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224 Br Mall or Carrier, BOe per month Trains and at Newstands, (a per oopy TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917. On GRUESOME STORY OF HOW Second Increment DIS1BUIU REV. KELLY -SLEW UTTERLY-READ AT AXEjlURDER TRIAL Alleged Confession, Introduced By Prosecution, Tells of How Clergyman Thought He Was 'Suffering Little Children to Come Unto When He Butchered Babes With Axe. Of National Draft A rmy Called Today More Than 300,000 Men Will Leave Homes to Be Trained For Battle Against German Autocracy; Represent Approximately 45 Per Cent of Total Quota From 5,000 Local Boards. OF LIBERTY 0011 OS 0E0I1IS Mm HOPED F0! SHIPPING sBgle Off if (y Associates' Press.) f8y Associated Prase.) strength.

The fighting strength of the seventeen divisions under the new tables organization would be 623,000 men, supplemented by many thousands of auxiliary room where 'the parents were and I don't remember which one of them I struck first my head was all wrong, and I kept on hearing voices. I alayed utterly, by using the axo, led by this impulse that I could not seem to be able ito control I was tired and wanted to lay down and rest and saw a room and went In not knowing who was there but found two children In bed and God said, 'more, work Before I knew what i was doing I killed the two children with the axe. "To Hue beet of my memory I left the ttxe in the house ani returned to the F.wing home and went back to bed and I got up In the morning and caught the 5:19 train for Macedonia, arriving tome about 7:30 o'clock." Complete Reorganiaztion of Headquarters Staff Has Salutary Effect; Slavs in Readiness to Fight Again STRONG NEW ARMY IS BEING- BUILT Kerensky Goes to Mohilev to Consult New Military Leaders; Will Also See General Korniloff There (By Associated Press) TETROGRAD, Sept. 15. It was announced from an authoritative source that reorganization the headquarters staff has been completed and that the new high commanders will enter upon their functions forthwith.

The wac minister, General Verhovsky, has Informed the newspaper representatives that the government la about to realise a scries ot Important reforms with the object ot creating a strong revolutionary array. It is stated- authoritatively that the proclamation or a republic Is merely a declaratory act and does not propose to form a republican administration before the constituent assembly Is convened. The commission of Inquiry sitting at Pskoff has ascertained that General Klembovsky did not participate acttvoly in the Korniloff revolt, and therefore declares he is not liable to arrest. The evidence in the case has been forwarded to Premier Kerensky. RUSSIANS RENEW FIGHTING Russia is preparing a firm stand against the common enemy.

It Is announced that the leadership of the Russian armies has been reorganized and tliat the fruition of reformative plans In ti.e armies themselves Is expected shortly. Premier Kerensky and the war and marine ministers in his cabinet have gonA to Mohiley, Russian great headquarters, to confer with the military leaders. They will also see General Korniloff and his leading aides In the recent revolt. Whether Korniloff is to suffer the supreme penalty for his act probably will depend upon the result of the conferences at Mohlley. TAKE GERMAN POSITIONS The Russian northern army, which has made some progress toward driving the Germans back to the Dvlna line in the Riga region, on Sunday earned several German positions between Pskoff and Riga.

On Monday they captured Teu ton positions north of Friedchsladt and south of Riga. In Its official report Berlin makes no mention of activity In this region. General Stechcrhatcheff, commander on the Rumanian front, has carried out successfully an offense movement in the Ruchltwcv valley northwest of Fokshanl. A section of the fortified Austro-Germnn defenses near Varnltza were occupied by the Rumanians. German attacks In, the Pantsln region to the southwestward were repulsed.

BRITISH CONTINUE RAIDS Raids continue on the northern end of the western front, with both the Brtl-ish and the Germans as the aggressors. Berlin, however, mentions no infantry activity on the front of Crown Prince Rup. RED OAK, Iowa. Sept. 18.

Prominent among the defenses of the Rev. Lynn C. J. Kelly, charged with murder In connection with the Vllleeca axe elaylngs will be the contention, that he was mentally unbalanced when he made various alleged confessions of guilt with which he now Is confronted. This was revealed today by W.

E. Mitchell of his in explaining his line of questions after the state had rested Its case, follow-big the Introduction of a signed confession said to have been made by Kelly, while in Jail, August 31, 1917. -TO PLEAD INSANITY Mjtchell said Uie Issue ot the preacher's mental responsibility would be raised as one of his defenses. R. C.

Ladvman, an editor of Missouri Valley, Iowa, testified he believed Kelly unbalanced when he had him in jaiL Lahman and a man named Bachellor were handcuffed and taken into jail tn the guise of highwaymen so they oould be present when notices of new evidence by the state wfre read to Kelly by Sheriff M. D. Meyers. An agent of the attorney general also was present during the Lahmnn said the agent made frequent interruptions to say: "That looks bad Kelly," to which the prisoner would respond: "It isn't so. It's a He." When the reading was about half way through, Kelly wanted the sheriff to promise they would send him to an insane asylum and not hang him, Lahman said.

The Logan county jail confession was Introduced by Paul E. Road I fee, who testified he wrote It on a typewriter from the prisoner's voluntary dictation. One the counsel for Kelly said tonight that the defense would seek to eliminate all his alleged confessions from the jury's consideration. "INNOCENT," SAYS KELLY Five witnesses for the defense were examined after the state had closed its case unexpectedly, Kelly said: "I would like to go on the stand and tell the truth. I know I am innocent." He listened to the reading of his alleged confession with no apparent change In his demeanor.

The text of the alleged statement of Kelly offered tn evidence today 1b of the same general nature as the abstract already published, quoting Kelly as saying that, dominated by an trresttble force and with the text "slay utterly," ever in his mind, he killed the eight persons with an axe. In the statement Kelly Is quoted as de tailing his arrival In Vllleaea and In cidents up to the lime he was shown to his room and the family of Rev. W. J. Ewing had retired to their tents for the night.

TEXT OF STATEMENT "I went to bed but was restless," the statement quotes as Kelly's words. "I heard a noise outside like a windmill and opened the door of the balcony but found nothing. "I began to feel sick and wanted to take a walk so I dressed and went outside. I walked across to the Presbyterian church. I did not intend to go further but my mind was working on a sermon on the text "slay "I had been hearing and reading sermons on that text and a voice said, go, and I went on because I was In the grip of something that I did not understand.

"I felt God wanted me to slay utterly and I did not know where I was going or where I was. "I got down near the end of the street and I saw a shadow on the side of a house going from the back to the front and God told me to follow that shadow "YES LORD, I WILL" "I went hunting the shadow to the back of the house. I did not know who lived there but I kept on hearing that voice 'slap utterly." I said 'yes Lord I will.1 "I was walking around in the darkness around the house trying to find that shadow and accidently found an axe. I picked tip and went to where the shadow went for God wanted me to follow that shadow. I went around to the front door.

A voice says 'go in, do as I tell you; slay "I saw no light but I had to do as God told me and I dare not turn back because somebody was urging me on, I didn't know who. "I went right ahead because I heard that voice and aa soon as I got In the house some one whispered, 'come up out of the Bible. And I went up a flight of stairs because I thought I was going up Jarob's ladder. "SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN" "I walked through the middle room Into the further room, I don't know what I went there for only I waa driven by an Impulse and a voice. I saw some children lying there.

The Bible says suffer little children to come unto and I said 'they are coming Lord. "Before 1 knew what was doing I started sending those children omewhere. I did not know and I had to do as God told me and stay utterly. And so. to obey God, used the axe and did not realise where I was hitting rhem, only I was trying to do what God wanted me to do.

After killing the children, 1 went Into the WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. Marshalled for the last time as civilians and under civilian authority, more than 300,000 men of the national army will go forward tomorrow to the sixteen cantonments to be trained for the battle against German autocracy. Their next move will be as fighting men toward the battlefields of France. The whole nation will be astir wilh the movement of the selective forces.

The men represent approximately 45 per cent of the total quota under the firs tcall from each of nearly 5,000 local boards. Already at the camps Is the advance guard of five per cent of the total, composed of experienced men, -including cooks. Out of this has been created a skeleton Into which the second Increment will begin to bo absorbed tomorrow with little confusion. When the last men of this Increment arrive the camps will house half of the first call forces, of 343,500 men, and the other hair will follow as rapidly as quarters and equipment are made available. OBTAIN EQUIPMENT RAPIDLY.

In a statement tonight the war Department Bays the enormous task of obtaining equipment and supplies for the army is moving satisfactorily. Some of the men of the national army may be only partially equipped for some time after they are mobilized ana no attempt will be made to furnish thcin with full war equipment until the eve of their departure for Europe. Some civilian clothing, such as overcoats, will have to be used for a time, as the clothing Industry has not as yet caught up with its work. i With the mobilization of one-half of the 687,000 men of the first call under the selective, service In jprogress the qeustion arises as to whether the number will be sufficient to fill all units of the national guard and national army. There are indications that a deficiency in men will be disclosed when official reports from all the 33 training camps are available.

TO REPLENISH NATIONAL GUARD Seventeen divisions Of the National Guard has been organized but with the exception of the New York, Pennsylvania and a few others, and the forty-second division, which soon will embark for France, they are not at maximum war Lindman to Be New Premier to Sweden, Is Stockholm Report Foreign Minister Lindman of Sweden. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18. The Associat ed Press is Informed that Premier Swart may retire and that Admiral Lindman. the foreign minister will Join the cabinet m-emler.

In the event that i-remitr Swarlg retires, new men will be named for the post of foreign minister and minister of Justice, the rest of the present ministers being retain A decision will be made Wednesday. CRONHOLM WHITEWASHED STOCKHOLM. Sept. 18 The recall of Folk Cronholm from Mexico, according to Information rcachtn gthe Associated Press, was not due to political reasons, but because of charges brought by Swedes In Mexico In connection with crtaln business actlvieS of Cronholm and his association with persons of doubtful character. The Swede foreign office recalled him to make an explanation, after receiving a letter containing these charges from prominent Swedee in Mexico.

Cron- holm explalned his activities ana wsi -retired fvom the service. Folks Cronholm. attache of the Swedish legation in ex. German date for a German order i.ter Von Eckhardt at Mexico City. Cron- holm.

Eckhardt said, had been of great service to him In Mexico. sLJ- of go cal to to or ot Secret'y McAdoo Announces September 26 as Day on Which Delivery Will be Started to Subscribers FEDERAL BANKS TO BE DISTRIBUTORS Several Weeks Required to Give Every Subscriber His Bond; McAdoo Urges Holding? of Certificates (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. Delivery of Liberty bonds to subscribers, Secretary MsAdoo announced tonigtrt, will begin September 2M The twelve federal reserve banks will distribute the Issue. Considering the probable retention by many subscribers of interim' certificates, already issued, officials estimate that the work of distribution wHI require several weeks.

The huge Issue is larger in the number of bonds required than first reports, based on more than 4,000,000 individual subscriptions Indicated. The number of coupon bonds, Secretary McAdoo announced tonight is In excess of of which more than $7,000,000 are of the $50 and $100 denominations. In announcing the date of the commencement of deliveries, Secretary McAdoo repeated his suggestion that1 holders of intereiH' certificates would find it to their advantage tn many instances to hold the certificates instead of exchange-Ing them for "It is apparent," read Secretary Mc-Adoo's statement, "that if pending legislation should be enacted, and bonds should be issued bearing inteerst at a higher rate than three and one half per cent and' exempt from normal Income tax, in view of the privileges of conversion, tine Uemond for definitive 34 per cent Liberty bonds, particularly those of the smaller denominations, would be greatly Teduced." BO REIMS U.S. RAILROADS TO OWNERS Company Officials Assured of Protection For First Time Since Starting of Pancho Villa's Revolution (By Associated Press) CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, Sept. 18.

American owned railroads in Mexico are being returned to their owners by the Mexican government as a part of the reconstruction work of the government. The Chihuahua division of the Mexico Northwestern railroad was delivered to the officials of this railroad company here yesterday and train service has been resumed aa far as Mlnaca, the bridges burned by rebel bands preventing opera tions further. General Francisco Murguia assured the company officials that the western part of the state Is now clear of bandits and that passenger and freight traffic could be resumed for the first time since the Villa revolution started. The general gave the company guarantees and prom ised protection for all trains. The com pany, which is owned oy Canadian and American capitalists, retained control of the Juarex division throughout the revo lution.

Mexican officials of the Mexican Central railroads have also been notified by the government to arrange their accounts and records preparatory to turning over the railroad to the company. The Mexican fentraL Americen owned company. Is a subsidiary of the National Railroads of Mexico, a majority of stock In the latter company being held by the Mexican government. The bonds of both companies are largely held in the United States. No date has yet been aet for the transfer.

President Invited to Attend World Series CHICAGO. Sept. 1 8. President Johnson of the American League tonight extended an invitation to the president to attend th furies, in either New York or Chh-aco. If the Invitation hi accepted a milltury program will be staged in the president's honor.

of troops. Whatever deficiencies there are will be supplied promptly from the national army as the national guard will first to the front. Since the president called the first 000 men of the national the sig nal corps, including the aviation section, has been greatly expanded. Nearly 100,000 additional men must be transferred to this service alone. The medi corps also has been Increased greatly and numerous necessary auxiliary units for Immediate duty abroad, not thought fwhen the call was made, have been organized.

Where enlisted men of the guard or the regular army have been taken, their places will have to be filled with national army men. So far as known no definite figure as the probable total deficiency In men has been compiled nor any estimate prepared. It is not- unlikely, however, that when the National army is organized, many vacancies will be found at the can. tonments, and it will be necessary either make a second call on drafted forces to train incomplete divisions. Divisions will go to France only at maximum strength.

AMPLE FOOD SUPPLY In a statement issued today the war department says the Industries of the country are expanding rapidly to meet the army supply demands, and only minor shortages are expected at the training camps. Officials regard the food situation as satisfactory. The problem of obtaining clothing and other equipment, however, has presented many obstacles, most of which have been overcome. "Difficulties arose from the outset," the statement says. "There was a shortage wool, a shortage of duck for tentage and a shortage of labor.

There will be no appreciable shortage of cotton, but a shortage or tooms. "These difficulties have been and are being gradually overcome. The Item of tentage furnishes an illustration. The department desired to place orders for fifty million yards of tentage. The nor mal output of the country is twenty mil- Hon yards per annum.

War Drains French Pocket Book More Heavily Each Year (By Associated Press) PARIS, Sept. 18. A bill appropriating 12,150,000,000 franca for the fourth quarter- of 1917 was introduced Into the chamber of deputies today by Loul L. Klotz, minister of finance. The measure carries 1,200,000,000 franct more than was appropriated for the third quarter.

More than half the Increase is for the war department. Of the proposed increase for the war department more than 250,000,000 francs, II for Improving the condition of soldiers and their families. The progression of appropriation for carrying on the war, shown by schedules attached to the bill, follows: 19151,814,000,000 franca monthly. 19161,980,000,000 francs monthly. francs monthly.

The total appropriations since the beginning of the war, Including those for military operations aa well as for elvll administration to the end of 1917 are 103,000,000,000 francs. Troops Quell I. W. W. In Northwest Strike (By Associated Press) Sept.

18. By recommendation of Governor Withycombe, who ask at the request of the Hammond Lumber company, one company of the Third Oregon Infantry waa sent to Astoria today by Cotonel 3. E. Den tier, U. S.

A. commanding the northwest army, to prevent I. W. W. pickets from Intimidating workers In tne shipyards.

The soldiers were under order to protect all work being done for the govenmenL They will open the ship yards for work and will seo that any men that apply tor work are unmolested. It was said. The Hammond mill at Astoria Is working on government airplane spruce and also furnishes light and power for the city of Astoria. About half the force of 300 men at this mill are on strike. Successor Appointed asses a 1 Was jror laaie uisnop xaau WASHINGTON.

Sept. IS Appointment of two bishops of the Roman Catholic church were announced today at the jinnstoiic Wat ion here. Ther are: Bishop of Denver. Moot Rev. J.

Henry Trtien. nresent Bishoo of Uncom. and Rimo of Is Angete. Rev. John J.

Cant well San Francisco. Bishop Tihen is appointed to succeed the late Bishop Nicholas Mats, who died recently. U. S. Takes Hand in Strike in San Francisco Which Is Threatening to Stop Ship Program for War FEDERAL MEDIATOR MAKING PROGRESS More Pay for Builders May Be Result of Conference; Mare Island Men Loyal, Says Secretary Daniels (By Associated Preu) WASHINGTON, Sept.

58. Secretai Daniels announced tonight (hat the commandant of the Mare Island Navy yard had reported work progressing efficiently there without regard to unsettled labor conditions. The commandant said all employes of the navy yards were loyal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.

The govern-ment today undertook to settle the strike of iron workers at San Francisco ship building plants working on government contracts without awaiting a basic agree-ment on other strikes in Seattle ship yards. Reports to the shinning board from Captain JVJ'IHstoury, the board's agent on the Pacific coast, indicated a more favorable outlook on the situation, which Is Interfering with go rem ment ship con struction, i Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board expects to leave for Ban Francisco to morrow with William Blackman, a de partment of labor conciliator. Before de parting he will confer further' with Sam uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and Chairman of the Defense Council's labor committee, to whom he appeal today for aid Secretary Wilson has appointed W. T. Boyce, assistant commissioner of immigration of San Francisco, as mediator.

Secretary Daniels also joined in the gov-ment's efforts. He conferred during the day with Mr. Hurley concerning the effect of wage Increases on navy contracts. Mr. Hurley said tonight he believed the strikes on the Pacific Coast will end shortly under an agreement by which the men will be granted higher pay, the burden of which 'would be divided between the ship builders and the government with the government a proportion larger for builders making small profits.

He will suggest such a plan at San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and other Const cities he visits next week. Officials of the shipping board hold that the wage problem belongs primarily to the workmen and the companies, and that the government's Interest is only that of the owner of the ships whose construction is held up by the disputes. Some officials think tne ship companies should have mode more strenuous efforts to reach agreements with their workmen without passing the responsibility to the government. Special resentment is felt over reports that a few employers told union leaders the government would not allow wage Increases. HOPE SPEEDY SETTLMENT BAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

18. Govern ment machinery moved rapidly today to settle the strike of approximately 25,000 Iron' workers and ship builders whose Walkout Monday morning, after rejection of higher wage demands, paralysed one hundred or more great and small Indus trial plants In San Francisco and vicini'y and tied up war emergency construction BUllCS Ul Illimuua iwnm The first concrete result of a confer ence called by T. Boyce, assistant Immigration commissioner here, appointed by Secretary of Labor Wilson as federal mediator and conciliator, and the committees of the California Metal Trades Association and the Iron Trades Council, the organizations ot employers and employes, respectively, was serious discussion of a plan whereby the atriking craftsmen, members of twenty-five unions, might return to work with pay based on the scale of wages paid at Mare Island Navy Yard. No definite action was taken, the conferees adjourning until James L. Acker-eon, representing the United States ship ping board, had had opportunity to ascertain the federal wage scale.

Other representatives, including Contain A. F. Plllsburr. district agent of the hipping board, and Mayor James Rolpj, threw themselves into the massed efforts to find a compromise course to set tle the controversy. nf th, men expressed willing to discuss any compro- mise which might be offered officially.

TJ Z. ot twin laciitnin ovuiv vi speedily ending the strike would be found, rf Japan in War To Contribute, Asserts Ishii Japanese Treaty Will Never Become Mere 'Scrap of Paper, Ms Promise of Viscount. BfOSTON, Sept. is In this war on the side of America and the allies "to' win with you, to cooperate, to coordinate apd to contribute," "Viscount Ishii declared tonight at a banquet given at the Copley plaza In honor of the Japanese mission, of which he is the leader. "We do not enter into treaties to tear them up," he continued.

"Our treaties are not 'scraps of We have tried to carry our abare of the burden. have helped free -the Pacific from the ships and influence of the nation which has thrown -off its thin covering of decency and now stands revealed in all the horrid nakedness of the savage." In both addresses the viscount gave today, at the banquet and at the convention to revise the state constitution, ho dwelt upon the ties that bind America to Japan. He referred to the friendships torrned by the Japanese youths who havo been educated In such great numbers In New England colleges and to the Ameri can men and women who have carried their ideals to the island kingdom. XI the banquet, Viscount Ishii said: "I feel, now that I have traveled from your western to your eastern shores, that after all there are no points of difference between, ub which cannot be settled as time goes by and gives opportunity for discussion between the statesmen of your country and my own." The Circus Always Puts It Over BY "ART" HOUSTON AD MAN The war does not seem to have affected business to any appreciable extent Insofar as the circus la concerned. Crowds thronged the streets for hours waiting lor the parade Tuesday morning and even though It did not make its appearance until noontime, they waited.

Immediately after the parade lines of people on every street were to be seen, headed for the circus which were crowded at an sarly hour and during the afternoon downtown streets and stores almost were deserted, except for those who were on their way to the big show. The circus "put it over," as they always do. They took, a ward ot money right away frmn us, and according to one of their own officials, the show business never has been better, war or no war. You noticed, too, they advertised Just as extensively as -ever they did. The big parade was just as large or larger; windows, billboards and other spaces just as full of riashy posters; newspaper ads just 48 frequest, large and conspicuous as at any previous 'time and in the same proportions, only possibly "moreso." Just suppose the circus had not advertised because of war con ditions.

Suppose they had elimi nated the bis parade, or the newspaper advertising and publicity order to cut down expenses. What could have been the result from a 'returns" standpoint? Business must go on and to keep it going we must go on, too. We cannot afford to stop advertising for business to cut down expenses anv more than we can afford to lock our doors to the public to save rent. Let's keep going and keep bui- nes agoing. ran do It "circus fashion," exactly, but the basic prin ciples are the same and it ran be done.

There is a moral in circus methods that teachers an important lesson. precht of Bavaria. The artillery and aerial activity on the western front remains Intense. From Nieuport to near Arras and In the Yprne sector the opposing guns are showing Increased activity. In two efforts against French positions on the Alsne front the German Cro-vn Prince again has met with failure.

Near the Mlette river on the Neufchatel road the Germans reached the French advance lines only to be thrown out acaln. ITALIANS HOLD FIRM The Italians are sit It, withstanding successfully Austro-Hungarlan efforts on the southeastern edge of the Balnsisza plateau while the big girhe are hurling their monster shells over the battle-torn area of the Carso plateau. France, according to her new premier. Professor Palnlee, will continue the war until Alsace-Loraine is restored and the jOermans have made payment for the Oanit age caused by their rulhlessnesa In the occupied territory. ARGENTINA RECOGNIZES RUSSIA BUENOS AIRKS, Sept.

18 Argentina has recognised the new republic of Ria-sla. President Irigoyen today signed a decree to that effect. NEWTON TO GET MALONE'S JOB WASHINGTON. ept. IS.

Hrron Newton of New York waa nominal! In-day bjr President Wilson to be rolltnr of ruxtom at New York. rmniel Roper, of Bouth ramllna was nominated to be commissioner of Internal revenue..