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Show I US REPULSE CCTfCCKT RATED FIRE CUTS DOWN GERMANS WHO CHARGE AL LIED TRENCHES. WOULD .CROSS THE BORDER IN PURSUIT OF SLAYERS OF , THREE AMERICANS. REE Band Entered New Mexico .and u D'lvln on In Leaders Expect to Rales Force of Five Artillery Duel Rage Hundred Men and are 8eeurlnj Champagne District Berlin Says Russian Allies In Roumania , Arms and Ammunition for Were Repulsed. Exoedition, Tbe Germans in the sector of the Ancre front in Franca hare striven hard lo regain the positions taken from them by the British on Saturday, - but their attempts were fruitless, according to tte British war office. Attacking la the Germans came under the concentrated fire of the British guns sodl were swept.back to their trenches, suffering heavy casualties. At no place didrthektt&ckInITorces reach the British line, and the British suffered no casualties. The British captured 7S0 officers anC men. Trenchraiding operations and artillery duels still continue on various sectors of the front in France anc Belgium. In Champagne, near Ri pout, according to Berliy, the French have actively shelled the Germans in the positions captured from the French last week, but have been unable te launch Infantry attacks, owing to the terrific artillery reply o: the Germans. Except for Isolated attacks, the luoat violent of which, was deliverec by the Russians against Teutonic allied positions in the Oltui valley in Houma nU and which Berlin says was repulsed, little fighting is in progress la the cistern theatre. Putrograd admits the entry of Gen mans Into Russian trenches south o: Dvliulk, but aaya later they were drives oat. la the Carpathians a strong Aostro-Germawork south of Okna haa beeu captured by the Russians. n MAS VILLA LEFT MEXICO! Reported That Bandit Leader Hu Sailed for Japa'n. El Pmo. A report that Villa had gne fa disguise to the west coast and tahea a e&lp for Japan on a political pissloo. haa been known to Carranza officer sad officials here and in Juana tor several days, Eduardo Soriana Bravo, the .Mexican consul here, amid Sunday. Big Bond Issue 'Proposed. Washington. Senator Weeks, Re publican of Massachusetts,' has introduced aa a substitute for the administrate revenue bill a measure to provide tor issuance of . government 2 per cent interest bearing bonds up to f7Sd.CC4.OO0. of which $400,000-00would be .utilized for expenditures of nat banal defense. 9 i El Paso, Texas. Mir-auiiu- Purls Rican Women May Vote. Waahlnglon. In the opinion Of muy senators, an amendment to the Porto Rican citizenship bill tentatively a creed bo by the senate, would give wotam of the Island who become citizens of the United States the right ta vote. v Storm Wrecks Airplanes. Columbus, N. M. A severe wind storm Sunday wrecked three airplanes valued at 913,000 each and demolished a newly built hangar in the camp of the First aero squadron here. One soldier was seriously injured by fiying debris. Seattle to Build Cunardera. -- made . Seattle. Announcement ' EatnfdarTEarThe'Cuhif d " line" had let to the Seattle Construction & company at Seattle the contract for six steel freight steamships at a figure fa excess of 36,000,000. Dry-doc- k Net Protects Gotham. A big steel net designed the to protect port of New York from submarines" and other war-hostile craft la the event of war was put in pUem at the entrance of the harbor Eatardxy. . ITew York. Frederick Funston, commander of the southern department. United States army, since February, 1915, died sudhotel here Monday night denly at a few minutes After he had finished dinner. He collapsed while seated in the lobby of the hotel talking with friends and was playing with little Inez Silverberg of Des Moines, Iowa, a guest," with her parents, at the hotel when he fell unconscious. Death was almost instantaneous. General Funston was 51 years old. Not until 1896, when the Cuban in- three Americans andefen Mextcan, ere captured and 109 America surrection was at its height, did Fredhorses and mule and $1,500 north nf erick Funston become known throughwerS taken an ay. HU resupplies out the United States as a first class no reference to any l0Ss port mde fighting man, but his friends in KansUfe. of manhoas where he spent hia early The Mormons living In the section od-long had sc classified him. As a student at the University of weresald by a leader of the Mormon Kansas, when he weighed less than church here to be John Pierce, Miles Pierce, Andrew Peterson, Jr 100 pounds, be conquered a two brother named Jensen and him who threatened had man" t Adams. with a razor. Ta add to the giants young The "Corner Ranch is owned by Funston marched him humiliation, the through the streets of Lawrence, Earn, O. Palomaa .Land & Cattle company. K. Warren, of Three Oaks, at the point of a revolver, to, a poMich, is one of the principal stockholders lice station. A few years later, while city editor to the company. of a paper in Fort Smith, Arkansas, young FWston stirred up Intense feel- DEFENSE MEASURES PUNNED ing by attacking editorially the pubj lications own (political party leaders Wilson May Ask Congress for $u. preme Power. during the absence of his editor in to chief. Many, threats are said have Washington. The advisability d been made against Funston and the going before congress before the end newspaper property, but he remained of the present session March 4, to on guard until his superior returned make certain that he be clothed with and then turned over the plant un- sufficient power to protect American harmed. Incidentally, Funston also lives and property from German submarine activities was discussed by resigned. Along the Santa Fe railroad they President Wilson Saturday with memstill recall how Funston, as a passen- bers of the senate whom he called Inger train conductor, threw a drunken to conference during a brief visit to the capitoL - Afterwards It was indicated that the MAJOR GENERAL FUNSTON president had not made up his mind on the question, hut had such a step J w IWt to to toe non is IHf Cfir Copyright) f 200-pou- Wthe - o p 1 man-name- Prlar. - I KAISER MUST QUIT THRONE Britons Will Insist on Change in Gov- eminent. Says Lowther. London. The speaker of the house S1 Austro-America- n constituted. It would be necessary before sign' tog any peace or any agreement,' he said, to insist .that it must be with a government different in essence and coetltutlon from .the present one . J Senate Debates War Crisis. Washington. The senate turned its I attention to the international crisis j again on Friday, a debate on the hUI to curtail activit of foreign agents developing many references to the situation with Germany, and drawing from Chairman Stone of the foreign relations committee & bititer denunciation of newspapers, which, he said, circulate false state- - ments In order to create a sentiment forwar. j Governor Removes- - Officials. Salt Lake City Governor Bamberger, who on February 23 issued an order suspending from office, pending Investigation, ' Secretary J. W. Lynch of the state land board, and Fred W. Chambers, fish and game commissioner, the following day modified his order as to Secretary Lynch, who will not give up hia office. Experts are auditing the books, however. Mr. Chambers is still detained from his official business. manufacturers, facing criminal prosecution in United States courts foe al- tralntbf combination trade, proposed to the federal trade commission on Friday that it fix a Lemuel P. Padgett ef Tennessee is reasonable price for the output of the ch a irman of the e xceed I . ngly .rtocipLplsfiia-- f the Untted'-Siatet- f neusl committee en naval affairs, and and Canada. The commission an- as such offered the amendments to the H. A. Macneal, designer of the new nounced it had the proposal under naval appropriation bill that were piece that has Just been put consideration and would reply Imme- made necessary by the critical Mate of In circulation by the government. international affair. diately. In-res- 25-ce- nt Russia Faces Coal Famine. ivostok.Tb s ti ty is facing a coal famine because of the great "demand for ships to carry ammunition. Under government order all hotels and public buildings are permitted to have only a limited supply of fuel cowboy eft a train and later, when he hurled a rock through a coach window, pursued him several miles on thejtratojwalted. Victim of Submarine Warfare. London. The biggest freighter In the world, the White Star, steamer Afrlc, of 1,990 tons, fell victim on February 13 to unrestritced warfare- Seventeen of the crew She is the biggest prize Exacted by the German submarine since the decree went into effect. Her loss brings the total number of ships in knowij to have been" destroyed vrith thirteen days up to Tiinety-one- . an aggregate tonnage of 200,433. are-mis- 'Funstons first experience on the firing line came in. Cuba, where he commanded General Gomezs artillery with remarkable results. After engagbattles and being ing in twenty-tw-o wounded three times, he resigned his command because fifty guerrillas who had aided the Spaniards were, executed against his wishes. Captured by Spaniards on his way to Havana, he escaped death by swallowing a letter to the president of Cuba which would have proved his identity. While a colonel of the famous Twentieth. Kan sag volunteer infantry regiment in the Philippine war, Funston performed feats of bravery that brought him the title of brigadier general His capture of Aguinaldo and his fording of the Rio Grande river at Columpit under fire featured his Ordered to Lower Flag. adWashington. State department" vices Thursday reported officially tbst Brand Whitlock, American minister to not Belgium, had been requested, hut military ordered by the German authorities to lower the American flag from the legation In Brussels. - " Gerard Party Reaches Paris. Paris. James W. Gerard, former American ambassador at Berlin; per and their party, forty-tw- o work. ThursPans in sons arrived in aH, When the volunteers were disSwitzerland. charged Fun b ton retained his rank as day morning from Berne, by the station a member of the regular army. - As a They were met at the Sharp, William American ambassador. regular he made a mark by maintainstaff. and the embassy ing order in San Francisco during the disaster of 1906. In Temporarily King Says War Inevitable. charge of the troop at the Presidio when the disturbance came, he quickOgden, Utah. War with Germany ly declared martial law and set about Is inevitable unless the submarine qqpmmftdaHoniufor.,4he' ' wsTfaTer"is;d?scon'tin aetFABd' homeless, keeping down the cost of can vessels are allowed to sail the food and arresting trouble-maker- s. Sena It was while he was to command of the seas unmolested, according to of William H. King troops (at Vera Cruz in 1914 that he was raised to the rank of was the honor guest at s who Lake, genmajor eral He then waa 49 years oldl banquet tendered him Saturday Mrs-Gerar- tor-ele- n-- -- -Liner D fie s Cab Driver, Shot. to Deal. f FiremenCimshedtoTJeathf"" The Pueblo. Colo. Six arrests .Liverpool.' Philadelphia, the Quebec. (Falling walls of buildings were first American liner to leave' Europe made Thursday by the police la con- wrecked by fames crushed thrgq since Germanys declaration of unre- nection with the killing of Nicholas to death and badly injured five stricted submarine warfare, sailed Venezia, a taxicab driver. Venezia others Monday. The fire was Quefrom here last Wednesday afternoon, wasshot to death, presumably by a becs seventh serious one within Th6 rhliaerphU-wi- V unared.'' passenger. month, and a searching Inquiry Is under way. Defense Legislation Next Boy Scouts to be Ready. Freght Increases Suspended. Washington. With the end of the New York. Six hundred thousand "Washington. Proposed increased Secretary Thanks Guardsmen. sixtyjfourth congress hut two weeks! hoy scouts throughout the country freight rates on grain end flour from Washington. concenSecretary Baker sent are off, administration leaders have been urged by the national coun- Minnesota' and other sections of the a letter of thanks on Monday to the enacttheir to the trating energies ad of their organization, to be pre- northwest to gulf ports for commander of. all national export sent of revenue and national defense pared for nonmilitary guard service in the have been suspended by the interstate units which saw service on the Mexievent of war. legislation. commerce commission till Jane 15. can border. ..tJYI Star Steamer Afrlc White . Commission May Fix Price. News print paper Washington. legefi LARGEST FREIGHTER SUNK. al foot while 1 fire-me- , ' of commons, the Right Hon. James William Lowther, declared here Sun-day that It was impossible lor British statesmen to make . any agreement with the German government as now u Major-Gener- d under consideration because of the possibility that after adjournment some sudden emergency might arise necessitating action before congress could be called together again. P, ur premaat wrornehln" southern Colorado from monopolizing rural 'telephone lines with neighborhood gossip. vtxr H Paso, Texas. Private ceived from Columbus, N advice. m , three Mormons were kilia bv , of Mexicans which crossed the national boundary sixty miles west of , Hachlta, N. M., on Tuc?' and raided the Corner !,! drew Peterson, another ranch Mormon. held a prisoner, it was sa'd dlts are guspected. S- Stephenson, general manager of the Palomaa Land & ctl!e pany, said he had. received from his wagon boss at Haddta tbit iiajor-Gener- al Lem Splllsbury, the Mormon seout lately with General Pershing in Mexico, was said to be organizing a posse of this kind after the discovery of the dead bodies of his. companions near Corner ranch, but according to report, TO BE DEFENDED gave up tbe idea because he could sot muster more than fifty men, and there arjs about 600 of Villas followers in the neighboring part of Mexico. CABINET DISCUSSES DIFFERENT PEREMPTORY NOTE TO GERMANY The rumor had It that cattlemen PHASES OF SITUATION SINCE REGARDING AMERICANS TAKEN from all parts of the southwest were BREAK WITH GERVNY. FROM PRIZE SHIP. . joining the expedition, which they expected to be Increased to about 600 Merchantmen It is Expected That Germany Will men. Arming ef American , and Economic Effects of Tlo-u- p of Free Sailors, Thus Disposing of Mott Pressing Question Sinco 8TATE TROOPS RELIEVED. Shipping Subjects Seriously Considered by Cabinet. Break in Relations. ' National Guardsmen on Border to be 8ent Beck Home. deWashington. The ruthless German Washington. A peremptory Washington. Coincident with the submarine and Us ef- - mand upon Germany for the release campaign United States were of the seventy-twAmerican seamen JSIlffh? S army of national discussed from the late President prize ship Yarrowdale was by guardsmen that waa concentrated on Wilson and theFriday meet- prepared at the state department on The cabinet the border on account of bandit ae-- j an hour and afterward Thursday with President Wilsons aping lasted tlvltles, will be in process of dissolu- it was saidonly no new steps had been de- proval tion. Orders were issued by the war I Officials were reticent about the cided upon. department on February 17 director Arming of American merchantmen communication, but It was admitted General Funston to begin the lmmedl-- j and the economic effects of the partial that It would go forward through the Ate demobilization of all the guard tie-uof shipping out of American Spanish ambassador at Berlin. To units remaining in border camps, and were the subjects on which the accompany, the demand, the departit is expected that the last troop train ports cabinet centered attention. Secretary ment has gathered complete data will be on its wsy north by March 7. McAdoo is compiling a list of vessels showing the treatment accorded Gerheld in port and Secretary Redfleld man sailors to American ports. Minister Killed by .Madman. It is confidently expected that Geris making a comprehensive analysis Atlanta, Ga. Secreting himself In. will free the sailors without many of broads submarines are Che home of his mother-in-lamaking where much more delay, thus 'disposing of wPPto 00 generally, his wife had been living since their 18 lTea 0T the most pressing of the questions separation, Claude Anderson, recently! Con8lderatln different the V phases of which arose immediately after the released from the state hospital f or has Ituaoa that developed since severance of relations between the the Insane, shot and killed the Rev.!16 reTMions J with Germany, two countries. There virtually Is no Gaston El Buford, fatally wounded Mrs. eluding the detention of the Yarrow hope here, however, that the hour of M, Zahn. hia wifes mother, slightly I the cisis with Austria mow serious trouble with ' Germany wounded Mrs. W. J. Zahn and was ?al pUht American in Turkey, and dan be postponed much longer. himself killed by W. J. Zahn. Many responsible officials have con.. j Belgian relief. High officials took cluded that unless there is a prompt to emphasize that Vienna Hopes for Poses. j P&las, however, decided and lhe change in the general atfundamental problem before Vienna, Despite the fact that some titude of toward the interGermany nation the is the submarine illegal newspapers take a gloomy view of ests of the United States, the appearcamitself. this campaign Against relations and the situation brought about by the sev- paign the United States has made the ance of President Wilson before conerance of relations between the Unit- most vigorous protest possible short gress to ask authority to afford proed States and Germany, official circles of war, but the administration realizes tection to Amertban dives and propt it permits American erty is onUy a matter of days. in Vienna are inclined to believe thatUiat 80 lon doubt as to the ruthless charAny to be atiP in held or of fear not is situation port tie entirely hopeless. acter of the new submarine campaign tack by submarines it In effect is and its violations of neutral rights in J Tax. German the quiescing Profiting by policy. This Paris. Indirect taxes and monop-- 1 state of affairs, It is admitted, cannot tong since has disappeared, and the dies in France produced a revenue to I be permitted to continue indefinitely. situation is made more and more January 109,000,000 franca larger than I What the United Sites must do to grave daily by aggravating incidents. In the corresponding month last year end it and when are the only ques- LEMUEL P. PADGETT and 36,600.000 francs more than to tlons. The president is understood Frederick Funston, to a have definite very that month of a nonpal year. opinion afi to who died in lobby of a San Antonio w'hat should be done, but he has not hotel, waa one of the most noted figyet decided that the time to do it has H. A. MACNEAL come. ures of the army. German Losses , , London. Casualties in the German array, exclusive of colonial troops, la the German casualty listjT to the xnoBth of January, 1917, totaled TLS34 officers and men. Move to Stop Gossiping. Drawer. The state public utilities COO0 them. Britain Buys Tea. The government Is Just now buying 00,000,000 pounds of tea, a years supply for the - army and navy. It constitutes one of the largest tea purchaser on record. r San Antonio, Texas. Hachlta district of New Mexico intend to form a punitive expedition of thedr own to cross into Mexico and give chase to th bandits who murdered the three Americancowboys on the Corner ranch last week. It is known that cattlemen have brought supplies of arms and. ammunition here and shipped them to Hachlta, and that much Litter talk has been heard from Radicals Want intervention. was neutrality in discussion animated of the subject the cartel Saturday night, when several deputies, including. Senors Rode ami Garcia, questioned the premier. Count de ILomanones, on the attitude of the government in the war. oo-e- Supplier Tho report is. cur- Madrid.- - Spanish Critical Period Coming, i Loudon. The Earl of Derby, secretary of state for war, speaking at Etottoo. expressed the opinion that the critical period of the war would iu the next few months. wirth"? Jk,"a rent here that the cattlemen in tbe . I W'wh.Rs THE BORDER Trtfic Looulna. AMERICAN slain by bandits CROSSED j n g Submarine Base at Los Anyeie- of Washington. Establishment , submarine training base in Los wA teles harbor and of a submarine re are jperating base at San Diego sr the of smmended in a report commission. aavy Bernstorff Hopes for Peace, Washington. In a fareweu nent before leaving for New Yor tall for home Count von Berneto we expressed the hope that war bet he United States and Germany e averted. d sing. |