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The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
GENE Raj.

AT Briar Cliff Manor. N. Y, Mai.
Gen. John F. Weston, who fought un.
der Custer in the Indian war, died Aft.
er brief illness
Nathan Mosely and Willie Green.
negro farm hands among the first men
drafted In Leon county, Fla, have mu.
tilated themselves to escape serving.
The Hotel Association OF the city
OF New York voted to lend the gov.
ernment $40 cooks for service with
the national army cantonment at Yap-
hank. Long Island.
DR.. Franklin Martin OF the council
Of national defense at Chicago, issued
an urgent call for the services of a..
900 physicians in the armies of the
United States and the allies.
While temporarily deranged through
fear that he would be drafted, Alma
Walt Of La Porte, Ind, killed his 2.
year-old son. wounded his wife and
committed suicide. Mrs. Walt will
live.
As Chicago's answer to the call to
the colors and Chicago's rebuke to
slackers and draft rioters, more than
5000 whose names have been called
by the draft boards marched through
the streets to the music of military
bands and the accompaniment OF
cheers from thousands.
Private John Mercouris OF the cav.
airy troops guarding the mines In the
Globe, Ariz,. district, where the cop.
per miners are on strike, was found
beside the highway near Midland City
with his head in pool of blood. He
was Immediately rushed to a Miami
hospital.
Thirty-one men dead and twenty.
five injured was the known toll at
Clay, Ky, Of an explosion in the south
entry Of No. Z mine of the West Ken
lucky Coal Company. according to
Charles s. Richardson, vice president
and general manager.
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SocIable.

An orderly chosen from among the
student officers at Ft. Harrison sits
daily outside Brig. Gen. Edwin F.
Glenn's Office door. A different man
is chosen each day, and the other day
the post fell to the lot of Charles e.
Shafe Of Indianapolis. says the Indian
apolis News. Shaie went on an er-
rank for the general. and returned Just
after the general had wished to speak
to an officer In one Of the other rooms
and there being no orderly to summon
him, had gone after the man himself.
by George" Shafe commented to
the camp adjutant's orderly, Tenth
infantryman, fresh from Eve years In
Panama, "the general did some Of my
work for me-"
"Yeh. amt that nice, now |" the ad-
1utant's orderly returned. "Why don't
you 60 In there now and do some Of
his work for him, Just to be sociabler'
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rHE LATEST IMPORTANT Die.
PATCHES PUT IEro SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

British capture more than 5000
prisoners In Flanders attack.
Russo Rumanian offensive in Ru-
mania results in capture OF 1900 pris-
oners.
Near Bixschoote, north OF Ypres,
the French are following up their sue
cess Of last week.
Northeast OF Ypres, after intense
bombardment. the British re-estab
tshed themselves In the town OF st.
Julien.
Southeast OF Arras, the German at.
tacks on the British lines were futile,
ss were the Teuton raids near Rheims
on the French lines.
Premier Kerensky has conser ed To
remain at the head OF the cabinet, all
parties have agreed to give him full
pbwers, designating him in speeches
as tha only man who can save Russia.
-Four thousand Greeks have been
starved to death In eastern Macedonia
since thS Bulgarian occupation began,
according to reports received by the
Greex government. says q Havas dis
patch from Athens.
The German advance In Gallcia and
Bukowina seemingly is aimed at ka.
menetz Podolsky. a fortified city
north OF the Dniester and in the di.
rection OF Odessa, Russias great port
on the Black sea. y
In an offensive near Baian, east OF
Czernowitz. the Russians were win.
ners and captured 500 prisoners and
thre machine guns. In Bukowina the
Russians are still fleeing, and the en-
emy has taken several towns.
British casualties in all theaters OF
military operations published in the
newspapers during the month OF July
total 1882 officers and men. The OF.
ficers killed. wounded or missing to,
tai 2.503, while the men number &c..
329.
The Canadians have pushed forward
their line on front OF 1000 yards to
9 depth of 200 feet In their drive on
Lens. They consolidated the position,
which is within 1000 yards OF the cen.
ter Of Lens on the western front OF
the town.
While the Germans are advancing
steadily in their Galician campaign,
the British and French are steadily
pushing them back on many points on
the western front. All the positions
east OF Monchy-le-Preux which were
captured by the Germans have been
rstaken by the British.
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Quartermaster's Supply Depot.

Gov. julius c. Gunter received let
ter from Secretary Alva B. Adams OF
the special commission sent to Wash
ington to make an effort to get for
Colorado the establishment by the
government Of quartermasters' sup
ply depot and purchasing department
In the state and other government
branches of army service. The com.
munication stated that there was a
strong possibility that . surgeons
camp or hospital would be maintained
in Colorado and that Secretary Of War
Baker had told the committee that the
government was anxious to purchase
supplies In every part Of the country
and that quarterpaster's depot
would undoubtedly be located In Den
yer.
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FOREIGN.

British cruiser sunk and many san
ors drown.
War IL not q bad ~ German peace
declares Lloyd-0eorge.
Anglo-French continue big push
while Russians offer more resistance.
Gen. Erdelli. military governor Of
Petrograd. has been killed. says the
Bourse Gazette.
A state OF siege has been declared
In the whole Greek department OF At
tica. including Athens and Piraeus.
Eight naval gunners we're lost when
the American tank steamer Motano
was sunk by a submarine. Sixteen
members of the crew also perished.
The Holland-American line steam
ship Noordam struck a mine while
bound for Holland. and although bad.
ly damaged, reached port under her
own steam.
Czernowitz has been the scene OF
some OF the most bitter fighting OF
the war and the Bukowina capital has
changed from the Teuton to Russian
hands altogether ten times.
Premier and War Minister Kefen.
sky and all the other members OF the
Russian cabinet except Vice Premier
Bekrasoff resigned. Later. with the
exception Of NJ. Terestchenko, the for
eign minister. they withdrew their
designations.
Prince George, former crown prince OF
Serbia. had a narrow escape while In,
specting troops on the Macedonia
front, according to telegram re-
ceived in London. The horse on
which he was riding was shot and
killed.
DR.. Livingston Farrand. president OF
the University Of Colorado. the Rookie.
feller> anti-tuberculosis commission
chief. has arrived in Paris to cooper
ate with Homer Folks. the tubercu-
losis expert OF the Red Cross. Dr.
James Alexander Miller OF New York
accompanied him.
villa has less than 100 men and
was in the vicinity Of Inde, Durango.
when We received our last informa,
tion about him." Gen. Murguia said at
III Paso. Tex. He is no longer to be
reckoned with in military way and
Is now leading the life of a bandit,
which he knows so we'll"
Dissatisfied with the progress OF
negotiations with Germany growing
out of the sinking OF the Argentine
steamer Toro, the Argentine govern
ment has broken off the discussions
that were being conducted with the
German minister al Buenos Aires and
has sent final, categorical note to
Berlin, requiring clear and final re.
ply to the Argentine demands withir
a reasonable time
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
SPORT.

The Pacific Coast Baseball league
will finish the season as usual, accord
Ing TO a statement by President A. r
Baum.
Barney Oldfield won three races
from Ralph De Palma in a match
event on the one-mile dirt track at the
State Fair grounds at Indianapolis
Ind.
Outplayed and outlucked in every
department OF the game, the reinyig.
GRATED Bears dropped the opening con.
test with the lies Moines Bat,lers by
score OF IL to at Broadway park
In Denver.
What was said to have been a
worlds record for home runs In any
one season, was made at Muskogee.
Okla. by f. d, Calbert, left fielder OF
the local Western association club,
when he hit twice for the circuit for a
total OF thirty-fiye home runs.
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
eaby's Remains Burned In Rubbish.

Denyer.-A man and woman In an
automobile carrying the license tag
7,ll7 stopped in front of the Denver
q Rio Grande shops at Burnham and
asked permission of J. P. Needham, .
fireman. to burn bundle OF papers" :"
Needham gave his permission and re-
ceived in turn 80 cents as tip. Tom
Eads. an engineer, suspicious aroused
by the nervousness Of the pair. made
all examination Of the charred pile of
papers Immediately after they left. He
found the partly burned remains Of q
one-day-old baby.
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
Thirty Join coIors ON Colorado Day.

Denyer.-While enthusiastic citizens
lined the streets. cheering the regis
tered army and the Colorado national
guardsmen as they marched by on
their last home appearance, taking
part in Colorado's forty-first anniver-
sary celebration, the Denver recruit
ing stations of the army. navy and ma.
rine corps kept steadily at work. In
spite OF the call OF the holiday crowds
and the "doings" at City park. nearly
thirty young men celebrated Colorado
Day by joining in one or the other Of
the three branches Of the regular
service
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Colorado Gives Each Soldier SO.

As a fitting tribute to the Colorado
soldier boys about to leave for the
front. legislators sitting In extraordi-
nary session voted to give each one
OF the 1904 men In the federal service
Aug. s. a $40 gold piece. The sugges-
tion came from Senator William r.
Eaton Of Denver, and met with no op-
position Accordingly. an additional
appropriation Of $4,000 was voted by
the Senate for this purpose.
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
Champion Woman Rider Killed.

Denyer-Yielding to the request Of
her husband, after being urged on by
the plaudits Of large crowd In the
grandstand at Union park to partici-
pate in the women's broncho busting
contest. after she had refused to take
part, Mrs. Margaret Wright. 23 years
old. champion woman broncho rider Of
the world. received fractured skull
and internal injuries from which she
died at the County hospital.
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
Pioneers Honor states Anniversary

Pueblo-"When the Goddess Of
Plenty followed the star of Empire
westward, she must have stubbed her
toe just over the Kansas line and she
spilled her horn of plenty from the
east boundary of Colorado to the
very mountains" said Charles H.
Ballreich when addressing the meet.
ing Of the Southern Colorado Pio-
neers' Association at Mineral Palace
Pueblo pioneers, their children and
grandchildren, gathered at the palace
to honor the Centennial state on her
fcrty-first birthday anniversary.
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Naturally oraxa

Il have here" said the party with
the unbarbered hair who had elected
his person into the editorial sanctum
when the office boy wasn't looking. "a
little poem entitled, "A Pauper's
Gravel"
"Huh!" growled the editor. Nothing
remarkable about that. Who has a bet
ter right to a grave than a pauperi
You certainly wouldn't expect his mirth
to slop over, would your"
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Nsero sastaIIons oct Uniforms.

The two negro battalions Of the
Colorado National Guard. mobilized at
the Rifle Range near Golden, have
been furnished with their new uni
fornn and are being put into condi-
tion for guard service Of the various
public utilities throughout the state.
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Military Field Day and Farewell.

Denver-Farewell was said to Colo
RADIOS soldier heroes at Overland park,
where state units Of Camp Baldwin.
Fort Logan and Golden were quar-
tered. Racing. a Wild West show,
broncho busting. hand concerts and a
military fete. sham battles and cav
airy sports were features OF the days
program.
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offIeers' Reserve Men to Report.

Offeero' Reserve Men to Report.
A number of Denver applicants for
the officers training school Of this
department. which will be held at
Fort Smelling. MINI, have received
notices to report to the commanding
officers Of the post the morning Of
Sunday, Aug. rs. There are s13 ap.
plicants in~C Colorado. many Of whom
will not be called.
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Legislature Passes War Measures.

Denver.-The war program was
carried out In the special Legislature
with the exception Of. restoration to
the statutes Of the common law pro-
visions regarding food manipulation
and trade conspiracies.
The legislation enacted is as fol-
lows: Two and one-half million dollar
bond issue; mill levy to raise 100000;
flat tax corporation bills to raise
s250,o00; measures providing for the
expenditure OF approximately Sl.51l.-
900 for war purposes and provision
made for the use OF the remaining
sl.739,000.
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Thousands See Flags Presented.

Fire. rain and winds failed to mar
the celebration at Camp J. C. Gunter,
when thousands Of Puebioans and Wis
itors from all parts Of Colorado were
present to witness the soldiers field
meet. military drills and the present.
alton Of thre flags to the Second Reg
iment infantry of the Colorado Ma
tional Guard and hear the presenta-
tion address.
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BUMPER CROPS IN WELD
ACCORDING TO SECRETARY or
GREELEY COMMERCIAL CLUB.
County Has $4,000 Acres Of Beans ane
VIII Produce Enough Foodstuffs
to Supply State.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-According to Secretary ].
r. McCrery OF the Greeley CONNER
cial Club, Weld county alone will pro-
duce this year enough foodstuffs to
supply the whole state Of Colorado.
Mr.. McCrery, who was q visitor at
the office Of the State immigration
Board, stated that 5000 men will be
needed in Weld county this fall to
assist the farmers In harvesting one
Of the largest crops In the history Of
the county.
we have 10000 acres of beans un-
der cultivation now" said Mr.. Nc
crery. "and that Is an increase Of 2S.-
600 acres over last year. OF the other
products we have under cultivation
and under irrigation 6l.50o acres Of
beets, 10000 acres OF potatoes. an In.
crease over last year Of 5000 acres:
5000 acres Of cabbage. $50 acres OF
cucumber pickles for our picking
works. $4,000 acres of winter wheat.
and there are 10000 acres Of winter
wheat more this year than last in tho
dry belt.
The Weld County Free Labor Bu'
reau. with its system operated for .
number Of years by which surplus
OF labor is taken care OF in communi.
ties where there is scarcity. can
take care Of the great harvests which
We expect soon. BY the last OF Sep
tember the potato harvest will be
ready, and potatoes will probably be
placed on the market at 81 per 100"
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Couldn't Blame Him.

Jie-Do you like romantic girls7
Jack-No. When you make hole
In your bank account buying them
flowers, they tear them apart, saying:
He loves me; he loves me not"
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
Lightning Kills Youth, stuns Others

Fort Morgan.-George Lohner. Is
years old, OF southwest Of this city,
was struck by lightning and killed
He was with four other men when
struck, they being stunned and
thrown to the ground but not serious
ly injured.
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Boy Killed by PLAYMATE.

Pueblo.-Joe Prevoc, 4-year-old Aus.
trian, was killed by the accidental dis.
charge Of a 22-caliber rifle with which
companion was playing
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Practical Lessons in Aorieulture.

Courses in agriculture will be
taught In the country schools next
year. according to plans worked out
by Mrs. Mary C. c. Bradford. state
superintendent. who has outlined
work for all the elementary schools
In the state.
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District Board Prepares Dram List.

Preparing lists .or the 10000 men in
thirty-seven counties Of Colorado who
have been summoned by draft to be
examined for military service is the
task Of the seven clerks in the office
Of the district board Of appeals, in the
federal building at Pueblo.
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His WIfs's Little Shot.

I'm glad you're over the draft age"
"Whyr
think how humiliated should be
to have to admit that I was dependent
on your singy salary every week for
my living"
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Smile On wash day. That's when you use
Red Gross Bag Blue. Clothes whittier thsn
snow. All pocers. ADV,
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Grasshoppsrs Attack Denver Gardens.
The annual late summer and fall
drive against grasshoppers is on. the
Denver war garden sectors being the
most hotly contested points.
The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09

Southern States contain TIT cotton
mills, valued at $225, 200, 900.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-20

author Is d Syrian and spent much Of
his life In Palestine. His understand
ing Of Christ's environment enatlcs
him 70 interpret much which puzzles
[occideatais. 80
"a Diplomats Wife in Mexico"
edith Louise O'Shaugncssy). an en-
pertaining and Informing series of let
tiers from the wife of an American at
tachc, dealing with the events between
October 8. 1913, and the break with
Mexico on April 90. 1914. The author
is sympathetic observant and pain
stalking.
efficient Living" edward Earle
Purinton). This ii a discussion OF
efficiency in everyday affairs by the
head Of the Independents efficiency
service. The book discusses study,
eating. the home. work. play, hygiene,
money and thought and is full of help
full suggestions for those anxious to
get more out Of life.
THE Story Of the Submarine"
(Farnham Bishop. a, timely discus
sion OF the evolution OF the submarine.
It's part in previous wars, concluding
with a thoroNgh history Of the subma-
rine in the present struggle.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-20
WILSON WANTS To KNOW
Asks for an Immediate APP
praisement Of u. S.
Fighting Forces.

Washington. Feb. l9.--Army and
navy chiefs have been instructed to
compile Immediately an exact APP
praisemcnt of the condition of the
regular fighting forces of the country
for the information of President Will
son.
The most immediate need in both
the army and navy is for officers and
men. 1t will be shown in the reports
that every effort has been made to
overcome this difficulty. Additional
recruiting stations are being opened
throughout the country and the navy
department is getting into commune
cation with retired officers and en-
listed men, as well as enlisted men
discharged in recent years.
1t also will be shown that while
there has been some speeding up of
naval construction through the OPP
Grafton of ship builders, radical meas
| urcs will be necessary to accomplish
| important results in this direction.
Authority to commander private
plants and to suspend the S-hour law
on navy contracts has been included
IN the pending navy appropriation bill
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-20
CALIFORNIA invites
CASEY As LECTURER
Montana Man to Teach Jour-
nalism Classes at Berke-
ley Next Summer.
OFFER is REGARDED
AS DISTINCT HONOR
University of Washington
Professor to Have
Charge of School.

Ralph p. Casey, assistant professor
in the Montana schoo; Of journalism
has been appointed to a similar po-
sition in the summer course in jour-
nalsm at the University of Califor-
MIA. There is no department of jour
nalism at Berkeley, but II course in the
summer session has been maintained
for two or three years. This year
Professor Colin Dymont, head of the
department of journalism in the Uni
vcrsity Of Washington, will be in
charge of the work at California. Pro-
fcssor Casey goes as assistant for the
six weeks of the summer session.
The offer came by telegraph week
ago but definite agreement was not
reached until yesterday. Mr.. Casey
work at Berkeley will be almost iden-
teal with that which he directs here
in Montana. The salary named in the
summer contract is excellent and the
offer is regarded as distinctly an
honor to Professor Casey and the
Montana school.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-20

Dr.. F. M. Edwards for II years
treated scores of women for liver and
bowel ailments. Outing these years he
gave to his patients a prescription made
OF a few well-known vegetable ingredi
ents mixed with olive oil. naming them
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, you will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder workers on
the liver and bowels. which cause nor
NAL action, carrying Of the waste aud
poisonous matter in ones system.
Il you have a pale face, sallow look,
dull eyes, pimples. coated tongue. head
aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out
Of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one
Of DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly
for time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands Of women as well as men
take Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets-thc
successful substitute for ca1omel-now
and then just to keep in the pink Of con-
ditiou. 10c and Csc per box, Al druggists.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-20
How's Your Blood?
Plmples and Eruptions Mean
BAD Blood.

People who have impure or impover.
ished blood should be careful to take
only vegetable Nd temperance remedy
such as DR.. Pietce's Golden Medical
Discovery is and has been for nearly 50
years Ingredients printed on wrapper
The FIRST day you start to take this
reliable medicine, impure germs and
accumulations begin to separate in the
blood and are then expelled through
the Gliminative organs.
In place of the impurities, the ar.
teries and veins gradually get fresh
vitalixed blood and the action of this
good blood on the skin means tina,
pimples, boils. carbuncles, eczema. rash
acne and skin blcmishes will disap.
pear. Then you must remember thai
when the blood is right, the liver. stom.
aeh, bowels and kidneys become healthy,
active and vigorous and you will have
no more trouble with indigestion, back
ache. headache and constipation.
Get DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
eovery today from any medicine dealer,
in tablet or liquid form, or send DR..
Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y, 10 cts. for trial
package.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-20
HADFIELD'S CONTRACT
GOES TO u. S. CONCERN

Washington, Feb. 1!.-Contracts for
navy projcctles which had been let to
Hadficlds. Limited, an English con-
Germ were today given to the Midvale
Steel company. the Washington Steel
a. Ordnance company and the CRU
chile Steel company.
Hatfield was prevented by the Brit
ish government from accepting the
contract for 4,4oO projectilcs. which
had been awarded by the navy de-
partmcnt at a much smaller price per
shell and with quicker delivery than
American offers.
Award of the contracts today to the
three American firms terminates n
controversy between the navy and
American munitions makers.