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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-02-10
Rome Declares King
Albert Has Refused
Gernany's Plan.
INDEMNITY OFFER
For Invasion of Kingdom Is
Turned Down-Berlin Says
French First Line Falls.

Rome, Italy.-The Giornale Ditalia
states today that Monsianor Tacci
Porcelli, the papal nuncio to Bel
2ium, has presented to Belgium Ger
maEy's proposals for separate
peace. Whether he was authorized
to do so by the vatican, says the
newspaper, has not been asccrtaincti.
Ii is said that Germany, through
inent personages, has indicated the
terms she is ready TO offer Belgium
for the concluding of separate peace
compromise. They arc the restora-
ton of Belgium to the government of
Hing Albert, the payment of Il large
indemnity for damages caused by
invasion and occupation. She asks
i'll return economical and commercial
privileges which would practically
transform the port of Antwerp into
a German center of traffic.
To these proposals Belgium is said
to have replied With Il prompt re-
fusal and II declaration of her inten-
ton to adhere to the Allies and not
to conclude separate peace.
Statements regarding efforts be-
ing made to induce Cardinal NEcrcier
to use his influence i'll favor OF the
proposals for II separate peace also
have been made, but it is asserted
they have been entirely in vain.
Cardinal Mcrcicr is living in strict
retirement i'll Rome, where he re-
ceivcs no visitors,
First Line Taken.
Berlin, Germany-The capture of
the first line of the French positions
over front of 500 yards to the
west of Vimy is announced by the
war office.
Persians Rcpulse Russ.
Berlin, Germany -Constantinople
reports, announced by the Overseas
News Agency, state that the Russian
forces in Persia have met with a Sc
we're defeat at the hands of Persian
tribesmen and that they retreated in
disorder.
Miners Oppose CONSUMPTION.
Lancaster, England.-At the min
ers' conference here today the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted:
"The conference expresses its opposi-
ton to the spirit of conscription
and determines to exercise a vigil
ant scrutiny of any proposed extern
sion of the military service act
Russ fake Offensive.
Berlin, Germany.-The Russians
are again on the aggressive in Cali
cia according to yesterdays state-l
ments from Austria Hungarian head
quarters.
In one attack on infantry positions
northwest of Tarnopol the Russians
temporarily succeeded in entering
the position attacked, according toI
the statement, but were shortly AT
ter elected.
kaiscr's Son Wounded.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oscar of Prussia fifth son of Emper-
or William, has been slightly wound
ed in the head and on the upper part
of the thigh by shell splinters during
the fighting in the eastern war thea
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HOSIERY TlaAT TAJ,Ks.

Palm Beach, Fla Conversation
stockings displayed yesterday in the
hotel shops and seen last night at
the ball are the latest in hosiery.
Some are hand made lace and cost
500 pair. One has mouse at the
skirt line. while its mate says Watch
your step" Another says Delight
ed" while its companion shows a
clock face with the hands at IL and
tho wnrdc ssGno5 ,,iulf -
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BELGIUM REJECTS
PEACE, WILL STAND
WITH THE ENTENTE

ter, according to Berlin official re-
port received here.
Prince Oscar was wounded at vir-
ton, Belgium, in September. 1914.
lie Was i'll for Il long time and was
declared to be suffering from an af-
fection OF the heart. He returned to
duty in the field in November, 1914,
and narrowly escaped capture the
Following month during the fighting
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-02-10

Pierre. S. D.-Three bills to cor
rect the primary law We're introduc-
ed in the house at last nights ses-
sion, one for an APPROPRIATION cover
ing the cost of the session, and one
bill by the committee on elections
was introduced in the senate.
Representative Anderson of Clark
offered the hill recommended by the
governor in his message Representa-
tive ]. G. Mcfarland of Codington
introduced bill patterned on the
Minnesota presidential primary, as
an amendment to the present primary
referring to national convention dele
gates. The bill provides for the name
of the candidates for president to go
on the ballot on petition of three per
cent of the voters. Under the can
didates name would go the names of
delegates who are bound by law to
support that candidate. though a
straight presidential, primary bill if
would be part of his general primary
law
Senator Browne of Brown, intro
duced resolution expressing esteem
for his late colleague, Senator Wal
ter f. Van Denmark. Addresses will
be made Thursday, when the resolu-
ton will be considered a special or
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-02-10
LEGISLATORS DOWN
TO BUSINESS WITH
THREE BILLS AHEAD
Trio of Proposed Stat
utes Reported For
Consideration.
ADJOURN FRI AY
This Is Plan, If Action Can
Be Secured-Shober Wants
Cummins Delegation,
ADJOURN FRI AY

Pierre, S. D.--The forces
backing mixed delegation to
the Republican national conven-
ton are in control, and among
the possibilities of the makeup
of the delegation are Governor
Byrne and the formers govern
ors Crawford, Herreid and Ell
rod
A resolution for constitu-
tional amendment is due in the
House this afternoon to wipe
out the provisions preventing
the state from engaging in in
ternal Improvement, to allow
the state to take advantage of
the national roads law.
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Ixaiscr's Son Wounded.
Amsterdam, Netherlands.-Pri
Oscar of Prussia, fifth son of Emper-
or William, has been slightly wound
ed in the head and on the upper part
of the thigh by shell splinters during
the fighting in the eastern war thea
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-02-10

lCnnti,,llea on naga.al
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-02-10

In one attack on infantry positions
northwest of Tarnopol the Russians
temporarily succeeded in entering
the position attacked, according to
the statement, but were shortly at
ter elected
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
have survived the ages. They stand,

have survived the ages. They stand
today unchanged and unchallenged
They comprise the first great written
law given by God to man. Before
these few commandments all man
made laws fade into insignif1cance
Teach them to your boy. There is dan
ger ahead ii you do not. .-.
The universal drift of mankind ia to-
ward decadence. Heredity pays its
premium and also exacts its discount
The son Of a good father and an affec
tomato mother, brought up in an at
mosphere Of parental regard. never
VIII disgrace the family.
The boys Of today are to be the men
or tomorrow: The destinies OF the
American people are to be in the hands
Of their sons. II the boys are taught
respect for the law (both human and
div1ne), obedience to authority. manly
Independence and the fear of God this
great nation will be noble monument
to mans capacity for self government
and self control at time when all the
world is seething cauldron Of unrest
nnreason and disbelief
Teach your boy to- rule. but first to
rule himself.-John A. Sleicher in Les
lies Weekly,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
RILEY WAS SENSITIVE.
Why He Stopped Reciting One Of HE
Poems In Public.

AS an Illustration Of Riley's sensi-
tive nature" said Melville f. Stone,
"Jim and | went alone to the theater
to see Sol Smith Russell. who also be-
lonsed to the Saints and Sinners Cor
ner. He was playing The Poor Rela.
ton In the play was a scene where
Russell took young boy and put him
in barrel while he removed his trou-
sers to mend them. The audience
roared with laughter. at the comic sit
uation. Next to. me in the box. sat
James Whitcomb. Riley. sobbing as if
his heart would break. He saw no
humor in the plight of the little boy.
To him it was pathos.
HE, like Eugene Field, was devoted
to children. He loved them, but he
loved them artistically. am not sure
that personally-that is, mind you.
hanging to a mans coattails-they Ell
Their of them wanted children around.
They lacked the patience necessary for
daily contact with children. Riley and:
Field could write notwithstanding verse
in respect Of children and put into
them an tnOrdinate amount Of human
sympathy, but so far as l know this
was at arms length from the young
STEERS themselves, especially in Fields
case. Riley was ever exceedingly SYM
pathetic. One evening Jim was recit-
ing his poem, A Happy Little Cripple '
before large audience. He had scarce
ly begun the lines
I'm thist little crippled boy an never
goin' to grow
An git great big man at ALL cause
aunty told me so.
When was thist a baby onc't / failed
out of the bed =.
An got the ,curv'ture Of the spine'-'ats
what the doctor said
when he noticed a man and a woman
in the audience leaving the hall. He
made inquiry and found out that they
had little lame child of their own
much like the one he was describing.
He resolved never to recite that poem
in public again."-New York Post.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19

The Minneapolis School of Music.
Oratory and Dramatic Art is now
occupying it's new building, $685.
Eleventh Street, South, located in
the: music and dramatic centre OF
Minneapolis, and in the largest
building devoted to this purpose in
the Northwest. The new school
auditorium will be completed by the
first of October and public recep-
ton and concert by members of the
faculty are being planned. The
directors, William H. Pontius and
Charles NJ. Holt, report an encour-
aging enrolment. The school has
hadfa remarkable growth during the
past ten years and is now generally
recognized as one of the. leading In
stitutions of the country. The cur
riculum is complete, offering courses
In Voice, Piano, Viblin, Organ,
Orchestral Instruments, Harmony,
Composition, Public School Music,
Dramatic Art, Expression, Stage
training. Public Reading. Superior,
Normal Training Courses supply
teachers for schools and colleges.
The school has extensive lyceum
Affiliations. The faculty comprises
- eminent artist teachers. Pupils
may encol!-at any time. An illus
trated cataiog is mailed free.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
GUIDE YOUR BOY NOW.

Keep Him on the Road That Leads 20
.-. the Highest Citizenship.
This is good time to think Of yo1r
boy. If you do not look after him In
the right way some one will do it in
the wrong way. Begin now.
Teach your boy to follow in the foot
steps of his father, to respect the law,
to obey his parents, to regard the
rights Of all men, to honor virtue, to
respect womanhood and to depend
upon no one but himself for his adj
vancement
Teach him that the Golden Rule Of
life will be found in the Ten Com
man1dments. They are short. They
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
Cooking Eggs.

Eggs should never be cooked" SAYS
culinary expert. THAT sounds odd.
but it is true. They should Simply be
CONCEALED with slow heat. Every.
where hear complaints about souf1es
and ome1ets. They fall or they never
rise. But all THAT trouble could be
avoided il the cooks only understood
the relation of heat to eggs. The TEN
perature should always be below the
boiling point when eggs come in con-
tact with the water. Then the heat
will gradually penetrate the egg. The
result will be u creamy mass instead
Of a hard and tough lump. That is the
main principle in regard to eggs. and
If that is followed cooks will not be
bewailing about their fiat o1nalets.'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
Spanish Etiquette.

There is a curious story of how the
Duke dAosta when king of Spain told
a muleteer to whom he was talking to
cover himself, the sun being hot, for
getting that by so doing he made the
muleteer a grandee. Marshal Prim, to
prevent this catastrophe, knocked the
mans hat out Of his hand, and, ac-
,cording to some. the muleteer had
something to do with >Prim's assassina-
ton that followed soon afterward.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
Got Familiar With Than.

Professor Fugue - What do You
mean, Mr.: Jones, by speaking of Dick
Wagner, Ludie Beethoven, Charlie
Gounod and Fred Handel? Jones'
Well, you told me to get familiar with
the great unprecedented Amer
lea.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
Just Chance.

Mrs Bacon-Does your husband car.
~ any life insurance? Mrs. Egberf-
Well, never happened to run against
any when I've been going through his
pockets at night.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19
Children and Readino.

That the child who reads rapidly gets
the most thought out Of the books read
e the result Of every experiment that
has been made in this line.-Miss Mary
Downey at Chautauqua,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19

Put mark (x) opposite the constitutional anae
wish to vote for against the nica
by the arrow. a.>-.,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-10-19

Amendment to Section seven CD Article six (6), of
the constitution of the State of Minnesota providing
for extension of the term of Office of the probate Judge
to four (4) years. ..
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
SWEDENS NOTE ON BLOCf ABE
ASKS AMERICAS AID IN MAIN
TANNING NAVIGATION.
Against British "Violations
of international Law" by Seiz-
ing Mail.

Washington, Feb. 19.-Another note
from Sweden has been addressed to
the state department, through Minis
ter Ekengren, appealing to the Unit
ed States for cooperation with the
Swedish government and other neu-
trail nations to maintain navigation.
Following is the text of the note:
"Of late the British authorities have
violated the mail traffic. Parcel post
from one neutral country to another
is being u%nloaded in British ports and
the contents are being seized.
The royal government therefore
now appeals to the government of the
United States for cooperation for the
purpose of seeking to bring about a
discrimination of the violations of in
ternational law, at least so far as the
same concerns first-class mails"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
CROWD ASSAILS CLERGYMAN
Hundred Men and Women Are Held
Back With Revolvers After
Service.

Minneapolis, Feb. 21.-Racing to St.
Constantine's Ruthenian Catholic
church in response to a riot call, 40
policemen In three automobile patrol
wagons found Detectives Doherty and
Mcclure of the East Side station hold
ing a crowd of 100 men and women at
bay with their r%evolvers.
The Rev. Michael Prodan, pastor of
the church, stood backed against a
basement wall with the detectives.
The plain clothes men were threaten
ing to shoot any person who. advanced.
Shouts of BLOW the church," and
"Kill the priest!" were heard as the
reserves entered the church basement.
The trouble resulted from internal
disturbances in the congregation, ac-
cording to Father Prodan, who said
two or three men were responsible.
He said he would ask warrants for
their arrest.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
SCHMIDT IS ELECTROCUTED
Unfrocked Priest Pays Death Penalty
For Alleged Confessed Murder of
Anna Aumuller, Sept. 2, 1918.

Ossinning, N. Y, Feb. 19.-Hans
Schmidt has been electrocuted at
Sing Sing for the murder of Anna
Aumuller Sept 2, 1913. Schmidt went
quietly to the death chamber, ac-
companied by the principal keeper and
Rev. Father Cashin, the prison chap
lain. When he entered the chamber,
the guards attempted to direct him to-
ward the chair but Schmidt insisted
upon addressing the IL witnesses.
With Father Cashin standing a one
side and the keeper a the other,
Schmidt said: Gentlemen / ask for
g%iveness of all those / have injured
or scandalized. I forgive all who
have injured me. My last wish is to
"a goodby to my dear old mother"
Schmidt then seated himself In the
electric chair and the current was ap.
piled three times.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK
SIX INJURED IN NORTHERN PAci-
FIG COLLISION.
Dead and Injured Taken From South
Cheney to SeattIe-Cause of
Accident Unknown.

Spokane. Wash, Feb. %. - Five
persons were killed and six injured,
three seriously when Northern Paci-
fc passenger train No. 2, known as
the North Coast Limited, eastbound,
crashed into the rear end of Northern
Pacific Burlington train No. AZ, east
bound, at South Cheney, Washington,
II miles from Spokane. The dead and
injured, all of whom are from the
Northwest, were brought to Spokane.
Cause of Accident Unknown.
The cause of the accident has not
been a~scertained.
The dead: Fulton Fulmer, state
chemist, Pullman, Wash; /. ]. Min
mich, deputy grain inspector, Spokane,
Wash; B. l.. Berkeley, Portland, Ore;
j. ]. White, Spokane, Wash; Lee M.
Conroy, travelling passenger agent,
Northern Pacific, Spokane, Wash.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAISY-TRY THIS!
Says glass Of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

" To see the tinge of healthy bloom
in your face, to e your skin get
clearer and clearer, to wake up with
out a headache, backache, coated
tongue or a nasty breath, in fact to
feel your best, day In and day out, just
try inside-bathing every morning for
one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink a
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it
as a harmless means of washing from
the stomach. liver, kidneys and bowels
the previous days indigestible waste,
SOU bile and toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action Of
hot water and limestone phosphate GA
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
MIGRATING. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases and acidity and
gives one a splendid appetite for
breakfast.
A quarter pound of limestone phos-
pAotO VIII SoSI NCiy iiIIlo at yOui uIu6-
gist OF general store, but Is suffi Gent
to demonstrate that just as soap and
hot water c~leanses, sweetens and
freshens the skin, so hot water and
limestone phosphate act on the blood
and internal organs. Those who are
subject to constipation, bilious attacks,
acid stomach, rheumatic twinges, also
those whose skin is sallow and COM
plexion pallid, are assured that one
week of inside.bathing will have them
both looking and feeling better in ev-
cry way.-Adv.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
OKLAHOMA SOLONS IN FIGHT
Republican Chairman is Knocked Un-
conscious-Terns "liar" and
"Crook" Start Melee.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Feb. 21.-Tu-
multuous scenes occurred in the Okla
homa house of representatives while
the members were voting on a section
OF an election law designed to take the
place of the famous Grandfather law"
which recently was declared unconsti-
tutional by the United States supreme
court, because it, in effect, disfran-
chised the negro population of the
state.
Arthur HI. Geissler, chairman of the
Republican state central committee,
was knocked unconscious by Represen-
tative Loris e. Bryant, of Big Heart,
Usage county.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
rCASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.

~SAAS ~ NV
No odds how bad your liver, stomach
pr bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort-
lble you are from constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 1O-cent box means health, bappi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
II you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a cleansing. too. Adv.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
SLAvS TAKE ENORMOUS BOOTY
Petrograd Reports Captured City Of
Erzerum Was Turks Provision.
ing Center in Asia Minor,

Petrograd, via London, Feb. 81
The latest reports received here from
Erzerum says that the amount of
booty including provisions and ammu-
milton captured in the city is emo
nous. The Turks had evidently pre-
pared for a long struggle and had
turned Erzerum into the provisioning
center in Asia Minor.
The war office communication says:
The completeness of the defeat sus-
tanned by the Turks and the terrible
losses they suffered in the Erzerum
fighting are becoming more and more
clear. The forts in the fortress itself
and in the surrounding country are
full OF Turkish dead"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
Hindu Troops In Egypt MutIny

Berlin, Feb. ia mutiny of Hindu
troops in Egypt Is reported by the
Cologne Gazette, II Is said an entire
regiment mutinied. killing IL officers.
including a major, and that other
Hindu troops went v 9 to the muffin
ssrs. After ! battle eft#o hours, it Is
said. the mutinous troops were routed.
The Cologne volks zeitung says that
the commander of the British forces
In Egypt has ordered the withdrawal
Of Mohammedan troops from the Suez
canal and their transportation to an
other war theater.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24

Petrograd, Feb. 1S.-One hundred
thousand men, comprising the garri-
son of Erzerum, and 1000 guns were
captured when the Russian army of
Grand Duke Nicholas took the Moslem
defenses by storm, 1t is officially re-
ported here.
The capture Of Erzerum means the
collapse Of all Turkish plans of con-
quest in Persia, military men here be-
lieve, and possibly will force the Turks
to abandon their plans to invade
Egypt. With a British army, soon to
be heavily reinforced, fighting 10
miles from Bagdad, and the grand
dukes forces moving westward
through Armenia in a spring drive, it
is not believed here that Enver Pasha
will risk sending large forces to the
SueZ.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
In the effort to eradicate
HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA

Hoyt's Headache and Neuralgia Cologne
now heads the list as a successful remedy
Tor the relief Of headache, nervousness, in
somnia, car sickness, etc.
The dangerous tablet has had it's day.
Hoyt,s Headache and Neuralgia Cologne
is a harmless, refreshing, fragrant prepa-
ration, marvellous in its action, reliev-
ing nervousness, siecplessness, exhaustion
and all head and nerve. ailments by ex-
tefnal use and inhaling. 1t is not a nerve
food, but a nerve soother. BY giving the
nerves a rest they furnish their own food
and tone, and all nerve pains disappear.
For children's colds and catarrh it is
just the remedy, harmless and efficient and
so pleasant to use. For men a pleasant
remedy to relieve and clear the head "the
morning after the night before This is
not an expensive preparations at 50 cents a
bottle, because it brings the relief. It has
many imitato.r at less price, hut If they
do not bring the desired results they are
not cheap at any price.
Get Hoytis and you will be satisfied.
For sale at all drug stores.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-24
FRANCIS IS OFFERED POST
Former Missouri Governor Is Urged to
Accept Position as Ambassador
to Russia.

Washington, Feb. 81. - David r..
Francis OF st. Louis, secretary of the
interior in Cleveland's cabinet and for
mer governor of Missouri, has been Of
fered the post of ambassador to
Russia to succeed George It. Marye.
Mr.. Francis has not replied, but Presi-
dent Wilson Is understood to have
urged him to accept.
Mr.. Marye has advised the state de-
partment that his resignation has been
mailed from Petrograd.