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Show THE SPANISH fcORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH HI VILLA FLEES WITH FOES AT HIS RIVER ISLAND RECENTLY BY CAPTURED GERMANS WRESTED FROM THEM. UPHOLDS MEASURE PROHIBITING SHIPMENTS OF LIQUOR FROM WET TO DRY TERRITORY. Petrograd Admit That Russians Along Lino of the Putna and 8ereth Hive Fallen Back, But Say Retreat West Virginia's Prohibition Amendment, Forbidding Citizens From Receiving Liquor for Personal Use Also Held Valid. DVINA Waa Without Hindrance. London. ' Invasion .of Roumanla by the troops of the central powers con tiiiurs to progress, despite the efforts of the Russians 'and Roumanians to bold them back. Berlin reports that th,e Invaders moving eastward Into Moldavia from the Transylvania Alps region are gaining ground step by step, while the force of Field Marshal von Mackensen, driving northward in Moldavia, haa won additional ground, reaching the Putna river sector. In this fighting the Teutonic allies, according to Berlin, have taken 5,499 prisoners and captured three guns and ten machine guna. Petrograd admits that the Russians along the line of the Putna and Sereth rivers have fallen back, but says tne maneuver was carried out without hindrance. A alight retreat on the Kasslna river by the Russians also is recorded by Petrograd, but It la asserted that south of the Oltuz river and near Rekoza, on the Suchitza river, attacks by the troops of the central powers were repulsed There is still vigorous fighting going on in northern Russia In the region of Riga. Berlin reports the repulse of Russian attacks on both sides of the river Aa and between Friedrich-Stad- t and the Mltau-Ola- l road. The Russians, however, have recaptured n island in the Dvina river north of JUoukst, which was taken from them recently. Petrograd reports also the repulse of German attacks south of Lake Habit, west of Riga. In the other theatres, according to the various official communications, bombardments and minor engagements by raiding- - and patrol parties continue to prevail. THOUSANDS DIE ON TRAIL. Roumanla Is Suffering Same Fate aa Serbia. of Beitlln. Thousands refugees from Roumanla are perishing along the roads in Bessarabia, the Overseas News agency reports. "Roumanla is suffering the same fate as Serbia," says the news agency. "The Russian government has ordered that Roumanian refugees must not be permitted to remain In Bessarabia but must be transported eastward. and The railroads are refugees, lacking even wagons, art compelled to go on foot and on the marches over difficult roads in severe weather thousands of women, children and old men are dying miserably. All the men between the ages of 16 and 63 are being detained by the Rus plan, authorities for the army and scores of men are being driven un mercifully to combat." over-crowde- d SUFFRAGISTS THREATEN WILSON White House Grounds to be Picketed With Silent Sentinels. Woman suffragists Washington. after another futile appeal to President WllRon on Tuesday for his Bupport oi the Susan B. Anthony amendment an nounced plans for retaliation by pick eting the White House grounds win "silent sentinels." Their purpose li to make It impossible for the presl dent to enter or leave the Wlilu House without encountering a sent! nel bearing some device pleading the suffrage cause. After the women bad tbelr audience Tuesday, they returned to headquar ters of the Congressional union am pledged $3,000 for the "silent sentl nel" campaign. Thaw Charged With Kidnaping. New York. Harry K. Thaw, whe was legally released fifteen month ago from an asylum for the insane where he was sent after he killec Stanford White, was indicted here Tuesday charged with kidnaping Fre. Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, Mo., i youth of 19 years, and assaulting him with a whip. Greece Indorses U. 8. Note. Athens. The official reply of the Greek government to President Wilsons peace note was communicated Tuesday to Garrett Droppers, the American minister In Athens. The reply associates Greece heartily with the presidents efforts in behalf of peace. ' Considers Gerards Speech Warning. London The Manchester Guardian in its comment on Ambassador Gerard's speech in Berlin, says It regards it as a plain warning to Cermaay. Senate Favors Dry Capital. Washington. The Sheppard bill to abolish saloons in the national capital after November 1. 1917, was passed by the senate, and now goes to the house, where its friends claim it Is assured of pasage. Japan In Economlo Allance. London. The foreign office announces that Japan has signified officially her adherence to the economic arrangement arrived at by representatives of the entehte powers at the Paris conference. Washington. PARRAL EXPECTED TO BE SCENE OF NEXT BATTLE BETWEEN MEXICAN LEADERS. In the most sweeping of all decisions upholding prohibition laws, the supreme court on Monday upheld as constitutional and valid the law prohibiting shipments of liquor from "wet" to dry" states. It also sustained West Virginias recent amendment to her law prohibiting Importation in Interstate commerce of liquor for personal use. After having been vetoed by Presl dent Taft, who held it unconstitutional, and having been repassed by congress oyer bis veto, the law was sustained by the supreme court by a vote of 7 Webb-Kenyo- to i iCnpriKia i , t "Th all reaching power of govern ment over liquor is settled," said the chief Justice in announcing the decision. "There was no Intention of congrese to forbid individual use of liquor. The purpose of this set was to cut out by the roots the practice of APPROVES ACTION IN REQUEST- AFFAIR DEVELOPS INTO permitting violation of state liquor ING TERMS UPON WHICH PEACE OF GOOD FEELING laws. We can have no doubt that conBE DISCUSSED. MIGHT UNITED STATES. TOWARD gress has complete authority to prevent paralyzing of itate authority, congress exerted a power to Democratic Leader Declares No More Ambassador Likened to "Peace Dove the national with the state auExcuoeo Go and That Peace of Noahs Ark,' While Telegram thority." in Europe le Eetentlal to Slncerest Wishes Is Expressing s organ-i&tlonnational for Attorneys liquor Peace Here. Sent to President Wilson. who were in court said the decision upholds and applies the Webb-Kenyolaw "in Its broadest Berlin. The dinner given here Sunof PresiWashington. Approval sense." dent Wilsons request for a statement day night by the American Associaof peace terms from the European tion of Commerce and Trade of Berlin LAWSON STIRS UP TROUBLE. belligerents was voted by the senate In honor of James W. Gerard, AmeriGoes Before Committee to Testify Friday night at the conclusion of can ambassador to Germany, who has three days of stirring debate. Just returned to the German capital as to "Leak" at Washington. Action came wtlh dramatic sudden- from a visit to the UnUed States, deWashington. Through a bewilder- ness when Democratic leaders decld' veloped Into & demonstration of the ing maze of Intimations and heated ed to a form resolution of that good feeling entertained in the higher accept coloqulea which turned the hearing into an uproar, the house rules com- would not compel the senate to in- government circles and banking and mittee wrestled for several hours on dorsement of the whole of the presi- business spheres toward the United dent's note and ten Republicans of States. A large number of leading Wednesday with Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, without obtaining any def- the Progressive group joined the ma- personages of Germany were present. Ambassador Gerard, who was likinite information to substantiate the jority in making the vote 48 to 17. fol- ened by Arthur Von Gwinner, director was The as resolution adopted stories of a leak" to Wall street In of the Deutschebank, to the "peace advance of the presidents peace note. lows: and dove of Noahs "The senate Is quoted by the approves strongly When the committee adjourned, indorses the request by the president Overseas News ark," as agency saying that unwith Mr. Lawson's examination in the diplomatic notes of December 18 "never since the beginning of the completed, a motion to cite him be- to the nations now engaged in war fore the bar of the house for contempt that those nations state the terms war have relations between Germany because he refused to give the names upon which peace might be discuss- and the United States been so cor dial and that he had "brought back had been considered in executive ses- ed." sion' and taken under advisement Senator Lewis of Illinois, regarded an olive branch" from President Wilas the spokesman for the administra- son. Adamson Case Brought Up. Vice Chancellor Helfferlch, in his adtion, created a sensation in the sensaid he was pleased to know decase test to The dress, Washington. ate when In the argument In that Ambassador Gerard had visited termine the constitutionality of the behalf of theclosing Hitch-Cocpassage of the the United States, "where he had an Adamson law, enacted last Septem resolution for Indorsement of of describing ber when a general railroad strike the the real president's peace note to the war- opportunity state of affairs in Germany," and threatened, came up In the (supreme continthat he declared court Monday. Argument will con ring powers, Foreign Minister Zimmermann declartlnue until Wednesday and a decision uance of the conflict would Inevitably ed he "felt sure the friendly and trustIn the Involve the United States strugla expected within a few weeks. ful relations between both countries gle. He asserted that the United as enunciated by Mr. Gerard will conStates would not again accept as an Woman Loses $10,000. tinue. New York. The police department excuse for Injury to her citizens or A telegram expressing the sincer-es- t and private detectives are seeking a their property through warfare, a miswlsliel of the association "In woman who obtained pos- conception of orders on the part of this crucial time" was sent to Presiin of excess or seal officers an carrysession of a black handbag, contain dent Wilson and another message was lng money and Jewels aggregating ing them out. forwarded to Emperor William. was Mrs which David lost $10,000, by Dr. Helfferlch, as quoted by the L Wertheimer of Salt Lake City. ENTENTE WAR COUNCIL ENDED. Overseas agency, called attention to the Increase In commerce between ROBERT N. HARPER Delegates Leave Rome to Redouble Germany, and the United States, sayEfforts to Defeat Teutons. ing that In the ten years from 1903 Rome. The conference between to 1912 It had increased by more than members of the entente allied gov- 1,000,000,000 marks. ernments waB brought to a close Sunday afternoon. Explorer Lives Over Century. It Is announced that the conference Wrangel, Alaska. John Flnlayson, established once again the complete a famous explorer, for whom Finlay-so- n unity of views of the entente allies on river and Flnlayson lake In Yukon the various questions down for discus- territory were named, died Sunday, sion and that the statesmen present aged 105 years. His age was well will leave Rome with a strong resolution to introduce greater coordination In their efforts for the successful IsGENERAL SHUVAIEFF sue of the war. At A luncheon given by premier Bosellt, In honor of the ministers present, cordial speeches were delivered, In which the Italian and French absolute confipremiers expressed dence in the victory of the entente allied powers. DEMON-8TRATI0- n k well-dresse- d No Question for Outlaws. Nowata, Okla. Outlaws wno repulsed an attack by a posse of super- ior numbers ers. TVVELFT1 i Free Seeds Assured. Turkish Cigarettes Advance By a vote of 44 to 73, Washington. New York. Advances In the prices of Turkish cigarettes ranging from the house settled In the usual way 45 cents to $1 a thousand were an- the annual fight over the appropria& tion for distribution of free nounced Monday by P. Lorlllard garden Co,, one of the largest tobacco manu- seeds. As adopted the appropriation carries $243,000. facturers In the coutnry. Provides Oil Reserves. A new amendment to Washington. the pending general leasing bill designed to relieve claimants to lands In naval oil reserves of California was submitted to the senate Friday by Senator Phelan. , . ; tour-year- s - 11 - , - a . 1 - Price-Myto- n ' e maximum having been fixed hospital. near American Shipbuilding Advances. American shipyards Washington. in 1916 put out a tonnage exceeded but twice before. A bureau of navigation statement shows the construction of 1,163 merchant vessels, wtlh a tonnage of 520,847, and fifty vessels of 40,000 tons for foreign flags. Seven Hundred Miles In Motor. New York. A voyage of 700 miles in a motor boat from a spot In the Atlantic ocean where they had abandoned their sinking Bhlp, to the coast Robert N. Harper, president of one of Morocco .was the experience relatof Washington's banks, has been se- ed by five of the crew of the Amerilected as chairman of the committee can schooner Rob Roy on their arIn charge of the Inaugural ceremonies rival from Havana on Sunday aboard General Shuvaieff Is minister of war the steamship Mexico. In khe Russian cabinet of March 6, next P. Embargo Lifted. Neb. An embargo on freight shipments over the Union Pacific lines, which has tied up more than 500 cars In the Omaha and Council Bluffs yards aluce December 20, has been lifted. owqed by the vtr departments and Inatltutw 1 now number twenty-two- , Smoking Is forbidden In the c0J commission chamber by a rule enact by the Salt Lake county commit The Lehl sugar factory suspend' DEM0 TRO work for the 1916. campaign on Villa Forces Reported to Have Fled ary 8, after one of the most succe 1 ful campaigns In its history. Toward Parral With the Followers j 1ator p of General Murgula Hot Upon C. M. Corbett, switchman, 34 yJ of age, employed by the Bingham Their Trail. Garfield railroad, was killed at fiv El Paso, Texas. Parral Is expected ham when he got between two niovii. v to be the scene of the next general cars. Desmond Morrison, age 22 yea engagement between the forces of twelft Francisco Villa and .the Carranza of Price, was accidentally shot troops of the north under the com- Castle Gate, while at. work. glature we mand of General Francisco Murgula. In the hospital and his recovery , crats a opening n Villa has fled to that place, with Gen- doubtful. n to eral Murgula In pursuit, according to be wanted In Texas Alleged the latest report received here by Car- two charges white slavery and q on vas bezzlement A. S. Coveil, civil ei laJnatlon ranza Consul Sorlauo Bravo. General Murgula, on board a loco- neer, 32 years of age, was arrest fIe?ted U3,0U j motive captured at Jimlnez, reported at Salt Lake City, At the annual convention of flwfr,,fih making a reconnoiterlng expedition for nine miles up the branch railroad Utah Woolgrowers association, heldi to Parral. Salt Lake City, about 600 sheepmen 3 f Villa partisans here claimed that Utah, southern Idaho and wester. ,( tnajo the official report of the Jimenez bat- Wyoming were present. a tle, given out Saturday, was exaggerSalt Lake ranked fifth among tb jusly. ated, but the fact of the victory was cities of the Paclfio coast section tf, Senator substantiated Saturday by private tel- bank clearings during 1916, accordlnt0t 0r t, egrams received by American mining to Duns review of the year, the cleat hav. men from Jimenez. ings amounting to $513,423,713. ugh jr Announcement of plans for the cot tof Don EXPECTS EARLY SETTLEMENT. structlon of a $250,000 Joint freight de as their Mexican 'Official Border pot at Salt Lake during the comlni Represt Believes summer by the Denver k Rio Grand Beaver c Troubles Will 8oon bo Over. and the Western Pacific railroads, wa New York. ipeakersl Nlcifero Zambrano, made last week. claniatlon treasurer of the de facto government Proposals to create a board of ed: It is g in Mexico, recently sent to Washingcation to control all pullic Inetltu rlon wi ton by General Carranza as hlg personal representative, and who came tlons of learning In the state, are cot U a and The sta here Saturday, Issued a statement In tained in the report of the education which he predicted an early settle- code commission filed with Governs submitted vide that ment of the border difficulties.' He Simon Bamberger. A new beet sugar factory to hanUpossessioi base his belief, he declared, on the fact that the American government Is the crop of 4,000 acres to be built ( the state once within one mile of the preser Two e considering seriously lifting at an of the Hooper spur of tb ilcohol it early date, for the benefit of the Car- terminus ranza government, the embargo placed Denver k Rio Grande railroad betwee and mecl ' mented by President Wilson on the shipment the Layton and Ogden factories. With a revolver clutched In his le! Pose by of arms into Mexico, the recall ot General Pershings expedition and the hand, the body of Edmund Bennett, of age, a clerk In the office A, Medicii sending to Mexico of Ambassador the state land board, was discovered prescript! Fletcher. at his home in Salt Lake. Flnancli. Having reverses had caused him to suicide, possessio SUICIDES ON TRAIN. The convention of the National e.law Southerner Responsible for Death of Woolgrowers association to be held to le!fur. Sendini Fellow Passenger and Injury of Four. Salt Lake City to begin January Birmingham, Ala. Two men were and to last three days, is expected to j: ed killed and four badly injured by an be a recordbreaker, accommodations act, explosion in the smoking compartment having been made for 1,000 delegate! of the Southern Railways Officers investigating the case have gULft Birmingham special just as the train was en- reached the conclusion that It waslrL their accident and not Intention that Her tering Birmingham from New York. .,. While train officials were unable to bert Bluck of Murray, 16 years of establish definitely the cause, there fatally shot his younger brother. Tbeju. were Indications that a quantity of boy who did the shooting has dfsap. second. some powerful explosive had been set peared. ; A comi off by Lewis D. Walton, a BirmingTwenty pupils of the public school! ham business man, as a means of com- of Salt Lake afflicted with Impediment be empi mitting Eulclde. 113 was in the lava- of speech took their first lessons from rear. The pi tory of the car, whose steel wall next O. H. Ennis, stammering and stutterto the lounging compartment was lng expert, last week. He outlined the t)roTi,je jomp08e( blown completely away, and bis body method by which he hopes to cure the ir shajj was dismembered by the explosion. stutterers. The cc The biennial report of the stat pointed Indorse Universal Military Training. board of dental examiners recoin rice and Unanimous indorse- mends that the board be Washington. given aa may be r ment of universal military training and to care for ike teeth of the in only t thority service was given In a resolution mates of the state mental hospital, the same adopted here by more than a hundred the state industrial school and tbi The ci faculty heads of medical schools and state penitentiary. t power ascolleges throughout the country, Peculiarities of the type on a type- tharges, sembled at the call of the Council of writer upon which he wrote a letter ny raili National Defense, to discuss preparedto blackmail was respon- state. 1 attempted ness measures as affecting the medi- Bible for the arrest ot J. E. Jensen, I cause sy cal profession. builder and contractor at Tooele. Atablished charge of attempted blackmail will be schedule! Adamson Frames Another Bill. him. their bus Washington. A bill designed to lodged against United States mall from the reseMlon maj meet President Wilsons recommendations for supplementing the Adamson vatlon Is now coming to the railroad Corpor road, as the law was Introduced in the house Sat- via the low creek road via Helper Is impass common urday by Representative Adamson, who is chairman of the commerce com- able, due to the heavy snow. It to gag coi mittee, with the statement that be not thought tbu the upper road wllltelephon water ct will press it for early consideration be open until spring. E. Frank with aonB Cutter, charged without waiting for completion of the president's railroad legislative pro- sault with a deadly weapon for an al EonIian leged attack with a knife upon Mra.neBEcr gram by the senate. Minnie Bartlett at Salt Lake on SepPan08 I Caused Death. tember 27, when she attempted totannin& Worry Ntw York. Constant worry over leave him and return to her husband, Pane8 which tl her husbands arrest on charges of has entered a plea of guilty. C01 The total cost of the capitol to datij1 using the malls to defraud In connection with a Peruvian mining venture has been $2,739,521, according to the Vprei caused the death Friday night ot Mrs. report of the capitol commission m Raymond McCune, noted beauty and sued on Janaury 6. The cost of the Rat social leader of Lexington, building itself Is $200,000 less than Ky. Mrs. McCune died In Roosevelt wag authorized by the legislature, the fKls atu one-tim- here Saturday killing two and wounding a third, are not expectel to be taken alive. Officers who are directing a new pursuit of the desperadoes said there would be no quarter" when the outlaws are ' met again. U Automobiles state 1 I Omaha, I KE a n 2. ELS SJTE Floods In Kentucky. Louisville, Ky. Thousands of dol- lars damage has already resulted from floods In several Kentucky streams and In parts of southeastern Kentucky railroad traffic has been practically suspended. ooo. A at $2,500,-- ,on 8ljjl rui freight wreck occurred on th Oregon Short Line at Utlda, on th on t border line of Utah and Idaho. On Garflel(1 of a number of tramps, stealing l countiea ride, suffered a broken leg and other . , Injuries, and probably will die. Thn Bubject others were badly bruised, but not jej8latl seriously Injured. ( tb Plans were announced last week by gena(0r the Salt Lake Union Stock Yards sad jntro(iuc allied companies and the Cudahy Pack- - g(,nntor lng company for a fat stock show tlBtate-w- l be held In connection with and bb v8re w feature of the formal opening of the J)ot ( new packing plant at North Salt Lake, Tng ( about March 1 to 15. fd ie a Thieves Steal Whiskey. A complaint has been sworn to at sheriff Cedar Fort by A. L. Heaston of Bing-Girard, Ala. The county discovered that thieves using a rub- ham, charging Dean Cook and Jamei )PI ber arrangement passed through a Carson with ''nlawfully killing an elk, fijupli hole in the warehouse wall, had si- October 17, 1916. The elk, it ; jso h phoned out 500 gallons of whiskey claimed, was one of a herd placed lsi Uim-t- he seized In recent wholesale raids here. Bingham district by the state "Nio, game department about two years ago- - all! clan Sheep Experiment Station in Idaho. . The Utah conservation commission able ns Killed Trying to Save Son. Washington. Senator Brady on Sat- will ask the legislature for special ITeruld. Seguln, Texas. Mrs. Dolores Se urday Introduced an amendment to regarding conservation rabla had almost pulled to safety her the agrlcultnral approprallion bill to legislation not which will be a ladlcal departure) husband and son, overcome by damp appropriate $20,000 for establishing a but will be on the same lines as legte fls b( In son when a the fell back well, gas sheep experiment station In Fremont latlon which has been recently pussed jThut pulling his mother with him. county, Idaho, s tloue .y the national congress. killed. Grocer's Mistake Ends Fatally. Watseka, 111. Francis Labounty, a grocer, was shot to death by A. J. who Bailey, assltant city marshal, mistook him and was mistaken by him for a robber who had held up the grocer a short time before. Dot-wer- o -- 1 |