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Arizona republican., 1916-01-02

The lid has been clamped down tight on gambling in Phoenix. More than that the ban has been placed on card games having even the semblance of gambling. Eleven places where card games were in progress. or where they are known to be permitted. were closed with a bang last night when Chief of Police George O. BrisbOis made a per sonal visit to each of the eleven estab- lishments and notified the proprietors that the games must cease. Despite protests in almost every instance. and assurances that no gambling was being permitted, the head of the police de- partment was insistent that the play ing of cards must cease.
 IL all came about after conference held late yesterday afternoon between Mayor George |. Young, City Attorney George D. Christy and Chief Brisbois It was the culmination of a quiet in
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
HENRY FORD REACHES HOME
 LEAVING PEACE PARTY BEHIND

and will dock in Brooklyn about Q o'clock MT Ford probably will leave the vessel at Quarantine. It was said last night that preparations have been made by Dudley Field Ma lone, collector of the port. to go down the bay early this morning to meet the returning pacificist
 MT. Ford's wife and his son, Edsal Ford arrived here yesterday after noon, accompanied by several friends. to await his arrival. It is expected the party will leave for Detroit some time this afternoon.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
WIFE FIRES FATAL
 SHOT AT HUSBAND

ALAMEDA. Calif.. Jan. 1.-Enrico D'Agostini. IS years old, an employe in the San Francisco office of the French American Steamship company, was shot and killed tonight by his 2S-year-Old wife Jesusiti. during an .altercation concerning household eN- penses.
 After firing the shot Mrs. D'Agos- tini telephoned to the police and. ac- cording to the authorities. confessed. She told the police that she had ac- cidentally pulled the trigger while threatening her husband who she said. was attempting to strike her and their two young children She was arrested.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
GEORGIA LED IN
 1915 LYNCHINGS
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MONTGOMERY, Jan. 1.-Lynchings in the United States in 1915 numbered sixty nine as recorded at Tuskegee Institute and announced today. This was seventeen more than in 1914.
 Georgia led the states with eighteen Iynchings. Mississippi was second. with nine Fifty-five persons lynched were negroes and IA whites The year before 49 were negroes and three were whites. Three women were 1915 mob victims.
 Tn four instances, according to the Tuskegee records innocent persons were put to death by mobs as proved by later events.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
NINETEEN SIXTEEN
 NAMED HUNG HIN
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Yuan Shi Kai, head of the Chinese govern ment, following the example of his predecessors. has given the new year the name Hung Hin, according to cablegrams received here today from Peking China. bya Chinese newspaper
 In the past it was the custom. the Chinese say, for each emperor. on taking the throne, to confer upon the year of his accession a name by which that year and each succeeding one of his reign shall be known
 Yuan Shi Raj has announced that he would take the throne of China as emperor in January 1916.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-OfficiaI Washington tonight anxiously awaited details of the torpedoing Of the British steamship Persia, on which American citizens were known to have embarked.
 While it was realized that re- ports expected from consular and diplomatic representatives might show that the submarine comman- der was justified in sinking the vessel, officials were not inclined to minimize the gravity of the sit uation confronting the United States should it develop that there has been a violation Of American rights. New dangers, it was admit ted, threatened the relations be- tween the United States and the central powers which seemingly had just been placed on the road to satisfactory adjustment by the assurances contained in Austria's reply to the second Ancona note.
 Should it develop that the sub marine was of Austrian nationality, as there apparently is ground for believing, the Vienna government will be given every opportunity 10 explain. Meantime, the state de- Partment desires that it be de- termined definitely whether the Persia tried to escape; whether the torpedo was fired at her after or be- fore she had stopped; whether warning was given; and whether the passengers had sufficient time ir which to leave the vessel.
 Only two official dispatches con
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
AMERICAN CONSUL
 IS ON BOARD
Meager Reports Indicate That Many Passengers and Members of the Crew Probably Perished When Ship Went Down
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 LONDON, Jan. ]. - The British passenger steamer Persia, with two or more Americans on board, was sunk Thursday in the East eln Mediterranean by a sub marine. It is feared that the disaster, from a stand point of loss of life among non-belligerent voyage IFS. will rank second only to the sinking of the Lusitania.
 Unofficial figures indicate that there were about 16O passengers on board the Per sia and between 250 and 300 members of the crew. Four boats, each capable of carry ing sixty persons, got away, and their occupants were picked up by a steamer bound for Alexandria.
 Robert McNeelv of Mon roe, \. C., who was on his way to take office as Amer ican consul at Alden, Arabia, and Charles Grant of BOs- ton, were OH the Persia.
 In addition to the passen- gers who sailed from Lon don, a large number cm- parked at Marseilles. The total booked at these points was 231. Of these, 87 were women and p children.
 The Persia was a steamer of 7,974 gross tons and was owned by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation company of London. She sailed from Bombay, No vember II, for London, and was last reported as leaving Gibraltar on December ?.
 The scene of the catastro- phe, between the island of Crete and Alexandria, re- gently has been the grave yard of a number of fine ships, and only a few weeks ago the American tan k steamer Petrolite narrowly escaped the guns of a sub marine there.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
PAV- AMERICAN CONGRESS Is
 CEMElIT|NIG FRIENDLY RELATIONS

good in cementing the good friendship of the American peoples. The hospi- tality shown by the United States on the one hand and the respective chord it has found among the visitors, on the other. were features generally recog- nized as almost historic in their sig nifiCance.
 Among specific developments of the weeks sessions the delegates have been particularly impressed by Secretary Lansing's advocacy in an address of a American nism that would mean 'One for all. all for ore" and by the speech of Elihu Root, a former secre- tary of state, in which he told the Latin American delegates that 'so long as the spirit of American freedom shall continue. il shall range us side bv side with you great and small. for the maintainance of the rights of nations. 2"
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 1-The first week of the Pan-American Scientific Congress ended tonight with a recep- ton to delegates by the board of gov ernors' of the Pan American Union The function, held at the Pan-Ameri- can building, was of a semi-official character. and reflected prominently the marked trend toward cultivation of closer relations between the American repr9lics which has characterized all of th9 sessions of the congress.
 Ma ny of the visiting delegates. who include leaders in the political and scientific thought of Latin America. declared their belief that the meeting here. aside from the results/ of the many intricate discussionS~of scientific Gaily at the score or-rnore of sub-sec- tional sessions, had accomplished vast
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
BOMB FOUND IN
 BOSTON CAPITOL
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BOSTON, Jan. 1.-An unsuccessful attempt to dynamite the state house was made today. A bomb containing four pounds of explosive had been at tached to a basement door and a fuse lighted but the flame apparently died before reaching the detonator.
 Had the explosion occurred. in the opinion of the police the building would have been greatly damaged. The fact that tarred rope was used as a fuse. according to investigators. indicated that the bomb was the work a novice.
 A scrub woman discovered the bomb this morning. The police took it to a suburb and there discharged the dynamite.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
RE|UVENATED RUSSIAN ARMY IS ATTACKING
 AUSTRLANS M GALICLA
'OSAGE INDIANS
 ARE CITIZENS

PAWHUSKA. Okla, Jan. l. Oklahoma received a New Years gift of 2,229 citizens, each of whom is worth S3O0 900 when Judge Hen ry Hudson handed down a decision today holding that all Osage In dians were full citizens of the United States and as such Were entitled 10 all rights. privileges and immunities granted in the fourteenth constitutional amend ment. The decision gives the 2,229 members of the Osage tribe complete control over their per sOnal properties.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
CONSUL M'NEELY PROBABLY
 LOST WITH TIE PERSIA

CHARLOTTE N C.. Jan. 1-Robert Ney McNeely, the United States consul board the topedoed ship Persa accompanied aboard by his brother, Dowd McNeey, until recently editor of the WaXhaw (N @ Enterprise it was stated at Monroe tonight DoWd McNeey said to have been his brothers secretary.
 Robert McNcelv was born near WaXhaw in 1884, He educated at the University of North Carolina and prac
 ced law here before entering the consular He had been member of both houses of the North Carolina general assembly.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
CHICAGO HAD BIG
 LOSSES BY FIRE
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CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The fire loss of Chicago in 1915 was $5,153,784, accord ing to the report of Chief O'COnnor today. Chicago's firemen responded to 13,63l alarms in 1915 and in 1914 they made l4,977 runs. This decrease of 1436 fires was ascribed to three causes:
 The heavy rain during the summer months. the work of the fire preven- ton bureau in stimulating greater precautions against fire; the arrests and convictions of members of the arson trust
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
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GREENFIELD. Mass, Jan. 1.- Francis M. Thompson. who was prominent in the pioneer days of Montana and who designed the of ficial shield of that state. died sud- denly at his home here tonight He was formerly judge of the probate court of this county.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
EDITOR AND AUTHOR IS DEAD
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1-f1dward Lyman Bill died today at New Rochelle. in his fifty-fourth year. He was born at Lyme, Conn. He was editor and pub fisher of the Musical Trade Review. the Talking Machine World and Fl Mundo. He was also 1. fiction writer.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
WASHINGTON IS ANXIOUSLY WAITING FUR DETAILS IF.
 TORPEDQING IF PERSIA

cerning the sinking Of the Persia were received by the state depart nent today. These were from Consul General Skinner at London and the information they contained virtually was identical with that in press dispatches. Copies immedi- ateIy were transmitted to President Wilson at Hot Springs, and the department dispatched requests for inform ation to it's representatives in Alexandria, Egypt ana other points where survivors might be landed or details of the attack might be available from other sources.
 One American citizen aboard the Persia was Robert McNeely. newly appointed consul at Alden. The be- lief was expressed in offici7l circles tonight that had he escaped some report would have been forwarded by him. ss more than two days had elapsed since the vessel went down.
 In the absence Of specific details Secretary Lansing tonight declined to comment upon the sinking of the Persia. He mace clear that until the nationality of the subma rine had been definitely established and the circumstances of the at tack were known, no action would be taken.
 It was realized that, had an Aus trIan submarine destroyed the yea sel. the Vienna government might offer the explanation that there had not been sufficient time for new instructions conforming to the as-
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
MANY OFFICERS GO DOWN WITH NATAL
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LONDON. Jan. 1.-Seventeen off i- cers, including Captain Eric Back and Chaplain Algernon s. O. Sweet and nine warrant officers. were lost when the cruiser Natal sank Thurs day while in harbor' as the result of an internal explosion.
 Captain Back is remembered for his connection. in 1913, with a sprint of 100 yards against Rear Admiral Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot, made in fulfillment of bet by them twenty years previously. Rear Admiral Ar buthnot was 49 years old and Cap tain Back 4S. The race was run at Portsmouth, England. and Captain Back won by yard in the excel lent time of 12 seconds.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The Norwe- gian- American liner Bergensfiord, on which Henry Ford is returning from his peace mission to Europe. arrived at Quarantine at 125O this morning
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
SECOND ONLY ID LUSITAN|A DISASTER, IS TORPEDOING OF
 THE BRITISH LINER PERSIA

British Passenger Steamer With Two or More Amer jeans Aboard is Sunk in Eastern Mediterranean by Submarine
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
VOTE DOWN OFFER IF
 AN INCREASE.

Mine Managers Agree to Resume Operations in the Clifton-MOrenci District if Western Federation of Miners is Eliminated
Arizona republican., 1916-01-02
OIL BOAT BURNED
 AT SAN JUAN DOCK
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SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Jan. 1.-The American schooner Forest City. with a cargo of palm oil, burned at her dock here today. The Forest City was bound from Calabar on the west coast of Africa, to New York.
 The Forest City, disabled by storms and with eleven of her crew suffering from beri-beri, reached san Juan on December 13 after a seventy one day voyage from West Africa.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24
Home Garden Movement.
New York Press. }

There are various angles from which
to praise the home garden work, which
teaches things that can not De learned
inside a classroom. The youth gets
the JOY of seeing things grow He
acquires a capital ccunter-irritant for
TIE supposedly artificial atmosphere Of
the apartment house. He comes into
touch with the laws of nature, the
pulse of living things, the creative
forces. He works in good. whole
some earth. He learns something Of
where his food comes from. He loses
the illusion of the tin can, Theoretically
sealed, germ proof, wax paper school
of household economy.
Many of US must live in cities. and
living in them does not bring half the
evils that the back to the farm adj
vocates would have us believe. But
we make the cities difficult to live in
by not doing the things that these
home garden children are doing
holding our feet on the ground and
keeping in touch with mother earth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24
ROAD
employees TO HAVE
INCREASE IN WAGES
Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville
Street Railway Makes Volun-
tary Increase to Take Effect
June LIST, in Appreciation of
Loyal and Faithful Service of
Employees

Announcement was made Tuesday
that commencing Thursday, June 1, Of
the current year the wages Of conduc-
tors and motormen in the employ of
the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville
Street Railway will be computed on the
following scale:
First year men % cents per hour;
second year men "a cents per hour;
third year men % cents per hour;
fourth year men and thereafter IS
cents per hour; express car, gravel
car and snow pillow men cents addi-
additional per hour.
The notice which has been posted
also states that this is voluntary
increase on the part Of the company
and is given in appreciation of the 10y
al and faithful service rendered by the
employees of the company, and we trust
it will result in redoubled efforts on
the part of the employees to increase
the business of the company SO that
we shall be in a position to more cas-
lily meet this increased expense" The
notice is signed by A. H. Ford, vice
president and general manager.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24
MRS. EMMA WALL
TAKES LIFE MONDAY
NIGHT BY HANGING
Body Discovered Tuesday Morn
ing in the Cellar but Had Ey-
identity Been Hanging for
Some Hours-It Is Thought
Woman Became Despondent
Through Grief over Loss of
Husband and Child

Mrs. Emma ]. Wall, widow Of the
late James Wall, took her life some
time Monday night by hanging her
self in the cellar of her home at No.
Federal street, into which house she
and her family had moved but a short
time ago from SO Capitol street. The
body was found by a member Of the
family and cut down but life was ex-
tinct and evidently had been for sever
al hours. Medical Examiner w. H.
Harris was summoned but on his ar
rival found it to be so clearly a case
of self-destruction that no inquest
was deemed necessary. Mrs. Wall
was 40 years of age and four children,
two sons and two daughters, survive.
Funeral services will be held at
o'clock Thursday afternoon at ST.
Marks Episcopal church.
In speaking Tuesday of the death Of
Mrs. Wall, Rev. Victor o. Anderson,
rector Of st. Marks, expressed the
opinion that she had been respondent
since the death Of her husband a year
ago and the death of a child later,
and had so brooded over her grief as
to affect her mind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Bubar and
their way across the continent by au-
tomobile, arrived in the city Tuesday
and are guests of Rev. and Mrs. w.
J. Layton at the Methodist parson-
age. They are making the trip in their
Paige car and will continue their jour-
ney today, going first to Portland.
From Portland they will go to Michi-
gan, Ontario, Colorado and thence to
Rosebury, Oregon, their destination.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24
Farthest NortI, Railroad.
american c. ntractor)

A railroad is projected for Finnish
Lapland in order to make available
deposits of iron ore in that region.
The first portion to be built, If the
scheme materializes, probably will be
from the village Of Rovaniemi, con-
nected by rail already with the port of
Kemi, on the Gulf of Bothnia, and
Sukuvaara, eighty-seven miles distant
From Sukuvaara further extensions of
the line may be built to the mouth of
the Media river, on the Arctic ocean,
whence Finland would be enabled to
export iron ore all the year round
Eleven miles of this link would be
in Norwegian territory. The total
lenth Of the line, which would be one
Of the farthest north in the world
would be ESQ miles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

Friends of Miss Katherine B. Will
liams will regret to learn that she is
confined to her home in Bowdoinham
suffering from a fracture Of the right
arm. Miss Williams had been at home
over Sunday and on Monday was driv-
ing to the station to take the train
which reaches Augusta at noon, when
the horse became frightened at an
automobile and during the plunging Of
the animal she was thrown from the
carriage. striking on the ground in
such a way as to sustain a bad frac-
ture Of the arm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

At the meeting and drill Of Co. NJ
in City hall Monday evening. seven
new men were taken into membership
and some good work was done in the
drills The prospects for large COM
pany are now excellent. and large
number Of recruits have been pledged.
who will probably come in next Mon
day evening. The movement now on
foot to recruit the company to it's full
strength is having good results. MANY
Of the young business men of the city
having taken hold of the work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

The county commissioners, John G.
Yeaton Of Winthrop. Morrison Libby
Of Oakland and Henry F. Cummings
Of Manchester, held their regular
meeting Tuesday forenoon at the court
house and among the business trans
acted approved small number of
bills. AS next Tuesday is Memorial
day the commissioners adjourned I'M
til Tuesday, June 6. The commission
ers will go this morning to Winslow,
where hearing will be held before
them on the petition Of the selectmen
Of that town asking them to establish
the bounds Of a road
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24
DIED.
CUMBERLAND,

-
Portland-May %. Virginia H. Jordan
aged 70 years; Phillip N. Hodgson, aged
year.
Westbrook-May %, James w. Hickey
Gray-May Il. Celia E. Whitney Dough-
ty, aged 60 years.
Pownal-May n, Sarah c. Noyes. aged
81 years.
KENNEBEC.
Togus-May % John Brassau, aged 7C
years; George +. Bird, aged S. years.
PENOBSCOT.
Bangor-May 90 Frederick w. Daley.
Clifton-May q, Laura D. Penney, aged
SIS years.
Newburg-May q, Mrs. Nancy I. Smith,
aged 70 years.
SAGADAHOC.
Richmond-May %, Isabella Sweet, aged
66 years.
SOMERSET.
North Cornville-May %, Mrs. Robert
WALDO.
Troy Center-May 10, Horace Varney.
aged SO years.
Biddeford-May q, Helen Theresa
O'Meary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

when properly presented to them. In
fact, it is fairly safe to say that In
diana would have acted on the question
already were the dunes region not
somewhat remote from the states CEN
tiers of population and more active
civic thought.
1t is doubtful if the majority of the
people of Indiana realize what an I'M
usual region their state contains in the
dunes country, both in respect to its
flora and in it's practical exemption 50
far from human interference with
natural conditions. The district along
the lake shore from Gary eastward to
Michigan City is about the most primi-
tive bit of wilderness that still remains
in the middle west SO close to a great
city and busy lines of traffic.
That it has not long ago been occu-
ried by settlers it owes to the stcrilitJ'
of its soil, its lack of anything even
resembling a natural harbor for ship
ping, and its restitution Of natural
products of market value. It's timber
is of little use in industry. About the
only thing that men can get money for
out of it is sand, useful chiefly for
railway entertainments and the like.
However, the railways ought to be
able to get plenty Of filling stuff"
elsewhere and their convenience seems
no good reason for permitting the des-
truction of the most notable bit of
wilderness left in Indiana and near
Illinois. Among the things that pos
terity is entitled to lu:ow is something
of the kind of country that was Con
tended with by the explorers and
pioneers who won the west for civili
cation AS an illustration of history,
if for no Their reason the dunes should
lie preserved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

The three-masted schooner Lizzie J.
Call, Capt. Dunton, arrived at Augusta
at $50 Tuesday evening in tow of the
tug Ariel, coal laden for the Laliberte
Bros. Co., and was made fast to the
company'S wharf.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

About 20 young people gathered
Monday evening at % North Chestnut
street and gave Miss Margie Norton a
birthday surprise party, presenting
her with a very pretty pendant and
chain. Games were played and light
refreshments served, and the party
broke up at a late hour, after having
passed a very pleasant evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-24

fast game of baseball was played
at the Trotting park diamond Tuesday
afternoon. when the Smith school nine
defeated the team from the Stone street
Grammar school by the score of 10 to ).
The battery for the Smith team was
Samuel and Kane, for Stone street.
Quimby and Croker.