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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Republican Candidate Asked
to Speak From Pulpit,
But Declined.
[By Perry Arnold, United Press Staff

IBy Perry Arnold, United Press Staff
Correspondent
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Aug. PA
meeting between Governor johnson,
of California, and Republican 'Presi-
Dental Nominee Hughes may be ar
ranged before the candidate leaves
California. This effort to promote
harmony between the republican fac
tions in this state, was being made
today when it became known that
Governor Hughes was at Long
Beach. Sunday at the same time the
California executive was there. Gov
ernor Johnson, cut of respect to Gov
ernor Hughes busy program, did not
inform the presidential nominee that
ne was there, so meeting between
the two failed.
1t was said today that a meeting
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
England Lost Two Valuable
Cruisers in Naval Battle
in the North
Sea.
FIRST TIME CAUGHT
British Forced to Withdraw Last
Night But Claim Germans Could
Not Follow up the
Advantage.

LONDON, Aug. 21.--The sinking Of
two such valuable British light cruis-
ers as the Falmouth and Nottingham
in the North sea, the first naval fight
since Jutland, is distinctly unfortun-
ate, the naval expert of the Daily
News asserted today, but it is the
penalty that must be paid by a
fleet commanding the seas.
"In the Dodder Bank fight last year
and on several less important occa-
sions. the enemy tried to lure the
British forces into submarine trap,
said the News expert, "but although
our pursuing ships often enough found
themselves in nest of q boats, they
never before suffered loss there
from"
The Battle on Land.
LONDON, Aug. 21.-British cover
ing patrols withdrew before strong
enemy forces northeast of FouNpauS
wood in last nights fighting, but the
Germans were unable to follow up tie
advantage because of British artillery
fire, General Haig reported this after
noon. The Germans three times at
tackled British positions at ForeauS
wood after heavy bombardment, but
were each time repulsed.
The Germans bombarded British
positions near Pozieres and north
east of the Contalmaison with gas
shells last night.
In the northern fighting zone, the
Germans attempted a raid on British
! trenches northeast of Hulluch and
east of Leplentin.
! They were driven back, entering
! the British position at only one point
| from which they were Immediately
elected.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Railroad Strike Would Result
in Loss Of Millions Of
Dollars in the
Crops.
SHORTAGE IN A WEEK
Simply impossible to Estimate the
Trouble Which Would Follow
An Extensive Tie-up Of
the Roads.
fBy Robert J. Bender, United Press
staff CORRESPONDENTS

by Robert J. Bender, United Press
Staff correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-LQss of
millions OF dollars In crops through
out the country In the event of a rail-
road strike was the new possibility
before the administration today.
The treasury department reported
that agents OF the federal reserve
board in the south, west and northwest
are beginning to ask for funds for the
annual crop moving" period. A tie
up Of the railways of the country
would mean that wheat and other
produucts now ready for the mills
would be held up indefinitely and
possibly rot on side tracks II stopped
IN transit, ves
This angle Of the threatened gigan-
tic strike was borne home to officials
not only by reports from the treasury
department, but by the arrival OF
western railway presidents such as
Louis w. Hill, whose fathers name
was synonymous with the empire of
the northwest" and its wealth OF farh
lands. More than two score railway
Presidents and the $40 brotherhood
representatives held separate meet
ings today to continue discussion of
President Wilson's proposals looking
toward peace.
The railway presidents augmented
by the new arrivals arranged for a
conference with President Wilson at
2:30 this afternoon. 1t is understood
the president, earlier in the day, had
suggested such meeting in response
to intimations that the railway heads
desired further development of some
OF the ideas expressed in his public
statement Saturday. They want to
know what may be expected in the
way of cooperation from the inter
state commerce commission in case of
necessary rate adjustments and also
what the president may have in mind
regarding future prevention of crises
Ike the present.
The conference of railway presi-
dents this morning was unique Men
representing millions of dollars Of
railway wealth moved about the tenth
lioor Of the new Willard getting
down to brass tacks" on the situation
confronting them. It was all informal,
the executives talking first in one
group then in another, seeking ideas
and opinions There was no appar-
ent effort to organize and agree upon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
.BULGARS CLASH
WITH SERB|ANS
Balkan Country is Again
Rocked by Fire Of Big Guns
and the Crack Of
Musketry.
NEAR GREEK BOUNDARY
NO Important Moves Have Been
Made, But Preliminary skirn-
Ishes Are Becoming
Frequent.
NEAR GREEK BOUNDARY

SALONIKA, Aug. 21.-Bulgarian
forces are engaged in sharp fighting
with the Serbs on fifteen mile front
seventy miles northwest Of Salonlka.
The Bulgars emerged from the vii
Iage of Florina and attempted an adj
vance southwark. At the same time
other strong Bulgarian detachments
attempted an offensive along the
Manastir-Salonika railway. The Serbs
drove in the right flank OF the Bull
garian force from Florina, forcing the
enemy back upon the town and at
the same time upon the town and at
tack eastward as far as Lake Ostrovo.
Fighting is still going on.
Incessant skirmishes between
patrols and frequent infantry engage
ments in which whole regiments have
taken part are reported on the Brit
ish and French fronts along the whole
Greek border east Of Lake Dorian.
In the Doiran district, Particularly,
hot artillery struggles have occurred
Airmen on both sides are very ac-
tive Hostile asroplanes attern MED
raid on allied camps south of Doiran,
but were driven back by allied ava
tors.
BuI9drS Advancing.
SAI4ONTKA, Aug. 21.-Bulgarian
forces are advancing south Of the
Greek town of F'lorina, despite stub
born Serbian resistance. Stubborn
fighting continued all day Saturday
near Ranitz, thirty-one miles north
west of Salonkia.
Playing the Game.
90
[By Ed j.. Keen, Pnited Press Staff
Correspondent
| LONDON, Aug. 21.-The Bulgarians
have opened heavy attacks on both
| wings of the allied armies in Greece
and serious fighting is going ON at
| both ends of the $50 mile battle
| front.
The German war office this after
noon announced that the Bulgars
have captured yichill, southeast of
! the Greek town of Florina, whose
capture was officially announced Fri
day and have taken other Serbian
positions. An Athens dispatch re-
ported another Bulgarian force less
than ten miles from the important
Greek port of Kavala The invasion
of Greece has brought new crisis
to the Greek capital and has resulte,!
in sudden conferences between minis
terial and military heads. The Bul,
garian advance has aroused no alarm
! in allied military circles.
The Bulgars, it was stated here
| this afternoon, are merely playing
the game the Germans tried unsuc-
cessfully at verdun. They are nit
ting hard, counting on getting start
before the allies begin an offensive.
The fighting in the Balkans, which
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Newspaper Changes Hands.

MUSCATINE, Iowa, Aug. 21.-The
News-Tribune today formally made
announcement OF a change of owner
ship. DR.. f. B. Fulliam. a prominent
local physician and capitalist, and t.
H. Brannan, former editor of the
News-Tribune have purchased the en-
tire holdings. No change will be
made in it's policy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21

WASHINGTON, Aug. H.-Scien-
tific Washington is aroused over the
discovery of noiseless mosquitoes.
They do not differ in other respects
from the common variety, but their
huxsleesness renders their execution
a.nra deadly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Russians Continue to Make
Substantial Gains in a
Surprise Drive on
the Germans.
ONE ARMY WAS CRUSHED
Civilians In Northeastern Hungary
Arc Reported Fleeing Before
onrushing Troops
Of tho Gear.
rBy William Phillip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondence

[By William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD, Aug. 21-By suH.
denly shifting his attack to tho
Stochod river front northeast Of
Kovel, General Brusiloff has caught
the Germans of their guar d. and Is
driving westward for substantial
gains.
Realizing that General Bothmar's
army had been crushed, the Germans
began stripping their northern fruit
OF every available man and sending
them southwark to defend Lemberg.
1t was while this troops movement
was under way that Bursiloff struck
further lnorth with his right wing, his
f1anking attack menacing both Kovel
and the German army at Ptnsk. The
Russian frontal attacks upon Kovel
have practically ceased.
The Germans have sunk hlrrets in
the marshy ground west of the city.
These turrets are practically invisible
to Russian air scouts and must be
overcome by strategy rather than by
massed infantry onslaughts. Conse-
ouently the line west OF Kovel has
remained stationary for some time.
During the lull on the Kovel front.
the Russian armies undsr Generals
Kaledin, Sakharoff and Letchitsky
swung westward like a deadly pendu-
lum from Kovel. as pivot. crushing
Bothmer's army along the Strtpa-
Like the movement of pendulum the
advance was proportionately faster in
the extreme south.
Expert opinion here believes that
more depends upon BrustIoff's cam
paign than the mere stand or fall of
Lemberg and KoveL Prisoners say
that the northeastern part of Hun
gary is being evacuated by civilians
because of the Russian advance near
Koromezo.
1856 Prisoners.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 21.--The Rus
slams further advanced their lines in
severe fighting along the Stochod
northeast of Kovel yesterday, 1t was
officially announced today, nlaking
progress near Toboly and in the reg.
| ion Of Rudka Czerwische.
In Friday and Saturdays fighting
on this front, 1866 prisoners, cne
cannon, eighteen machine guns and
other material were captured.
Heights Captured.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 21.-Russian
forces in the Caucasus have captured
a whole series of strongly fortified
heights in the re1ion of Biarbekir,
taking many prisoners, it was offic1al'
ly announced today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Flour Mill Destroyed.

HASTINGS, Neb, Aug. 21.-Fire
starting in the engine room this
morning destroyed the flour mill and
about $4,000 bushels of wheat owne@
by the Hastings Milling company.
The loss is about $4,000
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Twenty-six Held UP.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Twenty-slx
customers were lined up at the bar
when they heard the sharp command
hands up" All obeyed in unison,
while two masked bandits Went
through the crowd and took their
money.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Train Killed Baby.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Waiter Suba-
tuch. ten months, was killed when
Lake Shore passenger train struck
the perambulator which Mrs. Suba-
tuch was pushing. She escaped un-
hurt.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21

Time is money, but it requires gem
ius to effect the exchange.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21
Heights Captured d.

PETROGRAD, Aug. 21.-Russian
forces in the Caucasus have captured
a whole series of strongly fortified
heights in the reDion of Biarbekir.
taking many prisoners, it was official'
ly announced today.
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Thunderstorms. Cooler. Local
temp p. m. 81; 7 a. m. TO-
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the mist as they dipped their poles in
rhythm to their chant.
"As listened to the moaning song, l
wondered what they were feeling, or if
they were feeling anything really. But
the words they improvised pierced the
situation with an uncanny directness.
'Luala Ntaka' had come back to the
waters once too often.
al remember how, as crept out of the
palm shack and opened the manuscript
case, Quasi's eyes turned on me, yellow
white, slightly bloodshot even in the
moonlight, filled with animal indifference.
In that moment envied him. What did
he know Of what that page meant to me?
What did he know of the problems |
should have to face when l came out?-l,
the sole survivor of the Hawke expedition,
concerning the fate of which the whole
civilized world would be infiamed with
curiosity under Bart Maynard's manipu-
lations. | envied Quasi because he would
not have to go out. He would simply lift
a corner of that curtain of concealment
of the bush, duck under it, and be lost
forever. But L
"Oh--I read it, Read just that last
page-205-read it gliding along there
betwixt mist and moon over that ghostly
river"
$50 it was after that that you-" Car
roll began, his voice softening percepti-
bly,.
"Wait," cried Trent. al haven't done
yet. l am going to tell you all, but give
me time. Don't imagine didn't think
of things as read those lines and realized
what they would mean to me if they ever
reached those they were intended to
reach. And you must picture the stu
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me, not even myself. had already done
all, even more, than seemed humanity pos
sible. Why keep him chained there in
that broken body? Let him go; then
bury that body on one of those islets and
bury that diary with him-or tear off that
page and any others that-that spoke
of me.
"He was bound to go anyhow, you see.
1t was merely matter of days, at the
most. While II was twenty-six, with
a good two thirds of my life to come. Be-
sides, | had not meant tit was merely
a matter of accident and nerves; and if
Hawke had only been different
81 thought-thought Of everything. 1t
is wonderful what things ones mind will
bring up if one just gives it its head. But
at last, after had thought myself out,
saw something. saw that | could not
let him go, that l must take him out,
even though it meant taking that diary
with him, and in it's entirety.
"T FLUNG myself down beside him, hud-
ding him to the warmth Of my body,
calling his name: just 'Hawke-Hawke-'
over and over again, with logged per-
sistence. He felt it; l could feel him
struggling against it. He wanted to go
it was so much easier for him to drift out
over that drugged night. 1t was sub
jective struggle between us; but by sheer
persistence | kept him there until the
dawn came up with it's returning tide Of
vitality"
"Hawke told me all that said Carroll,
as Trent stopped. ale knew what you
were doing that night even while you
were doing it. Listen-he wanted to tear
those pages; that he could not quite do
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There they were-Hawke, Trent, and
the two negroes-eight hundred miles
from anywhere, the ammunition gone,
and the porters and baggage on the UNI
reachable opposite shore. And Hawke,
the compelling faith and force Of the whole
expedition, lay hurt to death. Carroll
could solve the cropping simplicities of
the natives minds. OF course those
porters, safe on the other bank from
pursuit, non-calculating and covetous as
children, took each what came to his
hands and scattered, to meet God alone
knew what fates behind the veil of the
bush.
1.-THE rest was simple, really" Trent
went on. "The worst was those first
two weeks, carrying Hawke. After we
got to the lower river, past the rapids, it
was easy. just make a raft and paddle
paddle, night and day, and keep Hawke
alive"
CAROLS mind stiffened to attention;
he was on the trail of the real puzzle
now.
aAh-yes; keep Hawke alive, he said.
ale told me of that night"
Inat came lateF OH, lIeht iePieu
ave were we'll down in the Kongo terri
tory then, somewhere near the Lualaba
confluence. l remember. it was full
moon, and we were creeping slowly along
through maze of wooded islets. Hawke
was lying under the shelter of palm fans
in the middle of the raft. He had not
= moved nor spoken all day, and Quasi and
Atchoa were already singing the death
, chant. He was practically gone, mind
you. There was hardly the flicker of a
pulse. His coat was beside him with that
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alton. There we wherever that
was. We were safely lost that night; not
even l could ever hope to find that place
again. There was no place to fnd-just
mist and moon and those CHASTITY, spectral
trees gliding by, with the crows roosting
on their dead limbs. Anything once bur-
led there would be safely lost forever.
81 crept back to Hawkes. side and laid
my hand on his heart. l could feel him,
still dimly there, but ready at any mo-
ment to float out and off on those waves
of wailing sound from the negroes.
"Oh-I thought of it all, tell you. 1t
would be so easy-so much easier for him,
came the argument-to let him just drift
away over the fog. Just let him go: that
was all had to do. No one could blame
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manuscript in it, and l knew perfectly
fore, but there swept over me desire to
see what he had written that night in his
tent above the falls.
81 knew l was going to get out. l
knew, too, that my fate, once l got out,
depended on what was on that sheet of
paper, Hawkes. last written words. My
own story would not weigh feather
against that.
THERE was a fog about three feet deep
over the river, and we were polling along
up to our knees in it, the hidden water
lip-lapping under the raft. | remember
how the naked bodies of the natives
seemed to float on the inconsistent over
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slid through their fingers. Then the
shock as the mass Of logs struck that sub
merged rock and hung there, fitting in
the smooth embrace of the stream.
He was back on the bank with Trent
now, breaking his nails as he tore at the
iron knots in the rope, hauling it in and
coiling it as he ran. A turn of it about a
tree, desperate cast as the raft tilted
and went under; a few heads being mex
orably whirled down toward the falls.
Then Hawkes. figure, limp and battered,
clinging to the rope.
"Cut all that" he said harshly, as if
Trent had still been speaking. "Go on
to-afterward.
@There we were, you see" Trent an
swered simply.
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but before he could take them Trent was
on his feet.
"One moment" he said, with a detain-
ing hand on the others arm. II said l
would tell you all, and haven't told you
yet what it was | saw that night that
made it so necessary for me to bring
Hawke out of the bush with me, and
alive"
"To me the main thing is that you did
bring him out"
"To me the main thing is that it was
through me that there was any necessity
of bringing him out" Trent answered.
IL thought of that, too, that night.
thought of everything, l tell you, and at
last thought of Maynard. knew was
going to get out, you see, and l thought
Of that poor polar chap and half dozen
others whom Maynard had ground under
the wheels of his tremendous engine of
publicity. Then l thought of myself
sooner or later one always thinks of one
self, it seems. saw myself, the sole sur
vivor of that expedition that had started
in such blaze Of glorious anticipation;
l, the least Of them all, returning with
that tale of disaster; Victor Trent,
the young man we picked up in Loanda'
coming out of that bush, alone"
TO Carroll they seemed back exactly
where they had been at the beginning
of the interview, with the same question
asked and unanswered. The only differ
ence was that it seemed Trent who was
asking it now, and himself who could not
give the answer. His mind gripped on to
the one solid fact that stood up out of the
mush of perplexities.
"But you did bring him OUT" he per-
sisted.
"Having first, as one might say, put
him in," Trent answered.
"The fact remains-you brought him
out"
"And now you know exactly why l
did So"
"Why couldn't you have let it go?" de-
manded Carroll impatiently. what have
to do with your thoughts and your self
accusations? All know are the facts
and So"
His hand went again toward those
sheets, but before he touched them thedoor
burst open, and, as if blown by that sharp
gust of air from the open window outside,
ViiO 4NoyuPfOho D iSPA SSShVneiSO OhVOAON'
His coming reminded them how dark the
room had grown in the gathering dusk,
their faces, marked by the pallor of the
tropics, looming dimly at each other in
the glow of the fire.
"Time is up" said the man in brisk i'm
portance. mo further delay will be toler-
ated. l must insist that you deliver me
that"
He stopped as he saw that neither of
them was looking at him, and his gaze
followed theirs. Impelled by the draft
from the door that he held open, the fate
full sheets were rustling off the top of the
pile of manuscript and over the edge of
the chair.
A touch, wave of the hand, would
have stopped them; but Carroll was held
by spell of wonder as to what they would
do. If the fellow were to close that door
but he still held it open, and the sheets
were half way to the floor Then, caught
by the swirl from the chimney, they
darted toward it, catching fire as they
went up and out of sight. He could i'm
agine them shooting above the roof, five
glowing sparks against the darkening sky,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-19

as OF his attitude toward the American
Evolutionary undertaking Consul
siIliman has advised the State Depart
ment that officials Of the Mexican de
their acquiescence In the movement.
Report Expected.
Special Agent Rodgers, who has been
assigned to Carranza's capital, was
scheduled to present his credentials to
Carranza yesterday afternoon. An
official report Of Carranza's position IL
expected to be received soon from Mr..
Rodgers. -
Acting Secretary Polk telegra phed
Special Agent Rodgers yesterday to
place before Geenral Carranza the re-
quest OF the United States for permits
railroad for the transportation OF SUD
piles to General Pershing'B base In the
Casas Grandes district.
After receiving General .Funston's re-
quest for the use OF this road. the State
Department was advised that n bridge
had been burned by Villa sympathizers
twenty miles north of Casas Grandes.
! The State Department has been infor-
nially assured that Carranza Will permit
the use OF this road. Whether ne will
later permit Funston to use the rail-
road. which 10 government owned, for
troop movements. has not been ascer-
The request OF the state Department
for use OF the Mexican railroad II
another move in the effort to speed up
the campaign against villa. General
Carranza will be told that II II to the
Interest both OF the United states and
Mexican governments that the expedi-
ton be FASTENED by every means so
| that the American forces may be with
drawn from Mexico. ..... .