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Washington June 12.—Eastern Penna:   Fair     Sunday;     Monday j Cloi»dy,   probably   showers i
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY,   JUNE   13,   1915.
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DOUBLE DROWNING IN SUSQUEHANNA RIVER
COUNTERFEIT GANG CAPTURED BY STATE POLICE
TERRIBLE MURDER^ PITTSTON MAN IN A BLACK HAND PLOT
GERMAN PEOPLE ARE IN A MORE FRIENDLY MOOD AFTER KAISER RECEIVES WILSON'S NOTE
WILSON'S iTE
DEATH RAINS ON ARMIES 'MONEYFAKIRS LOCKED ON WEST FRONT
SPimi BEIIEr
Vacations Arranged by Presi¬ dent and German Ambassa¬ dor Give Promise of Peace
BRITAIN   COMES   NEXT
Wa.shinston, .luno 12.—The State De¬ partment ha.x lipen advised officially by Amba.ssador Gerard at Berlin that the note of the I'nited States to Ger¬ many on the ri>fhts of Americans and
their property, had been delivered .
It is understood al.so fhat the Am¬ bassador mu<Ie ft reference to the state of fierman .setuiment as far as it had been made cxidenl and it was very en- ourasinc. It became evident that the .iplimism of officials close to the ad¬ ministration, leFr.-irdine the probabilily )f a favorable outcome of the neRotia- Uons was t,'ro\vin£;.
I'resident Wilson went to play golf. •Secretary of Plate LansinK remained (t the departpn-nt until late in the day md appearc.l in sood humor. Several of the other cabinet officers are out '¦f  the city enjoy ins; short   vacations.
<'olor was lent to the belief that the '"resident expects an amicable adjust¬ ment of the controvers\ with Germany by the statement at the -White House that he is planning to spend fourth of luly with his dauRhters at the sum¬ mer capitol flf Ofirnish. X. H. The I'resident expects to reach fornish on the evjViing of .Tuly S' and wITI remain there sever-i'i  days.
.•\n event of the day which was re¬ garded as sipnificant, was the oall of ihe Swedish minister on Secretary I^ansinK. The secretary explained thpt he was unable to state the purpose of the conference and this added to the nteresi in the incident. The Reneral belief is that fhe call had to do wlfh the sul)Ject of the American note to Germany and the subject of the forth- cominc note of this Kovernment to tircat Hritain—namely the maintenance of the rlRhts of neutral commerce and the observance by the belligerents of the recognized principles of interna¬ tional law .so far as they affect neutmj trade. It has been known for some time that the neutral countries—Sweden, Norway and Holland in particular- had indicated to the United States that they would join in representations to the bellicerents on the subject, and that the reply of this government was that il preferred to take up the matter al^ne. This has siven rise to the opinion that the Swedish minister inquired of Sec¬ retary [..ansiuK if the l'nited States was interested at Ihis time In having the Swedish ;;ovcrnmenl also make representations to the belliRerents, be¬ cause of Ihe .added strenjjfh tt would cive  to  the  American   demands.
Officials of the Slate Department would not express flu mselves today as to the probable dale when the German reply will be received. The general belief is that Ihe t;erman foreigrn of¬ tice will not draft its reply until the iirrival in Berlin of .Meyer Berherdt. • he special envoy of Count Von Bern¬ storff. the fJerman .Vmbassador. He is expelled to arrive in Berlin early next week.
fContinued  on   Page  Two.)
Not an Inch of Ground Changes Hands as British and French Engage Germans in Artillery Duel That Makes Moving of ^ Infantry Impossible. Boldest
BYSWECOPS
ITALIANS   GAIN   AS   RUSSIANS ARE BLOCKED
Rome. .lune i'.i.—The Italian advance into the Tyrol frontier has gone with¬ in 14 miles of Trent. In the operations against Trieste, the Kings troops have assumed command of the banks of the Isonzo at the Gradisca and strong forc¬ es operatintr from this new base, have occupied wiili Sagrado. alonsr the road to Ronchi. meanwhile the column bat¬ tering at the Monte Xero defenses and the other Aoslrian strongholds in the Tolmino line are carying out n strong offensive movement along the river as fas as Tolmino which they are atempt- ing to oiitfl.'ink-. These are the most important feature of the report from the frontier received at the ministry of the war  tonight.
Apparently In reprisal for the suc- cesful air and naval operations against Moiifalcone and Pola. the .Austrians to¬ day bombarded four Italian cities on the Adriatic coast. Two Austrian aero¬ planes hurled bombs on Bari. Mola. I'alignano and Monopoli. all seaboard towns lying j'jst across the .-Xdriatic from Scuti.ri and Uurazzo. One woman was killed, and a woman and a child were injured. These were the onl.v casulalities reported and tiie pro¬ perty   damage   was   insignificant.
The report from Lieut. General Ca.- dorna regarding the Tyrolean opera¬ tions states that the advance of the Italians has reached Robereto, 13 miles to the southwest of Trent and Mori, which is abou' five miles more distant the report says the Italians are so close to both pomts that they either must already havc been taken or are about to be occupied
Austrian   Successes
In the Carnic Alps, following their capture and occupation of Ploeken on the Austrian border, the .Austrian forces today captured Volals pass, a mile to the west of Ploeken pass and on the .Austrian side of the border. Fight¬ ing has become general along this frontier, terrific encounters being re¬ ported with heavy losses to the Austri¬ ans. An attempt on the part of the Austrians to stemp the Italians along the coast following the occupation of firadisca by the latter has failed. The Austrians constructed a dam on the Alonfalcone canal causing floods which I>revented the advance of the Italian troops. Today the dam was blown up by the Italians and the passage of the Italians were permitted.
To date more than 1.000 prisoners, captured on the Kriuli front, have passed through Verona alone, en route to Sardinia where two camps were opened.
London. .lune 12.—The Austro-Ger¬ man wing under (Jeneral Linsingen has rallied from Ihe stunning blow struck hy the Russian counter-offensive upon the Dniester and a battle of great pro- jiortions is now raging for supremacy along the wide and marshy expanses of that stream. The Teutons, according to a Berlin statement, have checked the Russian offensive and have recap¬ tured Zurawno from which they were driven several daye ago.
Germans   Unmoved
I.emberg is still the (lerman ob¬ jective and it is not believed they will let the check received on the Dneis¬ ter  interfere  with   their  plan<>.
The Germans now control hte cross¬ ing of the river at Zurawno. it is stated, and the Russians have been driven from iheir last jiositions on the Bruth, Bukowina having been cleared of the invaders. General Pflanzer's army, advancing against these defeated Slavs, are reported by Vienna to have effected another crossing of the Dneister e.ist of Horo- denko. The Russians admit the loss of Stanislau nnd the Austrians axsert that attempts to regain the city have all   failed.
The rival armies are now facing each other across the wide stream and are making violent thrusts and counter thrusts in an effort to gain the initiative, this, so far seems to lie with   fhe  Germans.
The Russian official statement covers operations only up to fhe night of .Mine 10. Berlin's report of the re¬ capture of Zurawno is two days later.
Meanwhile in the rK)rth the Ger¬ mans are making a new move in the direction of Warsaw and ha\e gained a success of some proportion on the Rawtika. Heavy fighting continues on the entire Baltic littoral. French Check Enemy.
Paris, .lune 12.- .Nighl official state¬ ment: "In the region north o'f Arras there was artillery fighting which was particularly violent on Ihe l.,oretle pla¬ teau. Throughout Uiis section Aix .Vou- lelte to Kcoiirle. the Germans sought by continuous bombardment to interfere with the organization of the positions captured hy us. Our artillery replied hy bombarding the trenches and bat¬ teries of the Germans.
"In the region of the Toutvent farm, southeast of Hebuterne, the Germans this morning delivered a counter at¬ tack whcih was easily checked.
"There is nothing to report on the rest of the front, except a rather vigor¬ ous artillery action in the section east of Rheims and on the Perthes-Beause- jour front."
Air   Filled   With   Ltad.
London, ,lune 12.—.Artillery action of the most terrific character initiated im- • mediately   following   the   French   suc- j cess in bending the German line inward ! southeast   of   Hebeturne.   between   Ar- j ras and the .Aisne has rendered move¬ ments of infantry impossible and neith¬ er army has been able to gain an inch, according   to   reports   from   Paris   to¬ night.
The boom of high explosives and shrapnel, punctuating the staccati> of the machine guns and rifle fire, with always an accompaniment of explod- ind hand grenades and hombs. has been incessant. The air has been full of steel, iron and lead mi.'^siles. raining de¬ struction  like a   tornado of death.
Berlin claims the French were check- (Continued  From Page One.)
and Most Successful Counterfeiting Game Fol¬ lowed by Neat Capture
SIX ARE MADE PRISONERS
DETECTIVE IS MURDERED BY A CUTTHROAT GANG
Eighteen Stab Wounds and Four Bullets Ended Life of James Benbonbie as He Sought Out Men Who Attempted Life of Foreman of Pennsylvania Company.   '
FHOM MEXICO AS A BID '
PROBABLY MOST BRUTAL CRIME   OF   ITS   KIND   HERE
• 'ounterfeii    twenty   dollar   bills,   all made  by   ra;:<ir.g   the  denomination   of flve-dollar bills to the greater amount and    passed successfully    in many in¬ stances     through   banks     of   Luzerne Countv.   l>roiiglit   fhe   arrest   late   la,st I night   of  six   men   by   Ihe   Slate   Police. I Pending  a   fr.rtiier  search  for escaped I members of .i gang that  is thought to j number at ler.sl  fifteen no names have I been   given   ouf   but   is  Is  declared   the prisoners  are  all   members  nf an   Ital¬ ian   community   on   the   West   Side.
Kven the most expert have had trouble with ;he counterfeits. One pre¬ sented to several judges of money by the Slate troopers challenged to closest inspection an<l evidently required a microscopic test to determine the man- ' ner in whicli it had been forged. How¬ ever. Wilkes-Barre bankers who had come jjcrosji the liills during busifiess tran.sactions wtr* inslnimental in lead¬ ing the police to their first watchful¬ ness and the r.iid on a West Side hang¬ out was planned carefully and con¬ cluded successfully.
Apparatus used jn the transforma¬ tion of the notes was captured and will be held as evidence. .At the same fime the names and addreses of the missing men of the gang were obtained and by this morning the arrests probably will be completed. The counterfeiting has been going on over an extended period and thousands of dollars in the fradi|l- enl bills have been circulated. One that failed to meet suspicion when presented passed the teller's window of a West Side inslitution and was not detected until a recapitulation of the day's re¬ ceipts  was  being made.
Information in the hands of the State j officers leads to assurance that no hold¬ er attempt at making and passing bad money has ever been made in Wyo¬ ming X'alley and the probabilities are that expert counterfeiters from Phila¬ delphia or X'ew Vork have lately been making Wyoming Valley their home ground for operation.
A telephone messa);e delivered at nine o'l-lock last niijht brought .the Plttston po'ice to the body of .lames Benbonbie, L';i years old. of 127 »2 South Mnin street, th.'it cit>-. lying in ils death throes in thi- Hiowntown baseball field, near the Kiie railroad tracks. Four biillef wounds and eighteen stab wounds failed to bring Immediate death but the t<irtured mon died before any clue could be obtained fo his mur¬ derers. It is believed, since Benbondie was emplo.ved a.s a coal company de¬ tective and was attempting to run down Italians who had been attempt¬ ing desper.al," deeds, that Black Han- ders were the pereptrators of the most dastardly  crime.
So far as ihe police could learn there were no witnesses fo the crime besides those who were directly interested in its commis.-.on. One of the gang Of cut-thionts IS supposed to have sent In the telephone coll. Recently Benbondie was employed in the ca.se growing out of a murderous attack on Wine Fore¬ man Milton of the Pennsylvania com¬ pany who had incurred enmity by dis¬ charging several of his Itali.in em¬ ployees. I^ai-t night he waa operating near Pittston aiid probably had a clue to the guilty  ones.
Appearances indicate a fight pre¬ ceded the murder. One e.ve of Ben- bonble's bony was entirely closed by a flst blow and one shot, the bullet of which entered the rig:ht ear and left fhe lefr temple, .seared the hair badh. The other three bullets were distri¬ buted about the liody near the hips and abdomen. The eighteen stab wounds  were all  located  in  the  man's
back and the police fake from that fact their belief fhat at least a half dozen assailants committed the mur¬ der.
A strange circumstance discovered by the police is that though Benbon- 'oie wore a coat no bullet or knife thrust entered it and Ihey assume that after the first shot was flred the coal detective's coat was drawn over his head to defeat any resistance he might make and at the same time balk his observance of the men who were attacking him. His wonderful endurance i:- shown by the fact that though the attack must have taken place at least one-half hour before the police arrived, life was still ap¬ parent -when County Defective' Price was called To the scene. He notified Dr. Meyers fo hurry to Benbondie's aid, but when the physician arrived life was extinct. Weakness prevented the victim from making any statement during   his  last  minutes.
The police are entireh' mystified. .All last night they scoured the Italian district of Pitiston. calling in the State Police to Bid them in a thorough search. There was no one who could offer Iht formation and apparently there was no man who had observed either the de¬ tective or his assailants previou.s to the meeting at the baesball field. The body is being held for an inquest at the Lay- don A Murray establishment. Ben¬ bonbie is survived by his parents in Italy and by three brothers and one sitser in Pitt.ston. The brothers, Leo, Lewis and Frank Benbonbie, were iirlable to help the authorities, knowing nothing of their relative's plans.
But British Ambassador and Army and Navy Journal See Trouble Ahead
CONDITIONS   ARE   BAD
j     Washington,     .Tune     12.—Carranza's i answer t'l fne practical mandate which I .'¦'resident   Wilson     sent   to    all  of  the j .Mexican   revolutionary   leaders   to   get I together   and   save   the   couniry   from I starvation,   was   made   public   by   the I State   Depariment   this   evening.     The I statement  is regarded as a  bid  for re- I cognition.    I'arranzas  asserts that  op- : position   to  tis  government  practicall.v I has   been   overthrown   and   that    nine I tenths of the  population  of the  whole ¦country now is under his authority. He expects, he says, in a short lime lo re¬ gain control of .Mexico City and prom¬ ises that whi n he does he will conviike elections for the selection of a national congress.    1 iio Congress s.) elected will then issue a  chH for the election of a j President   and lothe President so chos¬ en he will resign his authority as first chief  of   the  revolution.
.Meanwhile ht calls upon all faction¬ ists  lo submit  to  his  authority. I     He does nol promise that he will not j be a candidate for election to the Presi- ' dency.
I Secretary Lansing refused_to make lany comment either, pjwtti'e Carranza" I slatement or iiAn the statement of j Villa now on lie way here from K) I Paso, but already given publicity in part. \'illa in His statement questions I the right of the JL'nited Slates lo inter¬ fere in the affafirs of -Mexico. ' The British Kmbas.sador Sir Cec* j Spring Rice, called at the Sta»e Depart- , ment to-da.\- and submitted to Secretar\
TWO BOYS DROWNED IN RIVER jPUBLIC SAFEIY DEPT, WHEN HOME-MADE RAFT BROKE! TO USE SILENT SIGNALS
Tw>' lio\s were drowned and an¬ nther narrowly escaped death in the Susquehanna Kiver nt Pittston yes¬ terday afternoon, when .i raft broke apart under I'aul Grablick. Charles .McCloskie and .lohn Alestis. precipi- i^ilint; n!l three inlo the water, .\leslis was the only one saved, his ability to swim carrying him out "f danger while Ills fwo lompanions, picked in "ach other's arms, sank to the bntton-.. When recovered they were sfill in that position   nnd   dead.
Paul Grablick was 14 vears old .-tnd a son of t'aul fJrablick of S (ieoru'C stret. Pittston. »'harles .McCloskie was IL' years old anrt a son of Anthony .McCloskie of 14 George street. Tlie two boys joined young .Alestis oarly yesterday along the east bank of the river near Water streel bridge, where they built the raft that later caused lhe t*o deaths. It was shortly after •J o'clock when  it was finally launched.
Several witnesses to the accident heard the boys shout with delight us thcy pushed off from the bank, each carrying a pole with whicn to pr.opel the craft. Hardly hart they gained the current wlien the force of the ¦watei- fore between the planks and loosen^pd the nails fr >ti the rtecnvei timber. The suiipor''ne framework imniedi:!tel>- gave way and li-.e litlle jiassengers     were     thrown     into     the
river. Alestis at the from end nnd Grablick and .McCluskie together from the   rear.
Alestis swam for the bank and was pulled to safety by B. Conlyo of the Gonial Hotel, this city. Conlyo saw the other fwo lads come lo the surface only once and fhey were holding tight to each other and apparently too ter¬ rorized to make any attempt to strike out for safety. .A minute later fhey had disappeared.
Chief of Police Xewcomb and two other officers of the police force were summoned to the river edge and grap¬ pling apparatus was imniediately set in motion. At the same time Police Clerk .Iohn Walsh, Albert Leonard, William Xewhouse and .Joseph Church- field of Pittston. set out to seek the bodies and it was this party that brought the remains of both boys to the surface. They were removed ,to the homes on George street, ¦where the grief-crazed parents awaited word from the searching parties. The funer¬ als probably will be held together on Tuesday morning.
The accident, coming early in the summer, is one of the saddest in Pitts¬ ton police annals. It is likelx thaf be¬ cause of it the authorities will prohibit boys from further play along the river i b.inks until such times as eu.ards are! placed  there for thcir protection.
Director of Public Safety Kdwin B. Morgan has decided to do away with the whistle signal system fhat has been in use by the traffic offjcers for the past two years.    Instead the silent si?;-
nal system that has been in ¦:jse by the police department of Xew Vork will be used. It is believed that this ¦will be more advantageous and less confusing to pedestrians and drivers of vehicles.
E SETS 150.000 CLAIM
Ashley Boulevard Case Is First Serious Effect of Growth of New Transit
STABBED SIX TIMES AND FOUND DYING BY POUCE
FOUR SUBMARINE VICTIMS
London. June 12.—The British steam¬ er Leuctra, a fine steel vessel of 3,027 tons owned at St. X. B. and engaged in the trans-Atlantic trade was sunk by a German submarine to-day. The crew was picked up by the steamer William Mason and later transferred to a tug which landed the menbers in safety.
The trawlers .lames Leymas. Brit- tania and Waago. were also sent to the   bottom. •
WAXTKD—Nursery agents. Per¬ manent position at good wages. Xow is time to start. First Xational Nur¬ series.  Rochester,  X.  Y.
The first serious court case result¬ ing from the growth of the jitney business in this section came to light yesterday in the form of a claim for $.">0,O0O damages made by the widow and children of Richard T. Collin,gs, a Baltimore man, who died from in¬ juries received on ,Iuly 21, 1914, in the wreck of a motor bus operated be¬ tween this city and Hazleton by ,1. C. Oberrender, .Iohn R. Sharpless and S. .s. f)herrender. otherwise known as the   .Motor  Transit   Company.
.Attorneys .lames H. Shea and Kd¬ ward A. Lynch are acting for Kath¬ ryn Worthingfon Colilngs. the widow, and her two minor children. Alleg¬ ing gross carelessness on the part of the company in supplying a defective motor bus, th^y set fortn that Rich¬ ard T. Collings was employed as freveling salesman nf a weekly salary of $100 and that his dea.h Is equiva¬ lent f.l a direct loss of $50,000 to his dependents.
According tn the claims of the statement filed by the plaintiffn, Mr. Collings .jvas one of a number of pas¬ sengers who were catapulted over a 150-foot embankment on Ashley boulevard while riding between this and the Mountain City on a large motor vehicle of the defendant cotn- pany. The accident ¦would not have happened, it Is asserted, if the bus had been in proper condition for travel. X'o mention is made of a pre¬ vious statement of the bus driver, who declared the accident was due to confusion caused by the presence of a second motor car on the boulevard. His statement showed that the big b«s went over the embankment when the two machines endeavored to pass each   other.
Collings died on Septc-mber 9 in this city. His death was the only fatality resulting from the accident, although others nf the passengers were very seriously injured.
Practically disembowelled, Felix .lo- nicka, of 119 .Joseph lane, was found in a dying condition <if I o'clock this morning near fhe Hilldale station of the Laurel Line. Af least six stab wounds were located about his body in ft hasty police examination and the in¬ testines were protruding. He was un¬ able to speak and only a miner union due book in a pocket of his coat gave the police what  little  information  they
have obtained.
At the City Hospital .lonicka's con¬ dition was declared to be very serious and there ie little hope for recovery, he police have no clue to his assail¬ ants and the Plains police, within whose iurisdiction the case lies. wer4 unaware of fhe stabbing until notified from this citv after the wounded man had   been   brought   to  police  headquar¬
ters here by fl Laurel Line crew. Pas¬ sengers alighting from one of the cars discovered the  prostrate body.
FRANK HEARING HALTED
Atlanta, Ga., .lune 12.—The hearing before Governor Slaylon of the final plea for clemency for Leo .M. Frank, condemned to die on June 22, as the slayer of Jlary Phagan, was adjourn¬ ed unexpectedly at 12:30 o'clock to¬ day until Monday morning at 9 o'clock, when Solicitor Dorsey asked that the sentence be proceeded with without change.
Former Congrssman William M. Howard presented the Frank case to the defense.
DEAD  AT  MERCY  HOSPITAL
Lansing reports he had received from Britich residents on the oil situaiion there. These reports showed that the conditions especially at Tuxpan were very bad and thaf serious losses pro¬ bably would be cntained unless ade¬ quate   protection   was   afforded.     The
'British   .Ambas.sador   gave   the   reports
|fo   Secretary   Lansing   for   information.
j He made no request for special action.
I     New  York.  .June  12.--The  .Army  and
j N'avy Journal in its current issue says the .Mexican  s'tuation was never more
I serious and   that   .Xmerican  troops  will be needed when relief work by the Ked
'Cross gets  under way.
L'nder the he.adinp of "Playing fast and loose wi'h .Mexico", the paper says: '"It will be interesting to .see how the far the arlministration will go in exerting its influence in behalf of peace and humanity in Mexico now;, that a new Secrets rv of State mus/ pointed. Conaitions for fhe, years have been worse tha gium.
"If the wl'.oie story is ef shown hy the records of tif partment tht country will <ici,.nn(i in¬ tervention. The trouble has been that the State Dep.irtment h.as heretofore l)een inclined fo suppress fhe informa¬ tion in its possessiini relative to the outragaes in .Mexico and has invari¬ ably discrecited reports from other sources."
.Mrs.   Phillips,   aged   40   years,   of   87 Darling street, died at the Mercy Hos-
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pital   at   11   o'clock   last   night,  after a few   days'   illness   of   complications.
FOR THEFT OF WATCH
.Sam .Maxwell, of Plymouth, was arested last evening on the charge of stealing a watch from a local instal¬ ment house on Soiiih .Main street. Maxwell went into the store with a friend by the name of John Mag"- vage. also of Plymouth, and while the latier was buying a suit -jf clothes, he is supposed to have picked up fhe watch and stuck it into h'.s pocket. The clerk later discovered (he loss and ran to the front of the store just as the men were going ip South Main street and called ihcm back. The manager of the store in the meantime had called the police headquarters and the men were taken to the .station house, where the watch was found in Maxwell's p ;cket. Jlax- well was locked up charged with lar¬ ceny, -while Magevp.ge was also held as a witness. Both men will be given a hearing In police court this inorn¬ ing.
THE COUNTY ASSESSORS MAKE REQUESTS TO COMMISSIONERS
NOTICE—To     the     architects    and
builders   of  Wyoming   Valley.     If  you
are  interested  in  the  moving of brick
buildings   I   wiah   to   inform   you   that
you   can   see   a   brick   build:'iig   being
moved     on     t:'uba     stree:.     Kingston.
I .Monday,   between   the  hours  of  9  and
.10   a.   m.     William   H.   .Shibtr,   house
I moving; Contractor.
The couniy commissioners have re¬ ceived from county asse.ssors O'Donnell Grace and Freidlander a comiinication in which It ;.., suggested that Ihe tran¬ scribing forces of the two offices be consolidated .ina all of the work pieced under the coniiol of the assessors of¬ fice. It is also in the same communi¬ cation that till assessors be granted the privilege i (engaging engineers to make a survev of the coal acreage of the county with a view of fixing the Coal assesstueni for the next three years, and thpi interpreters be furnish¬ ed at so much per day to assist the sub-assessor* in the performance of their work .Tmong fhe non-English speaking pait of the population of the county.
Before these requests can be granted it will be necessary to hold a meeting of the salarv board, which in this par¬ ticular case will be made up of the commissioners, controller and presi¬ dent O'Donnell of the board of as¬ sessors. In conversation with one of the county commissioners last evening he stated that he would not care to predict the attitude of the board on thes requests, but he intimated that all of the demands could not be granted at this time.
Although the request for fhe consoli¬ dation of the transcribing forces of the two offices would mean if granted
[a saving to the county It is nol be¬ lieved that the county commissioner." will look with favor ,.n the propostion. .Much of the work perff>rmed by th? commi.sfiioners' transcribers is eloselv, related to the duties of their office and they feel that it would be unwise to surrender   control    of   it.
During the session of the legislature just closed a law was passed giving assessors the power under certain con- dition.s to employ interpreters, but whether or not this law applies to this county Is not known. If such is found to be the case the sanction of the salary board  will  be unnecessary.
In the event that it does appiv there will be a-large number of these Jobs, as the foreign-speaking population pre- dominyes in most of the mining towns of   the   county.
GOETHALS   RELIEVED
Washington, June 12.—George W. Goethale, governor of the Panama Canal zone, is to be relieved of duty and placed on the retired list within the next few months. This will be done on the application of General Goethals himself, because he feels that he is en¬ titled fo a rest from official cares and responsibilities. His succes.sor will probably be Lieut. Col. Chester Hard¬ ing, engineer of maint.iinance of the canal.