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Freight Cars Take Fire
Car Gasoline ExpIOdeS
Nan Burned to Death

was five hours late and did not ar
rive at Hazen until nearly midnight
could not proceed to Reno and was
ordered to double back to the south.
The west bound passengers we're left
at Hazen to be transferred as soon
as the tracks we're cleared and the
train came back to Tonopah without
making the usual mail connection
from the west.
This is the first serious wreck the
Southern Pacific has had for q per
iod of over three years and the
cause can only be brought to light
after patient investigation of the
circumstances as the line is pro
tected by an electric block system
which should have warned the en-
gineers that some enemy had tam
pered With the signals.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

tBy associated pres-.l
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 15.-
Prospects of federal intervention
seemed the only chance OF an early
settlement OF the street car strike
here which has paralyzed transpor-
nllon for six days. Louis p. Post,
assistant secretary of labor tele-
gaphed a womans club which re.
Quested federal action that he had
Instructed Dred T. Ferick, a labor
mediator, to come here from In
diana and offer his services to ef.
feet an agreement
The striking employees have re.
lected overtures from the company
based on the open shop" They
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
CAR TRAFFIC IS
AT STANDST|LL
RECOGNITION OF NEW UNION
DEMANDED BY SAN FRAN.
CISCO STRIKERS

wy AhAofiHtru FrrHS.l
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 15,--Rec.
ignition of a new union they plan
10 organize was the point demanded
Of the United Railroads by strikers
whose walkout partly paralyzed traf-
DC In this city. over 1900 platform
men are out, and the service is
only 20 per cent normal. Recruits
70 take the strikers places coming
% according to the company are
not strike.breakers" but just men
Who want work.
The United Railroads Is under pro
cess Si reorganization, according tc
President Jesse Lilienthal
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
ny Associated Press.I

tHy Associated PressJ
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 15.-Publiea-
tion of the Emperor Williams tel
egram to President Wilson in the
of Ambassador Gerard, is
belated attempt at explanation by
the semi-official Nord Deutsche AL
legemeine Zeitung, calls forth crit
icism in the German press of what
is termed the emperor's irrespon-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

OFFERS SON 100000
TO DROP FIRST BOMB
INSIDE CITY OF BERLIN

tUy Associated Preas.I
. CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-Frends .
. of Leslie McMurty, aviator, son =
= of L. B. McMurty, the Califor- .
= mia oil operator, have received .
. information that il he is the .
. first American aviator to drop .
. bomb in Berlin he will receive .
= 100000 from members of his =
= family. =
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
FRENCH SOCIALIST
WRITES ABOUT WAR

tHy Associated Press.)
PARIS, Aug. 15Albert Thomas,
socialist member of the French war
council. is giving reasons why the
socialists think It advisable to at
tend the stockholm conference, says
II will not bring about peace but
might work to that end, and declares
recent offensives by the allies has
not brought the results they had a
right to expect and warned the so
clalIsts against expecting reyolu
ton In Germany.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
KANSAS CITY CALLS
u. s. INTERVENTION

demand recognition of the Anal.
gamated Association OF Street and
Electric Railway Employees of Amer.
lea.
County authorities demanded the
removal OF six hundred strike
brakers marooned on a special train
at Selsa, l6 miles from Kansas City
after having been forcibly deported
from here by sympathizers with the
strikers. 1t was said the men were
pillaging the surrounding country
to assuage appetites of 4S hours
growth. The street car company
promised that the men would be re-
turned to their homes in New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago and other east
ern cities
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

in a semi-circle around the eastern
side of Hill 20.
The British attack was made on a
40O0yard front witt an extrome
depth of 1900 ya.ds. BEGINNING jus.
above Hugo wood the British new
possessions run southeast beyond
Hill 10. The liue then bends south
west and encir,.a3 the si .urbs of St
Laurent and st. Emile.
British Guns have been pounding
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
GERMAN JOURNALS
CRITICISE KAISER

sible conduct of the foreign affairs
of the empire. The editors com
ment on the system which permits
the sovereign to pass on such a pro-
posal from a neutral power, and
draft an important document with
out consultation with his ministers,
or without a record being subss-
quently made.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
NICK RoMANoFF MOVES

tRy Associated Press.l
PETROGRAD, Aug. 15.-Former
Emperor Nicholas and family were
removed today from Tsakroeselo
palace and taken to Siberia, 1t is re-
ported.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

,ny associated PreSan
ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN
FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Aug. 15,--
Mn No. 70, the famous German
.tronghold northwest of the cits
Of Lens, which dominates that city
and the Loos salie-', was captured
bv Canadians today. The British
also pushed tier lines into the
nortbwestern environments II Lens
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
JU N P
IN SILVER
QUOTATION.
DEMAND FROM HOME AND
ABROAD GIVEN AS THE
SOLE REASON

tby Associated Preas.D
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The in
slstent demand for silver from
abroad and from the United States
government for coinage Tor domestic
purposes are reflected today in a
record jump in price. Bar silver ad-
vanced three cents over yesterdays
quotation to Sc "a, the highest price
since decade after the Civil war.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
SIX KILLED IN
SPANISH STRIKE
CLASH WITH TROOPS AT BARGE
Iona ENDS WITH FATAL
RESULTS

PARIS, Aug. 15.-Six persons were
killed and nine wounded when strik-
ers clashed with troops at BARGE
Iona. according to statement by
the Spanish Captain General.
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SUFFRAGE P|CKETS
At WHITE HOUSE
BANNERS TORN FROM FEMININE
sENTRIEs FOSTERING THE
PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-- Tearing
of banners from suffrage pickets of
the women's party at the White
House gates and attacks on party
headquarters at Lafayette park
across the way. continued today.
Good natured but determined crowds
tore down the banners as fast as
they appeared.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
.SAMM|ES MARCH
BEFORE The KING
TROOPS EN- ROUTE
TO FRANCE REVIEWED
IN LONDON
tBy Associated Pre..1

LONDON, August 15,-American
troops marched through London to-
day and were reviewed by Ambas-
sador Page. King George and the
war council There was tremendous
enthusiasm by the people and wound.
ed men and soldiers EN- route for
the front.
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my Associated Press,

WASHINGTON. Aug. is. There
is a growing probability that in max
ing clear to the world their re
fusal of the Popes proposals, the
allies will restate their war aims.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
WAR TAX BILL IS UP

WASHINGTON, August 15.-The
liquor and income tax section for
the tax bill is being discussed in
the senate today.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

In fixing price to be paid pro-
ducers for wheat, the food admins
tration, 1t was said. will seek to
give the farmer a fair price and at
the same time name a figure which
will permit the public to receive
bread at a price much below that
now prevailing.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15
WAITING On
PROPOSAL
FOR PEACE
WASHINGTON HAS NOT YET RE-
cElVED THE TEXT OF pom.
TIFFs MESSAGE

thy Associated Press.I
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-officials
are awaiting the text of Pope Bene-
diets proposals. They believe the
interests of the allies win require
rejection, 1t is impossible to ac-
cept them in the present form, It
is intimated.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

LONDON Aug. 15-The news
papers declare the Popes proposal
is impossible, of Austro-German ori-
gin and utterly inadmissible to the
allies.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

,By Associated PresaI
ROME, Aug. 15.-The peace pro
posals are entirely in the Pope's own
handwriting He consulted Cardinal
Gasparri, papal secretary of state
and several others.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1917-08-15

For Associated Press News read
the Bonanza
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THE WEATHER

o.,.raIIy Cloudy Tonight and
Thursday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12

throne of Persia. He reached out to
the west and took Bagdad.
Suleiman the Magniieent-k known TO
every boy as the friend, rival and foe
Of Richard of the Lion Heart-tound
time from his wars with the Crusaders
20 win il back again. Within the next
score of years il was thrice captured
and finally, in 1888, was won back oy
the Turks.
From that day till yesterday It has
been, at least nominaily, subject TO
Constantinople, though the paehas have
made trouble now and then. IL mas
fallen, with all the other cities wnich
the Seljuks ruled. and as prize OF
war is worth almost as little to the
British as the pulverized villages which
they are winning in Flanders.
But it is a city WHICH. more than any
other. may again be made the centre OF
an empire, and with British engineers
and British money the plain could
AGAIN be turned into the richest gran,
arv of the world. SO the hoof beats OF
the British squsdrons may be tne
reveille which will call the ancient cap
itaI once more 10 greatness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
Turks Fire on DUN Men;
Fail to Halt Surrender

London. Feb. 2O.-The British Off
cial Eyewitness" with the British
forces in Mesopotamia writes:
Turkish gunners turned their weap-
ons on their own infantry in an effort
to prevent surrender en- masse during
the British offensive in the middle OF
February. which resulted in clearing
the Turks from the Dahra Loop of the
Tigris. More than 1000 Turks surren-
dered in a drive which began early
in the morning.
after a bombardment our infantry
swept across the open in irresistible
waves and with few casualties. As we
approached the enemy's trench a group
of Turks issued from the centre of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
War Camp immortality
Is Called Staggering
Death and Disease Taking
Tremendous Toll, Relief
Worker Says

immortality is killing and injuring a
fourth as many men as bullets in the
European conflict, according to fletcher
II. Brockman, member Of the interna-
tional committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association, who spoke yes
terday in the Bronx Union Y. NJ. C.. A.
Mr.. Brockman recently returned from
China, after having been engaged in
relief work since the beginning of the
war among 100000 prisoners in the
detention camps of Europe and Asia.
He predicted that the greatest revival
the world ever has experienced will be
witnessed at the close of the war.
THE detention camps and other
camps send more young men between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-five
to the hospitals suffering from diseases
caused by immortality than are killed
in the trenches" he said. "The hos
pitfalls of Europe are filled with hun
dreds of thousands of these young men.
A count OF them would stagger the i'm
agination."
Mr.. Brockman said 44,000000 men
are now under arms, 100000 have
been killed. 100000 are in detention
camps, 100000 in hospitals and TO-
100000 manned for life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
American Ships
Capacity Higher,
Number Is Less
Lines Have Bought Fewer,
but Larger, Vessels than
Sold Since War

The European war has played a
strange part in the purchase and sale
of American ships from and to the
belligerent and neutral nations, accord
ing to statistics just issued by the Blu
reau of Navigation. The American
mercantile marine has been the loser
by POI vessels, but it has made net
gain of 351,114 gross tons, as the
American ship owners have purchased
larger vessels than they sold.
The number of ships transferred to
the American flag between July /, 1914
and February 2s, 1917, was 2O4, repre-
senting a gross tonnage of 664,925. The
number of ships transferred from
American registry to foreign ownership
was 4O5, representing 1881 gross
tons. The great bulk Of the American
gain in tonnage has been from the Ger
man and British flags, while the Nor
wegian, japanese and French owners
have made the largest net gains
through American purchases.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
Holy Land.

Bagdad. the capital of the Caliphs,
which fell to the British yesterday, IS
a city around which gather more OF
history and tradition than any other
spot yet involved in the war. with a
known record reaching back 4,OOO
wears, the city has been trod by most
Of the great conquerors whose names
flash across the stories of the Orient,
and has twice fallen from dazzling
splendor to almost complete decay.
The waxing and waning of the clty's
prosperity has depended on the trade
fovin between India and Persia and
the coast Of Asia Minor. Standing IN
what was almost the only cultivated
part of the great valley of the Iigris
and Euphrates, the dusty camel cara
vans from Teheran and Samarcand,
Ispahan. Kabul and Kandahar drew
into it to rest and prepare for the inal
effort across the desert TO Tyre and
Sidon, Lybia and Acre. The merchants
from the ends Of the world met to
dicker and quarrel in its great bazaars'
and to its markets were sent the rarest
Jewels. the finest fabrics and the fair
est slaves.
When the Oriental traffic died down
after the conquests of Alexander, when
the Parthian cavalry drove the camel
trains from the deserts, the city died;
When the power Of Islam rose ana
safety was reestablished it was re-
founded and hourished again. Finally
when the route to the north, along the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
4,34l 200 Killed in European War
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington, March THE following of
batan killed wounded captured and missing in the European
war up to January 1917 compiled from every available
source of information and is believed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
French President Declares
Writings Were Insidious
Invasion of His Land
Predicts World Peace
Executive Tells Sorbonne
Gathering That War Will
Emancipate Humanity

Paris. March 11.-"Our enemies
made war on us through their books
as we'll as through their commerce and
finance, without formal declaration
said President Poincare, at the Sor-
bonnie this afternoon, in addressing
the "Book Congress-
This was the first assemblage since
the war of this association of pub
fishers, writers, artists and printers.
The gathering was to mark the re-
vival Of publishing activity and give
expression to the determination to
protect themselves after the war
"The German Book" said NJ. Poin-
care. "was the spokesman of German
arrogance. as well as of German sci
ence and culture At times il invaded
France with noisy brutality; at others
with insinuating hypocrisy, slipping
into the hands of tourists and pene-
trating even universities and high
schools"
The President talked Of the. number
Of Prussian, Saxon and Bavarian pub
LEGATIONS. often in French, that had
found their way to France, comprising
even works on international law, IN
which Germany sought TO teach us re-
spect for treaty obligations"
"What this sanguinary war is going
TO decide irrevocably," said NJ. Pom
care, els not only the destiny Of the
nations engaged in it. IL is the entire
future Of the planet inhabited by man
In order that new world may live
i'm peace and 10Y, it is necessary, alas,
that il be born in suffering; but as
long and as cruel as it may be, the
suffering will pass and the glory of
France will be eternal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
BRAND May Force
Vote Of Support
Premier Expected to Seek De-
cisive Action on Cabinets
General Policy

Paris. March 1.-THE "Matln' and
"Petit Parisien," commenting on the
votes in the Chamber of Deputies fol-
lowing the economic interpretations on
Friday and the subsequent lobby dis
cussion. declare that the debate viii
likely be resumed on Tuesday.
On that day a friend of the govern
ment may interpellate Premier BRAND
on the general policy Of the Cabinet so
that the Premier may have an opportu-
nifty to enlarge the discussion and bring
about decisive vote between those in
Imposition to the Cabinet and Nj.
Brands supporters.
The votes taken in the Chamber o.
Deputies on Friday indicated a con-
siderable conflict of opinion. A mo-
ton offered By VI. David. inviting the
government TO take necessary measures
10 organize the economic life of the
country. was refused, 256 TO Us. A
motion of confidence in the government
was passed by vote Of 296 70 /.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
Third Big War Loan
To Be Issued in Canada
Large Part of $150,O0O,0O in
Bonds Expected to Find
Wav to United States

Toronto. March 11.-Canada's third
war loan will be launched tomorrow
The amount asked for is s15O,OOo,OOO,
and il is expected that, like the preced-
ing loans. it will be oversubscribed. The
idea Of buying government bonds has
been greatly popularized. The rate of
interest is attractive, and the invest
ment of small sums has been made
simple. Thus there is an issue OF war
savings certificates under which an in
vestment of $3.50 will give return Of
SIS in three years. This appeals 70
every class in the community, including
children.
Nevertheless, bond issues OF hun
dreds OF millions Of dollars are not
entirely a simple matter for small ma
ton like Canada. And of the last war
loan at least 60 per cent eventually
found its way into the United States.
This, il is expected, will happen again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
A Vanished Period.

From this time to the Christian era
the city almost vanishes from the rec
ord. II is mentioned occasionally for
p few hundred years and then forgot
ten. Two hundred or three hundred
wears after Christ a traveller reports
that the site Of the ancient city held
nothing but a convent The Parthians
held the desert beyond and the great
valley was empty.
The resurrection of the city came IN
762 A. d.. and it is then that the his
tory which made the name known the
world over began to form. Mansur,
the founder of the great line of Alb
basid Caliphs and the descendant OF
the Prophet, fought his way up from
the Arabian desert and chose it as the
site for a capital. The city was laid
out on "A magnificent plan. II was five
miles across the city from the north
gate to the south. The canals from
the river ran everywhere. and mosques
and gardens rose together. till the pal.
ace Of the great Caliph was uncovered
in fragrance that was all the more
wonderful because of the parching
desert Just beyond the walls.
The city, like all in the great valley,
was built of brick. There is no stone
for miles around the rivers, and wood
is equally scarce, except for the waving
date palms which crown the villages.
As a result few Of the ancient build
ings remain, and those are only the
ones which have been in constant use
and under frequent repair. Nor has
the city ever had the towering temples
OF magnificent colonnades which mark
the sites of so many forgotten CAPT
tails. It's ruins are mounds of dust.
But that is to-day.
For a thousand years after Mansur
pitched his tent beside the river and
traced the lines for the great walls
Bagdad remained the wonder city of
the East. Its glories spread through
out Islam and were embalmed in the
literature of Persia and Arabia. Its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12

600 men. while the remainder OF ms
troops continued TO fall back along
the Tigris, in order to JOIN hands
with the relief army which was hur1,
riedly dispatched from France ana
India after the defeat at Cteslphon'
Indian Troops Rush TO Rescue
Thirty thousand Indian troops and
two Anglo-lndian divisions. which mad
been fighting in France, formed the
relief corps which joined the rem,
nants of the Townshend expedition ana
made a desperate effort TO rescue the
beleaguered garrison at hut-el-Amara.
For three months General SIR feIcy
Lake. the relief commander, fought ms
way up the Tigris and was within
eight miles Of his besieged comrades.
,rben ON April 10. 1916, General Town
shend. his food supplies exhausted, was
compelled TO surrender. In the mean
time additional reinforcements had
been sent from Egypt, including the
18th Colonial Division. which had
taken part in the ill-fated Gallipoli
campaign.
From the time Of the opening of the
new campaign the British progress was
steady and uninterrupted, and. IN ITS
last phases. of remarkable rapidity. On
February % Kut-el-Amara was capt
ured for the second time. and several
thousand Turkish prisoners taken.
Within two weeks the British had
driven forward about ninety miles. and
on March s their cavalry patrols were
within few miles of Bagdad.
The fall Of Kut-el-Amara and the
rapid progress of the British toward
Bagdad were the signal for the re-
rewal Of the Russian campaign to the
north. A Russian army advancing from
Persia captured Hamadan and pushed
swiftly forward in the direction of the
TiCrie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12
Battle Near Santiago
Cuban Rebels and Menocap,
Forces in Clash

Santiago, Cuba, March 1.-The ro,
eminent forces and the rebels are hsh,.
ing twenty miles from Santiago.
The Cuban gunboat MatsnIas, Wit
Colonel Nicolas Jane, special rem.
sentative of President Menocal a.
board, arrived here to-day. Late,
Clonel Jane had a conference with IA.
commander Of the United States min,
LAYER San Francisco.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-12

In many cases the original Canadian
buyers sold at a profit Of point OF
two. an event of great importance 70
persons who were looking only for an
interest return. They are now hungry
for the new issue. if their brokers. hav-
ing discovered their nest eggs, have not
already got them into other invest
ments. For il is by this operation that
the brokers get a return for the large
expenditures they make in advertising
and boosting the government loan.
These war loans have induced the
saving habit, and thrift campaigns
are under way. But money is more
plentiful than ever before and every
body is inclined 10 spend some OF 1t.