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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
SIBERIA NOW
is SCENE OF
BLOODY ACTS
Cossacks in Battle With
Red Guards Bent Upon
Murder.

Picking, Sunday. Dec. 3G.-Ciyil
war is in progress at Irkutsh. in
eastern Siberia, on the trans-Si-
berian railroad and in the sur
rounding districts.
The town was set on fire by red
guards after they had murdered
the French consular agent and
three other Frenehmen.
Many persons, including women
and children, are being murdered
and street fighting IN under way.
The Bolsheyiki continue to receive
reinforcements and ammunition from
Krasnoyarsk, The Cossacks are Of
fering determined opposition to the
red guards. The Siberian railway
guards are outnumbered and are being
killed or driven from their posts. Com
munication with Petrograd has been
cut off
Boisheviki uprisings have occurred
at Tchita and Yerkhne-U dinsk, both
Of which towns are on the trans-Si-
berian railway. Hardin is quiet. with
the Chinese in full control They are
guarding the banks. stores and rail
ways.
Writes About B0lSheyiki-
London, Dec 31.-The Bolsheviki
government is extremely efficient, en-
ergetic and decisive though faced by
noisy opposition from the privileged
classes who are doing all they can tc
check it by sabotage and libel, ac-
cording to the Petrograd correspond
ent of the Daily News.
The correspondent, who has just re
turned to Petrograd after lengthy
visit in England, says that the city is
more orderly than for sore months
before the Bolsheviki took control
The people may not like the Bolshe
wiki, he declares. but they obey then
with startling alacrity and the goH
eminent is based on real force.
The constituent assembly, the cor
respondent hears. viii meet as soo1
as delegates from the Ukraine arrive
perhaps in ten days. He asserts tina
whatever is the decision of the as
sembly as constituted at present. i
will not alter the essential direction
of Russian policy, although it might
by weakening the government a
home. weaken it in its dealings witt
/ the Germans.
Anarchy Would Favor Germans.
Any attempt to turn out the Bolshe
wiki government by force would re
suit only in anarchy favorable to tn
Germans, says the correspondent, VIII
does not believe that such force i
available He writes enthusiastically
about Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheyik
foreign minister, who told him tina
/ the war would be decided by socia
rather than military pressure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
ENGLISH CHECK GREAT ENEMY ATTACK
Contents of Annual
Yedr-End ReUietU

SECTION /.
Page Telegraph.
Page City news.
Page 3 City news.
Theatrical.
Page City news.
Page flock Island commissioned
officers.
Page editorial.
Page Society.
Page s-Churehes.
Sunday schools.
Page 9-WOman's club.
Rock Island Musical club.
Y. W. c. A.
West End Settlement
Page i0-M0line and East Moline.
Page if-Pe0ple's Power company.
Page i2-Annual review of sports.
Page la-Markets and want ads.
Page l4-City news.
SECTION III.
Page Local chronological review.
county m0rtuary review.
Page Court house reports.
Page 3-Chamber of Commerce.
Page 4-P0liee.
Agricultural.
Page 5-RiVer.
Page 6-LOcal chronological review,
continued.
Page county mortuary review.
continued.
Page S-ROyal Neighhors of America.
High school.
Red Cross,
Page 9-Grammar schools.
Modern Wo0dmen of Amer
lea.
Free employment bureau.
Municipal parks.
Pake 10-W0rid chronological review.
Page il-County crop review.
Young Mems Christian ass0-
citation.
Community gardens.
Page 12-Mctarthy improvement Go.
SECTION III.
Page Summary of improvements.
Rock Island arsenal.
Building reports.
Public improvements.
Page 2-Tri-City Railway company.
Growth in banking power.
/ Central Union Telephone
/ company.
/ Page Factory extension.
Real estate review.
Peoples Fewer company.
Moderator operation.
! Municipal water supply.
Page 4-List of buildings erected.
Page Sewer extension.
Eject of war on improve
] ments,
Heating plant work.
Page 6-Watermain extension.
Outlook on coal situation.
Page State centennial plans II
county.
Police matron's report.
Tri-City Federation of La
Dor.
Page S-Uniyersal tractor plant.
Municipal work.
Plumbing inspectors report
Rock Island Manufacturing
company.
Page 9-R0ek Island Bridge 6 Ir0l
company.
! Page 10-Sidewaik extension.
Cost of maintaining streets.
Page 11-Rock Island Liquor Dealer.
Protective association.
Page 12-ROck Island Brewing CON
pany.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
Estimated 100000 People
Have Been Driven Out
of Homes.

New York. Dec. 31.-An estimate
of 1000 persons died in the earth
quake ruins Mt Guatemala City, Is
contained In a telegram received
here from the Central and South
American Telegraph company's
manager at San Jose, Guatemala,
who returned TO San Jose from
Guatemala City yesterday after
noon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
WHY LOAN IN
GUNS TO us.
WASDESIRED
General Crozier On Stand
Has Reply for Lewis
Testimony.

Washington, Dec. 3i-The SEN
ate war inquiry again was turned
to the ordnance situation when
Major General CrOzier was per-
mitted to take the stand again to-
day to reply to recent statements
made by Colonel Isaac Lewis, III
YentOr OF the Lewis machine gun,
rejected by the war department in
favor of the Browning gun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
FRENCHHuRl
F0RCES0vER
ITALIAN LINE
Brilliant Stroke Shakes
Austro- German Wall
of Defense.

by the Associated Press.)
The Austr0-German lines on the
Italian mountain front felt the
shock yesterday of a French in
fantry blow and were shaken, ii
not broken by the impact.
The French stroke Was deliy-
cred on the easterIy end OF the
mountain line near its junction
with the Piaye. the assault being
directed at Monte Tomba.
The attacking columns broke
into the enemy defenses on the
mountain Mt some points and ap-
parents made good their hold, as
Berlin admits u penetration, of the
T0mba positions.
The Official bulletin from Rome de-
clares that the French captured enemy
positions between Osteria Di Monfer-
ena and Maranzine, with about one
thousand four hundred men, so ma
chine guns and seven cannon.
Victory is Significant.
The Austrian official statement
makes the French victory appear even
more significant than does that of Ber-
lin, as it announces the preparation
of counter measures" against the
French. This expression has prev
iously been used in statements from
the Teutonic side in initial announce
ments on occasions when striking sue
cesses have been scored by enemy
forces.
Yesterdays attack was the first Of
fensive move by the French on this
front so far as the official statements
have shown.
Capture l,400 Austro-Germans.
Rome, Dec. S1.-In the Monte Tombs
region on the northern front thu
French have captured enemy positions
between 0steria di Monferena an(
Maranzine, the war Office announces
They also captured about one thou
sand four hundred men and so ma
chine guns and seven cannon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31

Washington, Dec. 3I.+-Still without
detailed information oS the earth
ouakes which destroyed Guatemala
City, costing many lives and leaving
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31

London, Dec. 31.-The British
In successful counter attacks on
the Cambria front have regained
the more important territory on
Welsh ridge. taken by the Ger
mans in yesterdays attack, the
var office reports.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31

This probably is, in effect, the famil-
lar most favored nation" clause
which frequently is included in
treaties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31

Continued on Page Ten.)
Evening star., 1917-03-04

dweller begins to take notice Of the
season of the year, and make plans
for his vacation.
Motorists Begin to Stir.
when in the national touring
bureaus of the American Automobile
Association the Office force commences
to stay overtime a little more with
each succeeding day. and when the
long winters work of drafting maps
of the nations improved miles and
miles of travelable highways becomes
subjected to numerous Interruptions.
as anxious motor tourists begin to
pour in for late information-then we
of the American Automobile Associa-
ton recognize an unfailing indication
that spring is not far away.
And with the marvellous increase
in self-propelled vericles and the great
strides being made in road building
comes to the American Automobile As
sociation intelligence depots this year
an unprecedented demand for touring
information. about sections Of the
United States not heretofore favored
with inquiry.
while it is generally known that
many of the backward road building
states of the south are constructing
new highways; that new beauty spots
in New England are being made acces-
sible: that engineers have mastered
the shifting sands of the desert; that
better roads to many of our national
parks are available. and that an auto
mobile highway is being constructed
across the Florida Everglades, most
motorists have hazy knowledge OF
the exact facts. But our touring di-
rectors have these facts and as this
information has been assembled for
the benefit of motorists who would
tour far and wide, we are getting
plenty of evidence that spring is on
the horizon"
Evening star., 1917-03-04
SIGNS Of SPRING SEEN
IN MOTOR ACTIVITIES
Prospective Tourists Beginning to
Make Inquiries at A. A. A.
Headquarters.

while March 20 has been scien-
tifcalIy indorsed and placed red-circled
on 1917 calendars, there is now new
evidence other than the ringed date
to Indicate that spring is not far dis
tant Not the least Of these tell-tales
is the cracking of paper which accom-
panies the unfolding Of maps. as many
winter-bound and now restless motor
lists begin to make plans for the
coming touring season.
This was the observation Of Chair
man David G. Joyce of the American
Automobile Associations touring board,
at the close of a week of unusual
activity at the American Automobile
Associations national touring bureaus
in Washington and New York city.
Spring Signs Everywhere.
signs indicating the approach of
spring are everywhere" continued Mr..
Joyce. "and they may be found in a
variety Of forms. After long, bleak
winter in the country there is some
thing very significant about the sounds
heard in late February-the twittering
of incoming birds. the cries of depart
ing geese, and all through the night.
from dark to dawn, the rush and whir
Of wings. 1t is in the rural districts,
particularly the southern river dis
tricts surrounded by marshes. that one
hears the first echo. catches the first
stir. gets the first thrill of the coming
spring. When the wild geese leap
into the air. circle solemnly. and then
swing exultantly nprthward. the coun-
tryside knows springtime is near
when in Portland. Ore. the mer-
chants of the water front begin to
watch the distant snow-capped noun
tains. and talk of plans to meet the
annual spring rise of the Columbia !:
when at Coney Island the showmen
begin inspection of idle amusement
devices: when at Chicago and other
ports on the great lakes long docked
steamers are prepared for service; !;
when newspapers everywhere begin to
print advertisements telling city folks
of the beauty, Comforts and health
giving breezes of this or that seaside
or mountain resort-then the city
Evening star., 1917-03-04
Limitations.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Remember" said the booking agent.
9Th Op'ry House at Plunkville can book
only q certain line of plays"
whats their specialty-somethins
educational?"
mot that. But the Op'ry House Is
over a livery stable and any show liable
to scare horses can't be booked"
Evening star., 1917-03-04
ELECTRIC COMMERCIAL
VEHICLES LARGELY USED
Millions Are Invested in Vehicle
Equipment in Many Branches
of Endeavor.

A large number of successful organi-
cations now are operating big trans
portation fleets of electric commercial
vehicles according to A. Jackson Mar
shall, secretary of the electric vehicle
section of the National Electric Light
Association. The following figures show
the value of electric commercial We
hicle equipments in various lines of
business:
Brewers. s5.s5o,0Oo: department
panies, S4,171,000: express and transfer
companies. s3,460,o0o; manufacturers
Evening star., 1917-03-04
Christian Names.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
The practice, common in Lancashire.
of endowing children with such names
as General" Admiral" Major" and
so on. is at any time apt to lead to
amusing confusions. At the present
time. in the British army, there is at
least one General who is receiving
private's pay, and an Admiral is in
a similar position. A Major" was.
only the other day, exempted from
military service.
Evening star., 1917-03-04
CARE SHOULD Be TAKEN
OF STORAGE BATTERIES
Motorist Should Show Them Same
Consideration as He
Would Tires.

Batteries and tires" says a local bat
terry expert, ARE very much alike as
far as care goes, and IL the motorist
would learn to think of them both in
the same way he would save himself
all kinds of trouble and disappoint-
ments.
The storage battery is a legitimate
expense. 1t is not designed to last as
long as the mechanical parts of the
car. nor should any man expect it.
Being an electro-chemical device and
not mechanical one it is bound to
wear down sooner or later.
Just as tires should be kept fully in
fated up to proper pressure, so
storage battery should be kept fully
charged. A half-charged storage bat
terry is not going to give any better
service nor have any longer life than
haif-infiated tire.
LAS far as actual operation is con-
cerned. the motorist has no intimation
in either case that he is not doing the
right thing. but suddenly without any
warning the tire blows out or the bat
terry goes dead.
Evening star., 1917-03-04

and merchants Industrial trucks, $2,-
100000; industrial manufacturers. ST.
$4,000; railroad and steamship COM
1920. 900; bakers. Si.023.000: packing
house organizations. $67s.000; United
States government service, $615,000:
general trucking. $6l0,7S4: wholesale
dry goods, 100000: municipal ap-
paratus. ssss. 900: storage warehouses;,
$3.50, 900; retail grocers. $I70.972; whole
sale grocers, $15o.ooO: food products,
Evening star., 1917-03-04

yannah street southeast. Ford, 1917.
47442-Harry NJ. Kennedy, rs Q street
northwest, Ford, 1915.
47443-John r. Wright, 1887 1oth
street northwest, Chalmers, 1917.
47444-Harlan-Ad Company. 32lS
X street northwest, Wilcox Trux. 1917
47445-Navy yard, Washington, D. Z"
Ford 1917
Evening star., 1917-03-04

S12s.12o; coal merchants, $4,000; hos
pitai ambulances. $4,000: hardware.
$4,000: publishers. Ss5.7s7; glass.
toners. Ss3.s4o; restaurateurs, $60.450;
musical Instruments, &48.6s7: silver
smiths, $ss.650: ice. 33o.6so: dairy prod
ucts, 3S0.220: clothing, retail. $2s.645;
silk hnishers. 321.5c5: oriental furnish
ings, $4,000: soaps, $17.2b0; carpets,
S16,S40; other miscellaneous applica-
tions, $6,134.000.
Evening star., 1917-03-04
New Map Being Drawn.

At club headquarters a new map is
being drawn which will show how
much beautiful and interesting coun-
try, accessible via good toll-free road
and requiring only a District license
tag, will be opened up by the compile
tion of this one stretch.
Secretary Ullman names 100000 as
a conservative estimate of the sum in
which Washington hotels would benefit
by this road during the summer sea-
son alone.
Recent contributors to the fund aze:
DR.. James NJ. Flint. s25: n. W. Burshell,
$40: Buick Motor Company, SO; Bar
Der & Ross. $40; National Electrical
Supply Company, SIS; Vernon Bailey.
So; A. Y. Leech, jr., IS; William H.
Clarke. So; J. s. Gruver, So; James L.
Marshall and John A. Massie. 50;
Charles L. Henry, So: Thomas Bradley.
81: John Lewis Smith, So; W. Z. Her
bert. So; H. J. Crossen. So, and E. ].
Febrey, 81.
Evening star., 1917-03-04
Batteries for Rental.

NO car owner takes a tire to the re-
pair shop, and. while it is being repair
ed. demands that another be supplied to
him to use There is no logical reason
why he should make this demand when
he takes a storage battery to be repair
ed However, we have batteries of all
types and sizes for rental at very
reasonable price when the owners bat
terry is being repaired.
Both tires and batteries are guaran-
teed against defects in workmanship or
material, but neither is guaranteed
against breakdown il the car owner
abuses them The car owner pays for
tire repairs and never thinks thing
about them. In the same way he
should cheerfully pay for such repairs
as are necessary from time to time on
his storage battery"
Evening star., 1917-03-04
Work Is to Cost S34, 900.

Originally 1t was hoped to raise
$1,000 IN Washington. inasmuch as the
work in the swamp district will cost
$4,000. and the Richmond
highway completed nearly 100000,
most OF which has been contributed by
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Alex
andria-
Accordingly the local motor club
last week began a final drive for sub
scriptions to the work. and it was the
generous response accorded its first
batch of solicitation letters that gives
hopeful view of its efforts to Danish
the Virginia bog and to join the two
capitals with a modern roadway.
Responses TO the clubs recent pleas
for funds are coming frequently, and
IN more generous proportions than
marked the campaign of last summer
officials of the organization state. This.
they say, would seem to indicate that
local merchants have finally awakened
TO the fact that Washington last year
did not enjoy the prosperity that usu-
ally follows the summer motor tour
list. and that the reason was the closed
road to and from the south.
According to one A. A. A. official,
huge surprise is in store for local
merchants and motorists when the
Washing Richmond highway is
opened This, he says, will be in the
form of the increased trade for mer-
chants and increased touring radius
for motorists.
Evening star., 1917-03-04
SWAMP GRADUALLY
BEING CONQUERED
Good Progress Is Being Made
on Highway Through
ChopaWamsic.
FUNDS COME IN RAPIDLY

Chopawamsic swamp is being driven,
slowly but surely. from its longtime
stand IN the center of the Washington
Richmond highway. and within the
next six weeks will disappear entirely.
provided subscriptions to the banishing
process continue TO come in as they
have during the past week, according
to officials of the \. \. a. District OF
Columbia Club. which organization re-
Gently instituted another campaign for
funds with which to replace the bog
with a modern highway.
Throughout the past winter men. with
necessary machinery. have been at work
in the swamp district endeavoring to
connect Washington and Richmond with
a good automobile highway, and the
work was almost completed when
shortage of funds interviewed. In an
effort to get the road opened for spring
travel a hurry call was sent to motor
organizations in the towns and cities
along the route. and the National
Capital, through the A A. a. club. was
asked to assist to the extent of an
additional $1,000, 1000 having been pre-
viously subscribed here.
Evening star., 1917-03-04
Results of Rough Riding.

Just as hard rough riding over poor
roads causes stone bruises and cuts IN
tires, so it may cause a broken jar in
a battery. This, of course. means that
if broken Jars are to be avoided the
battery must be firmly clamped down
and the machine driven with some
amount of care. A broken jar Is practl-
cally equivalent to q blowout or pune
ture in the tire. No motorist would at
tempt to run his machine Oh blow
out tire nor should he cry to use his
battery with one cell broken
"A tire begins to wear out lmme-
diately after it is made, for whether II
Is in actual use or not, the rubber be-
comes brittle and loses its life. Tire
manufacturers. as matter OF fact, con-
slider tires that have been in STOCK lot
some time, as secon6s.
"A battery also begins to wear out as
soon as it is made whether it is in use
or not. Deterioration in an unused
battery, however. is very slight
"A second hand battery is no more
salabIe than a second hand tire. NO
car owner. then, should bring a tenn
porarily imperative battery to the
dealer and want 1t exchanged for a new
one, even If he is willing to pay the
difference" If upon examination 1t Is
not worth repairing, we VIII allow lts
full scrap value toward the purchase
of new battery.
Evening star., 1917-03-04

Denver is to have four new Carnegie
branch libraries.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-07-05
CANADIANS CONTINUE DRIVE
AGAINST LINE AT LENS

Brazil is no longer a neutral in the
.wofld.war and the German empire has
another enemy arrayed against it.
Having previously revoked its poll.
cyiof aloofness so far as 1t affected
the hostilities between the United
kas and Germany, Brazil now has
- Rtalx- the open and an:
|6scu that it can no longer be con-
sidbred neutral in the war between the
entente and Germany.
Although no announcement has
been made as to whether the South
American republic will actually enter
intb hositilities by its revocation OF
neutrality, 1t definitely aligns itself
morally on the side Of the United
States and the entente.
The Canadians, men from all parts
Of the dominion, have taken another
hack at the German lines protecting
Lers, the coal center in the Depart
ment of Pas de Calais and have been
rewarded with another encroaehment
upon their objective.
Striking on a two-mile front south
Of Lens, the Canadians, protected by
effective curtain fires, stormed and
CAPTURED German first line positions
befpre Avion and also the village Of
Lealvette. They defeated in their on
sladghts men Of the crack Prussian
guard and the fifth grenadier guards,
whose machine gun and rifle fire and
the fact that the attacking force had
to cut through wire entanglements
could not stay them.
When the battle ended and the Ca
nadans began their work Of consoli.
dating newly-won positions their line
had been extended to within one mile
Of the center of Lens, the fall Of which
under such tenacious assaults as have
been made recently seemingly cannot
be long delayed.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-07-05
Bt REDUCTIONS
[ IN COAL PRICES
BIT EM'Nous PRODUCT MINED
EAsT OF MISSISSIPPI EFFECT.
Il ED BY AGREEMENT.
co.'s into EFFECTAT ONCE
peefeases Ranging From One to Five
pbiIars Per Ton to the Public
oAestion of Prices on Anthracite
cbmes Up Later.

Washington. reductions
In lie price of 'bituminous coal at all
minis east of Mississippi river, rang
ing ffrom one to five dollars a ton to
the Ipubllc. with an additional cut OF
fifty cents for the government, were
AGREED upon at conferences between
tireI>erators and government offi-
ciat. The new prices become effec'
tive July l.
Hlur hundred operators who gather
ed Mere at call from Secretary Lane
pleEged themselves to furnish their
product by committees from each field
Eaflier In the day, they had agreed to
PLACE the price-fixing in the hands OF
the government, through the defense
coAncil's coal production committee
Secretary. Lane and Commissioner
Fort, Of the federal trade commission
thus avoiding the possibility OF violat'
ingIthe antitrust laws. ,
Director Smith OF the geological
survey, estimated that the reduced
prices would mean that the operators
would get s1SO,OOO,OOO less annually
for their output.
In addition to placing prices upon
coal at the mines it was announced
that jobbers, brokers, retailers and
commission men would be permitted
to charge commissions OF not more
than twenty-five cents a ton and that
no more than one commission should
be charged. In other words, the con-
sumer will get his coal at the mine
plus transportation charges and
twenty-five cents per ton.
The agreement does not affect an
thracite, and the coal production com.
mittee announced that action on that
problem had been postponed until
after July 1 by agreement with the
operators. The anthracite producers
have indicated willingness to meet the
government in the same spirit mani
tested by the bituminous men.