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Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
REPORT OF COST
 BOARD WILL BE
 PRESENTED S00N
Heads of Departments in Close Con ference-Expected Results to Be
 Known Monday

A. P. Davis, director and chief en- gineer of the reclamation service. was ir executive session with President Orme of the Water Users association yesterday. The subject of opening the project was brought up, but none Of the officials of the association would comment on the action taken yesterday.
 The report of the central cost board is in the city. and will be considered at the meeting of the governors, Monday.
 The time allowed for the presenta- ton of protests passed on January 2eth. with none being offered.
 Davis left for the east last night, after having made several trips over the project, viewing the damage done by the flood. He was pleased to find >the project in pretty fair shape, con- sidering the volume of water which Was roaming around loose last month.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
NEW SYSTEM 1T
 TAXATION
 SANTA CRUZ CO.

State Tax Commissioner C. M. Zan- der returned yesterday morning from Nogales. where, with Commissioner Tom Campbell, he had been for the past few days assisting the city coun- cil of Nogales and the board of super visors of Santa Cruz county in estab- fishing the SOmers system of taxation,
 At meeting held in the city on Sat urday night, under the auspices of the chamber of commerce, there were over one hundred citizens and officials pres ent. The sentiment in favor of the in Stallation of the new system was al most unanimous. Campbell and Zan- der explained the workings of the sys- tenn in detail to the assemblage. and following a discussion of the matter, a vote was taken on the question. Of the one hundred or more votes cast there were but three negatives.
 For some time past the system of determining the valuations of the city property in NOgales has been more or less haphazzard and inaccurate and several weeks ago. the state tax com mission was invited to come to the city and join the city and county officials in discussion of the matter. Follow ing the adoption of the system at Sat urday nights. meeting, the county su- pervisors and the city council held spe- Cial sessions on the following Monday and officially approved the course talk en on Saturday. Ia1der and Campbell will later attend to the details of the Introduction of the SOmers method md many of the more important ends of the work will be done in the office of the state commission in Phoenix
 The Somers' system. which is in use m Phoenix and several other cities ir this state, is designed to discourage speculation in unimproved town lots because under this system. the vacant lot is taxed just about as high as the lot on which improvements are located One of the three men who voted against the installation of the new sys- tenn at Saturdays meeting, was a real estate dealer, who objected to the pay
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statement he had made at the con- ference
 The passengers were assembled in the dining saloon and Sir Edward Merewether introduced Collector Hamilton The latter then explained that all those aboard were free to leave except the German prize crew the crew of the Appam, and twelve passengers WhO the Germans con
 tend, have British military connec- tiOns
 A passenger who spoke as the rep
 resentative of these twelve men asked Collector Hamilton whether they would have the protection of the
 United States government while the ship was within American territorial
 waters. Lieutenant Berg. spoke to the passenger, using the term American protection,' reminding him that he was aboard a ship flying the German flag, which was equivalent to being on German soil. The collector inter-
 ceded for the passenger.
 You have sought asylum in a port of the United States said MT. Ham, ilton, addressing Lieutenant Berg. While you are in these waters you
 will be afforded protection and all the others will be given similar pro- 1 tection." The passengers expressed
 their approval by applause. Very we'll" returned Lieutenant Berg. Mr. Hamilton explained that his instruc- tions had been to release everybody
 aboard except members of the prize crew, but since Lieutenant Berg had
 raised the point that the members of
 the Appam's crew should be detained because they had resisted capture and
 also the twelve alleged military mem l til the state department had passed on this question.
 A selected group of Englishmen, including Sir Edward Merewether
 Frederick Seton James, Francis Chas
 Fuller, Dr. F. F. Rice and the Ap- pam's purser, and the masters of the six British vessels captured by the
 raider which took the Appam, were brought ashore to aid in perfecting
 arrangements for the landing of the l others on board.
 Reports agree that all the passen-
 gers were accorded the best treat
 ment possible by the prize crew in the circumstances. Food and water ran short during the last few days of the long voyage from the African coast, but the passengers say they had the same fare as their captors
 and had no complaint to make. of of ho German raider which captured the Appam and the other craft still differ.
 Prince Hatzfeldt of the German em-
 bassy at Washington asserts that sine
 is the German cruiser Moewe, built
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
masked her battery and I hove to-

masked her battery and I hove to-"
 Except for minor details all the stories of the captured Appam pas sengers agreed that the liner was four days out from Dakar, French West Africa, for Liverpool, with pas sengers and 5000 tons of general cargo, when she sighted the German January l5. The raider was moving at fair rate of speed, but seeming ly making no attempt to make for the Appam. Almost immediately she be- gan to gain speed and before Captain Harrison was aware that danger i'm pended, the German had changed his course and sent warning shot across the liners bow
 Captain Harrison immediately hove to- The raiders forecastle had fallen away, exposing her battery of guns trained upon the Appam. A small boat put out with a boarding party and in a short time a prize crew was in possession of the ship.
 There were twenty two men in the prize crew under Lieutenant Berg and some twenty Germans on board the liner bound for prison camps in England were pressed into service.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
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rest of the world with the products Of those fields.
 We have a right to send food tC peaceful populations wherever condi- tions of war make it possible to do so
 under the ordinary rules of war. We have a right to supply them with our cotton to clothe them. We have a right
 Co supply them with our manufactured lrOducts"
 President Wilson declared frankly
 he did not believe reports that Kan sas was rot in sympathy with any policy of preparation for national de- fense. He said nobody in authority, 1 rcbody in a position to lead the policy of the country has proposed great military armaments. There was nothing inconsistent with traditions of Kansas or the traditions of America, Ec added in the administration pro- pOsals for national defense. 1 The Monroe doctrine was spoken of
 as a handsome guarantee by the United States of the rights of na- tional and popular sovereignty on this | side of the water in both continents Of the western hemisphere. Nothing
 sustains the honor of the United 1 States in respect to this long cher | shed policy, the president said, than
 the moral and physical force of the United States
 I He spoke of the spirit shown by
 the nation in freeing Cuba and added
 that the American people feel the
 same way about the Philippines.
 though the rest of the world does not
 yet believe it.
 We are trustees for the Filipino 1 people and just as soon as we feel
 that they can take care of their own 1 affairs without our direct interference
 and protection the flag of the United
 States will again be honored by the 1 fulfillment of promise"
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03

fin 1913 or 1914 for the imperial navy and commanded by Captain Count Dohna. All of the captured British shippers agree, however, that the raider is a converted merchantmen of about 5000 tons, named Ponga, probably completed a few months ago, mounting six masked guns of nearly six inch caliber and having two tor pedo tubes. The Englishmen believe she was fitted out recently as a com merce destroyer and slipped out to the high seas from the German naval base at the Kiel Canal shortly before she began her career off the coast of Africa by capturing the steamer Far ringford on January II,
 Captain David Barton of the steam ship Corbridge, the second prize talk en by the raider was a prisoner aboard her before he was transferred with his crew to the Appam, He says the raider is a brand new ship built for the fruit trade with her decks strengthened to carry a battery that would do credit to a first class naval commerce destroyer.
 Some of her plates inside had not even been painted when l saw her" Captain Barton said. She is a fast boat with a single funnel and has her hold fitted for carrying fruit Her guns, six of them. probably are five and -tenths inches bore
 Four of them are mounted forward, masked by collapsible steel fore ne-fIn ia soI Co ship gets within range of her prey. Two others are mounted aft, one of them on the poop and both so placed that they are not readily observed.
 Although I was confined below deck during most of my stay on board, I managed to make a rather complete inspection. On a plate the name Ponga' was engraved and sev- eral of us saw the same name on papers in the commanders cabin. T was on the boat beginning the
 night of January II, my ship having been captured a few hours after the | raider began her work by taking the Farringford. The ship was
 manned by a crew of several hundred
 men, many of whom had H. M. S
 Moewe on their hats. Others had l H. M. s. Paw and in fact there
 were half a dozen different names i Whenever the German was after a 1 prize all of us were kept below under
 guard and we saw virtually nothing of what happened.
 We were followed by the raider for an hour or two during the after | noon but I paid little attention to her as sine appeared to be steamine | along easily and when within a few
 miles of us, we made out the Brit ish flag at her stern. Just at dusk she fired a warning shot and un-
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
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cam, the remaining great reservoir of San Diegos water system, and tha- there is no further danger of this dam breaking.
 Engineers R. W. Hawley and H. A. Whitney of the California Railroad commission, returned this afternoon from an inspection of the site for merly occupied by the Lower Otay reservoir Neither of those engineers would make a statement, pending their report to the state board.
 Conditions in the Otay and Tia Juana valleys are slowly being re stored to normal conditions, according to report made by Lieutenant w. w. Bradley, expeditionary force com mander, 10 Rear Admiral William Fullam today. Lieutenant Bradley said the worst conditions now prevail in the vicinity of the Tia Juana race track, where a number of Americans are practically destitute. These refugees are being given assistance by the naval patrols.
 Fifteen refugees from Lower Otay valley, mostly women and children were brought to San Diego this after noon on navy patrol boats.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
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Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
FISHERMEN BURIED BY SLIDE
 IRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

Peter Cruz, a fisherman, and his as
 sistant, were killed some time during the recent storm, when an avalanche of earth buried their camp at Blue Bank, on the south shore of Santa Cruz island, p miles from the main land. The finding of the bodies was reported by other fishermen who re turned today. Cruz's companion has been identified as Chris Gunderson, said to have relatives at San Pedro.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03

standstill.
 Ten lives have been lost through ac- C;dents directly chargeable to the STOW. Property loss, due to the snow, amounted in Seattle today to $100,00 ard in Bellingham to $15,000 The greatest single loss was the collapse of the dome of St. James cathedral. causing $75000 damage.
 Portland, Oregon. is completely iso- lated tonight by a sleet storm that tloke the telegraph and telephone wires
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
Mrs. Arthur Hamilton.

The first woman to swim the 5olent, Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, has been utilizing her strength recently by working for the troops at the front in northern France. She IS now at home for rest in London, where she is we'll known in society. Mrs. Hamilton is famous as a long-dls- tance swimmer, and is the holder of five medals.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
RUSS AND SERB PRISONERS N0T
 GOOD LAb0RERS
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

VIENNA, Feb. 2.-Austrian and Hungarian landowners and farmers are not particularly impressed with the value of Russian and Serbian prisoners of war as farm laborers. Ac- counts from all sides generally sup port the old saw, You. can lead a horse to water, but you can not make him drink
 On the whole, the prisoner of war as a farm hand seems to have been a failure. This is true for other reasons than that the prisoners have a natural aversion to work for their enemies. One of the great handicaps has been that the Russian and Serb farmers who were selected to work on the Austrian and Hungarian farms, were for the greater part untrained in the rather intensive farming methods employed in the dual monarchy. Though the men were shown how to go about their work most of them failed to understand the reason why it had to be done a certain way. 9th CTS who did understand preferred to be careless. when not under the eyes
 
 of the prisoners of war took any in terest in the work. Patriotic feelings appear to have been an active de- terrent for most of them.
 That Austria Hungary had splen- did crop this year is due to unusually favorable weather conditions. With an ordinary "crop year. and prisoners of
 
 try would have fared badly, say those familiar with conditions. It is as serted that the accession in crop re- turns due to the labor of the pris- oners of war is hardly equal to what the Russians and Serbs held in Aus tria Hungary will themselves con- sume during the year.
 It seems, however, that the labor of prisoners of war was more pro- 'ductive in other fields of endeavor especially is this true where the Rus sians and Serbs remained altogether under the control of the military In building roads and railroads no op- portunity for shirking was given. Each gang had to do a certain amount of work; results were immed- lately visible and therefore suscep- tible to prompt correction, which was not the case in farming. The en- gineer troops under whose surveil- lance railroad work was done could not be easily fooled by the prisoners of war, while the farmer had he wanted to supervise his involuntary farmland closely, could have done the work himself. Since most of the old reservists guarding the prisoners of war were city people no improvement from that direction could be expected
 German farmers who employed Rus sian prisoners of war are said to have obtained better results though the Associated Press correspondent cannot say that large landowner of the Bradenburg province with whom he discussed the matter was at all enthusiastic over the prospects of having to raise another crop with ,he aid of prisoners of war. He said that in addition to being most un- willing workers. the Russians he had employed failed to learn rapidly, though he had the services of an able interpreter.
 The handicaps of language have
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03

ment of a higher tax rate on a bunch of unimproved town property which he had been holding for speculative pur- poses
 Most of the valuations will be cal culated by pre- determined schedule of property values. and the work of fig uring out an equitable tax on all cor ner lots and irregularly shaped lots will he left to an expert mathematician connected with the state tax commis- sion offices. The basic principal on which the plan works is that each property holder will place valuation on his own property, and this will stand as the true valuation, subject to any changes deemed necessary by the county assessor.
 The system has an elaborate set of valuation tables from which some of the property valuations will be com- puted, and it is believed that the estab- lishment of the new system will go far toward remedying some of the defects which have been found to exist in the methods. of getting at the tax values in the city of Nogales, and will result in 2 substantial gain in the amount of taxes collected each year.
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
Why Not Sell Your
 Old Clothes?

Why don't you turn your old dis carded clothing into cash9 Dealers of second hand clothes will gladly pay reasonable prices for them. The most reliable of these concerns frequently run little Want Ad in our Classified Advertising section-turn to it. Then look over your wardrobe, see what clothing you no longer want. and phone or send postal to these con- cerns. They will call. take your clothing. and pay you spot cash. This is simple and easy way of getting money out of something which would otherwise be useless to you. Use
 "The Want Ad Wav''
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
Inspects Yuma Damage


 YUMA, Ariz Feb. 2.-Captain D. & Hughes, U. $. Army engineer, ar rived here today from Los Angeles and inspected the damage done to the old government. levee by the recent floods of the Colorado and Gila rivers
 He will report his findings to the war department at Washington. Cap tain Hughes was unable to predict when the repair work would begin, nrt he expressed the opinion that it should be done as soon as possible.
 The Colorado river continued to re- cede during the day and had dropped to a tage of POE feet at [ o'clock to- night.
 Train Service Interrupted
 SEATTLE, Feb. 2.-After five weeks of almost uninterrupted stormy weather western Washington tonight is without train service to the east, with uncertain prospects of restora- ton of mail. freight and passenger service. Business is practically sus- pended in Seattle, Tacoma, Belling- ham, Everett and the smaller cities. Street car systems are everywhere unable to operate and schools are closed. Lumber manufacturing and building have been almost entirely stopped, and farming work is at
Arizona republican., 1916-02-03
The Servant Problem-who

ever heard of it in the home where the housewife knows Shredded Wheat? In five minutes you can prepare a wholesome, satisfying meal with Shredded Wheat Biscuit without kitchen worry or work. For breakfast heat the Biscuit in the oven to restore crispness and serve with hot milk. For lunch serve with sliced bananas or other fruits. Made a. Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
GROSS SAYS HE
WILL ASK $4,000
FOR BATHHOUSE
Park Commissioner Incor-
porated Item in Tentative
Budget For 1917
HARGEST'S ISLAND SITE ?
Navy's Move For Swimming
Beach Will Be Followed
Up; Other Plans

At least $4,000 for a municipal bath
house and bathing beach on largest s
Island will be incorporated in the ten
tative draft of the Park Department
budget for 1917, according to City
Commissioners E. q. Gross.
The plan in brief is to erect a mod
ern bathhouse of a type which will
permit the addition of wings and ex-
tensions year by year as the demand
for increased facilities and the city S
purse will allow.
Whether or not the structure will
be erected in the little grove along the
east bank of the island between the
Market and Walnut street bridges,
near the northern point above the fill
ter plant, south of the Market street
bridge or on the western shore Of the
island, is phase of the problem that
is yet to be decided. 1t Is understood,
however, that at the point selected a
certain amount of dredging will be
necessary to provide proper swimming
depths.
Respond to Navy Demand
The $4,000 item is to be put into
the budget in response to the general
demand for adequate bathing facili-
ties, n movement which was organized d
and brought to a head by the Greater
Harrisburg Navy. the city's big body
of canoeists, motorboatmen, swimmers
and others interested in the permanent
development of the Susquehanna river
basin.
If the money is provided Thomas M.
Kelker, the chairman of a committee
selected by the Navy to prepare tenta-
tive plans and estimates of cost for a
bathhouse that can be built on the
unit plan. will likely be instructed to
get busy so that bids can be asked for
and the contract let early in the year.
Blasting Channel
Just how much will be asked for
the entire department is matter of
conjecture as yet, although it is ex-
pected that MIR. Gross will have his
figures ready for the first commission
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07
Masters Association Conn enton Here Recommend Gem
eral Advance in Prices; Rolls to Go to Ten Cents
Dozen; All Materials ore Costly
NOT MAKING LIVING PROFIT SAYS STATE
PRESIDENT GUNSHAUSER, OF LANCASTER
High Cost of Flour Only One of Items Leading p to Pro-
posed Increases; Ten-Cent Loaf to Be Cut; Urge
Housewives to Use Larger Size For Economy Sake

The Pennsylvania Master Bakers
Association in convention in Harris
burg yesterday afternoon recon-
nended general advance in the
prices of bread and rolls for the whole
State, the increase to take effect not
later than January and sooner where
local conditions will permit.
The new prices are to be six cents
for the same loaf that now sells re-
tail for five cents, and ten cents a
dozen for rolls that now sell from six
to eight cents dozen. There will be
no advance in the price of the ten
cent loaf of bread. but it will be a
tritle smaller in size.
In some parts of the State. embrace
ing western, eastern and northern
counties the new prices were put into
effect SIX weeks ago, but there has
been no general advance, especially in
the central section, embracing Harris
burg and surrounding cities and towns.
Bakers Losing Money
Chris G. Gunshauser, of Lancaster.
president of the Master Bakers Asso-
citation, told the representatives who
met here from almost every city and
town of size in the State, that reports
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-07

William p. Goodspeed, business man.
ager of the Buffalo Evening News and
president of the Buffalo Ad Club, was
the guest of honor and principal speak
er at luncheon of the Hamilton (Ont)
Ad Club a few days ago.
Mr.. Goodspeed predicted that owing
to the increase in the cost of white pa
per the time was not far distant when
every newspaper published in America
would not be sold for less than five
cents a copy.
The South Carolina Press Associa-
tion at a recent meeting to discuss the
paper situation, decided to increase ad-
Vertislng and subscription rates. A
statement from the association was
printed in all the newspapers of the
State, informing readers and advertis-
ers of the decision and calling upon
them for continued support.
ITO say that the news print situa-
tion has reached Il crucial period, OBJ
serves the Editor and Publisher, is 20
sum up recent development dispassion-
ately. Those news print manufacturers
who sell the bulk of their output on
annual contracts with publishers are
now considering the vital question of
what the price shall be under contract
renewals. These manufacturers have
come to the parting of the ways"