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The Washington times., 1917-09-14
Sample Jewelryat 27c

Another big special lot Of samples
and odd lots of jewelry-embracin
all the newest and most up-to-date
designs in Brooches, Bar Pins,
Lavalliers, etc. Large assortment
OF Jeweled. gold-plated, and Rhine
stone effects to choose from--Ht 2Ic.
GOIdeuberE's-FlrSt Floor.
The Washington times., 1917-09-14

Lot TwO-at $3.50. Suits of the
highest standard of tailoring excel
lence, in an unlimited choice Of the
seasons new models. Single and
double breasted models, with patch,
slant and vertical pockets, with half
belts and belts all around; also reg
ular and conservative styles Mate
rials are high-grads Cassimeres,
Cheviots, English Tweeds, Worsteds
and the new Unfinished Rough and
Smooth Cheviots. All the popular
colorings. Sizes 80 to 46 for men
and young men.
The Washington times., 1917-09-14
Womeu's Handkerchiefs, Choice, lOe

Worth Up TO I0c.
Manufacturers samples many
on the original sample cards.
Dainty patterns in one-corner en-
broidered styles: white and colored
effects. OF fine quality hemstitched
lawns, swiss. and dimities.
First Floor.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
''LOAD CARS TO LIMIT"
HooVER's ORDER IN MOVING
CROPS OF COLORADO.
Shippers Must Utilize Full Space to
Get Entire output Of Fruit and
Vegetables to Market.

Western Newspaper Onion News Service.
Denver.-Drastic efforts to bring
relief to Colorado communities which
are facing heavy crop losses through
congested car movements were under
taken in Washington by Herbert
Hoover, national food administrator.
He directed railroads to have all cars
loaded to the limit of safety, and sent
warning at the same time to farmers
and growers that unless they comply
with this provision the railroads Will
be authorized to place shipping en-
barge on their crops.
In some of the southern and west
ern communities of Colorado only half
of the perishable fruits have been
packed for shipment, and these, to-
gether with the northern districts that
have big consignments of potatoes,
are directly affected by the order, re-
ceived at the office of Thomas q.
Stearns, food administrator for Colo
rado.
This action follows efforts of the
Colorado Council of Defense, the Pub
lie Utilities Commission and the Colo
RADIO food administration to urge upon
shippers the necessity tor heavy load
ing at this season. 1t more directly
follows the appeal made by railroad
freight officials to the national COM
mission on car service, in Washing
ton, to prevail upon the Interstate
Commerce Commission to issue emer-
gency orders that would compel ship
pers to load apples and potatoes to
carrying capacity of cars.
The railroads of Colorado took the
position that while they were strain
ing every effort to meet the tremen-
dous crop production in the Arkansas.
North Fork and San Luis valleys, as
well as other centers, it was quite evil
dent that growers, in their anxiety to
get the fruit to the market, were
working individually instead of collec-
lively
One of the latest shipments out OF
the San Luis valley received the fol
lowing comment from an inspector:
Eighteen cars OF potatoes were
shipped. The minimum loading Is
30 900 pounds, but these eighteen cars
averaged $4,000 pounds each. In other
words, these shippers were doing their
patriotic duty by making five cars do
the work of seven"
Growers in the San Luis valley are
working nights digging temporary
storage places. They have put into
execution suggestions coming from
the transportation and food commit
tees of the Colorado Defense Council
and the Public Utilities Commission.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
HERTLiNe MADE CHANCELLOR.
Secretary of Interior and President of
German Food Board Quit.

Amsterdam. - According to dis
patches received here from Berlin the
Cologne Gazette says Emperor Will
liam received Count Won Hertling and
that Won Hertling accepted the i'm
perial chancellorship and the office OF
premier of Prussia. DR.. Karl Helffer-
lch, secretary of the interior and vice
chancellor, and Herr Won Waldow,
president of the German food regula-
ton board, have resigned. Friedrich
Won Payer, Progressive member of the
Reichstag, says the dispatch, is to be
appointed vice chancellor, and Herr
Friedberg, leader of the National Lib
eral party, will be given the post OF
vice president of the Prussian min
istry.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
New War Tax SqueeZeS Purse
of Wage Garner, but All
Must Help.
KAISER TO BLAME FOR COST
Mad Prussia Must Be Broken Before
Conflict Can End-Good Patriots
Steel Selves for Sacrifice
and Then Victory.

Postage.-Three cents an ounce
or fraction thereof on letters for
other than local delivery; two
cents on all postal cards.
Admissions-Ten per cent tax
on tickets to theaters, cabarets,
and other amusement places.
Dues-Ten per cent tax on
dues of clubs exceeding SO
year.
Tobacco-Groduated taxes on
cigars, tobacco, cigarettes, cigar
cite papers and snuff.
Express-Five per cent tax on
amounts paid for express trans
portation.
Passengers-Eight per cent of
the cost of railroad tickets, ex-
cept local.
Berths-Ten per cent of the
cost of berths, staterooms, and
parlor car seats.
OiI-Five per cent tax on
amounts paid for transportation
of oil by pipe lines.
Messages-Five cents tax on
each telegraph, telephone, or ra-
dio message costing 10 cents or
more.
lnsurance-Eight cents tax on
each S100 or fractional part
thereof of each life insurance
policy; one per cent of the pre-
MUM on fire, marine, inland,
and casualty insurance policies.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03

WaSnlnStOn.-Uncl sam is ratner
pleasantly surprised at the way the
nation is standing the war tax gaff.
The grouching, such as there is, has
been growled in a minor key, and most
of it comes from the trouble-makers,
the whining pacifists, those of sick
ly cast of loyalty.
Nobody really enjoys paying excess
taxes, such as three cents postage for
letters, extra charge for freight, eX-
press and passenger transportation.
telephone and telegraph messages and
amusements. But all true Americans
who realize that the kaiser is to blame
for the trouble, stand ready and will
ing to pay their share of the cost of
exterminating the worlds greatest
menace.
BY the way, do you know that If
you are single and earn more than
$1,000 yearly, you must pay two per
cent tax on what you make over ST 900.
And if you are married, you must pay
two per GSst on what you make over
$1,000. The tax for all of 1917 must
be paid by June 1, 1918.
All of the new taxes fall upon the
do with the "conscription of wealth"
They are a part of the program of
taxation to make each man, woman
and child in the United States feel
direct personal part in the war. They
apply to freight, passenger and ex-
press transportation, pipe lines, Pull
man seats and berths, telegraph and
telephone messages, insurance poll
cies, admissions to theaters and
movies" and to club dues. The eff
feet of most of them is felt, therefore,
in a slight rise in the high cost of
living.
The taxes are expected to net the
federal government the following rev.
enueS:
Freight transportation. =. .S77 ,5O0,oOo
Express transportation. 1O,OOO,OoO
Passenger transportation. 6O,Ooo,ooo
Pine lines 100000
Seats and berths. ........ 4,OOO,Ooo
Telegraph and telephone
messages " 100000
Insurance policies 100000
CIub dues .. 100000
Admissions ............ oo'ooo,Voo
The war tax on facilities furnished
by public utilities is now levied as
follows:
Three per cent of the amount paid
for transportation by rail or water or
by any form of mechanical motor pow
er in competition with carriers by rail
or water, on freight consigned from
one point in the United States to an
other.
One cent for each twenty cents or
fraction charged by express compa-
mics for transportation from one point
I'm the United States to another.
Eight per cent of the amount paid
for the transportation of persons by
rail or water or by any form of me-
chanical motor power on regular
established line in competition with
common carriers, from one point in
the United States to any point in the
United States, Canada or Mexico
where the ticket is issued in the Unit
cd States. No tax is imposed on COM
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Gained Fame While Dying.

Antoine Watteau, one of Frances
foremost artists, painted his celebrated
decorative panels while dying of the
white mans scourge. He sprang from
humble and poverty-stricken surround
ings, and was forced to work on the
brink of starvation for the greater
part of his thirty-seven years. Just
as his fame rose to national proper
tiJns his tubercular condition became
worse and he worked desperately dur
ing his last few years to complete as
much work as possible before he died.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Greatest Thing in the World.

Love has been called the greatest
thing in the world, but the greatest
thing in the world is not a thing at
all; the greatest thing is a person.
Personality is the greatest thing In
the world. The greatest thing in per-
sonality is not strength of body nor
strength of mind. 1t is strength of
heart. "Clever people are as common
as blackberries, the rare Things 10
find good one" 1t is not Danlei
Webster's brain, but Lincoln's heart'
%hat wins nations love.-Exchange.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Colorado Coal Prices Up 45 Cents.

Denver. = Coal operators notified
gas. light and power and other COM
panies and individuals who buy direct
from the producer of a 45-cent-a-ton
Increase to cover wage increases to
miners. The increase is in accordance
with the permission given by Presi
dent Wilson Oct. 81 that all organized
mine producers may readjust their
prices upward to absorb the wage in
creases in the Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Pennsylvania fields, and which
applies also to Colorado operators.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Mlnina Men Against Stock Fakers.

Prominent Denver men are enlisting
n the drive that is to be made on
ishonest promoters by the Colorado
Ietal Mining Association, and at the
annual meeting of the organization in
Denver in January plans will be made
TO legislate them out of the state.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
onions and Potatoes Wanted.

Bids on potatoes and onions for
the army are being sought by the
uuartermaster's office at Kansas City,
according to word received by w. H.
Kerr, chairman of the committee Oh
markets of the Colorado Council OF
Defense and chief Of the Colorado of
flee of the u. S. bureau of markets.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
coIoradoans Make Fine Showing.

According to information received
by Provost Marshal John Evans, Colo
rado made most excellent showing
with her quota of S5 per cent of the
national army sent to Camp Funston.
The records show that out of 1,325
of those examined only twelve were
rejected for physical or any other rea-
sons.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Denver Schools to Spend s1,4ss, 900.

The Denver schoo. budget for 1918
will be raised s5OO,OOo by increasing
the tax levy IL mills, this being the
order of the Colorado Tax Commits
sion to the board of education. The
Increase will bring the budget up to
s1,439,092.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Eiaht Killed in London Air Raid.

London.-The most picturesque and
noisy raid London and it's environs
have yet seen and heard took toll
of eight lives and injured twenty-one,
according to official announcement.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
SIR ERIC oEDoEs BAREs LOSSES
OF ENEMY SHIPS SINCE BE-
GINNING OF THE WAR.
$4,000 TEUTONS SLAIN
ROME ARMY LOSES 10000 MORE
MEN AND 500 ADDITIONAL GUNS.
ALLIES ON ITALIAN FRONT.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Nov. 2.-Sir Eric Geddes,
who recently succeeded Sir Edward
Carson as first lord of the admiralty,
made his first address in Parliament
and gave some interesting and anx-
iously-awaited figures on the work of
the navy and shipping in general. His
declaration that between forty and
fifty per cent of the German subma-
rines operating in the North Sea, the
Atlantic and the Arctic oceans had
been sunk was not the least interest
ing of his announcements and there
was an indication of the unceasing
war the British and American patrols
are making on the submarine in his
statement that during the last quarter
the enemy had lost as many subma-
rines as during the whole of 1916.
The first lord, speaking of his de-
partment, said that, in addition to an
Increase in the personnel, the services
Of younger officers had been requisi-
toned to add strength to the expert
ence of the older officers on the naval
staff.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Can store Many Carloads of Supplies.

Storage facilities for several hun.
dred carloads of canned goods or
dered by the army and navy have
been found in Denver. Pueblo and
Colorado Springs by the Colorado
Council of Defense.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
Report on Live Stock Conditions.

A. B. Smeby of the U. S. bureau OF
markets has established headquar-
ters at Rocky Ford, where he Will
make reports on the live stock mark
ct and feeder conditions and assist
the farmers of the Arkansas valley
under the direction of w. H. Kerr OF
the Denver office of the federal bu-
reau of markets.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03
To standardize Loaf in Denver.

Colorado Food Administrator
5tearns wired National Food Admin
strator Hoover that Mayor Robert
5peer would soon take action to com
oel bakeries to standardize bread in
Denver.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03

Heavy Pack of l<raut and Tomatoes.
Colurados pack of kraut and to-
matoes has been unusually heavy this
year, the committee on markets of
the State Council of Defense has
found.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03

London, Nov. 2-Advices from Ital-
ian field headquarters last night,
which report the killing of 10000 Aus
tro-Germans in a battle on the Balm
sizza plateau, add that French and
British troops have arrived on the
italian front to reinforce the Cadorna
army. The Teuton dead in Thursdays
battle includes two generals of divi-
sion and many other officers. The
dispatches say Gen. Cadorna is push
Ing reserves forward rapidly and with
every prospect of checking the en-
emy's advance. Now that reinforce
ments have arrived much gratifica-
ton is expressed in official circles
over the conditions at the front.
The Rome official statement reads:
1Thwarting the plan of the enemy by
the rapidity of movements and by the
resistance of the covering units which
have detained his advance our troops
have effected the withdrawal on the
Tagliamento in spite of the extremely
difficult strategical conditions"
AT the cost OIL bU,UUU more uien anu
500 more guns, captured by the Aus
tro-Germans after being surrounded,
the Italian armies effected their re-
.irement behind the Tagliamento.
All the crossings OF the stream are
now held by Won Mackensen's troops,
who, at nearly every point stand on
the eastern bank of the river, facing
the strongest defensive system on the
northern Italian front.
Another day or two doubtless will
tell whether Cadorna's troops, with
the aid of French and British infantry
and artillery, will be able to hold to
tAeir new line and stave off what for
eight days looked like a great disas-
ter. So far, while their losses have
been immense, aggregating 100000 in
prisoners alone and 1,500 in guns,
they have escaped complete defeat
and retain sufficient strength to give
the enemy a hard and long battle. The
third army particularly, according to
the Italian war office, reached its new
line with it's strength unbroken, fea-
ture which Rome halls as "a beautiful
example of strength and unity"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
Text of Cars Note Renouncing
Throne for Himself and His Son

Petrograd, March H.-(Via Lon
don.Cahc following is the text of
the imperial manifesto, in which the
Russian emperor announced his abdi-
cation and that Of his son:
I'VE, Nicholas ii, by the grace of
God, emperor of all the Russians,
ezar of Poland and grand duke Of
Finland, etc, make known to all our
faithful subjects, in the day of The
great struggle against foreign foe
who has been striving for three years
to enslave our country, God has
wished to send to Russia a new and
painful trial. Interior troubles
threaten to have fatal roper
cusson OF the ~hnal outcome of
the war. The destinies Of Russia and
the honor of our heroic army, the
happiness OF the people and all the
future Of our dear fatherland require
that the war be prosecuted at all cost
to victorious end. The cruel enemy
is making his last effort and the mo-
ment is near when. our valiant army,
in concert with those of our glorious
allies, will definitely chastise the foe.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
Find That It Is Disabled
Nightly by Operator and
They Grow Incensed.
HEARING NEXT SATURDAY

The Jail elevator row has broken
out afresh despite rules made by the
judges of the district court designed
to settle the long drawn-out squabble
between the county commissioners,
ostensibly, but in reality one commits
sioncr, and Sheriff Clark. ..a
Six judges of the district court,
two prominent attorneys, the county
attorney and the chief deputy sheriff
spent three hours yesterday trying
to settle the destinies of job pay
ing less than $l00 month. And it
isn't settled yet-not hardly.
At l o'clock next Saturday seven
district judges-all of them-the
county attorney, the five county conf
missioners, the sheriff and his aides
and other legal counsel will meet
again in all attempt to reach an agree
ment in what has been characterized
as a peanut fight"
Consider Jail Rule.
At the request OF the sheriff the
Judges met to consider modification
of Jail rule No. 81, which provides
that the county board shall appoint
an operator for the lift and the
sheriff shall have complete control
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18

"In these decisive days in the life OF
Russia we believe our people should
have the closest union and organza-
ton of all their forces for the realiza-
ton Of speedy victory. For this rea-
son, in accord with the Duma of the
empire, we have considered it desir-
able to abdicate the throne Of Russia
and lay aside our suprem power. Not
wishing to be separated from our
loved son, we leave our heritage to
our brother, the Grand Duke Michael
Alexandrovitch, blessing his advent to
the throne of Russia.
1--WE hand over the government to
our brother in full union with the rep
resentatives OF the nation, who are
seated in the legislative chambers,
taking this step with an inviolable
oath in the name OF our we'll beloved
country. We call on all faithful sons
OF the fatlierland to fulfill their sacred
patriotic duty in this painful moment
Of national trial and to aid our
brother and the representatives Of
the nation in bringing Russii into the
path of prosperity and glory. May
God aid Russia"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
WESTERN EMBARGO
ORDERS MODIFIED
Central Roads Cancel Them as
Far as Possible Till To-
morrow Night.
RESULT OF DISAPPOINTMENT

Chicago, March 17--Freight en-
bargoes- OF central western railroads
were modified today after it became
known that a strike had been post
poned forty-cight hours. The en-
barge orders were cancelled as far
as possible until Monday. The new
order permits the acceptance of per-
ishable freight, which can be deliv-
cred on each roads own lines before
3 p. III. Monday, March 19. There
had been no embargo order against
dead freight, which is accepted sub
ject to delays.
The new order will admit of the
shipment of perishable goods for a
day or SO longer, and efforts will be
made TO expedite such shipments on
Sunday, as that day consumes half
of the temporary extension.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
Two Hundred Strike,
Saying Their Order
Not C0untermanded

Parkersburg, w. Va, March H.
Claiming that no order resembling the
general strike order had been re-
ceived, members OF the four brother
hoods of trainmen in the Mononga-
hela and Ohio river division yards of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad quit
work tonight. 1t is estimated that
more than 200 men are out.
Columbus, Ohio, March 17.--Engi-
neers. conductors and trainmen of the
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern rail-
road, subsidiary company of the
Pennsylvania railroad, this morning
informed General Superintendent |.
w. Gear of the Southwest system Of
the Pennsylvania that they would re-
fuse to obey the strike order.
Connelsville, Pa, March l7.--Morc
than 800 members of the four railroad
brotherhoods, employees of the Balti-
more & Ohio and the Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie railroads quit work here
at 7 o'clock tonight, no order having
been received announcing postpone
ment Of the general railroad strike.
East St. Louis, Ill.,, March l7.--Sev-
eral hundred railroad employees here
walked out tonight, claiming that they
had received no notice that the strike
had been postponed.
None of the employees of the Ter
minal Railway association went on
strike and early reports were that the
movements were confined to cm-
ployes Of the Big Four and the Balti-
more & Ohio.
Newark, o., March l7.--Eight hun
drcd engineers, 6remen, trainmen and
freight train conductors employed by
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad here,
struck,at 6,o'clock, claiming they had
received no word Of the strike being
postponed. Al 7 O'clock the engineers
returned to work on receipt Of Off
cial word from the chief of the engi-
neers' brotherhood. Baltimore & Ohio
railroad officials said the strike will
have no effect on train service.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
Six Judges and Court Officials 1
Hear More About Elevator Row

and jurisdiction over him. But this
rule, in operation a week, didn't
work we'll.
While the Judges didn't get very
far i'll the legal end OF the contro-
versy, they heard a lot they had
never heard before-at least, they
said they did-about the tactics OF
Commissioner Lynch in his fight on
the sheriff.
BENJAMIN S. Baker. for the sheriff,
,oiu lhe Juusea that .neie was aoso-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
Army Balloon Lands
At Gibbs, Missouri,
After Fast Flight

Blown by wind that carried them
at the rate of nearly forty-hve miles
an hour for about five and a half
hours, three occupants of the big
army balloon that left Fort Omaha
at II o'clock yesterday morning land
ed near Gibbs, Mo, at 4:30 o'clock
in the afternoon, safe and suffering no
i'll effect from their ride.
In the basket were Captain H. ]. B.
McElgin and Lieutenant H. c. David
son, with Pilot Leo Stevens. The bal
loon was sailing i'll qualification
flight and when it became invisible
from the fort it was estimated that
its height was about 5000 feet. The
highest it went was about $500 feet,
at noon. The wind carried it due
southeast and when the landing was
made it was discovered that it had
travelled "bee-line' from Omaha to
Gibbs.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-18
BRITISH TROOPS
OCCUPY BAPAUME
Germans Set Fire to Long Be-
leagured French City. Be-
fore Abandoning 1t.
TWO OTHER TOWNS FALL

Paris, March l7.-French advance
guards have entered the important
town of Roye, and the French have
occupied the entire front between
Andechy and the Disc, comprising
powerfully fortified lines which the
Germans have held for more than two
years. ...
This announcement is made tonight
in the official communication, which
adds that at several points the road
between Roye and Noyon has been
reached. Frankfort-on-thc- Main has
been bombarded by French aeroplanes
in retaliation for the firing OF Bapau-
me by the Germans. ...,.
London, March H.--Bapaume, on
the Franco Belgian front, has been
captured by the British, Reuters
agency announces. ...t,,.
Reuters correspondent at British
headquarters in France telegraphs
that the towns Of lie Transloy and
Achiet-Le-Petit also are reported to
be- in the hands OF the British.
"Our troops entered Bapaume this
morning after stiff fighting" Reuters
correspondent telesraphs. "The place
was in flames, the iGermans having
evidently made all plans for setting
fire to It when forced to retreat.
Our troops are reported to be be-
yond the town"
French Advance Along Oise.
Paris, March l7.--French troops
advanced last night north of the Avrc
and between the Avre and the Disc,
making progress over front of
twenty kilometers (thirteen miles,
and to a depth at some points Of four
kilometers (two and onc-half miles),
the war office announced today.