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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
No NEW MOVE IS
CONTEMPT BY
: ADMINISTRATION
Everything Waits Upon Re-
turn of Secretary Lansing
Holland May Sever DipIo-
matte Relations With Kaiser
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Washington, Feb. 25.-Pending the
return of Secretary Lansing from his
three day stay at White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, the generally accept
ed belief here is that no new move
will be made by the government in
the German crisis In diplomatic
quarters the opinion Is almost uni
versal that the secretary is devoting
what has been officially described as a
short vacation to important work.
Some think he is framing a document
for the use of President Wilson in
connection with his address to con-
gress; others think he is preparing for
what is regarded as the inevitable
break with Austria-Hungary.
The president saw no callers today
and left the White House only for an
automobile ride with Mrs. Wilson.
Information Is Lacking.
Official information about the re-
lease of the American prisoners of the
Yarrowdale is still lacking. 1t has been
nearly two months since these seven
tyy-two seamen were taken into Ger
many Their release was announced
in press dispatches several days ago,
but several inquiries to the Spanish
ambassador at Berlin have failed to
bring official announcement of it.
A dispatch from London today to
the state department said two Ameri-
can sailors, Edward Ellis and John
Handley, were in the crew of the Brit
ish sailing ship Centurion, sunk by
submarine February 19 after being
warned. The crew took to the boats
and was rescued after nineteen hours
at sea. AS the ship was warned and
no lives were lost, no great import
ance is attached to the incident.
Despite the belief here that the
severance of diplomatic relations be-
tween Germany and Holland has been
brought a step nearer by recent whole
sale destruction of Dutch shipping, il
is considered virtually certain that for
the present, at least The Netherlands
government will go no further than to
make a vigorous protest, possibly
warning the Berlin government and
informing it that it will be held re-
sponsible for the monetary loss in
volved. Holland Is represented as
feeling that the recent losses, while
being tremendous, cannot compare
with the damages that would be
wrought should relations be severed
and hostilities commenced.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26

can is attached to their political tails
the independent voter will do some
roaring on his part, and the independ-
ent voter has come to be a person OF
considerable importance in New Mex
leo in recent years In other words
the chances are that if Lindsey leaves
these two officials in office the old
guard republican politicians will get
him--if he doesn't the voter will get
him.
To the casual observer there is just
one thing for Governor Lindsey to do
if he wants to stick in the big league,
and that is to build up his own ma
chine and gain personal control of
the republican party in New Mexico.
Hiram johnson did it in California.
Other men have done it in other
states. Whether Lindsey can do it
depends altogether on whether he is
big league class. He hasn't been un-
der the main tent long enough yet
for anybody to be able to tell.
Spiess and Seligman Back.
Charles A. Spiess, who paid brief
visit to Santa Fe in the early days of
the legislative session and then left
for Rochester, Mimi. to consult the
famous Mayo brothers, Is again in
Santa Fe. When Mr.. spress left Santa
Fe he looked almost like a dying man.
Today, except that he is little thin,
he seems to be in as good health as
ever.
A diagnosis of his case by the cele-
brated physicians at Rochester de-
veloped the fact that Mr.. Spiess was
suffering from no constitutional NAL
ady and that an operation was not
necessary to his recovery. Rest was
all that he needed. Mr.. Spiess took
an extended trip to Mississippi and
Alabama where the balmy gulf
breezes and the relaxation from pro-
fessional and political worries effect
ed a complete recovery. He will prob
ably remain in Santa Fe until the
close of the present session.
Arthur Seligman, democratic state
chairman, also is back in Santa Fe
after an absence Of five weeks on ac-
count of the i'll health of Mrs. Selg-
man and the death of near relative.
Mr.. Seligman has been almost from
coast to coast since leaving Santa Fe.
Senator Isaac Barth has introduced
a bill in the legislature the effect of
which is to render the grant Of saloon
licenses discretionary with county
commissioners and town councils.
Such was formerly the law in New
Mexico, but in the compilation of the
code of 1915 this statute was omitted
:. The introduction of the bill by Sem
ator Barth was occasioned by the case
of a saloon keeper just outside the
city limits of Albuquerque who was
refused a license recently and brought
mandamus proceedings against the
assessor to compel the grant of such
license. A similar case has also arisen
in Guadalupe county. Under existing
law it is compulsory upon the as
SCISSOR to grant saloon license to any
man who applies for it regardless of
his character or record.
1t is to remedy this situation that
Mr.. Barth has introduced this bill. He
declared that If the people of the
state will get in behind his measure
it will pass, but that if they are indif-
ferent the short time remaining is
likely to prove disastrous to its
chances.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
AUSTR0- UNGARIAN DUAL
MONARCHY Is DISCUSSED
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icy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlRs1
Vienna, Feb. "a (via Amsterdam
end London, Feb. 25)--An import
ant meeting of Austrian and Hunga"
rian ministers, at which the economic
situation of the dual monarchy was
the chief topic of discussion, was held
here today.
Premier Tis2a Of Hungary presided
in the place of Count CZernin, the
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister,
who has not returned from Munich
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
GERMANS YIELD GROUND
TO GENERAL HAIG'S MEN

London, Feb. 25.-British head
quarters in France tonight reports:
During the last twenty-four hours
the enemy continued to yield ground
along the Ancre. Meeting with little
opposition, small bodies of our troops
pushed forward on wide front, occu
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
Son Of Prince Goe-s TO Work,

Berlin, Feb. 1.-One of the first
persons to volunteer for service un-
der the new civil service law is the
youngest son of Prince Friedrich
Leopold of Prussia, who because of
his health has had to give up his
position in the army. Since leaving
the army he has been a student at
the University of Munich, but has
given up that work too in order to
serve his country in some one of the
many ways offered under the new
law.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26

Berlin, Jan. 2O.-A bill has been
submitted to the Prussian chamber
making women eligible for official po-
sitions in connection with municipali-
ties. 1t is being opposed by the con-
servatives and centrists, who urge
that If it is carried women would
eventually be eligible to become cabi-
net ministers, as in Denmark.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
Schumann- Hejnk Improves.

st. Louis, Feb. 25.-The condition
of Madame Schumann- Heink, the OPP
cratic contralto, two of whose ribs
were broken in taxicab accident Fri
day night, is slightly improved, phy-
sicians announced tonight.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
LOCAL REPORT:
For twenty four
n .Iat-s

hours ending at 6 p. IN. yesterday
Nahum temperature, 73 degrees;
rinimum, 2S; range, AS temperature
at p. m, 61; west wind; clear.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver, Feb. %
For New Mexico:
Monday and Tues
day generally fan
and cooler; brisk
westerly winds.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26
Germans Take Briton Trenches
Near YpreS, but Are Elected
Later Minor Actions Occur.
in East,
TURKS LOSE HEAVILY
NEAR KUT-EL- -AMARA
London and Paris Report Loss
of Three Steamers Sunk by
Submarines; italians Re-
pulse AuStrianS,
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The British troops in the Ancre re-
gion of France are reported by the
London war office to have taken ad-
ditional ground from the Germans in
cluding the village of Serre and sew
eral important points further east. In
these operations, although they were
carried on over a wide front, only
small bodies of troops were engaged
and only slight opposition was met,
but they are indicative of the plan of
the British to continue their steady
raiding preparations for the more ex-
tensiVe movement in the spring.
Another raid was carried out by
the British east of Vierstraat, Bel
GUM. Here, on front of 500 yards,
the British entered the German
trenches, inflcting heavy casualties
on the occupants, destroyed dugouts
and other works and took fifty-five
prisoners.
Germans Raid Trenches.
The Germans near Ypres invaded
British trenches under cover of a
heavy bombardment but later wero
elected. Bombardments continue on
the remainder of the front held by the
French
Isolated battles have taken place on
the eastern front from northwestern
Russia to the CarpathlanS but neither
of the belligerents has obtained any
marked advantages. Small engage
ments also have been fought in Ru-
MANIA but the situation there remains
unchanged.
In the Austro Italian theater the
Austrians essayed infantry attacks at
several points, but everywhere were
repulsed, according to Rome. Artil
lery duels continue all along this
front.
British Cross Tigris.
A belated British official commune
cation dealing with the fighting along
the Tigris river shows that in addi-
ton to having occupied Turkish
trenches over a front of nearly 1000
yards in the Sannaiyat region last
week, the British troops also were
able to cross to the left bank of the
Tigris in the Shumran bend, west of
Kut-el-Amara.
Three British steamers of an aggre
gate gross tonnage of 5000 are the
latest victims of German submarines,
according to official reports issued in
London and Paris.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-26

The president having called an ex-
ira session of the senate to consider
nominations and the Colombian trea-
ty, there is a strong probability that
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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-01
ARMY DRAFT sLlGIBLES ATTEN
 TON.

Tomorrow, September 2, is the lat day in which persons subject to the regulation provided in the sclcctivc draft law passed by congress May IS, 1917, authorizing the president to in- crease temporarily the military estab- lishment of the United States. can en- roll themselves. All male persons, regardless of whether they are citf- zens of the United States, between the. ages of twenty one and thirty, both inclusive, are subject 10 registration, unless exempted by special direction of the president, and are required to appear in person or by card and sub init their names to the registration board of the district m which they may reside. Persons willfully failing or refusing to present themselves for registration as provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction, be punished by inn prisonment fer not more than one year and shall thereupon be duly reg istered.
 Although the governor has advised that the date of closing the regis tration period be advanced to 9 D. m. this evening on account of the designated closing day falling on Sun day, the local registration board will continue to receive applications in person or by card until five o'clock Sunday afternoon.
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here for several days for the arrival of the UmatiIla The vessel will car ry as passengers, w. B. Van Valin and family and George K. Mcleod. The latter will leave the schooner at Deer-
 ing. It is the intention of Mir. Van Valin to remain in the Barrow dis tlhct until next summer in the inter- est of the University of Pennsylvania museum for which he will collect data and specimens and also make photo- graphic studies of native life and GUS toms with the aid of a motion pie lure camera. The Arctic will also carry a considerable quantity of sup plies and the mail for Barrow and several other points along the ex- ueme northwestern coast. The schoon- CT may make still another trip to Barrow after returning here
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GOVERNMENT ASKS SALMON PACKERS TO RESERVE
 10 PER CENT OF PACK

SEATTLE, Aug. 31..-Local repre- sentattves of one of the salmon pack CTS announced today that the govern ment has asked the firms enga gcd in the salmon packing industry to re- serve ten per cent of the 1917 pack of sockeye and chinook salmon for government use instead of the six per cent originally asked for
 The salmon packers believe that the government will also take ten per cent of this years pack of pink sal mon. The six per cent requisition of the government was made some weeks ago when it was generally believed that the 1917 pack would be large and the increase is due to the great re- packed. The failure of the run of fish this year is still a matter of de- bate. The pack of Puget sound is far below the average, the run this year being only one fourth of the nor maj big runs of other years Although the Alaska pack was expected to be the greatest in history, the failure of the run reduced the slze of the pack to something below the usual dimen- sons It is stated, however. that the Alaska pack will probably be slightly above the average.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-01

\ telegram from Governor Strong received by Judge 0. n. Cochran this afternoon announces the appointment of James F. Daly and Dr, Daniel $. Neuman to fill the vacancies in the divisional exemption board for the sec ond division. As designated by the governor, the bou.u now consists of the following: o. D. Cochran, James F. Daily, J V. Sheldon, NJ. O. Sol berg and D. s. Neuman. The message directs that Judge Cochran notify all these persons ard proceed to organize the exemption boar7 by the election of chairman and secretary. The board will act only as 8 board of re- view upon appeals from the Nome city exemption board and will have no direct hand in passing upon the ex- emption applications.
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cHAPLIN-DREAM THEATER.

Julia Dean, recognized as an artiste of wonderful dramatic ability, will be presented tonight in '"The Ransom," a five act play of theatrical and society life. sunday night, Charles Chaplin appears in one of his late comedies "One a. m." Charlie over indulges and teh trouble starts Webber and Fields the great comedians also appear ir one of their best. "The Worst of Enc mies," a sure fire scream. A late Pathe News with its world events will also be shown Sunday. Show starts Sunday at 6:30 sharp.
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REPORTED THOUSANDS KILLED
 AND INJURED AT kAzAN

injured will run into many hundreds.
 The reports say the fire burned for Q period of thirty six hours before the absence of further combustible mater ial Icsscncd the raging torrcn! of flame which swept the city from one end to the other. Practically the en- tire population IS homeless and star vation is also commencing to appear among inc masses living under the open sky in the nearby countryside.
 Estimates of the number of people who were driven from their homes ap-
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TERRIFIC BATTLE NOW
 RAGING IN M0LDAVIA

have been compelled to retire before the furious attacks of the Austro- German forces.
 So fierce is the rcsstencc of the Houmanians that the German com mandcr Von Mackcnzen, is said to have sent urgent demands for rein forccmcnt to prevent the Roumanians from assuming the offensive. Reports say both sides are suffering heavy losses as the battle surges and the dead are piled in heaps around every
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FIRE SWEEPS POPULOUS
 RUSSIAN CITY

only a small portion of the towns people to fight the flames.
 I''le reports further say that ruff ians began pillag ging on a large scale following tle outbreak of t'n famt s ard :; is thought that the fIe WE s started by the criminal element in CT Ger Q secure plunder. Armed s,u- ints are reported to hay stopped the footing after shooting down a large flames subs.ced the greater plrt Of the population was compelled to camp in the nearby fields and woods.
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HEARST REFUSES CANDIDACY.

NEW YORK, Aug 3t.-William R. Hearst today definitely declined to he a candidate for the office of mayor of New York.
 In signed statement the famous newspaper publisher refused to per- init his name on the ballot at the primaries. Hearst gave no reason for his action beyond the statement that he is not in politics. It Is thought that Hearst is afraid of a repetition of his overwhelming defeat in the mayor alty contest of 1905. when he ran on the municipal ownership ticket.
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IMMENSE CASuALT TIES RESULT OF kAzAN FIRE
FRENCH STORM GERMAN
 TRENCHES ON AISNE FRONT

in the capture of considerable number of prisoners.
 The advance of the French pene- trated the German defenses to depths of more than three hundred yards at several points.
 The strong German counter attacks commenced immediately after the French obtained possession of the army trenches were all repulscd by the artillery and machine gun fire. the French troops, the Germans com
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The Admiral line steamer Uma,illa arrived from Seattle about five this morning, bringing a total of 15S pas sengers. the mail and a considerable quantity of cargo for Nome and St. Michael. Seventy eight of the pas sengers were landed here. The re- mainder are bound for St. Michael and Yukon points.
 The Umatilla will leave for St. Mich ael some time this evening. The great CT part of arrivals are United States soldiers destined for Fort Davis and other military posts In the western territory.
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4 5ociatod Press.

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-According to the statement of foreign office officials the Berlin government is still without definite information concerning the contents of the reply of President Will son to the peace conference proposals of Pope Benedict.
 Advices reaching the officials from foreign sources indicate that the re ply was received at the vatican at noon Friday but the only information
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-01
BERLIN STILL IN DARK
 ON WILSON REPLY

relative to the note so far available are the moag press comments filter ing into Berlin from nearby neutral capitals.
 In the absence of a full knowledge of the text of the American reply, off cials decline to express any opinion relative to the American attitude and the press is also refraining from com ment of any character.
 It is probable that the reply of the central powers will be directed to the
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-01
LAW INSTITUTIONAL
Special to the Nugget.

Special to the Nugget.
 GREENBORO, N C., Aug. 31.-On the eve of the Inauguration of the child labor law, Federal Judge James F. Boyd of the western judicial divis- ion of North Carolina, declared that the law is unconstitutional, thereby greatly rejoicing the hearts of the factory owners who have been bitterly bewailing the absence of judges with sufficiently discriminative mind to realize the injustice of such laws and the hardships they provoke on the employers of child labor. Although bending every effort to have the law declared unconstitutional, the firms accustomed to employing child labor have heretofore failed to find one single judge who was willing to as- s"me the view that the employment or children under fourteen years was desirable and necessary. The decision of Judge Boyd IS. therefore, deeply ap preciated by the would be exploiters of tender youth and maidenhood.
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harbor construction project, and MT. former residents cf his sccticn. Mir. Carpenter will proceed to St. Michael connection with the contemplated gov ernment improvements of tae Apoon moutf of the Yukon but ~ill return here for q stay of several weeks dura- ton during which ae will finish the preliminary surveys of the month of Snake river.
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WANT AUSTRIAN PEACE
 AeITAToRs STOPPED
By Associated Press. <

VIENNA, Sept. 1.-The German National League has addressed a com munication to the government de- manding that the Vienna authorities take vigorous and unsparing action toward checking the Austrian agita- tion for a separate peace with the entente. The league declares that the Germans in Austria will oppose to the last any proposal to cede Trieste or the south Tyrol to Italy. The league also inveighs against the so-called ir- responsible element which are making it difficult for Austria to continue by the side of her allies in the great war.
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N0RWEG|ANS LAND
 GERMAN SPIES

rest, the trio practically confessed their connection with the sinking of a number of Norwegian shops bound for various ports. The man known as Capt. Laven, is said to have been a high officer in the German army at one time. Under close examination he admitted working under the in- structions of the German government and stated that German subjects are forced 10 obey such orders as may be given them by the imperial govern ment.
 All three were sentenced to long terms in the penitentiary.
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NEWS NOTES

The public ls cordially invited to attend the lecture on food conserva-
 ion and the food administrator, Her bert C. Hoover, to bc given at the city nall this evening by Commissioner of Education Henderson, who is in the city on a trip of inspection, Mir, Hen derson is the official representative of Mir. Hoover in Alaska, in addition tO being the head of the territorial board of education.
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By Associated Press.

PETROGRAD, Sept. l.-Reports reaching Odessa say the Roumanians aIe ficrcely resisting the Teuton at ttcks from the region of Oitud and Ol<an m upper Moldavia to the vicin- border.
 A battle of great proportions is re- ported raging along the entire line with the Roumanians holding their own save at few points where they
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By Associated Press,

PTROGRAD, Sept. 1.-SeVeral thousand persons "c reported to have been killed m the rcat fire at Kazan early in the wecH Reports from the scene of the trend ous holocaust as- sert that thc ra spread of the flames resulted iI hundreds of the being off from all pos sibility of escape | perished in the flaming cmbers of he city. Tn addi- ton to the great lumber supposed t0 have been inctn ted, the number
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By Associated Press.

PARIS, Sept 1.-The French fo' ces iii the region of Hurtebise this morn- ing l sudden storming attack on the C Tnan tre..ches which resulted T the enemy f'Ices being sw !r. from their l lenses on a front Q. tlree quarter of a mile.
 The official commmunique says that the French carried all objectivos in a rush which literally swept the Teu- tons from their defenses and resulted
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menced violent shelling of the cap tured positions which still continues. Reports reaching the war office say that the great artillery battle along the Verdun sector continues with un- Hbated fury and indicates that develop mont of a great battle in that region.
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By Associated Press.

CHRISTIANTA, Aug. 31.-Reports Bergen, Norway, today announce that three German spies have been convict ed at that place on charges of sup plying information to the German submarines in the North sea re- garding the sailing time of merchant vessels which were later waylaid and sunk by the German divers.
 Two of the three convicted men, a Captain Laven and a man known as Officer Schwartz, are German citi- zens. The other is an Norwegian named Thorsen. Following their ar