Evening Gazette, The (Newspaper) - January 2, 1915, Cedar Rapids, Iowa WEATHER FOR IOWA Warmer tonight and in east portion Sunday A NEWSPAPER FOR THE FAMILY CITY EDITION VOLUME 306 CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA SATURDAY JANUARY 2 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT IN CITY On Life and Limb gered by Explosions in Tailrace of Dam ARRESTS BRITAIN MUST RAISES BIG ARMY Kitchener's Forces Are Absorbed by ular Branch Heavy in the near tho i London Jan new army order announces tho present tion of the army will be further de- by the creation of six armies each of which will consist generally of three army corps This will mean about additional troops for the front The first army will be commanded by Lieut Gen Sir Douglas Haig who headed the First array corps of tho force tho second by Operation Fails to Re- lieve Prominent ness Man and Death Ends Suffering First hi Gen Slr the bridge which has by sll Archibald dangered the life and limb of Hunter the fourth by Gen Sir sons using the bridge for tho last three weeks WHS ordered stopped by Com- missioner McDuff today and if the Construction company does not obey the order it is de- clared that the members of the and their employes will bo arrested i and prosecuted under the ordinance which prohibits any act that to annoy persons or endanger life and property Thc construction company has been repeatedly warned that tho heavy blasting was not only an annoyance but dangerous Today Mayor Roth in- Commissioner McDuff that It was up to the police department to put a stop to the blasting The com- missioner Immediately communicated with Chief and instructed him to Warn the company that arrests will follow if the ordinance was violated again Danger On the Bridge There has been a great amount of danger attendant to crossing the First avenue bridge for the last three but In the last two or three the danger has Increased and several sons have had narrow escapes from possible Injun A woman her child were struck by some of the ing debris yesterday while crossing the bridge Windows havn been Joseph M Martinek one of the best known of the older Bohemians of this died at the University hospital Hamilton the fifth by Gen Sir Leslie i Iowa City at 10 a m today from the thought to have 0 MaJ Gen Sir Charles C Monro n lused a chicken bono which Lieut Gen Sir Charles Ferguson and Iodized lr his throat on Christmas day PARAGUAY WAR MORE SERIOUS SCHERER CAPTIVE Escovar Resigned to Give Time to Revolution William Howard Taft Explains Difficulty of Loosing Tail of Island Bear By Associated Press Buenos Aires Jan dis- patches received here from Paraguay where a revolutionary movement has broken out set forth that tho leader of the uprising la Col Escovar who recently resigned the position of ister of war in the net The has explained he re- his post because the dent of the republic Dr Eduardo i n Scherer Insisted on tho practice of By Associated Press economy In the because of the I Jan will take FAIRFAX LEADS STATE RELIEF TOWNSHIP IS FIRST 990 Bushels of Corn Sent to Starving Belgium iT STAY AT MANILLA Many suffering Belgian families will have reason to thank tha of Fairfax township when they receive the carload donated to them Nino hundred and ninety bushels of the grain left Fairfax yesterday for New York and It will he placed aboard tho next relief steamer that sails for the other side Vo other township in the state having no large city has done as well as Fairfax township according to the Belgian relief commission i Every man and woman of had la part in tho undertaking farmer donated of his corn and those Formidable Is Wrecked by Enemy at Naval Base Where All Fleet Gathers Lieut Gen Sir H C O have Every effort of local physicians to re- and Mendoza and confined In George T Hedges chairman of the Capts who today Iw could nothing for tho man and he suffered agony until death relieved him Firal arrangements for tho funeral have not been made Long Prominent In City Mr Martinek who lived at 818 South Tenth street west had been a resident of this city ahout when he to America with his parents Mr and Mrs Wencil Martinek from Bo- hemia where he was born May 5 He attended the local public schools for a while on leaving President or Fraternal school engaged himself to a truck j with whom he remained I three years In after years he ed the trade and at the ex- I of his apprenticeship he ed a partnership with Frank Kublas a which was maintained until when it was dissolved Mr EXTENDED ILLNESS IS ENDED ers Reserve Had Law tice Here Since DV BY mm tration for ultimate independence Fifth of the Philippines before tho senate district committee is well x c-l tha committee working on that measure other townships of the do OCCUPIED TERRITORY IS HIS Richard A Moses president of the Fraternal Bankers Reserve and for tinek became sole proprietor many years a prominent attorney In j business which ho reorganized and In- under the name of the J Hardware company He built up an extensive business and ed in tho Gorman hotel and arse this at n a m at he i under the name of the J scantlings have been blown entirely i across the bridge employed residence avenue in tho vicinity of the bridge and j following an extended illness Tiie became known as one of the most patronizing the Y M C A have been funeral arrangements have not been I conservative as well as ono of thu Germany no longer considers binding in dally fear of stones or other debris j most progressive of tho city's business the of consuls In any being blown through the windows and injuring them Foreign Representatives in Are Deprived of Political Standing I am at last In a position where I can say just what I think said Mr Taft You called mo here I'm ing to tell you Just what I know about things We cannot said the former president give tho Philippines self- government because it cannot be given We cannot present the Fil- people with a character It must be acquired One way to acquire is through hard knocks as the Anglo-Saxon race acquired it j When we went to the Philippines I we to give It to them by i a form of i as an object lesson and by educating the people In the language equally as well By Associated Press Amsterdam via Jan 2 cording to a statement In tho deutche a mary of which was given out today by tho official press bureau In Berlin completed I men which has boon occupied by Mr Hoses was born In Unionville the late years C H Swab became many during the war Several weeks ago the matter was j Conn August 1C 1850 came to identified with Mr Martinek in discussed at a council meeting and Cedar Rapids in January Iness j Notification General that time Commissioner said he Ing- in the practice of law in his city j He is survived by seven children who Amsterdam via London Jan would request the company to either Me was educated in the public schools Clara A Martinek Mrs William PITY UH I Senator Heald and H C Ring Will Discuss Legislation With Commissioners At s special of the city of free institutions Wo tried to have Council to be lield at 10 a m next the government participated in but Tuesday Senator Francis A iy Associated Press The British today ued a lint containing tho names of Copt Arthur N Loxley ond thirty-four other of the British battleship Formidable which was sunk in tho English channel yesterday who it wai laid must be presumed to hove been lost in the sinco they were not reported In tho saved The Hit includes nine men Paris Jan British I Formidable which sank In the I Ush channel Friday morning with tha I greater part of tho crew dood off Portsmouth by a sub marine to a report currant In Portsmouth Is tho chief val station or It In at the northwest extremity of Island IS miles of South Hampton and 05 miles of Portsmouth harbor In about five miles In length and ItR entrance is only about 400 yarda across It Is said that In thin land looked havon tho whols British might rido In security Tho amis of the channel do'its at an early morning of hie native took ti preparatory Anna D Mrs Cyril slapnicka of hour or to confine it so that there I course it Academy nt I Milwaukee F and George F would be no danger to pedestrians braham ami Williston Seminary at Martinek With one exception the Mr Zika said today the company had East Hampton Mass Subsequently I children live In this city promised to follow his instructions entered University where I but it is apparent little he a literary course and T O 0 F Die United Commercial siven the warning The commissioner has warned the company many times since but tho heavy blasting has been continued Must Protect Blasts It was said today that the reason graduated In 1871 with the of Travelers the Commercial club and A B the C S P S His funeral probably I will be in charge or the Odd Fellows the C 8 P S Admitted to tho Bar During the following six years taught in the state high school nt i Minn and in the CLUB TO heavy charges were used time began thc cr uid was because of the frozen of the admitted to the tar in Minnesota in ground It was pointed out however He then engaged in in that there is a way to protect these Minn He served county blasts and it must be done or the superintendent of in rind company must suffer the rind was elected county the same county in JSSa If any person should be injured the On first romins to Linn county In city would be called on to pay the he located at Marlon bat damages The company is supposed to to Cedar Rapids the following year the city against loss be- He was one of the of the cause of any accident that might i Fraternal Bankers Reserve which rur but the fact that the work is i iDOl and Jhe GIVE NOVEL STUNT statement of the official press bureau Is as j Zeitung ex- plaining the status of consuls in j there has been able misunderstanding says that many was notified not only by ca but al neutrals as well as those countries allied with Germany that she no longer considers binding In hostile territory issues prior to the war Must Favor Germans At the it iK roade plain that Germany is glad to the not controlled by the natives Now what time do I think it will be necessary to train the Filipinos for The time that shall give to those an opportunity to learn English so that they shall bean English ing That will take more than one generation and probably moro than two if you count thirty as D generation You can't educate all of tho cot the money When President sent to the Philippines I told him I thought we ought not to be in the islands He said to me that wo had the by the toil and that we would got out just as soon as we could Our first purpose in be- ing in there is to get out Ricarte Confidence Democratic promises of Philippine independence Mr Toft said further I H C Ring stato representative from this district will discuss with Mayor Roth and the commissioners the lation the city probably will ask of tha now legislature which sits on January with which It Ij of FRENCH SEIZE Halifax N a Jan was ro- today hero that tha American 11 Mayor Roth said today that tho j tack steamer whose arrest program of tho Iowa League of by a British aid detention would be submitted to tha last October and later because council and discussed and then It of diplomatic would be whether Cedar United Statae and Great Britain Rapids would indorse the program or waa released had boon Intercepted oft ask for additional laws but he wag not the coast of Scotland and takon into certain what action would be taken by the council on the program Aberdeen Confirmation of tho sola It is known that Mr Ring IB In ure today at favor of amendments to the tho Standard Oil company hero but law but so far as Is known ho will not offer a providing for the amendments Ha believes that a j ship is entailed on tho property ers to require them to pay for tho paving at street Intersections when the Improvement is enjoyed by the whole city He believes all the taxpayers should pay this expense Under an old law thc city paid for the paving at the In- Commissioner Zika believes that the It wan said that tha steamer had been Intercepted by n French warship and to Brest Francs This mation reached tho company It wan stated In a cablegram from Captain Peterson commander of tho by way of London Bound for Tho loft Alexandria Egypt about November 26 Bho arrived at St Michaels Azores to talte on board n carffo of oil a German wishes regarding consuls anywhere ex- j have been the sreat obstacle in our I nc has hesitated to improve the streets cept where military operations are be- own work over there Even now it j until the supremo court passes on tha ing done on city property would cause maintained its headquarters the city to be made a party to the Hp has thc ce of The annual membership meeting of the Commercial club will be held on This I validity of the act believing that ft will the evening or January 19 The I plain that only persons of I carte who Is charged with fomenting be declared unconstitutional He committee which prepared i Phile or neutral leanings are to be j tho present disturbance is a Would an amendment that would n from return to tho old method of ves assessments for paving for re- j Mr Ring is In favor of a state con- members The j adds that Germany accept purposes In the Island This law which would the number of novel tile Belgian subjects as consuls for present outbreak is the result un- state tho right to make arrests in case present assessment law is unjust and December 12 and was reported committee which prepared or neutral leanings are to De I tno present disturbance is a pr la program which was to have been has request revolutionist come down in t t IOT the of particular consul my time ir the island Ho in December furnish the It cannot be expected tho Hon Kong on sums ho collects to ideas and some rough stuff on local Prominence suit arid should court action be taken ror several years and -..-.I iv nfi Mention has prospered under his antl lje 1 He is survived by Mrs Moses most he entire membership to attend the meeting It likely would Ration for the city Numerous complaints have beon made against the construction com- ring Is one daughter Miss Bernice Mr Moses was a member of the other countries in occupied territory This point is said to be especially Im- portant as tree hundred Belgians have held posts as consuls for neutral or allied states pany Every member of the city i council favors the arrest of persons responsible for the blasting and if day's order is disobeyed be i haled into police court and fined I Masonic Modern Brotherhood of America and Mystic of the JOBLESS FLOCK TO THE CITY HALL FOR WORK The cold weather is driving the less to the city hall in search of work Mayer Roth received three applications before noon and he did what he could to find the men work all have ilies and they are said to be in want Ono man had made application to one rif the ice companies for work in tbe ice but as he was without over- shoes the superintendent declined to Five him a job fearing his foet The mayor ob- work for nt the plant Applications for work THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES C S P S MEET TONIGHT National Headquarters of der Are Formally Located in This Today National headquarters of the Bo- are i Slavonian Benefit society numerous these days and the mayor is I c S P S were moved from Chicago doing all In his power to-find jobs for those deserving work He is lar to ascertain If there are families they are In actual want PRIEST WAS BURNED TO VICTIM OF LATE Police of Cleveland Believe Fire Was Incendiary and Set by Assailants By Press Cleveland O Jan Stephen Makara aged 42 pastor St John's Greek Catholic church and his keeper were burned to death early today when Ore destroyed too parish house the was of diary origin Rev Maltam was found dead in his bed finally fought way through the to the room The housekeeper was in near Rev room she is believed to have been overcome while hastening to arouse the priest The police learned today that Rev Makara on November 18 by two men and that he was released from a hospital only a few days ago The men cording'to thc police beat the priest and That they robbed him to conceal the real motive of the at- tack belief of the police to this city today and tonight there will be a public installation of officers at the C S P S hall In South Third street The present officers are expected to arrive from Chicago at 4 p m They will be met at tha union station by officers j and members of the local lodge and escorted to the hull where will meet the local officials and the of the lodge New Officers of Order i The new supreme officers who are to he installed tonight are all Cedar men with the exception of the i rotary and the assistant secretary who were re-elected and who will come to this city from Chicago with their Hips The new officers are John Tlusty TV Slapnicka first vice E Z Bontty ond vice president and Joseph Ulch treasurer The secretary Is Joseph Lunak and the assistant secretary Is A J The organization will have its quarters In the C S P S hall elegant rooms have been furnished The entrance will be from the j side j Following the Installation of thj i tonight there will be a banquet In honor of the new and retiring officers which will be attended by of the most prominent of the city The mayor and the rest the commissioners and their wives will be present There will be a ber of toasts The C S P S has a national of 48.000 and the bringing of i the national headquarters to this city will mean that the reserve fund of will be deposited in the local banks COY 4 IX doubtedly of his agitation in trying to j of liquor law violations as well as for Justify his collections Ho probably other violations In which tho state is argued that democrats in tho United j interested He Is also in favor of a States promised independence at a to create public defenders in the fixed the time now has been j counties which wish them and also a prohibiting spring shooting of i wild ducks This law has been op- posed by the pot hunters In tho river counties but it is understood that a determined effort will made to pass it nt tho coming session of tho lature It is not known what tho at- of State Game Warden will be toward such a measure RV VOO I postponed and that tho promise has been broken Speaks From Experience Mr Taft opposed In detail the ad ministration for greater measures of self government for the islands de daring that measure could bo ao framed to better calculated to stir up trouble in the Philippines Tho Filipino do not under stand republican self government In tho sense that we know the for- mer president What would be the result If they were given self government at asked Chairman Hitchcock A Filipino whom I have great con- said to me your steamers would not be around inland be- fore the would begin I varlly believe that is true find the same condition In Mexico The man who loses a political fight has his hoad for n forfeit That developed when was In power I'm an actual condition that ex- ists there T would bo glad to have the United States set out of the and I have a great for the people out there They don't like me because I told them tho truth No One Wants Them If you give these people ence now or by 1920 you will have this terrible situation develop Either a Dlas would rise In the Philippines or they would get In a condition caused the fall of Diaz In president said the tion of tho United States to defend the Philippines might be a source of weakness in Umo of war But he continued I do not believe that of the nations now engaged In tho European war look upon the sion of the Philippines as a naval baso as a source of weakness Mr Taft said he thought Japan had no desiro to have the Philippine ands T twice visited Japan and con- ferred with the authorities on that very he continued and It's my opinion that their experiences in For- mosa have been quite enough In that direction Neither President McKinley dent Roosevelt nor myself had con- over the Philippine government to the people before they were educated Up to handling it I believe Mr Roosevelt still feels that way as I he Of course I am not In Mr Roosevelt's confidence I Judge that is his Ing St Michaels for Copenhagen De- cember 20 Tho first seizure off Tork lost October resulted In a protest by her owners to tha Uni- ted States At that the had aboard a cargo of oil and was bound ostensibly for dria Egypt A British cruiser convoyed her to this port Tho British suspected sho carried contraband for Germany Tho state department nt Washington made representations to government which resulted in tho release After she had been detained at a week Will Be Released Washington Jan de- learned today ilia steamship her oiT the coast of was taken to Brest and mado representations to tho British government that tho ship had acquired her American reentry before the outbreak of hostilities Un- assurances have been received the vessel will be promptly re- leased NOTED PHYSICIAN By Associated Press Xew York Jan Shaw well known In theatrical circles for many years and a brother of Dr Anna Howard Shaw president of tho National Woman's Suffrage tion died yesterday Dr Shaw examining physician for the fund of America Ho was born In castlo England 76 years ngo AT SAN LUIS POTOSI CAPTURE CITY Large Forces of Rebels Are Continuing Dogged Fight in Region of Capital Washington Jan of Snn Lois was reported by thc ranza forces In advices to tho department from tho Carranza here who reports by from Tampico say that under General SHU Lois tosi yesterday after o battle General Robello to tho command of General Pablo Conzalos who yesterday also drove tho rebels from station 65 southeast of San Lots of tho aviation and Mayor Its chief flying a French monoplane yesterday the battleground reported tho za troops au far wost of Apon which Is 60 northeast of Mexico City However large numbers of rebels are tho advance of General army The movement on from linn been completed and tho actual bombardment li expected to in tho morning
