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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-04-14
SCORES OF GIRLS FOUND
DEAD IN EXPLOSION,

chester, Ia, Aprll lO.-At leaS1
sne hundred persons mostly girls
were killed and 200 or more in.
Jured by an explosion today in
the great munition plant at Eddy
st0ne. Pa, near here, owned by
the Russian government.
Nothing is known as to the
cause Of the explosion, though
there is a suspicion that it was not
due to accident.
A railroad official asserts that
nearly 300 were killed, but this
estimate cannot be convrmed.
1t is stated the building in
IN which the explosion occurred
was used for making time fuses
for shrapnel. The workers were
mostly women and youn,; girls.
The first explosion originated in
the structure known as the 1O-F
building. Immediately there Was
another explosion in the old F.
building These two structures
were destroyde. About 400, most
ly women and girls, worked in
these buildings.
Still Digging
Bodies From Ruins.
At p. m. fremen, policemen
and others were still dragging
bodies from the wreckage. Shells
were found scattered about the
scene for q space of two blocks.
The fire, which was confined to
the shrapnel loading building in
which it originated, he'd been cub
dued. In this building about 400
men, women. boys and girls were
employed as leaders.
Several hundred are said to
have been injured. A portion of
the plant is burning and fire com
Danies went to the scene from
Philadelphia, Chester and other
cities /
Physicians and ambulances h IT. ;
ried from Philadelphia and police
were also sent to help guard the {
plant.
Thousands of Girls y
Employed at Plant.
The explosion Occurl ed soon +
after ten o'clock in the pellet +
room of the shrapnel building 8
where about 100 girls were EN- :
ployed putting the finishing touch +
ss on shells. q
In a building adjoining APP +
proyimately 10000 shells were
stored. A second explosion de- +
molished this building and scat 8
tered the shells in every direction. 8
Immediately calls were sent for n
outside aid ard physicians. fire r
men and policemen from sur a
towns arrived in great +
numbers. The buildings in which o
the explosions occurred caught +
fire and were destroyed. Charred +
bodies were pulled from the a
wreckage and injured persons +
were picked up and taken to
Chester, mile away. The two :
main hosuitals of the city were n
soon filed and others injured Il
were taken to the Fifth regiment 4
armory and a frame tabernacle. !,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
AMERICAN VESSEL
Is SUNK BY U-BOAT
DURING TWO HOURS BATTLE
$50 SHOTS WERE FIRED.
FOUR LIVES LOST.

WASHINGTON, D. American
naval gunners have met their first de-
feat in open fight with a German
submarine. Official dispatches an
nounced the destruction of the tank
steamship Moreni, abandoned ablaze
June II by her crew and armed guard
after a desperate running fight in
the war zone, which cost the lives
of four of her crew.
Half an hour after the tanker had
been sent to the bottom her forty-
three survivors, including all of the
members of the armed guard, were
picked up with their lifeboats by a
passing steamer. The German com
mander had set them adrift after
cOngratulating the American skipper
upon his game fight and having the
wounded men treated by the subma-
rlne's surgeon.
Fight at Long Range.
The submarine began the action at
a range of 5000 yards, four nau-
teal miles, when she was hardly Wis
ible to the steamer without glasses.
Presenting virtually no target her
self, she sent 200 shells at the big
tanker, making many hits, while the
American gunners wasted $50 shots
without harming the speck from
which the deadly hail came.
The action of the submarine com
mander in treating his vanquished
opponents with such unexpected
courtesy was the subject of much
comment. Germany has proclaimed
her intention to treat British armed
merchant crews as pirates. In this
case even the naval bluejackets and
their officers, properly prisoners of
war, were set free, along with the
merchant crews.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
Vault Hewn in Rock Last
Resting Place of Buffalo Bill

DENVER, Colo.-At sunrise Sun
day morning the body of Colonel
William F. Cody buffalo Billy was
taken from its temporary resting
place in a Denver mortuary and
transported to vault hewn in the
solid rocks of wildcat Point" on
Lookout mountain, there to remain.
From the summit of the mountain
the plains of the states of Kansas,
Nebraska and Wyoming are visible.
1t was upon these plains that the old
scout and hunter spent his early life.
Often in later years when Snowman
he had gone to the place, and it was
his fondress for the scenery that led
those in charge of his funeral to
choose Wildcat Point" as the pio-
neer's last resting place.
Colonel Cody died on January 10,
last. On January IA public funeral
services, attended by thousands of
persons within and outside of Colo
RADIO, were held for the plainsman.
The massive bronze coffin contain
ing the great scouts body was seal
ed into the vault with the rites of
the Masonic burial service, which
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
THIRD OF GEORGIA'S FELONY
CONVICTS COMMITTED HOMICIDE
Interesting Penal Facts VIII Be
Shown by Forthcoming Report of
Prison Commission.

Perhaps the most interesting fea-
ture in the annual report which the
state prison commission is now pre-
pairing for submission to the general
assembly is that practically one-third
of the felony convicts are serving
sentences for homicides. The number
who are doing time for taking hui
man life is 1,035.
There has been some decrease the
past year in the number of prisoners
in the penitentiary.
Misdemeanor convicts in the state
this year are 1869 against 3,439 last
year.
Felony convicts in the state this
year are 3,406 against 1852 last
year.
The misdemeanor convict record in
the four lergest counties in the state
this year and last is as follows: Full
ton county 430 this year against 349
Chatham county II this year against
pol; Bib county 63 against 121;
Richmond county 101 against 1919.
The comparative population at the
prison farm is as follows:
Male felons this year PIG against
247 last year; female felons this
year lit against 116 last year. Mis-
demeanor male convicts this year rs
against SIS last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
OATH IS
SWORN BY STARLIGHT
DETERMINED MEN VOW THEY
WILL AvENGE MURDER OF
LITTLE KEET BABY.
OFFICIALS LOOKING FOR
WOMAN WHO WROTE NOTE

The Three Letters Demanding Ram
som Were Written in Feminine
Hand, and Imprints of Woman's
Shoe Was Found Near Body.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-In the fad
ing hours of darkness this morning
fourteen grim men of Springfield
visited the new made grave Of BUD
die" Keet, and in the cold starlight
took solemn oath that they would
avenge the murder of the heir to
millions.
A rose-green streak far down the
eastern horizon, marking the trail of
dawn, shed an eerie radiance over
the little mound in Maple Grove GEM
etery as four automobiles, lights dim
med and engine purring softly, slid
down the curving road.
From the motors the men picked
their way through the trees and took
their places so that they made a cir.
Gle around the fresh mound. At the
mead OF the grave the leader solemn
ly removed his hat. The other thir-
teen hats came off and the men stood
with bowed heads.
Men, this is not the end of it,
said the leader. "Buddie' can't rest
easily here until we have wiped out
the ones who murdered him. When
we find who killed tBuddie," we find
who is going to die however we see
fit. Are you ready for the .oath?"
Thirteen hands raised to the light
ening heavens.
by the God that made us, we
pledge ourselves to get avenge for
the murder of Buddie Keet; to safe
guard our own murderers and steal
ers of children"
The hands dropped, hats were re-
placed, and the streak in the east
broadened and CLINT of bronze
showed where the sun came to look
upon the scene. There was a sound
of crunching gravel and the humming
OF engines; the solemn retreat had
started.
There was no mistake about the
reality of the oath; it was loyalty to
the traditions of the mountains and
the carrying out of a custom.
Officials to-day were searching for
a woman of enigmatic identity, who
they believe, was the brains of the
gang that kidnapped and murdered
the infant son of j. Holland Keet.
The belief was based on the fact
that three letters demanding ransom
were written in feminine hand. and
the discovery of the imprints of a
woman's shoe in the layer of dust on
the floors of the deserted Crenshaw
mansion, in the rear of which Bud
dies body was found.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19

was performed by Golden City lodge
No. l, the oldest Masonic organiza-
ton in this part of the West. A
delegation of Knights Templar from
the commandery in North Platte, of
which Colonel Cody also was a mem
Der, will act as escort, Members of
the Rocky Mountain Rangers, of
which organization the colonel was
a member, will form a guard of hon
or.
Miss Hazel Bennett, of Denver, a
neice of Colonel Cody, sang "The
Bridge" favorite song of the old
scout.
The vault in which the body was
to be placed will be in the center of
a memorial building to be erected to
the memory of the pioneers of all
America. The rotunda of this build
ing will be the tomb of Colonel
Cody, while its wings will be devot-
ed respectively to a libary of pioneer
lore and a gallery in which are to be
hung paintings of the great pioneers
of each state. This building is to be
surrounded by a granite terrace on
which will be a bronze equestrian
statute of Colonel Cody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
GOVERNMENT TO BUY
100000 HORSES FOR WAR
$50, 100000 to Be Spent For Mounts
and Draft Animals. One Horse
Required For Every Four Men.

WASHINGTON, D. CA quarter
of a million horses for the army are
to be purchased by the war depart
ment just as soon as the funds au-
thorized by the $3,300,000,O0O ap-
preparation bill, now pending, are
available. 1t is estimated that $780,
100000 will be expended for this
purpose. Agents of the quartermas-
ter's department are now in the field.
1t is estimated that upon the aver
age one horse is required for every
four men in the army, including
mounts for cavalry, artillery horses
and animals for all other purposes.
Figuring upon an army of million
men the government will start at
once to get together 10000 horses,
and more will be needed as the or
ganization of greater army pro
ceeds.
The government will have certain
specifications, and horses that con-
form to those specifications will be
bought for stated price from $50
to $500 per head, according to age,
condition, etc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
FARM RELIGIOUS SECT
ASK WAR EXEMPTION
Claiming Non-resistance to Be One
of Their Chief Doctrines.

HUTCHINSON, Kans.-S v ra /
hundred Mennonites in Reno and ad-
joining counties have appealed to
Senators Charles Curtis and w. III.
Thompson to protect them against
military service in keeping with their
religious beliefs. They attest their
loyalty to the government and ask
to be allowed to show their patriot
ism by raising crops and in other
peaceful pursuits.
The Mennonites are sect of peo-
pie who do not believe in worldly
show or vanities. Non-resistance is
one of their chief doctrines.
Since the foundation of the sect
they have opposed military service.
They went to Russia at the invitation
of Empress Catherine in their early
existence on the promise of military
exemption. There they founded a big
farming settlement, but left the coun-
try when the exemption from mill
tary service was repealed.
They have made the sections where
they have settled in this part of Kan
sas one of the richest farming areas
of the country, and it is expected
that their religious convictions viii
be regarded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
FAMINE and DISEASE
SWEEPING TURKEY
100000 DESERT FROM ARMY
AND EXIST THROUGH BRIG.
ANDAGE. PANIC-STRICKEN.

PARIS, France.-Turkey is swept
with famine and pestillence, her peo-
pie are panic-stricken and her army's
morale is utterly gone, says informa-
ton received here through Berne.
One hundred thousand men have
deserted from the army, it was re-
ported.
Because of the loss of Turkeys
fighting power, 5000 Austrian troops
recently have been sent to Palestine
to attempt bolstering up the army in
front of the British expeditionary
forces.
Germans on Ground.
Four thousand German troops are
said to be guarding government build
ings, factories, and bridges in Con-
stantinople, while hundreds in the
city are dying each day.
Typhus is sweeping over the whole
country, the reports said.
German and Turkish sanitary and
medical commissions are fighting the
disease in all the larger cities, but
many important persons have died,
including the German consul at Con-
stantinople, Dr. Damas.
German army orders recently for
babe soldiers mixing with civilians.
Compulsory bathing has been de-
creed in all cities. Soap no longer
exists, because all oils and fats have
been exported to Germany.
Deserters Now Brigands.
The 100000 deserters from the
Turkish army are said to have fed
into the Anatolian mountains and to
be existing through brigandage.
Wealthy Turks are depositing their
money in Zurich banks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
al laws of supply and demand put it
that high

al laws of supply and demand put it
that high.
"The Lever food control bill is
mis-named and misunderstood, when
it is supposed that it is only design
ed to control foods; it applies to all
the necessities of life. 1t applies to
clothing and the things needed for
their production in express terms. 1t
gives the power to fix maximum and
minimum prices, and the power to re-
QUESTION these supplies not simply
for the government, but to force on
the market arbitrarily products of the
field and factory 1t transfers the
power of control from the producer
to the one man who may be named
by the president as dictator 1t Gre
ates a despotic and unrestricted con-
troll over everything that is produced
in the country.
FThere might be some advantages
in it, but there are so many disad-
vantages that l believe its adoption
would be most unfortunate"
Senator Smith said that no one
had yet been willing to offer the
Lever food control bill in the senate.
even by request.
Against Revolutionary Change.
"There is nothing in the situation
that justifes a revolutionary change
and a complete destruction of our
system of living. We have built up
this country on the basis of individ-
ual independence and it is a very
dangerous proceeding to set it all
aside. We profess to be fighting for
democracy, and yet one of the first
things proposed here is to adopt
measures more extreme than those
in use in despostic Prussia.
There is a spirit of hysteria
abroad in the land. l think it is un-
wise and having an injurious effect.
The bill already passed by the senate,
to stimulate food production goes as
far as l think we ought to go. It
gives the secretary of agriculture the
funds with which to make a census
of existing food supplies and prob
able production. 1t also provides
funds to stimulate food production
and to effect Widespread economics.
1t goes one step further and pro-
vides the most vigorous prohibition
against manipulation between the
time food products leave the original
producer-the farmer-and the time
when they reach the consumer"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
TWELVE MILLION MEN
IN THE GERMAN ARMY
This Number Available After Losing
100000 Men.

NEW YORK.-Despite her losses
Germany now has nearly 10000, 0O0
men in military service and her mil
itary strength has not been broken.
James w. Gerard, formerly ambassa-
dor to Germany, told the Broadway
Association at its luncheon, In esti-
mating the German losses he said
that the Germans had lost 500 400
men in prisoners, 100000 perm8-
nently incapacitated, 100000 less
severely wounded, and about 500
600 killed, total of 100000 men
Since the war she has called yearly
100000 recruits to the colors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
TIME HANGS HEAVILY ON
HANDS OF DAWSON MAYOR
Not More Than a Dozen of Things
to Do, Finds Time to Visit.

to Do, Finds Time to Visit.
The following interesting item is
from a recent issue of the Atlanta
Georgia:
Mayor Jim Weaver, of Dawson.
was among those present in Atlanta
Tuesday. He called at the offices of
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce,
of which he is a member Mr.. Weav-
er admitted coming to Atlanta about
once a week, as time hangs rather
heavily on his hands just now. All
he has to do at home is conduct the
city, the telephone exchange, run a
big farm, with particular attention
to hog raising, look after few more
farms in other parts of the state,
keep his eye on some Florida orange
groves, and work for good roads,
and he's rather lonely since resign
ing the Dawson postmastership. If
anybody knows of good job, Mr.
Weaver would like to hear about it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
LETTER lasrg TN YEARS
ON WAY To TON
Finally Completes Journey From
lem, Ore, to Mooneville, Mo.

A, OEC'1 " MoOnGVIlte, MO.
SALEM, Ore.-Sixteen years and
six months ago E. M. Croisan, of Sa-
lem, wrote letter to J. Sutton
Burns, of Mooneville, Mo. Mr.. Burns
crossed the plains with Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry M. Croisan E. M. Croisan's
parents, the trip being made in 1916.
No answer was received and Mr..
Croisan thought the old pioneer dead.
Recently, however, Mr.. Croisan re-
ceived reply. 1t was postmaked
July 10, 1900, and for more than
sixteen years had been lying some
where in the hands of the postoffice
department. For curiosity sake Mr..
Croisan wrote another letter to Mr..
Burns to see if he was still living
and he has just received another.
The first letter contained much in
teresting historical information and
has been turned over to the Oregon
Historical society.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
ITALIAN WOMEN DIG TRENCHES

ROME, Italy.-Thousands of wo-
men are digging trenches for the
Italian soldiers along the battle
front. The Italian war department
employs 1924 women, many of
whom are in munition factories.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
HUSBAND TO
"EEP HIM FROM WAR

y
|, 'Vld Sanders, of Denver,
/, ana killed her husband,
t. r''5, to keep him from go
r = tie had enlisted a year
|er r n Recently he was
|4t 'ne prospect of going to
Eeo c a dinner in Ell Paso
s su,arked that he would
HI SO M De called out. AS he
Iof WE pulled out a revolv-
be her, he died a few minutes
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
MISSISSIPPI LEvEE BREAKS;
FLOODS $4,000 ACRES LAND

QUINCY, Ill.-The Fabius river
levee broke in three places near Tav-
Tor, Mo-, recently. More than lis.
acres of land are under water ana
scores of farmers and their families
made their way to Quincy and Other
towns on horseback. The Mississius,i
river rose eight feet in four DAYS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
TEN BILLION DOLLARS COST
OF FIRST YEAR OF WAR

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
in the last speech of his campaign FOR
the liberty loan declared that it
seemed certain that ten billion dol
lars would be needed by the United
States to wage the war for twelve
months and that of this at least ST.
100000 should be raised by tax
alton and $8,2OO,O00,000 by bond is
sues,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19

De as folloWS:
1. Chatham, Bryan, Effingham.
2. Liberty, Mcintosh, Tattnall.
3. Toombs, Appling, Jeff Davis.
4. Glynn, Camden, Charlton.
5. Ware, Clinch, Coffee.
6. Echols, Lowndes, Berrien.
7. Brooks, Thomas, Grady.
8. Decatur, Mitchell, Miller.
9. Early, Calhoun, Baker.
10. Dougherty, Worth, Colquitt.
IL. Clay, Randolph, Terrell.
II. Stewart, Webster, Quitman.
IS. Sumter, Schley, Macon.
Ia. Dooly, Wilcox, Pulaski.
IS. Bleckley, Dodge, Telfair.
16. Emanuel, Johnson, Washington
II. Jenkins, Screven, Burke.
10. Richmond, Glascock, jefferson
10. Taliaferro, Greene, Oconee.
20. Baldwin, Hancock, Warren.
81. Twiggs, Wilkinson, Jones.
%. Bib, Monroe, Pike.
%. Houston, Crawford, Taylor.
"a. Muskogee, Marion, Chattahoo
chez.
Is. Harris, Epson, Talbot.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-19
|R|SH GAYETY
IN LONDON
|ENs HELP SOLDIERS FOR
ruF MANY HORRORS OF
TUE PRESENT WAR.
HI ARE SAFE in
| CONTRAST WITH FRENCH

and Girls Swarm Streets,
tiers Are Packed and Extrava-
J Is Practiced by All Glasses.
lon in No Danger.
war, with its feverish excite
has turned London, England.
citv of gayety is explained by
Dan-one who has seen life,
he position of an observer,
h knows it we'll. She is the sis
|TuIian B. Arnold of Chicago.
bg in the heart of London, this
|pr of the author of "The Light
j." writes on present-day con-
lis has war at her very gates.
lople are face to face with an
encamped upon her soil. They
people cannot but help live
h enthusiastically, and
eep drawn breath; hourly con-
of their danger.
London Is Safe.
bdon is not subject to the
bnditions. London is safe, save
lew foolish bombs which muir
men and babes. But London
bar. She is wholly occupied by,
ed by, inspired by, altered by
kre are half a million of sol
81 London. Aye, and many of
8he tag-rag and bobtail of all
Il the world; coarse and rough
BE lawless from every colony;
Il as the equally brave and far
Orn, and refined types of man
Some Of these men have prov
q so uncomfortable that it was
#ible to camp them in or near
they had to be exiled to Sal
Plain and such safe lodges in
erness. Does any one mag
ppe that these men are white
hOrister boys Just out from
nthems in cathedrals?
All Have Money.
" Of them are strangers in
and town they have never
before, and without excep-
pr pockets are full of money
4 it is spent.
! colonial men get 6 and 5 a
Shlle our own men are greatly
4 OF the support of families
separation allowance given
n wives and children. The re-
men have arrears of pay
1 to 10 pounds for the rank
to 81 and a 100 pounds for
Rcers. Can any one marvel
ey spend, and carouse accord
tneT tastes and rank?
emloer, also, that the walls
tne whisper, We who are
Ole salute thee We do not
praise from the housetops,
IN the air. The sentiment
drink and be merry, for to-
we die is rampant.
SHOPS, hotels, restaurants and
are full. The streets are
\: London has an appearance
Ilc iiush-of gayety and of
pending which before the
belonged to the very height
SperouS season. And immor-
Rampant.
urls Into Whirlpool.
gay ladies' are having the
harvest of their lives; and
"a enough, mere girls are
INTO the whirlpool.
inoV be prevented. | declare.
own own observation, that near
leave man, on coming
- winter, buys a fur coat
+ 20 expenditure, and then
" ma a female to put into
y ~ u has been a sign of de-
this winter. A
good will come out of evil.
So' as the rose grows from
y. ana as light and shadow
w. ,p,, Evils are the shavings
o; %,oIN!shop-and out of this
rjo nE Is already resulting a
rlght-doing.
government, medical men.
' b leading men and wo-
" mono" ono to them) have at
IA Jared to take the blink
aI U'ler Grundy's face, and
sm my calling spades by their
. pound 20 to bring faults and
n, tne surface. Yet withal,
'Vyed we are still the same
cb nld we will come out of
napier a renewed-cleaner,
IF ana strengthened for the
t, Uqr linen in these waters
HUSRAND
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1917-05-08
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