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c. r. i i -i- v- I'- NAPA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916 No. 53 VOL. LI Mendocino Attorney Slain SOUTH SWEPT BY STORM Six Lives Lost and Property Losses Will Run Up Into Big Figures; Power Lines Demoralized EUROPEAN WAR NEWS France and Great Britain are Pressing Greece; Little News Coming from the Battle Fronts BERLIN, January 18; A note to the thousand Austrians and Germans are Greek government, amounting to an being massedd at Gievgeli.

There is little news to-day from the fighting either on the Austro-Itailan border or in Northern France. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY ultimatum, is said by the Over Seas News Agency to have been presented by France and Great Britain Greece is required to deliver their passports to the Ministers of the central powers within forty-eight hours, failing which the entente will take Editor Booth in Trouble TONOPAH Jan. 18. W. W.

Booth, editor and proprietor of the Tonopah Bonanza, was sentenced to six months in the county jail for criminally libeling District Attorney Sanborn. Bail pending an appeal was refused by Judge Walsh. An affidavit was presented showing Mrs. Booth is seriously ill as a result of the verdict, and three vouched for Booths appearance with or without bail. Six jurors testified they would have voted for acquittal if they had thought more than a nominal fine would be imposed.

Mr. Booth was a visitor in Napa last Summer, and renewed acquaintances with a number of former students of the Napa College, which institution he attended in his boyhood days. Population of New York MRS. ERNEST ELWELIi OF MARTINEZ UNACCOUNTABLY DISAPPEARS FROM BOAT. geles harbor from these masses of rubbish, collapsed, and tons of silt streamed into the inner harbor.

i Many of the highways are impassable. Telephone and telegraph service is demoralized, and fears are felt for the electric light systems. In the country around Los Angelse scores are homeless. Near Redlandx I a small tributary of the Santa Ana I river flooded many homes. Sixty were rescued on rafts and small boats.

Twelve houseg were flooded in East Highlands, where the flood ran five to six feet deep. As the streams approached the ocean they grew worse. At Bell station, a few miles west of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles river was three miles wide, sweeping everything before it, covering valuable ranch lands with silt am I debris. The citrus district around Pomona reported heavy damage, due largely to soil erosion and winds. The damage in the Pomona district is estimated at $500,000.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18. The wind and rain storm which began sweeping Southern California last Friday and continued up to to-day, caused the death of six persons and did a vast amount of property damage. Orange orchards suffered greatly. An unidentified man, woman and child were drowned' to-day between Anaheim and Fullerton, -when the water swept their horse and buggy from the State highway.

Their bodies have nt been recovered. Three men were killed yesterday by the storm. Transportation was at a standstill. Only one train left Los Angeles, today in a forlorn hope attempt to reach Sap Bernardino. The Southern Pacific line, temporarily repaired at Moorpark last night, was out again by washouts and landslides to-day.

From the mountains to the sea rushed muddy torrents, some of them three miles wide, bearing carcasses of animals, vast floods of debris and occasionally a floating house or bit of furniture. A dam protecting Los An Daily Cost of War $70,000,000 PARIS, January 18. A statistical expert has furnished the following figures, showing that the war is cost-ing a total of approximately daily: Germanys military expenditures are daily. Owing to advances to Bulgaria and Turkey and help accorded to Austro-Hungary, these expenditures will shortly reach daily, or $600,000,000 monthly. France is now expending monthly $501,000,000, Great Britain and Russia $400,000,000.

At the end of October Italy had expended $773,000,000. If the campaign ends in July next she will have spent $3,000,000,000. The united expenditures of France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy and Germany approximates $70,000,000 daily. The Rainfall UKIAH, Jan. 18.

The body of Carter W. Rohrbough, an attorney of Cov-elo, was found in a field near his cabin, with a gunshot wound in the breast. Rohrboughs own shotgun was found about a quarter of a mile away, under a pile of brush. The belief was expressed' by local authorities that Rohrbough had been murdered. He had been two weeks.

Rohrbough left Covelo early this month for his cabin, twenty-five miles from here, on a hunting trip, with the intention of remaining only a few days. When he did not return his friends organized a searching party which resulted in the discovery of the body. 1 Canal to Reopen February 13 NEW YORK, Jan. 18. The Panama1 canal will be opened' to the largest ships February 15th, according to Col.

F. Glenn, United States Army, who arrived here to-day on the steamer Metapan from Colon. Glenn returned from a six weeks trip to the Canal Zone and said that when he left there was a channel twenty feet deep at all points where the slides occurred. Simple Services Will be Held At 1:30 oclock this (Wednesday) afternoon. Rev.

Richard Wylie will deliver a few remarks over the remains of the late Mrs. E. dI Beard, at the family residence, to friends "who may wish to attend. The remains will be taken to Oakland, where they will be cremated. NOTICE.

All claims against Mike Todoroff, partner of Joe Wagner, in the Popular Restaurant, 13-15 Main street, are requested to present same within five days from the. date of this notice. WAGNER RAPPOLD. Napa, Jan. 13, 1916.

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A dispatch from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Company says that French and British troops have been landed at Corinth, Greece, 4 8 miles west of Athens. Hundreds of Bulgarian soldiers were killed and a very large number wounded in a bombardment of Petritsi by a squadron of twenty-five French aeroplanes, according to dispatches received at Athens and forwarded by the correspondent there of the Evening Standard, AMSTERDAM, January 18. The Cologne Gazette is informed by its Sofia correspondent that the ministers of the central powers at Athens have been orderd to burn all the archives at their legations to prevent Ihem from falling into the hands of the entente powers. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 18.

The Russian forces, which recently began a general offensive in the CauCasus, are superior in number to the Turks opposing them, according to the Constantinople War Office. To-days official statement says that no changes have occurred in Mesopotamia, the destruction of the British monitor near Shiek Saad, about twenty-five miles down the Tigris from Kut El Amara, being the only incident reported. LONDON, Jan. 18. A Central News dispatch from Athens to-day says: "An Anglo-French fleet has been searching the inlets of the Greek islands with the object of discovering the bases of German and Austrian submarines.

The Turks have removed 400 guns from the Gallipoli peninsula to Xan-thi, to the east of the allied" line at Saloniki. One hundred arid twenty-five THE H. L. SONS CO. 2 CD 'N T3 ill A 21 Jeweled watch with the finest adjustments ASK TO SEE IT Dont Forget onr BARGAIN WINDOW ALBANY, N.

Jan. 18. The population of New York State is according to the report of the State census, taken last June. Of this total 5,047,221 are residents of Greater New York; are citizens and 1,628,229 aliens. Suit Filed Frank E.

Knight has filed a suit in the Superior Court for damages against Z. Russ Sons 'Co. and the Russ Investment Co. The complaint states that the plaintiff some time ago leased Russ Island from the defendants situated on the boundary of Napa and Solano counties. It declares that in May of 1914 the defendants entered upon the property for the purpose of repairing the levees, promising to protect plaintiffs interests there.

But it is alleged that the work was so done that the levees were partially destroyed, the sluice gates ruined and the wharves demolished. Hence plaintiff demands damages in the sum of $26,500. Frank J. Solinsky and'E. R.

Solin-sky of San Francisco are attorneys for the plaintiff. Journal 50 cent ads. bring results. Saved On Dollar trams Main Streets TAILORING CO. Was Employed as Cook for Party of San Francisco Spoilsmen Out Duck Hunting in Napa River When Missed.

Airs, Fr'V Elwell of Martinet employed as a cook for a duck hunting party composed of San Francisco sportsmen, either jumped or accidentally fell from the boat in which they were en route from Petaluma creek to Napa river about 1:30 oclock Tuesday morning, near Tubbs Island in Napa river, about 15 miles from this city' It seems that Mrs. Elwell was steering the boat at the time and asked one of the men on board to bring her a drink from the cabin of the vessel. The man complied with her request, and on his return found that she had mysteriously disappeared. Whether she jumped overboard deliberately wdth suicidal intent or accidentally lost her balance, remains yet to be revealed. The Sheriffs office here was notified by the Vallejo police of the affair and about seven oclock in the evening Under Sheriff Henry Mills, Officer H.

Cavagnaro and Coroner Eugene Webber boarded a launch from the local water front and' proceeded, to scene of the tragedy to make an, investigation. i Germany Pleads Not Guilty WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Secretary Lansing announced to-day that the Berlin foreign office had informed Ambassador Gerard that all German submarines in the Mediterranean have reported and that none was concerned in the destruction of the British liner i 1 1 Tamales and Chill Beans at Kellys. i "9 1-9-tf 2ndmd JiUUt Quo Irishmen Want to Fight LONDON, Jan. 18.

Irish members of the House of Commons have made a plea for the inclusion of Ireland in. the provisions of the bill for compulsory military service. A motion to this effect was made by James. F. Chambers of the Southern Division of Belfast, supported by James Craig of the Eastern Division of Down.

Both urged that the stigma placed on their countrymen by the terms of the bill be removed. They appealed to John Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists, to attempt to induce his followers to support a bill covering Ireland. Stores Will Close The stores of Napa will be closed from 1:30 to 2:30 oclock this (Wednesday) afternoon, the hour of the funeral services of the late Mrs. E. D.

Beard. hip Block. Residence, 631 N. tf) St Telephone day and night I 1 I H. H.

Briggs pluviometer shows that .05 of an inch of rain fell in Napa during the 24 hours ending at I Adams was arrested by Officer 9:30 oclock Tuesday evening, making Roper Tuesday on a charge of inches for the season, as against turbing the peace. 12.30 inches up to the same time last year. makes 12,22 inches1 for the month of January. MERCHANTS ASSN. E.

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