The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 4

_ The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week. | hundred are killed, wounded or miss-| Berlin Admits the German ing. At this rate the losses, in this; ROBT. D. ALLEN, Editor aud Mgr. Entered at the Post Office of But- Jer. Mo., as second-class mai) matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR Thursday, July sth, 1917. _|mew income taxes. The Curtis ‘Airplane and Motor corporation has obtained an order from the United States government amounting to $20,000,000 for air- planes, motors and supplies. = Man-eating sharks, which took their toll of human life along the At- lantic coast last season, reappeared at New London, Conn., Saturday. A g-foot man-eater was brought in alive by a fishing smack, Brazil Thursday revoked her de- cree of neutrality in the war between the Entente aflies and Germany and it may be expected that she will be an active participant in the war on the side of the allies in a few days. An air plane was put to a new use in London the other day when one was used to try and get on the trail of the murderer of a young girl that was found buried in the woods near that city. In an air duel fought at probably the highest altitude at which avia- tors have met in combat nearly four miles, a Canadian triplane Friday pursued and defeated a German 2- seated aviatik. Martin Kennedy, of Indianapolis, couldn't stand the inconvenience of house cleaning. So one day last week when his better half announced that house cleaning day had arrived, he shut himself up in a room and 4urned on the gas. The Fourth of July was celebrated in Russia this year for the first time. The celebration of the birth of liber- ty was arranged by the United States ambassador, David Francis, in co- operation with representatives of the provisional government. The senate Thursday afternoon adopted the Reed resolution calling upon the federal trade commission to account for its failure to issue or- ders restraining the print paper man- ufacturers from continuing “monopo- listic and unfair practices. ” They are at it again. Four Mexi- cans camé across the border and raided a ranch near Zapata, Texas; Thursday. A detachment of United States soldiers are in pursuit of the robbers, who are believed to have gotten back safely into Mexico. Kingdon Gould, eldest _son_of Mr. Italian flags. « The population of}. Monaco is 16,000 and of these eight country would reach 5,000,000, ba dant. riies ie anes fd ¢ If you are without a registration card in Milwaukee, you are in a bad fix. You cannot -buy a drink, you cannot enlist in the army or navy; you can't get into some shows; you can get no credit; you can't bet on the races and they will not sell you a cigaret and you can’t get married. You are up against it in every way. Complete figures for internal rev- enue receipts for May show an in- crease of $118,723,560 over the cor- responding month in 1916, a large part of the difference being due to Corporation and individual income taxes for the month gained more than 1o1 million dollars, of which corporation taxes totaled .60 million dollars, Joe Manino, an Italian serving a life’ sentence in the Kansas prison at Lansing for first degree murder, com- mitted suicide at noon Friday by pouring, gasoline over his naked body and setting fire to it. He died a few hours later in the prison hos- pital. A few moments before dying he recovered consciousness and said he became tired of living. Under the provisions of the new Espionage Act the Savannah, Ga., postoffice ‘held up deliveries of Thomas FE. Watson's weekly news- paper, which has been attacking the army draft. pending a decision by the Postoffice Department. Watson is a Georgia editor who frequently has clashed with the federal author- ities over his puns. He was once the Populist nominee for Vice-President. Diplomas were handed to 199 mid- shipmen by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels at Annapolis Thurs- day, in the second graduating exer- cises held at the Annapolis naval academy within three months. The midshipmen were graduated with the rank of ensign. They will Be assign- ed immediately to commands in the American naval forces. The gradu- ation exercises were of an extreme simplicity. Wooden shoes will be the prevail- ing fashion in Germany soon. At the first executive meeting of the newly organized war shoe distribution cor- poration public authorities were tipped off that in future only ro per cent of Germany's shoes could be manufactured of leather and that the populace must accustom itself to wooden shoes. An increasingly painful pinch is rubber shortage for military. purposes, indicated by a new ordinance confiscating rubber cush- ions in billiard tables, The People Have Answered. “IT know that on the 15th of June every man, woman, and child in this country will tell the world in thun- derous tones that the American Con- ress made no mistake when it pledged all of the resources of this mighty Nation for the conduct of this righteous war."—Secretary Mc- Adoo, in New York speech of June 4. A STOP TO PAPER EXTORTION Senate Resolution Asking Why Fed- eral Commission Has Not ; Acted, Washington, June 27.—Charging that the Federal Trade Commission has failed to use its power ‘to stop extortion from publishers by news print paper manufacturers, Senator Reed today introduced a resolution and Mrs. George J. Gould, obtained|to direct the commission to inform a.license in New York Saturday to|the Senate why it has not issued marry S, Annunziatta Camilla Maria} orders prohibiting “unfair and illegal Lucci, daughter of Condido and ¥or-| practices.” tunata Menci Lucci. She is an art-|* “The singular thing,” said Senator ist. It has just been announced that|than a yedr and for a long time has ajbeen in possession of evidence that grandfather again. The new baby—|the cOnspitators have ‘discriminated Ethel Roosevelt Derby—was born|in prices between different: purchas- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is Reed, “is that while the commission has had this case in hand for more June 17 to Dr. and Mrs. Richard|ers of commodities,’ it has never at Derby. The mother was Miss Ethel|any time issued an order to these Roosevelt. She and the doing well. child are|conspirators commanding them to ‘desist from the violation of the law.’ Astonishment is increased when I re- --——>—Hagh’M. Dorsey, proseeytor in the| member that the provisions of the case of Leo M. Frank, Cornell grad-| Clayton Anti-Trust Act -are manda- mate, who was lynched after. being| tory. and impose upon the commis- wonvicted of the murder. of 15-year-| Sion the duty to issue such order.” old. Mary Phagan, was inangurated governor of Georgia Saturday, suc- ceeding Mat E. Harrif. ety, rectuits. were gained for the] army Friday, with New York the list with 187, while Penn- v was second, with 156: and the number of recruits MAY INSURE ALL FIGHTERS SLAVS CROSS STR Been Broken and Gap Prisoners Taken, , 19,000, fj Petrograd, July 3.—Rugsi offen. sive today forced the enem: across the Little Stripa Ri Gallicia, penetrated three enemy trenches and took 6, tional prisoners. The, war offfe nouncement indicated sweeping’ everywhere, including the occu of Presovce’ and the village heights~ southwest of Zborov Kordshiduv. : Twenty-one guns and six: mi guns were captured. { “In the direction of Zolochev ¢h was a successful continuance of oi offensive,” the statement said.“ ~ The sixty-three hundred prisoners were all taken yesterday and ape vin addition to the ten thousand captured in the first twenty-four hours of Gee eral. Brusiloff’s drive. In addition, if today's statement reported twenity- two hundred Teutons taken southeast of Brzezany Sunday. A number Gf mine throwers were in the * bepgy. captured around Zolochev. ie Official dispatches declared that the count of prisoners is still incom- plete and will undoubtedly go higher than nineteen thousand odd. so’ far accounted for. ae? | All of the latest telegrams to the war ministry agree that the soldiérs are in excellent spirits, and the min- istry authorizes the statement that) the preparations as regards miuini- tions and equipment are better than in any preceding period of the war. The new chief of the war ministry information department is Lieuten- ant Perun who also is a member: of | the executive committee of the coun- | inthe cas cil of deputies. Lieutenant Pérun has just returned from the front, where he witnessed M. Kerensky’s crusade in favor of an immediate. of- fensive. The lieutenant said that the great eloquence of Minister Keren- sky was largely responsible for the change in the army’s mood. " Berlin, July 3 (via London).—Rus- sian troops have broken forward across the heights on the western bank of the Stripa in Galica and sud | ceeded in extending northward the gap they made in the Teutonic lines the previous day, army headquarters announced today. Vacation Plans of Judges of Mi souri Supreme Court. Jefferson City, Mo, July 2—The summer vacation of the Supreme Court is at hand and the . seven Judges of that tribunal and the four commissioners are preparing, for a: Chief Justice W. W. Graves will| spend the greater part of his rest at: his suburban -home near Jefferson City. where he farms on a small scale and raises chickens of the finest strains. IncidentaJly, the Chief Justice will prepare for his re- nomination next year, when his pres- ent term of 10 years. will expire. | Judge A. M. Wodson: will divide). his vacation between Jefferson. City,|. and St. Joseph with a tong trip to! the Pacific Coast States. Judge R. F. Walker and Judge’ Jas. T. Blair will remain in Jefferson, hunt. . m ‘ Judge Henry W. Bond ‘will make Judge Fred L. Williams is a trou and with Mrs. Williams will spend several weeks in.a remote corner o Colorado, where. the Of the four members of the ..com mission, Judge R. ‘FT. Bailey. has al- ready gone to Pryor, Lake, Minn} seph-and the remainder at a Norther; resort. Judge R, F. Joy wi}l.spend: his va‘ cation at his home in New. Londo: Ralls: County, ‘and Commissioner W. White plans a ‘in Elliott: Walker, the gon of D. Walker of. the Walker-McKibbe Mercantile. Co., of this left Sui day Pe cue ( 8 port for “y Tilinois Ame . 4 * > JUDGMENT FOR CIRCUIT The Missouri Hen and the Call for| Increased Poultry Production. The Missouri Hen—for years: she} shas provided_the means of a livli- hood for hundreds, educated a host of the sons and daughters of our’State, provided the means for better homes, and. even luxuries, and now called on by the Nation to furnis! increased amount of food. In‘order that’ she: dhall do her ( all that is required of us is to fur- nish her proper feed and environ- ment and she wil} do‘the rest, us not fail to furnish her require- ments and there will be no shortage of poultry meat and eggs, and there will be a good market for all that ‘is produced at prices which will show} a satisfactory profit to the producer, the high price of. a Nike | Conspiracy to Injure,’Greit Lakes | Supreme Court ‘Upholds Validity of “Shipping is Uncovered Circuit. Clerk H. O. Maxey, presi- dent of-the Circuit Clerk’s Associa- tion of Missouri received notification Saturday, that the Missouri Supreme Court had affirmed the judgment of the Calloway County: Circuit e of the State ex ret Em- mons vs, Farmer et al, the County Court of Calloway County. The case grew out of:the refusal of the County Court’to pay the salary of Circuit Clerk J..H. Emmons of Calloway County provided for in an act passed by the Legislature in (1015. Emmons sued by mandamus for his salary, and won in the circuit court. Calloway county appealed to. the Supreme Court, that body holding against Emmons, and ‘county courts all dver the state refused to pay the circuit clerks their salaries, H. O,: Maxey, circuit clerk of Bates !county,; employed D.C. Chastain of |this city and-A, Z, Patterson of Jef- | ferson.:City as special counsel, and a ‘motion was filed for,a rehearing and Washington, Ji vestigation by 4 has disclosed a destroy or. hind: onspitators fiave.- been cap- tured and: the identity of none has ublic, but it ‘was learned taday. that the State, Navy and. Jus~ : departments are co-operating to offenders to” punishment tthe ‘Canadian government y ‘will be/ ¢alled ‘upon: to ‘help. is plot, engiméered by Germans absinted by -sympathizing ~ American notwithstanding Missouri can’ easily increa Production of poultry. product é State several millions this year ‘and render a splendid service to the Na- tion and we believe that it will be This should be a_ patriotic movement, and every poultry raiser in Missouri should have a part in it. We cannot all enlist in the army or Mr. Chastain and Mr. Pat-| navy, but we can all enlist and do val- jant service in the work of increasing the food production of our country. Those who are not experienced poultry: raisers may. easily obtain all the information necessary to enable them to make! a: success with poultry by subscribing for >a few « poultry’ journals and making use of our Poul- try Experiment. Station. 8 Owing to the season being late and thanks to the untiring efforts of Pres-| poor hatches early in. .the ident Maxey and his able counsel. sponsible for the su¢cession of “acci- dents” to lake. shipping, especially. in the neighborhood of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, which began about a The steamers. Saxanjé and Pentecost Mitchell: were sunk 2 the mouth of the Soo River with the evident intention of blocking the channel. Then there was the sinking of the steamer Venetian Maid in the -Detriot River with’ the loss of one Jife, and ldter came ‘an attempt to dynamite the steamer, Mackinac. The. Kasaga IT was.b i by and the Jay Dee III and Niagara had their machinery, wrecked, _ All of these vessels had been or were about. to be taken over by the Navy Department and the investiga- tions of the Department of Justice and the Navy Department have tend- ed to the conclusion that what were believed to hate been accidents were the acts. of, conspirators seeking td +hamper the government in their pros- | ecution of the war, terson, assisted by Attorney General Frank W.’ McAllister, teered his services, briefed and ar- gued’ the casé before the court with. the result that- the judgment of. the Calloway ‘county circuit’: ‘court \ was upheld and the act of 1915 declared constitutional. . All circait clerks in the state will who volun- Up and burned | June and July should see more chicks hatched than ever before, and they will make a quicker growth ‘than. the earlier hatches on account of the un- seasonable weather in April and May and an increased production for this year will mean continuing hatching until September. It has been demonstrated that hen: can be made-to Jay : the year around, and we ‘should get away from that idea that a great many have that _jthere is only a certain. time of the The monthly -obituary tribute of| year in’ which to hatch chicks—and id raise every chick possible lost| this year. -! Germany Apparently Hiding Its Deaths on Submarines. Copenhagen, July 2.—For many ‘weeks, obviously in compliance with ‘}orders of the censor, German news- papers have published no death no- tice from the submarine service, from. City throughout the ‘summer, with an| which : occasional fishing trip or squirtél, number of submarines, destroyed ; [might be drawn. Band Concerts, The: weekly band concerts given by the band <ach Friday night are ibet- ter than ever this year and if you are not attending them you are miss- ing something. - The following ‘is: the program for ‘next Friday night: : March, The Boomerang....Smith Selection, High Jinks.......Clark Evening Star.'from Tanhauser . his customary visit*to the New Eng-|the Hamburg American Conipany to! hatch an land seashore with his family. Judgeétits employees who have been Chas, B. Faris will. devote, several} appears, however, with ei wetks to catching crappie at. Potatqy 12° Lake, Minn.. 3 We es ascribed tothe navy. Nearly all are from the mech: it personnel of:the company, and it is a| General fisherman and a.,big. game hunter] fair presumption that they were lost in the submarine campaign, bec: ré not assigned} - in’ Flanders and; C! $s are little“ exposed: te 4: Poor Butterfly... * Humoresque, Comii , the Rye vara: 6... Song : hing is good} to the, marine’ force: and hear and deet are still to. be had; utface sh “Among the dead umer, who’ was: Judge S. S. Brown will spend part ofthe Iron Cross of his vacation at his home in-St. Jo4/ond ctasse t | submarine command {s Lieut. Brink- | is co-operating wi lecorated with in restoring--order je’ first: and. sec- | it was. said state authorities) at ‘his. office today. rmation on just kor ese~ Novelty, Star Spangled Banner _