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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-01-20
A. H. Hamm,
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Board of County Com missioners.
In the matter of county health off,
Ger the following bids were on file:
The honorable board of county COM
missioners' This is TO certify that /
desire the, appointment of county
faithfully perform all the duties of
said office for the coming year FOR the
sum of $500. DIR. c. S. Wall.
Honorable board of county commits
sioner: AS i understand that your
board is now open for bids for the po-
sition of county health officer for the
coming year, / wish to submit for
the actual cost of mileage. The lat
ter item will amount to 10 or u cents
per mile. DIR. w. Kidder.
Honorable board of county commits
sioners: / hereby submit for your
consideration bid of 5000 per annum
for services of COUNTY health officer
for the ensuing year. DR.. Funder-
burk.
Honorable board of county commits
sioners: Herewith 1 wish To express a
willingness on my part to serve you
as county health officer for the year
1917 on the same terms and condi-
lions as for the year 1916. If i am
appointed 1 will do my best for the
health interests of the county. DR..
w. Y. Herrick.
After due consideration the board
appointed w. Y. Herrick with the
same salary as paid in 1916 which
was $500 and no charges made for
school house inspection.
c. III. Benson was appointed ex-Off-
clio county assessor at salary of 5000
for the year 1917. @. HI. Benson was
appointed purchasing agents and Gus
todian of the court house at salary
of S25 and allowed $50 clerk hire for
the year.
The board of county commissioners
orders that all pauper practice must
be hereafter ordered by the trustee
and no bill will be allowed unless so
ordered.
No further business appearing the
board adjourned sine die
G. 81. Benson,
{SeaD County Clerk.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-01-20

Bring your children direct to DR..
Brown ut Penny Hotel, February 6th.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
State Banquet in Honor of French
High Commission in Keeping
With plain Living"

President and Mrs. Wilson, in enter
tanning at dinner at the White House
last night in honor of the French COM
mission here to discuss the participa-
ton of the United States in the war,
set the example of plain living which
the President recently urged upon the
nation.
The dinner was what has come to be
known in Washington as three
course dinner" far removed from the
elaborate banquet idea which has been
In vogue in tho capital for the enter
tainment of distinguished guests. BY
setting such an example in their own
home. the President and Mrs. Wilson
hope to not only assist in the conserva-
ton Of food. which the President has
declared to be vital to the nation In
the present international situation, but
to bring about generally the practice
of domestic economy which will re-
suit lin a benefit to the people.
The habit of plain living, so far as
the table Is concerned. is sweeping
over Washington homes. especially
those which have been noted for lavish
entertainment of that character. In
most of the cabinet homes when din
ners are given the simplest of foods
are now served. and the fashion or
custom of serving wines upon such oc-
casions is rapidly passing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Drilled in Bayonet Fighting.

The British have given unceasing at
tention to the bayonet fighting drill in
the past two years. The month of train
ing in England has been supplemented
by postgraduate course in the great
training camps in France and con-
tinued as the units passed down
through the corps into divisions, bril-
gades and battalions. The night be-
fore the Arras attack some sergeants
could be heard giving their platoons
last instructions. One of these groups
formed a curious picture in the moon
light, where all the air was electric
with preparations for the coming clash
at dawn.
Traffic along the choked road leading
toward the point Of contact with the
enemy suddenly stopped because of a
temporary block. The throbbing motor
most inaudible purr; the tired horses,
limbers, stood with the stiffness Of
nearly exhausted animals. Their driv-
ers heads dropped limp. as they
snatched few moments of sleep. The
mystic sort of silence which settled
down was broken by the raucous voice
with which sergeants always impress
their wondering subordinates
This particular Sergeants men were
facing one another for thrust and parry
exercise. They were not to take part
in the first rushes Of the morning, but
going in later In the day to press the
attack on the third and fourth lines.
And there was yet time to give them
final advice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported to the
health department in the last twenty-four hours
Zba Wells Reynolds. 4s years. Naval Hospi-
tai. Washington. d. G.
George Burns. 90 years. Georgetown Uniyer-
sity Hospital.
Anna V. Won Hermann, q year.. 712 It'll
street southeast
Lucy E. Archer. 50 years. 125 street south
east.
Mary Lo1upone, "a years. Tuberculosis Hos
Ella Cross Graf, As years, Garfield Hospital
Infant of Albert A and Emily A. Mayur.
day. Sibey Hospital.
William A. Mahoney, months, S35 I'd
street southwest.
Albert Dorsey 50 years. ss7 Maryland avenue
southwest
John Hall. "a years. Washington Asylum Hos
pital and Jail.
Henry Smith. 4s years. St. Elizabeth Hos
William Roane. IS years. DOT street south
west.
Lucinda Brooks. SIS years. 21l5 Stevenson
court northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the fol-
lowing:
,s Ernest =, Luke Of this city and George h Penn
James H. Owens and Mary A. Scott, both of
Savage, Md.
George o. Greaver and Jerusha ". Ship. both
of Clifton Forge. Va.
Harmon A. Cook and Eleanor B. Otterback.
George q. Fleming and Lille B. johnson, both
Of Fredericksburg, Va.
Harvey Ferguson Of this city and Sara q.
Pretty Of Chevy Chase. Nd.
Henry W. Bacon and Margaret r. Brennan.
Matthew J. Finnegan and Alice NJ. Lynch.
Ferdinand Kalas and Antonio Link. both OF
Baltimore Md.
Werner Jenifer and Mary Barnes.
Robert s. Calm and Matilda r. Ruderman.
Robert Brown and Caroline Wedge.
william Il. keene and Susie NJ Reed.
Edmund v. Jones Of Alexandria, Va, and
Agnes G. Bauer of this city.
Of Falmouth Va.
James Carter and Leslie Osborne.
Charles +. Marx and Nellie G.. Phillips.
William E. Lewis and Fannie B. Lee.
John johnson and Genevieve N Turner.
Robert s. Alsop and Josephine Marshall.
Malcolm E. Williams and Mae E. Reid, both OF
Clifton Forge. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
CARE OF ALIEN DETECTIVES.
Legislation in View to Give Labor
Department Ample Funds.

Legislation will be asked to give the
Department of Labor funds to care for
alien detectives and others at present
charges of the states, as the result of
a conference held yesterday between
representatives named by governors OF
eastern states and Secretary Wilson to
consider uniform regulations govern
ing the care of dependent aliens
throughout the country.
permanent organization was formed
at the conference to make plans for
the uniform application of the immi-
grafton laws 1t will report to the
Department of Labor and to Gov. Nc
Call of Massachusetts,. who suggested
the conference and asked other gov
ernors to send delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
To Command Artillery Districts.

The following assignments Of officers to
command coast artillery districts rave
been ordered:
Col Charles L. Phillips. north Atlantic
district. with headquarters at Boston.
Mass.
Brig. Cen. Harry F. Hodges. middle At
]antic district, with headquarters at Fort
Totten, n. Y.
Brig. Cen Clarence P. Townsley, south
Atlantic district, with headquarters at
Charleston. S. c.
Col John L. Hayden, north Pacific dis
trict. with headquarters al Seattle. Wash.
BRIG Gen. William l.. Sibert, south Pa
cific district. with headquarters at Fort
Miley, Cal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27

Illinois again took the lead. Nevada.
first OF the states to complete its quota.
continued to increase its surplus above
the 1872 men it should supply. The
state has now enrolled 1876 men since
April /.
The total number of recruits report
ed for April 26 was 1875. a slump from
the 1000 daily average the recruiting
depots have been maintaining for the
last ten days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Lets See More Murder. :

The sergeants commands seemed to
have a ring in them like the clashes of
the steel they directed. Come along,
come along" he said. "let me see little
more murder in them eyes. Get some
more viciousness behind you. Your
bloomin' rife amt no baby"
The sergeant gave much more telling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Births Reported.

The following births have been reported to til,
health department in the last twenty-fou hours
Vincent and Letitia Antoniel. boy.
Harry and Orphia Hail. girl
Marian. jr., and Margaret r. Duckett. girl
Lloyd q. and Clara j. slocum, boy.
Marshall J. and lille Merryman, boy.
Carl A. and Mamie V. Hazel, girl.
Clinton G. and Alice NJ. HUMPHREYS. boy.
Louis W. and Helen Hoffman. boy.
Henry ]. and Anna NJ. Rodawitz, boy.
Donal II. and Luda Minis, boy.
William and Virginia Keener, girl.
Edward d. and Tela Dausey, boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Committee to Safeguard Workers.

Supervision OF the continuous opera
ton Of measures to safeguard in
dustrial workers and TO adjust
All questions involving working stand
ards in the United States dur
Tnp the war has been intrusted to a
committee designated by Samuel Com
ners president of the \. F. of L.. and
chairman of the labor committee of the
council for national defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27

meeting Of tho Washington Board Of
Trade tonight by Frederick A. Fenning.
chairman of the committee on schools
of that organization. That this should
be done was decided at a meeting of
the committee on schools in the Board
of Trade rooms yesterday afternoon.
1t also was decided to recommend that
better auditoriums and more adequate
facilities for the physical education of
pupils should be provided at western
High and Mckinley Manual Training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Calls War Great Peace Move.

Elihu Root, president of the society.
delivered the principal address at the
opening session last night He refer
red to the war against Germany as the
great peace movement and declared
that the world cannot exist half demo-
cratic and half autocratic
There can be no compromise" he
said. IF II is all Prussian. there can
he no international law. If it is all
democratic, international law honored
and observed may well be expected as "A
natural development of the principles
which make democratic self govern
ment possible"
And. now, Russia" said he, "extir-
pattng the government, which has been
for modern time the typical illustration
of autocracy. is engaged in establish
in the new self-control of that vast
empire upon the basis of universal suf-
frage and republican institutions"
Efforts of nations in the past to guar
antee world peace following great con-
vulsions have failed, Mr.. Root said, and
2 similar result must follow any at
tempt TO base system of international
devised 10 meet the expediency of the
moment" Democracies, he added, can
adjust differences. but there can be no
hope of peace with autocracies
In conclusion Mr.. Root said he would
postpone reviewing international law,
as he did last year, because in the year
just ended every law has been syste-
rhatically. outrageously and fiagrantly
violated by the empire of Germany"
Chandler T. Anderson, formerly coun-
selor 10 the Department of State. spoke
on the Status of Armed Merchantmen, .
as did Prof. Ellery c. Stoweli of Column
bla University
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
BAY0NET fighting
Wins A POSITION
Cold Steel Used by British
When More Modern I'M
pIements Fail.
MEN DRILLED IN WORK

From STAFF Correspondent Of the Associated Press
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE. via London. April 2s.-De-
spite all the wondrous war weapons
modern science has created. the cold
! steel OF the bayonet has asserted itself
anew in much of the recent bitter fight
ing as the arm of last appeal AS al
ready related. the struggles about
Monchy-Le-Preux since Monday have
attained an intensity unequaled by any
of the fighting in the Somme campaign
last year.
There was one German position north
of the town and paralleling the Scarpe
river which resisted four desperate at
lacks. 1t was finally decided to take
this position at the point of the bayo-
net without shot of any kind being
fired to rob the attack of its surprise
nature. The attack was made along a
three-quarters of a mile front under
cover of darkness.
Trudge Forward in Night.
The British battalions were formed in
comparatively close order and at the
whispered word of command. repeated
along the line, trudged forward into
the night. Grim and silent figures they
were. some in kits. some in plain
khaki. each man wearing a steel he'll
met. each having a firm grip OF his
rife with fixed bayonet, the polished
surface Of which, however, caught no
rejecting CLINT In the enveloping dark
ness.
Overhead shells were drontnr. and
back of the lines guns could be heard.
But 1t was only desultory lombard
ment going on, and there were fieeting
intervals OF strange quiet just where
the determined line Of British troops
was approaching its unsuspecting gray
clad foes
Four unsuccessful daylight assaults
had left a touch of chagrin which was
to be wiped out in this getting" of a
man. There is little more to tell. The
sound of the fighting in the trenches
was lost in the British barrage. which
closed down some distance behind the
German position Immediately the Brit
ish siEnaled they had entered the posi-
ton. This barrage cut of any German
who attempted to fee from the bayonet
charge.
Bayonet Wins Position.
Thus in ten minutes with the silent
bayonet was secured a position which
had held out for two days.
The bayonet also has come in effec-
lively in dealing with the ever-trou-
blesome machine gun and gunners. A
few brave men. stealing out in the
night. have been able to accomplish
much.
Several British battalions have re-
ported in the last few days that the
Germans are again employing the old
"kamerad" ruse, suddenly standing up
in the shallow trenches and holding UP
their hands and shouting across to their
opponents that they would surrender.
Two battalions. believing the sincerity
Of this proposal, started across to bring
in the prisoners. but were Immediately
attacked.
Incidents like this have helped ma
terially to give the element Of bitter
ness to the fighting to degree which
has startled even those men who have
been in the battles since the first Ger
man rush through Belgium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27

advice than this and the drill ceased
amid great chafing. The correspondent
stopped the sergeant as he came along
the road and asked: will your men re-
member all that?"
mo, sir. they won't remember It ALL"
was the frank reply, but what they
do remember will help"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Reasons Given for High Coal Price.

a rush by the public to store coal
partial shortage of cars and increased
general demand were given by repre-
sentatives of the railroads as the cause
for the high prices of coal at a hearing
yesterday before the federal trade COM
mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
ILLINOIS REGAINs LEAD.
State "Comes Back" With 1872 Men
for Army April .26.

Illinois regained first place in army
recruiting yesterday. With q total of
1872 men on April 20. against 143 for
New York and 131 for Pennsylvania,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Calls U. S. Stand Impregnable.

Continuing, the speaker said: The
United States is believed to have taken
an impregnable stand in it's demand
not to attack at sight an unarmed
enemy merchantmen is applicable to
undersea vessels. and that hence the
right to employ them as commerce
destroyers depends upon the power and
disposition of those controlling them
TO respect that obligation.
Lester H. Woolscy. solicitor of the
State Department. spoke on Some
Economic Aspects of international Or
ganiZations"
International organization, both from
the legislative and judicial standpoints.
was discussed in addresses by Raleigh
C. Minor, professor of international
law in the University of Virginia, and
by Prof. Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn
Mawr College at the afternoon session
today.
The executive and administrative
standpoints of International Organi-
cation are to be discussed at the meet
ing tonight by William c. Dennis of
the District bar and James Brown
Scott. director of the division of in
ternational law of the Carnegie En-
dowment
The meeting is to continue through
tomorrow. with a banquet tomorrow
night
Everett p. Wheeler of New York con-
tended that the captain of the German
submarine which sank the Lusitanfa
should be brought TO trial before IN
American tribunal at the close of the
war as warning TO future vIoiators OF
the laws of nations
\ cablegram of congratulation from
the Cuban Society of International Law
was replied to with reciprocal sentiments
this morning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
Want Ernest L. Thurston Retained.

Resolutions commencing the admin
istration of Ernest L. Thurston. SUI
perintendent of public schools. and
urging the board of education to re-
appoint him. are to be presented at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27

to be the principal orator at a patriotic
rally which more than 10000 people are
expected to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-27
'UPHOLDS j. s. STAND.
ON U-BOAT WARFARE.
: Prof. Hyde Asserts Germany
Must Be Forced to Respect
Law of Nations.
LEGAL TOPICS DISCUSSED

Americans who today mournfully de-
clare that International law no longer
exists misjudge the temper OF this ma
tion. was the statement of Charles
Cheney Hyde. professor Of international
law in Northwestern University. in his
address at the session today of the
American Society of International Law.
at the New Willard
1T is unthinkable that the United
States. however reluctant to enter the
war. viii deem peace a blessing until
1t has exhausted. If need be. the full
measure of It's strength to gain ac-
acknowledgement from Germany OF the
principle that the continuance OF its
life as an Independent state depends
upon this respect for the law of ma
tions.' the speaker said
Whether international law is to he
maintained or abandoned by the United
states depends upon the extent of the
sacrifice which our country and the
powers with which ii is happily in
allance are willing to make" he added
The intensity OF our own indignation
at defiance of the law of nations is
measured by the force we use to com
pei respect for it,"
Needless Sacrifice Not Sanctioned.
The speaker said the law of nations
is vitality concerned with the process
employed IN the operation of a warship
against an unarmed enemy merchant
man. and that while such a vessel may
lawfully attempt to gain control of or
destroy enemy ships not exempt from
capture. international law does not
sanction the needless sacrifice of life
or property.
Long before the European war of
1914 nations were agreed that I'M
armed enemy merchant vessels were
In general not subject 10 attack at
sight, and that II they were guilty of
no improper conduct the propriety of
attack or destruction was dependent
upon the giving of opportunity for the
removal of persons on board to a place
of safety" he said Such respect for
human life was. moreover. broadly ac-
knowledged without discrimination be-
tween carriers of passengers and
freight and irrespective of the ma
tionality of the persons involved.
The question presents itself whether
the right of exemption is forfeited by
the attempt of the merchantmen to es-
cape capture. The attempt of an I'M
armed merchantmen of any type to es-
cape, either by flight on the surface or
by submerging. prior to a signal to
surrender or to come to. and with the
obvious purpose of keeping beyond the
range of recognized pursuer. does not
authorize the latter to attack the YES
sci without warning. Any belligerent
vessel of any kind or type exposes it
self to instant attack. if after reason
able summons to surrender il persists
by any process in an attempt to es-
cape.
If a submarine Identifies an enemy
vessel as an unarmed merchantmen,
normally immune from attack at night,
and not guilty of conduct FORGETTING
that privilege, no right to attack with
out warning is apparent. Nor is any to
be derived from the difficulty which the
former may anticipate in providing for
the safety of the occupants of the lat
TO
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-06-08
A Word of Caution to Our BOYS.

Many people have planted gardens
on unfenced lots this year in response
to President Wilson's oft repeated re-
quest that every citizen do his best to
add to the nations food supply. In
play, running after balls and in other
youthful activities, boys have some
times gotten onto peoples garden
plots with disastrous results. Few. if
any, we have reason to hope, will in a
spirit of wantonness make worthless the
efforts OF we'll intentioned people. II
they will just keep in mind that these
little garden plots may mean food for
someone who would otherwise go
hungry they will not give cause for
complaint and in this way do their part
in helping this country to win the war.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-06-08
Object Of Red Cross to Alleviate
Suffering.

Some, we are told. refused last Tues
day to contribute to the Red Cross
funds because the money is to be used
in connection with the relief work
incident to the war. If this inter
national, worldwide, relief organization
had in any way contributed to bringing
on the war then those who refuse now
10 contribute to the Red Cross funds
might be on logical ground. That the
society had anything to do with bring
ing on the war is too idle to consider
for one moment. Its slogan is to relieve
human suffering. In its relief work it
makes no distinction between races,
color Of the skin or social condition.
When cyclone sweeps across our coun-
try leaving death and destruction in its
path, the first to offer aid to the suffer
ing are members Of the Red Cross. 1t
offers its ministration in war and in
peace. 1t asks but one question. Is
there human suffering, is relief needed"
1t brings relief and relieves suffering
anywhere any time. Day or night. Its
relief work is most efficient because its
nurses are the best trained and its
physicians among the best in the
country. 1t goes into the Cholera in
tested region and the Yellow fever
stricken section with the same devotion
to duty that prompts the mother to
follow her babe into the jaws Of death.
II just now the Red Cross is devoting
more time and attention to the great
war than anything else it is because
the human suffering and agony brot on
by the war deserves its most strenuous
efforts.