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MOUNTAIN VIEW TRIBUNE-PROGRESS
IN ALL LANDS
C0NCI8E REVIEW
OF WEEK’8 NEWS
War News.
Serious fighting has taken place on
the Ypres Dixmude sector of the Brit-
ish front, according to an official
statement issued by the British war
office A German attack on a front
of more than a mile compelled some
of the British advance posts to fall
back, but later a counter attack re-
established the British line.
+ + +
British troops astride the Jerusa-
lem-Nabulus Iload in Palestine have
advanced their positions along a front-
age of eighteen miles to a depth of
three miles, the British war office an-
nounced recently.
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An American staff colonel while
with a French raiding party for the
purpose of securing information a few
days before his men took up their po-
sitions in the new American sector on
the Lorraine front, met a Prussian
Keutenunt in an enemy trench and
captured him. The colonel, with an
American captain, brought the Prus-
sian officer back to the lines the
Americans are now occupying.
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Official announcement was made in
Berlin recently of the signing of a
peace treaty between Germany and
Finland and also of trade and ship-
ping agreements and a supplementary
protocol.
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Renewed possibilities of a new Aus-
tro-German strike on the Italian front
are indicated in Italian official dis-
patches. Important movements of
enemy troops were effected in Febru-
ary. Formation by the enemy of a
new tactical group similar to that
adopted for the offensive of November
last has been detected by the Italians.
4> 4* 41
American troops are now holding
more than eight miles of trenches on
the battle front in France, although
in an airline their frontage is only
about four and a half miles. This
frontage Is liable to extension at any
time to the regular trench allotment
for an army corps.
4* 4* *(*
Shells have been falling thick and
fast within the American lines and
■upon the enemy’s positions on the Toul
sector. Aside from a big barrage
which the enemy placed on the Amer
ican positions at daylight in this
neighborhood, two thousand projec-
tiles have been dropped in the vicin-
ity of the terrain occupied by the
Americans, many of them upon towns.
4* 4* 4*
The London Evening News says the
question of Japanese intervention in
Siberia has been settled and that all
the Allies as well as the United States
have agreed to immediate action to
safeguard the interests of the powers
* * *
Washington.
Farm reserves of wheat March 1,
as reported by the Department of Ag-
riculture, were 111*4 million bushels,
nearly 11 million bushels more than
a year ago, though with that excep-
tion, the smallest reported in many
years.
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Plans to break up vast holdings of
German interests in the United States
and place them in other hands, so
that after the war they cannot con-
tinue to be what have been charac-
terized as outposts of German kultur
in America, have been presented to
Congress.
4. 4. 4.
While a large number of men will
be called out during the present year
to fill the army and complete its or-
ganization, it has been learned that
War Department plans do not call for
the creation of any additional divis
ions in 1918.
4. 4. 4.
Issurance of daily lists of casualties
among the expeditionary forces abroad
has been discontinued by the public
information committee as the result
of an order of the War Department
under which the names of the next
of kin and emergency address of sol
diers whose names appear on the lists
hereafter will be withheld.
4. 4. 4.
That Nichola Lenine, Bolshevik
irime minister, is deliberately at-
tempting to deliver revolutionary Rus-
sia into the hands of the Germans, is
the substance of highly important
communications received in Washing-
ton from an unquestionable but confi-
dential source.
4. 4. 4>
Domestic.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt
has re
turned to his home on Sagamore Hill
after having been for several weeks
In New York City, where he under-
went operations for ear trouble. Mrs
Roosevelt accompanied him home.
The trip from New York to Oyster
Bay was made in a motor car, and
the Colonel declared that he felt fine.
4. 4. 4.
Troops and supplies for General
Pershing’s forces now are moving to
France on schedule time. While fig-
. ures may not be published, it is stated
positively that transportation require- j ized
ments of the army are being met by 1
the shipping board and the immediate
situation as to ships is described as
satisfactory.
4* 4* 4*
Following ratification by the Texas
Fred C. Johns, 61 years old. of East
St. Louis was found guilty by a jury
in the United States District Court at
Danville, 111., of having stuted that
President Wilson should be killed.
Judge Humphrey sentenced him to a
year and a day at Leavenworth prison.
♦ ♦ ♦
The strike of more than four thou-
sand carpenters, electrical workers
and machinists at the Hog Island ship-
yard ended when leaders of the unions
Involved ordered the men to work.
The men quit over a misunderstand-
ing regarding the paying of overtime.
♦ * ♦
Henry Ford is going to build light
• tanks” on a wholesale scale for the
United States and the Allies, it was
icported at Detroit recently. The
first model is said to be well under
construction.
4. 4. 4.
The State Council of Defense and
the Federal Department of Justice will
immediately investigate conditions at
Eustis, Neb., where pro-Germans are
said to be threatening loyal Americans
to such an extent that a petition is in
circulation asking Governor Neville to
send armed protection.
4. 4. 4.
Ole Hanson, former member of the
Washington Legislature, was chosen
mayor of Seattle recently over James
E. Bradford, former corporation coun-
sel. Mayor H. C. Gill was eliminated
from the mayoralty race in the pri-
maries.
4. 4. 4.
The resolution condemning Senator
LaFollette was adopted by a vote of
53 to 32 in the Wisconsin assembly af-
ter a continuous session lasting more
than twenty-four hours.
4. 4. 4.
Control of the House of Represen
tatives was regained by the Democrats
when they elected their candidates
from four districts in Greater New
York at special elections called to
choose successors to four members of
that party who had resigned their
seats in Congress.
4. 4. 4.
The reorganization of the war indus-
tries board with Bernard M. Baruch
of New York as chairman and with
vastly increased powers to control the
output of American industry during
the war was announced recently by
President Wilson.
4. 4. 4.
Southwest.
Five of thirty Mexican bandits who
raided the Tom East ranch, south of
Hebronville, Tex., have been killed by
posses headed by Texas Rangers, and
thirteen others of the band have been
located and will be “accounted for be-
fore daylight,” says the message.
4. 4. 4.
Forty-three Austrians at Alderson,
Pittsburg county, Ok., banded together
and going to a local bank bought
$7,950 worth of Baby Bonds or 57 per
cont of the $14,000 which was the ag-
gregate for the entire school district.
4, 4. 4.
Burton E. Hurlburt, 24 years old, a
cadet in the British Royal flying
corps, was instantly killed at Ben-
brook field, near Fort Worth, Tex.,
when he lost mastery of the airplane
in which he was being instructed and
plunged a short distance to the earth.
4, 4. 4.
The National Conference of Social
Workers will be held in Kansas City
May 15-22 and will be attended by
more than 4,000 representative men
and women who are engaged in social
work throughout the country.
4. 4, 4.
Frank Strand, a saloonkeeper, was
found guilty by a Jury in the federal
district court at St. Louis of violation
of the espionage act by obstructing
the enlistment and recruiting service
of the government.
4. 4. 4.
Gertrude Ulrich, 13, of Fort Worth,
Tex., confessed to authorities that she
poisoned her father, Ernest Ulrich,
who died mysteriously. She said she
poisoned him “because he whipped me
so often.”
4. 4. 4.
Foreign.
The American consul at Helsingfors,
Thornwell Haines, has advised the
American legation at Stockholm that
he was leaving the Finnish capital
with about twenty American residents.
Some 300 refugees of different na-
tionalities including many Americans
are at Abo and Bjorneborg.
4. 4. 4.
The preliminary peace treaty signed
at Bufftea, according to a dispatch
from Bucharest, was signed by Foreign
Secretary Von Kuehlmann of Ger-
many, Foreign Secretary Czernin of
Austria-Hungary, M. Montscbiloff, vice
president of the Sobranje for Bul-
garia; Talaat Pasha, the grand vizier
for Turkey and M. Cartentajana for
Rumania.
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Six hundred Sinn Fein volunteers
have taken possession of the town of
Kiltamagah, County Mayo, Ireland, ac-
cording to a dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. Thsi action fol-
lowed the receipt of an order from the
Sinn Fein leaders for a general mobili-
zation.
4. 4. 4*
A new Siberia council of workmen’s
and soldiers’republic at Irkutsk? which
has determined not to recognize any
imperialistic German peace, has organ-
a council of national Siberian
commissioners composed of eleven
members of the Bolsbeviki and four
Left Social revolutionaries.
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WHERE THE HUNS THREATEN FINLAND
SECRETARY BAKER IN FRANCE
FOR A CONFERENCE WITH
GEN. J. J. PERSHING
£ BE RUN
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American Secretary of War To Per-
■onally Inspect the Expedition-
ary Force.
A French Seaport.—Newton D.
Baker, the American secretary of war,
with a staff of seven persons, arrived
(tore on an American armored cruiser
The party was met at the pier by a
French general, representing the
French army.
Washington.—Upon hearing of Sec-
1 rotary Raker's safe arrival In Franco
the war department announced that
HOW MRS. BOYD
AVOIDED AN
OPERATION
Canton, Ohio.—"I auffered from a
female trouble which caused me much
suffering, and two
doctors decided
that I would have
to go through an
operation before I
could get well.
“Mymother, who
had been helped by
Lydia E. Pinkhanre
Vegetable Com-
pound, advised me
to try it before sub-
mitting to an opera-
tion. It relieved me
from my troubiee
Germany’s occupation of Aland Islands was only a preliminary to the
seizure of Flnlund, according to Stockholm dispatches, which state, also, that
feeling In Sweden over the development Is Intense. The map shows the
Aland Islands and their proximity to both Finland und Sweden. The shaded
territory In Russia Indicates the extent of the German Invasion.
CONTROLLER BROOKS QUITS
Can't Find Time To Run Both Uni-
versity and People’s Kitchens.
AT OKLAHOMA CITY
SECRETARY HOUSTON AND
LIEUT. PERIG0RD PRIN-
CIPAL SPEAKERS
2000 DELEGATES ARE PRESENT
To Complete and Coordinate Plans
for Summer Work of the Vari-
ous Groups of War Work-
ers In the Stare.
Oklahoma City.—Dr. Stratton D.
Brooks, president < f the University
of Oklahoma, announced his resigna
tion as federal food administrator for
Oklahoma. Increasing demands for
his time for university duties caused
Doctor Brooks to ask to be relieved
from his food conservation work.
Doctor Brooks began his work as
federal food administrator August 10.
The office staff at Norman consisted
can do my house work without any
culty. I advise any woman who is
ctea with female troubles to give
Com-
so I -
difficulty
afflicted
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable
pound a rial and it will do as uwrh for
them.”--in ra. <U.\rih fcOYD, 1421 6th
St, N. ICanton, Ouw.
Soinot mea there ara seriooa condi-
tions where a hospital operation ia tha
only alternative, but on the other hand
so many women have been cured by this
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, after
doctors have said that an operation wae
necessary — every woman who wants
to avoid an operation should give it •
fair trial before submitting to such a
trying ordeal.
If complications exist, write to Lydia
E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.,
for advice. The result of many years
experience ia at your service.
Clear Pimples
With Cuticura
And Be Happy
Imp iN. Olatawat II aai M*.
Oklahoma City.—The first of the
big crowds coming to Oklahoma City
to attend the two-day war conference
this week, started to pour into tne
city Sunday. Between 1,500 and
2,000 war workers from all sections
of the state attended the various
conferences Monday and Tuesday.
Much interest was displayed In the
Houston-Perigord meeting held in the
city auditorium. The addresses of
the secretary of agriculture and the
soldier constituted one most import-
ant part of the conference and each
brought an important war message to
the people of Oklahoma.
The spectacular event of the con-
ference was provided by the monster
parade Monday in honor of the open-
ing of the War Savings Bank, locat-
Secretary Baker.
(ho secretary's visit Is purely mili-
tary and not diplomatic and is for pur-
poses of inspection and personal con-
ferences with military officials.
Mr. Baker is accompanied by Major
General William M. Black, chief of
engineers; Lieut. Col. M. L. Brett
and Ralph Iluyes, his private secre-
tary.
Secretary Baker plans to spend a
brief timo in France inspecting re-
sults already accomplished by his de-
partment in its effort, to place in the
field this year an army that will be a
factor in the campaign. On the eve
of his departure, Mr. Baker told mem-
bers of the press that he did not ex-
pect to bo away long.
Robert's Position.
Robert was an honor to the force.
He did not make tho acquaintance of
cooks, nor did he fall asleep on duty,
lie was ambitious and yearned for the
time when he would be able to prefix
llu* magic words “Chief Constable” to
his surname. One dny recently he ar-
rested a man on a charge of assault
On the case coming before the magis-
trate he inquired as to who mode the
allegation against the prisoner.
Forward stepped the zealous Robert
who, with a sweeping sulute, replied:
“Me, your worship; I’m the alliga-
tor I”—London Tit-Bits.
Secretary Houston.
ed in the street alongside the Lee-
Huckins Hotel. Tea thousand per-
sons marched while 30,000 looked on
from the curb.
The various conferences of war
workers included the following:
First general conference.
Secretary Houston-Lieutenat Pei*I-
gord meeting.
War savings stamp ehairman.
County councils of defense. With
them met Liberty loan managers, fuel
administration agents and other coun-
ty war workers.
Fuel administration.
Four-minute men.
Food administration.
Women’s committee, council of na-
tional defense.
Liberty loan managers.
County farm agents.
Members of the executive commit-
tee of the state council.
Had Been Russian Ambassador and
Cabinet Member.
GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER
nns been n household remedy all ovet
the civilized world for more than half
n century for constipation, Intestinal
GFO VON L MEYER DEAD troubles, torpid liver and the generally
utu. vun 1-. “depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. It Is a most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys-
pepsia and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming pp of food, palpita-
tion of heart and many other symp-
I toms. A few doses of August Flower
will immediately relieve you. It Is a
! gentle laxative. Ask your druggist
Sold in all civilized countries.—Adv.
Retired Farmers.
There ure said to be In this country
700,000 retired farmers who are not
now engaged In gainful occupations.
Boston.—George von L. Meyer, for-
mer cabinet member and diplomat,
died at his home here after an illness
of several weeks. Mr. Meyer had
been suffering from a tumor of the
liver.
In the successive positions of pub-
lic service to which George von Len-
Stratton D. Brooks.
of one stenographer. As the citizens
of the state joined the administra-
tion and the need for food saving
grew, the organization expanded until
the office staff at Doctor Brooks’ head-
quarters numbers twenty-five persons.
There are seventy-five county admin-
istrators, more than seven hundred
city and township administrators and
200,000 “signed up” citizen members
of the food administration.
Readjustment of university work
due to the war conditions, overseeing
of new buildings to be erected on the
university campus and the task of
preparing the budget for the next
year impelled Doctor Brooks to ten-
der his resignation. Acceptance of
the resignation was received from
Herbert Hoover, United States food
administrator.
AUCTION KAISER HOLDINGS
German Ownership of American In-
dustries To Be Cancelled.
The Spanish Cabinet, recently re-
s uuuwmg rauncauuu u, I C0n8tructed bv the Marquis de Alhu-
senate of the federal constitutional construe e
„ remas who, in addition to being pre-
prohibition amendment, Texas be- cema , ...
comes the eighth state to line „„
•id in favor of the Nation-wide drought. Tau’8, as
rpxas n0- 1 —>
'to line itself "Her held the portfolio of foreign af
Washington.— Property in the
United States owned by the kaiser,
former Chancellor von Bethnxann-
Hollweg, the German “junkers” gen-
erally and the German government
I itslf, will be the first to go under the
hammer under the plans of .A. Mitch-
ell Palmer, alien property custodian,
to sell foreign-owned property here
to the highest bidders.
If the legislation be adopted, Mr.
Palmer stated, it was his intention to
sell principally properties in this
country in which the German govern-
ment and the “junker” capitalistic
j class are interested and not disturb
that of minor individuals.
The Hamburg-American and North
German Lloyd wharves and docks at
Hoboken, N. J., Mr. Palmer told sen-
ators, are “a part of the German em-
pire's commercial grasp upon this
continent."
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
should be given to sprains, swellings,
bruises, rheumatism and neuraligla.
Keep Mansfield’s Magic Arnica Lini-
ment handy on the shelf. Three sizes
—25c, 50c nnd $1.00.—Adv.
Multiplied Bliss.
“Jupiter has eight moons.”
“Gee whiz! Fancy escorting a girl
under eight of 'em I”
Balearic Islands have an area of 1,-
930 square miles and 335,860 Inhabi-
tants.
George von L. Meyer.
gerke Meyer was chosen, he attained
a reputation as a practical statesman.
Trained to business from his youth,
he was quick to apply business
methods to the departments which
came under his jurisdiction in the ;
two years that he served as post- 1
master general In President Roose- I
velt’s cabinet and In his four years
as secretary of the navy under Presi-
dent Taft and for a time as ambassa-
dor to Russia.
Allies Must Pay Higher Interest.
Washington.—The interest rate on
loans to allies has been raised from
4M> per cent to 5 per cent as a result
of the recent increase in the rate on
certificates of indebtedness from 4 to
•14 per cent.
Luxburg Gets Safe Conduct.
Buenos Aires.—The British govern-
ment has issued a safe conduct for
Count von Luxburg, the former Ger-
man ambassador to Argentina, to sail
for Sweden. He will sail shortly on
the steamer Valparaiso.
90 Plants Speed “Liberty Truck.”
Washington.—Reports received by
Brigadier General Baker, head of the
war department’s motor transport di-
vision, show that ninety factories are
working to capacity on the standard-
ized parts for the Liberty truck and
that the entire program will have
been completed before .August 1.
Five hundred of the type A trucks
will be delivered ‘his month, 1,500
in April, 2,500 in May, 3,200 in June
and the remainder In July. All the
trucks are going to seaboard on their
own power.
WAS DISCOURAGED
Lost 65 Pounds in Weight and
Had to Give Up Work. Has Been
Well Since Using Doan’s.
“Being exposed to extreme heat
When working as an engineer, and
then going outdoors to cool off,
caused my kidney trouble, says
Karl Goering, 8513 N. Orkney St.,
Philadelphia, Pa. “In cold weath-
er and when it was
damp, my joints and
muscles would swell
and ache and often my
limbs were so badly af-
fected It was only with
great misery I was able
to get around. For a
week I was laid up In
bed, hardly able to
move hand or foot.
“Another trouble was from Irreg-
ular aud scanty passages of the
kidney secretions. I became dull
and weak and had to give up my
work. Headaches and dizzy spells
nearly blinded me and I went from
265 to 200 in weight. Nothing
helped me and I felt I was doomed
to suffer.
“At last I had the good fortune to
hear of Doan’s Kidney Pills and be-
gan taking them. I soon got back
ray strength and weight and all the
rheumatic pains and other kidney
troubles left. I have remained
cured.” Sworn to before we,
WM. H. M’MUNN, Notary Public.
Get Doan’, at Any Store. 60eaBa«
doan’s
FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO, N. Y.
IRRITATING COUGHS
Promptly treat couth,, cold*, hoaraeneie.
broochiti, and iimilar Inflamed and Irritated
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