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Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
F()()D BILL
 N()|N GOESS ID WILSON
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WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-The food bill passed through the last stage of legislative enactment at o'clock this afternoon when it was finally adopted by the senate in form previously ap- proved by the house. President Will sons signature now makes it law.
 The vote was 66, to '.
 Those voting against the conference report were: Democrats, Hardwick, Hollis and Reed, republicans, France Gronna, La Toilette and. Penrose.
 Immediately after the final vote on the control bill. the senate by vive voce vote also approved the confer ence report on the first administra tion food bill, providing for a food survey and appropriating funds to stimulate production.
 Replying to criticisms of senators who have opposed the bill, Senator Reed. it's leading opponent declared that he would rather resign his seat than give any aid to the enemy.
 Referring to the question of peace, Senator Reed said that the less talk on that subject now the better.
 Senator Reed asserted that his op- position to the bill could not be con- strued as disloyalty but represented his judgment that it would weaken the United States in the war.
 Both bills are to become laws on Friday with President Wilson's ap- provaL The senate recessed tonight until Friday, so that after Speaker Clark signs the bills on reconvening of the house, they may then be signed by the senate's presiding officer and immediately sent to the White House.
 Prompt appointment of Herbert c. Hoover as food administrator and immediate operation under the legis- lation is expected to follow.
 In addition to it's comprehensive provisions for control of food, fuel, fer tilizer and farm equipment, the con- trol bill carries drastic prohibition features Thirty days after it's ap- proval it will be unlawful to use foodstuffs in the manufacture of dis titled beverages or to import distilled spirits for beverage purposes; and the president will be empowered to com mandeer for military purposes dis titled liquors now held in bond and to regulate or restrict the use of foods in the manufacture of wine and beer.
 The senate's action virtually con- cludes work of congress on the ad- ministration legislative program adopted last May. It puts into the president nand TOT personal use or delegation, the most unusual and comprehensive powers and according to many members of the congress- marks the innovation of national so- cialistic experiment.
 Consummation of the program fol- lowed the most bitter opposition and acrimonius debate in many years centered in the senate, after the president had prevailed upon congress to lay asside virtually all work and urged conclusion of the legislation by July 1 to deal with this years crop
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
AIDED BY AMERICA
 RUSSIA WILL D0 HER
 PART SAYS MIR. ROOT
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WASHINGTON, Aug S-Russia, newest of democracies, grows stronger of heart and purpose daily, and with aid from the United States, can be depended upon to do her part in the great war and emerge a powerful state This was the message brought to President Wilson and Secretary Lansing today by Elihu Root and his fellow members of the American mis- sion sent to Russia three months ago.
 Unqualified encouragement from the United States. moral and financial, were necessary essentials to keeping life in the new government the com missioners agreed. A separate peace with Germany is the gravest fear. Left to fight along with her present govern ment in control, the president was told, Russia will emerge triumphant and strong, but if either by great masses of troops or clever propaganda, Germany should accomplish the overthrow of the Kerensky government the out look would be dark indeed.
 Only one written report, it is said. was submitted to Secretary Lansing. it was not made public and may not be.
 From high sources, it is known, how ever, the commission was agreed on virtually all essentials. There may have been differences of opinion as to the best method for obtaining re- suits, but the opinion of present condi- , tions and high hopes for the future was , unanimous.
 None was stronger in his conviction that there is the greatest hope fol (Continued on Page TWo)
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
OKLAHOMA DRAFT
 UPRISING QUELLED BY AUTHORITIES
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. B. Isolated bands of resisters to the selec- tive draft tonight still were reported active in the hilly counties of south- eastern Oklahoma, but federal author ities expressed the opinion that they had the uprising effectively quelled as far as organized resistance was concerned
 Filing of charges of rebellion against leaders of the rioters, of whom more than 200 are held in the state peni- tentiary and county jail at McAlester. had dampened the ardor of the lesser lights under arrest, and officials re- ported them anxious to tell all they knew of the uprising. Preliminary hearings have been postponed while this testimony is being obtained. The latest point from which rioters were reported was at Scipio, north of Me Alester, where large body of malcon- contents, heavily armed, were said to be defying the officers to take them before the draft examining board. Posses have been sent from McAlester with orders to bring them in. Rumors of disaffection in Payne county were discounted tonight by reassuring re- ports from Stilwell, the county seat.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09

Under authority from Provost Mar shal General Crowder, Governor Camp bell and Colonel Breen in charge of the selective draft in this state, yesterday made a reapportionment of Arizona's quota among the various counties. An appeal had been made to the provost marshal general on the ground that the states quota based on the exaggerated population of more than 900 was entirely too large and it was pointed out to him that in many of the mining companies the alien population was so great that there would not be enough native born or naturaliZed Americans to respond to the first call for 6S7,000 troops.
 Governor Campbell had carried on an extended telegraphic correspondence with the provost marshal general and with the Arizona delegation in congress asking for a readjustment of the state quota. He showed that the alien DOT ton of the registration was a little more than 39 per cent of the total reg istration while in the country at large it was only about 12 per cent; that in the mining counties it was so great that the first call would exhaust the citizenship eligible to military service. It was shown that in the county of Greenlee, the aliens constituted two thirds of the entire registration list and that when there was deducted from the list of native born or naturaliZed citizens of draft age, those entitled to exemption the first call could not be met
 The governor secured the earnest CO., operation of Representative Hayden who has frequently seen .~e provost marshal general and other officials. General Crowder in his telegram of yesterday stated that MT. Hayden had visited him but that the quota for the state could not be changed. He gave his consent however to any readjust ment of'the apportionment of the coun ties that might be made There was an intimation in earlier correspondence that in the second call amends would be made to Arizona
 Soon after the receipt of General Crowder's telegram the governor and Colonel Breen began work on a reap portionment after an exclusion from consideration of the aliens registered since they could not contribute to the quota to be raised. It was not quite certain how this should be done and it was at first suggested that the new ap- portionment should be based upon the population of the various counties af- ter deducting from it the number of aliens who had been registered. But that would afford little relief to the counties suffering most from an alien population. It was then decided to de- duct the alien registration from the total registration of each county and make the balance, the citizen registra- : tion. the basis of apportonment, with the following result:
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Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
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GLOBE, Aug. S.-The uprising of striking Indians and Mexicans at the mines of the United States Asbestos company, high up in the Sierra Anchas mountains. fifty miles from here, was successfully queled this morning by the arrival of seven forest rangers and a number of~armed ranchers. All of the Indians were driven from the com pany property today by deputy sher- ifs who arrested an Indian named Montana and another Apache known as Johnny Cook. These two redskins will be brought to this city.
 According to Forest Supervisor God dard, the Indians went on strike for $40 per day and when the company refused to grant their demands as they are now receiving $275, they told General Manager Charles F. Sloan that they would set fire to the company's buildings and the forest about the mine. Sloan immediately summoned the few other white men in the camp to his assistance and they barricaded themselves in a dugout where they re- mained all night for protection against
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
Tucson Postal C2eyk Gone
 Currency Package Missing

and which paid more money. As his accounts were straight, the leave was granted.
 Postal inspectors found Mrs. Coakley on a train just as she was starting for Louisville, Ky, Monday evening, but she was allowed to proceed on her journey. She said that Coakley had disappeared on August 1, without bid ding her goodbye or leaving a mes sage and, thinking herself deserted. she was returning to her family at Louisville, Ky.
 Postoffice inspectors said tonight that they believed Coakley had gone to Mexico, admitting they had no defi- nite trace of his movements since his disappearance. He was formerly con- nected with the Louisville fire depart ments and bore a good reputation. He was an efficient postal employe, it was said at the local office.
 Coakley was bonded for $1,0O0. The package of currency -as insured.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
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WASHINGTON, Aug S.-A corn crop surpassing any ever grown be- fore; a reduction in wheat prospects due to damage to the spring wheat crop and record crops of barley, rye, white and sweet potatoes, tobacco and hay were forecast today in the August crop report of the department of agriculture.
 Corn production was placed at 3191, 100000 bushels, an increase of 67,000,- 900 bushels over the July forecast and 6S,000, 900 bushels above the record crop of 1912. The showing is due to vast improvement in the growing corn in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri. In Kansas the condition declined to 33 per cent of a normal. compared with 66 per cent on July 1, and as a result the Kansas crop is forecast at S1,- TAO, 900 bushels compared with 169, ,536, : 900 bushels forecast in July. Oklaho-
 mas crop showed a decline from 61
 per cent of a normal to 30 per cent, with production forecasts reduced from i 65,592, 900 bushels to 33,S44,000 bushels. 1 Spring wheat production, forecast in , July at 76,000,000 bushels showed the 1 results of adverse weather conditions. 1 The prospects are put at 236, ,109, ,000
 bushels, decrease of about 10000, ,00O l bushels from the July 1 report. North
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
BRITISH SUCCEED
 IN RAID AGAINST
 THE GERMAN LINES
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Flanders, where the big guns have been booming necessarily since rain stopped the entente offensive move ment early last week, has again been the scene of infantry fighting, but only on small scale
 Near the coast the British have been successful in a raid into the German lines near ombaertzyde. Berlin of ficially described this operation as an attack in force, which it says, the Germans beat off in hand to hand fighting. The Teutons also record the repulse of local attacks by the British in the Bixschoote region between Dix nude and Ypres
 Along the Aisne front and on the right bank of the Mouse, northeast of Verdun, violent artillery activity continues on both sides. The German crown prince has not followed up his attacks on the Aisne front, where he was repulsed east of Vauxaillon and west of the California plateau
 Russian troops are on the offensive
 in the Chotin region on the Russo
 Galician border, northeast of CZerno-
 witz, and have withstood successfully
 Austro German thrusts in the region of Brody, in Galicia northeast of Lem-
 berg. The Russian forward movement west of Chotin resulted in the capture of two villages and a height The Austro Germans lost 300 prisoners and four machine guns. The Teutonic eff fort near Brody penetrated the Rus sian lines but the attackers were | thrown back by counter attack ano the Russian lines restored.
 A newspaper report from Petrograo says the Russians have evacuated tht | fortress of Kamenetz -Podolsk, the cap | ital of Podolia, about thirty mile: northeast of Chotin, and the garrison town of Proskurov, on the Bug river i B miles north of Kamenetz-P -Podolsk l Both these places are some distance | from the line of the river Zbrocz, whicl
 has been held in part by the Russian:
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
INDIAN UPRISING IS
 QUICKLY PUT DOWN

the threatened attack of the Apache and Mexican strikers.
 The forest fires were started, accord ing to Supervisor Goddard by an h. dian who had been discharged from the mine two days before the out break. It is believed that he was en- couraged in his depredations by the hostile acts of members of his race who appeared to be in control of the mine.
 Despite the order issued by Manager Sloan, said Supervisor Goddard, the Indians refused to leave the property until the deputy sheriffs arrived later in the day. The officers disarmed the men and gathered together several guns and many rounds of ammunition from the shacks in which they had been living.
 Deputy Sheriff Dan Armer and County Attorney Hugh Foster are still at the mine and will remain until to- morrow, according to Supervisor God dard, when the arrival of several more white men is expected.
 Passengers arriving by stage over the Apache trail tonight said that they could plainly see the forest fires on the slopes of the Sierra Anchas mountains.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
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TUCSON, Aug. S.-Walter D. Coak- ley, postoffice clerk. is missing with $10,000 in currency, it was announced by Postmaster J. M. Ronstadt, tonight. Coakley, who was not regularly em- ployed in the registry department of the local postoffice, was relieving a registry clerk on July 30 when pack age containing $10,000 was presented by the Southern Arizona Bank & Trust company, consigned to Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los An geles. The non-delivery of the pack age at Los Angeles caused an invesu- gation to be started here on August 4, when it was discovered that Coakley after receiving the money, had de- stroyed all record of the transaction. The banks receipt was signed by Coakley
 Coakley asked for and obtained a two days leave of absence on July 30, saying that he wished to investigate a position which had been offered him
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
FRISCO ATTORNEY ARRESTED
 FOR RESISTING DRAFT

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-Dan- iel O'Connell, an attorney, was ar rested here late today on a federal warrant charging resistance of the draft law. The warrant was served while he was addressing a meeting of the American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace" Many of the 200 persons at the meeting hissed the officer. who made the arrest John D. Works of Los Angeles, who was among other prominent persons in the audience which included Dr. David Starr Jordan, arose and said: This arrest is a disgrace to the Ameri- can people and is done for the purpose of intimidating thinking people"
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
SLIGHT INCREASE
 IN BRITISH SHIPS
 LOST DURING WEEK
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LONDON, Aug. S.-There was a slight increase in the loss of British merchant vessels by submarines or mines during the last week, according to an official summary issued tonight. Twenty one British vessels of more than 1,600 tons and two vessels of less than 1900 tons were sunk last week. Thirteen ships were attacked unsuc- cessfully. No fishing boats were sunk.
 The number of vessels over 1900 tons sunk last week is an increase of three over the number sunk in the previous week, when IS were lost through sub marines or mines. There is a decrease of one. in the vessels of less than 1900 tons, three having been reported lost the previous week. The total for the present report, 23, is an increase of two over the previous report. and is one less than the number reported lost for the week ending July 22, which was the highest since the week end ing June "A, when 2S were lost.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09

The governor last night directed a telegram to every sheriff in the state informing him of the new apportion- ment and sent at the same time a copy of the table by which it had been computed. The following is the tele- gram to the sheriff in this county and is identical except as to the figures with all others sent out:
 Due to the great number of aliens registered under the selective service law in Arizona. representing as they do S9.6 per cent of the total registra- tion, said aliens not being subject to draft, great injustice is done to those several counties wherein the greatest number of aliens are registered and who were included in the original gross quotas of said counties. In order to correct this injustice and upon infor- nation from the provost marshal gen. eral that reapportionment can be ordered by the governor, the said re-
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Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
HAIL DAMAGES CROPS
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LINCOLN, Neb., Aug 8.-Damage which may mount into hundreds of thousands of dollars was caused to property and crops by a severe hail and wind storm which swept a path from four to ten miles wide and over hundred miles long. over nine counties of eastern central Nebraska this after noon, according to reports reaching Lincoln late tonight Telephone and telegraph lines to the storm swept dis trict are down and authentic informa- tion as to the actual extent of the damage is lacking.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
KANSAS CITY WALKS
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KANSAS CITY, Aug. 8.-Kansas City walked home from work tonight or rode in conscripted vehicle, the result of a general strike of street car men which paralyzed that service. The tie up is the result of walkout or dered by representatives of the motor- men and conductors early this morn ing. The men, according to their spokesmen, are demanding the right to organize and the reinstatement of men said to have been discharged because of alleged connection with the forma- tion of a union. According to company officials. about 1,700 men are out of emploYment
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
"UN|VERS|TYMUDD[E" FIGURES
 IN TRIAL IF TEXAS GOVERNOR

through a long series of questions to show how the university was con- ducted. Dr. Vinson denied "sugges- tions' which Mir Crane said had been made that dead men" were on the payroll.
 Speaker Fuller, in his charges, all legged that the governor exceeded his rights in alleged attempts to control the university
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
Gathering at Scipio

MUSKOGEE, Okla, Aug. S.-United States Marshal Enloe was advised by R. N. McMillan, United States com missioner at McAlester tonight that a large body of draft rebels had gath cred at Scipio. fifteen miles north of McAlester and that they had sent Tn word that they would resist any eff fort to take them before the district examining board The rebels are hearily armed, Commissioner McMillan said Marshal Emo instructed Deputy Mar shal Peters at McAlester to take fifteen men and proceed at once to ScipiO.
 At midnight Marshal Enloe had re- ceived no word from his officers at ScipiO, although other advices received from that vicinity indicate the citizens there were prepared for trouble with enemies of the draft. Six men were arrested today charged with destroying a Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf rail- road bridge eight miles north of Cal win last Saturday night.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
 GALES HASN'T RESIGNED
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. S.-De- nial of recent reports that Governor P. Elias Gales of Sonora has rendered his resignation to the legislature and that it had been accepted, was made today at the Mexican consulate, which also announced it had information that Governor Gales is in full control. Re- port of the resignation had been made in a dispatch from Nogales recently and the information attributed to former Governor de la Huerta.
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
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for more than week, and lie behind the Chotin- Brody line.
 In central Moldavia the Teutons con- tinue their advance north of Fokshanyi Petrograd admits the success of this movement and says the Russians have retired toward the river Sereth
Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
Waiting at Douglas

DOUGLAS, Aug S.-After having met at Forrest Station, twelve miles west of Douglas, while enroute to Bis bee, and informed by a committee of Bisbee citizens that their presence in Bisbee to conduct a investigation of the deportation of 1. w. w. July 12, was not desirable, the committee of six members named by the Arizona State Federation of Labor in it's convention at Clifton. returned to Douglas today. The members of the labor committee, when seen at their hotel, refused to make any statement about their ex- perience, saying they had been com missioned to report direct to the con vention, and they would do so.
 Bert Davis, first vice president of the state federation of labor, called at tention to a letter in his possession showing that he had been named by Governor Thomas E. Campbell as a member of the state exemption board
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Arizona republican., 1917-08-09
TAFT IS IMPEDING
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CLAY CENTER, Kas., Aug S-The condition of former President William H. Taft. who is ill at a hotel here, was described by his physician tonight as slightly improved. MT. Taft was strick- en with stomach trouble after having delivered an address here on Monday