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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
Sec'y Lansing in Conferences
With Ambassador Page and
Sharp Finds Trade Situa-
ton of Extreme Gravity.
CABLES AND LETTERS
NEEDCESSLY DELAYED
Renewal of Demand For Re-
lief From Britain and
France Will DE Vigorous
~ Pressed by u. S.

international News Service,
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-FOl-
lowing the demand for a speedy re-
=: TO its protest against further in
reference with mails between
neutral countries and the United
states this government viii press in
sharp terms for immediate action
On its boycott demands. The con-
ferences now in progress here be
tween Sec'y of State Lansing and
Ambassadors Page and sharp
home on vacation leaves from
London and Paris. respectively. has
placed the United States in posses
sion OF new and important facts in
both cases. This information shows
that the situation is becoming more
and more critical going very close
10 an organized conspiracy against
American business interests.
Merely Scratch Surface
When Sec'y Lansing conferred
with the American ambassadors he
developed the fact that the com
plants already filed with his de-
partment and the department of
commerce.. and carefully guarded
from publicity. seem only to
scratch the surface of the situation.
The great New York banking in
tereets. the secretary has learned,
have been forced to abandon nearly
AL Of their plans for financing up
on a large scale international trade
with neutral countries because OF
the combined Anglo-French boy
colt on American merchants and
interference with the mails.
The financial concerns are re-
framing from making any further
appeals to the state department be-
rause Of the failure 10 get action in
the past. Their present method IS
simply to cite the facts without
comment. They declare that it has
heen necessary practically TO stop
slch transactions as the handling
OF commercial letters or credit In
volving shipments Of merchandise
10 foreign ports They also state
that they have notified their CORE
,spondents in foreign capitals of the
situation and will wait relief If it
can be secured by this government
without attempting any new bust
ness.
Cables Held Up.
There are ON file with the depart
ruent OF commerce and the state de
....~tnert con- plants which show
.,onclusively thEt cablesrams. many
hearing upon the most vital hnan
.iaL questions. have been subject to
nve and six days delay. and some
times as much as TO DAYS i'm trans
mission from Stockholm. Eerne.
The Hague and other neutral CAPT
tails. Nail sdvfces are held MP SO
long as TO H. absolutely worthless
vheu .ssev arrive here.
Il ~ nov considered certain be-
fore Messsrs Sharp and PaEe return
10 their posts they will receive in
structions specifically TO demand
relief at the hands of the French
and British foreign Offices They
have conferred with Soy LANSING
and will Also talk things over at
length with Pres't wilson before
sailing The situation admittedly is
lrtolerabIe. hut 10 has been impos-
sible 20 even get direct reply 40
protests because of the diplomatic
red taDe with which the entente
allies have surrounded an az their
operations.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
GREI1KS NOT IN CoNTRon.

AHEhEfA4h'~ MI IN NABN' AkAtlA
LONDON. Aug. 25.-Owing 90 the
refusal or the Greek generals %
evacuate eastern Macedonia and
hand over the forts 90 the BulEa-
rians the Greek government has in
formed Germany that it is no longer
master of the situation. says a dis
patch transmitted by the Rome
Wireless service today. IL adds that
Germany thereupon ordered the
Bulgarians TO discontinue their adj
vance and evacuate the occupied
Greek territory
The information conveyed in the
Rome dispatch Is conuadicted by
messages from SalonilI hich state
that the Bulgariaus are still trying
20 drive forward farther into Greece
All OF northern Greece has now
become "a vast battlefield. II reports
OF the arrival OF Turks in the Bal
kans are correct there are soldiers
OF = different uatioualitios now at
grips in Macedonia ON the entente
side there are British. French. Rus
sian. Italian. Serbian. Afontenegrin.
Greek and Albanian soldiers Ar
rayed against them are Germans
Austro- Huueariaus. Bulgarians and
Turkish troops
A Budapest dispatch To the Morn
Ing Post states that the Russians
continue 20 mass troops or the
Boumanian frontier and that this
action is havine strOnE political
effect in Roumania.
Greeks Forced Back.
SALONTkT AUG %. - Greek
troops that are fighting with the
British and French in ana effort 10
check The advance or the Bulearians
through Greek Macedonia. have
been forced % ram back sn the re-
gion Of Lake Tahlnos after suffering
heavy losses
Dispatches from the front held by
the allies right flank told today ~
violent lighting iu that district
where the BulEarIans have been re-
inforcer by h0rdes of comitadis
CBulearian irreEularzt.
Six hundred irre-ulaIs entered Inc
town OF Presents and seized la-r--e
quantities of Greek army stores az
ter which thcs burned the place.
They then occupied uIouua5a
tProsenik -s sly miles north ..-t
or Seres and lies ou the .~aIoulkl-
C0nstauunOple railroad Dl0gmaya.
or Daum Is three miles northwest
of Prosenib and IS about q mile east
ol the Struua ri.erj
Semi-ohicial reports from the
Struma front state that ;he Greeks
are stll contestina stUbhorniy every
inch % ground.
The defense Of the GreeE soldiers
is being made in violation of an or
der sent by King Constantine % the
Greek commander. col Christodou-
zone SD Gar as o. summon reser,-
lists 90 the color~. although he has
not been warranted 70 DO SO by the
general staff
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
TWO E1ECTROCUTED.

RICHMOND Va, Aug. Z5.-RIch-
ard Green and Clifford Nnckens. me-
sroes. were electrocuted ina the state
peuatenLagy, COdsJ-.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25

The overseas News agency
of Berlin i'm dispatch sent
out yesterday. stated that the
Bremen did not sail from Ger
many for the United States un-
til Aug. TO.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
BRITAIN REFUSES
/. j. s. EXPLANATION
Silent on Seizure of American
Fishing BoatS-PIanS to
Justify Action.
InternatlonaI News service

International News Service:
WASHINGTON, Aug. %. - The
state department stu is without any
information regarding the seizure of
the American fishing schooners Max
inc Elliott and Lizzie Griffin by
British cruisers while fishing in the
open sea off the coast of Iceland.
Consul Gen Robert p. Skinner at
London has demanded an explana-
ton. but has been told that il cannot
be made until a report has been re-
ceived from the admiralty The two
schooners are held at Dorwick, Shet-
land islands. and their detention
may add TO the friction constantly
growing between the United States
and Great Britain over the latter's
maritime methods.
In connection with the seizure and
the detention of so Dutch and many
Norwegian and Swedish fishing
craft. the American embassy at
London has communicated TO the
state department that, so far as the
cerned. the British government
plans TO justify it's action. II will
in its reply 10 the Netherlands gov
eminent. now about complete. adj
NIT the right of Dutch fishermen to
ply their trade anywhere. but Will
declare that the majority of the fleet
are controlled by German capital
and that the catch invariably finds
its way into Germany for consump-
ton there
VIII Try to Prove Claims.
Great Britain, in substantiation OF
its claim that practically all of the
fish caught by the Dutch fleet in the
North seat is shipped TO Germany
and Austria-Hungary will explain
in minute detail the operations of
the German general purchasing
agency. which. il viii be claimed,
cloaks its activities in the Neither
lands under the official name ~. v.
Algemaine Import and Export Co"
England will allege that this con-
Germ. by insidiOus means controls
In some cases and in others actually
directs. "a score or more leading fish
buying corporations in scandinavian
countries.
This control and ownership by
Germans. according To the British
view. viii preface figures compiled
by English agents in Holland. seek
ing To prove conclusively that all
except a relatively small percentage
of the fishing fleets catch Is sent
across the border 70 Germany and
her ally
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
PAGEANT AND TOUR
CLOSES PROGRAM
Democratic Editors Royalty
Entertained at Mich
gan City Friday.
BY stan Correspondent.


MICHIGAN CITY. Ind Aug. 25.-
Indiana's democratic editors were
royalty entertained here today. the
final day Of their annual outing in
Michigan City Starting at $50
o'clock this morning, the visitors
were taken on a long automobile
tour over the city and the surround
ing country. including q trip along
Sheridan beach on which the sum
mer cottagers hold out. 90 the va
rious factories and over the smooth
stone roads which have given la
porte county a reputation through
out the surrounding states.
After lunch the editors were the
guests of Warden Fogarty at the
states prison. For the greater part
Of an hour the inmates drilled be-
fore the editors. after which ball
game was staged between two prison
teams.
Many View Pageant.
Many of the editors watched
Michigan City's centennial pageant
which was produced on the beach
near Washington park. More than
500 local people participated in the
pageant. which was divided into siN
parts as follows.
THE first visitors 20 the dunes.
the Indians and Father Marquette.
1855.
1.-THE city settled. 1856
TTI-The city Of the dunes linked
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
THE WEATHER

incliara-Tair tonight. saturday
increaSing Cloudincss. not much
C hanEe lu temperature
Lower NuChigan-FencralIy fair
tonight and Saturday.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-25
Suhnits Proposal.

CONTINUED o. PAGE FUURl
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
Colorado.

The Sunnyside mine at Eureka con-
tinues to produce and ship substan-
tial tonnage and also will be listed
among the winter operators.
Although the season is well ad-
vanced the mines in the Silverton dis
trict were never more active. Twen-
ty companies despatched shipments
during the week.
Engleville mine, about two and one
half miles southeast of Trinidad,
abandoned six years ago, is to be re-
opened as quickly as possible, accord
ing to B. J. MattesOn.
The United Gold Mines Company,
controlling 400 acres, Or per cent of
Cripple Creeks producing area, is now
on dividend basis and expected to re-
main there for some years to come.
Hidden away in the mountains Of
Park county the old Alma district, lit
tie known, very rich and until year
ago somnolent, has come into it's own.
About 300 tons month of gold and
silver ore averaging $1OO or more, gen.
orally more, are being shipped by one
property alone.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
HAD GATHERED IN TREASURE
Lecturer Evidently Was Not in Class
That Lets "Good Things" Get
= Away From Them.

After addressing a wOman'S cooking
club, famous lecturer was beSieged
by the members, who questioned him
about his own household and about his
kitchen in particular.
"Are you satisfied with your cook?'
someone asked him.
eyes, indeed" was the reply.
SIS she economical?
Every"
"Can she make pies and prepare all
sorts of soups?"
"The best in the land"
''Is she neat about her work?"
"As tidy as a pin and as attractive
in appearance as one would care to
see."
"How about her dispOsitiOn?"
II think it is perfect"
"Huh - exclaimed one of the ma
irons, who had been having trouble
with her cook. "It's a wonder you
don't marry the girl"
With satisfied smile the lecturer
replied:
"Thats exactly what I did"
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
New M exicoe

Scholle, new mining camp in the
southeast corner of Valencia county,
is rapidly coming into prominence as
a producer
The historic mining camp of Carl
isle in Grant county is the scene of
renewed activity, considerable force
of men being again employed on the
Carlisle mine.
Socorro Mining and Milling Co.'s
cleanup yielded 800 pounds gold and
silver bullion and two and one-half
tons high concentrate, from a reduc-
ton of 1000 tons of ore.
The International Cooperative
Holding Company recently incorpor-
ated at Las Cruces with capitalization
of $250,00O is quietly acquiring op-
tions on properties in Mexico.
The Chino Copper Company at San
ia Rita reports gratifying results from
prospecting on new ground with it's
drills. South of the Hearst pit, two
acres have been proven to be under
laid with an ore body 800 to 500 feet
thick averaging between one and one.
third and one and one-half per cent
copper.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
Arizona.

At the Oatman Combination drifting
continues east and west on the 500
foot level.
The Windsor mines, in the Pioneer
district, at Globe are said to be Sec
ond Magma.
The Old Dominion smelter at Globe
is producing copper at the rate OF
about IS tons day.
The Cobrita mine, in Tank Pass,
near Salome, is to be opened up on a
big scale and placed on producing
basis.
The big bore of the Arizona Butte
Mines Company, which is being driven
to open up the mines of Stockton hill
at depth, has encountered some
punches of good looking ore $50 feet
in.
For the first time since the new
management assumed charge, the
stamps of the Silver Bar Mining Com
pany, formerly the old Imperial Guard
Company at Tombstone, began to drop
in test run, after about six months
preparatory work.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
WASHINGTON.

While they wait for Gen. Carranza
to accept or reject the protocol
signed by the joint commission at At
lantic City, administration officials are
giving much attention to every report
relating to the activities of Villa and
to rebel movements in other parts of
Mexico.
Ambassador Penfield at Vienna re-
ported to the State Department that
because of i'll health Countess Tar
nowski, wife of the new Austro- Hun
garian ambassador to the United
States, had abandoned the idea of at
once accompanying her husband to
this country.
Withdrawal from entry of $4,000
acres of public land in Colorado and
$4,000 acres in Utah, including a part
of the Green river formation, which
it is estimated will yield not less than
1,OOO, 100000 barrels of fuel oil, was
recommended to President Wilson by
Secretary Lane.
T. r. Watson, bank president, was
found guilty of murder and sentenced
to ninety-nine years imprisonment by
a jury in the District Court at Waco,
Tex. Watson was charged with
shooting and killing John S. Patterson,
state banking commissioner.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
SPORT.

Jack Johnson, the former heavy
weight champion pugilist of the
world, is believed by government au-
thorities to be in the United States.
Joe Stecher's title to the heavy
weight wrestling championship is
nailed down more tightly, following
his defeat of Charlie Cutler at Chi
cago.
At Butte, Mont, Stranger Lewis Of
Louisville defeated Pat Connolly of
Butte in a catch-as-catch-can wrest-
ling match at the end of two hours of
wrestling.
Word was received in Denver that
"Bob" Unglaub, manager of the Fargo,
N. D., Northwestern league baseball
club and former major and Western
league player, died at Baltimore, Md,
as the result of an accident.
At Fort Collins, Colo, sixteen foot
ball players who wore the Aggies
colors during the past season have
been awarded varsity letters. They
were: Captain Shepardson, Captain
elect Klemnedson, Robinson, Johnson,
Hutton, Rothrock, Hoch, Nichols, Dot
son, CuzZens, Loss, Adams, Grafton
Reid, Scott and Thompson.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
WESTERN

For the first time in the history Of
the Texas School Teachers Associa-
ton, woman has been elected presi-
dent.
Judge William F. Cooper of the
Pima County Superior Court, died at
Tucson, Ariz., following long pc
riod of ill health.
Monsignor F. N. Feurstein, pastor of
st. Joseph's church and dean of the
Sioux City Catholic see, died at Le-
mars, Ia., of apoplexy.
The death sentences of Harry
Brewer and Frank de Pretto were
commuted to life Imprisonment by the
State Board of Pardons at Salt Lake,
Utah.
Coastwise shipping was practically
demoralized Saturday as the result of
a southerly storm which ragged from
the Mexican line north to Vancouver,
B. G..
A census of the amount and cost of
pulp wood consumed in the United
States is to be taken by the federal
forest service in cooperation with the
News Print Manufacturers Associa-
ton.
A recommendation that a daily
scriptural reading from the Bible,
without comment, be permitted by
law in the public schools will be made
to the Legislature by the school law
committee of the Arizona Teachers
Association, which met at Tucson to
draft a new education law for Ari-
Zona.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
GEN E RAJ.

The funeral of Mrs. Inez Milholland
Boissevain was held in New York i'm.
mediately following the arrival of the
train from California.
The official count of the ballots cast
for President in Rhode Island shows
the following: Hughes, Republican,
44,85S; Wilson, Democrat, 4O,394
Hanly, Prohibitionist, 47O; Reimer, So
cialist-Labor, 1870; Benson, Socialist,
1914.
aAs a precautionary measure at Ell
Paso, Tex, additional troops were or
dered downtown from the fort and
army camps by Gen. Geo. Bell, Jr.
Artillery was held in readiness on the
mesa overlooking the city and Juarez,
and an armored automobile was sent
to the international bridge.
The eight-hour day promotes indus
trial efficiency, improves the health
of the workers and betters moral and
social conditions, speakers represent
ing employers and the medical pro-
fession agreed at the interstate con-
ference in New York of the Woman's
Trades Union league of New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
A petition which had been filed at
the office of the secretary of state of
New Hampshire for the recount of the
vote for presidential electors was
withdrawn by Philip H. Faulkner,
chairman of the Republican state COM
mittee The reason was not stated.
Official returns gave President Wilson
a plurality of Sc, the figures being:
Wilson 43,779, Hughes, 43,723.
Mrs. Bessie M. London, first wife
of Jack London, declared at Oakland,
Cal, that she would not turn over the
custody of her two daughters, Joan
and Bess London, to Mrs Charmion
K. London, the widow, as requested in
the famous writer's will.
Soldiers of the Turkish army in
Syria are dying from typhus fever at
the rate of 1000 day, according to
a dispatch from that country for
warded through Port Said and given
out in New York by the American
committee for Armenian and Syrian
relief.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
LATEST NEWS
EP|TOM|zED
FROM TELEGRAPHlC REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST lMPO RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
ABOUT THE WAR.

French transport Karnak, crowded
with troops, sunk by German U-boat
near Malta.
Fighting between Greeks and en-
tente troops at Athens is reported to
have ceased.
Petrograd declares the allies prom
ised Constantinople and the Darda-
nelles to Russia.
Teutons claim to have taken $500
prisoners and many cannon and other
booty in their advance on Bucharest.
Russians and Rumanians drive back
the Teutonic advance on Bucharest,
and take many prisoners and much
booty, according to Petrograd.
Russian troops have reached Buch-
Arrest to aid the Rumanians in their
desperate attempt to save their coun-
try and it's capital.
Premier Asquith announces that be-
cause of the acute political crisis in
Great Britain he will advise King
George to consent to a reconstruction
of the government.
After day of fighting, in which
casualties on both sides are estimated
at 200, King Constantine acceded to
the demand of the allies that artillery
in possession of the Greek army be
turned over to the entente.
Carranza forces were again in con-
troll of Chihuahua City Sunday and
Villa had fled to the mountains to
the west of the capital city, it was
announced by Gen. Francisco Con
zales, commander of brigade at Juarez.
London believes that Great Britain
will reconsider it's refusal of the re-
quest of Washington for a safe con-
duct to Count Tarnowski yon Tar
now, recently appointed Austro Hun
garian ambassador to the United
States.
Greek foreign minister addressed an
emphatic protest to the United States
against the action of the allies, lay
ing emphasis on the declaration that
Greece at no time has contemplated
abandoning her policy of absolute neu'
trality.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
FOREIGN.

There are 2,201 people in Japan who
are worth more than $25O,0OO, accord
ing to an informal census.
A Possen dispatch to the Overseas
News Agency reports the appointment
of Count Szeptycki, commander OF
Polish Legion.
The government has granted the de-
mand of the Welsh miners for a Is
per cent increase in wages, says a
Cardiff dispatch.
Two of the leading newspapers of
Cologne declare against the policy of
the annexation of European territory
as peace terms of Germany.
BY March 81, 1917, the total credits
opened by the French government
since the beginning of hostilities will
amount to 72,50O,0O0,OOO francs.
Suspended sentences were given at
Honolulu to 1O8 women of the re-
stricted district, who were arraigned
in the Circuit Court as the result of
the recent anti-vice crusade.
The Reichstag at Amsterdam
adopted the compulsory civilian serv-
ice bill after the third reading, says
a dispatch from Berlin. The vote was
235 to 10, and several members did
not cast their ballots.
A Central News dispatch from Cal
cutta says it is estimated 1000 lives
were lost in the recent cyclone in
Pondicherry, the chief of the French
possessions in India. Four hundred
bodies have been found.
The proclamation of military rule in
the Dominican republic issued by
Capt. H. s. Knapp, in command of the
United States forces at Santo Do
mingo, declares on behalf of the
American government that the repub-
lie has been occupied by military
forces.
In the presence of Emperor Charles,
the young Crown Prince Francis Jo-
seph Otto, the kings of Bulgaria, Ba-
varia and SaxOny, the German crown
prince and large number of Teu-
tonic princes and special ENJOYS from
neutral governments, the remains of
the late Emperor Francis Joseph were
buried at Vienna.
Villa bandits were reported to be
loading two trains with loot from the
stores and private residences of Chi
huahua City, and were preparing to
follow these trains west on the Mexi-
co Northwestern railroad, according
to message received at military
headquarters in Juarez from Gen.
Ozuna's scouts at Sauz.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
GOOD FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN

Children love Skinner's Macaronl
and Spaghetti because of it's delicious
taste. 1t is good for them and you
can give them all they want. 1t Is
great builder Of bone and muscle, and
does not make them nervous and irri-
table like meat. The most economical
and nutritious food known. Made from
the finest Durum wheat. Write Skin
ner Mfg. Co., Omaha, Nebr., for beau
tiful cook book. 1t is sent free to
motherS.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
Wyoming.

1easers have reopened the Conroy
mine near Kemmerer
The Conroy mine, which was closed
down for over year, has again
started work.
The recently incorporated Bonnie
Belle Oil Company intends to begin
drilling operations early in the spring
During the past few weeks many oil
leases upon Lincoln county property
have been filed in the office of the
county clerk.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
Envyino a Loser

dat man done made an election bet
dat leaves him 'bliged to eat gallon
of lasses wifi toothpick," remarked
Mr.. Erastus Pinkly.
"Welk," remarked Pickaninny jim
"De toothpick makes it slow work, but
de 'lasSes is Wuth it,"
The Benson signal., 1916-12-09

Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, SIG to SIT per unit; crude
ores, 60 per cent. SIS; 25 per cent,
$9.4O to $12; 10 per cent, $50 to $40
per unit.