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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-04
Statement Made BY Girls.

Statement Made BY Girls.
Last Thursday afternoon,r said
Miss Ethel Kyle's statement TO the
police, y was called to the telephone
BY this man l had not heard from
him in many months. | understood
he was connected with some Pitts.
burgh coal company He asked me
% tea that afternoon. and told him
| would like TO take my sister along
he agreed and we stopped awhile at
he nitz-Carlton. where we danced.
We then went to the Bellevue |
liked him, as he was very. pleasant
! was worried sick when | read in the
papers that the supposed murderer
If the Roberts girl had taken two
girls on an auto ride, and then left
The chauffeur without paying him.
The description seemed to fit him.
While he was with US he explained
hat he had just come back from
europe where he had spent many
months. He said he had lost his bag
age He took me TO church Sun
lay, and he seemed the same | saw
aim again Monday, and Tuesday aft
rnoon had telephone eommunlca.
ION with him. had seen the chauf.
'eur's statement in the paper and
sked him to read it. He said he
vould get paper and do SO. Later
ee called me up and said he had read
he statement and told me not TO
9orly, as that was just paper talk,
Man Gave Fictitious Name.
The name given by Miss Kyle IS
he one the man gave to her is be
eyed to have been fictitious The
9lice were inclined TO dovetail the
Est baggage" episode with the blood
famed shirt found in Mrs. Roberts
7artment The shirt had never been
numbered. Miss Kyle told the pol
that she first met the man at an
1tomobile show, having been intro
ICED by a mutual FREUD.
Hundreds of women, many Of them
shionably dressed, formed process
IN at an undertaking establishment
J view the body of the murdered
oman The body was dressed in
hite satin. with white satin shoes
silk stockings. The casket was
urrounded with beautiful flowers.
ardly had the body been placed IN
q casket when the procession start
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-04

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The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29
6UN6LlNG RAILROAD WORK,

Edmund Ellsworth Sumner, a writer in the Railway and Marine News, pub lished at Seattle, takes the govern ment "scorchingly" to task for what he is pleased to term it's short-sight- ed and inefficient policy in -connca- tion with the building of the U. s. Alaska railroad, pointing out where the original estimate of s59,000 per mile is but little more than half what it is really and actually costing to construct a mile of the road. The article insists that the increased cost of material is no excuse, as it was negligence to not order the material when appropriation was made more than three and half years ago. Ac- cording to the article, the writer of which is apparently posted on the sub ject at issue, the whole matter of building the road has been bungled from the start until the present - not only in the matter of purchasing material, but in that of transporta- tion as we'll.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29
NEUTRALs AND THEIR SHIPS

The United States has found a means of increasing marine tonnage between American ports. Some of the neutrals still have many vessels for which they have little or no use ex- cept as food carriers for themselves. These neutrals have not shown a dis position to permit the use of their ships in carrying supplies to the All lies-in fact could not allow this to be done without violating their neu- trality, and laying their ships open to submarine attack.
 Since ships are required in the cOastwise trade of the United States, in order that the vessels of American register may be used in the transpor- tation of troops and supplies, the United States has determined that the neutrals may have food from America only on condition that the neutral ships be sent back to the United States to be used as coastwise car riers.
 The first instance of this kind is the Dutch steamer Nieuw Amster- dam. This vessel is at an Atlantic port seeking to take on a cargo of wheat for Holland. The Washington administration has refused to grant export license unless assurances are given by the Dutch government that the Nieuw Amsterdam will be sent back to this country for use here. Warnings have been sent to seaport elevators that they are not to load neutral ships until license is granted by the government. The Dutch min ister is said to have advised his home government to comply with the Amer ican request.
 Formerly the law stood in the way of foreign ships carrying coastwise freight. Congress has remedied this condition for the period of the war at least
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29

Chicago so far ie not taking interest in the senatorial candidacy of Mayor William Hale Thompson. When he cast his hat into the ring he an. nounced that in order that his candi dacy may not be involved in the local election of aldermen next spring" hs would withhold the publication Of his platform until after that election. This is construed to mean that he is waiting to see which may the cat may jump.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29

Train dispatchers in Indiana have time to burn and one of them has just figured that the $5S,OOO, 900, ,OOO so far spent by the allies would make a sill yer girdle around the earth at the equator eight-one inches wide and that there would be 23,106 miles of dollars left for rosette and 320 feet for a tassel to the girdle. This would rep resent 7,250,000,00O feet, or 1,137, 7,106 miles, plus 320 feet. The dollar mea, sured one and one-half inches in dia- meter would make column 7,25O,000 inches high or 04,166, ,666 feet and 8 inches or 112,361 miles 5S6 feet and 8 inches high. There is evidently no shortage of paper at Greencastle.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29
SOM FIT.

The following little skit has had considerable publicity, but it will bear reproduction:
 The Lookout, the monthly of the Sesmen's Church Institute, digs this gem out of an Elizabethtown, N. J., pa. per: "A young lady just learning to knit, sent her first effort, pair of socks, to Europe for the use of an English soldier. She had pinned her card to the package, and after several months received the following ae-  Socks received, lady,
 Some fit. t
 l wear one for helmet
 And one for mitt
 l hope to meet you
 When I've done my bit; But where in the world, lady,
 Did you learn to knit?
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29
HOW ABOUT SUGAR?

An acute shortage in the supply of sugar Is threatened at the present rate of consumption, This Is accord ing to the statements which Charles Christ, representative of Herbert Hoover, national food administrator, is credited with giving out at con. ference of delegates from Washing ton discussing food conservation at Portland. MT. Christ predicted that if the nation keeps using sugar at the present rate the visible supply will last only until Dec. To- It is incnm- bent on the United States to export sugar to France and England. Other wise the Allies would be deprived of this commodity.
 Now, on the other hand, the cur rent issue of Facts about Sugar de- cries the alarmist reports of an i'm pending shortage in sugar and says that while the relations between the current demand and the available supply are nicely balanced, scare that would frighten consumers into purchasing for the purpose of hoard ing might work incalcuiable harm. The trade journal alluded to advises members of the sugar trade to make 1t a part of their business during the next several weeks to hold down or ders to the level of actual require ments, to refute groundless reports of impending shortage, and to allay need less alarm among customers.
 It will not be many months before the state of Washington will be get ting supply of beet sugar from the factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Con- pany at North Yakima. With com mendable enterprise this company had a representative distributing lit quainting people with the properties of beet sugar, which experts declare is identical with cane sugar. w. H. Snyder, an authority of national pro- minence, is quoted as declaring that refined sugar, whether made from the cane, beets, corn, maple sap or any other products, is the same chemical ly, and he says it is impossible to dis tinguish between refined beet and re- fined cane sugars. It may surprise many people to know that one-half the worlds sugar production Is beet sugar and it is asserted that no hu. man being nor science can distin- guish a difference.-Ex.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29

California wine growers have start. ed an initiative measure to eradicate the saloon and it's attendant evils. They propose to limit drinking in that state to beers and light wines, with an alcoholic content of not more than q per cent. Even fortified wines and champagne are to be eliminated. Li. quors under the proposed law, may be had only with meals and in regu. larly operated restaurants, cafes and hotel dining rooms. Wholesalers are to be permitted to sell beers and light wines in limited quantities for home consumption.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. United States Land Office, Juneau,
 Alaska.
August 25, 1917

August 25, 1917.
 Notice is hereby given that Nels Hawkinson, of Cordova, Alaska, has filed application under the provisions of Sections 2305-23O6, R. S., as as. signee of Joel w. Heyern, to make entry of the lands embraced in U. &. surveys 1216 and 1217, situate on the north shore of Miles Glacier Lake and on the west side of the Copper River Northwestern Railway at Mile 30. Lat 50 degrees 41 minutes 24 seconds N.. Longitude IA degrees 45 minutes w., and latitude SO degrees 42 minutes % seconds N, Longitude IA degrees 45 minutes w., and more particularly described as follows. to-wit:
 Beginning at M c. No. l on Miles Glacier Lake. whence U. S. l.. M. SAH- NH bears s. 38 degrees 05 minutes w. Al chs, thence w to Cor. No. 2 6.1S chs, thence S. 2S.97 chs to Cor. No. 3, NJ. c. on Miles Glacier Lake. thence meandering N. 56 degrees 30 minutes E., 693 chs; No. 27 degrees 50 minutes D., 4.72 chs; N. degrees 53 minutes E., 5.12 chs; N. 8 degrees Fl minutes w., 16.05 chs, to M. C.. No. l, the place of beginning, contain ing an area of 1884 acres, Mag. Var. 29 degrees 15 minutes E., and known as U. s. Survey 1216.
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence U. s. l.. M SAH-NH bears S. 2 degrees 31 minutes W. 36.14 chs, thence N. 15.OS chs. to Go. No. ?, thence w. 4.S2 chs. te Cor. No. 3, thence s. 15.08 chs. to Cor. No. 4, thence E. 4.82 chs. to Cor. No. l, the place of beginning, contain ing an area Of 7.27 acres, Mag. Var. 2S degrees 45 minutes E., and known as U. 8. Survey 1217.
 c. B. WALKER, .. ReKtetNr,
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29

The Peruvian congress, by vote of lO5 to 6, has voted to send the Ger man minister home to the kaiser. Recent exposures. of German dupli. city, was responsible for the action.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29

A high brow exchange asks "who has not felt the instinctive feeling of distrust that certain individuals create, though there is nothing out. wardly to indicate that anything is wrong?" Has the writer been touched" for a loan?
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-29

The Daily Times auto contest closes on. Wednesday evening.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-12
RUSS|AST|RRED
BY SUCCESSES
Of HER ARMIES
Rejoicing Crowds Parade
Streets of Petrograd
PRAISE FOR KORNlLOFF
Rise of Latest Military Hero is Un-
pareled in History of Russian
Nation.

Petrograd, July 11-Sweeping on
ward west of Halicz in their mighty
offensive against the Teutonic allies
in Galicia, the Russians are pursu.
ing the retreating foe. Two thous-
and prisoners and thirty guns were
captured when Halicz the key to
Lemberg, capital of Galicia, was taken
by General Tcheremistoffs troops.
Dut the victorious troopS<dd not
stop there. They gave the retreating
Teutons no rest The valley of the
river Lomnica was reached. Advanced
detachments crossed the river. The
villages of Bludniki and Babin were
occupied The retiring Teutons are
being pursued on the Bogorodchan-
Solotvina front The Russians have
reeehed the Posiecz-Lesiuvka-K Kos.
macz line.
The advance on the Bogorodchan-
Nolovina front represents drive in.
to the Carpathians foothills.
In the three days battle. from July
8 to 10, more than $50 officers and
10000 men, eighty guns, twelve of
them heavy calibre, and large num-
Der of trench mortars and machine
guns. with quantities of military
stores, were taken by the troops of
General Korniloff.
The war office report today of the
continued success of the Russian
troops threw Petrograd into wild
state of rejoicing Crowds paraded the
streets.
Everywhere praise is being sung for
the new hero of Galicia, General Kor.
niloff The public now knows that
the new Russian offensive is not a
flash in the pan.
General Korniloffs name is on
every ones lips Born in log cabin
his rise is practically unparalleled in
Russian history. He is forty-six years
old Son of Cosack in Siberia, at
thirteen he entered the Siberian cadets
corps Through his own efforts his
advancement was rapid. In the Japa
nese war he was colonel. 1t was he
who covered up the retreat of Genera
Kuropatkin's shattered armies from
Mukden,
He is the mast daring and scholarly
| officer in the army. He has command
Of all European languages. He was
taken prisoner in Galicia in 1915. The
| Austrians returned him his sword He
made a daring escape from the Aus
| trian prison camp.
The German official report said / ,25l
! prisoners wer taken. The Germans
also made an attack further south o
the coast, in the Lombaertzde region
The British statement admitted tina
the enemy gained a temporary foot
hold in some advanced trenches, bu
said the Germans were immediatel!
rejected by counter thrust.
The latest British official statemen
does not mention additional infantr.
fighting on this sector and says th,
German artillery fire has diminishe,
in intensity. German attempts south
east of Arras and near Lens toda,
were without success.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-12
PROF|TEERS
DENOUNCED
BYPRES|DENT
Appeals to Business Men for
UnSeIfiShness in War Prices
ONLY WAY TO VICTORY
Increased Freight Rates by Ship
Owners, He Declares, Help to De-
feat American Army.

Washington July lin an open
| address teeming with sensational ut
tcrances President Wilson tonight
served notice on mine operators, man
ufacturers, and shipping interests that
the Government intended to fix prices
of their products during the war per
iod and that the public must be
served on the same basis as govern
mental agencies. Those who sought
to avoid the ruling of the Government
he said, would he held guilty of an act
favorable to the cause of the enemy.
The price fixed, he said, must OF
course, be just one
I'VE must make the prices to the
public the same as the prices 10 the
| Government" the President declared.
Prices mean the same thing every
where now They mean the efficiency
or the inediclency OF the nation, whet-
her it is the Government that pays
| them or not They mean victory or
| defeat They mean that America Will
win her place once for all among the
foremost free nations OF the world,
or that she will sink to defeat and be-
come a secOndrate power alike in
| thought or action This is a day Of
her reckoning, and every man among
us must personally face that reckon
| ing along with her"
Patriotism and profits ought never
in the present circumstances to be
mentioned together the President
| said, for patriotism leaves profits out
OF The question. No true man, he
| added, who stayed behind While others
went to the front to risk their lives
would ask himself what ne is going to
make out of business
mo true patriot" he said, speaking
| of the overseas expeditions, VIII per
nit himself to take hold OF their hero
ism in money or seek to grow rich by
| the shedding of their blood When
they are giving their lives, will he not
at least give his money!"
The President said he could not be
lieye that men living in easy and
peaceful fashion would attempt tc
exact a price drive bargain while
others were enduring the agony of this
war on the battleGeds and "bereayed
women and "pitiful children were
about them.
Special attention was directed tC
the ship owners, who had raised
freight rates because of the tremend
GUS demand on shipping facilities.
They" the President said, are do
ing everything that high freigh
charges can do to make the war {
| failure, to make it impossible" H'
| added that those who had ralset
Ifr9isht rates had taken the most ei
lfeqtiIe meaps in their power to defea
fthd armies engaged against Germany.
| lie took it for granted that they woulI
reconsider the whole matter
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-12
VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT
Activities Of the Society This Year
Are Given.

The Village Improvement society
has recently placed twenty Lombardy
poplars at the rear of the High School
lot which will add much to the ap-
pearance of the property. The socie-
ty has also placed an electric light in
the village cemetery. hoping thus to
discourage loiterers in the vicinity.
There has been some vandalism of
late by boys in the cemetery, the mo
trespassing" sign having been tamper-
ed with. Any further disturbance Will
be dealt with according to law.
A committee has recently gone over
the cemetery quite carefully and finds
there are a number of lots in an un-
kept condition. Anyone owning lot
there which has not been cared for
is asked to give it prompt attention.
Perpetual care can be insured to ones
lot by giving a small sum of money to
the town, thus doing away with the
danger of its being neglected in after
years. c. II. Dewey, at the Savings
Bank, town treasurer, will explain
the plan to anyone interested.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-12
HOSPITAL TOBE
FINISHED SOON
AFTEROCT.
Miss Mary A. Baker is En-
gagged as Superintendent
$4,000 MORE is GIVEN
Mr.. Putnam Has Provided $4,000 For
Furnishing and $4,000 For Set.
tlngs for Marble Fountain

The Putnam Memorial hospital Is
now nearing completion and II Is
hoped to have it ready for business
October 1st. or soon afterward. The
furnishings. etc. have all been bought
and will be shipped here during the
next few weeks.
The executive committee have en-
gagged Miss Mary A. Baker as super
intendent She is already in town and
is staying temporarily at the home of
F. l.. BOttum of South street. She
comes here from North Dakota where
she has been assistant state superin-
tendent of schools, her work being in
connection with the health of pupils
and extension health work among
families.
Earlier she was superintendent of
the leading hospital at Jacksonville,
Fla. Her experience is extensive and
the directors believe that they are ex-
ceptionally fortunate in securing her
services.
Henry w. Putnam has made another
gift of 14,300 for the hospital. OF this
$4,000 is for furnishing while $4,000
is for the fountain and marble sur
roundings for the front OF the build
ing and for the pedestal for the bronze
bust of the late Henry w. Putnam, Sr.
The marble for this work has been
bought of the Vermont Marble COM
pany.
The annual meeting Of the hospital
directors was held Wednesday. The
old board OF officers was reelected
with Henry w. Putnam as president
and A. w. Braisted secretary
The net income from the water sys-
TEN the past year was s15,906.24. The
total investment in the hospital so far
has been $62,73447 in the building
| and $14167.77 in the grounds. The
directors have on hand S5S,369.S2 to
| complete the work.
The work on the building is being
completed by the surety company
which bonded the contractors who
were previously in charge of the work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-12
CHAUTAUQUA IN AUGUST
Meeting Wednesday Evening to Plan
For the Week.

Bennington's Chautauqua week this
year will be the week beginning Fri
day, August H. The program promises
to be better than ever before and with
the country at war 1t should prove OF
special interest and value.
Miss Grace llerspey of Swarthmore,
Penn, was here Wednesday evening
to meet the guarantors and plan for
the week. The meeting was held at
the high school.
The arrangements this year are In
charge of an executive committee com
posed of Rev. p l.. Dow, Rev. w. G..
Towart, w. II. Nichols, p. T. II. Pier
son. r. l.. Thomas. w. II. Wills and
n. e. Greenslet The chairman of the
ticket committee is A. w. Var
ney. Lester H. Nichols heads the adj
vertising committee and Il. 7. Girls.
void the parade committee.
Tho tent will be on the graded
school grounds the same as last year.
The program will be printed In the
Banner some day next week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-12
GORE REV|VES
WRANGLE OVER
PROHIBITION
Senator Seeks to Change
Clause in Bill
OFFERS NEW SECTION
Would Give Dissatisfied Owners o.
Commandeered Liquor Right to
Sue Government.

Washington. July 11.-I'he entire
prohibition question may be threshed
! out in the senate again. Tomorrow
Senator Gore will make an attempt to
alter the Smoot amendment which au-
thorizes the President to commander
distilled liquors and pay for them. The
Oklahoman wishes to add a section
stating the dissatisfied owner must ac
cept seventyeiye per cent Of the pay
ment and sue for whatever else he
considers due.
Today the senate agricultural com
mittee decided that to substitute the
new liquor provisions Gore framed yes
terday for the prohibition amendments
already in the food control bill, would
be a violation of the unanimous con-
sent agreement under which the legis
lation was conducted
However, this legislation concerned
section L. Cores change would be a
substitute for section - of the pres
ent bill, which applies to commander
ing liquors.
There will be a fight on the mat
! ter. and this fight viii renew the old
differences between Gore and Senator
| Chamberlain Gore Is chairman of the
committee He did not sympathize
with the Administrations view of the
food control bill and relinquished
charge OF the bill to Chamberlain, the
next ranking Democrat.
Now Gore wishes to substitute the
entire bill he drew yesterday for the
Chamberlain hill The Gore bill con
trolls foods and fuels and says nothing
about the various 'necessaries" such
rs cotton copper, steel mentioned in
the Chamberlain bill Chamberlain be-
lieyes It would be better to amend
his own bill on the floor instead of
| having the Gore bill displace it,
The committee today discussed the
Gore bin fayorably. But because of
Chamberlain's opposition the idea of
offering it as a committee substitute
was abandoned. Senator Gore will in
troduce the bill and add that it has
the unofficial sanction of the commit
tee.
1t is in the Gore bill that the change
is made in the Smoot amendment Al
lowing the owner OF commandeered
liquors to sue, places the price fixing
responsibility ON the courts and makes
the amendment lawful
Il do not think the Gore bill as good
a measure in some particulars as the
pending measure said Senator Cham
berlain today Il have not examined
the new bill closely But it provides q
hoard Of food administration, and
think presidential control is sufficient
1t also emphasizes the idea that foder
al control extends only over commo
dities moved in the interstate com
meycc.
at seems to me 1t would be better
to use the pending bill and amend it i
necessary"
The senate made fair progress witt
the bill today All committee amcnC
ments were adopted with the eXcep
ton of two. One concerns the righ
of members OF the Council of Nationa
Defense to participate in government
contracts The other deals with law
, governing speculation These will III
talked over tomorrow. There ar,
some thirty amendments offered b.
other than committee members ye
TO be considered.