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The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-05
PRESIDENT OF CHINA
 EFFECTED HIS ESCAPE
He Was Granted Refuge in the Japanese LegatiOn-Republi- cans EndeavOr to Regain Pos session of Country.

Tien Tsin, China, July AL Yuan Hung, the Chinese president, with two attendants, escaped from the pal ace at 9 o'clock last night and sought refuge in the Japanese legation. The Japanese, considering the urgency of the case, granted him refuge. No one is allowed to interview the president
 San Francisco, July 4.-China is in the throes of civil war and a battle is being fought today between troops of the southern provinces fighting for the preservation of the republic and the northern forces of the young en- peror, according to cable advices re- ceived here today by the Chinese Ma tionalist League. The first clash was announced as having occurred yester- day.
 The advices today state that Presi- dent Ii Yuan Hung is safe in Peking and Vice President Flung Kuck-Jung is directing troop movements in Nan king. According to the dispatches the soldiers of President Ii in the Chinese capital are steadily gaining ground.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11
Immediate Action in Food Control Is Urged
 By HooUer in Letter AdUising President Of
 Peril Threatening Producer and Consumer

(assuming a carry-oVer of same vol tune in 1918 as in 1917) amounts to about 600.00O,000 bushels, thus leaving theoretical export balance of 7S,OOU. 900 bushels. The conservation meas ures are already having a marked eff feet and it is not too much to hope that the national saving may be S0,- 00O,OO0 to 100,O00,0OO bushels and therefore, the export balance increas, ed to say, 1SO,0O0,0Oo ousneis.
 Compares Prices
 2. The experience this year in the rampant speculation, extortionate pro fits and the prospect of even narrower supplies than 1917 harvest ana carry, ing-over must cause the deepest anx- iety. No better proof of the hardships worked upon our people during the past year needs be announced than the recitation of the ract that the pro- per bushel for the 1916 wheat harvest; yet wheat has been as high as $325 at Chiacgo and the price of our has been from time to time based upon this speculative price of wheat, so that through one evil cause or another the consumer has suffered from 50 to 100 per cent, and the producer gained nothing.
 After much study and investigation it is evident that this unbearable in- crease in the margin between produc- CT and consumer. is due not only to rank speculation but more largely to the wide margin of profit demanded by every link in the chain to insure them from the great hazards of trade in the widely fluctuating and dangerous price situation during a year when all nor nal trade has lost through the inter ruption of world trade and war.
 Remedy Necessary.
 ''All these factors render it vitally necessary to initiate systematic measures which will absolutely elimi- nate all possibility of speculation. cure extortionate profits and effect proper distribution and restriction on exports to point within our own protection These measures cannot be accomplish ed by punitive punishments of evil doers, but only by proper and antici-
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11

patory organization and regulation all along the distribution chain.
 "3. During recent months the allied governments have consolidated their buying into one hand in order that they might receive the burden of spec ulation from their own consumers and as the restricted exports to neutrals are but a minor item, the export price, is not controlled, is subject to the will of the allied buyer. so that in great measure the American producer is left to that buyers judgment and is with out voice.
 Must Expect Action.
 Furthermore, in normal circum- stances, United States and Canadian wheat is moved to Europe largely in the fall months, such shipments aver aging about forty million bushels per month and relieving a corresponding flow from the farms into the interior terminals. This year. owing to the shortage of shipping. the allied sup plies must proceed over large period of the year and will not, during the fall, months apparently average over 20 .OO0.0 to 25,0OO,00O bushels per month.
 We must, therefore, expect glut in our interior terminals during a considerable period. The financial re- sources of the grain trade are prob ably insufficient to carry this extra load without the help of spectators and moreover, the consolidation of practically all foreign buying in the hands of the allied buyer has further tended to diminish the allied capital by putting a number of firms out of business. and limits the financial cap ital, available in export trade.
 Slump In Wheat.
 "The net result of this situation is that unless some strong and efvcient government action is instituted and brought into play, the American pro ducer will face slump in wheat. and in any event the price of export wheat will be dictated by single agency and the consumer will be faced with the situation that large part of the es- sential breadstuff has passed into the hands of spectators; for someone
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11
VIRGINIA MAN IS
 ELECTED RULER OF
 ELKS' GRAND LODGE

BOSTON. July 10.-The election ol Fred c. Harper Of Lynchburg, Va. as grand exalted ruler; the unanimous choice of Atlantic City as the 1918 convention city and the adoption of a resolution pledging the support of 47f.- 69O members of the order to President Wilson ''in this time of trouble" were the chief matters disposed of at to- days session of the grand lodge at the annual convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
 Mir Harper obtained 1,2O5 votes against SO3 boiled for John w. Steven son of Fulton. N. Y Congressman Thomas F. Reilly Of Meriden, Conn, was elected grand exalted leading knight with 1.266 votes against 13S given Henry J. Jennings of Bridge port, Conn.
 The third contest-that of the office of grand trustee-was settled before ihe polling began by withdrawal of w. w. Mountain. of Flint, Mich. and William Conklin of Englewood, N. J. Patrick Powers, former president of the Eastern Baseball Association. was elected to the position.
 Other officers chosen were Frank J. Spriggs. of St Paul. grand esteemed featuring knight; Edward l.. Chapman. Great Bend. Kans. grand inner guard; Judge James M. Shanley. Oakland. Calif. grand esteemed loyal knight; Charles A. White of Chicago. grand treasurer. and Fred Robinson of Du- buque. Iowa, grand secretary.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11

PORTLAND. Ore. July 1O-The Belgian war mission today added an inspection of a great lumber mill to the industries they have examined on their trip through the United States and saw huge trees being sawed into shape for the fleet of wooden ship. that is being built there.
 Baron Moncheur. head of the mis- sion. delivered his address of the day at the convention of the National As sociation of Educatoin
 Tn ecommission left here tonight fo. San Francisco.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11
lBy Review Leased Wire )

WASHINGTON, July 00.-A report on the food situation prepared for President Wilson by Herbert Hoover holding that both the farmer and the consuming public are suffering while food speculators make unearned pro fits from the delay in enactment ol food control legislation was given out tonight at the White House.
 Unless strong and efficient govern ment action is immediately taken. the food administration reported, the far mers will face a slump in wheat prices and consumers will be caught in a shortage in autumn even more serious than that which is reaching actual under-nourishment," in the great consuming centers. The specu- lator, it is declared, is taking large part of the prices now paid by con sumers.
 Practically Helpless"
 'We are practically helpless to safe guard either the farmer or the con sumer," concludes MT. Hoover, until the pending legislation IS passed.
 The report, in the form of letter to the president, was issued through the public information committee with the statement that publicity was gwen .. in order that the country may know how serious and far-reaching the coni sequences may be both to the farmers of the country and to the consumers of the present delays in passage Of the pending food legislation"
 No comment by the president ac- companied the repot, although he has more than once demonstrated his i'm patience over the repeated delays in congress which have kept the entire food control program in a state of un- certainty for weeks. MT. Hoover's let ter follows.
 Hoover's Lesser
 Dear MT. President: In response to your request I send you herewith the following notes compiled by my self and my assistants regarding the present situation in wheat production.
 q. The 1917 harvest promises to yield 67S,O00,0O0. The normal internal consumption and seed requirements
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11

Iu anderson will try and HI please you, WY atkins, he
 w helps too, IT umber has gone up A a little as TIT sual as other - things has, M ighty good HA time to buy P efore things D get so high E ach month you put off A building that home you ID un a risk of IN having none ~ ome let US W talk to you, .n lson may offer some " suggestions too.
 PHONE 16
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11
Benevolent Neutrality

Mexico's present position has been defined by her foreign office as one of strict neutrality" but it is in fact a benevolent neutrality since she is per hitting Amercan warshps to lie in her harbors without protest. They have been there since the days of Huerta.
 The operative date of General Car ranza's new schedule of export taxes on crued oil and its derivatives on which the British fleet depends for fuel has now become effective. The United States conducted yoluminous correspondence with the Mexican gov ernment after protests had been made to the state department by all opera tors of Mexico's determination not to repeal the decree resulted in a sugges- tion to the oil men by the department to pay the taxes under protest. It is not believed by American officials that any serious crippling of the oil indus try or supply will result.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-11
UNCLE SAM NOT ANXIOUS ID SEE
 MEXICO IN WAR
Declaration of War by Car ranza Against Germany Would Do More Harm Than Good, Belief in Wash ington.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-Reports that Mexico is about to break with Germany led to the authoritative state ment today that any such move would not be based on advices given by the American government
 It was stated that no suggestion of an active endorsement of the position of the United States has gone to Mex ico City from Washington except the general note addressed to all neutral governments upon the rupture of re- lations with Germany fin March. It was made clear, furthermore, that while the American government would welcome friendlier attitude by Mex ico, many high officials believe the best interests of most of the nations con cerned will be served if the southern republic maintained neutrality in the world war
 Obligations Feared Ambassador Fletcher, who came here to report in detail to Secretary Lansing on conditions in Mexico. has told the state department that despite some improvement in Mexican affairs generally, much remains to cause con cern to the American government. This circumstance is considered i'm portant because a break with Germany would give Mexico an opportunity to get money and place the United States under certain obligations.
 Late reports to the state department have served to allay the alarm preva- lent at one time that German machina- tions in Mexico might prove embarras- sing. Although there are 16 wireless plants ip Mexico, American oincials are convinced that none is being used and that none can be used for trans hitting news to Germany or to her cor respondents.
 Those officials wko are not eager to see Mexico join in tAs war do not ob- feet to seeing General Carranza sup piled with money, but they believe that without contributing much real aid to the allies. Mexico would make it hard for the United States, France, Great Britain and other nations with griev- ances against her to assume stern attitude after the war That Mexico may not by that time have straight ened out her troubles is admitted as possibility and it might be awkward to take the proper step regarding re- | cent ally.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
MADISON GRAIN MARKET.
SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sioux City. Sept. Cattle re
ceipts here and elsewhere assumed
liberal proportions. Locally the es-
innate called for 1000 head. as
against 1852 a week ago and 1,771
the corresponding day a year ago.
Market on killing grades develop
ed signs of weakness as a result of
the increase in supplies. run was
again in g~rassers, with general quail
ity only fair.
Stocker and feeder trade held up
well, and useful grades on both
steers and she stuff moved freely al
steady figures.
In line with outside points, the
hog market got a setback, most sales
for the day being quoted as 25 a soc
lower, with close dull at decline.
Bearish reports came from all out
side centers and this together with
increased supplies, gave buyers the
power to dictate. Top for the day
landed at $3.50, while the bulk OF
sales ranged from $16.75 @17.25.
Little change was noted in the way
sheep and lambs cleared. Locally
supplies continue to run rather light,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
On to POtSdam

with due apologies to the late Bob
southey and the late job X. Thompson
IA Hamburg newspapers correspondent
who has seen Yankee troops In France
writes that they look like the sons OF i'm
migrants"
Pershing has got
An excellent lot
OF immigrants sons In his columns;
They're happy and proud
To be shouting aloud
For Llberty's cause In a turbulent crowd,
And, with all this bold crew.
Nothing will do
While the fields are so green
And the sky is so blue
But to push on the columns to Potsdam
In the camp you may hear
Every lingo In rogue
The sweet German accent.
The rich Irish brogue.
And exiled combiners
Fol freedom at home;
Berlin's Forty-niners
ave grandsons that come.
And with all this bold crew
Nothing will do
While the fields are so green
And the sky SO blue
Blu to push on the columns to POtsdam.
Let Schrecklichkeit tremble.
As free men assemble
Poles. Irish. Huns. Jews.
Their zeal cannot lag:
All one I'm their views
And under one flag.
For. with all P~ershing's crew.
Nothing will do
" lille the fields are SO green
And the sky SO blue
But 10 push on the columns to Potsdam.
j. A. In Brooklyn Eagle.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
RED CROSS PLANS RESEARCH
Will Take Advantage of Extraordinary
Opportunity In France.

8fF&
Announcement is made by the Ameri-
can Red Cross that Its war council has
appropriated 100000 for medical re
search work In France. This action
follows a report from Major Grayson
M. L. Murphy. Red Cross commission
er to Europe, who cabled from Paris
to the national headquarters at Wash
ington:
A extraordinary opportunity pre-
sents itself here for medical research
work. We have serving with various
American units some OF the ablest doc
tors and surgeons In the United States.
Many OF these men are conducting
courses Of investigation which. II car
ried to successful conclusions. will re
suit In the discovery of treatments and
methods OF operation which will be Of
great use not only In this war but pos
sibly for years afterward. To carry on
their work they need certain special
laboratory equipment, suitable build
ings and animals for experimental pur-
poses. At present equipment and per.
sonnet cannot be obtained through or
binary government sources without de
lay, which makes this source OF supply
quite impracticable."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
GETS $4,000 IN WILL
FOR A CUP OF COFFEE
Servant In Farmhouse Reward
ed For Handout to Tramp
Who Died Wealthy.

The will of Marshall McMurran OF
Evansville, Ind, once a tramp, leaving
$4,000 to Mrs. Matte Hannum of IL
Swartzel avenue. Vincennes. Ind. be
cause when she was a servant I'm a
farmhouse thirty years ago she gave
him a cup of coffee, has been declared
valid by the Indiana supreme court.
Notification of the courts decision
has been received by Arthur +. West.
assistant treasurer OF the National
Surety company OF New York city.
The estate, for which Mr.. McMurran's
half brothers and half sisters have been
suing and which consists of $21. 900 I'm
United States government bonds and
about $4,000 I'm cash. has been turned
over To Mrs. Hannum.
Mr.. McMurran, after a youth of wan
defng, died on May 10, 1913, leaving
the following will, which had been
made twenty-five years before:
! do. on this eth day of September, 1888
VIII TO Matte Drain, that poor servant
girl who gave me a good bite to eat and a
hot cup OF coffee when / WAS weak and
feverish from hunger and near ready to
drop and the auld man she worked for
was cursing her for giving II to me and
ordering me out OF the yard. and l do will
that all have at my death. all the money
or property that / have shall be hers.
MARSHALL MMURRAN.
Witness: Mrs, Emma Grant. Cora Nor
ton.
Matte Drain IL TO- Mrs. Hannum.
having married Harry Hannum.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06

City Council Approves Action OF Gov
ernor Lowdca.

Chicago, Sept. &. - Chicago's city
council, sitting as a committee of the
whole, at the end of a turbulent four.
hour special session. adopted a reso-
luton praising Governor Frank O..
LCwden for his action in overriding
Mayor William Hale Thompson by re-
fusing permission to the Peoples
Council for Democracy and Peace
Terms to meet in Illinois and urging
tho states chief executive to pre-
vent any meetings in the future which
may be lnimical to public safety or
disloyal or reasonable.
Mayor Thompson and his friends in
the council made a stubborn parlia-
mentary FIGHT to prevent the adoption
Of the resolution.
Mayor Thompson at one time urged
the aldermen to take a recess. but
te majority insisted on remaining in
session until the resolution had been
adopted.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
HOSPITAL SUPPLY SERVICE
Red Cross Selects Stanley Field OF
Chicago Director.

Washington, Sept. s.. The estab-
lishnent OF a hospital supply service
under the Red Cross commission in
France of which Major Grayson NJ. p.
Murphy is the head, was announced
by the war council of the American
Red Cross. An appropriation of $500,
coo has been voted by the war coun-
Gil to establish this service and pro
vide its first stock of supplies.
As director of the lev hospital sup
ply service the war council is send.
ing to France Stanley Field of Chica.
go, a son of the late Marshall Field.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06

which there can be but n answer
the young. unmarried men must save
this country even as they saved 1t In
the civil war.
After quoting statistics to show that
the bulk OF the Union army was com
posed OF youths under t~wenty-one Cen
eral Young analyses the results OF the
present draft and concludes:
After the first and second drafts
are made there will be approximately
$4,000 men available for purely mill
tary service who will not have been In
cluded In the first W drafts. Now,
since the first and second drafts will
total about l.374.0O0 and experience
shows hat three men are required In
reserve for each a on the firing line,
the G26.000 left over from the first reg.
istration will not be adequate for ever
"A reserve force for the men actually on
the firing line, but will fall short of the
number which experience has proved
necessary by some 100000.
by using the comprehensive ma
chinery set up by the war department
for carrying out the provisions of the
nee and I'm perfect working order the
remedy which | have to propose can be
Immediately realized. This remedy Is
embodied in the following amendment
to the draft law:
All male persons resident in the United
States who are nineteen years of age and
not more than thirty-one years OF age on
the date when this amendment shall &C
into effect and who were not registered
in pursuance of the act OF May Is. 1917
shall be registered at such time and place
as the president may by proclamation d.
rect
Ii should also be provided that none
Of the men affected by the law SC
amended should be called for active
military service before reaching the
& OF twenty-one years.
Granting that the proposed amend
lei shall be adopted by congress-, the
same to go into effect June B. 1918. q
startling and Illuminating comparison
with the figures OF the recent reglstra
ton and draft given above is imme
diately presented: On June s. 1918
there would be three classes-males
nineteen, twenty and twenty-one years
OF age-affected by this proposed
amendment. These three classes would
total 1900. 900 men and after reflections
would net approximately l.920.0OO mer
fit for training for military service. In
these three classes there will be a
much smaller average percentage OF
exemption than In the older classes
which were comprehended In the re
cent registration.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
WANTS 1T LEFT AT $40, 900
Wilson Frowns on Move to Cut Limit
in Risk Bill.

Washington, Sept 6.-Action in the
house to decrease from $4,000 to So
able to officers and men in the ma
tional army under the administration
insurance bill is not approved by
President Wilson.
In a letter to Representative Adam
son of Georgia the president expresses
regret owe the reduction and says he
hopes the $4,000 limit may be re-
stored.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
WOULD TRAIN BOYS
General Young Proposes Draft
ing Youths OF 19 to Fl.
MARRIED MEN ARE UNWILLING

Those Who Have Dependents Don't
Want to Fight. as a Rule. So Younger
Men Must Save the Country, as They
Did In the Civil War. He Says.
Three Million Would Be Effected.
Washington. In a signed statement
given out recently. Lieutenant General
S. b NJ. Young. Z. s. A. commander In
chief of the military order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States aud presi
dent OF the National Association For
Universal Military Training. advocated
the early drafting of youths between
nineteen and t~wenty-one TO form the
national army.
General Young says that OF the $500
900 men registered fully 80 per cent
Of the married men have not hesitated
TO walk up and claim exemption ON
that ground alone. which means that
only a small percentage of the married
men In the nation are willing to beaT
arms I'm defense OF 1t. This Is a con.
dition which was not only surprising
but which is full of menace and tC
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
WAR EXCHANGE THREATENED
Germany IN British Can't Agree on
Port to Be Used.

A breakdown Is threatened In the
plan for the exchange of prisoners OF
war between Great Britain and Ger
many. The cause Is Germany's In
sistence upon Southwold as the port of
embarkation Of German prisoners
while the British authorities want
Hull used.
Lord Newton suggested In the house
OF lords that the reason for the Ger
man attitude is a desire to keep up the
pretense that the Southwold out is
the only one open to traffic.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06
Draft Hurts Farmers.

Delegates to the middle western re-
gional wheat and rye conference re-
port a serious shortage Of farm labor,
due to the draft They will recon-
mend to Secretary Houston Of the de-
partment OF agriculture. at whose sug-
gestion the conference was held, that
the government devise some method Of
drafting unemployed labor for work
upon the farms.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-06

The Hague.-The Dutch minister of
agriculture has decided that the bread
ration Of $500 grams mot quite a
pound a head must suffice for eleven
days I'm Holland. When bread tickets
were first issued seven days was the
period. Later 1t vas extended to
nine days. but the increasing scarcity
necessitates a further reduction in con
SUMPTION.