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The Sacramento Star from Sacramento, California • 3

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Tuesday, August 30, 1915. THE SACRAMENTO STAR 3 "I FIGHTING ABOVE THE CLOUDS IN THE ALPS! i fill IRAK OF RUSSIANS ML if Up to a late hour today the police have been unable to tind any tiaee of the man who was believed to have been wounded by Mrs. John C. Anderson, wife of a Southern Pacific brakeman, residing at 417 Seventh street, when -the fired three shols at an wn-hnown man who had pained entrance to her home through the bark door. According to Mrs.

Anderson, it was the second time the man had visited her dwelling. She stated that she positively believes the man came there for the purpose of kidnaping her 4-year-old sister, Ora Delamater. The man was about to enter the girls room when Anderson filed. Decidedly New-Smart Combination DRESSES of Serge and Taffeta and Taffeta Plaid Combinations Among many express received during the past week containing scores of charming Fall Style Suits, Coats and Millinery, were a number of Serge and Taffeta Combination Dresses, entirely different from any shown heretofore. Specially (Pi Q.50 (POA Priced at WcH $ZU See Them on Display Now United Pre Tcleerram PETROGKAJ), Aug.

10. The Russians are preparing to evacuate Yilnar. The libraries and museums of the city have been removed according to dispatches here today. Vilna is 55 miles East of the besieged fortress of Kovnoand has direct railway communication with Petrograd. It is about 225 miles Northeast of Warsaw.

Jt is toward the Warsaw-Vilna-Petrograd railway that the Germans have been driving in their attempt to blockade the Russian retreat. PLAN 10 SAVE PEACE ADVOCATE BET Our Liberal Credit Terms will help you to buy one of these new garments NOW The diagram above shows how the valleys and passes of the Tyrolean Alps are defended by the Austrians against the experienced mountain fighters of the Italian bersaglieri regiments. Explanation of numbers in dia grams follows: (1) Overhanging crags are mined so that, in the event of the approach of the enemy along the pass below the entire cliff may be made to topple over by pressing an electric button. (2) Caves made in hillside for mountain howitzers to throw shells over mountains. (3) Cavities sheltering machine guns.

(4) Trenches faced with cement, protected by barbed wire entanglements. (5) Aeroplane stations. Arrangements are being completed today for a big meeting at Southstde Park tomorrow night when Mrs. W. Thomas, executive secretary of the National Peace Conference will speak.

Rev. Mrs. Mary M. Bowen, who is at ranging for the Southstde Park meetiug, will secure an orchestra. Mrs.

W. H. Porterfield will sing a sala. Mrs. Thomas will be the guest of honor at a luncheon the Traveler Hotel at noon Thursday.

Mrs. A. A. Goddard has arranged for the luncheon. With the filing of a bankruptcy petition, initial steps are taken by Wallace H.

and Susan Locke and Nettle Huntington Post, creditors of the Realty Union, toward the formation of an oiganization of certificate holders to take over the companys assets and liquidate its affairs along the lines recently suggested by Commissioner of Corporations Carnahan. These Girls Wont Risk Their Lives By Wearing Old Style Bathing Suits New Fall Suits at $20 $25 In suitable materials for present wear. New Fall Coats at $10 and up Special! Silk Jersey Coats, $10 In solid colors of Rose, Gold, Green and Co-pen, also White Combination at $12.50, Fiber Silk Sweaters at $6.50 upward. IVMMiUl MUST ANSWER U. S.

COURT Leroy Reed, barber, charged with white slavery, was held ovei to the United States, Federal court by V. S. Commissioner Martin Welsh f.iday before whom he had hearing. Reed Is alleged to have brought Miss Edna Afibott from Ifaznn, Nev to this city for Immoral purposes. He was taken 1 1 San Francisco following the healing by U.

S. Marshal Burnham JUST WHERE IS ARDMOUR HEIGHTS? County Tax Collector C. E. Trainor ts in receipt today of a letter from AV. A.

Dye of the town of Hundred, West VLginia, who owns ten lots in Ardmoitr Heights, near Sacramento, that he lias never seen. Dye wrote to ascertain the amount of his taxes. Trainor is aide to tell him the amount all right, but what worries him Is the question that Dye propounded at tlie end of the epistle. It ran flits way What is the city of Ardmour like? Pei haps the real estate boosters from whom lie purchased the prop erty could best answer Dyes teriosalion. OAK PARK BRANCH For an Investment that is permanently safe, and pays a good, conservative rate of Interest, a four per cent savings acount with this old reliable institution is ideal.

Money deposited with this bank is free from deductions for state, county and city taxes. And you can start an account with $1. Sacramento Bank st. Separate Mens Entrance 1014 11th St. LAHGDQN NAMED SUPERIOR JUDGE W.

II. I-angdon, former district attorney of San Francisco and In 11106 candidate for governor on tne Independence League ticket, was today appointed to the newly created superior judgeship of Stanislaus county by Governor Johnson. The "skirts-be-hanged" girls. From left to right: kin and Rita Johnson. LOS ANGELES, August 10.

Skirts be hanged (on Los Angeles gilds. Dolores Suarez, Betty Blythe, Rosamond Rankin and Rita Juhnson the new unskirted bathing suit here. They are all athletic girls, and believe that the quickest way to gain bright eye and a clear complexion ig to get the duck habit SWIM When the So I-ong, Lett musd'-al comedy was costumed for its first presentation in Los Angeles, these four were chosen to represent the bathing glrll because they looked as If they really weie used to the free, healthful life of the typical beach girl. We decided, then, said Betty Blythe, to pick a costume which would make it possible for women to have a chance to swim withoout taking the risk of being tangled up in uimeeessuiy skirts and stockings. 1.08 Angeles girls have proved that our idea was good, for scores of them have adopted it, and the beaches are full of new bathing suit devotees.

SALOONS VJAHT TO SELL CUT Three saloons, tlie Club, S12 Street, Ellis Jones, 1016 Sixth street and Devecihl Matleolis place, 1108 Second street, were offered for sale to the city today. The purchase of the saloons is provided through a fund raised by increasing tlie saloon licenses. The offers were referred to Commissioner WOMAN (MS HUSBAND TAKEN TO COUNTY JAIL Fearing her husband would carry out his threats to kill her, Mrs. E. O.

Brooks is having him detained at the county jail today pending an examination as to his sanity. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks were living in a houseboat on the river, and she alleges that on occasions he had threatened to kill her. Neighbors say also that they had heard the woman scream, and she alleges that he chased her around the house with a knife threatening to take her life.

WHEN YOU RIDE IN At TAXI on wiinl to know joo In Ih ImmlM of competent, oonnelen lloiiM ilrltcr In I hi IiiiimIm of ft rrMooDNlble llnii Unit In hnlld- line up II tMiNiiuMN In our nililNt SERVICE 'I'll tw being the ruse, lien jmi 136 1 IiicUlentnH will flml the ii in her lit imy time on the IJUh nr tiie diiuk-I roitv. AWFUL AIROCITIFS ARE BRAUN CO. TURNED DOWN. Tlio 'City in a conference with representatives of the Braun Pump Company, today denied the request of the company for another test of their pump at tlio water vvoiks which was condemned by Engineers Hyde and Wilhelm. When the pump was installed tlie Braun company guaranteed it to supply lo.OHO.OOO gallons of water per day.

The report of the engineers showed that It fell far below the guarantee. TOO l.XTF. TO CLASSIFY. PHILADELPHIA The armored cruiser Tennessee, carrying 828 marines and 50 officers, sailed for Hayti today. FOR sa-le or tiade Heavy spring wagon like new.

Will trade fur wheat or row. Peter Szakal, Franklin, Gal. RACES TO CLOSE. Nevada, August 10. TlW nd Racing Association today that the present would close Saturday of to allow the horses to to San Francisco to become acclimated for tlie meeting exposition.

CASE DISMISSED. to oontltcting testimony, of John Koxt and C. J-Schmorleiz, charged with battery, this morning In the court by Acting Judge Schmorleiz engaged in Ch1ni-e at Sixth and July 24. Kost was FAIRIES BE ERE TURKS ONE PERSON ANY ONE RIDE IN THE OLD CITY LIMITS not carried off, were left to Shift for themselves. In thousands of cases, the depor tatton has been curried out on such a basis that families will never reunited.

Simultaneously with these arrests throughout the empire the Constantinople authorities arrested the alleged leaders of an Armenian society who were t-harzed with plotting the establishment of an independent league. Nineteen of these men were hanged in front of tlie ministry of war. Among them as a man who had been the cashier for a TuikMi branch of the Singer Sewing Machine company. At tlie Armenian town of Zeuton, of inhabitants, tlie young Ainienians lefused to enlist In Turkeys armies. A Turkish military force was sent against the city, but 300 of the Turks were killed.

An overwhelming Turkish force was then sent and when tlie city fell, Hie Turkish military officials car lied out to the extreme degree their system of deportation and dispersion. Twenty thousand Turks from Thrace were taken to Zeuton and established in houses that for gi aerations belonged ta the Ar menians, while the former owners weie scattered to the extreme ends of the empire, one portion being sent to the sandy deserts at Simmons. RENO RENO, announced meeting this week be taken at the KOST Owing the case was dismissed local police ,1. Q. Brawn.

Kost and a fight with streets stabbed. the head the other the interior. Eye saw the ragged, captives by soldiers 50 to men who the pace soldiers Drnnf li Store, Saernmenlo A entie, Trlfiihouc fapitol R58-J KILLS HIMSELF 1 lilted PriM Telegram. SAN FRANCISCO, August 10. Following a conference with Ir.

Griflith, manager of lie Chicago branch of the Pattern Company, W. F. Hatch, manager of the local branch of tile concern, killed himself early today in his oftlce. Ills body was found by a clerk. Every Effort Being Made to Keep News From Outside World, Says Wood in Exclusive United Press Dispatch; Wives, Mothers and Young Children Left Homeless or Transported to Strange Cities and Abandoned to Mercies of Mussulman Population; Armenians Forced to Enlist in Turk Array.

25e CITY TAXI COMPANY 19th at 1128-30 STREET TELEPHONE MAIN 626 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Groceries, Liquor, Produce, Hardware, Etc. of the Persian gulf and to ma'aria marshes in witnesses from the interior coming to Constantinople procession of the miserable Armenian moving along headed In groups of from several hundred. Old could not maintain were beaten by the until they died In their tracks this eye witness said. Hal Wolf, former secretary to Chief of Police and removed by Commissioner Simmons, sent a letter to the city commission protesting against his removal on the grounds that he was under civil service. olf says he will expect ills name to appear on the payroll at tlie end of the monoth.

The letter was placed oil file. So critical is the situation that Ambassador Morgunthau, who almost single-handed is fighting to prevent a wholesale slaughter, has telt obliged to ask the co-operation of the ambassadors of Turkeys two allies, aron von Wan-genlielm, the German ambassador and Pallavlelni, the Austrian representative at Constantinople have responded at least to a degree in joining with BY HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent' DKDEAGATCH, Bulgaria, July 20. Delayed) Atrocities that rival the outrages of Abdul Hamid are inflicted on the two million Armenians in Turkey by the Young Turk government. Offcial circles ill Tmkey are using every possible means to prevent the news from reaching the outside woild. I have come here from Constantinople to cable a story of condl- Auction Sale! Dig Lot of iioi sKiioi.n FI HMTl IIK AT I.KMtOOW, RIM) STKKKT A recent department store ad reads, Ladies' Bathing Suits, one-half off.

No window display, please. II 10 A. M. ttons as they wore told to me by I the American ambassador in try-1 sources in the Ottoman capital, whose reliability cannot he questioned. Thousands of Ainienians have been deported from their homes In UVI'II (- Jilin fU I 1 OH! lilt'll 1IU1IICO mi ur Uiu III.

rHE CAPITAL National Bank KILL tlie rooster, advises a farm paper fot getting that the first problem with most of us Is to get tlie rooster. Jmluilf'S DiosHorfi, Olilffonlpr, TTotrl Iron Beds, ire. Mat-lrc-BPS, TlorkfHH, Chairs, Tabl'S, 1 it KfinKPS, Waidrubps, etc. V. HIN 1)1011, Auctioneer.

IlllltP 111 Forum iiltl. Plume KI7I-U. Asia Minor, their property contis- was issued eurly in May, and exe-, rated, and their families Broken cuted with all the extreme cruelty and When In Sacramento dont fail to visit Peter Carlt and llenry Salani at tlie Star Cafe where a spictal Italian dinner and merchants lunch ts served dally with a big special spread on Sunday. Everything served Italian stvln. First clans place.

Select drinks of all kinds. 130 Jay street corner of Second. Arthur D. Fenton MORTICIAN LADY ATTENDANT. Parlors 1237 I 8t.

Phone 718 Wednesday Thursday Friday Our Electric Ground Coffee is a winner, per lb. 25c Best Cane Sugar, 16 lbs. for Corn Flakes, large packages, 3 for 25c Crackers, 1-8 size boxes, each 37c Best Lemons, per doz 15c Best Grade 3-4 inch Hose, per foot 12 Best Grade Port, Sherry, Claret, Zinfandel, Muscat andAngelica Full Quart, Per Bottle 25c Commercial Accounts Savings Accounts THRIFT The Right Hand of a Ftiend The tm instance and necessity of THRIFT to the individual and to the nation is emphasized by tlie designation of Thursday, August 12th, 1915, by tlie Governor of the State of California as THRIFT DAY. If you would be thrifty and prosper, and provide for your future, commence by SAVING now. The heat way to save is to open a SAVINGS Account in a strong hank.

A SWINGS Account in The Capital National Bank Is an Ideal one. Call and ask, or write for particulars. THRIFT Your Friend in Need" THE CAPITAL NATIONAL HANK ALDI5N ANDERSON. President. up.

Young Armenians have been hurriedly drafted into tlie ainiy and rushed to the Gallipoli peninsula to meet a quick end ill the trundles of the Dardanelles. Wives, mothers and young children have been left helpless in the streets or truiispoi-tpd to strange cities and abandoned ta the mercies of the Mussulman population Thus far, no wholesale massacres have been reported to Con-stnntinople. But tlie critical moment for the Armenians will come when the Turks meet with a serious reverse at the Dardanelles if that should occur, or when the Armenians themselves became emboldened by the successes of their local revolts and a general movement in rebellion. of tlie Turkish system. At Brousse, in Asiatic Turkey, the city which it Is expected the Turks will select for their capital if Constant! nople falls, I investigated personally the manner in which the decree was carried out.

There, the police at midnight swooped down upon the homes of all Armenians whose names had been put on the prescribed list sent out from Constantinople, These men were arrested and the minutest search made of their homes for possible revolutionary documents. The young Armenians were then ordered into the army: the older men were deportod into the interior, while the women and children who were NAVLET THE FLOE 1 ST Floral designes $1 and up at Nav-let 30th and Sts Phone Main 372. Adv Clark, Booth Yardley H. C. YARDLEY, MANAGER.

17-923 8t Their new Home. Ambulance tervlce dey or night. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Same old phone No. Main 134. FOR THE LATEST SPORTING NEWS READ THE PINK.

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