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Show ON ' THE RETREAT CAUC1A FROll CALLED 10 When You are at Loss , to know what to give for a present, write us and we will tell what we have on spedal.and can give you some valuable suggestions. V p CHECK IMPOSED ON . C invitation to head accepts ADVISORY BOARDED ARCHDUKE Afir ARMY JOSEPH-FERDINAND- CAUSE OF DELAY. L'ANY STATES Neither Side Hae Attempted Anything of Oecieive Nature, and It ie Believed it May be Weekt Before They Do. USE CONVICTS Different System of Employing Prison Labor on Publlo Highway Improvement la Described. 1 Arizona. Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Washington follow practical-slthe same system, providing that the control of this work shall be vested In the state highway commission. 'The highway commission or state engineer makes requisition for such number of prisoners as be can use effectively, and the prison authorities turn over to him such prisoners as are suitable for the road work. The prison commission or board of cohtrol of state institutions Is held .responsible for the development bf -- ' r y ' O o - b j w'.LQi "'cQ 0 I , iwTi u r r S 1 . i a. ifP ' Lublln-Cholm- xr && j Convicts Building o V' Good Road. the convict road work In some' nine states Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kan- AIR-TIG- sas, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Bute prisoners are turned over to the county authorities to be worked on the county roads In Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. This system Is not approved by the national committee on prisons and prison labor, which holds that the state under no clrcumsUnces Is justified In delegating the responsibility for its convict wards to county J, P. Morgan Improving. New York J. P. Morgan, who was ' The system In New York sUte dl-- . shot twice in an attempt on his life ides the responsibility for. the con- by Erich Muenter, alias Frank Holt struction work and maintenance of was feeling fine and dandy on Sun-duy- . It was said at his office. the camps between the state highway department and the commissioners ot the counties In which the roads are BONILLA MANUEL Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming highway department and the prisin the conon department trol ot this work. The prison department is fully responsible for the care and discipline of the prisoners, while thd road department Is called upon to do the work which it is equipped to do, the building ot roads. The committee has found this latter system essential to the successful development of convict road work. The prison department Is in a position to care for the prisoners and to handle such matters as food, Clothing, housing, medical attention, the affording of educational facilities and recre- William 8. Bond, a chemist ot Del., just after emerging t box submerged in a from an tank. In which he was shut up. for even hours in order to test his chemical formula for purifying air. Bond asserted that the chemical, which he carried in a handbag, would havg enabled him to remain In the box indefinitely. air-tigh- - ation. J1RS.R0BFRT LANSING 3mBBliCimKaiiS5iaggBB.li!ltgggg2 brother ot Lord Denes, and a , Rosemary daughter of Rear Admiral Sir who are soon to be married. Bobbie Beresford, as Charles Uraves-Sawlhe is popularly known, is a veteran of the Boer war, in which he acquired He has been buying burses (n America tha title ot the hero ot Kimberley. for the allies. HereatorU, sportsman, and GOOD ROADS ARE INCREASING Mima well-know- Uraves-8awle- e, i United Staten Leads Francs In Mltsa of Improved Highways St t Aid Now In Effsct ' According to ths Good Roads Year Book of ths American Highway association, recently Issued, America now !has 6,000 miles more bf good roads than France, the total for this country now amounting to 31,000 miles. Of this 6,000 miles were built in 1912 and .about 6,000 in 1914, making a total of of the entire mileage ot over .the good roads ot the country. New Jersey was the pioneer state to provide state aid tor public highways, JjyJ891, and Massachusetts and Con nectlcut soon followed, but It Is only during the last ten years that the sUte aid policy has been In effect to any considerable extent -- tiveness. In announcing that he would glad ly accept Secretary Daniels invitation, Mr. Edison said he believed the proposal so important that it should be attended to now, when the war in Europe was bringing before the pub lie the Importance of encouraging the developing of the ideas and inven tlohs of Americans especially offl cers and men of the army and navy. The Used States is far behind in these fnatters,, said Mr. Edison. believe it is highly important for a board of civilians, made up of engi neers from leading industries, to be formed for the purpose of looking Into the feasibility of ideas developed by young men. While all Ideas that will be submitted may not be feasible, at least they will have the benefit of expert judgment and advice. 1 GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE. The New Hotel Rex Hatal Lakaa LaalmS Family Salt furniLuxuriously equipped with bamtaome ViraarMf. ture Maw. MaSarain aaS heart ol the the . located t oovenienlly district. Kates. city and to the ahoppin SI to. bath nd SI. With private AOc 7fc Rex Theatre Building B& H Ktate Htreet. fpaa Baa Maata All Traiaa Some Shoot In. In a certain small Ohio town live man named, for cona libel. Bill Skinavoid to venience and ner. During a large evening downtown some one drew a gun and fired at random into a crowd of merrymak-sr- s. The bullet struck Bill Skinner in the thigh. At once a deputation of citizens started on a run for the nearest and. indeed, the' only doctor. It was long' after midnight. They beat on the door and yelled, and finally a secondstory window was raised and the doctor's bead appeared. It looked In the moonlight like the head ot a man himself recently returned from a big time. Hey! Doc! Come down,r called one Bill Skinners of the deputation. shot" been "Howzat? Bill Skinner? Where waa he hit? 'In the leg. 'Well, well, said Doc, closing his window, some shootin! .One on the Clergyman. clergyman of abilwork for sevin other been has ity his and son, of five sum- eral years, mers, has rarely seen him In the pul. pit Recently the little fellow heard his father preach away from home, In vacation, and iook early occasioif to j inquire: Aunty, is papa a preacher 7" A New England ' Yes, dear.y But is he a real preacher? Certainly Teddy. But say, kunty, he isnt much of a preacher, is he? The clergyman will not soon hear the last of this criticism. Sharpening Himself. When the train stopped at the little southern station the tourist from the north sauntered out and gazed curiously at a lean animal with scraggy bristles, which was rubbing Itself against a Bcrub oak. "What do you call that?" he asked. curiously, of a native. Razorback hawg, suh. What is he doing rubbing hlm- salf against that tree?" Hes stropping htsself, siiE, just Home stropping hlsself. Ladies Journal. Labor Leader Denied New Trial and Former Sentence Confirmed. Trinidad. Colo.Denled a new trial by Judge Granby Hillyer In the Third district court in which on May 3 he was found guilty of the murder in the first degree of John Nimmo, a deputy sheriff, during a battle near Ludlow bnOcto5er 2571 91 3rJohSKrLSWSOfir international board member of the United Mine Workers oU America, most prominent of union officials in the conduct of the Colorado coal Presto Change! strike, on Monday occupied a cell in You know Giblets, the parlor enthe county Jail. tertainer? Well, he met a beautiful-gir- l Lawson was sentenced to spend the Just before Easter, made violent remainder of his life at hard labor in love to her, and at .last she gave him her hand." Quite a romance; eh?" You interrupted me. Every one . Young Turk Said to be Hiding News expected they would be married in Lest It Cause Political Ferment. June, but Giblets broke off the en7 Paris. La Llberte says that the gagement. VI see, another of his slight of Idea Nazionale of Rome haa received the following note vized by the cen- hand tricks. sor: Too Dark to See. "News from Athens and Sofia advises us that the sultan haa Been dead Mother Now, Willie, wash your several days and that the Young hands and face it you are going to tbe Turks are hiding the news, fearing theater. Willie Oh, no, Ma; this la a mow political complications. log picture show. Forester to Visit Alaska. Washington. Henry S. Graves, Blacksmiths va. Gardners. chief of the forest service,' left The other day a blacksmith was Washington Monday for Alaska to in- arguing with a gardner as to which vestigate conditions in the national was the first trade in the world. forests. He will remain until. OctoThe gardner paid It was gardenber. - One of the objects - of Mr, and quoted from Genesis; Adam ing, G ra restourit warsard, wasTo-ob-tathe Garden of Eden to data to oppose any . movement till It for abolishment of forest preserves in "Ah," said Pat, who had stuck nP the territory. for his own trade. "Who made ths spades City Star. Stahl Changes Plea. New York. Gustav Stahl, the Ger Biddy's Bon Mot. man reservist who swore that he saw "Youd better hide ' somewhere, four guns mounted aboard the Lusiaid the rooster to the the bos tania the day before she sailed on has an axe in his handhen; and hes lay her last voyage on Monday withdrew Ing for you. hi- plea ot not guilty-t- o the indictsaid Biddy resignedly, Well ment charging him with perjury and presume I have no right to complain; substituted three pleas in abatement Ive been laying for him for a good based on technical points. Boston Transcript many years. Garment Workers on Strike, Sure Curs. New York. A garment workers Oh, dear, sighed the engaged girL strike, the first for several years, beIm so afraid Harold wont make a gan here Monday when .10.000 pants husband. Hes awfully reckless good makers left their shops. Thq princi- with hiB money. pal demands of the strikers are for a "Never mind, dear," said her mothsanitary, shop, recognition of the er Hell get over that soothingly. inion and aq Increase In wages. after hes married." Protests Innocence A Beautiful Defendant. Denver. Colo Tse a Piute "I want you to make the outfit fof Indian on trial in federal district triaL my court, charged with the murder of "Let me see, mused the experiJuan Chacon, a herder, protested his enced modiste. "Youll want a direct innocence of the crime with which he teetlmony suit,' a is charged on the witness stand. gown and something dainty and clinging to faint in. Kansas City Jour Huerta Send! for Family. naL SULTAN REPORTED the 5 salt lake citt the state penitentiary. . built, with the Btate superintendent of prisons in final authority. In l of jewelry makers SOUNDED AM -- to be I EdWest Orange, N. J. Thomas A. from Invitation an accepted has ison head an advisSecretary Daniels t Inventors for a civilian of board ory and development bureau of invention to be created in the navy department. His acceptance will go forward at once to Washington, where the new man who plans await word from the realities. Into dreams turn fan Mr. Daniels idea of utilizing tlje Inventive genius of Americans In and out of the military and naval service to meet conditions of warfare shown In the conflict on land and sea in Europe Is outlined In a letter asking Mr. Edison whether, as a patriotic service to his country, he would un dertake the task of advising the pro posed bureau. The plan is to have several men prominent in special lines of Inventive research associated In the work. be Among the great ' problems to secthe before the laid investigators, retary mentioned submarine warfare, adding that he felt sure that with Mr. Edisons wonderful brain to help them the officers of the navy would be able to meet this new dan ger with new devices that will assure peace to our country by their effec- LAWSON I BOYDlPAKK in Conflict Rag- ing in Europe. seph Ferdinands army In southern Po land, and the adclltional strain which this has placed on the German gen eral Von Mackenzens army to the v t right, has postponed, it is believed In military circles here, the threatened German offensive In the west, and there is now a possibility that the allies will be the first to take the of fenslve. In support of this it is pointed out isthat the attacks by the German crown prince's army in the Woevre, which the German press announced was the commencement of a general move for ward, have ceased, and what fighting Is going on along the western front mmiiMiii Ww.;,, consists of artillery engagements, s near after from back Siberian trenches tbe Lemberg vainly attempting to check the Infantry marching few Isolated attacks, and counter-a- t advance. At tbe right are Russian officers at a post on tbe Dniester watching the progress of their enemies tacks by infantry, which make little or no difference In the positions of the opposing forces. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA The British, according to the French atGerman a have report, repulsed tack. The German reports, however, allude to this as a British attack, and Berlin says jt was repulsed with considerable loss. In fact, the French knd German reports are generally con tradictory in respect to what fighting has taken place, but from the trend of them it is evident that neither side has attempted anything of a decisive nature, and it is believed here that it may be weeks yet before they do. 8b far as the Germans, sto concerned, military observers assert they are bound to carry out their offensive against the Russians until there is some decisive engagement, such as the ' railway, capture of the hlch, It is asserted, would have been n their hands before now If the Aus trians advancing toward the city bad not been driven back. Italian forces operating In the Tyrol are not seriously menacing by their continued advance in the mountain .passes from the east, Thin photograph of a block of buildings in Mexlcala gives some Idea of the damage done by the recent earthbut, according to Geperal Cadornas that shook the Imperial valley In the southern part of California Many towns there and across the line In quake report, are now advancing rapidly on Mexico euffered greatly and tome lives were lest Riva from the west. Thus the operations In the Trentlna district are beBOX LIVED IN ing carried forward on both. sides of TO MARRY HERO OF KIMBERLEY Lake Garda, wHh Triest as the focal point of the advance . Official reports from the Tyrol front state that engagements In the Chlese valley and at Mount Ilano have resulted In favor of the Italian Alpine troops, while the heavy artillery has brought under range of Its fire the fortifications erected by the Austrians on Ledro lake. ing- - HR"-- London. The check which the Rue siane ha ve irn posed on 'Archduke Jo y t of Plan is to Utilize Intentive Geniusof Conditions Meet Americans to , Thirty states at the beginning of the present year had on their statute books laws providing tor the employment ot state prisoners In road build- , iliaN inventors. Wsdire Shown DONT FORGET I . ITALIAN MARINES IN ACTION one-thir- d Mnor Manuel oomila, a prominent Mexican politician and cabinet member under Madero, i( one of tha possible choices for president of Mexico under a pacification plan. DEAD. in Tse-Ne-G- l Los Angeles to Improvs. Seven million dollars will be expended on the roads of Los Angeles In Three hundred and twenty-fou- r miles of concrete boulevard and 160 miles of decomposed granite highway will be constructed. 1915. Battleship Sunk Pommern. London. The naval correspondent of the Evening Standard identifies the German battleship sunk in the submarine on Baltic by a llriti-iJuly 2 as the Pommern. Site carried No-Ga- t, h cross-examinati- 729 men. Mrs Lansiug.'atle of. the new secretary of state, is a handsome, dignified woman of social prominence in VNathlngton, where she has lived nearly all her life. She is the daughter of John W Foster, secretary of Company of Italian marines firing from the deck of one of the atate under President Harrison. ere that recently bombarded Asatrian porta Plan Zepplin Raid on Rome. Farmer Realizes Value. Rome. German Zeppelins, accordNo other citizen realizes the value ing to reports, have been transported of good roads as does the farmer. to the Austrian coast of the Adriatic sea. Their object, it is said, is to fly Judging a Community. A community can safely be judged across the Adriatic to Italy past the and to reach Rome. by the kind ot highways, it maintains. Apennines ,U Will Not Increase Border Force. Kill Cabbage Worms. Washington. The war department r sprinkled Persian ., announced Saturday that it had mo over cabbage worms, in the morning of increasing the intention present before t dew is off the plants, will force of federal soldiers on the bor-'i r career In a short time. der Governor Ferguson of Texas had asked for more- - troopa inTexa. of Mortality, crowding and dirty quar---o, Swindler Sentenced. causes of mortality Dan La Bar, convict Minneapolis. s. ed of swindling E. W. Coyle, Masot City, Iowa, out of 95,000 by means o! game, was' sen a fake T cl 1 Cv Tuesday ! -- A GOOD WORK OF POLICEWOMAN Topeka Official Seems to Have Proved That Har Appointment Waa Not a Mistake. insect-powde- C-- f jl MlssJJva Corning, the policewoman of Topeka, haa just turned tnare-por-t of her years work. During that time she gave assistance to 69 girls, such as securing employment or helping them over rough places when they had no money and were struggling to get work. For som ot these aha u wire-tappin- g a r Treat i found homes and for a few she straightened out cases of small thefts. Of ths sixty nine three were sent to the industrial school. Sixty-twwomen were assisted with advice and the cases of 25 hoys were investigated. andatralghtened out without taking them, to the juvennecourfTFor some of these permanent employment was found, and the others, all young runaways, were returned home. Sixty children were sent home at night for not obeying the curfew law. Fifteen neighborhood disagreements -- o - Yght rai were; settled out of court, although when reported to Miss Corning one complainant wanted a warrant for arrest. Thirty-twcomplaints were investigated and turned over to thq proper authorities. Firtywecea men. any of them, social workers, directed her attention to urgent cases. The Thief of police called her in to assist him tn 16 case of Investigation, all involving vonA and girls, all of which were eventually settled out of court. In all of which Mtas Coning seems to have prove! her worth. o El Paso. Real iz in g that he will be held here for several months. Huerta requested his family to move here from New York, and received word that they would start for El Paso at once. , Baby Slayer Goes Free. The Point of View. Richard Bixbys friends say he a good fellow, and his wife denies Which do you believe? Robert Both. J udge. ' 1 1L Obeying Orders. Portland, Ore. Harriet" FOwlfc. l Mrs. Smith, your husband ws years old, who recently confessed to seen In a bucket shop this morning sharing In the killing or her Well, 1 didnt think John would w babe, was released Monday under no restraint hut her pledged word to member. 1 told him when he went off that we needed some new thing come back If wanted. lnihe kitchen." Baltimore ;Amer can. Director Holmes Dead. "Denver. Joseph Austin Holmes, diAn Affectionate Salt. rector of the federal bureau of mines was an affectionate sort d That at Washington, died here Monday. Dr Holmes had been residing In Denver aafl we took this afternoon. "How affectionate? with V tvrl' y tT f---y T ?ve way the boat wag day-ol- e d rt ' , |