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Show i ; THIf I . RPAYJTRH PTIPIC PPP.SS SPANISH FORK. UTAH FIRST HARBINGER OF SPRING THREE AMERICAN RANCHER8 SLAIN BY BANDITS WHO CROSSED THE BORDER. SWISS PRESENTED MINISTER WITH REPLY TO TEUTON PROPOSALS. Band Entered New Mexico and Mur tiered American, Driving OR Horse and Mule and Taking $1,500 Worth of 8upplle. United States Will Not Discuss Differences Between Two Countries While Ruthless Submarine Campaign is In Progress. El Paso, Texas, Private advices received from Columbus, N. M., said three Mormons were killed by a band of Mexicans which crossed the inter national boundary sixty miles southwest of Hachlta, N. M., on Tuesday and raided the "Corner ranch. Andrew Peterson, another Mormon, war held a prisoner, It was sa!d Villa bandits are suspected. II. S. Stephenson, general manager of the Patomas Land & Cattle ompany, said he, had received a report from hi? wagon boss at Hachlta that three Americans and seven Mexican were captured' and 109 American horses and mules and $1,500 worth ol supplies were taken away. Ills re port made no reference to any loss -.c- - of life. The Mormons living In the section werejmld bjg a leader of the Mormon church here to be John Pierce, Miles Pierce, Andrew Peterson, Jr., two brothers named Jensen and a young man named Adams. The "Corner Ranch is owned by the Palomas Land & Cattle company. O. K. Warren, of Three Oaks, Mich., Is one of the principal stockholders In the company. The announcement that the port of i ; 1 n, I i i Columbus, N. M., would not be closed If Villa troops occupied Palomas, the border port opposite Columbus, caused much rejoicing here among Villa partisans. This was taken as an indication that the United States would not Interfere id the Internal affairs of Mexico, and If Villa forces occupied Juarez, the El port would remain open. Paso-Juare- LARGEST FREIGHTER SUNK. 4 : .. t The United States Washington. has flatly rejected Germany's offer to discuss differences between the two nations while the ruthless submarine campaign Is In progress. In a note on Monday to the Swiss minister, who on Saturday presented orally the German proposal. Secretary Lansing said the United States does not feel It can enter Into any. discussion with the German government concerning the policy of submarine warfare against neutrals which It Is now pursuing unless the German government renews Its assurances of the 4th of May (the Sussex note), and acts upon the assurance. The state department made public the secretary's reply, together with memorandum which, at Mr. Lansings suggestion, Dr. Ritter, the Swiss minister, had prepared setting down in writing the suggestion originally transmitted orally. Previously officials had declined to confirm the announcement made Saturday afternoon that such a proposal had been delivered by Dr. Ritter. In view ot the fact that the United States has taken the most vigorous course possible short of war Jo denounce the ruthless submarine warfare, officials ot the government regard the German proposal to negotiate while the campaign is in progress as utterly Insincere. From the first the move has been looked upon and resented as a piece of propaganda, designed to becloud the Issue and put the United States In a false position of belligerency. Sixty-thre- e I House Appropriates $368,000,000 In Naval Measure. Washington. The largest naval ap proprlatton bill In the countrys h's-torwas passed Tuesday by the house nd lent to the senate, where a sub jommlttee Immediately was appointed Co hasten Its consideration. It carries more than $368,000,000, provldos for the second Installment of the great three-yea- r building program adopted Ust year and Includes administray ' i Fire Destroys Potatoes. Presque, Isle, Me. Eighteen thousand barrels of potatoes awaiting shipment In warehouses here Monday were destroyed by fire. The loss Is estimated at $150,000. ALGERNON SARTORIS 1 r , i , J f Disturbed by Cuban Outbreak. govThe American Washington. ernment is much disturbed over the revolutionary outbreak in Cuba, but, whllo It stands ready to take any fteps which may be necessary to protect Us Interests there, no apparent preparation have been made so far for active intervention of any sort Texas Boxing Bill Killed. Austin, Texas. A bill to allow V 1 ten-roun- SHIPBUILDING COMPANIES TO WAY WILL BE FOUND TO PUT DOUBLE CREWS ON GOVERNWEAPONS AT THE DISPOSAL MENT CONTRACTS. OF OWNERS. Have Offered to Set Aside All Private Enforced Idleness of American MerWork) pnd Are .Told to Go Ahead chant Fleet Viewed With Disquieat Full Speed In Building Up tude, and Government May . Navy. Take a Hand. May Pre- Occupy Mormon Settlements After American Soldiers Leave. Columbus, N. M. Villa bands under Salazar have occupied the Mormon settlement of Colonla Juarez, sixteen miles southwest of Colonla Dublan, former headquarters of the American to punitive expedition, according American cattlemen arriving here Thursday night from Mexico. From tbe same source it was learned that another Villa band under the command of Rodrigo and Silvestre Que-ved- o had taken possession of Colonla Dublan. At Colonla Juarez and Colonla Dublan there still remain many Mormon settlers. n Congressmen Eulogize Lincoln. Washington. Although congress continued In session throughout Lincoln's birthday, at work .on the congested legislative program, eulogies to the liberator were delivered In both senate and house and many members attended a memorial service held at night under the auspices ot several patriotic, societies. boxing bouts In Texas was killed in the house of representatives Tuesday when the enacting clause was stricken out. It was defeated with an overwhelming number .of negative votes. ' Wife Charged With Shooting. , Price, Utah. B. Van der Schnltt, former superintendent of parks at Ogden, died here Tuesday of bullet In a statement to his attorWounds. ney just before his death, Van der Schnltt charged his wife with the Duke of Norfolk Dead. London. The duke of Norfolk, ranking member of the English nobility and the foremost English Catholic, died Sunday. The first announcement of his Illness was made on Saturday. shooting. President Gives Dinner. Home for Lepers Established. Washington. The president and Gen. of President Wilson has Washington. 8artorla, Algernon grandson Mrs. Wllson gave a formal dinner to the White House Tuesday night In U. 8. Grant, hat Joined th Foreign signed the act establishing a national honor of Speaker Clark. The dinner Legion ol France and le now training home for leper and the public health marked the end of the White House at Levallebone. He le a eon of Nellie service Is drafting regulations cover Grant Sartorla and la forty-twyears Ing the apprehension, treatment and social season. o old. Submarine Bate at Los Angeies. , France Profiting by Tax. Establishment of a Washington. Paris. Indirect taxes and monopsubmarine training base in Los Anolies in France produced a revenue In geles harbor and of a submarine January 109,000,000 francs larger than base at San Diego are In a report of the special In the corresponding month iat year and 36,500.000 franca more than In navy commission. that month of a normal year. Bernstorff Hopes for Peace, Vllliataa on the Border. ' ' Washington. In a fareweu stateN. M. Villa follower Cdumbus. ment before leaving for New York to sail for home Count von Bernstorff camped within cannon range of Amerexpressed the hope that war Mwoen ican territory late Monday and at the United States and Germany might night their camrflres were perceptible to American soldiers patrolling the be averted. border line gate below here. war-operati- VILLA BANDITS ACTIVE. of their courts. The communication was sent to the American minister with instructions to have it published throughout the islands. d Washington. The course to be taken by the United States If Germany compels the use of force to safeguard American lives and rights has been determined. It was learned authoritatively after Fridays cabinet meet'ng that in the event President Wilson goes before congress again, It will not be to ask for a declaration of war, but to follow literally the words of the address In which he announced the break of diplomatic relations, and requests authority to use means deemed necessary to protect American seamen and people. The president, it was stated. Is as anxious as ever to avoid war with Germany, but also Is as determined as ever that American citizens and ships shall be free to travel the high seas unmolested. Ills next step, If .taken, will be to enforce that right and even then the issue of war or peace will be with Germany. Any hostile action will have to come in the form of an Interference with an American right. . Details of the governments plans were not discussed. It i known, however, that convoying and arming of merchant ships are being considered. Tbe cabinet met Friday with all members present except - Secretary McAdoo. Just before the meeting the majority of the members had attended a session of the council for national defense, called at the war department to discuss mobilization of the nations resources as a result ot many offers from manufacturing and other companies to place themselves at the disposal of the government in the event of trouble. Practically every member took to the cabinet Information about the activities of hie department in connection with the general precautions being taken. Questions discussed Included proposed emergency legislator steps for protecting property, mall problems precipitated by the failure of ships to sail from American ports for Europe, economic issues, and Shipowners who have their vessels In port because of Inability to obtain guns for defense against submarines, probably will have their difficulties solved in a few days. Strong Intimations were given In official quarters that, while the government will not actually arm merchant craft or even formally advise arming, a way will be found to put weapons at the disposal of owners who desire to prepare for defense against Illegal attack. The enforced Idleness of the American merchant fleet Is being viewed with growing disquietude, and the general view here is that not only the export trade, but the nations standing before the world demands that American vessels continue to ply the high seas without regard to the German proclamation which the government set of destroyers and submarines to has repudiated with the most severe army and navy preparations. be authorized in the pending navy means In Its power short of war. FRANCE LENDING TO ALLIES. , bill. Details as to the time that eg be paved have not been worked out Investigate High Cost of Living. Thrifty Nation Is Furnishing Coin to Warlike preparations now are virtWashington The broad, comprehenHer Friends. ually completed at the navy depart- sive Investigation of the high cost of Paris. chamber of deputies The ment pending the enactment by con- - living ordered by President Wilson has passed a bill authorizing the minof unthe gresa proposed legislation will get under way without delay. Both der which the president may com- the federal trade commission and de- ister of finance to lend 1,500,000 mandeer private plants and, after partment of agriculture, which will francs to the entente allies and friendthat, the presidents decision to ex- conduct the probe, began Sunday to ly nations. This Is in addition to 2, and 300,000 advanced to the allies ercise this authority. receive Buggest'ons as to the line ot friendly nations authorized by the law We are Just waiting for the word inquiry to be followed. It Is prob- St December 29, 1913. Go,"? was the way one official ex- able that during the coming week the Inquired Deputy Emil Constant pressed It, speaking of the speealng president will receive estimates to be as to who were "the friendly naup of military preparedness measures transmitted to congress demanding tions referred to. The finance miniscontemplated by the pending bills. funds to finance the inquiry. ter explained that the advances were made In common, aqd the question REVOLUTION IN CUBA. COUNTESS VON. BERNSTORFF should Continue confldentlaL Washington. been holding vail In Islands, Washington. An appeal to the Cubans not to plunge their country Into another revolution has been sent to Havana by Secretary Lansing. Aroused to the realization that the contested presidential election In Cuba already had reached the Incipient stage of rebellion, tbe state department decided to lsaue to the people an urgent Injunction to await the outcome of (Ue Y0jJng and to abide by the decis-io- craft i tCuuvriuliLt Authorities Fear Anarchy tion emergency amendments author Izing the govfirnhient to commandeer proviato ship yards and munitions plants In time of national peril and to purchase the basic patents of air , Go Before Congress and Ask Congress to Protect ' Lives and Property, According to Cabinet Decision. President Would Washington. Construction of navy craft by the Newport NeWe Shipbuilding A Dry Dock company, the Fore River Shipbuilding company and the Electrlo Boat company, wlll be speeded the limit of the up to plants. Work on two battleships at Newport News already Is proceeding under doubled crews at Secretary Daniels suggestion and the offers of the other two companies to take simMEXICO URGES EMBARGO. ilar steps met with the secretarys Would Cut Off Munitions and Sup- hearty approval. plies to Belligerents. Representatives of the Fore River Revolution-swep- t Mex- and Electric Boat companies Washington. called icos de facto government entered the on Mr. DaolelS'Thursday, offering to lists a an International peacemaker rush work on destroyers and subMonday with an identic note to all marines for which they have conneutrals, proposing a joint effort to tracts, setting aside other private end the European war, to be follow- work to that end. They were told to ed In the event of failure by the cut- go ahead at full speed. The plan Is to ting off of all exports of munitions as get the vessels launched as soon possible, freeing stocks for the new and supplies to belligerents. Quick-born- i COM-MIT- , White Star Steamer Afric Victim ot Submarine Warfare. London. The biggest freighter in the world, the White Star, steamer Afric, of 1,990 tons, fell victim on february 13 to unrestrltced warfare. Seventeen of the crew are missing. She I the biggest prize exacted by the German submarine since, the decree went Into effect Her loss brings the total number of ships knowg to have been destroyed in Ammunition Factories Destroyed. thirteen days up to ninety-one- , with Copenhagen. According tp the an aggregate tonnage of 200,433. Hamburger Nachrlchten, two large The biggest vessel sent to the bot- ammunition factories at Thorn, East tom prior to the Afrlcs destruction Prussia, and at Glueckauf, in , was the British steamer California, ol near were Hamburg, destroyed 8,602 tons. by explosions last week. persons .were killed and the same PREPARING FOR TROUBLE. number wounded. ! i z WILL TAKE ONLY PROTECTIVE S 8TEP3 IF GERMANY OVERT ACT. detention of Inmates. 8wli Take Over Consulate. Minister Ritter ol Washington. Switzerland has been instructed by his government to take over German diplomatic Interests in the United 6tstes including the German embassy and twelve consulates throughout th country. 11 Is Not Understood That t. Government Has Prop0d Modification of Its Ruth Submarine ' T Campaign, Washington. It is stood here I generalW that Germany -- steps to open a discussion United States of means war bewteen the two countrlei In seeking an exchange of vit the subject, however, it is not stood that the Berlin governm proposed any modification of it, loss submarine campaign and ok; here say they cannot eater upot discussion while vessels contlnw be destroyed In violation ot B. I; t. lap, Carr si d UP hiefs asi r t up tlonal law. The new move is understood t predicated upon a willingness ot manys part to discuss especiallj safeguarding of American ships American lives on the seas and L by a renewed expression of the j of the German government to pr the diplomatic breach from lead like she( dar gense flgur aut of fou 1 Dffl!" actual hostilities. Just how aqJ Interests are to be safeguarded German war zone proclamation k Btand, however, and whether aaj clflc means of preserving peace tween the two nations Is included the communication, has not bees leas sat dj obvi dot y aid and pie h vealed. Because of the delicacy ot the atlon, In fact, all officials refu discuss it In detail or even to cate through what channels the munlcation Was addressed to the lean government What may be the ulterior back of the step also Is a matt In some quarters speculation. is evidently a feeling it is me play for time, designed to pos any further act on by the Cc are rt on r Greet ri ita ntioii iyzai Jrse, Ve th mai ly-- utoi dug States until the starvation bloc) against England either has succe or failed. Elsewhere there are gestlona that there may be betas a sincere desire to make sacrifice preserve peace between the Cc States and Germany, and may as a response to the appeals si stood to have been sent abroad pacifists in this country. shet Four Million Blaze. Pittsburgh, Pa. The machine ig fc ;e, rii icroa an li arily Char1 sere Cbr o building of the Union Switch & S: company, the largest plant tor manufacture of switch signal! is United States and until recently gaged In filling munition orders rse, ) tbs ud 0 ;e ol side thed Jtfrc the European governments, located Swissvale, a suburb, was destroyed fire early Saturday with a loss mated at $4,000,000. Dilde int li ind a VUIa Forces Are Active. General Franc New York. of 25,000 mem with force a Villa, ported by thirty cannon of (I 75 millimeters each and seventy machine guns, la occupying tern: vacated by the forces of General! shlng and gradually advancing v ward to take Juarez, according u official communication received I nalm was slow or i hi :, ece i mam irest i fal lie iltitu Nov cket Death Troop After Villa. Juarez. Wearing skull and w bones Insignia on their hatB, the I troop of General Jose Carlos Sat gulas brigade entrained late to go south, presumably to Villa forces reported to be zetin the vicinity of Guzman and Sat on the Mexico Northwestern r s Russian Agitators Imprisoned of Petrograd. Eleven members i central workmens group of the o( tary and industrial committee 6 tarn bio sunt inti A d ivfcli I li meb ?ase. idan r eoi he ortlj r an &' me P retd rograd have been arrested, with belonging to revolutionary and fomenting a labor movement the ultimate aim of transforming sia Into a eqclal democratic reps Hold Americans as Hostage1 Chris Evans, Bandit, Dead. Formal notifi Washington. San Francisco. The exploits of in Germany ol retention the of Chris Evans, leader more than a sailors bre seventy-twAmerican score of years ago of a notorious as prisoners on the prize ship gang of California train robbers, were in to tbe state recalled as a result of his death at rowdale was given Dr. raul Portland, Ore., Friday night He was )artment Monday by acting fr paroled In 1911 from Folsom prison, 6wiss minister here, German government. where seventeen years of Imprisonment had transformed the erstwhile German Using Amagoa-Nedashing train robber Into a broken York. German commerce old man. Later Governor Johnson para small W1 doned him. He leaves a widow and ers have been using a base as Amazon the river, tour sons. plies and operation, according statements made by passenger Plotters Out on Bond. Serflr San Francisco. Franz Bopp, former arrived on the steamship line. the German consul general, and Lieut Wilhelm von Brincken, under New photograph of Countess von George Week of Patriotic Songs sentence for conspiring against Amer111. Gov. Fronttil of the German ambas- ican Bernstorff, wife Springfield, neutrality, put up $50,000 with Lowden week ol ) sador to the United States. She has the set has the United States district court Thursfor the week for several years been one of th unas a ary day to save themselves going to of In the puo national songs disputed leaders of the dlplomatlo set prison pending their appeal. In Washington oeity. private schools of IllinoisThn"1 Boat 8'nks at Dock. Rich Englishman Cuts Alleged Robber Acquitted. of C. W. Moore, a triple Chicago. The Los Angeles. The body Tenn. Fred K. Chattanooga, deck boat used for passenger and Sullivan, a weaiw Washington with charged stealing $40,900 freight transportaton, sank . at . her ni from the Southern Express company dock In gllshman, who had been the north branch of the Chi- six r0' a In found was from a wagon of which he was driver days, cago river Friday. The boat had been outskirts of the city Sunday on November 22 last, was acqulltod out of service for some time. cut bis throaL In court here Saturday. Indiana Goea Dry. Cuban Infantrymen Increased Postal Rat Blocked. Governor Indanapolls. Havana. Goodrich The Cuban has Washington. The provision In the signed the state-widabout thirty j announced bill that prohibition bill postal Inrreaslng postage on newsIndiana Marlanao, on making near men and stationed dry after April papers and periodicals and rcduc'ng volted and escaped Sunday to 1 cent the rate on drop letters In 2, 1918, The law prohibits tbe salo, manufacture, nnt Lurrabla was woundede giving or away cities, towns and on rural routes, wai of all alcoholic liquors tempting to prevent the thrown out In the senate. ivep :ouU The rhe n; eakl wn k o 81 LIoyd-Brazlller- o 19-2- - . Cor-oellso- . - Experimenting With War Bread. Parle. War bread aoon will make Its appearance In Franco. What kind It will be has not yet been drill Rely decided, but experiments are now being made with a new bread. 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