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WESSON OIL will help to solve the HIGH COST OF LIVING BECAUSE it is cheaper and gees farther than
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-16

In Austria smoking is to be re stricted to 10 cigars or 25 cigarets a week.
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WEssON OIL Is rUnER and CHEAPER than LAIRD
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'WEssoN OIL will cut your BUT
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Choosing a Servant

Among the one,quarter million women who now own Frantz Premier Electric Cleaners, there are a great many who do their own homework. Such housewives must have special reason for selecting the
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
CHARLES FIRES
Chief OF STAFF
General Hoetzendorf, kaiser's
Favorite Who Recaptured
Lemberg, Succeeded by
Baron Strauzenberg.

London, March emperor Charles,
of Austria, has dismissed Field Mar
shall Conrad Won Hoetzendorf, Aus
trian chief of staff, according to a
Vienna dispatch to Reuters by way Of
Amsterdam. Baron Str%auzenberg sue
ceeds Won Hoetzendorf.
Field Marshal Won Hoetzendorf has
been one of the leading military fig
ures of the. dual government for years
and has played an important part in
almost all the major operations Of the
Austria Hungary forces since the out
break of the present war. He has
been credited with being one of the
few Austrian generals who are held in
favor in Berlin and in May, 1915, was
decorated with the Order of Pour LIE
Merite, by the German emperor. He
is also said to be a bitter enemy of
Italy, but a year ago he was married
to the divorced wife of Baron Re1n-
anghaus, his bride being of Italian
descent and known as an ardent adj
vocate of the return of the lost PROV
inces" to Italy.
Marshal Won Hoetzendorf was cred
tied with the recapture of Lemberg
from the Russians and was promoted
to be a field marshal for his services
on the Italian front.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
: TOLL OF THE PLUNGER

Berlin, (by wireless to Sayville),
March 3.--Nine armed Russian steam
ers were destroyed by the German sub
marine which recently was sunk near
Hammerfest, according to q Christiania
dispatch to the Neue Zuricher Zeitung.
as quoted by the Overseas News
agency. These vessels are said to have
been purchased in South America by
Russia.
1t was reported from Christiania on
January % that "a men from a German
submarine which had foundered off the
Norwegian coast had been landed near
Hammerfest.
Paris, March 3.-The admiralty had
decided not to publish daily the names
Of torpedoed vessels. The announce
ments say that this qualifications had
caused grave Inconvenience" and that
a weekly statement will be issued in
stead of giving the number Of vessels
of different classes which have been
sunk.
London. March 3,-Reuter's Tele-
gram company says the Greek steamer
-ProconnissOs, of 2,769 IONS gross,
which has been requisitioned by the
Greek royalist government to go to
America for 5000 tons OF grain for the
assistance OF the rowalist population
of dc Greece has bers torpedoed and
sunk by a German submarine.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
China INTO
WAR QUICKLY?

London. March 5-Berlin dispatches
in the Rheinische West Faelische
Zeitung state that in circles in touch
with the Chinese legation in Berlin it
is expected China. will give notice of a
rupture Of diplomatic relations unless
Germany changes her blockade policy,
says the Exchange Telegraph corre-
spondent at The Hague. The German
foreign office, it is added, has been
warned to that effect by the German
minister a~t'Peking.
China Into. War Soon.
Washington. d. c., March 5-Nego-
tlatlons looking to China'S entrance
into the war against the central pow
ers now are in progress at Picking, and
in all the entente capitals it was
learned here, and their success depends
only upon the harmoniZing of the re-
warda 10 be given China with the
amou"s 1t cooperation demanded of
her. 1t y regarded az practically GER
tain that China will sever relations with
Germany and a declaration of war
probably will follow if the entente will
guarantee sufficiently relaxation of the
restrictions imposed upon the eastern
Boxer troubles.
Facts learned today from official
and diplomatic circles serve to clear
up much Of the o%bscurity which has
overhung the far east in the last
month Occasional vague dispatches
from China and references in the reich
stag to "China's abandonment of neu-
trality,' have thrown only dim liga
upon Germany's endeavor to keep
China out of the struggle, the %entente's
moves to bring her in, and China's re-
l%uctance to change her present state
of peace without adequate guarantees.
Would Clear Government.
China desires to secure the complete
remission of the Boxer indemnities,
which total over $50, 000, 900 a year, and
continue until 1910. If she entered the
war the part which otherwise would be
paid to Austria and Germany could be
repaid. Information here indicates that
the entente already has agreed to post
pone payment in case China begins
hostilities. but does not corroborate
Tien Tsin advices that France and Bel
GUM, in behalf of the powers, have Of
fered complete remission. The sum in
volved is sue an appreciate part Of
China's total expenses that a satisfac-
tory agreement might well remove the
financial difficulties of the government.
The entente powers, on their part,
are anxious to have China in the war,
not only as a reservoir of men, but as
the biggest open trade market after
the war.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
PLOT REVELATIONS LIKE
A BOMB AT COPENHAGEN

Copenhagen, (via London), March S
The startling revelations regarding
Germany's intrigues in Mexico, which
come, as the Rationale Tidende says.
like a bomb explosion in the interna-
tional political situation, have recalled
attention to the attitude OF a certain
section OF the German press during the
last few weeks or even months. The
wrathful tone Of all references to Japan
after the seizure of Kiau Chau, has
long since given way to less hostile
references and, from the moment when
the entry of the United States into the
wal became a possibility because of the
submarine issue, the idea OF an attack
by Japan on America was taken up by
several German newspapers.
The publication here Of the text OF
the Zimmerman note and the confir-
nation Of its authenticity by President
Wilson is regarded here as a sensation
of the first magnitude by the Danish
press, exceeding anything Of the kind
that the war has SO far produced. Fri
day afternoon papers spread the dis
patches from America across their first
pages under three and four column
headlines which emphasized the view
that the revelations would enc any
doubt as to the position of congress on
President Wilson's proposals n de-
stroy the opposition of the pacifists.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
DIES IN STORM
FOR REPUTATION
Fear of Su||ied Name lmpeIs
South Dakota Girl to
Meet Death in
Blizzard.

Belle Fourche. S. D., March 5-Rath-
er than bundle up in some bed clothing
with her sweetheart, when they were
exposed on the open prairie during q
blizzard, for G her camping over
night on the open range would reflect
on her reputation. Miss Florence Helm
baugh, a we'll known young woman of
western South Dakota, went to her
death.
She and Walter Wilson had started
in a light wagon to attend a dance
about 20 miles north of Belle Fourche.
The worst blizzard experienced in
South Dakota in years swept down up-
on them.
The horses fought their way for some
distance, but the storm finally became
SO fierce and binding that no headway
could be made. On the wagon Wilson
had a camp bed, and he proposed to the
young that they make up the
bed on the ground in the shelter Of the
wagon and protect themselves under
the bed clothing, or by wrapping the
bed clothing closely about them. The
young woman protested, declaring thai
such a course might reflect on her rem
utation, and insisted that they continue
their efforts to reach a place of shelter
As it was impossible for the horses
to travel in the teeth of the blizzard.
with the fine, powdery snow completely
filling the air, it was necessary to
abandon the wagon and the couple set
out on foot in hope they could find he
home of a ranchman or homesteader.
The temperature was 30 degrees below
zero.
The horses, hitched to the wagon.
were led by Wilson, who used them as
a windbreak as they plodded through
the storm. Miss H%einbaugh finally
dropped exhausted to the ground and
pleaded SO strongly for Wilson to con-
tinue his journey and seek help for
himself and her that he finally con-
sented. When daylight came he reached
a sheep wagon and the men there went
with him in search of Miss Heinbaugh
finding her frozen body in the snow.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
BONE DRY"
BILL SIGNED
Sioux City Materially Affected
by New Law, Will Have En-
tire Liquor Supply Auto
maticaIIy Stopped.

Washington, d. c., March 5-Presi-
dent Wilson today signed the postof-
flee appropriation containing the bone
dry prohibition provision.
The bone dry" provision of the pos
tai bill is the most far reaching prohi-
bition legislation ever passed by the
federal government-in fact it is the
first direct legislation by the govern
ment prohibiting the liquor traffic.
At least IA states which have prohi-
bition laws but do not prohibit the inn
portation Of certain quantities of liq-
uor for personal use, will be made "bone
dry by the new law, which prohibits
the importation of liquor into any state
that prohibits Its manufacture and
sale"
State legislation recently passed and
about to become effective within the
next few weeks, will increase the num-
Der OF bone dry" states to at least %.
The same bill prohibits delivery in
the mails of any publication or CORE
spondence bearing liquor advertising in
states Which by their own law prohibit
Such advertising within their borders.
Sioux City will have it's liquor sup
ply positively shut off by the passage
- a'S JloSSo anu StllolllCSS
said today. The measure deals only
with the transportation side of the sit
Uation and makes those who bring liu-
uor from wet to dry territory
amenable. This is looked upon by at
torneys as being of such stringency
that drug stores, formerly the chief
source OF supply in dry states, will
refuse to handle liquors excepting for
the four purposes provided for in the
bill. These are medicinal, sacramental,
mechanical and scientific.
The measure is the first direct legis-
1ation ever provided by the national
government on the liquor question, and
those who have been interested in the
shipment of liquors from jefferson and
Jackson into Sioux City see the end of
the traffic. Police officials here will
from now on keep doubly active in see
ing hat the law is not transgressed,
Councilman George Ward, head of the
department of public safety, an
nounced. Prosecution by the federal
government, Mr.. Ward declares, will
have a far different effect upon ship
pers than when they could take a
chance with the legal machinery of
the city.
Any person who deals in the trans
portation of liquor will be subject to the
This is said to cover Those who order,
bring in, sell or carry from one person
to another any liquor, regardless of the
amount. Further. it is pointed out
that regardless of what view the local
courts or authorities may think of any
case that comes before them the federal
government is the authority to be reck-
once with by the bootleggers and ship
pers who handle the goods.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
GERMANY FAILS TO
SINK 100000 TONS
Loss Exceeded British EST.
mates of Destruction Under
Usual Conditions.

London. March 5-Germany failed by
slightly more than a so per cent margin
to make good her threat to sink 1000
900 tons of merchant shipping during
the first month of unrestricted SUBJ
marine warfare. according to figures
in the possession of the Associated
Press, the absolute reliability of which
is vouched for here. Her submarines.
the figures show, only succeeded in
sending to the bottom during the O
of February in roun numbers 400, 900
tons.
This figure only exceeds by 140. 600
tons. it is declared, what the British
authorities expected would be sunk
during that month, if ordinary subma-
rine warfare had continued. 1t com
pares with 346,656 tons sunk during
December and 322,067 tons. during jan
uary.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
MADE $1,000
OUT OF HOGS
on His Western Canadian Farm.

1t is getting to be q long drawn out
story, the way that Western Canadian
farmers have made money. Many Of
them a few years ago. came to the
country with little more than their
few household effects, probably a team
of horses and a COW or twD, and sufti-
cient money to do them for a few
months, until they got a start. Hun
dreds Of such can be pointed out, who
today have splendid homes, we'll,
equipped farms, the latest machinery,
and an automobile. Here is the case
of A. p. Merriam, formerly Of Devils
Lake, N. d. He didn't leave there be-
cause the land was poor. or farming,
not n success, for all who know that
country are aware that it is an excel
lent country. He wanted to expand
to take advantage of the cheap land
that Western Canada offers. And that
same story has appealed to hundreds
of others who have had like success
with Mr.. Merriam. But his story, and
he signs it, too, is:
Il came to Alberta in the Spring OF
1909 from Devils Lake, North Dakota,
locating on my farm near Dalroy.
II arrived with six head of horses
and two head Of cattle and about
$1,000. Since then, 1 have increased
my live stock to seven head Of horses,
four head OF cattle, and about one hun
,dred head Of hogs, q four-roomed
house, good barn with all modern i'm
Iprovements, a feed grinder, elevator,
chopper, tanning mill, etc. I have in.
creased my original capital at least
four times more since coming here.
"From the feeding Of hogs during
the last year, I had u gross return Of
$4,000.
II first started grain farming, but
during the past four years I have made
hogs my speciality, and you may see
by the foregoing statement for 1916
that have not done so badly.
Land has increased at least twenty
pei cent in value during the past few
years, row selling for from S25 to $50
per acre, with nominal taxes of about
$2I a quarter section yearly. 8
"The climate here is better than Da-
kota in that we do not have so much
dry wind; the winters are similar to
Dakota.
GAS for farming in general, the grow
ing and feeding of live stock is more
sure than the grain farming, if con-
tinued year after year, and if every
farmer follows this he will be ahead
of the grain growers in the long run.
Taking everything into consideration,
l feel satisfied with my success in
Alberta
{Sgd.) A. e. MERRIAM.
Dalroy, Alberta, Jan. 10Th, 1917.
There will be the greatest demand
Tor farm labor in Western Canada dur
Ing the early spring, and, in fact, all
season until November, and the high
est wages will be paid. There is an
absolute guarantee by the Canadian
Government that those who go to
Canada for this purpose need have no
fear of Observation-Disclosures.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
BOYCOTT CUTS FOOD cosT.

New York, March 3.-Abnormal de-
creases in the prices of such staple
food commodities as potatoes and
onions since last Monday morning as
compared with the prices of February
% have sa ed the people of New York
city appre sately $1,000 900. Com-
missioner rs E%eights and Measures
.Hartiga lated.
Gre fs to the oommon sense
of the the city. who estab-
iishe afaatic boycott W re-
fu2 4tls4 potatoes zee slniu,is.S
II lnnxor.9In iaw ss
I - aeFA8N1Af ft-Is - e,ssT rNAySsgSESsr&
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
TO RIDE FIRST ARMED SHIP.

New York, March Numerous APP
plications have been mad for passage
on the first armed steamship of the
American line to sail from this port,
officials of the company announced.
Requests for reservations indicated, it
was said. that whatever liner is dis
patched after congress arrives at a de-
No sailing date has been set.
Sailings Will conform with the con-
tracts requesting American line ships
to sail for Liverpool on Saturdays M
not for Falmouth, as prescribed in the
German submarine zone decree.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
ON ANCRE
AGAIN IS VIOLENT
Berlin Tells of Local Successes,
Including Capture of go Men
and Machine Guns.

Berlin, (by wireless to Sayville,)
March 5-There have again been VIC
infantry engagements on both
banks of the Ancre, in northern
France, the war office announced to-
day. The British suffered the loss Of
60 prisoners and eight machine guns,
in addition to their casualties.
Paris, March 3.-Successful recon-
noitering operations by French troops
at several points along the front are
reported in this afternoons war office
statement, which reads:
During the night our accommodating
parties carried out several successful
surprise attacks against German
trenches near Moulin Sous-Toutvent,
east Of Hill 304 (Verdun region) and in
Apremont forest. We took prisoners
and naterialS."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
Plot Story Admitted True;
Zimmerman To Lose His Job:
Bernstorff's Career Ended

therefore, was instructed in the middle
OF January that in the event of the
United States declaring the war he
should offer to the Mexican govern
ment an alliance and arrange further
details. These instructions, by the way,
expressly directed the minister to make
no advances to the Mexican govern
ment, unless ne knew for a certainty
that America was going to declare
war.
How the American government re-
ceived information of the instructions
sent by a secret way to Mexico is not
known. 1t appears, however, that the
treachery, and it appears there must
have been treachery, was committed
on Germany territory
a Central News dispatch from Ans
terdam says the Berlin telegram, in
regard to Secretary Zimmermann's in
structions to the German minister in
Mexico, is semiofficial
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
DESPITE THREATS, BIG
BILLS PASSED BY CONGRESS

Washington. March s. Despite
threats of a few republican leaders to
hold up all pending appropriation bills,
the Senate early today agreed to the.
conference report en- the $40, 0O0, 900
legislative, judiciar. and executive
supply measure which carried with it
the salary increases for government
employees.
The bill now goes to the president for
approval.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
WIFE KILLS kRE1sER.

Kansas City, Mo, March 3.-Edward
Kreiser, organist at one Of the largest
churches here, was shot and killed at
his home here today. Mrs. Kreiser, his
wife, was arrested and confessed to the
shooting.
The organist and his wife had been
quarreling almost continually since
Monday night, she is quoted by the
police as saying, and yesterday she
b a revolver.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08

press has been ordered not to pub
lish a word regarding the Ameri-
ean-Mexican revelations until fur
Amsterdam dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph company. The
dispatch says that only a few cir.
cles are aware of the intrigue and
IT is considered possible the result
Of the affair will be the resignation
OF Foreign Secretary zimmerman
and the ending of Count Won Bern
- storffs career as a diplomat.
London. March 5-Foreign Secretary
Zimmerman's Instructions to the Ger
ma minister TO Mexico. as published
In the United States, are admitted in
Berlin TO have been correctly quoted,
according to a dispatch to Reuters
from the German capital by way OF
Amsterdam.
The dispatch quotes the following
telegram received in Amsterdam from
Berlin on Friday, M which was APP
parently sent by tho Wolff bureau, he
seml-olflcia German news agency:
They Reckoned on War.
The American press contains reports
ABOUT instructions from the miniStery
of foreign affairs to the German min
lister In Mexico City, in the event that
Germany, after the proclamation of UNI
restricted submarine warfare, failed to
keep the United States neutral. These
reports are based on the following
facts:
After the decision had been taken
to begin unrestricted submarine war
fare on February /. we had to reckon,
IN view OF the previous attitude of the
American government. with the posi-
blllty OF conflict with the United
States. That this calculation was right
was proved by the fact that the Amer
lean government severed diplomatic re-
iatlons in Germany soon after the
proclamation of a barred zone, and
asked other neutrals to follow her ex-
ample.
Anticipating these possibilities. it
was not only the right. but also the
duty of our government to take pre-
cautions in time-in the event of a
military conflict with the United States
with us. in order to balance, if possible.
enemy"
The German minister at Mexico City,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
FLAG RULING MODIFIED.

General Havner today declared that-the
ruling accredited to him prohibiting the
use Of flags in newspapers does not
ai<eT to editorial or news pages unless
used in advertising. The law prohibits
the use of the American flag ID adver-
tisements. he says.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
MAJOR HE|BERC SLAIN
AT ITALIAN FRONT
Death of American Military At.
tache at Rome While on OBJ
servation Duty Reported.

Eivin r. Heiberg, American military
attache at Rome. was accidentally
killed Thursday while riding on the
Italian front. A report to the state
department today from the embassy
said the officer was at the FROM on
observation duty.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
|MPEACHED IN HOUSE
Representative Davis Files
Charges-Long Circulated
Among Politicians.

Austin. Tex. March Impeachment
charges against Governor James z.
Ferguson were fled in the Texas house
of representatives this morning by Rep
resentative H. p. Davis.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08

In China and Japan men and wom-
en- of all classes, callings and profess
sions. carry fans.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-03-08

In the Four Hundred.
Caller-Is my wife home:
Maid-Wlo may l say called?-Puck.