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Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
SEMI OFFICIAL
FIGURES SHOW
NUMBER KILLED
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Guiding los, 900 dead. $4,000 wounded
and $4,000 captured and missing.
Belgium and Serbia, the two small
states overrun by the German machine
after desperate resistance, have both
lost very heavily in proportion to pop
ulation. Relgium's casualties come to
112, coo with $4,000 dead, $4,000 wound
81 and 10000 captured and missing.
Serbia's dead come to $4,000. her
$4,000 with the number of missing and
captured large but unknown.
Germany, among the central empires,
is given as by far the largest loser,
her total casualties being 1,5S5,200. or
225, 900 less than Frances. Her dead
come to $4,000 which is slightly higher
than Frances while her wounded are
set at 100000 and her captured and
missing 245,G00, proportionately the
lowest of the nations. Germany, be-
cause of her fighting on interior lines,
without having suffered a bloody re-
treat, and with a highly efficient medi-
cal service, has lost very few in cap
tured and wounded but her offensives
have led her into heavy losses in dead.
Nearly one third of her losses are es-
timated to have been suffered around
Verdun.
Austria is only slightly less heavy
q loser than Germany with a total Of
1,469, 100. Her dead. however, only num-
Der 523,100 and her wounded $4,000.
Her captured and missing run up to
$4,000 owing 10 the heavy losses Of
prisoners in the two retreats before
the Russians
Turkey also has been a heavy loser,
having a wide sweep or front from
Gallipoli through Syria, Arabia, Meso-
potamia and Armenia with serious
pressure from British, Russian and
native armies. Her total is given as
307 600; with $4,000 dead: 1000
wounded and 10000 captured and miss
ing.
Bulgaria is the smallest loser, with
the meagre total of 20.500 largely be-
cause the Serbian campaign was won
merely by the threat of her entrance
into the war. Her dead total 1850; her
wounded 1000 and her captured and
missing 5000.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12


MRS. JOHN DAVIS.
- DAVIS. son of John Davis
MRS. ARCHIE FLETCHER
HALER. young daughter OF
john Haler
RAZER, 12-year-old son of
W T Racer.
MRS. ARCHIE WILLIAMSON.
MISS OPAL WILLIAMSON, daugh-
ter If Mrs. Williamson.
NEWTON.
BERNICE DAY.
JUNE DAY.
MRS. MARY F. WILLIAMS
MRS. VERA HIGGINS, daughter of
2Trs. Williams
ERNEST WATERSON, aged 6 years.
WILLIAM LOWERY, aged II.
ETHEL DAY, aged 16.
TWO MEN AND ONE BOY, unideu-
titled.
Among the missing are:
WILLIAM DAVIS.
J. ". MCLAIN AND TWO SONS.
MRS. W. NEWTON
Confusion and disorder Followed in
the path of the storm. Those who
escaped injury and death ran wildly
about the streets. women and children
crying and wringing their hands, and
men shouting and cursing. The men
finally settled down and began the
work Of rescue, digging in the ruins of
their homes for missing members of
their families.
Only two or three bodies were found
in the streets
Several fires broke out in the wreck
age on the south side but heavy rain
kept them from spreading.
While many substantial residences
were damaged, the greatest destruction
was in the factory district.
There was little warning of the ap-
lro2e hing tornado. A huge funnel
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
TURKS RECEIVE
HARD USAGE At
RUSSIAN HANDS
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

The Associated Press summarizes
operations Of yesterday in connection
with the. European war as follows:
Likewise i'm Persia the Turks are re-
celVlng hard usage at the hands of the
Russians according to Peuograd. In
NORTHWEST Persia the Russians have
captured the town of Sahna, and the
Ottomans who were driven out of Ha-
MADAM still are in retl eat. In Asia
Minor along the Sius road the Turks
attempted to go on the offensive but
were repulsed
No acton OF great Importance has
been reported from any of the other
theaters of war. The Germans near
Neuvron, north of the Aisne, have been
engaged in violent artillery duel with
the French. Northwest Of Rheims and
near BezonvauX attacks against
French positions were repulsed. The
French on the other mana carried out
successfully several surprise attacks or
German trenches. berlin admits the
retirement of the Germans before the
British near Irles on Saturday.
on the Russian front there have been
only minor operations and artillery
Local artillery actions are in prog
activity. There is still no news con-
corning the situation in Rumama.
ress along the entire Austro- Italian
front.
An unofficial dispatch reports the
sinking OF the Danish steamer Rosborg
while on voyage from Baltimore to
Denmark Six members of the crew
were killed. The dispatch does no.
state whether the steamer WAS sum-
by a submarine or a mine
Captured German officers seemed
particularly chagrined that their plan
TO retire without offering great casual
ties had been thwarted.
All along the Ancre' and Somme Sec
tors the British guns were booming to-
day. 1t was a steady roar.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
DEFER STATE DIVISION


BOISE Ida, March 1.-THE Idaho
legislature, which adjourned at mid
night last night, deferred for two
years consideration of the question of
making a new state out of the northern
part of Idaho. An anti-alien land biz
and bill forbidding intermarriage OF
whites and Japanese were permitted to
die. The senate committee which in
vestigated charges of lobbying against
c. NJ. Booth, an attorney Of Twin Falls,
in connection with the anti-alien lana
measure, reported in the last hour that
Booth had been instrumental in arous-
ing the Japanese embassy at Washing
ton to protest against the bill and that
he had acted as the paid attorney of
the Idaho Japanese
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12

morning the British completely upset
he German retirement plans on that
section of the lines. During the for
ward movement for the last fortnight
lrles was one village where the Ger
mans made desperate resistance.
The steadily increasing artillery fire
OF the British had exeTted pressure
which could no longer be Withstood
and the German commander had is
sued a retirement order. Two hours
before this maneuvre was to be "a.
tempted the British fell upon the Ger
mon position and. in addition to in
rictlng heavy casualties. captured
nearly three hundred prisoners and
booty which included sixteen machine
guns and four trench motors. The
tttack was one of the most carefully
banned and successful of recent phaS-
es of warfare on this front
PARIS. March 11.-French troops
last night made several successful sur
prise attacks on the German trenches
IN the sectors of Lassigny and Canny
Sur Matz and north of Jury wood, in
the Woewre region, says the official
statement today. Fifteen prisoners and
me machine gun were captured.
LONDON, March IA dispatch to
the Central News from Copenhagen
says the captain of the Danish steamer
Rosborg. 1874 tons, has telegraphed
he owners of The vessel that it has
5een sunk. Six of the men of the crew
were killed.
BERLIN, March 8, (yia wirelss to
Sayville, March D.-According to a
telegram from Stockholm to the
Overseas News agency (the German
official press bureau) a submarine I'M
Ter Russian command was sunk at the
end OF February
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
Assessor TASK
To De LIcHTEE|E:L.)

AS a result Of recent legislative On
actment it will be possible in the future
TO cut down the size of the state tax
roll almost % per cent. it is stated. The
assessors work in making up the roll
will be reduced in like~proportion as a
result. This VIII mean 4 large yearly
saving to the state, it is believed
1t will not be necessary, according
to the recent enactment, to include
itemized personal property assessments
on the tax roll as was formerly re-
,quired under the old tax laws. : com
piete itemiZed account of personal
property assessments will be found.
however, on assessment lists. and the
assessment lists will be made a part
Of the tax rolls for that purpose.
Il is expected that as result of the
recent enactment the tax commission
can be a much better abstract than
previously
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
BROTHERHOOD HEADS TO MEET
Republican A. p. Leased wire1

CLEVELAND. o., March 11.-W. G.
Lee, president OF the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen. announced today
that meetings of the chairmen of gen
raj committees of the four railroad
brotherhoods representing southwes-
-ern roads and vice presidents of the
our brotherhoods will be held at St
Louis Tuesday, March 10, and for the
western roads at St. Paul, MINI,
Wednesday. March IA. The purpose Of
he meetings is discussion of plan
# settlement of the eight hour con
-roversy to be submitted to the ma
tional conference committee of rail-
ways by the brotherhood chiefs at n
meeting to he held in New York
Thursday, March Is.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
FOR RED CROSS ALLIANCE

IheoubIlcan A. P. Leased WlreI
WASHINGTON. March 11-An al
lance of the Brazilian Red Cross with
the American Red Cross was proposed
in a letter deceived today by Miss Ma
bel Boardman of the American organi-
zauion from DR.. L. de Oliveria Botelho,
founder OF the Brazilian Red Cross.
who was sent here to effect an agree
ment. He explained that under such an
alliance. if the United States goes to
war, the Brazilian Red Cross would
turn over is personnel and other re-
sources for American use.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
sTRAUssENeURe TO CONFER

laLlM pssna7 i " ueolqndsY1
BERLIN. March II. via Amsterdam
20 London, March Pit is officially
announced that Field Marshal Won
Straussenhurg, chief of staff of the
Austro- Hungarian army, arrived at
German headquarters Sunday to confer
regarding the military operations.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
TRAMPS KILL BRAKEMAN


Republican A. p. Leased Wire1
NEWHAMPTON. Ia, March II. -
Roy Miller of Randolph, Mimi, a. Chi
cago Greatwestern brakeman. was
killed bv tramps who threw his body
from train near McIntire early today
Police officers captured three tramps
after chase across country and they
are being held for investigation.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
DUCHESS OF coNNAUoHT ILL
IRe9uhlican A. p. Leased Wire1

Republican A. p. Leased Wire]
LONDON,-March 11-Three bulle-
.ins were issued today concerning the
ondition Of the Duchess of Connaught
who is suffering from broncho-pneu-
nonia. She passed a restless night
md day, but her strength was main
aimed The late bulletin tonight said
There is no change for the better"
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
NEW SPANISH LOAN
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

MADRID, March II. via Paris).-An-
nouncement was made today by gov
ernmental decree OF the flotation of a
new Spanish loan Of one billion pesetas.
The loan will be issued at five per cent
md will be redeemable in fifty years.
Subscriptions will be opened March 81
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
Rear 6~ar- Retires

BERLIN, March Wireless to
SayVille. AFTER infantry fighting yes
terday with British troops near Irles
on the Ancre river front, says the Off
cial statement today, German rear
guard detachments, in accordance with
orders, retired to the Teuton main po-
sitions.
French attacks launched yesterday
between the rivers Avre and Disc were
without success. Renewed attacks
against the German positions on Hill
1S5 and on both sides of Champaign
farm. it is added, were sanguinaril
repulsed, Notwithstanding the use bS
the French of strong forces and large
supplies of ammunition.
discussing the submarine situation
the Overseas News Agency (the Ger
man official news bureau) quotes the
German press with reference to the
reports spread by the entente about the
heavy losses of submarines" as saying:
Even II the losses of German sub
marines became greater than they
really are, even then the increase in the
number Of submarines, which is con-
tinuous and uninterrupted, would be
still several times greater than such
losses"
The German newspapers point out
that losses are unavoidable on account
OF the particularly delicate characte,
of submarines, the undaunted bravery
Of the crews and the vast defensive
system set in motion by the entente.
but that nevertheless German submar-
inc losses have been held within very
moderate limits and are infinitely
smaller than the figures reported OF
limited at in hostile and some neutral
reports.
Arizona republican., 1917-03-12
MORE THAN SCORE
ARE KILLED AND
$50 ARE INJURED

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Arizona republican., 1917-03-12

PETROGRAD, March l1-(Via Lon
don.)-British admiralty per wireless
press. Russian troops have occupied
the town of Sahna in northwestern
Persia and are pursuing the retreatine
Turks in the direction of Bisitun, 90
miles southwest of Harnadan, accordine
to an official statement today In Asia
Minor the Turks took the offensive
along the Sivas road, but were repulsed
by the Russians.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE. March II, CVia London.
Marcht 12.) (From a staff correspon-
dent of the Associated Press )-In the
capture of the village of Irles Yesterday
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18

his mission until rival expert in the
same line squelched him completely,
both as to argument and eloquence,
Later, in a sneaking sort of way,
Jed did some amateur dramatic work
with stalled tragedy company. 1t
proved a dismal failure, but the faint
of this hIstrionic effort never quite
left him.
So, shut up in little tavern room
with an obliging audience, Jed detail
ed his past glories as orator and actor.
He recited all of his former speeches,
he spouted half of Hamlet in bringing
in the several few lines he had spoken
on the stage. Faithfully at midnight
the drowsy conclave broke up. Jed
went to bed and reappeared in his
home town the next day, with a slight
headache, but fully satisfied to pur-
sue the straight and narrow road un-
III another twenty-frst of February
had rolled around.
Now Jed had become quite an i'm
portant and trustworthy person about
Bowesville. He did a little real es-
tate business and a good deal In the
way of mortgage loans and colIec-
tons. He went 10 and fro as to sew
eral towns in the district, acting as a
sort of special messenger for the
banks. On the especial birthday occa-
sion where he met his Waterloo. he
had transacted considerable business
that day and its results crowded
time-worn wallet in an inner coat
pocket.
Jed went through his regular pro-
gram, political and histrionic. but
somehow the occasion was dull. Ii
was growing so monotonous and by
ten o'clock his guests were filed to
repletion and began 10 depart one by
one, and, although dazed ana unsteady
in his walk, Jed decided not TO re-
main at the tavern all night, as was
his wont on these birthday occasions
but 20 walk home to Bowesyiue. seven
miles distant,
He paid the bin, took parting
drink and started on his lonely way.
There had been a deep snow, but the
roads We're broken by teams. and with
a few upsets Jed got started on his
way.
It's the last one that did It," soli-
loquized the dizzied wayfurer. "Need
the hracing air to clear away the fog
As he neared his home village Jed
was conscious that his wits were stin
clouded and his limbs somewhat wob-
bly,. The direct road was level. hut
he paused suddenly Late as the hour
was there was light in house al the
bottom q steep hill inclinlug from
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18
TAKING STOCK.

AS the newspaper man goes his
rounds at this time of the year, he
finds more or less of the business men
taking stock" 1t is a tedious and
dusty job, but very vital one. The
merchants approach the final additions
and subtractions with anxiety, not
knowing what they will show for profit
and loss
With great many of the Older
stores, stock taking was often much
neglected. The proprietor would figure
out prices that seemed to give him a
profit, but he never verified them by
the test of an account of stock. If he
could draw every week enough for his
support, he felt satisfied. He felt that
stock taking involved an enormous
amount of labor, and produced no re-
suits other than his own satisfaction.
Modern business, however. is more
closely analytical. 1t not merely seeks
to know periodically whether the bust
ness is profitable as whole, but it
analyses every feature of the business.
It demands to know whether each par
ticuar line is showing a profit or a
loss. The results are often surprising.
Goods that seem to pay are revealed as
merely a drain on the concern. Elk
penses are apt to be higher than was
expected, and the overhead charge is
constantly exceeding forecasts
These better methods work out for
the advantage of the consumer. They
lead the merchants to turn their stock
more frequently, to keep closer watch
of their lines. to clean out Improbable
material, and to specialize in what the
public wants. The logical outcome of
stock taking is newspaper advertise
ment. to clean out overstocks and get
the business on closer cash basis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18
Monday Grouchincss Explained.

Grouchiness is more prevalent on
Monday morning than at any other
time in the week, and to such an ex-
tent that life is made disagreeable
temporarily for many families and for
many co-workers. That such manifes-
tations Of i'll feelings are detrimental
to private and public interests is widely
acknowledged, but it has remained for
DR.. Samuel G, Dixon, Pennsylvania
commissioner of health, to direct pub
lie attention to the Monday morning
crouch and to tell how it can be done
away with.
"The majority of people," DR.. Dix
on says, ''are apt to fall into two gen
eral divisions. One class tries to
crowd too much into the time between
one weeks end and the beginning of
the next weeks labor. They take up
their business on Monday morning ex-
hausted and overtired instead of re-
freshed by the day of rest. The 9th
err class goes to extremes by over-eat-
ing and under-exercising, and the result
is equally unhappy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18
Over 1900 Trap Clubs.

Carefully compiled statistics of the
trap shooting clubs of this country show
that 1869 active and 463 inactive clubs
are in existence at the present time.
Including Alaska. Australia, Hawaii
and China, the list of clubs of all types
reaches the astonishing total of 4, 666.
In the United States Pennsylvania
leads with $40; New York is second
with 384 and Illinois third with 306
Other states with over 100 clubs include
California, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio
and Wisconsin.
Estimated figures on American trap
shooting number of shooters, $40, 900;
yearly cost of ammunition, Sl2, 900, 900;
yearly club dues and travelling expenses,
$40, 500, 600; value Of guns in use, $27, :
600, 900; value of equipment of gun
clubs, $4,000, 900; number of clay rocks
used yearly, $4,000, 600; yearly cost of
clay rocks, 1910, 600.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18

The circus business, which has for
years had its center at Baraboo, is
about TO take another great stride
When the Ringing boys started out
they, like others in the business, trav-
eled about in wagon trains. When the
business became more prosperous and
their rising popularity and Increasing
paraphernalia made it profitable for
them to enter the larger cities, they
travelled in railroad cars, and then they
owned great trains themselves. Now
there has been started great million
dollar circus corporation which is going
to adopt real twentieth century meth
DDS, and is to travel about over the
country in great motor trucks. These
motor trucks, with their powerful
drives and heavy framework, will
carry, with ease, and over the rough
est roads and steepest grades, the
heaviest of circus paraphernalia, and
with speed. The circus will have the
equipment of l00-car circus and ev-
cry piece of circus property. including
the advance department. will be trans
ported in this way. - Baraboo Dem.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18

preparations that you made, for if that
expression criminally extravagant'
was proper to apply to you, my God
the English language has never found
an adjective strong enough to apply to
Democratic extravaganza"
Then comes Representative Fitzger-
aid Of New York, who says Of his asso-
ciates
"They have unnecessarily piled up
public expenditures until the Democra-
tic party is becoming the laughing
stock of the country"
Hence the deficit. Fond du Lac Com
monWealth.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18
Government Ownership of Hens.

Government ownership of hens was
declared to be more timely than feder-
al ownership of railroads, telegraph
and telephone systems and other utili-
ties by b. E. Sunny, president of the
Chicago Telephone Company, in an adj
dress in the University Club, MiIwau-
kee.
The average person is more inter
ested in the price of eggs than he is in
the regulation of freight rates or the
telephones or other utilities" declared
Sunny.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18
POOR SPORT FOR THE HUNTER
hlppopotsmus Hard 10 Bag" and
Really Worth Little When He
Has Been Secured.

There are two ways of bagging a
hippopotamus, says writer in the
Wide World. and neither ia justified
unless the sportsman is sorely In want
of food. for its meat is very poor in
deed, and wants a good deal OF prepa-
ration To be palatable to anyone ex-
cept the starving. II has a taste
can only describe as flshy-something
OF what beef would taste like after be-
ing wrapped up for couple of days
with a Scotch paddock OF doubtful
freshness. The hippo may be shot in
water: when mortally wounded he
Will sink. and viii not reappear on
the surface for several hours, conse-
quently a firing lookout has to be
Kept for the carcass. If he IS only
slightly wounded he may charge. but
more often he will fee and die In the
reeds, to serve as food for scayenger
birds or crocodiles. The other and
more sporting way is 10 shoot him on
land. This is, as rule only possible
at night, or late in the evening or
early in the morning. II would not
be wise 10 find oneself between the
river and the wounded hippo, for he
at once makes for the water by the
shortest route, and he goes SO fast
that getting out OF his way requires
pretty speedy feet aud great GOODNESS
Of nerve
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18
Misunders tandinu.

They stood beneath the stars, silent
as the heartbeats of the night, looking
into the diamond-studded shlrtfront
of the sky
rs 1t MarsF he whispered as he
slipped his arm ground her taper waist
ana gazed upon glittering orb In
the distant blue.
mo, it isn'tl" she exclaimed Jerk.
ing away It's mine, and if you can't
tell the difference between my waist
and mothers after eight years court
shiI'-well we'd better part!"-Pear.
sons Weekly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18

If the railroads had set out to be real
naughty they could not have done more
or worse than they are doing. With
the employees and employers tied up in
a jangle over the Adamson law and a
universal strike threatened. and en-
bargoes enforced against shipping
freight, the public is in ripe mood TO
demand government control. In Kill
bourn warehouses are full of of pota-
toes which can not be shipped for lack
of cars. Just now prices are sky high
and buyers are frantic because they
cannot unload stocks on hand, and dare
not buy at present price and conditions
of shipping. While people are suffer
ing in cities for food and fuel and
prices are on that account sky high,
the railroads are declining to move an
unprecedented abundance lying in
warehouses all over the West What
ever may be the cause, whoever may
be to blame, it is time public sentiment
should crystalize in demand for reason
able adjustment. Kilbourn Weekly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-01-18

Wisconsin land has nearly doubled
in value, on an average acreage basis,
in the last ten years, according to fig
ures compiled by the tax commission.
Enormous increases in price are re-
corded for the counties in which the
richest farming land lies, while there
are substantial increases in many of
the northern counties. Iowa county is
quoted at S44 81 in 1906, $62 81 in 1911,
S88. "A in 1916.