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ONLY rERNO ATE rm A3 31 PRESS DAILY VOLUME XL NO. 95. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, TUESDAY -DECEMBER" 7f 1915. LAST EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS MEMBER THIS NWOl DEATH 0FMRS. CART CHARGED WITH Visions of An Empty Stocking TELLS WHY RECALL WAS ASKED FOR DOVE PARTY IS LIGHTLY CGNSIDEREI I Ml STEALING FIVE AGS OF SUGAR Warrants Are Issued for A.

W. Brushwood, Walter Stewart and Clark Walters Broke Car Seal. Warrants charging three local young men with breaking into box cars for the purpose of stealing the contents were issued by A. J. Kunz, clerk of the city court, this morning.

A. W. Brushwood, Walter Stewart and Clark Walters are the men named in the complaints which were sworn to by Detective James Thompson, special detective for the Missouri Pacific. Brushwood and Stew county jail, following early Sunday morning art are in the their arrest by Detective Thompson in the south yards. Following their arrest they implicated Walter, and he was arrested this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Lester Markley and Detective Thompson at his home in South Leavenworth.

The less of five sacks of sugar from a Missouri Pacific car on November 6 lead to the arrest of the men. The deal on the car was broken and the sugar stolen. The theft not discovered until the car reached Atchison. Local authori ties were notified, as only a shoit stop was made at Oak Mills and it was not thought that the jobbery was committed there. Detective Thompson noticed the suspicous actions of Brushwood and Stewart.

Walters, however, was not in evidence. Saturday night the detective saw Brushwood and Stewart, come from Drydale and go north through the yards. Shortly after midnight a Missouri Pacific freight car containing merchandise was had lound broken into but nothing been taken. A search was inst'tuted for Brushwood and Stewart. Shortly after 2 o'clock Sunday morning Brushwood was arrested by Detective Thompson in the-south yards.

When taken into custody the seal from the freight car which had been burglarized was found hanging on the pocket of his overcoat, evidently having caught there when it was torn from its place. Brushwood was placed in the city jail and Stewart was found at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, while returning from the east end of the bridge. They were transferred to the county jail this more frig. Walters is charged with the theft on November 6, in company with Brush-waad. Brushwood and Stewart are charged with the burglary Saturday night.

They will probably be arraigned before Judge William P. Wettig in the city court late this afternoon or tomorrow morning and a date set for their preliminary hearing. No Cloud On Horizon. Washington, Dec. 7.

"There is! no cloud on the Democratic horizon i and it is the duty of this committee 1 to see that no clouds shall gather," said Chairman McComb in calling the Democratic national committee together today. Thomas J. Pence was elected secretary pro-tempore. St. Louis claims the priority in the contest for the next Democratic convention.

The contest is expected to be decided late today. I Session of Duma Postponed. Petrograd, Dec. 7. Emperor Nicholas has issued a rescript postponing indefinitely the opening of the Duma and the council of the empire.

This action is taken on the grounds that the budget committee of those bodies have not completed the preparation of the budget. strengthens Stock Market. New York, Dec, 7. Publication of the president's message was followed by inther strengthening of the stock market. United Steel led the movement by a rise from its early price of 86 to Railroad and other investment shares were hardened perceptibly.

HURL WIFE PRESDE T'S ADDRESS IS CHEERS IS UNLAWFUL TO PAY BILLS In Answer to Mandamus Sent Lee Bond Holds Ft cal Year Ends on October 1. TED WITH Dies Following Ten Days With Pneumonia. Illness Mrs. Elizabeth T. Cart, a resi-; dent of Leavenworth for the past thirty-three years died at the family home, 118 Olive street, at 11 o'clock: last night following an illness of ten days with pneumonia.

Until the time of her ailment she had been in good health and her death came as a surprise. She was 73 years old. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the residence at 2:30 o'clock and burial will be in Mount Muncie cemetery. Mrs. Cart was born in German-town, in 1842.

She spent her childhood in Kentucky, and was there married to John C. Cart. The family moved to Leavenworth in 1882. They have lived here ever since. She is survived and three sons, by P.

her Cart, husband Charles E. Cart and this city. Ernest H. Cart, all of AVheat In Good Condition. Washington, Dec.

7. Winter wheat was in good condition as a result of the weather conditions dur- jng November which the weather bureau in its monthly review today says rarely have been so favored for all the agricultural interests for the entire month. Over the great corn growing states, ploughing for the next crop was possible during the entire month and good progress was reported over all these states. Live stock was reported in good condition to enter the winter in all districts except in the far southwest where droughs were reported. Bulgarian Regiment Rebels? London, Dec.

7. An unconfirmed report of the mutiny of a Bulgarian regiment received in Amsterdam from Frankfurt was forwarded to the Exchange correspondent. This report was the regiment was order- ed to proceed to the Gallopoli pen insula to fight with the Turks and when it refused to obey the command three hundred of the mutineers were shot. DAY IN POLICE COURT Another Long Docket Tried Before Judge Taylor. Another Targe police court docket consumed almost four hours before Judge F.

K. Taylor this morning. It was "field day," thirteen cases being continued from other days. Three of the cases were again continued, while many were dismissed because of lack of evidence. Five alleged violators of Ordinance 2800 graced the docket.

Four of these were dismissed while Hannah Brown, negress, was granted a continuance until tomorrow. Tne test case against Charles Quacken-tuseh, beer wagon driver, who was arrested for having a case of uncon-figned beer on his wagon, was decided in favor of the defendant, Judge Taylor ruled that the fact that the man had the beer on his wagon did not prove that he was offering it for sale. The caises of Emil Witt charged with violating Ordinance 2800 and keeping a disorderly house, and Dude Carr, negro. Pearl Bo wen, white, and Myrtle Conway, negress, charged as visitors, were dismissed. They were arrested some time ago in a raid on the Witt place, and as there was no evidence to sustain the charge th? defendants were dismissed.

The case cf Ed Meyer, charged with vagrancy and violating Ordinance 2 500, was dismissed, as was ihe case of Ella Meyer, negress, charged with vagrancy. The of J. H. Kellow, charged with drunkenness and disturbing the peace, was continued until December 27. E.

T. Lashley faced the judge charged with vagrancy and was granted a continuance until tomorrow. John Laboda answered a charg3 of interfering with an officer and was fined $5. He appealed the caso to the district court. Thomas Brown was discharged on a charge of vio- latin Ordinance 2S00.

was discharged frcm charge. W. J. Henry a vagrancy FRIEND Chicago, 7. Confessing, according to George W.

Armstrong, county prosecutor of Hennepin County, that he aided Frank T. Price of Minneapolis, in hurling Price's wife to death over a cliff, Charles D. Etcheison, a salesman of Washington, D. is due in Minneapolis today to face legal action. Mrs.

Price was killed November 2S, 1914, one day after she had been given $60,000 by her father. Etcheison was arrested in Washington on Sunday by operatives of a private detective agency and was brought to Chicago last night. Accompanying him was Mr. Armstrong who announced the prisoner had confessed. "Mrs.

Price was the daughter of David H. Fridley, member of one of the oldest Minneapolis families," Etcheison is reported to have said in hia rnnfpwinn Ind tho Hav aftor got the money, she and Price HELPS A OVER tliia I i i 1 ANKUT Lee Bond, for H. V. gress today laid down the adminis-Reilly, county treasurer filed his tration's plans for national defense answer to the mandamus suit and told his hearers it was necessary brought by the bankers against the for the new and broad doctrine of treasurer to force him to pay the Pan-America. warrants taken up by them during With sharp ords he arraigned the past several months, ir.

the su- American citizens who by their sym-preme court at Topeka today. Copies pathies for the foreign belligerents of the answer were delivered to W. had endangered the neutrality of (SECRETARY LANSING REPLIES TO GERMANY'S INQUIRY. VIOLATED NEUTRALITY LAWS ATTACHES TOO ACTIVE IN MIL-I ITARY AND NAVAL MATTERS. faptain Boy-Ed Connected With Steamship Conspiracy and Cap tain Von Papen With the Archibald Caae.

"Washington, Dec. 7. Secretary Lansing has replied to Germany that the American government's re- quest for the withdrawal of Captain Boy-Ed and Captain Von Papen, the naval and military attaches, respectively of the German embassy here, was entirely because of their military and naval activities. Secretary Lansing's reply to the German government's inquiry, which indicated the Berlin foreign office intended to contest the withdrawal of the attaches under certain conditions, was delivered in a long communication which the German embassy immediately forwarded to At the embassy all comment on it was refused. President Wilson has fully approved Secretary Lansing's decision and it was said authoritatively today it will be adhered to no matter what Germany does.

Secretary Lansing also sent a reply to Germany through Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. In making its inquiries Germany also used two avenues of communication, the German ambassador here and the American ambassador in Berlin. While there is no indication today that the text of Secretary Lan-fcing's communication would be made public, it can be said authoritatively that it declares the American government's action was caused by the military and naval activities ot the attaches coupled with circum-, stances of an accumulative nature which are deemed sufficient for Sec- retary Lansing's action. These alone are responsible. No mention wa3 made of the Mexican affair nor did the name of General Huerta appear.

The German government was informed, however, that an accumulation of circumstances and conditions by inference, if not otherwise, connected the attaches with attempts to violate the neutrality laws of the United States. The Archibald incident, it was naid, was mentioned in connection with the case of Captain Von Papan and the trial of the Hamburg-American conspirators was mentioned in connection with the case of Captain Boy-Ed. Emphasis was placed on the statement that the military and naval activities alone were considered as taken to indicate that other German officials were not in any way concerned. Berlin, Dec. 7.

The request received here from the United States for the recall of Captain Franz Von Panen and Dr. Karl Boy-Ed. military tind naval attaches respectively oi the German embassy at Washington, will be complied with in accordance with diplomatic usage, it is said. However, Germany probably will ask first to be informed of the grounds on which the United States bases the undc-sirability of the attaches. News of the request fcr the recall has not been published as yet by the German press.

The above dispatch is the first direct word to be received from Berlin in regard to the probable action of the German government in response to the request of the United States for the recall of the two attaches. Since Germany already has asked Washington lor information as to the grounds on which the United States bases its request for the recall, it would appear that this fact had not been made public in Btfrlin up to the time of the filing of the despatch. GRAIN MARKETS. Kansas City, Dec. 7.

Cash: Wheat Market lc higher. No. 2 hard, $1.11 1.15; No. 2 red, $1.14 1.16; No. 3 hard.

$1,074 1.11 No. 3 red, new, $1.12. Corn Market 1 1 V2 higher. No. 2 mixed, 64 64 No.

3, 64 (d 65c; No. 2 white, 6566Uc; ITo. 3, 64 67c. Oats Market unchanged. No.

2 white, 42c; No. 2 mixed. 41c. Hay Market unchanged. Kansas City, Dec.

7. Close: Wheat Dec. $1,07 May, $1.10. Corn Dec. 65 65 4c; May, 68c.

Chicago, 111., Dec. 7. May, tl.17 1.17; Dec. $1.16. Corn May 72 Dec.

684 68 c. Oats May, 45Jic; Dec, iS'i 43ic 1 I IS MANIFESTATION OF A3IER IC1N ECCENimCITY. GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS LITTLE CHANCE TO EXERT EF FORTS IN WARRING COUNTRIES. Unlikely That tho Members of th Ford Party AVill be Allowed to Enter Germany Without Passports. Berlin, Dec.

7. The German press In general treats the Ford peace mission only as a manifestation of American eccentricity. According to the opinion here, the mission will have but slight chance of exerting its efforts in Germany and other belligerent countries, in view ol the fact that passports for itc members are good only for r.eutrai countries, making it impossible for thj mission to operate a much shorter lange than if it had remained iu New York. It would be possible of course for Germany to relax its regulations and permit members of the Ford party to enter Germany without passports, but in view of Germany's knowledge that the mission comes without official inspiration, or the approval of "Washington, it is unlikely to do so, according to the present, indications. Asks Congress' Support.

On board the Oscar II, at tea, via wireless to Siasconsett. Dec. 7. Henry Ford, head of tho party of peaca advocates now en route to Europe, has sent a wireless message to Congress asking for support for his plans to end the European war. MRS, KELLOW WANTS DIVORCE "Spider" Kelly Made Defendant In the Action.

Ella Kellow filed suit in the district court this afternoon against her husband, James H. Kellow, a local painter who is known as "Spider Kelly." Mrs. Kellow alleges that her husband has been guilty of extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty and that it is impossible for her to live with him. According to the petition th couple were married here March 4, 1912. She has conducted herself aa a dutiful and loving wife she alleges, but her husband has completely disregarded his matrimonial vows on numerous occasions.

Drunkenness is one of the allegations of the petitions. He has also abused her and called her vile names and at times he has struck her with his fists. She name? December 4 and 5 of this year as specific occasions when he beat her, while in a drunken condition. Plan Big Winter Campaign. Geneva, Switzerland, Dec.

7. The Germans are preparing on a large scale for operations in Mesopotamia, under Field Marshal Baron Kolmar Von Der Goltz, who has just been appointed commander of the Turkish forces in Mescpctamia, according to private information received by the Journal of Geneva. Although the Germins speak ostensibly of Egypt, says the dispatch to the Journal, it is not impossible that they may make their principal efforts this winter from Bagdad towards the Persian gulf. Late Health Bulletin. Haymarket Square, Dec.

7. Temperatures of the four Duroc Jerseys taken this afternoon show that the fourth shoat has a temperature of 105 degrees, which show? that the cholera has arrived. The two that were treated with serum and virus are normal and healthy. The serum given the third shoat that "took" sick" yesterday with cholera hal gone down to 105.2 but the shoat ia still dangerously ill. To Safeguard Greece.

Athens, Dec. 7. "Tell the Amer. ican people that the government of Greece has only two aims to safeguard the sovereignty of Greece and not to abandon neutrality no matter for what may may be urged to do so, no matter what inducements or pressure are brought to bear," said Premier Skouloudis to the Associated Press correspondent today. Nine Plead Guilty.

Cambridge, Dec. 7. Nine men, several of whom are identified with the Harvard University pleaded guilty in the superior court today to indictments charging conspiracy, the making of false oaths and signing of false certificates in connection with the alleged illegal registration for voting for Harvard instructors and students. THE WEATHER. TONIGHT Unsettled.

TOilORROW-w-Unsettled; colder. W. Hooper and A. E. Dempsey, attor- neys for the bankers and it is prob-! able that the suit will be heard within a short time.

In the answer Mr. Bond set forth the fact that the fiscal year begins and ends on October 1. According to this, he states, the warrants were in payment of bills contracted In 1914, that is, before October 1, 1915, and that it is therefore unlawful for the county treasurer to pay the 1914 bills with taxes of a year later. And while the bankers and county officials are wrangling over the money that Mr. Reilly Is collecting daily, the county officials are wondering if they are going to receive any salaries for the month of Nov- ember.

Should the action of the court in tieing the money up stand, no bills or salaries will be paid, although all have been allowed. Mr. Reilly said this afternoon that an order would be secured from the court, allowing him to pay the billf and salaries for the past month. The order has not been issued, but should be forthcoming within a feX days. The largest amount yet received for taxes was paid into the treasurer's office this afternoon, when the Great Western Stove company delivered a check to Mr.

Reilly for $6,500, covering its real and personal property taxes. A large amount of this is for personal tax. Admits He Robbed Bank. Sedan, Dec. 7.

Dr. C. R. Wildes, a veterinarian of Wichita, today pleaded guilty in the district court of robbing the Chautauqua, Kansas, State bank of $SC0. He was given a sentence cf from ten to twenty-one years in the penitentiary.

The bank was robbed on the afternoon of November 10. Daiing a battle afterwards the robbers were forced to abandon their machine. The police received th? first intimation that Wildes was in volved when a receipt for bills made in the doctor's name were found ou in the robber's car. Death of J. W.

Kaufmann. Washington. Dee. 7. President Wilson in his annual address to Con- the United States.

"America never witnessed anything Mke this before," declared the president with deep feeling. The president outlined the plaDs fcr national defense and the needs for them received in silence by the senators and representatives, but with rapt attention His declaration of a new Pan-American doctrine was received with the deepest interest. "We insist on security in prosecuting our self-chosen lines of national development," he said. "We do more than that. We demand it also for others.

We do not confine cur enthusiasm for individual liberty and free national development to incidents and movement of affairs which affect only ourselves. We feel it wherever there is a people that tries to walk in these difficult tasks of independence and right. From the first we have made the common cause with all partisans of liberty on this side of the sea and have deemed it as important that our neighbors fchould be free from all outside dominations as that we ourselves should be; have set America aside as a whole for the uses of independent, national and political freedom." This reference was greeted with prolonged applause and evidently was received with great interest by the Latin-American diplomats who were present. Outside of the main points of na-i tional defense and his references to Pan-Americanism the president covered a broad range of subjects th.3 broadest he has ever included in an address to Congress. They included the building of the merchant marine, the raising of revenue for the defense projects, a rural credit law, ultimate independence of the Phil-! ippines, conservation hills and a va-! riety of measures left over from Congress.

When the president urged the merchant marine legislation he was loudly applauded and forced to stop when he sail: "It is high time wft resume our commercial muepenc-j ence on the high seas." Republicans clapped their hands vigorously when like task among us in the past, with an admirable enterprise, intelligence and vigor." Close attention was given while the president s-poke of the financial situation, and there was more ap- 1 plause when he said: for one, do not believe that the people of this country approve of postponing the payment of their bills." When he referred to foreigners within the United States borders, who, while small in number, "have brought deep disgrace upon us, and necessitates the use of processes of law by which we may be purged of their corrupt distempers," the greatest enthusiasm was shown and loud applause interrupted. Finally at 1:42 o'clock, after having been reading steadily fcr more than an hour, the president finished and another outburst of cheering took place as he left the chamber and started back to the White House. The joint session dissolved, the Senate filed back to its chamber and the House resumed wrok where it had left off. SHRINERS HERE FOR MEETING Many Come From Out-of-Town for Ceremonial and Election I of Officers. The local members of the Leavenworth Shrine are entertaining 500 visiting members from nineteen counties in the northeast section of the state today.

A ceremonial session was opened at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Abdallah Temple and tonight a banquet will be held fol lowed by the election and installation of officers A special train brought the To-j peka delegation to Leavenworth. At I 9 o'clock this morning the red-i capped visitors began to make their appearance in the business district, and the arrivals continued to ap pear until at noon almost all of the visitors had The presertj session is one of the biggest events I of the Shriners' year and every mem-1 ber of the Leavenworth Shrine from throughout this section of the state made an effort to be among those 1 present. Three special cars brought! the Kansas City, delegation to Leavenworth this morning. Forty novices will be led over the; "burning sands" this af cernoon. These are from various counties in-' eluded in the Leavenworth district.

5 Their initiation will be followed by a banquet at the Temple at 6:30 i o'clock. When all of the edibles have been "consumed" the i will turn their attention to the elec- lion of officers for the coming year, UDlike other orgauizations, the; Shrine officers are put through the1 installation and take office op. the same day of their election. Berlin, Dec. 7.

Capture of five meters of an advance French trench, in the Champagne district, was an- i nounced by the German army head- quarters. i TO DEATI and I went to a matinee together. We returned to the Price home and Price suggested an automobile ride. "She sat in the rear with her dog, Price and I sat in the front. Price stopped the car near a steep embankment and he muttered something about tire trouble and asked his wife if she didn't want to get out and give the dog some exercises.

As Mrs. Price stepped out Price put one arm in front of her and I put an arm in front of her and we gave her a fling. Down she went. Price then picked up the dog and threw it afrer his wife." When they climbed down the em- uanKment, Ltcheison is reported to have said, they found the an still alive and Price struck her with a stone. "We told everybody thai she step ped over the cliff to save her dog," the official said Etcheison confessed jrnue cancelled my note tor $12 000 he held and gave me $3500 to boot." Jam W.

Kaufmann, 74 years old, I he said the task or Duuoing up an died at the Soldiers" Home hospital adequate merchant marine for Amer-late todav. Funeral services will be ican private capital must ultimately held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock i undertake and achieve as it had fr ft, navi, rlianPl. The body undertaken and achieved every other will shipped to Pawnee, for burial. Or.e son, W. F.

Kaufmann, resides here. FOR SALE Tuxedo coat and trousers, size 36, all in excellent condition at a bargain. Phone No. 14..