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EL PASO, Tex., May 12. Mexican marauders along the border have taken the war trail again following the abrupt termination of the international conference between representatives of the United States and Mexico. Reports of new raids along the border line from EI Paso to Brownsville trickled in today. ' ' Snipers in the vicinity of Boquillas fired several times on army automobiles, and cavalry scouts who had gone across the border brought back news that new bands were forming on the southern side of the Rio Grande.,

Troopers Trail Raiders. American troopers from Brownsville today were on the trail of the Mexican outlaws who killed Curtis Bayles, a rancher, near that town yesterday. The raiders sneaked in on Bayles' ranch and their victim was killed at the first fire. ' Members of his family later drove off the attacking party. From Mexico's Interior there also came reports of new anti-American Continued on Page TwoJ' OPEN DRIVE ON RIGA COPENHAGEN. May 12. The German naval and military forces are preparing for a combined land and sea attack against the Russian port of Riga, according to reports current here today. YOU CAN BUY PRODUCED Here is a new industry for Richmond and It was not necessary for the Commercial club to put forth any Inducements' to secure Its location nere.: : - - - The new industry is a macaroni and spaghetti factory, to be ; located on North G street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. The owner of this factory will be a successful Richmond Italian, Louis Paolini, who also conducts a bakery at 623 North Twelfth street. Modern machinery, to.be operated entirely by electricity, is now being installed in the plant, which is to he thoroughly sanitary, all macaroni and TOO MUCH SUCCESS PUTS OFFICIAL BAN ON SENIOR OUTING Said Principal Pickell to the delegation of high school Seniors: "You say the last Senior jaunt was successful. I'll admit it was. In fact, it was too successful. And that's why there is to no more Senior trips." Several months ago the Senior class motored to New Castle. Yesterday it asked permission for a similar outing to close the school year. FRIENDS PROTEST AGAINST MILITARY COURSE IN SCHOOL It was decided unanimously to enter a protest with the school board against he introduction of military, training In the public schools of Richmond at the regular monthly meeting of the West Richmond Friends' church last night. The protest will be made from both a religious and educational stand point. A committee of which Prof. Continued On Page Nine. MUSIC SERIES CLOSES TONIGHT WITH SYMPHONY With a program that could be appreciated by the untrained musical ear as well as by that of a professional, the high school orchestra rendered a concert to a packed house in the auditorium of the high school building last night. This was the second concert of the May Musical festival. The last concert of the festival will be given in the high school auditorContinued On Page Nine. J NO CHICKS HERB? WHY MAIN STREET REVEALS VARIETY Would you like to have a nice young spring fry? Well don't get too anxious because poultry dealers said today that a young chick could not be had in Richmond for love nor money. The late spring has prevented the j growth of young chickens. j

M E. CHURCH KEEPS SILENCE ON PEACE MOVE

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., May 12. The Methodist general conference will not go on record as advocating the cessation of the European war, irrespective of the hopes of the delegates that bloodshed will soon end. No statement that it is the sense of the conference that steps be taken toward arbitration therefore, is likely to be entertained seriously, should one be Introduced, which appears unlikely. MACARONI IN RICHMOND spaghetti being made entirely by machinery. - " Paolini says there Is a big demand for well made macaroni and spaghetti in this section of the country and he is . anticipating , securing,, an. : extensW business. , . ,4 HIGHER RATES " BACK OF MOVE BY WATER FIRM Referring to the action of the Richmond City Water Works company yesterday in submitting to the board of review an assessed valuation previously established, city officials see keen desire on the part of the company to have its taxes increased. On the other hand they see a move to have the plant valuation increased as an excuse for demanding an increase of rates from the state public utilities commission. "The company's action is exceed-, ingly transparent," remarked President Bavis of the- board today. He did not state what action the city in. tended to pursue. "The city will certainly fight effort on the part of the company iu assess a readiness-to-serve charge against concerns which have installed fire protection sprinkling systems," Mr. Bavis added. SIX OF TEACHERS NOT AFTER PLAGES Six county school teachers have informed Superintendent Williams that they will not be applicants for re-appointment next year. Appointments have not been made. Shifts will be made in several instances, he said, although he is not ready to announce them. The six teachers who will not make application are Hartey Wright, Greensfork: Ruby Neff, Wayne township; Caldwell Miller and Vera Crome, Fountain city; Virgie Mendenhall, Dublin, and G. V. Graus, Webster. Weather Forecast I j United States Report Generally cloudy tonight and -Saturday. Probably rain. Temperature. Noon 60 Yesterday. Maximum Minimum 69 45 Local Forecast Unsettled tonight and Saturday. Occasional rains. General Forecast A rain storm developed over the southwest states yesterday and is moving northeast and causirg rain here tonight or probably before Very. cool weather north of ' oGth parallel. Snow in parts of Mon tana and Wyoming, eighteen degrees above zero at Cheyenne, Wyoming. W. E. MOORE, Weather forecaster.

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PARK CARS HERESTEP THIS WAY, YOUR CHECK'S HERE County Assessor Mathews made a proposition this morning to organize a company to purchase all of the automobiles in the county if the owners are willing to sell them at the valuation fixed by the owners themselves. "Very few owners valued their cars more than $400 and the average is about 250," said Mr. Matthews. "There are -1,100 automobiles in the county, which will mean a total assessment of approximately $275,000," CANT MOW GRASS; WAR INTERFERES; MOWERS GO UP Yon can't blame a fellow if he lets his grass grow long this summer. Lawnmowers have advanced 25 per cent in value. The high cost of steel caused by the great demand for it in the war zone is the reason. JUST KEEPING COOL WILL COST MORE THAN EVER BEFORE It's going to cost more to keep cool under canvas tents and awnings this summer than ever before, according to the J. H. Russel awning company. "Price of canvas awnings will be 25 percent higher. Tents will be at least 10 percent higher. Green colored awnings are especially hard to get. Blame the high cost of labor and the shortage of dyes because of the European war." The steel frame work for awnings is also advanced much in price. IF BACON DIDTF HE STUDIED BIRDS AND COUNTRY LIFE They are preparing for a bbz Shakes. .iTSearean celebration at Karlhara college Mty tOA Do y6u know that Shakespeare mentioned (forty birds with many of which JWe are acquainted ? Well, that's the truth, and if you doubt it ask the Earlhim biological professors. Shakespeare was a child of the open, so he knew all about the. sparrow, golden eagle, mallard duck, falcon, J cormorant, partridge, pheasant, owl; hawk, crow, heron, ravenkite, tnaypie, jay, kingfisher, blackbird and scores that me have not mentioned. Take a squint at his works and see if we're right. WHY ARE CITIZENS SPENDING COOL COIN ON FRONT PORCHES What's the use of having a porch if you can't sit on it and see what is going on in the street without looking throught the spaces between the posts which support a high railing? This question evidently has come up In the minds of several Richmond people who have high banisters around their porches, for carpenters are busy reducing the height of the rail in Ere sn that it will be possible to sit on the ..jvu ouu iiuve an unoDstructed view street.

Here's Valuable Pipe Old as First Railroad Built Through State

Gazooks! Did you ever smoke a pipe that is as old as the first railroad in Indiana? Several young men of Richmond had that experience today, and they vowed the big meerschaum pipe .was sweeter than any brier they ever tasted. W. W. Wilds, a veterinary surgeon of Williamsburg, visited the Palladium office today to show with pride a patriarchal pipe that has history written all over it. The pipe was imported from Germany in 1847 and was presented to John T. Francis, first baggagemaster of the Madison railroad by officials of that line. It passed from him to his cousin Mrs. Sarah E. Davis of Lebanon, Ind., who gave It to her brother, W. Wilds. Mr. Wilds recalls the first time he saw one of the Madison railroad trains pulling into the old depot at Indianapolis. His aunt SENATE REVOLTS WASHINGTON, May 12. The long smouldering resentment in the senate against the administration's defiance of "senatorial courtesy" in makinsr appointments now threatens to express itself m a violent revolt against' the connrmauon or Doin t.ouis u. Bran - deis and George S. Ruplee to the eral trade commission. ;

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WASHINGTON, May 12. First Chief Carranza has been told by the United States that nq further concessions will be made to the de facto government in Mexico; K";. . The "last word" of General Scott, addressed to General X)bregon yesterday, is the position of the Wilson administration; The troops will not be r ecalled at this time. Brigandage in the north of Mexico is to be stamped out. If Carranza will agree to co-operate with the American forces that action will greatly please the United States.

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Customs Shown at Greek Wedding Astound Richmond People Who Attend as Guests. Pretty Bride and Bridegroom Wear Wreaths of Lilies Bound With Willow Links A few months ago Nota Meledon, a pretty Grecian maid of twenty, three summers, set sail from Piraeus, the port of Athens, braving the dangers of the mine-strewn, submarine infested Aegean and Mediterranean seas, for faroff America to wed her sweetheart, James Paros, owner of a restaurant in Richmond. - With her traveled her uncle, Lieutenant Leonidas, of the GreASQUITH MAKES PERSONAL STUDY OF IRISH FACTS DUBLIN, May 12. Premier Asquith arrived this morning to investigate for himself conditions in Ireland following the recent revolt. As a result of his visit It is expected that martial law will soon be ended and civil administration restored. The premier drove through several streets lined with wrecked buildings and also viewed the damage done to the vice regal lodge. BOY-ED IS HONORED COPENHAGEN, May 12. Captain Boy-Ed, formerly connected with the German embassy at Washington, and whose recall was demanded by the United States, has received the Order of the Red Eagle, third class, with swords, according to a dispatch from Berlin. took him to the station and when she saw the train a half mile away, she forced Wilds far from the tracks, fearing he might be sucked under the wheels. This was in 1848. The pipe will hold four times as much tobacco as an ordinary pipe of today. It is colored a mellow yellow. A lion is carved on the Meerschaum bowl. CHICAGO MOBS OUT ON STRIKE RESIST POLICE CHICAGO, May 12. With 25,000 workers on strike and trouble brewing in half a dozen sections of the city, Chicago police today were confronted with a serious situation. The first break between the! police and strikers came last night when the officers attempted to disperse a crowd of 500 strikers gathered before the International Harverster ' , company's plant. Sucks and" bricks were thrown i indiscriminately, and one of ficer was 1 wounaea. i weive mounted policemen ed-Jrode their horses into the crowd with . drawn revolvers and clubs a-swinging.

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force to cope with-the situ-1 cian navy, on his first leave of absence in twenty-seven years. His mission was two-fold, to protect his pretty niece in the dangerous passage through the war zone, and officially tho represent the bride-to-be's family as a witness to the ceremony.

Can Friends Fix Length of New Spring Suit?

Right along predictions have been freely made that if Dame Fashion kept on abreviating women's skirts something was going to happen. Well, it happened. A Fairview woman this week purchased a new summer siit, the hem of the skirt being nearer the knees than the ankles, and the first day she wore the suit there was trouble. "What are you trying to do give the men folks of the neighborhood somethin' to , talk about?" yelled a housewife at the owner of the new suit. A war of words ensued, and today the woman who had caused the neighborhood sensation, accompanied by . her husband,: appeared at police headquarters and demanded the arrest of -the woman who had criticised her summer finery. 'I want her arrested for provoke," she informed Chief Goodwin. Her husFIGHT OVER POLITICS. ROCKVILLE, Ind., May 12. Harold Henderson and C. L. Sherrill engaged in a fist fight when words failed to settle their argument over political questions.

TEACHERS FROM OITY OFFER CHEAP SERVICES UNDER COUNTY'S UNIT

Desirous of receiving benefits from the county teachers pension fund, which has been created by the officials of the county schools, six Richmond teachers hare applied to Township Trustee Edgerton and County Superintendent Wililams for positions in the county schools next year. The applicants, however, have been informed that their efforts are futile for a precedent will be established by Superintendent Williams not to employ old teachers who might retire at the end of a few years service with PROMOTE MAN ' WHO WRECKED SUSSEX LINER PARIS, May 12. Ober-Lieut. Otto Steinbrick, commander of the German submarine U-8. which torpedoed, the Channel steamer Sussex, has been promoted, says the Echo De Paris. The promotion has been approved by Admiral von Capelle, of .the German admiralty, despite the fact that Germany had announced in its note to tne United States that the commander would be punished. T. 6. GOLDEN DIES Word has been received here of the death of T. G. Golden, at El Paso, Tex., last evening at 7 o'clock. Mr. Gollden was a former railroad man and a resident of Richmond for many years. A daughter, Mrs. J. O. Crockett, and two sons, Walter and Robi ert Golden, survive. The fnneral willj i oe neia esaiuraay anu ine oou pui ini a vault until fall, when it will be brought to Richmond for burial.

ation will bcassembled and General Pershing will be . ordered to resume cleaning up. The new warning to Carranza has been sent through Consul General Rodgers at Mexico City. It will reach Rodgers today and will at once be communicated to the "first chief . . Meanwhile, the administration wilV continue to take such precautions as will leave it in a position to meet any emergency that may develop. Officials are extremelybitter in their characterization of the Carranza attitude. It is known that General Obregon was willing to make concessions to meet the views of the United States but

that he was overruled by the Over two weeks ago Miss Meledon and her uncle arrived safely in New York Harbor, and were greeted by Paros. who accompanied them to Richmond. Last evening Miss Meledon became Continued on Page Two band, being a wise man. maintained Bilence from first to last. "There will be no arrest made in that case," remarked Chief Goodwin, after, his callers had departed. "Police court aint a fit place to decide what women's fashions should or should not be." GERMANY WILL MAKE NO REPLY TO LAST NOTE COPENHAGEN, May 12. Germany will not reply to the -latest note from America on the submarine controversy, says the Tageblatt. Instead, Foreign Minister von Jagow will confer with Ambassador Gerard. the county schools on a pension although they have given their life's service to the city schools. t Offers Cheap Services. "One teacher who has taught in the city schools forover forty years said Continued on Page TwoJ MORE TROOP GARS RUSH FOR BORDER A troop train of five, cars, earring a baggage car of ammunition, eighty -one men and three officers, passed through Richmond at 1:15 o'clock this morn - ing on its way to the Mexican border. The men belong to the coast artillery service, dut tney win be used as in - iratn to T,a:n thm.i, m,i,rannH -Z

the Pennsylvania for the day will!olner items of personal property as arrive some time this evening. sessment.

THREE TROOP TRAINS HURRYING TO BORDE

Thvee troops trains of 19 cars each passed through Richmond today. They were on their way to the Mexican border going from Reading, Pa. The trains carried horses and cannon as well as men. The soldiers belonged to the Field artillery service. Quite a number of people gathered at the station to. see the trains which stopped a few minutes at the Pennsylvania station. The first ' section containing Battery D of the third artillery passed through here at 10:30 o'clock this morning, the nert section containing Battery E passed through at 11:10 a. m. and the last section containing Battery F came through at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The soldiers are from Fort Mver, Va They were on a hike to Fort

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All Efforts Fail. Although the official word from the white house and 6(alt department was that the efforts to reach an understanding will be continued through diplomatic channels, officials very frankly said that they had little hope of. success. Compfete intervention loomed very large here today, although it was recognize that for obvious reasons it might be deferred until after an adequate force is assembled along the border. The let-up in the international situation due to the position assumed by Germany will permit the administration to draw on practically all of the coast artillery for field service in Mex ico. The entire national guard of the country is also in readiness for active service. Rushes Army Measures. The president, it is understood, is very anxious to have the army bill agreed to by the senate and bouse conferees, and as soon as it is ready will sign it and direct the war department to commence recruiting the force up to the limit agreed upon. The cabinet considered the general situation again today. It is understood that at least two members. Posfl master General Burleson and Attorney General Gregory, believe that imrucdi ate intervention should be ordered. The president and Secretary Lansing, lowever. are not yet willing to admit that diplomacy will not solve the situation, and intend to exhaust every resource before favoring action that will mean war. RUSSIAN EMPTY GUNS DEATH IN TURK LINES PETROGRAD, May 12 Turkish troops defending Erzingan have been heavily reinforced, according to dispatches from Tiflis. and are offering desperate resistance to the army of Grand Duke Nicholas. The reinforcements are believed to be a portion of the Ottoman army relieved for field service by the surrender cf the British army at Kut-EI-Amar. The Turks are assailing the advanei mg Russians fiercely, but are auffering heavy losses from the machine gun fire of the grand duke's troops. TOTAL ASSESSMENT TO SHOW DECREASE Although final reports have not been made, County Assessor Mathews said today that he expects the total assessment of personal property in Wavnp r-minfv will ho lnn-Ai ,-- ,. ., ". . ' 1 than Iast' A pGr cent emptlon ! w'as ordered by Ihe state board . for j mortgage assessments, and this ri- , crease will ountr act any increase ' lhat might be, reported in any of thv when they were transport trains train has been ordered on board immediately. The making the fastest time possible, a sergeant on the first train said. The sergeant refuted to express an opinion as to the purpose of the government in sending added forces to the border, but he said tbat it was his opinion tbat within the next few days about every available soldier in the United States would, be. ordered to the Mexican border. The soldiers were all jolly and happy. "We're going to see service." they all said, "and that's what we've been wanting ever since we joined th army. We're going to get Villa too." The true military air was there also, for from one car came tbe sound of many voices singing or attempting to sing, "It's a Long, Long Way to Tip-