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CREWS MUTINY
AND MURDER
DFEICERS
LONDON, Jan. 17.—German sub
marine crews mutinied at Kiel on
Jan. 7. Thirty-eight officers are re
ported to have been killed.
Although the mutiny was local, it
shows that German naval men are
dissatisfied, and that this dissatisfac
tion is especially acute among the
crews of the submarines. The num
ber of submarines returning to Ger
man ports is decreasing every month.
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TRIPLE HANGING
V7AS RECORD EVENT
(P.v Associated Press'
BUTTE. Mont., Jan. 17.—The triple
execution here of Frank Fisher, John
O’Neil and Sherman Powell was the
first execution of three men at the
same time in Silver Bow county.
Powell was a negro.
*■ iouoi »uu i'lcii were conviciea
of the murder here of Thomas Hig
gins in October, 1916. According to
the evidence at their trial, Higgins
was on his way home when he saw
FiBher and O'Neil robbing a man. He
rushed to the rescue and was fatally
shot by Fisher.
A motion for a new trial for the
■ two men was denied, and the denial
of the district court was affirmed by
the supreme court of the state upon
* an appeal. A rehearsing of the mo
tion hy the supreme court later was
denied. The men were sentenced here
% December 14 by Judge John V. Dwyer,
:j',:;\who sentenced Powell the same day.
*>owo11 was convicted of the mur
* j, ^ Montgomery, a fellow
In the Great Northern ratt
er dining car service. They had
been playing cards in a railroad car,
according to the testimony at Powell’s
trial, and the game broke up in a
disagreement. Later Montgomery was
found dead in bed, with his throat cut.
P1SSEN6ER LIST
IS LIGHT DDE
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—The steamer
Northwestern sailed for Alaska at 9
o'clock this morning with the follow
ing passengers for Cordova: Mr and
Mrs J. K. Bryson, E. E Moore. J. H
Suphellen. John Hedstrom, Axel Eng
strom, N. Virkelyst, Howard H Hoov
er, R. S. Rutherford, Louis Kalkas,
John Kalkas and ^hn Betsakas.
IMPRISONMENT DE LUXE
FOR TEXAS OFFENDERS
EL. PASO, Tex., Jan. 17.—Sheriff
Seth Omdorff claims the distinction
for his new Jail that it ip the only one
which has a roof garden and sun par
lor for the prisoners. The new Jail
is located on the sixth floor of the
courthouse building and is so arranged
that the prisoners may spend the
mornings on one side of the court
where they can enjoy the warm, sun
ny winter days and op the other side
for the afternoons. Only the good
conduct prisoners are permitted to
enjoy this privilege.
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NEGRO LYNCHED
IN MISSISSIPPI
HAZELHtrR8T.Miss.4an. 17—A mob
took Sim Edwards, a negro accused
of kitting 17-year-old Vera Willis, from
jail and burned him to death. The
girl’s father was In the mob, wide)}
broke In the door of the Jail frith a
battering ram.
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FRENCH ACADEMY
TO HONOR JOFFRE
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PARIS, Jan. 17.—The most recently
elected members ot the French acad
emy, General Lyautey and Henri
Bergson, will, It Is announced, be
formally feceived here In the new
year, after which elections will be
held to fill the ten chairs that have
become vacant since December 1913,
the date of the death of Jules Claretle.
Since then the following members
have died; Henry Roujon. June 1914;
Jules Lemaltre, August 5. 1914; Al
bert de Mun, October, 1914; Alfred
Mezieres, October, 1915; Paul Hervteu,
October, 1915: Francis Charmes, Jan
uary, 1916; Emile Faguet, January,
1917; Marquis de Segur, August, 1916,
and Marquis de Vogue, November,
1916.
The chair of M. Claretle is by com
mon consent accorded to Marshal Jof
fre, while Cardinal Amette is men
tioned for that of Albert de Mun. The
marshal has adhered thus far to his
attitude of passive consent without
making the traditional application. It
is said that the academy will not in
sist in his case upon the rule.
Joffre will be the seventh marshal
of Prance to sit with the “Immortals.”
The first was Vlllars, chosen in recog
nition of his victory at Denain in 1712.
In his case, also, the rule requiring
aspirants to declare their candidacy
and visit the members to solicit their
votes was waived. The other marsh
als of France who were academicians
were d'Estrees, Richelieu, de Belle
Isle, Beauvau and Duras. The last
named, the most recent before Joffre,
was elected In 1775.
Joffre to be Honored.
A recent cable dispatch sq&Jftnfc
the' French academy announced that
"having been sounded on the subject
of the candidature of Marshal Joffre,
it will show itself happy to receive In
its bosom the glorious victor of the
Marne.”
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FRENCH FISCAL REPORT
ON INVADED PROVINCES
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 17.—The final account
ing of the fiscal department for the
year 1913 shows that the ten depart
ments that have been affected by the
invasion paid between one sixth and
one seventh of the total tax-income
of Prance. They paid into the trea
sury 794,800,624 francs out of a total
for the entire country of a little more
than five billions. Eliminating Paris
and the department of the Seine, these
ten departments paid one-fourth of
the balance.
AMERICAN SAILORS
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—A tailing
mast aboard U. S. S. Michigan in a gr.V
at sea killed six and injured three. All
were memebers of the crew.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.—The
state council of defense has issued aj
bulletin saying that Germany’s latest1
attempts to destroy the wheat crop of
California and other states has taken
the form of the shipment to America
of a powerful poisonous pollen among
tobacco distributed by their agents
in such a manner aa to kill the entire
wheat output of the state.
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IS CRITICIZED
BY SENATORS
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—The fuel
admiritsDation has decreed the sus
pension of operations of American
manufacturing industries east of the
Mississippi and also in Louisiana and
Michigan, for five days beginning to
morrow, to relieve coal situation. Thej
order includes munitions plants and
excepts only industries producing food
and those requiring continuous oper
ation. The drastic order also pro
vides general business activities, in
cluding stores, schools and theaters,
shall observe holiday conditions every
Monday for ten weeks. Protests
against, the order are pouring in.
Hitchcock Criticizes Action.
A resolution was introduced in the
senate today by Senator Hitchcock,
Democrat, intended \ to suspend the
fuel order for five days. After its
introduction Hitchcock conferred with
other Democratic leaders who have
apprehension as to the wisdom and ef
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feet j the order. During the five
days’ period an investigation into the
many ijqkest3 will he made.
Sena^ Hitchcock declared that the
coal or<fpr was an example of lack
of co-ordination, and said reforms in
the conduct of government affairs will
be urgedc
Fuel Administrator Garfield went
before the senate coal investigation
committee and said that the fuel and
railroad situation made the suspen
sion of industries imperative. Mean
while both Democrats and Republicans
introduced resolutions to stop »hc or
der’s taking effect at midnight. Sen
ators said the order was mistaken, un
wise, and its enforcement would be a
national calamity.
8tock8 Affected.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—As a result
of the government’s fuel order, stocks
today toqk a decided drop. Later they
recovered somewhat.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17.—A handful
of captured American soldiers under
cross-questioning by German officers
before a crowd of grinning Teutons
was featured In the lastest issue of
"World In Pictures,” an Illustrated
weekly printed In ten languages and
distributed throughout the world by
the German government’s propagan
da department. Another picture
shows the prisoners riding in a motor
lorry under heavy guard. This is en
titled "American prisoners arriving In
the German lines,” giving the Impres
sion that the twelve are only a small
section of a large number.
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LIFE AT CAMP LEWIS IS
DESCRIBED BY A SOLDIER
In an interesting letter to Deputy
Marshal Fursman a soldier at Camp
Lewis, Charlie R. Burgess, acknowl
edged the receipt of a Christmas pres
ent, which he greatly appreciated. He
describes conditions at the canton
ment as follows:
“This is a very large camp. There
are about 40.000 men here now. It
has been raining most of the time
but I guess where you are It Is snow
ing all the time. We get up at 6
o’clock In the morning and they keep
us going until 6 o’clock In the even
ing. We have to do guard duty and
kitchen service. The latter means
going Into the kitchen at 6 o’clock In J
the morning, wash dishes, chop wood'
scrub floors, peel potatoes and help (
the cook. On guard duty we walk the!
post for two hours, rest four hours and
keep that up for twenty-four hours.'
I was quarantined in our quarters on
Christmas afternoon, where I remained
about a week, as one of the men had!
an attack of scarlet fever.
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FISH PRICES TODAY.
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 16.—Prices here^
today for fish were as follows: Hali
but, IS cents; sable, 4 H cents; red
rock, 2 cents. I
BOMBAY. Jaut 17—How a dismissed
official of the Indian government en
deavored to get Into communication
with Germany for the purpose of stir
ring up a revolutionary movement in
India, has just been told at the ar
ralngment of Sltarama Iyer, charged
with communicating with the enemy.
Iyer, after being removed from the
British service as a revenue inspector,
got into communication with Germany
through various neutral consuls in
Bombay, employing official British
stationery and counterfeit seals to
deceive the neutral consuls into ac
cepting his messages. His detection
was due to accident, namely, that for
a few days the French consul in Bom
bay was in charge of the Spanish con
sulate, and gained an inkling of what
was going on.
Captured letters show that Iyer al
ready had received $5,000 from the
then German Foreign Minister, Dr.
Albert Zimmerman, and later $7,500
direct from the German Grown Prinra
Frederick, at a "personal contribu
tion” to his work. The money was
delivered to him through the Swiss
and Dutch consuls at Bombay, os
tensibly for the nse of a fictitious Ger
man missionary, Pax Muller, alleged
to be interned in India.
Iyer sent his letters to the Swedish,
Dutch, Swiss and Spanish consuls in
rotation, each letter being accompan
ied by an apparently correft^ letter
on British official writing paper, re
questing the consul to forward the "en
closed letters of the missionary Mul
ler” to Germany in the consular mail
bags. The signature of the chief
secretary of the government of Mad
ras was forged.
Some of the letters shown in court
mentioned ports from which troops
were about to embark, and pointed
out the ease with which India could
be Invaded. They "guaranteed” to
Germany the support of 400 home
rule societies in v India, and appealed
for the immediate dispatch of money
ind weapons.
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KIISEH IS GUARDED
WITH MUCH CURE
(By Associated Press!
LONDON, Jan. 17.—So closely Is
the German emperor guarded when
he travels by rail through Belgium
that his movements are kept even
from the railroad officials handling <
his train up to the last possible mo- ^ i
ment, according to a correspondent
of the Chronicle who has several 1
time witnessed the emperor’s ar-'
rival. I
“Whenever the passage of the Im
perial train is to take place the fact
is not known to the chief railway of
ficial until the same day, and to his
subordinates not until a quarter of an
Pour before the arrival,” the corres
pondent says. “In the station the
lines are ail kept free."
Describing one such arrival of the
emperor’s train the correspondent
says: “All workmen, on this occasion,
whether Belgian or German, were dis
patched outside, and access to the
station was forbidden. This applied
to all passengers as well. The military
guards occupying parts of the sta
tion and .environs were ordered to
leave their posts and pile their arms.
The only persons allowed on the plat
form were the statlonmaster, his em
ployes appointed to work the signals,
and the military chief. There was no
guard of honor, no manifestation what
ever.
“This clearing of the station takes
place at every station through which
the train passes, which It does at the'
maximum regulation speed. At Brus
sels detrainment took place opposite'
the Place Rogler, which Is a military
post since the occupation.
“The space In front of the station.
|£Mch Is always fogWdden «otmd to
passengers, was occupied by several
motor cars. As soon as the emperor
1 entered his car the small fleet ran
swiftly to the Parc Rue Royale, where
the kaiser stayed several hours.
: "During the presence of the kaiser
the officials always display the ut
most nervousness in fear of anything
taking place, and they always breathe
a sigh of relief when their master Is
gone. The fact that even the military
are obliged to retire and pile their
arms seems to suggest a distrust of
his own army.”
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EL PASO CHUBOH
MAKES FINE SHOWING
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(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 17.—A service
, flag with 150 stars has been hung
from the tower of the new St. Pat
rick’s Catholic cathedral here to hon
or tne members of the cathedral con
gregation who have joined the colors.
This flag, which is one of the largest
in the city, was blessed by Bishop
Shuler preceding the midnight mass
Christmas eve.
ROM IHS
IS TO PEACE |
DEJECTED :
(Bv Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 17.—An official state
ment giving the Teutons’ reply to the
Russian peace proposals, says that the
Russian proposals concerning the re
gions occupied by the Teutons diverge
to such a degree from the views of
the Teutons that they are unaccept
able In their present form. j'
The statement says that the with
draws! of Teuton troops from the cc-i
cupled territories would be Impossible
while the war lasts. <
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ILL SPEED OP
[DOS OF
CONGRESS :
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Speaker
>lark. Leader Kitchen and the chair
nan of the leading house committees
lave agreed to speed up appropria
tes by avoiding unnecessary hear
ngs and delays, with a view to con
cluding the business of the house by
day 15. It is expected that congrees
fc'IH be ready to adjourn by June 1
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WAGES IN JAPAN
NOT EXTORTIONATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.—A loco
motive engineer receives 50 cents a
day and a primary school teacher
115.50 a month in Japan, according to
\. Mutasuma, member of a party of
Japanese statisticians, which visited
tere recently after a tour of the
United States.
The average newspaper or maga
dne writer does not receive over $33
i month, while the average monthly
income of a Tokto doctor is $50, ac
:ording to Mutasuma.
some ot tne Boilermakers In Japan
are getting the unheard of wage of
(2 a day,” / he stated. “The shipbuild
ing industry is lively and the wages
>f boilermakers have advanced decid
edly since the war began. ,
“Railroad firemen receive 30 cents
l day and firemen 25 cents. Railroad
boilermakers are getting 40 and 50
cents a day, but these men are flock
ing into the shipyards, because of the
higher wages paid there.
“We have no trade union on the
American basis. The coat of Uvtag to
quickening the labor union' IdeaL
among the people. The school teach
ers and railroad men are agitating for
labor unions to help their conditions.
There Is no set opposition to labor un
ions In Japan.” .**'£■ \1 >
TITLED WOMAN ' J
CIW SMUGGLING
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17.—Caught at
Zevenaar by a special agent of the
Hague police, while she was attempt
ing to smuggle Into Germany eleven
large boxes said to contain under
clothes, shoes, coffee, tea and other
roodstuffs. Countess Von Platen has
been held at Arnhem court.
The countess had carefully prepared
tor her encounter with the custom
authorities by a telephone message
supposedly from the foreign office
it The Hague, and a telegram from
me local uerman consul asking for
considerate treatment; bnt the spec
ial agent arrived in time to overrate
these instructions and Insisted on ex
amining the countess* luggage where
tie found the contraband.
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AMERICAN VESSEL
SUNK BY SUBMARINE
LONDON, Jan. 17.—The American
tailing vessel Monitor has been sunlt
l>y a submarine oft the Canary fst
tnda, according to a Las Palmas dis
»teh. The crew were saved.
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UNCONFIRMED REPORT
OF CZAR’S ESCAPE
LONDON, Jan. 17.—Petrograd re
ports that the. former caar and his
Family have escaped from Tobolsk,
rhere they were Imprisoned. The re
port Is unconfirmed.
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