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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
Ferguson Suspended From Office
Pending Trial of Twenty-one Charges
of Misconduct in Governors Office

Austin, Tex. Aug. 24.--James r.
Ferguson was suspended from the Of.
flee of governor of Texas when the
board of nine managers named by the
house of representatives presented to
the senate twenty-one articles of imr
peachment alleging official miscon-
duct.
w. r. Hobby, lieutenant governor
automatically succeeded to the gov
ernorship pending disposition of the
charges in the senate. The senate
formally designated next Wednesday
as the time for beginning the trial.
All Charges Included.
Tonight's action was In conformity
with resolution adopted by the
house yesterday in appointing the
board Of managers to formulate arti-
cles of impeachment after three
weeks investigation of charges pre-
ferred against Mr.. Ferguson by Speak
er F. 0. Fuller. This committee re-
ported to the house today and the
twenty-one articles contained in the
bill of impeachment were voted upon
separately. All passed by safe and
some by a wide margin and immedi-
ately were sent to the senate, where
the date Of the beginning of the trial
was set.
The tweny-one articles Of i'm
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
Petain's Infantry First Prac-
ticaIly EnCircIes Hill 304I
and Then Carries 1t byI
Storm.
FURTHER ADVANCE OF
1000 YARDS IS MADE
Teutons Are Robbed of All Oh
servation Points in Vicinity,
Having Previously Lost
Dead Mans Hill,

Grand Headquarters of the French
Army Aug. 24.-Hill No. 304, the las,
remaining important stronghold of the
Germans fronting Verdun, fell into
French hands at dawn today. The
french infantry, who had almost en-
circled the hill in previous attacks,
charged the German positions in a
brilliant dash and carried them by
storm, capturing the remainder of
the Germans entrenched. Not con-
tent with this splendid achievement,
the French advanced a further 1000
yards and made possession of the hill
doubly secure. Hill 304, together with
LIE Mort Homme, commands all the
tavines and approaches as far as
Douaumont. The loss of these posi-
tons deprives the Germans of all OBJ.
servatories from which they could
watch the French movements.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25

peachment include the following:
That Mr.. Ferguson persistently re-
fused to reveal the source of "ques
tionable" loans aggregating 1856, 900,
thus placing himself in contempt of
the house; that he appropriated IS, 500
OF state money and converted 1t to
his own use: that he abused the power
of veto and violated the constitution
when he vetoed practically the entire
appropriations for the maintenance of
Texas university for the next two
years.
Violated Banking Law.
Other charges concerned alleged
placing of large sums of state money
without security and without interest
in a bank in which Ferguson is a
stockholder; alleged violation of the
state banking laws in that the COVER
nor borrowed from his own bank a
sum more than twice greater than the
law permits; alleged exercise of undue
and improper influence over the uni :
versity regents and that the governor
failed to return to the state treasury
several thousand dollars Illegally ex-
pended for maintenance of the gov
ernor's mansion and which he pre-
viously promised to restore.
Mr. Ferguson tonight declined to
discuss the proceedings.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
167,780 ENEMIES
TAKEN BY ALLIES
SINCE APRIL 8
British Have Captured All. Told,
1915 Prisoners Since
War Began, and Have Lost
$4,000 by Capture,

tsY MORNING JouRNA. SPECIAL LEASED wiRGl
London, Aug. 24.-The British
French, Italians and Russians have
captured 167,7sO war prisoners since
April 8, when the A1917 campaign
opened, according to a statement is
sued by the British war department
this evening.
The text of the statement follows:
The number of prisoners captured
by the entente allies since April 8,
when the 1917 campaign opened with
the battle of Arras, up to August %.
is:
German war prisoners captured by
British, 46155; German war prison.
ers captured by French, 1928; chief
ly Austrian prisoners captured by Ital-
ians, 1861; chiefly Austrians cap
tured by Russians, 1921. Total,
167,7S0.'
THE total number of German war
prisoners captured by us since the be-
ginning of the war is 102,21S.
THE total number of British pris-
the Germans, is approximately $4,000,
but exact information as to small cap
lures made by the enemy in recent
fighting cannot be given out until the
necessary information is received from
Germany.
THE total number of prisoners cap
tured by us in all the war, theaters
since the beginning of the war, ex-
elusive of African natives, is 131. .776.
"The total number of prisoners lost
by us since the beginning Of the war.
exclusive Of African natives but in
cluding Indians, Is approximately
66. .5OO.n
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
lsr MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,.s,

Jay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiss1
General Cadornas army still is hard
after the Austrians all along the Ison-
20 and Carso fronts and aided by the
valiant Italian airmen, who are Drop
ping bombs In great numbers on con-
centrations behind the enemy lines, it
has made further progress and taken
additional prisoners and war stores.
Already 500 Austrian officers and
2o,O0O men have been made prisoners
and in the neighborhood of sixty guns
Of various calibers have been cap
tured. in addition to numerous 9TH
ors destroyed by the gunfire of the
Italians.
On several sectors to the west, the
enemy has made semblance of often
sves, probably hoping to distract the
attention of the Italian commander in
,Glsief from tlfezkwork he now has In
hand. But seemingly there is little
likelihood he is to be diverted from
pressing on toward his objective--Tri-
este. lAl2
French still Gaining.
Although 1t had been believed the
French would rest content with the
gains they had made against the Ger
mans in the region of Verdun, Friday
saw them again hit the line of the
German crown prince and capture the
famous hill 304 the scene of some
OF the bloodiest conflicts of the war,
the Camarg wood and fortified works
between the Haucourt wood and Beth
~ h.
man front was at an average depth
OF one and a quarter miles.
Hard fighting continues between
the British and Germans around Loos
and Ypres. The Canadians have cap
tured trenches at the southwestern
edge of Lens on the monster Stag heap
known as the Green Grassier, after the
hardest kind of fighting.
British Yield Ground.
Near Ypres, Field Marshal Haigs
forces have met with slight reverse
at the hands of Crown Prince Rup-
prechts army, having been compelled
TO yield ground captured Wednesday
along the Ypres- Menin road, in tho
face of extremely violent attacks car
RED out by fresh reserves. The bat
tie continues in this region.
Berlin asserts that in the recent
British offensive twenty-one tanks"
were destroyed by the German guns
and now are lying In front of the op-
posing positions in No Mans land,
Some of the crews of the monsters
were made prisoner while others were
killed.
Russians Unterrificd.
Details of the German offensive in
northern Russia to the west of Riga
are still meager, but the German war
office announces that the German
troops have reached the vicinity of
the Aa river, along the Gulf of Riga.
Petrograd dismisses the hostilties In
this sector with the announcement
that only fusillades have taken place.
In Rumana a stiffening of the
Russo Rumanian front is observed in
the failure of the Austro- Germans to
make further gains Attacks delivered
at several points have been checked
by the Russo Rumanians.
Since April 8, the entente allies have
made prisoner of 167,7s0 men Of ene-
my armies.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
FRENCHMEN CHARGED
WITH AIDING ENEMY

Paris. Aug. 24.-M. Duval, director
OF the Bonnet Rouge. whose editor,
Miguel Almerayda, committed suicide
August Is, after being arrested on
the charge of sedition, was today
turned oyer to the military authorities
by an examining magistrate. NJ. Duval
has been charged with trading with
the enemy. but according to the po-
lice evidence collected in the investi-
cation proved that the Bonnet Rouge
director, instead of trading with coun-
tries hostile to France, supplied the
enemy with information. This charge
involves capital punishment.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
ALSACE-L LORRAINE TO
BE GIVEN FREEDOM

London. Aug. 24.-Despite Ger
man official denials, says the AM
sterdam correspondent of the Ex-
change Telegraph company, the Ger
man newspapers assert that Chancel-
lar Michaelis has decided to make
Alsace-Lorraine federal duchy with
Herzog Won Urach, member of the
third ducal line of the Wuerttemberg
house, the reigning duke. A majority
of the Alsatian members of the reich
stag are said to have approved the
decision,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
DRAFT LAW SAID TO
ENDANGER FARM WORK

tsy soHsiso JOURNAL srlel.t LEASED wissI
Chicago, Aug. 24.-Resolutious
calling for modification in the in
depreciation and administration of the
draft law were adopted at the annual
meeting of the National Livestock
Shippers Productive league. which
opened today at the stock yards. The
resolutions were adopted and ordered
sent to President Wilson. following a
report to the convention by w. r.
Stubbs, former governor of Kansas.
in which it was said construction
placed upon, and the execution Of the
draft law, was taking competent men
from the farms of the country to an
extent that threatened to curtail the
production of foodstuffs
Representatives of livestock feeders
and producers from all parts of the
United States are in attendance at the
convention.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
ITALIAN OFFENSIVE STILL
MOVES 4: ~! ;s'::y!I| ESSLY IN
TOWARD TRIESTE; ENEMY
YIELDS ON WHOLE FRONT
MORE THAN 10000 AUSTR|ANS
TAKEN PRISONERS SINCE DRIVE
ON IS0NZ0 WAS INITIATED

French Forces Wrest New Ground From Crown Prince at
verdln, Taking Strongly Fortified Strategic Positions;
Hag Meets With Slight Reverse in Flanders, but Canad-
ans Tighten Grip on Lens Germans Claim to Have De.
stroyed Fl British Tanks Teuton Offensive Toward Riga
Doesn't Alarm Petrograd; Russo -Rumanian Resistance
Stffens and Field Marshal Mackensen Is Reporting No
Progress; Allies Have Captured $4,000 Men Of Central
Powers Since April g.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
Secretary Of War Will Take
No Action Until All Facts
Are Ascertained Regarding
Mutiny. -.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT
WILL BE METED OUT
War Department Wants Full
Report From General Par
kef as to Extent and Re-
sponSibility of Trouble,


washington, Aug. t24.-Secretary
Baker will take no action on the riot
ing in Houston, Tex, in which negro
regular troops were concerned until
the report of the board of inquiry
into the incident has been received
Whatever is done, he said late today.
would be based upon the findings of
that board.
MI Baker would not discuss in any
way the question .of the policy of
training additional colored troops in
southern states. Senator's and men,
pers OF congress from Texas and other
states in the south called on him dur
ing the day to discuss the subject
Ihere had been protests before
against the departments policy bf
sending negro guardsmen or those
drafted for the national army to the
tralnlng camps designated for the
troops from their states.
Reports Are Brief.
only brief report on the Houston
incident had come tonight from Major
General Parker, commanding the
southern department and officials
professed ignorance of General Par
ker's order transferring the troons in
VOWED. The message gave no details
ot the rloting and said the cause ~
one otftbfeak was unknown at the
ume the message was sent The de-
partment directed that full particu-
lars be forwarded promptly, but as
order had been restored when the
Iirst message was sent it was assumed
General Parker would attempt to
clear up the origin of the disorder be-
fore supplementing his first report.
That regular troops should be in.
Volved in the rioting means that dras-
tic measures of disciplinary nature
VIII be taken when the facts are
known. The fact that the outbreak
occurred during war makes the sit
uatlon far more serious than it other
wise would have been.
Careful Inquiry Certain.
Inc department expects very
carefui investigation to be made by
the board of inquiry which will bring
to light the exact causes of the riot
ing and show what share, if any, peace
officers or other civilians had in pre-
cipitating the trouble, as we'll as fix
ing the degree of responsibility of
every soldier involved.
1t is regarded as probable that the
entire question of sending colored
troops to southern states for training |
Will be brought up in congress before
the department receives its final re-
port. Governor Manning of South
carolina saw Secretary Baker few
days ago to submit formal protest
against sending colored units of the !
national guard or national army to |
camps in that state for training and !
southern members of congress who |
were at the war department today |
held similar views. Senator Shepard |
of Texas said he would recommend
that no colored troops be sent into
Texas other than those raised in the
state.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
Plotters sent to Prison.

New York. Aug. 24.--Convicted OF
plotting to explode a bomb at the Of
flee of j. p. Morgan & Co., in the
hope of producing panic in the
stock market here last May. Wolf
Hirsch and George Meringer were to-
day sentenced from four months to
four years in the penitentiafy.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
LOCAL REPORT.

A summary of local weather condi-
tions for the twenty-four hours ended
at p. m, yesterday follows: Maxi
mum temperature, 81; minimum. 65 ;
range, 20; temperature at p. m, 75;
cloudy: northwest wind.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
DEATH LIST KNOWN TO
TOTAL AT LEAST II
General Parker Orders Black
BattaIionS From Two Lone
Star State Cities Back to
Camp at Columbus.
81 NEGROES CHARGED
WITH CAPITAL CRIME

" Houston, Tex, Aug. pa
Q Blanket charges of murder were
Q filed tonight by District Attor-
9 ney John Crocker against thirty
@ four negro soldiers of the Twen-s
Q ty-fourth infantry. held in the
@ county jail as a result of the riot
" ing last night which ended with
@ the death of seventeen persons,
Q four of them city police officers.
o This was the first move indica-
Q tive of an attempt by the state to
Q retain custody of the soldiers
o rather than turn them over to
@ the army for punishment.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
slav War Minister Resigns.

Petrograd, Aug. 24.--M. Savinkoff,
acting minister Of war, has resigned.
His resignation was the result of mill
tary and political differences with
Premier Kerensky.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25

we went down the shell road that
goes to the Fourth ward, We met an
automobile with white man in it.
lhey stopped him and Sergeant Henry
told the white man to get out of his
car but he did not get out and all
the soldiers that were in front shot
the man, 7 judge that about fifty
shots were fired at him. I was toward
the back and did not fire any shot
mere. Then we marched on up the
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
ZEPPELINS BOMBED
WARSHIPS, SAYS BERLIN

NV ~oaNihs JOURNAL sPsciAL lGAsGo w,REl
Amsterdam, Aug. 24.-A statemen,
issued in Berlin regarding the attack
by airships on the northern coast of
England says bombs were dropped
with good effect on British naval
forces. The statement supplements
the official report on the raid. in
which the loss of one airship off Jut-
land its admitted. 1t says:
"On approaching England, bombs
We're dropped in large numbers on
outpost vessels. At o'clock in the
morning bombs were dropped on Hull,
causing fires. The airships also
dropped bombs with good effect on
Lincoln and on the southern bank of
the Humber near the east of Grimsby
above brightly illuminated factories.
Extinction of lights showed that
buildings had been hit On their return
the airships dropped bombs with good
effect on naval forces
The British admiralty on Tuesday
announced that Zeppelin had been
DESTROYED off Jutland. The official
account on the Zeppelin raid said
bombs were dropped on small villages
near the YOrkshire cnact
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
NO BRITISH WARsHIP
HIT, LONDON ASSERTS

Lond h, Aug. 24.-The, admiralty
states that no British ships were hit
by bombs dropped on the Zeppelin
raid.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
Food Conditions in Vienna
Worse Than Is Usually
Imagined and Getting Worse
Continually,
SMALL HUNGER RIOTS
IN MANY LOCALITIES
Emperor Is Popular With Peo-
Pile and Is Doing All Possible
to End War on Almost Any
Terms,
Isr MORNING Joussa, SPECIAL LEASED win

l.
! copenhagen. Aug. 24.-An Austria
which is literally CRYING for nea 90
which has discarded any thought of
territorial expansion and is even will
ing to buy its way out of the war by
territorial sacrifices on the Italian
'front.' and in Galicia; an Austria of fire.
quent food riots, unable to last
/ through another winter of war: an
Austria whose population would rise
IN revolution if any reasonable peace
ofier were rejected by the government,
Is pictured by an intelligent Austrian
Who has arrived from Vienna.
In long talk with the corre-
! spondent today he told a story which
though perhaps unduly pessimistic
explains the persistency of Count
CHernin, Austro- Hungarian foreign
minister, and of Emperor Charles in
returning to the subject of peace ne
gotiations. ,.l
Nienna's Poor Suffer.
Food conditions in Vienna were de-
scribed as worse than is usually i'm
aglned for the poorer classes of the
population, though fairly comforta-
bic existence may be maintained with
money. Conditions are much better in
the provinces, and in Lemberg. Cra-
COW and other places in Galicia.
which this Austrian recently visited,
there was no difficulty in procuring
rood Nevertheless. he said, there
have been food riots in many places.
These usually were of minor charac-
ter, accompanied by much breaking
OF glass, but as rule without loss of
life and they subsided regularly when
proclamations were issued that a state
OF siege might be expected. 1t was
his opinion that they would assume
more serious character If the war
should last into the winter.
Emperor Is Popular.
According to this information, Hun
garians and particularly the Magyar
ruling classes are less weary of the
war than are the Austrians, although
anxious for peace. He described the
young emperor as man of really
great popularity, and in fact the one
person of influence in the country
who Kept the threads of public pol
icy in his own hands, and did not
hesitate to strike out on new lines
when he thought it best.
The recent amnesty to political Of
fenders was described as the emper-
or's own idea, adopted contrary to the
advice of many leading statesmen
1t Is said to have resu;,eu IN increased
in the sovereign and bet.
ter feeling in political circles to such
an extent that the measure was justi-
fled.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
Albuquerque Morning Journal Saturday August IS, 1917
THE WEATHER
FORECAST

Denver Colo, Aug. 24.--For New
Mexico: saturday and probably Sun
day generally fair; not much change
in temperature.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25
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Houston, Tex Aug 24--Announce-
ment that General Parker had ordered
the removal of negro soldiers of the
| Twenty fourth infantry from Hous-
ton to Columbus, n. NJ, served ma
terially to restore quiet here tonight
after a day of unrest following the
lace rioting last night. which resulted
in the death OF seventeen persons and
the Woundihg of more than a score.
of the l25 negroes to leave their
camp Thursday night with stolen am
munition for a raid upon the city, all
but eight had been accounted for and
scores of civilian and military pa
trolls were searching for the remaining
fugitives.
Maj. Gen. George Bell, Jr., will ar
rive tomorrow to take charge of the
situation. Construction work at Camp
Logan, interrupted today because of
the riot, will be resumed tomorrow.
Origin of Trouble.
The rioting last night started about
8 o'clock During the day the negro
troops became angered against the
city policemen of Houston because of
the reported shooting of a negro SER
geant by a police officer. Stealing
company ammunition, about 1875 of the
negroes seized their rifles and left the
camp, starting toward the city, shoot
ing indiscriminately Warning imme-
diately was given and mounted police
officers sought to halt the mob, sur.
rendering their lives in vain efforts TO
drive the soldiers back.
Illinois guardsmen encamped at
Camp Logan soon arrived on the scene
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25

but only in time to throw Gordon
between the negroes and crowds of
Houston citizens who armed themselves
and quickly gathered to oppose the
raiders. The negroes then took to
the open country in flight some re-
turning to camp where they were
placed under guard, and others hid
ing in buildings and bitches in nearby
fields
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-25

five times. | did not know girl got
shot did not see an ambulance.
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-25
MONOPOLY OF RAIN
HELD BY PENSACOLA
DURING WEDNESDAY

Pensacola had distinct monopoly
on rainfall during Wednesday for the
weather bureau reports snow that not
only the heaviest rainfall was re-
corded here, but had there have been
recorded but 18 of an inch more, the
local showers would have equalled the
entire amount Throughout the United
States in a single day. Persons who
were in Wednesday mornings very
early rains will not dispute the fact
that some water came down, and it
was said that the greater part of two
inches fell within comparatively
short space of time.
Thus far, local rainfall records are
but 81 of an inch less than the nor
NAL for the month of January. Dur
ing the night, weather sharps were
free to admit that the normal not
only had been equalled, but had been
left far in the background.
Pensacola's rainfall for Wednesday
measured officially 2.74 inches. The
nearest. approach to that shower was
the Montgomery report. which re-
corded a total of SO inches. Calves
ton reported .78, Atlanta 40, Hat.
teras .28, with small, or light, show
ers at several other points.
Pensacola's Temperature for ths
day was almost wfWout variation. In
fact it varied less than ten degrees
the highest being sc while the lowest
was SO, range of but eight degrees