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Forty-fifth Veer-No .93. PR.CE: FIVE CENTS. OGDEN CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1915. Entered a. Second GUm Matter at th. Po.tofflca, 0Ddan, UK

I Italy Rushing Military Preparations

I Vigorously Along Austrian Frontier

I FURIOUS AND COSTLY FIGHTING

I NEAR YPRES STILL CONTINUES

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R- British Cling Tenaciously to Ground Taken Last Saturday

h. Germans Make Counter-attacks Again and Again Hill

m No. 60 Remains Storm Center Losses Run Into

Thousands French Drive in Direction of St.

Mihiel Continues Rumors of Austro-

a. ! Italian Situation,

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I ROODS STOP FIGHTING IN CARPATHIANS

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l Petrograd Reports Artillery Fighting During Last Fortnight

ti- Near Eaat Prussian Frontier, With Advantage to Rus-

s sians Attempts of Austrians to Outflank Enemy

i- in Northern Hungary Fail and Troops Are

Routed With Heavy Losses German and

Austrian Subjects Being Recalled

, 1 From Switzerland.

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I ITALIAN GOVERNMENT REQUISITIONS

I ALL VESSELS IN TRADE WITH U. S.

f Copenhagen, April 22, via London, 2 p. m. The pres

ence of an Anglo-French squadron in the waters to the north

' of Stavanger, Norway, is reported by vessels coming into

- Copenhagen, A Norwegian coast steamer from the waters ,

says she was stopped and inspected by a British warship.

; Reports continue to be received here of the presence of Ger-

man warships in the North Sea.

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Geneva, April 22, via Paris 5:25 p. m. All German and

Austrian subjects in Switzerland, even those who never did

military service, were recalled yesterday by their respective!

governments.

News reached Lugano this morning that the Italian gov

ernment had stopped the trans-Atlantic service with the United

States. Passengers who had purchased tickets have had their

money returned to them. The Italian government, the report -

aays, requires all the steamships.

Berlin, April 22, via London, 2:20 p. m. The German

. admiralty today gave out a statement saying that in a certain

t German bay of the North Sea British submarines have been

repeatedly observed, recently, and attacked by German forces.

Such a hostile submarine was sent to the bottom April 1 7 and

the destruction of other such vessels is considered probable.

Rome, April 22, via Paris, 5:35 p. m. A report from

Petrograd today said that Italy had sent a note to Austria

which virtually amounted to an ultimatum. The note is said

to embody the minimum terms upon which Italy will consent

to conclude an agreement with Austria. It is impossible to

confirm this report here. General opinion in Rome is that an

agreement may still be reached. Nevertheless military prep

arations are being continued with the greatest energy along

the frontier where Austria is concentrating troops.

J Paris. April 22, via London, 1.50

p m. The official report on the prog-

res of hostilities given out by the

French war office th is afternoon eon

tains nothing additional to what was

In the announcement made public

j last night

Berlin War Statement

Berlin April 22 via London. 2:45

p. m. German army headquarters to

day gave out a report on the progress

of bofct1HtleK reading

ln the western arena south of La

Bsse canal and to the northwest

J of Arras we undertook several suc

cessful mining operations.

"In the Argonne and in the region

between the Meuse and the Moselle

jreeterday saw fierce artillery engage

ments. After a surprise artillery at

tack, French forces last nihl ad-

Touted In the western part of the

g wood of Ie Pretre but they were re-

' pulsed with heavy lossee.

j' "On the northeast border of Hari-

Bianns Wellerkopf we destroyed a

point of support of the enemy and in

i the evening we drove back a French

I attack.

'Iji the eastern arena of hostill

Lee the situation nhows no change "

Heavy Artillery Duel.

1 London, April jt2, 5 40 a in. The

Reuter Telegram company has receiv

ed fiora Petrograd the follo-wlnfc semi

official statement.

"From April 6 to 19 at Myszyniec

(near the East Prussian frontier) and

In the direction of Lomz and Stawiskl,

there vas n duel of heavy artillery,

I In which the Russians had the advan

tage silencing one of the enemy'B bat

teries. In the direction of Lomza

two enemy batteries suffered severely

Jl as well as a train of artillery call

iOJJB in the region of Stawiski and a

oonvoy on the Kolno road.

"Thanks to efficient aeroplane work

Or guns, often at a distance of 12

torsi': (eight miles) inflicted great

damage upon the enemy's re &er e

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trains which supposed themselves at

a safe distance."

Germans Shell British Trawder.

Aberdeen. April 22. via London

3 27 p m The trawler Fusehia ar

rived here today with the crew of

the trawler Envoy, and reported that

the Envoy had been shelled by a Ger

man submarine last night off the east

coast. The men on the Envoy left

their ship in a small boat which they

say, also, wa6 shelled by the sub

marine No one wae injured.

i ne envoys crew drifted about in

l he Bmall boat Tor two hours before

bo-ing picked up. It has not been 68

tablished whether the Envov was

sunk.

Review of War Situation.

Ixmdoa. April 22. 12:30 p. m. Hill

No. fiO, dominating an area to the

southeast of Ypres, continues to be

the storm of the western front with

the British clinging: tenacloiis'ly to

the ground taken by assault last Sat

urday. Counter attack after counter

attack has been so far successfully

lepulsed but the British hold it still

disputed by the Germans and the end

of tbe lively and costly fighting is not

yet in sight. The British losses have

not been announced, but they are es

timated at well over 2.000. The Ger

mans are believed to have loat more

than 4,000 men.

The French drive In the direction

of St Mihiol is about the onlv oth

er significant move in the west.

The condition of the ground,1 both

in the eaBt and west, is now being

directly retlected in tbe local opera

tions The situation along the en

tire eastern front is for the moment

apparently at a standstill, floods

having impeded military activity in

the Carpathian to a large extent. On

the other hand fine weather has pre

vailed In the west for some davs and,

barring a heavy storm, the ground

will become harder daily, a condition'

which should cause increased activity

on each side.

Hill No. 60 Important Point.

The British press concede that the

taking of Hill No. 60 is largely a lo

cal matter, but it oonsiders this en

gagement an important step forward

and a great relief to the town of

Ypres. so long under bombardment

The Germans in possession of this

hill, were not only above the town,

but they threatened the British lines

in the dirccUon of St. Eloi. The

taking of this hill, therefore, reduced

the Inconvenience of the Ypres sali

ent, strengthens the British lines to

the south, gives an advantageous po

sition for further efforts and renders

the German offensive in this quarter

difficult.

Deadlock 16 Broken.

The deadlock in the negotiation?

between Austria and Italy has been

broken and hopes of a settlement of

the questions at issue without resort

to arms have been revived In Rom','

It is not known by persons, other

than those closely concerned, what

c hange has taken place to reHevp the

apparently hopeless situation but

Rome assumes that either Austria or

Italy has made some concession. It

aly has been represented previously

as demanding in their entirety Trent

and Ishtria districts as well as the

Dalmatian islands in the Adriatic

whereas Austria was beliered to be

willing to yield only a small part of

this territory.

Turks Rtrnnnlv FntrwirhH.

A strong Turkish army is preparing

to offer resistance to the land forces

with which the allies expect to attack

the Dardanelles fortifications from the

rear. An Athens' dispatch says the

Turks have entrenched themselves

strongly along the coast of the Gulf

of Saros It is in this vicinity, ac

cording to unofficial advices yester

day that 20,000 British and French

troops have landed. Turkish encamp

ments along the coast are being bom

barded by warships of the allies.

Petrograd reports that during the

last fortnight there has been artillery

fighting In northern Russian Poland

near the east Prussian frontier. The

Russians are said to have won the

advantage The check to the Rus

sian advancein Carpathians, ascribed

in Berlin to Russian defeats, is said

In Petrograd to be due to spring

floods, which make maneuvers diffi

cult. The German admiralty announced

today that a British submarine was

sunk five days ago in Helgoland bay,

which lies between the mainland and

the island of Helgoland It is said

British submarines have been ob

served and attacked repeatedly in this

bay.

it Petrograd it is asserted that at

tempt of Austrians to outflank the

Russians who invaded northern Hun

gary, have failed, the Austrians being

routed with heavy losses.

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WAR BULLETINS

j Glasgow, April 22, 3:02 p m - Three

trans-Atlantic steamers are held up

here by a strike of five hundred sea

men The men demand an Increase

of ?5 a month in their wages An

early settlement of the difficulty is

probable.

Stockholm, via London. April 22.

F 42 a. m. The war relief commis

sion of the Rockefeller foundation has

arrived here to confer with United

States Minister Morris regarding the

purchase in Sweden of relief supplies

for the starving non-combatants along

the eastern battlefront Ernest Bick

nell. a member of the commission. Is

negotiating for the shipment of im

mense quantities of food. The com

mission today will meet government

officials and leave the city tomorrow

Ottawa, Ont.. April 22 Captain

Trumball Warren of Toronto was

killed in action with the Canadian

troops in France on April 20, accord

ing to an announcement made today

by the militia department Captain

Warren belonged to the Fifteenth bat

talion of the forty-eighth highlanders

He went to the front as lieutenant

and received his promotion shorlly

before his death His mother was

formerly Miss Sarah Van Lennep of

New York.

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GREAT FUTURE

FOR TROPICS

Valleys of South America

Greater in Fertility Than

Any Other Region in

World.

Birmingham. Ala, April 22 A civ

ilization greater than that now in tin

temperate zones will be built In the

tropics as a result of conquering dis

ease, according to Surgeon General

Gorgas of the United States army.

This prediction was made by him In

an address before the Alabama Med

ical association here yesterday

"The valleys of South America are

greater in fertility than nay other re

gion known to the world," Dr. Gor

gas said. T believe in time to come

we will see a more Intense civiliza

tion in these great tropical countries

than we now find In the temperate

zone.

"This movement is commencing

now and wi effect the southern

states first. The Gulf of Mexico and

PARKER PRAISES

AMERICA FOR HER

"ALMIGHTY HEART1

.

Sir Gilbert Parker.

"Tbe almirfity heart is still

stronger m the United States than

the aJmigity doHar," recently de

clared Sir Gilbert Parker, the Can

adian novelist, in a speech m London.

"The American government ha3 pur

sued tbe cmly conrBe possible to a

nation desirous of preserving its de

servedly high reputation in the field

of diplomacy. It has been in tru

sympathy with the high mindedness

and sensible ideahsm of the Ameri

can people in regard to the great

events of the world 3 history."

the Caribbean sea will prove to the

south what the Mediterranean Is to

Europe "

DEATH ENDS SAD

AND TRAGIC LIFE

Youngest Daughter of Victor

Hugo Dies in a Suburb

of Paris.

Paris April 22, 5 :25 a m. Adele

Hugo, youngest daughter of Victor

Hugo, died yesterday at her residence

In Suresnes: a suburb of this city, at

the age of 85 years.

The sad and tragic life story of

Adele Hugo many years ago aroused

the sympathy of the entire world As

a girl she was kidnaped at Guernsev

an English officer. All Europe

was searched by her parents, but they

obtained no trace of her whereabouts

Found In New York.

Several months later a girl found

wandering alone in the streets of

New York, apparently demented, de

clared "1 am the daughter of Yiclor

Hugo." This was the only statement

i-hc ever made.

She was sent back to France to her

parents but her lips remained sealed

until the end. and the tragic story of

her life never was revealed. She

failed to entirely recover her reason

and. after the death of her fathr, lived

a solitary existence In her villa, mo

rose and seldom speaking When she

did consent to converse It never was

of the past.

Madamoiselle Hugo's only nppear

ance in public was when she went

to Paris to witness from the back

of a darkened box the reproduction

of one of her father's plays Appar

ently she had no friends and ovpr

received visitors.

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ELEVEN CHILDREN

LN FATAL ACCIDENT

Cleveland, O April 22 Eleven de

formed children, on their way to a

school for cripples were injured, three

I of them fatally, when the bus in

which they were riding was struck by

a street car here today

The attendant to the driver was also

badly hurt and may die. The driver

said he saw the car coming, but was

unable to stop his wagon because a

crippled child had his foot on the

brake

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JAPAN POSTPONES

CHINESE QUESTION

Peking, April 22 Japan again

postponed today resumption of the ne

gotiations with China The Japan

ese minister. Eki Hloki. informed th'j

Chinese foreign minister, Lu ChunR

Hslang, that the session, which wa3

to hove been held today, might go

over as he was still wtthont Instruc

tions from Toklo

It is understood that the negotia

tions are being held up pending a de

cision by the Japanese Kovernment as

to its policy which is being discussed

at Tokio by the. cabinet and the older

statesmen,

ROOSEVELT IS

CROSS-EXAMINED

Excerpts From Reports on

Gambling, Disorderly Houses

and Payments to Of

ficials Read.

BARNES IN CONTROL

Owns Printing Concerns, But

Refuses to Tell How He Got

Them Graft Charges.

Syrac use N Y. April 22. Theodore

Roosevelt again went upon the wit

ness stand in thp supreme court here

today to submit lo cross examination

at the hands of William Ivins. coun

sel for William Barnes. In the latter's

suit against Colonel Roosevelt, seek

ing $50,000 damages for alleged li

bel It was the former president's

third da on th witness stand

There was delay in opening court

because of a conference between at

torneys and Justice Andrews In the

latter's chambers. A copy of the

Bayne committee report, which inves

tigated Albany countv affairs insofar

as it related to printing, was admitted

to the rpcord This had to do with

contracts for state printing let to the

Albany Journal Mr Barnes paper,

and other concerns, and tho assign

ment of certain of these contracts.

Report of 1911.

Excerpts from the report were then

read. The first part had to do with

gambling, disorderly houses and th a

payment of money to various officials

for doing various things The report

was made in 1911.

The majority of the stock of the

Journal company, the report pointed

out, was owned by William Barnes,

that contracts let to the Journal com

pany were farmed out to the Argus

company which paid the Journal com

pany 15 per cent.

Barnes Controlled Printing,

The report stated that William

Biirnes controlled printing in Albany,

practical!) was owner of one compa

ny, owned one fourth of auother and

collected tribute from the third com

pany The report declared that an

employe of the Argus company tes

titied before the committee that the

company gave up fifteen per cent in

order to secure printing business.

It was stated that the Argus cotn

pany bid lower than other competitors

for the state work but was unable to

get the business but "it was outside

the ring' Tt was said further, that

public documents supposed to have

been printed by the Journal company

and bearing that concerns imprint,

actually were printed by the Argus

company.

Padding of Public Printing.

"Padding of public printing for tbe

benefit of the Journal company" was

described bv thp report Another

part react: implicate pavmenis ioi

public printing made to the Journal

company."

One excerpt was "The most con

spicuous beneficiary of graft, public

extravagance and raiding of the mu

nicipal treasury, we find from the

evidence to be William Barnes, him

self as the owner of the majority of

stock of the Journal companv Flow

much more than the majority of its

stock he owned he refused to dis

close "

Another excerpt read "Mr Barnes

dictates where the printing goes and

the Argus gives up to tbe Journal in

order to obtain printing"

Barnes Gets Stock.

The par value of Mr Rarnes' stock

in the Lyon concern was $75.00u, the

report stated, with the comment that

Mr. Barnes would not tay how he

got it.

Articles appearing in the New

York magazines and newspapers abou

Albany were then admitted to the rec

ord The terms "machine politics' .

Boss Barnes," aud "Boss Piatt" ap

peared repeatedly in these articles.

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MOORE TO PRESIDE

OVER CONFERENCE:

Interests of Neutrals in Euro- j

pean War to Be Considered

Secretary of War and

Carnegie to Attend.

Mohonk Iake. N. V.. April 22. -Announcement

was made today that

John Bassett Moore of Columbia uni

versity, formerly counselor of the

Ktate department, Will preside over

the -1st Lake Mohonk conference on

arbitration to be held May 19 to 21.

The announcement declares the con

ference will not exclude consideration

of the interests o neutrals In the

European war However, there will

be no direct criticism of policies or

acts of any belligerent

Among those on the program are

Lindley M. Garrison, secretary of war.

and Andrew Carnegie.

FRANK PLEADS FOR

LIFE IMPRISONMENT

Vtlnnta, Ca April '22 Attorneys

for Leo M. Frank today filed a peti

tion with Ciovemor Slaton and the

Georgia prison commission asking that

the sentence upon Prank for the mur

der of Mary Phagan be commuted to

life Imprisonment.

IMPORTANT FTGUKE

IN BIG BANK FIGHT I

KSaaBM ff

I ft

Milton E. Alles.

Mirton E. Aflea is first vice pa-esi-dent

of the Riras National Bank of

Washington, which has bgim in

junction proceedings against Secre

tary of the Treasury McAdoo and

Controller of the Currency John

Skelton Williams. Ailes ie second

only in importance in the personnel

of the bank to President Glover. He

succeeded Williams in the directorarte

of the Seaboard Air Line.

AUSTRIAN FORCES

LOSE SUMMITS

Troops Thrown Back to Plains

of Hungary Attempt Two

Outflanking Movements.

RUSSIAN'S TACTICS

i Lead Enemy on to Close

Range and Completely Rout

Them in Bayonet

Charge.

Petrograd. April 22. 12 V. p m , via

London, A 30 p. m Thrown back

from the principal summits of the Car

pathian mountains to the plains of

Hungary, the forces of Austria are

now attempting to relieve the weak

ness of their position along the center

of the Carpathian tront. namely the

Mezolaborcz-Lupkow region, by two

parallel outflanking movements, one

operating In the direction of Stry,

which is trying to bend back the Rus

sian left, and the other In the vicinity

of Gorlice in an effort to surround

the Russian right.

The results of these attempts have

been officially announced in Petro

grad The tactics of the Russian for

ces were to invite the enemy to ad

vance by non-resistance Not a shot

was fired until the range was very

close. The Russians then suddenh

charged with the bayonet, with the re

sult that the Austrians wore com

pletely routed, the Russians taking

an unusually large number of prison

ers By the same tactics the Rus

sians near Polen captured an entire

Austrian battalion with Its full com

plement of officers.

In a stubborn battle near Koziouv

ka, April If and April 20, the Austri

ans took an elevated position in the

face of a strong Russian defense, but

after two hours of possession they

w-re forced to give up the position

Austrian efforts along the river Stry

are continuing to develop, but so far

without decisive results.

LITTLE GIRL DIES

AT QUARANTINE

Daughter of Late T. D. Batch

elder of Chicago, Succumbs

San Francisco. Cal., April 22. ISlis

sbeth Batchelder 10 years old, daugn

ter of the late T D. Batchelder of

Chicago, a reputed millionaire, died

today at Angel Island, the government

quarantine station, where she whs ta

ken Monday suffering from smallpox.

The child arrived Monda on the

trans-Pacific liner (,'hiyo Muni with

her mother, Mrs. B, J Wilson, who

wub allowed to accompany her to An

gel Island They Iu.k ;it

Hong Kong.

Passengers of the Chho Mum were

allowed to land after being vaccina

ted.

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SWISS BUSINESS NORMAL.

Washington. April 22 Business

conditions in Sv ii.erland are practic

ally normal again and there is an

abundant supply of foodstuffs in th"

country, according to a statement Is

sued today at the Swiss legation.

SWEEPING RAID U

ON IMPOSTORS

One of Fifty-four Operators of

Free Medical Museum to

Make Confession.

GREAT FORTUNES MADE

Fraudulent Physicians Col

lect $500,000 a Year From

Poor People in New

York City.

New York. April 22 Police autho. I

ties said today that one of the fifty- I

four operators of medical museums

and their assistants arrested here yes

terday in one of the most sweeping

raids on alleged medical imposters ev

er conducted in this city, had prom

ised to appear In court today and j

make a confession. His statement,

the police assort, will reveal the work

ings of a system of national scope for

extorting money.

The chief operator of the museum

under arrest here is alleged by the

police to have accumulated a fortune

of more than $1,000,000 by operating J

a chain of medical offices with free '

museums as "feeders" In New York.

Newark, N. J . Philadelphia, Baltl

more. Pittsburg and half a dozen of

other cities.

Mrs. Marian Clark, investigator of

tbe state department of labor, esti

mated that fraudulent physicians have

collected $500 000 a year from "pa

tients" in this city. Most of this came

from poor persons and aliens who

could not speak English.

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MUST RETURN I

MEN TOAMERICA ,

I Mule and Horse Tenders Tak

en to Europe and Left

Stranded Must Be

Provided For.

London. April 22, 11:58 a. m. The

board of trade has taken vigorous

I steps to prevent the abandonment in

England by steamship companies of

American muleteers and hoec -testers

who are coming over now m large

numbers with shipments of army

horses.

During the early months of the war

hundreds of Americana who crossed

on the horse boats were left strand

ed in England by the steamship

lines, which advanced various debat

able reasons for not returning the

men to America.

R P. Skinner. American consul

general in London, laid the facts be-

fore the board of trade a month ago. f

The consulate was at once advised to

refer all stranded horse and mule f

tenders to the board with the result

that all such Americans are being

cared for Furthermore. Mr, Skinner i

has been advised that British steam-

ship lines have been instructed to pro-

vide return passages to America, re- f

gardless of alleged contracts. j

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MAY COMPROMISE I

MINER'S DISPUTE I

i

National Conference to Be

Held Government to Sum- !

mon Mine Owners

London. April 1:45 p. m A com

promise in the dispute between the

English miners and their employers,

eliminating the danger of. a strike, is

expected as a result of action takpn

here today. Intervention by the board

of trade in the negotiations led to the jj

holding in London of a conference

among representatives of the Miners'

Federation of Creat Britain Follow

ing this conrerence tue leuerauon oi

ficlal requested the government to

I summon immediately a national con

ference of mine owners and miners 1L

I It is taken for granted that this I

conference will result in ft compto- ! i

I mise between the demands of the

men for ;in Increase in wages of 20

per cent and the o,lei of the own-

era tor a 10 per cent raise.

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CARRANZA OFFICIALS

TO OCCUPY TEPIC H

On board U. S S. Colorado. La Paz LH

Mex.. April 21 By radio to Sa:i tH

Diego. Cal.. April 22 -Carratua cus

toms officials, accompanied by loo

soldiers, sailed today on board the

steamer Korrigaii Til fiom Mazalan

for San BlasTepic recently evacua'-

ed by Villa forces, to take active per I

eession of the town. r

Colonel Obregou. a brother of the f

CaTranza general has been appointed

militao commandant at Mazatlan. 1

Villa Troops Return. K ' '

Bagle Pass. Texas. April 22 Uener- i

al Hosallo Hernandez, who had ben i

reported about to attack the Carranza h

;;inison at Xuevo Laredo returned .

las! night with his 1000 Villa troops i I

to Piedras Nenras, opposite here. No j -

explanation of the return was given. Ej