Brit ish are within F 1-2 miles of Kut.
 An unofficial report from Petrograd is to the effect that the Russian Duma has unanimously passed resolution against the acceptance of the peace offer.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
F < 1: < T | t FEDERAL HEARING OF
 s LEWIS IS POSTPONED.

DENVER, Dec. 15.-Because. < federal legal officers said, the gov
 < ernment had been unable to pre- < pare it's case in time for prelimin- * ary hearings today. proceedings
 X against Sam and Max Levy. ac- < cused of using the mails to de < fraud, this morning were post f poned to December 19.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
CHAPLAIN CONVICTED OF
 TIMES EXPI OSION

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 15. - David Caplan was found guilty of man. slaughter today at his second trial for complicity in the Los Angeles Times explosion. October l. 1910, when 20 men were killed
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
Plans Many Attacks.

Reports received here by military authorities today from western Chihua- hua said Villa was preparing to sd- vance on Santa Rosalia, Parral and Jimenez after which he would recap
 ture Chihuahua City and take Torreon.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
Absurd Request.

FL PASO, Dec. 15.-A Mexican reached the border today from Villas camp at Greet, fifty miles west of Minaca in the Guerrero district of Chihuahua with proposals for the United States government that Villa would refrain from further destruction of foreign life and property in Mexico on condition that the United States would not interfere in any way with his campaign against the Carranza government
 Offers Protection.
 This was officially announced late today by a high representative of tine government here after Villas proposal had been forwarded to Washington by telegraph Villa even offers to pro- tect all foreigners and their property from the raids of irresponsible bandits, it was also stated. This proposal in- cluded all Americans in Mexico, it was added.
 Villa Has 5000 Men.
 At the camp where Villa had left his wounded in the Guerrero district, believed to be Guerrero town, a num- Der of CarranZa wounded were also being treated by Villas surgeons after they had promised to join the Villa army. the Mexican's report to govern ment agents stated. Villa had eight thousand well armed men and three thousand rifles in reserve, the Mexican courier reported, and also number of artillery pieces with him and a supply of shells for these pieces.
 Needs U. S. Now.
 From sources here known to be friendly to Villa it was learned today that Villa was anxious % put himself in a better light with the United States and this was said to account for the fact that no Americans or other foreigners other than Chinese and Arabs, were killed in Chihuahua City during the five days Villa was in command.
 The local Villa partisans say Villa had plenty of time in which to hunt down and kill all the Americans in Chihuahua City had he wished. Villa, his friends here say. has realized that he could never win his campaign against Carranza with the United States opposing him actively and they say he is willing to give guarantees to Americans and other foreigners in the zone of his operations if he is permitted to continue his campaign against the de facto government un- molested. The Villa partisans say Howard Gray was killed at Parral be- cause he had taken an active part in the political affairs around Parral and had even organized a small military force there. they claim.
 General Luis Herrera has returned fro-- -Tepehuanes, Durango. ro the Par ral district of Chihuahua. according to information received by the Alvarado Mining and Milling company today. General Herrera left Parral on Novem- Der 2 when Villa started his advance from Jimenez to that mining camp.
 Plans Many Attacks.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-16
Await Allies View

In other quarters than the White House it was learned that some word indicating the official attitude of the entente allies toward the peace pro posals is being awaited with the deep est interest by the American govern ment The President will not consid- CT injecting the United States into the situation until he is thoroughly famil- far with all it's phases
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-02-10
Saves the Tires.

He doesn't look like very impor-
tant part of a big automobile organi-
cation. this stopped. grizzled man. hut
the president of a great motorcar COM
pany says that Magnet Bill saves his
salary a dozen times over every day
he works. Rain or shine. summer or
winter magnet Bill" may be seen
walking slowly about the automobile
plant his eyes on the ground. Mag
net Bill" gets his nickname from the
fact that his tools consist solely OF one
tin bucket and big steel magnet
strapped to the end OF a shovel handle.
1t is his duty to save automobile tires
by removing from the roadway every
nail and bit OF metal that might cause
a puncture Thousands Of cars are run
over the roadway TO the testing place.
and it is figured that without the pre-
caution taken by Magnet Bill the
cost for cut and punctured tires would
be $4,000 every year.-Popular Science
Monthly and Worlds Advance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-02-10
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE

Cause No. 2102
In the Superior Court of the State
of Washington, for Benton county.
William M. Richards, Plaintiff,
VS..
John F. jacobson, ct ux, Defendants.
Under and by virtue Of an Execu-
ton Under Foreclosure issued out of
and under the seal Of the above en-
titled court, holding terms at Prosser,
in and for said county, on the 18th
day of January, A. d., 1916, upon a
judgment rendered in said court on
the Goth day Of January, A. D., 1916,
in favor Of the above named plaintiff,
and against the defendants, for the
sum of Twenty-Five hundred twenty
five and 45-100 (S2525.45) Dollars, to-
gether with attorneys fees, interest,
costs and increased costs, and to me
directed and delivered, commanding
me to sell the following described pro-
perty, situate, lying and being in Ben
ton county, State of Washington, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to
satisfy said judgment, attorneys fees,
interest, costs and increased costs, to-
wit:
Northeast " Of Section 25, town.
ship z, north, range 20, E. w. M.
and all of the northwest " of
Section 80, township z, north, of
range 30, E. w. M.
NOW THEREFORE, NOTICE is
HEREBY GIVEN, That on Saturday,
the 4th day of March, A. D., 1916, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day
/ will sell the above described pro-
perty or so much thereof as may be
necessary to satisfy said Judgment,
attorneys fees, interest, costs and in
creased costs, in all amounting to the
sum of Twenty-seven hundred fifty
five and 52-1O0 ($2755.52). Dollars, to-
gether with accruing interest and cost
of sale.
SAID SALE WILL TAKE PLACE
at the front door of the court house
at Prosser, in said county and state
and will be at public auction, for cash
in hand, to the highest and best bid
der.
Dated at Prosser, Wash, this End
day of February, A. D., 1916.
C. E. DUFFY, Sheriff.
By Harley R. Tucker, Deputy.
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