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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
WIRELESS PHONE
USES THE GROUND

San Francisco, July 17.-Dr II. Bar
ringer Cox. an inventor, announced to-
day he had perfected a subterranean
wireless telephone and that, incidental
ly, he had discovered new law of
physics-that electrical energy can be
transmitted over a single conductor.
For the last five months Dr. Cox has
been working at Los Olives, Cal, with
the U. s. forest service to perfect q
system Of wireless signals for forest
fires. It was while so engaged, he said,
that he discovered the possibilities Of
transmitting the human voice through
the ground.
The equipment consists Of an ordi-
nary telephone transmitter connected
with a battery and special instru-
ment-Dr. Cox's secret-with a ground
wire. At the receiving station, five or
fifty miles away, is q similar equip
ment. The only connection between
the two stations is the ground through
which travels the current carrying the
voice impulses.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
RURAL CREDITS
BILL IS SIGNED

Washington. D. c., July 17.-Presi
dent Wilson today signed the rural
credits bill, passed recently by con.
gress. A group of senators, represen.
tatives and officers of farmers organ.
izatlons applauded warmly as Mr.. VIII,
son affixed his signature. The meas.
ure creates system Of twelve land
loan banks under direction Of feder.
al board. ...
II can not go through the simple
ceremony Of signing this bill without
expressing the feeling that have in
signing It," said the president. 1T Is
feeling of profound satisfaction not
only, but Of real gratitude that we
have completed this piece of legisla.
ton, which l hope will be immensely
beneficial to the farmers of the coun-
try.
"The farmers, 1t seems to me, have
occupied hitherto a singular position
Of disadvantage. They have not had
the same freedom to get credit on
their real estate that others have had
who were in manufacturing and com.
mercial enterprises and while they
have sustained our life they did not
In the same degree with some others
share in the benefits Of that life.
Therefore, this bill along with the
very liberal provisions Of the federal
reserve acts put them upon an equal
ity with all others who have genuine
the Farmers Educational Cooperative
the country available to them. One
can not but feel that this is delayed
Justice to them. look forward to the
benefits Of this bill, not with extrava-
CANT expectations but with confident
expectation that it will be Of very
wide reaching benefits and incidental
ly 1t will be Of advantage to the in
vest1ng community for can imagine
no more satisfactory and solid invest
ments than this system will afford
those who have money to use"
The president used two pens in
singing the bill and gave one to Sena-
tor Fletcher Of Florida.
In addition to the number Of men,
bers of the house and senate, the sign
ing was witnessed by David Lubin, one
OF the or1ginators Of the bill, and rep
resentatives of the National grange,
the Farmers Educational Cooperative
union, the Farmers Society of Equity,
the Ancient Order of Cleaners, the
Farmers National congress and the
National Council of Farmers Cooper.
|ative associations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
FLOODS IN EAST
DESTROY HOMES
OF MANY PEOPLE
RISING WATER BRINGS DISASTER:
NINE DROWNED AND MUCH
DAMAGE IS DONE.

Raleigh, N. c., July II. Flood wat
ers which swept parts Of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennes-
see and West Virginia, taking toll of
at least nine lives, rendering hundreds
of persons homeless and doing proper
ty damage variously estimated at from
$10,OO0,000 to $15,000.00O, were reoed-
ing today.
The worst conditions obtained In
western North Carolina where the
food was described as the most dis
astrous In the history of that section.
heaviest sufferers but with train and
telegraph service badly crippled, it
probably will be several days before
the full extent of death and destruc-
ton will be determined.
Lower Asheville still was flooded TO-
day by the waters Of the French Broad
river, which yesterday swept away
mills and other manufacturing plants
and a number Of homes. Two deaths
were reported in the city proper. An
other death occurred at Biltmore, to
the east, and two score persons, includ.
ing members Of railway construction
gang who went down with bridge,
were listed as missing.
Between Asheville and Salisbury,
railway bridges were washed out on
the Catawba river and farther south
along the same river railroad and high.
way bridges were carried away. Saw
mills and other property, as we'll as
live stock, suffered.
Similar conditions obtained on the
Yadkin river around Lexington, N. c.,
and dead animals, wreckage from
mills, cotton, tobacco, oil and other de-
bris floated down the raging stream.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
CHINESE PRESENT
CRAVE PROBLEM
FOR ARMY HEADS
NUMEROUS oRiENTALs FOLLOW
THE SOLDIERS IN MEXICO TO
-. SELL SUPPLIES.

Field headquarters in Mexico, July
12.-By motor truck to Columbus, n.
M.-What to do with the three hun'
dred Chinese who have associated
themselves with the punitive expedt.
ito has developed into serious prob.
lem with the army since shortening OF
the American line in Mexico recently
revealed the large number enjoying
present security under the protection
of the American flag.
These Chinese focked to the Ameri-
can lines to make money while the
Mexicans through pride refused to sell
hungry soldiers anything to eat, or
through poverty were unable to traf.
fic with the American troops. The
Chinese stepped in and succeeded.
Many a soldier without soap secured
his first good wash by buying cake
from a Chinaman.
In the desert wherever truck train
was likely to stop for water there was
a Chinaman. Doughnuts, candy, to-
bacco, matches and fruit, which COM
prised about all the luxur1es known to
the men during this campaign, were
furnished by Chinese and by them
only. Chinese from points as far dis
tant as Chihuahua became the shop
keepers of the army, travelling In two
horse wagons with a dozen persons to
one vehicle.
Like the Mexicans who were threat.
ened for having business dealings with
the army, these Chinese lay them.
selves open to reprisals after the de-
parture Of the troops. Consequently
they have followed the army north
ward toward the border.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
ESCAP PES
CURIOUS CROWDS
AFTER ACQU|TTAL
GOES AUTO RIDING WITH HIS
BROTHER AND LITTLE MORE
Is HEARD OF HIM.

Chicago, July 17.-Will H. Orpet, &C
quilted of the murder Of Marion Lam
bert by Lake county jury at Wauke
gan Saturday night, spent yesterday
his first day Of freedom since Febru
ary II, far away from the crowds.
The young collegian arose about 6
o'clock yesterday morning and short
ly afterward, accompanied by his
mother and brother, Ed, went for q
long automobile ride in the countr.
about Lake Forest. ...-
Reports that he went in the direo
ton Of River Forest, where Miss Co
lestia Youker resides, and that he saw
the girl during the day could not be
verified. Edward O. Orpet, the father
who remained at the home on the Nc
Cormick estate, refused to disclose
the whereabouts of Will and would
neither affirm nor deny the reports re.
garding Miss Youker
One Man Dissents.
1t required five hours for the jury
to reach a unanimous verdict. One
man held out all that time, for from
believed Orpet innocent Of the crime
charged.
Orpet was in his cell at o'clock
Saturday evening when the fash came
that verdict had been reached. Court
was Immediately convened and the
acquittal verdict was read.
Orpet was silent through excess OF
emotions. He was barely able to re-
turn the handclasps of his attorneys.
He made his way to the jurors and
shook their hands one by one, smtl-
ing wanly but saying nothing.
Mrs. Orpet did not lose her self-pos-
session for second. She received the
verdict as If it were a mere matter of
routine. She noted that photogra-
pher was trying to snap a picture of
her son and herself and she warned
him, meanwhile shielding her own
face with q newspaper.
James H. Wilkerson, chief Of coun.
sci for the defense, was unable to
keep back the tears and they trickled
from his eyes when he, with his asso.
ciates, Ralph F. Potter and Leslie P.
Hanna, were receiving congratula
t1ons.
Attorneys Pleased.
"Orpet was more than declared not
guilty. He was proven innocent" "
said Mr.. Wilkerson. HE is going
home with his mother now. Then he
is going into the country for much
needed rest after the nerve racking
experience brought on him by a re-
markable, If not unprecedented, series
of circumstances. Then he will come
back home and make a man of him.
SELF"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
Berlin Admits Withdrawal
of Troops in Face of
New Russ Attacks
CZAR'S MEN TAKE
MANY PRISONERS
Britons Announce Capture
of Important Trench
in S0mme Region

British Front in France, July IT. -
The British today captured German
Eench in the neighborhood Of Pozieres.
The capture of the trench strength
ens the new British line In this v1cin-
ky.
The British also cleared out nests
Df German machine gun operators who
had been holding out in cellars and
hehind barricades in the ruins Of OWL
ers and La Boisselle. Otherwise, the
Mtuation along the British front Is un-
hanged at this hour.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
SETTLEMENT NOT MADE.

Washington, D. c., July 17-Nc
agreement has been reached as yet in
the preliminary conferences between
Acting Secretary Polk Of the state de-
partment and Eliseo Arredondo, Mex
lean ambassador designate, for settle
ment of border difficulties. Mr.. POLL
authorized this statement today.
It was indicated that the purpose ot
the informal conversations was only
to outline the procedure to be followed
in later negotiations.
A joint commission, composed OF
diplomatic, military and commercial
representatives of each government, is
expected to be the plan adopted, the
preliminary conferences also to estab
lish the specific questions to be debat
ed by the commission.
Special Agent Rodgers at Mexico
City today advised the state depart
ment that he had obtained from the
de facto government an extension until
September of the time in which min
ing taxes for the present period OF
three months might be paid.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
IMPORTANT SUCCESS.

London, July II. German second
line positions northwest of Bazentin-Le
Petit wood have been captured by the
British In storm attack, the war Of
Ice announced today. The positions
laptured in what the statement charac-
|erizes as a further important sue
bess," extended over front Of $500
tards.
A strongly held position at Waterloo
hrm. east of Longueval also was cap
mred by the British while the remain
hg strongholds Of the Germans in
bvillers and La Boisselle we're taken.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
ATTACKS REPULsED.

Paris, July II. The Germans made
wo attacks in Lorraine last night The
var report says both assaults were re-
pulsed.
The attacks in Lorraine were deliv-
Dred at a point southeast of Nomeny.
West OF Fleury the French made
Dome progress, taking three machine
kuns. A raid on a trench in the Cham
bagne occupied by Russian troops was
net successfully by a counter attack,
lausing heavy loss to the Germans.
On the Verdun front the night was
comparatively calm except in the vicin-
ty of Hill 304, where rifle firing was
brisk
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
CROOKS TURN GUNS
ON POLICE OFFICER

Chicago, July 17.-John Marshall.
Hllage marshal of LAGRANGE, a Chioa-
20 suburb, found two suspicious char
bcters in the town last night and told
hem he was a police officer. For an
liver the men each pulled revolver
Ind fired pointblank at him. Both
bullets struck him. AS he lay on the
pavement he fired four shots at the
leeing men but they escaped. Mar
lhall may die.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18

James Arthur Young, aged "a years
and living near Hedrick died at 1850
O'Clock this morning in room at the
McElroy hotel on South Market street.
Young is believed, by the attending
physician. to have died from q poison
and according to his brief ante mortem
statement it was given him In bottle
of beer by q man near railroad depot
q short time before. An inquest and
post mortem are being held at the Dag
gett undertaking parlors this after
noon.
About / o'clock Young engaged
room at the McElroy from Night Clerk
Moran and after ordering some water
melon retired to the room on the Sec
ond floor. About 2:40 o'clock Officer
AL Lightner heard someone screaming
as he passed through the alley between
Main and Second streets along side the
hotel. He made an investigation and
found that the noise was coming from
one of the rear rooms on the second
door of the building He went into the
Office and found that the screams had
attracted the night help at the hotel
and a physician had been called. Upon
.
Sergeant Alex Johnson Of the United
States recruiting office with the man.
Came To Assist. -
Sergeant Johnson lives just above
the room in which Young was i'll, and
aroused by the mans screams and
sroans, had gone to his assistance.
When he entered Young was having
one convulsion after another and was
suffering 80 much that he was not able
to talk. The officer worked with him
In an effort to produce relief but 1t was
only temporary.
He told Sergeant Johnson his name
and address and said that fellow near
the depot had given him a bottle OF
beer and had told him that he would
get even with him. Johnson tried time
and time again to get Young to tel!
him who had given him the beer or
which depot he was talking about but
as soon as he had muttered a few
words he would have another convul.
sion and scream for help.
BY the time the physician and ON.
Ger Lightner arrived Young was hav.
Ing his last spasm. He lapsed into I'M
consciousness and died almost imme-
diately. g."
Find Bottle In Alloy.
This morning the army officer found
a small vial lying in the alley at the
rear of the hotel. It could have fallen
in it's place by being thrown at an
angle from Young's room. The bottle
was turned over to the coroner by the
sergeant Whether the man drank
poison after he went to the room and
throw tho hOtt1e ont Of the Window or
whether he was given it by another
front the officers. No signs of any
poison having been in the room were
seen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
HUNTING SEA TREASURE.

New York, July ia deep sea
treasure hunting expedition financed
by wealthy New York men arrived to-
day off the Virginia capes. It's first
operations will be conducted at the
grave of the Ward line steamship Mer-
ida, which went to the bottom four
years ago carrying silver bars and 9TH
er treasure valued at more than
$1,000,OOO. The expedition is under
command of George D. Stillson, who
raised the submarine F-4 in Honolulu
harbor last year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
State Organizations That
Are Not Well Equipped
to Stay in Camps
PLENTY OF MEN AT
BORDER OF MEXICO
Soldiers in Texas Being
Put Through Drills to
Prepare for War

Washington, D. c., July IT. -Addi.
tional national guard organizations will
be dispatched to the Mexican border
only after they have been organized
and equipped thoroughly. Department
commanders we're delaying transporta-
ton of incomplete units today on in
structions from the war department.
About $4,000 men now in mobiliza-
ton camps are affected by the new or
ders, which revoke a ruling that waiv-
ed certain requirements made when
the Mexican situation appeared acute.
Some 100000 guardsmen are on the
border now These, with $4,000 reg
ulars and 5000 reserves, comprise a
force suff1cient, officials believe, to
make unnecessary the sending of more
inadequately equipped state troops.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
GERMANS WITHDRAW.

Berlin, July II. "A withdrawal of
serman troops under Gen. Won Linsin'
zen southwest Of Lutsk to point be.
hind the river Lipa is officially al
bounced by the war Office today.
An artillery bombardment of intense
fiolence is in progress at many points
rom the Somme district north to the
Yea on the western 'front.' the war OF.
Ice announced today, the German
ines being heavily pounded by the
British guns.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
KAISER At THE FRONT.

ram from Berlin says that Emperor
William Of Germany is now in the
Pomme battle sector, according to
Reuters correspondent in Amsterdam
rhe emperor has received reports
lrom the chief commander, visited
hospitals, distributed iron crosses and
made speeches, the telegram stated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
PRESIDENT HOME AGAIN.

Washington, D. c., July 17.-Presi-
dent and Mrs. Wilson returned early
today from a week end cruise In the
lower Chesapeake bay on the naval
yacht Mayfower. Relatives accompan-
led them on the trip.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
WAR COSTS HEAVY.

London, July 17.-British expendi-
lures have now reached more than six
million pounds sterling daily, Regin-
aid McKenna, chancellor Of the ex.
cheouer, today announced in the house
|of commons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
HAVE SHAM INVASION.

San Antonio, Tex, July 17.-Illinois
troops, like the others mobilized at
Camp Wilson, indulged in hypothet.
ical invasion Of Mexico today. It was
all sham except the weather, which
was hot enough for the real thing.
In the working out of the tactical
problems involved, some Of the Illini
crossed at Laredo, some at Browns.
vile, some at Ell Paso and others
landed at Vera Cruz.
The Illinois field artillery is being
hammered into shape but 1t will take
three weeks more to make regiment
Of 1t, it is said. Battery G Is boasting
4 new vehicular field kitchen which
has everything from an ice box to
twenty-five gallon thermos bottles. It
can feed $50 men at once.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
TO PROTEST ELECTION.

New York, July IT, Juan I. Jim
ines, formerly president Of San Domins
go, arrived today from San Juan, Pufs
to Rico en- route to Washington wherG
he will see President Wilson. II III
understood he comes to protexJ
against the outcome Of the recen1
elections in San Domingo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
VILLA SURROUNDED.

Ri Paso, Tex, July 17.-Gen. Cab.
rel Gavira, former commander of the
government forces in northern Chi
huahua, has left Mexico City for the
border and will assume his old COM
mand at Juarez at the end of the week,
Lieut.. Col. Leon Buclon. acting com.
mander of the garrison, announced to.
day. Gen. Gavira will relieve Gen.
Francisco Gonzales, who probably will
be assigned in charge Of the Mexican
field base at Villa Ahumada, eighty.
three miles south of Ell Paso.
Col. Buclon said that Villa is sur.
rounded in the bottoms Of the Florido
river by the de facto troops.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
RUSSIANS REPORT.

Petrograd, July II. The Russians
lre continuing their successful ad-
kance in the region Of the lower Lipa,
me war office announced today.
Prisoners taken by the Russians In
rolhynia yesterday were estimated at
hearty $4,000.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
Dubuque, July 1.-THE Mississippi

Dubuque, July 1.-THE Mississippi
river claimed two victims here late
Saturday evening-John Frantzen, sc,
farmer, and Harris Verb, 13.
FrantZen's body was recovered late
Sunday night. Verbs body was re-
covered this morning, several miles
downstream from the scene of the
drowning. s'
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18

Chanute, Kan, July II Mary Stein.
metz, 18 years old, Erma Cox, IA and
Earl Shirk. 16, were drowned in the
Neosho river near here today. The
girls waded into deep water. Shirk
went to their rescue.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
Continued on Page 81
RIVERS CLAIM VICTIMS
Summer Bathers Drown At Various
Places: WouId-Be-Resouer Sinks
Trying To Save Girls.

Davenport, July II The Mississippi
claimed another victim Sunday after
noon when Albert Kok, aged %, was
drowned while in swimming. He was
caught in an undertow and sucked be.
meath the waters. His body was recov.
cred several hours later.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
NOT TO GUARD VESSEL
United States Assumes That British
Warshlps Will Not Invade Three
Mile Limits.

Washington, D. c., July 17.-There
will be no patrol of American war
ships off the Virginia coast to see that
allied cruisers awaiting the reappear-
ance of the German merchant subma-
rine Deutschland stay outside the
three mile limit. Secretary Daniels
said today that the United States as
sumed that its territorial waters would
not be violated by the allied men Of
war and had no fear that the subma-
rine would be attacked before she
reached the high seas.
So far as can be learned, the Wash
ington government has not been noti-
fed of the Deutschland's probable
sailing but it Is believed that she will
drop down from Baltimore to some cove
in the Chesapeake bay and from there
slip to sea on the first favorable dark
night. ..
Baltimore, Nd, July 17.-After to-
morrow no more visitors will be al
lowed on board the Deutschland. This
announcement today was taken as an
indication that the underwater liner
will leave Baltimore before the middle
Of the week. Stevedores resumed
work of putting rubber and nickel into
the hold Of the submarine early to-
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-18
Hedrick Man Dies in Agony
at Local Hotel at Early
Hour This Morning
MAKES STATEMENT
JUST BEFORE DYING
Said Man Near Depot Gave
Him Bottle of Beer; Does
Not Mention Name

- The coroner finished his post
mortem examination Of Young's
body this afternoon at 8 o'clock.
No report is being made at this
time and further investigation into
the cause of the mans death will
be made by state university hos
pitaI authorities at Iowa City.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-28
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN COURT OF THE COUNTY JUDGE
POLK COUNTY, STATE OF FLOR
IDA-In re estate OF Hezekiah X.
Morehead, deceased.
To all Creditors, degatees, Distri-
butees, and all Persons Having
Claims or Demands Against Said
Estate:
You, and each Of you, are hereby
notified and required to present any
claims and demands which you, or
either of you, may have against the
estate of Hezekiah X. Morehead, de-
ceased late of Polk county. Florida,
to the undersigned administrator of
said estate, within two years from
the date hereof
Dated Feb. 2Sth, A. d. 1916.
JOB COLBERT,
$500 Administrator.