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The Nevada County picayune., 1916-06-29
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE IN
 JAPAN

The Cristian Literature Society of Japan has sold 1000 copies of a Japanese translation of Dr. Fosdick's The Manhood of the Master" in six months. It has also sold 800 copies of Sabatier's s life of St. Francis of Assist" and 750 copies of Professor Kashiwai's History of Christi anlty.
 MT. Edwards Of the American Board Mission among the mara this in India, announces the con version of prominent guru, or Hindu religious leader, who has charge of eiEhty-four villages and who will, therefore, exert q poHerfui influence for the eyanpc.z,ng of these villages.
 \ very imoressive service WAS held iii the chapel of the United States MiitarH Academy at West Point on Sunday morn ing, April 9th 1916, when the forty-sixth annual presentation of Bibles to the members of the
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graduating class was made by the Americdn Tract Society. The entire cadet corps. number ing nearly six hundred men, was present in full uniform,
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Several Bible classes are be- ing conducted in Handing by missionaries of the Christian Church. The enrolment at the Drum Tower numbers 155; at the South Gate (men), "A; and women at the South Gate, 58.
 Bishop Bashford, whose knowledge of the Chinese people gives his words unusual weight. says that Chinese Christians will undoubtedly make dis tinct contribution to Christianity.
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United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PROVIDENCE. r. l.. Jan. POKE
turning to the stand today in the trial
Of Mrs. Elizabeth Mohr and her two
negro co-defendants, George Heals.
chauffeur Of the death car in which
DR.. Mohr was killed. told the COM
plete story of the plot in which he
declared the physicians widow offer
ed the three blacks $4,000 to slay
her husband.
1--WE were to have killed DR.. Mohr
on Saturday night. but 1 lost my nerve
and threw on all the speed the auto
mobile had" said Heals.
Miss Burger was not in the car
at that time. but Miss Ormsby and
Miss Wilson were in the tonneau with
the doctor.
"On Friday night, August 27. I went
to Mrs. Mohr's home with Brown.
Healis continued. Mrs. Mohr asked
Brown. how is everything and he
! said, o. K.
Brown said he knew the roads and
Mrs. Mohr said Brown would get
$4,000, Spellman $1,000 and 1 would
get $4,000.
"She told me not to be afraid. Just
to stop the car and then go to the
nearest farm house and telephone the
police that the doctor had been held
up and shot
"The job was planned for the next
night, Saturday. and Brown told Mrs.
Mohr he had his motorcycle lamp
ready.
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Negro Says Doctors Wife
Paid $4,000 for His Murder

ington road, l stopped the car" Heals
said. 81 got out and turned out the
headlights and turned on the side
lights so I could see the engine and
started to tinker with it. Then ]
heard revolver shots and ran to the
side of the car. DR.. Mohr was lean
ing against Miss Burger and his head
was bloody. Miss Burger got up to
get out and she fell over the lap robe.
| took her in my arms to carry her
across the road and she got another
bullet which came over my left shoul.
der.
Il looked at the side Of the road
and recognized Spellman In the
bushes. Then another car came along
and while young lady from that
party held onto the doctor in his own
machine, I drove it to the hospital
From the hospital was taken to the
police station"
Going over the details of the shoot
ing, Heals said he pulled the priming
wire of the carburetor and stalled the
engine purposely when he opened the
hood Of the engine.
'When 1 picked up Miss Burger
she had blood all over the side Of
her head. I dropped her when she
was shot again, but picked her up and
carried her to the side of the road.
1 did not hear anyone speak except
Miss Burger and myself. She had
hold of the doctors left arm and was
CRYING, oh, doctor! oh doctor' ]
cried, Ny Cod / did not see any
one but Spellman at the roadside.
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Diplomatic Battle Line Drawn
by Uncle Sam and
John Bull.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Diplo-
matte battle lines were drawn today
by England and America over the
proposed actual blockade Of Germany
by the allies. Notes for diplomatic
negotiations were being framed by
both the state department and the
British foreign Office.
The Baltic sea is the key to the
whole British blockade plan. high
state and navy department officials
declared today. Epgland's success
lies in her ability to control the six
mile stretch between Sweden and
Denmark.
Diplomatic success Of England In
carrying out the blockade is contin-
gent upon her meeting American OBJ
jections These will be vigorously
presented in a note, now partially
framed, to be sent upon receipt OF
Engand'S note, almost ready for de-
livery to Ambassador Page on gen
eral commercial interference.
State department officials admitted
today that the forthcoming American
note is to be held up until the new
British note is received.
As to the physical difficulties con-
IrOnunS bhSldA'A LII oioCh'huihS
many, new legal angle developed to-
day. State department experts said
England would have to capture only
a high percentage" and not all block
ade runners to. establish and make
effective an actual blockade
They agreed that Germany IS now
to all intents and purposes practically
blockaded, except for goods first sent
to Norway, Sweden or Denmark and
thence to Germany via the Baltic.
Known presence of British and Rus
sian submarines in the Baltic, makes
that seaway less valuable to Germany
than is popularly believed
Positive information is held by the
navy department from its agents
abroad that at least twenty ore and
merchandise ships from Swedish and
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I lost my nerve and failed to stop,
and told him / was through. l said
l would not have anything more to
do with it
"But the next Tuesday. did stop
the car and they killed the doctor. %
81 went to Miss Burgers home for
the doctor on the afternoon before
the shooting to see about suit case" )"
Heals said. From there I drove to
the doctors home on Elmwood ave-
nue. and the doctors little ooy,
Charlie, came running out and told
me his mother expected me for lunch
con- l was busy and could not wait.
Il had an engagement at six o'clock.
Shortly after l met Brown and Spell
man coming down the street on
Browns motorcycle. We went into
Mrs. Mohr's house and talked with
her.
"She said: Why didn't you stop
Saturday night? Have you gone back
on me? Be sure and stop tonight.
This is my last chance, because my
divorce case comes up on the first
of the month. You can just say there
was a robbery and I will give you a
good job driving car for me. If you
get into any trouble over this will
spend my last dollar to help you OUT"
He said he then went to Miss Bur.
gers house. arriving at 7:45 and tnen
drove to Dr. Mohr's Office with her
Mohr got into the car, taking his dog
with him and they started for New
port at 8:15.
when I got 10 bush IN he Wash
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Preparing to First Gobble up Portugal While
People are Rioting and Then Make
War Against Allies.
ARMY IS BEING GIVEN new GUNS
Portugal Is In Serious Condition on Account Of
Unrest by the Workmen and Clashe.
are Numerous.

Iclubs aaA knives, cAargsd the resi-
|dence Of the chief magistrate Scores
were wounded when troops dispersed
them. Hundreds Of rioters have beep
wounded and many killed In clashes
lin northern Portugal
Tho haste with which the Spanish
army is being re.squtpped with guns
and ammunition, IL . matter Of con-
cern in allied capitals. The popular
rumor Is that Spain IL hoping for the
tide to turn against the allies, plan
ming to overhwhslm the Portusuese
and thus acquire the remainder Of the
Iberian peninsula.
On December 9 Gibraltar cable
gram to the United Press said that
great significance was attached to
an order 70 sixty thousand Spanish
|carabineers to surrender Mause 81
rifles TOR new Remfngtons and to the
fact that large mum Der OF Spanish
recruits were constantly training.
Investigation by the United Press
on the same day disclosed that . Span.
ish commission was In New York buy
ing millions Of rounds OF ammunition
ana contracting for rifles and neld
artillery. It was stated at the Span
|ish consulate that the purchases were
being made as step in defensive
preparedness"
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PRESIDENT WILL
COME TO IOWA
Ono Of His Addresses on Coming
Junieet, is to be Given At
Des Moines.

WASHINGTON jan 20.-Presi-
dent Wilson has decided It Is unneces-
sary for him to take a representative
OF. the army sor. navy with him on his
preparedness trip.
It has been suggested that it would
be advantageous to have an expert
on military affairs to give first hand
views on the country's needs for
building mp its. defenses. This plan,
however, after being considered, has
been discarded, 1t became known to-
day. Probably the only persons &C
companying the president will be Mrs.
Wilson. Secretary Tumulty and DR..
Cary T. Grayson, the white house
physician.
The itinerary itself is not yet com
pleted, but may be ready late today.
Chicago, Des Moines. Kansas City and
Cleveland are considered assured of
speeches. ST. Louis. cincinnati and
Toledo are still under consideration IN
addition to numerous other points In
cluding Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
Considerable interest is attached to
the fact that the president is consid-
ering an address at Omaha, Neb., Bry.
ans home state, going there from Des
Moines.
The president will not limit his eff.
fort to one trip. Immediately upon
his return from the west he will begin
arrangements for second and long
er one 1t was indicated today that
the president feels the one big con-
servative piece Of work done by this
congress must be preparedness and
he feels attempts by democrats to un-
dermfne preparedness will work to un-
drmine the success Of the party at
the next election.
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TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Jan. 30-Dvery move by
The Spanish government II being
watched closely by the allies, Il was
learned today, In view Of growing con.
ditions OF unrest In Portugal.
Though ofncially discredited, the
rumor persists In London that Spain
Is making secret preparations to In
yade Portugal II she believes England
has her hands full with Germany and
cannot go to Portugal's assistance.
Such course would at once range
King Alfonso beside the kaiser as an
enemy OF the allies. Private advices
from Oporto and other Portuguese
cities, described conditions as grow.
ing more serious. No claim II made
that Spanish spies arc responsible
but that critical food conditions and
Iscessant strike riots keep the repub.
iican guards constantly ON the Alert.
Eighty thousand workmen at Oporto
lre still on strike 1t Is reported. Agi'
tators are working In Lisbon where
trouble Is expected.
AT Porta Tegro recently, several
thousand Of civilians, including WON
On. rushed the railway station and CON.
6scated many crates OF potatoes and
olives awaiting shipment In q po'
ihto riot at Pinhel, q mob armed with
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Hidden in Mountains From
Whence He Makes Unex-
pected Sorties.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servfce.]
Ell PASO, Texas. Jan. 20.-From
Francisco Villas stronghold In the
Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico.
came today a def to the Carranza
governments order proclaiming the
bandit chiefs life forfeited on sight
Come and get me-" was the sub
stance Of his challenge that filtered
through. Leaders in the man hunt
expect Villa to put up a desperate
nght They hardly hope to take him
alive. The proclamation authorizing
anyone to shoot villa on sight was u
tornality. He Is unapproachable ex-
eept by his trusted followers. His
secret hiding place in the mountains
rom which he makes unexpected
thrusts for food and loot has made
villa horrifying object of mystery to
tne towns and ranches in western
Chihuahua and northern Duarngo.
Some Of Villas hidden stores OF
ammunition have been captured ny
the Carranza soldiers.
The execution of number OF cap
tured Villista bandits was scheduled
70 take place at Chihuahua City to-
day. They included some Of the muir
aerers Of the eighteen Americans at
santa Ysabel January 10.
In accordance with the Carranza
campaign of "frightfulness" against
the murderers. their corpses will be
+. frblicly exhibited.
he publication of mutilations in
led on the Santa Ysabel victims
caused a renewal here today OF anti
Mexican feeling. The wounded were
oayoneted or pierced with machsttes,
Ihe dendishnoso OF the mut1lattona
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Arizona has Lost One Million Dollars Already
and Rivers are Lapping the Top
of Levees.
TWENTY FIVE HOUSES SWEPT AWAY
Skies Have Cleared in California Where Sew
eral Lives Were Lost and Much
/, Property Destroyed

LUnfted Press Leased Wire Service ]
PHOENIX. Ariz., Jan. 20.-State
troops wore aiding laborers to
strengthen the leveso at Clifton,
Ariz, and volunteers worked despsr-
ately to strengthen smbaukments
along the Salt river north Of Phoenix
today, as this section was threatened
with devastating food. Water
Tapped the tops of the lovees and tho
floods were increasing.
Twenty-Five houses were swept
away ut Globe, Arizona, shortly after
the tenants escaped.
Water a foot deep stood in the
Clifton hotel. Traffic on the Arizona
and New Mexico railway is suspend.
ed. Yuma today entertained fifteen
hundred persons marooned by the
floods. Several hundred came on
trans-continental trains stalled there.
The property loss In Arizona al
ready Is upwards OF s1,0oo.oo0, It WAS
estimated. One man is reported miss
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any crankiness about her was in 1904
when she listed slightly with some
thing over 1000 passengers ABOARD, at
south Haven:
The governments case was In
charge of Oliver e. Pagin, assistant
attorney general of Washington; Chas.
r, Clyne, district attorney, Chicago.
and Myron II. Walker, OF the Michigan
division. The six men who appeared
for hearing today are VIM. II. Hull.
st. Joseph; president Chicago-St. Joe
Steamship Co.; George T. Arnold.
manager Of the company; Harry Pet
erson, Joseph Erickson captain and
engineer Of the Eastland; Rooert Reid
and Charles C. Eckliff, Of Grand HaV-
en-. INSPECTORS Of the Eastland.
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AUSTRIA

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
VIENNA, (vIa Zurich) Jan. 2O.-
The queerest collection Of antique
weapons ever brought together out
side museum has been deposited
with Austrian troops at CettlnJe by
the Montenegro population
When the terms Of peace aerse-
mont were r1ado known, Monteneor'n
Civilians flocked to Austrian head.
quarters with al sorts of weapons
They laid down ancient snuskets, and
swords and knives with which their
ancestors had defended themselves
many decades ago. Practically every
householder In CettinJe, even widow
with no males In the family, pos.
sessed several weapons.
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Another EsstIand Hearing.

GRAND FRAP1DS, Mich, Jan. ~
F. A. Dougherty, first captain Of the
steamer Eastland, which turned over
In the Chicago river last summer.
was the first. witness called In the U.
S. district court today, when six off,
ciaIs connected with the steamship
company were brought to trial to de-
termine whether there was enough
evidence In the indictments in the
case to warrant their being turned over
to the jurisdiction of the supreme
court for trial.
wind had little effect" said Dough.
erty, "and I never changed my course
a fraction Of an inch to combat a
storm. The only time I ever noticed
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ITAl.Y !

limited Press Leased Wire Servics.l
ROME, Jan. 2o.-The Italian oabl
net met today to consider the pro-
gram Of concerted aotien in the Bal
kans, said TO be under consideration
by the atiie& Whether this includes
the landing Of more Italian troops on
the Albanian coast for an offensive
movement agalnst the 0ulgaSs and
Austrfans 10 not known.
KIM Victor EmanusI ordered the
cabinet summoned Into session upon
his return from laramie last night.
He reviewed the Italian fleet and con-
ferred with several navaI officers.
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Funston's Official Report


can history.
Funston,s OFFICIAL Report
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-General
Funston's official report ON the clash
yesterday near Douglas. Ariz- to tho
war department today said:
Mexican bandits estimated six
men, robbed house at Conavalls mine,
ono and one-half miles from Doyle's
Wells, afternoon OF the eighteenth.
Three from the detachment at Doyle's
Wells, and Arthur Lee, mining man,
followed the bandits trail south to-
ward Lone Cabin. About two miles
from Lone Cabin they dismounted to
reconhoiter near camp hre. They
were fred on, one horse being killed
Lieutenant King left here at 1880
| a. m. with detachment of thirty men
lieutenant Nicholson with a de.
tachment OF automobiles reconnoitered
vicinity OF Lone Cabin and found the
bandits tracks going southwest to
Mexico"
! General Funston also reported the
accidental shooting of Private Canei
B. Hall. of Louisville, KY. by CORPORAL
Thomas B. Ogle, last Friday and his
death the following day. The BODY
was sent to his mother in Louisville.
Story Unfounded.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Jan. 20-Ofhciai
reports today indicated that the
stories brought by travellers OF seven
United States cavalrymen taken prls-
oners by Mexican bandits, were un-
founded. Captain Nissen at Hachlta'
| n M. reported that the cavalry pa
trol which encountered the Mexican
raiders drove them back across the
border. The troopers horses were
stampeded and have not been recov-
cred. Captain Nssen made no men
ton - caSualt1oa.
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ENGLAND

limited Press sed wire service.l
LoNDoN,/$ 2o-GeneraI Ayl-
ner's force.4c .sching to the relief Of
the Briti, Grounded at kut-EI.
Amara ~ Led to within seven miles
Of kut mara last night without
.cowln contact with the enem D it
was offfe,a ally announced In the house
Of commons this afternoon.
Tho announcement. was made by
eecrstary for india Chamberlain and
waas greeted With cheers. Gan. Sir
John Nixon, who retired from COM
mand Of the British Mesopotamia
forces because Of III health, 10 on HE
way homo, Chamberlain announced.
IF WILL DISCUSS BLOCKADE.
LONDON, Jan. 2o.-Announceront
toward the government policy Of the
blockade to be established around the
German coast, probably will be made
ed the whole situation In regard to
American trade, statistics and the
foreign office policy will bs discussed
In parliament next week. This 10
taken to mean that the ministry will
NY lts program before commons. The
foreign osorstary gave NO Intimation
~ 70 how far Great Britain 10 pre-
pared 70 90 10 prevent shipments
from reaching Germany. He did COM
3pIain, however, that London news
paper articles purportino TO show that
the present ''hioekado 10 q faroe and
does ao< step shlpmsnts 70 Germany,
are orosoly unfair."
muss IA We a.. ~ ~ 49,
~ .rn " oo, a.0' ~" -
ment. ny p'no en ,..
nos ony eosv u = 0s' ''S
".sIspIsssn. 1 .ns S ,u, >.
~ .oI.Hn m ~.
-. u"ae.9 s. s. -.
s,1s ~ se oaSe ..-.,"s -
sm.s.,sn." rLis a.t,a,. .ant..s+.S
American ships to neutrals bordering
Germany since the laying Of the Brit
lsh blockade with shipments previous
to the war. The conclusion drawn by
the London press was that the goods
-. iinitsd as.tes are now heinu
.nirnes via Hoilnnd s-rrd scsn.anaulan
rnrfs ard thst the so-ealIed 1ritjs,,
hInok.de n entirely ineffective.
the nron, ntness with which the
oo~ernn,ent dIaeredited this article
wa. taken In some quarters az an In
dicatIen that no drastic step 10 con.
tannnt.ted bv the cabinet, X was ae-
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Why Harness Cost. More.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
QUINCY, H., Jan. 20.-Big increase
in The price Of harness is blamed on
the European war by speakers be
fore the annual meeting Of the Trf
State Harness Makers here. The
automobile has not greatly affected
the harness business, the speakers de-
clared.
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ENGLAND MAKING READY
FOR ACTUAL BLOCKADE

Danish ports to Germany have been
sunk in the Baltic in the last six
months Crews of these ships were
landed at Swedish ports. How many
more ships were sunk close to Gre
many's coast and their crews landed
in Germany is problematical.
Naval experts pointed out that al
though the stretch Of water between
Sweden and Denmark at the entrance
to the Baltic is but six miles wide
and heavily mined, British and Rus
sian submarines have not been great
ly bothered by the mines because of
the waters depth.
Hoke Smith Tells Why.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Declarins
EngIand's real purpose in its blockade
Of Germany is to depress the price OF
American cotton for its own CONNER
cial benefit, Senator Hoke Smith to-
day demanded on the senate floor Wig
orous action by the United States IN
protection of its international rights.
He asserted Germany had aban-
doned cotton for wood-cellulose as a
base for exp!osives-and had found
the latter preferable-and that it had
long been established that it had
plenty Oh 1OOu-6ACepI bcSolbiy 4AhliH
for the babies.
These facts, England we'll knew, he
said and it would not now be maiu-
tanning a difficult and costly block.
ade save that it's cotton manufacture
ers were benefiting through the low
cred price of American cotton.
The British claim that the United
States had declared cotton contraband
in the civil war, he declared "sillily
false" since no country for obvious
reasons. had tried to ship cotton to
the south.
Again when Russia declared cotton
contraband in the Japanese war, he
said, England protested so vigorously
that the order was abandoned.
He quoted many English papers
and speeches to show the extensive
British plans to take every step dur
ing the war to insure positive war on
commercial supremacy over Germany
and America. Depressing thexpros-
perity Of the American cotton grow
er and destroying the legitimate
manufacture in Germany of cotton
goods for peaceful purposes, he de-
clared. two steps in that policy.
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Dupont Explosion.

HOPEWELL. Va, Jan. 20.-An ex-
plosion in an air tank at the Dupont
Powder plant today damaged the
plant to the extent OF 100000, &C
cording to early estimates.
rhe cause Is unknown, but follow
ing Yesterdays explosion and fire 1t
is believed an investigation may re-
veal tamperfng from outside.
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died Sunday. and his wife Mrs. Winona
Glasgow, formerly of Burlington. Ia,
who committed suicide from grief fol-
lowing his death. General Glasgow's
ashes will be placed in his wffe's
case
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tng. Many narrow escapes mo-
drowning were reported.
Iha sun shlnee AaaI

u. 81
The Sun Shines Again.
SAN DIEGO. Calf. Jan. 20.-Ths
skies cleared here today for the first
time In the flood week which cost four
lives in the T1ajuana river bottoms.
rendered hundreds homeless and des-
titute and did over s1.00O,0o0 damage
in this vicinity.
A milk and vegetable famine was
feared. No garden truck can arrive
until the Santa Fe railroad service Is
resumed, which probably will be to-
morrow or Saturday. The city was
completely cut off from the outside
world for two days, except by wire
less. NO mail was received and the
only news from the outside came by
wireless from the United Press Los
Angeles bureau It Is feared that
among the persons missing. several
may have perished in the floods.
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Double Burial.

Double Burial.
fUnited Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Arrange-
ments were made today for double
burial at Arlington OF Gen. Saml. L.
Giasgow, formerly of Chicago, who