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Ctart the New Year right bj btcon- Ins a sutscriber. VOLUME I XXXI ARKANSAS CITl DA1L TRAVELER, THUIiSDAY, MARCH 25, 1913. Xo. 3 IXDIGX1TV TO OLD GLORY. CAPPER'S VETO A SURPRISE.

ASSACRS OF AS- LIES AT TfligBOT-! Weather For Kansas Partly cloudy to- night and Friday, colder. i 17AS ADOUT I1EGDY to sonns3S filffitVIEUS SIR jonn frenc(i i CONSTANT INOPLE WAS ON THE VERGE OF YIELDING. THE GERUATJS STOPPED IT I Attacking Fleet Would Have Captur ed Dardanelles and Constantinople If Germans Hadn't Blocked It. Oy Associated Press. London, Mar.

25. Tho Evening Chronicle publishes a dispatch from Bucharest, Roumania, saying tho Turkish government recently decided to surrender Constantinople and the Dardanelles to tho attacking fleet. The surrender was all but arranged, the Chronicle says when at the last moment it was blocked by Germany. The peace party forced a vote at a recent cabinet meeting to send emissaries one of whom was the American ambassador, Henry Mor-genthau to the Dardanelles to negotiate with tho commander of tho allied fleet, for tho surrender of tho straits and of Constantinople said tho Chronicle. Just as everything seemed settled the German General LIman Von Sander, heard of tho plan and nipped It with the threat of court martial for all concerned.

Ambassador Morgcntbau made a visit of two days to the Dardanelles last week. SOCIALIST MISTERED IN Dr Llcbknocnt Ordered To IMace I iiunoml the Press. Berlin, (via London) Mar. 25 ur TO WHEAT SUPPLY. Spanish Government Will Convey Cargoes from United States.

Madrid, Mar. 2o. The Spanish government Is taking steps to secure an adequate supply of grain un til next harvest. Its proceedure will be similar to that which other countries have been obliged to adopt. It will take oyer a number of Spanish owned vessels, and use them to convey cargoes of wheat and oats from the United States to Spanish ports, principally Barcelon-ia.

Rates of freight by ship to Spanish ports have increased in consonance with those of neighboring coun tries. The increase has in fact been rather more pronounced than to some French ports. For example, it is nearly ten per cent cheaper to ship, grain from the United States to Marseilles than to Barcelona, because ship owners give a preference to cargoes destined toi iMarseillee, where they are fairly certain of being able to unload ship without delay. JOINS WHiTE REGIMENT Native Negro of Jamaica Now Mcm-ber Coldstream Guards London, Mar 25 (Correspondence Associated Press James Slim, a pure negro and a native of Jamaica, has enlisted as a private in tho Cold- stream guards. Before the war.

It would have been impossible for. a negro to Join a white regiment in England, let alone one of the proud est and most famous of tho crack regimeats. The fact ol SUra's ac- ceptance is a strong indication of the democratic effects of the war. Slim was in France when the war broke, and joined the French for elgn legion. Wounded In battle.

he was cent to a hospital where he exrrissed the wifh to join Kitchen- er's new army. Word was sent to Kitchener with tho lomlt that he was allowed to enroll in the Cold- stieams. Slim is now training the reserve battalion at Windsor, ARTILLERY DUELS YESTERDAY. Karl Llebknccht, a socialist member of the Reichstag, has been mustered Into the array as a member 'of a Landsturm reelment, and assigned to service In Alsace. u'uv' 1 1.lf,l1.

...1.1.4 When McJianus was Killed Flag was Torn Up. Apologies for Killing of American Are Expressed But Insult to Flag is Ignored by Mexican Chief. By Associated Press. Washington, Mar. 25.

Rear Ad miral Caperton, commanding the American fleet in Mexican waters to day ordered the battleship Georgia from Vera Cruz to Progreso where there been local troubles. His dispatch reported the movement of the Georgia, and said the port of Progreso was still open. Insult to American Nation. Washington, Mar. 25.

Secretary Bryan revealed today that in the original report of the murder of John B. McManus, an American citizen in Mexico City, by Zapata troops, the Brazillian minister had notified the state department also that the American flag was torn from the house and partially de The secretary said that a request for reparation for the indignity to the flaer. was sent at the time but he did not reveal what form it had taken. He denied, however, that there had been any request for a salute to the flag. Secretary Bryan said that while regrets had been expressed for the killing, of McManus he did not recall that any regret had been ex pressed for the flag incident.

TURKS SUFFER BIG LOSS. British Destroyers Penetrate Straits Great Distance. fty Associated Press. London, Mar. 25.

Reuters' cor respondent at Tenedos sent the ol lowing today: "According to reliable informa tion obtained from refugees from the Dardanelles, the Turks suffered enormous losses the attacks of the allied fleet on March 18. The greater part of the fortresses and powder magazines were reduced. The Turkish submarine defensives are declared to have lost their mil itary value owing to the mine Takings adrift. The British destroyer ori Wednesday penetrated the straits to a considerable NEWS SUPPLV CURTAILED. Belgian Who Smuggled English Pa pers into Belgium Dead.

Rotterdam, March 25. Brussel's supply of English newspapers, which have to be smuggled across the border on account of the German prohibition against their imj portation, has been curtailed by the violent death of a daring Belgian who had for many weeks brought in 200 copies a day. He had made friends with a Bavarian sentry who, it is said, for a consideration, clos ed his eyes to the armful of papers which the Belgian carried. A few days ago, however, the sentries were changed, and the Belgian was un able to persuade the Wurtemburg guard to let him pass. Waiting until nightfall, the newspaperman crawled under the barb wire de- foncp in SO doine exploded a mine which literally blew him to pieces.

An Expensive Legislature By Associated Prs. Topeka, Mar 25 When the print ing extent of the state legislature is determined it is probable the 1315 session will cost the state $100,000, the second most expensive in the history of the state of Kansas. Independent of the extent of printing bills, session laws and expense of members who visited state institutions, the exrense of the session has amounted to $80,633.86. Several Arkansas City boys were nstructed by the police a few nights ago to appear in police court, on the charge of disturbing the peace at a party in the Second ward one night recently. The boys in question failed to appear today and it quite likely that' some warrants will be Issued.

It is alleged that the boys broke a glass door and a window at the house where a party was being held Tuesday night. The pupils of the high school will be given a holiday all day tomorrow, the occasion being the big basketball tournament games at Lawrence. rhere are several of the students who expect to. go, to that place this i evening. or mishap to the missionaries.

The force normally at Urumiah con sist of 5 clergymen and 1 physician with their wives and four single womcn. Generally Supposed He Would Sign Twine Plant Revolving Fnnd BUI Some Facts andL Figures on the Health and Accident Insurance Business in the State Kansas Topeka, March 25 Governor Cap per's veto of the state prison twine plant-revolving fund item came as a surprise tor those interested insamuch as the same hill, improperly engross ed in that it failed to have included the conference report reducing it from $60,000 to $50,000, the origin al amount, was signed by the govern or only a few days ago During the rush last week two state prison appropriation items were passed and went to the governor, One vas for the revolving fund ap propriation which was passed for $50,000 and the other was the emer gency appropriation, passed for $20, 000. The had been drawn or iginally for $60,000 and $25,000 respectively. They were reduced by conference committees but the en rolling force failed to take the amend rr.ent into consideration and the meas ures were both placed before the gov ernor for the original amounts for approval. Poth were approved.

Later a joint- resoluton recalled them from the secretary of state and new bills were drawn to cover them for the agreed amount. It vas one of these bills that Governor Capper yesterday vetoed. The health and accident business Kansas, according to the figures of premiums and losses reported to the superintendent of insurance, Is a lucrative business. The losses, as a matter of fact, amounted to Just 1 per cent of the premiums collected. During the year Kansas pecple paid the stock casualty companies a total of and there was paid in return into Kansas in losses only $173,673.

Still more profitable was ihe automobile property damage wrt leu byXcomparativol.v few companies The total premiums collected in this Jine wasi $27,336 and the losses amounted to only $6,081. Burglary and thief insurance was a good line year. The premiums collected in Kansas amounted to and the losses were On the other extreme losses were paid on livestock by the twostocl casualty companies writing thealine, Premiums 'in the aggregate of only $7,270 were collected while losses amounted to $5,344, or a loss ratio of more than 73 per cent Other line3 of what are commonly known as casualty insurance items showed the collection of premiums nd payment of losses as follows: Liabiltj' premiums $150,153, losses workmen's compensation premiums losses fidelity and surety premiums 174, losses plate glass pre miums $35,965, losses mis cellaneous including physicians' de fense, title, credit, workmen's col lective, fly wheel, steam boiler, premiums $38,242, losses $15,947. The aggregate of all casualty lines as reported by stock companies only, and not including assessment accident nor mutual livestock, showed premiums collected at $9 75,718, and total losses at $505, S87, being a fraction less than 52 per cent loss es on the whole line. It is interesting to note that the Kansas insurance bill for 19J4, paid to stock companies only, amounted in the three lines, life, fire and cas ualty, to a grand total of while the losses and settlements on all such contracts paid baok to citizens of the state by the various companies amounted to only 405, a difference of nearly eignt mil lion dollars which represent expens.

profit and in the case of life policies reserves put up to protect the niatur- ty of the It Is a safe bet from fo.ir and a half to six millions went into expense and profit considerably more than was needed to run every department of the state government during the same length of time. And, of course, the big end of it went into expense, very probab- enough in itself to have paid the Kansas governmental bill for the year. Some time next week ex-Senator J. L. Bristow is expected to arrive at Topeka and qualify for his new ob as member of the state public utilities commission It Is under stood that he Is to be chairman of that organization.

his quali fication for office the term of Com missioner Gable of Kansas City, Kan. expires and he will wretire to private life. No one knows just when Mr. Pristow will be on the job, but about the first of April is the lime he is expected to take the new work on his shoulders. 1 SYQlAfJ CHRISTIANS MALES ARE BEING RA1SAROUSLY KILLED BY TIRKS TK.YOO IV0I3EH SAVED 15,000 Have Taken With Missions United Stattvs Takes Up Matter With Tur- By Associated Press.

Tlflls, (Wednesday Mar. 24 via Petrcgrad and London) Mar. 25- Telegranis and letter reaching here from UrumiaU In northwestern Per- Ka descibed the situation of the American Presbyterian mission station there as despervte Turkish regular troops and Kurds are pers cutlng and massacring Assyrian chrls tians. Harry P. Packard the doctor of the missionary station at Urumiah of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church risked, his life in a successful effort to prevent a frightful massacre at Geogtapa where 20)0 Assyrians made their last stand.

They had fought for 3 days and all their ammunition was gene At this juncture Dr. Pack ard unfurled an American flag and advanced between the lines. His act resulted in the saving of all but 200 of the Assyrians who had been burned in a church. 1,000 Assyrian Christians have taken refuge under the protection of American -mission station, while 2. 000 are at tho French mission.

A dispatch received at Tiflis from Ur umiah yesterday declared that 70 -Turkish regular troors had entered the mission, hanged the, orthodox bishop MarVlSUS and four orthodox clergymen and beaten and insulted a missionary earned Allen. Shortly before the 60 refugees had been dra ged from the French mission and ex ecuted in spite of the tearful pleas of the nuofling At Gulpashan the Kurds were particularly crUel. This wa-i the last of a total of l')3 villages tc hold out, and it was o'-cupied a month ago. The Kurds ordered all the Assyrian males into the streets, tied them in groups' of marched to the grave yard and killed them barbarously to the lasc boy. Girl babies and oldtr women were then executed with great atrocity while the "younger were carried away as slaves.

As a result of the war 12,000 Assyrians are taking ry fuge In the Caucasus. Some 000 are described as in imminent danger at the Urumiah mission wrilo 20,000 are dead or missing. Furthermore much property has been destroyed. The Assyrians fought their rts bravely and as long' as they had auicunition they were victorious. The missionaries are untiring In their efforts to help the people and they are spending money to that end freely.

In Urumiah they are dispersing the equivalent of 4 0 0 daily Dis- ease is prevalent among the refugees. v'" The situation at Urumiah already bad been taken up with Turkey by the United States Secretary Bryan has telegraphed American Am-' bassador Mofgenthau at Constanfin--ople to seek the protection of the missionaries and the refugees. Previous dispatches from Djulfa Persia have desciibed the danger at but none of them has given so much as the detailed message from" Tiflis. The American msslonary station t. at" Urumiah is maintained by the board of foreign mission of the Pres- byterian church in" the United States I rThe station was- established as long ago as 18 3 5 its control was trans lerred to the Presbyterian board in "1371 The work has- "gene on wtihout Serious interruption (ERMAN OFFICERS SAY KARLS RUHE SANK IN HONOR BAM) PLAYED AS SHE SAIIK German Flags Were Flying and Sa lnte Was Fired Daring last Moments German Bomb Destroyed Her By Associated Press.

New York. Mar. 25 German nav al officers at Bremerhaven are quoted as authorties for the statement that the cruiser Karlsruhe lies at the bottom of the sea in the West Indies, by Jeffe Boyd, second officer of the American steamer Carib that wt.s sunk by a mine in the North Sea, who reached here today from Rotterdam aboard the steamship Rotterdam Boyd said he spent 5 days at Brem erhaven and through an old friend now an officer in the German navy- obtained positive confirmation of the rumor that the Karlsruhe was no longer afloat. She vent down with the German flags flying from every mast and at her stern and bow and as she sank the band played German martial music. He quotes his friend as saying: "A German bomb sent her to the bottom, after she had struck on reef.

As the last flag dipped be neath the waters, German rifles fired a full salute in her honor, a salute fired in burial at sea of naval off! cers who have fought and fallen in the fight." NEW NEWSPAPER STYLE Germans in Northern France Get The 'W's" and Mixed Berlin, Mar. 25 (Correspondence Associated Press) The war is re sponsible for the appearance, on ev ery! battle front and in almost every iortress, or a series or newspapers which, for obvious reasons, set quite a new style in journalism. In partf of Northern France where German troors are trying to get out German papers with French type cases, is sues are already coming to be prized as curios in which the letter has to be used for the and the for the so common in Ger man and so comparatively unusual in French. The is frequently missing. At points where troops are station ed for long periods it has been pos sible to make frequent use of the cartoon, and war has drawn into the ranks so many artists, writers and skilled tradesmen and printers that the resultant output is often aston ishingly gootd.

All over Europe, especially in dis tricts that have been conquered there are being issued papers in the na tive language for the purpose of edu caung the civil population to the conquerer's viewpoint and of combat ing the claims and statements of na tive papers Many are printed in two languages. Business houses. banks and factories are publishing papers full of home news which they send to employes at the front. SARA BRIDGE OPENED Largest Ever Constructed by 'Brit ish Engineers With one Exception Calcutta, March 2 5 Correspondence Associated Press) The great Sara bridge, on the Ganges river, nas been opened for traffic, thus inaugurating direct railway passenger communication across the river. The bridge is the largest ever con structed by British engineers, with the possible exception of the Forth bridge in Scotland.

The work was begun in 1908. The structure has a total length of feet, and con- sists of fifteen main spans and six land spans. The is nearly' 000,000. A. P.

CORRESPONDENT HIM TO TALK. GETS cohfideut of toe result British Commander-in-chief of Con tinent Forces, Glorifies French Soldier and Tells of Most Critical Experience. By Associated press. British Headquarters, France, (via i-ondon) Mar. 25.

It was in the drawing room of the house in which he makes his office that Field Marshal Sir John French commander-in- chief of the British expeditionary forces on the continent received the correspondent today and discussed the military situation. Before the conversation was over the British commander answering a question con cernlng the result of the war said: "Indeed there is no doubt of the outcome I was never so confident of victory as I am today. I am as confident as General Grant was when he took command of the armies of the Potomac. He kept at it and so shall we." On a long table before the Brit ish commander were a number of maps and reports. Otherwise the man who directs the operations of the.

British army in France appear ed completely disassociated from the duties of different army headquar ters in other offices about the town. It was to be observed that the head of the departments report to Field Marshal French Immediately on a telephone request. Looking younger than his photo graph makes him appear, ready and alert, Sir John showed no signs of the strain of the last 8 months as he stood before his open grate fire and talked of his campaign and the war. "What were the most important contributing factors making your re treat from Mons secure against tho overwhelming odds?" 'Sir John was asked. "The dogged tenacity of our regular army, which contested every foot of the ground as we fell back," was the answer.

"Nct once did our soldiers lose hearti They understood that we were not defeated but making a strategic retreat before odds and that all the punishment which they could inflict on the enemy by cool and stubborn resistance was no less valuable to the ultimate object, than if we were advancing. Their confidence that their turn to take the offensive would come remained un shaken. Next In Importance was the work of our cavalry in its aggressiveness and alertness in preventing the cavalry of the enemy from getting around us. Our cav alry established decided superiority over that of the enemy which was of vital assistance." "And what to you was tho crit ical moment of all your campaign in France?" was the next question put to Sir John French. One would not have been surpns ed if he had said when his reserves rHoallv exhausted In the battle of Ypres and Armentieres, tc c-vo tho channel port.

His answer cViarartpHstic nromotness and decisiveness. "On the retreat from Mons to Lo Cateau we were in the open coun try in a very dangerous position and the German ambition for the annihi lation of our little army might nave been realised, if our cavalry had not been equal to its task of covering the flanks of our steady disciplined regulars." "A good deal has been said about the novel conditions which French warfare in this war has developed," was the next thing said by the correspondent. "Has It changed the qualities required of a soldier!" "No" he replied. "Human nature remains the same and it is the man who. gives and takes the blows whatever the nature of his weapons.

Courage, discipline and tenacity are still-the dominant elements of suc- cess And the guns; it has been re cently stated that this has become a AMU war of "I think there has been an inclination to exaggerate the importance of the artillery," Sir John French answered. "No doubt, of the three arms artillery has increased in relative importance. It may take a dozen shells to get one man th hniipt will eet one man. JThe weapons which decide the day Russian Attacks on Eastern Frontlaciion was supposed to have ben jw wrennagen ioihimh niu I a a on" Monday-10 me cncci mai. Dr.

Liebknecht had been ordered to I place himself at the dlapoaal of tho German military authorities. This duo to his actions in Relchftpg on Saturday In voting against the adop tion of the budget. In Politkcu It was stated that Dr. Llebknccht was dir ected to consider himself under tho military law and that ho was prohibited from writing articles or at tending political meetings except those of the HeicWUi; and landlag. Derlin dispatches received In Amsterdam Monday said the social ist rarty in tho Tcichstag bad given out a declar.it icn ie7rlj denounc ing the breach of dlecipllno commit ted by Lte'oknecht uod his colleague Herr Kuch'e, in voting against tho adoption of the budret.

Dr. Liebknecht perhaps Is tbe most widely known In Germany. He frequently haa protected vigorously against the war and was reputed In December to the leader of a tecret German peso movement. Held On Hoblery Charge Oy Associated Press. Kansas City, Mar.

25 Char les B. Oldfleld, a railway mall clerk arrested yesterday In connection with the disappearance of $26,000 In currency from a mall car bound from Kansas City to LaJunta, Colo, tn April 1912, today was arraigned bc- fore CUfUn' Unlted States commissioner and bound over for trial on a charge of robbery, of the maJls. Ills bond was fixed at AA Newspaper Warrior Killed. By Associated Press. New Orleans, March 25 Jos.

LaLcre- vho ty editor a Freoca newap: per nere to ennst in me rencn army dead from wounds received near ICraonne, according to cable advices received by bis father here. Wore Repulsed By Associated Press Berlin, Mar. 23 Tho official com munication says: "With the exception of unimport ant engagements on the heights of the Meuse, southeast of Verdun, and Hartmann's Weilerkopf, which still continue, only artillery duels took place along the' west front yester day. "In the eastern area a Russian attack east and southeast of Augus towo, near Jednorozek and northeast of Porzasnysz, were repulsed." England Refuses Request Hy Associated Press. London, Mar.

25 The British government has refused the request of the United States that an Ameri can consular officer be permitted to take a rtatlon at the port of Kirkwall in Scotland, to report on American csrgo ships, detained there. are rifles and machine guns and the infantry is still the queen of battle." "And the French army; you have been fighting as its ally for 8 months: how does it compare with the Germans?" the correspondent asked. It seemed a happy question. To it Sir John replied: "The French at the start were I laboring under th shadow of their disastrous defeat in 1870. which might well have led both the French and the world In general to I believe that the German; miliUary I macnine was neaven-Dorn ana lire- sJstible.

The French have I learned me contrary ana tne world soon must If it has not. I need not speak of their splendid generalship, or courage In driving the Germans back from the Maine. They have the elan of Napoleon's time, thanks to the spar of renewed confidence. Frederick. Palmer, who Is at thells front In France for the Associated press, sends the above dispatch.

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