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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-03-08

A. J. Copeland sold his residence on
Third and Tacoma to his brother Jack
this week. Mr.. and Mrs. A. >. Cope
land have moved into the residence OF
z. c. Ferrell on Fourth street.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-03-08
CREsswELL SELLS HIS CATTLE

Local StOckraiser Disposes of Entire
Herd and will Buy Purebreds
Fred Cresswell has sold his entire
herd of 2O3 head of cattle to VIM.
Henry of Ellensburg. Delivery will
be made this week and the cattle will
be driven to Toppenish where they will
be fed until the range season opens.
One hundred head of the cattle Mr..
Cresswell is delivering this week, be
sold last week to Jones and Handle,
of North Yakima and they in turn
sold to Mr.. Henry.
Mr.. Cresswell does not intend to go
out of the cattle raising business, but
is already making plans to stock his
ranch with purebred Herefords.
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QUICK JUSTICE IS METED OUT TO MEN
 lN A REGENT RIOT

SAN ANTONIO, Dec 11.-Thirteen negro soldiers hanged this morning at sunrise at Fort Sam Houston for compcy in the Houston riots of last August Others have been sentenced to life Imprisonment
 Last August one company of negro soldiers station ed near Houston Texas guarding canonment buildings took it into their heads to stir up things in the city, Dur ing the afternoon before the night upon which the riots occurred two negro soldiers had bee arrested by the Houston police for being disordery. The word was car
 ed to the negro camp that the police had arrested them without any charge At o'clock tha- night 100 negroes armed and under command of negro officer started for Houston The police were warned and on the outskirts of the city the first clash resulted and two bystanders were killed Apparently incensed at the attitude of the police the officers of the negro soldiers lost control of the nen and for several hours riotng resulted When the troops had been recalled fourteen dead were found four policemen two soldiers and eight civilians including l3 year old girl, struck by stray bullet
 The negro soldiers were herded into a box car and brought here then transferred to Fort Sam Houston and placed in the guard house court martial was ordered and the findings were sent to Washington ten days ago. Yesterday the findings approved by the War depart ment and the executions took place this morning. Prac-
 caly all of the company were convicted the majority being sentenced to life imprisonment
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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ALASKA
 COURT DECISION

WASHINGTON. Dec. II. - The Supreme Court of the United States today refused a review in the pro- ceedings brought by F. c. Moves, re- ceiver of the Washington-AIaslia banl, at Fairbanks, to recover from the bank officials money alleged lost through their management.
 The Supreme court sustained the Alaska courts decree and also furth- CT held that territorial District Courts were the same as District Courts in the United States, as all territories were part of the United States. One of the contentious made in the req sons for a review of the case was that the Alaska District Courts were with out proper Jurisdiction on certain matters.
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OHIO CITIZENS ARE SUFFERING
 LACK OF FUEL

COLUMBUS, O., Dee. II. - With the weather below zero and the Ohio coal shortage most acute, Governor Cox telegraphed Fuel Administrator Garfield at Washington, D. C. today, that the people of the state will lose confidence in the government unless they get immediate relief. This is proving the coldest December in the Ohio valley for the past forty years. It was IS below at Cincinatti this morning. Over one-half the people in the valley are without coal and with but little wood.
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FIRST GOVERNOR OF ALASKA DIES
 PENNSYLVANIA

GREENVILLE, Pa, Dec. II. - James Sheakley, first governor of the Territory of Alaska, died at his home here this forenoon at the age of 90 years. Ml. Sheakley was appointed governor by President Grover Cleye- land in 1893 after serving several years as an Alaska commissioner. Mir. Sheakley was a former Pennsyl- vania congressman.
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MAKES
 CHARGES AND
 PROBE STARTS
Federal Commission Investigating Charges That Dishonest Dealers Are Responsible for Present
 High Prices of Food
THREE KICKS FROM ALASKA

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - The Federal Trade Commission today be- gan an investigation of Food Admin istrator Hooyers charges that dis honest wholesale and retail merchants and food brokers were criminally res ponsible for the rising prices of food and also for the shortage.
 Victor Murdock has charge of the inquiry which will be most thorough and searching.
 Food Administrator Hoover an- nounced today that three complaints had been received from Alaska re- garding excessive prices of food staples.
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MACHINE GUNS TO CUT DOWN
 RUSS REBELS

LONDON, Dec. II. - The situa- tion at Moscow is reported grave. The Bolshevild is reported to have placed machine guns in the streets fearing an uprising of the garrison there. Insubordination is reported among the soldiers and orders are being disobey- ed. The Bolshevild commander is a private soldier formerly with Keren- sky's forces, named Muran0F. Russian troops are being dispatched from the western front, where an armistice has been arranged, for service against the Cossacks. Street fighting is reported this afternoon in Moscow.
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PIGEON CAUGHT WITH MESSAGE
 FOR HUN SPY

HALIFAX. Dec. IT, - A carrier pigeon, with a message written in German under its wing, was captured this morning when it entered the win dow of a house which was near the burned area The pigeon bore a of 'New York, Nov. 29" The pigeon was probably wounded in the explosion last Thursday The house where the pigeon entered had long been under investigation and it is be- lievcd that German spies lived there but are now among those arrested and iuterned in a stockade The mes sage is being translated
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TO RELIEVE CATTLEMEN

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - Fore seeing cattle starvation and danger to the national defense unless the proper precautions are taken, the pri- ority committee has issued a sweep ing order for the relief of the cattle men in the drought stricken areas of Texas and New Mexico.
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ALBERT JOHNSON TO
 GIVE WAR LECTURES

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - On the invitation of the membership commit tee of the National Red Cross, Re- presentative Albert Johnson will de- liver a series of addresses on the war as he found it in Europe, in aid of the Christmas Red Cross membership campaign. Johnson will start on his trip within few days delivering speeches on the way Westward, ar irving in Tacoma in time to spend Christmas with his mother.
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SOCIALIST PAPER
 SUPPORTING WAR

GERARD, Kansas, Dec. II. - The Appeal to Reason" the piO- neer Socialist paper in the Unit ed States, announced today that the name would be immediately changed to the "New Appeal to Support War" The editorial making this announcement says that all people must be Americans now or be slaves of the Kaiser later The paper calls upon all Socialists to rally to the flag of the United States and fight.
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FIRST WOMAN IN
 GREAT BRITAIN TO
 GET AVIATION PERMIT

LONDON, Dec. n. - Mrs. Mau- rice Hewlett, wife of the novelist, was the first woman to gain an air pilots license in England, and she has now become the first woman head of an auplane factory It has just been completed, a huge group of low frame buildings covering what was a year ago a wheat field. It is two miles from the nearest town.
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CHARLEY WHITE DEAD

NEW YORK, Dec. II. - Charley White, famous boxing referee is dead from a complication of diseases. He was 55 years old. White really fought his way through life. As a boy, he had to maintain his rights against his companions on Cherry Street, where he lived all of his fifty-fve years with the aid of his fists.
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RED CROSS IS SPENDING BIG
 SUMS ABROAD

WASHINGTON, Dec. n. - The sum of S4O,OOO,OOO Red Cross war fund has been spent for the purchase of materials and for relief work in France, Belgium, England, Russia, Rumania, Serbia, and for the Amen- ians and Syrians, according to the semi-annual report issued today The report says there are now 5,0OOOOO members of the American Red Cross including every State and Territory in the Union.
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PLANT ROOF BLOWN OFF

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. II. - A series of explosions blew off the roof of the Armstrong manufacturing com pany and endangered 100 wOrlmen. The explosions were caused by thirty tons of sodium of nitrate catching fire.
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WILL DEBATE
 PROHIBITION
 NEXT MONDAY
Amendment for a Dry Nation Will Be Discussed Next Week As Agreement Is Reached
 In House Leaders
SENATE HAS ACTED ON BILL

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - The House of Representatives agreed this afternoon to consider the constitu- tional amendment for national pro- hibition next Monday
 The Senate has already passed the prohibition amendment.
 The matter was called up in the House today when the Judiciary com mittec reported favorably upon the amendment.
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CHARLES W. BAILEY
 WHO HELPED BUILD THE
 GREAT NORTHERN, DEAD

DETROIT, Dec. n. - Charles w. Bailey, who helped James J. Hill build the great Northern railway and other Northwestern railways is dead. He was a prominent figure among engineers and contractors.
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DEP ABATEMENT OF
 WAR WILL NOW
 BE LOOKED OVER

WASHINGTON, Dec. Il. - The Military affairs committee of the Senate today decided to conduct a general inquiry into the War Depart ment's operations in alming and equipping the American forces. Sec retary of War Newton D. Baker and other heads will be called upon to ex- plain many of the features of aIming.
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COMPLIMENTS MIR. GEORGE

WASHINGTON, Dee. II. - Lord Northclifre in an interview in London, referred to Lloyd-George as the Hive wire at the helm" but declared that unfortunately a good many officers of his ship of state are "shirt fronts" and rubber stamps"
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BIC CATERER
 0F SEATTLE
 PASSES AWAY

SEATTLE, Dec. II. - Chauncey Wright, one of the best known cater CTS in the Northwest and the owner of four restaurants in this city, died suddenly last night of nemitis. ur. Wright was 45 years of age. With his father he conducted roadhouse at Dawson during the stampede to the Kloudike.
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U. $. SPRUCE REGIMENT
 GOING TO WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - The government is preparing to send a spruce regiment of about 5000 men to get out aircraft lumber in the Grays Harbor Willapa Harbor Col umbia river and Coos Bay districts.
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VALUE PLACED UPON
 YEARS CROPS

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - The Department of Agriculture today in an official statement reported the va lue of the nations 1917 crops as twenty-one billion dollars. This is the greatest value in the history of the United States. The Department an- nounces that the crops showed over three billion bushels of corn along.
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YILLISTAS ARE ACTIVE

EAGLE PASS, Tex, Dec. II. - It is reported here today that the Willis tas captured the Mexican city of Monclova, 15O miles from here dur ing the night. All wires have been cut and further information is impos- sible.
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APPALLING WAS THE DISASTER
 IN NOVASCOTIA

The disaster at Halifax was appa.- ling and this information comes di- rect from one of the sufferers. Last night Fl. v. Hobeu received wine direct from his brother C. R. Hoben who said. "All have fortunately es- capped lmcaning his faml.yJ but s.oge and house wrecked. Disaster appa.- ling"
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REPULsE GERMANS

ROME, Dec. II. - The Italians have repulsed in sanguinary fighting the powerful Teuton attempts to re- take Agenzb and Zulani, positions on the lower Piave. This is the only of ficial announcement made today by the war Department
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MANY ALIEN ENEMIES

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - Bureau of Census estimates that there are 4662,OOO enemy aliens in the United States.
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SWEDISH MINISTER DEPARTS WITHOUT
 ANY FAREWELLS

BUENOS AYRES, Dec. II. - Ba- ron Iowen, Swedish minister, depart ed from here without any of the usual official farewells.
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FISH QUOTATIONS

SEATTLE, Dec Il. - Halibut was quoted at noon today at seventeen and one-half cents.
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ENTER JERUSALEM

LONDON, Dec. II. - The British forces planned the official entry into Jerusalem this afternoon according to report received here at noon.
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TTTPTEET NEGRO SOLDIERS ARB
 HANGED FOR MURDERS IN TEXAS
ARTILLERY ACTIVE ALONG THE FRONT
 BIC BLOW PLANNED

WASHINGTON, Dec ll.-It is beleiyed here that heavy German achievements have arrived in France and it is believed that blow will shortly be struck but where it will fall is unknown The infantry along the western front has been inactive for three days but the artillery has been busy.
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LONDON. Dee. 11.-Jnusualy active artiIeIyng and aerial operJons especially in the Ypres and Amas fronts are reported today in the official dispatches Gen eral Byng reports only artillery action on the Cambria front with no decisive movements on either side.
 British French and American aviatorS report large concentration movement of German soldiers at various sections of the western front
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The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-21
WHEAT REVOLT LAID TO FOES
U. S. Finds German Propaganda in
Northwest States Caused
Farmer Rebellion.

Washington, Sept. 17.-Pro- German
propaganda is responsible for the re-
fusal of farmers to sell their wheat
crop at the price fixed by the govern
ment was the statement Issued by the
food administration on Friday night.
Mr.. Hoover declared, except in ter
ritories affected by pro-German and
anti-war agitations, there was no dis
position on the part of farmers TO
withhold crops.
The food administration fatty de-
MED the government is considering
communicating wheat stocks of farm
ers.
MIR. Hoover has turned the entire
problem over TO the department of JUS
tice. The department has been asked
to investigate thoroughly various or
ganlzations and meetings. particularly
In the Northwest, which contemplate
an agitation to upset the governments
fixed price of 1920 per bushel on
wheat. The farmers meeting called
to meet In ST. Paul Monday to de-
mand price Of So a bushel, has been
the subject of a thorough probe.
Officials of the department of jus-
tice will prosecute all involved In
any agitation to embarrass the gov.
ernment In the prosecution Of the war.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-21
U. S. SHIPS SINK U-BOAT
TWO Merchant Vessels Sent Down
During sattIe-Convoy At
tack U-Boat

Washington, Sept 13-A typo
graphical error in Cablegram report
Ing submarine attack on convoy
of merchant ships OF the coast OF
France on September led Secretary
Daniels TO announce on TUESDAY that
six submarines probably had been sunk
in the battle, when in reality the prob
liabilities are only one was destroyed.
The mistake was not discovered until
several hours after the country had
been electrified by the report of a
Wholesale sinking of German U-bOats.
The true version, IL appears, is that
the merchant ships, of which the West
wego was one, We're attacked by sub
marines in force off the coast of France
on September and that in the fight
two of the merchant ships were lost,
and probably one of the submarines
was sunk.
The merchant fleet, of which the
Nestwego was one, was on the way to
Europe from the United States when
attacked. The vessels were under con-
voy, but no details received Names of
the two ships sunk We're not included
in the dispatch.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-21
WIN 8 FIGHTS WITH DIVERS
British Seaplanes Join Allied Subma-
rines in Defeating U-Boats,
Says London.

London, Sept. Histories of some
recent successes of the British navy
against German submarines were
given to the public on Friday in a
series of brief descriptions of eight
encounters in which eight, and possi-
bly, nine, U-bOats were accounted for.
These eight sea battle pictures were
selected so as to cover practically the
whole ground of anti-submarine activ-
tiles.
In one case there was a battle be-
tween an auxiliary cruiser and SUBJ
marine, in another an engagement
between a seaplane and a submarine,
then battle between two sub
marines I'm which the British sub
marine captain proved himself the
better man, and finally two tales Of
successes of armed merchantmen
against the enemy.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-21
STATE WINS CASE
LONG FOUGHT BATTLE FOR POS.
SESSION OF MCCLELLAN
THOUSANDS AT END.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
from the Capital City, the various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine state.

Pierre -
The announcement tha. George +
B!ackman had filed his final report as
administrator Of the John Mcclellan
estate and asked for an order TO turn
the estate over to w. L. Baker, as
receiver, has even more sifinigcance
than at first appears. Il means that
the battle Of IS years for the posses.
sion OF the estate of the late John Nc.
Clellan, now amounting to about $50.
oOO Is practically over and the money
will soon be turned into the state
treasury And thus will end probably
the most prominent case ever before
the courts Of South Dakota
This case has become one OF the
landmarks in South Dakota courts
The litigation started the date Of the
death OF John Mcclellan. which oc
Cured IS years ago. the I'd day Of
August. II was first tried in county
court before Judge Wilkes and re.
suited in a finding by him in favor OF
the Ireland claimants II was next
tried in the circuit court before Judge
Jones and a jury. and resulted in
decision in favor OF the Canadian
claimants II was next tried before
Judge A w Campbell of Aberdeen.
who held that none OF the three fami.
lies OF claimants then contending for
the estate was related to John Nc
Clellan. II then went to the supreme
court. and Judge Campbell's decision
was at first affirmed but on a rehear.
ing a new trial was granted to the
Canadian claimants This was In
1906. 1t was next tried in 1908 before
Judge Whiting. then circuit Judge in
the Huron circuit but now one of the
supreme court judges, who held that
the Canadian claimants were not re.
lated to John Mcclellan and that the
property had escheated II went again
to the supreme court and was by it
sent back again for new trial in the
circuit court of Minnehaha county.
where it came on for trial again
While the litigation was going on
in the state court. the case also found
its way into the United States courts.
and was up for hearing in various
phases, several times before Judge
Garland as United States district
Judge. also Judge willard. and later
before Judge Elliott. and was also
twice before the United States circuit
court Of appeals. and was once before
the United States supreme court.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-21
GUSTS GERMAN ENVOY
COUNT lUXBURG DISMISSED BY
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
Teuton Legation and Newspaper Build.
ings in Buenos Aires Are Stoned
by Mobs.

Buenos Aires, Sept. 14.-Immense
crowds Joined in an ant-German dem
onstration here. The German legation
and German newspaper buildings were
stoned. There was serious rioting and
mounted police charged the mObs In
the fashionable Avenida Florida.
The Argentine government sent TO
the German legation passports to be
delivered TO Count LuXburg, the Ger.
man minister In Buenos Aires. The
whereabouts of Count Luxburg still is
unknown to the Argentine government.
The Argentine government also has
demanded an explanation from Sweden
regarding the transmission of messages
10 Germany.
The note sent by Foreign Minister
Pueyrredon TO Count Won Luxburg, In
which the German minister was ten
dered his passports, reads
"Mr. Minister: You having ceased
to be persona grata TO the Argentine
government. that government has de-
cided to deliver to you your passports,
which transmit herewith by order of
his excellency, the president of the
nation.
THE introducer of embassies has
instructions TO assist you In your i'm
mediate departure from the territory
of the republic. God keep you.
III. PUEYRREDON.
"To Count Karl Won Luxburg, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipo-
tentlary Of the German empire"
The Argentine minister at Berlin
has been instructed TO inform the Ger
man foreign office that Count Won Lux
burg has been handed his passports
and TO ask for explanations regarding
the telegram disclosure. If the Ger
man government disapproves Of the
text of the German minister's dis
patches, and especially of the word
"ass," which term the count applied TO
the Argentine foreign minister the sit.
uation may clear If Berlin does not
disavow the minister's course Argen-
tina will recall her minister from Ger
many, but may permit the legation to
remain.
Argentina also has asked the Ger
man government for n full explanation
Of its present policy of sinking Argen-
tine ships.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-21
ENVOY ACTED AS SPY
LANSING REVEALS HOW SWCD.
iSH MINISTER IN MEXICO
AIDED GERMANY.
LETTER Is MADE PUBLIC
Note From German Minister in Mexico
City to Berlin Government Asked
Decoration for Stockholm
Representative.

Washington, Sept. 15.-The material
ana given Germany by Sweden was not
confined To transmission of naval Sc
crets by code from Argentina to Ber-
lin. copy of an official letter from
Herr Won Eckhardt, German minister
IN Mexico, TO his home office, given out
by Secretary Lansing on Thursday,
makes the startling revelation that
Folke Cronholm, Swedish charge
daifaires in Mexico City. was an active
agent of the German government.
So extensive We're his services that
he was recommended to the kaiser
aS being worthy of special decOra-
ton as reward for his services.
1t is shown that Folke CronhOlm not
only gave military and diplomatic in
formation To Minister Won Eckhardt at
least up to March, 1916, but that he
followed the example of his colleague
in Buenos Aires by transmitting Off
bassy in the official Swedish code to
the foreign office at Stockholm and
thence To Berlin.
At the same time the secretary Of
state made public Il report from Ira
Nelson Morris, American minister ut
Stockholm, declaring that while the
Swedish foreign office was transmitting
German messages in German code for
the German diplomats. it was requir
ing Mr. Morris to file his messages 10
ConstantinOple via the Swedish foreign
office in French.