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THE STATE eJIEJMNAIL SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS LAST EDITION SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918 BY CARRIER IN IjAXSIVG A XI) EAST LANSLXG 12 CENTS PER WEEK. Tonight Fair and cool. Wednesday Fair and cool. ITT RUSSIA POLICY General Pershing's New Chief of Staff Lansing Will Observe National Holiday of France on July 14 Day Celebrated as is Fourth of July in America to See Mass Meeting Here. FRENCH HIT HUNS HARD Ml 450 PRISONERS TAKEN IN MOVEMENT.

observed this year by France and her European allies. Wherever soldiers or sailors are stationed prominence will be given that nationality apart from all others, with the tricolor holding the supreme honors of the day. There will probably be no parade or open air celebration In this city that day, but a patriotic and stirring program will be given in Prudden auditorium In the evening. The evening services in all churches will be eliminated so that all the people can participate In this demonstration. Members of the committee on arrangements and the organizations represented by them are as follows: Grand Army.

L. W. Ellwood; Spanish War Veterans, Thurlow Pope; Sons of Veterans. A. N.

Bateman; Michigan State Troops. Major C. W. McKibbin; Chamber of Commerce, F. N.

Arbaugh; Trades and Labor Council, M. J. League: Ministers' Union. Rev. H.

H. Pttzer: Y. M. C. Arthur C.

Sawhill; Knights of Columbus, Herbert Henry. I wSl2 ll Yankee Engineer Wins Britain's D. S. Order Col. John X.

Hodges. RAILWAY Colonel Hodges, commander of the which was delivered against one of American engineers in France, who them was repulsed. Some 4aU pris-closed the gap driven into the Brit- oners were taken. ish Fifth army's line during the i The area chosen for the blow was opening of the German drive in I Jut south of the Matz river region March, is the first American to re- northwest of the ompiegen tores! ceive the Distinguished Service Or- the front between Montdnlier and I CALLED DEAD CHICAGO TRIBUNE MAN ANALYZES SITUATION. RIVALS ON 50-50 BASIS Says Auto Maker's Candidacy Lacked Self-Starter; Enthusiasm Missing.

"Lack of honking ror the automobile man" is the "significant thing'' discovered by Arthur M. Evans, staff correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, he relates in Tuesday's issues, after a trip into this state to learn what has resulted from the Democratic picking Henry Ford for the Republican candidate for United States senator. He declares the Democrats failed to equip the candidacy with a self-starter and that its engine is cold. The minority party is declared to be "still fumbling for the ear trumpets" while listening for the popular response. Evans declares many business men and laboring men said the bulk of the Ford talk is "anti" instead of "pro." "If there is any enthusiasm, some one is doing a clever job of concealment," reports the staff correspondent.

"The Democratic jobholders, postmasters and such, are putting in strong words for Ford, but apparently these are not rellee-tive of sentiment in other groups." "A great breaking down of ancient factional linos among the Republicans." is another observation. "Standpats. progressives, radicals, conservatives, stalwarts, hardshells. and middle of the road pilgrims are dropping their old tags and an entirely new lineup is in process of evolution. Some are going to Chase S.

Osborn. and sonic are flocking to Truman H. Newberry. Henry Ford, too, is getting some of them, notably those of the horse race tendency, whose controlling motive in polities is picking the winner and picking him quick. Just now they are beginning to wonder whether they are on the wrong horse.

Drop Old Knmitics. "Old enmities are being buried at a rapid rate. Even some of the mining men in the upper peninsula who raved at Osborn years ago when as governor he sought to put over a tonnage tax on iron ore are saying that old scars are not to be opened. And some of the standpats who yelled and shrieked when in (Continued on Page 2, Column 2). Content of More Than One-Half Per Cent Makes All Handlers Liable.

Ketailers, distributors and manufacturers of on draught near-beer are all to be held responsible for the sale of the substitute which contains more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol. Complaints and frequent analyses of the various near-beers in the state have shown in many instances the "temperance" product has the "authority" which Al Jolson made famous by telling of its absence. Scientific examinations have shown as much as three per cent of alcohol. This high percentage, however, has been rare. But much of it has shown one and one-half per rent, which is three times what the government allows without payment of the beer tax.

The department recognizes that some fermentation is necessary to keep the near-beer from being what has been called "slop." But when the content increases beyond the half per cent mark, then it becomes intoxicating in quantities which a person can drink without becoming nauseated. All along the line there have been efforts to "pass the buck." The manufacturers have blamed the distributors or the retailers and the latter the brewer. Shipments have been traced directly from the manufactur-ei to the door of the retailer. Analysis of.it then shows some of it had high alcoholic content. Others did not.

Now all who have a hand in the sale of near-beer with too much alcohol will be held responsible. Arrests are to be made when samples to be taken daily all over the state show more than one-half of one per cent. WIRE HEARING HELD BEHIND CLOSED DOORS By AMOclated Pren. WASHINGTON, July 9. Senators demanding investigation before action on the house resolution authorizing the president to take over telegraph, telephone, radio, and wireless lines won a partial victory Tuesday when the senate interstate commerce committee heard testimony behind closed doors on the telegraph situation from President Carlton of the Western Union company.

A decision regarding further hearings was deferred. COMMITTEE BEGINS ON NEW WAR REVENUE BILL By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. July 9. Preliminary work was begun by the house ways and means committee at an executive session today on the drafting of the new war revenue bill designed to raise $4,000,000,000 of additional taxes to supplement the yielded by the present laws.

I I 25 PER CENT GROWING LAND IN HUN HANDS. MORE TROUBLE FACTORS Much Food Has Been Sent to Italy; People Fail to Realize Situation. By Frederic J. Haskin. WASHINGTON, Jcly 9.

The food situation in France contains many disturbing factors. Long before the entry of the United States into the war this country exported vast quantities of food to France, and since congress declared war we have furnished the French with even greater Even England, forced to fall back upon the United States for sixty-five per cent of her essential foodstuffs, in turn sends much of the foodstuffs received from this country across the channel to France. With the aid of the United States and Great Britain France will be able to tide over until the next harvest. A very important factor to be taken into consideration with ref erence to the shortage of food in France is the fact that the Hun invader is today occupying a part of France that heretofore has produced more than twenty-five per cent of the total cereal output of that country, and much of the livestock. An other fact to be considered is that France has been sending much food to Italy.

In spite of the fact that the French government has made strenuous ef forts to make the people accept some program of food conservation, only a measure of success has been attained. In despair. Monsieur Bor-et's department has given up plan after plan to make the populace re alize the seriousness of the food sit uation. Not that the French people are not patriotic, or do not wish to co-operate, but they cannot accommodate themselves to such wide departures from the old order of things as are demanded by the regulations of the Department of Food Before the war one could obtain an excellent meal in France for a franc. about twenty cents.

Even now the average meal hardly ever exceeds five francs, the equivalent of a dollar. This to the French people of course is exorbitantlv high but compares very favorably with food prices in this country. There has always been an- abundance of food In France and the people cannot understand why a food shortage exists. The- poorer classes, whom the shortage hits the hardest, cannot understand why the Minister of Food asks them to save food which they do not have. Visitors Find Pclnty.

When an American or Englishman visits Paris or towns like Tours, Nice or Monte Carlo, he cannot understand why reports have been circulated that a food shortage exists in France. Does not the evidence of his senses refute any such statement? Cannot the American see before him such a meal as he could hardly surpass In New York's best cafes, and the Englishman such a feast as he has not seen for four long years? Why then the reports of a food shortage? Persons who have made a study Continued on Page 2. Colum 4. 15 VISITED HT FIRE Two Buildings at Pontiac Farm Are Destroyed at Loss of $40,000. Br AMriBtl Prewt.

PONTIAC. July 9. Fire which broke out in the administration building at the Oakland county poor farm Tuesday morning spread to the hospital and completely destroyed both structures. The total loss is nearly $40,000. They were insured for $19,500.

Of the 85 pnnntv fnrxri inmates eight were confined to the hospital. The latter were rescued witn aimcuuy, some even resisting being taken to safety, declaring that as their only home was about to be lost they might as well go with it. It is expected new structures will be begun as quickly as possible. VOLUNTARY SERVICE LEAGUE MEETS TONIGHT A meeting of the Voluntary Service league, intended for all those who have so far signed the enrollment cards of the league, is to be held in the Chamber of Commerce building at 8 o'clock tonight. At this meeting it is expected that perfected plans for extending the membership of the league to include all men who have any time at all to spare for war work, will be outlined and the work which the league expects to do will be explained.

Both Walter S. Foster, chairman of the county war board, and Joseph Ger-son, chairman of the city war board, are expected to speak. ISLAND OF GUAM HIT BY TYPHOON JULY 6 By Associated Pre. WASHINGTON. July 9.

The Island of Guam was devastated by a typhoon on July 6, Captain Roy Smith, governor of the island and commandant of the naval station, reported Tuesday to the navy department. He said half the inhabitants are destitute, crops been destroyed and much material damage done. Steps have been taken to feed the 111 OAKLAND Observance of the national holiday of France will be held in Lansing next Sunday. A committee appointed by Mayor Ferle will meet in the mayor's office Wednesday evening at 7:30 to complete arrangements for a mass meeting which will be held in Prudden auditorium Sunday evening. Speakers of national reputation will be assigned to this city for the day and at least two, one representing France and the other the United States, will speak at the meeting.

A chorus will lead in the singing of the "Marseillaise." "The Star Spangled Banner" and other patriotic and national airs. Other features will also be arranged for the evening. Elaborate preparations are being made in all the larger cities of the nation, and especially In the places where army camps and cantonments are situated, to celebrate July 14 as the great national holiday of France, which corresponds to our Fourth of July, which was so enthusiastically FUEL LIMITATION 15 Six Tons of Hard Coal is Maximum for Man With Base Burner. Orders drastically limiting the use of anthracite coal, in Michigan were issued Tuesday morning by W. K.

Prudden. federal fuel administrator for Michigan. Consumers having strictly hard coal base burners are limited to not more than six tons of anthracite. Persons having hot water or steam furnaces are cut off entirely from hard coal. To prevent occupants or owners of large houses, who have small families, securing excessive quantities of this coal, they are limited to 50 tons, even though the normal pre-war requirements are much larger.

The order in full is as follows: Until further notice the following orders relative to coal for domestic use will he in force: First Consumers having strictly hard coal base burners may have delivered their requirements not exceeding six tons. All nut and stove sizes to be reserved so far as possible for base burner use. Second Consumers having hot air furnaces including hot air furnaces having hot water coils attached one- half nf their requirements. cor each ton of hard coal now-on hand or hereafter delivered an additional ton of soft coal to be procured. Third Consumers having hot wa ter or steam heating equipments I must provide fuel other than an-! thmcite for heating, i Fourth The owner or occupant -if a private residence having less i than iivc in family shall not have delivered to said residence to ex- i ced r.O tons of anthracite coal, even I 'hough his previous normal requlre-! ments have been in excess of that amount.

Fifth Any owner or occupant of a private residence having less than five in family who has now on hand more than SO tons of anthracite coal shall hold such excess subject to the order of the United States Fuel Administration. Sixth Consumers having Spencer heaters may by special permit of the local fuel administration have delivered to them coal In proportion of two thirds anthracite and one third bituminous. Seventh Every coal dealer, jobber or operator is hereby prohibited to deliver to any domestic consumer any anthracite coal except as herein provided and only after said consumer has made a signed application upon government blank for that purpose. Eighth Any violation of these orders by consumer or dealer will subject them to the penalty of a fine of $5,000 or two years imprisonment or both, as provided by Act of Congress. W.

K. PRUDDEN. Federal Fuel Administrator. PITZER PRESIDENT OF CITY ENDEAVOR UNION Lansing Christian Endeavor union held its annual meeting at Pilgrim Congregational church last night. The various societies of the city were well represented and the reports of the year's work were very encouraging.

The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Rev. H. H. Pitzer; vice president, F. Irvln Chase; second vice president, M.

C. Hengt; recording secretary. Miss Edna Tallmadge; corresponding secretary. Miss Hilda Struble: treasurer. Miss Margaret Sass; choister, ttii, Tinrtat Th vpr's nrogram which was adopted includes open air meetings, evangelistic services and regular rallies.

$10,000,000 FURTHER CREDIT GIVEN ITALY By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. July 9. An additional credit of $10,000,000 was granted to Italy Tuesday by the treasury department, making a total of $660,000,000 for Italy and of loaned to the Allies to date. 92 ARMY TRANSPORTS NOW UNDER CONTRACT By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON. July 9. Chairman Hurley after a visit to the White House Tuesday announced that the shipping board has let contracts for 92 army transports. After the war the transports will be put into the passenger carrying trade. ED MUST KEEP MOVES FROM HUN KNOWLEDGE.

ACTION EXPECTED Tokio Ready When U. S. Approves; Advance Siberia. 35y AiMOciateri Pre. WASHIXGTOX, July 9.

Statement as to the details of the new ipolicy toward Russia, believed to have been definitely decided upon Hfaa not forthcoming from high of-Jficials Tuesday and it was intimated What the line of operations to be followed would not be revealed. Ru-imors Monday that a statement from rthe White House was under consideration could not be confirmed Tuesday. Possibilities of endangering the program to be carried out through information reaching Germany was fregarded as the cause of the unusual Ireticence in official circles. Interchanges on the Russian situation between allied capitals are proceeding, jit is known, and it was assumed that the subject of such communi-tcations was taken up at a. conference.

Monday between President Wilson and the British ambassador. Furnishing of aid to elements in Russia or Siberia opposed to Germany through the taking of action at Kola on the Arctic ocean or at Vladivostok is a plan which is regarded as the most feasible in the opinion of observers not conversant the plan believed to have been factually decided upon by the government. Military experts, however, (continue to hold that the dissipation fcof strength through the landing of large military forces at either of the two points would be a mistake as Germany must be first given a decisive defeat on the western front. Supreme Council Notified. It is believed among entente dlp-3omats that President Wilson has notified the supreme war council of the allies at Versailles of his decision, to abide by such military moves as the council may order, with the ultimate object to restoring the Rus-rian front.

Mr. Wilson discussed the mutter today with Lord Reading, the British ambassador. The impression is general that early action by Japan may now be expected. The Tokio government has taken the position that it would rot serve in Siberia as the mandatory of the allies unless the United f-'tates appro-ed of the project, and in the best informed circles here the statement was emphatically made that no military assistance to Russia at the present time could be effective without the co-operation of a Japanese army. Advise Move Through Siberia.

Contrary to the widely held belief. trans-Siberian railway, it was asserted at the Russian embassy. Is not only usable, but offers the only adequate means of rendering aid to JRussia. The Russian summer being brief, the port of Archangel would be ice-bound in a few months -and Kola, the Arctic seaport, would fee unable to accommodate the traf-kic which effective assistance implies. Tt is believed, besides, that the '(Germans, assisted by Finnish troops, will attempt to cut the railway line from Kola to Petrograd, and the on-Jy other line from the northern roast to the interior of Russia, running from Archangel to Vologda.

The entente conviction that the rtoment has already arrived for giv. ng aid to Russia is emphasized by the assassination of the German ambassador at Moscow, Count von Mtr-Jach. which, it is thought, will prompt Germany to take a savage revenge. May Establish German Rule. Diplomatic advices received here today state that Dr.

von Kuehlmann, Ithe German foreign secretary, has arrived at German general headquarters, and the assumption is that ithe emperor, with the counsel of Jhis military chiefs, will give Immediate orders for avenging the killing cf the German envoy, making it the jpretext for fresh annexations, and -possibly tor the undisguised creation of a German regime in Russia. Whether the Bolshevik! have lost tcontrol of the situation at Moscow Is not known here. It is assumed ere that tney stiu maintain a sem-lance of power. Fighting in Vladivostok. LONDON, July 9.

The center of Uolsheviki activity in Vladivostok was a fortified house guarded by German and Hungarian war prisoners. This house, according to Colonel Hurban, of the Czecho-Slovak national council, who was -in Tokio on July 2 by the correspondent of the Times, was attacked on June 29 by the Czecho Slovaks who routed the guards with hand grenades. Twenty Czechs were killed in the fighting. oloneI Hurban. the correspondent adds, intended to sail for the Unit ed States on July 7.

A Vladivostok dispatch to the Nichi Nichi says that the Czech occupation was accompanied by violent artillery fire and furious street fighting. The steamer Himbirsk, of the Russian volunteer fleet, escaped from the port during the fighting. Germans Fear Anarchy. THE HAGUE. July 9.

Germans returning from Moscow recently, says the Vossische Zeitung referring to the Von Mlrbach case, have ex pressed fear that complete anarchy iere might endanger persons, who. an orderly country, would be safe from harm. It gives the following alleged quotation from a speaker at a railway strike meeting in Moscow: "It is time to throw off the noose which Von Mirbach has put around our necks, otherwise a shameful death threatens us. Away with German capital: Away with Von Mirbach and his whole counter revolutionary band:" NILE OF DRIVE Two Farms Captured; Counter Attack is Repulsed; Tanks Assisted Poilus. BY ASSOCIATKO I'RKSs.

French troops gave the German lines a smashing blow early this morning in the area almost direct i north of Paris, where the Germans were stopped al'ttr live days of fighting in their thrust toward the capital in the last and least successful of all their 191S offensives about a month ago. The attack was delivered along a two and mile front and at some points General Petain's troops pushed into the enemy positions for a distance of a mile. Two taniis were cjiitturpfl counter attack 1 oi me uviumh wedge projected here near Antheuil. and it was just to the west of this town astride the Compicgne roaI that the French drove in. taking vul-i high ground on both sides of the highway.

The attacking forces were assisi- ed bv tanks in their drive. Appar- ently all the terrain gained has bt-en maintained intact. The new advance will serve still' further to protect the important railway junction of Esirees-Si. Denis, which iies seven miles southwest Antheuil On th British from there were only raiding operations, The French war office reports con-; iderabie artillery activity io the west and north of Chateau Thierry on the Marne front. It is in this sector that the Americans on this front are holding several miles of the line.

French Continue Nibbling. French troops again have been successful in the resumption of th nibbling" tactics, which the allied cohimand has followed while the Germans prepare for a new blow. The fighting -activity on the western front, however still is much localized. From the enemy lines come no indications that the Germans are about to strike. For several weeks the Germans have been drilling and instructing special attacking divisions behind the German lines leaving the front positions to be guarded by mediocre troops.

German aerial activity has decreased in the past few days and it is probable the airmen also are making ready for the next onslaught. The German artillery lire has increased to above normal only on certain sectors. It is not unlikely the enemy will depend on the element of surprise in the impending blow as he did on March 21 and in the attack against the Chemin-Des-Dames. While the Germans have been spreading reports of an attack against the British, it is now known they have not constructed defensive works between Soissons and Rheims. The usual interval between enemy offensive movements has about expired.

Entente airmen are keeping up an active bombardment of the area behind the German lines. British fliers again have invaded Germany, dropping bombs on Kaiserlawtern. cast of Metz. and on in aerial righting British and Frem-li airmen have accounted for 25 German machines. Patrols Active in Italy.

Patrol activity and local operations are increasing in number on the Italian mountain front. On tho lower Piave the Austrians. it is estimated, lost 20.000 men killed. wounded and prisoners in the actions last week in which they were driven back across the river, relieving somewhat the pressure against Venice. In western Albania French and Italian troops are withstanding strong counter attacks by the Austrians.

All positions have been maintained on the heights of Bolnia and slight progress made elsewhere. Various reports of happenings In Russia in connection with the murder of German Ambassador von Mir-hach lack official confirmation. Germany, apparently has not yet acted. An advance toward Moscow has not been reported, although the Germans have had large forces of troops near Smolensk, 250 miles west of Moscow. British Take Prisoner.

LONDON, July 9. Raiding operations carried out last night by British troops east of Arras netted a few prisoners, the war office announced today. South of the Somme river the German artillery has been displaying activity in bombing the positions recently captured by British forces there. French Advanop a Mlle. PARIS, July 9.

French troops early this morning attacked the German lines on a front of about 2 1-2 miles west of Antheuil, on the front between Montdidier and the Oise. penetrating the enemy positions and realizing an advance of a mile at certain points, the war office announced today. A German counter attack upon the French lines ax the Loges farm, in the area of this advance, was repulsed, the French entirely maintaining their gains. Prisoners were taken to the number of 450, including 14 officers. American Sectors Quiescent.

WASHINGTON. July 9. General Pershing's communique for Monday received Tuesday said there was nothing important to report from sections of the front occupied by American, troops. Gen. J.

W. McAndrcw. Major General J. W. McAndrew is General Pershing's new chief of staff.

This is his most recent photograph. Officers Are Running Down All Clues Which Might Lead to BushneU's Capture. By Astociatd Prea. JACKSON. July 9.

A sheriff's posse left the jail Tuesday noon for Pinckney. Livingston county, where it was reported a man answering the description of Harry Bushnell, the fugitive convict, wanted for the brutal murder of Mrs. Tillie Jenkins and Vaiden Bordner, was seen hiding in the woods. Suspects have also been reported at Owosso and Algon-ac. The funeral of Mrs.

Jenkins was held here Tuesday afternoon, being attended by many of her fellow munition workers. Bordner's funeral was held at his home in Coidwater Monday. PONTIAC, July 9. Taking no chances on permitting Harry Bushnell, escaped Jackson convict to carry out his threat to kill his divorced wife, now Mrs. Peter Mc-Vean, of Pontiac township, the woman has been secretly taken out of the county to a place known only to her husband.

The McVean home is guarded day and night by several armed men who are ready to fire on any suspicious prowler at a second's notice. Sheriff Charles Cross is conducting an investigation into many tips that have been given his office. One today caused him to go to Cass Lake, the scene of the crime for which Bushnell was sentenced to Jackson. He found a hidden camp and has established a guard over it to watch for the return of its owner. The sheriff has received notice from Lansing that Captain Cliilds and 10 members of the constabulary to aid in running down Bushnell will be placed at his disposal if he deems the move necessary.

DUNNEBACKE ACQUITTED ON SPEEDING CHARGE "Not guilty" was the verdict returned by a jury of six men in municipal court Monday afternoon after hearing the evidence in the case of J. Edward Dunnebacke, who was charged with violating the speed laws Sunday, June 16. on the roud between Lansing and Okemos. Edmund "Cy" Young, deputy sheriff who made the arrest, was the only witness summoned for the prosecution. He testified Dunnebacke was going 3ft miles an hour.

The testimony of Dunnebacke and Miss Helen McDonald, who was in company with him when he encountered the officer, was that he never at any time exceeded 22 miles an hour. The evidence disclosed the possibility of the officer getting hold of the wrong car. The parties were on the way to Pine lake and the evidence showed that other automobiles were whisking along the way and in the clouds of dust a mistake could be made by the officer in following up and identifying the right car. U-BOAT ALLIES' WORST PERIL, SAYS KELLAWAY By Atfciated Prrns. LONDON.

July 9. The great body of the English nation fails to realize how near England came to irretrievable disaster because of the German U-boats, said George Kellaway, secretary to the minsister of munitions, speaking at Midlands Monday. In discussing the submarine peril Mr. Kellaway said: "The U-boat Is still one of the greatest perils against which the Allies have to fight. Those who suppose we shall be able to abolish these risks are living in a fool's paradise.

But, thanks to the navy, our losses are being brought to within limits which the Allies can bear without flinching. Recent returns show the loss of munitions ships from submarine warfare are only about a quarter of what they were when the U-boat campaign was at Its height. There have been weeks recently when the Germans failed to sink a single ton of munitions." GRANDSON OF R. E. LEE GETS CROIX DE GUERRE CHICAGO, July 9.

Lieutenant Robert E. Lee. a grandson of the famous confederate general, has been cited for the Croix de Guerre, according to a letter JuAt received from him by his wife. It is assumed that the citation was for an' exploit several weeks ago. in which the lieutenant and his company captured a machine gunK the lieuten-unt being wounded.

REDUCESJJS FARE Follows Court Order "Pending Further Decision or Action By Government." By reducing fares to the level they were before the increase of June 20 went into effect, Michigan Railway-company. Tuesday morning in a few instances, as on the St. Johns line, found itself violating the injunction Issued by Judge Howard Wicst, which ordered fares not to exceed two cents a mile. The conflict Is due to the fact that in a few instances franchise-fixed rates are greater than two cents a mile. Representatives of the company.

Attorney General Alex J. Groesbeck and Judge Howard Wiest of the Ingham circuit court will consider the matter this afternoon. It is probable that the attorney general in such cases, will ask that the injunction be modified sufficiently to save the company from being in contempt of court. Though in these isolated cases the company is getting more than two cents a mile, in other cases fares are only a cent and a half a mile. The result, is a saving to the people at large.

Fares at the old rate were reduced with first cars leaving at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning. In each instance the charge was the same as It had been before the increase to. three cents on June 20.. That the company intends to fight the case is indicated by the fact that Thursday morning the company asked for a certified transcript of the proceedings before Judge Wiest. It is further evidenced by placing placards at ticket windows announcing that "pending further decision or action by the government" the company will continue collecting fares at the pre-June 20 rate.

Some persons, who have paid the 3-cent fare since June 20, have retained their cash fares receipts in hopes of securing a refund of the excessive fares. At the attorney general's office, it Was stated collection of the excess. If refunds are refused by the company. Is a matter for civil action and not one in which the state should take the initiative. At the ticket office of the Michigan Railway at noon, no instructions had been received on the subject.

GERMANS SAY FIGURES ARE "AMERICAN BLUFF" By AnFAriatcd Press. WASHINGTON. Julv 9. Publication in Swiss papers of the text of Secretary Baker's letter to President Wilson giving the American troop movements to Europe by months caused the German authorities to permit Its publication in Germany, according to a dispatch received from Berne. The Kolnische Zeitung published the letter under the heading "American Bluff" the dispatch says, and commented as follows: "Mr.

Baker thinks he will be able to dissi pate all doubts about exactitude of his figures with his recitations. It is however, only the usual American bluff. We know from reliable sources that the figures in question are Inordinately exaggerated and In no way correspond to the truth." MEN BACK FROM RUSSIA SENT TO GERMAN ARMY By Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, July 9. During a debate on the budget in the German reichstag on Friday says the Cologne Zazette, General von Stein, the Prussian minister of war said: "Prisoners returned from Russia at any time are re-employed in the army.

The position is different with exchanged prisoners from Great Britain and France, regarding which prisoners we accepted conditions under which such employment is impossible. "A few men have reported that while in Russia they signed an attestation to British and French officials that they could not be employ ed at the front. Those are tricks of entente agents in which we do not acquiesce. I regret that "frequently rar reacning promises nave been made which afterward lead to all kinds of complaints when under the pressure of necessity they are not kept." Gun Man Is Arrested. By Associated Press.

BAT CITY. July 9. FTed Jack son. the alleged deserter from the Canadian army who shot Sheriff Schweinsberg and Register of Deeds William J. Lambert Monday even ing has been brought to the local county Jail.

He was found near Pin conning with two bullet holes in his body. der from Great war. Britain during the I i SHEPHERD FIRE 15 PART OF HI PLOT Such is Belief of Town Whose Elevator is Saved iiy Night Watchman. Special to The State Journal. SHEPHERD, July 9.

A plot to burn the Shepherd wheat and grain elevator is believed to have been the reason for the lire here Monday morning which destroyed the large enclosed hogpens of Carl Merrle. Flames were discovered in the latter building about 2 a. and an alarm was given. The fire fighters, however, were unable to check the fire before it reached some gasoline and dynamite, the latter left there by Clift Hixon who was drilling a well at the Merrle place. An explosion followed and the building was entirely- destroyed.

In the meantime residents of the town had gathered at the fire, with the exception of Willard Wilson, night watchman, who had gone at once to the grain elevator of C. H. Estee to guard it during the excitement at the fire. As he drew near he noticed a stranger in vicinity and ordered him to stop. The man failed to do so.

hwever, but quickened his pace. When he refused a sec-nd time to stop Wilson fired, without hitting him. The man then ran and the watchman fired a second time, without the desired result and the former made his escape in the dark. It is believed the fire was started in the Merrle building to divert attention of the people and thus give an opportunity to destroy the elevator. This is Shepherd's first experience with supposed Hun agents.

22 FUNERALS TUESDAY OF RIVER BOAT DEAD Br Aociat4d Tret. PEORIA. ILL. July 9. Residents of Pekin, Tuesday, continued their sad task of burying the victims of the steamer Columbia disaster.

Twenty-two funerals were arranged for the day. The first was held at 8 o'clock this morning and from then until latp in the afternoon there was a succession of such ceremonies at the town's cemetery. Funerals also were held at Kingston Mines, the village which lost 15 of its residents in the steamer wreck. With the recovery of the body of Jerry Chiollis. Pekin, found floating near the wreck this morning the total number of bodies recovered was brought up to SO.

According to latest figures 10 persons are still missing. HOME AT EATON RAPIDS IS DESTROYED BY FIRE Special to The State Journal. EATON RAPIDS, July 9. The home of William E. Tracy on Canal was totally destroyed by fire at 11 a.

Tuesday. The cause was a defective chimney. Most of the contents were burned, increasing the loss to about $2,500. An insurance of $1,200 was carried. Some half-dozen houses in the vicinity were threatened by burning brands, but all were put qut before damage was done.

Horner Bros, dismissed their employes to help fight the fire. The burned home is one of the older residences of the city. Charlotte responded to the call for help by sending an automobile truck here. It arrived, however, too late to render assistance. FUEL ADMINISTRATOR OF INDIANA HIGHER UP By Aftsoclated PreM.

WASHINGTON, July 9. Evans Woollen, fuel administrator for Indiana, has been named as director of the bureau of state organizations of the TT. S. fuel administration during the absence of Walter E. Hope of New York, who has been granted temporary leave of absence, an announcement Tuesday said.

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