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Show . YOUflG TJEtl TO BE Ill JN-- STALL r. AUTOCRAT. R Such Is Message Delivered to Stock-meby Chief of Meat Division in Addreoa Before the National Livestock Association. Russ-Germa- n ; -- berlain of jhe senate military committee to register for draft all men who have reached 21 since June 5, 1917, when the draft law became effective. The administration's support seems to assure Its prompt passage. The bill agrees with the recent recommendations of Provost Marshal General Crowder. Provide for Furloughing. Other administration bills introChamberlain BUT STOCKMEN ARE WARNED THAT MEATLESS DAYS HAVE COME TO STXY. Count von Hcrtling May, Resign te Maks Room for Prince von Buelow. ParFinal Break in Be Near. Believed to leys When Young Men Reach Age of 21 They Will Be Drafted, According to Moaaurc Which Agreea With Recommendation of Crowder. duced by Chairman PRO-WA- at London. According to telegrams from Berlin on January 14. .Count von Hertling, the German iin;er!al chancellor, is ill and will probably resign shortly. KuyCari K x el u n ge e lj.gr u h dispatch. Some .ten days ago there was a similar' report from Berlin where the statement that Count von Hertling was lndisjKHed was coupled with a rumor in polltal circles that there was an Intrigue in progress to induce him to resign on the ground of 111 health in order to make way for Prince von Buelow as occupant of the chancellorship. Chancellor von Hertling shortly afterward, however, apiwared before tbe relchstag main committee to make a statement regarding the negotiations with Rnssia and it bus been stated in Berlin advices that he would again ate pear before the relchstag soon, to reply to Iremler Lloyd George and President Wilson. Final Break in Parley Nears. Warning of the possibility of a final n breach In the negotiations is the outstanding feature of the current news from Petrograd. In the meantime, according to the correspondent of the Dully Mall in the Russian capital, the armistice had been extended until February. 18 and the Russian delegation returns to Petrograd Tuesday, but the pence negotiations will be resumed after an Interval t Warsaw. Immediate repatriation of deported Poles and Lithuanians and the liberation of all Bohemians, Czechs and others arrested by the central owera for their connection with pacifist propaganda were among the demands made by the Russian delegates at the conference on Friday, the to Petrograd correspondaccording ent of the Exchange Telegraph company. To this the German delegates replied : These demands involve questions of Internal policy, which cannot possibly be discussed in the peace parleys." m CIRCULATION OF WILSONS MESSAGE BELIEVED TO PRESAGE DESERTION OF MILITARISTS. . SLAV WAR IS ENDED BY BLAKAN KINGDOM AS RESULT OF AGREEMENT. the request of the war department will supplement the draft law to make it workable under conditions that have One would permit furdeveloped. loughing of national army units for harvest work or other civilian duty; another would eliminate enemy alien population from basis of calculations for draft quotas by making the basis for each state the number of men available In class one. Registration of men who have become, of age' since the draft law was enacted was referred to in the recent report of Provost Marshal General Crowder as one of the means by which a supply of men for the national army might be assured without taking those who might have others dependent upon them. It could be done also, the provost marshal general pointed out, by extending the age limits above the present line of 31. The war department has adopted the first suggestion. It is estimated that it will add about 700,000 men to the draft available each year. Congressmen have been e advised that further legislation would-bnecessary to perfect and carry on draft, and the passage of Senator Chamberlain's bill with administration support is expectFOOD IMPORTS SHUT OFF, ed promptly in both houses. Bill Provides for Badge. of Food SupAllies Prohibit Another bill Introduced by Senator Sold to Neutrals. plies Chamberlain would provide a distincWashington. Germany's Import of tive badge or button for exempted food have been stopped, not only by mem of food supThe bill changing tbe basis of state prohibition of also sold but to by allied neutrals, quota Is believed to provide a more plies In used enof control, shipping products equitable system, as It will exclude countirely enemy aliens from the basis. goods grown wholly within those Enemy aliens were included In the tries, according to consular reports basis for tlje first draft and there was Monday. Advertisements for German much complaint Heavy enemy alien twine appealing recently In Danish papopulations in some congested dis- pers revealed that exports of preserves tricts forced Americans to army duty to Germany had been shut off because regardless of exemption claims to twine used In the packing was sold by the allies under agreement it should make up district quotas. German twine had Tbe bills to permit troops to go to not be aubefore would to orders could be be obtained work merely agricultural thorized the secretary of war to fur- filled. lough men for civilian duty. It Is known, however, that the war departGENERAL DUPORT ment Intends to use the authority principally to provide men for harvest time and other agricultural work vital to the food supply, Band Diplomatic and Economic Relations Should Emperor Climb on Liberal Between Russia and Bulgaria ReWagon, It Would Be for Purpose of sumed With the Consent of Inducing Alliea to Offer Better Terme of Peace. Bulgarias Allies. , Russo-Germa- Washington. That Kaiser Wilhelm may desert the German militarists! for the liberals is a solution of the political tangle suggested in Washington Sunday by the extremely wide publicity given in Germany to the president's war aims speech. No official will predict such an outcome.' "The . speech Is father of - the said an official In talking thought, of it It is Carefully pointed out that such a reform would meet only the first . L2.of them must of the nllled JL be complied with before the iafct gun is fired. Official dispatches and press summaries received here during the day have convinced Officials that their plan for getting the presidents speech before the German people has borne A Switzerland. separate Berne, euee agreement lias been signed by Russia and Bulguria, the Bund reports. A Bulgarian correspondent of tbe Ilupd says Premier ltadoslavoff read the following dispatch from Brest-Lit-ovs- k .in parliament; War between Russia and Bulgaria Diplomatic and economic relations' between Russia and Bulgaria ore resumed. Russia recognizes Bulgarias right ,to nominate a delegate to an international Danube commission. The first peace la thus concluded with the consent of Bulgaria's uliles. The Bund says Bulgaria has ap-- l oln ted a minister to Petrograd and a consul general to be stationed at Odessa and has ordered the resumption of navigation to Odessa. Bulgaria took part with Germany, Austria and Turkey in the first negoand It1 has tiations at been assumed that no peace terms would be agreed to by the central powers except In concert King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Is credited with opposing the formula of peace without annexations or Indemnities, declaring Bulgaria should retain the territory she bad won. This would not Interfere with a peace between Russia and Bulgaria, however, inasmuch as the territory Bulgaria desires consists of parts of Serbia and Rumania. Premier Radoslavoff had accepted the Russian proposals, providing for ending the war, restoring commercial treaties In effect before the war and settling the Danube question. ceases. Brest-IJtovsl- c - fruit Brest-Lltovs- k rt re-exp- ENORMOUS TOLL OF . Tsn Million Tons of Shipping Sunk in Year. London. Summarizing the results of the underwater campaign since February L the Tageblatt claims that the have sank on an average of tons of shipping monthly from 821,000 to December, and that for February the whole year the toll may be ex lected to show nearly 10,000,000 tons, and that the building of new ships by the entente and neutrals daring the year will replace only between 2,500,000 and 4,000,000 tons of these losses.- The newspaper says the monetary loss to Germany's enemies as the result of the year's work by the will reach $5,000,000,000, figuring the value of the ships at $250 per ton and their cargoes at the same rate. BRITISH LABOR BACKS RUSS. Accepts Russian Principle ef of Peoples. London. Tb British labor party. In a message to the Russian people made public January 15, announced that the. British people accepted the Russian of peoprinciple of British for no annexations ples end middle in the east, empire, particularly Africa and India. The message declares In favor of placing the whole of tropical Africa under uniform International control. The more rapid development of for the people of Asia Minor by an International organization constituted by the peace conference la The speech was cabled in full to neutral countries adjacent to Germany and widely printed there. It is presumed that the speech was so well spread about Germany's borders that the military jHiwers In control of Germanys rigid press censorship hesitated to suppress or mutilate the text as was done with previous messages. This Itself tmarks a weakening of the old system. It is Dot believed that weakness would have been shown in this respect without complaisance In tin highest quarters the all highest Men here familiar with the manner of the kaisers mind would not be surprised to see him climb aboard the liberal wagon again. It U considered certain, however, that he would do so only in an effort to Induce the entente to give Germany better terms than the fourteen laid down by President Wilson. It Is admitted that were tbe kat-se- r to shake off the influence of the crown prince, Tlrpitz and LTidendorff, throwing his Influence with a moderate liberal like Matthias Erzberger, the centrist leader, Germany, then might be able to fulfill the prime requisite of the allies for any peace discussion German spokesmen responsible to the relchstag. JAMES H. BRADY Baker Oppoeea Munitiona Secretary. Washington. Unqualified opposition was registered Saturday by Secretary against a socrctary of He considered his, own munitions. plan of 'organization completely satisfied the needs of a change in the purchasing department of the army. favored.- The message was Issued by the labor party In conjunction with the parliamentary committee of the trades union congress. MINERS PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE ex-eeu- th Support of Government With Militarists. War During Whole-Hearte- d -- ! sup Indianapolis. port of the government In the war against the centtal power"'aniTorIU- cisin of the federal courts for decisions adverse to the union expressed In the reports of officers, received the rigorops approval of the fifteen hundred delegates attending the biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America, which ojwned here January 15. 1 rvf ane. Czar inAmsterdam. The former empress of Rnssia, according to German papers, has become insane and now is confined to a sanitarium at Tolmlsk, Siierla. Her condition Is reported to be hoje-lesWhole-hearte- Captain Found Dead. Honolulu. Cuptala F. J. Green, e officer for th army selective service board of Hawaii, was found General Duport, who has been ap- dead following the issuance of a war-fo- r pointed chief of the major staff ef the hi arrest, charging falsifies--tiorencharmy. General 'Duport'waa of accounts. bom In Alsace in 1864. At the beginning of the war he commanded the Over Four Billions to Allies. plinth French Infantry regiment, which Credits to the allies Washington. did valiant work in the Champagne to were raised $4.238, 400.000 when deIn the battle. He also helped fense of Verdun, and was decorated Secretary McAdoo authorized a loan for hia work In repulaing the troopa of $2,000,000 to Serbia, making Serbia's total $6,000,000. lad by the crown prince of Germany. d ' f n - s. Whister Stole $62,826.21. Camp Funston. Kan. An official cheek of the funds of the army bank of Camp Funston shows Captain Lewis Wl.lsler stole $02.82(1.21 ' w hen be robted tbe bank on January 11 and filled four men with an ax. Burdeir Approves Addreto. , ,y present The appalling loss of sheep in this state, due to inclement weather and crop conditions, was brought out strongly. Secretary Stewart stating that 25 per cent of the sheep had been Tost Hurl fig the 'pa! year ' bv Inclement weather and that the lest figures for the amount of sheep was 5 Ief cent 'below the" lionm fi gures of other years. I have estimated that at least Senator Jamea H. Brady of Idaho, . T'tah,. sheep,, .were .destroyed- last who died ar Washington- - January '13, year by predatory animals. Tlvis is one' had served at governor of Idaho and of the most iuqMirtant obstacles with held a high place in congress aa mem-be- r which we have to contend and plana of military and agricultural com must.le taken to secure tbe extermination of these vermin. said Secretary mittees. Stewart. Steamer Saved. 1 i 500,-VQ- 0 - Strandcd.-passengert' To Take Over Oil Supply. ' is Washington. The government preparing to take control of the oil supply, under the fuel administration. A man has Jieen selected to take charge and his name will be made public when all plans are matured. auc-tee- t l orkT . convention of the Utah WoolgrowergL.. association on January 15 at the Hotel Utah. More than 200 delegates were Hawley May Succeed Senator Brady. Washington. Janies II. llawle. of Idaho will lie appointed d by Governor Moses Alexander to the lute Senator James JJ. Brady, capital gosvip here claimed. Mr. Hawley is counted here ns a Democrat. New con- Plan to Have Traits Declared Govern-me- n Property la Proposed. " Suir lotke City. That Utah sheep trails be declared government property so as to facilitate the moving of Herds to their seasonal pasturage, was recommended by Secretary G. B. Stewart in bis address before the annual uuana. A SXrKobert Borden, presteatu from Key West to Havana, with bound Wklnes-dnywas , who here mier of Canada, passengers, went aground declared before bis departure for seventy-fou- r Ottawa that he was In entire accord at a point eighteen miles from this with the war aims enunciated by Presi- city. A Cuban tug took off an the dent Wilson 'and Premier Lloyd George. passengers In safety. X&JgiXS n gestion of beef at the countrys packing; plants shall have been relieved. Exports of beef have been small compared with exports of pork, Mr. Cotton said, but this condition will soon be remedied and the .outlet will largely help the cattle situation. Prices he said, will not fall far below the present level. Science as related to the cattle industry was given a hearing at the annual convention of the twenty-thir- d American National Live Stock association when two university professors delivered addresses on meat production. Choosing as his subject, Hints on Economic Meat Production, John T. Caine III, director of the extension division of the Utah Agricultural colTo produce meat more lege said: economically the following points should be remembered. Use only good stock bred along meat production lines. Take care of range and feed stock liberally when needed. Market stock at younger ages and keep more females. Take more care to see that you get a large percentage of In-7 crease. Cattle feeding on hay was pronounced unprofitable by E. L. Potter, professor luf animal husbandry, of the Oregon Agricultural college in his speech on Fattening Cattle on Hay. Good results are obtained, however. Professor Potter said. In feeding the attle on a mixture of alfalfa and corn silage. Meat conservation is being carried o the extreme under government regulation, particularly as it affects beef. said C. B. Irwin, one of the larg s cattlemen in Wyoming, and with tl.t present enormous supply of fresh bee, stored in the pucking houses it Is a crime to tell the people they should not eat beef in order to show their pa- - v.afltiajpygLa ' Few Americans Found Tubercuiir. New York. Less than 1 per cent of the 800,000 men examined for the United States army were found to be tubercular. Colonel G. XL Bushnel of the surgeon generals department declared In an address Sunday. OF GOVERNMENT LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. WOULD PROTECT SHEEP TRAILS. Uncle Joe" Gannon Washington. fell and sustained a fracture, of the shoulder Monday afternoon while leaving his apartments for rhe Vnpitol. Attending physicians deHart d that his condition was not serious. , coast states after the present BACK PllillSIi THAT WAR MAY BE WON F0o Salt Lake City Meatless and wlieat- less days are Institutions that .baye come to stay;-a- t least, for the period of war necessity. Such Is the pointed and positive message brought to the American National Livestock association, assembled In its annual convention here, by twenty-firs- t chief of the meat Cotton, I. Joseph division of the federal food administration and principal representative of the food administration at the convention. Tills message from headquarters at Washington was delivered Tuesday to the assembled livestock men of , the country at their afternoon session at the Hotel Utah, Just after the market committee of the organization had submitted Its annual reiort at the morning session urging the necessity for the convention to take some action looking toward the securing of a change in the governments meatless day program by the substitution of porkless days for the present meat' less Tuesdays. Mr. Cotton, speaking as head of the meat division of the food administration, stated that already the administration had announced Its plan to lift the restriction upon beef on .meatless days in the Pacific coast states, but le assured tbe convention that this is but a temporary holiday ; that meatless day as first inaugurated will be maintained throughout the country and restored to Its full extent In the Pacific THEIR ARE triotism. ent -- HE LIFTED FORU BUELOW militarist party plans to OUST CHANCELLOR AND REGISTRATION OF YOUTHS TC FILL RANKS OF ARMY PLAN . OF .ADMINISTRATION. Washington. The government has decided on draft registration of men as fast as they become 21 years old as the means of keeping filled the ranks of the war army. It has decided against raising the draft age limit above 31 years. An administration bill was introduced January IS at the request of the fear department by Chairman Cham- SKI BEEF Bill III WEST Preparing for the Summer Drive Destroyed ' fey ''urt4cfte; Hatterav X. "C. A hurricane here Tuesday blew down booses and in jured many persons. Fifty sought refuge on a small steamer. It was blown out to sea and 1ms not since been beard from. Delegates to American National Live stock Association Declare They Ar. Willing to Do All in Tbe,r Power for Government. Salt Lake City. The Aunru.m tlonai Livestock association an livestock pmlucers of tb a. I tilt States represente I by if, ur, pa; ically hack of the governnivi and off n hat die great world war may be uon r,- ltl. erty and justice. . This, in brief. Is the important message sent forth on January 11 f,,,m the twenty-firs- t annual coinmition of the National Livestock assiKiatuin in session, to General John J. Porting commander of the American tionary forces now in France. The telegram reads ns follow Annua! convention American Uu. stock association sends heart) Greetings to you and onr loys in l'raiice. We stand back of you in winning nl(I war. Patriotism ' was the predominant Lord In the proceedings of the convention and was the kejnote of eery address delivered before the opening session. President L. T. Prjbr sounded the tocsin of patriotic between the livestock men ami the government in his annual address when he declared that the Inestork men, as producers of that essential food product, meat, ask nothing of the government but a fair profit upon their product and that they be not expected to produce It at a loss. Tbe president voiced tbe unanimous sentiment of the convention when be declared that the livestock men are ready and willing to do all In their jsiwer to meet the demand of the government for increased production, and TmlyTask thut the government in retun give them the consideration necessary to eneour-tg- e them In accomplishing this important end. In line with the attitude of the asms iation to employ every means possible toward the conservation of meat siqe ply, the executive committee of the national organization, through ITesidcnt Pryor, wired to Secretary Luvid 1'. Houston of the department of agriculture, asking him to prevent the of the Juurez packing plant it Juarez, Mexico. f The executive committee sees in the proposed opening of the Juarez plant-thplacing of a premium upon confix cation of American-owne- d cattle by Meican bandits and the oening of s loor through which these Mexican cattle rustlers could easily dispose of the confiscated stock at a handsome profit ind to the exclusion ofc possible redress by the rightful American -- irs. The d duty of the American livestock men is to see to it that the aatlon at large Is supplied Jo the fullest extent with meats and meat products and at the sane time to observe due regard for the law of ration which demands that be preserve his Industry, tfas the subject of l stirring address before the opening annual cosession of the twenty-firs- t nvention of the American National Livestock association by Frank J. Hagenbarth, former president of thl association and now president of the National Woolgrowers association. Senator Patrick Sullivan, from Cacosper, Wyo., was at the livestock that announcement nvention, with the comes be if man, .he first Wyoming from Casper, to drop a lmb in Berlin can call uion him to receive S3Gtk cash. It has been conservatively estimate! wil that not to exceed 25.060,000 acres ever be homesteaded under the of tbe unacre act, or about appropriated, unreserved public two-fol- self-preser- -. - one-tent- h A comsays President IYyor. remainm of the plete ' classification should be made as promptly as P0" sible, and we should urge congresstnu grant the necessary funds for . work. Dr. Issa Tanlmura. commissioner livestock of Japan, from Tokio. ': rited in thec(ty Sunday nlgbrw tend the sessions of the Americanto tlonai Livestock association and liver an address before the Nation' Woolgrowers association on the Went ject or Woolgrowing In thein That livestock conditions nia have not been of the roost opu tic nature. But that the rains, gener at-- rj over-th- e -- state last-week'- lh measure, afford relief, was thcopi Narc expressed by Llewellyn A. Fresno,, president of .the cal1 Cattlemens association. One of the eflVris of the war ' livestock' industry Is the stUmiia knitting. For the first time uijbtory of the conventions iatioo can National Live Fbsk ass bni;tjTur u1ionwomen sat in the , sweaters and mufflers for so1 their, husbands debated m tr matters pertaining to the prose Let 'conditions.""' . - Com Crop Placed, m TwP' Priority Washington. discriminated against corn to " of extent that a large part te0el is . ,ir bumper crop, of 101 1 with serious deterioration struction. It Is saiL T ort of Po, Players in Army. Boys Wanted on Poultry New York. Of the 1440 polo playChicago. A call for ' eu ers in tbe- forty nine clubs comprising sent poultry farms was the Polo association, ,85 are'Spn ir.g Ly breeders attending- tie In the army, it was announced at the Chicago poultry show. Lxbou annual meeting cf the association tere dared that they have places off January 15. eral thousand boys. -- - - ilS I - |