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The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-23

Army Headquarters in France Thursday Nov. 22(By
associated pessThe of the British arms in the Cam
bra sector grow steadily and Field Marshal Hag
little than days fighting have overrun an area
equal by the Germans during the first is days of
their spectacular Verdun British cavalry tanks and nfan
battling their forward along line which at
MANY points of Cambria less than three
miles from that The advance spreading
region and the salient toward Cam
The total CT prisoners captured must
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ner to make a whirlwind tour OF the
state to perfect his organization. but
owing to the shortness Of the time
and the fact that four public spirited
men,. ]. *. Heslet. w. c. Rae, j. S.
Dutton and d. ]. Charles. have volun-
teered their time and services. the idea
of such tour was abandoned.
These four men. who are giving
their time to Uncle Sam without
remuneration and are defraying their
own expenses, have been assigned to
the four corners of the state with in
structions to organize the various
counties. With the exception of Mr..
Charles. who will leave tomorrow
morning. the others are already on
their way to the fields of activity.
Start at Helena.
Director Turner left at noon today
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COAL ORDER MADE
TO HELP OUT THE EAST
Priority Order for Shipments
to Lakes for Northwest
to Be Revoked.

Washington. Nov. 23.-Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield today requested the
priority board to revoke. effective after
Nov. 80. the order requiring all coal
shipments from middle western fields
to go through to the lakes for trans
shipment to the northwest. The pur-
pose is to divert the coal to relieve
acute shortages in the middle west and
New England.
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Cambria Now Useless.

Cambria probably has lost its USE
fulness as the German supply base in
the immediate region, as the city and
the three railroads entering it from
the north, east and south are DOM
mated by the British artillery.
The new wedge also is direct men,
ace to Queant, the southern end of the
Queant-Drocourt switch line, which
held up the British advance east OF
Arras last spring. Queant is now
within a sharp salient which has been
ICnntinned ON I.nre EirhtN
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], A, O'LEARy UNDER
FEDERAL INDICTMENT

New York. Nov. 2s.-Jeremiah A..
O'Leary. president of the American
Truth society and editor of The Bull, ="
a publication recently barred from the
mails, was today indicted on the charge
of violating the espionage act and the
postal laws.
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-23
A,YRACTIVE
EME FOR WAR SAVING
PPED OUT FOR COUNTRY
Bow County's Share Of Savings Ger
les and Thrift Stamps Is Sl,l9l,48O
announcement Made by Director
Harry w. Turner

Campaign Opens on Dec. 3|Intensive
(e to Be Made for Three Months Commit
kf Butte Men Off Today to All Sections of
State to Launch the Great Undertaking
eh Will Swell the War Chest With the
III Savings of Observation-Disclosures Pen
Factor in Financing World Struggle.
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-23
FOOD ADMINISTRATORS
TO MAKE A REPORT

Washington. Nov. 2S.=-All state Cood
administrators were instructed by Food
Administrator Hoover today to ascer-
tain and report the names Of manufac
turers and dealers subject to federal
license who failed to obtain licenses
Nov. 1. The purpose is to begin prose-
cutions Immediately.
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-23
FORMER GOV. PEABODY
Of COLORADO IS DEAD

Denver. Colo, Nov. 23.-James Ham
ilton Peabody, governor of Colorado
during the Cripple Creek strike" in
1908, when there were number or
clashes between the state troops and
the strikers and their sympathizers,
died here today. Mr.. Peabody was 80
years old He had been i'll several
months.
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-23
ORDERS REDUCTION
IN RUSSIAN ARMY

Petrograd. Nov ga reduction of
the Russian armies, beginning with
the class conscripted in 1899, has been
proclaimed by the Bolsheviki leader.
NJ. Lenine. an official announcement
today states. The order is to take ef-
feet Immediately.
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CARRIES PROPOSAL FOR
PEACE TO PETROGRAO

Stockholm, Nov. 23.-According to
the Tidningen, a Russian diSplomat
left Stockholm yesterday for Petro-
grad with orders to hand to the Rus
sian revolutionary government pro-
posals for peace by the central
powers
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-11-23
REDUCE INSURANCE
RATE ON SH|PP|NG

Washington, Nov. 23.-On account Of
the reduction in ships torpedoed dur
ing the last few weeks the war risk
bureau today lowered the insurance
rate on vessels passing through the
submarine zone from S to per cent.
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BRITISH FORCES SWEEP
ees OVER A GREAT AREA AS
RESULT OF THE VICTORY

Nearly 5000 Germans Have Been Made Prisoners. Fighting
is Most Intense and Sangunary Desperate Foes Strive
to Hold Their Positions in the Second Days Fighting. Bay
onet Charges and Hand-to-Hand Fighting the Rule in the
Open Behind the Lost German Trenches. Fugitive Civilians
Rush Into British Lines byPahs Over BatefeIds Made by
the Tanks.
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At last the British and Germans are
at grips on comparatively open ground
and some of the fiercest hand fighting
of the war has been going on. the
enemy troops were unprepared Tor the
attack, but they have been putting
every ounce of their strength into an
ATTEMPT to stem the rising tide.
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Germans Are Desperate.

Troops have been pulled away from
other points and rushed to the Cam
brai sector by the desperate Germans,
and so hard pressed were they FOR
men that two companies of cripples
and convalescents were recruited
hastily at one camp and thrown into
the line in the region of Masnieres'
Some of these pitiful objects are in
British hands, receiving medical treat
ment. one prisoner was in the last
stages of tuberculosis and had to be
isolated to protect others who were
in state of cruel exhaustion and Vir-
tually helpless from their valiant at
tempts to fight under the lash of their
unrelenting officers.
In the Open.
The great battlefield has taken on
5Continued on Iage SevenD
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WITNESSES TELL
Of SHOOTING OF
JOHN DE SAULLES
Mrs. De SauIIeS Demanded Her
Child Before Shooting
Husband.

Mneola, y. Y, Nov. 23.-Through
Marshall Ward, dinner guest at the
De Sautes home the evening Of Aug.
), last, when the former Yale football
star Was killed, the prosecution today
in the trial 'of Mrs. Blanca De Saulles
for the murder of her husband Of
fered the first eye witness evidence of
the shooting. Two court officers to-
day scrutinized persons seeking ao-
mission even more closely thar was
the case yesterday.
Coat and hip pockets were plttcd
suspiciously by the officers Justice
Manning has received threatening
letters. ostensibly from cranks. one
advised the justice to prepare to
meet thy God" in the event of the
jury returning verdict of guilty.
Mrs. De Saulles will not take the
witness stand until Monday.
When Ward took the stand he told
of dinner at the De Saulles home,
The Box" near Westbury, Long Is
land, on the evening of the tragedy.
Before the Shooting.
As Mrs. De Saulles entered the liv-
ing room of the home a few minutes
before the shooting, Ward testified,
De Saulles arose from couch and
extended his hand greeting her with
the words: How are you, Blanc
quita?" This was a nickname De
Saulles frequently used in addressing
his wife.
Other questions brought from Ward
admissions that Mrs. De Saulles made
inquiry Immediately after entering
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WEATHER FORECAST

MONTANA-Fair tonight, warmer west
OF divide: Saturday partly cloudy, colder
west and north portions.
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lER FORECAST

Night: Fair and warmer.
Partly cloudy and cooler.
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Before the Shooting.

CONTINUED on Page seven.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
THE RISE OF
THREE POWERS

A treaty Of peace which was des-
tined to have a profound effect upon
the future history or the world was
that signed at Utrecht, in Holland, in
1713. It was just 204 years ago today
that the congress Of nations assembled
in the Dutch city reached an agree
ment and formulated this important
document, although 1t was not sign
ed until about two weeks later.
Three of the great modern powers
may be said to have had their begin
ming at Utretch, in the treaty which
brought to an end the war of the
Spanish Succession. In that conflict
France was opposed by an alliance
of England, Prussia, Holland, Austria.
Savoy and Portugal. England receiv-
ed by this treaty, both from France
and Spain. trading privileges of i'm
mense value. and these privileges
really started her on the road to en-
pire. The tremendous colonial and
commercial expansion Of Britain, the
marvel Of the modern world, were the
outgrowth Of that treaty. At Utretcht
England also received from France all
of her North American possessions In
Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and the
Hudson's Bay region. Spain coded
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31

'TTer Life and His" thrilling
drama, based to- large extent upon
conydtions OF prison life and the life OF
ex-convicts as existing at the present
time. and featuring Florence LaBadie
in role that brings out every streak
OF latent talent in her emotional being.
is to be the Plaza $ main argument for
crowding In immense audiences to-
morrow, Sunday, night.
The Old Fogey." a three-act pro-
duction that is also dramatic in theme;
Luke Lawyer and sDucking a Dis
cord, "a two-part Mutual comedy,
complete the program
! Tonight for the last times, THE
Dream Garden a beautiful and spec
tacular musical and singing extrava-
ganza with six charming and gifted
young female i1lstrumentalists, will
headline the vaudeville program
y The -Four Haynnakers, splendid
singing quartet that is taking the
house by storm at every appearance;
1fatll Brothers and Girle, classy
singing and dancing diversion, and
Gaboury & Tasinaro, local boys In q
novel tumbling land singing offering,
complete the variety numbers for to-
night.
'sStaeestruck." q well-written, we'll
acted story OF the temptations of a
big City and starring Dorothy Gish
and d company OF other favorites in
opportlnel roles. is the main photo
feature with several comedy films in
addition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
STEPNEY

Mr.. and Mrs. William Purdy and
Miss Eleanor Purdy were entertained
Sunday at the home Of Za1mon Purdy,
Mrs. Wallace Davis is very i'll at
her home with pleuro-pneumonia. A
trained nurse from Bridgeport is In
attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Plat have spent
few days in New York.
Joseph Farrar with his wood saw.
ing outfit has been working at Arthur
J. Hulps wood pile.
Jesse Lewis and son, Claude, en-
joyed trip to New York Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Anna Gilbert has returned
home after spending week at the
home Of Samuel Smith in Ansonia.
The body Of Frank Canfield were
brought here for burial Thursday
afternoon. He was laid at rest be-
side his wife in the family plot Of the
Stepney cemetery. The death Of Mr..
Garfield occurred at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Walter Behn, In
Bridgeport, where he was spending
thew inter. He was 81 years OF age
and had been i'll only few days with
pneumonia. He is survived by three
children, Mrs. Harry Penfield and
Mrs. Walter Behn Of Bridgeport, and
Ernest CanheDd OF Bethel. Mr.. Cam
field was a painter and had large
circle Of friends in this vicinity.
Miss Elizabeth Gilbert was a re-
cent guest of her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Osborne in Monroe
Harold Brakeman and family, who
| h he fvn%n
will move to their home in East vii
lage about April 1.
Mrs. Wilson Hawley has visited a,
the home Of her aunt, Mrs. Hotchkiss
i'll Seymour.
Mrs. K. James and daughter, Eve
lyn, who have spent several weeks
with relatives here, have returned to
Brooklyn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
THE STRAND

Al treat de luxe will be given photo
play fans to-day at the New Strand
Theatre, The Girl from Rector's'' in
which appears for the first time in mo-
ton pictures, Ruth Tammany. So
bring all the family and look pleas
ant and cheerful for you're going to
see a picture that will hold your at
tention from the start to the finish.
The Strand orchestra will render ap-
propriatey selections and we know
that you'll know after you see this
Mutual master picture that it Is some
film production and some entertaining
feature play. Other feature screen
plays will also be shown. Sunday
evening; Bridges Burned" a five part
Metro wonderplay featuring charming
Olga Petrova and an all star cast of
Rolfe-Metro players. Remember:
Always good show at the Strand
theatre. features de luxe changed daily
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31

Gibraltar and Minorca to England,
and the possession of Gibraltar gave
to England the practical control OF
the Mediterranean.
BY the same strokes Of the pen
that started England on the path to
empire, her present great enemy,
Prussia, was able to set forth on the
same road. The royal pretensions OF
the Hohenzollerns as kings Aof Prus-
STA found recognition in the treaty OF
Utrecht and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
Prussia, which was to make it the
dominant state Of an empire, dates
from that treaty
At Utretch the Duke of Savoy was
made king of Sicily, and thus was in
itiated the chain of events that was
to lead to the goal Of united Italy,
with the house of Savoy In possession
Of the throne.
The Hanoverian succession in Eng
land was recognized by the treaty Of
Utrecht, and thus was established
the dynasty which still claims the
British Crown.
AT the congress Of Utrecht the al
lies were represented by eighty am
bassadors, and France by only three.
Under Louis XIV, whose reign of
seventy-two years came TO an end
soon after the signing of the treaty
so disastrous to his ambitions, France
had been the victim OF a despot's lust
for glory. Well did the old monarch.
stretched on his death bed, say to his
great-grandson and heir:
"Endeavor to preserve peace with
your neighbors. have been too fond
OF war Do not you follow my ex-
ample in that, or in my too lavish ex-
penditure. Take advice In all things,
and endeavor to find out the best, that
you may invariably adhere to 1t. Ease
your people as soon as you can. and
do that which have had the misfor-
tune OF not beinx able to do"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
! Amuscnaents
POLI'S

Wanted, A Wife, snappy
musical comedy with company Of 5
real artists. has won general favor at
Poli'sPoli's, where 1t is featured In a
big program OF vaudeville The pro-
duction is chocax full of action. and
sprightly songs and dances and In:
terspersed plentifully. The song
numbers are really ''whistleable," and
the offering leaves most favorable
impression.
In the photoplay program. the Tea
ture is THE Blue Strea.'' a five-part
drama Of the west, reciting the story
OF bandit and girl. Violet Palm
er and William Night are starred IN
this Feature, The Hearst-Pathe News
is another interesting screen attrac-
ton.
{ James Kearney & Co.. presenting a
new comedy skit. 1.-The New Butler,
have a most enjoyable offering, while
vardon & PERI, In their musical re-
vue, are big addition to the pro-
gram.
Gertrude Barnes, comedienne, pre-
SCENTS several song sketches in a de-
iightful way: and Frank Wilbur, In a
Juggling novelty, completes the pro-
gram in a happy way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
BURNING COAL BEDS
FORM NATURAL BRICK

Many coal beds in the great coal
fieidssof the Western States have at
some time taken fire and burned along
their outcrops. baking and reddening
the everything strata so that they have
become q kind OF natural brick or
terra Gotta.
The fires were In places hot enough
to fuse and recrystallize the overly
ing shale and sandstone so as to form
natural Stag. At some places this
Stag resembles true igneous rock; at
others Il consists largely Of rare min
erals. Thoroughly fused Stag seems
to occur chiefly in crevices or CHM
neys through which the hot gases
generated in the burning escaped
through the everything strata to the
surface. The chimney-shaped mass
es Of Stag are harder than the sur
rounding baked rock and, after that
has weathered away, form the curious
pfnnacles that surmount many clink-
er bluffs or buttes In the West
Some Of the coal beds especially
those exposed on the higher hills,
were perhaps ignited by lightning,
others, according to well-authenticated
reports, were ignited by prairie fires
outcrop has been SO common as to aft
feet most OF the coal beds in an area
OF more than 100000 square miles,
much OF 1t has probably been due to
spontaneous combustion.
Coal beds are now burning at or
near the surface at many places in
the West, where the burning of the
bed Is disclosed by the smoke and
fumes that rise from it and by the
heat at the surface OF the earth near
the outcrop or above the bed-heat
30 intense that it kills all vegetation.
As the coal burns out the everything
rock or earth generally caves in so
rs to form large assures in the ground
As the burning works back from the
outcrop, the heat acts on the everything
rocks, but finally combustion is
smothered for the lack OF oxygen. It
is difiicuit to say how far back from
the outcrop the burning may extend.
Field studies made by the United
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND

John Hays Hammond, whose fame
as a mining engineer has extended
over the earth. was born in San
Francisco sixty-two years ago today.
His father was Major Richard Pindle
Hammond, an officer Of the United
States army, and perhaps it was from
him that John Hays Hammond inner
tied the adventurous spirit that was
to make him the soldier of fortune
de luxe" Unlike most soldiers OF
fortune, Mr.. Hammond was success
full in achieving the fortune, although
In the process he had. many narrow
escapes from death. and once put
Dom Paul Kruger to the trouble and
expense Of building a gallows for
Hammond's especial use.
He was educated at the Sheffield
Scientific school at Yale and at the
Freiburg Mining school in Germany.
Graduating with high honors, he re-
turned to his native California and
helped to develop the gold fields OF
that state. Later he became superir-
tendent Of the great silver mines OF
Sonora, Mexico.
It was in 1893 that he embarked on
his adventurous career in South Afri-
ca, first an expert mining adviser to
All dAAdAA dbl dIu l0IGT SERVING
In the same capacity for Cecil Rhodes,
For years he Travelled about South
Africa, often penetrating into the saw
age hinterland, where wild beasts and
savage men abounded. Made peevisf,
by the disabilities imposed on foreign
ers by the Boer republic, he became
one Of the leaders of the Uitlander re-
form agitation In johannesburg AS
| such he signed the appeal to DR.
Jameson, requesting aid. but later he
countermanded the request and advis-
ed DR.. Jameson to postpone his ex-
petition. Following Jameson's raid
and his capture. all the leaders of the
| reform committees, including Ham
! mond, were arrested on charges OF
high treason. The American engineer
| was for some days confined in veri-
table pest hole. Arraigned in Pre-
toria, he entered a plea Of guilty OF
agitating reforms, although he dis
claimed all responsibility for the
Jameson raid. He was then sentenc.
ed to be hanged by the neck until
dead. and gallows was built, but the
sentence was soon commuted to fif.
teen years imprisonment. A few
months later he was released on the
payment of a fine Of $126,00O. Mr.
Hammond represented the United
States at the coronation of Kine
George v.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
Jour NEW1OWN
NEWS LETTER
Especial to The Farmer.)

Newtown, March 31-John F. Bailey
has been appointed administrator OF
the estate Of his father, the late
John l.. Bailey, by Probate Judge
William G. johnson. The court also
trix Of the estate Of her fathers es-
tate, the late John Hunihan of ZoaT
district.
has purchased the William Walsh
property on Walnut Tree Hill.
through the agency of M. G. Corbett.
Alfred Kline has sold his Roxbury
farm to William Bell of that town.
Saturday night at o'clock there
will be a meeting Of Sandy Hook citi-
zens to organize a company of the
Home Guard. 1t will take place at
the store Of Morris D. Beers.
Mrs. Birdsey Parsons and children
spent Friday with Mr.. and Mrs. w. E
Wetmore Of South Center.
Coroner Phelan on Wednesday
afternoon at the Newtown station
took the testimony of witnesses Of the
killing of John Bailey by a train on
the railroad last Saturday. The en-.
gineer, fireman and the brakemen
testified that the whistle was blown
continuously to warn the wayfarer
and the airbrakes set from the mo.
ment the engineer sighted the trav.
eler ahead. He appeared to be be.
wildered by the passing Of the down
tain an instant before and stepped
In TIE wrong direction. The decision
was accidental death.
There will be an exhibition at New
town High school Tuesday, April g.
Every class will be represented, and
the demonstrators are working hard
The public is cordially invited to at
tend.
Those taking part in the Senior
play to be given in the near future.
are the Misses Blanche Gilbret, Mary
Murphy, Aileen Houlihan. Ruth Till
son, Agnes Leavy, Dorothy Strisek
and Anna Lang and the Messrs. CLAIR
ence Skiff, Charles Olmstead, Daniel
Christopher and Paul Smith Harold
Ray is stage manager.
The Seniors received their rating
Thursday, the honor pupils being
Miss Blanche Gilbret, valedictorian,
Fairchild, essaist.
The community was shocked to
hear Of the death of Michael Ryan at
Bridgeport hospital. Mr.. Ryan was
q native Of Newtown, and is survived,
by his widow and five little children
to whom his death comes as a. great
shock. He died Of pneumonia after
"a few weeks illness.
II Clarence Meeker returned home
Thursday after a winter sojourn in
the South.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31

States Geological Survey Department
of the Interior, indicate that bed ly-
ing beneath 20 feet or less Of cover
may burn out completely under large
areas, and even where the cover Is
several hundred feet thick the burn
ing may extend 500 feet back from
the outcrop.
A brief account by G. 8. Rogers OF
the burning of coal beds in place, with
a discussion Of the causes and a pet
rologic and chemical description of
some Of the baked and fused rock
formed, has been published by the
United States Geological Survey as
Professional Paper 108-A. A copy of
this report may be obtained free on
application to the Director Of the Sur
Vey.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31

John Tucker, former United States
marshal at Chickasha. Okla, pleaded
guilty to violating the liquor laws and
was sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31

Mayors throughout the country have
been asked to start movements for a
countrywide flag display on April 2,
the day Congress convenes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-31
CORRECTED
(Toneka Io,,rnal)

(Topeka Journal)
Wife-"Y1u know, Henry, I speak
ais I think's
Husband-"Yes, my love; only
oftener."