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The Washington times., 1917-08-27
BABY PLAGUE CLAIMS
ANOTHER VICTIM HERE

Report OF the death from infantile
paralysis OF Pearl Brandt. ive years
old. Nineteenth and Bryant streets
northeast, was received by the Health
Department today. The child's ILL
ness was reported to the department
Saturday, and she died yesterday.
This is the second death in the Dis
trIct from the disease since August
II. The number Of cases OF infantIle
paralysis under treatment in the Dis
trict Is two.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
.SELECTVE SERVICE
PARADE IS NAME
FOR BIG SENDOFF

washinEton's farewell to its men
Of the national army will no longer be
known as the draft parade" It was
officially named "the selectivs service
parade" today.
At the same time, Major Constant
Cordier was selected as chief Of stan
to Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, the
parade grand marshal. A conference
on parade plans was held today by
Major Cordier, W. F. GUIDE. chairman
OF the executive committee on ar
rangements, and Charles J. Columbus,
secretary. in the Offices OF the Wash
ington Board Of Trade.
Invited To Cooperate.
Organizations intending to partici-
pate in the parade were requested TO
notify Chairman GUIDE not later than
noon Wednesday. Every trade, civic,
and patriotic organization IS invited
to cooperate.
The executive COMMITTEES, headed by
Chairman GUIDE, will call on President
Wilson late today to invite Elm TO
review the parade. Similar invita-
tionS probably win De issued to the
committees on Military AualrS or the
House and Senate.
Efforts will be made to have q half
holiday declared on parade day. The
date tentatively selected Is September
4, but the final date will depend upon
the Presidents engagements.
ChaIrRen Are Named.
Announcement was also made of
the appointment OF Major Raymond
W. Pullman, chairman OF the commit
tee on public order; William T. Gal
liner, chairman OF the COMMITTEES on
badges and hags; Victor J. Evans,
chairman OF the COMMITTEES on floats,
and SiEmund Kann, chairman OF the
committee on decorations.
Arrangements for the medical care
OF the paraders and the public will
be left in the hands OF a committee
headed by Dr. Lewis J. Battle.
The executive committee IL Issuing
an appeal for funds. Contributions
may be sent to Col. r. n. Harper,
chairman OF the finance committee,
District National Bank, or Cuno H
Rudolph. treasurer OF the executive
committee, Second National Bank.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
AUTUMN LURES BOY TO
HUNT; SHOOTS HIMSELF

The first accident OF the bunting
season occurred today. Ths victim
was John Kidd, seventeen years old,
OF 1886 Half street southeast.
The tinge OF autumn in the air lured
Kidd to the Virginia marshes near
the aqueduct bridge. For an hour
Kidd hunted and his luck was good.
Then the trigger OF his gun caught
in the tall grass and the weapon
was discharged.
Soldiers near by heard the Lad
scream and ran to his aid. 1t was
found that his right arm had been
half torn away. Kidd was rushed to
Emergency Hospital, where the arm
was amputated just below the elbow.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
KAISER SENDS SECRET
MESSAGE TO REICHSTAG

AMSTERDAM. Aug. 27.-Dr. Mi
chaells, the German chancellor. re-
turned to Berlin from great headQuar-
tiers with a confidential message from
the Kaiser. to be read to the members
OF the Relchstag main committee al
it's meeting today. said dispatch
from Berlin today.
The confidential message" was
said to pertain to parliamentary re-
forms and also to the question OF
making Alsace- Lorraine into an In
dependent federal state.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
W. W. HUSBAND WILL
HELP WAR PRISONERS

Americans made prisoners in Ger
the American Red Cross. A prisoners
relief committee has been organized at
Berne. Switzerland. under the direction
OF Emil L. Dresel. OF the American lega-
ton there.
Working with Mr.. Dresel will be W. w.
Husband. OF 2J6 MacOmb street north
west, who has recently been connected
with the Children's Bureau. Department
OF Labor. Mr.. Husband will soon depart
for Switzerland.
\ hundred Americans are now i'm
prisOned in Germany. For the most
part they are sailors taken from Ameri-
can vessels sunk by C-bOats.
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GERMAN

BERLIN (Yia Londonj, Aug. II.
Local advantages were gained
by German troops around MaIa-
koff and Cologne farms and
French assaults forced retire
ments around Beaumont CVerdun
sectOrD, today's official statement
said
Northwest OF Lens violent enc
my attacks broke down, the war
office asserted. On the eastern
bank OF the Meuss there was des-
perate fighting in which we were
pressed out OF Beaumont, Posses
and the Chaume works. The
French recaptured the village and
the woods.
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German Would Be
American In Order
To Help Lick Kaiser

BLOOMSBURY, Pa. Aug. H.
Michael Suffer, a boilermaker at
the Berwick plant of the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Company,
has filed his FIRST naturalization
papers here.
81 want to get them so that I
can enlist and help lick the
Kaiser" he remarked.
"of what country are you =
native?"
I'm sorry to say was born
in Germany, but that wasn't my
IdulI I want 70 HeIp ulah5 uD
for that by enlisting in the
United States army"
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
REVENUE MEN SHOOT 2
MOONSHTNERS IN RAID

AIARTlNSVILLE, Va, Aug. 2T.-Fol-
lowing brisk battle In the noun
tains Sunday in which revenue men
rsided a moonshine still and destroyed
5000 gallons of Illicit liquor, wrecked
the still and dispersed the defenders,
Jack Sneed and Dick Miles, captured
ringIeaders. today were lying wound
ed here. Heavy guard was maintained
to thwart any attempt by their noun
tain adherents at delivery. Martins
WILLIE. Is In the heart of the moonshine
district.
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OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS
BRITISH

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE war offc
today issued the following report:
We made a successful raid this
morning east OF OosttRverne and
secured a few prisoners. There is
nothing OF further special interest
to report.
The admiralty issued this report:
A bombing raid was carried out
at midnight Saturday by the naval
air service at the St Denis west
ern airdrome. A large number of
bombs were dropped. One OF our
machines is missing.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
SUBWAY TIE-UP ENDS
WITH ARRIVAL OF COAL

NEW YORK, Aug. 2T.-Danger Of
ways was averted today, It was an
nounced by Vice President Hedley.
when enough coal to run the trains
was received
The coal situation is clearing up.
We have coal at the power house,
and more on the way. There is no
danger Of a tie-up today" Hedley
said.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
GAG 2 MEN, BLOW SAFE,
And ELUDE so POLICE

CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-while nifty
plain clothes men were on the hunt
for the usual Sunday safe blowers.
two OF the hunted ones slipped into
the Jourdan Packing Company's plant,
bound and gagged two employees, blew
open a safe. and escaped with several
hundred dollars.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
euNMEN ROB CRAP GAME.

CHICAGO. Aug. 27.-Six men with
automatic pistols in each hand. raid
ed a crap game at Van Buren, street
and Marshfield avenue and got away
with $4,000 after taking of their
victims trousers so they could not
chase them.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
GERMANY PREPARES TO
issue SEVENTH LOAN

AMSTERDAM. Aug. 2T-The Frank
furter Zeitung says the seventh Ger
man war loan will be Issued in the
Middle of September under the same
conditions as the sixth loan.
The newspaper reports that the re-
opening OF the German exchanges is
not contemplated.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
RUSSIA TO CRUSH
FOESOF FREEDOM
WITH IRON HAND
ny WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD.

MOSCOW, Aug. 2T.-Russia will
maintain her democracy at all costs.
She intends to use the weapons OF
the old regime against those who
would have the old autocracy over
throw the new freedom.
OF outstanding Significance in the
deliberations OF the all-Russian con-
ference today was this emphatic dec
laration by Premier Kerensky. He
insisted the new nation was passing
through a period OF mortal danger"
and warned enemies within that the
government henceforth would be i'm
placable sin crushing with blood and
iron all attempts with armed force
against the peoples power"
Those who once trembled before
the government of autocrats now
boldly march against the government
with arms in hand" he continued.
''But let them remember that our
patience has its limits. and that those
who go beyond them will have TO set
tie with a government which will
make them remember the time of
Czarism."
Deep Impression.
Kerensky's speech produced a deep
impression. He concluded amid cheers
even of his political antagonists. and
today there was q perceptible lessen
ing in the BoIsheviki and reactionary
opposition. The forces which viii
pass upon the Kerensky government
are vastly mixed. There are bankers,
rich land owners, conservatives,
sprinkling Of reactionaries, and even
monarchists. The issue is tightly
drawn between free and open democ-
racy versus CONSTRUCTED reactionar-
ism.
Kerenskv never faced such a task
as his present one OF coaXing support
from such a group OF enemies to the
sweeping democracy he represents.
Even the Maximalists today adjudged
the conference anti-revolutiOnary and
not representing the peoples Will In
refusing participation.
Kerensky's supporters agreed today
the supreme test of the democracy
will come in the Moscow meeting.
az we yield to the conservatives
and reactionaries now" said one OF
the revolutionary newspapers today
they will deliver 4.ussia to Nicholas
or Wilhelm"
Critical Condition.
Speeches of cabinet members served
10 emphasize Russia's present critical
situation. Minister Of Interior Proko-
povitch reported actual scarcity of
food in several provinces and a dwin-
ding supply even in such cities at
PetrograC and Moscow.
Vice Premier Nekraso'. warned that
Russia's finances were in grave shape.
Against issuance OF an average OF
$50. 900 900 rubles (S125. OOO. OOO) year
ly in 1914, 1915, and 1916. he reported
an average monthly ISIS ance by the
new government OF S4O,OO0.OOo rubles
(342O, 600. OOO). Vast increases in
wages have been met. New govern
mental activities consume huge sums
Of money. Taxes. are not producing
as much as expected. Nekrason urged
high taxes on war profits rs one
means Of raising money.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
HAIG RAID SUCCEEDS;
PRISONERS ARE TAKEN

LONDON, Aug. 27.-A successful
raid east OF Oostaverne. in which Il
few prisoners were taken. was all
Field Marshal HaiE reported today.
He had no additional details from the
Lens or st. Quentin sectors, where
heavy lighting was reported in last
nights official statement
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
RUSSIAN

PETROGRAD, Aug. 2T-Rus-
sian troops on the Roumanisn
front northeast OF SoyeIa recap
tured from the enemy a height
which TeutonIc assault had at
first forced them to reIInquish.
today's official statement de-
clared.
On the Black Sea front, the war
office said, troops cooperating
with the Russian feet raided
Ordu, blowing up eleven motor
boats and seven feIuccas.
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TODAY
Continued from Page one.)

to do the work in the stone quar-
ries.
And also, Of course, the esti-
mable ladies and gentlemen who
decide that the workmen cannot
have beer, because they don't be-
lieve in it, will be ready to under
take the task of those workmen,
when the workmen leave their jobs
because they don't believe in ice
water.
The people Of the United States
are paying out to foreign govern
ments dollars in thousands of mill
ions. They know that every dollar
OF II is carefully watched-but
haven't the faintest idea Just how
1t goes or what hands actually
get it.
1t doesn't matter much just now
IN the first noble exciting flush of
giving American money to every
body that wants it. A little later, if
the war lasts, and our giving away
and spending runs into one hun
bred billions, there is going to be
q good deal of detailed curiosity.
Berlin stops private bathing to
save water and fuel" This will be
good news for Americas humorous
writers.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
WOULD GET 1000 WAR DOGS.

Secretary OF War Baker has ap-
proved q bill which Senator Brady of
Idaho has introduced providing for
the purchase or acceptance as gifts 70
the War Department OF 1000 dogs TO
be trained for military purposes.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
FAMINE FACES GERMANS
WHO LACK INFLUENCE AND
MONEY, REFUGEE REVEALS

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug PIPER
sons without money and influence are
having a hard time getting food in
Germany, according to William Bar
tholomew, former representative o.:
an American oil company at Hamburg,
who has arrived here on a Danish
ship. Germany now is face TO face
with a serious food shortage, he said.
Regarding Germany's man power,
Mr.. Bartholomew said there seemed to
be plenty of men now on the firing
line, but during the last six months
that he was permitted to see what
was going on he could not fail TO no
tIce a considerable reduction in the
number OF men drilling and being pre-
pared for war.
Declaration OF war by the United
States did not appear to create much
concern when the news was made
public, he said.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27

sEBASToPOL, Russia, Aug. FL
Extreme misery prevails in Turkey
because Of the shortage OF food and
supplies. according to a party of Turk
ish seamen who have arrived here Af-
ter having been taken prisoners by
the Russians in AnAtolian waters.
The widespread feeling against
Germany Is growing from day TO day.
according to tn Turkish prisoners.
They tell OF many demonstrations
throughout Turkey in behalf OF the
immediate cessation of the war.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27

NEW YORK, Aug. 2T.-LocsI head
quarters of the American Military
Hospital, formerly the American am
bulance, have received an appeal
from France for ambulance drivers
Only men exempt from the draft will
be accepted.
The Washington times., 1917-08-27
GERMANY ADMITS
French VICTORY
IN VERDUN ZONE
CONTINUED from Page one.)
+ mt was advanced half . mile ove- a
mile front

Aa@-N -ANAS
Great Decisive Battle.
General CadornGs titanic drive
against the Austro-HunEariansi s tax
ing on the phase OF q great decisive
battle. The Austro-HungarIanr retreat
in the Monte Santo sector, east OF the
Isozno river, continues. Trieste is
being shellsd.
Victory after victory crowns the
brilliant thrusts of the French in the
Verdun sector OF the western front
Except at one point, practically all of
the ground won by the Germans in
their six months offensive against
VeTdun IL again 70 the hands Of Gen.
erai Petain's army.
While British artillery hammered
away at the German lines in West
Flanders and around Lens, the British
suddenly drove forward along the
northern end OF the Somme front
masking = gain OF more than half a
mile in the Hargecourt sector, north
Of St Quentin.
Meager advices from PetroErad in.
dictate that the Austro-German coun-
ter offensive has been checked. at
least for the time being. Artillery
activity. however, by the Germans in
VolhyniA and north Of the Pinsk
marshes may be the prelude to infan.
try thrusts In those sectors.
Armies DemOraIIEed.
Decentralization has gripped the
Teuton armies. At Verdun, German
troops holding the first-line trenches
surrendered In great patches without
Offering any resistance.
In the district north OF Goriza, on
the italian front, where the Italians
are attacking over a twelve-mile
front, the crack troops OF the Austro-
Hungarian army, including the fam
Gus iron division, threw down their
arms, rather than perish from the
terrific bombardments from hundreds
Of Italian, British, and French guns.
II IL revealed for the first time
that French troops, as well as Brit
ish, are assisting the Italians.
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il. the accompanying photograph,
which shows the ruffian and Lewis
side by side just after the arrest had
been made. Several of Lewis friends
came up, but they were afraid of
shooting for fear of hitting Lewis.
While they hesitated the bootlegger
felled Lewis to the ground and thrust
his dagger through his throat. Before
he could infiict further injury the man
was caught and pinioned. The dagger
had pierced the larynx, but subse-
quently Lewis made recovery,
though he lost the use of his voice
permanently.
That Johnson won the admiration
and affection of his men is shown
from the fact that his deputies found
tine, in the thick of fighting, to sur
prise him with the gift of magnifi-
cent gold watch.
"The chase of a chipmunk," said
Johnson to them, may be sport in a
small way. The pursuit of bear or
tiger is still higher game, but the
hunting down of armed and willy Grim
inals, who prey upon the laws of our
countryside men who make their liv-
ing in crime and in preying upon the
appetites and passions Of their fellow
men, is sport of the highest possible
order"
Thus far, then, in spite of numerous
murders, the outlaws had failed to
murder Johnson. Now they set about
their endeavor in more systematic
manner. A price of $4,000 was placed
on Johnson's head.
THAT was the time," he says, when
l did not expect to get through. 1t
lasted for six months. OF course I
was shot at some, but used always
to sit on the last seat in the rail-
way cars, so that had everybody in
front of me, and in the restaurants I
always got into corner with my
back against the wall. When I was
in the street. if l heard anyone be-
hind Newell, just lined up against
the wall till he had passed, keeping
a mighty close eye on him the while"
The leading spirit and initiator of
the plan TO get Johnson by the oHer
of the big reward was man named
]. D. Lincoln. He had been black
smith at the little town of Byars,
near Pauls Valley, and had run a
blind tiger" there, which Johnson had
put out of business. Lincoln, who
was a great, broodIng, silent man, uni
versally Stunned on account of his
moroseness, conceived a violent hatred
for Johnson after the smashing of his
shebeen. In his distorted brain he
evolved the scheme for getting man
to make sure of putting Johnson out
Of the way. He put his suggestion
before number of bootleggers all
through the country by letter, boldly
detailing his plans and asking Tor
financial assistance. Several OF them
were believed to have complied, Iof
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Tulsa, was shot in the neck, and he
still carries the bullet.
Then there was Randolph w. Car
they, city marshal at Paul's Valley,
who was shot in the back and killed.
The murderer was fellow named
Stephenson, whose place Carthey had
helped. wreck previously. The dead
officers body lay in state in the little
Methodist church for two days before
it was laid away; then the people held
an indignation meeting in the opera
house, and every bootlegger in the
district had to fly for his life.
In the month of August occurred a
pitched battle at Sasakwa, Okla, which
resulted in the death of two more of
Johnsons band Between Sasakwa
and the Oklahoma border is strip of
country inhabited chiefly by the Off
spring of Seminoles and negroes,
known as Seminole niggers. After
Johnson had shut off the railroad traf-
fic a band of these men formed an
express wagon system, carrying
whisky over the country.
Securing the aid of several city mar
shals, johnson set out upon a regular
campaign. He sent Harvey De Hart
from Thrace with an armed posse to
lie in wait along the route, and three
prisoners were brought in, together
with 25 gallons of whisky and a team
of horses. The liquor was destroyed,
and the horses were confscated and
Sold
Soon afterward John Morrison, who
divided his time as Johnson's deputy
and as village marshal for Sasakwa,
received news of a gang near the
settlement, which was said to have
robbed a post office safe. He set out
in pursuit of them, and, on the way,
encountered another officer. The two
men decided to wait in ambush until
the negroes returne1, as it was evil
dent that they were on the way to
Violet, a town just across the Okla
homa line, and would return with
LIQUOR. On their return the two Off
GERS stepped into the road and or
dered the men to halt. The negroes
whipped up their team, and one OF
them, swinging round. shot Morrison.
killing him instantly.
As soon as the news became known
posse was formed and set out in
pursuit. A regular battle followed,
resulting in the death Of l.. P. Dixon
of Shawnee, and of bootlegger.
Finally the gang was rounded up and
the leaders were captured and placed
in Jail.
It was In the town of Chelsea that
the rufians nearly got johnson. He
had entered the Joint" of man
named Edmondson with Deputy Lowe,
but, as the crowd was very threaten
ing in its demeanor, he left Lowe out
side to hold the door, and went into
the barroom alone, in his customary
manner. He smashed the liquor and
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LEWIS REVENGE RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS
acy Finally Ended.

We have seen how William E. John
sons sensational raid of the Monte
Carlo establishment in mo Mans
Land" by Lewis, Killion and Para
disc, resulted in the murder by Xii
lion of Carr, marshal at Caney, Kan,
and in Killion's being sentenced to a
life term in the penitentiary. The
next tragedy that was to develop out
of this affair came swiftly. After his
release from the short term OF I'M
prisonment which was melted out to
Lewis, the King" of No Mans Land,
he vowed vengeance on Johnson and
Keller, the deputy who had aided In
the raid, and sent word that he would
shoot them at sight. In the mean
while he set up livery stable at
Bartleyville.
Lewis had had worse career than
his confederate Killion. Some four
teen years previously he had been
implicated in the last train robbery
that was committed in the Cherokee
Strip. A portion of the booty was
traced to him, and Deputy Marshal
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the fixtures, and was about to leave
when the mob brushed Lowe aside
and surged into the place, surround
ing Johnson, led by a bad man"
named Dyce, of enormous build and
muscularity. Dyce thrust his fist
into Johnson's face, discoloring his
eye. Johnson knocked Dyce down
twice, and Dyce concluded that he
had had enough. Beer glasses and bill
lizard cues began to fly around john
sons bald head, and revolvers were
drawn. In another moment Johnson
would have been put out OF exist
ence But snatching up one of the
billiard cues, he laid about him with
force, cracking half a dozen heads
and clearing little space about him.
At this juncture Lowe managed to
effect an entrance and knocked up a
revolver which was thrust into john
sons face, in the nick of time. A min
ute later johnson, with his billiard
cue, was driving the flock of rowdies
like sheep before him. Within an
uOuT VI ILLS OCCuli UNIV AN"o ~ oOAAA
sons death was being spread in every
Oklahoma city.
"I'll always telephone in when I'm
killed." Johnson explained to an in
quiring newspaper reporter.
In connection with the killing and
wounding of Johnson's deputies may
be mentioned the attack on Omer L.
Lewis, though his death occurred, like
that of Charley Escalante, one of john
sons brave Indian deputies, at later
period. At Arloe, Mont, Lewis met
a bootlegger who had recently come
out of Jail, to which Lewis had con-
signed him. The bootlegger had had
plenty of time to fill himself with his
own medicine, and instantly attacked
Lewis with formidable dagger. IN
fortunately Lewis had not his re-
volver with him. Drawing his sheath
knife, he tried to defend himself
against the mans vicious thrusts, but
it was an unequal fight, for Lewis was
a small man, while the bootlegger
was of huge physique, as may be seen