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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-01
Tidbits From the West Side

Some good sleighing. Messrs.
Goodchild, Cherry, Earth and
Ceilings are running their sleds.
Lawyer Meyers and Mr.. Tuck
err and family of Seattle spent
the week end at their Island
ranches near Colvos.
Messrs. Doyle, Carver, Fish
and Goodchild visited the Mat
son poultry ranch last week. Mr.
Matson is going ahead and max
ing money out of chickens. MIR.
Carver of Vashon reports that
some of their hens are making Il
blue ribbon record along the
winter laying line; later they
may give us the figures, as they
trap. nest every hen.
Mrs. Ramquist put on what
she called an English Dinner
last Sunday and asked her neigh
bors, viz, the Goodchild family,
10 partake. After eating roast
beef and Yorkshire pudding,
with some fine side dishes, one
and all decided that Mrs. Ram
quist is well up in the art OF
cooking. Mr.. and Mrs. Ramquist
and the children entertained with
music and singing of some good
old hymns and a very enjoyable
day was spent.
OUR vASHoN ISLAND RECORD
A great many West Siders and
some from other parts of the
Island say that The Record is
quite newsy. We like to read
it" they say. But one of the
correspondents asked the ques-
ton, Did you subscriber We'll
1 said | would when he was
around. And another, Well
owe my dollar yes, I'm gong
to send it in, etc. Would it moi
be nice to send the dollar in al
once and surprise the publisher:
Its our paper, and the writer
with others, is apt to forget that
ink and paper takes cash money
Do it today. Put the cash in a
letter he'll get it. Also send in
the bit of news you know about
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-01
STEAMER VIRGINIA Ill
WEST PASS OF vAsHoN ISLAND

Leaves Seattle, Pier 4 foot of Spring
Street Daily except Sunday
at 1880 y. m.
Leaves Tacoma. Daily Except Sunday.
at 6:10 q NJ Saturday, Gas p. NJ.
For Seattle and Way Ports-Municipal
Dnrk
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-01

Mr.. Dobson, right of way man
for King county, was busy last
week securing deeds for the ex-
tension of the Banner road.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-01

How about your supply of
office stationery? Getting low?
If SO, phone your needs to The
Record.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-01

Mrs. Chrisman of Quarter
master, who has been taking
treatment in a Seattle hospital,
had improved SO much that she
was expected home the last Of
the week
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
HOOVER PLANS FOR
CONTROL OF WHEAT
Asks Cooperation Of Agricultural
Papers and Denies Interior
ing In Price Fixing
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munication Service)

WASHINGTON, August 26--,while
Hoover is moving in his plans for gov.
eminent control Of the 1917 wheat
crop he emphatically denied Yesterday
afternoon that he is in any way In.
terfering with or seeking to interfere
with the price fixing commission. This
denial came in, answer to the rumors
that he was seeking to influence the
commission to set an arbitrary price of
$I.65 a bushel to be paid for the 1917
crop.
Food Administrator Hoover yester.
day took up the matter of the control
of foodstuffs with the editors of Chi
cago agricultural papers. He explained
to them the necessity of such action
and asked them for their cooperation
both az individuals and through the
columns of their publication. @..i
AT the request of Hoover the wheat
pit of the Chicago Board Of Trade
closed yesterday. Through this course
the trading in future IN wheat will
cease there and as it is the wheat cen.
ter of the world and makes the prices
will he checked on all other exchanges
of the country.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
NOCHANGE MADE IN
DRAFT REGULATIONS
Examination Boards Instructed
To See All Applications
Are Uniform ...
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munication Service)

WASHINGTON, August 36-Suppls.
mental interpretations of the regula,
tiOns which govern the selective
draft relating especially to exemptions
and discharges were issued by Provost
Marshal General CrOwder last evening.
No changes of importance are made
but the examination boards are eau,
TONED to review carefully each appli.
cation for exemption or discharge and
to make certain that all are uniform.
President Wilson yesterday issued
orders asking the exemption boards to
exercise leniency toward married men
drawn in the selcctive draft for the
new armies.
Military leaders have claimed that
the law gives no exemption unless there
be relatives dependent on the. drafted
men.
Crowdcr yesterday issued an order
to the governors of various states out
lining the system on which the meT
drafted will assemble at the various
cantonments.
The first five per cent of each state''
quota will report on September five
according to the order On September
10, just two weeks later, the second
lot which is forty per cent of the tota
will assemble. Another 40 per cent
will leave for training on October 3
and the remaining Is per cent MS soor
thereafter as practicable.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
GREAT STRUGGLEON .
WAR TAX BILL NEARS
Opposing Factions Align Them
selves and Efforts Will Be
Exerted This Week
ASSOCIATED Press By u s. Naval Com.
49,. munication SerYtcel

: WASHINGTON, August 20 - Prep
arations that were in evidence during
the latter part of last week and espe,
cially yesterday indicate that there will
be a tremendous struggle in the senate
over the final passage Of the War Tax
Bill.
The forces that favor the conscrip.
ton of capital and wealth to furnish
the finances with which the war is To
be conducted are aligning themselves
more compactly and preparing to push
their claims that the burden must be
shifted as far as may be from the shoul
ders of the wage earners and the mid
die classes to those of the men of mt an,
and the corporations.
On the other hand are aligned those
who insist that such a policy will re
suit in the paralyzing of industries il
the burden be made too heavy. They
insist that the corporation taxes are
being so piled up that it will he i'm
possible TO secure even a reasonable
return on the investment.
With plans for an adjournment tn,
middle of, next month every effort vii
be made to secure vote on the meas
IRE this week.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
MORE THAN HALF OF
CREW ARE MISSING
Captain and Seventeen Men oil
Kotohiro Maru Are Still I'm
& reported To San Francisco
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munication Service) mH'

(. SAN FRANCISCO, August 25--with
the captain and seventeen members Of
the crew missing, thirty.two men Of
the crew of the wrecked Kotohira
Maru have been rescued from the
Aleutian islands near Dutch Harbor.
News of the rescue of the survivors Of
the wreck was wirelessed here today
by the vessel which was despatched TO
the Aleutians to save the crew after
word reached here that the vessel was
total loss with it's cargo worth over
a million dollars.
Whether the missing captain and
seventeen members of the crew were
lost in the wrecking of the ship or have
since died from exposure is not stated
in the wireless from the rescue ship.
The Kotohira WIS wrecked on July
81 when she was fifteen days out from
Kobe bound for San Francisco on the
great circle route. 1t was August IL
before word reached San Francisco
that the crew were ashore in the Aleu-.
tians. Eight days have elapsed since
then, during which the rescue ship was
bound nOrthward to take off the sur
vivors. .....
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
Not Until AutoCracy Has Been So
Crushed II Can Never Again
Raise Its Head To Attack Man
Can Peace Be Made
UNITED STATES MUST
CONTINUE ITS COURSE
ary Sends Letter To
Brooklyn ASSembBman Which
Rouses Favorable. Comment
From Entire Metropolitan Press
ASSOCIATED Press by U. 8. Naval Com
3D. ... nunication Service) RI. ~

NEW YORK, August 26-Sug-
gestions Of peace at this time arc
nothing more nor less than traps
that are carefully and crafty latl
for the unwary. This is the plain
ah0 concrete statement of fact that
is presented by Secretary Red6eld
in letter which he has written 20
a prominent member Of the state
assembly who represents district
in the Borough of Brooklyn, and
which was made public last night.
This is not the period at which
peace suggestions can be consider
ed, Redheld insists.
"The United States must 60 on"
the secretary continued, with what
| it has undertaken and not turn back
nor even hesitate in the path upon
which it has started. There can be
only one time when peace may be
properly considered and that viii
be when autocracy shall have been
so thoroughly beaten down and
crushed that it will never again be
able to raise its head to threaten
man" 80 Fin a s
This is a time for patriotism and
not for. half heated support and
weak acquiescence. The United
States has a tremendous task be-
fore it but has never yet failed to
achieve everything which it has ul-
lertaken and it cannot be conceived
that it will do so now. S
The letter was generally publish
ed in the evening papers last night
land was largely commented on IN
the editorial columns. His firm
tones and staunch Americanism are
highly commended.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
INVESTIGATORS SURE
Of MARE ISLAND PLOT
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WASHINGTON, August 20 - Imam.
imous opinion by the investigating
board that the Mare Island explosion
of some weeks ago was the result of a
deliberate act by some unknown per
son or persons is shown in the report
on the cause of the explosion made
public today 10y Secretary Josephus
Daniels of the navy.
The report says that the board is
unanimous in the opinion that the ex-
pIosiOn was "due to the deliberate act
Of some person or persons unknown. -
The board has not been able to reach
an opinion as to the exact method by
which the explosion was caused, any
evidence which might have pointed to
this having been wiped out in the dis
aster.
Navy officials state that every effort
will be made to apprehend the guilty
party or parties, The board reports
that the investigation proceeded un.
hampered and that O total of seventy,
nine witnesses were called.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28

ticuIarIy at Lens, where the Can
iadians are continuing to eat into
.the Bavarian defenSes. The Can.
adam lines are now along the
western edge of the city proper
and have also been still further
closed in on the southeast and to
the north. The losses of the Can
adams are reported to be small
despite the desperate nature Of
the hand-to-hand fighting that
has marked much of their ad-
vance. With the bayonet the
Bavarians are not a match for
the Canadians. Yesterdays ad-
vance was at a heavy cost to the
Germans, who were heavily she'll
ed before the Dominion soldiers
rjshed their positions.
FRENCH PUSH AHEAD
The French, in local drives, are
odding to the verdun gains and
Iinaking their new front more Sc
cure. The German morale has
suffered from the recent consist
lent defeats and the resistance
being offered on the bIood-soak-
ed Verdun hillsides to the soldiers
of General Petain is growing less.
The situation on the northern
Russian front remains obscure.
That the Germans were attack
ing here heavily, evidently with
the hopes OF breaking through on
the IA River, was certain early
in the week, but neither Petro-
grad nor Berlin has reported
either signal successes or de-
feats. The Russians are appa-
rentIy holding their own.
This is the case in Rumania,
where Won MackenSen has been
brought to a StandStiII without
accomplishing his object against
the Rumanian-Russian line. In
the Cacausus, too, the Russians
are showing much greater aCtiv-
ity than for many weeks, since
the revolution.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
NEW YORK WALKS AS
TROOPSARE MOVED
Coal Needed For Railroads and
Subway Trains Are Left With
out Power On Half Holiday
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munication Seryicel D.. rs


NEW YORK, August 26--Thousands
of New Workers were forced TO walk
Yesterday and last night and the sur
face cars and elevated railway trains
experienced congestion such as they
have not known since before the sub
ways were completed. But for the fact
that it was Saturday and half holt
day conditions would have been far
wC"sP IL. ..i.s ~. .....r
No coal was delivered to the power
nlunts Yesterday owing TO the require
ments for the supply for the railroads
for moving troops and supplies for the
government. This resulted in com
plete tie-up of all traffic through the
subways of Manhattan Island and
threw the responsibility of handling
the metropolitan crowds upon the sur
face and elevated lines. For this sud
den call they were utterly unprepared
and their equipment inadequate,
At the bridge and down town ter
minals where Saturday holiday crowds
arrived in the evening the congestion
was most serious and II took hours for
some of them to make their way up
town. ,..E 81
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
GREATEST COPPER
DISTRICT IS
BADLY CRIPPLED
Mines Of Anaconda Company Idle,
! SmeIter Shut Down and Great
Falls Plant Is Expected To
Close Within Next Few Days
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a.. INDICATION Servicel ..t.

ANACONDA, Montana, August 90
The greatest copper producing district
Of the world Is badly crippled and al.
most at q standstiIl. All Of the mines
Of the Anaconda Company closed down
yesterday and only few of the indie.
pendents are still working with little
likelihood of continuance. AT the
anaconda smelters there were only the
watchman TO be found in the immense
Plants. The smelters at Great Fails
viii close in two days, IL is said.
Millions Of pounds Of copper a month
are turned out by the Anaconda Com
pany. Its absence from the production
field will mean a daily loss in the
metal so much needed for war supplies
and industrial projects that cannot but
be seriously felt especially as for the
past several weeks the copper output
of the country has been far below the
normal owing to the labor troubles
. which most Of the large companies hav'
experienced. XXI, 49,.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
THIRD ATTEMPT TO
BURN WADUCT FAILS
Persistent Efforts To Damage
Government Property Are
Reported From Norfolk "
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munication Service)

3 NORFOLK, Virginia, August 90
For the third time plans of alien en-.
emies or other pro Germans TO destroy
the Wind uct which leads TO the new and
important naval base have been frus.
trated. Last night flames were discOv
cred beneath the viaduct in a heap OF
combustibles. Fortunately it was no
ticed soon after it had been set and
the alarm turned in The fire wa,
quickly extingulshcd aud before any
damage had been occasionrd.
That persistent efforts are being di
reeted against this naval base Is made
clear by the fact that this is the third
attempt against 1t that has been frus
trated and rendered unsuccessful.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
HOUSTON IS STILL
|NRESENTFUL MOOD
Martial Law Will End Today But
Citizens Object To Military
Trial For Soldiers
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munication Service) a..

, HOUSTON, Texas, August 26-Dis
tinct features of thy martial law which
was put in operation here following the
battling in the streets between mem.
bers of the TwPnty.fourth Infantry,
the police and civilians who went to
The assistance of the city forces
against the black soldiers are expected
TO end today.
Resentment at the, action of the mill
tary authorities in taking the soldiers
who were accused of murder in connec-
ton with the fighting from the county
authorities and insisting that military
courts shall handle the case remains in.
tense although there were some signs
of abatement last night and the city
was orderly. MYttered expressions
were Common but the loudly voiced
protest of the morning were less in
evidence. The opinion is expressed
hat so far as Houston is concerned
the affair will have to be allowed to
rest.
The fate of 100 negro soldier rioters
for whom blanket warrents were is
sued yesterday following the riots in
which seventeen were killed and many
injured, is now in the hands of n mill
AIRY court martial.
The army officials have disregarded
he action of HOuston's attorney in
demanding that the men be turned
over for trial in the civil courts.
The battalion has arrived at Colum
bus, n. NJ, and on reaching they were
promptly disarmed.
Maj, .Gen. J. Franklin Bell command
ing the department, said today thai
punishment would be meted Out
promptly and effectively"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
PEACE CONTROVERSY
ST|RS RE|CHSTAG
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munication Service)

COPENHAGEN, August 26-The
peace controversy was again brought
up in the Reichstag yesterday in the
course Of debate in which the govern
memt sought to bring convincing argu-
meuts that the submarine policies of
the central powers is a success and not
he failure that was asserted Again
demands for peace without indemnity
Sere heard.
Strong protests against the proposals
Of the pope and against the making Of
I peace in which no territorial nddi.
ions should be included and no indcm-
rtirs called for is voiced from Mu,
lirh hv the independent committee on
German Peace.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
GOVERNMENT WILL
HAVE YARDS TO
BUILD STEEL SHIPS
Contracts For Construction Of
Plants Where United States
Can Control Its Own Shipbuild-
ing viii Be Let This Week
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munication ServIce)

WASHINGTON, August 2G--Prepa.
ratfons on the part of the government
to have its own ship yards where 1t
can effeetually control the labor stu.
alton and be independent Of cOntrac.
tors and the struggles between capital
and labor unions are going ahead
fhis week, II was announced yester.
day, the government will let the con
tracts for the construction and equip.
ment Of three great shipyards where
can go on the work Of building a great
feet of fabricated steel vessels.
The action Of the government in
preparing for such immense steel ship
ping construction as is manifested in
these plans is taken as a further vie
torv for steel over wooden ships he
controversy which resulted in the com
plete disruption of the old shipping
board. rE- ~.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
MONEY IN PLENTY IS
OFFERED TO TREASURY
Short Term Certificates Again
0ver-Subscribed
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munication SerVicel

WASHINGTON, August 26-Uver
subscription of the treasury depart
ment 5 last offering of short term cert
fcates was announced last night by
Secretary McAdoo. 1t is taken not
only as an Indication of the continued
willingness of the investors to support
the government in the nation : great
undertakings but also of the proba
bility that there will be no difficulty
IN floating loans where the bonds shall
be made subject to the taxes which
may be provided in the War Revenu,
Bill.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
FEAR FIRE FIGHTERS
CUT OFF BY FLAMES
Three Hundred MontananS Are In
Grave Danger
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munication Service)

MTNSOLA, Montana, August 20 &C.,
Pears are entertained for the safety of
three hundred fire fighters who have
been engaged in combating the steadily
spreading forest fires west of here
From the trend of the blaze yesterday
and the light of the fire on the heaven
last night it would appear likely that
they have been cut off from their sup
ply base at I.olo Pass in the Bitter
root Mountains. If such be the east
they are left in burnt and blackcn
ed section without food or water anr
the danger for them is very grave.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
ENLISTED men WILL.
FORM ORDNANCE CORPS
Twenty Thousand To Be Organic
ed and Become Part Of Army
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munication Service)

WASHINGTON, August 26-Orders
from the war department which were
made public last night call for the
organization Of twenty thousand en-
listed men as an ordnance corps of the
national army. This will be in add
tion to members of the existing ord
nance corps of the regular army and
the various national guards. 1t come,
as an innovation since it is the first
indication that men enlisted in the
regular army may become part OF
and be embodied in the national army
which it was assumed would be com
posed entirely of those secured under
the selective draft.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAT

take LAXATIVE BRoMo QuININR
lIablets). Druggists refund money il
It fails to cure. The signature OF
r. W. GROVE Is on each box. Man.
uiActured by the PARIS MEDICINE
CO.. st. Loris. u. 5. A,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
TEETHING CHILDREN.

Teething children have more or less
diarrhoea, which can be controlled BY
giving ChamberlNin'S Collie, ChoIerp
and Diarrhoea Remedy. All that i,
necessary is to give the prescribed dos,
after each operation of the bowels NOR,
than natural and then castor OH t,
cleanse the system. 1t is safe and sure
EvGp the most severe and danger0u
cases ar" quickly cured by it. For sal,
by all dealers. Benson, Srnith 4 Co.
agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
COAL MINE REGULATION
TO BE BEGUN THIS WEEK
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munication Seryicel

WASHINGTON, August aB-Regula,
tons to govern the operations of coal
mines are expected to be issued this
week, it was announced last night.
This is the next step in the government
control of fuel and the making certain
that there shall be an adequate supply,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
FORMER PREMIER OF
RUSSIA IS VERY Ill
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munication SerYicel

PETROGRAD, August 90 - Boris
Sturmer, the former premier, was re.
ported last might as desperately ILL.
With Rasputin, former minister of in.
terror, and Protopopaf, he was lead
er of the "drak forces' in the great
revolt.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
SPECIALIZE WITH RIFLES
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munication Seryice,)

AMERINAN CAMP IN FRANCE,
August "G-Specializing in rife fire
pra.tr~" is now the order of the day
With the American contingent. II -
,eIir,"I that this practise will be of
the greatest benefit in the near future.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
POPE IS THANKED FOR
INTEREST IN BELGIUM
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munication SerYicel

HAVRE, August 26-The Belgian
King has received message from the
Pope and in reply has sent his ac
acknowledgements and his thanks for the
particular interest which the holy ia.
Their has seen fit to express in Bel
GUM and her stricken but courageous
people.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
SLAvS FROM STATES
VOLUNTEER IN FRANCE
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MARSEllLES, August 26--General
Drude and Admiral Allemand reviewed
100 Slavonions who have come from
the United States to enter the French
army. They expressed much satisfac
ton at the splendid spirit of these
volunteers and at the appearance
which they are making.