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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
j. 5. GUNNERS
LOSE BATTLE
Sub at Range of 5000
Yards Fires 200
Shells.
ship UNABLE TO hit TARGET
And Goes Down After a Desper-
ate Running Fight in
! the War Zone.

Washington, June 15.-American
naval gunners have met their first
defeat in open fight with a German
submarine. Official dispatches today
announced the destruction of the
tank steamship Moreni, abandoned
ablaze June IL by her crew and
armed guard after a desperate run
ming fight in the war zone which cost
the lives of four of her crew.
Half an hour after the tanker had
been sent to the bottom her forty
three survivors, including all of the
members of the armed guard, were
picked up with their life boats by a
passing steamer. The German COM
mander had set them adrift after
congratulating the American skipper
upon his game fight and having the
wounded men treated by the subma-
rine's surgeon.
The submarine began the action at
a range of 5000 yards, four nautical
miles, when she hardly was visible
to the steamer without glasses. Pres
senting virtually no target herself
she sent 200 shells at the big tanker,
making many hits, while the Ameri-
can gunners wasted $50 shots with
cut harming the spcck from switch
the deadly bail came.
Armed With 6-inch Rifles.
Naval officers. assumed that the
submarine was armed with the six
inch rifles mounted by most of the
newest undersea boats. No state
ment was available tonight as to the
armament of the Moreni as to wheth-
er she was one of the vessels that
sailed without waiting for full equip
ment including a range finder. The
failure of the gunners to get the sub
marine was attributed generally to
the long range and small target.
The action of the submarine COM
maader in treating his vanquished
opponents with such unexpected
courtesy was the subject Of much
comment. Germany has proclaimed
her intention to treat British armed
merchant crews as pirates. In this
case even the naval blue jackets and
their officer, properly prisoners of
war, were set free, along with the
merchant crew.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
BANKS BURIED !.
UNDER Returns
Reserve Districts Esti-
mate a Total of
$2,S62,SOO,O0O
DEFINITE FIGURES IMPOSSIBLE
Until Full Count Can Be Made
The Average Man Bears
The Burden.

Washington, June 15.-The Amer
lean people have responded to the
Governments call for funds 20 f.
nance the war with an over-subscrip-
l'rn to thc two biiliYd Liberty Loan
of proportion so huge that officials
are buried beneath landslide OF In
tabulated returns.
No man could say at 10 o'clock TO-
night how great had been the Ma.
TONS answer. Apparently it was
overwhelming beyond the most san
guine hopes of treasury officials,
though not one of the twelve Federal
Reserve banks, regional headquar-
ters of the loan, could hazard more
than an estimate of its total.
In the country's ringing answer to
the call. the dominant note was the
voice of the small investor. His mon
ey talked this last day of the CAM
paign in eloquent terms. The hope
for widespread response of the av-
erage man with the average income,
was more than realized in the multi
tudes that flocked to the banks to-
day. 1t appeared tonight that all
previous estimates had gone bv the
boards and that nearly three million
men and w,men had bought their
bonds.
Treasury Conservative
In the absence Of official figures
tonight, officials hesitated to predict
how high the total would soar. 1t
mounted every hour to new heights
and assumed such proportions that
there was an apparent inclination to
accept with some allowances the rosy
estimates of local Liberty Loan Com
mittees as to the totals of their dis
tricts. At the Treasury a note OF
conservatism was sounded concern
ing these estimates. 1t was feared
that the committees, flushed with
success, might be over-optimistic and
there was a manifest unwillingness
to accept as final any estimates I'M
verified by actual tabulations.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
CARRANZA'S SECRETARY
ON WAY TO WASHINGTON
Believed to Outline Plans OF the
President of Mexico in Regard
to World War.

Mexico City, June 18.-G. Ugarte
private secretary of President Car
rama, left here tonight on a mission
to Washington. The exact object of
his trip was not announced but men
in close touch with affairs here ex-
press the opinion Senior Ugarte is
bearing a personal message from
President Carranza to President VIII
son definitely outlining Gen. Carran-
za's stand regarding the world wal
and other questions.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20

ed survey of crops on reclamation
projects and stopped in Chicago to-
day.
at is going to be a whale Of a
crop" said Mr.. Blanchard, "but the
problem remains to get labor onto
these great tracts for the harvest.
will be called to confer with Herbert
c. Hoover, the food controller, when
| return to Washington"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
COMMITS SUICIDE.
(Ralph Specially

June 16.-Mrs. Alb Stevens, of near
Magyar, met with a very tragic death
early Wednesday morning by shoot
ing herself with double-barrel
shotgun. Mrs. Stevens mind had
been failing for several months.
She had attempted to commit suicide
several times before. She was bur-
led in st. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
at Whitesville, KY. Thursday. She
leaves q husband and several child
rem.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
HARTFORD, KY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20. 1917

a young railroad clerk here, trod on
the Stars and Stripes and was ar
rested. Today he was out on bail
awaiting hearing on charge Of
desecrating the flag.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
NO EXCUSE FOR HIGH
PRICES; CROPS LARGE

Chicago, June 18.-"The prospects
for a record-breaking food yield are
such that / can see no justification
for abnormal prices" said C. ]. Blan-
chard, statistician of the Federal re-
clamation service. who has complet-
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
SIGNS WAR BUDGET .

Washington, June 15.-President
Wilson today signed the S3,00O,00O
war budget bill which carries appro-
priations for the new army and other
war preparations 1t is the largest
single appropriation measure ever
enacted by any government.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
PERSHING'S NAME
TROUBLESOME

Paris, June 15.-The French press
is still busy discussing the pronun-
citation of Gen. Pershing's name. La
,Liberte says that probably the best
solution is Perechic, meaning Gallant
Father, or Perecher, meaning Dear
Eatbar
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
RODMAN IN NAVY r.t
JUST AZ YEARS. is
MADE REAR ADMIRAL

Washington,June 14.-Exactly AZ
years to the day after former Rep
resentative Joe C. s. Blackburn Sc
cured his appointment to the Naval
Academy, the Senate today confirm
ed Hugh Rodman, a native of Frank
fort, KY, as a Rear Admiral in the
navy.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
(d) The daily average of

(d) The daily average of
accepted applicants needed 10i
to complete the quota on June 30,19l7
2. Those who registered on June
9Th are not barred from voluntary en-
listment and due credit will be given
each county for every man who vol
unfairly enlist therefrom.
8. Men are urgently reeded to fill
up the 81 new regiments now being
organized.
a. The co-opNation of the press
and of all patriotic societies and of
all patriotic people is desired.
5. 1t is desired that the quota for
the Louisville District be obtained by
June 80, 1917; valuable time in train
ing will be lost unless this is done.
J. s. BATTLE,
Major of Infantry,
Recruiting Officer.
Honor Roll of Men Accepted This
Date.
Cashius Beard DEWITT Matthews
Barney l.. Harmon Ralph Crawley
Benjamin G. Smith Roger B. Barnes
Jarvis Hardin Henry Clark
Rasho Austin John C. Vierling
Paul B. Wheeler Thomas B. Reed
Charlie Wheeler
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
MR.. JOE BULLOCK DEAD.
EQUALITY Specially

Equality Specially
Mr.. Joe Bullock died Of consump-
tion Saturday and was buried Sun
day at Equality burying ground.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-06-20
RECRUITING STATION,U.S. ARMY
efO West Jefferson Street

Louisville, KY, June 16, 1917.
Report on Recruiting, Louisville
Recruiting District, June 16, 1917.
/. (a) Quota for Louisville
Recruiting District ...... .2,448
(b). Number obtained to
date 500. 9S3
(c) Number still out. -. L ,465
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16
BY BUFFALO REEtL
TRUB TAEaEs or 'TEfH PLAINS
coTT6s1ST..ecs.B BY WILLIAM r COPY

pulled the trigger. The stiffness of the
river was split by a roar as the report
echoed from bank to bank. Down tum-
bled the chief owe the edge, rolling
over and owe like a shot rabbit till he
landed plump in the water.
A yell from the band he had led, and
a score Of Indians swarmed up to the
bank. But our men drove them back.
and they geve IT. the attack as a bad
job. At dawn We limped worn out into
Fort Kearry. The soldiers there start
ed or a wild goose chase for the In
dams. The were never caught. TIE
slashed, scslped bodies of our dead
were found beside the wrecked. looted
wagons.
When I was thirteen my mother was
building a hotel for the use of passing
gold hunters, for this was late In 1859,
when the gold fever swept America
and ali roads led to Pixies peak. Our
Salt Creek valley home lay on n of
the most travelled routes.
Hotel building and furnishing are
not ON the free list. So l wanted to
help raise money for our Valley Grove
House. With an older boy named
Dave Philips l planned a trapping
trip. Winter was setting in when we
started.
We bought an OK team and wagon
to transport the traps, camp outfit and
provisions and took a large supply of
ammunition, besides extra rifles. Our
destination was the Republican river.
1t courses more than $50 miles from
L~eavenworth, but the country about it
was reputed rich in beaver. / acted as
scout on the journey, going ahead to
pick out trails, locate camping grounds
and look out for breakers. The infor-
nation concerning the beaver proved
correct. The game was indeed so plen-
tiful that we concluded to pitch a per-
manent camp and see the winter out.
We chose a hollow In a side hill and
enlarged 1t to the dimensions of a de-
cent sized room.
We had seen no Indians IN our trip
quarter, though we were too good
plainsmen to relax our vigilance.
There were other foes, as we discov-
cred the first night in our new quar-
tiers.
We were aroused by a commotion
in the corral where the oxen were
confined, and, hurrying u with our
rifles, we found a huge bear intent
upon a feast of beef. The oxen were
believing In terror, one Of them dash
ing crafty about the Enclosure and
the other so badly hurt that it could
not get up.
Phillips, who was In the lead, fired
first, but succeeded only in wounding
the bear. Pain was now added to the
savagery OF hunger, and the Infatuated
monster rushed upon Phillips. Dave
leaped back, but his foot slipped on q
bit of ice, and he went down with a
thud, his rife flying from his hand as
he struck.
A bullet from my rife entered the
distended mouth of the onrushing bear
and pierced the brain, and the huge
mass fell lifeless almost across Dawes
body. The OK had to be killed.
Dawes chance to square his account
with me came a fortnight later. We
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16
Washington

Rebel and patriot, he led the way
When shackled manhood cried for
ohampioning,
He of the breed that long had
learned to bring
The low bowed, plant neck to scep-
tered sway
The breed that worshiped the
anointed clay
And right divine attached to any
thing
Empurpled and enthroned and chris
tened "king."
His foe was Privilege; he won the
day.
His fathers idols, old, unique, SUI
preme,
These were his targets when he took
his stand
To cleanse his native c%ountry's deed
and dream,
To make sweet Freedom bloom
throughout the land
Rebel and patriot and partisan,
Lover of Justice and his fellow man.
james G. McNally.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16

Tell you what 1 think I'd better
do" said he. THE nearest settlement
Is some eighty miles away, and l can
get there and back In twenty days.
Suppose l make the trip, get a team
for our wagon and come back for
your
The idea of being left alone end
well nigh helpless struck dismay to
my heart. but there was no b. } f. It,
and | assented. Dave put matte
into shipshape. piled weed il ar du
out, cooked a quantity of feed md 7 !
1t where | could reach 1t with ut RI
ing and fetched several days 4upply
of water. Mother, ever minG-ul OF
my education. had pat soAe = hool-
books in the wagon. ard Dave .aced-
these beside the food and water. N'hen
Phillips finally set out. driving the sur
viving OK before him, he left behind a.
very lonely and homesick boy.
During the first day of my conlne-
ment I felt too desolate to eat, much
less to read. But as | grew accustom-
ed to solitude I derived real pleasure
from the companionship of boots
Perhaps In all my life I never extract
ed so much benefit from study as dur
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16

"~ Wednesday last the mortal
N part of Washington the
~ great-the Father of His
Country and the friend of
man-wa consigned to the tomb with
solemn honors and funeral pomp.'
This is the opening paragraph in the
newspaper story of the burial of
George Washington as told by the Ul-
ster County Gazette, published at
Kingston, N. Y, Jan. 4, 1900. AL
though the column rules of the news
paper are inverted, the story appears
to have been only secondary in impor-
lance in the minds of the editors, as it
is published on the third page and
without any unusual display.
1t is dated at Georgetown, Dec. 20,
1893. and bears the modest head
"Washington Entombed." Genuine
bic, but 1t has been reprinted In fac
smile many times.
THE paper says:
"a multitude of persons assembled
from miles around at Mount Vernon,
the choice abode and last residence of
the illustrious chief. There were the
gr~oyes-the spacious avenues, the
beautiful and sublime scenes, the noble
mansion-but, alas. the august inhab-
liant was now no more! That great
soul was gone. His mortal part was
there indeed; but, ah, how affecting.
how a wful tho cpantan 1n of cl1oh worth
and greatness, thus, to mortal eyes,
fallen-yes, fallen. fallen!
"In the long and lofty portico, where
oft the heroi walked in all his glory,
now lay the shrouded corpse. The
%,ountenance. still composed and serene,
seemed to express the dignity of the
spirit which lately dwelled in the life
less form. There those who paid the
last sad honors to the benefactor of
his country took an impressive-a fare
well-view.
"On the ornament at the head of the
coffin was inscribed Surge ad Judi
cum about the middle of the coffin,
Gloria Deo,' and on the silver plate,
General George Washington, departed
this life on the 18th of December, 1899.
Act. 6S.'
Between 3 and 4 O'Clock the sound
of artillery from the vessel in the river
firing minute guns awoke afresh our
solemn sorrow-the corpse was remov-
ed-a band of music with mournful
melody melted the soul into all the
tenderness of woe.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16

1.-THE procession was formed and
arms reversed:
Cavalry. infantry, guard, music and
clergy.
1.-THE generals horse with his saddle.
holster and pistols.
'Colonels Simms, Ramsey, Payne.
Gilpin, Marsteller and Little, pallbear-
ers; corpse, mourners, Masonic breth-
rem, citizens.
"When the procession had arrived at
the bottom of the elevated lawn. on
the banks of the Potomac, where the
family vault is placed, the cavalry
halted, the infantry marched toward
the mount and formed their lines, the
clergy, the Masonic brethren and the
citizens descended to the vault, and
the funeral service of the church was
performed.
1.-THE firing was repeated from the
vessel In the river and the sounds ech-
oed from the woods and hills around.
'"Three general discharges by the in
fantry, the cavalry and eleven pieces
of artillery, which lined the banks Of
the Potomac back Of the vault, paid
the last tribute t. the entombed COM
mander in chief of the armies of the
United States and to the departed hero.
1.-THE sun was now setting. Alas.
the son of glory was set forever! No.
the name of Washington, the Ameri-
can president and general, will triumph
over DEATH The unclouded brightness
of his glory will illuminate the future
aOpsf'
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16

"a bullet from my rifle entered the
mouth Of the bear"
ing that brief period of enforced idle
ness, when it was my sole means Of
making the dragging hours endurabae.
A fortnight passed. And n day.
weary with my studies, l fell asleep,
over my books. Some n touched my
shoulder, and, looking up, / saw ana
Indian In war paint and feathers.
"HowT said l, with a show Of
friendliness, though l knew the brave
was on the warpath.
Half a score of bucks followed at the
heels of the first, squeezing into the-
little dugout until there was barely
room for them to sit down.
With sinking heart l saw them N
ter, but l plucked up spirit again when
the last, a chief. pushed in, for in this
warrior 1 recognized an Indian that I
had C done a good turn.
Whatever Los faults, he never for
gets a kindness any more than he for
gets an injury. The chief, who went
by the name Of Rain-in-the-Face at.
once recognized me and asked me why
/ was In that place. This chief was
the father Of the Rain-in-the-Face who
in a later year killed General Custer at
the memorable battle OF the Little Big
Horn. l displayed my bandages and
related the mishap that had made
them necessary and refreshed the
chiefs memory of a certain occasion
when a blanket and provisions had
drifted his way. Rain-in-the-F re-
piled, with proper gravity, that he and
his chums were out after scalps and
confessed to designs upon mine, but In
consideration Of aud lang syne he
would spare the paleface boy.
Aud lang syne, however, did not
spare the blankets and provisions, and
the bedizened crew stripped the dug
out almost bare Of supplies, but I was
thankful enough to see the back of the
last Of them.
Two days later a blizzard set In. /
took An inventory and found thst,
economy considered, I had food for a.
week, but as the storm would surely
delay Dave 1 put myself IN half ra-
lions.
Three weeks were now gone, and I
looked for Dave momentarily, but as
night followed day and day grew into.
night again l vas given rel to keen
anxiety. Had Phillips lost his way3
Had he failed to locate the snow cov-
cred dugout? Had he persisted in the
storm? Had he fallen victim to the
Indians?
The twenty-ninth day dawned. Star
walton stalked into the dugout. The
wood, too, was well nigh gone. But
great as was my physical suffering my
mental distress was greater. I sat be-
fore a handful of fire, shivering and
hungry, wretched and respondent.
Hark! Was that my name? Choking
with emotion, unable to ~articulate, I
listened intently. Yes, 1t was my name
and Dawes familiar voice, and with
all my remaining energy I made An
answering call.
My voice enabled Phillips to locate
the dugout, and a passage was cleared
through the snow. And when I saw
the door open the tension or my nerves
let go, and 1 wept like a girl"
God bless you, DnveT I cried az 4
clasped my friend around the neck.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16

were chasing a bunch Of elk when ]
fell and discovered that 1 could not
rise.
I'm afraid I have broken my leg"
l said as Dave ran to me.
Phillips had once been a medical
student. and he examined the leg with
a professional eye. You're right. Bill
ly; the legs broken" he reported.
Then he went to work to improvise
splints and bind up my leg, and, this
done, be took me on his back and bore
me to the dugout. Here the leg was
stripped and set In carefully prepared
splints and the whole bound up se-
curely. He made a pair of crutches
for me.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-02-16

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-26

ALLIED b the depredionS OF tho Mocwc II south
I British admiralty patrolng policy
North when the
The British the DESTROYER, wrun before
British them
lime and the to wit
the British
eldN and dig the 10
before he lett the admiralty The planned British
at the sinking OF boats by hcmg loc
mad ms hight Job
usual ,'tancnt' regarding the losses have been made but
that the Germans ran from front /cbuggc Srouwcn
Holland where further fighting took place before
According neutral Holland engagement place
about tly miles and
marked with figure on the The
bank marked where damaged German destroyer bcahcd
The particular called OF
As far as It concerns the British and the
heretofore
caused considerable before
the admiralty direction work with Sir Edward Admiral
loe rS lord and SIR David Beatty admiral
has been changed to close German nine cl,
dcuory annoying RAIDS the German
almost the the North
Recalling that the OF
battle OF und began plausible think fleet
has been shifted the Britain where action
before the could home The
The German OF the changes policy ha, been
shifted OF absolute refusal risk
policy OF aggression daring and determination do
oaing kie
persistent predicting another naval engage.
than the Juland battle
Truly both sides to be lockeymg the North JaJ
the fencing flaudcrs the spot the ano
~ last word somebody's
going TO go II Eoter MtNe breaks through the blockade " NH
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-26
THE COLONEL'S EXAMINATIONS.

~ COURSE, Colonel Roosevelt objects to the president
peace proposals 1t would be unnatural illogical and
altogether extraordinary for him take any other posi-
ton. To his OF thinking, whatever Wsonan IN its
inception or execution wrong, essentially wrong, and,
moreover is not right
But that's the admixtuc OF politics and personal spleen
within him speaking His lust for war and penchant for
dscreditng the presidents efforts utilize every prcext for
assertion
We recall however in connection with his excavations
incident to the deportation OF Begans that the doughty
coIonels soloitude for weaker peoples is ardent
today than 1t a few years ago when we wanted a
strip OF land down Panama way for the building OF a canal
We can bring TO mind also the Armenian maSsalrcS OF the
Rooseycan period which unattended by display Of
teeth a rafting OF sabers
We made much allowance for the colonel'S ulmuaonS
during the late campaign because that was time when all
hands were out for the purpose OF bringing home the bacon
but now that the smoke of battle has lifted and We are
addressing ourselves to the question Of restoring peace
and order throughout the world we can scarcely under
stand his continued efforts toward muddying the water.
If peace is rcpclant him in all its forms what ia
the name of high heaven, ii which pur,uadcd him to
take hand some years ago in ironing out the troubles
then existing between Russia and Japan
The inevitable deduction is that the colonel even at this
early day open his mind to the consideration of No
question affecting humanity save the prize which 1920 will
hang up anew.