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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
GERMAN PLOT CONFIRMED.
WHITE HOUSE AND STATE DE-
PARTMENT OFFICIALLY CON.
FIRM PRESS REVELA.
TION.
Evidence of Won BernstOrff's Hostile
Activities Was in Possession of the
State Department Before the Break
With Germany-Washington Stir
red as Never Before.

Washington, March 1.-Full official
confirmation of Germany's proposal to
Mexico to form an alliance with Mex
leo and Japan to attack the United
States was given today both at the
White House and state department.
The revelation Of German Foreign
Minister Zimmerman's letter to Ger
man Minister Won Eckhardt, at Mex
leo City, transmitted through former
German Ambassador Won Bernstorff,
urging Mexico to propose suoh alli-
ance to Japan has stirred the capital
and congress to the utmost depths.
Although the part taken by Ambas-
sador Won Bernstorff, other than
transmitting the letter for the Ger
man foreign Office, has not been re-
vealed, it is known positively evidence
of his activities sufficient to force his
departure from the United States al
any time was in the hands of the
government, even before it knew OF
Germany's attempted intrigue with
Mexico and Japan.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

Washington, Masch 1.-Senator
Lodge. Republican, today introduced
a resolution providing that President
Wilson be requested to inform the
senate If the Zimmerman" note is
Senator Swanson, Demo-
crat, informed Senator Lodge that
the Democratic senators were author
lied by the president to state that
the Zimmerman note as revealed this
morning by the Associated Press was
substantially correct. Senator LaFol-
lette. Republican. favor ed an amend
ment. to the Lodge resolution, asking
the president to say when the United
States government got possession Of
the note.
The senate foreign relations COM
mittee has ordered favorable report
on the Lodge resolution. The commit
tee amended the resolution by strik-
ing out the provision asking the pres
ident when the Zimmerman" let
ter came into the United States pos
session. The Republicans appear to
be abandoning the filibuster on de-
tense and armed neutrality legisla-
ton.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE.

Washington, March AFTER some
debate, in which Senator Hardwick
urged delay in the consideration of
the resolution, because Senator Stone.
the chairman of the foreign relations
committee, was not present, Stone
appeared and requested that the res
olution be referred to the committee
without instructions as to when it
should report. The senate agreed to
this unanimously. In making the re-
quest Senator Stone said: "It seems
that tho resolution ought to go to the
committee. Here is q newspaper re-
port that the secretary of foreign
relations Of the German government
sent hostile communication to Ger
man ambassador in Washington. 1t ap.
pears in the morning papers, but we
are not informed Of its source. There
may be information in the hands of
the State department that it might be
incompatible with the public interest
to reveal"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

1t has been an open secret that dc.
partment of justice agents in thei.
investigation of plots to violate Ameri
can neutrality by setting on foot arm.
ed expeditions in Mexico more thar
once have uncovered what appeared
to be trails of the German secret ser
vice.
A few days ago Fred Kaiser, sus
pected OF being German agent wa.
arrested at Nogales on charses
brought under the neutrality statute.
department Of justice agents declar
ing he had attempted to obtain mill
tary information on the American sid.
of the border and had cultivated the
society of American army officers with
an apparent intention Of promotin
those efforts.
Last July. when w. H. Schweibz
who claimed to be a former Germa,
army officer, escaped into Mexico at
Nogales after arrest on simila,
charges. the deputy marshal who trie
to follow him was stopped by Mexica
authorities.
The full extent of the evidence O
Germany's plotting against the United
States gathered by the American Sc
cret service, may become known only
according to tho course Of the future
relations between the two countries
1t is known that such evidence of tn
operation Of the German embassy anf
persons who were responsible to i,
never has been permitted to come ou.
because officials had to guard agains'
inflaming the public mind in the tense
situation with Germany. The public
amazement which a full exposition of
the evidence in the hands of the gov.
ernment would cause can not be over.
estimated.
Only today the council of national
defense created by act of congress is
sued an appeal to all Americans &c
show every consideration for alien
in this country.
we call upon all citizens" said tn
appeal, III untOward events shoulT
come upon us to present to these
aliens. many of whom tomorrow
would be Americans, an attitude o.
neither suspicion nor aggressiveness
We urge upon all Americans to mee |
these millions of foreign born will
manner and with unprcju
diced mind
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
LANSING MAKES STATEMENT.

washington, March 1.-Secretary
Lansing today authorized this state
ment: I'VE do not believe Japan has
had any knowledge Of this German
proposal or that she considered any
proposition made by her enemy. we
are confident that Mexico would not
be a party in such an agreemnt."
Secretary Lansing also said. in
view OF the fact that the plan was
not to be presented until "it is Ger.
tain that there will be an outbreak
of war with the United States" it is
not certain that the matter has been
omcially presented to Carranza. Sec
retary Lansing declined to say how
the information came into the Unit
ed States possession.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
GERMANS FALLING BACK.
GERMAN WAR OFFICE ADMITS
WITHDRAWAL IN FRANCE.
Abandon Advanced Position on Ancre
and Prepare to Evacuate Bapaume
British Continue Pursuit OF Turks
In MesopOtamia.

New York. March 1.-German
army headquarters has announced
that voluntary and systematic with
drawal has been made from parts OF
the German advance positions on
both sides of the Ancre river. on the
French front.
London officially announced that q
hostile airplane had bombed the
town of Broadstairs. 1t also report
ed that the British pursuit OF the
Turks on the Tigris front continues.
Unofficial reports from Paris said
that the German lines have been
dropped back to Bapaume on the
Ancre front and the evacuation Of
that town is imminent. Patrol en-
counters between the French and Ger4
mans occurred in the Argonnes and
Alsace.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
SPARTANURG HOTEL OpExs
Cleveland Gives Dinner for Old AMI,
Young, Followed by Dance,

Spartanburg. Feb. 2S.-The Cleve.
land, Spartanburg's new $500. 600 bo-
tel. was formally opened last night
The stockholders and their suests
we're served an eight course dinner
and Immediately after this n d;rra,
was served to the younger set. pat
rons and patronesses of the in,t,a,
dance, social event of the now ho
tel. This event was probably the
greatest in the history of Spartan.
burg's social life.
DR.. H. N. Snyder, president of woe
rord college. presided at the stock
holders dinner. After the dinner DR.
Snyder made a speech at the close q,
which he presented a loving Gun TO
d. w. Allen, president of the Spar.
tanpurg Hotel corporation. who had
given diligent effort and unlimited
Time to the work of building the bo
tel. Mr.. Allen replied with a few re-
marks in which he expressed bis an-
probation of.the gift. John B, C,eve-
land made the last speech in which he
praised the efforts ofC.O. Hearon.
eoitor or the Spartanburg Herald,
whose assistance, Mr.. Cleveland said
was largely the cause of the success
1ui completion of the hotel. The first
guests registered today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
WOMAN ENDS HER LIFE.

Anderson, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. Robert r.
Irby, wife of well known cotton
man Of Oklahoma City, who has off
fees in several large cities in the cot
ton belt, committed suicide here this
morning by shooting herself with Q
pistol. The bullet entered her right
temple and passed through her head.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irby arrived here FRI
day to see their friends, Capt ana
Mrs. r. J. Ramer. Mr.. Irby was
called back to New York on Sunday
and because of Mrs. Irby's extreme
nervous condition she was prevailed
upon to remain here and visit thG
Ramers.
The tragedy occurred at the Ramsr
home before any of the household
had got up for breakfast- Mrs
Irby fired the shot as she lay In bed.
death resulting 80 minutes later.
She was unconscious until the snd
and left no note giving reasons for
her rash act. Ill health is given a.
the cause and after confersncs Nth
the physician who was called In c6f4
oner Beasley announced that he ala
not think an inquest necessary.
Mrs. Irby was Is years OF age and
married Mr.. Irby last Christmas. A
Mrs. Bentley before marrying Mr..
Irby she visited Anderson on two oc-
casions and was a social favorite here,
The body will be taken to Oklahoma
City tomorrow for burial. Capt. RA-
mer, at whose home the suicide was
committed, is captain Of the Machine
gun company of the First regiment
and once resided in Oklahoma City.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
HOUSE WOULD LIMIT AUTHOR.
TTY.

Willing for President to Arm Ships
for Protection, but Would Not
Grant Other Agencies.
Washington, March 1.-The Flood
bill authorizing the president to arm
and protect American lives and ships,
but not giving him the power to use
"other instrumentalities." as asked to
meet the submarine crisis, was taken
up by the house OH an agreement,
vote, after three hours debate. The
administration backs the senate bill
which grants the use Of "other instru-
mentalities."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

York, Feb. 28.-John E. Bankhead,
a well known farmer of the Bullock
creek section Of York county, com.
mitted suicide early this morning by
hanging himself with a rope in his
barn. He had been in ill health for
some time and brooding over his
physical condition is thought to have
temporarily unbalanced his mind. He
is survived by his wife and ten chils
dren.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
STATE SENATORS EXPELLED.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 2S.-State
Senator'S I. v. Burgess and 8. C. Sims
indicted Monday on charges Of brib-
cry, today were expelled from the
senate. A resolution which declared
that bribery charges against them
had been sustained in an investiga
ton by senate committee and order
ing them expelled, was adopted by IA
vote Of rs to 8.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

New York. March IA cablegram
to the Kerr Steamship line received
this morning announced that the
American steamer Rochester had ar.
rived at Bordeaux. Four American
ships, the Dochra, for Genoa, ana
the Gold Shell, Orleans and Rochess
ter, for Bordeaux. safely traversed
through the submarine war zone.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
TURKISH ARMY SHATTERED

London, March 1T was announc-
ed in the house of commons that the
retreating Turkish forces have been
completely shattered. 1t is said that
the Turks reached Bagdad only as a
disorderly mob.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

Juarez, March 1.-The German COM
sulate was robbed last night and a
number of important papers were
stolen from the files of Consul Max
weber. who has been handling Gera
man affairs in northern Mexico.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

Washington, March 1.-Great Brit.
ain has withdrawn it's objection and
made known its permission for Had.
lelds, Limited, an English munitions
concern, to sell shells to the United
States navy.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03
WILSON RECEIVES PEACE ADJ
VOCATES.

Reminds Callers Country is Faced By
Momentous Problem in Present Sit.
uation. "A
washington. Feb. 2S.-President
Wilson told peace advocates who call.
ed on him today to protest against the
steps he proposes in dealing with
Germany that the country was faced
oy amomentous problem in the pres.
ent situation; that he always had been
Tor peace and would do everything
within his power to maintain it.
The president received their sug-
gestions sympathetically, members OF
the delegation said, but told them the
country must realize the magnitude
of the question. Nt
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

LODGE PLAYING POLITICS.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS STILL
ENDEAVORING TO EMBAR.
RASS PRESIDENT.

Desire to Gain Partisan Advantage is
Paramount With Republican Lead.
ers Even i'm the Hour of Crisis in
American Relations With Foreign
Enemies.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-03

Asked Mexico Japan Unite With Her in Case This
Country Did Not Remain Neutral When Ruthless
Submarine Warfare Was Commenced.

din
Given Mexico
1bcgu1h Advices Bernston
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
SATURDAY NIGHT
NOLONGERFEhRED;
CALOTABS 1 JOY
Delightful Cleansing Without
the Slightest Unpleasantness or
Danger-New CalOmel Tablet
Wonder.

Everybody is looking better, feel
ing better and doing bettet since
Calotabs, the de-nauseated calomel
tablets has come into general use.
For biliousness, constipation and in
digestion the new calomel tablet is a
wonder-not the slightest unpleasant
ness yet al of the liver-cleansing vir-
tues of the old-style calomel
Calotabs is the easiest and most
pleasant of all medicines to take. One
tablet on the tongue at bedtime and a
swallow of water-that's all. No
taste, no nausea or unpleasantness
You wake up in the morning feeling
fine and with hearty appetite. Eat
what you please-no danger.
Calotabs are sold only in original
packages, sealed, never in bulk.
Price thirty-five cents for twenty
doses So good and sure that your
druggist is authorized to refund the
price if you are not thoroughly de-
lighted with Calotabs.-adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
FUNERAL Of LATE
]. NJ. QUARTER

J. NJ Quarter, sixty-two years of
age, who expired at the Pensacola
Hospital Tuesday night at 10:47
o'clock, will be buried this afternoon
in st. Michael's cemetery, the cor
tege leaving horae of deceased at 1
o'clock. The funeral services will be
conducted by Rev. Father Robert
Fullerton.
Mr.. Quarter has been a resident
of Pensacola and vicinity for about
fifty years. He was highly esteemed
by all who knew him and numbered
his friends by the score. He is sur
vived by his wife, five sons, two
daughters and four granddaughters-
His children are as follows: Fletcher,
John, Cushman, William and Robert
Quarter; Mrs. S. B. Gonzalez and
Bella Quarter.
Pallbearers, who were chosen from
friends of deceased, are: Messrs.
Tucker Clifford, George Napier,
Charles Bell, Joe Johnson, GeoEge
Crause and George Lewis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
EVEN CROSS, SICK
CHILDREN LOVE
SYRUP Of FIGS
LOOK AT TONGUE! IF FEVER
ISL, BILIOUS. CONSTIPATED
TAKE NO CHANCES.
CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS"
CAN'T HARM TENDER STOM-
ACH, LIVER. BOWELS.

Don't scold your fretful, peevish
child See if tongue is coated; this is
a sure sign it's little stomach, liver
and bowels are clogged with sour
waste.
When listless, pale, feverish, full
of cold, breath bad, throat sore,
doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally,
has stomach ache, indigestion
diarrhoea, give tcaspoonful of Gal
hornia Syrup of Figs" and in a few
hours all the foul waste, the sour bile
and fermenting food passes out of
the bowels and you have g we'll and
playful child again. Children love
this harmless fruit laxative" and
mothers can rest easy after giving It.
because it never fails to make their
little "insides" clean and sweet.
Keep it handy, Mother! A little
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row, but get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a 50-cent bottle of Gal
ifornia Syrup of Figs" which has
directions for babies, children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly or
the bottle. Remember there are
counterfeits sold here, so surely look
and see that yours Is made by the
California Fig Syrup Company
Hand back with contempt any other
| fig syrup.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
CaIomeI Users! Listen To Me!
Guarantee DodSon'S Liver Tone
Your druggist gives back your money if it doesn't
iven your liver and bowels and straighten
you up without making you sick.

spoonful and if it doesn't straighten
you right up and make you feel fine
and vigorous I want you to 60 back
to the store and get your money.
Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the
sale of cslomel because it is real
liver medicine; entirely vegetable,
therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful Of
Dodson's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels Of that sour bile and consti-
pated waste which is clogging your
system and making you feel miser-
able. guarantee that a bottle Of
Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your
entire family feeling fine for months.
Give it to your children. It is harm
less; doesn't grippe and they like its
pleasant taste.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12

Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's
horrible! Take a dose Of the dan
gerous drug tonight and tomorrow
you may lose a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile, crashes into 1t. break
ing it up. This is when you feel that
awful nausea and cramping. If you
are sluggish and call knocked out,
if your liver is torpid and bowels con-
stipated or you have headache, dizzi-
ness, coated tongue, if breath is bad
or stomach sour, just try a spoonful
of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone to-
night.
Here's my guarantee-Go to any
drug store and get so cent bottle
Of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
KEEP FIT AND FEEL FINE

Foley Cathartic Tablets are a
wholesome physic that thoroughly
clense the bowels, sweeten the stom-
ach and arouse the liver. For indi-
gestion, biliousness, bad breath,
bloating, gas, or constipation, no
remedy is more highly recommended.
Sluggish bowels are the direct cause
of many ills and the indirect cause
of many more. Undigested food
poisons the whole system. Don't be
careless. See that your bowels are
regular, Keep NJ. Then you will
feel fine. D'Alembcrte's Pharmacy
adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
NOTHING CRIMINAL
IN MIN ER'S DEATH

Nothing Of IN discriminatory nature
was found to have caused the death OF
the late Captain Thomas Miner, 'vho eX-
pired from the effects of drinking
quantity OF pine oil. in the general he
lief that it was something else. The
police looked into the case thoroughly
yesterday and concluded that the we'll
known fishermens death was brought
about to great extent through his OVID
acts, although not Intentionally. 1t was
learned hat ne had been warned against
drinking the oil, 1t being pointed out to
him that despite the fact that it was in
a liquor bottle, 1t was not as the label
represented In a moment when his host
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12

was attending to some other business,
the bottle went to Capt. Miners lips,
imbibed which caused his death.
Yesterday a Pensacola man called at
the police station and asked permission
to look at the contents. ofthe bottlewhich
was brought to the station by Turnkey
Commyns. He said that his little girl
uses it frequently, both internally and
rubbing it on her back for throat trouble.
He said he wanted to know if the con-
coction was the same as she uses, and if
so he would stop it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
Daily Weather
Report
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.

U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.
Charles F. Marvin, Chief.
DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN
Pensacola, Fla, July II, 1917.
Pensacola's Temperature Data.
Highest on record for July 103 de-
grees.
Lowest on record for July, "a de-
grees.
Day temperatures in July usually
rise to 81 degrees.
Night temperatures in July usually
fall to Is degrees.
Highest temperature yesterday, sc
degrees.
Lowest temperature yesterday, rs
degrees.
PensacoIa's Rainfall Data.
Rainfall for "a hours ending 7 p
m, o inches.
Normal rainfall for the month Of
July 7.27 inches.
Total rainfall for this month to
M, 1.59 inches.
Total deficiency this year to JUNE
Both, 1.S8 inches.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
SHERIFF RAISES
SOME FINE MELONS

Possibly the largest. and certainly the
most luscious waternelons. yet offered
from an Escambia county farm were
brought to the city from Sheriff Van
Pelt's country home, near Olive, when
watermelons. weighing close to fifty
pounds, wera shown, Little difficulty
was experienced in placing thBse at
fancy prices at local stores and rcstau-
rants eagerly sought
Sheriff Van Pelt delighted The Journal
force wlE,n he left n 4O-pound beauty at
Roch's restaurant for the men who make
The Journal and which was enjoyed last
night at lunch time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
Todd FELLOWS WILL
HOL D INSTALLATION

Odd fellows of the city are antici-
pating a great time tonight at the
installation, which will be held at the
hall at the corner of Belmont and
Baylen streets, and to which all men,
bers of the order are cordially in
vited.
1t Is announced that a pleasing
feature of the evening will be re
freshments which will be served after
the installation exercises.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
ALLEGED SLhCKERS
TO BE PROSECUTED

Prosecution of the cases against
the slackers at Tallahassee will be
continued by federal authorities and
either the district attorney or his as
sistant will leave this morning to ap-
pear before the commissioner for the
prosecution.
The cases were brought up last
week and continued for further in
vestigation, and it is expected that
other cases will also come up at this
time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
WILLINGS LEAVES
TAKE Up NEW WORK

Gorge c. vikings leaves ouight for
Washington, D. c., on business. This
popular PensacOlian has recently accept
type company, with headquarters in
Brooklyn
Since coming to Pensacola five years
ago, rs general traffic manager If the
.. F. Il A. railroad, Mr.. Vikings has
ma l. many friends and has taken an &C
tive part in the business and social nfs
Of the city
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
COMMITTEE WILL
HEAR COMPLAINTS

At seven o'clock this morning the
special committee appointed by the
board of county commissioners to in
vestigate tax assessments complaints,
will meet in the courthouse for the
purpose of investigating the claims.
There have been an unusually large
number of complaints this year, it is
stated, and the problem is a very
difficult one which the commissioners
are facing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
Warm !

Forget it! All you need is
a two-piece suit.
No vest; thin, durable
Palm Beach, Cool Crash and
other lightweight fabrics.
Cool as a cucumber! SO 70
$3.50.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
BOY Is
HURT IN CHICAGO

Jos. Sennott, son Of VIM. J. Sennott
of Pensacola, was reported to have
been seriously injured in an automo-
bile accident a couple of days ago,
in or near Chicago, and telegram
yesterday to his father announced
that the young man was in a seri-
Gus condition.
This young man, who has not re-
sided here for some years, is wide
Unknown, and his numerous friends
will be panied to learn of his mis-
fortune.
URGES GOVERNMENT TO
OPERATE PAPER MILLS
Minneapolis, July IA resolution
urging congress to enact legislation
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
Warmer!

What Else do you expect?
Shirts and drawers mean
double thickness around the
waist.
Union Suits don't! 81 to
$3.50.