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Show I I I f , THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK. UTAH 11IIS UTAH HOTIFIEO PREPAREDNESS ANOTHER CAMPAIGN B'f II. S. WILL TIGHT GER-MAN- Y "Some German naval attaches in neutral countries have been called to Berlin for a conference, continues the dispatch. "The alteration but not .the i raising of the blockade is table." The conference, it is indicated by the publication, arose out of during Count von BernstortTs jstay In Christiania, when indirect efforts, it says, were made to prevent (the situation betwoou Germany and s develop-Iment- ' jAmerlca developing imo war. In, an interview granted to the 'Copenhagen correspondent of the Berlin Tageblatt, says an Exchange , Tele-jgrap- dispatch, Count von Bernstorff, interrogated as to whether he thought there would be Germany and tho United States, replied "that depends on our warfare. If we Sink an American ship we shall get war-betwee- , If ,war. notI , JL suppose we can avoid the correspondent, Germany sinks British ships with American ettzens aboard? To this von Bernstorff replied: "That is not the same." f asked "And," 1 n-- xt General Maudes Forces Win Coveted Goal After Two Years Effort Turk May Now Evacuate Persia. States Washington. The United government on March' 12 took the only formal step that will precede the sailing for the war zone of American merchant ships armed to resist attacks London. The arrival in Europe of Count von Bernstorff, former ambassador to the United States, has caused renewed discusilon in neriln of the .submarine blockade, between political, naval end diplomatic representatives, according to .the Norwegian Mercantile Shipping Gazette, says Reuters Christiania tor respondent. TURKISH STRONGHOLD, HAS BEEN CAPTURED BV ENGLISH FORCES. Germany Will be Informed That Her Submarine Threat Will Not ' Keep Amercan Vessels From the Sea. With the Arrival In Europa of Von Bornitorff It la Announced That Nautral Naval Attachea Hava Been Called to Conference. 1 THAW DECLARED A LUNATIC. by German submarines. Notice to the world 'of the Intention to place an armed guard on merchantmen was given in a communication sent by the stater department to all embassies and legations In Washing. ton. The statement, which It 1b' assumed will he transmitted to Germany by the Swiss minister, follows: In view of the announcement of the imperial German government on January 31, 1917, that all ships, thosp of neutrals Included, met within certain zones of the high seas, would be sunk without any precaution being taken for the safety of the persons on board and without the exercise of visit and search, the government of the United States has determined to place upon all American merchant vessels sailing through the barred areas an armed guard for the protection of the vessels and the lives of the persons on board. Officials continued to be reticent about the arming of ships and the probable date the first would be ready to sail. All such details are regarded as military secrets. In fact, there is a general disposition to avoid discussing any phase of the situation pending the the outcome of the defiance submarine menace by American vessels with naval guns and gunners on boara. I Close estimates show that ducts of the dry farms of not far from the (7,000,000 aJJ1! Walter N. Boydea of Coalvliv J been appointed state food Inspector by Governor BamWI Boxelder county has an area I 1,00(7,000 a dres that some the generation will be under dry farm methods. During the Jast year the can, 2,374 boys and girls were eonruJ by the Salt Lake Juvenile coart. d offenses ranged from truancy J ' BRITISH BAGDAD, NOTICE GIVEN OF INTENTIONS TO PLACE ARMED GUARDS ON MERCHANTMEN. ALTERATION SUBMARINE OF BLOCKADE ORDER BY IS FORECAST. 1 1 STftTE SCORE RULED BT OH SIGHT 15 PLAN WIl Om wc government crop report which mt sued last week. A Taxpayers'. Vigilance league, orgahlzed in Ogden at a meeting in the county court house. More ft one hundred citizens from dlfr parts of the city were present Mrs. M. Henderson of Salt Late seriously injured when a large range exploded as she was remT; a pan ot bread, the roojn being duced to a mass of wreckage. Pleading increased living expe city firemen of Ogden have petit the city commissioners for an lnci of (10 in their monthly salaries asked, too, for one day off in dls-ratc- tiopyriifbL) T , onyi , Stocks of grain on farms In j on March 1 had been reduce! to e lowest point in years, according to London. Bagdad, the chief Turkish city in Mesopotamia, and former-lthe capital of the empire of the caliphs, has been captured by the British forces. Announcement by the capitulation of the city was made Sunday evening by the British official press bureau on. receipt of a telegram from General Maude saying the British forces had occupied Bagdad early Sunday morning. No details were contained in General Maudes . , The fall of Bagdad, besides ending German hopes of near eastern dominion based on a Berlln-Bagdarailway, will reverberate throughout the Mohammedan empires, and, it is believed, will more than rehabilitate British prestige in the far east damaged by the earlier loss of d igii le rtl an ten seel Tb us, ddl tl ha ngs , Bagdads capture marks the climax to one of the most dramatic and picturesque phases of the world war. The city which has fallen to British arms links the present to a past so State Department Holds Germanys School Buildings, Factories Mills and distant that it is semifabulous. The Albert Kiesel, aged 70 years, W Homes Reduced to Debris When Inctructions to Submarines Jusknown history ot .Bagdad reaches ot Fred J. Kiesel, an Ogden a;. er Strikes Furious Windstorm back for more than four, thousand tify Merchantmen In Taking is in the hospital, danger 1st, That Region. of Protective Measures. King years to the shadowy times wounded as a result, it is said, : Nebuchaddezzar of Babylon, a quay accidental discharge of a pistol Newcastle, Jnd. More than a score built by the scriptural monarch still was cleaning. Washington. The American government on March 10 began the act- of persons were killed and 150 were existing submerged in the Tigris. The Mountain States Telepbon ual preparations to arm American injured, some fatally, in a tornado Within Its precincts also there still company, has made i Telegraph of Jewish tombs stand the the proph300 this residences in merchantmen against Germanys ruth- which wrecked turn its of property valuation to I less submarine warfare. city late Sunday. The property dam- ets, Joshua, Ezra and Ezekiel, and state board of equalization. Iti the well ot Daniel. When the vessels sail under the age was roughly estimated at (1,000, This return and 000. School factories dnasty sets are (3,399,339. Long after the Bablonian will armed buildings, of policy neutrality they valuation last same on made the memhuna more ceased to as than had be well were mills wrecked as do so with the full backing of the adSeniors of the University of ft ory, Bagdad rose to splendor as the ministration expressed In the form dreds of homes. the high cost of gradi J dealt religi-ioua in storm The scientific and artistic, literary, swept over the city of war risk Insurance and naval guns LABOR PLEDGES AID IN WAR., week direction, demolishing capital of the world. The heart paraphernalia a blow last southeasterly ' and gunners. would decided althat ot the they of a the great Islamic empire they path It was made clear that In the back- practically everything in Trade Unions Offer Services to Government In Every Field of Activity. ground will be the entire resources most two blocks wide and more than caliphs for hundreds of years. It was their graduating capB and gowns hours known throughout the world as "the stead of buying them outright labor in of the United States ready for ac- ten blocks long. For several Washington. Organized from glorious city" and was the scene of year. off cut was the Ameran city entirely tion should attack Germany America through ita - representatives the fantastic exploits of Haroun (Four carloads of pure bred son in conference here Monday offered Its ican ship- in violation of the warning communication. to asked was Governor Goodrich whose in Ogden from Nebraska the rived magAmerican of the potentate government services to the country in every field nificence is immortalized de- send troops to police the city, which week in the and will be distributed to of view The state departments of activity if, despite all endeavors demoliin is to the Arabian was of the pig clubs in Cat. members darkness, owing as Nights. fensive armament expressed and hopes, the, United States should tion of the power plant Gerand Utah counts Weber a of mere that Morgan, the appearance be drawn into war. not FEARFUL TOLL WAR. OF The dead exact number of may near the man or submarine Ogden Packing ft Provision tt its periscope The action was taken by unanimous American-armeen- be known for several days,' as pracwould an vessel pany. rote of more than 150 delegates from all the bodies thus far found Ten Million Men Lose In Present Otto Q. Weber, bailiff of the Ct' national and international trade title the vessel to take all measures tically European Struggle. have been out of the wreckage of dug that of the on court. Is under su States presumption protection unions affiliated with the American their homes. Washington. More than 10,000,000 dered by Aqulla , Nebfcwr-t- W Federation of Labor and five unaffll the submarines purpose was hostile, men are recorded as killed, wounded, anStates marshal, pending an inrett lated organizations, the This was based on Germanys Including NEW JOAN OF ARC APPEARS. or missing, in the European Jon into circumstances under r. captured submarines nouncement her that all brotherhoods. In railroad great war in the first complete tabulation W, J. Edelen, indicted white ito about 3,000,000 American workers would attack without warnlpg any Believes She Is Called to Lead French of official and authenticated semiofmerchantmen from Weber last week were represented in the conference. belligerent or' neutral to Victory. ficial reports of the various belliger- escaped ' encountered within the' barred zone. Grocers of Utah who have i Paris. In a Paris boarding house ents received here. Whether this positon will be emon the subject dec interviewed Will Build Patrol Boats. nuns now lives the peasant Among the military proper 4,411,200 bodied Jn instructions to commanders kept by in the high F decline who has stirred the imagination are reported dead; 2,598,500, wounded, that little Washington. Preliminary steps of American-armewheth- girl and to is be ships, foodstuffs of expected dr were taken, by the navy department ot the French her declaration that, and 2,564,500, capturfid and 'missing. er arms and ammunlton will be fur- like Joan ot by she has seen visions and summer months, the spring Arc, Monday toward contracting tor the Among civilians, especially on the nished to vessels carrying contraband and heard voices commanding her to Russian and Balkan fronts and in some go so far as to express the s quick construction of 100 or more were anno for but discussion, up rise up and guide the soldiers ot Armenia, another 400,000 are figured ion that even higher prices nui high speed coast patrol boats of a nouncement on either point was au- France new type for scouting against subto victory and the deliverance as either dead or wounded through anticipated. for an thorized. marines.' of her country. She Is Mademoiselle the war. ample supp'j Providing The attitude of President Wilson Perchaud, 20 coal for next winter, 1,600 acrei years of age, daughter has been that no steps of a belliger- ct a farmer of the department of La CARRANZA miles ? f Embezzled Hoo Hoos Funds. ELECTED PRESIDENT. coal land five and should be taken and Vendee. character ent orwith accordance the )n St. Louis. William M. Stevenson, Ephraim are being developed sal a state of war comes it must ders of Cardinal Amette, the nuns Received All But Few that if Concatenated former scrivener of the Scattering 15,000 people of Sanpete county be through Germanys commission of will not permit her to be interviewed, Votes at General Election. Order of Hoo Hoos, pleaded guilty to ' not experience a coal shortage acts in clear violation of international s charge of embezzling (9,673 from winter if the plans ot the prose Mexico General Venustlann City. law. Some officials close to the MISS EDITH GOODE are the order. Sentence was deferred. realized. was Carranza on March 11, elected president are known to feel that In of Mexico beJames is what president by Bailey, a Provo grocer, b line with this policy the United IGNACIO BONILLAS lieved to have been the largest vote scare when he was called up States should not sanction a ever cast in the his home and told that the Ores republic. program which might be conAlthough the voters had the priv- had run over his boy. He hi strued as aggression. ilege of writing In or declaring any home and found the family in name they desired, General Carranza but found that his pet bull pup THREAT OF RAIL STRIKE. received all but a. few scattering bal- had been fllrtllng with the or lots. The estimated vote cast runs all had his dead cut off. Country-wjdStrike May Result if the way from several hundred thouReached. is Not Agreement Convicted of neglect of his wi! sand to a million. New York. Persistent reports were minor children, Theodore Raybou The presidential election was pro- Salt Lake was sentenced by current in railroad circles here Monvided for In articles adopted by the J. Milne of the Juvenile court to would a country-widstrike that day constitutional assembly which met at alx months In the county Jail result if a satisfactory agreement is Queretaro. Many old residents de- vision was made whereby he ' not reached, at the conference on the clare It was the first real election ever main out of Jail. He must furnish working question of the held in this country. Reports from railto be held Lere. the between djiy family wtih (17.50 a month various parts of the republic indicatroad managers and representatives of . The sanitary reforms second-bed that there were no disturbances or f the four brotherhoods of trainmen. James II. WalUs, while state intimidation. aubje Reports have been sent to the rail the mlssloner of Idaho, is road presidents by agents of the man a special chapter in "Wondfl Not Man May en Roof. Hang agers stating that plans had been laid Science," recently published Washington. Treasury department by the brotherhoods to begin such Mifflin ft Co. Mr officials on Saturday declined to per- Houghton, strike Saturday night in the event 11b is now doing effective mit the custodian of public buildings their demands are not met at the conthe Utah state board of healthat Spokane to use the roof of the fedference. The Salt Lake Federation ol eral building there as a location for a has scaffold gone on record as favoring for the execution of Edward Rebel Leader Surrenders, of a municipal oar tabllshment Mayberry, sentenced to die former March 20 Havana. Baldomero Acosta, In Lake. Salt the event that W the federal court. Capital punishby mayor of Mariano, one of the first ment being forbidden in Washington, commission will not establish liberals 'to Join the rebellion against a federal reservation is the only place nlctpal market the federation the' Menocal government, on Mondoy tabllHh a market to he Patron where man could be executed. the gave himself up at Guanajay together the members of organized with a captain and a sergeant. He Food in Greece. Shortage New railroads, remodeling d I was wounded in the leg. Washington. Another gloomy pic- .orles, purchasing new equiprojM ture of conditions In Greece Veteran Congressman Called. resulting the erection of a number j Ignacio Bonillas, who was ono of Mis Washington. Representative Cyrus Edith Goods of Washington from the entente blockade has been tures in connection with ths Carrsnzss representatives on ths Adams Sulloway, tho veteran member found accommodations for cabled to the Greek legation here ths thouby business, involving expendltu Joint commission of congress from the First New Hamp- sands of who tookart In the new ministry of supplies, with an approximately (1,000,000, are suffragists has been named ambassador from shire district, died here Saturday of ths big suffrage demonstration appeal for hastening the ship- of' the improvements being 1 at ths urgent Mexico to the United States. ment of wheat from the United statA. pneumonia, aged 78. Whits House on March 4. Sugar comf by the cos Thaw Again on Trial. As a protest against the Murder' Hearing Postponed. Roumanian King t Abdicate. Wheat Elevator Burns. f under The' of Thomas J. Mooney, Philadelphia. Jury of six had Stuttgart-T- he Winnipeg, Man. The terminal ele "Ulmer Tageblatt" Liberty, Mo. The preliminary hearof death as the Its first sitting on March 12, behind ing set for March 10 of B. B. Smith vator of the Northern Elevator com Hams from Slgmaringen, the colebra closed doors, in the lunacy i proceed- charged with the murder of U. O pany in thin city was and former home of King Ferd- the preparedness day destroyed by S San Francisco last July, the ings instituted two weeks ago by Mrs. Balcombe of Omaha, was postponed firs March 9, with 40,000 bushels ' of inand of Roumanla that this fugitive voted Thaw Mary Copley against her son, until March 23. This action was tak wheat The loss was estimated at ruler Is firmly resolved to abdicate no Federation of Labor has unt!T matter how the war ends. en upon Smitha request Harry K. Thaw. (130,000. goods as Fully clothed snd surPtlei Suffrage Issus Again 8ubmlttsd. Port Ricans for Canal Duty. Cyclone Hits Cincinnati. Shipping Cotton From Egypt bottle ot milk 4nd a bundle , resolution to Boston. Ten thousand bales of Albany, N. Cincinnati. Three San Juan, Porto Rico. The Second persons are clothes, a boy baby, believed known to have lost their provide for a referendum on the wo- Fgyptlan cotton, valued by dealers at battalion of the Porto Rican regiment lives, four about one week old, wa t1atO man's suffrage question at the state approximately (2,000,000, was Included has been designated for service others are probably fatally injured ballway of a rooming houeo election next November was passed in in the cargo ot the Leyland line steam the Tanama canal zone. It is the nre 0r..more ,PM wrlously There was no clue that niluh the senate Monday by a vote of 39 ship Devonian, which arrived Satur- first time that native hurt !. result of a tornado which the have trrope discovery of tho identity to 7. been stationed away from t day from Liverpool '''ml. wrecked thirty houses. ARE BEGUN FOR TOWN OF FIFTEEN, THOUSAND PERSONS PRACTICALLY DE- MOUNTING GUNS ON AMER- STROYED BY TORNADO. . ICAN SHIPS. of s Court His Appoints Custodian. Mother as Philadelphia. Harry K. Thaw was adjudged a ludatlc by the common pleas court of thie city on March 13, and under the law cannot be taken to New York on requisition to stand trial on charges of assaulting Frederick Gump.fJr., a high school student of Kansas City, 'Mo., Thaw will be kept In SL Marys hospital here pending his removal to a Pennsylvania asylum. The courts action was based on the report presented by a lunacy com mission which took the testimony of Thaw and his mother. TRAINMEN WILL WALK OUT. Unless Orders Are Recalled Will Occur Soon. Strike fi - b d , Washington. Complete plans of the four railroad brotherhoods for a na tlon-wld- e strike' to be inaugurated March 17 unless the raljrouds grant their eight-hou- r day demands were Ratified here ' by local union leaders from southeastern territory, and by a similar conference of representatives of the southwest held at SL Louis. d . one-hql- Belgian Relief Work In Peril. Washington. Probable early withdrawal of American participation in Belgian relief, including the wtihdraw-aof Brand Whitlock, American minister, from Brussels as a result of the pressure of the German submarine campaign was forecast Tuesday at t' state department, l s shoot-on-sigh- t J Fight in State House. Lincoln, Neb. When words proved futile In a discussion tover the fed era aid law Jn which two members of the lower house of the state leg islature were engaged on Tuesday one of them attempted to throw the other down the stairway leading to ' the house chamber. g 8 tael five. William St. John, 75 years ol ip former plumber Inspector in Oft and a pioneer of the days ot Vld City, Nev., died at Roy after s hj? lng Illness resulting from genenlJ 1 blllty. PREPARATIONS v e eti a. S I e Jill; rre irld Tlx ts. row la u acl L re ttia ttle sor una e, i pos Of urs ece 10U ten ttet Of re e g rloi ion y Mai ind ttle 5 h ve d l-- usl arc tie c d th bur Tin a c ip ol rit Ipe w, tun irt liar rh rdl, 'ey mb lyii m ire vnt in I tie y. iys s . e I s )G! A fight-hou- r Divorce Bill Signed. Boise, Ida. Governor Alexander has signed the bill increasing from six months to one year the length of residence required before one may obr&in a divorce in this state. The law is not to become effective for six months. ' - Princes to Lose British Titles. London. The house of lords has passed the second reading of the bill to deprive enemy princes of British titles and dignities, after the government had promised to refer the bill to a special committee ' for further consideration. . Dental Aid Sought. New York. An appeal to the dent lata of the country to donate their services in making acceptable for military duty those volunteers who are rejected because of defective teeth, wns Issued here on Tuesday by the National Security league. Nine Injured In Fire. Los Angeles. Nine persons were overcome by injured and twenty-thre- e moke and taken to hospitals in downtowd fire that blocked traffic for hours. The damage probably will not exceed (125,000. , ' Germane Driven Back. London, A further retirement of the Germans on a front between 4,000 and 6,000 yards and to an unknown depth Is reported ' by a Reuter dispatch from the British front la prince. - M , Amerlcsn-Mexlca- n Utah-Idah- arch-conspi- r birth-Plnr- e lfornla-produce- . Y.-T- be Hrurt Mis ha ti 'P llij; d k-- lnv rt |
