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CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—The bull moose

stood just outside the fence of the

G. O. P. pasture .today, with olive

branches on the antlers. A little

coaxing, said progressive party lead

,ers today, will brine him inside the

PMtnre, for a double harness race

with

the republican elephant, agalpst

democratic donkey.

June 7, that the G. O. P. national con

tention meets, bore out the impres

sion that peace between the progres

sives and republicans now rests with

the latter.

"We are all hoping," Perkins said,

"that both parties will agree on some

?°dy and it need not necessarily be

Colone! Roosevelt."

Perkins and other progressive lead

ers who remained in Chicago today

rf

but not certain, that it

would be Roosevelt. Just how many

second choices the party has Is yet

to be shown.

Justice Hughes apparently has. con-

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along of .eighteen

shot down In ddd Wood.

The nxnrdsrs resulted from

orders given by Francisco Vil

la, the bandit, to kill every

American and foreigner his

followers meet. Villa .was re

ported personally to have com

manded the Sri^ «qua&

The firing squad started to

shoot the eighteen, men one at

The

shrieks

the massacre to Chihuahua.

The bodies of the eighteen

men were expected to reach El

§|Paso today. The probability

that they will never be avenged

ffaaa aroused the border. Slow-

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Worst Massacre in Mexican History Marks

Villa's Band as Savages, More Cruel

gr Than the Ignorant Cannibal.

SHOT BMBI1 IIIE§MTIE

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Horrible Story has Aroused Officials Along the

Border' and in Washington to High

gg* Pitch of Indignation.

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EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 12.—

The worst massacre of peace

ful Americans in Mexican his

tory was detailed in official

messages received here today,

telling of sixteen United States

citisena and two British sub

jects dragged frdm a Mexico

Northwestern train, Monday,

robbed of $25,000, stripped of

their clothing and stood naked

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a time. Seeing death was in-!of the Cnsi Mining company,

•vitable, several attempted to {0f which Potteu Palmer of Chi

flee but were shot and killed ^eago, is president. The men

as they rani iwere going to re-open the com-

of the murdered [pany's rich silver mines at

men were heard by Thomas'Cusihuiriachie, Chihuahua.

Holmes who had hidden in the They were first robbed by Che

train's lavatory and later es- bandits of a $25,000 pay roll

caped to carry the first news of: and several thousand dollcxs

worth of supplies. The bandits

then attired themselves in the

clothing they forced the men

to disrobe.

The naked group was then

marched to a ravine close by

ness of Carranaa officials here the track and shqt, the Ameri

to take sympathetic action, re- cans having to await their turn

suited in a mass meeting being for execution. The horror of

LITJTLE LUMP OF SUGAR

WOULD COAX HIM INSIDE

/Bull Moose Hanging Around

on Outside of the G. 0, P,

Pasture Fence.W?'

sidorable strength among the progres-

BO

leaders that he attended all confer

ences of the committee here yester

day. Despite the virtual agreement of

Frank statements today by George I the progressives to combine if pos-

W. Perkins, who presided at the pro- sible with the republicans on national villa personally _commanded the ban

gresslve national committee yesterday Issues, there will be several hot fights

^which voted to hold a national con

vention in Chicago on the same day,

ia Individual states before local amal

gamations oan occur, it was stated

today. Missouri progressives already

have announced they will put a fu'

state ticket in the field. The Pacific

coast progressives are hopeful of con

tinuing the fight, regardless of nation

al events.

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held'last night at which mine

owners denounced the Wash

ington policy toward Mexico.

Lured hack to their work by

passports granted in Washing

ton and the Carransa govern

ment's guarantees of protec

tion, the mining party was re

fused an escort of one hundred

Oarransa soldiers. If Gen. Ja

cinto B. Trevino in. Chihuahua

had granted this request, the

rjgen

would have been saved

Confirmation of the massa-

cre was contained a?! jnessasea

from British Consul Scobeil,

Fifteen bandits stopped the

train at Santa Ysabel, Chihua

hua. The mining party con

sisted of officials and employes

those last moments may never

be known. None escaped.

The official list of dead:

Charles R. Watson, general

manager of the Cusi Mining

Co. Wm. J. Wallace, CEL L.

Robinson, George W. Newman,

M. B. Romero, T. M. Evans,

Richard T. McHatton, Charles

Wadleigh, J. P. Coy, Avery A.

Couch, Alexander Hall, J. W.

Woon, Charles A. Pringle, W.

D. Pearce, Maurice Anderson,

H. C. Basse, R. H. Simmons, J.

Adams __ ..•'%

The majority lived in El

Paso. Evans and Couch were

Canadians. Romero, though

Mexican, was a naturalized

Aj^frioan citizen.

Indignation A Housed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Indigna

tion swept official Washington today

over reports of the wholesale massa

cre of American miners by VllUsta

bandits near Chihuphua city.

Promptaction fqr redress and to

guard against repetition of outrages

upon Americans, was set in motion "by

President Wilson and the state de

partment. American consular officers

in northern Mexico and on the border

were ordered, to forward at once all

information regarding/the incident.

Immediate rewrite of the massacre

outlined. l^«la£8 '43t^^*.4 *JU ltxi

sharp and urgent representations to

Carranza. Tae defacto Mexican

president will be advised of serious re-

nnnfoinprl in measaires •u,ta which may attend lack of pro-

Ohihnahnu to H. C. Myles, tto }!£,'?&.10

British diplomatic agent here.

tectlon fop Amerlcans Xhl8 g0Yeni.

Of ment Will hold the Carraiua govern-

Formal action was deferred to wait

offlc,al conf5rmatloa

protection for

Llhihuaihua

Senators and representatives were

erpected today to make the murders

subject for open discussion in .con

gress.

Men Were Not Afraid.

or

negotiationfl for a compromise. Mc- mander in Juarez, to avenge the mas

Cormick, formerly a progressive chief-,

Though republican and progressive bringing the bodies. It was expected

leaders say they are apparently agreed

on a platform of extensive prepared

ness for war, there are still many

issues to be ironed out before the re-

KEOKUK, IOWA

and details of

General Rodriguez were responsible.

tie as the bloodiest on the*

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other Americans in the

mining territory.

CHICAGO, Jan. 12. In a statement twentv-four hours, however,

issued today for Hop ore and Potter I

ly, eiRiiioen emyiuye,

General Garcia, the Carranza com-

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tain, naft frankly become republican The fact that General Villa and flf

again, but is

close to the moose feen men were at Lajunta two days

ago, within fifteen miles of the spot

where the Americans were dragged}

from a train, stood tin naked and shot

in turn, strengthened the belief that

dits. Col. Jose Rjodrlguex. the other!

bandit leader In Chihuahua territory,

is known now to have been in the im

mediate vioinlty.

Arrangements have been made ,to|

admit the eighteen corpses without!

the usual formalities. J. P. Ryan, rep

resenting the Cusi Mining company. I

chartered the spertal train that la!

to arrive here late tonight.

At least a hundred telegrams of pro

test have been sent by leading mining

men in this district to Washington,

union can take place. If standpatters demanding immediate action effec

are in control of the G. O. P. con- tivelv to safeguard Americans in

ventioa here June 7, the peace plans. Mexico. Most of the telegrams have

according to progressive chieftains,!

to

will go to smaslk

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that th0 kai:5er

Palmer, owners of the Cuslhuiriachic. revived

Mining company, eighteen employes!

A t'n fflt fhftlr mfin out of fhe!In Germany that the kaiser is dying

made to get their men out of Amsterdam correspondent said

danger zone were detailed.

"The men said they were having a

good time and there was no danger,"

the statement declared.

Henry L. HoIIIaT" of Chiicago, engi

neer for the mining company, left to

day for EJI Paso.*

sives, both in the east and the west. Helpless Rage. Twelve workmen on the Canadian Pa

Some committeemen, who attended} B3L PASO Texas. Jan. 12.—In help- ^iflc railway work train cleaning snow

the meeting were frankly for him as I iesa at the murder of sixteen

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publican—and therefore progressive—. tliia afternoon the special train

nominee. bringing their bodies from Chihuahua

Medill McCormick of Chicago, it icity. Apparently nothing has been

was intimated today, will be one of I done by either Zack Cobb, represent

ee principal intermediaries between inK the Washfnsrton state department

the moose and republicans in their I

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, '16

FRANCE

[By William Philip Slmma, United

Press Staff Correspondent.]

PAfMS* Jw- 12.—Th» Germans' lost

more than 25,too men in the Sunday

Great niwber. of wounW German itery evaucatlon of King

prisoners have reached Chalone. They

confirm the report that General Von

£lmen planned to break through the

French line and bend back the whole

front from Rheims to Verdun.

The prisoners complained that the

German artillery failed to do its work.

Instead of aiiencing the French bat

teries, thy German guns only wrecked

portion* of advanced French trenches.

The heavy bombardment, lasting for

nearly twenty-four hours, gave ample striking hard blowa

time for, the French to hurry up re

serves to meet the attack.

Asphyxiating gas shells forced the

French to retire from several ad

vanced positions before the Germans

charged. The first rush of the teu

tons carried them into the French

first line trenches, but their ranks

were riddled when they attempted to

puah on

fortify the newly conquered positions

the French swept forward In a daring

charge that regained practically all

trie lost ground. Hundreds of bodies

of German soldiers were found in the

first line works and between the first

and second line trenches.

Among the German prisoners reach

ing Chalons were a number of soldiers

belonging to the imperial guard,

[United Press Leased Wire St*rice.]

BERLIN, \via wireleso dayvilie,

L. I.) Jan. 12.—Seventy persona were

killed and fifty seriously injured by

the explosion of an ammunition de

pot in Lille yesterday, it was off).

cially announced today.

The ammunition depot- was lodged

the massacre. MeagttT andT preilmin- l'"J"]« ""e^-nLi?iVh%t^hexSlIsl^n [United Press Leased Wire Service.]

ary reports from border ifflcials, said fications °f L'lle. The explosion LONDON, Sootland, Jan. 12.—The

that statements reaching them told or wrecked buildings along many neigh-

the death of fifteen or seventeen:boding streets, kit ing "»ny Persons,

Americana and three British miners, outright and causing fatal injuries to

others.

The British embassy today inquired "A French attack northeast of

informally of the state department re-1 LemesniI on German positions on a

garding the report concerning British!front of about three-fiftha of a mile,

subjects. It is expected separate pro- failed completely,'' the official atate

teat will be made to- Carransa by Bng-: ment reported this afternoon. "The

land. 'enemy hurriedly retreated to his own

State department officials expressed itrenches."

belief today thai guerilla troops of.

j,e kaiser's illness. mAnfhIt# I lnr(«o

It was stated that the reports reach

ed Switzerland directly from Berlin.: ho'i£e"of "Mmmon8,"thi3' afterno"on,

Rome dispatches a few days ago

said it was learned there on good

authority that the kaiser's illness was

not serious and that he would be out

with'n a few days. Within the last

rumors

.s conditio

that the kaiser's condition was seri

ous have been revived. An Amster-

dam dispa

An Amster

tch to the London Daily Ex-

ous Iuue Deen

of which were massacred by Mexican: i.annTtaii nnnnr, i-n Mrwiiflttnn

or wnicn were mHMbreu oy ^Y'^i

evlvea-

preS3

reported rumors in circulation

that color was lent to this report

•the fact that the German press is full

of extravagant eulogies of the crown

prince.

Twelve Workmen Killed.

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the second choice. But nine out of {Unlted gtates citizens and two British ^ered speed for ^run out of

ten believe Roosevelt will be the re-,

BRANDON. Manitoba, Jan. 12.—

^rornt !,}e here, were run down

the yards.

bjects in Mexico, the city awaited"Just gathered speed for a run out of

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[By Henry Wood, United Press Staff

Correspondent.]

ROME, Jan. 12.—The early fall of

Cettlnje, the Montenegrin capital, was

onslaughts against the French lines I forecasted In dispatches received

in Champaflne, according to Chalons! here today eonflrmlng the news that

dispatches today, describing the

bat-l^e

western

Austriana have occupied Mount

Lowcen, "the Gibraltar of the Adri-

front ainCe the allied offensive last «tic» dominating the roads to Cettlnje

Stetember !and

than oevcn

capital began on Sunday, according to

advices received here. This news pre

ceded a message from Berne, Swit

zerland, reporting the fall of Mount

Lowcen.

The arsenal at Cettlnje has been

dismantled and everything of military

removed. Preparations were being

made Sunday to transfer the capital,

but the new seat of government has

n®«

~een

on

Without giving the enemy time to I of the Montenegrin on the lower

... 111 alatiMUiAMlMM Uiinflaof

Cettlnje stands on an elevation

about 2,000 feet above the sea, com

pletely dominated by Mount Lowcen,

nearly 1,000 feet higher. In their re

tirement, according to Berne des

patches, the Montenegrin* were un

able to destroy or reinove their heavy

guns which presumably are- already

y»'-,?ed

8teamep

CALLED HOME.

ROprince

ME,

for the murders. vices from Swiss sources today re-1

The department expects that Oa.r- p0rt«d that the German crown prince

ranza will promptly dispatch troop3.

Jan. 12.—Unconfirmed ad-1

been reoa

a A

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||ej to Berlin, probably'

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to the scene of the massacre to search V0"assume"thc regency, on account ,08^^'"a'„J%ontt~now Af

ter the murderers and also provide

Traquair has been sunk by

#ubmarine

teen per cent monthly, Under Secre

tary of War Tennant Informed ths

in

explaining why the government found

It necessary to adopt conscription to

[fill the ranks.

TURKEY

[United Press Leased Wire Service]

CONSTANTINOPLE, (via Berlin

wireless) Jan. 12.—In a long range

naval fight between the Turkish cruis-!

or Sultan Selim, formerly the German

Goeben and the Russian battleship

Empress Maria, the Russian warship

was hit several times, the war office

reported today. The Sultan Selim

escaped unharmed.

THE WEATHER.

For Keolcuk and vicinity: Generally

fair tonight and Thursday. Severe I

cold wave tonight, with temperature

below zero and strong northwest

winds.

For Iowa: Severe cold wave tonight

with strong northwest winds and tern

perature much below zero. Generally

fair tonight and Thursday. Colder

east portion Thursday.

I Weather Conditions.

The advance of the northwestern

field of high pressure has been re

tarded by this storm, pressure in

creasing and temperature falling in

the northern plateau region, where

(he temperature is from forty to

fifty degrees below zero this morn

ing.

Local Observations.

Jan. Bar. Ther. Wind W'th'r

11 7 p. m.——29.83 32 E Lt.Rain

12 7 a. m. 29.78 26 NW Sleet

Precipitation 24 hours. .50.

River stage 7 a. m., 4.8 feet.

Mean temperature, 26.

Highest, 33. I

Lowest, 19. I

Lowest last night. 25.

FRED Z. GOSEWISCH,

Observer.

•'•'""V'-'V MMfevteKt'

miles away. Mill

Nicholas'

Austrlans are

at the valiant

Montenegrin army, which Is handi

capped both by lack of equipment

and by the need of food supplies.

Mount Lowcen fell after five days of

terrific and uninterrupted bombard*

ment from the Austrian squadron In

Cattaro harbor, the harbor forts and

lighter Austrian artillery brought up

to close range. The bombardment

blew to pieces the first line trenches

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slopes, slaughtering hundreds

Mount Lowcen's- defenders before

they could escape.

A combined Austrian assault car

ried the second line positions near

the summit. Harassed by a terrible

fire from artillery and machine guns,

the Montenegrins were pushed over

the summit, fighting desperately after

suffering enormous losses.

Her crew was saved.

ESCAPED SUBMARINE.

BARCELONA, Jan. 12.—The British

steamer Tafna eluded a German sub

marine that pursued her -'several

miles in the Mediterranean and ar

rived here today.

The Tafna is the largest of fifteen

steamers owned by the English and

American Shipping company of Lon

don. She displaces 4,393 tons.

LOSSES AT THE FRONT.

LONDON, Jan. 12^—British Infantry

Swan Nelson was found lying on a

Sioux City street with both ieet so

badly frozen that amputation will be

necessary.

Wires all over the state are in

trouble and street car service in

terrupted in many places. Railroad

trains are behind schedule, but are

able to get through the drifting Bnow.

From Out the North.

J5ANSAS"CITY, 30.7 Jan. M^Prom

the northwest c&mfe a wave of bitter

cold this morning that sent the mer

cury to zero and brought a forecast

of fifteen" degrees below for tonight.

Eye Witness Report of March

to Salonika, in Front of

the Bulgarians.

[The following is the first of seven

installments of one of the most grip-

picture

Serbia.

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THE WEATHER

Severe cold wave tonight. Lo

cal temp—7 p. m. 32 7 a.

26.

Coldest Weather for Several Winters is Due to

Spread Over the State During the

Night.

BUZZARD IH THE MIDDLE WEST

Twelve Below in Kansas Today, With Cold

Wave Still Blowing and Mercury

Steadily Falling. I

[United Press Leased Wire Service.]

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 12.—With

twenty-five below zero predicted for

tonight and a blizzard from the north

raging, Iowa is in for the worst

weather of the winter.

Charles Golden, a farm band, was

struck by a train in the blizzard near

Homer, Nebraska, and killed.

only under pledge that it would not Santa Claus will have to get down the

be cabled, but would be sent to New {chimney of this man's home thi£

York by mail to make sure that the year. On the outskirts of Salonika

enemy should not profit by any infor- |this afternoon men are erectiht? tents,

matlon it contained. It ranks with in a muddy field, for the Serbian

Shepherd's first detailed story of the'refugees and their families. Within

Austrian retreat from Serbia which the past six weeks nearly half a mil

he witnessed as correspondent with n0n dollars of American and British

the Austrian army.] money has been sent here for such

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days^ I have^'beeifCwa^cliing the °f

10FVkoVrtrrfro°nVthrenche8!'

.. an emergency and today for the first

[By William G. Shepherd, United ,$ime the money is being put to use.

Corre8P°nid®nt-J The harbor of Salonika is almost

b°at8'

back to I For several (lays forty-six transports

the harbor of Salonika, a strip ofi'^ded with troops who lmd newly

land sixty miles wide, I have seen, come to Salonika and who had not

the thousands of demonstrations and disembarked, lay in the harbor. Now

tokens of retirement. they have gone, troops and all. No

I have talked to General Sarrall. ,one in Salonika knows where.

leader of the allied forces here, and People are speculating about the

to General Baillaud, in the field, to possibility that the allies may be driv

majors, captains and privates of both

en

tae French and British forces sud fOrc0{l to leave Greece. It will ta!e

they have, more or less, admitted that |aj|east three weeks to get away from

a retreat is under way. But one man •saioniia

rope is the man. who, ^'th his fam- horses, portable houses and cainp

ily and his few household goods load

ed on

bv steers,

dav He is here for the first time

he is here in hundreds in. all

1'"^1°iLKnn

a little ra

f~in!„iun to

•em. is coming to Sajonika to- mov!ng

the

phantasmagoria of wagons, horses,: twenty of them-who must he env

steers, motor busses and

limousines

and his pitiful little possessions speak

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Twelve below Is already reported

out in north central Kansas and the

state is being swept, by a near blis-,t#K

zard. Snow is drifting and railroads -sa

have ordered out their snow plows.

Wire service is interrupted to many

points.

Much suffering of live stock is

ported. S

Blizzard Today.

ping narratives of ,him in Galicia, France. Italy, Serbia,

Wnx. G. Shepherd, United Press cor- |Greece. ehas never lied. His

respondent with the allies arm presence always means "retreat."

the Balkans, giVea the first close-up

of the allies' retreat from

It was passed by the censors

CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Sleet and mow )V|

combined early today in a blizzard wsf

that crippled wires and transportation 'M

la the middle west

Elevated trains in Chicago were

stopped for an hour during the early

morning hours.

A blinding snow paralyzed street

knd -cfMsed -jtyaJHr-i»j

August Scnulta was killedf by" a

fall

OSL.

the icy pavements.

Weather bureau reports said the

sleet storm was general.

RETREAT OF THE ALLIES

OUT OF LITTLE SERBIA

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You can always, believe him, this

man with his family, traveling out in

the cold, and the mud, with the wor

ried face and the perplexed soul, he

doesn't leave his home and hia farm

until .he must until the guns are

booming and the shells are plough,

ing his farm for him. When he goes,

you may be sure the enemy is coming

on behind him and that the army of

his country is in retreat. I've seen

Being a Serbian, his Christmas

will come on January 7. Small chance

,S

]ear back and out of Salonika and

on

whom I believe more than all the war. dreds of tons of wasrons, cannon,

departments and chancellories of Lu-

-i utri iiw» nn tame uuusm v.aitit*

1 Ins few

ammun

ships. There are hun-

j(]on food-stuffs, shovels. Iutn-

LniP!] ^to be loaded onto the boat...

as if ten thousand circuses, rolled into

mlIst

Germans

The patter of his oxen's feet and guns booming and to stand besld5

the creak of the rough wheels of his the French and British guns as the?

wagon say louder than any com-|answer to sit beside temporary camp

munique or any nice words of gen-j fire of retreating French soldiers and

erals that the Bulgarians are driving

the allies back toward Salonika {Continued on page 5.)

Amlther aro

'tens of. thousands of men-perhaps

barked, if the allies should decide to

wnich fill the foggy water front withdraw.

streets of Salonika today. He lends if this thing should happen there

a new and somber color to the brown will be three weeks full of Sghtlnsr.

of the Greek, the grey of the French, the Bulgarians pressing against the

the khaki of the British and the allies' lines, trying to interfere with

greer. of the Serbian soldier. He has embarkation. Salonika must be

done little talking. His very pres- rinsied with ally trenches and ally sol

ence here with his dejected family ,jjerg

be tiahting to hold back

fhe BlllKars wh

louder than anything he could sa. .worl{ ]j^e bees at loading the ships.

He is a refugee from Serbia. Not from

ne othe- ally soldiers

An {he Bulgara contlnue t0

.northern^erbia where the Germans preRg on toward Salonika. Just at

o" ki ir'anS hut3fmm the Serbian nresent the allied retreat is In full

•oil that b^lern on Greece only wen-!tide The Bulgars are nearing the

tv miles from here. The

borders of Greece not much mm

and Austrians have not driven him than twenty-five miles from Salonlte

out from his home it is the work To have a view of this sixty mil«

of the Bulgarians. trip of retreat to hear the Bulgarian