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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-13
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! white. i.S5.
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MILWAUKEE CASH GRAIN.
Milwaukee, Aug. Is.
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corn-1 cent higher: No. white.
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KANSAS CITY CASH GRAIN.
Kansas City, Aug. Is.
Corn-No. 2 white. l.si; No. white.
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OMAHA CASH GRAIN.
Omaha, Aug. 10.
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mixed, 2.02d1216; No. 2 mixed. 2.14;
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I PEORIA CASH GRAIN. Z

New York. Aug. 1s.-Stocks general
~ made a hDe showing, the railroad
list being particularly active. Norfolk
& Western was the leader in the lat
ter division and showed gains of 3
points Steel led the industrials. Gem
eral Motors weak, losing points
on pool operations.
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WASHINGTON.

Senator James H. Brady of Idaho
died at his home in Washington from
heart disease.
The threatened food shortage in
north Russia promises to be prevent
ed through the reconciliation of the
Bolsheviki and the Ukraine.
The United States Emergency Fleet
Corporation will turn out 100000
tons during 1918, according to Admin,
istrator Hurley of the Shipping Board.
Secretary of State Robert Lansing,
speaking at the annual dinner of the
New York State Bar Association, de-
clared that until the war aims out
lined by President Wilson are accept
ed by the Prussian government the
war must go on.
Copper valued at more than half a
billion dollars was produced in the
United States in 1917.
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M Montana.

Copper valued at more than $780,
100000 was produced in the United
States in 1917.
Copper production of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company in December
amounted to 22,6OO,OOO pounds. This
compares with 21,66O,OOO pounds for
November, 22,336,469 pounds in Octo-
Der, 2,S00,00O pounds in September,
11,175,0OO pounds in August and 12,-
100000 pounds in July.
East Butte Copper Mining Company
produced 100000 pounds of copper
in December, compared with 2,O33,O0O
in November, 1,691,O0S in October and
1,461, 900 pounds in December, 1916.
Production of the company for the
year ended Dec. 81 last, smelter being
closed during July on account of labor
trouble, was, 2O,249,84S por Ids, com.
pared with 1S,562,26O in 1916.
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New Mexico.

The Mogollon Mining Company
shipped twenty-five pounds of gold
and silver to mint during December.
The daily mill tonnage amounts to $50
tons.
The Oaks Company have opened a
large amount of shipping ore at Mo-
gollon, in Pacific mine. Arrange
ments are being made to begin regu-
lar shipments. This will make five
different mines from which shipping
is being done.
According to figures being compiled
for the government and for publicity
use, the output of the mines in the
Lordsburg district for 1917 will total
about $2,25O,000 The Eight-Five
mine was the biggest producer with
the Bonney second.
For consideration of $4,000, Mike
O'Neill and Lydia F. O'Neill have
transferred to the Los Cerrillos Min
ing Company mining properties in the
Cerrillos mining district, including the
Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Alloy,
Dividend, Keystone, Gray Eagle and
Big Blue Lodge claims
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THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
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.

Twenty-seven British, two Italian
and one French ship were sunk dur
ing the past week.
Further extension of the submarine
barred zone is announced in wire
less statement sent out by the Ger
man government
Paris reports that the period of
Jan. / to 10 French pilots brought
down fifteen German airplanes and
one captive balloon.
Aerial warfare on an extensive
scale is developing now that opera
tions along the Piave river and on the
mountain front have become inactive,
owing to the wintry conditions.
The American steamship Harry
Luckenbach was torpedoed and sunk
with loss of life, according to word re-
ceived by the owner of the vessel in
New York. Eight of the crew are
missing.
Yielding to German insistence, Rus
sia has withdrawn her demand for the
transfer of the negotiations with the
central powers to Stockholm and is
proceeding with separate peace dis
cussion at Brest-Litovsk
The London War Office has issued
a summary of the British captures and
losses in the war during 1917. The
total captures on all fronts numbered
114,544 prisoners and 781 guns. The
losses numbered 28,379 prisoners and
166 guns.
Midwinter quiet on the part of the
infantry continues to prevail on the
various battle fronts. The artillery
has been active in some sectors, nota-
bly, north of Verdun, where the firing
was reported heavy between Beau
mont and Bezonvaux. The British car
ried out raid east of Loos and cap
tured few prisoners. The British
navy lost war vessel when the des-
trOyer RacoOn ran On the rocks off
the north Irish coast and sank with
all hands.
The London Daily News correspond
ent at Petrograd sends the following:
"The final rupture of negotiations at
Brest-Litovsk may be expected at any
moment, if, as seems probable, the
German militarists continue to impose
their policy on their delegates" The
correspondent says a dispatch from
Kuban reports that the Turks have
broken the armistice by landing 20,-
900 troops between Trebizond and
Lie and that submarine has sunk
a Russian transport.
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WESTERN.

Charles c.. Healey, former chief of
police, was pronounced mot guilty"
at Chicago.
Railroads entering Chicago aban.
doned all attempts to operate trains
Saturday and Sunday on account of
the storm.
Snow which covered the ground at
Flagstaff, Ariz., Jan. 9, to the depth of
from two to four inches, broke a
drouth which had existed since Aug
uSt.
Charles Ainsworth Woodward, nine
ty-six years old, of Boston, Mass, said
to have been the oldest Rotarian liv-
ing, died in Boston, according to word
received in Denver by Mrs. I. M. Lut-
ton, grand niece of Mr. Woodward.
Colorado bean growers have on hand
unsold 90,000,000 pounds of pinto
beans. Kansas and New Mexico have
110,0O0,00O pounds more. The big
stock of pintos is the result of the ef-
fort in the spring of 1917 to secure
an enormous production of all kinds
of food stuff.
The terrific storm raging in the
West and moving eastward made i'm
possible the movement of freight Sin
the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Michigan and in the territory be-
tween Pittsbufg, Buffalo and ST.
Louis, according to a statement made
Saturday night by A. H. Smith, as
sistant director general of railroads.
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ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Large Bonus Given Bisbee Miners.
Bisbee.-Nearly $3O0,OOO, in the
form of bonus payments, was the stu
pendous surprise received by en-
ployes of the three mining companies
of the Warren district. The two larg-
er companies also made their bonus
applicable at the reduction works in
Douglas.
Men who had been in the employ
of the companies for six months and
less than year, in addition to their
semi-monthly check, received a bonus
check amounting in the case of under
ground employees, to $50. Those who
had been employed for one year or
more received $1OO bonus checks.
The Copper Queen branch of the
Phelps Dodge Corporation, in the
Warren district, paid out $107,810.
This amount was paid to 1,210 men.
The same company paid $63,16O to
913 men employed in and around the
smelter at Douglas.
Calumet and Arizona Company paid
100000 to it's mine and smelter en-
ployes; $40 in the mines and approx
imately 400 in the smelter.
Shattuck-Arizona and Denn-Arizo-
ma paid $11,294
No announcement was forthcoming
from the companies as to the meaning
of the bonus. In the case of the Cop
per Queen, however, G.. H. DOWell,
manager, said: ''The company hopes,
in the near future, to announce per-
manent plan whereby continuous serv-
ice will receive special consideration" p"
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Important to Mothers
MESSENGERS of Death.

There are about 200 separate and
distinct kinds Of shells fired from Ger
man guns, and each and every one of
them has been given at least one nick
name by the Tommies, according to
London Tit-Bits. Some of them have
been given several.
The biggest kind Of high explosive
Shells, for instance, are known in
differently as 'Dirty Dicks" "Jack
Johnsons." "Coal Boxes" "Flower
Potts." "Crumps," "Black Peters" or
"Whistling Willies."
The smaller kind are "Black Me-
rias" and "Woolly Bears" according to
whether the smoke they emit when
bursting is black, or white with yell
lowish tinge.
High explosive shrapnel and trench
mortar shells are respectively "whizz-
bangs" and "pip-squeaks," from their
habit of giving only those warnings of
their approach. "Archibalds" are anti
aircraft shells. Ordinary shrapnel
projectiles are ''Little Willies."
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Arizona.

The Commonwealth mine in the
Warren district is again being worked.
Progress of the New Cornelia Cop
per Company at Ajo is entirely salts
factory.
The Cactus Queen Copper Company
has about thirty men at work on it's
property near old Rawhide, in the
south part of Mohave county.
The men employed in the mines and
smelters in the Bisbee district for six
months or more were given bonuses
aggregating nearly 100000.
Many eastern promoters and stock
brokers of doubtful character, to-
gether with some reliable interests,
are preparing for silver mining activ-
tiles.
Colorado.
William Mitchell of Boulder has
sold the Katy mine to the Tungsten
Metals Corporation.
The Royal Flush mine on Hahn's
Peak has been connected by telephone
with Steamboat Springs.
Directors Of the Granite Gold Mining
Company declared the regular divi-
dend of cent share The total vii,
be $16,500.
Leadville's metal production for
1917 amounted to $17,959,977, or an
increase of $1,79O,409.25 over the pro-
duction of 1916.
The Colorado Central Mines Com
pany at Georgetown is now employing
eighty-five workmen on the construc-
ton of a new mill.
The mine output of gold, silver, cop
per, lead and zinc in Colorado for
eleven months of 1917, and the esti-
mated output for December, accord
ing to data compiled by Charles W.
Henderson, of the United States Geo.
logical Survey, Department of the In
terror, amount to about $16,020,O0O in
gold, 7,327,00O ounces of silver, 67,-
100000 pounds of recoverable lead, g.
100000 pounds of copper, and 114,0OO,-
900 pounds of recoverable zinc, hay
ing total value of nearly $40,600,0O0,
compared with $19,153,821 in gold, T.
656,544 ounces of silver, 7O,914,OS7
pounds of lead, S,624,OS1 pounds of
copper, and 134,2S5,463 pounds of
zinc, having total value of $49,200,'
CTS in 1916.
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Strictly According to Law.

Mr.. J. J. Hissey, in his book, "The
Road to the Inn," tells the following
story:
A parson was quietly seated in his
study when one Of his male parish
toner's was shown in to him, carrying
a baby.
"Parson," he says, "as the law tells
must give you one-tenth of all I pro-
duce, here's my tenth child" and with
out another word the man placed the
baby on the astonished parsons knee
and departed.
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GEN ERAL.

William Evans, teamSter, was
killed and four other persons were
wounded slightly in a revolver fight
at private home between Miami and
Globe, Ariz.
To conserve fuel and increase the
efficiency of its motive power, the
Union Pacific is installing superheat-
ers on many of the saturated locomo-
tives On the road.
Copper producers in New York re-
ceived word from Washington that an
agreement had been reached with the
federal authorities for the fixing of
the price of copper at 231% cents q
pound for the next four months.
Formal charges of murder were
lodged at Cleveland. Ohio, against FL
mer Hupp, wealthy oil promoter, who
shot and killed Charles L. Joyce, also
wealthy. Hupp returned Unexpectedly
from a business trip to Chicago and
found Joyce in his home at Lakewood,
a fashionable Cleveland suburb.
The central committee for the re-
lief of Jews suffering through the war,
81 Chambers street. New York, has
designated the week beginning Sun
day, Jan. 27, and ending Feb. 3, as
mercy week in honor of the second
anniversary of proclamation day, Jan.
27, 1916, as named by President Will
son.
Virginia's ratification of the federal
prohibition amendment was completed
when the House of Delegates indorsed
the measure by vote of 81 to 13. The
Senate by vote of 80 to 8 approved
the amendment.
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SPORT.

Bobby Mclean of Chicago defeated
Oscar Mathiesen, the Norwegian, in
the final events for the professional
international indoor ice skating cham
piOnship at Chicago.
With the departure of Jack Hen
bricks, the indianapolis club will be
without a manager and it is possible
that Herman Bronkie, third baseman
of the Indians may be given the job.
With the passing of Robert Fitz-
simmons there still remain in the
land of the living five former world
champions l.. Sullivan, James
J. Corbett, James J. Jeffries, Tommy
Burns and Jack Johnson
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BRITISH LOSSES 24,e79 IN WEEK
Small Raids and Artillery Action Only
Fighting on War Fronts.

small HdIQS ana ATttIery ACIiOH OnIy
Fighting on War Fronts.
London, Jan. 15.-Nearly 100000
men from Great Britain alone are to
be recruited into the British army at
the earliest date possible. This an
nouncement was made in the House
of Commons by Sir Auckland Geddes,
minister of national service.
Cold weather and SHOWS are still re-
tarding the infantry activities on the
battle front, where no fighting of mo-
ment is taking place, except in the
nature of small patrol engagements
and artillery duels.
Notwithstanding the fact that sim
liar conditions prevailed last week, the
British casualties for the seven days
ending Monday were 24,979, as COM
pared with 1898 the previous week
and 9,951 the week before.
For the first time in many months
British aviators have carried out an
air raid on Karlsruhe, capital of Ba-
den. The raid was made in the day
time.
Warning of the possibility of final
breach in the Russo-German negotia-
tions is the outstanding feature of the
current news from Petrograd.
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BRIEF ARIZONA NEWS NOTES.

Arizona farmers are planting more
wheat
Fire destroyed seven of Cotton
woods business houses.
The business place of B. A. Taylor
at Johnson was destroyed by fire.
The city of Phoenix has total
bonded Indebtedness of $1,12S,576.51.
The ranch home of L. M. Brown
east of Gleeson, was destroyed by fire.
The salaries of deputy sheriffs in
Pima county were raised $25 month.
The Elks lodge at Prescott initiated
class of thirty ''fawns" at one meet
ing
Thomas D. Shaughnessy was chosen
secretary of the Arizona State Fair
Commission
The TETON mines at Gleeson are to
be worked on very large scale the
coming year.
During the past year the banks of
Phoenix gained deposits aggregating
more than $3,0OO.00O.
Mrs Bertha MCGOWAN, who lives in
northern Tonto Basin, near Payson,
captured a mountain lion
There are many indications that
Douglas again is to be made the camp
site of division of troops.
Charles E. Hardy of Nogales, was
nominated by President Wilson as
Twenty-Five gallons of wine on the
property of Councilman L. B. Angus
was confiscated in a raid at Miami.
A coroner's jury determined that
Officer N. B. Shirk of Phoenix, did
only his duty in killing James Davis.
An effort is being made to secure
another federal judge for Arizona,
and divide the state into two districts.
During 1917 the number of auto Ii
censes issued was 1880. This year
it is thought that $4,000 will be is
sued.
CoRstitutiOnality of the Arizona
"blue sky" law was upheld in an opin-
ion handed down in the United States
Circuit Court
The Red Cross chapter on the San
Carlos Indian reservation was aug
mented when Ill Apaches joined and
contributed $222
The third officers training camp
opened at Linda Vista, Cal, with
eight representative young men of
Tucson as members.
E. H. Pearson and A. r. Cleaveland
were held in Phoenix as a result of
the killing of A. w. Peay, ranchman,
living near Glendale.
Owing to delay in receiving the
forms for the income returns the in
come tax collector will not arrive in
Douglas until Jan. 22.
The Tucson City Council has raised
the pay of police officers from $100
to $115 month and of the chief of
police from $3.50 to $175.
The $4,000 issue of bonds to build
and equip school houses in district
No. brought a premium of $3.50
when sold at Tucson for $51,390.
Mrs. H. J. Allen, mother of Mrs.
Thomas E. Campbell, passed away at
the Campbell home in Phoenix The
remains were shipped to Oakland,
Cal for interment.
The postoffice at Mescal has been
discontinued and mail for that place
should now be addressed to Benson.
Death ended the sufferings of Ma
ria Herrera, second victim of Anas-
tacio Ruan, at Jerome, who was
charged by the coroner's jury with the
deliberate murder of Victor Vasquez.
Two years ago B. A. Fowler sold |
his ranch northwest of Phoenix for
$4,000. Recently G. R. Green of |
Phoenix bought the ranch for $4,000. |
That, in brief, is the story of the pro-
gress made by the Salt River valley |
txryO
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SPY, IN OFFICERS GARB, FIRED
ON AS HE ATTEMPTS TO BURN
MUNITIONS MAGAZINE.
GERMAN DICTATORSHIP
MILITARY PARTY IN CONTROL,
AND Won HERTLING EXPECT
ED TO RESIGN AT ONCE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Norfolk, Va, Jan. 15-Navy inteli-
gence officers left here for Baltimore
with Walter Spoerman, suspected of
being an active figure in plots
launched by Captain Boy-Ed, the for
mer German military attache, and be-
lieved to have been captain in the
German army. According to the story
unofficially told here, the man was ar
rested Saturday while in the act of
attempting to blow up magazine at
the unfinished Army Aviation Field
under construction near Newport
News. The prisoner will be turned
over to officers of the Department of
Justice at Baltimore for a hearing So
far the only charge formally lodged
against him is understood to be that
he is dangerous enemy alien. Docu-
ments found in his possession, how
ever, are declared to reveal his con-
nection with Boy-Ed and former Ger
man Ambassador Bernstorff, and to
incriminate in spy plot persons. in
Washington, Baltimore and other
cities.
London.-According to kilograms
from Berlin Count Won Hertling, the
German imperial chancellor, is ill
and probably will resign shortly, says
an exchange telegraph dispatch. Read
ing between the lines in the German
newspapers it becomes apparent that
the conferences of military and politi-
cal leaders now taking place at Ber-
lin are regarded as an effort to OBJ
tain some sort of an agreement
among the German parties as to war
aims. At present all signs point to
the triumph of the militarists, al
though it is evident the opposing
forces are making a strong fight.
The Berlin Vorwaerts, organ of the
Socialists, says the militarist party in
Germany is completely in the ascend
ancy.
The newspaper adds that everything
now points to a military dictatorship,
accompanied by the resignation of DR..
Richard Won Kuehlman, the German
foreign minister
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Wyominq.

The latest field in Wyoming is the
Renner dome, seventeen miles south
west of Basin, in Big Horn county.
The Pioneer Company, drilling in
section 36-77, Big Muddy, reports a
good showing of oil at a depth of 612
feet
Midwest Refining Company's cas-
ing-head gasoline plant at Salt Creel
and the pipe line connecting it wit
Casper was turned over to the com
pany by the contractors.
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FOREIGN

Those known to have been elected in
clude 261 social revolutionaries and
185 Bolsheviki.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pichon
will in the Chamber of Deputies out
line Frances war aims.
Emperor Yoshihito of Japan has
conferred the rank of field marshal
upon King George of England.
Returns have been received at Pet
rograd showing the election of $40
delegates to the constituent assembly
At Santiago, Chile, the Mercurio ex.
presses the opinion that President
Wilson's speech may open the door to
peace.
Recognition of the independence of
Finland by Germany will release 52,-
100000 marks to Finland's credit in
German banks.
Reports from Rostov say that the
Republic of the Don has been de-
clared existent with Gen. Kaledine as
president and prime minister.
The British government has decid-
ed to establish informal relations with
Maxim Litvinoff, who was appointed
by the Bolshevik government as Rus
sian ambassador at London.
President Wilson's statement of
peace terms has been received in the
allied countries with singular enthusi-
asm, although a flat refusal to con-
slider the offer is expected from Ger
many.
An explosion occurred in a mine pit
at Halmerend, Eng, and it is feared
heavy loss of life resulted Of 247
men in the mine at the time of the ex-
plosion, forty-seven have reached the
surface.
The House of Lords at London re-
jected Lord Loreburn's amendment to
the representation of the people bill
by which it was sought to exclude
women from the suffrage The vote
against the amendment was 1874 to 60.
Winston Spencer Churchill, British
minister of munitions, addressing the
American Luncheon Club in London
made powerful appeal for the send
ing of American soldiers to Europe
quickly and in as large numbers as
possible.
A Canadian Press cable from Lon
don says the heroic deeds of Canadi-
ans in recent fighting on the western
front were described during the kings
award of Victoria crosses to Cana
dians included in the eighteen men
decorated
In a speech before his departure
from Petrograd Premier Lenine said:
II fear we shall have to stop the de-
mobilization and prepare for war. If
Germany and her allies do not accept
our conditions of peace, we will de-
clare revolutionary war On them. -
A number of Argentine newspapers
consider that the extension of the
German barred zone to include the
trade routes between South America
and Europe is an unfriendly act tow
ard that country. The papers renew
their demands that the government
sever relations with Germany.
The Social Revolutionists at Petro-
grad are planning to hold conven-
tion of peasants deputies and other
organizations in connection with the
all-Russia Workmen's and Soldiers
Congress on Jan. 21. An effort will
be made to form a federation of Rus
sian republics, including the Ukraine,
Siberia, the Don territory, and the
Caucasus.