The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • Page 1

lUMExvii. No EVENING, to th. lou imily Record and tha lola Dally Intfan. SIX PAGES PBOVIDKD TO THAT AMOUNT OF KXPEXSE. TillES PRODUCE ONLYISSiSS MUNICIPAL UTILITIES YIELD REVENUE OF Bat Ho Profit Accrues From Them for Other Is no DeflcU That is THE WEATHER.

FORECAST FOR KAN9A8t fieMr- allr fair tonight and Friday; cooler la nortlieRst portloii toaifht Data recorded at the local office of the U. S. Weather Bureau: Highest yesterday 3 p. 95; lowest this morning 5 a. 67; normal for today.

77; excess yesterday, excess RtncG January let, 649 degrees. Preclpitatton for 24 hours ending 7 a. in, today, deficiency since January ist, .86 Inch. Relative humidity 7 a. m.

today, 89 per cent; barometer reduced to sea Icvfll, inches. SiinrlEie today, a. sunset, 7:18 ra. SUSXR IIP SO CENTS 10DIIY The annual budget of the city of idla, prescribed, under the act regulating the commission form in Kanr sas, was adopted by the city commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday of this week. It is an interesting statement of the city business, revenues and expenditures, and Register hopes to publish figures fulJ but cannot do so today.

The total income of the city from all sources is given at $173118.16. This In derived! from many cources. Taxes of all; kinds yield a revenue of f.i.'i.- wjilch includes special taxes tor. street work, fines, licenses, poll tax, eic. Added to this Is the revenue from the gas plant.

water 'plant. electric light plant $18,400.. Thej cemeteries yield $1,300 and other smSll Items complete the total. On the side of the ledger the revenue is disposed of. City eal take the accounting tfepartineipt takes police, sani- flfei and cemetery departments The purchase of gas "costs i its distribution $6,000 the fs The water dcQartmept costs $19,200 a year.

The electric light department costs $11.590. The Strieet and Alley works costs and the sewer system $2,190. city park costs the city llbraiy $1,701.36. Payment of bonds. and creating a sinking fund calls 1 The statement shows that the bus- hicsalof the city is a considerable bus- iqMsjand it further shows that It is plroylsion of the law hich re- qulrefe that'a city-pay its bills as it goes.

is beiag tuld. debts re- djii repairs maliltWtied and the tax pktrei- inay have the comforttible knowledge thsjt jno burden of debt is being secretly piled up for later settlement. In view of the fact that the city's tax valpation has decreased, it is plea to know that the commission managed to get. Along without any raise in the tax rate. Retail Price on i nne Smrar Was Today iin Advance of inSVi, a Hundred In a Week.

ENGLIli PROVES LOYAL TO FRIINGE SESDS DEULARATIOS OF WAR TO AUMTRIA-HUNGARY. MODERN WARFARE FRENCH OENYDEFEIITIITBRIEY LIEGE FORTS TO RESIST ALL ATTACKS. French rommnnicstion Saja That France Is Rratifled hy Attitude of America. One Ida dealer in sugar will profit to the tune of several thousand dollars as a result of thp sharp advance caused by the European war. This dealer had bought four cars In the hope of a little Fall advance when the war boom struck.

At the price last week, $4.50 a hundred he stood to make a fair profit. At today's price erf $8.10 he stands to make frm $2,000 tq $5,000. Every 100-pound sack 8t today spells an exr tra profit of $3.60 over the normal profit. Aside from the owner, of that stock, nobodi' else hereabouts Is pleased at the situation. The latest advance oame this niornlng.

fifty cents on the 100 pounds, 'i Lots of the dealers say they would jjust as soon not sell as the retail price parallels the whoje- sale price and they have to be careful. Flour haa advanced here twenty cents a hundred, which is Just the ad vanicc demanded by the mills. The mills sell warily to the retailers, guard ine against; any speculation, as the mills, having bought their wheat, plan to reap every cent of profit which war prices may bring. Shipments are made only when fwanted the, day ordered, and the buyer must pledge to handle the flour LIEUT. ROY STOVER Annflnnrements Received of Happy Erent on Guam Island.

-Announcements were received in the mall today by numerous lolans to tlio effect that "Mrs. Lyons Ferrier aanounces the marriace of her daughter', Frances Lvdla Edwards, to Roy I JP Claire Stover. Lieutenant. United States Navy, on Thursday the thirtieth of 1.914, Guam. M.

Which hai py event- will be learned of with InUrest by "the many friends of Lieutenant: Stover, who is a son of Capt. and I'S T. Stover of this city. Roy was at San Francisco when met Mrs. Edwards, anfl he was to the Guam station, which is a small island in the Pacific between Honolulu and Manila.

The bride and her mother journeyed to the Island and the wedding occurred there Register joins in wishing thera ev. happiness. MRS. CHAS. E.

KPXSTOX A F'omier lola Wnman Passes Awar in I ralifornla. -Mrs. Chas. E. Funston, daughter of Pl'iijin Moss of Tola, died at Exeter yesterday morning.

She will hejhuried today in California. She liv ed in Tpla up to four years aeo, at which time she went to the coast rpun- her husband, who is in the transfer business. Mrs. Funs tnni leaves a husband and three chil dren. The Funston family is well known liere.

having friends in all parts of Allen County. IOUNSLEPTJNM.P.TflllCK Will Peters One of Three Men Killed Hv BnrilnKton Train In Nelinis- ka Tuesday Mght. Hemingford. Aug. Standnian, Nevada, William Peters, lola.

and Gus Scotl.Tnd, S. harvesters went to sleep on the Burlington track hero last night and were killed by a freight train. The fniegoing dispatch appeared, in the morning Kansas City papers. The Register was unable to learn anything of Peters here, though a family of that name resided here long'time and some of the men worked in the smelters. PMK eiNO CONCERT TONIGHT Seccind Prosrani by Roberts Band to Be Rendered in Pnhllc Square At 8 This Evening.

BICYCLIST MET AUTO. Otten Knocked Over but Refused All Assistance, The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Otten of the Otten bakery, collided -wllih an automobile at the corner near the Salvation Army Hall last night he was riding his bicycle.

The bicycle was hadly damaged and the boy received a deep cut In his but he refused the assistance of motorist in returning to his home, preferring to walk. He also refused to have the wound stitched so supposed he is not daugerously MarjRiret Cooper Bead. I Cooper who hns made ber home In Clinton Place for (he past fifjr years, died fhis momine about o'clock at the age of 88 years. fk)oner has been very ill for some I time past and her death was not un- The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon from the iNNoc and interment will be made in Highland cemtery. The program for the band concert by the Roberts band in the court house square at o'clock this evening, at the same place as' the fcjrmer one.

is as follows: A W.altz Dream, selection arr. by Franz Mahl Vaise. Lionel Baxter Bohemian Girl, selection Tobani Cupid's Pleadings Voelker Remicks Hits, medley Arr by Lcnnpe Flight of Fancy Bell in the Shadows Williams Summer Time is the Time for Me Kerry Mills (Xiy the Associated Pr -vis) I London, Aug. is ofllcially announced here that a state Of war has eiilsted between England and Austria-Hungary since midnight. As soon as the declaration of war tjiy England on Austria-Hungary was publicly known a large number of Austrians and Hungarians liable to military service applied to the American consul, Mr.

Skinnier, for enrollment. The clerks stamped the men's names in the military books and this is regarded as Evidence thiit the holders are ready to perform their duty. Secretary Bryan today notified the American consuls throughout England to take over the Austrian consulates. The Brftish foreign ofllce today issued the following, statement: "Dip lomatic relations between France and Austria-Hungary being broken off the French government requested his niiajcsty's government to comm'upi- cate to the Austria-Hungarian ata- bassador in London the, following declaration: 'Having declared war on Servia and thus tB the initiative in hostilities in Europe, the Auslro- Hungarian government placed Itaelf without any provocation from Fitance in a state of war with France antl after Germany had successively declared war against Russia and France. Austria-Hungary has ihter- ferred in conflict by declaring war on Russia, who already was fighting on the side of France.

According to information worthy of belief Austria- Hungary has sent troops over the German frontier In such a manner as to constitute a direct menace to France. In the face of these acts the French government finds itself obliged to declare to the Austria-Hungarian government that It will take all (he measures permitted to it to reply to these acts and In communicating this declaration according ly to the Austria-Hungarian ambassador In London His Brittanic Majesty's government has derflared to his excellency that the rupture with France having been brought about in this way it feels itself obliged to announce that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Austrta-Hun gary from midnight." Franch Benir, Bcfeat. A dispatch from the French foreign minister issued by the French embassy here today reiterated that the French troops are behind Mulhausen, Alsace. "They have not retired but have victoriousl.y resisted an entire German army." the minister added. "The Belgian army and the forts around Liege are intact and prepared to resist all attacks.

There has been no important change tn Lorraine and there Is no truth the report that the sixteenth regiment of French infantry: was taken prisoners by the Germans Briey in the department of Muerthet-Mosselle." At the end of this communication the French minister says, "France is gratified by the attitude of America." aWFiCE HPS HIS RUSSIAN TROOPS NOW OCCUPY TOWN OF SOKAL. A BIG BATTLE IS IMINERT ONE AUSTRIAN BRIGADff 18 COMPLETELY EXTERMINATED. CossackH Them In Swaap. and Not a Man Remained Alive When Firing Ceased. JAPANESE STEAMER IS SHELLED BY BRITISH Shanghai, Aug.

atcMner Shikofcu Mam was serlottBlf today and one of crew- killed by cannon ball tired from the fort of the British at Hong Kong nrhile the vessel was entering the barlior. The Sbikoltn Mam paid no heed to the harbor rcgn iations. Tvio warning shots were I iPORTHNTSHORTOlSPIITCHES GERMANS OPEN HOMES TO THE AMERICANS NAVAL BATTLE INDICATED BY FIRING NORTH OF DOVER. President Wilson Starts Investigation of the. High Prices of Arawicun Foodstuffs.

The British government this flred over her bow hut she did- a declaration ot war to Aus- 11.:. uhall n't stop and the strack her amidships, tug afterward the steamer to a berth. third shell then A gov- assisted tria-Hungary. An oBlcial declaration of war by France was made on Austria-Hungary today. GASOLINE AND CAR THIEVES? Somebody Stole From Standard Tank Honse.

Oil lola was the scene of a robbery last night which may develop into something more- serious if certain theories develop into realities. Late yesterday evening, about 11 o'clock the Standard Oil Company's pump house, west of the Santa Fe tracks was broken into and fifteen gallons of oil and twenty gallons of gasoline; were taken from the tanks in the room. No clue as to who the thieves are has been reported, except that about eleven o'clock there was a large touring car seen near the offices of the company and it is thought the men iin this car may have had some connection, either direct or indirect with the robbery. It Is possible that the car was stolen somewhere, and in order to keep their trail hidden, the men in the car broke into the oil room rather than purchase- the necessary oil from a garage. Fonr lola tennis players motored to TSjIiftPT yesterday afternoon and len- Vamer.

the crack tiam of that place. Rex Bowlus and Thompson won from the -i a moving picture machine lie not from execution. Oscar Foust has vacated the order of against Sheriff Kerr at the instence of William Read- icker and restraining the sherifTfrom selling a tnoving picture machine belonging to Readlcker. The court Bloody Battle Yesterday. Brussels.

Aug. yester day between the Belgian and German armies near Diest lasted the entire day and constituted the flrst considerable battle of the war. It will be known as the battle of Haelen. Shells are still falling at half past seven this evening on the roads around The battle w-as centered around Haelen. in the Belgian province of Limbourg, extending to Diest in the province of Brabant, after passing around Zeilhem.

All the coun try between the three towns mentioned are cleared of Germans except the dead and wounded who are thickly strewn. Two hundred dead German soldiers were cuunted in fifty yards square. A church, brewery and other build ings in Haelen were set afire and two bridges over the Demar river were destroyed by the Belgians. Great quantities of booty were collected on the battlefield and stacked In front of the Diest town hall. The German strength was five thousand.

An communication confirms yesterdays success of the Belgian troops over the Germans at Haelen. It s'ays the German casualties were very heavy, three-fifths of their troops engaged in the encounter being to barbaric tactics to the retiring gian casualties were reported relatively small. The Belgian officials charge that the Germans, maddened because of their rererse, are resorting to Ikarbaric tactics to to retiring civiliana and are killing ithe wound- Another official communication says, "A Belgian cavalry division today took up the olTenatve against the Germans who were defeated in jester day 's battle at Haelen with the It la believed, of picking up the dead and vonnded uiil collecting the abandoned material of war. No Oer man surprise' Is expected and there is no reason to fear any German cavalry movement on Brussels from the south ag all ithe'roads leading to the capital are bjeing guarded by tfio Belgian army'and civic guards." London. Aug.

tn the Exchange Telegraph company from Basil, Switzerland says: "Following the terrific battle at Mulhausen the hospital facilities are inadequate. Schools, churches and Ijotels filled with wounded and il was neces sary to charter a special train to con vey the wounded to Mulheim and iSt. Ludwig. The latest estimates of German losses are eight to ten thousand." Fleets Now Togelhcr. The Austro-Hunganan fleet, owing to the declaration of war by England together with that of Germany, is said to be in the Adriatic, where it was recently occupied in blockading the Montenegrin-coast.

The Britikh squadron in the Jled- iterranean is strong and has the sup port Of almost the entire French fleet. The'official press bureau here in describing the disposition of the British cruisers in the Atlantic urges traders to be unafraid to send cargoes to sea in British ships or neutral ships in all directions except the North Sea, where, owing to mines, no guarantees can be given. The movements of the fleet are secret. Heavy cannonading was heard at Dover today, the reports coming from northeast. The firing lasted an hour.

Brussels, Aug. to Lc Soir the German casualties during yesterday's fighting near Haelen talled about two thousand killed and wounded. The Belgian casualties are declared to comprise oniy a few dead. Berlin, via Copenhagen and London, Aug. meeting of Ave hundred Americans in the German capital was Informed last evening that many German families were ready to take the stranded Americans Info their bomes withont cosu The first on the list to do so was Adolf Wler- mutb, the Lord who I'lared he would lake three Americans.

Tbe banks are also rea4ly to grant Important credlls to Ibe Americans. Tbp president of a Germun hank derlnred he would gnint a million and a qnurter dollars against adequate secur- ille.s. (By thp AsHOclated Frrs.il; St. Petersburg, Aug. Russian force has taken the town of SoL kal, Austrian Gallcia by assault flicting casualties on the Austrian garrison extremely heavy, according to a semi-official announceniient.

Paris. Aug. 12. 11 p. dla- patch from St.

Petersburg to the Matin says: "The Austrians have sutfered a check on the Dniester rivrtr. Four regiments of Austrian infantry and eight regiments of IThlans were routed. The approaching big battle prob ably will be a decisive one." A dispatch from Rome says an Aua trian cavalry brigade has been exter i rainated on the Austro-Hnngarian i frontier. Austrians Slaaghtered. The Austrian cavalrymen to have attacked the were accompanied by artillery, were unable to bold their own and- tried to get back across the frontier but rain had falleii and men and horses were caught in the marshy ground and shot down.

Not a man re malned alive. I Found Wife's! Dead Body. (M.v thp As PTPBS). Savannah. Aug.

body of Mrs. Boone Pancher aged 30, wife of a wealthy farmer waa found in yard of their home this morning by her husband. She bad been chqked tq death. Her husband is 65 old. Wilson Appeajis for Fnnda.

Washington. Aug. Wilson as head of the Americait Red Wa.shington. Aug. P.

Morgan today asked the State Depart- nicTit what the government's attitude would be toward a French war loan of several hundred millions. Washington, Aug. treaties of peace with the and Norway were ratified today by the senate. They arc the first of twenty pending. They provide for a commission of inquiry before the resort to arms In international disputes.

Man French rrisoners. Berlin, Aug. direct wireless from Nauem, Germany to the Gold Schmidt Wireless company's station at Tuckerton, German troops took T20 French officers and 1,110 soldiers prisoners in the fighting at Mulhausen. They also captured four French cannon. An other thousand French officers and men were taken prisoners by the Ger mans in the fijsht near Longwy.

German soil is now entirely cleared of French troops. (cernian Victory Reported. Berlin, via London, (12:25 a. ra.) The German troops near Muelhausen have captured ten French officers, 500 men, four guns, ten wagons and many rifles. According to the report.

German territory has been cleared of the French. It is also stated that at Lagarde the German troops took more than 1,000 about one-sixth of the two defeated French regiments. Paris, yia Lfondon, Aug. French minister of war explains that the engagements- on the Franco-German frontier no more than outpost skirmishes. "The best denial that can he given to the report that the French lost 20.000 men at Altrich," says the ministry, "is that the total effective French Washington, Aug.

President today directed Attorney General McReynol'ds to invesligate, the increase in the prices of foodstuffs and whether any persons responsible can be prosecuted. Liege are still holding out against the (Jeriiiaiis and that the troops which de- loiKled the fify iiave reforiried to the' west and resumed the offensive. Jl is that the Belgians have h'own up bridges and destroyed the railroad in the rear of the German forces, cutting off their supplies. Brussels, Aug. 12.

10:40 p. via of dragoons coming from the direction of Liege who attempted to surprise the Belgians at AinPtTe, in the province of Liege, were driven off, leaving 153 dead and 102 prisoners. The Death's Head Helmet of Germany's Crown Prince Cross, appealed today to the' American people to conltribute money for the relief of the and wounded soldiers of the warring European Uf- tlons. I Shot His InvaUd Wife. (Hv Assfvrlatort Prrsm Kansas City, Aug.

As hit wife TllMe, aged 29 lay in the hospital here awaiting an operation Which was to have taken place today, John Rolfe, aged forty, 3 wealthy farmer of Randolph, Kansas, shot and dangerously wounded her and then sent two bullets Into hij own heAd. Both will die. troops there did not reach that number." It is further explained that the advance of the French infantry hausen was to cut the' center of German communication, and it is added that this was successfully carried- out. The communication concludes; "We are placing in Upper Alsace "a considerable number of troops." Two Regiments Annihilated. London, Atg.

Rome dispatch to -the Central News says the gero publishes a message from Basel, Switzerland, stating that two German infantry regiments wore annihilated during the battle with the French troops at Muelhausen. The regiments mentioned are the Eighth Baden infantry regiment, No. 149. which was stationed at Lahr ih Baden, and the Fourth Prince William's Baden infantry regiment, 113, stationed at Muelhausen. The conmiandir.

of the Twenty- ninth division, attached to the Fourteenth army corps, whose headquarters were at Freiburg, is said to have been killed. Cut Off From Supplies. London. Aug. 13, 1:30 a.

Exchange Telegraph's Brussels correspondent telegraphing on Wednesday, says: The Belgians have routed the Germans In a fierce encounter between the Belgian left wing and massed German cavalry, infantry and artillery. The Belgians displayed wonderful control under the fierce fire and their victory has aroused the liveliest enthusiasm along the whole line of the allied troops." It. is stated that the forts arouud WANTS EMBARGO LIFTED. German Charze Asks V. S.

to Raise Ban on Wireless to Empire. Aug. Daniel ton Haimhausen. charge of the Gernlanj conferred with Secretary Bryan today on wireleis and cable between America and Europe. The charge had previously! rrquested the State Department to permit exchanging code messages directly hjjtween the United States and Oer- which are now barred by the uiil'tnry in England, through which country all cable messages must pass to reach Germany.

jThe charge also was desirous that' tile German-owned wireless stations at Sayvllle. L. and Tuckerton. N. bje permitted to work with Germany ffee 'rom thereby placing Germany on equality with England and which are using their cables ithout restrictions for irans -Atlantic purposes.

deposition was shown at the State ri to Justify the apparent dla crimination against the wirelefs by an rticle in The convention which I tJoWdes that such methods of may be barred where the stfitions are erected for purely military on neutral tbrrltory and trkn'idci no commercial The German contention Is that the prohibition dees not apply for the reason tint the stations in question have been doing commercial business. -qFveryekwsdasa. fanousw NEW YORKER WANTS THAT COLT. Frederick William, erown prince of Germany, and heir to the throjxe of the kaiser, wears proudly the helmet of the Death's Head regiment of which he is commander. A shining, gaping skull, with cross bones worked, into the te.xtiire stands out prominently on the caps and helmets of this crack regiment of the German army.

The skull and cross bones mean here what they have always meant-Hleath, Blllv StafforiLVs Tiny Mnle Is Kaowv in the Metropolis. Billy SUfford received a letter to- d.iy from a man in N'ew York city- stating that be understood! that iiad a (iolt that weighed sixteen pounds and stood fourteen Inches Wanting a coit of that -i; tion, the man asked for a price Which i goe? to show that publicity in the ister is likely to extend widely beforie it quits working. The colt, which Is a mule, is now qn the road, being shown at the county r.tirs and similar gatherings by Jantes Parsons, who makes that bik bualnen. burro mother Is along, too. Be of good cheer, the mercury haji proven its ability and wlllingneas tp sink as lew as 64.

It did that at o'clock yesterday morning. later Qiimb in.cr to 99 at 2 p. m. Atf thia-UpaUnig (it was and 2 clioAct'to 7.