( si THE WEATHER Mi BUSINESS SENSITIVE Loral showers Friday; Saturday partly cloudy. .. ' ' -.- "" . . It Ik the water driving forcetolljr orer a definite spwt that torn the waeeu. Advertising is the -veeU-wlrected wate' that create energy. r VOL. XCVI NO 144. FUROPEAN PDWEHS ft ANTHRAG CENTER EFFORTS DM SREftTLY SOFIA FOR PRESELf for Bulgaria Holds Key to WRatever Side the Bal- -kans May Join. RUSSIANS STILL RETIRE Military Observers Believe Germans Are Now Aim ing on Petrograd. London. Ausr. 12. The situation in Poland and the Baltic provinces is changing but little from day to day. and .public interest is being turned to the near east where the diplomats of the qradruple ' entente powers are endeavoring to revive the Balkan leaeue and bring all the Belkan states over to their side. "Efforts for the moment are being concentrated on Sofia, for Bulgaria holds the key to the situation. It is said she is being smiled upon and offered territorial concessions by both sides. The German and entente min isters both are declared to be finding their endeavors hindered by their friends. Greece and Serbia are un willing to concede to Bulgaria the parts of Macedonia which are her price for joining the Allies, while Turkey is op posing concessions which Austria and Germany desire her to make to Insure the continued neutrality of the Sofia government. Bulgaria, too, it is asserted, is weigh ing the Teutonic victory in Poland against the renewed efforts of the Al lies in the Dardanelles and the report ed signal victory the Russians are said to have won over, the Turks in the Cau casus. Military experts here - believe this victory will keep the Turks quiet on that frontier for some time. Turkish Vessel Sank There is no news f rora tfte'ratrmlesr on Gallipoli peninsula, but the UrVtisfc admiralty announces that a British submarine is in the Sea of Marmora has sunk the Turkish torpedo gun zoat Berk-I-Stret and an empty trans port. - The Russians continue their retire ment in Poland, but they are retarding the German advance by repeated coun ter attacks. There still is considerable distance between the German armies to the southeast and northeast of War saw, so that the Russians apparently will be able to make good their re treat, only, however, to be called upon to oppose a German attempt to out flank them at Kovno and further north. i-e strength of the German offen sive in the latter region has Ted to the assumption by some military observ ers here tha tthe Germans now ar aiming at Petrograd: It is pointed out, however, that there is a great stretch of marshy country between the pres ent battlefields and the capital. Besides, the Germans first would have to capture Vilna, Dvinsk and Riga, aii of which the Russians are defend ing with strong forces which at times 'e anie to take the offensive. -French and German Claims Conflict. ihe Germans claim the capture of a group of French fortifications in the Argonne forest in France, whereas the trench say that all the German attacks ere repulsed. Otherwise there have wen no events of importance on the Western battle front. The public here is prepared to hear M something of greater importance nan the sinking of the British aux. nnT,; "ulScr lnia which was an rlCed toniht b- the admiralty, as wamers arriving from Holland report o having heard again todav heav ""ng to the north. DENIES PEACE PROPOSALS. Paper Say Time for Germany to 31ake Peace ot Yet Come. -The , K- Vi' via London, Aug. 13. urn ,port that Germany made peace Proposals to Petrograd last week is de- Zeitune wH,,;NId,.rieUtSChe Asemeine "TV. 3 a. ,.... Jprman government would not "wet rpar.,v,r.. " ----- 8h h0i u peace proposals lr tin," 't b laid before it, but the Part wni Peace proposals on its "nmont V. uy wnen noaUle 8"ov' fecoEni;! ., 0W themselves ready to tafcrtaic'm ",Iure of their military BERL,N SOCIALISTS ARRESTED. Charred ..n V ""vlng Committed Trea ts Z ZrTl,HMnS PPW- numi a Londn). August 13. eluding r. of Berlin Socialists, in- Sle tp- " erlitor of the Schwab- I Busniri . : nave been arrested on erts Tv, reasor. according to Ver- PMishpH charged with having tirU d i'arphlet eontafninor an ar y VrifStht P'Prne Taewacht, severe- ment " suPPorting the govern- h'a, ... e Af , oi crew Rescued Ch .... . . 'nJia Warn TnJ J lUr-.Vn,a- A,ig- 12. via TnrfAn l&rki; William Jffll XT-:,,. " Kennedy, of the ras thV k 7; V cruiser India, who 38 toirl; ;e 01 nlB shiP when she !a the "v, T1 hy a German submarine ,mne the t' S6a Auust 8th, was ho v, e ' ,memers of the crew nine . "'s .ut eurvivura s!iie ,?r 'hfcr ofcers. tT"1 a raft , ---ucu. were latieii l!PPerarv'- lVere thy stood singing uat wr-V k, , ine 1Mia s two life T', , e 5- other m. 14 -er'i 11 sailors' who perish - 'V'-'ned todav ih -Ttn-.. ' Unued n Page Eight.- ITE RATES EO On Railroads Handling 80 Per Cent of Production. INQUIRY OF 3 YEARS Interstate Commerce Commission Holds Carriers Guilty of Giving Illegal Preference to Allied Coal Companies. Washington. Aug. 12. Sweeping re ductions in anthraoite freight rates over railroads handling 80 per cent of the country's anthracite production were ordered today by the Interstate Commerce Commission in a decision which held the carriers guilty of giv ing illegal' preferential treatment to allied coal companies. The commis sion also required the roads to estab lish through routes and publish joint through rates to be paid by all ship pers. Commissioner Harlan dissenteji, con tending that while modification of any present rates was justified, the major ity decision was inconsistent in view of the recent authorization of a hori zontal increase of 5 per cent in rates for practically all other traffic. The decision follows a three-year in vestigation of rates and practices gov erning transportation of coal from the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. Summary ot Decisions. The commission issued, this summary of the decision: - "That the rates on anthracite coal, prepared (general domestic sizes), and pea and smaller sizes, In carloads, ap plicable from producing districts in Wyoming, lehigh and Schuylkill re gion in the State of Pennsylvania to tidewater ports and certain eastern interior points, are unreasonable and tne rates on anthracite coal, prepared end pea sizes, from said districts to other interior points are unreasonable and reasonable rates fixed for the fu ture. . "That the' respondents by means of trackage arrangements and the free transportation to junction points in the mining regions of coal exchanges by their allied coal companies, have ex pended - tHe avtm'tagefc "at fnter-lfn transportation to ttieir coal companies to the prejudice of other coal ship pers to whom inter-line transportation at joint rates has been denied. Re spondents required to establish through routes and publish joint through rates applicable thereto. " "That anthracite coal is a low grade commodity which is transported in vast quantities in . trains of maximum ton nage. . The tonnage loaded in each car is much greater than the loading of most other classes of traffic. Most of the anthracite tonnage is shipped from collieries whose daily production, measured In carloads, is very large. These conditions tend toward lower operating costs. "That concessions and offsets grant ed by respondents to their allied coal companies in the form of interest charges, royalty earnings, the use of valuable property at inadequate ren tals, the free use of the carriers' funds and credit, or by other means are as pernicious as direct cash rebates (Continued on Page Eight.) BALTIMORE CHOSEN BY TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION Will Hold Convention of 1916 X in That City Proportion of Priority In Employing and Discharging Men Ordered Submitted to Referendum. AsWfor Six-Day Week. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 12. .Balti more was selected today as the 1916 convention oity of the International Typographical Union. There was no contest. A proposition to impose the rule of priority in employing and discharging men was ordered submitted to a ref erendum, and a proposal providing for a six-day week was adopted 150 to 70. Both measures were put forward by the union administration. C. Grow, of the Interntionaal Associ ation of Machinists, and a member of the Schmidt-Caplan defense, made a brief plea for the financial and moral support of the delegates in the coming trials. He referred to the. two men, awaiting trial on the. charge of being accessories of the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times buildihg, "as pris oners of war," and declared 1;hey were being "persecuted, not prosecuted.". Under the priority proposition, sub mitted to a referendum, the foreman of an office, in decreasing his force, is re quired to do po by discharging first the person , or persons last employed. Should the force later be Increased, the persons displaced through such cause shall be reinstated, in reverse order in which they Vepe .discharged before oth . l. ! r.iT v.a pmnloved. The six-day proposition, which, by the vote today becomes a law, declares that no member of a subordinate un on shall be permitted to hold a sltvatioji of more than six days or six nights -or a combination of days and nights equiv alent to six, in one financial week, un less the local union unaV SkI nish the number of men required by the employer.-;.;. - - s, REDUC WILMIGTOK, CAVALRYMEN AND OUTLAWS IN FIGHT Reports of Desperate Battle in Hidalgo County THREE MEXICANS KILLED Believed One of Bands of Raiders Has Been Scattered Eighf Mexicans Defy Rangers and Declare Themselves Leaders. FUNSTON PREPARING TO CALL FOR MORB TROOPS iSan Antonio, Texas, August 12. General Punston is nrpnsr. ting to call for additional troops if the Mexican disorders in Texas continue to spread. He said to- day that should the trouble in- vade other counties beyond Cam- eron, Hidalgo, Willacy and Nueces he would ask for rein- forcements. Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 12, United States cavalrymen and Mexican out laws are engaged in a desperate battle tonight near Edlnburg, Hidalgo coun ty, Texas, where two Mexicans held up and robbed a farmer early in the even ing, according to reports received here at midnight. The cavalrymen have asked for help. The killing today of three Mexicans near Mercedes. Hidalgo county, and the capture of 22 saddle horses belonging to the bandits in the same vicinity, led to the belief that at leasts one of the bands of Mexican raiders which recent ly have terrorized the border has been scattered. Details of today's fight in which the three Mexicans were killed are not available. Federal and state officials having adopted an attitude of reti cence. v Reports Without Foundation. Reports last night that several hun dred ' armed Mexicans were preparing .to enteiv,Texas from a jp.ojnt' ten . miles east "of Brownsville failed of materiali zation and were declared today to have no foundation. The situation in Cameron and Starr counties was reported quiet today. Late today Texas rangers in Hidalgo county chased eight Mexicans across the'Ttio Grande. Seating themselves on the opposite" bank, the Mexicans defied the rangers and declared themselves the leaders of the raiders the Ameri can officers were seeking. The ran gers withdrew. MOVEMENT WELL ORGANIZED. Apparently the Mexicans Have Plenty of Funds to Carry on Raids. San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 12. Re ports from army officers indicate a more thorough organization among the Mexican raiders than the first out breaks suggested. The movement ap parently is well financed, and efforts are being made to trace the source of the funds EXPLANATION GIVEN OF EXODOS OF ARMENIANS Were Exposed to Revenge of Turks and Kurds. Account of Military Operations Along Caucasus Front-Russians Drive Turks from Trenches and Capture Prisoners. Petrograd, via London, Aug. 12. Ex planation of the renewal of a whole sale exodus of Armenians from their country into Trans-Caucasia is made in an account of military operations on the Caucasus front since July 22. After the Russians penetrated to Mush (83 miles south of Erzerum) and Plian, Halil Bey reorganized his Turk ish army bringing its strength up to 90,000. General Eudenitch, the Russian commander, thus faced the alternative of hurriedly attempting to concentrate his forces in the face of a strong Turk ish army, or retreating and thus expos ing a large Armenian population to Turkish and Kurdish revenge. - The Russian main army withdraw along the right bank of the Euphrates, the Turks occupying the left bank, be ing held in partial check by rear guard actions. On August 1, Halil Bey over took a considerable body of Russians at Palantchen, on the left bank of the Euphrates, 12 miles southwest of Kara Kilissa. A line was drawn from the northeast to the southwest from.Dara Ji, six miles north 'of Kara Kilissa, to Dj'amschato six miles southwest of the important Akhtunski pass, covering the roads to Erivan. In "opposing this front the Turks ex posed their communications, now 150 miles -long,., to -attack from the direc tion of Sari Kamysh. On August 3rd General Eudenitch moved his forces, southeastward, threatening Halil Bey'sf flank. A Russian detachment marched rapidly by way of Ardos , and Kara Derbent I to' Raiara, 20 miles west of Alaschgerd.; One" column had beaten the Turks out of "the Important Merghe Mir pass, 15 miles south of Kara Der bent, by August 8th. Another, , strik iag iartheF. eastward on the Alasch - (Continued On Page Eight - y. C FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1915 OFF TO VERA CRUZ AGAIN TO TOUCH UP MR. CARRANZA I ' m II in I I: . -irTTnlJfall M P.- J. .... -.w.. . ill I I W1lHllM"',-'1'-"-'-JT'"'"J)g Admiral McLean. Because Venijstlana Carranza, leader of one faction of the fighting Mexi cans, has ordered from his territory Brazilian' Ministered Oliveira and Guat emalan MinJsterjgOjrega, and brought LESS APPREHENSION FELT BYJFFICIALS Conditions at Vera Cruz Said to Have Improved. SITUATION IN TEXAS State Authorities Notified by Secretary Garrison They Are .Expected to Handle Conditions Until Be yond Their Control. Washington, Aug. 12.. Activity of Mexican bandits on the Texas border and the situation at Vera Cruz con tinued to occupy the attention of of ficials today .although there was less apprehension. General Funston" is being given a free hand on the border and he has not asked that the 17,000 troops at his dis posal be reinforced. No action was taken today on an appeal from Gov ernor Ferguson, of Texas, for addi tional Federal soldiers. Conditions at Vera Cruz are said to have improved, and Carranza has is sued a publi announcement promising protection to "'foreigners. The battle ships Louisiana and New Hampshire are well on their way down the Atlantic coast bound for "Southern waters,", to reinforce the gunboat squadron at Vera Cruz if necessary. The collier Jupiter was ordered to Vera Cruz to day from Newport. Secretary Garrison made it plain. to day that the War Department expects the governor of Texas to deal with purely domestic disorders in the. state. For State Authorities to Handle. "The situation is clearly defined," he said. "Insofar as disturbances relate to repelling invasion of American ter ritory or to border uprisings, they are matters to be handled by General Fun ston's forces. . To the extent that the disturbances are domestic and within the State of Texas, they are for the state authorities to handle. The state officials have been, informed that the Federal government is powerless to in terfere in these internal disturbances unless they are beyond the control of the state and the governor certifies conditions to- the President of the United States" in a proper manner. Whether the President would then or der Federal troops to take charge of the internal situation is a matter en tirely within his discretion, as in the recent Colorado strike case. "The Governor of Texas isan use the state militia and call upon' every able bodied .cftlzen' to defend the: rights of the state. Whether the situation is beyond the control of the State I do not know. v . " "Insofar as the' Federal government is concerned the border troubles now are entirely in ' the hands of General Funston, ,who has . been told he can have all the .mobile Federal- troops, he wants. ' Hev has mot' asked' for- any more. Battleship Louisiana, Battleship New Hampshire. about a condition of affairs which alarmed Commander McNamee, senior American naval officer at Vera Cruz, President Wilson has despatched there. the big battleships Louisiana and New HEAVY FIGHTING IS Official Claims of Results are Conflicting GERMANS CLAIM LUKOW While Russians Declare Enemy Has Been Repulsed With Heavy Cas ualties in Riga, .Turks Badly Defeated. Heavy fighting is in progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Northwest Russia and Poland, in Asiatic Turkey, and probably on Gallipoli peninsula, where the Allies lately have landed large reinforcements. ! Official reports disagree as to results. Although the Montenegrins claim that in Bosnia and Herzegovina they have won successes in artillery and Infantry engagements near Gorasda and Gasko, it is in the Russian report that the most momentous happenings are chron icled. Petrograd declares the Germans in the Riga district of Northwest Russia near Kovno and in the Vieprz and Bug regions have been repulsed with neavy casualties. v " The Germans, on their part, assert they have occupied Lukow, forty miles northwest ot Ivangorod, and Zambrowa and that the Russians are in retreat along the entire front between the Bug and the Parazew, with Von Mackensen following them. Vienna also adds her claim of con tinued victories in the Vieprz and Bug districts. Of the situation near Riga, Berlin asserts that it remains unchang ed. In Asiatic Turkey, Petrograd de clares the Russians have badly defeated the Turks along the Euphrates, cap turing important vantage points. Near Ezerum the Turks claim to have won a victory over the Russians, inflicting important casualties. According to Constantinople, four Al lied attacks against Ottoman positions on Gallipoli peninsula were put down. Except . in the Argonne, in France, where the Germans declare they cap: tured a group of fortified positions there has been , little fighting on the western front. Paris, referring to the fighting in 'the Argonne, says the French recaptured part of the .lost trenches. 1 On the Austro-Italian frontier,-artillery engagement&.and infantry attacks continue without decisive results;' - A British report says a Britts"h sub marine; has sunk in the Dardanelles the Turkish gunboat Berk-I-Savet, and an empty transport. . ' - ' ' The Germans, according to Petro grad, made- another naval attack in force in the region of. Riga, but put to sea when the Russian shore - batteries opened"up-on;1them. ' c - REPORTED EAST Captain Cooper of the Louisiana, Hampshire in charge, of Admiral Mc- Lean, Commander McNamee called for ucuauoe uiB ivieiieans were maK- ing speeches on the, streets of Vera Cruz damning everything American and South American, it is said. Preliminary Plans Taken Up by the President THE NAVY PROPOSALS Will . Include Important Increase In Submarines President Wilson and Secretary Garrison to Confer on Army Programme. Washington, - Aug. 12. Preliminary plans for strengthening the National defense were taken up by President Wilson immediately after his return today from Cornisl. Secretary Daniels gave the. President a general outline of proposals for improving the Navy, and arrangements were made for an early conference with Secretary Garrison re garding the army. The President is auxious to fix on a programme which will meet the ap proval not only of his cabinet but of Congress, and he hopes politics will have no part in consideration of the subject. Secretary Daniels has not yet com pleted the formal report prepared by the general board and advisory coun cil of the navy for which the President called just before leaving for Cornish. While the Secretary would not dis cuss what he told the President today about the needs of the navy, he indi cated that the building programme would include an important increase in submarines. He would not confirm re ports that he would recommend the building of four battleships. Secretary Garrison has his report on the army well advanced. . A special board of. officers has been studying the situation for several months, and Gen eral Goethals has prepared a special report on the defenses of the Panama Canal. The President devoted much time to the study of National defense while at Cornish, and was in communication frequently with Secretaries Daniels and Garrison. RAILROADS WILL NOT RECEIVE SHIPMENTS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE Churches Cant ' Receive Wine Until ' Arizona Law Is Tested. Douglas, Ariz., Aug. 12. Churches which use wines for sacramental pur poses will not receive renewed sup plies until suit is brought to test the state prohibition law ? on that point, according to Eugene .3. Ives, railroad attorney. In a letter to R. N. French, representing-the Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception here, Mr. Ives said the railroads would not accept for shipment into Arizona any beverage containing alcohol,;no' matter for what purpose such, beverages were Intended, until the law . ljad ; been construed - by proper Judicial authorities.- BEGINS STUDY ON NATIONAL DEFENSE s WHOIiE NUMBER 39,290 OUTLINES SIMM BEFORE PRESIDENT! Lansing Gives Comprehensive . Account of Mexico. PEACE PLAN DISCUSSED Villa .Willing to Sign Armistice fo Peace Conference. . Oarransa De fles Any Interference With . His Campaign. Washington, Aug. 12. President Wilson on his return from Cornish to day was given' a comprehensive ao( count of the Mexican situation by Sec-1 retary Lansing. The secretary told the Presidents that official reports indicated that the situation- in the. vicinity, of Brownsville! was of a local character, and that quiets prevailed at Vera Cruz, where there had been some anti-foreign demonstra-i tions. He outlined in detail the dis cussion of the peace plans at the Newi York conference yesterday of the LatJn- American diplomats.- Neither the President nor Secretary; Lansing was inclined to believe the situation required any further precau tionary measures than have been ta-4 ken in sending battleships to Mexican; waters and more Federal troops to the" Texas border. They devoted most ofl their time to a discussion of the interH American plan on which they are pin-i ning their hopes for the early restora-J tion of peace in Mexico. Preparing to Telegraph Appeal. The conference appeal to the Mexican, factions has not yet been sent, although! eigned by Secretary Lansing and thai ambassadors and ministers of the six Central and South American govern-4 ments participating in the conference.; A list of chiefs, generals and governors is being compiled and as soon as the lo-i cations of all are determined the ap- peal will be telegraphed simultaneous- My to every part of Mexico On the"; eve of this action came an announcement from the Villa ae-enr-v here tonight that ..Carranza had. flatly jr . J 1 refused to permit a peace conference'? 1 1 ; 1 a 1 . a At . . isfc . t y nwwwn nis representatives nere ana those of Villa. Enrique C. Llorente, Villa's Washing- i ton representative, gave out letters which had passed between him and Eli seo Arredondo, the Carranza represent ative here. Llorente began the corre spondence when Charles A. Douglas, counsellor Carranza, filed a brief with the State Department, calling attention to the presence in Washington of Luia Cabrera and Eliseo Arredondo, as Car ranza representatives, and saying that "either or both of them, I am assured, will be glad to confer with any element . of the Mexican people with a view to furthering the common interest and the peace and welfare of the nation."" Llorente telegraphed Villa and was instructed to begin a discussion of peace terms. Arredondo- replied he would refer the matter to Carranza,. whose response" today came in the form of instructions ' to Arredondo noli to enter into peace negotiations as he would accept only the T unconditional surrender of his opponents. VlUa Willing to Sign Armistice. Secretary Lansing revealed today that Villa recently had informed tha State Department he was willing to sign an armistice for three months or longer for holding a peace conference. Llorente said General Felipe Angeles now was in conference with Villa at Chihuahua, relative to details of such an armistice. Indications are that the Zapata ele ments are preparing to receive favor ably the appeal of the United States and the Latin-American governments. Officials here hope many generals re ported to be Carranza partisans ulti mately will give their adherence to a peace conference. The appeal will be made public in a day or two. Carranza's displeasure over the Latin -American movement does not alter the feeling of optimism, among the officials here, who declared, unwarranted, the inference that an at tempt is to be made to invade Mex ico's sovereignty. The Argentine foreign minister's re ply to Carranza, issued by the Carran za agency here, in which it is stated that the Latin-American countries spe cifically understood at the outset of1 their conference that there was to be no impairment of Mexico's sovereignty represents the view of the United? States government, whose effort is to obtain peace without resort to force.. Another Session of Conference. Secretary Lansing said today he did not know when the Latin-American di plomats would be called into conference again, but another session probably will be held within three weeks. The present plan is .to wait ten days after reception of the appeal before consid ering any replies received. FAVORED CARRANZA'S ENEMIES Is Charge Made Against Guatemalan Minister Recently Expelled. New Orleans, La., Aug. 13. Dr. Juan J. Ortega, . Guatemalan minister to Mexico, who recently was expelled by General Carranza is charged in a ca blegram received here today from Vera Cruz signed by General Jesus Acuna.. Caranza's foreign 'minister, with hav1 ing favored the enemies of Carranza. General Acuna also declares the pres ident of Guatemala encouraged revolts against Carranza along the Guatemalan border. Clarksburg, W. Va., Aug. 12. Dr. Wal lace P Fleming, professor of Greek in Drew Theological Seminary at Mad ison, N. J, today was elected . presl-; dent of West Virginia Wesleyaa College at Buchanan. - ,--- ..Z-" zJ- i I ir-il f If HI III f 1 1 1 - f t I i ' t, I. a t at 8 4 S 1A ','1 ; Vi-.i 3 " r f w rrt X f t ( 7-4. f. t 1 f 4H e 'i i 1 V

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