Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - May 7, 1915, Reno, Nevada THE ature recorded yesterday was degrees lowest degrees cast for Fair NEVADA STATE SILVER In London 23 York Tin 4 1.00 Electrolytic Casting Lead Spelter VOL NO 127 RENO NEVADA FRIDAY MAY 7 1915 PRICE FIVE CENTS JAPAN SENDS ULTIMATUM TO CHINA Chinese Government Granted 48 Hours to Meet Demand Legation of Mikado at Pekin Continues Efforts to cure Concessions MAY APPEAL TO POWERS United States Involved on Con- Time Limit Nears Expiration Prodigal Son Parable Based on Legal Facts Ancient Tablet Reveals Earliest Law Known Further Deciphering of Tablet at Yale Tells of Legal ishment of Son Written in Sumerian Language LONDON May 7 a Tokio dispatch to Renter's Telegram saj s that the Japanese has sent an ultimatum to China allowing the Chinese ment 48 hours in which to accede to Japan's demands 11 May 7 a Japanese legation has informed the Chinese foreign office that Japan will be unable to accept the further con- cessions offered Thursday by China and would present 071 ultimatum be- fore 3 o'clock this afternoon unless the 24 demands were accepted bv China without qualification The Japanese legation continued its effort yesterday to persuade the ese government to concede demands without the of serving China the ultimatum of the Japanese government which was re- early yesterday morning Grants Few Conci-sMons The secretary of the legation ed the foreign office and informed Vice Minister Yulin that the legation had received the ultimatum and that it would be presented unless China to Japan's 24 demands before 1 o'clock in the evening Yulin immediately visited the palace the residence o Yuan Shi Kai and after a conference with the ex- and other members of the government conveyed to the ese legation the following further China reiterated regarding tung province that she would grant Japan thing that already had been granted to Germany there treaty nulls to Work Mines China agreed to grant Japanese the light to work mines in South and eastern that all disputes between the Japanese in of whatever nature shall be under Japanese jurisdiction that schools and hospitals lease land from the Chinese thereby reserving land ownership to grant a concession to Japan to build the Nan Chao railway if Great Brit- ain consents to the release of China from the negotiations begun ing this railway two years ago The Japanese claim they requested the concession for this in 1007 Stipulations Xot Withdrawn The three stipulations China made to the demands in the nature of last Sunday were not withdrawn by China These were that China asked the right to pate in an international conference for a of the altered status of Shantung in regard to in- for losses incurred in con- sequence of the Tsing-Tao campaign and the restoration of the status of Shantung as before the war It is that the Chinese ment has resolved to communicate with the United States Great Britain Russia and France on receipt of the and that the nature of this communication will depend on the nature of the ultimatum FORMER NEVADA PRIEST IN SERIOUS CONDITION SALT LAKE CITY May Laurence of the Salt Lake diocese of the Catholic church remains in a serious condition tonight and is expected that he cannot survive ar- day The bishop was conscious for a time today and talked with those at hia bedside but attending physicians hold out no hope for his recovery from the attack of rheumatism and com- plicated diseases from which he is fering NEW Conn May deciphering of a tablet possessed by Yale university makes it appear reasonable that thp parable of the son was based upon legal This opinion was expressed today by Prof Albert T Clay curator of the col- lection The tablet which is ten in language about 2000 n C contains the earliest laws known Th fourth law on the tablet legis- lates in reference lo a son who v ing to Denture on a separate career renounces his legal sonship and re- his portion after v hich he his home and is thereafter legally separated from his family Prof Clav s translation of this 1 iw Must Go From If a son say unto his father and his mother are not mv father not my from tho house field plantation servants mals he s-h ill go and his portion to its full amount he the father shall give him his father and his mother shall snv to him thou ail nut our son From the d of the hous he shall go Commenting on this Prof Clay This legal banishment wai for prudential reasons The son could make no demands and it an- nulled the law of inheritance a patrimony for him It also was a provision in the in- of other children In this this law from oldest known code seems to be an advance on the present day law for if a er during his life gives a son his tion and does leave a will tho of inheritance give him an- other share on Grounds The tenacity of custom among Oriental peoples mikej it reasonable that the parable of tho prodigal son was based upon legal After the son had received his portion which ne had demanded he Hook his And when he was in dire extremity he knew corkl only ask his father lo make him a hired On his return his brother who if usually condemned naturally to what his father in- ended him to do Whereupon his father told him all that he had belonged to him bjt that they would at his return not as a legal heir but as a real son F PERMANENT SUITS TO BE RECOVERY OF VELVET United States District Judge at Seattle Hands Down ion Litigation Affecting Nevada Property tors Charged With Alleged Abandonment Property Judge Jeremiah erer late today handed dow n a deci- ion jn the Merger case making permanent the appointment of Carl of Seattle foi the Goldfield Merger Mines company Mr was appointed poral y receiver by United Slates Judge K E Cushman last on petition of Mrs Lucy V Ames of Minneapolis a stockholder who filed a suit in equity against the Merger Mines and J Ross Clark and C A officers of the company for alleged ate frauds in handling various ing properties said to be worth eral million Will Institute Suits Counsel for Ames Judge made the ship and that the decision would be followed by suits in several districts against the for various alleged abandonments and loss of ite Mrs Ames counsel also said suit would be brought to recover the so-called vet claims the sale of which was sought to be at a ers meeting held last October and hich precipitated the suit The Velvet claim is now the rity of the Jumbo Extension company and was from the Merger by Sprague and II is over the of this claim that the suit was ed Fraud vias alleged in the ner in which the same was mated KILLED BY Brutal Murder Committed ter Which Apartments sacked for Valuables CHICAGO May Jolin and her two-year-old son John Coppersmith Jr were murdered in their apartment on the South Side today by a robber who crushed the skulls of his with a hammer and cut their throats with a butcher knife The murderer remained long enough to wash his hands and to the apartment for valuables He took in currency and a diamond ring and Mrs wedding ring from her finger but overlooked other rings and in What the police consider their best and most tangible clew to the murder was the bloody impression of a hand table In the kitchen Two men were arrested tonight and the said both had admitted being in the neighborhood when the murders curred Mrs Coppersmith was the of I John L Coppersmith secretary of the W Coppersmith company t in ere h fin is Charge Made That Troops Used to Create Reign Terror and Break Strikes May that the Pennsylvania state ulary is used to break strikes and to create reigns of terror in times of in- disputes was made to United Slates commission on trial relations today by James H president ot the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor and member of the state legislature After instances in which he said the state police acted against union strikers Mr Maurer asserted that would Advise the union men of Pennsylvania to military tactics and how to shoot in order to protect themselves Maurer submitted to the commission a pamphlet he had prepared on the Pennsylvania state which he en- titled The American Cossack The police were recruited he declared from United States soldiers and de generate sons of the middle classes never were worth anything at Home Secretary Bryan Announces Position of Country in View of Threatened War WILLING T 0 ARBITRATE Silence nf Four Months Broken by Statement Defining Position Government WASHINGTON Mav ence which has been consistently maintained by the United States with to the negotiations since they began four months ago was broken tonight by the issuance of a statement Secretary explaining the tion of the American government The statement was prepared earlier in the day after consultation with President While press re- had of Japan's decision to send an ultimatum to China nc official had been re- to confirm this tonight to Door Pulley The American government in its in effect its adherence of the open door and the maintenance of territorial in- of China and points out thai there lias been no abatement of its in the welfare and of China 1 ot the Stater w declared to be that the between Japan and China may be concluded in a manner to both and thus to the peace of the Willing to Arbitrate Th statement was interpreted ii some quarters as meaning that while no tender of good offices would be made by the Washington government the services of the United States were at the disposal of both countries should they desire the assistance any third power to bring about e settlement of the tions at issue Viscount the Japanese Ambassador and Kai Fu Shah the Chinese minister sought separate in- with Mr Bryan late today Dut declined to discuss the object of It is believed they were shown copies of the statement of the American occasioned by the critical situation that has arisen In the Far East Expect Appeal to Powers It would not be surprising to well persons here if President Yuan Shi Kai appealed to the powers before answering Ihc Japanese matum It was reported here ally tonight that the informal con- already were in progress- between the various powers parties to the Hay open door policy which pledges their support to a ance of the territorial integrity of China Armed Clash Xot Anticipated The Japanese ambassador referred is he was leaving the department day to exaggerated reports From Ms and other available in Japanese quarters the impression was gained that so far as the ese embassy was concerned it did not anticipate any armed clash In the Far East There was wide speculation as to the conferences Secretary Bryan and the diplomatic of the two nations at Both the Japanese ambassador and Chinese minister were understood to have cabled their governments after talking with Secretary Bryan LOIS CAMPBELL WINS IN CONTEST OVER WILL ST LOUIS May mous verdict in favor of the ants in the Campbell will was re- turned by the jury here tonight The declares Lois Campbell now Mrs BivrkhJtm to be the ter of James Campbell and entitled to half his estate willed her by Campbell District Attorney Starts mult During Trial of Police Chief at Los Angeles Wires Blown Down and Severa Hours Elapse Before Aid Rushed to Parish COURT STOPS OUTBURST Subject Ruled Out of Order Warns Attorneys be Careful of Ice Water Pitcher LOS ANGELES Cat May 1st net attorney's characterization of he supposed attempt upon Police Charles E Sebastian's life Jay night as a fake a tumult among the lawyers n the morally trial ate today that waa stopped only by a of court Sebastian's attorneys JENNINGS La ay per sons were killed and more than two score in jure J by a tornado late paired through the western part of parish in Southern Louisiana Of the known dead Adam Thibodeaux killed on a farm near Mermentau was the only white person to lose his life The others were ne Nine negroes were Hilled and twen persons injured in the vicinity of One oC the injured John Broussard a white crushed when his home collapsed probably will At Egan five negroes killed and two score persons injured The dead included a woman and child Ml Wires Doun The tornado hit the parish about 3 o'clock but as all were blown down it was several hours before news of the disaster readied here First the remark an outrage upon I reports were received when a who was nominated for arrived with an appeal for Attorney Prove were called to establish libis for Sebastian on certain dates hen he and Mrs Lillian Pratt were to have been together The wo arc accused of conspiring against he morality ot Miss Edith Serkin Irs Pratt's junior ward Immediately after the recess Thos kal aid Four physicians and several nurses immediately left for tau When reports of the disaster reached Iota a station on the Egan branch of the Southern Pacific a passenger train turned back to Egan with cians nurses and a large party of volunteers Rescue parties tonight were ing all parts of the stricken district to I Woolwine tlie district ir put on the stand by Earl Rogers chief for the ose of having him explain that there as suspicious about the wo c into tho astian's the chief of police sat the night be- ore election Careful of Ice Water Judge Fred V Wood ruled the re subject out of tho trial after the not to knock ne ice water pitcher off the whatever else they did like the joy of telling you why think as I was ng shot The court alio stopped Rogers from n to examine Woolwine about which Rogers the ascertain the damage and to aid attorney had provided for Serkin Sebastian's chief user Judge Wood in was the one to be questioned first the defense attorneys said they considering recalling her to land Rogers asserted that Woolwine was resent during an alleged telephone between Mrs Olivera -s Serkin's half sister and Miss erkin when Mrs Olivera was said to ave told the Serkin girl to say that watch of Mrs was one in- the outlying territory many of whom are believed to have been m- jurei Extent of Effort Has Never Been Approached During History of War Resume Of- fensive on Extensive Front MAY FORCE RUSSIANS TO ABANDON CARPATHIANS aim Advanced That Muscovites Taken Prisoner Since Saturday Austrian Report Russians Retreating Builders Declare Craft Will Satisfactorily Mate All Required Tests ed Mass May The States submarine L-l today com- her trial trips off town According to her builders here she met all her tests satisfactorily and exceeded some of her tions the contract the L-l required to make 15 knots an on the surface and seven knots an hour submerged She has a ing radius of 1500 miles and is de- under water for to remain two days The naval trial went with her 200 feet on a test dive and plunged to a depth of 60 feet when astian gave Miss Seekin Woolwine was making 10 knots an this and invited Rogers to prove Have been held is accusation Iast week A sister ship the also is under- going her standardization trials off Provincetown She finished lier 24 hour run today IN BOTTOM OF Young Woman Be- Have Fell from Bridge Suffered III Health CHICAGO May body of iliss Marion Farwell was found today t the bottom of A deep ravine which narked the boundary of the Lake For- st estate of her Francis ell of the John Farwell Dry Goods The young woman had been in ill and only returned tome from Tyron S C where she haJ pent the winter A trained nurse had been in attendance on the oung woman missed her ad was instituted resulted in the riding of the body The ravine was 5 feet deep and was spanned by a widge which state with that of Cyrus McCormick resident of the International ester company Miss Farwell was engaged to be married to Reginald Forest of Boston nd their which was to have aken place May 19 had been because of ill health A jury which an in- tonight returned a verdict that Miss Farwell left her home while de- a serious illness and ell from a bridge near home IN LIST CASUALTIES Privates Canadian Ranks are Wounded Latest List Contains 200 Names OTTAWA Ont May of several privates with addresses in the United States were contained in the casualties lists for the Canadian con- tingent issued by the military ment tonight All are listed as Included among the names are Haskin Detroit Mich Thomas Reading Pa William er Chicago A W Robertson Seattle and Bernard Frank Lanfere Minn list comprised about 200 names mostly those of wounded vates The only officer reported killed In announcement was tenant James T H Nasmyth of Janet ville Ont ADVANCING OX GENEVA Paris and London May 7 dispatch Tribune from Vienna says that an army corps under Archduke Eugene has arrived at ten miles from the Serbian frontier advancing against Serbia LONDON Mav 6 p in with their rian allies are pulling forth an ort the extent of which has never Ken approached in the history nt ar Throughout virtually the of the eastern front an with the while m he west in their attacks around pros Ihoy are on Hie at points At other points they are being at- the French British and Belgians g Gun Fort Par up in the provinces untouched by the war tho are attempting to advance Lilian and Riga on the east frontier they are engaged n i of battles and with a big tin are bombarding ai range hev did Dunkirk Russian ess of Grodno in central they have hid to defend themselves against a Russian attack in western Galicia they are attempting with all their strength to smash the Russian flank and compel the Russians to abandon the passes which they gained at such cost during the winter In western battle the mans claim to have made a still greater advance and to have crossed the river which is well to the east of the Dunajec river which until a ago formed part the Russian front and to have put their hands firmly on Dulka pass Prisoners Arc In conjunction this attack from the west the Austria us are at- tempting to drive the Russians from further to the east and with success according to the man account In all tho claim to have taken Russian since the offensive was last Saturday night The put the number at more than md express the belief that the whole Russian third army will be destroyed Blow Meeting With These reports show that the blow is meeting with the greatest success on the northern slopes of the western Carpathians for towards the upper Vistula the sians appear to be In their old tions Despite the claims of the and Germans the Russian in the European capitals re- port that the victory has been greatly exaggerated and the public has been waiting anxious to hear what Grand Duke Nicholas of the Russian forces has to say about it Make Proxies Vprcs The Germans also claim a of successes in the They report that they are continuing to make gress southeast of Ypres which ever is hardly borne out by Marshal French who says that the British have recaptured more of the trenches which they had lost on hill 60 und that fighting Is still progress- ing in that neighborhood while where the Germans have shown no disposition to attack There arc reports that the mans are about to make another de- termined effort to take Ypres which i is considered key to tho Trench coast ports NEGRO MEMPHIS Tenn May negroes are reported at Miss where a fetorm today wrecked several farm tion buildings were damaged a wide radius in IN SPA PERI JEWS PA PER I
