Wichita Daily Times (Newspaper) - August 14, 1914, Wichita Falls, Texas CITY NATIONAL IANK dimes 80 CITY NATIONAL BANK DOOM deposited with which o build of success flF MEXICO SAYS REPORT By Associated Press Laredo August Laredo the Mexican City opposite here day received an official telegram saying that Carranza entered Mexico City at noon today In Vosges Mountains lst French Success i f vll i I By Associated Press London p tn The Havas News agency official statement issued by the French minister of war in Paris at midnight in reference to the fight on the Vosges mountains between the French department of and German Lorraine company It An entire section and not a of the German troops rendered with their machine guns The Havas version 111 the course of recent operations a number of spies have been court martialled and shot including the mayor and master of Thann in lower Alsace Two French battalions which had seized the village of Lagarde m German Lorraine above were dislodged by a superior force of German troops and driven back to in the department of selle on the road to the fortress of Luneville The operations Liege took more than 2000 German prisoners and in con- sequence of its restricted territory the Belgian government has asked to arrange for their conf elsewhere At rious the French frontier troops have more than 1500 DANCE AT H Old Time square Are Inter pit Art The Labor Union ball given Thurs day night at Lake Wichita was ly attended by the members of the local unions five hundred being a conservative estimate upon the crowds that thronged the pavilion J D was In charge of I affairs and tickets were sold the committee clearing about fifty dollars over and above all expenses Music for the dance was furnished by Boy orchestra and an Interesting fea ture the program of old time dances Every other number on the program was an old time dance and were offered to the heal caller these dances W 0 and I Lee Willis captured these prizes This dance Riven for the pur In the plans for the celebration of Labor Day and to raise funds BT illas Attorney Jamet C In the city today but Attorney Allen said he had received advice from At- torney General hat he secure Information and aug gest to taken the marked increase In foodstuffs prices Mr Allan nld he did not along lust what llnea Ion he made but that plans would be at once to act on the of the attorney general Following are tome In here since the European war legan to 42 cents per pound to 30 Prime to 30 Sirloin to 35 Pork to to 26 dollar per case to 43 cents per pound Flour advanced 50 cents per bar rel Swiss cents per pound Canned dollar per case Cigarette It la said will advance next month Believed Germans Preparing Advance From Liege District By Associated Press t i Brussels Aug London 3610 p m The cashier of a I met bank who arrived here on a Obtain had little difficulty in out of njs identity The German troops he said continue thew preparations for defense in the event the Belgian took the offensive but impression in Liege was that the Germans are prepared to the vicinity as they are hurrying the construction of pontoon bridges over the Meuse The says the treatment of the inhabitants of Liege by the Germans gives no special cause for complaint New Movement By Germans At Liege Believed Imminent By Associated Press Aug a A dispatch from Brussels says the following official announcement was issued at noon The Germans are planning a new movement against us all dispositions have been made to repel it like the preceding ones Reports show that the situation continues favorable to us and our allies While the news from Lorraine is highly favorable to the French The general staff has heard nothing of the tion of the force at Liege and rumors to that effect therefore are false 150 Meet Death Today When Austrian Steamer Hits Mine 150 passengers and crew of the Austrian steamer Gautsch were killed or drowned today when the Vessel struck a mine off the Dalmation coast By Press 14 Pf they had not been requested uv the m negotiate a been on the subject bv private Interests and that they would not care to en the matter should there ue the slightest doubt on the part of the state department on the propriety of negotiating such a loan IS HOT TIN LI Ferguson May Support Henry cording to R E Huff Back From El Paso Ex for the announcement nbt taMen Paris Aug p m The agency announces that Field Marshal Sir John French commander In chief of the English Held army day Joined Joseph Joffre the French commander In chief at the headquarters The locality was not mentioned SAN FRANCISCO FIRM INTO VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTCY San Francisco Aug C Wll son ft Company members of the New Stock Exchange New York fotton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade and San Francisco Stock and Dond Exchange announced today that the Arm had decided to go Into voluntary bankruptcy suspension Is brought about solely by the extraordinary conditions following upon the European war SUPPOSED SPY 18 SHOT AT BARRACKS IN LONDON By Prats london AUB An unidentified man suspected of being a spy was shot and It is believed mortally wounded at Wolsley racks here early today SPECIAL TRAIN CARRIES AMERICANS FROM GERMANY By Berlin Aug A special 300 Americans and five an started for Holland yester day evening f Paso not fc nk Hulf Who was Wichita s only delegate ul the Demo con Judge Huff re 1 night Mr Huff said that Balle very strength when It came to Toting Only a few of thp del gallons going in er to him A hit of convention brought by ludge Huff was that Keigu son s support In the at too test of 1916 will be thro o Con gressman Henry for wli i me Tern ile man had come out le ore his an for governor It was uot however that 1 will be very active In the senatorial fight as he will In all likelihood be ed for a second term himself Some bitterness was aroused at the convention by the striking out of the plank aimed at the attorney get Gov went be- fore the committee and opposed the plank when those who had inserted it considered the matter settled The committee by a vote of fifteen to thirteen struck out the plank and activity In this connection was considered by Barry Miller and other as an act part Discussing Senator Bailey's It the Mr Buff hfe oratory seemed to be as well ever It to count for little when the roll was called for a vote Ferguson he said was very bitter when He re- plied to the former senator and his were well received Gallon Thomas was the only prominent Ball man In attendance and he emulated Bre r Rabbit by In In low and say CANADIAN TO REGULATE PRICE ADVANCES By Ottawa Aug law to control prices of fuel and necessities of life will be enacted by the Canadian Parliament which meets Tuesday to pass war measures WEATHER FORECAST Tonight and Saturday tied WIRES FEDERAL OFFICE AT DAL LAS TO SECt RE TION Show Advances li Many Staple Articles Since War ON RATE PI Proposed Inmate Will Bt Aired By Butt li Filed By Associated Press Austin Aug was re today more than liat the commission will the motion at Commissioner Sari Mayfield to grant a hearing to the railroads on the question or in creased freight rates Chairman Xl Ison Mayfield raid today that as yet be had not bad time thoroughly to digest the motion but would go into t shortly A on this ques which It Is believed probably would result In a Blight advance likely would mean that no suit would be filed by the railroads GOVERNMENT GIVE A SANITARIUMS New Thirty live stokers of the crew the United fruit steamer Zapata which reached iere today from Colombia Colon and tauten are prisoners of war at Officers from a British aunch there went Into the hold and took them ashore as prisoners of war even though the Zapata Is a British shin she was forced to dismantle her wireless as she entered Kingston harbor SEVEN GERMAN WARSHIPS SUNK IS CAPTAIN'S STORY Says Only Their Masts Visible Above Water Near In North Baker M California Introduces To That at sion of By Associated Jt Washington regularly and Incorporated fraternal organizations he allowed to of government land for purposes tor the benefit of their members under a In by Representative Raker of now before the House up m recommendation of the public anils committee It follows a move ment for legislation of this kind that has been carried on by fraternal and societies for a number of years Many bills previously ve been introduced on the subject but they were to grant lands to these organizations by name while the pending measure Is general In scope permitting any and all such organ to obtain tracts for The main object of the fraternal organizations Is to obtain In each a sufficiently large tract of land upon which a modern lum may be established In arid semi-arid or mountainous states in a salubrious section where the 111 members of the organization roar be treated and cured particularly In cases of consumption The public lands committee has Just reported to the House that are large tracts of land In the public land atates which are practically useless for Individual holdings The hill permits the secretary of the In tertor to withdraw or reserve the land applied for for not exceeding two years to enable any fraternal organization to Investigate and de ermine the condition of the climate soil water supply facilities and er questions before obtaining patent Then the organization could get not exceeding four of unoccupied arid or land by placing substantial Improvements the land to be u exclusively for sanitarium purposes and If not so used to revert to the United States NAVAL BATTLI IN WARN TURKS FRUIT STEWS STOKERS IE PRISONERS OF WAR Of Mrs Prw Take Fills British Plag By London Aug 3 30 a o A dispatch to the Chronicle from West says that the captain of Danish steamer de- clares that he passed seven sunken German warships fifteen miles off at the northeast entrance of the Humber Only the musts of the vessels were visible above the but the believes they German men AUSTRIAN STEAMER TIN PRIZE AT Captain Knew Nothing of European Situation Until Hit Vestel Waa Seized By Montreal Aug Austrian steamer Ida 4700 tons which sailed rom Trieste and Naples before war was declared reported here last night and was taken over by the marine department at Quebec today as n war prize Captain nothing of the war until his vessel was seized OF EXPORTS ARGENTINE PLANKED Government Proposes To Restrict of Corn and Wheat From Country By Associated FreM Buenos Ayres Aug Argentine government has submitted to Congress a providing for the restriction of the exportation of corn and wheat WANT BARNES DAMAGE SUIT TRIED IN ALBANY COUNTY By New York Aug for William Barnes Jr Republican state chairman In a letter to counsel for Theodore Roosevelt declared they not agree with the foRner president's attorneys that a fair trial could not be had In Albany where Mr Barnes lives of the Republican man's 150000 libel sllit against Col Roosevelt LTTLE ACTUAL FIGHTING IN EUROPE'S WAR ZONE Russian Mobilization Is Said To Total Minor Ger Reverses Ate Reported R MI 111 101 UNI Total of Fifteen Hava Filed Their Answers In Recent Suit By At- torney General By Prets Austin Texas Aug more corporations defendants In the suit of the state against the Teras ness Men's Association today filed answers m the district court agreeing that the temporary Injunction Issued by the court against may be made so far as the are con- cerned This makes a total of fifteen corporations out of the n that have filed such Evidence of a shnip fight in Chinese waters was brought to Hong Kong yesterday when two battered warships cither French or British arrived here with many The telegram censored did not identify the warships but said they were reported to have been inaction with two German cruisers A London report says the captain of a Danish steamer declares le passed seven sunken German warships on the east coast of England He could not identify them but believed they were lerman warships The reported purchase of the German Goeben and has bwn made the occasion of action by the British French Russian allies which are to call Turkey's at- tention to tier duty as 9 neutral Greece also is perturbed by tha purchase of the cruisers she considers will upset tha of power in the Levant Russia is reverted to have mobilized 000 men of whom are on the German and Austrian frontiers Today all is reported quiet along the front according to official statements from France Belgium Belgian of yesterday's encounter known as the battle of Haelen give the total German casualties as high as 3000 killed and wounded No German report the has come to hand tf The Belgian staff believes the German movement at Ifaelen was m to reach Brussels which today is stated to be no m danger official reports say the Belgians captured 2000 ers at Liege and that the French have taken 1500 along tHe frontier The Belgian government has requested France to vide other places of owing to lack of room in Belgium Aviators are taking a vei v important part in scouting for the armies in the field and are suffering severely according to re- ports Belgian authorities report the destruction of three man aeroplanes and the dead of two of their pilots while 1 reports recount the nai row escape of a French aerial scout from German flying machines which hunted him Allies Call Turkey To Account For Purchase Of German Cruisers 11 By Associated Press London August p Great Britain France Belgium and Russia have sent a sharp demand to Turkey for the immediate of the officers and crews of the German cruisers and Breslau It is reported that the two cruisers were met by Turkish vessels outside and escorted into the Dardanelles There is no cial confirmation of the actual purchase of the cruisers by Turkey but the report to that effect generally is credited j Bavarian Infantry Surprised By French And Driven Back Paris Aug a m An official dispatch No facts of striking importance took place m the thearte of operations There were however several skirmishes between German and French patrols and encounters between outposts notably at Chambre in German Lorraine where two companies of the eighteenth Bavarian Infantry regiment were surprised by troops and driven off REPORTED INVASION OF AUSTRIA BY MONTENEGRIN London August 14 p per dispatch from Rome today says the negrin troops aided by the inhabitants of govina are successfully invading Austria whose blockade of the Montenegrin coast virtually has ceased
