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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES. NEPHI. UTAH TEUTONS CONS RUSSIANS m i iola! Secretary Daniels Advocate Paris. Little fighting Is In progress on any of the fronts except In Routna uia. Here the Teutonic allies, accord Jng to Berlin, are still making prog yess. Petrograd asserts, however, thai the Roumanians northeast of Bucha rest have turned on the offensive and s back driven the Along the Transylvania - Roumanls frontier Petrograd reports progress foi K lie Russian troops and Berlin aduiiti the loss of a height. Bulgarians are crossing the Danube aoulheast of Bucharest. Seeming!) n impediment will be placed in tin way of the retirement of the Roumanian a and possibly some of them may fee taught between the Austro-Gemans moving east and the Bulgarians driving north. Aside from a German attack in the Vosges region near Col Salute Marie which was repulsed by the French and the recapture by the Germans ol m. sap in Champalgne the French hat .entered after its evacuation, only bom and minor engagement) jbardment have taken place along the line ir France and Belgium. Berlin records the repulse of a (heavy attack by the entente troopt near Monastir. while Paris reports tin capture by the British south of Seres Greece, of Turkish positions. A violent bombardment is in prog jess east of Gorizia and on the Carte plateau of the Austro Italian theater. Washington. The attention of con gress was directed sharply on Monday to matters relating to both the army and navy which are expected to be productive of agitation for even more drastio measures of national defense than have yet been seriously consid:Sii; ered. Secretary Daniels before the house J'T1 .7.! ..Mil" naval committee advocated legislation which would compel steel companies ,&'ilillii;i!f.m ,...r.w. and other private concern to give preference to government orders for military supplies. He will submit a new section for the pending naval ap propriation bill for this purpose, In or l fl UNDER MYSTERY der to hasten battleship construction, which, he declared, was being delayed in the by commercial work both PARTLY CLEARED UP yards of private builders and in the steel plants. Secretary Baker wrote Speaker Clark in response to a house resolu HAUNTED BY FEAR, BURGLAR tion that 71.K34 out of the grand total TELLS POLICE HIS WIFE WAS of 183,800 national guardsmen taken KILLED BY ROBBERS. into tho fedorul service up to August 31 were without previous military Declare Woman Who Was Murdered enrolled itf training. Rejections Near County Jail in Salt Lake Was guardsmen for various causes operatBeaten to Death and Robbed ed later to Increase the number of re of $10,000 Worth of Jewel. cruits to approximately CO per cent of the force. Salt Lake City. A murder mystery Regulation of Wage and Rate. which engaged the attention of the New York. Regulation of wages by police of several cities In the country, the same commission that regulates the tragedy occurring In Salt Lake, rates may be the ultimate solution of; was practically solved at Chicago on the railroad wage problem, according! December 9, when a man giving his to Klisha Lee, chairman of the na- name as Howard DeWeese and his age tional conference committee of the as 31 years, walked Into the detective railways, who addressed the Economic bureau of the Chicago police depart club here Monday on the question ment and acknowledged that a woman "Should the Right of Public Service who was murdered In Salt Lake on a Kmployees to Strike be Regulated by night about the 20th of September was Law?" his wife. Ie Weese admitted to the authoriExtensive Robberies of Mail. ties that he was a burglar and that Buffalo. Mall roblierles amounting he was guilty of a number of crimes, to $200,000 were disclosed, postal au- hut declared that he was not guilty of thorities annooncJ, In the confes- the murder of the woman. His story sions of Richard and Frank Chapln, as detailed to the police: mall wagon drivers. Jewelry valued "My name is Howard DeWeese. I at between JlO.onO und $15,0"0 was re- am a burglar. On September 20 In covered at the Chapln home. Much Salt Lake my wife was murdered. Her other loot, consisting of stock certifi- diamonds, valued at $10,000, were cates and negotiable paper, was de- stolen. I fled because I was afraid, with my record, 1 would be accused of stroyed. murder. 1 want to clear myself. the Warning Flashed to Shipping. "I'nder the name of C. D. Robblns I Miami, Fla. Warnings for allied had been employed in a haberdashery shipping throughout the South Atlan- In New York City and In November. tic and eastern portions of the Gulf of 1916, eloped to Reno. Nev.. with the Mexico to keep sharp watch for a wife of the proprietor, Mrs. Harry strange steamer, thought to be a tWr-ma- Fisher. Mrs. Fisher obtained a divorce raider, are being sent out day and In Reno in August, 1916. and a few night by British cruisers and by shore days she and 1 were married stations In the British West Indies. there." DeWerse claimed that he and his Another Oklahoma Bank Robbed. wife came to Sail Lake, and that while Yinita. Okla. In less than three be was from their apartment minutes Monday two men robbed the his wife aay as murdered and her Farmers' State bank of Vfnita of apand Jewels taken. proximately $17,(hio and escaped In The mutilated body of a woman wa an automobile with such a lead over found September 24 in a room at their pursuers that six posse Monday l.Vti Soutli Second Fast. Her head night had not come In sight of the had been b(ten almost beyond recrobbers and their booty. ognition and the body was partially were that decomposed. Indications DR. HIPOLITO IRIGOYEN she had been deal Bt least three clays. Near the bed on the floor was a flatiron wrapped In a bloody towel. With a man who represented himself as her hunhand and who gave his name as D. C. Robblns. they engagel the apartment three days before the Robbins wa body was discovered. missing and the police and sheriff's force began a search on the theory that he had slain the woman. The body of the murdered woman was bur-teIn the po'ter's field after all effort to Identify her bad failed. Legisla- tion Which Would Compel Steel Companies to Give Preference to Government Order. HEAVY LOSSES OF ROUMANIANS. Since December 1 More Than 70,000 Men Have Been Captured. Paris The Importance of the sue censes of the Teutonic armies near Bucharest Is emphasized by the an nuunccmcnt that since December 1 the Roumanians have lost In prisoners more than 70,000 men, 1.S4 cannon and 120 machine guns, and the losses in dead and wounded are declared to be 1a proportion to the number of prla oners. JURYMEN WILL CONDUCT PROBE of High Cost of Living to be Made. Washington. Department of justice officials announced Satuiday that fed eral grand Juries at New York and Detroit, probably at Cleveland and possibly at Kansas City, Mlnenapolis and St. lui&, would conduct sweeping inquiries into the high cost of living. Several hundred witnesses In eluding dealer in coal, railroad employee, and dealers in and producers of foodstuff w ill be examined. Investigation Boycott is Effective. Seattle. The effect of partial on foodstuffs by the public list week brought down the price of but ter and cgs. failed in regard to o:a teen and flour, curtailed t? e move ment of apples, and decre.ued the consumption ttf nearly ail perishable injiien sold In the local market. It wa announced by boycott leader Sunday. Kfg declined from 65 to rn cen's a dozi-n- . and butted from 60 to .0 cents a pound. boy-colt- Na Proposal for Mediation. Wabirg'on. Offers of mediation of peace to the huro pe,m nations have not been made by the United States, and will not be broached by this government In the near future, unless there Is some quite unexpected turn In world even's. Tbiise facts are stated authoritative ly by one of the highest officials of the government to counteract reports to the contrary. or suggestion Field Marshal Oyama Oead. Toklo. Ficld Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama, commander In chief of the Maochurlan army of Japan during the Kuo-Japanewar, is dead. Field Marshal Prince Oyama shared Willi Field Marshal Prince Yamagata the highest military and civil honors In the gift of the emperor. Chamorro Names Advisers. 3an Juan del Sur. Nlc. The new cabinet of President Chamorro w;i be made fcp as follows: Minister of foreign affairs, Jose Andres Clrecho; mln!tr of finance. Martin Hnard; inlaisW of war, Thomas Masts: minister of interior, A!fono Soloriano. minister of public works, GuHerre Navas. ' , las v ia &mm re v "a :;.!.!'., n ,9mf,mrx Miill rni lilllllHniiilllil!!! ' llVvMil i mm i!l!llllll!;'l'i:lll f h i) Nil Fifteen Perish In Explosion. Peterhoro. Ont. Four persons are known to have lost their lives, eleven others have not been accounted for and fifeen more were Injured severe ly In an explosion and Are which destroyed the "Quaker Oats" compny's buildings here Monday. The majority of the injured are expected to recover. I PROTEST AGAINST n ACTION GERMAN DEPORTATION OF BELGIAN WORK. MEN CAUSES PROTEST FROM UNITED STATES. Note Cabled to Berlin Declares Policy Established by Cermans I Con. trary to All Precedent and Humane Principle. Washington. A note to Germany protesting against the deportation o. Belgians for forced labor as contrarj to all precedents and humane prln clples of international practice wai made public Friday night by the slaU department. The note wa cabled to Charge Grew at Berlin on November 29, tlu day Ambassador Gerard discussed tin subject with President Wilson, wltl Instructions that he read it personal! to the German chancellor. A decision to protest furmailj against the treatment of the Belgium followed unsuccessful Informal effortt by Charge Grew under Instruction that he say Informally to the Herllt. foreign oft Ice that the deportation were having a most unfavorable effect upon neutrals, particularly the Cnlted States. The charge was Informed In reply that the policy wa adopted as nilli'ary necessity and that Germany regarded It as legal. Ax Murders to be Probed. Red Oak, Iowa, Another grand Jury Investigation of the Villisca ax murder in 1912, when Joe Moore and bis family and two young women guests were killed In their beds with an ax. may result from the verdict rendered Moti-dj- y slander stated Monday by Oscar of WenMrand, county a'torney-elec- l Montgomery county. in the suit. It wa Jones-Wilkerso- TURNS POLICEMAN BANDIT, Corfesses Robbing Express Wagon on busy Street in Broad Daylight. Los Angeles. Albert J. Griffith, a Angeles police, patrolman on the force for four years, lias confessed, according to the police, that be was the robber who held up an expr rs wngon Thursday on a buy street ami made off with about 15,000 in cash and I34.0O0 In checks, drafts and other banking papers. Most of the money was recovered. ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS ftp ' d V the-cours- e g Austro-Hungarla- er j st I ar. c x - Bill to Chang Practice Win. Th Judiciary comWashington. mittee of the enat has reported favorably on the bill Introduced by Senator Gorg Sutherland to give to the supreme conrt of th t'nited S'ates power to regulate the pleadings, procedure and practice on the common law sid of the fpden4 court. J thl - ;MrA,v Curton Betrothed. The engagement Is announced of Karl Curaon of Kedles'on, former viceroy of India, and Mrs. Grace Elvira Ihiggan. widow of Alfred puggan, of Buenos Aires. Thousand Killed by Explosion. Berlin. An exp'oslon in a Russian caused the ammunition plant h death of about 1.000 persons, at cording to the Overseas News agency, election was a victory for the radicals, quoting the Russian newspaper Rerh. who had been out of power for 20 The cause of the explosion is unknown. year. Contract for Hydroaeroplane. Washington. Coatract for ninety, til higft power hydroaeroplanes Unit-rf(r lb coast artillery e'stlons In the States, Hawaii, Philippines and the Panama canal tone wer let Saturday 7 the war department. Two Firemen Killed. Toledo. Ohio. Two City firemen were Vi'.Ied and another Injured so bad !y that he may not recover, s the result of being caught by failing walls In the store of th Paddock Merchan dlslng company during a fire. An Increase of $5 a Washington month in the pay of every enlisted man in the navy was recommended by Secretary Iisniels to the houe naval committee, it would add $.1,000.0(0 a fear to the jsy roil Mayor Mitrhel rebtikeil the board of aldermen here In vetoin; Reject Strike Proposal. Tonopah, Nev. By a heavy majority approximately 1,000 mine workers In tir district voted to reject a rik" proposal for a fia' advance of of 1,0 cents a diy In wges the price of silver. Propose Government Ownerh p. Sinn Felner Shout Rebellion. Immunity Ruling to Stand. Representative L wis Washington. French N Feiners Two hnndred Sinn Missing. from Cork. Bsttleship Washington. Appeals of the parre' pot of author Mary'a.id, Run-diFuffrrn. charitable The Paris. Tork federal court ruling performance battleship grant !tig stnppd a 12 bill on trsbt given In behalf of tbe fam- which lef. port on November 24. has tw. Intro laced rtirnf Immnnity rt Jobo 1 Blllafd, William rit ownership of of Cork. Tbey rot twen heard from sir.ee and thn pr'posirg gnrr Skinner and James 8. Kl on In the ilies f the jni-iitelephone ystem in the na New Haven rai'road prosecution were arg Finn Fein songi and shoiitel: minister of rcsrine r os!dcrj ti e e. !'se Ikmai rapiUt. J. lth Down disrr tsed Monday. boar los 'l recruitlne!" sel "Vu re'jelllrml in French Capture Bulgarian Post. Paris. Five small Bulgarian post on the right bank of the Vardr river Mire-Ioniaon tr fron have raptured by the FTemb. Thf operations north of Monastir are being Impeded by snow. EH tendon. d rgrds - ED WOLD 'Little Fighting In Progress on Eastern Fronts. Berlin Reports Repulse of Heavy Attacks by Entente Troops Near Monastir. r i WAITING FOR PA TO COME HOME ATTENTION OF CONGRESS CALLED SHARPLY TO QUESTIONS OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. Austro-German- whole situation, with regard to oaF tpur expectation of troops, Justine further successes. "If in spite of this offer of peace and reconciliation th struggle should WAR go on, the four allied powers are resolved tu continue to a victorious end, but they disclaim responsibility for this before humanityi and history. The Imperial government, through the) CENTRAL POWERS OFFERS PEACE good offices of your excellency, asto TO ENTENTE ALLIES IN NOTE the government of (here is inserted ISSUED FROM BERLIN. the name of the neutral pojyer addressed in each Instance) to bring thl communication to the knowledge of United States, Spain and Switzerland the government of (here are inserted Asked to Transmit the Proposal to the names of the belligerents)." the Entente Power and Vatican Probable Peace Term. Asked to Help Maka Peace. Probable peace terms to be pro.osed by Germany arei A restoration of the status quo Berlin. Germany offered peace to the allies on Tuesday, December 12. existing before the war. Tbis Includes The Imperial chancellor. Dr. von the evacuation of Belgium and the re, Bethmann-Hollwegspeakiug for the storation of the occupied portions of German empire and Us allies, Austria northern France with the exception of Alsace and Lorraine. It is understood Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, in the relchstag that he had that the German idea la to make progiven to the dlploma'lc representatives vision for the future neutrality of it Spain, the United States and Swltz-rlan- - Belgium and probablj propose a joint note addressed to Gerparticularly of the city of nany'a enemlos, proposing to them to Antwerp. All Germany's lost colonies she exmter Into peace negotlutiuns. The chancellor did not announce the pects to be returned. Her possession erms upon which Germany and her In the Pacific, however, ore not a sub e BerlTa. .Hies will make peace. Nor are they ject of great concern, and ontalned in the note he handed to the government Is understood to be ready hree neutral diplomatist for tr:ins-alsslo- to relinquish the claim of Klauchau. The security of Turkey In possesto the entente powers. . The was sion of Constantinople and the restorto them made he reference nly hat they had the object of "guarantee-n- ation of Albania. The establishment of Independent the existence, honor and liberty of volution" for the nations extending kingdoms In Lithuania and Poland. Domination of Mesopotamia by Gerhe offer, and "are, according to their irra belief, an appropriate busls for many and Austria, to give them a pair to the Persian gulf and break Enghe establishment of lasting peace." This reference Is contained In the land's gateway to India and Egypt. To award to Bulgaria oil of Serbia The tote addressed to the allies. take epresentstives of Spain, the United as far south as Nlsh, which would itates and Switzerland were selected from Serbia as much territory as she) because these gained in tbe Balkan wars. or tta transmission Bulgaria probably will expect to get .ountrles represented the entente in Germany and the coutrit--s Macedonia and Dotrf dja, which forf her allies. merly belonged to her. making tha Simultaneously with the Issuance of Danube the boundary between Bulhe note to the allies Germany sent a garia and Rumania and shutting the onimunicatlon to Pope Benedict, latter from the Black sea. of his speech beDuring hrough the German mlulster to the fore the relchstag. Chancellor von atican. Dr. Otto von Muehluach, sold: the pontiff of Germany's peace Bethmann-Hollwe- g "The empire is not a besieged fortnove, eulogizing the holy father for lis effort In behalf of peace during ress, as our adversaries Imagined, but be last two years, and expressing the one gigantic and firmly disciplined onfldence that Germany's Initiative camp with Inexhaustible resources. will And a friendly welcome on the That Is the German empire, which 1 art of his holiness, and that the work firmly and finally united with Its f peace can count upon the precious brothers in arms, who have been tested In battle under the upport of the holy sea." Practically all members of the Turkish and Bulgarian flags. Our eneelchstag answered the summons to mies now ascribed to us a plan to con-Quthe whole world, and then deshe capital. A crowded house thronged he galleries and listened In respectful perate cries of anguish for peace. But illence when the chuncellor arose to not confused by these asseverations, we progressed with firm decision and ,egln his speech. FlrsL he outlined the extraordinary we thus contlnue'our progress, always wlltlcal situation, and then, touching ready to defend ourselves and fight upon the achievements of the central for our nation's existence, for its freei powers, made the announcement which fu'ure and always to stretch out our possibly may act as the turning point hand for peace." ;n tbe war which for more than two SENTIMENT OPPOSES PEACE. years baa held the world under Its spell. Fail to Create Profound Text of Note. Proposal Impretsion Among Londoner. Following Is the text of the noe addressed by Germany and her allies to London. A strong current of public lbe hostile governments: sentiment opposed to the German "The mort terrific war ever experi- peac-- proposal wa evident In the exenced in hictory has been roping for pressions Tuesday nlKl't. both from the la-- two years and a half over a the public men and tbe British press, large part of the world a cata-iropalthough these were without any word which thousands of years of common from high authoritative sources Indl- rlvllUatlon wa unable to prevent, and rating the attitude of the government. R was noticeable that the proposal which Injures the most precious achievements of humanity. Our aims had not created any profound impresare not to shatter nor annihilate our sion among the average Imdoners. adversaries. In spite of our conscious- There was little talk in the hotels or ness of our military and economic other public places. fiovi rnmi nt circles also held aloof strength and our readiness to ron'lnue the war (which hi been forced upon from any discussion. The foreign ofus until the bitur end. if neccssiryi fice would make no comment, in the) at the same time, prompted by the de- absence of the terms, but indicated sire to avoid further bloodshed and that the British attitude, up to the) make an end to the atrurli'c of war, present, was embodied In the declarath four allied power propose to en- tion made from time to lime by tho ter forthwith into peace negotiations. former Premier and Viscount Grey, Thi proposition which they brine and that any new proposals would forward for such negotiations and have to be considered by all the entente allies before a definite attitudo which have for their object a gmr-jn-teof the existence, of the honor and was possible. liberty of evolution for their nations according to their firm belief, an INTEREST SHOWN AT CAPITAL. appropriate basi for Ihe establishChain ment of a lasting peace. Proposal Break Germany' That Have Bound United State. "The four allied powers have been obliged to take tip arms to defend Jus-tiGermany' proposal Washington. and the liberty of national evolu- for peace I regarded here a having tion. The glorious deeds of our armies broken the chain which for months have In bo way altered their purpose. have restrained the United State, We always maintained the firm belief well a other neutrals, from making; and Justified offer of mediation. our own tight Now that one set of belligerent ha claims In no way control the righ- - of these nations. signified Its willingness to dirrus " The spiritual and material progress peace terms a condition often reiterwhich was the pride of Europe at the ated a necessary to any action by beginning of the twentieth century Is President Wilson there are indicathreatened with ruin. Germany and tion that when the United State, her allies, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria acting as the Intermediary, transmit and Turkey, gave proof of their uncon- the German proposal. It may accomquerable strength In this struggle. pany Its action by some steps to throw They gained gigantic advantages over the influence of the United State lnto adversaries superior in number and the balance for at least a considerawar material. Our line stand un- tion, however preliminary, of the shaken g!nst ever repeated attempts terms on which a lasting peace might be brought to the world. Rome rankfnadn by armies. "The last attack In the Ba'kan has ing officials of the American governbeen rapidly and victoriously over ment believe a league of nations, uch) com. The most recent event have as President Wilson has suggested, must be the outcome, and It could not demonstrated that further continuant, of the war will not result in breaking be perfected without the participation ' the resistance of our forces, and the of the United States. GERMANY SEEKS TO AND NAVY NEEDS ROUMANIANS NORTH OF BUCH A OFFENSIVE REST TURN ON AND DRIVE INVADERS BACK. ! D ERING ARMY Dr. Hlpolite Irigoycn, new president of Argentina, who mil Inaugurated on October 2. He is the first president to be elected by secret ballot, and hi Chicago Police Chief to Resign. Almost simultaneously Chicago. with a new order from Chl;f of Polite Charles C. Healey to enforce vigorously the Sunday closing law rsme the admission from Mayor Thompson that the chief of police would resign. New and hitherto unpublished photograph of M. Venitelo, former premier of Greece, who I leading the "national defense" movement. Lloyd George Split Pry. Events Friday emphssired David Lloyd George, the new premier, ba split the liberal The new party into two factions. cabinet will command more support from the conservative In parliament than from the liberals. Ixmdon the fact that More Money for Marine. Mayor Favor Salary Increase. New York. its objection to salary Increases of certain city employees, amounting to J120.S20. In the city's budget for 117, which totals J2U.I1.V01S. |