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Show THIS WKFKLV REFLEX. K A YSVTTXE. V HOUSE ACCEPTS THE BUILDING PROGRAM PROPOSED BY THE SENATE. R ,J5 g ng-H-a C gr - a TTT XlS au n pr7Dvan 0 GfftSlW flADrbfl QCrSsJ) on a a ocr c7 agy XT' cruoo u- IJQIID, Pbsoa u IMPORTANT SUCCESS SCOPED a. CHARS FORCES IN Dr,vV TOWARD HUNGARIAN : i k M-;- Provides for 157 War Vassals Within tha Next Three Years, Eight Cruisers and Battlesmps to be Built In 1917. Miuun c6n-ferenc- . Lfi li pr . rt Italians are Pressing Their Advanc on the Carso Plateau and Report Capture of Several Sections of Austrian Trenches. J1 M i Congress virtually IMashington. defense pro completed the national " gfambn Tuesday, finaliyipproving the great increase In naval construe tlon snd personnel written Into the baval bill and urgently supported by the administration. The house accepted the Jmllding program, to which Its conferee on the measure had refused to agree, by a vote of 283 to 51, with seven of the members present and not voting; The personnel increases, on which there also was a disagreement in conference, were approved without a record vote. The personnel and construction sections, which already have the approval of the senate, authorize an Increase in enlisted men to 74,700 and the building of 157 war vessels within the nest three years with four battle cruiser and four battleships Included among the ships for 1917. Previously the house had refused to adopt a 'continuing building program, had authorized only five capital ships, all of them ha;-ti- e cruisers, and had provided for a personnel of only 5,000, On several lesa Important sections, including appropriations for Improvement of navy yards, the house Insisted on its disagreement to senate increases and voted to send the bill back to for settlement of these points. An early agreement la expected, how-veand the measure may be sent to the president for bis signature within a week. v pUJJ V 3' ' r,.- - Si' v London. The Russians uaTe ea tureed Jablonitza, one of the prilJ pal gateways from Galicia through tlsr Carpathians to the Hungarian plain and Petrograd reports that their of fensive in this direction Is contmu;0u This is the first news of an advanc by the Russian southern army g;nct the conquest of the Austrian crow land of Bukowlna was completed. Farther to the north the Ru5glaBI are continuing their driving operation! against the Austrians with apparent uninterupted cuccess. Their troop are pouring across the Z'.ota Lipa several points In spite of desperate r sistance on the part of the Teuton forces. Fierce fighting is being waged along the entire line south of Brodj and General Brussilloff apparently fa making a supreme effort to cut oft fix army ofXJeneral von Bothmer sn force itsHurrender. As far as the other theatres of are concerned, main interest centen dn the Italian operations, no important action being reported on either the British or, French Fronts. The italiani are vigorously pressing their advanc on the Carso plateau, and Rome i ports the capture of several section! of the Austrian trenches and the tat iqg of more than 1,600 prisoners. V' e FEARFUL TOLL OF WAR. r, VILLA Over Three Million Lose Lives in Pan Year and Six Million Wounded. Estimates of war casualties based on official data show that the second year of the war has cost more tbai 3.000.- 000 11ves and has inflicted wounds on more than 6,000,000. E si HIS COMMAND. MASSING .Bandit Expected to Make a Dash for Torreonr i reEl Paso. Private dispatches ceived Tuesday said Villa la massing his command close to the Durango border near the line of 'the Mexican While the disNational railway, patches did not state the object of the move, it was believed here that the bandit leader may attempt to adze a train and make a dash for Torreon or some, of the other large cities of the state. Nevada Woman Quit Association. Colorado Springs, Colo. Announce ment was made here Tuesday by Miss Annie Martin, chairman of the Na tionai Woman's party, which held a three-daconference here last week, .that the Nevada Womens Civic league, of which she is president, had aevefed Its relations with the National American Woman Suffrage association. 'One reason given for the withdrawal was the desire io work exclusively for the Susan B, Anthony y amendment Lightning Burns Shoes Off Girl. Montpelier, Idaho.Near Nounan lightning struck snd killed a cow on the farm of John Skinner, afad his daughter Elsie, who was milking the animal, was rendered unconscious from the shock and her shoes were burned off. She has not yet recovered from the shock. Her father waa knocked down hy the same, bolt, but waa uninjured. American Kin Carranza Officer. San Antonio. A lieutenant of the Carranza army was shot snd killed by an American provost guard at Dublan. The officer fired on the soldier, who waa exonerated of all ' blame. Co-Ion- Allies Buying Tungstsn. Denver. Colo. France. England and Russia are making Inquiries on the condition of the tungsten market In Colorado, according to a statement made by Frederick Carroll, state lag commissioner, Admit Women to Bar Atlantar Ga. The" Georgia senate has passed a house bill granting to women the right to practice law. The measure now goes to the governor. Similar bills have been defeated for . several years Vault Mysteriously Looted. Vancouver, B. . The theft of $10 grto lq currency and negotiable bond from the city treasurers office of North . Vancouver w as discovered when the treasurer opened the vault Tuesday. C-- 1 Wyoming Miners Get Increase. Cheyenne, Wyo. An increase In wages was granted the miners of southern Wyoming in an agreement signed Tuesday by representatives of the United Mine Workers of America. -- ' - -- Daring the last twelve months the American coJt helped her master make three and a half billion dollars Old Bossy is a supplying rities with milk and in meeting the growing Uemnnds of such centers with pure milk! Chicago alone consumes 1,000,000,01)0 quarts of milk annually, while thousands of cans of condensed milk and pusteurlzed milk are used for breakfast Milk Is ahlpiuHl from farms as far as 300 miles away, reaching the city In time for breakfast. tha . next morning. Recause of the Immense demund for milk, the neivsslty of having It of the highest quality and the need for an economical method of collection and distribution, great milk companies were formed several years ago, which stations In Illinois and aderected joining stutes, along the rullrouds, w here milk. la. received for shipment. The milk thus received direct from the farmers Is handled In the best pos-slide manner, shipped In cans, by the car-- , milk Is one of the common train load.. The mII railroads of connecting with. a large phases By ROBERT H, MOULTON. American city today. HK value of the products of the The task of supplying great cities with milk has American dairy cow Is greater become a highly specialized Industry. The process than the value of all the metalof gathering, transporting and distributing the lic miuerals produced, such as fresh milk supply of a large city is one of the gold, silver, copix-r- , lead, zinc, complex tasks confronting those who provide the pig Iron,. etc, It Is also larger countrys dally food. The antire milk production than the total Value of the of the country must he cared for every day. Fresh minerals, namely, bimilk Is the only product that must quickly come to tuminous coal, Pennsylvania anthe consumer. It cannot be stored when there Is thracite, petroleum, natural gas, flood of It and carried over until there Is a short-- ' a Milk of the cement and brick clay production United States for 1015 was 11, 500, 000.000 age, although modern refrigeration has served to or an average production of 537 gallons - solve a part of this problem. Todays supply must meet lomorrows demand. per row. This production la equivalent to about When one realizes that the city ef Chicago must 115 gallons per capita population of the country. feave 5,(8)0,000 pounds of milk dally. It la easily At an average price of 110 cents per gallon, the understood that prompt conversion of this product years production of milk is valued at about Into money is no small task. The changes in the On January 1, $2,320,000,000 to the farmers. 1016, there were estimated to be 21.988,000 dairy geographic distribution of the population of the United States. In the centers of agricultural pro-- , cow's In the United States, valued approximately at $53.00 per head, or an aggregate grand total ductlon, and In the methods of transportation have had a marked Influence on the localization of the valuation of $1,1 S5.1 19,000 for all milch cow s. The United States exporter! 0,850,705 pounds of butter, dairy Industry. In early days the dairy farmer valued at $2,302,480 during 1515; supplied demands within a restricted area, but the Americans are great consumers of butter, and development of railroads and refrigeration has had effect on the character of the inyearly more than 1,800.000.000 pounds is manufactured In this country, a large proportion of dustry In Its centralization. Milk has been a food and drink for young and which is made at the farm home. The rural creamold ever since prehistoric times, and the reason eries have proved a big factor In farming business, The and form the center of marketing for this Is that milk Is one of the most desirable of human foods. It remained for modern analytical valuation of butter made in factories approximated more than $182,000,000 .last year, while this .processes to prove that milk Is the cheapest and most valuable of food products, especially when season gives every indication of reaching the mark. Farmers are iindlng that compared with meat. The department of agriculeffort in the manufacture of butter obtains a ture has discovered that for 25 cents worth of a higher market for them. given product, milk Is a more valuable food than The loss made in butter on furtus has been tremeat. , The grim words employed by the South Carolina mendous, Dairy experts, by actual investigation, hoard of health, A fly tn the milk nmy mean a calculate that of the annual $182,000, txvt product, on the basis of 30 cents r pound for butter at baby in the grave, have gone over the land and --left their niiprcslen-vpothe htcnl market, the annual buss average liwwn the minds of farmers two and five rents per pound, or from g.ai.ttoo.tk'O and inllk consumers. Files bear genus, and a sln-t- o o $w000000, due to the careless methods gle gvrin in a milk bottle breeds deadly million i h - iv$I em ed oil. the m eras furiu. . This hrmrv- .- Tbo otTcn (luring The 5r i would save enough in a almost to buy a jears we have read of epidemics of typhoid and moderate-pricenumiuobile for every farmer not similar being traced directly t4 a coutaui-- , lusted tnilk supply. today owning one. The increased high cost of dairy feeds has deOf, all human food- -, possibly none is more manded that the dairy farmer become a specialist to contamination than milk, particularly In hot weather when in the months of June, July n cow' rations. The profitable prod net hut of milk n a dairy farm involves two very difficult prol7 and Augu-- t, the babies of the country die by the lems: The formation nf a herd that win give in thousmd. Id --eases of she digestive organs cause 40 er ret.t ,.f the denlh in in: my ,cities. Cow: the milk pail lilteral returns for the cost of feed regular gold mine when milk-collectin- g given proper treatment T 40-qua-rt oon-metall- lc gal-Ion- s, ! con-itlora- ble rM-faiion- $200,-000,0- n -- em-al- er gtvti -- tar -f di-ea- d sue-eptib- ie , France. Btrf TarThe. mG& . war .feill- - oD France 'St was 39.000.000,000 producers while the remainder of a herd of a dozen francs, according to figures available cows would possibly fail to gne suti.cicnt milk to miscellaneous - ex- pay their board, hilt, TWs fact Iims caused the The "Tuesday. oT the s penses government were organization of the community 000,000 francs.In various parts of the country, this work laving as Its object the calculation of the IndiFights With Executioners. k vidual tow production. By the aid of the Vancouver, B. C. Roeco Ferrante, modern dairymen place apparatus, testing who decapitated his partner, Dick their cows on record, giving due credit for butter-fa- t Fer acre, and dropped the head down produced. This, work has built up one of the a deep well in an effort to cover bis highest specialized features of present-dafarmHe crime, waa hanged . Tuesday. ing. fought fiercely with the executioners. , A great and Intricate problem is involved in the end of July practically , 10,-C0- 0, cow-ie-tin- aso-clatlon- g - Balk-coc- y -- children from the age of one to five. The whlte-nev- s end opaqueness of milk serve as a covering and simper for insoluble substances. , "The Theory that clean milk long keeping qualities has been found true with certified miik. Instances are on record where certified milk has been taken on an ocean voyage and not only brought hack in good condition, hut also kept sweet until 30 das old. When your milk is sour after a few hour, it is certain that it is not clean milk. A number of certified milk dairies In the United States sent exhibits of milk to the Paris, exhibition la 1900, aud the milk kept sweet for two weeks. mates for the first year ranged be tween the German report of 2,500,001 slain and more than 5,000,000 wound ed and Beach Thomas estimate of S, rrncx CQV& and In some instances 18 days, after being bottled following a summer journey of 8,000 and 4,000 miles. This merely serves to Illustrate what milk consumexs may expect for the future pure products. American cheese, of which the exports decreased . from nearly 150,000,000 pounds in 1881 to less than 22100,000 In lOULJs again Ending lts way to for. elgn markets In rapidly increasing amounts. For the last half of 1914, 2,500,000 pounds were exported, while January saw some 3,000,000 pounds shipped to foreign countries, and February 7,500,-"00so that. the aggregate for the first three months of 1915 amounted to 13,000,000 pounds. -- The demand for Ice cream has been a great ben- efft to tbe dairy industry by the absorption of the milk surplus. Millions of gallons of. ice cream are manufactured from artificial Ingredients, due to lack of dnlry products to meet the growing do- mand for this toothsome and refreshing article. Nevertheless, nearly IS, 000,000 gallons of Ice cream are annually manufactured from cream and milk. This branch of the dairy Industry has achieved Is greatest growth during the .last decade, owing to the Increased number of sumnr resorts and parks. The ice cream factories of the United States an--, nually demand 30,000,000 gallons, or 250,000,000 pounds, of cream; 250,000,000 pounds of whole milk, and 15,000,000 gallons of condensed milk. Taking 14 cents as the average price paid for each gallon of milk. Ice cream factories each year pay the enormous sum of $32,000,000 to fanners for raw materials. The ice cream when retailed brings a price of $100,000,000, standing foremost among the popular luxuries of the day In the United -- 0, States. , 000,000 killed and 7,000,000 wounded. Up to the period of the present great offensives the British had tot in killed or totally incapacitated ES, 138 and 68,046 in prisoners; Germany 664,552 and 137,761; respectively, France, acording to Deputy Longuet, 900,0mf nd 100,400. - German reporti of Russian casualties amounted tn 8.000.- 000, of whom 1,000,000 were prk oners. Austria Is just now trying to have her men up to 0 years enrolled SUBMARINE HOLDS UP SIX SHIP Three Are Sunk and Three Allowed k Go After Being Searched. Havre, Six once by a German submarine Thur th day morning. The commander of the or crow submarine ordered the boat into French steamer Marie to get, and then sank the vessel with bomb) In view of the crewa of the other in The Norwegian steamers Cred and Scro were next sent to the bottoa each vessel going down in ten ships. utes. The other three ships were alio to continue their voyages after be exami leg searched and their papers sunk three ed. The crews of the Danis ships were picked up by the steamer Robert and landed at HTft on Friday morning. KILLED IN TROLLEY CAR THE APPLE AS MEDICINE. rfodem scoffer has recently asked whether It would be possible that Eve yielded to the serpent because 'he told, her that applet were good for the complexion. Whether this argument was needed or not, there Is no question that It I a true one. Nothing in all our varied and fasclnat Ing range of fruits holds quite the same quality as the apple. A raw. ripe apple at Its best Is digested in 85 minutes, and the malic acid which gives it ita distinctive character stimulates the liver, assists digestion and neutralizes much noxious matter which. If not eliminated, produce eruption of the skin. .They do not satisfy like potatoes some people, to whom they have been recommended as food, have said, but the starch of the potato, added to the surplus of starch we are always eating, renders it undesirable as an article of too frequent consumption. A ALL CLtMATES AT ONCE. Death and Sixty -Jthree Other Injured. flv Pf ohnstown, Pa. Twenty e sons were killed and collision bet jured in a head-otwo crowded trolley cars on the Cambria Trach of the Southern between thJJcho and B company Vale, seven miles from here, Satu Fourteen persons were instanuy a1 while .the others died sfter moved from the wreckage. ST more are In a critical condition probably will die. The cause Twenty-fl- Meet v sixty-thre- n accident has not been determine Favors Sale of laia". folkethinfCopenhagen. The lower house of the Danish Par5i5 voted in favor of selling the West Indies to he United Stste - plebiscite favored The supply department of the Panama canal vote' was 62 for the organization has been endeavoring to develop a supply pf fresh vegetables that would not have to be shipped In cold storage, as Is with those sent from the United States.necessary A colony of has recently taken up the cultivation of vegetables on the slopes of the volcano ne 5ardens Win !ru-- , st, an. elevation of a.ooo where tropical fruits are raised and end at an elevation of about 7.000 feet, where frUit f the temP?te zone are raised. The soiLiaa poroua loam of.vek5iuile.ash; CRASH a 44 the sale. . r. proposit member hem against it. one a vote and six being nied, Spanish-American- s Seek to Aid Syrians. Washington. New represents! of u Turkey In behalf the to Syrians will be taken I. thg Elkus, by Abraham ican ambassador, who on Mon celved his final instructions fm to president-- . ' - ; -- x Life Sentence for plotterUrf transportation can be arranged. Toklo. A sentence of Pena , TU1 abI t0 BuppIj the Canal tude for life has been u g Zone wdh eRt ho 01 fre8h Teetable and the two ringleader? of the fruits. Christian Herald. tempt on the life of Premier w Okuma on January 12, which result of a widesweeptfif P,,ot- "" activities OF WOMEN. Nearly all the work on the Paris newspapers is Mexican now being done by women. Regulars Fighting There are Over 1.500 woman Chihuahua City, Mexico.-frorsisers in the United States. - stock herder and the forces of General Ttlt7 - In addition to over 1,000 women while .the war la la nortne portwomen employed and Colonel Zuazua in TrevlnO. tn rarrn (tnpral |