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p. 7:30 p. is 24 fair 01 The A night and to- hire measure population. same in barring a a on Sam Mrs. of by THE JUNCTION CITY UNION The Junction City Daily Union is a Member of and Receives the Wire Report of the Associated Press Each Day.

TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR NO. 162 WEDNESDAY JUNCTION CITY, KANS. JANUARY 17, 1917. SOLD ABOVE VALUATION. Real Estate Transfer Report for State Tax Board.

County Clerk Moon has just finished an interesting report for the state tax commission. He has computed the comparison on real estate transfers between the assessed valuation and the purchase price. Transactions made during 1916 were used in compiling the report, which shows the following: The comparison on thirty transfers, in Junction City, as taken from the register of deeds office shows the assessed valuation of the property involved to have been $66,288, and the purchase price as $72,300. The assessed value was 91 per cent of the market value. In Milford township the market value of similar real estate transactions last year was $47,550, assessed value $31,865, or 67 per cent of the sale value; Smoky Hill, market value $33,300, assessed value $20,225, or 60 per cent of market value; Lyon, market value $60,950, assessed value 315, or 64 per cent of sale value; Blakely, $30,075, market value, 400 sale value, or 74 per cent; Jefferson, $47,250 sale price, $26,915 assessed valuation, or 56 per cent; Liberty, $45,986 sale price, $30,145 assessed valuation, or 65 cent.

The ratio of assessed valuation to the sale value in Wingfield was 63 per cent and in Jackson 76 per cent THE INVESTIGATION POSTPONED. Authority Given for the Employment of Consul if Desired. Washington, Jan. leak investigation was interrupted today while the house extended the time of the investigating committee 30 days and authorized it to employ counsel. Taking up testimony will be resumed tomorrow probably with J.

P. Morgan and other financiers in the witness chair. When the house met, Representative Pou, acting for Chairman Henry, asked unanimous consent for consideration of the new resolution to authorize the committee to employ counsel and experts familiar with stock exchange transactions and authorize hearings elsewhere than in Washington. Meanwhile the committee will make its plans for extending the inquiry into a general investigation which was forecasted when it yesterday summoned J. P.

Morgan, Frank P. Vanderlip, Henry P. Davidson and bother well known financiers. Some of them were on hand waiting to testify. Lawson was also ready to go on, and Mrs.

Ruth Thomson Viscounti, who Lawson said yesterday had told him Secretary Tumulty had been involved in the leak, had been served with a summons to appear. "The committee has decided to ask permission of the house to employ counsel and accountants and for an extension of 30 days in which to report," said Representative Garrett in explaining the postponement. Another witness was Pliny Fisk of New York, described by Lawson as the man who told Archibald S. White he controlled Secretary McAdoo. John Rathom, editor of the Providence Journal, whose news dispatches regarding leaks Lawson read into the record also appeared.

Washington, Jan. sion of the leak hearing was suddenly postponed as it was about to open. Witnesses were notified to appear tomorrow morning. Postponement was made so the committee might ask the house for authority to employ counsel. MAY REPEAL BLUE SKY LAW.

Members of House Judiciary Committee Considering Such a Bill. Topeka, Jan. of the house judiciary committee stated the committee was considering a bill which will either repeal or greatly modify the Kansas blue sky law. It was asserted the state had indirectly at least placed its official approval on securities offered for sale and that some of them were questionable, according to Endres of Leavenworth, a member. M'MANN CO.

ASSIGNS LEASES. Geary County Oil Land Holdings Turned to Galveston Firm. The McMann Oil Co. of Tulsa, holder of a large number of leases on Geary county oil lards. has turned its leases, or at least the bulk of them, over to the Magnolia Petroleum Company of Galveston, Tex.

Were Married by the Judge. Judge Hurley this afternoon married Mr. Henry Lawton and Miss Edna J. Low, both of Americus. Mr.

Lawton has been attending school at Manhattan but is now leaving to accept a place with the Santa Fe railroad. He wired the young lady to meet him here and when she arrived they went to the court house where Judge Hurley united them in marriage. One of the largest funeral parties ever in the city was that attending the funeral of John Oegerle, this noon. Mr. Oegerle was one of the most prominent young men of the county.

He was born and raised in the western part of the county and a finer The young man never lived. wife and children have the sympathy of a host of friends, WEDNESDAY be allowed to hold the county commissioner's job--his term as mayor had expired long ago, Wilmoth explained, and Concordia is willing now to come under the general provisions of the law. A special law was passed in 1913 to allow the mayor of Concordia to be county commissioner of Cloud county at the same time. The committee on assessment and taxation, headed by C. D.

Foster, of Ness, applied the axe to Wilmoth, of Cloud's, measure to remove the rebate clause of the present law on the payment of taxes. It was the first measure introduced in the house this session. House bill No. 57, by Thompson, of Morton, allowing county commissioners in counties of less than 10,000 to issue bonds to cover floating indebtedness, was reported favorably. Members of both branches of the legislature will be allowed $50 apiece for postage and telephone bills during the session.

The house yesterday adopted the senate resolution providing for these allowances. The president of the senate, the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the houst also were allowed the same amount. Senator James Getty made a fight in the senate to increase the postage allowance from $25 to $35. WHAT THE GERMANS THINK. Pass Opinion 011 the "Leak" News From Washington.

Amsterdam, Jan. Leipzig Neuische Nachrichten, commenting on the speculation on the New York stock exchange at the time of the Witson note, under the head of "The Washington Scandal," says: "What interests us most in the scandal so indicative of American enterprise is the manner in which that seizes upon the war as a means of money making. The war shows anew what peace costs us a hundred times. Jupiter Mammon! is the real ruler of these states, which praise to us that they uphold Germany, her free institutions and which, so far as they are linked with our enemies, talk to 118 of their aims to liberate us with their patent brand of liberty. Germany clines with thanks the offer to improve 118.

Though there may be many respects in which we need reform, the security of our monarchial government raises it high above the pseudodemocratic republic's and causes us to thank reproduction, main protected from this all too western progress." ARRANGING FUNERAL PLANS. Final Resting Place of Admiral Dewey In Arlington National Cemetery. Washington, Jan. 17. -Funeral arrangements for Admiral George Dewey were discussed today at a conference between President Wilson and Secretary Daniels and Rear Admiral Badger.

The funeral probably will take place Saturday and interment will be in Arlington national cemetery. In official and diplomatic circles his death was mourned today. President Wilson in a statement voiced his own and the nation's grief. Secretary Daniels likewise paid tribute. American naval vessels and stations throughout the world received news of the admiral's death by wireless with orders to display flags at half mast.

The end came at 5:56 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Death was due to 1 general breakdown and arterial sclerosis. TO HANDLE FOOD IN ITALY. The Government Has Appointed a New Board to Handle Problem. Rome, Jan.

17. The government has created a special committee to provide a more effective and rapid system of food distribution, according to the Stephano agency, The committee i is composed of the minister of finance, agriculture and transportation and minister without portfolio. TO CUT COST OF SHOES. Cloth Tons and Fiber Composition May Take Place of Leather. New York, Jan.

cut the high cost of shoes the use of new substitutes for leather is advocated by the National Boot and Shoe Dealers' Association. Rubber, fibre and other compositions and cloth tops are recommended. THAW MAY NOT RECOVER. His Physicians Today Said He Was Not Doing Well. Philadelphia, Jan.

17-Physicians at the hospital in which Harry Thaw is a patient said today that Thaw was not recovering as rapidly as had been expected and expressed concern as to his mental and physical condition. MORE SHIPS SENT DOWN. Eight British and Two French Merchant Ships Hit By Submarines. London, Jan. British and two French merchant vessels are believed to have been sunk a German Stone Wilson was in the city business today.

Mae Ford has returned from a few days visit in Kansas City. 10 CENTS A WEEK. BIG RAIDER BUSY SANK EIGHT BRITISH AND TWO FRENCH SHIPS. MANY OF THE CREWS SAVED No News Given of the Whereabouts of the German Raider and the Captured Ships. (By the Associated Press.) London, Jan.

British and two French merchantmen are believ-1 ed to have been sunk by a German raider. The following announcement was given out officially: "For some time past it has been assumed that the following British and French merchant ships which had long been overdue had been sunk by a German raider: British-Dramatist, Radnorshire, Minieh, Netherbyhall, Mount Temple, King George, 'Georgic, Voltaire. French--Nantes and Asnieres. Definite information has now been received from Pernambuco confirming the assumption. "On the evening of Monday the Japanese steamer Hudson Maru arrived off Pernambuco, having on board the master and 237 men of the crews of some of the lost vessels.

"The lost vessels were sunk on various dates between Dec. 12 and Jan. 12. In addition the steamer St. Theodore was captured and a prize crew put on board, and the steamer Yarrowdale was captured and sent away with about 400 men, the crews of others of the sunken vessels, who were to be landed.

No further news has been received of their whereabouts." Rio Janeiro, Jan. to information today from a British official source seven vessels in the Atlantic have been sunk and nine captured by a German raider. New York, Jan. of the destruction of allied shipping in the South American trade by a German raider was followed by an advance in marine insurance rates today from 21-8 to 10 per cent for West Indian and South American ports. Washington, Jan.

embassy officials believed it possible that the St. Theodore, reported to be captured by a German raider in the South Atlantic and sent away in charge of a prize crew, might soon appear in some American report. The embassy had no official information concerning the raider, it being said the United States neutrality regulations would prevent a wireless message being received from the raider or the prize crew even if sent. Galveston, Jan. steamships that left this port in November have not been reported as reaching their destination.

The Swedish steamer Consul Olsson sailed Nov. 16, and the Swedish steamer Consul Corfitzon on Nov. 13, both for Harve. Some fears are entertained for their safety, although no reports that they have been sunk have been received. COWBOYS KILLED MEXICANS.

Two Americans Shot Down Six Mexicans Who Stile Cattle. Nogales, Jan. Mexicans were killed Sunday by two American cowboys 30 miles west of here when they were fired upon while herding back cattle "rustled" by the Mexicans, according to reports to the sheriff's office here. A troop of Utah cavalry stationed here is on the way to the ranch of the Aravaca Land Cattle on the American side of the border, owners of the cattle. ALFALFA AVERAGES $56 AN ACRE.

Washington County Farmer Reports Unusual Production. Washington, J. a farmer living three miles east of here, has a remarkable record in the production of a 14-acre patch of alfalfa last season. From the first two cuttings he baled over 42 tons of hay, for which he has been offered $14 a ton. The third cutting he let go to seed and threshed out 47 bushels, worth $7 a bushel, making a total production from 14 acres of $917.

STRIKE OIL NEAR FATES CENTER. Flow Produces 250 Barrels Per DayLarge Land Leases Being Taken. Yates this morning the Combination Oil Gas Company of Wichita, brought in a 250-barrel oil well near Rose, eight miles southeast of here, at a depth of 1,100 feet. The oil is of extra good quality. The will drill eight more wells company in that field.

Nearly all available land in Woodson county has been leased. KOERNER PROBATION OFFICER. Judge Hurley Names Sheriff as Juvenile Court Official. Judge Daniel Hurley of the juvenile court today announced the ment of Sheriff Peter Koerner as probation officer for the court, TO AVOID A DROUTH REP. SULLIVAN WOULD NOT MAKE STATE "BONE DRY." COULD GET A CASE OR QUART Representative From Grant County Fears State May Rush Into Teetotalism Too Hastily.

(By the Associated Press.) Topeka, Jan. bill by Sullivan of Grant county, in the house today would prohibit shipment of liquor into Kansas in one month of more than one case of beer or one quart of intoxicants. Sullivan said he believed the state may rush into a complete drought too hastily. Section 4 reads: "That it shall be unlawful for any railroad, express company, corporation or other common carrier or the agent of such to deliver any intoxicating liquors to any person in the state in any calendar month intoxicants in excess of the following quantities: Beer, one case; any other intoxicant. one quart.

BIRTHS ARE ON THE INCREASE. Annual Report for the Past Year Has Been Issued. Washington, Jan, states totaling one-third of the country's population show a 78 per cent greater number of births in 1916 than 1915, according to the census bureau. The statistics disclose that in the territory included in the investigation foreign born parents gave birth to many more children than native born, and that among the negro race the death rate is higher and birth rate lower than among the white. The statistics as compared with foreign tables show England, France, Belgium and Sweden before the war had a lower birth rate than the United States had in 1915.

Countries with a higher rate were Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Japan and Australia. ANOTHER WAR BUDGET. Germany Hopes Each Budget Will be the Last. London, Jan. submitting the 1917 budget to the Prussian diet, Dr.

Lentze, minister of finance, according to a Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam, made the following statement: "Each time we have submitted the war budget in the last two years we have entertained the hope that it would be the last with which we would have to deal. Again we submit the war budget and we would not like to relinquish the same hope, despite the fact that Germany's peace proposals have been rejected by the allies." RAILROADS MAKE A KICK. Passengers Who Get Off at State Line Are Evading the Law. Washington, Jan. against 20 railroads operating in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, where intra-state fares of 2 cents a mile are affective was filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission oday by Chas.

Schaff, receiver of the Katy charging them with permitting passengers to evade the inter-state rates and with holding trains a short distance from state boundaries so passengers may get off and purchase tickets for the short trip across the line. He seeks to have the practice stopped. SENATOR MAHIN IS ELECTED. The Contest for Senator From Smith County Settled Now. Topeka, Jan.

senate election committee investigating the facts involved in the senatorial contest of I. H. Mahin, Smith county, against Senator W. C. Whitney of the same district, is reported to have found 27 votes in the Smith county recount favorable to Mahin.

Originally Mahin had a lead of 18 in the entire district. No final report has been made. PRAISES ADMIRAL DEWEY. President Sent Special Message to Congress Today. Washington, Jan.

17. President Wilson today sent a special message to congress formally announcing the death of Admiral Dewey and paying tribute to the naval hero, saying America would always remember and honor him. California is not all sunshine and roses, and a Junction City person who is out there writes that for the past month the weather has been wet, cold and chilly, and she longed to be back in old Kansas where it is cold and clear. In Lower California the oranges are ripe and the garden roses are in bloom. There will be quarterly meeting at the Evangelical church near Alida.

which will begin Friday evening and continue over Sunday, here theing being servces on Friday at 10 Saturday, 2 and Sunday at a. and m. -A. 7:15 p. Hoerman.

City Scott went to Kansas yes terday for a short stay. FUNERAL OF JOHN OEGERLE. Many Attended the Services of the Well Known Man Today. The funeral services of the late John Oegerl were held today and the funeral party met at the home where short services were held by Rev. Hoerman.

The party then went to the Evangelical church near Upland where services were held by Rev Hoerman. Alter these services the party came to this city whre burial was made at the family lot in Highland. At the grave the services were in chrge of the members of the Elks lodge, of which organization Mr. Oegerle was a member, and Rev. Hoerman.

John Oegerle was born near Alida in Geary county, Nov. 8. 1882, and died at the place of his birth Jan. 14, 1917, age 34 years, 2 months and 6 days, the cause of his death being pneumonia. He was married to Pearl Sage in 1903, and to this union were born two sons and one daughter.

He was a loving husband and father. During his sickness he made his peace with God and bore testimony to the following: I gave myself to God and I know Jesus saves me. I am ready to live or to die now. He leaves to mourn his departure, wife, two sons and one daughter, mother, one brother, six sisters and many friends. ACCUSED MOONSHINER IS FREE.

The Government Case Down at Fort Smith Comes to An End. Fort Smith, Jan. C. Fitts, assistant atorney general, today asked the federal court to dismiss the case against J. H.

Surber, former internal revenue agent. at Atlanta, Ga. His quest was that the jury which has been hearing Surber's trial be instructed to return a verdict. of not guilty on the allegation that the former revenue officer was implicated in an alleged "moonshine" case here. The court dismissed the case as wequested.

The action today ends the prosecution of Surber. MORE U. P. SHOP TALK. Rumor Has it Strong That the Shops Will Be Built This Year.

One of the railroad men stated this morning that it was reported down at Armstrong that the old shops would be torn down this year; that on that ground a new 50-stall round house will be built, and that, the new, modern shops will be built at Junction City. SHOT DOWN SIXTY FLYERS. During the Month of December Sixty Flyers Wtre Shot Down. Berlin, Jan. aeroplanes of the entente were shot down on the various battle fronts in the month of December, according to the German official statement: 22 of them are in possession of the central powers.

The loss of the central alies in December were 17 machines. GREEK GOVERNMENT GIVES IN. Will Meet All Demands of the Allies, Says a Report. London, Jan. The announcement that the Greek government has accepted in their entirety the demands of the allies was received today in a cablgram from Sir F.

F. H. Elliott, British minister at Athens. RECAPTURE A VILLAGE. The Russian Troops Retake a Rumanian Village.

Petrograd, Jan. war office announces the capture of the village of Vadeni in Rumania six miles southwest of the Danube town of Galatz. The professors down at K. U. are very anxious for a few new buildings and this week it was announced that the superintendent of grounds and buildings now believed the old north college: building to be unsafe and it should be replaced with a new structure at once.

The old north college building is over 50 years old and some day will be replaced with a new, modern building, but it may be some time off. Henry Thiele, who left here last Friday noon in his touring car for Denver, arrived at Denver Sunday noon and he made a good run. The afternoon he left here he went to Hays City for the night, a run of over 180 miles. Probate Judge Daniel Hurley today named Mrs. Daniel Hurley as his deputy.

John Collins of Humboldt creek was in the city today on business. H. Krebs of Milwaukee is in the city the guest of his mother. The Daily Union. 10c a week.

Weather Forecast The lowest temperature last was 19 above zero and the highest this afternoon was above. ago today the minimum was zero the was above. forecast generally and warmer night and Thursday. FOR STATE CONTROL WOULD ALSO ALLOW CITIES TO BUY SERVICE CORPORATIONS. MANY APPROPRIATION BILLS IN Bills Amounting to Over a Half Million Dollars Introduced in the House Today.

(By the Associated Press.) Topeka, Jan. ownership and operation of public utilities is made possible under a bill before the house by George R. Allen of Wyandotte. Allen's bill provides that where service by public service corporations is not satisfactory the property may be taken over and operated either by the state or any city. The property can be purchased outright or through condemnation proceedings.

Appropriation bills totaling $578,250 were introduced in the house today. A bill by Wells of Miami provides $280,000 for the state Soldiers' Home, Dodge City, and $100,250 for the Mother Bickerdyke Home at Ellsworth. Western University at Rosedale would get $91,000 in a bill by Allen of Wyandotte. IN THE SENATE. Some "safety first" legislation was introduced by Sen.

Charles S. Huffman, of Columbus, in bill No. 115, which gives the state labor department power to make investigations into all kinds of industrial accidents, whether caused by defective machinery or not, and also to enforce the permanency of safety devices ordered on machinery. Bill 114 provides for an assistant state labor commissioner at a salary of $2,400 and an al state factory inspector to add to the present force of three. School districs are enabled provide ransportation for children attending consolidated school by senate bll No.

117, by James R. Plumb, of Emporia. The fair associatios bill No. 121, in the senate, by Sen. Rolland W.

Coleman, allows small population counties to vote bonds for fair support. At present only larger counties have this privilege. Written records of the previous history of a second hand automobile, at its sale is required by bill 128 by Sen. C. E.

Snyder, of Leavenwotrh. Infantile paralysis is declared a contagious disease in bill No. 135, by Sen. J. A.

Milligan, of The bill was introduced to strengthen the control of the state board of health in combating the disease. Clerks of district courts are required to file in the office of register of deeds the journal entry of all cases affecting the title to real estate, by senate bill No. 134, by Sen. H. M.

Laing, of Russell. A motorman, a conductor and a flagman would be required on electric line trains with three or more cars. under senate bill No. 100, which Sen. J.

W. Montee introduced yesterday. A week's notice published in a newspaper is required by senate bill No. 95 before foreign corporations doling business in Kansas can withdraw from the state. The bill was introduced by Sen.

Francis C. Price of Ash- IN THE HOUSE. -Hughes of Rooks, introduced two measures permitting the working of prisoners 0n1 the county highways. House bill 151 allows the working of county prisoners serving sentences of 60 days or more, while house bill 163 provides for the working of convicts from the penitentiary on the public roads on requisition from the county commissioners. The county must furnish tools and provide for care of men.

J. S. Stour. of Stevens, introduced house bill 164, limiting stock trains except where less than 3 to 60 cars, cars of livestock are included in mixed freight trains. Publishing the names of all purchasers of liquor shipments in counties of 8.000 000 or less population is ordered in house bill 165, by D.

C. Sullivan of Two amendments to the fee and salary laws were proposed in the yeseerday by C. D. Gorham, of house Finney county. Both measures allow increased clerk hire for county offfcials in small counties.

House bill 160 allows registers of deeds in counties having a population of to 6,000 10,000 to expend $33 year for clerk hire. The sum is allowed for clerk to clerks the of the district 15,000 courts of 6,000 to counties The present law allows no clerk hire in either case. Wilmoth made short plea for his city officers from holding the job of county sioner. The mayor that he wanted to REVIEWED TROOPS GENERAL FUNSTON RETURNS TO HEADQUARTERS. U.

S. TROOPS MAY LEAVE SOON Reports Show That Conditions in Mexico are Better Than They Have Been for Some Time. (By the Associated Press.) Field Headquarters, Mexico, Jan. 16, -General Funston returned to Colonia Dublan from El Valle tonight, thus completing the inspection of a 175-mile line of communication and review of 10,000 men. "The experience is surprising," he stated.

"Until now I did not fully realize the responsibility of the officers and men of the expedition, and I do not believe the American people appreciate what a job this expedition has had and how fully it has carried out its orders." He praised the spirit of the troops, their works and physical condition, The amount of road work performed, establishment of communication, keeping them open, motor truck transportation, creation of pure water supplies and care taken in sanitation had pleased him greatly. Speaking of. general conditions he said: "Reports reaching us from all sources seem to indicate that conditions in all parts of Mexico adjoining the United States are better than they have been for some time." Neither General Funston nor General Pershing would express any opinion as to the time for withdrawal of the troops, although line officers freely express the opinion that it will begin within ten days. FOOD GETTING SCARCE. A Report From Germany Shows That Food Is Scarce.

Stockholm, Jan. food situation in Germany has grown much worse during the last six months, according to the experience of an Associated Press correspondent who has just returned from Berlin. Potatoes are so scarce that this week's per capita ration in Berlin is less than pounds. This is attributed in part to farmers withholding shipment until after Feb. 15, when higher prices will be allowed.

However, it is not denied that the potato crop is not large enough to meet normal demands. Cheese has been off the market since August and eggs are unobtainable except surreptitiously at 16 to 20 cents each. Berlin's daily milk supply is about 350,000 litres against a normal one million, and it is impossible CO buy clothing, shoes, stockings or blankets except by permission of the police. This latter, however, may be merely a precautionary measure, as the shops appear to be well stocked. Chief Burgomaster Wermuth as well as the heads of other cities complain that the larger towns are compelled to suffer unnecessary hardships because the system of distribution of foodstuffs has failed in many respects.

In some cities the situation seems to be better than in others and a Berlin business man told the correspondent that he had spent Christmas week in a Rhine city where he had secured plenty of meat and bread without being required to show a bread or 8 meat card. OFFICERS BATTLE WITH ROBBERS Oklahoma Officers Surround a House And Have a Battle With Robbers. land. Grant. Harrah, Jan.

of the four robbers who held up and robbed the First National bank of Harrah Friday fought off a posse from the home of Joseph Welsher, 3 miles east, early today and escaped after wounding Joe Layton, deputy sheriff of Oklahoma county. The men fled to nearby timber and after the injury to Layton the officers abandoned the search. Frank Carter, sergeant at arms of the Oklahoma legislature, and former sheriff, received word last night that two of the robbers were at the Welsher home. A posse was organized. One member was instructed to go to the house to ask the robbers to surrender or to send the Welsherg out of the house before the battle opened.

It was said the robbers agreed to this but soon appeared armed, and surrounded by the Welsher family, opened fire on the posse. A HERO TO GET A MONUMENT. A. Tramp Saved a Train But. Dieder Railroad to Give Him Monument, St.

Louis, Jan. The act of Richard Moore, section hand, in preventing at the cost of his life a wreck of a passenger train at Tola, last week will not go unnoticed by the K. officials of which declared that all burial expenses together with the erection of a stone bearing the story of his heroism will be borne by the company. Moore had left repair material on the track and seeing a train approaching removed it but was unable to get off the track himself. raider.

maximum Will Dixon left today for a short business visit in Kansas City..