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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
CRU|SERM|LWAUKEE
WRECKED0N PACIFIC
VESSEL is CARRIED ON ROCKS
OFF CALIFORNIA COAST
LOSS OF $4,ooo,ooo.
EVERY MAN ABOARD SAVED
Disaster Comes While Warship Is
Trying to Raise the Submarine
H-3-Every Man On Board Is
saved-Hawser Snaps.

Eureka Cal.-Shortly after 8 p. m.
Saturday the last member of the Uni.
ted States cruiser Milwaukee, which
went ashore on the Samoa beach near
here early in the morning, was land
ed on the beach. Not life was lost
and but one man was hurt in the diff
ficult work of rescuins the hun
dreds aboard the stranded vessel.
The men were transferred through
a roaring surf in safety to the beach
by means of a breeches buoy and
two Hfeboats. On board the Milwau-
kee when the current carried her In
to the surf were Is officers and 421
men.
Loss of $4,000, 900.
Navy officers here express the be-
lief that the cruiser, costing $4,000,
900, would be total loss. The Mil
waukee, which draws 22.6 feet, had
been thrown by the breakers into
water but IL feet deep at low tide,
and the derelict has keeled over at
an angle of 20 degrees. Her double
bottom was filled with water and her
engine room flooded
When the Milwaukee was caught by
the current and carried into the
breakers she was pulling on cable
attached to the stranded submarine
H-S, which went ashore December Ia
about half a mile from where the
Milwaukee now lies. The monitor
Cheyenne and the navy tug Iroquois,
farther off shore, both had lines to
the Milwaukee and were endeavoring
of the SURF
/ The tidal current and the weight of
the heavy steel hawser fast to the
submarine proved stronger than the
combined power Of the three vessels
and all were being dragged shore
ward when the hawser leading to
the Cheyenne snapped and left the
little Iroquois to battle alone with
the tide that was sweeping the Mil
waukee into the breakers.
Boatswain Frank Bruce, command
er of the Iroquois, held on as long
as he dared and then saved his YES
sci from the Milwaukee's fate by
cutting the hawser. Lieutenant Will
liam s. Newton, in command of the
Milwaukee, tried to follow Bruces ex-
ample and get rid of the steel haw-
ser fast to the H-3, which was drag
ging him into the breakers. But it
was too late.
Ship Doomed.
Heavy weather during the next
few days means the doom of the
cruiser, Frazer told the ships Off
GERS. The stranded submarine H-3
has been abandoned by navy sal
vagers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
PROCLAMATION BY KAISER.
Tells His People What He Thinks Of
Allies Reply to Wilson's Offer.

Amsterdam.-The following procla-
nation by the emperor to the Ger
man people has been officially pub
lished in Berlin.
"Our enemies have dropped the
mask. After refusing with scorn and
hypocritical words of peace and hu.
mainly our honest peace offer, they
have now in their reply to the United
States gone beyond that and admit
ted their lust for conquest, the base
ness of which is further enhanced
by their calumnious assertions
Their aim is the crushing of Ger
many, the dismemberment of the pow
ers allied with us and the enslave-
ment of the freedom of Europe and
the seas, under the same yoke that
Greece, with gnashing of teeth is now
enduring.
Sees Nothing but Victory.
But what they could not achieve
in 30 months of the bloodiest fight
ing and INSCRIPTIONS economic war
they will also fail to accomplish in
the future. Our glorious victories
and our iron strength of will with
which our fighting people at the front
and at home have borne all hardships
and distress guarantees that also in
the future Our beloved fatherland has
nothing to fear. Burning indignation
and holy wrath will redouble the
strength of every German man or
woman, whether it is devoted to- tight
ing, to work or to suffering.
1--WE are ready for all sacrifices.
The God. who planted his glorious
spirit of freedom in the hearts of
our brave people will also give us
and our loyal allies, tested in bat
tie, the full victory ever all the enc
mics lust for power and rage for
destruction.
WILHELM, I. R."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
Moro Railroads for China.

Peking.-The Chinese government
has contracted with the Siems-C Carey
company of st. Paul for the construc.
ton of an additional 300 miles OF
railroad. The line is to run from
Chowkiakow, in Honan province
through Nanyangfu to Siangyangfu
in Hupeh province.
Several months ago the Chinese
government gave contracts to the
same company for the construction
of more than two thousand miles OF
railroads at probable cost of more
than $100,O00,000.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
Take Over Fernle Coal Mines

Ottawa, Ont.-Government opera
ton of the coal mines at Fernie, B..
c.. The mines furnish coal for set
tiers in Alberta, British Columbia and
Saskatchewan. The miners demand
ed increased wages to meet higher
cost Of living and the operators re-
fused to make the advance. The gov
eminent states it will operate the
mines and pay for their operations
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

The population of Switzerland ha!
war.
Admiral George Dewey has beer
absent from his desk at the navy de
partment for several days on accoun
of illness. The admiral is in hi
Soth year.
A petition from Massachusetts, car
rying 1921 names demanding sew
erance of relations with Germany un
less the Belgian deportations arr
stopped, was forwarded by the state
department to President Wilson.
With the kind assistance of the
English authorities" every German
military and civil prisoner interneG
in England received Christmas par
eel or cash gift in time for Christ
mas, contributed by the German Red
Cross society.
Senator Shafroth's bill to create a
18th federal farm loan district OF
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New
Mexico, with farm land bank at
Denver. has been approved by the
senate banking committee and or
dered favorably reported.
The Seine river in Paris rose IL
inches Saturday. All the wharves OF
Paris are now under water and large
quantities of coal are submerged
still further accentuating the fuel
famine. Most of the tributaries OF
the Seine continue to rise.
j. A. Shattuck, until recently cash
Ter in the Houston, Texas, offices OF
the l. & G. N. railroad, and w. H
Sinnet, assistant cashier at present
recently were arrested on warrants
charging embezzlement. Railroad Of
ficials stated that from $4,000 tc
$4,000 is missing.
Further successes by the Teutonic
allies on the lower lines Of the Be
reth river, near it's junction with the
Danube, officially reported Sunday
are partly offset by Rumanian ad
vance and the capture Of trenches OF
the Austro- German forces along the
Moldavian frontier, in the region OF
the Kasino river.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
Mexico Rejoices.

Mexico City.-It is stated here by
men high in the councils of the pro-
visional government and in close
touch with the international situa
ton that the result of the confer
ences between the Mexican and Uni
ted States commissioners has been
most satisfactory to Mexico. 1t is
promised that when the result is
made known the Mexican people will
have cause for universal satisfaction
and rejoicing. These men say it is
certain that President Wilson now is
handling the situation personally
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
FIND BODY OF YOUNG ARMOUR.
Had Disappeared October %, While
on Automobile Trip.

Had Disappeared October %, While
on Automobile Trip.
Sante Fe, N M-The body of Clyde
Armour, who disappeared October %.
while on an automobile trip, was
found Monday near Glorieta, about
20 miles from here. A human bone,
dragged by dog to ranch house,
led to search, which resulted in
the discovery of the mutilated body,
which was identified by means of a
receipt for automobile repairs.
E. w. Blancett, who was said to
have left here with Armour, was
arrested at Friday Harbor, Wash, in
connection with the case.
A shotgun was found beside the
body, from which one she'll had been
fired.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
WooDsMEN KILLED, FROZEN.
Victims of Accident Near Elk Lumbe
Camp Are Found.

Victims of Accident Near Elk Lumber
Camp Are Found.
Elk, Wash parties Mon
day found the mangled and crushed
body of John Yunker, age 45, frozen
stiff in the snow two miles from
camp 35 of the Edwards Bradford
Lumber company, six miles southeast
of Elk, and an hour later found the
dead and frozen body of his partner,
Sam Beck, age 35, about 80 feet
away, down hill and in some brush.
Yunker was instantly killed Satur-
day afternoon when a dead snap fell
upon him and Beck. In his struggles,
with one side of his head caved in,
Beck had wriggled into the brush.
Both mems hats were found four
feet apart. The temperature, 18 be-
low zero, hampered the searching
party.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Aerial mail service between San
Francisco and Sacramento is now
proposed.
Louis Moreno, aged 80, a farmer
near Pendleton, Ore, was killed re-
Gently when he fell from a threshing
machine which he was dismantling.
Searchers for Russell M. Christen-
sen, forest ranger, who had become
lost in a blizzard last Christmas day,
found his body Monday near La Pine,
Ore.
James B. Mcnamara, convicted of
having blown up Los Angeles build
ing, has been ordered to the prison
dungeon because he refuses to work
in the jute mill.
Royal w. Mingins of Seattle and
John V. Rowan of Vancouver bar
racks have been appointed, respect.
lively, captain and first lieutenant OF
infantry in the officers reserve corps
of the army.
Governor Alexander has appointed
Adam G.. Goss of Mohler a member
of the board of county commission
ers of Nez Perez county, to succeed
Thomas Thorstensen, who died the
day after he qualified.
Every member of the crew of the
steamer San Pedro, which arrived at
San Francisco recently from Navidad
bay, 35 miles from Mansanillo, Mex
leo. had bag Of gold valued from
$50 to 5000 washed from the sands
of creek that runs into the bay
near where the steamer was loading
cedar logs.
Four new searching parties in au.
tomobiles went into the desert coun.
try Monday in Lower California to
continue the hunt for Lieutenant Col.
onel Harry G. Bishop and lieutenant
w. A. Robertson, military aviators
lost since Wednesday without food
or water in a desolate region below
the American border.
A packing house at Friday Harbor
Wash, has just canned 800 cases OF
dogfish land plans to complete $4,000
cases before the end of the season
The label on the cans says: Gray
fish, new food packed at the re-
quest of the United States bureau OF
fisheries, and under methods ap
proved by it,
Consul General Franz Bopp of Ger
many received official notification al
San Francisco from Count Won Bern
storff, German ambassador, Of his
Temporary removal" following con
viction with Vice Consul E. H. Won
Setback and others of conspiracy tc
set afoot an unneutral military en-
terprise against Canada. Won Setback
was also removed.
| Conditions at the Oregon state
training school for boys, at Salem
were denounced in a report filed re
Gently by commission appointed by
the state board of control to make q
survey of the institution. Sanitary
conditions are deplorable, the sys
tenn of instruction and training is in
adequate, and the physical condition
of the boys in attendance is subnor
NAL, the report said.
Explosion of a box of gunpowdel
in store at Oregon city recently in
jured four men, blew the front ou
of the store and rocked the city's
business district for radius Of sew
eral blocks. The explosion was caus
ed when the store proprietor, l. Tol
polar, attempted to extract the pow
der from some ancient cartridges
Friction caused spark, which com
municated to a powder box
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
New York Metal Market.

The Metal Exchange quotes lead
$7.4o@7.5o. Spelter nominal. At Lon
don, lead, ESQ 1Os spelter, f49 IS.
Copper unsettled; electrolytic first,
second and third quarters, $26@32.50,
nominal.
Tin, firm; spot s42.62k @43.12k.
At London-Spot copper, f130; flu.
lures, f126; electrolytic, f141; spot
tin, f1s2 15s, futures, Elsa los.
Bar silver, 745sc.
Iron, firm and unchanged.
Mexican dollars, 81 5-1Sc.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
of rumors that Barney Baruch was
connected with the leak"
Call Each Other Liars.

Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes
quite rehabilitated, behond the new
Ananias club. When Chairman Henry
of the rules committee and Thomas
w. Lawson elected each other to
membership at the leak hearing the
new roll of members was established.
1t is to grow amazingly during the re-
mainder of the rules committees in
vestigation, for most Of the witnesses
to take the stand will be there to
call some one else liar. Alibis and
denials are in the making.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
TWO Men Powder victims.

New York-Two men employed In a
house where powder was glazed were
killed when the E. l. DUPONT plant
near Haskell, N. j., was wrecked by
an explosion Friday night, but all
other employees have been accounted
for. The property loss was official
ly estimated at not more than $780,
non
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
DIGGS AND CAMfNETTl
LOSE CASE ON APPEAL
Must Serve Prison Terms for Viola
ton of Mann White Slave Act
in Interstate Commerce.

Washington.-Inte the Mann
white slave law, the supreme court
Tuesday decided that prosecutions I'M
der the law for transporting women
in interstate commerce are not lin
tied to concentrated vice and in
clude personal immoral escapades.
Conviction Of d. Drew Caminetti
and Mauri |. Diggs Of Sacramento
was affirmed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
Big Fire at Chicago.

Chicago.-Two persons were burn
ed to death in fire which destroyed
a two-story north side dwelling house
Sunday. One victim, Carl Bottcher,
was 70 years old and blind. With
him persisted Hans Thompson. 33, a
teamster. Property loss 100000.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
1raaedy in St. Paul.

st. Paul, Minn.-Charles e. Woods,
a cook, is held by the police; his for
mer sweetheart, Ella Johnson, is
dead and her mother in a hospital as
the result Of an attempt by Woods
to force his attentions upon the girl.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Detroit, Mich.-William H. Hughes,
editor and publisher of the Michigan
Catholic.
La Mesa, N. M.-General Benjamin
]. Viljoen, who took prominent part
in the Boer war.
Springfield, Ill.-Thomas ]. Muir
ray, former treasurer of the Illinois
Liquor Dealers association.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
ADMIRAL DEWEY ON DEATHBED.
Hero of Manila Bay May Live SO
Hours-Stricken a Year Ago.

Washington, Jan. 17.-George Dew
ey, admiral of the navy and hero of
Manila bay, is on his deathbed. A
general breakdown accompanied by
arterio sclerosis has shattered the
veterans strength in his S0th year,
and tonight he lies at his home here
semi-conscious with life gradually eb-
bling away. The doctors say he may
live SO hours.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
LUMBER AND WOODWORKING.

The single mill of Walter DeLand
at Colyille was destroyed by fire last
week, entailing loss of about $4,000
with no insurance. 1t will be rebuilt.
The Great Northern Lumber Co. Of
Leavenworth, Wash, reorganization
of the Lamb-Davis Lumber Co., has
begun work on a large addition to
the sawmill and is preparing the mill
for continuous run of two shifts a
u
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
ARREST GIRLS FOR BLAckMAIl
Got $4,000 Under Threat Of Expos
ure, Iowa Victim Declares.

Cedar Rapids, Ia.-Miss Doris Byrn
and Miss Mahala Reed of Chicago are
in the county Jail, charged with ina
licious threats to extort," and con-
spiracy in connection with the al
legged Matchmaking of Franklin Jun
herman, local merchant.
A warrant also was issued for Har-
old Jirke, Chicago attorney, who
is said to have come here with the
girls in the alleged effort to black
mail Junkerman. 1t is alleged Jun
herman paid $4,000 to the girls un-
der threat of an accusation Of mis-
conduct.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19
Eranch RidicuIe Ieutons.

Paris.-The new Austrian and Ger
man notes are greeted with ridicule
by the French press Of all shades Of
opinion.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19

1t is love of good that spurs ambi.
ton to achieve greatness.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19

Look you upon life through the win
dows of the other house.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19

The population of Switzerland has
decreased as one consequence of the
war
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19

snip Doomed.
Heavy weather during the next
few days means the doom of the
cruiser, Frazer told the ships Off
GERS. The stranded submarine H-3
has been abandoned by navy sal
vagers
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-01-19

otdte VoHlHIeTCIdI NeWd.
William Leaf, Port Angeles grocer
reported assigned.
Bucoda Mercantile Co. succeeded
j. w. Gilbert, Bucoda.
Howard & Engle, Tenino grocers
reported assigned.
F. S. Underhill succeeded A. G
Miller, Olympia grocer.
Pendergraft & Kindle succeeded w
c.. Pendergraft, Doty grocer
Brown & Provanche succeed F. N
Kelly & Co., cigars, Bellingham.
T. A. Thorp has purchased the jew
elry business of III. B. Cauby at Wa
terville.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-02
THE eyEFFERSONIAN

agriculture.
jim Prices comical outfit at Griffin still
operates the COWS that Martin Calvin used
to milk; and James milks them more regu-
larly than my friend Martin did, because
James has no lovely, luxuriant whiskers to
milk.
Nevertheless, James Price is costing man
kind quite pile Of money, looking after
that little bunch of Jersey beauties, and grow
ing four stalks of corn where SIX used to
grow.
If Judge jim Flynt didn't reside near the
Griffin Experiment, I much fear that the
Station would never emerge from its chry-
sails condition. No butterflies come from the
Experiment.
To spend $4,000, or other large sum,
milking the same COWS and dipping for the
same ticks; and growing the same corn, cot
ton, COOLERS, ground-peas, and peanuts, year
IN and year out. does seem an expensive lux
ury, when Canadian. Soule is doing the same
thing at Athens
Should we afford two uxuries of the same
kind, at the same time?
Can we stand the expense?
Could we not make the world safe for de-
mocracy, without SO many different Expert
ments and Demonstrations?
Why not ask one of these Experiments to
cease Demonstrating, until we crush German
miltarism?
Or, why not tell the Demonstration that
it must discontinue its Experiment. until af-
ter we shall have liberated mankind?
Three million dollars year for education
And this, supplemented by local taxation in
every community where the local brethren
figure out, that they will get the benefit of
five dollars paid by nonresldents for each
dollar paid by themselves.
Well, the Legislature cannot improve edu-
cation in this State, by merely giving the
present system more money.
It's the system that's wrong.
AS long as such an incompetent and UNI
T faithful man as NJ. L. Britain is at the head
of the Public Schools, they never will be a
practical success
You can't put money enough in bad sys-
tenn, to make it good,
Your own common sense ought to tell you
that.
For many years, M. L. Britain has been
the assiduous ape of the School-booll Trust.
For many years, he has winked at the doc
toring of textbooks by Roman Catholic
priests.
Your textbooks have been Systematically
Jesuitized.
In the 'Readers" and the "Histories," the
Jesuits have stricken out everything calcu-
lated to inform your children of the truth
about the Protestant churches, and about the
horrible record of Roman Catholicism
Generations have graduated from the
schools, educated out Of all huoa0zedgo Of the
illustrative, odnp0nitory, and guiding facts Of
History.
The Catholic authors have SO manged and
falsifed the Middle Ages, and the Age of
Protestant Reformation, that your children
never know what the Roman church stood
for, what fearful abuses it sanctioned, and
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-02
PAGE SEVEN

tories" used IN the Public Schools, light
ems the pupil upon the fact, that the Public
Schools themselves had thei1 origin IN the
Protestant REFORMATION.
Thus, we have the strange spectacle of an
educated Protestant population untaught as
to the reasons which brought Professionalism
into existence
Ask these graduates of the Public Schools,
if they understand their relations to the
Government.
Ask them to give you their conception of
their rights, duties, and privileges, as citi-
Zens.
Ask them about the Constitution of the
United States: have they read it? do they
know what guarantees it gives to each per-
son? do they know what restrictions it places
upon Congress, and upon the State leglsla-
ture?
Ask that fine, intelligent, educated young
man to explain to you his status In the sys-
TEN Of government which his great-grand-
father fought to establish, for his benefit.
Can he do it? No.
1t IS pitiu63e.
In ali this world, there is hardly anything
more pitiable than an immensely expensive
system of public and free educatiom, which
leaves the graduate in the dark, as to his
civic rights privileges, and duties.
At every step in life, that graduate will
feel the need of this knowledge. Without it,
he is dreadfully handicapped.
The smallest trouble, sends him to the law
He cannot paddle his own canoe, at all.
Why? Because the system of education,
qchich fills his mind acith useless junh, leaves
it unsupplicd with the simplest rudmcnts of
practical knowledge
He is taught to "bound" every country on
the globe; and to locate every island, cape,
sound, lake, and sea : vt he IS not taught to
locate HIMSELF, as q citizen.
He is taught the sources of the Nile, the
Mississippi, the AmaZna. "l tI,- Ges: he
would be painfully Inundated if he could
not name the highest mountain anu tne most
celebrated volcano: he must learn by heart
the names of the capitals, and the principal
products of each nation.
But when you ask that fine young man,
who is entering upon life as a citizen OF the
greatest of Republics
"What are your natural rights. yo"r con-
stitutional liberties, and y0ur guaranteed
pyiri!cge?"-he is stricken dumb.
He does not know. It is something that
has to be learned, and nobody taught him!
again | say, IT is PITiABLE.
I never knew how pitiable, until the last
few months, when the terrible necessity came
upon the masses to protest against the wild
doings Of the Government.
Men do not know whether they have the
right to condemn an Act of Congress, sign
petition for it's repeal, or hold pcaceable
meeting of protest.
They stnp2y do not An0U!
And this calamitous ignorance Aourishes
in q State which has lavished scores of
millions upon Public Schools!
Those schools do not use a single textbook
,rh1l, taa1hnS the 1Aunil thn nlnnan NV min