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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13

has asked for further details. His adj
vices We're the first confirmation from
Mexican sources. All other state de
partment agents on the border have
been instructed to gather all of the
available information ON the eXecu-
tions and forward it to Washington.
AT the White House also at the
state department, there is unconceal-
ed anxiety over the situation and
concern that the latest outbreak in
Mexico might be made the vehicle
for further attacks by the opposition
in Congress upon the administra-
tion's foreign policy and its recogni-
ton of Carranza
Survivor Wires Story
Eel Paso, Texas, Seventeen per-
sons, thought to be returning from
Cusihurriachic Chihauhau, were ta-
llsn from Mexican train Monday by
bandits, stripped and lined along
the track for execution, according to
mesa Ses received yesterday from
e. S. Holmes, one of the seventeen,
who made his escape from the ban
dts.
Whether the execution of the re-
naming 16 americans was carried
out is not known.
Robbers Villa Followers
1t is supposed tat the band be-
longed to General Jose Rodriguez,
Villa supporter, known to ne operat-
ing in the Chihauhau against the de-
facto government.
Immediately after the first news
He, s.lo
sorsh,p p was imposed On the wires be-
tween Jaurez and Chihauhau city, ny
the CarranZa officials.
According to the message the train
bearing the Americans was stopped
about so miles west OF Chihauhau
city.
The miners were robbed, stripped
nude, and lined UP along the train
for execution.
Runs TIL Exhausted
Holmes was at the extreme end OF
the line and when the firing squad
took its stand Holmes fed to the
desert. With feet cut by stones
and body torn by underbrush, he ran
without looking back, until he no
longer heard the whistling of bullets
which We're fired after him.
He succeeded in reaching a MeXi-
can camp and was helped back to
Cbihauhau city
The Americans We're to reopen
The mines given by the Carranza gov
ernment through the United States
to a mining concern.
The news caused consternation
here. as many of the miners res. .ded
hera
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
NORTHWEST GREAT
ERIG!D ID ZONE TODAY
TEMPERATURE IN MITCHELL. rs
THIRTY DEGREES BELOW
ZERO DURING DAY FORTY
EIGHT AT MOBRIDGE
st. Paul, MINI. 1t is Indicated
that the worst storm in twenty
years is coming tonight, with pos
sible serious results.

One OF the coiGest nights for
years visited the entire northwest
last night, causing the abandon
ment of freight train service and
seriously delaying all passenger
trains. With the cold weather came
a heavy snow, which a high north
west wind drifted badly.
Fifty degrees below zero is re-
ported from Yarmouth, N. D.; 4S
below from Mobridge; As at Java;
36 at Aberdeen; 35 at Murdo and
Rapid City and 80 at Mitchell. At
eight O'Clock temperature of 26
degrees was reported, but within two
hours the mercury sank four more
marks, establishing one of the cold
est weather records for years.
Freights Are Abandoned.
All Milwaukee freight service out
of Mitchell was abandoned today,
with the exception of train north
at O'Clock. The mixed train at
tempted to go west about O'Clock
last evening, but scarcely got out OF
the yards when the effort was aband-
oned
Trains from the east and south
due into Mitchell about midnight,
were two and three hours late. The
train from the east came into the
Mitchell yards with two engines, but
died before reaching the depot and
switch engine pushed it to the
platform. This train was held till
z O'Clock this morning, when it was
sent west with a double header. The
train north left about o'clock with
the help of a switch engine, but con-
.tinued to lose time all the way to
Aberdeen. Two engines were used
on this as on all other trains today
Trains on the Platte and Armour
lines were abandoned this morning,
but there was prospects of starting
them out about noon. omaha trains
were all late, but no service entirely
abandoned. At Worthington, Mimi,
a temperature of % below was re-
ported.
Both afternoon Milwaukee passen-
ger trains were over an hour late to-
day, with the probability that the
mixed train to the west would be
abandoned.
Further Cold Predicted.
Chicago, Ill.-Gales bringing Bit
ter cold, with temperatures from
thirty to forty degrees below zero,
are destined to sweep over the north
west tonight, the weather bureau
predicted. The northwestern cold
wave, headed by rain, sleet and
snow that tied up rails and wire
throughout the cen
trail states, is said to be the most
severe in recent years
Over the Dakotas, Montana and the
Rocky Mountain districts, the 1ner-
curry has registered already thirty be-
low. to an extreme Of of fC.ty-eight.
AS far south as Omaha, severe cold
lis recorded. There mark sof eight
degrees below was registered.
The storm that swept Arkansas
yesterday, it is predicted would
spread over the northeastward to-
night. Telegraph and telephone
co.1paaies reported much trouble.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
'irot near the Bulgarian border

l lIoI near lnG bulgarian border.
I'VE fled before the Bulgarians to
|Semendria, On the Austrian border,
and in October we moved to Dobre-
dora. Here the Serbs We're defeated
and from that time for sc days cur
hospital fled daily. In seven weeks
we scarcely slept in the same place
twice.
THE wounded were brought to us
i'll automobiles, and after we had
patched them up they were taken to
the base hospitals. On November 81
1 rejoined the base hospital at Pris-
tina and then moved to Prizrend. AT
the latter place we lost all our equip
ment and our hospital ceased to eX-
ist.
In the retreat that followed we
were generally six hours ahead of the
Bulgarians. The courage and patience
OF the Serbian wounded was the most
Wonderful thing | have ever Witness
ed. The most severely wounded, who
were seemingly dying, walked for
weeks at time. Dhey marched with
us over the mountains into Monte
negro.
Hundreds died of cold. Prison
ers of the Serbians by the thousands
retreated with us, and they were in
a pitiable condition. The Serbs had
little or nothing to eat, but what they
mad they shared with their prisoners.
One Serbian lived for five days on a
small piece of stale hard black bread
A small loaf of black bread cost 40
dinars. about S6.'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
TURKS HOLD ALLIED
SUBJECTS FOR RVapjeIGaJ

Amsterdam, Netherlands Accord
ing to reports received from Constan-
tinople the Turkish government, in
reprisals for the treatment of Turk
ish subjects by the Entente powers in
Saloniki, has interned one thousand
subjects of entente nations in Turkey.
1t is understood that the Ottoman
government in ordering the arrest of
officials of the British and French
embassies who remained in Constan-
.tinople, took this step only as it's first
measure of reprisal for the arrest of
the consuls of the Teutonic Allies at
Saloniki, and that further arrests are
contemplated in this connection.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
TOM ROBERTS GETTING
LIST OF ALL VOTERS

1 Pierre, S. &D.,-T. B. Roberts of
this city is taking steps toward Sc
curing an actual list of the voters
OF the state, compiled from the CEN
sus returns of the 1915 census. This
return will keep number of girls
working for several weeks, and will
be an expensive list but when it is
completed it will be one of all the
voteys in the state, and not only those
who voted at the last election, as an
ordinary poll list would show.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
SERBIAN LIVES FIVE DAYS
ON SCRAP OF BLACK RREAT

New York City-A graphic story
of the Serbian retreat was told By
Miss Cissy Benjamin a pretty English
nurse. She arrived here on the White
Star Liner Adriatic.
."T Joined the British hospital at
Kraguyevatz eight months ago." said
she. There we had a field hospital
with 20 tents. When the bulgarian
invasion began we were transformed
into a flying hospital and moved to
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13

Wires are reported down In many
parts of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Missouri. Railroads have suffered
big delays, with the prospects of
trains being stalled in places. !,
Warmer at Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls, s. With the tenn
perature twenty degrees below zero
last night, this section had Its cold
est night of the winter. At ten
O'Clock this forenoon 1t was yet six
teen below. The snow TALL was not
heavy enough to seriously interfeta
with steam railway traffic.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
CARTHAGE WANTS SCHOOL

Carthage, S. D,-The local board
OF education has called special cleo
ton to be held Tuesday, Jan. IS, al
which the proposition of issuing
bonds in the sum of $1,000 for the
construction of a large addition TO
the present public school building
will be submitted to the voters. The
proposed bonds will draw not to ex-
.ceed seven per cent interest.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13

MEN-woMEN wANTED-s75.o OF
month. Government jobs. Vacan-
cies constantly. Write for list posi-
!tions now obtainable.- e.-Frank1in In
stitute, Dept. 4o5, L, Rochester, N. Y.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
Congress Hears Attacks
Today On "Watch-
full Waiting .
TO INVESTIGATE
State Department Promises
That Much as Result of
Murder of Americans.


| Washington, d. c.-senator
Thomas, OF Colorado, Democrat,
charged during the Mexican de-
bate in the Senate that the
Standard Oil company on one
hand and the Pearson Oil syll-
dicate on the other, in rival
efforts to obtain MONOPOLY
OF the oil industry in Mexico,
were responsible for the reyolu
tions in that country and had
covered it with sea OF
blood"
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to send to the White House al facts
as rapidly as they We're received. At
the White House it was declared that
while something undoubtedly would
be done but what steps the govern
ed.
Warning Not Hooded.
Secretary lansing issued state
ment in which he said the state de-
partment feels that it took every
possible precaution to prevent Amer
leans from exposing their lives in a
region where guerilla warfare is in
progress and that "it is to be de-
pfored that its advice was not fol-
lowed"
Every step will be taken 10 see
that the perpetrators of this bastard
ly crime are apprehended and pun
ished," he said.
State department officials refer
red to the fact that Americans have
been warned s'ncc the United States
decided to recognize CarranZa to
leave the states of Sonora and Chi
huahua, then regarded as Villa
strongholds They said that, in spite
of the official warning more than 600
Americans still remain in the district
including 200 Mormons at Casas
Grandes
Storm Ragcs in House.
When the House met the storm
broke. Representative Dyer. of Mis-
souri, presented a resolution asking
the president to inform Congress if
lie did not think the time had arrived
to abandon the "watchful waiting
policy and invade Mexico, also to sub
nit to the House the fullest details
regarding the dealings of this gov
crnment with Carranza.
Other members planned to bring
the subject before tie House during
the day if possible Defense of the
administration Mexican policy. as
we'll as attacks upon it. are promised.
Prompt Punishment ASKED.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Secretary
Lansing telegraphed General Car
rama today, calling for the prompt
punishment of bandits Who executed
II Americans near Chihuahua Mon
day. Thorough Vlieso Arredondo the
newly appointed Mexican ambassador
here it was aiTanged to bring the
bodies from chihuahua TO Juarez
aboard d special train.
Envoy Arredondo received a con-
firmation from Carranza sources OF
the execution of the Americans and
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13
INTERVENTION IN
MEXICO PROPOSED
FOR PRESENT CRISIS
FosTMAsTERs NAMED.

Washington, ID. c.-rhe fol-
! lowing postmaster nominations
were sent to the Senate yester-
xday:
South Dakota Dana N. Bose
teel, Artesian; w. F. Nc
/ Guigan, Mcintosh; j. w. Nc
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-01-13

WASHINGTON u C.-senatcr Law
renee Y. Sherman, of Illinois, Repub-
lican, as soon as the Senate assembi-
ed, introduced. a resolution propcs-
ing intervention in Mexico by the
I'm ted States and the six Pan-Ameri-
can nations which have acted with it
in Mexican affairs, unless General
Carranza complies with the demand
to protect foreign lives and proper
ty
President Wilson was in communi-
cation with Secretaries Garrison and
Lansing and soon issued instructions
to send to the White House al facts
as rapidly as they We're received. At
the White House it was declared that
while something undoubtedly would
be done but what steps the govern
ment will take have not been decid-
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21
"Ruining Literature. "
(Waterbury Democrat. }

tWaterbury Democrat)
 Henry Holt, the publisher, is con- vinced that American literature is gong to the dogs. The magazines. ne maintains, are primarily responsi- ole and they are aided and abetted by the government. The most per
 nlcious effect on our literature. he explains, is the exploitation of authors names rather than their works, by the periodical publishers. It used to be that magazine articles were unsigned Even until recently. while the authors names were print ed with their articles and stories there was no emphasis on them. The work was supposed to speak for itself; the name was of secondary importance. But now all that is changed. Every weekly and month " magazine screams at the reader, in big type and red ink, the names of the men and women whose con- tribution it contains. Literature is commercio lized It is like the star system which has baen the bane of the American stage. Just as our acting and playwriting have suffered from undue emphasis on the &C., tor, so our literature suffers from the systematic exploitation of star writ ers-that is, the writers popular at the moment The effect, says MT. Holt, is the "overworking of the authors who have names. Magazines clamor for their work, because tn cir names have selling power. They write too much, too rapidly, too care loasly. They foresake their art and seek the money while they can get it. Thus they produce vast quan- titles of ''rot" instead of real litera- ture, weakening their powers, and in the end even destroying their own vogue. The deterioration of litera- ture is seen, says MT. Holt, In the de- teriOration of the book trade. We read great quantities of periodicals, and few books. A generation ago, when our country had half it's pres ent population, we had between g.,
 900 and 4,000 booksellers. Now we have only 1,500. But we have 100,
 900 stands selling periodicals and newspapers. Book production Is usually regarded as Inc measure of nations eniiahtenmont. If we a"- ccpt that standard, Mr. Holt" cT'fi- cism seems well founded We pub fish in this country 10000 books a
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21
The Riojlt Attitude.

CNew Haven Journal Courior.)
 The devotion of the Dominion .~of Canada to the mother country Of Great Britain has been one of the notable features of the European war not especially more so than other British colonies, but because of the nearness of Canada to our country We have been the better able to visualize tho relationship and be af- fected by it. It is a mere incident that Canada is a British colony Tho impression would be exactly the same if it were a German colony and it's al- legiancc was to the imperial govern ment of Germany.
 In the course of an expression of loyalty to tho mother country in tho Canadian parliament Monday tho re- lationship of the American settlers in that country to the general situation was directly touched upon. The pre-. mier, Sir Robert Borden, declared that there would be no conscription in Canada and then went on to say that if there was there would be no danger that the American settlers in the country would pack up their he longings and make for the states. He said that there had been no hesi- tation on their part in Joining tho Canadian forces and that today mary hundreds of men of American birth were serving with the Canadians on the battle fefJs of Europe and many hundreds more were in training in Europe.
 This is exactly as it should he. These men immigrated to the tDomin- ion of Canada because, in their judg- ment, larger opportunities awaited
 
 home. They became citizens of Can ada and then and there subjected themselves to the obligations of that citizenship. They are of American de- scent but they are no longer Amer izens. Their first duty is to Canada and the mother country. For taking the attitude they have taken they deserve the respect of all true Amer leans.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21
What is Hard to Believe.
(Detroit News.


 So increduIous are we that if we are told a thing often enough, we automatically cease to believe it. It would be very surprising to the aver age person to discover an Indian with an answering memory for favor or injury; to find a Kentucky colonel who had won his title in action 10 meet British lord wearing a mono cle; to discover a Bohemian restaurant where food was both good and low jriced to learn of a gifted poet starv- ing in a garret; to encounter burg lar who was kind to his mother; to know a detective who wore a dis guise.
 We have heard so much about things of this sort that they have passed over from the realm of fact into the realm of legendary and fic- titious. They are incredible, because we have been asked too often to give them credit.
 A favorite fiction is that of the boy who starts in at menial employ ment and rises to be the head of a great firm. Youths surrender hope of that prospect even before they get Over expecting to be president of the United States.
 There is just one peril in declining to accept traditions as possibilities; that peril is illustrated by a happening in Chicago.
 The retiring president of the old- est commercial bank began his car ger as a bundle boy in a department store. He Is "A years old and has been 32 years with the bank. His successor is 57. His first job was as messenger boy. He has been 20 years in the services of the same in stitution. They both say that their successes were won by plodding. Everything true to form, and true in fact.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21

Wa washington, D. C., Jan. 21.-"Port coid situated at the northern en- trance to the Suez Canal has, by force of many circumstances, become one of the most important outposts of inc vast British Emplre,' begins today's study in war geography pre- pared by the National Geographic So- city. "Port Said is the British store house in the Levantine world; it Is a British arsenal and troop station CT rank; it is the base for defense of the all-important route to India and Tor offense against the Mediterranean ana Red Sea Hanks of the Turks.
 "A pioneer city in the ancient East; one entirely the product of modern times, without traditions, cus- toms or proprieties; a hetero~ eeneous business, of all races and of all the outcastes, Port Said has been a highly interest ing phenomenon since it's birth. It early earned a worldwide reputation for wick edness, beside which the mod est fame of the western mining camp sem to merge into the mild and con- ycntiOnal The most undesirable ele- ments in the Eastern and Levantine
 
 one excitement after another at Port Said And the damp of the climate, the incessant chatter of shipping, Ihe drear scenery, the never-ending coal ing operations, and the often fierce heat have combined to give the town a renown of a most unenviable sort.
 '"The English, however have stead ilv dampened the ardorous excesses of the busy, modern Babel; and, with the extensive harbor Improvements of 19O3-1909, with the addition of a large cotton expert to the towns ac- tivities, and with the building of standard gauge railroad to Cairo, better class of people have soughv new interests in Port Said. ThuA with the increasing of the ports commercial possibilities and the com ing of the merchants, the place has been considerably raised in the so- cial scale and lowered in the scale of lurid interest.
 "The port city was founded in 1859, and it's site was determined by the needs of the great canal. It lies on low, narrow, desolate strip of sand that separates the Mediterranean from Lake Men.aleh. It is on the western side of the canal The harbors of the port, improved by splendid mod ern works, arc eaec and com;nodious Port Said is rated as the largest coal- ing station in the world, and is is one
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21
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year. Darkest Russia" publishes nearly three times that many. Even in it's per capita production of books Russia is ahead of US. Great Britain produces twice as many books as we do in proportion to populations; so does France. Germany produces near ly four times as many. The govern ment's responsibility seems to consist in the fact that 1t charges higher post age rates for books than for periodi- calls. "The government carries the Police Gazette at cent a pound," says MT. Holt, "and charges eight times as much to carry spelling book or a Bible. It cannot be expected that literature will thrive under these con- ditions."
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21
My Brothers Keeper"
(New Haven Times-Leader.)

(New Haven Times-Leader)
 Will the American people let the lesson of the savage rioting by un- taught immigrants at East Youngs- town pass? .r
 Shall American hospitality be ex- tended to the down-trodden, un- educated oppressed stranger who hopefully enters our gates or shall we leave him to himself and bring down upon the rest of us the natural re- suits of centuries of tyranny in other lands?
 Are we going to make these immi- grants American citizens or are We rot?
 This newspaper does not believe that the American people, as whole, are inhospitable. We do not believe that the folks who live in the better sections of our industrial centers are entirely content with the miserable foreign settlements on their out skirts We think it is thoughtlessness rather than intention on the part Of the public which consigns these grown up children to the exploitation corporations and soulless manufac- turers.
 MT. and Mrs. Citizen, for your own sake, for your children's sake, for your country's sake, you cannot afford to be thoughtless on this vital question any longer.
 The backward peasant from the backward countries of Europe will go farther back, as at East Youngstown, if he is left alone, reeling in ignor- ance, thinking his own thoughts, breeding over what he considers his wrong, acting savagely when his un- taught, unenlightened mind calls on him to act
 "The captains of industry are not all to blame for conditions in the foreign settlements of our industrial ccnters. Frances N. Kellor, social worker writing in the Atlantic Month Iy, hits the situation exactly in the followingi
 "Mr Ross in The old World in the New points to a typical western town Of 26 ,000 inhabitants, 10000 of them immigrants, and gives picture of the vice, intepperance, bad housing, and vretched standards of living resulting
New Britain herald., 1916-01-21

n this town from the immigrant population. We in America believe in majority rule. The was safe margin Of at least 5000 Americans in that town, free to establish and insist upon any standard they chose.
 Why were the Americans beaten in the struggle? Because here, as in many other places, they ignored Nor definitely isolated the immigrants, permitting them to work all day with Americans in the mills or factories where they were needed, and tl.on en- couraging or compelling them to spend all the rest oc their time in their own corner of the town, i'll Little Italy or Hungary Hollow and to en- croach no more than necessary upon the respectable streets and schools and churches and recreations of tho American. section"