The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME IIII. NUMBER 71, _CORDOVA, ALASKA, Ti is day, SEPTEMBER 25, 1217 ..". 1.. . PRICE TEN CENTS.
(By Associated Press)
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 25. — Con
servatives who control the chamber
of deputies have agreed to vote to
night on the rupture with Germany,
and probably will have a majority of
thirty voteR virtually forcing the gov
ernment to cease relations with Ger
many. The government desires to
Itostpone the formulation of its policy
until the translations of telegrams re
ceived and sent by the Swedish lega
tion have been received.
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(By Associated Press)
HALIFAX. Sept. 25. — The British
Bteamship Virginian, formerly an Al
lan liner, was among the victims of
a massed attack by German subma
rines on a convoyed fleet of British
merchantmen off the Irish coast early
in September. The steamship officers
say eight steamers, and not five, were
destroyed. They are not sure any
submarine was sunk but think it more
than probable. The Virginian was of
6,800 tons burden.
Oil FRENCH
' KILLED
(By Associated Press)
PATHS. Sept. 25. — Captain Rooe
kel. one ot the oldest in service and
one of the most remarkable of French |
military aviators, has jusLbeen killed ;
in a flying accident at Vlllacoublay,
after risking death a thousand times
over the enemy’s lines.
Captain Roeckel was the creator of
the French system of regulating artil
lery fire from airplanes. Among his
exploits was the destruction of half
of the artillery of the sixteenth Ger
man army corps in the viciniity of Tri
aucourt, September 8. 1914. This ;
achievement provoked a general note ;
by Marshal Joffre regarding the use of
“airplanes of combat.”
Two days after his success near
Triaucourt. Captain Roeckel, flying [
at a height of 300 yards, discovered
the position of a division of Bavarian '
Infantry in the region of Vaux Marie,
signalled it to the artillery, then got
back to camp with his machine riddled
with bullets and shell fragments. :
When the French iufantry advanced
and occupied the position, they found
4,800 dead Bavarians on the field, all
victims of the French 3-inch field
guns.
Captain Roeckel had won the cross
of the legion of honor and the war
cross with Bix palms for as many ci
tations in the orders of the army.
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PORTO RICO WILL SEND
12,854 MEN TO FRONT.
(By Associated Press)
BAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 25. —
Porto Rico’s quota for the national
army will l>e 12,854 instead of 7,000
men, as originally announced, accord
ing to Lieutenant Colonel Townsend,
in command of the district of Porto
Rico, who haB just received instruc
tions from Washington to that effect.
Whether the total number will be
called at one time or whether they
will be drawn at different intervals is
not known here. However, plans for
the building of a cantonment to ac
commodate 7,000 men have not yet
been changed.
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WAR CREDITS BILL
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. — Presi
dent Wilson has signed the $11,000,
000,000 war credits bill, authorizing
the second Liberty bond issue.
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MANY KILLED AND
INJURED IN AIR RA'D.
LONDON, Sept. 25. — It is officially
announced that fifteen were killed
and seventy injured in the recent air
raid.
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The Woman's Guild will hold a so
-elal meeting at the Red Dragon to
tnorro wat 2 o’clock, and sew for the
bazaar
BUNKER TO HELP
r SELL
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25. — Frank
A. Vanderlip, president of the Na
tional City Bank of New York, the
largest national bank in the United
States, has severed his connection
with that institution and all others
for the period of the war to assist
Secretary of Treasury McAdoo in his
Liberty loan finance.
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
ISSUE FIRST NEWSPAPER.
(By Associated Press)
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Sept.
25.-—So far as known. It has remained
for the sixty-third ambulance section
of the American Red Cross to be the
first to distinguish itself by issuing
a genuine, regular newsiiiper. The
paper has considerably less than a
million a day circulation, but it is a
God-send to the members of the 'Soix
ante Trois,” which it calls itself.
The first issue of “Soixante Trois”
is strictly hand-made and Is produced
by a manifolding process. Nearly all
the section comprises the editorial
staff, and about ninety per cent of this
staff has deveoted itself to humorous
efforts.
"The Own Lee” Laundry Company
is the most liberal advertiser with
a lurid page, invoking everyone to
fall in line and follow the example
of the cook who washed his face in
the dishpan.
Then there is a tonsorial parlor that
invites the readers to “come in and
enjoy the show” — which the adver
tisement continues, includes “micro
scopic animals contributed by our pat
rons."
There is a git of poetry or two," also
1 couple of rough sketches, and four
liages of reading matter, in hiding
‘Personalities,” and a “Diary of Our
3wn Samuel Pepys.” News as it is
irdinarily conceived is conspicuous by I
ts absence, but the Soixante Trois j
a chock full of fun, which is perhaps]
list welcome ns nows to the mem'-'f
>ers of the section.
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-RENCH TIGER IS STILL
ABLE TO DO MEDICO STUNT.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS. Sept. 25. — M. Georges Cle
neneeau, the "Tiger” of the French
jolitical world, has not forgott -n that
to is, or was, a doctor of medicine,
le is, indeed, the son of a doctor, and
luring his three years’ life in the
inited States, he married Miss Mary
Plummer, the daughter of a physician j
>f Springfield, Mass.
M. C'lemenceau is at present taking j
he cure at Vichy. He used to go to
'arlsbad before the war. A few days
igo a soldier on leave was injured
when his bicycle collapsed as he was
•iding into Vichy. The former prem
er happened to arrive on the scene
n a few moments. M. Clemenceau
aandaged the man’s damages, did
sverything possible to aid him. and
:ook the injured man in his car to a
Vichy hospital.
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FATHER, MOTHER AND SON
FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS. Sept. 25. — A land owner
>f Vergeze hns received the following
letter from his won, a Btaff captain:
“I heard a strange story today, that
a woman and a boy of sixteen had
been found among the men of the
battalion of unmounted chasseurs, An
Investigation was made and they were
found to be the wife and son of a chas
seur who had determined not to be
separated from him. Both went into
the trenches with the other poilus, and
the most striking thing about It is
that they lmd been with the battalion
for five months before the authorities
found out. Of course, everyliody in
the battalion know, but as you see the
secret was kept.
“Ah an old chasseur yourself, you
will be proud to learn that u father,
mother and son have been under fire
together In your old battalion."
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ALASKA BOY TRAVELED
SOME TO ANSWER CALL.
DENVER, Sept. 25. — The drnft
registration and the succeeding call
of selected men' for service produced
some unusual tales of distances trav
eled to answer the call, but few, If
any, can compare with the record set
by A. M. Cullen, of tills city, local of
ficials say. Cullen, when lie got word
of his selection for the draft, was In
Wrangell. Alaska. He started home
at once.
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The mess house at Thane recently
contributed |60 to the Juneau tobacco
fund. The money raised In this cum
paign goes to buy tobacco and the
makings lor the boys In France.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands. Bept.
24 “I regard it as most desirable
that mo. .erlean capital should
be Invested in the Netherlands East
Indies, and I have done constantly
what I could do to promote that end
declared J. It. Van der Houven van
j Oordt, one of three Hollanders wh
I huve been just charged with an off
elal mission to Washington in con
nectlon with the pending export ques
tion, that so vitally < oncer;: the Ne
therlands. Mr. Van Oordt is a col
onial official and authority, lie has
been Under Secretary of State for the
Colonies, and has also filled the post
of Vice-l’resident of the Council of
the Netherlands East indies.
To the correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press Mr. Van Oordt pointed
out that there has been a big increase
in the commercial intercourse be
tween America and Dutch India since
the war. and particularly since the
establishment of a direct steamship
line between Java and San Francisco.
"The five boats now engaged in that
service”, he said, "are always packed
with goods. Rubber and all kinds ot
tropical products are shipped to tht
United States, and the boats retun
laden with railroad rolling-stock, mo
chinery, automobiles, aeroplanes and
the like. If only the ships were a
vailable, the service might ca. ily, and
to advantage, be exteu-iej.
“But the amount of American c-api
tal operating in the color./ is small
in comparison with the i i.ish, Ger
man, French and Belgian capital, ii j
is true there has been an increase it i
recent years. There is one Americai |
rubber estate in the Island of Suma
tra that is tlie largest plantation in
the world, and special ships run to the
United States ports to carry its pro
duce thither. But a great deal more
might profitably be done, especially
now money Is plentiful in the Union.
The sugar, ruber, tea and other agri
cultural blanches offer enormuos
scope for profitable Investment,, not
r0 spetfk' of mining posibllitles.
"Although there are at present
very few, in the country, Americans
are popular in the Netherlands East
Indies, and they and their enterpri
sea are assured of a most cordial wel
come. There is every prospect of a
big extension of relations between
the two countries, to our mutual ad
vantage.”
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FISH ARE DRIVEN
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANflELES, Cal.. Sept. 25. —
Orca or black killer, the savage
toothed member of the whale family
migrating southward In schools of tin
precedented size, have been respon
sible recently for panic among the
game fish of the Catalina channel and
reports of poor catches by fishermen
In those waters, the home of the tuna
the sword fish and many other favor
ites of the devotees of the rod and
reel.
More than half a dozen orca in one
school is an unusual sight, but Joe
Welch, u well known sportsman of this
city, reported recently having semi
the high dorsal fins of hundreds of
these vicious monsters cutting the
waters of the channel while fishing
off Catalina island.
Devastation Invariably accompanies
a visitation of the black killer, fisher
men said. It attains a length of ."0
feet and a weight of 2,0t)o pounds and
fish of all sizes uro Its prev. Ever
after having eaten Its rill the blues
killer continues to rend and malm
anything that crosses Its path, appar
cully for the savage Joy of killing.
Fishermen declared catches would
continue negligible In the channel un
til days after the orca were well on
their way southward, and the terror
created by their raids hau bud time
In wear off.
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MR8. WATSON 18 HIGHEST
WOMAN OFFICER BRITISH ARMY
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Kept. 25. The highest
woman officer in the British army ts
Mrs. A. M. Chalmers Watson, M. D.
who has Just been appointed chief con
troller of the Women’s Auxiliary
Corps, which has over 4.000 members
on duty behind the lines In France.
Mrs. Watson Is a sister of Hlr Eric
(loddes, first lord of the admiralty.
She was the first woman physician
graduated from Edinburgh University.
ANOTHER RAID
IS IDE on
LONDON
(|Ty 1 'Delated Proas)
LONDON.'far*. 25. — Fifteen por
■cut* were Wfllerj and twenty injured
in an air raid over London last night.
A Kentish town reports anti-aircraft
opened fir at 7:3o o'clock rnd dron
mg airplanes heard the bombing,
which continued Tor twenty-four hours
• inlervals. Only three bombs were
dropped, with jho great property dam
age. Zepp-litiH appeared early this
morning oft Line olnxhire and York
shire coasts, dropping bombs with
aerial torpedo •«. The Zeppelins wore
driven off by gun fire, after three wo
men had been injured.
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(By Af.oSciated Press)
PET BOO RAP. Sept. 25. It Is of
ficially annemfflpd that rumors pub
lished in foreitgti newspapers regard
Ing tlxe Initiation of peace negotiations
by Russia are false. The subscrip
tions to the Liberty loan ha\e reached
3,900,1)00,000 ru’-les.
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Pholo by Atrie Hear, Press Association
The aviation Itratt It of the servlet
lias attracted many .voting college nth
letes Into Its tanka. Not the leas:
mown is (!o i,.'c M. Church of l’rinct
II university, the tenn m champion
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CONFEREES GETTING TOGETHER.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25. An
agreement of the conferees on the
war profits section of the war tu\
bill is expected before the day ends
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GHENT EXECUTES 30 RESIDENTS
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 25. Thirty
residents of Ghent were executed dur
ing the last three weeks on charges of
espionage.
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SIAM CALLS FOR VOLUNTEERS.
BANGKOK, Sept. 25. The Slant
esc government has called for volun
tears for th,, western front, where
they will he commanded by officers
trained In Belgium.
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FLIES FROM ITALY TO ENGLAND.
LONDON, Sept. 25. — Captain Lau
tier T. Fox, an Italian aviator, marie
the first Italy to England flight today,
accompanied by an observer.
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l)r. C. (1. Maule, formerly a member
of the Territorial Dental Board, Is be
ing held al Juneau and will be exam
ined as to his sanity. He recently re
turned from a trip to the states, since
when ho has been actlog queerly. He
recently became so laid that It was
feared that he would harm some one.
Dr. Maule suffered from tt similar
trouble some years ago but completely
recovered his mental powers.
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Mrs A. W. Newhall, wife of the
doctor at the Jesse Lee home at Un
aluska, tiled there recently from the
effects of ptomaine poisoning. She
hud Just returned from a visit to the
east.
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(By Associated Press)
AMERICAN ENGINEERS' TRAIN
ING CAMP IN ENGLAND, Sept. 25. —
A large delegation of the American
railway engineers spent a day recent
ly as guests of the British troops en
camped at Aldershot, where the king
ind queen with other members of the
royal family were present at the larg
est program of Held sports that has
ever been held on Salisbury Plain.
The Americans brought with them
a tug of war team, which provided one
of the ieatures of the liafternoon In a
long-drawn contest with the champion
ship team of the English engineers, the
result being finally declared a draw.
The big fete was arranged by the
British garrison at Aldershot as a cele
bration of the bringing in of Its har
vest. For months past men of all
ranks and regiments in the garrison
have been practicing. In addition to
their military duties, the patriotism
that seeks to defeat the enemy by pro
viding the nations with home grown
food. Turf that had never before
known the ploughshare was ploughed
and sown, and men who had never
learned the first rudiments of farm
ing toiled strenuously in their spare
hours under the guidance of their
more skilful comrades. The result ex
ceeded all efforts. The Aldershot har
vest was'so bountiful that men and
officers simultaneously agreed that a
great harvest festival was eminently
the thing, and that nothing would sat
isfy them short of the attendance of
the king and queen.
The king, who knows a thing or two
about farming himself, accepted the
invitation, and a committee of ar
rangements representing every unit
in the district begun work forthwith
on a suitable program. The center of
the day's festivities was a huge tent
with tables laden with samples of the
\ldershot harvest. There were fruits,
vegetables, grain, shrubs and roobs of
various kinds. The royal party mo
tored down from Windsor, arriving
early in the afternoon and remaining
for three hours.
The arena in front of the harvest
tent was surrounded by a great circu
lar grandstand, composed of a double
line of ancient and modern transport
wagons which afforded seats for the
soldiers and their friends. For six
pence. the gate money all going to
local war charities, the American
visitors found they could have their
choice of a number of positions, either
in the drivers' seats of big army lor
ries. or on benches alongside friendly
delegations of British Tommies and
non-com missioned officers.
It was like a many-ringed circus.
While the field st>orts were In pro
gress on the ground, there was a con
tinuous performance of high divings
somersaulting, trapesing and all varie
ties of aerobatics by a squadron of
British aeroplane men up aloft. Relay
races and tugs of war were the most
popular items on the program, but
there were many uuusual and very
spectacular types of field sports, such
as a mounted wrestling competition,
in which both horses aud men took
part in an exciting struggle, the team
from the Royal Engineers finally de
feating the Army Service Corps on
points.
There was also a Victoria cross
race, illustrating the methods by
which mounted men rescue comrades
in the actual fighting of today. This
was followed by ihimlc exhibitions of
bayonet fighting, aud a blindfold drill
competition. In which blindfolded non
commissioned officers of various units
vied with each other in putting their
blindfolded detachments \hrough the
complex movements of open tleld drill.
Meanwhile the women of the gar
rison had a buby show, in which Mrs.
; Corporal Tootle's twin boys secured
au easy victory. The first prize me
dal w as handed to them by the queen.
Outside the circle of army wagons
were the sideshows, including a comic
hull right, which the king declared the
best thing of its kind which he had
ever seen.
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; DENVER DECIDES TO CLOSE
MUNICIPAL WOOD YARD.
(By Associated Press)
DENVER. Sept. 25. — Local offi
clals jsee in the closing of (tie muni
cipal wood yard a few days ago an in
crease in the general prosperity. The
yard, in which a man could earn
enough lo keep himself aud his family
from starving, was established five
years ago as a test for charity. If an
applicant for charity showed himsell
willing to work for the dollar in cash
or dollar and a half In groceries that
was paid for a day's labor there, the
city would assist him.
Lately applications for work there
have decreased to almost nothing.
iDECIDE ABOLISH
LONG TIME
CREDITS
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept, 25 — The fed
eral reserve board is to make the pre
liminarv steps to abolish long time
credits In the United States during
the period of the war. to conserve the
financial resources of the country in
a more liquid condition. Twelve fed
eral reserve banks have been asked
to encourage in every way possible the
abolition of six months promissory
notes and substitute ninety day notes.
Hereafter federal reserve banks will
not rediscount and collect on paper
having a ninety days' run.
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DISAPPEARANCE CHINSES
SEALS CAUSES ALARM.
(By Associated Press)
PEKING. Sept 26. — Peking has
been much agitated over the disap
pearance of the official seals. When
President LI Yuan Hung was forced to
give up the presidency. General Ting
Kwan. the keeper of the presidential
seals, took them to Shanghai. Another
prominent official disappeared with
the seals of the house of representa
tives.
When the attempt at monarchical
restoration had been defeated, and
Premier Tuan Chi Jui declared the re
public had been restored, there was
much consternation because of the dis
appearance of the seals'of the repub
lic. General Ting Kwan was arrest
ed in Shanghai, and after hard legal
struggles was brought back to Peking,
together with the missing presidential
seats, and is to have a hearing before
a Chinese court.
EFFICACY ANTI-TETANUS
SERUM IS PROVEN.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Sept. 25. — During the last
meeting of the Surgical Society. Dr.
i Kredet mentioned a fact which seemed
.to show the value of preventive infec
tions of anti-tetanus serum.
After the battle of Ourcq. a certain
number of wounded French and Ger
man soldiers were collected in a hos
pital. A German doctor haft remained
with the German wounded and. al
! though sufficient serum was placed
at his disposal, he refused to use It
for his men. saying that he considered
, such injections had no preventive
value.
The French wounded received the
normal doses of the serum. Of twelve
German wounded, six contracted te
tanus (lockjaw) and died, while no
Frenc h wounded showed any symptom
of it. This example of the serum's
preventive efficacy has all the more
weight because all the men had been
wounded under the same conditions
I and on the same tectanus Infec ted
ground
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FAMOUS RUSSIAN PAINTING
TO BE EXHIBITED IN LONDON.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON. Sept. 25. — An exhibition
; of paintings by the Russian battle ar
tist. Vasili Verestchagin. called in Rus
sia the “Apostle of Peace,” is to be
one of the features of the winter sea
son in London art circles. VeresL-ha
gin. after fighting with the Russian
armies in three short but bitter miuor
| wars, was killed in the explosion that
destroyed the Russian flagship Petro
pavlocsk outside Port Arthur in 1904.
His paintings are described as "at
once a grisly revelation and a vehem
ent protest."
His most famous canvas is entitled
"Apotheosis of War.” It depicts a
huge pyramid of skulls crowned with
a flock of carrion crows, and bears the
sinister inscription, “ to all conquer
ors. past, present and to come.”
On the occasion of an exhibition of
his work in Berlin some years ago
[he German emperor would not allow
i the Prussian guard to visit it, "lest
(hev should come to regard war as not
! honorable, but disgusting."
Verestchagin once wrote: “1 want
! my paintings to be horrible. The peo
ple must know what war reallv is."
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HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL
SLT FOR SEPTEMBER 30.
(By Associated Press)
DENVER, Sept. 25. — The chancels
of some of Denver's churches will be
1 lined with fruit, fresh and canned,
vegetables and other articles Sunday.
September 30. That day will be cele
brated as a "harvest home festival"
and other edibles which appears in the
churches will be donations to the poor
brought to the churches for distribu
tion.
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William Nlcholvich. a Serbian min
er. was Instantly killed by falling rock
in one of the Perseverance mine
slopes last week. His interment was
made in the Evergreen cemetery.
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(By Associated Press)
POKTLAND. Sept. 25. — The Port
land metal workers held a meeting
last night to consider the president's
message. They ordered their regrets
sent him and 4.000 men in the steel
yards struck today.
SEATTLE, Sept. 25. — The agents
of the metal trades unions met to con
sider President .Wilsons appeal
jgainst the men striking at this time.
It is believed that the appeal will be
heeded. The striking house carpen
ters today resumed work.
niLlfiis of
TIED OP
(By Associated Press)
BUENOS AIKES, Sept. 25. — A
general strike of eleven Argentine
railroads began last night and traffic
was absolutelv paralyzed.
FLANDERS MUD
MORE DEADLY
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 25— Major General
Frederick B. Maurice, director of niili
i tary operations at the war office, who
I has just returned from one of his fre
\ quent trip* to the front in France. w*»
j asked by the Associated P^jss cor
i respondent what phase of battlefront
activity had on this occasion im
pressed him most.
“Always the same thing—the mud,"
he replied. "It is the most remarkable
, mud in the world. As an enemy it is
more persistent than the German and
more dealy than his artillery.
“I had a remarkable object lesson
of the power of the Flanders mud dur
ing my week in the battle area. I
visited a hospital where they had two
of our men who had been rescued af
| ter spending thirty hours in the grip
[ of a Flanders mud hole. The men,
| advancing across No Man's Land in
the semi darkness, had stumbled into
an old shell hole and found themselves
inextricably in the clutches of the
thick mud at the bottom. When they
were found, they had been there for
thirty hours, and had been drawn
waist deep into the clay.
"All sorts of expedients were tried
to extricate them, and it was finally
deemed necessary to fit a harness to
them and pull them out with a team
| of mules. Both men had their hips
and knees dislocated in the process.
That is Flanders mud!”
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, POLYGAMIST’S WIDOWS TO
ALL SHARE IN PENSION.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS. Sept. 25. — The military au
thorities have had to settle a knotty
question, in the case of a military
polygamist being killed, how should
the widow's pension be allotted? The
question has arisen through France
] having brought many native soldiers
from Africa who belong to tribes
where polygamy is the recognized
practice. Every polygamist widow will
have a share in the pension, the total
of which will be the same as that
granted to the widow of a mo
nogamous soldier.
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EPIDEMICS BEING STAMPED
OUT ACROSS THE BORDER.
MEXICO CITY. Sept. 25. — The de
partment of public health in a recent
bulletin issued here, says that the
scourge of typhus throughout the re
public has diminished 50 per cent, and
that smallpox is being successfully
combatted by widespread vaccination.
Almost the entire army has been vac
vlngted as have the school children
and occupants of prisons.
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FIRST MEMBER OF Y. M. C. A.
IS KILLED BY BOMB.
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE. Sept. 25. — The Young
Men's Christian Association has just
sustained its first fatal casualty in
France. One of the workers in a hut
I a few miles behind the lines was killed
this week by a bomb dropped from a
Herman airplane.