Ottawa Evening Journal from Ottawa, Kansas • 1

WEATH Kit Fair tonight and Continued moderate (Mm The Popular Paper of Franklin County When You Read in the Journal You Know It's True. Ili't' Low. 'IV TKMI'KRATIJKKN: Yesterday Today 11 -xlJER 101. VOLUME I. OTTAWA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 161916.

CARRANZA SAID TO OUR GREAT MERCHANT MARINE U. S. PROTECTION SWAYS DECISION ON ARMED SHIPS MYSTERIOUS FIRES DESTROY PROPERTY THROUGH COUNTRY BE BADLY PRESSED FOR READY MONEY CHILD LABOR BILL MAY YET BE SAVED BY A SENATE VOTE IF CONSIDERED EARLY STANDS A CHANCE HE NEW YORK BLAZE CAUSES WILSON INFORMED THAT MUST PREPARE FOR FUTURE. CONDITION OF PRESENT MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SERIOUS, FOUR MILLION DOLLAR LOSS. TRYING TO TIE U.

S. HANDS OFFICE RENT IN ARREARS DELAY INCREASES DANGER OTHER CITIES ARE VICTIMS Believed That Plots Are at Bot President Between Two Fires in Matter of Submarine Policy To Be Adopted By Nation. Strong Possibility of a New Uprising Which Will Prove More Serious Than All Others. Opponents to Measure Providing for Safeguarding of Children Will Try to Talk it to Death. tom of Most of the Fires That Consume Much Property.

New York, Feb. 16. A $4,000,000 Washington, Feb. 16. Information was received today to the effect that fire occurred this morning in lh New York when the vessels, Pacific and Boston were totally destroyed.

The Washington, D. Feb. 16. Although President W.ilson is hesitating to declare his position on the question of defensively armed liners, it wa3 stated today that considera- tions of vital importance affecting the safety of the United States in time of war are responsible for the first occurred in the Breakly Com pany pier. One man is missing.

One sailor of the Pacific steamer the Carranza Government in Mexico is in desperate shape. The government is crumbling fast. In fact it is gone. Many of Car-ranza's officers are in arrears and three of his counsels in American cities are so far behind that their office rent has not been paid. It is quite possible that this may lead to a new revolution and one of the worst uprisings yet had.

who was making his escape became trapped on the top deck. He climbed the fifty foot mast pole and hung to the top yelling for help while the flames were raging below him. He would not jump for fear of being unable to clear the deck. A line was cast to him and tied to a pier some distance from the vessel. On this line he slid to safety and was cheered wildly by his comrades.

OLD TIME RESIDENT OF FRANKLIN COUNTY DIES Various stories have circulated as J. L. Hughes Succumbs' at Wells-ville Home Ofter Extended Illness. to the origin of the fire. Some say it was a bomb plot, while others declare it was caused by a short circuit of the electric wiring in the docks and was Washington, Feb.

16. The fate of the Keating-Owen bill, excluding from inter-state commerce- the products made by child labor, now lies with the Senate' committee on Labor and Education, headed by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. Friends of child labor are seeking to force a report on the bill. If the bill is brought to the Senate floor early in the session, they say, it will be impossible to talk it to death. The bill, which has the endorsement of the National Child Labor association, was passed by an overwhelming vote in the House, where opposition to it was led by certain southern Democrats who cling to the old state rights theory which resents interference in local affairs by the federal government.

Exactly 46 votes were cast against the bill, chiefly the votes of representatives from North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, where child labor is used in cotton mills. Many of the younger southern Democrats however, went contrary to the state rights doctrine and voted with the majority. Incidentally the passage of the bill is a striking commentary on how opinion has changed on the constitutionality of legislating against child labor under the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. In 1907 the House Judiciary committee, including in its membership Charles E. Littlefield, David A.

De Armond and other lawyers, decided unanimously that the jurisdiction over child labor falls under the police powers of the state and not under the commerce clause. When the vote on the Keating-Owen bill was taken, one lone northern Re started while the crews were asleep. action of Secretary of Stato Lansing in urging the entente powers to agree to disarm all their merchant ships. These same considerations, it is stated, are responsible for the fact that or not the allies agree to the proposals, the American government has decided to change its rules and acquiesce in the contention made by Germany and Austria of their right to attack all armed enemy ships without warning. This contention, based on the ground that armed merchantships are to be regarded in the light of the development of submarine warfare, as auxiliary ships of war, is declared to have the unanimous backing of the authorities of the American navy.

It is stated that officers of the navy department have informed the state department that it is a matter of vital consequence that the precedents growing out of the present war should not be of a character to embarrass the free use of submarines by thiscpwtry iij time of a foreign war.itf-iwWftothe tremen A Chicago Plot? Chicago, Feb. 16. What is thought to be a plot to destroy the city building was found this morning when the flames were discovered in the J. L. Hughes, 79 years old, for 56 years a resident of eastern Kansas, died this morning at his home in Wellsville after an illness of several months.

Mr. Hughes 'camo to Kansas at ths opening of the civil war and ruv service in the Union army during the war with a Kansas regiment. He was engaged in the stock business in eastern Kansas for more than forty years and was well known throughout eastern Kansas. Kanfa City and St. Louis.

On February 12 he and his wife celebrated their fifty-seventh anniversary. He is survived by his wife and six children: Charles Hughes, Joseph Hughes, Milton Hughes, Mrs, room adjoining the one which contains the chemicals found in the rooms of the anarchist, Gene Crones, leader of the "Poisoned soup plot." A bottle of some kind of oil was setting within a few feet of the flames and when Dr. A. Roberts threw water on it, it exploded, sending pieces of glass GERMANS WANT all over the room. BUSHONG IS GIVEN WHITE WAY AWARD Business District Wrecked.

Fall River. Feb. 16. An all PANAMA' CANAL night fire swept the business district dous grb'Mifeiisidlipt) on both. Henry Todd, Mrs.

FrankSelyer, ot "Wellsville' and' Kuwaiti Ki'ef- of this city, last- night. The apparatus of three cities co-operated end TflwnrMiiited "Aumocr ot coast "defense OFFERED NICARAGUA LARGER LOWEST singer, of Buldwin Kan. the flames were extinguished lata this fortifications American naval CONTRACT GIVEN i BIDDER. SUM SENATE HEARS. morning.

The flames were started by an ex plosion in the Staszer department store and took every building in the publican, Richard Wayne Parker of New Jersey, voted in the negative, CENTURIAN CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY AT HIS HOME Arthur W. Webster, 59 Years a Res-ident of Kansas Recalled Early Days. Material Here in Sixty Days Successful Bidder to Push Work on Contract. square, including the Lenox hotel. The flames barely missed the city hall Parker is one of the men who signed the 1907 report denying the right of Congress to act The bill prohibits and the St.

Marys cathedral. The wind changed shortly before the flames were checked and was fastly driving employment in mine or quarry of children under 16 years of age, and them toward the tenement district, MUCH CIVIC INTEREST SHOWN AT RETAILER MEETING Secretary Bowr Complimented Clean Up Week and. Other Topics Under piftcussion. The Franklin County Retail Merchants' association held a rousing meeting in the assembly room of the city hall last night. The meeting was well attended and many topics of local interest to the retailer, citizens, of Ottawa and farmers of Franklin.

bounty were discussed. Compliments the good work being done by Kenneth Bower, secretary of the association were paid to that young man by the members. "The bulletins concerning the work of the organization gotten out by Mr. Bower are among the best of thoir kind being gotten out in this part of the country," said Allen Mansfield, president of the association. Among the topics under discussion at the meeting was a clean-up week program for this spring.

The meetings of the Franklin county retail association while always enthusiastic the one held last night was even more so and the outlook is very promising for this spring and summer. Think Germans Guilty. factories and canneries of chil dren under 14. Furthermore, chil Toronto, Feb. 16.

One was dren between 14 and 16 years of killed and two others seriously in jured when the building in which the age, working in factories, must observe the eight hour law. H. S. HEADS WILL CONVENE, American club is located was destroy ed by fire this morning. The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin.

For Same Reason That France Germany Seeks Nicaraguan Route Outlet. Washington, Feb. 16. That Germany has offered Nicaragua a larger sum than the United States for an option' on the Nicaraguan Canal route was urged in the Senate toda as an argument for early ratification of the pending treaty. Several senators said they had been, informed in the course of the debate that I Germany lpng sought an option on the canal route; that efforts first were made soon after France undertook construction of a canal and had been renewed more recently.

Members of the foreign "relations committee denied that there was any documentary evidence in possession of the committee on the subject. "Of course, we have heard reports that Germany sought to ob Many think it was a German plot. The Arthur W. Webster of Baldwin celebrated his 101 birthday Monday at his home. He was born in Nova Scotia, February 13, 1915, the son of a British soldier, bropght to America to serve in the French and Indian wars, he learned the blacksmith trade in Nova Scotia and later worked in Boston shipyards.

Mr. Webster came to Kansas in 1857, opening a blacksmith shop at Palmyra, the predecessor of the present town of Baldwin. His shop was located on the historic Santa Fe trail and he repaired wagons for freighters and cmgrants and shod the oxen for the old prairie trains. He served at the forge until ten or fifteen years ago. Now he spends most of his time reading the Bible.

Lawrence, Feb. 16 Hun dreds of high school teachers, prin loss is estimated at $50,000. Steamer Burns. New York, Feb. 16.

The steamer it is stated, hold that in time of war the United States would be compelled to rely largely on its submarines for coast defense. It is imperative, therefore, that the United States government should not go so far in restricting the operations of submarines as to make them useless. For the. United States to hold to the view that merchant vessels have the right to arm for defense and that submarines may not attack them without warning, but must exercise the duties of visia and search where such vessels are concerned, Mr. Lansing has been told, would be to place the American submarines practically' at the mercy of any attacking power possessing a large merchant marine.

The president is between two fires. By the entente allies he is charged with "playing Germany's game" by seeking to make it possible for submarines to approach unarmed merchant vessels close enough to sink them with impunity. By the Teutonis powers he is charged with "playing England's game," in hesitating to force the abandonment of defensive armament of merchantmen! and warn Americans to shun belligerent ships on which they constitute human insurance of the safety of war munitions cargoes. Great Britain is making determined, efforts to persuade the president not to take the step desired by Germany. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British cipals and superintendents from all parts of the state will meet at the University of -Kansas March 17 and 18 to attend the Thirteenth Annual Bellagia caught fire this morning but The city commissioners this morning awarded the contract for the construction of Ottawa's new White Way to I.

C. Bushong Electric company, 214 South Main street, Ottawa, Kan. Mr. Bushong's bid for the work was the lowest submitted to the city commissioners for the work. He will receive $7131 for the construction if general electric cable is used and $7171.50 if Okenite cable is used.

The Okenite cable can be obtained in four weeks and the General Electric in eight weeks. The commissioners will decide today on which cable will be used. The Connor Construction company of Kansas City, was the next lowest bidder of those whose bids were opened yesterday. Their bid based on the same general plan as Mr. Bushong's was $7403.90.

Mr. Bushong said today that as soon as the city commissioners decide which cable they prefer he will start ordering the material at once. The poles, 80 in number will be ob was saved from serious damage. Captain Smith of Boston Castle and High School Conference. wife and twenty-five passengers jumped from the burning vessel but Several leading educators will be on the program including such men as Dean Lotus D.

Coffman, of the were rescued. Seventy sailors, includ ing fifty Chinese escaped without MASONS ATTEND STATE clothing. They were herded in a build University of Illinois, Jesse B. Davis, of the Grand Rapids, high school: C. Marshall, dean of the TC ERECT MONUMENT.

ing until clothing could be secured for them by the police. tain the Nicaraguan Canal route," college of commerce, University of Chicago; President T. W. Butcher COMMUNICATION THIS WEEK Many Local Masons Attend Sixtieth Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge. of the Emporia Normal, H.

B. Wil son of Topeka; J. F. Hughes, Cha said Senator Stone, chairman of the committee. "Whether she offered 9 million dollars or 12 million dollars or 20 million dollars, I do not know.

We have no means of know Ulysses, Feb. 16. A monument will be erected over the body of Nellie Byers, the school teacher who was murdered last fall while coming along a lonely road from school. Teachers and school children of Grant County are contributing the funds. nute; H.

P. Study, Neodesha; W. D. "Ross, state superintendent, Topeka; Masons from all parts of the state started going to Topeka early Monday tained from the Ottawa foundry com- and C. C.

Brown, state inspector of ing. That Germany was actuated by the same motives in seeking this The work of construction and morning, to attend the sixtieth annual pany. high schools. Among the subjects to be dis- communication of the grand lodge, the all of the common labor relative to fifty-first annual convocation of the the installation of the system will be HANGS SELF IN CELL. done by the Bushong Electric com cussed are the scientific movement in education, vocational guidance as a function in the public school, high gituiu vuttpiei aim uit? xui Ly-eignui annual assembly of the grand council committee met them at the train, dec- Leavenworth, Feb.

16. The body Ambassador, has received from the London foreign office a voluminous argument which he will make the' school graduate courses, and depart mental round tables for the discug. Lorated the Masons with badges and of 1 John Kilgore was found this morning suspended to the door of his cell in the penitentiary. He was 56 years bid and it is believed that de pany's force. J.

S. Small, local contractor whose bid for the work was considered by the city commissioners yesterday submitted a second bid to the commissioners last night The second bid based on the same plan as Mr. Bush sion of the various problems of the FURS STOLEN FOR THIRD TIME IN PAST 2 MONTHS Friti Barner's Place Again Visited By Burglars Who Secure Loot. Tne hide and fur establishment of Fritz Barner in the alley back of First and Main street was broken into last night and furs valued at thirty-five dollars were stolen. When Bamer came to his place of business this morning he found the lock on tre front door broken and the furs miss.g.

This is he third time the Barner store has I en robbed in the last two months. Th. sheriff's office was notified. C. A.

Luce, under sheriff is investigating the robbery. MOVIES AT HOMEWOQD. W. A. Vickers, county of schools will give an illustrated lecture on better farming and stot's high school teachers.

basis of a protest against any ruling by the American government depriving defensively armed merchant ships of their existing status under international law. MINE FIRE KILLS 20. spondency caused the act. INSTALL NEW MACHINES canal route that France had in the original Panama enterprise is apparent to everyone. "Personally, I think it would be to the great political advantage of the United States for any European government' to have control of a canal route across the Pan-American Isthmus." Champions of the pending Nicaraguan treaty are said to have cited Germany's desires in urging its ratification, Nicaragua having agreed to accept 3 million offered by the United States for the canal option and naval base in Fonseca Bay.

Because many senators are absent from Washington, Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign relations committee, did not want to risk a ong's excepting that he proposed to Butte, Mont, Feb. 16. Twenty men use King Standards was for $7315.20 are reported to have perished in a fire which swept through the Pennsyl The Ottawa Foundry posts which Mr. Bushong will use will be similar to the Cutter Company's Continental posts which are now on display in vania mine of the Anconda copper The People's National bank have just installed a new posting machine which takes the totals from the ledger, which were, formerly taken by hand. Two of the machines will be in use in the bank, and they are mining company last night.

Several miners who attempted to rescue men who had been penned in the lower reaches of the mine, lost the first ones to be installed in Ottawa- their lives. The fire was raging at one o'clock this afternoon. The ori gin has not been ascertained. on ratification of the treaty today and it was not gave them car fare up-town, where they gathered at Masonic hall and the National hotel, Masonic headquarters for the week. The following representatives of the local lodges here went to Topeka to attend the annual communication of the grand lodge this week.

Melody Lodge No. 400 A. F. A. John Okerberg; Ottawa Chapter No.

7 Royal Arch Masons, P. R. Moise, Don Pickrell and E. A. May; Ottawa Lodge 18 A.

F. C. H. Martin, Lee Larson and Dr. Harding.

O. U. RELAY RACES. The Olympian relay team defeated the Philalethean squad last night in the first annual indoor relay race. Dunbar, of the Philals, made the fastest time of the evening, defeating Captain West in his three rounds, but his teammates could not maintain the place and lost by inches.

West, Busby, Demmin'and Cross composed the Olympian team, while Dunbar, Morgan, Miller and Humphries ran for the Philals. Coach Schabinger present an attractive banner to the winners. and Fifth street and South Main will The flames appear to be under con meet tonight in an effort to make pos GERMANS AROUSED OVER LUSITANIA SITUATION Berlin, Feb. 16.The Lusitanii settlement has become the center of a vicious party storm in Germany today. Attacks are beiag made on Chancellor Von Bethman-Hollweg and Von Jagow for failure to explain the terms of settlement in the Prussian house, of commons.

It is declared that the public should be permitted to know if Germany has entered into a contract tending to cripple the present submarine policy. Leaders consider that neither Germany nor the United States government has emerged trimuphantly from the negotiations. They believe that the fact that both nations have made concessions in the interest of harmony is a matter for gratification and on that trol. William Mitchell, a foreman taken up in the Senate, as had been expected. sible the extension of the White Way and Niel Brennan, a shift boss, and front of the city hall.

The top furnishings of the posts will be purchased from the George Cutter company of South Bend, Indiana. This includes iron castings at of the globe, the glass globe and the top ventilator. The contract let to Mr. Bushong includes all material, labor and construction. Mr.

Bushong said today that as soon as the cable arrives the construction work will be started and pushed to completion. The out of town material will be ordered by wire. The material will be here in sixty days. The new White Way will start at raising tonight at the Homewood school. He will give the lecture tomorrow night at Pomona school.

Mr. Vickers who has been giving these lectures at the rural schools in the country during the past month said this morning that the meetings several station tenders are among the known dead. MRS. FARWELL RELEASED. to Fifth and South Main streets.

If the property owners decide to dp this they will instruct the Bushong Electric company to include the additional cable and other material in their order. If this extension is made the city will theft be brilliantly lighted from the Santa Fe depot to the-new city patk ot Fifth and South Main street. AGNES GRABLE WILL RECOVER. Agnes Grable who has been ill at the home of E. V.

Sayers, 737 South Main street since last Sunday night was moved to the home of her fath er, P. Grable, 606 South Cherry street this afternoon. Dr. George Davis who has been attending the young woman said today that she had a good chance for recovery. had been very successful thus far.

"The farmers and their wives and children take a great interest in the farm projects shown by me during the lectures and dispite the bad condition, of the roads during the time I have been giving the lectures the meetings have commanded a large attendance," said Mr. Vickers. Athens, Feb. 16. Mrs.

Walter Farwell of Chicago and Dr. Forbes the Boston physician, engaged in the Red Cross work in Servia, were released by the Bulgarians at Monaster after three months They are now enroute to Sofia. the Santa Fe depot, extend from there along Tecumseh street to North Main street south along Main to Fourth street. Property owners between Fourth The Washington school grounds and will depend to make possible a more the city library will be included in the (easy solution of any future disagree-illumination. ments which arise..