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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES, NEPHI, UTAH AVIATION ITALIANS ADVANG E SERVICE AIRSHIP GRANDPA AND HIS GLASSES THE BRITISH COAST TO BE INVESTIGATED ON CITY OF TRENT CAPTURE HEIGHTS OF CALLO AND ARE IN. STRIKING DI3- TANCE OF OBJECTIVE. SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE ORDERS FAVORABLE REPORT ON INQUIRY RESOLUTION. FOUR SEAPLANES US ED BY TEU- TONS IN LATEST ATTACK Germans Strike Hard Blow on French Front, But Frenchmen Retake i Lost Ground. RuMiane Still I , Pressing Turks. Senator Alleges That Drop Many Explosives, Two Men and One Boy Being Killed and Much Property Destroyed by Invadera. ON ENGLAN D. Six of Fifteen Officers Killed In Last Eight Years Were Required to Use Defective Machines. Coui'r Washington. The senate military ommlttee voted en Monday to recommend an investigation of the army vlatlon service by congress. The de cision was reached after Senator Robinson, who had Introduced a resolution for such an investigation, submitted further evidence to support his charges of general inefficiency. The resolution, which will be favor ably reported, would appropriate S10,-00for the Inquiry, and create an Investigating committee consisting of three members of the house and two of the senate. Senator Robinson produced before the committee last week pho'.ographlo copies of letters alleged to have passed between Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Reber, head of the aviation service, and Captain Arthur S. Cowan, In charge of the San Diego station, which the senator said revealed that the servce was "contemptibly Inefficient" In his supplementary state ment Monday he declared that of officers who had about twenty-fou- r qualified as filers, fifteen had been killed, several losing their lives be cause "they were required to attempt flights in antiquated biplanes known to be defective." Of the qualified filers few have ever done military work, he said, and only one or two ever have maties. atneuvered Brabant-sur-MauaAt the Germans tached. in areoplanes with bombs also broke Into the French trenches, Senator Robinson said In eight were driven out Eut here again they years fifteen aviation officers had back to their original positions, killed, .eight of them in flight i There Is no change In the situation been from North laland station near San along the front In Russia and Diego, Cal. The Russians are still pressing the ORPET HELD TO GRAND JURY. Turks hard in Armenia, Constantinople, In its first official statement Circumstantial Evidence Regarded as Sufficient to Warrant Inquiry. concerning the reverse to the Turkish arms at Erzerum, says the retirewaa or William II. Chicago. ment to positions west of the fortress dered held to the grand Orpet for the Jury detook place after the Turks had of Marian Lambert. Jilted sweet death stroyed positions to the east of heart "whose death be watched In the Erzenim and alBo fifty old cannon, woods near ber Lake Forest home, which they could not take with them. at the conclusion of the coroner's in Denial la made that the Russians capon Monday. tured 1,000 cannon and 80,000 pris- quest Six coroner's Jurors decreed that oners. the circumstantial evidence was suf inCZAR APPEARS BEFORE DUMA. ficient to warrant the grand Jury quiry. Counsel for the accused Uni Visit la Hailed as Indicating Concert- versity of Wisconsin student set up the cry thatthe action was based on ed Effort of People. Em-ro- r of The (ubsi, uvea i mj v lurut c presence Petrograd. Nicholas at the opening of the Picric Acid Plant Blown Up. dumy on Tuesday is hailed by the N. Y. Four persons were Syracuse, press and public as one of the most killed, at least a dozen others injured whole In events the politiImportant by an explosion in the Split Rock cal history of Russia. of the Sement-Soivapicric acid ,' It Is pointed out that the appear- company. plant ance of the emperor In the bouse has emphasized in the mot striking manLIEUT. HANS BERGE ner the increasing disposition of the government and people to lay aside internal politics and devote all their -energies to a concerted effort to bring the war to a successful issue. London. The Italians, after week. Of hammering at the Austrian posi-tlon- s with their big guas, nave captured the mountainous region of Cal-l(Oollo), In the Sugana valley, and also nave occupied the towns of Roncegno and Konchl. By their new acqulHition of territory, the Italians now are almost fftitUU distance of on of their chief objectives of the war the city of Trent iwblch lies, protected on the north, east and eoutb by a line of forts, 'fifteen u lies west of the captured region. Again there has been vicious fighting In the Artols region of France, In Champagne, and along both banks of the Jleuse above Dun. To the east of Souther, after a heavy 'bombardment, the Germans attacked and captured 800 meters of French trenches and took seven officers and 319 men prisoners. So powerful was the attack that the Germans, seven battalions strong, not alone occupied first line trenches, but at points galued access to some of the communicating trenches, t The French, by a counterattack. It Is officially announced by Paris, succeeded In driving put the Germans from all but a few of these positions, the Germans suffering heavy casual- 1t( f" kx wti AS. 0 (Copyrlalit.) PN , Ga-ilcl- ;0 y r Farmers Form Association. Kansas City, Mo. A national farm ers' association, designed to bring to rether all special and regional elation of farmers in the United Slates, ass formed here Tuesday by be delegates attending the meetings of the Farmers' Association of Amer , ao w -- ica, a temporary organization. The delegates represented farmers of the middle western and central stales. ' Homage Paid to Washington. Washington. Every agency of the ) paused on government the mem to to homage pay Tuesday ory of George Washington In the cap Iktii bis name. ital which s suspended bulcongress of t)ouiwhile the president and other attended a celebration prominent at Continental Memorial ball, American I -- WITH l I 1 4 'J n-e- . s Francis Aecepte Post. ' Washington. Davli R, Francis, sec retary of the Interior In Cleveland s cabinet and former governor of Ml sourl, has told President Wilson that be would accept the post of anAassa dor to Russia to succeed George T fMarye, who has resigned. i In command of the captured British British Steamer Sunk. passenger stesmer Appam when she London. Sinking of the British dropped anchor at Hampton Reads by wse Lieut. Hane Berg e ef the Carman steemrfhlp Dingle is reported Lloyds. Thore probably Is only one- paval reserve. Thte daring and aril survivor. No details have been re- llsnt commander la the here ef ene ef the most fantastic and thrilling reived. tales ef eea lore. From off the MaFive Ptrlsh In Fire. deira Islands, where the capture took Vow York Four frn and a wo place, he made hie way across the enman lost their lives Tuesday In a fire tire Atlantic unmolested by the many Kfcirh destroyed a theatrical oaraing British and French warships which lit Pally crowd the seas, and arrived bouse above a restaurant In the thea afely at Norfolk, Va. tre district of this city. Tax Cases Disposed of. Zeppelin Crew Lost. ! Paris. The entire crew of the Wsshingfon. All the Income tan Kjw.rw.lin alrshln brought down by cases before the supreme court were tvonrk runs near Brabant-le-Rol- , disposed of In favor of the govern twontr-twIn n timber, perished, ac ment on Monday on the authority of Bar the original decision, upholding th cording to a Havas dispatch from constilutlonality of the law. ! o c ' Drooped Dead In Church. Moinps. Iowa. Henry Wallace, r o.r md cubllslier of a farm yrur k,.r and a member of in ItoOs elt ccuntry life commission, dropped dead a the First Method H enure tore Taesday night. Js - COLOMBIA FINALLY RATIFIED AT. RIENTAL POWER RENEWS TEMPTS TO OBTAIN FOOTING ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE. FIFTEEN SENATORS VOTE WITH MAJORITY. AND FIVE DEMOCRATS PROTEST. Re sgotlatlana of Comparatively cent Origin Followed the Failure of Japan to Make Bargain With Panama. Under Terma of Convention the Cen tral American Republic Will Receive Three Million Dollars For Right of Way. was Information Washington. forthcoming from ae authoritative source on Sunday that Japan has re newed ber attempts to obtain a foot ing on the western hemisphere. At the present momf nt, it was stat ed on high authority, Japan is nego tiating- with Colombia for the pur chase of a site on her coast. These negotiations are of compara tively recent origin, It is said, and follow the failure of Japan to consum mate a similar bargain with the re public of Panama, Japan approached Panama, accord ing to the report, through her ambas sador to Spain, who broached the subject last summer to the Panamanian minister at .Madrid, Antonio Burgos. The negotiations, begun verbally, fin ished with a four-pag- e document, writ ten in French, setting forth the terms on which Japan would make the pur chase of an island from Panama. The document Itself, which la said to bear the signature of the Japanese ambassador at Madrid. Is now filed away In the archives of the state de tx-ar- D-- ss, JICARAGUAN TREAT! FLIRTING REPUBLICAN The senate on Friday, to 18, ratified the and persistently opposed the treaty, whereby N'icaraguan United States would acquire a ninety nine-yea- r option on the Nlcaraguan canal route and a naval base In the gulf of Fonseca for $3,000,000. Included la the ratification resolu tion was a provision declaring that the United States In obtaining the naval baae, does not Intend to violate any existing rights In the Fonseca gulf of Coeta Rica, Honduras and Sal vador, which had protested against the proposed acquirement. Five Democratic senators voted against the treaty. They were Chamberlain, Marline, Clarke ot Arkansas. Thomas and Vardaman. Republicans who voted against the ratification were Borah, Clapp, Cummins, Gronna, Jones, Kenyon. La Follette, McCumber. Nelson, N'orris, Smith ot Michi gan, Smoot and Warren. Fifteen Republican senators Join ed the administration forces In sup port of the treaty. Tbey were Colt. Dillingham. Pupont, Fall. partment Harding. Llppitt, Lodge, The Island named in the document Oalllnger, Mclean. Page, Polndeiter. Suther s Colba, situated in the Pacific at a land. Wadttworth and Weeks. distance ot more than J CO mtlea from Panama. the coast of VISCOUNT MILNER Included in the offer made to Pan am a for the Island, It Is understood, waa a guarantee by Japan that the would protect Panama's Independence. Washington. by a vote of CS long-pendin- - COTTON Exchange - Bran-dege- e, SEED FOR CORN. to be Made to Farmer ef Mexico. Aid the El Paso. Heavy trains of cotton seed to be exchanged In the United Statea for corn to help the food short sge In northern Mexico are en route to Neuvo Laredo and Piedras Negras according to a dispatch received at Juarez. The cotton seed will be free from export duty to help the farmer of the Laguna district. It was stated The farmers, however, are said to own but a small part of the seed, the major portion having been sold to the governmenL London. Four German seaplanes made a raid over the east and south- easf coasts of England, on Sunday ac- cording to an official announcement. The total casualties are given as two men and one boy killed and one ma rine wounded. Considerable material damage was done. The first raiders, two biplanes, ap peared over Lowestoft at 10:55 a in., and circled over the south side ot the town for five minutes and dropped bombs. In about five minutes they rose to a great height and seemingly vanished. At 11:50 a. m. the two sea planes were again visible over the town and then vanished eastward again. Altogether seventeen small high ex plosive bombs were dropped. Considerable damage was caused to out buildings of a restaurant and to two dwelling houses. Meanwhile two other German sea planes were making for the Kentish coast. The first passed over the Ken tish Knot light vessel, dropping bombs In that vicinity at 11 20 a. m. The last raider made straight for Walmer, reaching that town at 11:2? a. m., flying at less than 2,500 feet. and dropped six bombu, then turned sharply to the east-Two of the bombs that fell de stroyed roofs and broke windows in the neighborhood. One of them fell close to a church, blowing In the win dows as the congregation was singing the MTe Deum." A third bomb fell on a roadway running along me Deacn, killing one civilian and Injuring one Now Bel tm Perfectly Apparent. e "He boasts that be is a man. 'He shouldn't. It's unnecessary. Anybody can see that he's not the work of an expert." self-mad- WOMEN SUFFERERS NEED f . ; v,i1 - ": ' ' ; N Passenger Train Crashes Into Another Train In Washington. Spokane. Five persons were killed and six Injured, three seriously, when Northern Pacific passenger train No. 2. known as the North Coast Limited, eastbound, crashed into the rear end train of Northern , No. 42, at South Cheney. Wash., seventeen miles from Spokane. The dead and Injured were all from th northwest. Historical Records Lost. There are two great natlona of an tiquity whose inscriptions cannot yet be read the Etruscans and the Hit-ttte-s. Tb Etruscans occupied a part of Italy corresponding roughly to what la now known as Tuscany. The Hit-tlte- s at on time occupied a part of' Palestine, and united with the Canaan-I- t es to resist the invasion by theIsraelite under Joshua. The Etrus can and Hlttlte Inscriptions have thus far resisted the attempts ot scholars to decipher them, though no one knows when someone may stumble on a bilingual inscription which will serve as a key. Just as the Rosetta stone, dis covered in Egypt in 1799, served as a. key to the Egyptian hieroglyphics. In th Dew world, th Maya Inscription, found on th ruins in Yucatan, are also a puzzle to scientists. Christian Herald. Pacific-Burlingt- east-bound- - Battle With Outlaws. El Paso. Dwlgbt B. Stephens, sher iff of Luna county, N. M., was killed ae- - wounded in a battle at R I neon. N. M.. with five fugitives who had pre viously escaped from the Jail at Dem- - rtoasly Ing, according to a report received One of the fugitives also was killed. It wss said. here. U. 8. Now In Fourth Place. Washington. The British -navy Is spproxliNBtely twice as strong- as the combined flneU'of Germany and Aus tria, while the Teuton io combination baa Just about double the sea flgbtIna-- forces of the I'nlted Slates, ac cording to Information In the poesca-tloof the navy department New Uniform for Cube's Navy. Th general staff of the Cuban navy has appointed a commute to study designs for a new uniform for tb offi cers and enlisted men of th navy. Th present uniform, which Is almost exactly Ilk that used by th United States, Is said to be too expensive for Cuba. New equipment will also be ought by the commute for the Cuban naval cadet. in the the passed penitentiary n Vrs. Ida Meyer, 60 years old, con victed of complicity in the murder of ber daughter In law, Mrs. Ethel Meyer, last July. The case ha been ap Many a bluffer baa a wife la nnabla to bluff. Iowa Progressive Favor Teddy. Des Moines, la. Iowa Progressives rill eend an uninstrucled delegation to the national convetion of the party In Chicago June 7. This was the de cision of the stale central committee. Th delegates will support Colonel Roosevelt, however. One Because be elected nimeelf chief "German batter" In the bewee ef lords. Viscount Mllnef.whe was governor ef te 101, has Cape Colony frem been made the center ef attack by th British press. This Oerman baiting ,n)Jt v(rv tti sympsthy among theBritish newspaper fraternity, especialy ae It cemee from a native born Ger man. 17 often come mean a pt to Pittsburg Mystery surrounds the Illness of thirty five persons who were compelled to ssk for medical attentionafter attending a rhorch supper in tarnegie. near here. Opinions regarding the cause differ. Grape-Nut- s Goes Up. New Federal -- A rooD Chemical company at Dyestuffs Tnn., twentynve mties Klngport, from here, was destroyed by fire. The plant Is usd for the manufacture of munitions of war. -- rr;ve. -- ri''y g lke - l.'Ti simplest To bring out trie beat mental and physical force sound nourishment is imperative. After Banquet. Dire at Age o 15. Strauss and Wilkinson Indorsed. Pope Has Attack ef Crip. N. Y. Joseph L, Richmond. Port Friday Ftorn. Jt became known New York. Ovar R S'raus of this Vanderhllt. a consin of the late Com that Pcf llenedkt for th ity and Horace 8. Wllk.nn of Prra- modore Cornelius Vandprhlit, died n suffering from a q pre recommended a delegates Vt at the home of bia son. Joseph M. weks has light atta'k of grip. Until How the o he Progressive rational conven VandTbllL He m 5 years o.d and as tion at ChW i at a riveting here fact that be was lndi!psed i9 Wa la New Tork. known only in vslirsn circles. Saturday of Pr First Challenger Captain Dead. Girt Killed by Cyanide. Bankers Convicted Of Fraud. Indians Murder Agent. Wirht The dah Is 0we, l!enf ofCaptain Chirsao. Crnli of pol"MU'n wsl annrranct-O'tawa. LI John E. HartonSoTer. Frank Flagtaff, Ariz Leo Crane, India wtirh ki'iied Marias re1 4 years. He roimand"dKpflfer. poison agent at Keams Canyon, Ariz.. i prMent. and Oeorge N. IIi;trnd, th Jjrn'S h'ah Koret ashler of the Tonlr-- Exrhariee far,k. France Imbert. killed by Indians last week, accord "a schooner Camt-rU- . th firM AMniry . of r"-iir.depts-Amgirl, according to a report F,r?lish yacAt which chali'-BgiIng to unconfirmed repor'w received vere '.ounl ade to the corwr by Ir. RiTph C. erica ovs. after having knowledge of the Inhere from Gallup, r . M., and Ho! erW. Webtr Ot the Chicago solvency of the bank. brook, Ariz. t-- from For Instance one daily food play a big part in deciding (or success or failure. 26. Munitions Plant Bristol, Tenn The h Greatest Results Craft Frog Skin for Burna Des Moines frog skin wss graft ed on to the chest of Mrs. Samuel Soort at Mercy hospital Saturday and it was announced she probablyrecover from severe bums rer4vd in a fire at her home Jan Become III that Perhsps a man can write a sensible love letter, but be never does. pealed. uary SWAMP-ROO- T Thousand upon thousands of women Lave kidDeyand bladder trouble and never suspect" it. Women s complaints !ften prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder diiieaae. If tb kidneys are not tn a healthy con dition, they may cause the other ontana to become diseased. You may suffer a great deal with pain tn the back, headache, lost of ambition, nervousness and may be despondent and tm table. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physician's pre scription, obtained at any drug store, restores health to the kidneys and is just the remedy needed to overcome such con ditions. Get a fifty cent or one dollar bottle im-mediately from any drug store. However, If you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer a Co- - Ilinahamton. N. Y for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. Adv. FIVE KILLED IN WRECK. a deputy sheriff. Buck Sevier, CATARRH it STAGNATION marine. and rea rmrnt Aged Woman Sentenced. KILLS SCORES. Hundred Persons Hurled Into Abye In the Alp. Berlin. It is considered probable that nearly all the persons who were hurled Into an abyss In the Salsburg Alps when an avalanch carried awe an Aloine shelter have penstiea. Later reports from Salsburg stated that already there were fifty five known dead as the result of the snow slide, with forty nine Injured and about thirty still missing. tlalng the stomach, bronchia aad haad toass up th whole system.. Aids yoa to prevent Coughs and Colds. braa la Sixteen years Winters, was sentence Question of Armed Merchsntmcn Ex poses Oivergance of Views. Wsahlngton. A high administration official al on Monday that the submarine controversy between the Unit ed Ststes and the cenlral Teutonic powers Is as serious now as It was Immediately after the sinking or lb Lusitanla, He asserted wist tnis due to the divergence In views ex pressed by the United Slates on on hand and Germany and Austria upon the other upon the question ot armed merchantmen. n.tr systemic catarrh? inflammation of mucous mem- n CONTROVERSY CAUSES WORRY. 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