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Arizona republican., 1916-08-14
Advancing on the eomme

LONDON, August 13-An important advance on the Somme front north west of PoZieres was announced today by the war office. The British pushed forward their lines 300 qS 400 yards, over a front of nearly a nSe.
 Lloyd's reports the sinking of the Russian steamship Kovda, l,225 tons gross. and of the small Italian sailing vessels Lorenzo Donate and San An tonic.
 The advance of a wide encircling movement by the British and Belgian forces in German East Africa is re- ported in the war office statement is- sued today. The statement reads:
 The forces under General Shuts be- gan simultaneous forward movement August ,. A strong mounted force under Brigadier-G General Enslin under took a wide encircling movement north and northwest of the Nguru noun tains After traversing the center mountains. General Enslin's troops emerged on August 8. at Mhonda mis- sion, between the mountains and the Kanga hills overlooking the Mdjonga valley. completing an arduous march
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Arizona republican., 1916-08-14
HARD FIGHTING AND MORE GAINS
 FUR THE ALLIES
IRepubllean A. P. Leased wircl


 Hard fighting in the Somrne region of France, in GaIieia and in the Italian theater, with further gains tor the entente allies in all three reqions, marked the operations of Saturday night and Sunday.
 Northwest of Pozieres north of the Sonme. the British made an advance of from ROO to 400 yards over 2 front of nearly a mile against the Germans and also captured trenches on the plateau northwest of Bazen- tin Le- Petit. while the French south east of Mau-epas gained a further foothold on the slopes of Hill No. 109.
 Between Thiepval and the Somme Saturday night, according to Berlin, assaults by the entente allies broke down with heavy casualties to the attackers. The fighting near Hem the entire night and into Sunday, the men repeatedly coming to grips in the hand to hand encounters.
 Mariampol. in Galicia. seven miles southeast of Halicz, the town of podu;aey and several villages along the upper Soreth river have fallen into the hands of the Russians.
 On the 6ystritza sector and near Monssterzyska, however. Berlin says tFe Russians have been thrown back al several places by the counter at tscks of the Teutonie allies.
 The DuLe of Aosta is keeping up his strong offensive against the Aus trisns in the lsonzo reqion, having Jriver them from fortified positions m the Mcnfalcone and Gorizia sectors and taken prisoner more than 2,0o0 additional men.
 Cors.sntinople reports that the Turks east cf the Suez canal have turned against the British and com pelled them to retreat with heavy losses. The London war office, how . ever, disputed this statement. assert ina that the British cavalry is still in pursuit of the Turkish rear guard which Saturday evening had been driven to a position cast of rs-el- Manca.
 After lonq period of inactivity, the British alonq the Euphrates in Mesopo.onia attempted an advance aaainst the Turks but retrested after two hours fighting. Further ad Vances for the Turks against the Russians on the Persian front and ir Turkish Armenia also are claimed by Constantinople.
Arizona republican., 1916-08-14
cLoUDBURsT IN COLORADO
Republican A. p. Leased Wlrel

PUEBLO. Colo. Aug. 1S.-A cloud
 burst near Rockvale. above Florence, turned two dry creeks into rivers this afternoon. damaging two bridges on the Santa Fc branch lime and one on the main line of the Denver aand Rio Grande Traffic over the latter line was suspended until 10 o'clock tonight. Houses and yards were damaged in Florence by the water which flooded one section of the city.
Arizona republican., 1916-08-14
1OXA WAY DAM BREAKS

C, Aug, B. The
  or water valley No
  enabred nest persons in the path of the flood
  average depth of thirty dam an eghth of mile sroysd The town of Lake compa stively 'NN'"' ''
Arizona republican., 1916-08-14

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The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Thirteen WOMEN DELEGATES
AT DEMOCRAT CONVENTION

ST. LOUIS, June 13.-Thirteen wo-
men are full-fledged delegates to the
Democratic convention. Eight women
will sit as alternates. Never before
have so many women been elected to
Democratic gathering. Only three
women were delegates to the Repub-
lican convention. There were thirty
three in the Progressive.
The Democratic women delegates
and alternates come from seven states
Of the thirteen delegates, four are
from California, four from the state of
Washington, two from Utah, one from
Idaho, one from Colorado, and one
from Kansas.
Instead of a moving parade or mass
meeting such as were held in Chicago,
the suffragists will stage walkless,
talkless parade. On the theory that
silence is golden, the women call it the
Golden Lane of Silence"
On tomorrow morning, 10000 women
dressed in white with yellow sashes,
and carrying yellow parasols, will form
line extending from the Jefferson ho-
tel to the Coliseum. The women will
remain in their places from 10 o'clock
until noon, the hour set for the con-
vention to convene. Delegates to the
convention can scarcely fail to pass by
this silent column on their way to the
convention hall.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
ECONOMY FOR COMING YEAR
PLEDGED BY SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OFFICIALS, RECOGNIZING NECESSITY OF CUTTING TAX
BURDENS, plan PROGRAM OF REDUCED EXPENSES
Lower Tax Rate Being Demanded By Taxpayers County Departments
Are Instructed to Cut Requests For Annual Appropriations
All Departments Spent More Money This Year Ever Before

$2,409,3O0 went to the highway de
partment and $961,520 to charities and
corrections. The amount devoted to
highways in eleven months is larger
than was spent during the entire year
rection total is practically the same.
The district attorney already has
exceeded his expenditures for the pre-
vious year by $4,000, and the sheriff
by nearly $4,000.
AS matter of fact, not only have
nearly all of the county departments
spent more money this year than last,
but with exceedingly few exceptions
their estimates for the coming year
show a still further increase. Of all
those that have submitted estimate
sheets, only three show reductions. All
the others are higher than last year,
and six of them show total gain of
$142,992.
The courts have asked for an in
creased allowance of $31, ,816, the
county library for $4,000, and the
probate Office for $38,515. In the case
of the probate Office $4,000 is wanted
for the board and care of children.
The horticultural commissioner would
like an additional appropriation OF
$12,726, and the county counsel figures
that his expenses will be $11,822
larger next year than was the case
this year. The sheriff also wants
$1O,113 more.
Most of the other departments are
rather more modest in their demands,
but practically all of them ask for
some addition to what they received
this year. So far the demand that
they trim their estimates which was
made by the supervisors has had no
effect. Their sheets will, however, go
back to them with explicit instruc-
tions that each and every one of them
will have to be cut.
In the last two or three years there
has been an enormous increase in the
cost of running the county, and it is
believed that a careful scrutiny of
every department will enable the su-
pervisors and the city council to bring
about substantial reduction in the
expenses without causing the slight
est decrease in efficiency.
4 This is being done by persons en-
gagged in all lines of private business,
and it unquestionably can be done in
the same degree in the city and
county.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
DAIRY COW COMPETITION
STARTS NOVEMBER first
$4,000 IN PRIZES FOR TEN-MONTH
COMPETITION
Object Is to Advance Dairy Interests
of State by Encouraging the Adop-
ton of Modern Methods
of Feeding Cattle

SACRAMENTO, June 13.-The OBJ
ject of the competition is to advance
the dairy interests of the state by en-
couraging the adoption of modern
methods of feeding and management
among our farmers, more especially
through the conduct of tests for the
production of milk and butter fat by
the COWS. The competition will be
conducted from Nov. 1, 1916, to Feb.
%, 1918, in connection with semi-offi-
cial testing of dairy cows, in which
work the College of Agriculture has
been engaged for a number of years
past.
Through the Iiberality of parties in
terested in the advancement of the
dairying industry of the state, a cash
prize fund amounting to about $4,000
has been subscribed, which it is ex-
pected will be increased to $4,000 by
the time public announcement is made
next August. This fund will be used
for the award of substantial prizes
for records of production by individual
COWS or groups of five to ten COWS in
a herd for ten consecutive months dur
ing the period given. In addition, a
uuu1UCI VI SpOC1tl III ALCO
of dairy apparatus, cream separatOrs,
milking machines, trophies, etc., will
be awarded for high records of produc-
ton.
All kinds of cows may be entered in
this competition, whether purebred,
grade or common cows, and may COM
pete for the prizes to be awarded. The
production of the COWS entered in the
competition will be determined for two
consecutive days each month of the
record period by representatives of the
college, and the results thus secured
will form the basis for arriving at the
total production of milk and butter fat
for the period, as provided for by the
system of semi-official testing of dairy
COWS. In the case of grade herds,
monthly tests of only one day will be
conducted.
The competition will be conducted
under the direction of Prof. F. w.
Woll, in charge of dairy tests, Univer-
sity Farm, Davis, Cal. The rules gov
erning the competition, with complete
lists of cash and special prizes to be
awarded, will be given in a circular of
the College of Agriculture to be pub
lished about Aug. 1, this year.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
SAN DIEGO BUSINESSMEN
DENOUNCE TUUANAyTRACk
MONSTER MASS MEETINGC
BY MAYOR CAPPS
Secret Service Mans Report of Con.
ditions Read Before Gathering
Strive to Better Conditions
in Border Town

SAN DIEGO, June 13.-At a mass
meeting of business men called by
Mayor Edwin M. Capps, Tijuana's in
fuence on the financial and moral life
of San Diego was debated for two
hours in an effort to find some method
of stamping out the alleged influence
for bad that the border town is exert
ing upon this community. Two reso-
lutions were passed unanimously, each
promising relief from existing condi-
tions, but neither offering the full
measure of reform local merchants and
others desire. One of these asks the
council to pass an ordinance prohibit
ing the circulation here of race-track
literature, and the other authorizes the
mayor to confer with federal govern
ment officials with a request that the
customs houses be closed during the
night and to inaugurate passport sys-
tenn of entry into Mexico at Tijuana.
Mayor Capps read to the assembly
several reports made to him by a Sc
cret service officer who has been sta
toned at Tijuana for several weeks.
They described the hop joints and
other resorts, and gave detailed incl
dents of the night life in the place.
The reports also gave an estimate of
the number and class of San Diegans
who visit the race track and make
night trips to the Casino and dives of
the town. These figures were start
ling revelations to the citizens present,
and strengthened their determination
to take immediate steps to abate what
the mayor called appalling and de-
plorable' practices.
Sheriff Ralph Conklin, who recently
denounced Tijuana as the worst hell
hole on EARTH" informed the gathering
that it would be unlawful and impos-
sible to prevent people crossing the
border at night, but that a government
edict should stop vehicles going to the
place after sundown. This, he said,
must be done, or vice traffic would
continue unchecked. He said he knew
OF no way to keep race-track patrons
from going across the line.
A number of business men made
speeches bitterly denouncing the con-
ditions at the border town and prom
ised to do everything in their power to
aid in removing the menace from the
city's door. Representatives of the
chamber of commerce and other civic
bodies gave assurances that their or
ganizations would strive with city off
cials to protect the young womanhood
and manhood of San Diego.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Movie Men Film Yosemite

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.-Bring-
ing back some of the most unusual
scenes ever obtained in Yosemite Ma
tional park, camera men of the Inter
national Film service returned to San
Francisco. Suspended in mid-air above
cavern below Glacier point while
they filmed panorama of the valley,
and anchored to boulder in the rush
ing cascades of the Merced river,
above Hoppy isles, while they filmed
the tumbling waters, we're but pair
of their hazardous exploits.
While making the tortuous ascent
to Glacier point, S,4OO feet above the
valley floor, one of the camera men
was swung at the end of a dangling
rope held by two companions, from
which perilous position a remarkable
panorama of Vernal, Nevada and
Illiouette falls was obtained.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
ANNEXATION MAKES
L. A. LARGEST CITY

LOS ANGELES, June 13.-With an
area twenty-three square miles great
er than that of Greater New York, Los
Angeles is the largest city in the
world. This was the result of the
election when the districts of West
gate and Occidental were annexed to
the city. Westgate added 1857 square
miles, and Occidental 1.04 square
miles. This brought the city's total
square mileage to 1892. New York S
area is 314.75 square miles; Chicago's,
1893; Philadelphia, 129.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
AEROPLANE MERGER PLANNED
BY WRIGHT AND CURTISS

NEW YORK, June 3.-Negotiations
are under way, according to authori-
tative announcement, for a merger of
the Wright company and the Curtiss
Aeroplane and Motor corporation,
which would bring together not only
the chief manufacturers of flying ma
chimes in the United States, but the
holders of the most important basic
aeronautic patents.
The consolidation will have, it is
planned, a capital of $10,00O,00O pre-
ferred, $5,000,O00 second preferred and
100000 shares of par common.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
RESTA BREAKS RECORD
FOR 30O-MILE RACE

CHICAGO, June 13-Dario Resta
won the fastest 300-mile race ever
driven in automobiles, Sunday, at
Speedway park, in 3 hours, minutes
and 31.65 seconds, a speed of 1851
miles an hour.
Ralph De Palma had the race we'll in
hand, and started out to push the last
six miles at speed never before seen
in actual contest, when the old-time
hOodoo, which has wrested four other
races from him when he was all but at
the goal, broke spring on his motor
and took the laurel wreath from off
his brow.
Undaunted, he disconnected the cyl
inder affected and sped around the
course on the other three, and won
second place and it's $500 prize
The $4,000 persons, actual count,
who saw the race made UP the great
est crowd ever gathered for an ath-
letic contest in Chicago since the avia-
tion meets, and greater than any ac-
tual count on any other American auto
course.
The drivers, their time, and amount
q
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
STATE BOARD OPPOSED
TO INHERITANCE TAX

SACRAMENTO, June 13.-The state
board of equalization, at its meeting,
went on record against the collection
of a federal inheritance tax, which has
been proposed in congress as a means
of increasing the revenue of the ma
tional government.
State Controller John S. Chambers
has opened campaign against the i'm
position of such tax, on the ground
that the death levy is primarily for
state uses, and that to remove it from
the states sources of income would
work a serious hardship.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
291, ,527 ADMITTED
INTO U. S. IN 1915

WASHINGTON, June 13.-Immi-
grant returns for the first ten months
of the present fiscal year show that
291 ,527 immigrants have been admit
ted into the United States since July
l, 1915. In that period there have
departed from the country 212,47 emf
grant aliens, making net increase of
population of 79,O49 by immigration
during the ten months ended with
April. For the entire year ended June
30, 1915, the net increase by immigra-
tion was but 5000.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
UNITED STATES EXECUTES
COLUMBUS RAIDERS

DEMING, N. NJ, June 13.-Juan
Sanchez and Francisco Alvares, Viii
lista bandits, who participated in the
Columbus raid March 9, were hanged
in the yard Of the county jail here.
The men, who were hanged singly, met
their doom stoically, both smoking
cigarettes and chatting until they as
cended the scaffold Two companies
of New Mexico militia guarded the ap-
proaches and interior of the jail
against possible attempt at demon
stration, but the affair went through
without disorder.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17

LOS ANGELES, June 13.-In MAX
ing up their budgets the supervisors
will be confronted with the question
to be one of strict economy, such as
prevails in all lines of private busi-
ness at present, or whether the higher
real estate valuations are to be made
the basis of an increased tax revenue.
Lower Tax Rate Demanded
That there will be a lower tax rate
is regarded as a foregone conclusion.
The higher valuation reported by the
joint board of appraisal seems to give
assurance of that. Taken by itself,
however, taZ rates means compara-
lively little. It's full value can be de-
termined only when it is considered
in connection with two other import
ant elements-the assessed valuation
and the basis upon which the assess
ment is made.
Governmental cost figures taken
from the county auditors books afford
striking illustration of the increas-
ing tax burdens imposed on the peo-
pie of this county and the imperative
need for reduction in the volume of
revenue raised.
The cost of maintaining the general
county government for the first eleven
months of the current fiscal year was
$6,364,419. This compares with total
disbursements in the twelve months
of the preceding year of $9,711 $50
The cost of the schools, however, for
eleven months was $10,647,389, as
against $9,545,326 in 1914-15, the total
of the two items being $17,011 1903. If
the same average for June is main
tained that has been shown for the
first eleven months, it will be seen
that the total cost for the year will
be practically the same as for the pre-
ceding year, Notwithstanding there
was a reduction of 11a cents in the
tax levy.
Tax Levy Reduction
In other words, the reduction in the
tax levy amounted to nothing, and it
is this fact that the people demand
that the supervisors shall bear in
mind. 1t is not enough that the rate
of taxes shall be reduced; the volume
of revenue raised must be brought
down to a considerably lower level, at
least 25 per cent, than was the case
this year.
Of the $6,3OO,OOO spent for general
county purposes so far this year,
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
AERONAUT BREAKS
ALTITUDE RECORD

LONDON, Eng, June 12.-H. G.
Hawker recently ascended in a fight
ing biplane, at Brooklands, to height
of 1900 meters (24,40S feet, or nearly
four and half miles). Hawker thus
beats the British height record of 49,
494 feet established by himself, the Off
cial worlds record of 2O,757 feet made
by G. Legagneux. and the later official
French record of 22,171 feet made by
E. Audemars on Sept. 8, 1915.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Army BUYS 100000 Tons of Coal

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.-A hun
dred- thousand-ton coal contract, cost
ing from 81 to $40 ton, was awarded
to the Western Fuel company by the
United States war department. The
contract is for fueling all the trans
ports here and for supplying the
United States public health service,
the artillery and quartermaster boats
and all the United States army posts
in the western division.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Buying California Hops

SACRAMENTO, June 13-British
buyers have planted both feet in the
California hop market and are buying
up all of this product they can lay
their hands on. 1t is the idea of the
British agents to pick up all the hops
they can before the embargo de-
clared by parliament on the American
product becomes operative. A bumper
hop crop is looked for throughout the
Sonoma, Sacramento and San Joaquin
valleys.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
RULE OF NORTH SEA
CLAIMED BY BRITISH

LONDON, June 12.-Capt. William
Hall, chief of the intelligence division
OF the admiralty, issued this state
ment:
"The German report of the loss of
the Marlborough and Warspite is alb
solutely untrue. Both of these dread
naughts are safe in harbor.
The German report that the entire
British battle fleet was engaged is
equally untrue.
"A portion of the British fleet, much
inferior to the total battle fleet of the
Germans, engaged that fleet and drove
it back into it's harbor.
"The British control the North sea-
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
FRANCE MAY OFFER
BONUS FOR CHILDREN

PARIS, June 12.-Prof. Maurice Le-
tulle, of the Academy of Medicine, in
an article in the Matin, urges the
passage of Paul Benazet's bill now be-
fore the chamber of deputies, propos.
ing that from January next the state
pay each mother $100 for her first child
born, $500 for the second born, $4O0
for the third born, and 5000 for each
child thereafter, making payment a
year after birth if the child is living.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Suffrage Loses in Iowa

DES MONIES, Ia, June 13.-Com-
plete unofficial returns from all coun-
ties indicate that the equal suffrage
amendment was defeated at Mondays
primary by $3.50 votes. The suffra-
gists now concede defeat for the
amendment.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
IRISHMEN ADOPT
HOME RULE PLAN

LONDON, June 12.-At a meeting of
the Nationalist party in Dublin, the
home rule plan was adopted, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Dublin. The terms of the settle
ment are said to provide for the exclu-
sion of six Ulster counties. The dis
patch says Joseph Devlin, Belfast lead
er, supported the plan.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
NOMINATE
HUGHES AMP FAIRBANKS

CHICAGO, June 13.-The Republi-
can national convention nominated Su-
preme Court Justice Charles E.
Hughes for president, and Charles
Warren Fairbanks for vice-president.
Hughes received 9491a votes out of
the 985 in the convention on the first
ballot of the day and the third of the
session.
Fairbanks was nominated by unani-
nous vote.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
NATIONWIDE COMPETITION
ON CALIFORNIA BUILDING

SACRAMENTO, June ia nation
wide competition on the plans for the
capitol extension building here is be-
ing considered by the architectural
bureau of the state department of en-
gineering. The competition would be
similar to the one on the $1,0O0,000
state building in San Francisco.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
WEEKS NEWS FROM
NE|cHBOR|Nc CITIES
Brief OUTLINE OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
CONDENSED Resume Of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
PIaees---Wll Allow Rapid Scanning
HorticuIturist for L. A.

LOS ANGELES, June 13.-The city
of Los Angeles is to have an official
hOrticulturist. The city councils well
fare committee decided to recommend
an ordinance creating such a position
without pay.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Russians Capture 10000 Austrians

VIENNA, June 12.-Further sue
cesses for the Russians in their great
offensive, in which they have taken
more than 10000 prisoners from the,
Pripet frontier to the Roumanian bor--
der were admitted in the official
Austrian report.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
HOLDER OF BIPLANE
HEIGHT MARK KILLED

MOBILE, Ala, June 13-Lieutenant
r. &c. Sanfiey, who holds the worlds
champion altitude record, was killed
off Pensacola when his aeroplane be-
came uncomfortable and dropped to
the ground.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
Canal Builder to Retire

WASHINGTON, June 13.-It is un-
derstood that Major General George
w. Goethals, builder of the Panama
canal, has presented his application
for retirement from active service in
the army to Newton D. Baker, secre-
tary of war. Neither Secretary Baker
nor General Goethals would confirm
the report, but it received wide Gre
dence here.
The Parker post., 1916-06-17
TREVINO URGING ALL
AMERICANS TO LEAVE

Ell PASO, June 13.-Mrs. Angus
tine la Banazat, wife of a Carranza
colonel, whose husband was formerly
police chief under Villa in Chihuahua
City, arrived from Chihuahua with a
report that Gen. Francisco Trevino,
acting governor, is urging all Ameri-
cans to leave at once, and is offering
to provide them safe escort to the bor-
der on special train, if necessary.