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The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
PASS FOOD PROBE BILL
GOVERNMENT CONTROL MEAS.
URE CARRIES st4,77o,ooo
over 1900 Federal Employees and
10000 Volunteers Will Estimate
and Report on Crops
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washlngton.-The administration IS
food survey bill, first of the food con.
troll measures. was passed by the
House Monday without record vote
1t appropriated sls.770.000 for an i'm
mediate investigation of the country's
food resources and for measures to
stimulate production A similar bill
Is under debate in the Senate.
The Agriculture Department ex.
poets to present fairly accurate es-
innate of food resources within three
weeks after the bill is signed by the
President, Secretary Houston said
AS soon as the measure becomes a
law the department will start its IT.
900 employees and the 10000 volun-
tary crop reporters to work on the
investigation.
The preliminary report to be made
within three weeks will be supple
mented with monthly reports and
probably by further complete report
within six months II necessary.
Material gathered Will be turned
over to Herbert c. Hoover. who will
be named to head food administra-
tion as soon as the pending regula
tory food measure becomes law.
a The survey bill passed virtually as
1t came from the committee.
Miss Rankin. the woman representa-
tive from Montana. inserted an amend
ment which would require the Depart
ment of Agriculture to use women in
the survey work wherever practicable
AS originally drawn, the bill carried
more than s18.0O0.000. but committee
changes reduced the total.
These are the principal amounts ap
propriated: For seeds. $5.77s,000; edu
cation for increasing production by
waste elimination and conservation
$4.34S.4 400; general survey, s2,522.000;
eradication of live stock diseases and
live stock, Improvement work. ss45.-
600; miscellaneous items. $547, 900
and eradication OF plant diseases and
insects. 900.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
pnEsioENT WILSON PAYS TRIs.
>UTE TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT
FOR RIGHT in CIVIL WAR.
PLAN FREEDOM FOR ALL
AMERICA WILL NOT FAIL IN THE
STRUGGLE FOR HONOR AND
RIGHTS IN WORLD WAR.
ws.tern Newspaper linton News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
speaking at memorial exercises In
Arlington cemetery, declared the time
had come for action by this nation and
that he had no fear of the part Anier-
fca would play in the great world-war,
in the province OF God" he said.
america once more has an opportu-
nifty to show the world that she was
born to serve mankind" The President
said:
ANY memorial day of this sort H.,
OF course. day touched with sorrow
full memory. yet for one do not see
how we can have any thought OF pity
for the men whose mamory we honor
today.
Il do not pity them. | envy them,
rather. because theirs is a great work
for liberty accomplished, while we are
IL the midst of a work unfinished. test
ing our strength where their strength
has already been tested.
When you reflect upon 1t. these
men died to preserve the Union; died
to preserve the instrument which we
are now using to serve the world-a
free nation espousing the cause OF hui
man liberty
'In one sense the great struggle into
which we have how entered is an
American struggle because 1t is in de
Tense of American nonor and Ameri-
can rights; b. Il is something even
greater than ' tit is world-strug-
gle. 1t is struggle of men who love
liberty everywhere. and in this cause
America will show herself greater than
ever because she will rise to greater
thing.
I'VE have said in the beginning that
we planned this great government that
men who wished freedom might have
place of refuge and place where
their hopes might be realized and now
having established such a government,
having preserved such a government,
having vindicated the power of such
government, we are saying to all
I ankind We did not set this govern
ment up that we might have selfish
and separate liberty, Tor we are now
ready to come to your assistance and
fight out upon the field OF the world
the cause Of human liberty"
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
NAMES RED CROSSwEEk
WEEK OF JUNE 25TH DEsIGNAT-
ED IN PROCLAMATION.
President Wilson Urges Generous
Support and Maintenance Of This
Work Of National Need.

Washington.-In a proclamation to
the American people President Wilson
designated the week ending June 25th
as Red Cross Week and urged that
during the period generous gifts be
ruade to assist the organization in
properly caring for the armed forces
of the nation and the administration
Of relief.
The proclamation points out that
every man, woman and child in the
United States may do their respective
bits by giving. in spirit of patri-
ctic sacrifice, for the maintenance of
Red Cross work while small proper
tion of the population is serving the
nation on the field of battle. The text
of the proclamation follows:
''Inasmuch as our Thoughts as a ma
tion are now turned in united purpose
towards the performance to the ut
most of the services and duties which
we have assumed in the cause of JUS
tice and liberty;
'Inasmuch as but a small proper
tion of our people can have the op-
pOTtuHlty 10 serve upon tne aclual
field of battle. but all men. women and
children alike may serve and serve
effectively by making it possible to
care properly for those who do serve
under arms at home and abroad;
And inasmuch as the American
Red Cross is the official recognized
agency for volunteer effort in behalf
of the armed forces of the nation and
for the administration of relief,
NOW, therefore. by virtue of my au-
thority as President of the United
States and President of the American
Red Cross. L. Woodrow Wilson, do
hereby proclaim the week ending June
25, 1917, as Red Cross Week, during
which the people OF the United States
will be called upon to give generously
and in the spirit of patriotic sacrifice
for the support and maintenance of
this work of national need.
(Signed): WOODROW WILSON"
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Chile VIII support eraziI.

Santiago, Chile.-Chile will support
Brazil in adopting vigorous measures
against Germany, says the Diaric H.
lustrado. in commenting on the new
aspect of the international situation
brought about by the action OF Pres
ident Braz of Brazil in urging Con-
gress to revoke the decree of neutral
ity in the war between the United
States and Germany and authorize
measures for the defense of the ma
tion's dignity.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
western Newspaper Union News Service
DENVER MARKETS.
Hogs.
Sheep.

Good hogs ..."...........l5.409ls.iS
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
East 81. Louis Under Martial Law

East st. Louis. Ill.-East st. Louis
Wednesday was virtually under mar
tial law Five infantry companies of
the Fourth Illinois National Guard
regiment and one cavalry troop are
patrolling the downtown and negro
sections and plants where negroes are
employed The second nights riot
ing. which resulted in the shooting of
three white men and two negroes. con
tinued for three hours. More than
score OF blacks were beaten and
struck by rocks and clubs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
1oo .ooo Americans in Erance.

London.-An official statement is
sued here says that. counting the
Americans serving in the British and
French armies and the additional
units en- route. there will be 100000
Americans in France soon. The state
ment says $500 war aeroplanes will
be constructed and 5000 avlators
trained in the United States this year
Another contingent of the American
medical corps arrived in England, two
units from Philadelphia and st. Louis.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
TEN KILLED in ToRnApoEs.
FortJ-six Hurt az Storm Hits In Three
Sections.

st. Louis.-Four persons are report
ed to have been killed and thirty in
5ured in tornado which virtually
wiped out Mineral Point. Mo-. little
mining village fifteen miles south of
Desoto. Mo-. Wednesday afternoon.
The tornado swept southwark to Eye.
where Fred Harper. a farmer. was
killed by flying debris Virtually every
house In Mineral Point. town of
about 300 population. was wrecked.
with the exception of the school
house. which still was standing after
the storm passed. Many were severe
ly injured when the storm struck, and
the Iron Mountain depot collapsed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Metal Market Prices.

New York.-Lead-i1Ac bid
Copper-Electrolytic. spot and end
quarter s3l ;00@ 1900: 3rd quarter and
lron.No. | northern, s45.O0@46.O0;
No. 2, s44.50G45.5O: No. southern.
s42o0 a 400; No. 2. $4i.0O@43.O0
Tin-Quiet at s64.75Qp6525.
Bar silver-74ssc.
Spelter-East st. Louis delivery. sA
Boulder.-Tungsten concentrates 8 Oez,
$1,000 per unit. crude ores, 6Oes
sl5;00; 259S. $9.4o@ 1900; 102o, $4,000
1000 per unit
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
America Lends Entente s1so,ooo, 600.

Observation-Disclosures loan of s75,-
100000 was made to Great Britain by
the United States. bringing up the to-
tai loaned that nation thus far to
$400,000,000 and the total loans to all
the allies, $745,000.0a0. A payment of
s75.000.000 also was made to Italy as
part OF the sl00000.000 loan an
nounced some time ago. The Italian
government already has received $685.
100000 of the loan ltaly's total finan-
cial demands upon the United States
will be $7o0.000.o00.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
jap. Save 1890 on British Ships.

Tokio.-An announcement issued by
the admiralty says that the British
troop ship Pennsylvania. which was
torpedoed in the Mediterranean on
May 4th. was being escorted by Jap
anese destroyers. The destroyers en-
gagged the submarine. According to
the announcement, the Japanese res
cued $500 out of 5000 troops on the
Transylvania. winning the praise of
Japan's allies by their bravery
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Complete plan. for Per.hina.

Washington. - Final arrangements
for the departure of Maj. Gen. John ].
Pershing and his staff as the advance
to France were made at all-day con-
ferences at the War Department be-
tween Secretary of War Baker and
officers of the general staff and staff
departments.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
strike Bullets Fly in Jerome.

Jerome. Ariz.-Several shots were
fired Monday from the direction OF
men going to work at the United
Verde mine, after stones were thrown
at them by men in crowd of strike
sympathizers. The shots went wild.
All the workers were disarmed when
tLey reached the mine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
WOMEN AND CHILDREN VICTIMS
IN kAisER's NEW CAMPAIGN
OF TERROR.
TO SINK MERCY SHIPS
ITALIANS CLOSING IN ON TRi-
ESTE CAPTURE $4,000 PRis-
oNERs IN TEN DAYS.
we.,ern Newspaper unIon Sew. s.rvie..

western Newspaper Union News Service
London, May 29.zOn Carso plateau
above Gulf of Trieste. Italians smash
across Timavo river and capture vii
| lage OF San Gi yanni, two miles north
west OF Dunno.
To the north. in vicinity of Jami-
ano. Italians capture fortified Austrian
trenches and along Julian front make
further gains and consolidate posi-
tions previously taken.
Austrian war office says Italian
casualties have been very heavy.
More than $4,000 unwounded Italians
had been captured up to Sunday. says
the statement.
Artillery duels continue between
French and Germans in Champagne
region. Along front held by British
operations are being carried out main
ly by small raiding parties.
On eastern front Russian artillery
fire against Austrians increases lin in
tensity. presaging approach of hostili-
ties on great scale.
A new Teuton army of 1.5OO 900
men is reported nearly ready to strike
France.
Petrograd. = During the last few
days German aircraft have dropped
bombs on towns situated in the Dan
uhe region, inflicting many casual
ties. A raid on the town of Inmail,
Bessarabia. was particularly destruc-
tive. a large number of women and
QhiIuran hafnO L.
The raid, which claimed the lives of
seventy-six persons and caused injury
to IT'S others, proved more deadly
than any raid that the Zeppelins have
made on England since the war began.
London.-The intention of the Ger
man government to sink all entente
hospital ships in the entire barred
zone" with the exception of certain
ships from Salonik to Gibraltar is
semi-officially announced in Berlin.
Rome. May 2S.-Italians smash Aus
trian lines on Carso plateau and north
of Gorizia, making substantial gains.
In assault between Jamiano and Tri-
este gulf. Italian troops cut Monfal-
cone-Duilo railroad northeast of San
Giovanni and carry strong hill south
west OF Madezza. More than 1000
prisoners taken. making total OF over
$4,000 since May 14th. Near PLAYA Ca
dorna's men carry by storm heights at
head of Palliova valley, connecting up
their lines to Mount Cucco.
British make local gains northwest
of ST. Quentin and near Fontaine-les-
Coisilles. on south end of Arras bat
tie line.
Crown princes forces penetrate
French lines in Champagne, but are
later repulsed. North of Aisne river
Germans repulsed in attack on LAT
faux mill.
Forty-eight passengers and eighty
five members of the crew of the Span
ish steamer C. de Eizaguirre are be-
lieved to have perished as a result of
the sinking of the steamer.
Marquis Prieto, the Spanish pre-
mier. announced that the Spanish
steamship Begona., 2,s62 tons gross.
had been sunk.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Panama Asks $4,000, 900.

Washington.-Pa has proposed
that the United States advance s10,-
100000 for immediate construction of
strategic roads and railways.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Declares America 10 Decide Victory

Washington.-Wit words of graft
tude and praise for the American
press. expressions of confidence that
Congress will give the President all
the war power he must have for sue
cessful conduct of the war, and dec
laration of belief that America will
throw the decisive weight into the con-
test,
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
KIN More Than Million Armenians

New York.-More than 100000 Ar
menians have lost their lives since the
beginning OF the war as the result of
the "inhuman bArbarities" practiced
by the Turks, Henry Morgenthau. for
mer ambassador to Turkey. declared
IL an address here
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Brazil soIons Vote to End NeutraIIt,

Rio Janeiro-The Brazilian Cham
ber passed the first reading OF the
government measure revoking Bra
zil's neutrality in the war between
Germany and the United States. The
vote was 1876 to 3.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Arrest PIotters Against registration

Washington. = Attorney General
Gregory instructed United States at
torneys and marshals throughout the
country to use their utmost efforts to
srrest and prosecute all persons re-
sponsible for the agitation which has
manifested itself in localities from
New England to Texas against the
registration June 5th of men subject
to selective draft.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
chicago Live stock auot,t,o,,

lx Hogs-Buik. s14.3o@15.75;
Tight. $1,000 1850: mixed. sl5.15@
i5;so; heavy, $500 q 1850; rough.
Cattle-Native beef cattle sg4O4
1870; stockers and feeders, s7.356p
1929 cows and heifers, s6.25 q IL 40;
Wethers. S12O0G1425: ewes.
slioo@ls-6O; lambs, si2.6Oq 1850.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Eervor Marks Memorial pay.

New York.-Patriotic fervor which
has not been equaled since the Span
ish-American War marked the observ-
anoe OF Memorial Day iE New York.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01

Chicago, May 29-Three hundred
and four persons were known dead
Monday and 1.407 injured. many of
whom Will die as a result of series
cl tornadoes which swept Kansas on
Friday. Illinois and Indiana on Satur-
Gay, southern Illinois, part of Arkan-
sas, Kentucky, Alabama and Tennes-
see on Sunday. Thousands are home
less and destitute. The property dam.
age amounts to millions of dollars.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
BOYS To Be MohllIzed.

San Francisco.-Plans for mobiliz-
ing $4,000 high school boys to aid in
harvesting CALIFORNIA; s fruit and 9TH
er crops We're formulated here.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Indict So in Onion Trust Case.

Boston. = Eighty-eightf corporations
and individuals were indicted by the
federal grand jury here for conspiring
to monopolize interstate commerce in
onions.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Butter. EGGS. rotatoe. and pou,,,

43c ''7s1
Eggs-lsts, s3ie@ s4Iac; ordinary lists
q 34c. -
Potatoes--Tex. and Ala. bu.. $4,000
$40; La, bu., S3.15G3.35: Fla. bbls..
l0.5O q 1915. Ida. Colo. Ore and Wash.
3;lO4 $50. wis. and Mich, s2.sOG3 90
Poultry Fowls. zoe.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Six Swedish Vessels Sunk.

London.-Six Swedish steamers
have been sunk. while on voyages
from Sweden to Finland, in the Baltic
Sea. says a Reuter- dispatch from
Stockholm
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
AustrIa Yields before ItaIy,s Drive

Paris,LThe Rome correspondent OF
Le Journal of Paris telegraphs The
Austrians are evacuating Trieste. The
archives have been gent to Vienna,
and the banks have gone to Laibach."
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01

Chicago. May 2S.-More than 1856
persons were killed and 1O7 in
jured, with millions OF dollars
worth of property destroyed by
tornadoes which swept through Kan
sas on Friday, Illinois and Indi-
ana on Saturday ard parts of Ten
nessee, Araansaj. Kentucky and
southern Illinois Sunday. Each hour
the death list grows as tornadoes are
reported throughout the storm area.
Many towns are out of communication
and not until later will the full death
list be known.
Reports indicate that large
amount of farm implements needed
to produce the bumper crop desired
this year. are ruined, although the
spasmudlc wind struck only here and
there in its frightful play through the
rural regions. Crop damage is said
to be not heavy in grains.
The heaviest toll of life was taken
at Mattoon, ILL.,, city of 10000 people
in the broom-corn country of central
Illinois, where 81 are known TO be
dead and 500 injured, with property
loss of s2,000.000.
Charleston, ILL.,, ten miles east of
Mattoon, was partly wrecked, with
loss of 3S lives and $50 injured. The
property loss there is $1,000,000.
The next most serious loss was at
| Andale. Kans., where &c were killed
and score inju' ID.
Dublin. KY. suffered dead and II
injured. while a telephone message
from Hickman, KY, stated that re-
ports from farming settlements about
Hickman indicated that 20 or more
persons were killed in that vicinity by
tornado.
South Dyersburg, Tenn, was report
ed to have lost killed and Is in
jured in tornado that swept Dyer
county.
Near Blytheville, Ark, nine persons
were killed and dozen hurt.
Reports from Indiana show at least
seven persons killed at Eebron, Kouts
ant other places. and the death list
may reach twenty. More than 200
were injured in the Indiana territory
swept by the storm.
Smaller towns in Illinois lost a
dozen dead on Saturday, with two
score injured, while in the southern
point of Illinois wind storms Sunday
killed a half dozen and injured a
score.
Memphis. Tenn.-At least twenty
one persons were killed and more
than forty injured in wind and hail
storms which swept through portions
of western Tennessee and Kentucky
and eastern Arkansas Sunday, accord
ing to meager reports.
Twenty also were reported killed
near Hickman, KY, and several killed
and number injured at Sayre, Ala.
near Birmingham. Damage to prop
erty and growing crops, particularly
cotton, was heavy.
Eight persons were reported killed
near Tins Lake. near Manila, Ark:
one at Clark Lake: in Dyersburg,
Tenn. anti six at Pate Landing, near
Tiptonville, Tenn. All but the last six
were white persons.
Dyersburg reported thirty-two In
jured. In the vicinity of Pate Land
ing twenty-five or thirty persons were
injured and four were seriously hurt
near Manila.
Property damage but no casualties
were reported near Mal~ern, Ark, and
Troy and Newbern. Tenn.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Fighting Unit at Front in France

Paris.-The third military transport
section of the American field service
left for the field service training
camp at the front.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Japanese Fleet Fighting u,eoass.

Tokio.-The ad'air2lty announces
that Japanese squadrons are operat-
ing in the South Pacific and in the
Mediterranean sea against enemy sub
marines.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Waite electrocuted a, sino sino.

Ossining. N Y.-Dr. Arthur Warren
Waite was eiectrocuted at Sing Sing
prison for the murder of his father-in-
law, John L. Peck of Grand Rapids.
Mich.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Poles to Fight for Entente.

Paris.-The Temps announces that
the creation of Polish army in
France is well under way.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01

De Soto. Mo.-Three persons were
killed and several were injured in a
tornado at Palmer. about thirty miles
southwest OF here. according to re-
ports received here. Only one man.
Henry Allen. Jr., has been identified.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01

Cairo. Ill.-Two persons were killed.
another injured fatally and at least
fifteen hurt by tornado in Alexander
county Wednesday night.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01

red and No. 2 and No. hard. nomi.
nal.
corn-No. 2 yellow, $1.5e@1.o4h. No.
2 yellow. sL5sls9 L64; No. Yellow.
. a 9ntsMNo s,l y, 3. white. ss@s4Hc; stand
Barley-Sl3O Of15s
Timothy=s5.75ds0
CloverlS12 12.O04I7.O0
Pork-s37.00.
Lard-Nominal
Ribs-$1s.s5 W20.1O.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
ILLINOIS. TENNESSEE, ARkANsAs
KENTUCKY AND ALABAMA
HIT BY DISASTER.
KNOWN INJURED 1,4O0
LIST OF VICTIMS GROWS AS
STORM AREA SPREADS; PROP
ERTY LOSS VERY HEAVY.
SUMMARY or STORMS DAMAGE.

Revised figures on dead and in
jured in the storms OF three days
In Illinois, Indiana Kansas, Ken
lucky. Missouri. Tennessee. Ala
bama and Arkansas show the fol-
lowing dead and injured:
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Dry IcIiut PeIfn.

Wool pelts. per lb. .. z60 20
Short wool pelts ... 224 "a
Butcher sheaHngs No. 13
No. murian shearlings O5
Bucks, saddles and pieces at value.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Fruit.
Vegetables.
HIDES AND rELTs.
Dry Hides.

Flint butcher, per lb. ......34 @36
Flint fallen .......53 @35
Fltnt bull and stag ........ 10
Flint culls and glue - 18
Salt hides ga &c fb. less
Horsehides 1/2Q2/3 price of green
salted.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
lInaaAtl

Duluth.-Linseed-O on track. sats. tn
arrive. s3I4; TO arrive Sept. S3.1I: to
arrive Oct, s2.s2. July. s317: SAINT
1910; Oct, s2.s3.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Flour.
Dressed Poultry.
Live Poultry.
Eggs.

EGGS. graded No. net. F. o.
Is. Denver .......-........ ~
Eggs. graded No. net. +. o.
B. Denver ........ 2T
less commission ..'....'.. 1000
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Butter.

Creameries, ex. LIST grade. lb. 43
Creameries, End grade. Id. 81 gas
Process 3S
Packing stock (net) ........ ~
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-06-01
Green saited peits.
Calf and Kip, Green saited


over 4o lbs, per lb. .......1s @1s
SHuor ~ los. III QfS
Bull and stag - ia
Glue hides and skins .. -
Part cured. 1c less
Green. &c 10. less than cured.