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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
DILLON FAv9RS
SANE DEFENSE
SAYS ARMY AND NAVY WASTES
&SO,OOO,0OO ANNUALLY AND
OPPOSES BIG INCREASE

Sioux Falls, S. DIN letter to
the Sioux Falls Press, in response to
an inquiry by that paper, Congress-
man c. II. Dillon, of this district, de-
fines his views in reference to pre-
paredness for war. While believing
in state of reasonable defense. Mr..
Dillon is opposed to the great in
crease advocated by the Wilson ad-
ministration. His letter follows:
THE administration big army and
navy program calls for S100,000,-
100000 per year for five years in new
construction work, for the navy, and
$3.50, ,000,000.0 increaEe for the
four year army program, which in
cludes the maintenance of the Con-
tinental Army for four hundred thous
and men in addition to the regular
army.
THE secretary of the treasury, for
the year ending June 80, 1917, esti-
mates the needed appropriation to
be. $220,477,611.24 for the navy,
S193 ,S94,5S5.0 for the army and
s16O, ,565, 100000 for pensions. These
estimates would increase the needed
appropriation for navy over the last
ppIOplldIlOn III luc SUN Ol ptu,oIO
746.36, and for the army $91,920,-
2S9.17, making total increase of
s162, 1885, 1858 in the army and
navy appropriation.
Would Mean Militarism.
81 can not support this increased
program. 1t would enter our country
upon the greatest military propagan-
da the world has ever seen.
eff the estimates are approved by
Congress the army and navy without
pensions, would cost s1,135, ,266.25
every day of the year. In 1899 we
appropriated for the army s23,193,-
$4,000 which has gradually increased
to $101 ,574, ,195.S7 for the year end
ing June 80, 1916 In 1899 we ap-
propriated for the navy s56,09S,-
7S3.6S which has gradually increas-
ed to s149,661,864.SS for the year
ending June 80, 1916.
81 believe that our country should
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
SP|KK COUNTY FARM
SCENE OF TRAGEDY
IN WHICH TWO DIE
James Guyberger, Near
Frankfort, Kills Wife
and Self.
DIVORCE ASKED
BY Mrs. Guyberger Cause of
Shooting.-Six-Year-Old
Daughter Is Witness.
lVORCE ASKED

Aberdeen, S. D.--Word has just
reached here of a tragedy at the farm
house of James Guyberger, ten miles
southeast of Frankfort, i'll Sphinx
county. Guyberger and his wife had
not been living together for some
time and the wife had instituted suit
for divorce.
On Monday night Guyberger went
to the. house and begged his wife to
drop the divorce and live with him
again. She refused and Guyberger
pulled 32-caliber revolver and shot
her three times, once in the neck
and twice through the heart.
Reloading the revolver, the man
then shot himself throug the head,
dying instantly. The only witness
to the affair was siX-year-old daugh-
ter, a four-year-old being in an adj
Joining room asleep, while ten
year-old daughter was away from
home
The little girl ran to neighbors and
spread the alarm.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
GREECE PROTESTS
AGAINST ARREST OF
SALON|K| CONSULS
Declares Entente Pow
ers Exceeded Auth
GRITTY in Matter.
OF Loos
Cost British Close to 100000
Men Last September, House
of Commons is Told.

Berlin, Germany.-"The Greek
minister at Sofia has presented to
Premier Radoslavoff the text of the
Greek note protesting to the En-
tente Powers against the arrest of
the German, Austrian, Bulgarian and
Turkish consuls at Saloniki, says
the Overseas News Agency
"The minister informed the pre-
mier that Greece will use all the
means at it's disposal to support it's
claims and desires to maintain good
relations with the Central Powers,
avoiding any misunderstanding with
them.'
Demand is Energetic.
London, ngland.-Reute.'s Atl-
ems correspondent says the Greek
government has made written pro-
test against the arrest of Greek sub
jects at Saloniki. This protest,
which has been delivered to the En-
tente ministers at Athens, demands
n energetic language release of
these persons.
Loos Battle Costly.
London, England.-The British
casualties in the battle of Loos,
France, last September, totalled o.
378 officers and 57,2SS men, ac-
cording to the announcement made
today in the House of Commons by
Harold Tenant, parliamentary un-
der-secretary for war.
Say CZernowitz is Taken.
London, England, ,-Everywhere in
the Stripa and Volhynian districts
and in East Galicia, the Russians are
on the offensive, the official commu-
nications from both Petrograd and
Vienna reveal.
Czernowitz capital of Bukowina,
is now the spot around which the
most important fighting is in progress
The Russian war office reports that
Russian forces have occupied a line
of trenches northeast of Czernowitz
and have repulsed strong counter at
tacks by the Austrians and their all
lies.
A Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
tells of TIE evacuation of Czernowitz
and the capture of large number
of prisoners.
A Petrograd correspondent an
that the Austrians have evac-
uated Czernowitz. The Russians got
command of the heights and heavy
fire compelled the evacua-
ton. 1t is reported that many pris-
onerS were taken,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
TEUToNIC PLUNGERs SINK
81 SHIPS IN SIX WEEKS

Vienna, Austria. = Austro-Hun-
garian and German submarines sank
in the Mediterranean eight troop
ships, twenty-five transports and
thirty-four merchantmen with a to-
tai tonnage of about 225,325 in the
last two weeks of October and the
month of November, according to the
claims made in authoritative quar-
tiers here. The loss of life is said to
have been very heavy in the case
of troop ships and the estimate is
made that it amounts to at least five
thousand men.
The largest of the vessels which it
is asserted has been sunk was the
Cunard liner Transylvania of four
teen thousand tons, loaded with
troops and war materials. The list
includes also one japanese steamer,
the Yasukuni, of more than five
thousand tons. Thirty-eight of the
vessels sent to the bottom were of
British register, thirteen French,
ten Italian, two Russian, two Greek,
one Norwegian and one japanese.
Tonnage Very Heavy
The tonnage of the troop ships and
transports was about two hundred
thousand and that of the merchant
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
GERARD AT BERLIN
BUSY OVER PERSIA
THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
INQUIRIES OF FOREIGN OF
FICE CONCERNING IDENTI-
TY OF MEDITERRANEAN
PLUNGER.

London, England-The Amer
ican embassy here has received
report saying that Rev. Hom-
er r! Salisbury an American was
a passenger on the liner Persia
which was sunk in the Mediter-
ranean, but that he was not in
cluded among the survivors.
London, England.-An Amster-
dam dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph company says that the Ameri-
can ambassador at Berlin, James w.
Gerard, has conferred with the Off
cials at the foreign office concerning
the sinking of the steamship Persia.
Mr.. Gerard is said to have in
quired about the nationality of sub
marine which sunk the Persia.
Washington, d. C.-There is no
lessening of the tension in the new
submarine crisis brought about by
the sinking of the British steamer,
Persia. With the presidents return
to take charge of the situation there
were marked indications that he
would proceed carefully in the mat
ter and investigate all details very
thoroughly.
At the state department it was re-
iterated that the American govern
ment believed the Austrian assur-
ances given in the Ancona note were
given in good faith.
Two points must be cleared up. 1t
must be established whether the
British liner, Persia, actually was
torpedoed, and if SO what was the
nationality of the submarine.
President Issues Statement.
The president first issued state
ment which said
The president and the secretary
|of state are taking every means to
obtain the full facts in this grave
matter and will act just as soon as
the information is obtained"
The presidents second step was to
direct Lansing to gather more in
formation from the Persia survivors.
He has ordered the consuls at Malta,
Cairo and Alexandria to obtain affi-
davits from all of the survivors and
lat once cable summaries of their
contents to the state department.
May Outline Policy.
Meanwhile there is discussion OF
what steps the United States may
take to make clear to the Central
powers the extent to which it in
tends to hold them responsible for
submarine actions in violation of in
Iternational law.
Austria's plea that she knew Moth
ing officially of the submarine con-
troversy with Germany is cited by
those who want action taken to fore
stall similar cases which may arise
in the future with othes warning pow
ers.
it.lI stl 49,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06

Premier Asquith opened his adj
dress with an analysis of the figures
in the Derby report. He emphasized
the fact that during the Derby cam
paisn nearly three million men had
offered their services. Even deduct
ing those rejected because of their
physical disability the total still was
in excess of two million and five hun
dred thousand.
These are wonderful and en-
couraging figures" the premier con-
tinued. They ought to convince both
our allies and our enemies that the
people of this country have their
hearts in the war"
Under the terms of the compulsory
military service bill introduced in the
House of Commons, al lmaes be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty
one, who are bachelors or widowers
without children dependent upon
them are liable to military service,
Ireland excluded.
London, England.-In the House
OF Commons today. the compulsory
military service bill was taken up,
as presented by Premier Asquith. 1t
early began to bring on the sharpest
parliamentary struggle since the war
began. The Earl of Derby's repor,
on his recruiting campaign, which
began on October 23 and ended De
cember IL explains why the cabinet
found it necessary to bring forward
the measure for the compulsory en-
listment of unmarried men.
+lo,
lion of men in England, Scotland and
Wales enrolled themselves. but after
those engaged in the indispensable
industries and medically unfit, has
/ been Winnowed out, only about one
million and one hundred thousand
available remain to bear arms.
Bachelors Are Slackers.
| But there are 5000 unmarried
men who have failed to come for.
ward and the government will not at
tempt to redeem Premier Asquith' s
pledge that married men should not
be called out as long as consider
liable fraction of the unmarried mer
has held back.
The figures of the Earl of Derby.
stock taking of the United Kingdom
martial manhood shows that over two
million men of military age have nor
|yet offered their services in any form
of the government. The publication
of the figures finds the cabinet crisis
caused by the compulsion problem is
by no means ended.
I Ireland Not Included.
Ireland, which is not included il
the Derby plan, also is said to be
excluded from the conscription meas
ure which Premier Asquith introduc
ed in the House of Commons today
While England is still debating tn.
question Of compulsion, Russia
great conscript armies are making
desperate onslaughts upon the Aus
itro-Germans before Czerowitz, where
according to Russian official reports
the Russians not only repulsed, tn
Austrian counter-attacks northeast @
the city, but themselves are steadil
advancing.
Only 53 per cent of the unmarrie
youths and men of military age {
Great Britain volunteered for servic
in the British armies in the six week
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06

ships 25,325, making total of sixty
seven ships Of approximately 1885,
325 register tons, or 10000 net
load tons
Many of the vessels reported lost
have not been reported in the daily
reports sent out by the various ad-
miralities of steamers torpedoed.
Private advices We're received in New
York late in September that the
Transylvania, chartered by the Bri-
tish government for transport pur-
poses, had been sunk off the island
of Crete in the Mediterranean, but
a denial was issued by the owners.
When the japanese steamer Yasa-
ka Maru was torpedoed, December
%, it was stated it was the first YES
sci of Japanese registry to be sunk
by an under water boat, but the
list obtained in Vienna indicates an
other was lost some time previously.
Gerard at Vienna h
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
]. d. Hale of Meade.

missioner, j. ID. Hale OF Meade.
Their platform endorses the adj
ministration of President Wilson;
asks for extension Of rural free de-
livery for strict conservation of
natural resources of the country;
for strict economy in state affairs,
and for rural credit system max
ing borrowing easier for the farmer.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06
SNOWBANK is
A LIFE SAVER
OLIVET FARMER JUMPS INTO
PILE OF .BEAUg!FUL" WHEN.
HIS CLOTHES TAKE FIRE.

olivet, S. D.-Having presence of
mind to hurl himself into a snow
bank saved the life of Herman
Rames, a farmer living north of
town, when his clothing became ig-
nited by the explosion of the gasoline
tank of a gasoline engine. The burn
ing liquid was thrown over him in
a shower.
When he hurled himself into the
snowbank others nearby hurried to
his assistance and dashed snow over
him until the flames were extinguish-
ed. He was badly burned, but es-
capped serious injury.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-06

Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Harvey and
daughter, Minerva, returned to their
home in Sioux City yesterday after
spending the holidays at the home of
Mrs. James Kimble. Mrs. Harvey's
mother.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
Beware Of Ointments Fop
Catarlh that Contain Mercury

Catanh that Contain Mercury.
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense CT smell and completely de-
range the whole system when en-
tering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should rey-
er be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as-the
damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. j. Cheney and
Co., Toledo, o., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system.
I'm buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is
taken internally and made in To-
ledo, Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney and
Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c.
per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
Gluten Bread (Bettina)

One cup of gluten flour, liz
level teaspoons baking powder, Ia
teaspoon salt, Ia cup ST bran.
level tablespoons suga5S IL cur
BIZ milk. l-3 cup water. 1 egg, one
teaspoon melted butter Mix the
baking powder, salt. bran and SUI
gar. Add the milk, water and egg
Beat vigorously for 1 minute and
khen add the butter Pour into q
well buttered bread pan and bake
40 minutes in a moderate oven.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
soon be DINNER time. J,

soon be dinner time. .
All right. Mother. Just over to
! the edge of the woods" said Law
renee as he sat ON his sled in
the yard and strapped on his snow
sh oes.
The STOW shoes and an Indian
suit had been given him at Christ
mas, and Lawrence did not tire
of their use.
| He made a gay figure, dressed in
the Indian suit as he sped over
the snow in his snow shoes. His
mother watched him until he dis
appeared from view, then she went
into the house to prepare the
! midday meal.
At the edge of the woods Law
renee saw little tracks in the snow
which he knew to be rabbit
| tracks.
| He followed them and socn spied
the rabbit huddled up close to
some bushes. 1t was almost as
white as the snow
At his approach the rabbit hop
ped away into the woods. Lawrence
| followed as fast as he could, but
soon the rabbit was lost to sight.
Still Lawrence followed the tracks
and there were other tracks too,
and he was deep in the heart of
the wood when he suddenly re-
membered his promise to his moth
er. He could see nothing but leaf
less trees and bushes all around
lhfm, but The was not afraid of be-
Il ign lost for he could follow his
own tracks back home.
i With lingering look i'm the di-
rection which the tracks led he
turned to return' home. Then he
stopped and his heart almost stop
ped beating, for in the stiffness
OF his lonely surroundings he
heard a cry.
He listened. There it came again.
Who could it he and what could
!, be the matter.
Help. Help Someone was in
trcuble. Lawrence dashed in the
direction of the cries, shouting
Hello as loudly as he could.
A moment later he saw rude
cabin and i'm the door sat man
leaning against the wall.
Lawrence recognized john Hunt
ing, ne;ghbor, who smiled and
said: I'm glad you came along
I've hurt my foot so that l can't
stand ON il. | came out to get
., things ready to tap the maple
trees and ole CT the big kettles
fell ON my foot
What can / do?" eagerly asked
Lawrence.
Get some one to come and take
me home. 1t is not far to the
main road by this direction" and
he pointed in the direction of the
road
Lawrence hurried away. When
, he reached the road he took off
his snow shoes and ran.
He met another l,eighbor driv-
ing home in a pung and told his
story. They went back to the SUI
gar camp and to Mr.. Hunting and
sped away to his home.
That is how it came about
that Lawrence did rot get home
to dinner that day, but when his
mother heard his story she did, not
scold him for following the rab-
bit INFO the woods.
Mr.. Hunting was soon able to
be out again, and Lawrence We
with him to the sugar camp every
day.
He helped carry in the sap and
! boil down the syrup and then
what fun they had "sugaring off. .
Lawrence thought that was the
best of all.
+ John Clair Minot.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
Cherry Pudding.

One-fourth cup butter, Ia cup
sugar, l egg, 1-2 cup milk, cup
canned cherries, 1-2 teaspoon salt.
2 teaspoons baking powder, cups
flour. Mix. Steam about 1 ID hours
Serve with sauce made of one
cup cherry juice thickened with
two tablespoons flour, add pinch
of salt and sweeten to taste.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
/ Bran Bread.

One cup of molasses, teaspoon
full of soda, l scant teaspoonful of
salt, pint of sour milk Or but
termilk, 1 quart of bran, 1 pint
of flour. Stir well and bake one
hour in a slow oven. 1t may be
baked in a loaf, or I'M gempans.
This bread is highly recommended
for children, or for persons whose
stomachs are weak.
Apples are rather high in price
at this season, but they are so
healthful, and are so useful in dis
pelling the spring fever that it
pays to keep them for use even
at the prevailing high prices.
When the cold Of winter is past
if we leave out the greasy foods
and the heavy meat diet. and
take plenty of good apples. the SO
called spring fever will touch us
lightly, if at ALL We may eat
them raw, baked, boiled, or stewed.
fried or roasted, only so we eat
them. They will make us feel
young again, uncomfortable symp-
toms will disappear and we will
forget that we have stomach.
If you're feeling kind o. blue,
Eat an apple. l.
1t will cheer you through and
through,
Eat an apple.
1t will put your stomach right,
Sooth your liver over might.
Operations? Calm your fright;
Eat an apple. Anon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
For the Children =

When Little Bear Would Not Work.
One MORNING Little Bear was
sent out to pull weeds in the black
berry patch.
Little Bear wa,1ted to play. He
didn't like to work anyway, and
when his mother went out to see
how he was get thing ON, she found
him lying ON the ground looking,
|,up in the sky.
Little Bear said she, have
you finished the weeding?'
No, Mother Bear was the avn
swer, sit is too. hard work. 1
shall pull mo- more weeds
Mother Bear had never heard
Little Bear speak like that before.
She said nothing but led him into
the house to his father.
"Father Bear" said she, Little
Beat will not work.
'Ahem, ahem," began Father
Bear, locking hard at Little Bear.
cam | to understand that you will
not pull weeds, Sen Bear?"
Tt is too hard work" said Lit
tile Bear. 81 am not big enough to
pull weeds in the blackberry patch
'Ahem, ahem,' said Father Bear.
He. was really too surprised for
words Very WE'LL" he said then,
do as. you like, but
| He said "but" I'M such a loud
voice that Little Bear jumped.
But little bears who will not pull
weeds inl the blackberry patch shall
not eat blackberries. y
SO Little Bear was sent up stairs.
His mother followed him with a
plate of bread and a pitcher of
water. She said nothing but left
the bread and water and returned
down stairs.
AT dinrier time Little Bear felt
hungry. He smelled fish frying and
he liked fish, but his mother did
not bring him any, and adj he had
for his dinner was bread aud
water.
The afternoon lasted long, long
lltime. Little Bear wondered if sup
per time would never come. He
| slept little while, but the sun
was still high in the sky when
n, "a and ,ha I,
Then he again smelled fish fry
ing, but his mother did not bring
him amy fish. only bread and wat
or for his supper.
He called to his mother as she,
was going down stairs.
| What is the N after with Sori
Bear?" asked Father Bear when
Mother Bear led the little fellow
down stairs.
I am hungry" walled Little Bear
"Have you no bread?" asked
Father Bear.
I CAN'T eat just bread. Not when
1 smell fish, said Little Bear. I'll
weed the blackberry patch, and
TIL work like Sally Beaver if you'll
let me have fish for supper, and
blackberries, and horey and milk.
Very WE'LL" said Father Bear.
you shall sit down to supper and
Tweed the blackberry patch after
ward.
How Little Bear did enjoy that
supper. His mother piled his plate
full again and again, before he was
Isatisfied.
i Little Bear never refused to pull
weeds in the blackberry patch a.
gair. He had learned, as his faith
er intended he should, that if he
would eat he must work.
Youths Companion.
! The subject of the Sunday school
lesson was "idols," and the teacher
gave her pupils little talk about
the inability of an idol to work
good or i'll to its worshipers. Then
she said:
| Although the idol has eyes, it
can MOT -
"See," cried the children
1T has ears, but it can not"
I Hear" said they.
1T has lips, but it can not -
Speak" said the class.
TT has a nose, but it can not
| There was pause. Wipe it,
shouted the little ones
In The March Woods.
DON'T go far. Lawrence. 1t will
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
Prune Puff lRettinal

\ MIX 2 cups of cooked unsweeten-
I'D prunes, teaspoons of lemon
aemon juice, and ten level table
fpoons Of sugar thoroughly. Place
In the bottom of well buttered
budding dish. sift together in a
mixing bowl 2 cups flour, 4 level
teaspoons baking powder and IL
teaspoon salt. Add eggs and 2-3
pup of milk together. Beat one
minute, add 4 tablespoons melted
butter, and stir we'll. Pour this bat
ter on top of the prunes and
bake in moderate oven 20 min,-
htes. Remove from the dish. cut
in pieces and serve warm with
Rweetened and favored whipped
cream.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02
Doughnuts.

Mix - cup Of sour milk with
3-4 cup Of molasses, add level
teaspoonful of ginger. teaspoon
salt, l teaspoon soda, / egg, a
little nutmeg and enough flour to
make soft dough, as soft as it
can be cut out. Fry in hot fat.
When dome sprinkle with powder
ed sugar. These are excellent.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02

The unpopular winter pastime
now in Canada. q being an alien.
Johnny Will Come Marching Home
Again, if he can cross the line.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02

Mrs. Fitzemeier has been very
sick lady for several days. Her ill
ness is probably from Grippe Her
active life while in health makes
sickness the harder to- bear
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02

Cut out the following coupon.
sign your name and address, and
send to
Mrs. w. J. Lancelot. Journal
Extra, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-02

Lawrence Leffingwell. the err
rand boy at the Cotton Store, was
unable to make his rounds last
week, his brother falling into his
position nicely.