davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

Valley County
May l. 1917
August s, 1917
1t is Further Ordered. That the
clerks of court Of the said several
counties make publication Of this
order, as provided by law.
Dated December 4th, 1916.
FRANK N. UTTER.
District Judge.
Date list publication, Dec. Z. 1916.
Date last publication, Dec. 81, 1916.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

July II, 1917
October 5, 1877
December ~. 1917
1t Is Further Ordered. That nat
'.sul!aas1on days for said district
shall be as follows:
Sheridan County
April 1921. 1917
August %, 1917
Phillips County
April 80. 1917
August 4, 1917
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

Militia lodge NO. Ak n,vt.gs very
Wednesday, evening at hall in
Mait@ School Building Visit
sa& brethren always welcome
y = Johnson, n. G.. J. l. Elliott
-oeretarv
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04

the French put down German attack against their trenches.
 There is comparative quiet on the Russian front except for lombard ments and minor infantry engage ments. Unofficial advices say that floods in the Styr river region have compelled the Teutons to abandon strongly fortified positions and that many deaths have occurred among these forces from pulmonary trou- bles, owing to the exposure.
 Along the Austro- Italian front heavy artillery duels continue. Noth- ing new has come through with re- gard to the situation in Albania A despatch from Athens gives a report of an encounter between BulSarians and entente allied attachments at the junction of the Greek Serbian Bull garian frontiers in which the entente allies repulsed the Bulgarians.
 News is lacking concerning the operations in the Caucasus and in Mesopotamia A Bucharest despatch says the German field marshal, Won Sanders, who was commander of the First Turkish army on the Gallipoli peninsula, has now been made com mander of the Turkish troops in the Caucasus.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04

A Zeppelin airship and probably all her crew has been lost in the North sea. and it is believed that she met her fate through the fire of Dutch anti aircraft guns.
 A trawler reaching Grimsby report ed having seen in the North sea Zep- pelin L-19 partly submerged and with between IT and 20 men clinging to her gas envelope Aid was refused the Germans because they outnum- bered the crew of the trawler.
 Fifty shots, some of which are be- lieved to have hit her, were fired at a Zeppelin Wednesday morning as it flew low in a fog over the island of Ameland off the coast of Holland. This airship. according to an Am sterdam report, finally disappeared northward, a course which would have taken her out into the North sea.
 Heavy bombardments are in pro- gress at various points along the western line, especially in the region of Loos, held by the British and around Neuville, where the Germans recently captured French positions. The British are carrying out mining operations around Hulluch. Near the Bois des Buttes, north of the Aisne,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
 OF BATTLE SIGNAL BOOK
From the Destroyer Hull of the Pa
 cifie Fleet.

Washington, rf7ebE 3.-Navy officials frankly admit that they are alarmed at the mysterious disappearance of the battle signal book from the destroy CT Hull of the Pacific feet
 Admiral Winslow today reported that all efforts to find the highly con- fidential code have been unavailing and navy officers said that it proba- bly, would at once be replaced by an- other to make useless the one which has disappeared and which they ad- init they fear may fall into the hands of some foreign government.
 The battle signal book contains the secret code used in war and in battle practice in times of peace. The copy on the Hull was in possession of Lieut.. H. A. Jones, commander of the Pacific reserve torpedo hotilla and Ensign Robert D. Kirkpatrick. Both officers have been courtmartialed at Mare Island Navy yard.
 Navy officers express some satis- faction that the battle signal book and not the secret code which is used when ships are in foreign waters are com municating with home. is the one which disappeared. This latter code is recognized among nations as the best of it's kind in the4 world and would be difficult to repla&e.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
APPAM CASE BECOMING
 A COMPLEX PROBLEM Affecting Fundamental Questions of
 Naval Warfare.

Washington, Feb. 3. = The Appam case broadened out today, becoming a complex and possibly far-reaching sit uation, threatening to affect some of the fundamental questions of naval warfare at issue between the United States and Germany.
 For that reason it was not finally decided whether the ship should be returned to her British owners under The Hague convention or held the fair prize of her German captors under the Prussian American treaty, although the indications remained that the lat ter course ultimately would be fol- lowed.
 Officials are said to realize that their construction of the Prussian- American treaty in this case undoubtedly will come up as a precedent at some other time during the war, and even might have bearing on the case of the American sailing ship William P Frye, sunk a year ago by the German com merce raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The Frye case is on the eve of settlement, virtually on terms for which the United States contends.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
Dispatches on !. Lusitania Here
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN DE
 LNERED TO PRESIDENT
WHILE EN ROUTE HOME
Details Not DiscIosed-6eIieved to be Satisfactory Because Stay of Col. House in Berlin Was Not as Long as Planned.

Washington, Feb. 8.-Despatches on the Lusitania situation from Colonel E. M. House, now on a special mis- sion in Europe, for President Will cred to the president today on his special train.
 Colonel House discussedl the situaS : ton with high German officials, in forming them of the position of the United States and receiving in return first hand information of their view point. Details were not disclosed in such despatches as have been received here, but they reported Colonel House found it unnecessary to remain in Berlin as long as he originally had intended.
 House Talked with German Officials.
 It is said that Colonel House prob ably discussed subjects other than the LuSitania case with German officials, but that the Lusitania situation occu- pied the major portion of his des- patches to the president.
 The semi official statement of the foreign office forwarded to this coun- try, that there twas reasonable hope that a communication which had been started to Count Won Bernstorff would prove satisfactory to the United States is taken in official and diplomatic quarters to mean Germany has not accepted the tentative form
 
 mitted. The opinion and hope was expressed by diplomats in a position to be familiar with the status of the negotiations, that the cardinal points set forth in the tentative form ap- proved by Secretary Lansing remain ed.
 It was said here that there are cer- tain words which the Berlin officials believe could not be included in the | final settlement of the controversy be- cause of concern for German public opinion. It was thought certain that | this phrase had been explained to 1 Colonel House and that he in turn has conveyed the explanations to | President Wilson
 It was said tonight that the lan- | guage in the tentative form of pro- | posals s.rbmitted to Secretary Lansing i last week in regard to Germany's ex- pressed hope that the United States l do everything possible toward secur- ing freedom of the seas had been re- l vised considerably because it was con- l sidered the words used might have conveyed the impression that Ger many was making that question a l condition of settlement. This, it was | explained. was in no wise the inten- l ton Of the German government. In Lansing's Hands Today. 1 The latest communication to Count | Bernstorff had not, it was said al | the embassy, arrived in Washington ! tonight. It is expected tomorrow l Unless present plans fail through de- | lay in delivering the despatch to the | German ambassador the tentative | by the German government, should be I in Secretary Lansing's hands before | the president returns to Washington 1 tomorrow or soon thereafter.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BATTLING
 WITH A SEVERE sNoWsToRM.
Which Has ParaIyzed Rail communi- cation and Disorganized City Life.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 3.-The Pacific northwest today again faced the task of battling with an almost unprece- dented snowstorm which has paralyzed rail communication, disorganized city life, held residents in outlying sections snowbound and caused many thou sands of dollars damage to buildings which were not strong enough to with stand the weight of more than two and a half feet of snow on their roofs. With continued cold weather and more snow in prospect, the outlook is not promis- ing today for early resumption of nor nal conditions.
 All the northern transcontinental railroads are tied up by snow in the mountain passes, and railroad officials have abandoned hope of raising the blockade until the storm ends.
 In Seattle and other cities street car lines are completely blocked by snow. Schools are closed and business is practically suspended, awaiting the end of the storm. The greatest single loss from the storm occurred in Seattle, where the dome of St. James Catholic cathedral collapsed under the weight of snow yesterday, causing damage to the edifice of $75,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
25,ooo MEN NEEDED TO
 PROTECT PANAMA CANAL.
Ger. C. R. Edwards So Informs the
 Senate Military Comn1ittee.

Washington. Feb. 3.-Twenty-h five thousand men, or more than one fourth the present total strength Of the standing army are needed 10 ln- sure adequate protection of the Pan- ana canal. Brigadier General Clarence R. Edwards, commanding the canal garrison. told the senate military com mittee today in outlining his opinions on national defense.
 Fixed Notifications, no matter how strong. cannot guard the zone. General Edwards said, and without a mobile army to back them up the guns al- ready there are source of weakness, not strength. He declared the jungle on parts of the zone would be more of a protection than a hindrance to an approaching enemy.
 "But this is far from all,'' he dded. "At a distance of from IT to 20 miles from the axis of the canal on the Pa ciffc side the country is not only free from jungle and the ordinary tropical growths, but it is as open as are parts of New Mexico and Lower Cali fornia There an enemy is offered every facility for landing mobile troops and reaching by easy marches the vitals of the canal-the Mira1ores and Pedro Miguel locks. The most casual reflection by any military stu dent familiar with the facts should show that we must never let an enemy approach within ten miles of the locks.
 The contemplated permanent force of civil employees is from 1000 to D. 800 whites and 1000 blacks. In the event of war likely to involve the canal. it is probable that many of them would volunteer. I recommend legislation therefore, that shall re- quire all male civilian employees of the canal of suitable age and physical condition to obligate themselves to volunteer and in preparation for this to offer them selves for a period of at least two months training during the first two years of their employment and thereafter for ten days each year 9
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
(continusd on Page Two
COLLIER SUNK BY
 A RAfDINo ZEPPELIN
Thirteen of the Crew, Including the
 Captain, Drowned.

London. Feb. 3, $50 p. m-The col- Her Franz Fischer, which left Hartle- pool Monday. afternoon, was sunk at sea by one of the ratding ZeppeIina which visited England Thirteen of the crew, including the captain. were drowned.
 Three men were saved, Chief Engi- neer Birch, Steward Taylor and Sea- man Charles Hillier. The Franz Fischer was captured enemy vessel employed as coasting collier.
 Hillier, who is a native of Newfound- land, described the disaster as fol- lows:
 About 1o.30 o'clock Tuesday night we heard noise overhead, such as we had never heard before. Presently O dropped bomb which fell near the engine room. A tremendous explosion followed, the vessel remaining afioat only two minutes.
 There was no time to launch Itfs- boats. We all went under with the ship. When came up again I caught hold of a lifebelt. After swimming for some time, came across the chief engineer and the steward, who had also managed to get hold of lifebelts. By their aid we kept afioat for an hour.
 'It was pitiful to hear the cries of some of the other men who had come to the surface after the disappearance l Of the vessel. but soon their cries ceased and we concluded they were all drowned. Meanwhile we continued shouting for help. When we were al- | most exhausted, a Belgian steamer heard us, lowered a boat and picked ] us up. Subsequently we were trans ferred to a mine-sweeper and landed" " Asked how the Zeppelin managed to locate the vessel in the dark, Hillier said the collier was riding at anchor and her anchor lights must have been | seen by the men in the Zeppelin. AS to drop a bomb on her.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
cARRANZA FORCES DEFEATED
 IN EASTERN OIL REGION.
Half Way Between Tuxpan and Tam
 pico-Lost Forty Men.

Washington, Feb 3.-Rebels in the eastern oil region of Mexico yes- terday defeated Carranza forces at Chapapote, half way between Tuxpan and Tampico. according to consular despatch from Tampico. The Car ranza forces lost forty meu and a quantity of guns and ammunition
 The leader of the rebels is believ- ed to have been General Pallaez No foreigner was injured. according to the departments report, but a number of oil camps were raided.
 States department officials were anxious about hte safety of Americans and their property.
 The American consul at Durango re- ported today that he had been official ly informed that General Arguedo and other rebel officers and men captured by General Muirguia are being brought to Durango
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
PRESIDENT WILSON RECEIVES
 IMPORTANT DISPATCHES
From Secretary Lansing Relating to
 Foreign Situation.

On Board President Wilson's Special Train, Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. B. President Wilson received from Secre- tary Lansing today what members of his party characterized as very inn portant despatches'' relating to the foreign situation. Their exact con- tents were not revealed, but it was un- derstood they related to the Lusitania and Appam cases.
 The president spent the late after noon reading the despatches in his private car and through them getting in touch with developments in the for eign situation since he left Washing ton.
 A final settlement of the Lusitania case is expected soon after the presi- dent arrives in Washington. He is de- termined that Germany make full dis avowal and reparation, and it is un- derstood that he will be satisfied with nothing less. What attitude Germany has taken or will take toward the last suggestion sent forward by Count Von Bernstorff could not be learned on the presidents special tonight.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
PLYMOUTH coRDAGE co.
 OPENED GATES TO WORKERS
Force of 175 Policemen Were on Duty
 but There Was No Disorder.

Plymouth, Mass, Feb 3.-After a hut down of several weeks, due to ! strike of 1000 employees for higher wages, the Plymouth Cordage com ,any opened it's gates today, but 1t Vas stated that only 50 of the oper- rtiyes returned to work. A force of E5 policemen was on duty. During he first hour there was no disorder nd no arrests were made, although he streets about the plant we're hronged and men and women were houting "no work, no work" No at- eTnpt was nadc to interfere with lersons who entered the gates.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
ELEVEN LIVES LOST IN
 FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
Hundreds of Families Are Homeless
 Suffering Increases.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 3.-Eleven lives have been lost and hundreds of thousands of dollars damage done by the floods now devastating Arkansas. Hundreds of families are homeless and the next two days is expected to see the loss and suffering increased.
 Tom Perugis, a farmer, was drowned near Newman today when he attempt ed to steer a skiff through a swift current. An unidentified white man was found dead near Newman.
 A negro family-father and mother and child-were drowned near Mel wood. Two other deaths had been re- ported from that district previously. Reports from Pine Bluff said T. L. rertius, aged 50, was drowned when hs boat capsized while trying to cross Cypress creek, near Dumas Three ,egro women are said to have drowned rear Dumas.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04


 Ottawa, Feb. 4-The historic Can ddian parliament building was des- troyed last night by a fire declared un- officially to have been caused by the explosion of a gas bomb or an in efernal machine. Two women guests of the wife of Speaker Sevigny were overcome by smoke and perished.
 Policemen and Firemen Buried.
 Several policemen and ffremen were buried under debris when one end of the building collapsed. The number of persons taken to hospitals had not been determined early this morning. Frederick F. Pardee. chief liberal whip parliament from New Brunswick, are missing and it is feared they have lost their lives.
 At Least One Explosion.
 It has been established that the first burst of flame in the reading room of the house of commons was preceded by at least one explosion and probably by two. The force of the concus- sion was so severe that persons standing some distance away were hurled to the floor. A rigid investi- gation to determine the cause of the fire already has been undertaken by the Dominion authorities.
 Flames Spread Rapidly.
 The flames spread with such amaz- ing rapidity that the Ottawa fire brig ade was utterly helpless to cope with them and aid was sent from Montreal on a special train but at one o'clock this morning the fire was still raging
 The loss cannot be estimated in money. The building was valued at about S5, 100000 but the contents are of inestimable value. There was nc insurance.
 Chambers Destroyed. At midnight the commons and sem ate chambers had been destroyed and as the great clock boomed out the hour flames were swifling up the may y- nificent tower and licking their way to it's top. The parliament library at the rear probably will be saved. Sol diers were assigned to carry out its contents.
 Members of the parliament, spec 1 tators in the gallery floor of the house | government employees and others who were in the building narrowly escap- | ed death or injury.
 Flames Barred Progress. 1 Within few minutes after the fire | begun corridors were filled witt l smoke and at many points the flames i barred progress. There were many
 doors to the great building. but since the outbreak of the war all except the main portals have been closed to safe. guard the legislators. This precau- 1 tion made escape more difficult ana probably was responsible for the deaths of Madame Bray of Montrea | anr Mime. Morin of Beauce in one o, | the rooms of the speakers suite. Dropped Into Net. Mime Sevigny saved her two chil. l dren by dropping them into a safety net and then leaped to safety herself Another of her guests, Mime. Dus- 1 sault, saved herself in the same way Among those severely burned was | Minister of Agriculture Burrell, who l fell unconscious after plungine through fire and groping along 2 1 smoke filled corridor
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
CHARGED WITH PAYMENT
 OF FRAUDULENT CLAIMS,
Charles R. HotaIins of New York
 Legislative Committee.

New York, Feb. 3.-Charfes R. Ho- taling, sergeant at arms of the Thomp- son legislative committee, investigat- ing the down state public service com mission, was indicted today by the grand jury. He is charged with vio- lating sections of the penal law rela- tive to the payment of fraudulent claims against the state.
 The indictment was found in con- nection with the investigation made by the jury, into the expense bills in cured by members of the Thompson committee at the Biltmore hotel which it was Hotaling's duty to audit
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
MYSTERIOUS AEROPLANE
 OVER DU POINT PLANT,
At carney's Point-Nobody Knew
 Whence It Game.

Wilmington, Del, Feb. 3.-It became known today that a mysterious aero plane was seen lowering over the Du Pont Powder Works at Carneys Point, N. J., on the Delaware river last Mon day night. but whench 1t came or where it went has not been establish ed.
 This much has been admitted today by an official of the Du Pont com. pany who said one of the company's men employed at Deep Water Point. at the southern end of Carney's Point and about opposite Newcastle, Del, saw the airship, which, after making a circular flight disappeared in a southeasterIy direction
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
IMPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD
 FACILITIES IN OLD SAYBROOK
Utilities Commission Grants Petition
 of New Haven Road.

Hartford, Feb. 3.-The plan of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company to make improve ments in the railroad facilities in Old Saybrook was advanced a stage today when the public utilities commission made an order granting the petition of the company for permission to re- construct the bridge over the School house crossing, so-called. This bridge will allow the company to con- struct four tracks and this improve ment will relieve the freight conges- tion at that point Work will begin on the improvements at once.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
COLOMBIAN MINISTER
 ISSUES A STATEMENT
Expressing DisapProVaI of Amendment
 to Reduce Indemnity.

Washington. Feb. 3.-While the Co., lombian treaty was being brought into the senate today Julio Betincourt, the Colombian minister, was issuing a statement expressing his disapproval of the amendments to reduce the in- demnity the United States would pay Colombia from S25,000,00 to $15, ,000,- GOO and to make the expressions of re- gret for the partition of Panama mu- tual to both nations.
 Minister Betincourt was certain that the treaty, already accepted and rati- fled by his country, would be rejected now with the proposed amendment.
 There were suggestions in Latin American quarters that the minister was considering whether 1t would be an expedient and diplomatic method of expressing disapproval if he left the legation and returned to Bogota.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
BRITISH PRISONERS HAVE
 LEFT STEAMER APPAM.
Only the Prize Commander and His
 Crew of Germans Aboard.

Newport News, Va, Feb. 3.-Nine- teen days of ceaseless vigilance by a short-handed German prize crew aboard the former British liner Appam ended late tonight when the last of more than 400 British prisoners climb ed over the ships side to liberty on American soil. And for the first time since Lieutenant Berge and his p men boarded the liner from the raider which captured her on the night of Jan. 15 most of the Germans slept peacefully, with but a few of their number on watch.
 All British subjects and the one nat uraliZed American quit the ship, leav- ing the prize commander with his crew and the 20 Germans who had been prisoners on the Appam, including three women.
 Captain Harrison and the Appam's British crew left their vessel only after a sharp controversy between agents of the owners, Elder Dempster company, and the British embassy at Washing ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
LYNcHiNGS DENOUNCED BY
 GOV. HARRIS OF GEORGIA
Threatens to Ask Legislature for
 More Stringent Laws.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. S.-Lynchines of more than a dozen negroes in Geor-. or Harris in statement today in which he declares that unless con ditions improve by the time the next general assembly meets," he- will ask for the enactment of more stringent laws to stop lynchings in this state" The general assembly meets in June,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-04
Ex-PREsIDENT TAFT
 SPEAKS ON DISCIPLINE.
Advises the Pupils of Bangor High
 School to Cultivate Obedience.

Bangor, Me, Feb. 3.-Former Pres ident William H. Taft addressed the pupils of the Bangor High school to- day on Discipline In order to be- come the citizens of tomorrow. he said, pupils must cultivate the habit of obedience. MT. Taft also deliy- cred the second of series of address, es before the University of Maine Law school on "The Powers and Duties of the Executive."