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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
MONSTER DEMONSTRATION IN
NEW YORK IN HONOR OF RUS
SIAN AMBASSADOR-FLAG OF
THE JEWS ALSO SHOWN.
BIZ ASSOCIATED rRzss

New York, July THE blood red
flag of Russian revolution was waved
in wild enthusiasm when more than
ten thousand people packed Madi-
son square garden tonight to attend
mass meeting given by friends of
Russian freedom in honor of Ambas-
sador Boris Bakhmeteff, and MEM
bers of the mission, and its estimated
the proceeds will amount to twenty
thousand dollars which will be used
in relief of Russian prisoners of war.
The flag of the Jews, a blue on white
field with a golden shield of David
was given a conspicuous place There
were great demonstration when the
ambassador and party arrived.
1t is generally regarded as prob
able the house will accept the SEN
ate's change after the fight, The
senate provision to limit the con-
sumption to stocks in the retainer's
hands or withdrawn before the law
goes into effect. Stocks in bond are
estimated at nearly three hundred
million gallons. The estimate cost to
purchase will be between three hun
dred million dollars and one billion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08

Though in planning for a great
air fleet with which to drive Ger
many from the skies, experts con-
slider bomb dropping of secondary
Importance, recent experiments in
Pensacola show the value of this
work, and the immense possibilities
for its use.
While it has occupied a position of
little prominence in official maneuv-
ers, some tests have been made by
aviators here, with exceptional re-
suits, and some remarkable hits have
been made. AS the work of the local
school is primarily one of instruc-
ton, there is no need for the devel-
opment along specialized lines, though
when the aero rockies are taught to
fly. the next step is to learn to fight
and fly at the same time.
Aside from the thrilling air battles
when a machine, or squadron of air
planes clashes with enemy craft, the
work Of the airplanes in the war has
been confined to scouting and bomb
dropping OF the two, scouting is
usually considered of greater import
ance, for without the air scouts, the
armies are blind, and liable to sur
prise attacks.
With the present plan, however.
for more planes, fast, light machines
capable of a hundred miles an hour,
their destructive ability by. bomb
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
COUNTY FARM AGENT
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Saturday morning at eleven o'clock
automobile No. 20 aero station and
driven by Mr.. Coran, had q head on
collision with a car driven by Couu-
ty Farm Demonstration Agent G. r.
Fulford, near Roberts. mir. F'ulford's
car was badly damaged though both
men escaped without injury. The
axle and radius rods on both cars
were bent, while the motor in Mr..
tulford's was twisted hood bent,
tenders torn off, and the machine
generally broken so that it vas mn
pcss bic to drive it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
MAKING A SUCCESS
OF HUCKLEBERRIES

Garden huckleberries are being
grown with much success by Frank
Williams, Of $50 East Gregory street,
and at present he has twelve bushes
which are loaded with fruit and
which appear to grow in the produc-
tive line from season to season. He
proudly displayed several punches to
friends yesterday, taken at random
from one of his bushes and inform
ed a Journal man that he has every
reason to believe that these may be
cultivated with much success IN this
climate.
Seeds are obtained from New
York, and the success of the Pensa-.
cola man may lead to the introduc-
ton of quite an industry in this city
and county, for the berries are ex-
cellent for pies and nave +hus far
found very ready sale
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
Aliens Formerly Connected
With Embassy or Many
Consulates Are Affected.
THEIR PRESENCE
IS UNDESIRABLE
Not Suspected as Spies But
Loyalty to Kaiser Prompts
Uncle Sam to Act.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, July All Germans,
formerly connected either with the
embassy or any one of the many
consulates in America have been re-
quested to leave the United States.
Notification that their presence in
America is undesirable has been sent
to them by the state department
They were not told that they were
suspected of being spies. but the in
ference of their loyalty to the kaiser
might make it difficult for them to
remain in this country without at
tempting to send information of a
military character to their govern
ment was made clear.
Among the first to go will be Helm
rich Schaafhausen, formerly attach
ed to the German embassy, but left
behind by Count Won Bernstorff, and
since attached to the department of
German interests at the Swill lega-
ton. In addition to Schaafhausen
there is a long train of clerks and
servants-at least they have served
in such capacities in this country
although the government has no
means of knowing definitely what the
exact status of most of them is with
ground for belief that some of them
are persons of more Importance to
the German intelligence system.
DIR. George Barthelme, the author
| of the much discussed dispatch to
the Cologne Gazette at the time din
lomatic relations were severed, still
| is in Washington. but is required to
| report to certain government Off
| oil
! though the bulk of the German and
Austrian embassy stats denarted
with their ambassadors, two of Ger
many's allies still have their repre-
sentatives here.
| There are many indications that
the government is taking steps to
tighten the spy net and make even
more difficult the getting of military
| information to Germany.
| When the government agreed to
allow the transfer of many former
German employees to the Swiss lega-
ton and consulates there was no
state of war between the United
States and Germany. But the decla-
ration of war and the knowledge
that Germany maintains an efficient
spy system here have changed the
governments attitude.
The cleaning out of former Ger
man officials here is but the first
step in a systematic attempt to up
root the spy in this country. State
department officials say that an iron
bound censorship will be established
on all outgoing cables at the earliest
hour that the machinery can be built
| up. They also are most urgently
urging a mail censorship, beginning
at first with all countries not now
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
DARK DEEDS
Of GERMANS
TEUTONIC PLOTS AND INTRI-
CUE Barred WHEN INDICT-
MENTS RETURNED BY THE
FEDERAL GRAND JURY.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

San Francisco, July Enemy
agents were sent to China and Japan
to attempt to bride the press of those
nations to procure secret treaties be-
tween the German empire and those
of the government in aid of the Hindu
revolutionary plots, and in connection
with which the hundred and thirty
nine indictments were returned today,
according to a statement tonight by
John Preston, United States district
attorney. In regard to the Hindu
plot Preston said there were one hun
dred and fifty men involved.
For more than a year prior to out
break of European war Hindu in San
Francisco and German agents were
preparing openly for war with Eng
land.
Socialists Oppose
to War With Germans
Chicago, July 7.-Members of So
cialist party in United states have
approved overwhelmingly the state
ment of the party's opposition to war
with Germany as submitted by the
majority committee on war as ap-
pointed at the st. Louis convention
Continued on Page Four1
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
RETURN OF YACHT
CLIO II AND PARTY

Max /. Bear and his guests, DR..
Clarence Hutchinson, Dan Sheppard
and ". A. Leonard, returned yestcr-
day aboard Mr. Bears magnificent
yacht Clio 2nd. from Biloxi, Miss.
where they represented the Pensa.
cola Yacht Club at the regatta held
during the past week
The party reports having a won
derful trip both going and returning,
and while at Biloxi were the recip-
tents of every possible courtesy and
attention at the hands of the Biloxi;
yachtsmen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
NEW OFFICERS BE
ASSIGNED TO COMMAND
FROM THEIR HOME STATE
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington, July 7. - Men
chosen from the officers train
ing camps for commissions in
new army will be assigned to
command troops from their own
states, it is announced. This is
done to obtain the greatest posi-
Bile team work among the half
a million men soon to be put
in the field.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
Austria FaYors France.

! London, July 7.-According to the
Daily Express, a personal friend of
the empress Zita, of Austria inform
ed certain members of the house of
commons that the empress is exert
ing herself sgtrongly in the interests
of France. She is credited with suffi-
Gent influence over Emperor Charles
to induce him to try to withdraw from
the Austro- Hungarian alliance with
Germany as soon as Austria-Hnu-
gary is enabled to take such action.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
General Bursseloff Reported
Leading Men Into Most
Violent Fighting.
TORCH APPLIED
BY THE GERMANS
British Have Again Made
Another Forward Thrust
in Belgium District.
Associated Press summary.


Russian front, Judging from the re-
ports from Petrograd today of vio-
lent fighting in progress in the Pinsk
district.
Apparently the Austro-German at
Mention has been centered on the
#Galician district, where Brussisoff's
defensive opened last Sunday.
There has been no mention in any
f the official statements recently of
my especial activity anywhere along
the Russian line except in Galicia
land the sectors Immediately adjac-
TENT on north and south. The reports
from Pinsk, $50 miles north of the
Galician border therefore has the ele-
ment of surprise.
i. Pinsk, which has been in German
bands since the tide of the great in
kasion of 1915 swept Grand Duke
Nicholas armies far back into Rus
eian territory, is reported in flames.
The city lies within a pronounced
hlient in the line.
d On the Franco-Belgian front the
British have again made another for
Sward thrust, slightly advancing their
Bline east of Wytschaeto, in the Bel
gian district
= meanwhile the GefTneus have
fried out another air raid on London,
possibly the greatest they have at
tempted over the metropolitan area.
The raiders numbering about twenty,
dropped bombs for a quarter of an
hour in various parts of London. 1t
was officially announced that 81
persons were killed and 141 Injured
in the raid. Four German machines
apparently were brought down.
TelI-Tale Letter in Hands of Allies
Canadian Headquarters in France
via London, July 7.-Fosse Five, the
pithead which overlooked out out
posts in Avion. disappeared on Thurs
day in a cloud of dust and fire. II
had been for some time a mark for
our heavy artillery, but whether the
destruction was caused by our shells
or by the Germans. themselves is not
known. If they anticipated a fur
Their immediate advance of our men
they may have blown up the mining
: works themselves, for it is their pol.
lev to leave behind them nothing
shat would aid in speedy resumption
bf mining operations in this import
ant coal area.
1 Much evidence of the lowering o.
1 the German morsale continues to bt
] discovered in captured trenches anc
Il raided houses.
Il A remarkable letter was found re
cently which had been written to {
Bavarian at the front three week.
leo. The letter said:
zone can well understand that yol
$are sick of this horrible business.
believe that the climax has beer
reached for now one hears nothing
but complaints. The German socia
democrats have announced that if ;
Jingle shot is fired in August rev
button will follow. The situation i
mo longer good. They are on tn,
rack of the German kaiser. too, ant
4 it lasts much longer, it will be tn,
end of Prussia for the Prussians ant
the English are the masters. Thes'
4 two alone are carrying on the war
The others are merely in thei
hands"
Canadian casualties have beel
very light during the past tw,
\ weeks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
French Loses Submarine.

Paris, July THE submarine
Ariane was torpedoes and sunk by a
herman U-boat in the Mediterran-
AN June 10, according to an official
announcement of the ministry of ma
ke. All the officers and part of the
Few persisted. Nine men were saved
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08

The normal complement of the
Ariane before the war was u.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
T H E w E A T H E R

Local thundershowers Sunday and
Monday, except fair Monday northwest
portion. Gentle to moderate south winds.
Highest temperature yesterday, 81 de-
drees; lowest, 6s degrees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
Renorts HEAVY Fighting.

kepOTIs TItaF! TISHVIHI'
Paris. July Heavy artillery
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
Sensation Heaped Upon Sen
sation in Murder Trial
of the Blackwells.
DEFENDANTS HAVE
BAD DAY TO BEGIN
Witness for Defense Swears
Will Blackwell Was Fur
nished Handcuff Key.

Crestview, July 7.-Sensation was
heaped upon sensation at today's pro
ceedings of the Blackwell trial, and
then after it seemed that the emo
tional gamut had been run. the
greatest sensation of all was sprung
after court adjourned, in the arrest
on charge Of perjury, of the two
witnesses who had apparently estab-
Ishcd perfect alibis for both VIII and
Bob, the two brothers VINO are
charged with the murder of Bud anG
Nancy Davis Oh the night Of March
p. 1917.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06

cesspools and interlocking shell
craters in which the water was the
exact color of blood. This might
have been due to chemicals in the
high explosives which rent the
holes, or the nature of the ground
itself
i found myself stepping on Ger
man bodies which Uttered the re-
gion. They were in all imagin-
able conditions and positions =
sometimes piled several deep.
saw arms sticking full length
out of the mud that concealed all
else of the bodies to which they
were attached. There were legs,
feet, half bodies, or heads alone,
protrudlng. Some lay face down
ward, some were prone on their
backs, exactly as if asleep.
Imagine 1t II You Can.
At another place. in a pile sew
eral deep, lay a boyish officer, fair
as a girl, with his arms thrown
back and his blue eyes staring to
the sky. His sandy hair had been
brushed back modishly by the rain.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
In the Editors Mail

Sumptuary legislation never
worked and 1t never will. Try
ing to regulate the private habits
or morals of the citizenry by law
is childish nonsense and no good
will come of II.
Half our laws could well be
annulled, and the other half
made over. Half our courts are
really demanded by the people.
Half Of the lawyers are excess
baggage, just as half the editors
could we'll be set to some useful,
productive labor.
Our tendency is to crowd the
professions; jam ourselves into
cities, make political jobs for the
professionals who cannot find a
living, and load up the harassed
producers and taxpayers with
needless burdens.
No man in this city knows one
half the local ordinances that are
supposed to govern his daily life,
and only an insane official would
attempt to literally enforce all
city ordinances, all the time, on
everybody. That means contempt
for the law; scorn for the courts;
it means that judges are consid-
cred mere political accidents in
stead of law givers and dispens-
ers of justice, and it means, too,
that the poor, the undefended,
the hapless are the prey for the
crooked, petty vultures of the
courts and the police department.
No experienced, right thinking
citizen can have respect for the
petty judiciary that daily grinds
out its little grist- for its bosses
or for the sake of publicity, or
for its friends.
Those austere and astute gen.
try that don the black robe and
moon in solemn owlish grandeur
at Washington do not impress us
as they once did. One decision
like the Danbury hatters edict
means more to most of us than
lis yards of sackcloth draped on
some owlish Justice; nay, even
the tasseled cap, foolish relic of
medieval college rites, does not
cause us to bow down and wor-
ship at the throne of the Great
He owls.
Perhaps when women become
| Judges this will change; maybe
we will get more humanity, more
tenderness, more sympathy from
the bench; though that may be a
vain hope, too, for we note that
women iuries generally hand
jabs, jolts and punches of most
amazing severity to those erring
sisters that come before them, and
to those gentlemen who are
charged with some moral offense.
Our legal structure rests on a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
WHY GERMAN ARMY Reiterated

Imagine scenes like this cover
ing miles. Imagine every trace of
vegetation long since blasted
away.
Imagine the earth powder-stain-
ed and churned up from ten to 60
feet in depth.
Imagine mud so nearly bottom
less that the German prisoners
claim their men frequently were
swallowed up whole in attempting
to cross after dark.
This is the territory the Ger
mans left.
Communications Cut.
The German prisoners told us
that communication trenches had
been wiped out by the incessant
British fire, so that relief and re-
victualing was difficult, most dan
gerous. Men on such missions
were caught by the British ma
chine guns sweeping in the dark
ness and could not be saved.
1t was impossible to save those
thus cut off by the destruction of
the communication trenches. The
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
CITY WON'T PAY
FOR BAD CONCRETE

Declaring that the concrete pro-
tecting walls built in the Puyal-
lup at Mcmillan were made of rot
ten concrete and would not last
members of the city council went
on record Tuesday as willing to
face a suit from the county rather
than pay the city's share of the
cost.
The walls were built jointly by
the county and city, with Tacoma
agreeing to pay one-third of the
cost, or $1,665. The county has
served notice that unless the city
pays its share, Prosecuting Attor-
ney Remain will start action
March Is.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
limited Press Leased Wire.)


SEATTLE, March o'-Ine
trial of Mayor Hiram G. GILL;
Chief of Police Chas. l.. Becklng-
ham, Ex-Sheriff Robert Hodge
Hodge and City Detectives Dan
McLennan, Meyer Peyser, James
Doom and John Poolman, charged
by the government with conspir-
ing with the notorious Bilingsley
brothers, bootleggers, to pro-
mote Illicit liquor traffic mere
was under Roadway before Fed
eral Judge Neterer this morning.
A sensational development to-
day was subpoenaing of c. b.
Blethen, editor of the Seattle
Times: Rev. Mark A. Matthew's
former moderator of the Presby-
terrain church; two reporters and
former employees of the Billings
leys into the case. they were
subpoenaed by Mayor Gill as
witnesses for the defense along
with United States District Attor-
new Clay Allen, Winter S. Martin,
Aliens assistant and Eddie Bak-
er. manager of the Jesse Moore
Hunt Liquor Co., of San Fran
cisco.
Clarence L. Reames, U. S. dis
trict attorney from Oregon is
leading in the prosecution of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
Curse On the Town?
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
One of our citizens has just sue
ceeded in accomplishing a very
wonderful thing-something so
far reaching in its consequences
and Importance that It is hard to
even approximate it's value. And
that is the passage of the memoir
ial to congress to restore the orig
inal name of the mountain.
But even more wonderful is the
amazing lack of realization and
appreciation of what this great ac-
complishment means to this city.
That it means, if carried to a sue
cessful issue, the elimination Of
the name "Raianier" from every
atlas and geography in the world
and the restoration of the aborig-
inal name for all time to come
seems of little interest or import
ance to the great mass of our peo-
pie.
WHAT is THE MATTER WITH
TACOMA? What is the spell that
apparently rests over us, binding
our eyes and sealing our lips to
seeing and making known the ad-
vantages with which we are sur
rounded?
Is there no possible way by
which this terrifying indifference
and apathy can be overcome?
Must we always be known as a
city blind to the opportunities
lying on every hand, with out Wis
itors from all parts of the world
expressing first their amazement
at our resources and advantages
and then at our indifference to
the rich and rare gifts with which
the Creator has blessed us?
Cannot the "curce be lifted"
from Tacoma as we'll as the noun
tain? Or is it a hopeless case?
Respectfully.
M. G. MITCHELL,
Larchmont.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06

dead were left where they fell.
Two attacks in November left
scores of dead Germans outside
the trenches. They have remain
ed there until now, when the Brit
ish are burying the remains.
British Can DO 1t Again.
Such was the sink hole occupied
by the Germans.
1t is quite possible that in the
withdrawal Germany plans to use
her troops elsewhere in a big of
fensive, but the British are undis.
turbed.
One outstanding moral Of
the German retreat is where-
ever the Germans stop their
retirement their new posts
can be reduced to the same
hideous uncomfortable quag-
mire of cadavers and muck,
where crisped dead hands
clutch from the mud at the
kaiser's men and dead eyes
stare at them from the slime,
defying even German discfp-
line to hold live men in line.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
Too Many Laws
EDITOR THE TUNES.

EDlIOR The TIMES:
This country has In the last 10
years enacted more laws, local,
state and federal, than the entire
world found necessary for its guild
ance through a couple of millen-
iums.
The nation has gone law crazy !;
we have passed about 100000 laws
of various sorts in 10 years, while
in the same time the British par
lament passed but 1900.
We pile up laws on laws; then
along comes 125, 900 lawyers, and
dozen thousand judges and wrap
us in litigation, appeal, complaint,
demur, answer and amended COM
| plant, until no man knows where
is justice, aye or sense.
Every time the legislature meets
hundreds of unbaked, undigested
senseless laws are rushed through +;
then more judges are piled on the
taxpayers, more petty court at
taches, more baliffs and constables
and deputies and what not.
Silly, brethren; silly and mighty
expensive.
There should be national code
based on justice and broad prin.
ciples. This should cover big
problems like divorces, estates,
contracts, and property rights.
Each state should have the same
code; it should be impossible for
a man to be legally married in
one state, unmarried in another,
and a bigamist In a third, as the
situation is today.
We legislate on everything; We
try to mend the private habits of
the people by statute; to dictate
what they eat, when they shall
wear, how they shall spend their
Sundays; what they shall read
and what shows they may attend.
All this type of legislation is vici-
Gus, un-American, and, in time,
this mania for forcing folks into
one narrow lane and making the
government the dictator is going
to take away freedom of the
press, OF the church, of the in
dividual.