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Show GREEN RJVER DI8PAT0H. GREEN RIVER, UTAH FINDS KORNILQFF F Hi IS NOT A TRAITOR in 'CHABLOV8KY DECIDES RUSSIAN GENERAL'8 REVOLT WAS NOT. HIGH TREASON. Leaders Declare Work Done Is Proved hat General Korniloff Committed f.o Act of a Nature to Weaken Fighting Front and Can Only Be Imprisoned. Most Remarkable . in Par- liamentary History. HARMONY General Chablovaky, Fetrograd. president of tlie commission of Inquiry Into the Korniloff affair, has returned to Petrograd, and in an Interview with local newspaper men declared that he did not see in the actions of General Korniloff and the other officers any character of high treason. It was proved, he said, that General Korniloff, throughout the movement, committed no act of a nature to weaken the lighting front General Chablovsky expressed the opinion that General Korniloff can be sentenced only under article 100, dealing with attempts against the established regime and involving the penalty of life Imprison- MADE A n, FEATURE Laek of Dissension Was Noticeable Administration Was Defeated on Only One Important Bill Dur-Inthe Six Months. g IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED IN SESSION CAPELLE HEED ENGLAND TO STAND OUT OF MINISTRY ment The orthodox council at a meeting In Moscow decided against permitting the clergy to participate In the provi- RESIGNATION OF GERMAN MINsional parliament , ISTER SEQUEL TO REVELATION The Finnish dlt has been called to ON REVOLT 'IN NAVY. meet November 1. The Finnish diet was dissolved by the provisional Russian government several weeks ago for Official Who Had Repeatedly Made Optimistic Statements Regarding Its extreme stand on the question of Progress Is Forced autocracy for the province. New electo Quit Office. Ocwere held and tions completed tober 4, the unified bourgeois and the receiving 00,000 of Amsterdam. Vice Admiral von the 70,000 votes cast. German minister of marine, has resigned, according to the Frankfurter WOMAN SPY EXECUTED. Zeltung. Vice Admiral Eduard von Capelle Dutch Dancer and Adventuress Facing was one of the administrative direcFiring Squad. before Paris. Mata-Har- i, the Dutch dancer tors In the ministry of marine a as war the served and had captain and adventuress, who two months ago was found guilty of espionage, was nt sea. In March, 1816, he succeeded Admiral von Tlrpltx aa Imperial minshot at dawn on October 15. Hata-HnrI, Mme. otherwise known ister of the navy. as Marguerite Gertrude Zelle, was Vice Admiral von Capelle announced in the relchstag last week that a Vot taken In ail automobile from St. lmd been discovered In the navy to prison to 'the parade ground at paralyse the efficiency of the fleet took execution the where Vincennes, and force the govemmept to make a place. Two sisters of charity and pence. He said that the guilty parties her. accompanied priest had received tlieir just deserts and atIn Mme. Mata-IIar- l, known long to link Socialists with the Europe as a woman of great attrac- tempted tiveness and with a romantic history, plot The Imperial Germanofchancellor, the existDr. also spoke was, according to unofficial press dis- enceMlcliaelis, In tlie a of navy and conspiracy patches, accused of conveying to the asserted that certain deputies were InGermans the secret of the construction of the entente tanks," this resulting volved In the revolt A Berlin dispatch received here says In the enemy'rushlng work on a spethat at tlie meeting of the relchstag cial gas to coigbat tlieir oiieratlons. on October 11, Georg Ledebour, social TRAIN ROBBERY IN UTAH. democratic leader, wus called to order for declaring they all must be conHold Three Bandits Up Train and vinced Chancellor Mlcliaelis was absoShoot One of Passengers. lutely lncapuble in his office, both as Salt Lake City. Three men held up regards capacity' and character. a train on the Deep Creek road eighteen miles of Wendover. Charles Bur-ber- DESPERATE GIRL KILLS FATHER. of Salt Lake was shot In the leg by one of the robbers. It Is nut known I Am Glad I Did It She Says In Dehow much the robbers secured bescribing Terrors of Home. tween 000 and S2000. Mich. I am happy for Kalamazoo, The point where the robbery took In because for first time the life, my place is In the center of a vast area of the first time In my life I have peace arid flat lands, and In view of the fact of mind. I know that my mother is that travel on horseback would be difficult, through scarcity of water, It not being cursed and abused and my Is believed that the bandits used an little brothers are not being beaten. I killed my father and I am glad 1 automobile. did It" MAJ. GEN. F. S. STRONG Ald Tills svas what pretty, ice Karlson, 24 years of age, told a reporter who Interviewed her at the county jull In Kalamazoo, where she Is being held for tlie murder of her father, whom she shot at their bleak and dismal fumihouse near Scotts, Mich., a few nights ago. social-democra- ts Ca-pell- e, . La-aal- re g sad-face- Kidnaper Piersol Convicted. Springfield, Mo. Claude Piersol was found guilty late Monday night of kidnaping Baby Lloyd Keet and his punishment was fixed at thirty-fiv- e Piersol years in the penitentiary- took tlie verdict calmly and said he might have a statement later. Counsel for the defense Immediately filed a motion for a new trial, which will be acted on In November. Bandits Massacre Cowboys. Bandits under Julio El Faso. Acosta killed eight Mexican cowboys near Snuz station last Friday, Martin Lopes raided the little town of San Andreas, forty miles west of Chihuahua City last week, and a force Is moving toward the state capital of Chihuahua from the direction of Durango, American passengers arriving here from Mexico said. Here are the n4Et Important ft measures passed by congress at ft the special war s( salon: pjj Declaration of war against B ' Germany on April 6. War bond Issues aggregating $15,538,000,000. WILL AID GALLANT ALLY UNTIL, SHE FREES HER CHILDREN FROM FOREIGN YOKE. War appropriations and con- authorizations totalling tract $14,390,000,000. War German Statement Only Prolongs Struggle, Cessation of Hostilities Net Being Possible Until Concessions Are Made as to Alsace-Lorrain- e. adLondon. Premier dressing a delegation of Insurance committees who called on Thursday to urge a readjustment of the health Insurance and the establishment of a ministry of health, declared that all the nation's thoughts and energies were taken up by the terrible demands mude In defense of liberty and freedom. lie wished he could see the end, but the task which the nation had taken In hund must be accomplished. lie could not think of any statement more calculated to prolong the war than the assertion of the German foreign secretary, Von Kuehlmnnn, tluit Germany would never contemplate the making of concessions to' France respecting To 8tand by France. Howeve long the war lasted, said the premier, England intended to stand by her gullunt ally, France, until she redeemed her oppressed children from tlie degradation of a for-elgn yoke. For the moment, every claim upon the exchequer must be considered iu the light of the terrible possibilities of the war, and when the war was over, In a freer, happier atmosphere the country could begin to rebuild, reconstruct and regenerate. Lloyd-Georg- Alsace-Lorrain- e, e. Luxburg in Detention Camp. Buenos Aires. Count Karl von Luxburg, the former German minister to Argentina, arrived Friday at the detention camp on the Island of Martin Garda. Blizzard Hits Cleveland. Cleveland, O. The first snowfall of the season struck Cleveland October 12, In tlie form of a small bllxznnl. Heavy snowfalls are reported from adjoining counties. ALBERT SPALDING Among the recently appointed major generals Is Frederick 8. Strong, who was bom In Michigan In 1855, graduated from the Military academy In 1875, and became a brigadier general In 1915. He has been In the artillery branch of the service. Liberty Loan Certain of Success. New York. In a recent statement regarding the Liberty loan, J. P. Morgan declared that its campaign and management are being conducted In The loan the most capable manner. Is going to be a success," said Mr. Morgan. King Urges Balkan Drive. Washington. Dispatch of American troops to Sulnnlkl to assist In a big drive In the Bnlkans was urged upon President Wilson by Senator King of Utah, a few days ago. to.8, to adopt n resolution commending Governor Lowden for sending troops to Chicago to suppress the convention of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Fence nfter Mayor Thompson hud directed the police not to interfere. 8eized Documents Expose Plot Additional light Is Sun Francisco expected to be thrown upon Gorman plots to gain Chinas sympathy by important documents now on their way to Washington, It is learned from federal officials.' Charge Through Sea of Mud. London. Cliurging at dawn through a sea of mud, the British on Friday resumed their drive In Flanders. Despite the meanest kind of weather faced since spring, the attack was crowned with complete success. ft ft ft ft y ft loans aggregating $7r V 000,000,000 to the allies. p The selective draft bill, mak- - ft "5 miliIng 10,000,000 men liable to tary service. ft The espionage bill, Including the embargo provision. A The $235,000,000 war rave- - 5J nuo bill. The food control bill. A $ The trading with the enemy ft act M The soldiers su ranee bill. and sailors In- - ft ft '5 Washington. The most remarkable session In the parliamentary history of the world," was the way Democratic and Republican leaders characterized the first war session of the Sixty-fift- h congress, which came to a close at three o'clock in the afternoon of October 0, exactly six mouths after the declaration of war against Germany. The record of legislation enacted and money appropriated has no parallel anywhere In the annals of all time. Beginning with the declaration of war against Germany In April, congress has passed bill after bill of the most revolutionary character, Including such measures as the draft bill and the food control bill. Appropriations and contract authorizations for tho present fiscal year, totalling including $7,000,000,000 In loans to 'the allies, were voted without a single dissenting voice, a record equalled nowhere, not even In the German relchstag. kalser-domlnate- d Hew Money Is Expended. Tho following table shows how the money Is to be spent: Army Navy Merchant shlpplnr fleet Loans to the allies Defense fund for President Food and fuel control Soldiers and sailors Insurance Interest on bonds and certifi- cates 111,000,000 UTS, 000, 000 1.19,000,000 7,000,000,000 100,000,000 173,000,000 170,000,000 100,000,000 Civil establishment ment All other expenses of govern051,000.000 102,000,000 As a part of the scheme of meeting these enormous expenditures congress passed the $2,535,000,000 war revenue bill, the largest taxation bill In American history, levying directly or indirectly upon every uinn, women and child In the United States. Something more than a billion dollars of this amount will be taken from war profits. All Incomes more than $1,000 for single men and more than $2,000 for married men are made subject to taxation. Where New Taxee Fall. Here are some things upon which the average citizen will pay taxes under the new war tax bill : Approximately 2 per cent Increase on Incomes of $5,000 or less. Letter postage, except local letters, Increased to 3 cents and postcards to 2 cents, beginning November 3. One cent for each 10 ceuls paid for admissions to amusements. Flve-ccoutdoor allows and amusement parks exempted. Ten per cent on all club dues of $12 a year or more. One cent for each 25 cents paid for parcel post One cent on each 25 cents express Albert 8palding, the American violinist, has canceled hia package charge. Three per cent of all freight charges. entire concert tour of the United 6tatea and Canada for the coming seaEight per cent of passenger fares by son and Joined the foreign department rail or water, except trips of less than of the aviation corps at Mineola, Long SO miles. Ten per centof charges for seats, Island, as an Interpreter. Mr. 8palding fa an accomplished linguist, speaking berth and staterooms on parlor cars five languages, and has made extensive or vessels. Five cents on each telegraph, teleconcert tours of France, Germany, Russia and phone or radio message costing 13 Austria, Italy. cents or more. Criminals Derail Train. Three per cent on Jewelry. Fetrograd. Eight passengers wera Eight cents on each $100 of life InThe tax on whisky la Inkilled and fifty wounded by a band of surance. seventy criminals, who derailed a mall creased from. $1.10 a gallon to $3.20. The tax on beer la Increased from $1 line at train on the Hostev-TIfll- s a barrel to $2.75. according to a Moscow newspt Increased tax on cigars, cigarettes per. and manufactured tobacco and snuff. U. 8. to Care for Refugees. Little Dissension During Session. Washington. The American Bed Despite pacifist activities, tho sesCross war council has appropriated sion was marked with comparative! $589,930 for the relief of Belgians not little dissension, the fighting centering under Gorman rule, the work to be about questions mainly affecting polcarried out by the new Bed Cross icy. The most stubborn contests wen department for Belgium. staged over the revenue bill, the draft nt world-renowne- d Council Commends Governor. Chicngo. The city council voted, 44 K W BY FRANCE TO END Vlad-Ikav- s, 10-ce- bill and the food control bill. In every case, except censorship of the newspapers and speech, the administration lias received everything It asket of congress for. the conduct of the war. Congress was In xewiinii 188 days During that time more tlmu 1U.UUC army, navy and marine corps nominations sent to the senate were confirmed, among them the advancement of Major General Pershing, coinuiuu-de- r In chief of the armies In France, and Major General Bliss, chief of staff, to the rank of full general, held only four times previously In American history. The only Important appointment held up waa tluit of Col. Carl Itelch-inanto he a brigadier general. Action was blocked until the December session because It was clinrged he uttered sentiments. An unprecedented feature of the session whs the reception of the special missions sent to the United Slates by the allied governments, and the special representatives of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Russia aud Japan addressed both houses. Invitations of the British and French governments to have the United States send a congressional mission across the Atlantic to see war conditions and with the lnteriiarllumentary congress were rejected. Important Measures Passed. Following Is a list of the most Important measures passed by congress: Resolution declaring a state of war exists between the Imperial German government and the government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same. On April 2 the resolution for war against Germany was introduced In the house and on April 6, or four days after the assembling of congress, the president attached his signature to the measure. No delay was involved In the passage of this resolution, perhaps the most Important ever offered either In this or any other congress. General deficiency appropriation act, appropriating $163,841,400.52, of which $100,000,000 was for the national security and defense and for each and every purpose connected with tlie war. Act authorizing an Issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense and for the pur-poof assisting In the prosecution of the war and to extend credit to foreign governments and for other purThis act appropriated poses. for establishing credits in the United Slates for. foreign governments by purchase of bonds of our allies and expenses Incident to preparation and Issue of bonds and certificates; authorizes the issue of bonds amounting to $5,063,045,460, of which $3,000,000,000 la for meeting the loans authorised to foreign governments, $2,000,000,000 to meet domestic expenditures, and $63,945,460 to redeem the three per cent loan and also authorises $2,000,000,000 of one year certificates of an Indebtedness temporarily to provide revenue. Huge Military Expansion. Act authorising one additional midshipman for each senator, representative and delegate In congress. Act appropriating $273,046,332250 for the support of the array for the fiscal year 1918. Act authorizing the president to Increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States. This act authorised a selective draft of 1,00,000,000 men and contains other Important legislative features pertaining to the army. Resolution authorizing the president to take over for the United States any vessel owned In whole or In part by any corporation, citizen or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war. Act to increase temporarily the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the navy and Murine corps from 87.0U0 to 150,000 men, In the first Instance, and from 17,400 t $3,007,-003,945.- 40,-00- 0, In the second. Act appropriating $1,344,896.18 for the support of the military academy for the fiscal year 1918 and for other purposes. Largest 8lngle Grant In History. Act to amend an act entitled An Act to Regulate Commerce, as amended, In respect of car service, and for other purposes. Act amending the war risk Insurance net and appropriating $45,150,000 to Insure vessels and their cargoes and expenses connected therewith. Act appropriating $147,363,928.77 for the sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year 1918. Act authorizing the Issue to states and territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organization of home guards. Act appropriating $3,281,094,541.60 for the military and naval establishments on account of the war expenses. Up to time this was the largest appropriation act known to this or any other country. Among other things It appropriated $405,000,000 for an emergency shipping fund with which to begin construction of the greatest merchant fleet the world has ever known. Act to punish acta of Interference with foreign relations, the neutrality nnd the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage and better enforce the criminal laws of the United States. Conservation Bills Passed. Act authorising condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes. Act appropriating $640,000,000 to Increase temporarily the signal corps of the army and to purchase, manufacture, maintain, repair and operate sir-ship- s. Act authorizing the United States to take possession of a site for use for aviation stations of tlie arnavy for school purposes. Acts enlarging the membership of i he inlersiate commerce commission anil amending the act to regulate commerce by authorizing priority shipments by any common carrier, ect. Act appropriating $11,346,1100 to provide further for the national security and defence by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products. Act appropriating $lii2,50(.,000 to provide further for the nutloual security and defence by encouraging the production, conserving the supply and controlling the distribution of food pivslucts and fuel. Act to authorize an additional taaue of bonds to meet expenditures for the nationul security uud defense and, for the purpose of authorizing In the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes. This act makes an additional appropriation of to extend credit In the United States for foreign governments by purchase of bonds of our allies and expenses Incident to preparation of an issue of bonds and certificates; au0 thorizes an additional Issue of of bonds to meet loans to foreign governments; authorizes an additional Issue of one year certificates of Indebtedness amounting to $2,000,000,-00- 0 and an Issue of fire year war saving certificates amounting to my uml $4,021,-377,890.- $4,000,-000,00- $2,000,-000,00- 0. New Mark Again Set. Act appropriating $5350,000,018.93 to supply deficiencies In appropriations for the fiscal year 1918 and prior years on account of war expenses and for other purposes, and authorizes contract obligations to be met by future congresses amounting to $2,401,458,-89325This Is the largest appropriation act passed by this or any other country. This act makes further appropriations of $635,000,000 for the emergency shipping fund and raises the limit of cost to carry out the pur0. poses of the shipping act to 0. $1,734,-000,00- Act to define, regulate and punish trading with the enemy and for other purposes, uml appropriates $450,000 to enforce the provisions thereof. Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses. This measure provides approximately $2,500,000,000 of revenue with which to pay the expenses of the government Act to provide a mllllnry nnd naval family allowance, compensation and Insurance fund for the benefit of soldiers and sailors and tlieir families, and makes nn nppropriutinu therefor of $170,250,000. 50,000 BELGIAN HOUSES GONE Germans Record of Deetruction le 8hown by New Gray Book Is-- 1 sued by Government Havre, Oct 8. The Belgium government has Issued a gray book to refute allegations against Belgium civilians contained In the German white book of May, 1915, In which It was said Belgian civilians savagely attacked German troops In the eorly days of the war and that the measures adopted by the Germans were necessary In the Interest of preservation of the German army. According to the gray book, between 40,090 and 50,000 houses were destroyed by the Germans. JACKIE KILLS FRIEND; IS HELD Queenstown Magistrate Says Fatal Blow Constitutes Manslaughter To Get Ball. London, Oct 8. Machinists Slate Perente of an American naval vessel will be liberated on ball on i charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of a dock yard laborer named Ilummer, who died from the effect o! a blow on the Juw Inflicted by the sailor on September 8. lle was held hy n Queenstown magistrate. Perente pleaded not guilty uml added: 1 did not mean to injure my friend." PERU BREAKS WITH KAISER German Minister Handed Passports by Government Uruguay to Take Similar Action. Lima, Peru, Oef. 8. Peru formally broke relations with Germany. In accordance with an overwhelming vote In congress for such a rupture the government handed passports to the Ger-maminister. Buenos Aires. Oet. 8. From Montevideo, Uruguay, came word Hint congress was momentarily expected to vote an overwhelming majority In favor of nn immediate rupture in diplomatic relations with Germany. n C. P. TAFT WEDS MISS CHASE 8on of Former President Marrlee Daughter of Irving H. Chase of Waterbury, Conn. Wn ter bury, Conn., Oct. 8. Miss Eleanor, the daughter of Irving H. Chase, was married here to Scrgt. MaJ. Charles Phelps Taft II, U. S. A., son of William II. Taft and Sirs. Tuft ol New Haven. The ceremony was at Rose I111I, the home of the Chase family. Flags predominated In the decorations. Rev. Robert E. Brown, pastor of the Second church, officiated. Tho bride was given away by her father, Irving H. Chase. Urges Federation Oust I. W. W. Sacramento, Cal.. Oct 8. The California State Federation of Labor went ta record here against the L W. W, adopting a resolution recommending expulsion of all members of that organization from unions of the Ameri--i can Federation of Labor. 1 |