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DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 2.—Beaten to a standstill, and leaving
tour hundred dead and wounded on the ground. General \ nla is re
treating eastward. He has been forced by hunger, thirst and a scanty
supply of ammunition to abandon his plan for a renewal immediately
of the assault on Agua Prieta.
Moving in a solid column three miles long, V ilia and his soidiers
moved to the attack on General Calles at Agua Prieta. Lie battle was
started on Monday night by tire Carranza forces, ana a lierce tue fiom
rifles and machine guns was commenced. Many shots fell on American
soil and two persons were injured. \ ii!a led his own foices.
General Funston has arrived here to take command. It was at
first believed that General Calles intended to defy the American gov
ernment and cross the border to racn his goal.
Funsicn Is Restive
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Advices from General Funston state
that General Calles deliberately fired upon American officers at Doug
las. An explanation was demanded immediately. Calles m explana
tion expressed regret and promised that there would be no repetition
of the incident.
General Funston asked permission of his superiors to cross the
border if the Mexican rifle fire interfered with residents on the border,
but it is improbable that the permission will be granted.
Villa Making for Pacific Coast
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—General Villa is making an attempt to
strike the Pacific coast and capture Guaymas in order to get a base oi
supplies. _
HALIFAX, N. S„ Nov. 1.- -British warships have brought two
American steamships, the Hambern and Hocking, into port with prize
crews aboard, ihe seizures are termed nigh-handed and illegal by
Americans.
Owners Protest
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The owners of the steamships Hocking
and Hambern have entered a protest against the seizure of those ves
sels by the British.
Conference on Lusitania
WASHINGTON', Nov. I.—German Ambassador Bernstorff will
hold a conference with Secretary of State Lansing tms week on the
Lusitania and other cases.
The navy department, through investigation, has satisfied itself
that the steamship Hesperian, on which American lives were lost, was
sunk by a torpedo, and not by striking a mine, as had been claimed.
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LONDON, Nov. 5.—The Statement is given out that the war is
costing Great Britain $7,500,000 daily, and the financial question is
causing much worry.
BERLIN, Nov. 1 .—The Russian offensive has been repulsed, and
the Germans now are nearing Riga.
ZURICH, Nov. 3.—It is denied that General Von Buelow is here
for the purpose of opening peace negotiations.
LONDON. Nov. 4.— Four British torpedo boat destroyers have
demolished the Mitylene forts and most of the town also.
OTTAWA, Oct. 30.-—Canada will raise her quota of 250,000 men
for the war.
LONDON, Oct. 30.—Japan has become a party to the agreement
not to conclude peace separately.
PARIS, Nov. 1.—Today and tomorrow special services will be
Held throughout the country in honor of the dead and wounded.
BERLIN, Nov. 1.—The French submarine Turquoise has been
sunk by Turkish artillery fire at Gallipoli.
LONDON, Nov. 1.—General Joffre has returned to 1'ranee.
LONDON, Nov. 3.—King George has suffered a relapse and en
dures much pain. He returned from the front yesterday and reports
conditions favorable.
Great Britain now has a million men in France and along the Bel
gian front.
A British torpedo boat has been lost at Gibraltar as the result of
a collision.
British and French troops have arrived at Kavia, on the Aegean
Roumania is preparing to intervene in the war to help the Anglo
French entente.
BERLIN, Nov. 3.—Owing to the meat shortage, the government
is enforcing a d et of fish.
NOTED NEWSPAPER MAN
STRICKEN BY DEATH
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. —Herman Ridder,
editor of the New York Staats-Zeitung and
treasurer of the national Democratic com
mittee, died here suddenly today as a result
of kidney trouble.
£ Brief Sketch of His Career
Herman Ridder vas born in New Yrork
city rn March 5. 1851 of German parent
'** !7" bestsn h’- b” mess life at the age
years later
• 1 nsurance com
an insurance
lit ~ __ Catholic
newspaper in 1878, and in 1S86 founded the
Catholic News. He became connected with
the Staats-Zeitung in 1890, and was made
president of the company whffch published
that widely-known newspaper in 1907. He
took an active part in Democratic politics,
and was prominent in the Cleveland cam
paign and reform movements. He was con
nected with many German-American organ
izations, and was a director of the Associated
Press and the New York Press Club. Since
the commencement of the European war he
has been a strong partisan of the German
cause, and a caustic critic of the American
government for its attitude toward Ger
many. but when the Lusitania was sunk and
the crisis developed between Germany and
the Lnited States, he came out editorially
with the statement that all German-Ameri
ern? 1 stand by the American flag
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O SAN I RANCISCO, Oct. 30. Nor- O
O nuui Mack, chairman of the national C>
O Democratic committee, who is visiting O
O the exposition, says that the renomina- ^
C* tiun of Woodrow Wilson for President O
O by the Democratic national convention 0
O next year is assured. It is possible ^
O that James Hamilton Rewis, United o
O states senator from Illinois, may be O
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O Preparing for Conventions
O NEW YORK, Oct. 31). The chair- O
O men of both of the leaning p ditical O
O parties have issued calls for meetings O
O of the executive committees of the 11a- O
O tional committees at Washing!.111 to v
O .select the cities in which the national O
O conventions are to be held next year. ^
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INTIMATION THAT JOHN D.
OBTAINS WEALTH ILLEGALLY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. -On lho ci:urge
that the petroleum industry is controlled by
;.:i illegal monopoly, a nation-wide investiga
tion has been ordered by the department of
commerce.
ALASKA SOCIAL CLUBS
PUT OH EQUAL FOOTING
WITH LICENSED SALOONS
S\N FRANCISCO, Nov Card and an
nul duos in Ala.-ka must pay a license tn
sell liqut.r, just as the saloons are required
to do. The federal circuit court of appeal*
today denied a rehearing in an action from
Nome which sought relief.
ANTI-ALIEN LAW ANNULLED
BY THE SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 The supreme
court of the United States today declared
uncomtitutinnal the Arizona anti-alien labor
l;nv.
COASTING STEAMSHIP
STRIKES COOS BAY REEF
AND MANY ARE LOST
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Nov. 3. The steam- ;
-hip Santa Clara, en route to Portland from
Sen Francisco, was wrecked in a gale on
a reef at Coo.- bay. Eighteen were drowned.
The vessel had forty eight passengers and
a crew of twenty four.
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TO IMPORT COAL FROM JAPAN
Rl;ME, Nov. 2. Coal is retailing here at
pur ton, and plans are on foot to import
Japanese coal, which, it is chimed, can !v_*
sold at S3 per ton.
TCVvNSITE CASE SETTLED
SEWARD. Nov. 2. John I-. BiJIuiiv has
won his content for title to the town.-ite of
Seward.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—President Wilson, in a remarkably weH-iv.epo.red speech delivered he.e last
night, opened the administration's national defense campaign. Ha declared that the “hyphenated' cities:,
were the worst enemy of the country, and said it was high time they were called to a reckoning.
“America,” said the President, ‘ Is a free country, and people of ail creeds and faiths are enjoying full
liberty; bat there have keen voices raised professing to be the voices of Americans but which spoke alien
sympathies. These voices csdw svof.e to men of smalt groups, r >e nrt.cn should not reuuke them ottser
vyise than by preparing for de ense, not merer/ :a the bu>!d-ng or bat.iesidps, cruisers and submarines, out
also through making sore that we shall have men and supplies adequate tor the equipment or the vessels
which we build and intend to lui’d. V/e fee! justified In preparing ourselves to act, end to assert cur right
io independent, unmolested acton, by making the force that is tn us seedy for action. ’
The President sa:d he fondly believed that the United States never again would take another foot
of territory by conquest.
The closest attention was given to the speaker by the great audience, and at the conclusion of the
speech the President was nested by tremendous cheers.
SEATTLE. Nov. 3.—fnconrieie reports from ve'.ierday’s ele ’■'on iiiroughout the country show that
wcmr.n suffrage was crmhiugly de'eaied in Pennsyk r.r.ia, Massachusetts and New fork. ProbdtMtion was
defeated in Ohio, probably by 50,069 majority. Samuel McCall. Republican, probably won out as gov
ernor of Massachusetts over Welsh, Democrat. The contest will he dose however.
The Progressive vote everywhere was negligible, t lie Republicans made general gams, in New Jer
sey and Kentucky they wri additional congressmen. In New Yo:k the Democrats are leading, and they
claim a heavy majority in Maryland, in Virginia a legislature was elected which will vote for prohibition.
The Republicans elected fhe;r tickets in Philadelphia arc Detroit, which cities also rejected city own
ership. The wets made gains in Illinois towns where the question was an issue.
PROGRESSIVES RETURN TO REPUBLICAN FOLD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—A statement issued today by prominent Democrats says that laesday’s elec
tion returns show that the Progressives are returning to the ranks of the Republicans. In Massachusetts
the fight is close, but it is probable that the Republic as have won, although McCall ran away behind
ticket. _ __
DATES SET FOR WEDDING
ARE CONTRADICTORY
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.- The date ret ,
for the President’s wedding is November 17. l
Another Announcement
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. - Official an- |
nounceincnt from the White House says !
that the wedding of President Wilson and
Mrs. Galt will take place near the close of ;
December. The President’s yacht is being j
made ready for the honeymoon trip.
Leave; for New York
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—The President !
left for New York today, where he is sched
uled to speak upon national defense to
night.
They Go Sightseeing
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—President Wilson
is spending the day sightseeing with Mrs.
! Galt. They will both return to Washington
| tonight.
NOBODY IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR DEATH OF INNOCENTS
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I PEABODY, Mass., Oct. 30.—A state com
i mission which has been investigating last
Thursday’s holocaust, in which fifty or
1 more children lost their lives, reported today
j finding no one criminally responsible. The
first public funeral of victims was held to
i day.
VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION
NAPLES, Nov. 5.—Mount Vesuvius is in
. violent eruption.
FLAT CITY POSTOFFICE
Mrs. C. C. Chirtick, postmaster at Flat
City, announces that the postoffice will
close at 5 p. m. daily. The money order
and registry department will close at 5 p. m. j
Saturdays, and the regular mail will close j
at 3 p. m. Sundays.
EMINENT CANADIAN’S BEATY’.
OTTAWA, Oct. 30. Sir Charles Tupper,
“the grand old man of Canada,” died in
England today.
Sketch of His Life
Sir Charles Tupper was born in Amherst,
N. S.t in July 1821. He graduated from
Edinburgh university in 1843 with the de
gree of M. D., and practiced medicine for
some years in his native town. He was
elected president of the Canadian Medical
Association. He entered politics in 1-855,
and was elected as a Conservative t) >the
Nova Scotia assembly, and became the
leader of his party in the adoption of more
progressvie policies. He became provincial
secretary in 1857, and premier of Nova
Scotia in 1864. He took a leading part in
bringing about the union of the Canadian
u*ovinces and in the organization of the
Dominion government, attending the con
ferences at Charlottestown and Quebec, and
the final conference in London. In 1867 he
was elected to the Canadian house of com
mons, and was president of the privy coun
cil in 1870-72, later occupying other cabi
net positions. In 1873 the Conservative
government was defeated, and he became
one of the principal organizers and leaders
of the opposition, and brought before par
liament the plan of moderate protection for
home industries, subsequently adopted by a
Conservative administration. On the return
of his party to power in 187S he entered
the government as minister of public works,
and in 1879 he organized and became first
minister of the department of railways and
canals. In tbie office he assisted greatly in
tiie construction of the Canadian Pacific
railway. He was Canadian high commis
sioner at London in 1887, and returned later
to accept a cabinet position. In iS88 he
resumed his position in London. In 1890
he again returned to Canada and entered
the ministry as secretary of state. He be
came premier in April of that year, lias
party was defeated in June of the same year
and he was chosen leader of the opposition
in the house. He lost his seat in 1900 and
retired. In 1887 he was one of the plenip >
tentiaries to the* fisheries conference at
Washington, which resulted in the treaty
settling the fisheries dispute. In 1879 he
was knighted, and in 1888 was made a
baronet.
FIRST MAIL TO SEWARD
LEAVES ON SCHEDULE TIME
The first consignment of mail over the
winter trail to Seward left on schedule time
last Monday morning, in charge of Tom
Boyd, who will take it through to a point
beyond McGrath. Hereafter his run will
commence at Fritz Walters' roadhouse. Com
mencing next week the mail will be taken
from this point by Teddy Cassia ay, whose
run will terminate where Boyd’s commences.
As was the case last winter, horses will be
used as far as French Joe’s roadhouse.
John Holmes, on his way Outside, accom
panied Mr. Boyd.
After the mail commences to reach here
from the other end of the route, it is ex
pected that Thursday of each week will be
the day of arrival, and the return trip will
commence on the following Monday.
WRECKS IN NORTH SEA
LONDON, Oct. 30. Gales have been
sweeping the North sea during the past
forty-eight hours, and many wrecks are re
potted
LONDON, Nov. 3.—Premier Asquith, in a lengthy speech in tu
house o- commons today, said he hat! no apologies to make for t ■ -
’rovernment. He claimed that the fcees of the allies had been w;
drawn from the Dardanelles in order to help Senna. The alln-s, L
raid, had no intention of abandoning Serbia. He expected that Gr ..
Britain’s fleet finally would determine tr e war. He admitted that L u.
cial mailers were serious, and that piobably a second loan wouics ••••
sought m America.
Sir Edward Carson, in a hot spe i b, roasted th- present < u
as “totally unfit m times of peace ar.J v.Loily mnaequatc n tar. •
war.”
S r E. F. Smith has been appointed solicitor general to sue;
Carson.
In a speech in the house ot commons on Monday last Mr. A-ym;:i
evievved the war situation, and was followed by Lord Cunion, wE
gave the reasons for h:s resigi.at.on fr n the cabinet.
“‘Action, Rot Words,” Is Mode of New French Cabinet
PARIS, Nov. 4.—Premier Friend announces that there will E
change in policy by She new cabinet in regard to tne war. ‘‘A
not words,” is now the motto of France, he said, and she will k; to
the end.
President Poincare met with the net.- cabinet on Saturda; i
and declares it to be the strongest m years.
Russian Lc.ome. viiSz-s
LONDON, Nov. 2.— The Russian cabinet >s falling. Pre:
Geremykn shortly wifi be appointed chancellor ol the empire.
Ven’zelos Openly Defies Constantine
ATHENS, Nov. 5.—The Zeamis cabinet has resigned, and ■ x
Premicr Vemzelos has openly declared ,n a speech that the wai
;icn rests solely with the cabinet, and not with the monarchs, who can
net be made absolute.
King’s Interference Reseated
LONDON, Nov. 5.-—During an ah night meeting of the Greek
chamber, the king’s “interference with constitutional liberties" was se
verely criticized. There is a strong probability that the king may yet
retain the Zeamis cabinet.
Refuse Vote of Confidence
ATHENS, Nov. 4.—The government is on the verge of coliap e.
ihe chamber of deputies, by a vote of 147 to 1 1 7, has refused a vote
of confidence to the Zeamis cabinet. It is expected that the . Em •!
immediately will resign.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3.—Austrian howitzers such as iho- • unich
Ic\ elec! the fortress of Przemysl are reported to have been Inch'd it
Pirol for the bombardment of Nish.
A new Anglo-! rench expedition to the Balkans has been .re
nounced.
Formidable Invasion by Allies Planned
ATHENS, Nov. 5.—Forty thousand British troops are en route to
Bulgaria Tne French already are operating about Strummtza. and a
formidable .nrasion of Serbia is planned.
lire Serbians are reported to be retreating to Montenegro and
Albania to concentrate with a view of getting war munitions by wav of
the Adriatic.
Russians Are Active
BUCHAREST, Nov. 2.— Russian troops have landed at \ arna.
Previous to landing Russian warships bombarded the town. Many
Russian transports, under convoy of Russian warships from Odessa,
aebastopc! and other places have arrived off the Bulgarian coast.
Serbia’s Critical Petition
LONDON, Nov. 2.—This is a critical week in the Balkans. Ser
bia’s position continues to grow worse. The Germans have occupied
Kruguyevatz, the big arsenal town of Serbia.
Serbian Canita! on Wheels
SALONTKI, Nov. 3.—The Serbian government has moved to
Mitrovitza.
VIENNA, Nov. 2.—After a fortnight’s battle the Italians have won
all along the Isonza. During the first six davs of the desperate Italian
offensive their losses were one hundred thousand. The Austrians lost
fifty thousand.
Italians Win Brilliant Victories
ROME, Nov. 3.—Brilliant victories have been won by the Ital
ians, and the Austrians have been repulsed on the various fronts.
FIRE AT FLAT
Not more than half on hour after A.
Dellaus had left his cabin at Flat on his
way to the new placer find at Horsefly creek
yesterday, his cabin at Flat City was found
, to be on lire. Many willing workers re
I sponded to the alarm, and a gallant effort
| was made to save the property, but before
i the flames were extinguished the cabin and
; contents were practically a total loss .
SCHMIDT TRIAL RESUMED
i LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1.—The trial of
■ Schmidt, charged with complicity in the
Los Angeles Times dynamiting outrage, was
1 resumed here today.
GEORGE MUTCHLER HURT
George Mutchler met with a painful luit
fortunately not serious accident yesterday
afternoon. While driving a four Imr.-e team
attached to the stage his foot became en
tangled and he was thrown from the sled.
The runners of the sled passed over his
leg, bruising it painfully, but breaking no
bones. He was able to proceed t ■ his home
at Flat later in the afternoon.
THE WORLD BREATHES EASIER
NEW YORK, Oct, 30.—J Pierpont Mor
gan underwent a succsesful operation for
append iii’:;. to da- .