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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Europe Gets $780, oo, 900 in Food.

Washington. - Foodstuffs continue
to leave American ports for Europe in
vast quantities. Figures published by
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce show that in the first elev-
value of about s67O, OOO, 900, or at the
rate of more than $780, 900, 900 a month.
Breadstuffs lead in value of foods
sold abroad. In the eleven months
they reached a total of s404,O 900, 900.
Meat and dairy products amounted to
$245, OOO, 900.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Power Wire Kills Aged Couple.

Tucson, Ariz.-Raymon Torres and
his wife, both more than so years old,
were killed by electrocution when they
tried to go under a barbed wire fence
to New Year services at the ancient
San Xavier mission. A coroner's jury
decided that an electric light power
line had broken and fallen on the
fence. Investigation led Sheriff Forbes
to offer $3.50 reward for the apprehen-
sion of persons who, he believes,
tapped the live wire and attached it
to the fence.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Colorado LEGISLATURE convenes.

Denver.-The Twenty-first General
Assembly of Colorado began its ses-
sions at noon Jan. 8. Democrats con-
troll both branches, having a majority
of one in the Senate and Thirteen in
the House. Representative Boone
Best of Kiowa county was agreed
upon for speaker of the House, and
Senator William H. Adams of Ala
mosa for president pro TEN Of the
Senate. F. E. Tibot of Fountain was
nominated by the minority for
speaker.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
VILLA DEFEATED
NEAR CHIHUAHUA
CARRANZA FORCE SEXES BAND
OF SIXTY PRISONERS AND
EXECUTES THEM.
BANDIT MOVING NORTH
MINING MAN DECLARES FEDERAL
FORCE IN CAPITAL MAY HAVE
TO EvACUATE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 3.-Carranza
forces met and defeated a Villa com
mand at Bustillos, fifty miles west OF
Chihuahua City, or the Mexican
Northwestern railroad, Dec. 81, a Car
rama official from Chihuahua City,
who arrived here states. The Villa
force was commanded by Juan Murga,
who has been operating north and
west of Chihuahua City. Sixty Villa
prisoners were taken and executed,
the Carranza official said.
Carranza forces now occupy San
Antonio, Cusihuiriachic and Guerrero,
this official said. Julio Acosta, who
was left in command OF the villa
wounded at Guerrero, fled to the
mountains. he reported, and had aban-
doned the wounded. A skirmish oc-
cured Dec. 81 at Pedernales, twenty
two miles west of Cusihuiriachic and
the small Villa force there driven
back into the mountains, the Carranza
official said.
Ell Paso, Tex.-Francisco Villa was
reported to have been at COnchO, sixty
miles south of Chihuahua City on Fri
day and was moving north toward the
state capital with a force Of 5000 men,
a Mexican mining man who arrived on
the delayed Mexican Central train re-
ported upon his arrival or the Ameri-
can side of the river.
He also confirmed the reports of
the fighting between the Carranza
forces stationed at Bustamante, ten
miles south of Santa ROsalia, at Santa
Rosalia and other garrisons along the
Mexican Central, north of Jiminez.
The mining mar said Gen. Murguia
has fewer men in the Chihuahua City
garrison than had been reported and
said there was a strong feeling in the
capital that the Carranza commander
might be forced to e%vacuate the city
and come north toward the border by
Villas superior force.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
WAR NATIONS IN
Giant DEADLOCK
LAUNDERING GUNS WELCOME
YEAR 1917 ON BLOODY FRENCH
BATTLE LINE.
READY TO TALK PEACE
PETROGRAD ADMITS ROUT OF
HER ARMIES BEFORE PUR-
SUIT OF TEUTONS.
Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
London.-The dawn of 1917 found
the belligerent armies virtually dead
locked everywhere except in Rumania.
1t found also in the air a suggestion
by the Teutonic allies that they are
ready to discuss peace, but the en-
tente allies have signified their deter
mination to continue fighting until
their officially repeated desires are
complied with.
Petrograd.-The attack of the Teu-
tonic forces in Rumania continues
with undated vigor and the Russian
and Rumanian troops have been
obliged to make further withdrawals.
Around Braila, on both sides of the
Danube, the invaders have further
driven in the defenders of the terri
tory. Near Fokshany and thence
southeast to the Danube, Petrograd
reports the Russians and Rumanians
have taken up new positions without
pressure from the Teutonic allies.
In the Verdun sector east of the
Chambrettes farm the Germans at
tempted a strong surprise attack
against the French position, but were
repulsed, according to Paris.
London, Dec. 3O.-The battle of the
Somme is pictured as a sweeping tri-
umph for the entente allied arms in a
detailed report by Gen. Sir Douglas
Haig, which covers operations from
July / to Nov. IS. General Haig terms
the battle a triumph in which the Ger
man western armies were only saved
from complete collapse and a decisive
defeat by a protracted period of un-
favorable weather that prevented the
Anglo-French forces from taking full
advantage of their successful advance.
Pressing in upon southern Moldavia
from three sides, apparently with all
their vigor, the forces of the central
powers are making progress against
stiff resistance. On the Transylvanian.
Moldavian frontier, in the region north
OF Rimnik-Sarat, and in the Dobrodja
opposite Braila, Berlin reports the
Austro-Germa and Bulgarian troops
ale advancing.
Tit Rumanian province of Dobrudja
now is almost cleared of defenders.
West of the Meuse, in the Verdun
region, the forces of the German
crow prince have repulsed attacks by
French troops against the new Ger
man positions on LIE Mort Homme.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Coal Iackjno, Railroad Burns Ties.

Tucson, Ariz.-The Southern Pacific
railroad has resorted to old ties for
fuel in the absence of coal. An order
to station agents appealing for fuel
was met by instructions to use old ties
hitherto discarded and permitted to
rot along the right of way. Round
houses were also instructed to use the
old timber. Until the coal situation is
relieved and increasing supplies bring
lower prices, the Southern Pacific will
continue t. use the ties in its COM
pany buildings.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
SAN DIEGO SHOW CLOSES.
More Than Two Million Saw EXPOSE
ton IN Year Just Closed.

San Diego.-The Panama-California
International Exposition closed its ca
reer at midnight Jan. 1 with the dis
tinction of having been open to the
public continuously for two years.
Among congratulatory kilograms re-
ceived by President G. A. Davidson
was one from President Woodrow
Wilson, which read:
May | not convey to the San Diego
Exposition Association my warm o n
CALCULATIONS upon the completion Of
a unique and valuable service to the
art and industry of the country?
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON,"
The attendance during the year is
estimated by exposition officials in
excess of 2,250,000, slightly under
the record established in 1915.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Aoree on Bonds to Meet Deficit.

Washington.-President Wilson has
tentatively agreed with administration
leaders in Congress on a bond issue
to meet part of the treasury deficit
which confronts the government for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1918,
estimated at about $3.50. 1000. With
Secretary McAdoo the President is
working on other plans for raising ad-
ditional revenue. The President has
pointed out that he believes q bond
issue should be used only to meet tenn
porary and emergency expenditures.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Seven Eclipses Slated for 1917.

Neutrality-suspicious. eclipises Of the
sun and three of the moon, the great
est number possible in a single year,
will occur in 1917. according to a
memorandum issued by the naval OBJ
s%ervatory. The last year in which
eclipses came was early in the
last century, anG the next will be
1895. On Jan. s there will be a total
eclipse of the loo by the earth's
shadow, visible throughout the United
States, beginning at 1885 a. m. and
ending at 4:39 a. m, eastern time.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Produces 271. 900, 900 Pounds Of Copper

Douglas, Ariz.-ApprOximate esti-
mates of the total output of copper
from the smelters of the Copper Con-
solidated Mining Company, and the
Calumet & Arizona Mining Company,
situated at Douglas, will be 271, 600
pounds for 1916. The Copper Queen
produced It's, 0OO, 900, being as much
as it and the Calumet & Arizona smell
ter together produced last year. The
Calumet & Arizona production reached
100000 900 pounds for December and
81 5000, 900 for the year.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Eioht Guilty of Wild Horse Fraud.

Omaha.-The jury in the case of
eleven men charged with use of the
mails to defraud in sales of phantom
wild horses in Coconino county, Ariz.,
returned a verdict of guilty against
nine defendants and found one not
guilty. One defendant was dismissed
BY the Judge.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Villa Force Takes Town of Saltillo.

Ell Paso, Tex,-Villa partisans here
announced Friday that forces operat-
ing under the banner of Villa had oc'
cLpied Saltillo, the capital of the state
of Coahuila, located between Torreon
and Monterey. The report was de-
MED by Carranza officials here.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
De Baca Sworn in as Governor.

Santa Fee, N. M.-Esequiel C. de
Baca took the oath of governor at st.
Vincent's sanitarium in the presence
of a few personal friends and political
intimateS.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Campbell Sworn In as Governor.

Phoenix, Ariz.-Governor-elect Tom
Campbell, in the presence of half a
dozen friends and newspaper men was
sworn in as governor of Arizona by
Superior Judge Frank Lyman Dec. 30.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Seek New Waite Trial.

New York.-Claiming e evidence
of the insanity of DR.. Arthur Warren
Waite, confessed murderer of John L.
Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich, Walter
r. Deuel., Waite's attorney, and his
brother, Frank Waite, are preparing
to seek a new trial for the man, now
awaiting death at Sing Sing.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Additional Railway LEGISLATION.

observation-disclosures got back to
business TO find that President VIII
son is determined upon passage of
additional railroad legislation, includ-
ing the bill compelling investigation
before strikes may be called.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Proposes Thirteenth Farm Loan Bank

Proposes Thirteenth Farm Loan Bank
Misunderstanding the Federal
Farm Loan Board for not locating a
farm loan bank in Colorado or ada
cent territory, Senator Shafroth intro
duced a bill to create a thirteenth
farm loan bank district to include
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New
Mexico and establish the bank in
Denver. The new arrangement would
take Colorado and New Mexico from
the district controlled by the Wichita
bank, Wyoming from the Omaha
bank and Utah from the Berkeley.
Cal, district
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Carranza Quarantine Officer Dies.

San Antonio, Tex.-Dr. Carlos Ma
ton, chief quarantine officer of the
Carranza government, died suddenly
of heart disease while visiting in
Laredo,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
ARGENTINE Wheat Harvest Poor,

Washington. Argentina's wheat
harvest will be one of the poorest the
country ever has had, due to damage
by drouth and locusts.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05

Refuses to Negotiate Commerce Pact.
Washington--The Russian govern
ment has declined to negotiate a new
commercial treaty with the United
States to replace the treaty abrogated
by the American Congress under the
Taft administration.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Women's Waves Collected.

Salt Lake City.-Since the passage
of the minimum wage Law in Utah
three and a half years ago, the com
missioner of immigration, labor and
statistics has collected more than
$4,000 for underpaid women, accord
ing to a report.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Forty-six Women Burn to Death.

Montreal.-Forty-six women were
burned to death in a fire that de-
stroyed st. Ferdinand de Halifax
asylum, at st. Ferdinand de Halifax,
Megantic county, Quebec, according
to a report received here.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Cholera Epidemic Abates.

Tokio.-The cholera epidemic has
greatly abated. No new cases have
been reported in Toxic since Nov. Is,
and the rate of increase throughout
the empire has fallen to about twenty
cases daily.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
President Is 60 Years Old.

Washington.-President Wilson, 60
years old Dec. 2S, was the recipient of
many congratulatory messages from
all parts of the country and abroad.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Texas Bank Robbed of $1,000.

Sherman, Tex.-Five robbers blew
open the safe of the Hagerman State
Bank at Hagerman and escaped in
an automobile with $4,000.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Germany Gives U. S. Peace Terms.

Germany Gives U. S. Peace Terms.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Germany is
willing to conclude peace with the al
lies on a basis of mutual reparation,
restoration of all the small kingdoms
involved in the war and adequate
guarantees for the security of world
peace, according to details reported to
President Wilson, summarized as fol
'ows:
1-Restoration of Belgium as an in
dependent sovereign state on condi-
ton that neither its frontier nor Ant
werp shall be fortified.
2-Reparation for Belgium by Ger
many, reparation for Greece by the al
lies, and reparation for Germany and
Austria by Russia to compensate for
damages occ~asioned by the invasion OF
East Prussia and Galicia.
3-Restoration of Serbia and Monte
negro as one Independent sovereign
state under a ruling family other than
the Karageorgevitch dynasty Of
Serbia.
4-Restoration of Rumania, provid
ed Rumania cedes to Hungary AMI
Bulgaria a strip along her western
boundary which, together with a strip
from northeastern Serbia, will consti
tute a connecting link between the
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Million Blaze Burns 300 Cars.

Toronto.-The King street barns of
the Toronto street railway were
burned with a loss of 81 100000. Three
hundred cars were destroyed.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Allies Reply 10 Peace

Allies Reply to Peace Offer Ready.
Washington, Dec. 30.-The reply of
the allies to Germany's peace proposal
of Dec. IL will be handed to the am
bassador of the United States in Paris
next Wednesday.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
lafayette Cox Commits Suicide.

Alamosa--Lafayette Cox, 62, and
unmarried, committed suicide by
shooting himself with a .33-caliber,
high-po wer rifle. which Re placed
against his lower Jaw.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Prisoner Perjshes In Jail Fir

Antonito.-Eperfanio Valdez, a pris-
one in the Antonito Jail, lost his life
when the Jail was destroyed by fire.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05

carranza Celebrates e1st Birthday. /
Quertaro, Mex. - Gen. Carransa
spent Dec. 30 at the home Of friends
near here, celebrating his sixty-firA
birthday
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Sir Hiram Maxim Left S165. 900.

London.-Sir Hiram Maxim, the in
ventor, who died recently, left an es-
tate of $4,000.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
REJECT GERMAN
PEACE PROPOSAL
Entente Powers Declare Propo-
sition for Conference Empty
and Insincere.
PREPARATION DEMANDED
Disclaim Responsibility for War
and Deny Foes Assertion
That Victory Is Theirs.

,N,-fpru. NJ Epntpr T'II4n &eWg EprEle
ans jan, o. i"e 'eA' VI '"e ~
ply OF inc a!Ii'd governments 10 'H'
German peace proposals, given on Dec.
80, follows:
"Tho allied of Belgium,
France. Great Britain. italy, japan.
Montenegro. Portugal. Rumania, Rus
STA and Serbia. united for the defense
Of the liberty of their peoples. and
faithful to oneagcments taken not TO
law down their arms separately. have
resolved TO reply collectively to the
pretended propositions of peacc which
were addressed to them on behalf Of
the enemy through the
Intermediary of the United states.
Switzerland and Holland.
"Rrrore maLinr any rcuIy the allied
novors desire rorticnlarIv tn urot,st
against tbo two essential assertions of
,to nate IF the enemy movers that
prot,ud to tbrow unon tho allies re-.
snonsihiIitv for the var and nroclaim
mo yictorv Of tbo cautr,l nowors
.orho oiiiod norornu,orts corr,t md.
u. ,-.,t ..a oa1
nth .,,rarn nnIn ri,n' "n tan
""N" 9u'''i9 y '''N'i Va W."
'"tIN' H'to'id''o"H .
Inc aIlleu hatIohS nave SuSla'l'"
TOT lhlrty months a war lh'y dld 'N
erythlhg 10 aVola. lhey nave SHOWN
by thelr acts thelr a%l'achlll'hl 10
peace. Ihat attachmrnt Is as s'rohH
today as II was IN l9li
But 1t is not upon the word OF
Germany, after the violation OF en-
Bagem"nts, that the peace broken by
her may be based
"A mer" suggestion, without a state
mcnt of terms, that negotiations should
be opened, is not an offer of peace
The putting forward by the imperial
government of a sham proposal lack
ing all substance and precision would
appear to b" less an off"r or peace
than a war maneuver It is founded on
calculated misinterpretatlon OF the
character OF the struggle in the past
the present n the future.
"As for the past, the German note
takes no account of the facts, dates
and figures which establish that the
war was desired, provoked and de-
clared, by Germany n AuStrla-iiun-
gary.
AT The Hague Conference IT was a
German dol"gat" who refused all pro
posals for disarmament. In July, l9l4,
1t was Austria hungary VINO, after
having addressed to Serbia an unpre-
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Record Bank CIearinus.

San Francisco.-San Francisco bank
clearings for 1916 we're the largest in
the history of the city.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05

Washington.-Eliseo Arredondo, the
Mexican ambassador designate, an
nounced that he had been requested
by his government to come to Mexico
City and confer. with Gen. Carranza
and his advisers over relations with
the United States. He said he ex,
pected to return here in about three
weeks and to resume his duties as
diplomatic representative of the de
facto government.
When Gen. CarranZa sent his recent
appeal for notifications in the protO-
col drawn by the American-MeXican
Commission, it was reported that he
would withdraw Mr.. Arredondo as a
mark Of his displeasure at the action
OF the American commissioners in de
handing a final decision by Dec. 2G.
Mr.. A%rredondo denied then that he
was to be Withdrawn and declared
that if he left Washington, il would be
to confer with his chief, as he did re-
Gently.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
Officer Dies on Border.

washington.-Capt. Urban Wetzel.
Eighth Ohio infantry, died Of diabetes
at the base hospital at Fort Bliss.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05
DISAGREEMENT
BY COMMISSION
GEN. CARRANZA DEFINITELY RE.
FUSES TO ACCEPT ALLAN.
TIC CITY PROTOCOL.
TROOPS TO WITHDRAW
FIRST CHIEFS AN A S S A D o r
LEAVES WASHINGTON
FOR MEXICO.

" '"l'Il newspaper I Il''l NEWS E'IN i'.
Washington, Jan. 4.-The end of al
efforts on the part of the United
states looking toward a peaceful ad
justmont Of Mexican internal affairs
through diplomatic parleys with the
C%arranza government, was seen here
Tuesday.
Following a session of the Mexican
American Commission which lasted
through most of the day and did not
break up until after ) o'clock, Secre
tary Lane of the American Commits
sion announced hat Gen. Carranza
Lad definitely and finally refused 10
ratify the Atlantic City protocol. He
accompanied this statement with a
copy of the protocol, which had not
hitherto been made public.
The adjournment of the parley, fol
lowing the withdrawal of EliseO Are
dondo, the Mexican ambassador-desig'
nate, which became known earlier in
the day, was taken in official circles
to mean that all negotiations with the
CarranZa government are now closed,
Secretary Baker said no plans for
immediate withdrawal of Pershing'3
troops had been considered.
Carranza's reply will not be made
public. He is understood to have
taken the position that he could not
sign the protocol because it would put
him in a position of sanctioning the
presence Of American troops on MeXi-
can soil.
The text of the protocol signed at
Atlantic City was made public by the
American commissioners.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-05

Joffre Named Marshal by Poincare.
Paris.-President Poincare has de-
creed Gen. Joffre a marshal of France.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-06-07

County. and which said real estate wa
Lot is, Metigoshe Park, Burnett's Ad-
said real estate being assessed in 1919
To Matt johnson
You are hereby notified hat said
above described real estate was sold, as
provided by law, at the annual sale of
lands upon which taxes had become de-
.linquent, after advertisement thereof, as
provided by law, which sale was made
at the Auditors office at the Court
House in the City of B%ottineau, County
the 9th day Of December, 1913. and
the amount of the delinquent tax due
upon the property aforesaid at the date
Only Thirty Cents
including penalties, costs and interest,
to make which amount, the said proper
ty was duly offered for sale, and no n
paid taxes, was bid in for the County
of Bottineau and a certificate of said
sale was issued to the purchaser there
of under the hand and seal of the Aud
itor of aid Rottineau County.
And you are further notified, that the
owner and holder of the certificate SO
issued has presented the same to the
undersigned as Auditor of said County,
and demanded a deed for said property
as provided by law, and said certificate
being and remaining unredeemed.
You are therefore notified that
Only Eighty-seVen Cents
exclusive Of accruing costs, is neces-
sary to redeem said property from
said sale, and that unless the said
amount and the costs Of this proceeding
a5e p ger1ie ea OF of W this no aiee'y yp eays yo a1'e a
tax deed will be issued therefor as pro-
Given under my hand and official seal
t fssah 18th day &C., 2f 5af M' HbB 3g1Si
Auditor Of Bottineau County, N. D.