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Prith the government in the
Chime of America for the
period of the war.
CASUALTIES ARE ■
15,196 TO DATE
Washington, Aug. 4.—Army and
Marine Corps casualties reported
from overseas during the week end
ing today increased 1,430 compared
with 1,050 the week before. Total
casualties reported are 15,196, in
cluding today’s army list of 283, the
largest number yet reported in a
single day, and Marine Corps list of
two.
While as yet no figures on casu
alties in the great allied offensive in
which American troops 'are playing
so conspicuous a part have been re
ceived, the increase in the daily army
lists undoubtedly is due in part to this
TV, a 5n/>i'floco fnr +lm wpplf
twas 1,384. The Marine Corps list
increased only 46 for the seven days.
In the 15,196 casualties, total
deaths, including 291 men lost at
sea, men Jril]cH
f^jn^disease, accidents and oth
f^£5&uses numbered 6,144—army men
^410; marines, 734. The wounded
aggregate 8,264—army men 7,044;
marines, 1,220. The missing includ
ing prisoners, total 788—army men,
710; marines, 78.
Of the week’s increase deaths from
j>tl causes totaled 651, as compared
ith 393 the week before; the
wounded numbered 732, compared
with 591 the previous week, and the
missing and prisoners totaled 47,
compared with 66 of the week be
fore.
MISS CASE GOING
BACK INTO MEXICO
The following article from the El
Paso Times is of interest to many
Newport people and especially to the
members of the Metohdist church,
with whom Miss Esther Case is well
and favorably known, and the mis
sionary society of that church, al
ways assisted financially in her work
in Mexico:
“Afraid! Not a bit of it! I lived
in Mexico for 20 years and know and
like the Mexican people, and I am
not worrying about meeting bandits.’’
This is what Miss Esther Case, se
cretary of foreign mission work for
tht" woman’s mission council of the
woman’s mission council of the South
ern Methodist church, with headquar
ters in Nashville, Tenn., said about
her coming trip *o Chihuahua city in
the interest of reorganizing the work
of the church in Mexico, which was
interrupted by the Mexican revolu
tion.
Miss Case will be accompanied on
the trip by Bishop James Cannon, Jr.,
who has recently been assigned to
New Mexico and Northwest Texas
conferences and all the Mexican work
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I Meat Market Opens
I will open a cash meat market \ugust 10 at
the place formerly conducted at 702 First street by
W. A. Fike & Sons. While Mr. Fike and sons were
here I was connected with them, and believe I
know what the public demands in the meal line,
and promise to meet my customers’ expectations.
Will have fresh and cured meats at all times and
Iwill sell only on days prescribed by government
regulations. The patronage of the public will be
appreciated. Telephone f>8.
J. T. MASHBURN
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: and Dr. W. W. Dinson, secretary of
i the board of missions. The party is
I waiting at present in El Paso until
j their passports are arranged for, but
expect to leave within a day or two,
! “I was missionary in Mexico for
j 20 years,” Miss Case said at the
| home of Mr. and Mrs. 1. J. Ayers,
1412 North Florence street, where
she is a guest. “I was working at
Mexico City in 1914 when the mis
sionaries left in response to the re
quest of our government, and went
with the rest. However, my trip out
I was very uneventful.
I “I speak Spanish and have al
ways been very much interested in
Mexico and and the Mexicans. I am
glad to have the opportunity to re
turn for a short visit. I do not know
how long we will stay or far we will
go, but am sure that we will go at
least to Chihuahua City to see about
the resumption of our work. I am
now in charge of the work for all
Latin-Am< rica carried on by the wo
men of the church, and after this
trip will return to Nashville.”
That there was nothing unusual in
her undertaking the trip, was the
view of Miss Case, and she laughs at
the idea of any harm from Mexican
bandits.
She is one of the few American
women who have had the chance t'
visityMexico since the present pass
port regulations have gone into ef
fect.
DISLOYAL ALIENS FIND
NO COMFORT IN MEXICO.
(By The Associated Press.)
Juarez, Mex. Aug. 5.— Deserters,
draft evaders and pro-Germans who
seek refuge in Mexico find little wel
come or comfort here. These aliens
sit around the old passenger depot,
waiting for a chance to steal a ride
south, walk up and down the main
street begging money for meals
from any of their own nationality or
work at the most menial jobs obtain
able in the stores and homes c f the
foreign residents.
Recently three draft evaders ap
peared on the streets here were true
types of the many who have come to
Mexico since the United States en
tered the war. One was a German boy
escape army service, had lived with
an uncle in Chicago and finally cross
ed the border to prevent being in
terned. The second was an Italian
shoe factory worker from Boston
who had. had
"Tiwf. The third was an American of
the tramp type who was demented
from lack of food and worry. All
were dirty, unshaved and destitute
and all expressed a desire to return
to the United States and surrender.
CRIME IS ON IN
CREASE IN BERLIN
New York, Aug. 5.—(Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.)—War
has caused an increase of crime and
depravity among the German people,
according to an analysis published
by the Berlin Vorwaerts. The paper
recalls that at the beginning of the
war, prophets spoke of a “steel bath”
in the waters of which the moral of
the German people would recuperate.
“Since August 4, 1914,” says the
Vorwaerts, “we have allowed the
blessings of this bath to act on us
with steadily increasing vigor and
the result is a moral condition of
health of the German people of which
the compilations of criminal statistics
give convincing reports. These tell
us of the steadily increasing number
of crimes of brutality, and serious
, crimes against property and a glance
at any newspaper confirms the hor
ribly increasing number of robberies
j and burglaries in the cities and as
j well as in rural districts. System
atically organized and methodically
operating bands of robbers menace
continually life and property of ‘re
j speetable’ citizens.
“Also honesty of the latter has
! suffered a perceptible “crack” an:'
| here the influence of the steel bath
:s directly proved. We do not fear
i that we are disclosing any state-en
dangering secret when we announce
the fact that at present there proba
bly are few German subjects left
who have not in some more or less
serious manner violated the existing
government decrees and laws and
! made themselves liable to punish
| ment.”
The Vorwaerts, then cites the in
! stances of the citizen, who on Sun
j days goes to the country to buy food
for hoarding purposes, of the proud
j wife of the owner of a large estate,
! whose chickens “lay” eggs only for
j a mark a piece, of the wife of the
first lieutenant who sells the food
articles received from her husband
at the front at fancy prices and the
army usurers, secret traders, and
forgers.
The Vorwaerts then dwells on the
effects of the steel bath on
growing generation and cites com
plaints by the clergy and teachers to
show that dpravity is one of its re
sults.
The paper calls attention to what
it describes as the “fruits of the best
education as shown during the Rad
eck-Berstorff libel case.” It adds:
“When refined cavaliers of the most
prominent society apply the most
common names to each other and box
each other’s ears, then no one has
the right to claim for one certain
class, decency and well-behavior.
“The steel bath exerts its effects
on everyone and splashes over the
home of the proletariat as well as
over the playroom in the family of
the count,” concludes the Berlin pub
lication.
PRESS ACCUSED
OF SPREADING
FALSE REPORTS.
(By The Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 5.—The press in
Germany was accused during a de
bate in the Reichstag of spreading
false reports regarding allied air
raids on German cities, according to
German newspapers received here.
The case in question was the air raid
on Cologne on May 18.
Deputy Kuckoff of the Centre Par
ry said mere nau eeen no umeiy
warning of the population by the
military authorities.
Deputy Meerfeld. Socialist, said
that, although every child in Col
ogne knew that 25 persons had been
killed, the newspapers on that day
were forced to say “that unfortun
ately there have been some casual
ties.”
“What will be the reputation of the
press if they are forced to spread
such false reports,” he asked. Meer
i feld said that the methods of tke
| general command reminded 0f
'Die* saying* mat “uinfer martial law
every jackass can rule.”
TO TAX SEMI-LUXURIES.
Washington, Aug. 4.—A ten per
cent tax on retail sales of a wide va
liety of commonly classified luxuries,
from jewelry to merscliaum pipes,
and from smoking jackets to silk hos
iery, will be recommended to the
full House Ways and Means Commit
tee tomorrow as a result of deliber
ations of the sub-committtee on lux
uries. The semi-luxuries goods,
which are in the class where it is dif
ficult to distinguish between the real
necessity and the real luxury, such as
clothing, will be left to a more
searching inquiry.
A general revision of the whole $8,
000,000,000 bill, being drafted by the
committee, will begin tomorrow to
determine w'b.ere increases may be
made to make up the present defi
ciency of a billion and more in the es
timated revenue from excess profits
and income and so far tentatively
agreed upon. Also some dcubt is ex
pressed whether the luxury schedule
can be made to produce all of the
| *2,000,000,000 allotted to it.
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A mass meeting of farmers of Mil
: ler county was held at the court
house in Texarkana Saturday after
noon for the purpose of “seeking re
i ief at a critical time from the opera
tions cf the cattle dipping law.” The
•nrin argument advanced against dip
fng their cattle now was that the
farmers could not afford to take the
time necessary, as their crops require
their entire time and attention. A
resolution was unanimously adopted
requesting Dr. R. M. Gow, state vet
erinarian, to discontinue cattle dip
ping until January 1, 1919.
IT’S IN THE AIR.
Windblown pollen, carrying the
germs that cause hay fever, is
abroad in the land. One remedy is
known to give relief and comfort
from choking, gasping astma and
tormentting hay fever. Foley’s
Honey and Tar spreads a healing
oating on inflamed membranes,
-tops coughs and colds.—Walker’s
Pharmacy.
“Dash, determination and inring—
also efficiency”—That’s what our
Soys at the front are doing Keep ’em
go’ng! War Savings is a message to
the kaiser that will “get over.”
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