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SPORT.

Missouri university defeated Kansas
university in game of basketball,
Columbia, Mo-, 73 to SO.
Victory crowned the efforts of both
the varsity and freshmen crews of the
University of Pennsylvania in their
annual races with Yale over the Hen
ley course of one mile and five-six-
teenths on the Schuylkill river at
Philadelphia
Col. J. c.. Miller, promoter of the
proposed Willard-Fulton bout of July
4, tossed in the sponge as his project,
groggy from the mauling of numerous
state officials, was hammered out Of
Maryland. The colonel formally called
off the match.
At Louisville, KY, 10000 people
viewed the running of the derby, and
while Exterminator passed under the
imaginary wire length in front of
X. D. Alexander's colt there was a
momentary hush. Then when the
numbers were finally posted there was
ripple of applause, but only a ripple.
The great majority of the thorough
bred lovers at historic Churchill
Downs had hoped to see Escoba vic
torious, not alone because his owner
is a Kentuckian, but because he is in
the United States aviation service, and
some time ago declared his intention
of donating the rich derby purse to
the Red Cross, in the event his good
colt should win.
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WASHINGTON,

A special prayer for the cessation
of the evils tormenting humanity, dur
ing mass on st. Peters day, June 29,
is urged by Pope Benedict in spe-
cial message from Rome addressed to
the whole world.
An appropriation of $33,OO0,OOO to
provide for the medical necessities of
the forces now under arms and about
to be assembled under the new draft,
was asked of Congress by the War De-
partment This estimate is in add1-
tion to appropriations already made
for the medical branch of the army,
totalling $130,000.00O.
The United States Civil Service
Commission states that the govern
ment needs thousands of women for
war work.
Congress is not taking kindly to the
idea of abandoning it's plans for ad-
journment about July 1 in order to
undertake new revenue legislation.
Eugene Hale, Jr., son of a former
United States senator and brother Of
Senator Fred Hale of Maine, million
aire, years above the draft age and
married, went to Washington from his
palatial New York home and enlisted
as private in the regular army.
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AMERICAN FORCES IN FIGHT.
Active in Battle and Will Continue
Regularly, Says Baker.

Washington, May IA. - American
forces in France are to be actively in
battle now and regularly in the future,
Secretary Baker announced. Adding
his official statement to a previous an
nouncement from Lord Reading, the
British ambassador, doubling the au-
thenticity of the report from Ottawa
that the British cabinet had decided
American troops should be conserved
until they constitute large and inde-
epndent army, Baker declared "the
facts are exactly otherwise" "The
American troops in France" he an
nOunced, "are now being used actively
in battle, and in the trenches, while
all of the plans of the War Depart
ment look to the development of the
American army as such and the crea-
tion of distinctively American army,
yet the various elements of it now in
France are being used III such ways as
are deemed most effective in accord
ance with Gen. Pershing's action in
placing all our resources at the dis
posal of the French commander and
the supreme commander"
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WESTER RN.

Consumers have been asked by the
national fuel administration to take
part in the big coal drive set for the
first week in June.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the postoffice and general store, an
unoccupied store building, two private
dwelling houses and a rooming house
at Copper Hill, suburb of Globe,
Ariz.
George Powell, we'll known labor
leader, died at Clifton, Ariz., from in
juries sustained in an accident at the
Ash Peak mine at Duncan.
James M Baird of Otero county,
senator in the Third New Mexico State
Legislature, and his son, Walter M.
Baird, have been indicted by the fed
eral grand jury on the charge of con-
spring to make a false claim to get
a deferred classification for Walter M.
Baird in the draft, on the ground that
young Baird was foreman of a cattle
ranch. Their trial is set for May %.
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THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Americans repulse German raid on
Picardy front.
Bulk of German reserves still at
rear of Somme front.
Six more Americans have been dec
GRATED with the croix de guerre.
British casualties officially pub
lished during the week ending May IL
totaled 10000.
Italian troops stormed Monte Corno
and took about 100 prisoners, two guns
and four machine guns.
French troops captured Grivesnes
Park, five miles northwest of Mont
didier, the Paris war office announces.
Russian warships have bombarded
German forces in the harbor of Mar
tupol, the Berlin war office announced.
The Seicheprey salient shows signs
of again becoming active. The enemy
deluged the place with machine gun
bullets.
French troops advanced their lines
slightly east of Locre, on the Flanders
front, the London war office an
nounces.
Italian troops Saturday stormed an
Italian post at Col Della Orso, On the
northern mountain front, destroying
its garrison.
Rostov-on-the-Don, the largest city
in the Don Cossack territory and near
hoe
occupied by the Germans.
More than 100000 men have been
called in the draft so far and either
are in France, in camp, or under call
to go into service before June /.
The German air service has been
battered to pieces. Since March Fl,
it is estimated, their losses total 700
pilots, observers and machine gunners,
while 1000 machines have been de-
stroyed.
An important section of high ground
near the Vyerbeck river, north of
KENNEL, has been captured by the
French in strong attack. Both hill
No. A and Goddezone farm, which
lie between La Clytte and Vierstraat,
were stormed and occupied.
British naval forces again raided
the German naval base at Ostend, on
the Belgian coast, blockading the en-
trance to the harbor by sinking the
old cruiser Vindictive, which partici-
pated in the recent raid on Zeebrugge.
The previous raid, which was carried
out early on the morning of April %,
was conducted simultaneously against
Ostend and Zeebrugge. The latter
port Is believed to have been COM
pletely blocked through the sinking
of two concrete-filled cruisers in the
channel.
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FOREIGN.

Field Marshal Viscount French was
sworn in Saturday as lord lieutenant
and governor general of Ireland.
An army of 100000 Russians is
marching on Finland from Petrograd,
according to information received at
Copenhagen.
Two women spies, Josephine AL
varez and Victorine Faucher, con-
demned to death by court-martial Jan.
25, were executed at Nantes, France.
Andrew Bonar Law, speaking for
the government in the House of Com
mons, announced that the home rule
bill would not be introduced before
May 10.
From army postoffices scattered
throughout France-just to the rear OF
the front lines to far southward-a
deluge of Mothers Day letters was
poured in Sunday upon the American
army postoffice.
So many German wounded have ar
that the German authorities in SelZae-
ter, Getvelde, Terdonck and various
other towns in western Flanders have
closed the schools, converting them in
to hospitals.
The appearance of American ma
tional army men on parade in London
aroused the enthusiasm of the Lon
don Sunday papers as have few events
in many months. The writer's unite
in giving unstinued praise to the men
and predict for them record Of splen-
did achievement at the front.
The hospital established near the
front by DR.. Alexis Carrel of the
Rockefeller institute has been per-
sistently bombed by German aviators
and now is almost entirely destroyed,
despite the fact that it constantly
flew a flag bearing a huge red cross
and was further identified by an i'm
mense white cross marked on the
lawn.
The Lloyd George ministry won a
notable victory in the House of Com
mons. BY a vote of 293 to LOG the
House voted down a motion intro
duced by former Premier Asquith pro-
viding for the appointment of spe-
cial committee to investigate charges
made by Maj. Gen Frederick B. Maui
rice, recently relieved of his post of
chief director of military operations
at the war office.
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THREE KINDS OF. GENTLEMEN
Are Made by Inhabitants of the
Emerald Island.

Ireland is the only country in which
1t has ever been customary to classify
gentlemen as of three distinct kinds OF
species.
Probably the distinctions are still
recognized to some extent in the Em-
erald isle, but two centuries ago, and
even much later, they were defined
respectively as (one) the "half-mount-
ed," (two) the gentleman every inch
of him." and (three) the gentleman to
the backbone"
The first class consisted Of descend
ants of Cromwell's soldiers, who, II
they could ride we'll, were called
"Bucliskin Breeches," or "Squireens."
The second class was composed OF
descendants of old families whose es-
tates had been forfeited to the crown
(for rebellion or other reasons), and
who had been compelled to lower them
selves by working for living, in trade
or the professions.
The third class-the gentlemen to
the backbone"-comprised the old
stock, or folks who lived on the ancient
family estates and the labor of the
peasantry pertaining to their domains.
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GEN NERAL.

The Sherwood bill, granting a min
imum pension of $25 month to Civil
War veterans, was passed by the
House.
Maj. Richard Bolles Paddock, re-
ported in the casualty list from the
American front in France as slightly
wounded, is a nephew of Gen. John J..
Pershing, commanding the American
expeditionary forces in France, and
has been on his uncle's staff since the
American punitive expedition was sent
into Mexico.
The London Central News says
enemy agents are purchasing large
quantities of United States notes for
shipment to Austria by way of Swift
zerland, to be used for the purchase
of this years crop from the Ukraine,
Russian peasants, it is explained, will
only accept American notes in pay
ment for their produce.
He was captured five times by Ger
man soldiers, shot three times and es-
capped five times during three and a
half years in the shadow of the can
non. That about sums up the expert
ence of Fred Mitchell, veteran jockey
of the French and English turf, who
arrived in New York from his home
in Gouvieux, near Chantilly, France.
He comes to America to aid the Red
Cross and give further of his services
to the allied cause.
Richard G. McCalla of Toledo, Ohio,
student aviator, was burned to death,
and George I. Henderson of Paw
tucket, R. l., student aviator, was bad
ly burned, when their airplane fell
on Santa Rosa island at Pensacola,
Fla.
Final plans for the organization of
the United States guard to patrol
enemy alien barred zones and protect
ed shipyards, large supplies of govern
ment stores and major utilities essen
tial to conduct of the war, were an
nouuced by the War Department.
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well and feel fine in the morning and
able to do my work. I gladly recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to make weak nerves
strong. ~ Mrs. ALBERT Suite, 6O3
Olmstead St., Winona, MINI.
How often do we hear the expression
among women, II am so nervous, cam
not Sleep" or "it seems as though /
should fly" Such women should profit
by Mrs. Sultze's experience and give
this famous root and herb remedy,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, trial.
For forty years it has been overcom-
ing such serious conditions as displace-
ments, inflammation, liberation, irreg-
ularities, periodic pains, backache, diz-
ziness, and nervous prostration OF
women, and is now considered the stan.
dard remedy for such ailments.
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Slav Royalty Captured by Huns.

Amsterdam.-The Ukrainian press
bureau received information from
Odessa, according to which the former
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
and Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaie-
witch and Alexander Nicolaievitch
(Michaelovitch) who had been living
at Dulbar, near Aitodor, in the Crimea,
are in the hands of the Germans. They
are guarded by twenty-five soldiers OF
the Sebesttopol soviet, who are sworn
both to protect them and to prevent
their escape.
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soldiers Of his state during his leis-
ure time.
Flagstaff has organized a Loyalty
League.
Globe and Miami won Liberty loan
honor flags.
Every Chinaman in Tucson bought
third Liberty bond.
Yavapai county's new court house
is admired by all visitors.
The Socorro smelter will be moved
to Tucson and operated there.
Mrs. Irene Utley of Morenci has
four sons and three of them in the
army.
Mohave county exceeded it's third
Liberty loan quota by more than 100
per cent.
Jerome and the Verde district went
"over the top" in the third Liberty
Loan campaign.
A rich strike in the upper tunnel
of the Samoan mines at Chloride was
recently reported.
Sidney Osborn, present secretary Of
state, announces that he will be
candidate for governor.
Attention at the Gold Ore at Oat-
man will now be directed toward de-
veloping the east ore body.
Geo. Brinton Chandler and Prof.
Guy Stanton Ford addressed meet
ing of the councils of defense at Phoe-
nix.
Considerable investment is being
made in development and equipment
at the Old Peck mines in the Brad
shaws.
H. K. Welsh is reported to be ar
ranging for the work of retimbering
the old shaft at Hardshell mine at
Patagonia.
A strike of peacock copper has been
reported at Jerome in the shaft Of the
Blue Monster Copper Co. at depth
of little over 100 feet.
Arizona bakers, at meeting in
Phoenix, agreed to stop the delivery
of bread and to quit making pies,
cakes and pastry May 27.
J. E. Schmidt, a rancher living in
the Paradise valley near Phoenix,
while riding bicycle near that city,
was struck by truck and instantly
killed.
Thomas E. Campbell, deposed as
governor by Supreme Court mandate
last December, announced his candi-
dacy for the Republican nomination
next fall
It is stated that an epidemic has
seriously affected mining in the
camps at Tucson. Ray Hayden,
Winkelman, Florence, Amote, Twin
Buttes, San Xavier, Vail and Rose
mont.
To further the sale of thrift stamps
and baby bonds in the state of Ari-
zona, George w. P Hunt issued a
proclamation calling upon the people
to observe May as Thrift Pledge
Month.
AS the result of revolver duel in
Grover caflon, Josemaria Corpio, aged
rs, an employ6 of the International
smelter, was killed and Conception
Padilla, another Mexican, is a pris-
oner in the county jail at Miami
charged with the shooting
Harry Borden and D. c. Wright,
wholesale liquor dealers of Rodeo, N.
M, who were convicted of conspiracy
to transport liquor from Rodeo to
Douglas, Ariz., were sentenced to
year and day each at Fort Leaven-
worth prison by United States Judge
| Sawtelle at Tucson. Each was fined
$1,000.
! Ernie Banks, former Douglas smell
ter1nan and contractor has already
| been wounded twice while fighting
with the British army in France and
has received two war medals.
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IMPORTANT GAINS BY ALLIES.
Artillery Active on Many Parts of
Flanders and Picardy Fronts.

Paris, May IA. Active artillery
fighting in Picardy on both sides Of
the Avre river is reported in Mondays
official statement.
1t is now two weeks since the disas-
trous repulse north of Mont KENNEL
and in that time the Germans have
gained hardly a foot either in Flan-
ders or Picardy. The French and
British, however, have taken some
small and locally important positions
in limited attacks, the latest advance
having been made by the French north
of KENNEL village in the capture of
Hill A and an adjoining farm. 1t Is
felt the Germans cannot delay their
attacks in strength much longer and
that important sectors southwest of
Ypres and between Arras and the
Somme will soon resound again to the
clash of mighty battles. Meanwhile
the opposing cannon are firing thous-
ands of shells into and behind the hos
tile positions.
On the Italian front, the fighting is
becoming sharper with the Italians on
the offensive. After the successful
operation on Monte Corno, south of
Asiago, the Italians have wiped out an
Austrian advance post on the import
ant height of Col Del Orso, between
the Brenta and the Piave. Austrian
patrol parties were repulsed north of
Lake Garda and along the line west of
the Brenta.
In Mesopotamia, the British forces
have progressed further up the Tigris
and have captured Kirkut, pursuing
the Turks for twenty miles to the
northward. The British are now sixty
miles east of the important city of Mo-
sui, the site of the ancient city of
Nineveh and the crossing of numerous
caravan routes.
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u. S. RED CROSS WEEK
MAY 2O-27 NAMED BY PRESIDENT
IN PROCLAMATION
Asks Those Unable to Bear Arms to
Contribute Generously to Second
$1O0,0OO,00o War Fund.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ashington-Presiden Wilson is
sued a proclamation designating the
week beginning May 20 as Red Cross
Week." and calling upon the Amerl-
can people to contribute generously to
the second $100,000,000 war fund OF
the American Red Cross for the ale
Walton of suffering among tho Amer
lcan troops in France and their de-
pendents at home and among the
fighting forces and civilian popula-
tions of the allied countries. The
proclamation follows:
PROCLAMATION:
'Inasmuch as the war fund of 1917,
SO generously contributed by the
American people to the American
Red Cross for the administration OF
relief at home and abroad, has been
practically exhausted by appropria-
tions fer the welfare Of the men in
our military and naval forces, and
for those dependent upon them for the
yet more urgent necessities of our al
lies, military and civilian, who have
long borne the brunt of war;
"And, inasmuch as the American
Red Cross has been recognized by law
and international convention as the
public instrumentality for war relief;
"And, inasmuch as the year Of our
own participation in the war has
brought unprecedented demands upon
the patriotism and liberality of our
people, and made evident the neces-
sity of concentrating the work of re-
lief in one main organization which
can respond effectively and universal
ly to the needs of humanity under
stress of war;
"And, ina3DlCch as the duration OF
the war and the closer and closer CO.
operation of the American Red Cross
with our own army and navy, with the
governments of our allies, and with
foreign relief organizations, have re-
suited in tho discovery of new oppor-
tunities of helpfulness under cOnd1-
tions which translate opportunity into
duty;
"And, inasmuch as the American
Red Cross war council and it's COM
miasioners III Europe have faithfully
and economically administered the
peoples trust;
"Now, therefore, by virtue of my
authority as President Of the United
States and President of the American
Red Cross, I, Woodrow Wilson, do
hereby proclaim the week beginning
May 20, 1918, as Red Cross Week.
during which the people of the United
States will be called upon again to
give generously to the continuation of
the important work of relieving dis.
tress, restoring the waste of war and
assisting in maintaining the morale
of our own troops and the troops and
peoples Of our allies by this manifes-
tation of effort and sacrifice on the
part of those who, though not privi-
legged to bear arms, are of one spirit,
purpose and determination with our
warriors.
''In witness whereof, I have here.
unto set my hand and caused the
seal Of the United States to be af-
fixed.
Done in the District of Columbia
this 4th day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen and of the independence
of the United States of America, the
one hundred and forty-second. By the
President,
WOODROW WILSON,
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State"
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PRISONERSASSERT
HINDENBURC DEAD
TEUTON AMMUNITION DUMP AT
CANTIGNY BLOWN UP BY
AMERICANS.
HUNS ACTIVE IN WEST
ENGLISH CAPTURE KlRkUT AND
PURSUE FLEEING TURKS FOR
TWENTY MILES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

London, May 14.-All German pris-
oners captured in France say that
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg Is
dead, letters from British officers on
the western front report, according to
the Daily Express. At the same time
the name of Gen. Won Mackensen Is
brought into prominence as that of a
great man vino is to bring the Ger
mans victory.
The Express assumes that the Won
Hindenburg story is circulated to ex-
plain the failure of great offensive.
A cablegram from Amsterdam Mon
day said Won Hindenburg was present
at a conference between the kaiser
and Emperor Charles, when plans for
a closer alliance between the central
powers were formed.
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Cuticura Heals Eczema

And rashes that itch and burn. IF
there is a tendency to pimples, etc.,
prevent their return by making Cuti-
cura your daily toilet preparation. For
free samples address, "Cuticura. Dept
K, Boston," At druggists and by mail.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.-Adv.
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so bad i could not
e st at mig b t.
would lie awake and
get so nervous !
would have to get
up and walk around
and in the morning
would be all tired
out. ! read about
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and thought
/ would try it. My
nervousness soon
left me. I sleep
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ISSUE NEW WAR CURRENCY.
New One and TWo-DolIar Bills to Ap-
pear About July q.

Washington.-Designs for the ma
lions first wartime currency-federal
reserve banknotes of one dollar and
two-dollar denominations-have been
approved by the treasury and the new
bills will make their appearance in
general circulation about July 4. A
note Of the war period is given to the
reverse side of the two-dollar note in
the design of one Of the newest battle
ships. The face Of the two-dollar notes
bears portrait of Thomas Jefferson.
The face of the one dollar note car
ries a portrait of George Washington
and the reverse side has design of
the spread eagle clutching in war-like
attitude the American flag.
The bills are intended to replace sill
YER certificates, about $30,000,000 Of
which have been withdrawn from cir
culation in the last two weeks as the
silver which secured them was melted
into bullion under the new silver act.
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With the American Army in France,
May 14.-A gigantic enemy ammuni-
ton dump at Cantigny was fired by
the American artillery Monday morn
ing. At the same time two fires were
started in Montdidier, followed by nu-
merous explosions. The weather con-
Jinues misty and rainy
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Wise men act as if they expected to
live 100 years, but are prepared to
shuttle off tomorrow.
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His Retort.

She-Do you believe in spells?
He (tenderly)-No, but do in
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Money talks when it is put up as
guaranty.
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Nicaragua Joins War Against Huns.

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.-The
Nicaraguan Congress has declared
war on Germany and her allies: The
declaration of war was adopted by
Congress at the suggestion of Presi-
dent Chamorro with only four dissent
ing votes. Congress also adopted a
declaration of solidarity with the
United States. Nicaraguas action fol
lows that of it's neighbor, Guatemala,
which last month declared war on
Germany. It Is the twentieth nation
which has declared war against Ger
many.
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WOMAN'S NERVES
MADE STRONG
By Lydia E. Pi1kham's
Vegetable Compound.

Winona, MINI. -"I suffered for more
than a year from nervousness, and was
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Kniqhted by Klnu Georoe.

KnIghted by King George.
londonderry Edward Duke, who
resigned recently as chief secretary
for Ireland, has been knighted.