davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-02-17
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

rival from Elko by Fridays TRAN.
District Attorney N. p. Morgan
returned by Fridays train from a
trip to Carson.
Sheriff James Mackey left by Tues
DAYS train on an official trip to the
north end of the county.
The Father brothers. Edgar and
Fred. returned by Fridays train
from a trip to the western part of
the State.
There was no meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners to-day
Commissioner R. j. Reid being the
only member in town.
Harry Morris and Frank Connors.
who have been employed in the mines
at Union for some time, were ar,
rivals here by Thursdays stage.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Segarini returned
by Fridays train from California
where the latter. who has recently
been in poor health. has been under
going treatment for the past six
weeks.
Albert Bale, brother of j. B. Bale
of Eureka, who left here in 1910 and
has recently been residing at Con-
cord, Contra Costa County. Cali
fornia. returned by Mondays train
and will probably remain.
A telegram received in Eureka
Wednesday from Bernard Damele
stated that his mother. Mrs. Pietrina
Damele, had undergone an operation
that day at the Mayo Bros hospital
at Rochester. Mimi, for the removal
of a tumor. No further particulars
or later word of her condition has
been received.
d. States is arranging to move his
family into the Opera House build
ing. The two large front rooms up
stairs will be partitioned and made
into comfortable living rooms, and
with their three young children it
will be much nor convenient for
the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rogantini
came into Eureka Friday from their
ranch at Pinto Creek. Jim says that
nearly all cattle and other stock in
that section are getting through this
Winter in fine shape. fewif any losses
being reported so far. Mrs. Rogan-
TIM expects to remain in town for
several weeks.
Walter Handley was in town yes
terday preparing for a trip down
south to see how their sheep are
Wintering. He planned to go out
in his auto. but when the snow COM
menced falling yesterday and he
learned how low the barometer was
he struck out for the Newark ranch
and said he would go south with a
saddle horse.
Pete Etchart and Pete Corta came
into Eureka by auto yesterday from
Southern Nevada where their re-
spective bands of sheep are Winter
ing. They report plenty of SNOW in
the Sand Springs countryside much
for ideal sheep conditions. but say
the sheep r getting through the
Winter in much better order than
last, and that so far not many losses
are reported.
A local storm last Monday night
brought five inches of new snow.
Thursday night the barometer began
falling rapidly and it commenced
showing again Thursday afternoon.
1t has continued almost without in
terruption since that time and is still
coming down as we go to press this
Saturday afternoon. over a foot
having already fallen. The baro-
meter continues unusually low-29.3.
The accidental dropping of a light
ed gasoline lamp in Wilbur Lucey's
place of business on Main street
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-02-17
RAY BAKER LANDS BIG POSITION
Native Eurekan Made Director Of the
Mint at Washington, d. c.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Raymond
7. Baker of Nevada was nominated
by President Wilson to-day as d.
rector of the mint.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-02-17

Legal blanks for sale ct the SENTINEL
ofioe.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
FOOD SITUATIONS
SERIOUS IN PRUSSIA
DR.. MichaeIis Tells Diet of Sc
we're State of Things, Says
Reuter- Dispatch.
RADICAL MEASURES URGED


BY the Associated Press.
LONDON March 9-The PruSsian
food controller DIR. George Michaelis,
made in the Prussian diet Wednesday
what the Koelnsche Zeitung calls a
serious speech on the food situation,
says Reuter- dispatch from Amster-
dam. DR. Michaelis declared that the
distress was such that a more severe
state of things, especially in the large
industrial centers. could hardly be
agined. He indicated the possibility
that all surplus stocks of grain would
be exhausted and said that very rad
ical measures We're needed to enable
the people to hold out until next year.
I'VE have in the third year of the
war" the food controller is quoted as
saying. discovered that apong all sec
tions of the people the general feeling
evinced is not one of that endurance
for which we had hoped This is hu-
man nature. but it is highly deplorable
and may have most serious results.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
|CLOTURE ADOPTED
BY SENATE, 76T0 3
Action Follows Days Debate
During Which President Is
Criticised Sharply.
ENDS 100 YEARS PRACTICE

! Casting aside its practice of more
than a century. the Senate last evening
voted overwhelmingly to establish a
modified cloture rule. The vote was 16
to ) in favor of the rule, which calls
/ for a two-thirds majority vote before
cloture can be entertained. The three
senators opposing the rule were SEN
ators Gronna, La Toilette and Sher-
man, all republicans.
The rule was adopted after a debate
lasting throughout the day. in which
Senator Cummins of Iowa. Senator Nor
ris of Nebraska. Senator Sherman of
Illinois and others vigorously criti-
csed the President for the statement
made by him in regard to the defeat
of the armed neutrality bill in the
Senate.
The exact use of the rule will not
become apparent until 1t is enforced,
but it probably cannot be successfully
used to prevent the spectacular one
man filihusters by which senators have
talked bills pending in the closing
hours of a session to legislative
grave.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
SEEK PUBLIC VIEWS ON BILLS.
National Security League Send:
Queries to Mayors of Cities.

Would your city indorse your SEN
ators and representatives for voting
for military training?
How do your newspapers stand gen.
orally?
"Is there any expression of opinion
as between the six-month training pro-
posed in the Chamberlain bill and the
eleven months planned in the general
staff bill?"
These and other inquiries form 4
communication to the mayor of every
city in the United States of more than
5000 population by the National Sc
Curity League. The questions are
being asked as a part of the program
to canvass the sentiment of the public
in every section of the country on uni
versal military training.
In explanation of this procedure the
letter to the mayors states: I'VE are
working earnestly to secure this legis-
lation, and know no better way to
learn the opinion of American COM
munities than by seeking information
from the mayors. Congressman also
are waiting to learn how the America n
people stand on this question"
Evening star., 1917-03-09
FOREIGN LOANS IN FAVOR.
Reserve Board Issues Statement Cor
recting Misunderstandings Thereto.

The placing of foreign loans in the
American market is regarded by the
federal reserve board as very impor-
tant, natural and proper means of set
tling the balances created in favor of
the United States by the large Ameri-
can export trade.
A statement to this effect has been
made by the federal reserve board. 1t
is issued to correct MISUNDERSTANDING
occasioned by a former warning to
American banks not to invest too
heavily in foreign securities; that
warning, it is again explained, was
directed against tying up Indefinitely
in foreign treasury bills of capital
which should be available to meet
domestic demands.
The statement further announces that
the nations gold reserve now has been
materially strengthened and supplies a
broad basis for additional credit. Re-
garding foreign loans, it continues:
There are times when such loans
should be encouraged as an essential
means of maintaining and protecting
our foreign trade"
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Carranza Deliberates Reply to q. S.

MEXICO CITY. March st Is un-
derstood here that Gen. Carranza is
still deliberating on the reply to the
recent note from the United States,
which. while not having been made
public here. is believed to have asked
for an outline of Mexicos position in
international affairs as between Ger
many and the United States, and to
have made certain representations re-
garding tho curbing of German In
trigue.
Evening star., 1917-03-09

duced. owing to similar Irregularities
in the mills"
DR.. Michaelis concluded by urging
the utmost severity to remedy the
shortcomings while there was yet time.
Some of the mills would have to be
closed and the municipalities deprived
OF their autonomous power. Rationing
and requisitioning must be strictly ap-
piled with respect to eggs. milk, butter,
fruit and vegetables. He added
we are confronted with the thought
OF what would happen if this measure
also should fail. and what grim starvation
there would be if suddenly during the
closing months of the economic year
we should find there was inSufIiciency
and we could not hold out. The ensu-
ing misery would he indescrihable."
The speech caused a sensation. and
the socialist Hufcr, who followed, ac-
cording to the Rheinsch Wcstfalische
Zeitung, declared that the jUnkers
We're to blame if famine supervened.
An attempt was being made. he said,
TO Shlft the blame on England.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
CABINET RETURNS TO PEKING.
Not Known, However, if Agreement
Regarding Germany Is Reached.

Dispatches to the Chinese legation
here say that China's cabinet. which
resigned because of a disagreement
with President Ii Yuan Hung over the
proposed break with Germany. and left
he capital for Tlents;n, has returned
to Pcking.
1t is assumed from this that the con-
Stitutional difficulties between the
president and the cabinet have been
compromised, but whether that means
an agreement has been reached either
10 sever relations with Germany or
declare war, as desired by the entente,
is not known here.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Abuse of Bread Tickets.

I'VE have not perceived in the towns
that stern supervision which is abso-
lutely necessary i'll the distribution of
foodstuffs. There has been widespread
abuse of bread tickets, entailing grave
consequences as regards our stocks.
Bread tickets have been Illegally used
on such a shocking scale that our en-
tire reserves We're exhausted. So, when
potatoes failed and bread was ordered
as a substitute there was none avail
able. Flour has been similarly re-
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Provisions of the New Rule.

Many senator's who favored the
change do not look upon it as cloture
rule, such as prevails in the House of
Representatives. where the rules COM
mittee. with a majority behind it. can
set the limits upon speech and the hour
for a vote. Others who fear that the
action merely forecasts a more dras-
tic change in the future. declared it
was but the entering wedge, and that
the days of the Senate as the only leg
islative body in the world where there
can be full and free discussion are
numbered.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Seek First-Hand Information.

Members of the House naval affairs
committee, including Chairman Padgett
and Representative Butler of Penn
sylvania, were on their way today to
the Pacific coast. where they go seek
ing first hand information as to condi-
tions in navy yards apd other naval
works. The itinerary includes San
Diego, Los Angeles. Vallejo and other
coast points. The committeeman are
making the trip in their unofficial
"a NJ
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Blames the Agrarians.

The sclfishness of the a"rarianS."
he said. ''is the cause of the high
prices. The war would long since have
been ended if everybody had to suffer
hunger equally. The present meat ra-
tion is insufficient. To withhold such
necessary from the people in the in
terest only of agrarian tariff is damna-
Bile. | recall Prof. Abbcs' retirement
from the council of the war feeding
department; the strikes of munttion
workers in Essen and Berlin, owing to
underfeeding. have only too well justi-
fled him"
The minister of agriculture then
spoke and vigorously defended him
self against attacks He alluded to
the critical situation created by the
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Provisions of the New Rule.

In brief. the new rule provides that
on petition of sixteen senators to close
debate on a pending measure the SEN
ate by a two-thirds vote on the fol-
lowing day but one may limit debate
thereafter to one hour to each senator.
1t includes provisions to prevent dila-
tory tactics and the introduction after
cloture is ordered of amendments not
germane to the pending bill.
Evening star., 1917-03-09

partial success of the entente's plan of
starving Germany, and added:
For the small bread ration one can
only make the Almighty responsible.
who has not given Us the harvest we
expected
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Asserts Congress Is Rubber Stamp

The last speaker was Senator La Fol
lette, the central figure of the filibus-
ter. He said he would not discuss his
position on the neutrality bill now, but
might have something to saw about II
later Pointing out that some of the
most important appropriation bills. in
cIudlng the navy and army mea asures
mao peen presented to the Senate only
a short time before March 4, he asked
Were they so long coming to the
Senate because it was undesirable that
they be discussed here" The army hill
was presented. he said, with pro-
vision never before dared to be pre-
sented to an American Congress. with
UNIVERSAL conscription or universal mil
ltary training embodied in it.
You pile up legislation of that sort I,
he continued, "and then forty-eieht or
fifty hours before the end of the session
you bring in bill that trenches on The
constitutional authority of Congress
and demand that debate shall be made
to conform. With this sort of a rule
and an iron hand laid on this BODY from
outside; with Congress that has re-
duced itself in little less than three
years to little less than rubber stamp
do you not think this sort of cloture
would be pretty effective?"
The senator read extracts from the
Congressional Record of previous de-
bates on cloture showing how many
famous senators had opposed it,
Il have no apology to make for nv
action in trying to defeat the armed
Il was opposed to that bill and am now
and if it were before the Senate
should talk against it and should vote
against it."
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Says He Did Not Filibuster.

Senator Cummins, one of the men who
opposed the armed neutrality bill de-
MED emphatically that he had flibus-
tered against the bill, saying:
Il debated the amendment l present.
ed little more than one hour. and
then my part in this drama-this trag-
edy as 1t would have been-ceased, and
any man. whether in the Senate or out
of it--whether of high or low degree,
who intimates that l attempted or con-
spired to prevent a vote on this bill,
deliberately falsifies. l wish | could
use stronger term and still be within
the rules of the Senate
Senator Townsend said the Presi-
dents statement was unjust, unfortu-
nate and, in his opinion, unconstitu-
tional as an attack upo a coordinate
branch of the government.
Senator Norris announced that he
favored a cloture rule. but was opposed
and would still be opposed to the
armed neutrality bill unless modified
He asserted the side of those who op-
posed that measure had never reached
the people.
Senator Smoot said if the President
would call special session of Con-
gresS now, and the friends of the armed
neutrality bill would not take all the
time, the measure could be passed in
three days after it reached the Senate
floor.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
OFFICIALS TO Be NAMED
FOR ''U.S." WEST INDIES
President Soon to Execute Act Pro-
viding for Temporary Govern
ment of Islands.

: Early action will be taken by the
of Congress providing for the tempo
rary government of the Danish West
Indies acquired by the United States
from Denmark by treaty ratified by the
United States Senate September :. 1916
In the act the new insular possessions
are referred to as 1.-The West Indian
Islands acquired from Denmark" and it
will be necessary, therefore, to give
them a more distinctive name. The in
I habitants, it is said. favor calling them
of the Dewey Islands. as proposed by
some persons in this country They
have long been known to geographers
and marines as the Virgin Isles and are
so designated in most maps and charts.
In the act providing for the new gov
ernment of the islands. all military,
civil and judicial powers necessary to
government are vested in Il governor
and such persons as the President may
appoint. who are to exercise their
functions in such manner as the Presi-
dent shall direct. until Congress ma kes
further provision in the premises. An
officer of the army or navy may be
assigned to serve as governor, but
whoever may be designated. he can
only be appointed by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate The
President is to fix the compensation OF
all officers appointed under the act, and
the sum OF 100000 is appropriated for
the necessary expenses of taking over
and occupying the islands.
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Cuba. Florida, Savannah. Augusta.

a1l-steel trains daily. Atlantic Coast
Line 14O6 New York ave. n.w.-Ad-
vertisement
Evening star., 1917-03-09
Appeal to U. S. Court.

The local laws now in force in the
patible with the changed sovereignty.
are to remain in force until Congress
otherwise provides. and to be admins
tered by the existing judicial tribunals
but cases arising in the islands which
have heretofore been reviewaDIe in the
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals, in tn third circuit-the circuit
comprising New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania.
The tax and custom laws of the
islands are to remain as at present, ex-
that articles grown, produced or
manufactured in the United States shall
be admitted free of duty and that an
export duty of SIS a ton is to be levied
upon sugar.
Under the treaty, the United States
government will pay S25,000,0 900 for the
islands. Congress already has appro-
priated the money. AS soon as the
purchase price is paid to the represent
atives of the King of Denmark in
Washington, the President is to make
the remainder of the act of Congress
relating to the islands will become
operative.
The proclamation will be issued in a
few days. 1t is probable that the execu-
tion of the statute may be placed in the
hands of Brig. Gen. Frank Mcintyre
chief of the bureau of insular affairs of
the War Department That bureau al
ready has supervisory jurisdiction over
the Philippines, Porto Rico and Santo
Domingo
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-26
SAYS YOUNG RECTOR
AND CONIFREY MAY
BATTLE In THIS CITY

Fred De Lorme, the New York box
ing manager, sends the following:
The chances are very good that
the fans. Of Bridgeport will witness
a great scrap at a show to be held
there soon, as promoters are con.
templating a scrap between YOUNG
Rector OF Jersey City and frankie
Conifrey of New York AS both
boys have appeared before the Con-
necticut fans, and have stood the acid
test 1t should be at least as good an
ATTRACTION as the bout between Nc
AlAfffe and Eggers.
sTte fans certainly do not forget
the great fights that Rector put up
with McAuliffe, winning one and los
irg the other, and also his fight with
Johnnie Drummie, while Conifrey's
great battles against Pitts and Kunz,
still linger in the Connecticut fans
mind.s
Rector and Conifrey fought lively
battle in. New York last year, and it
wef such a great fight that they were
re41fatched, but the club drew a sus-
pension and the fight fell through.
Artie Edwards, who recently cele-
AEated his return to the ring, may
meet Young Cohen Of Bridgeport in
a six round affair. and If he does, why
jSat1 look him over
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-26
Connie Mack Given 4
Publicity Despite His
Low Position in Race

Connie Mack is the most interesting
tail-end manager the American Lea
que has had in all it's history. The
lean, long, intensely earnest baseball
educator of Philadelphia is always
leagues, writes w. J.. O'Connor in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He proved
that by realizing fully on Collins, Bar
ry and Baker the minute his greatest
machine showed signs of disintegra-
ton. Last season, with the most in
efficient team the league has ever
known, he didn't lose money. His
payroll was less than Roger Bresna-
hans ex-outlaw band in Toledo, a
Class IA club.
Already the erudite mahout has is
sued his 1917 prospectus, indicating
who will be with his team the coming
season. McInnes on first, Grover at
second, Witt at short and Bates on
third will man the inner defense.
Strunk, Bodie and Thrasher will be in
as his first assistant behind the bat.
Elmer Myers, Russell Johnson, Jack
Majors and the pick Of II youngsters
will make up the pitching staff, Con-
nie concludes:
Il will not have a weak hitter on
the team, and really believe it will
be the best batting club in the league.
OF course, I am at the mercy of my
pitchers, but don't believe me extrav-
agant when I say we will have hard
hitting team and tough club to beat
with Myers hurting"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-26
THREE OF YANKEE
YOUNGSTERS SEND
SIGNED CONTRACTS

New York, Jan. 26-Three young
members of the Yankees sent in their
signed contracts yesterday. They are
Angel Arragon, the Cuban short stop,
who is playing Winter ball in Havana;
Ben Shaw, catcher, who was with
the Macon, Ca, CLUB last year, and
Chick knapp, a second baseman, who
played last year in the Texas League
with Shreveport. The Yankee Off
Gals have not yet received the con-
tract of Pitcher Nick Cullop, although
Manager Bill Donovan was at Cullop's
home in Bristol. Tenf.., yesterday talk
ing the contract question over with
him.
In spite of the still rumbling threats
o IA baseball strike, reports from 9TH
er cities show that many Of the play
ers are not needing the warning Of
the Players Fraternity Harry Lei
bold Of the Chicago White Sox sign
ed yesterday, and it was announced
by that club that the diminutive out
fielder was the twenty-second men,
Der Of the club to sign. Pitcher Geo.
Cunningham Of Detroit signed con-
tract yesterday also. Outfielder
Bobby Veach and Third Baseman Os-
car Witt of the Tigers are still hold
ing out.
The club owners are carefully try
ing to suppress the names of the vari-
Gus players who have signed. Hereto
fore it has been the custom in both
leagues to send out bulletins giving
the names Of the players whose con-
tracts had been returned with sigma
lures. In the National League no
more of these bulletins will be issued.
The club owners say that many play
ers have signed but have requested
that their names be withheld pending
the vanishing of the strike trouble.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-26
GATHER
AND SWEAR THEY
WILL NOT YIELD

New York. Jan. 26-About- 40
members Of the Baseball Players
Fraternity assembled last night at the
Sherman Square Hotel, but with the
exception of the fact that all were
united in declaring they would stand
together in the f1aternity's fight
against the magnates, nothing of mo-
ment TRANSFERRED. Dave Fultz, the
players leader in the present melee
with the team owners, presided over
the assemblage, the chief purpose of
which was to, get the men together
and talk over ways and means relat-
ing to the threatened strike.
The outstanding feature Of the
melting was that the stars of the dia-
mond, several Of whom were present,
agreed to stand by the organization
in the present strife. There was not
a dissenting voice when the matter
of proceeding with the strike was
mentioned. Some of those present
were Big Ed Rue1bach, Bill Fischer,
Red Smith, Otto Miller, Otto Knabe,
Hal Janvrin and Dick Hoblitzel.