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and that the latter wanted to see him
at Z o'clock the following morning.
when he would broach the subject to
him. After his call on Kerensky Rod
zianko. telephoned to tell us that he
had arranged for an audience for me
with KerensSy at the Winter Palace
at noon the next day.
Capt. Dementiev drove me to the
Winter Palace and q few minutes be-
fore u 1 was In the ante-chamber of
the war minister. / was surprised to
find Gen. Brusilov there and he asked
me IL j came to see Kerensky about
the came matter. replied in the af-
nrmative. He offered to support my
idea with the war minister. and intro
duced me right there to Gen. Polovt-
Eev. commander Of the Petrograd mill
tary district, who was with him.
Kerensky Appears.
Suddenly the door swung open and a
young face. with eyes infiamed from
sleeplessness. beckoned to me to come
In. 1t was kerensky, at the moment
the idol Of the masses. One of his
arms was in a sling. With the other
he shook my hand. He walked about
nervously and talked briefly and dry
ly. He told me that he had heard
about me and was interested in my
idea. then outlined to him the pur.
pose Of the project. saying that there
would be no committees. but regular
discipline in the battalion of women.
Kerensky listened impatiently. He
had evidently made up his mind on the
subject. There was only one point
OF which he was not sure. Would !
be able to maintain high standard Of
morality In the organization? He
would allow me to recruit Immediately
IL / made myself answerable for the
conduct and reputation of the girls. l
pledged myself to do so. And it was
all done. j was granted the authority
there and then to form a unit under
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punish any misdcmeaaor. that I r<xu
demand absolute obedience, Those af
you who hesitate. better not -eien tkE
pledge. There viii now be n nedic1
examination" -
There were nearly ZOO signed
pledges: They included names OF
sorne Of the most lilustrious families
In the country. as well ss those iof
common peasant girls and domestic
servants. The physical examination.
given by ten physicians. some of
whom were women, was not OF tbs
same standard as that required OF
the men There were. naturally. very
few perfect specimens OF health
among the women. But we rejected
only those suffering from serious
ailments Ahogeiher there were a
few score reflections. Those accepted
were allowed TO so home with instruc-
tions TO return on the day following
when they would be auartered per.
manently in the institute and begin.
training.
Outft and Supplies.
II was necessary TO obtain outfits.
and ] applied TO Gen. Polovtzev corn
ma nder Of the military district or
I PetrogrRd. for them. The same even-'
ing two thousand complete outfiis.
were delivered at my headquarters.
I also asked General Polovtzev for
twenty-five men instructors who were
well disciplined. could maintain good
order and knew all the tricks OF the
military game. so as TO be able 10
complete the course Of instruction 10
two weeks. He sent me twenty-five
petty officers OF all grades from the
Volynski Regiment
Then there was the question OF sup
plies. We were to have our own
kitchen? IL was found more expedient
! not to establish one of our own but
to make use OF the kitchen Of a guard
regiment. sta TONED not far from our
quarters. The ration was that OF
regular troops. consisting of two
pounds of bread. cabbage soup, kasha.
sugar and tea. would send a COM
pany at a time. equipped with psils.
/ for their meals.
| On the morning OF May as all the
recruits gathered at the grounds Of
the Institute. ! had them placed in
rows. so as TO distribute them Accord
! ing to their height, and divided the
: whole body into two battalions of
approximately 1000 each. Each bat
TALON was divided into four com
panies, and each company sub-divided
into four platoons. There was a man
1 instructor in command OF every
platoon. and. in addition. there was
a petty officer in command OF every
company. so that altogether ] had
10 increase the number OF men in
structors TO forty.
CTo be contInued)
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World Must Haze Peace Pact
As President Wilson Requests
Or None at All Declares Taft
HREE
TAFT
TIPS

The world is going to this
league of nations or none at
all.
Monroe doctrines as safe as
under a more specific reser-
walton.
3IThe contention this league
means future wars has no
foundation.
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CTo be continuedD
Copyright 1919 by FredeT1ck A stekes Oour
Tany. Al Rights Reservedl
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don. German officers who committed
appalling infamies. the premier added.
also would be placed OH trial.
Serious disorders marked anti-gov-
ernment demonstrations in Rome last
Saturday night. The demonstrators at
tempted to reach the residence of
Premier Nitti, but were driven back by
large forces Of military police. Order
finally was restored after midnight.
Americas intention to participate
actively In the policing of Europe until
the fate Of all doubtful territories has
been settled was indicated Monday by
President Wilson ordering 800 marines
now In France to move Immediately to
Schleswig. The peace treaty provides
that a plebiscite determine whether
Schleswig 20 to Denmark or to Ger
many. and also that Allied troops hold
the territory pending the plehiscite.
The Allied powers will not ask for
the extradition Of the former German
Emperor. the Paris correspondent of
the Tclegraf says. but will ask the
Dutch Government, In the name of the
League of Nations. to see that Herr
HohenzOllern does not escape the moral
consequences. 1t is expected that AS
d member Of the league Holland will
inform the former emperor that he
must appear before an international
court, or leave the country,
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Cattle Thief In Tolls,

Jehn Wilson. alias Jim Lewis, alias
Il number of other naliles negro was
arrested near Plain Dealing last Fri
day aud later lodged i'll the Parish
Jail, charged with stealing and selling
cattle valued at not less than $40 and
obtaining money under false preten-
ses by mortgaging property not belong
ing to himself.
Wilson, it seems. had built UP Il very
lucrative business by appropriating
and selling other peoples cattle and
stock. He was rather versatile in his
methods Of securing money. but some
what negligent in the matter Of cover
ing UP his tracks. Mr.. w. G. Hughes,
Of Hughes Spur, and various negroes
Of the Alden Bridge community were
the ones from whom the cattle were
stolen. In some way the negro had Sc
cured bogus bills of sale of stock. and.
armed with these. he would take his
ill-gotten cattle into Plain Dealing and
dispose Of them. He also secured Il
number Of chattel mortgages on sew
eral mules and cattle. He was doing
well in the business. but he was too
free in using aliases. Mr.. New, Of
Plain Dealing. finally became suspi-
ciOus and got out warrant for the
negro's arrest. He heard of this and
tried to make his escape, but was cap
tured and brought to Benton. He Is
now guest of the parish and will
have plenty Of time to see the error OF
his ways before his trial comes up.
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Washington. D. c.

Congress adjourned at midnight
Tuesday until next Tuesday, the Sth.
after enacting all appropriation bills
needed by government agencies for the
new fiscal year. The army measure.
CARRYING $773.OOO.OOO: the sundry civil
bill. carrying $t;O3.OOO.OOO: the District
of Columbia's annual budget of S1'.-
U,O. 900. and a deficiency measure of
S25.OOO,GOO all We're completed Tues
day night and will he sent to the
White House.
Provision for vigorous steps by the
Federal Government against bomb
throwers and other anarchists and rad
icals-declared by government officials
to lie plotting overthrow Of the gov
ernment and spending $2,UOO,O0O to
that end-were made in the Sundry
civil appropriation bill as reported last
Friday to the Senate. The bill pro-
vides for $2.OOO,OOO for the general
suppression of crime and $3OOOOO for
Il special fund to enforce the law
against alien anarchists through de-
portations.
Urgent representations have been
made to the Mexican government for
the punishment Of those responsible for
the murder Of John cOrrell, an Ameri-
| can citizen. at his ranch near COlonia,
twenty seven miles north OF Tampic0
the State Department announced Tues
day. Instructions have been sent tt
both the American embassy ut Mexico
city aud the consulate ut Tamptco t.
urge immediate capture and punish
ment Of the guilty persons. and pro
tectinn for other Americans In tht
district.
| Orders for the rehabilitation OF thu
Army by September 3Oth to the peace
time strength Of approximately 19,OU
officers and men, authorized by th'
national defense act. were issued to
day by the War Department.
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Fires and Wrecks.

Damage amounting to $4,000 was
done to Il sawmill at Lutcher early
Sunday morning. when fire. started by
sparks fiyin. from the furnace. ignited
shavings in the fuel house. completely
consuming the boiler room and the
fuel house The milliuu-dollar plant
narrowly escaped complete destruction
through the work Of Louis Hodges. ell
gineer. and two negro assistants.
Eight persons are kntsNn to be dead
and more than forty were injured in
rear-end collision at 1,unkirk. \. T..
Tuesday morning. when limited train
on the New York Central ran into the
second section of another train. An
unidentified tramp killed in the wreck,
was probably the cause IF the tragedy.
The mechanism controlling the flow Of
air from the locomotive ITO the brakes
on the train was found shut off at the
place where the tramp was riding.
Fire originating shortly after noon
Monday in Norfolk. Va. in a ware
house of the Imperial Tobacco COM
p,ny. had destroyed an hour later the
fifth floor of the building and danag-
ed tobacco valued ut $4,OOO,OOO stored
| there. Heat generated lly the burning
| tobacco blew off the entire upper
story of the structure. and at two
O'Clock the flames had burned their
| way through Il concrete floor, and were
| raging OH the fourth floor. The east
wall of the structure collapsed shortly
after two O'Clock. killing four firemen
Three of the bodies We're recovered
The estimated loss Is $1.OO,OOO.
The big navy dirigible C-S. command
| ed by Lieut.. j. Learned. with a crew
of six men and two passengers, bound
from Cape May. y. j.. to Washington
exploded with terrific force just after
landing at Cape HOlahird, Nd. Al
1870 O'Clock Tuesday. The explosion
shook the c;intonment and the eastern
section of Baltimore like an earth
quake. The great balloon instantly be
bame mass of flames. ShOotin:
flames and bits of burning fragment
scattered over the crowd of nearly 2O'
persons who had gathered OH the fell
to see the monster machine, and man.
4 of whom We're blown partly across til
field Seventy-tive persons. nlostl.
women and children. We're burned o
otherwise injured.
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Miscellany.

President Wilson. the treaty with
Germany signed. sailed from Brest,
France. Monday on his return trip to
the United States. The L. 5. :. George
Washington. carrying the presidential
party. steamed from the harbor ut
Brest at 22U o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Texas became the ninth state to
ratify the proposed federal woman
suffrage amendment last Saturday, Oh
which date the senate adopted the rat
if.i ing resolution previously passed by
the house. In an election in Texas
during May the people gave big ma
jority against statewide suffrage.
Wartime prohibition. tanning fol
the time icing all distilled liquors and
leaving IN cloud of doubt the future
| of beer. was effective ut midnight Mon
day Exemption Of beer from the list
| of forbidden beverages came as a re
| suit of the eleventh-hour announce
melit by the Department Of Justice
that, pending decisions III present liti
gation to determine whether brew
containing "a per cent of alcohol il
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Industrial

Sir Auckland Geddes, president of
the London Board of Trade. said in the
House of Commons the other day that
American steel manufacturers were
quoting prices for steel in the United
Kingdom lower than those quoted to
British manufacturers.
Ten thousand building laborers and
hod carriers went OH strike in Chicago
last Saturday for an increase of wages
from :l7h cents to - cents an hour.
More than 15O structures, including
big industrial plants, are effected by
the strike of the building men.
Construction at an early date of Il
new refinery at Shreveport, with ca
| pacity of 5000 barrels of crude oil IA
day. for the purpose Of consuming the
Pine island product, was announced
| Sunday night by J. Edward Crusel,
who is interested i'll the enterprise and
one of the prime movers in getting the
refinery for Shreveport.
Formation of gigantic S4OOOOO,OOO
corporation for the marketing of do
nestle cotton, for its financing and to
provide ample means for holding and
storage of at least one-third of nor
NAL cotton crop, of the South, was the
biggest single proposition that claimed
attention of the directors of the Amer.
lean cotton Association Tuesday at the
first meeting. held in New Orleans.
4 cotton crop about a million bales
smaller than last years was fOrecasted
for this year by the Department OF Ag
riculture Tuesday in estimating pros
pective production at 1886 900 bales
Acreage this year shows Il cut Of 81
per cent from last years the decrease
being 3,247 900 acres, the total planted
being I33,96O.OOO acres. Most sections
report the crop late, ana scarcity 0
labor Boil weevilS are reported Yer!
active in large portion of the belt.
| Louisiana is fast becoming one o
| the greatest oil refining states in th'
Southwest. according to estimates OF
{ total contemplated production Of pres
ent plants and those under cOnstruc
, tion. New Orleans claims she vii
have daily refining capacity Of $500
barrels. and Sunday local oil men o
, Shreveport figured out where. on til
same basis. that city will soon hav
from :i3.OOO to $1,000 barrels of dail
: refining capacity and Il vast anloull
, Of storage.
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present but have not announced
whether they will open their cam
paigns on that date or not.
The S2.OOO.OOO parish-wide good
roads bond issue was carried in Alex
andria Tuesday by large ajority.
While all precincts Of the parish have
not been heard from. it is believed that
the issue carried all over the parish.
The result in Alexandria was 272 votes
for and Il against; property valuation.
$:2.221 for and $61. 80 against.
Women Of New Orleans distributed
liuttermilk to the men of the city Tues
day. the first doy Of prohibition. There
We're ten thousand cups given away.
However. there were great many
men who still visited the saloons and
drank beer. as it was being sold. and
practically all saloons were open. New
Orleans had wild night Monday. tell
ing whiskey goodbye. and more than
2OO men were arrested for either
drunkenness or disturbing the peace
The greater number were in the bust
ness district
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Foreign.

The report from the giant airship
R-34 to the British air ministry this
morning showed that she was cOntinu-
ing her progress in All almost due
westerly course. The report said that
the airship was cruising above fog. !
One hundred and twenty persons are
estimated to have been killed in and
near Eicchio, Italy, in the Florence dis
trict. Sunday by an earthquake. The
town Of vicchio was reduced to ruins
and number Of villages were de-
Stroyed.
Won Bethnann- Hollweg, former Ger
man Chancellor. has formally asked
the Allied Powers to place him Oh
trial instead Of the former emperor.
lie says that he assumes responsibility
for the acts Of Germany during his
period of office and places himself at
the disposal of the Allies.
The British flag was burned In Dub
lin. Ireland, last Saturday night. Out
side Of Trinity College a number Of
Union Jacks were seized and the torch
applied. Cheers were given for DeVal-
era. president Of the Irish republic. !"
and revolutionary songs were sung.
Slim Fein demonstrations also occur
red III other parts Of the city.
1t was recently announced tha
Baroness DE La ROaclle, widely
known French aviatrix, driving the
small biplane in which the Late Jules
| VedrineS landed Oh the roof of de
partment store i'll Paris last January,
reached an altitude Of 15.7W feet. This
is over 1000 feet higher than the best
record made by Ruth Law, who has
heretofore held the woman's altitude
record.
Germany has been notified that she
will be admitted to the League Of
Nations after probationary period OF
five years. In notifying the Germans
of this decision Premier Clemencear
said: The obligations imposed OF
Germany have the character of meas
ures Of reparation and their nlainte
! nance for Il period Of five years, fal
, from being incompatible with the prin
clple OI just treatment. Ii III view ~
insuring the application Of this prin
ciple."
! The former German emperor vii
soon he placed on trial. Premie
Lloyd George made this announcement
? | in the House of Commons to-day il
| his report on the peace negotiations
/. The German army, the premier said
was at present Inadequate to disturb
; the peace Of the feeblest Of the neigh
, b0rs of Germany. The premier declar
I Cd that the tribunal which woud tr
: the former emperor would sit III Lon
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Louisiana.

Harry ID. Wilson, commissioner OF
agriculture. in statement given out
in New Orleans last Saturday. said
cotton III Louisiana is from three to
four weeks late and that he has never
known the boll weevil to be SO active
in this state on this date.
Taps were sounded over the death
Of modern tickle toe ''shimmy" and
parking" at the Louisiana State Uni
versity last Friday night, when the ex-
ecutive committee of the university
voted unanimously to eliminate dances
at the university until further notice.
Sunday afternoon lightning struck Il
large barn on the Bob Hawthorn plan
tation. near Alexandria. knocked out
the rear portion of the barn and killed
mule. Mr.. Hawthorn had taken
refuge in the barn from the rain, but
left it to run to his home just mo-
ment before the lightning struck the
| barn, and demolished post against
| which he was leaning.
One million dollars worth Of oyster
shells will he moved from shell de.
post ut the mouth Of the Atcilafalaya
River. on Point Au Fer Reef. i'll |;
fleet Of barges. and used for road
building in this state and elsewhere. Il
was announced Sunday. The oyster
shell deposit OH Point Au Fer Reef !.
said to be worth S50,OOO.OW. Tit
shells are worth about one dollar ;
cul,ic foot. it is said, and spread even
thinly make an excellent roadway.
The Fourth of July celebration a
Hot Well, near Boyce. will virtual!
open the state campaign. phanOr Rre;l
zeale. the .NatchitocbeS candidate 70
governor. has announced that he vii
open his campaign on that occasion
Lieut.-Gov. Fernand Mouton, Of Lafay
cite: Col. Frank T. Stubbs. Of Monroe
Senator f. NJ Stafford, of New Orleans
and Percy Saint. of Franklih. othe
candidates for governor, viii also y
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Negro Kills HIS Wife.

Henry Moore (colored was arrest
ed Sunday and lodged in the Parish
Jail. charged with the murder OF his
wife, Moot Moore. The murder took
place that morning about two O'Clock,
on the Prince Brothers plantation.
below Curtis Moore was arrested the
same morning and Immediately brought
to Benton.
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Shreveport.

\ decision was reached ut an eXecu-
tive meeting in Shreveport Monday Of
the commission council to defer the
proposed election, to vote an $SOO,OOO
Eond issue for waterworks improve
ments until September. The fact that
many voters will he out Of the city
during the summer prompted the coun-
Gil to postpone the vote until early III
the fall.
Declaring that dairy operated by
Joe Leguerre in South Highlands IL Il
menace to the people, particularly the
babies Of Shreveport and vicinity. DIR.
Oscar bowling. president Of the State
Board OF Health, has given instruc-
tions that injunction proceedings be
instituted to restrain further opera
ton Of the dairy. and that the condi-
tiOns he presented to the grand jury
for action.
Commissioner StringfellOw has had
pictures made Of an unidentified white
man who was electrOcuted in Shreve-
port the latter part of last week, under
circumstances which lead the police to
believe he died while trying to cut
light wires to facilitate robbery. The
hody was found III large oak tree
through which electric light wires
strung. In his right hand was u file.
Two wires had been cut and third
tampered with.
Definite steps to advertise the many
| advantages of Shreveport and vicinity
were taken Tuesday afternoon ut a
meeting held in the directors room o1
the Chamber of Commerce. As re
suit Of the meeting temporary Organi
N,tion of Young Mems Business
I League was effected and committee
named to devise ways and means o1
arranging for widespread publicity
campaign for the city and also to per
feet details Of organization Of the new
league.
According to figures compiled by thu
desk sergeant, the Shreveport police
department made 4G7 arrests durin.
June, of which number 10 had theil
foundation III liquor and violations O1
antiliquor laws. an increase Of tn.
total of such cases for May. attributed
hy the police to the approach Of na
tiOnal prohibition. OF these 40 case!
IS were for United States Department
of Justice officials working with TIN
police in enforcing the Reed act, 4
were plain drunks and - were drunl
and disorderly.
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Marriage Licenses Issued.

Mr.. Nathan r. Hanson and Miss
Tinia Mai Livingston.
Mr.. James Hampton Holder and
Miss Florence Beatrice Tabor.
Alex Love and Patsy Smith.
Dan Lindsey and Alberta Mitchell.
Will RAIDER and Pearl Stephenson.
Samson Jackson and Melinda Morris
Dan Watts and Carrie Honnysucker.
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