Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 125, Lebanon, Boone County, 21 February 1917 — Page 1

r... otter ia the &nl. DI!j Kewpaper in Boone County.

i1i(fy tfinttrM, pnihu-liiy rmn v j hihiw north ami cntrnl porium?; .- mcr nonhfattt pvtm lltiifrmityf i pt'twally fair anil roltlT. f VOLUME 25. LEBANON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1917. NO. 125.

ACTION AWAITS

President Wants to Know What Austria Proposes to Do. ENSIGN P.ETWEEN U.S. AM) GERMANY Reports That Two Americans Were I'nder Shell Fire Increase Feeling.

tHil Ihr Intmntiuatt ,.-. yr,,i,r , WASHINGTON, February 21. nether the I'nitod States sevei diplomatic' regions with Austria-Hungary depends altogether upon the character if the reply received to Am- ; tiassador Perifield's imfuiry regaul , inir the attitude of the dual monarchy towards the German submarine r.tin- , paign. t4 What the t'nitixl Slates wants lo l know is whether Austria-Hung. in proposes to abide by the assurance -r--iven the I iuted States after the sink g nf the Anrona ami Persia. Tl.oar I -u ranees were interpreted at .he ..ate department to mean that Aim C'ia Horifary would conform to ihi !.; of iruer ailional la in her sub si me cainirn. .Spccitieaity it wa. nderstood fliat Austria Hungary would not Kink merchant vessels in oi

our oi me war lone wiuoul warning j, and w ithout taking all available me: ns ;, for saving human life. t .Now the Mate neiiartment must be ; informed without delay whether .he Ancona and Persia awuianre have lie changed or withdrawn. If the ' dual monarchy ban changed its policy : such anion trill te taken ts tunl-' amount to the declaration of iinrcstricted Submarine warfare by Geimany and there will be no course open tn President Wilton except to sever ail . relations with Austria-Hungary. State department onViuls continue to withhold the text of Austria-Hungary's communication received alter Germany embarked upon her unrestricted submarine campaign. Although this has been interpreted as a declaration of Austria-Hungary's pur- , pose Ui stand by Germany in the present crisis, official have lieen disposed to await specific declaration a to whe ; ther the pixviourt protnis aie nuM . and void. Meanwhile the tension between the : United States and (ieniiany has been increael by reports that two Ani ricaua were under nhellhre while a Norwegian collier was being funk by a jOrman b'-boat. While its? m lliexM thia Incident of itwlf would not be a, j. ca.-tua belli, the repetition of similar t ovurrencea, it i thought would bring about condition so intolerable as to

i r war upon the t'nited States. FIRE AT COLI MRI S. Ihrer Business Houses ltestroyed and Two Othent Damaged. l Iht tttrrssMusel Xrir rilre.i COLl'MBCS, Iml., February 21 Three buaineiis houses were destroyed and two others damaged by a fire that canted a . of IIMhiO here t(l.iy. The fire is thought to have utarted in a burning flue in the Silverman stote. It spread nuickly to the Schf idt A Niemoeller Clothing Company aod the Fred Vollond hardware store. I)r. and Mrs. A. C. Ke!bl, who -cupied rooma on the f.econd floor of the Silwrman store building, had narrow escapes from being burned. W. C Duncan, who has a law office on the second floor of the clothing st"re. Inst all the furnishings and law ho-iks m his rooms. Both stores weie two-story buildings and were owned by 0. I.. H'-eve,, a local manufacturer. The Voliatsl block was a three-story rtructure ami was owned by Fred Volland, his son. H. K. Volland. mayor of Colurnliu.,, being part owner of the hard;,i store. Eri'CIlTS TAIL. President's Plan to Revive Colombian Treaty, is Frustrated. i IKH Ihr InUruttUmtl Sm Krrrlrt I t t WASHINGTON, February 21.--. President Wilson's efforts to revive j the Colombian treaty as a step toi wards gaaranteeing tho safety of the Panama canal in cw of r with .rmany failed today when Republican members of the senate foreign pel- ' ations committee declined to withdraw their opposition to the eonivirUon. No farther ttemtt to ratify the treaty will he Wade t fiis sewici, it

Bulletins

tltu thr lltrminnl Vi-irn Srrri,',) nr.RI.I.V. (Ily Win-taw) F hruary 21 A retHM-t retentl printed outside of Ccrmany that ahtwilute martial law was proclaimed in HrtuuM-la because MOO Heluian workmen refused to be removt-d to (iermany t work in ammunition lactones, was ollicially denied through the Overseas News agency today. in,. Ihr 7,li..... V, f-rri.-r I HM.MMORI'. I.bruary 21. 'I he i.arland lim r Korkingham sailed liulay for l.iterpool, the ' first American vessel to leave lhi port for the barred lone since Germany's edict on January 31. Twenty-four of h.T crew are Americans and h-r cargo is considered contraband. I,l Ihr !il.rolM... ir f'l-rl.-e.l I.OMMIN, lehroary 21. The ltritih sailing ship CenturifHi, l.HJH ions bound from I'ensacola, Floriila. for London has been sunk in the barred one. I lnyds hiinouncci! today. Her crew was Th I VntoHoo .sdl from Tensacula on l-cember 'II. NAVY WN PKOKLEM ItKFOKE MINING MEN SKW YORK, r.-l.mnry 2- M br- uf th v.il Connullin B' will mf"t with tlu vm huiul;..) fuurt--nih ror.Vf ntitn of tiw Am an In.-.titut' of Minin? Kokmic which Umm hrrv tuHuy, t nuts itiil'i't tufit f nation:,! Hurtii'mnjr nf th innr u'fii.'t gun tub in rtflr.-, will U tl oukIiIv ttiffus.-tl. 1 r. Hfnry I ay th Ma.-,achtinsft Inti tut f Ti nolojfy, w:il rcail a inpr hasl i riprios nf tP-ts of iriftuls made tit WatiM-tnwn (ovt'rmfit Ar'n:tl. About fivp hunfiml mining c npprt ar Ktttidin thp aerJ-iton SUNKBYSUBiaARINE Two Armed Steamers Also Sunk in Barred Zone of Mediterranean Sea. i flu thi InlirtinlKiiHit f Hrr ,t. BERLIN, by wireless, February 21. A crowded Italian transport has been sunk in the barred lone w.itert of the Mediterranean by a submarine, it wa announced today through the UMi News Agency. In addition to the transpurt two armed stamers, hearing important cargoes to .Salonika, the allies' b-.-te in Macedonia, also were destroyml. The agency announcement follows. "In the barred zone waters of the M;d;tcri.-.n.-:;i, ii. th. j,.,t fi.i .!.., , a large nuniber of valuable iioMii,- ni,(,..a have Is-en sunk. Aiiioog Hum were a crowded Italian transport and two armed steamers of re-ipectively .'i.tnK and WM ton with important rtirgoes ecn.(igr,.-. to Salonika. In addition the following were sunk: An lial ian ocean-going steamship of 4,2' tons, the French steamship M:jv:ritaux, of 3.200 tons and the Krem h sailing ship Aprodite, hound for Italy with WM) tons of iron." German newspapers state tlint ti.e succe.iB of the submarines is undoubtedly much larger as a majority of the underwater boats have not yi reported.

PRESIDENT TO GO BEFORE CONGRESS IN A FEW DAYS

ll lli Iftrrtiat'Oinl rv Htrrl't., WASHINGTON, I. C. February : 21. President Wilson has definitely decided to go before congress next week and a k for power to employ whati-ver agencies necessary in any emergency that might uiise after the adjournment nf that body on March 4 This was learned in hign official circles today although no formal announcement of his intention was made. The president believes that in adopt- , ing this course he will do everything po;i,;e to avoid a widening of the breach between this country and C.er- . mar.y, H is his conviction that such a move would not appear as hostile In ! the eye-i of Berlin as the catling to- ' gether of congress in epseial seseiofi ! once t had il)fn4 Ti.t ft is empersiive tht the pnw' trv t V r J

LEAGUE APPEALS

i ! I Describes the Food Situation as "Chaotic" and Serious. GOVERNMENT MUST

Iilk II.L' nci Il'P triits were grim and determined to-icuii)r-n r. i.i r, i ,,.iy PllUil lpilM must C1m, ,wn

"Duly As Patriotic As That of National Defence." Declares the Head of the I.eacue. WHY N. Y.'S (;REAT EAST SIDE RISES IN REVOLT Ul Hi, lHlrrli:,:,it u- Rtrrltt. I NKW Y011K. l-'ebiuary 21. Aim

.inhelievahlp llll-reii es III pmrs u';Use of krlunvim luit.nd un i.-ulriB vegetables wei-e announced lishty by : stw-ks will prove more efficacious. Commissioner of Weiglita and Mea-' than all the demonstrations possible, sures, Hartigan following an exhaus-' Another element, comprising tne tive search and study of market nmdi- tr.ides-unioiis and labor frown on tions. Vegetables have formed the such methods, and believe that n'oe Fast Side's chief diet for months, can he accomplished by peaceable nicat having lorig since outdi . tanced means.

'he slender purses of the tener-e nts. I'riees t.slay Onions, cwt .H.(Ki Cabbage, ton liiU.OO 1 urri.i. . 1 .1.1 '! Carrots, bbl 4 'l Spinach, bbl Parsnips. 1,1.1 4 01) Potatoe;-. lb 07

iB IW tntrraiitinnal Snt srrre-e.i 1 Mothers bearing babes in aims wanNFW YORK, February 21 Aroueed ''""''I h"u the streets seurching food by f.-xl riots and describing the food l'?""" '' " ' . Uie corners when agitators culled situation as "chaotic. houewiws of or artion Renvjt, -legged children

America appealed to President n son for relief. In an urgent telegram forwarded t the chief . . . i utive today Mrs. Julian Heath, president of the National llou.iew-ives League railed Un th piesident to u. e his "great influenc to alleviate the situation." It is th hope of the housewives lii.lt the pie-ii ''"',' "r dent may Use kis influence to an appropriation from eongie; n Federul investigation of food cost "Yesterday's food I'laza," the telegra City Hall Oiinion ilemonstrates lonclllsively the ital impoi lance o' tnis ir.vesiigaiion, not only to bring down pi ices but to let the people feel that the federal ifovfrnmntri in charjfp of th ation. Tho situation in not only srriou.s. but cli.i'itir. Tho houswive.-, of America hpih to you, Mr. I'nai Hf-nt, to Uv-e yur wr:it influnrk to alleviate th situation ami wp uttfo runifress to Mtpjtott you in tt-is nifusarf. Thr VuUvn. "Ai tl.. jn rd t;,;;r r-nprr...- h.; : UrK ,mii .iuLi.U viTvlRir:: Mrs. Ht-ath U.'tay. "Th fitt duty to pnivin atPiiuatr itpfense for mir country; th Mroml to provtdt protturtion anil tli' third to provide dmi'itmtion of fotnl at uorrrKil nt.ti to t;P (efOplc. ' l'"tona!ly f do not favor noting." Mi., Ht ath said, "but what are tliM-p-oii1' tn o, they arp wtacvintr. The Situ;-iti'.-h hjji !iTome autp. Wonipn of v-:i!t' nrp fhiodinK thp hcuhpwivp' liuip.m w,li ircforips as to how thpy fhouii! cut il"..:i th.. cost of living. If ffumi'n with ttl'-nty of mcnpy ar j-fr plpxed by i i v j n r : ro-.tsf, can w blame Ihe women v.'u h.-:c to run a home the expecteil emergency arises is reeognize! in all ipiarters but it is gen urally felt that the course he has de ruled upon offe's the smallest element cf i!r.r.B-.-r. It. was also Ii unco nday that there is a strong fiossibility of President Wilson openly adviaating the immedate oansHge of military training legislation. Secretary of War Makr has an appointment to see the presiilent later and officials look for action wit.lin a very short time. Meantime the Austrtn situation, admittedly serious, remains unchanged.. The state department had n further Information on the Impression fretted at Vienna) by Ambassador Penfteld's aid mof i of yesterday hut Inert was still h srli hc that Awir would iwa) gfcotuloii 5MtTiy gs" "'l

on eight dollars a etlt if they resort to riots?" "Congress and. the federal government must do something. The farmers have? said they are King to produce only for their own needs this coming nuimner. Then the federal ifi.vrrrimcr.t njoM st-p in MiA fr,f..i..f production, and having profier aioduction, proper means of di.sti iliutkin mu.-t be provided. It rcenis to me that the only hoie of relief can come

from the fedr ral government. It is a I duty nj patriotic ami as vital a the I moii serious uprutng wiM occur i while the people starve herause of abj normal prices." Grim and determined. The uniler-nourUI.ed mothers and children of the erowiivd tenement disthev declared, or New l ork w ill be lacked with a veritable reign of 'terror. Many speciacu'ar itemontrations were being put under tvay. including a demon tration of Mm fiat) women am1 children to parade to the offices of J. I'. Morgan 4 Company t Hroa.l nnd Wall streets, ann demand relief. Other parades to the C'ify Hall and up Fifth avenue were planned. The thousands of women affected were torn between two beliefs today. The dozens of professional agitators I. W. W's. and anarchists-who have jumped at the chance to aid them counsel for force, believing that the

ongested Ihe fervor with which the I. W. W'V and agitators have taken up the A Year tenement women's cause in causing ago the police grave redeem. It is feaied t 2...0that under cover of the demonstraI (.Oil tions a series .f horn' outrages may l..r:i!.'e launched hy the hnthrmls. I'.veij J.IK) precaution to guard against this is 1 .7.1 being taken by the police. I Ml : SKradic uprisings against food .Hi prices kept the police busy today in ' the East -Side tenement districts.

lelteil some passing vendor with debris from the strict. But a few courageou.-i push-cait men put in appearance at tne nestor ?tri,t ww ar,n, had they set up their wares when u band of deteimined women swept down r;n (him and put the owners to flight under the fire of their own F'lery tongued agitators mgest the ; wives of the tenements to throw kero sene oil over the goods of all pmnIucc tMrohants Itoman.l u- , . . ,he t i(y .hou, f(Ilvri to huy foo, st to sell the starving tenenien- . i thl ant i me Kiice were murhalf I at all strategic points to main- , ,, r,r an(, rjty (.on M all jks! ulitions. James V. (ierard Received Ity Oreat Crowd on Arrival al Madrid. ! tttv ISC rslctsflllo.lili Vcwi llirrlt.' MADRID. February 21. -Ja.. W (ierard. former Aoieruan ambassadu, ' to (iermany will have an audience w ith King Alfonso before his doparturr from Madrid, aecnidmg to a well founded report in circulation here today. Color was lent to this report l.y the . fact that Span! is now representing t'nited Slates iiilere-s in Out. my. I the country from which Mr. Orard and his party have just come. A gn at crowd gathered at the rail- : way station to greet the American party. Among those who officially welcomed the m-nmbussador and his ; suite were Joseph K. Will.vd, the I'n- ' itel Kates ambassador, and repreI senatives of the Spanish court. ; Mi. and Mrs. fierard will go from , M lri,l to r...mt, ir-t-a: if ::.,;, loni aa originally planned. SOCIETY WOMEN TO START fiARDEN COl'RSE ; tltu the fMleesnllesnl Veirs Htrrie.) SOUTH BEND. Ind.. February 21. ; Society women of South Bd nave ; manifested very active Interest In the matter of gardening, and women's college club for gardening his I been organiieO here. A series f lectures, delivered bf genienifig 'vapeiis, I Will tat eVIivtred in college emirso form. Tire rolifee will hold Hs flft ' -'9 ft im February 2H until April

N

BUYS A SITE FOR LODGE Practically dust's Deal For the Purchase of Mahan Property. WILL REMODEL THE PRESENT BUILDING Addition in be M.tile and Club Room I'rovided in Conneclinn. Aliliough the final papers have not i;a:cd, a deal was closed Monday whereby Winnebago Tribe No. :;. I. O. R. M. acquires the Mahan property. 1UI North Lebanon street, which will be converted into a budding to leuarJ fr line an.l c!uh ,iatv-e. The deal was niade through the Charles Hairough real estate agency, mil the consideration for the proper! 1 was T.,.riiHi. The property was purchased from Frances Mahan and Mrs. ; Haneon lira lshaw. Tentative ilans have alreadv hcen drawn for the changes anil tildit'oiis. to !' made in .the present building and as soon as the final palters are passed the work of preparing it for. occupation will begin. According to the present plans an addd'on two stories high will be built to the present building u distance of twenty feel to the west, or to the r-ur of the house and fifteen feet to the north. A big veranda will be built around the front and south sides. The Plans Outlined. On the lower floor will lie n big 'rout room for the exclusive u-e of he members of the Pocahontas. Just wk of this vvill lie a large reception room. On this floor also will be r- ading rooms, kitchen, dining room and '-ntert'iili'nent rooms. in the second floor will be a lurge lodge room, forn-oiglit by tifly-foui 'eet. to be u.-ed by the Red Men, Po -ahmitu-- and Haymaker-'.. Immediat"ly off the lodge room will be dressing room:, and property rooms for each of he three orders. Tie building will e of brick and will be modern m -very repect. including baths and private stetun heating system. Retween -ix and rrfveu thousand dollars will he spent in remodeling the building and the woik will be started just as soon s the final papers are received and the plans adopted. The Winnebago Tube is one of the iaigest in the Mate and is growing probably faMer than any otner. The total membership now is six hundred ir.d twenty five, a gain rtf twenty-live since the tirst of this year. Man more applications are Is-ing received at eaih meeting. The time had airived when it was almost impossible for the older to remain in the present ipiarteis s.nisUclory and 'he making the purchase will no doubt lie approved unanimously hy the member - CU E CLOSES UNTIL POTATOES ARE LOWER Kit ISr Ivtrmnttnntit Vrw fferrlre.fc j HI IMIY. N. H February 21. The l.igh cost of living it this town of j ;I.:jiO lesulents such a blow that (iuy ; (I. Chadvvick proprietor of the largest ' cafe, susend.s business today. Chadwick's patrons from the shoe factories and stoies were astonished to find the ; shutters up and this sign displayed: I "Closed till potatoes are lower." ,hc; HecomeH Commander of Southern Department of the V, S. Army. j in (li fstersnllwml .Vcr. Her rice.) WASHINGTON, February 21. j Brig, t.eneral John J. PeiThing, who ;rommsrHiod the American punitive exI pediliort !s MrJtlcs. n t.Klay aI poirted to tneceed the late (ieneial ! Funton ta commander nf the .Southjern Iepartmetit of the Unlteil Kutes rmy. I Pershing' promotion wts Hc-i-tiled i f.-'dt mt ieiniy; meeting of the iciil-met and Bnriftiicd C tfiG 'Riil' rfc

BUILDING

j PERSHING'S MEN IN VAST MANOEUVRES

(ft th? iHtrnMUkHal .Vcirif V lb. I CHICAGO, III., February 21. When history takes note, of the Pershing expedition into Mexico it will record that the United .States forces came back from across the holder with a splendid record of military achievement a hardened, well-trained army, that overcame haiitships and handicaps innumerable in a wild nnd huctUe countiy. So declares Major J. M. Coffin, V. R. A., who was attached to (irnernl Pershing's staff and who had direction uf the army ambulance over mountainous Chihuahua. "'ienerul Pershing for the hist fi v.months personally directed a campaign of intensive training among the tloops in his command," said.Mujoi Collin. "Immense manoeuvre were curried out in brigade and division problems. There was no period of inactivity, no loafing, no taking things easy when not on duty. "C.eneral Peishing has surmounted many handicaps. The country w:i had for mulching. The water generally was bad. The climate was treacherous. Vet the troops came out in spfendid condition uud thus told a stoty of real preparedness. Thn juliout the campaign the death and sieiness rate was less than that of person in normal life. The troops were not seized with any epidemic." OOVED Twenty-Seven Member of Company, Mustered Out. Reach dome. Twenly-.-even members of Company H, arrived here on a special car over the T. II., I. & F.. Sines at D:17 this afteituion. Several member had per-mi.-siori to sop off at Iniiiarinpolia and so.ne got off at stops Iretween here and Imliar apolis. Captain Slagle and ii detail of ten men remaio'sl at Fort Ilarri.'on where lliry will pridiably lie for three or four days in making Ihe transfer of the property and records. Without a single exception the hoys are nil in splendid health and Lli y ifitu:r.!y look the part nf regulars. Lieut. Casey and Second Lieut, (iilniore accompanied the members, here thu nbernoon. ARMED (;t ARI)S FOR COSTLIEST POTATOES (?w Ihr Inlrrnitt'ohtil ,Yce ttrrilrr.) FOHT WAYNE, lml., February 21. Armeil guards were sent as agent., of safe conduct to a carload of potatoes received here by a gioci i y ttrm from .Michigan. Tiie wholesale price of the carload was ,!,'',r,ll for the l.r.iHi bushels, which is the highest pruv recorded in Fnrt Wayne. IN A II Wffl Very Heavy Ixss of Life Reported in Southern Roumania. I lit Ihr rn'criei(eii,.,l Vers frrvt'r BKItl.IV, via Sayvdle wireless, ruary 21. Five hundred peri mostly Roumanian refuges, were ed and about I, WW otheia were jurrd in a train wreck near Chi cha, in Northern Rou-nania. says Overseas Ncv.h Agency toilny. information is attributed to a patch in the Kusriun newspaper i koye Slovo. The train jumped the track fire broke out in the telescoped exploding a great quantity of munition on board. DRY WAVE HITS HOP (.ROWERS; PLANT HEETS (gg rs fslersailosiil geus lerrlie.) DALLAS, Ore., February 21. : Prohibition in the northwestern states i has hit tho hop growers a serious : blow and the majority of them are . plowing up their hop field and w ill I plant other crops this year. The chief ' crop of muny will be sugar beets. ! search enn mihsim; man. i miCAC.O, February 2t.4-Police toi day were combing Chicago hopitals ifor Harry Mcl.inley of Birmingham, i Alt., a cousin of President McKmlny. ;H (l!-s,ipefed froni Birmingham February II with a large rum of . money and in tmjieved to hava come

HARRY CRAfG GETS PAROLE DURIKG

Man Convicted of Petit Larceny Will Not (!o to Prison. ' ; LENIENCY IS SHOWN liV-H IKiE W.II.PARlt Prisoner (iiven Another Chance to M.ike a (hnmI Citizen T-llis Career. Harry Craig, eonvictoii by a jury In the lloone circuit c.mrt. of petit larcenv, and given a sentence of from one to eight years in prison was tod.iv paroled during good ladm-lor by Judge W. II. I'.ir. lie wdl be given .ir.olhi i- chance to heroine a good citljCraig wis found guilty of the theft of a speculum firm William McCarthy, a contract- fmig was employed by MrCurthy who had a sub contract in the construction work on the new Indianapolis A- Frankfort railloud. The a!li'lnvit nirainst Cra'g al.-o i:Iiee. il that he had been cenv u ted three 1'i'evioUs times, once for inansluiigiiter in Montgomery comity, c-iec for grand hUieiiv in Hancock eoimtv and once for petit larcrnv in M-nion eouny. The jui-y in ntitrnnig it venlict disreganiett these firevious convictions. Iff could have found him guilty of being an habitual rrnvnal, which would have earned with it u sentence to life impri: ent. STAGESET FOR TRiAL OF ELECTION CASES Conspiracy Caties Involving I'rominenl Politicians to lie Heard Soon. i lift 1Ut Itttiiinitiontll Xrtr Brrrtrf. I.VHIANAPOLIS. Lid.. February 21. The stage is set for prosecutions for violations of rlec'iion lavs in Indiana by the federal gvveri-.nent which will emliiace a '. g.'r than the Terre Haute conspiracy prosecutions, winch resulted in Mayor iionr. Roberta anil a score of other politiMm: being sentenced to prison Four citiivs are inc'uded in the federal net. Gary. Frank tort. Indianaiiolia and Kvnnsvil'e. H"th Ker'.iblican.i and Ih'iiHici-alic iii.diC!uiif- iiro now- undr nrrcs-t. The prosecutions are under the direction 'of Frank C. Ihiiley, .-peeial nss-istnnt to the nttnrney-gen-eral. Dr. Oscar W. Fdmonds, of Frankfort, a candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor; Mayor Roseoe Juhn.-on, of Caiy, formerly candidate for the Republican nomination for (livomnr; ami Chief of Police Samuel I'errott, nf Indianapolis, a Democrat, are the cl f politician arrested thua far by rederal officials. Twentv-six pi,!itiuans in tiiese ihree cities hav been -irrested. The next hull will lie made at Kvausville. Already thirteen negroes have been nrresterl and reieascsl on their own recoenizance. It is understood they vvill become witnesses for the government, and will testify that they .-old tle-ir voles. Other arrets are' e ported there this w.-ck V '". the undorst-.ml ing in Kv.'inFvillc that over one himdi--d arrests will be made, and that bnih epottliran.- and Democrntic iol.tici'ins will bo included. The arrangement doy for thoie arlested for Xioialioii of election lowsj v ill be March 21. and it is proha'do that trials will be started hy the tirst

THE IJREWERS PREPARE -' FOR A DRY WISCONSIN"

' (Us fe fsxrae'ieeat --. ferrUf. MADISON, Wis., February 21. ' Fifteen Wisconsin -ities wi ote n ! the v.ct and dry issue at the. April 1 elections. They include Afihland, Eau iciuire. Suncnor. Monr.e, Chippewa ' Falls. i Balief that the State, prohibition (sj sua has good chances of su-eesa is I seen tere in tho decision of the In- I ternat-onal Brewery of Stevens Paint ( i to convert, its plant into either a cold. i storage house or install machinery for Use mil nut actum of alroiic-1. r