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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Washington State Items.

To cover up the theft, so the Off
Gals believe, Of cocaine and NOR
phine burglars dynamited the drug
store Of Thomas Stoves of Gle Elum
some time early Sunday, doing $3.50
damage. Nothing but dope was ia
ken. :
Tom Halpin, Jr., prominent young
farmer living IL miles southwest OF
Pullman, was accidentally killed Sun.
day when the trigger of a shotgun
caught in a piece Of baling wire as
he was crawling through a fence.
Death was instantaneous, as the shot
pierced his heart.
John F. ("Jack") Gillies, convicted
Of looting the state industrial insur.
ance funds of more than $4,000, and
Henry Roberts, convicted Of stat
utory offense, escaped Saturday night
from the Thurston county JAIL The
feat was accomplished by saving off
the end Of bolt in the cell door and
extricating the bolt, which they used
as lever to break the paddock. Gil.
lies would have been taken to Walla
Walla on July IA, as that is the date
his time for appealing to the supreme
court expires. While he gave notice
he never perfected his appeals, but
had the right, which he used, to re-
main. in Thurston county until the
time expired. Roberts was convicted
and appealed, but the supreme court
held against him.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Await Action of carranza.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS in N. y
Epidemic Has Taken Over 270 Live.
So Far This Summer.


So Far This Summon.
New York-After a conference of
federal, state and city health Off
Gals in this city Sunday to discuss
plans to check the epidemic Of in
fantile paralysis which already has
cost 270 lives here, Dr. w. G. Rucker
assistant surgeon general of the fed
eral public health service, returned
to Washington, D. c.. to expedite the
importation of monkeys for expert.
mental purposes.
The chief problem now confronting
the health department, officials said,
is the danger to the general public of
the Carrier" a child or adult who
may have the disease, and, without
being aware of the fact, or showing
symptoms of it, can communicate it
to others. 1t is hoped by experiments
on monkeys to determine how the
disease is spread. They have proved
in the past more valuable than any
other animals for research work.
DR.. Emerson said the department
is doing everything within it's resour-
ces to cope with the plague, but that
the service can be improved.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
SPORTING ITEMS

Brick" Eldred, on the Seattle team
leads the batsmen in the Northwest.
ern league with 1884.
iris Speaker, on the Cleveland
team, pulls down $4,000 per annum
poor, shackled slave! !.
Higginbotham, veteran pitcher Of
the Coast league, who was given no.
tice of release by Oakland, will fin
ish the season with Des Moines, Ia
Charles ("Chick') Evans, who cap
tured the title recently at the Min
neapolis open tournament, is recog-
nized as one of the best golfers in
the United States.
John j. McGraw has shifted Ben
ME Kauff up from fourth place in
the Giant batting order to second and
the change has acted on Benjamin
like raw meat fed to a bulldog.
Two new worlds records in auto
mobile speed were established Sun
day at Omaha on the mile and a
quarter board speedway. Dario Res
ia broke the five-mile record by 60
ing the distance in 2:44, or at rate
of 1904 miles an hour, and Eddie
Rickenbacher broke the 25-mile rec
ord by making it in 14:36, or 1925
miles an hour
That the big league baseball mag
mates are studying ways and means
to make the game still more attract.
i've to it's patrons is evidenced by
several suggestions and innovations
now being discussed around the Am
erican and National circuits. The
Cleveland club of American league
has just inaugurated a system Of
numbering the players in order thai
the casual attendant at the games
may have no difficulty in identifying
the different members of the team
President Johnson is openly advocat
ing the elimination of the pinch hit
ter and the system now in vogue O.
shifting pitchers upon the slightes
pretext.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Big Guns Proved Best.

Washington, D. CATER a spirit
ed debate Of year or more, in which
the achievements of the British and
German battleships in the North sea
battles have been closely followed
and analysed, the United States navy
has at last decided to adopt 16-inch
guns for the new battleships Califor-
mia and Tennessee. In place Of IL
14-inch guns, carried by the Pennsyl-
vania class, the new battleships will
mount eight 16-inch guns, the biggest
naval gun developed by any navy in
the world.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14

David Starr Jordan Raps Persons
. Who Would EmbroiI This Country
~ 5 in Big War. ,-,.s.

New York.-The danger of war
with Mexico is not half so great as
the danger American peace and pros
perity has to- fear from "war vul.'
tures,'' said David Starr Jordan, the
chancellor emeritus of Leland Stan
ford university, in an address before
several hundred delegates in the an
nual meeting of the American School
Peace league, held in connection with
the National Education associations
annual convention. :"
Must Clear Out carrion.
"This graver peril" said DR.. Jor-
dan, sis brought, about by those who
would like to hu1rl1: the United States
into war. Wherever there is carrion,
there you will find the vultures. Am
erica must help clear Mexico of it's
carrion. This done, then the vulture
will seek elsewhere for its prey"
Mr. Jordan held "it would be the
crime of all ages" for the United
States to intervene in Mexico. He at
tackled the war propagandists" and
insisted that the most recent trouble
from border raids was instigated. SOLE
ly by tools" Of. American and Eng
lish capitalists, engaged in "nefar-
ious and despicable plot to embroil
the two countries
Raid Plans knokn.
DR.. Jordan made the direct charge
that the plans for the Columbus, NJ
NJ, and other raids were known in
Ell Paso, Texas, and Douglas, Ariz.,,'
two days before their actual occur
renee, and had it not been for the
propagandists being partly successful
in murderous work, New York state
troops would not now be suffering
on the sun-baked plains of Texas"
DR.. Jordan termed Villa wild,
untamed Indian, the prize tool of the
American war vultures." Carranza
he said, If left alone in the present
crisis, gives every promise of becom-
ing the savior of his people,"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Allies Forcing Enemy. Back.

!. London, July 9.-The entente allied
offensive in northern France Satur.
day scored important gains, but in.
terest centered chiefly upon the cam
paign in the east, where Russian
arms are again in the ascendency
from Pinsk marshes south to the
.Carpathians. I
Undeterred by rain and, fog, the
Franco-British offensive continues
fiercely north of the Somme. The
British, in conjunction with the
French, are reported to have ad.
vanced half mile against the Ger.
mans.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Peace Rumor Rooms Money.

New York.-General liquidation of
war stocks, predicated mainly on the
belief that the boom in that field of
industry is on the wane, an advance
in call money to ~ per cent, the
maximum quotation since the resump-
ton of trading on the stock exchange
in December, 1914, further moderate
accumulation of standard securities
and the favorable conditions in the
character of the European war con-
stituted the chief features Of the
week in the stock market. d "
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMl-
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All tho People.

The grand lodge of Elks met at
Baltimore this week.
There are 21,O0O,0OO men in the
United States between the ages Of
IS and as.
Kansas guardsmen on the border
may vote in the Kansas primaries In
August, according to a decision of
the state supreme court.
bud" Fisher, the Mutt and Jeff
cartoonist, was hurt in an automobile
accident in New York Saturday. He
escaped with a broken rib and Sc
we're bruises.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will pay death claims of members
who may lose their lives in tile mill
tary or naval service Of the United
States in the event Of war with Mex
leo.
The American Union Against Mill
tarism has invited the three Next
can delegates to the unofficial peace
conference in session to make tour
of the United States and explain the
causes of the Mexican revolution and
border troubles.
David Lloyd-George is England's
new secretary of war; Sir Edward
Grey, the secretary for foreign at
fairs, has an earldom conferred up.
on him. The earl Of Derby, director
of recruiting, has been appointed un
der secretary Of war.
A Cologne Germany butcher nam
ed Sommer has been sentenced tc
Jail for two years and fined 10000
marks for withholding for sale 6
large amount of meat and also fol
secretly selling meat assigned fol
sale in Cologne to Dresden dealers
at a great profit.
The Central Trust company Of Hi
nois, a Chicago bank, was held liza
BILE for $1,250,000 which it advanced
to the defunct La Sale Street Trus
and Savings bank in 1912 when the
bank wah changed from a national tt
state Institution, in a recent deci
sion of the circuit court.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
German Editor Sounds Peace Note.

Macmillan Harden, the noted Ger
man editor, writing in Die Zukunft
says:
"Our enemies are ready. So are
we. Therefore, after the exhibition
Of their strength just given they
might without humiliation make up
accounts and look for straight line
toward peace. But we Germans must
not believe that they will do that.
Everywhere in Germany we hear that
France, being exhausted, prefers hui
initiation to another winter campaign,
and, whatever happens, will surren-
der before another winter. This is
just as true as the talk about Ger
many drumming blind and lame men
into the army, while we still have at
home at least 80 army corps and 6OO,-
900 recruits every year."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
THIS WAR SCARE
is A GOOD LESSON
MODELLING GUARD AND CALL
FOR RESERVES TEST OF
ARMY STRENGTH.
FAMILY HEADS GET DISCHARGE.
Urge Absolute Discharge for Soldiers
Who Have Dependents-Depar
ment Urges Call Only for
the Single Men.

Washington-Pending new develop
ments in the diplomatic situation be-
tween the United States and the de
facto government of Mexico, army
officials are learning military lessons
by watching the working out of the
national guard mobilization and the
summoning of regular army reserv-
lists to the colors.
At the war department the belief
is expressed that more than 80 per
cent of the 1000 to 5000 regular army
reservists called for active duty will
report promptly. Publication of the
fact that call has been made, it is
thought, will bring most of the men
to the front without the delay neces-
sary for each to receive formal noti-
fication. To make certain that other
men passing into the reserve at a
later time realize the seriousness of
their obligation to return to the col
i ors when called, prompt military trial
will await any who fail to present
themselves.
Reserves Call Far Reaching.
The exact effect of the call for re-
serves is not easy to estimate in the
number of men it will produce. 1t is
much more far-reaching than the re-
serve list would indicate, however,
| because in addition to summoning
back to duty the men who have been
out of active service for some time, it
probably will operate to suspend all
| discharges into the reserves for the
time being, except for specific causes
which unfit soldiers for duty.
Army officers believe that with the
increase of the regular army author
lied by the Hay Chamberlain. bill com
pleted, an average Of more than 25,-
900 trained men will pass into the
reserve annually. Since the period
of reserve service is four years, they
estimate that minimum reserve
strength of nearly $4,000 men will be
constantly maintained when the sys-
TEN is in full working order.
Some in Guard Dismissed.
Much attention is being given just
now to the effect Of the order direct
ing that members of the national
guard who have dependent families
will be discharged. Under the terms
of the order it is optional whether
department commanders issue only a
release from federal service or for.
NAL discharge which would nullify
the soldiers enlistment contract with
the state from which he came, as
we'll, and strike him off the national
guard rolls altogether. No statement
has been issued by the war depart
ment as to the course to be followed
Many officers believe that absolute
discharge should be granted and that
the various states should be urged
not to enlist men in the guard in the
future who are not in every way
available for active service.
Await Action of Carranza.
Sunday brought no further intima.
ton from Mexico City as to course
of procedure General Carranza will
suggest for diplomatic conferences to
settle border questions. Officials at
the state department are hopeful that
definite progress toward framing 8
satisfactory agreement will be made
this week.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

San Francisco labor leaders declare
that the end of the Pacific coast long
shoremen's strike is in sight.
Mrs. Lewis Myers died at The Dali
les, Ore, July 8, of lockjaw, the re-
suit of small splinter under one Of
her fingernails.
Governor Hiram w. Johnson of
California, has entered the primary
campaign as candidate for the Uni
ted States senate.
Charles L. McNary of Salem. ex-
justice of the Oregon supreme court,
is the new chairman of the repub-
lican state central committee of Ore
gon.
Harry Wheeler, a resident of Gear
hart, Ore, was drowned in the surf
at Seaside, Ore. Wheeler, while bath
ing, had gone out beyond the break
ers.
According to reports from Skag-
way, Alaska, shipments are being
made from large deposits of magne-
site in that locality as result Of the
European war
Professor Enrico Giuseppe Botta,
composer and formerly a master OF
the royal academy at Rome, was
found dead in a room of his apart.
ments at Los Angeles, Sunday, re.
volver by his side.
The dispute between the Canadian
Fish and Cold Storage company and
their laborers at Prince Rupert, B
c., has been settled on the basis OF
40 cents for regular time and sc
cents for overtime.
At Santa Ana, Cal, July 8, Colone
G. w. Coultas, Methodist minister
Of Whittier, Cal, was killed when 8
Pacific Electric interurban car struck
the automobile which he was driving
The machine became stalled on the
railway tracks.
The Rev. Paul Edward Peterson
minister of Richmond, Cal, accused
Of accepting a bride from woman
of the underworld during his activi
ties in a vice campaign, was given his
unconditional liberty by the superior
court, which held there was no evi
dence to show that he accepted 6
bribes or had committed a crime.
California in all four corners Of
the state, will soon be in the throes
of campaign to decide whether alb
solute prohibition of the liquor traf
fic or limited prohibition shall be
engrafted into the state constitution
Both proposed measures to be voted
on in November are designed to wipe
out saloons and other public drinking
places.
Orders issued a short time ago by
the war department at Washington
instructing officers of the Oregon ma
tional guard to muster in four add
tional companies Of coast artillery
have been fulfilled, it is stated al
the adjutant generals office. The
companies were recruited at Fores
Grove, Tillamook, Marshfield and AS
toria. /T
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Ford Nav 30 Candidate.

Detroit.-John Anderson. Henry
Tord's attorney, reiterated the state
ment made earlier this summer that
Mr.. Ford is not in politics. He de-
clined to state, however, that Mr..
Ford would not accept the presiden-
tial nomination from the prohibition
national convention.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
MEMBERS OF MOB ARE SHOT,
Battle Follows Storming Of JaiI-Th.
Sheriff Put in Cell

Wakeeney, Kan.-Two members of
a mob estimated at $50 persons were
accidentally shot five miles east Of
here Saturday in a clash with a posse
of about rs citizens. The mob had
stormed the county Jail and released
a man who had been sentenced on a
charge of carrying concealed weap-
ons. Members of the raiding party
were placed on an eastbound train
and ordered to leave the county.
The mob that raided the Jail lock
ed the sheriff in cell. He was re-
leased and led the posse. Many per
sons not known in the county are
being expelled from it.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
kaiser's Doctor Dies.

London.-An Amsterdam dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph company
says that Dr. Friedrich w. X. Won
Ilberg died in Berlin Sunday. DR.. Won
Ilberg had the special care of the
throat affection from which the Ger
man emperor has suffered for many
years and was one of the emperor's
most intimate friends.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
villa Wins AGAIN.

Ell Paso, Texas Reports that VII
la commands operating southwest OF
Jiminez had inflicted the third de-
feat within week upon troops OF
the Mexican de facto government and
had retaken Jiminez were current on
both sides of the Rio Grande Mon
day. :;
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
AUTO WRECKS KILL 13 SUNDAY
Driver of Car In San Francisco Said
to Have Been Trying to Beat
Locomotive.

San Francisco-Four people, two
men and two women, were killed
when the automobile in which they
were riding was struck by Southern
Pacific train at Tanforan, South San
Francisco, where the state highway
crosses the railroad tracks.
The killed:
A. w. Stern, proprietor of a San
Francisco paper box factory.
B. c. Fricke, manager of an EN-.
ployment bureau, San Francisco.
Mrs. B. G. Fricke.
Miss Jessie Crank, waitress, San
Francisco.
Stern, who was driving the car
had been racing with the train, &C
cording to the train crew. He reach
ed the crossing first and attempted
to cross the tracks in front Of the
train.
The engine pilot struck the auto
mobile squarely, demolishing the cal
all directions
In Pennsylvania.
At Sunbury, Pa, six persons in
Guiding Gordon Neidig and his foul
children, were killed when their au
tomobile was struck by train.
Three in Iowa.
Three persons were instantly killed
and another was seriously injured
when a Rock Island freight train or
the M. & S. L.. railroad struck ar
auto on the White Pole crossing neal
Waukee, Iowa. The dead are:
Mrs. e. e. Whitehead.
Miss Justina NJ Whitehead
Miss Rhoda Miller, all of Des
Moines.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Rockefeller Now n.

Cleveland, Ohio.-John D. Rookie.
Teller, the richest man in the world,
celebrated his 18th birthday here Sat
urday playing golf. His birthday din
ner, in which his fellow golfers par
ticipated, was served at noon. Rookie
Teller appeared in splendid health.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
John Goodall Suicides,

Juneau, Alaska.--John Goodall, dep
uty United States marshal at Sitka
and widely known throughout Alaska,
committed suicide at Sitka Monday
by shooting. He was formerly Uni
ted States commissioner at Cordova.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
ALLIES CONTINUE
Winning BATTLES
CAPTURE OF RAILWAY POINT IN
SOUTH CUTS FOE FROM HIS
BASE OF SUPPLIES.
TEUToNs REPORTED ON RUN /.
In North Rrusi'off Continues Ad-
vances Toward the stokhod River
French Renew Attack and n
Take Towns.

London, July 1O.-The eastern war
front continues to overshadow the
western from the spectacular view
point, the Russian forces going from
success to success. Not only has
General Letchintzky, in the south,
occupied the railroad junction at De-
latyn, west of Kolomea,' thus cut
ting off General Won Bothmer from
his supply base, but General Brusilof,
in the north, is making surprising ad-
vances on both sides of the Kovel
railway toward the Stokhod river.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14

The department Of agriculture es-
Inmates crops better than the last
five years average, but smaller than
last year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14

Rear Admiral w. P. Caperton will
succeed Admiral Winslow as CON-
mander of the Pacific fleet when the
latter retires on account Of age.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Desperate Fighting.

Desperate fighting has occurred be-
tween the British and the. Germans
at Troneswood against which the eGr-
mans launched six separate attacks.
Five of these were repulsed, accord
ing to the. British war office, but the
sixth was successful in that it per-
mitted the Germans to penetrate the
wood where latest reports said the
fighting continued.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Elka Dedicate $4,000 Home.

Bedford City, Va.-The new nation
al home Of the Elks was dedicated
here Saturday. 1t cost 100000.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14

Fords peace delegates are home
from Stockholm.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14

Several earthquake shocks were
felt near Naples, Italy, Saturday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
French Keep Advancing.

London, July 1.-THE French, in
their operations south Of the Somme,
have advanced to within about mile
of Peronne, at present held strongly
by the Germans. In a brilliant at
tack they occupied the summit of
Hill 81, which commands the Somme
strengthened their positions between
Biaches and Barleux.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
Allies Again Cooperate.

The French have thus resumed CO
operation with the British, who have
been engaged in fierce fighting in the
neighborhood Of Ovillers, where, the
statement from the British war Of
flee says, they have again made a
STEADY progress in the face of stub
born resistance"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
French on Offensive.

The French have returned to the
offensive south of . the Somme and
have captured German trenches over
a distance of about two and a half
miles east of Flaucourt and to depth
ranging from about two-thirds of a
mile to a mile and a third. They
also captured by storm the village
Of BlacheS. -,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14

The grand lodge of Elks met at
Baltimore this week
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Business men of Mansfield have
organized to erect $4,000 concrete
building for hotel purposes.