The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 7

Navy Department ordered additional | war vessels to Mexican waters on both toasts to safeguard Amefican lives. At the War, Navy and State depart- ments it was stated that no new ad- vices as to the situation in Mexico had Come to precipitate the new orders. PRESIDENT CALLS GENERAL NOTES Since January first 6b persons have been killed in Philadelphia by automobiles. Butler High School Teachers for 1916-1917. In no other respect has so great progress been made as in the qual- ifications of the teaching force. to promote the prosperity of our customers, believing that their interests are identical with our own—to be helpful and accomodat- ing as far as consistent with banking prud- ence—to provide the best facilities and safe- guards that modern methods can supply— to upbuild the business enterprises of the community—in short, to make in every way better financial’ conditions for those we serve. PEOPLES BANK, The Bank on Which You Can Always Bank DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST 60. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate Farm Loans of interest eit privilege to pay at any time. Abstracts We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- examine and perfect titles to same. ALL STATE MILITIA Entire National Guard Ordered Into Patrol Service Under Gen. Funston. AMERICAN’ GUNSULATE STONED Troops Clash in Mexico. Within the last two weeks, how- ever, tension has been increasing steadily, The crisis: presented by General Carranza’s note demanding the recall of General Pershing’s expe- ditionary force has been followed by a virtual ultimatum served on the Amer- ican officers by General Trevino, the | | Mexican commander in Chihuahua. To \this was added yesterday the possibil- \ity that American and Mexican troops had clashed across the border from San Benito, Tex. Near Intervention, the Belief. Although the purpose of the action as set forth in the formal call is for the protection of the American fron- ‘tier from invasion, the opinion pre- |vailing throughout Washington to- night is that it marks the first-step of | intervention in Mexico, For more \than three years President Wilson has exhausted every other expedient prac- ‘tically in an effort to avoid such a Special Representative Rodgers, Files Protest Against Mob—Sinaloa De- clares War Against U.-S. Washington, June 20.—Upon Gen- eral Carranza’s reception of a stern refusal to heed his demands for re- call of American troops from Mexico hinges the question of a Mexican war, in the opinion of President Wilson's close advisers. They were prepared tonight for the possibility of open hos- tility after the note, which will be | Step, & Bese forward tomorrow, has reached; washington is the scene of intense Carranza’s hahds. lexcitement. The War Department No indication has come that the first chief's attitude of implacable hostility would be shaken by the re- iterated declaration of the latest com: munication that the United States shas no aggressive or warlike purpose toward Mexico, but is firmly resolved ‘was lighted up tonight from the base- iment to the roof. The,action is un- ‘derstood to have been precipitated by ‘a dispatch from General Funston pre- \dicting, trouble all along the Rio | Grande in an effort on the part of the |Mexicans to force the Americans to to protect American borders and end | brigandage in the border states. | Twenty-Four Warships Off Mexico. Washington, June 20.—Coincident with the report that a party of Ameri- can bluejackets. from the United States gunboat Annapolis had ex- changed shots with Carranzistas at Mazatlan, it became known that no fewer than twenty-four American war- ships are en route for or actually in Mexican waters. The clash at. Mazat- | lan was reported to the Navy Depart- | ment today by Rear Admiral Wins- | low. withdraw from Mexican soil. A PUZZLE TO CONGRESSMEN New Army Law Renews Perplexing Question of Status of Members of House. Washington, June 20.—President Wilson’s call for the national guard for border duty renewed today a per- plexing question as to the status un- der the new army reorganization act of members of Congress who also are nish abstracts to any real estate in Bates county and nye We will loan your idle money for you, securing you “be r interest—on good i pay | interest on time deposits. | W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. PROFESSIONAL CARDS OOOO "OR. J. T. HULL Dentist Entrance same that leads to Stew- ard’s Studio. f North side square Butler, Missourt Re a ane ast ee B, F. JETER, Attorney at Law Notary Public East Side Square ~ Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI T, J. HALSEY, M. D. 0. 0. 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We Pay interest on Savings “French Aviators. e mailto New York), -|May 23.—Three more Americans recently | airmen have been definitely added ‘Califor-| to France’s flying roster. distance | are driving a Buick six, ve from Los Angeles, ‘Francisco, a in ten Robert Rockell of _P! - Haviland, of Chicago, of 5 | “will not declare war on the United “Depends on Carranza. The City of Mexico, June 20.—The | William F. Kasting, postmaster of Buffalo, N. Y., dropped dead at the Maryland hotel in St. Louis Thursday. He was holding the proxy of Mayor L. P. Fuhrmann of Buffalo, a delegate to the dem- ocratic convention. : Four saloons of Altoona, Wis., will have7to go out of business July 1, and their places will be taken by a municipally owned sa- loon. From the profits of this sa- loon the city plans to build a mu- nicipal water works. The annual Pension Appropriz- tion Bill, carrying $158,065,000, passed the House Saturday with- out a roll eall after a debate de- voted to many subje other than pensions. The total is 6 million dollars less than that of last year’s bill. Twenty-one hundred _ horses have been accepted at Belleville, Kas., by Maj. I. Sicilani, mspect- ing and purchasing agent for the Italian government. Purchases of horses have also been made at Botleville by the French and Eng- lish governments. Appointment of an associate justice of the supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by Justice Hughes probably will not be made before early fall, it was said at the department of justice Satur- day. The court is in ree for the summer, so no reason exists for an early appointment. Mrs. Cassie, colored, believed to be 120 years old, is dead at Prince- ive years ago there wi'e but two college graduates the high school faculty, Next ;ear every member. of the faculty ‘will be a graduate of a standard college, re- quiring four years of work be- yond that of a high school, Mr. A. Gorrell will be Prineipal of the High School and teacher of agriculture, -He is a graduate of the Warrensburg Normal. This spring he graduated from the Teachers’ College at the -Univer- sity of Missouri and received the degree of B.S. in education. He has already completed forty-six hours in technical agriculture. He is attending the University this summer and will probably com- plete the requirements in the School of Agriculture and receive the degree of B. 8. in Agriculture, He will be the best trained man in the county in agriculture. He has had eight years of experience, the last two of which he was princi- pal of the high school at Califor- nia, Missouri. Mr. S. E. Gibson will be assist- ant principal and assistant in English and Science. He has had no experience, but made a most excellent record in the training school at Central College. He has the A. B, degree from Central Col- lege. While attending the high school at Troy, Mo., he won the scholarship offered. by Central College. While a student in the college he won honors in scholar- ship and won the prize for writing the best essay the past year, Miss Dora B. Smith has had charge of the Teacher Training ip members of the national guard. House subcommittee named several streets and public squares of the cap-! weeks ago to study the question has ital. were thronged all afternoon with | patriotic paraders, who marched to | the various public offices, led by bands and carrying the national em- blem as evidence of their willingness to defend fhe country’s. honor in case of war. More than ten thousand persons gathered in the great square. They were addressed by General Carranza, who told the throngs that Mexico was not seeking war, but would not ‘avoid it at the cost of na- tional dignity. : Stoned the United States Consulate.” “Mexico,” said General Carranza, States, but will know how to do her duty if hostilities are forced upon her.” In the demonstrations today the American consulate was stoned. The stoning occurred while Vice-Consul Rowe was in the building and only ten minutes after the special repre- “sentative, Mr. Rodgers, -had left the place. Mr. Rodgers tonight protest- ed against the stoning. + Sinaloa Declares War. San Diego, Cal.; June 20.—An ulti- matum amounting practically to a declaration of war against the United States was seryed Sunday on Cori- mander Arthur G. Kavanaugh of the junboat Annapolis by General Flores, Carranza governor of the state of Sin- aloa, according to a radiogram scn! from the: Annapolis at Mazatlan and received here today by Admiral Wins- ow, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet. Flores has taken a hostile stand against Americans and it was his fusal to permit Americans to leave Mazatlan that resulted in the cla Sunday between bluejackets of the Annapolis and Mexicans characterized as Carranza soldiers. The exact sub- | stance of his ultimatum has not )+t been received. State Militia Ordered Out. Washington, June 19.—President Wilson has called out the militia of every state for service on the Mexican border. f Virtually the entire mobile strength of the national guard of all states and the District of Columbia was ‘ordered mustered into the federal service to- night. About one hundred thousand men | ed that Gen. Jacinto Trevino’ not made its report. Precedents, it was said today, fail to make the situation clear. Repre- | sentative Chiperfield, who is judge ad- ‘yvocate of the Illinois National Guard, ‘expressed the opinion that a member of Congress if ordered to the front | should resign from Congress. Speaker | Clark recalled that Gen. John A. Lo- |gan resigned from Congress to serve jin the Civil War, but that General Blair’s resignation from Congress was |pocketed by President Lincoln and ‘never was accepted. Joseph A. ‘Wheeler, a major general in the Span- ish War, resumed his seat in Con- gress after the declaration of peace, but while serving with ‘the colors drew no pay as a member. Senator Wadsworth is a lieutenant in the New York National Guard -cav- alry, and in the absence of his cap- tain in-Europe, it was said today, would command his troop. Represen- tative Tilson is a lieutenant in, the Connecticut National Guard, Repre- sentative Crago is a lieutenant colo- nel of the Tenth Pennsylvania, and Representative Nicholls is a member of the South Carolina guard. WATCHING MEXICAN MOVES San Antonio, Tex., June 20.—While 100,000 members of the militia were being mobilized today, General Fun- ston anxiously studied the border for any indication of hostilities on the part of Carranza’s troops. No official report. reached army headquarters here of any incident that appeared likely to disturb the delicately bal- anced relations between the soldiery |.of the two countries facing each other ‘across the international line. indicat- troops General Pershing’s reports had not yet made any ager move and army, officers belie improbable that they would unless Trevino received special orders from the City of Mexico. Such information as reached Gen- eral Funston concerning the move- ments of Mexican troops, indicated the adoption of a plan not to main- tain heavy garrisons at border points, but to hold the bulk of the border army some miles south of the Rio Grande. are expected to respond to the call. They will be mobilized immediately for such service on the Mexican bor- der as later may be assigned to them. Gen. Frederick Funston, command- ing the border forces, will designate the time and place for movements of guardsmen to the international - line as the occasion shall require. Only’ to! Guard the Border. In announcing the orders, Secretary Baker said the state forces would be employed only. to. guard the border and that no additional troop move- ments into Mexico were contemplated, except in pursuit of raiders. Simultaneously with the national guard call, Secretary Daniels of the SE An Eartnquake in Central Italy. Rome, June 17—A. heavy earth ‘shock was reported at 3°25 o'clock this morning at Forli in Central Italy. having a population of fifty thousand, and at Rimini, a town with the same number of persons, twenty-eight miles further east. There were no caruaities. FIRED ON AMERICAN FORCE Brownsville, Tex., June 19.—Having accomplished its object, the dispers- ing of Mexican bandits who raided Texas ranches and attacked a detach- ment of the Twenty-sixth Infantry Friday night, east of San Benito, and upon promises of the Carranza com- mander at Matamoros that he would run down and punish the outlaws, the fourth American punitive expedition to enter Mexico was withdrawn today. There were no American casualties. Two bandits were killed and two wounded in a rear guard action when the Americans began to withdraw. lS Launch a U. S. Transport. Philadelphia, June 19.—The launch- ing of the transport Henderson, the first to be built at the Philadelphia Ravy yard, was the principal feature of the annual navy day celebration - iS _ . Finds Demand for Big Navy. June 19.—Josephus Dan- secretary of the navy, reached fo from St. Louis today and is. The country, he said, Digger navy and army. * il: with emphasis on the need of ton, Ind. She was born in’ Vir- ginia and had no definite knowl- edge of her age, although she as- serted ‘she had two **good-sized”’ children at the outbreak of the war of 1812. Those who have con- versed with her are convinced that she was about 120 years old. William Mansfield, arrested re- cently in Kansas City, Kas. in connection with the murder of six members of the Moore family at Villisea, Ta. in 1912, was taken from the custody-of the police by Judge MeCamish of the District Court and placed in the county jail in default of $10,000 bonds. Eggs laid by Indiana hens are now being served right on the fir- ing line in Northern France. Last week Houghland & Miller of Boonville, that state, shipped $11,- 000 worth of eggs and butter to the Allied armies. The eggs were all hard boiled before they began their long journey. Andrew Musial, a Grand | Rapids, Mich,,- fisherman, is a great admirer of suckers—the fishy kind. The other day while busy with a rod and line in the Wisconsin River he pulled up one of these despiséd specimens, and when cleaning it found a valuable diamond ring. L: J.D, Walker, a Mexican, and managing editor of the ‘*EL Pro- gresso,”’ a Mexican paper pub- lished in Laredo, Texas, was es- corted to the Mexican line by a party of Americans and told not to return to the United States un- der penalty of death. Walker had published several editorials abus- ing the United States government, ~ The interstate commerce com- mission Saturday announced that the 187 principal railways of the Tnited States earned $396 net per mile during April, an increase from $289 per mile during April, 1915. Total revenues for last April amounted to $280,987,306 ; total operating expenses, $189,- 923,465, leaving a net total in- come of $91,063,841. Figures compiled in army head- quarters show that thirty Ameri- can soldiers have been killed and more than one hundred wounded by Mexicans since Luis De La Rosa began his raids near Browns- ville. The engagements have oc- curred between Brownsville and Naco, Ariz., and extended into Mexico. The list takes no account of civilian casualties. Two American soldiers were killed and seven injured early Thursday when a band of 100 Mexican bandits attacked Troops I and M of the Fourtcenth Cav- alry, at St. Ignacio, Tex. The at- tack occurred at 2 o’clock. Six Mexicans were killed. St. Ignacio is in Zapata County, where de la Rosa’s ‘“‘advertised’”’ raid had been expected for more than a week. The county is populated | almost entirely by Mexicans. ‘ marked success. the past three years. Tam glad to announce that she will return. She is ranked as one of the best and most successful teachers in the state in this line of work. She is a graduate of the Warrensburg State Normal from which institu- tion she has the degree of M. Pd. She will this summer, if she at- tends, graduate from the Univer- sity of Chicago and receive the degree of B.S. in Hd. She has had about ten years of experience, Miss Laura C.Fenton will again have charge of the English de- partment. She has had charge of this department for the past three years. She has the B. M. degree from Stephens College and the de- grees of A. B. and B.S. in Educa- tion from the University of Mis- souri, Ter return is an assurance that the work in this department will be effectively done. Miss Maud Ficklin will again have chafge of the mathematical department. She has the A. B, de- gree from Missouri Valley College. She is attending the university of Chicago this summer, — taking courses in domestic science and methods of teaching algebra and geometry. These courses, will, no doubt, make her even more effi- cient than she was 1 Miss Burney Rice, B. graduate of Missouri Valley Col- lege, will teach Latin and German, She taught these subjects in the Glasgow High School for the past two years and made an excellent record, She is also attending the University of Chieago this sum- mer, Miss Helen Chastain will have charge of the history department. Miss Chastain has the A. B. ‘and the B.S. in Education degrees from the State University. Miss Chastain taught history in the University High School the past year for her practice work, In hoth ability as a teacher and scholarship she is ranked as one of the strongest students in the University. Miss Edna Hays, an A B. gradu- ate of the Kirksville Normal, will have charge of the commercial de- partment. She has had four years of experience. For two years she taught in the Kahoka High School. She taught 4 months in the com- mercial department of the Kirks- ville Normal School and _ five months in the commercial depart- ment of the Kirksville High School. She is well fitted for this work both by training and exper- lence. 5 Miss Nell Adams who is also an A, B. graduate of the Kirksville Normal will teach music and art in the High School and be super- visor of music and art in the grades. She has had five years of experience. For two years she taught in Minneapolis, Minn., un- der Prof. Giddings who is one of the best music supervisors in the United States. His book on meth. ods is used in several of our state normals. Last year she taught music and art in the Kirksville public schools. I predict for her a ‘departnent in our figh-setoottor-