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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-10
To Hurry War Plans

Early action on the ADMINISTRATOR
iwar legislative program was forecast
upon the assembling of congress to
day. Chief among these are measures
to authorize issuance of bonds for bill
lions Of dollars and for raising a big
army. Opposition to both measures is
looked for, but is not expected to serl'
ously threaten their passage.
On the house side, democratic mem
bers of the ways and means commit
tee we're preparing to introduce either
today or tomorrow the resolution for a
bond issue and the military committee
| heard representatives of the war de-
partment explain it's plan for raising
an army. The house also Is expected to
agree promptly to a senate amend
ment to the general deficiency bill Civ
ing the president an emergency war
fund of 800, 000, 900.
The senate was expected to begin
consideration today Of the army bill
carrying 1910, 900, 900 which was pass
ed by the house at the last session.
TAXES RAISE HALF.
About 81, $50, 900. 900, or one-half the
purposes within a year, will be raised
by taxation and the balance by sale OF
bonds, house and senate leaders had
virtually decided today. 1t is proposed
that most revenue should come. from
increased taxes on incomes, inherit
ances and excess profits and that an
issue Of 81 per cent bonds be author.
lied for $1,000, 00O, 900, of which $4,000
900, 900 would be invested in war
bonds Of the entente nations, and
81, 600, 000, 900 would cover the balance
Of the war expenses not met by taxa
ton. All of the two billion might not
be needed within the year, according
to advance estimates.
Want War Committee.
A Joint resolution for a congress.
sional "joint" committee or the con-
duct of the war" was introduced stimuli
.taneously today by Senator Weeks Of
Massachusetts and Representative
of Illinois both republicans.
The committee would be composed
Of six members Of the senate, includ-
Ing four democrats and two repub-
six from the house, evenly d.
vided between republicans and demo-
Gratis.
The resolution provides that the
shall be known as the joint
on the conduct Of the wal
and shall sit during the sessions OF
recesses Of congress, shall make spec.
Ial duty of the problems arising out OF
the wal shall confer and advise with
the president Of the United States and
heads of various executive depart
ments and shall report to congress
time to time in its W discre-
ton or when requested to do so by
either branch of congress-
The committee would be clothed
with the widest powers of ~investiga'
ton, compelling testimony under oath.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-10
SEIZE AUSTRIAN SHIPS.

New York. April 9-The Austrian
steamships Martha Washington and
Hilaya, self detained in port here,
we're today seized by the customs
authorities.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-10
AUSTRIA BREAKS
WITH UNITED STATES
CT e!5Bd uoII penunuoO)

ly looked after by the United States
were ordered turned over to the Swiss
minister.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-10

Newport News. Va, April 9-The
Austrian steamer Budapest, tied up
here since shortly after the outbreak
of the European war, was seized about
1890 today.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-10

Boston, Mass, April 9-The Aus
trian steamer Erny, wal bound here,
was seized today by port officials after
announcement from Washington that
Austria-Hungary had broken off diplo-
matte relations with the United States.
The Erny is the only Austrian refugee
ship at this port.
Philadelphia, Pa, April 9-The col
lector of the port Of Philadelphia to-
day took physical possession Of the
Austrian steamer Franconia.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
0SAGE INDIANS
GREET bELG|ANS
IN OKLAHOMA
Mission Has First View of Chief
in Silk Hat, Purple Robe and
GaudiIy Painted Face; Off,
GERS Attract Red Men,


Tulsa. Okla, July 21.-The southwest
gave the Belgian war mission a warm
welcome today. Usage Indians, who
greeted the visitors at the station,
were OF special interest to the for
eigners, being the first they had seen
except for an occasional individual in
the northwestern states.
Chief Bacon Rind in his full glory
of a beaver hat, painted face and
purple robe, extended a welcome for
the tribe. He spoke gravely of the
true brotherhood of nations to come
out of the present war. Baron Mon
cheur, chief of the mission, took Sec
ond place in the interests of the In
dlans and the tribesmen, who only
bhnked solemnly when presented to
the diplomatic members of the mis-
sion. but awoke to real enthusiasm
when introduced to General Leclerq
and Major Osterritz both imposing in
their military uniforms.
Governor Williams much discussed
81 hat was not in evidence at the re-
ception of the Belgian mission here
today The governor was attired in
an ordinary business frock suit.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22

areas for distribution of the boards,
are divided into two or three por-
tions for the purpose and a separate
board named for each.
These district boards will have no
function until the local boards in their
territory have begun to certify to them
the men found fitted for military duty
personally and not burdened with de-
pendents. The higher boards are courts
of appeal, either for the individual or
for the government, against the find
ings of the local board.
The question of industrial exemp-
tions has been turned over to these
district boards. They will be sole judges
of any registered mans field of great
est service to the nation, whether in
the army or in the munition factory.
patton in which he is engaged.
Missing Numbers Found.
The first purpose today in checking
the tally sheets was to discover miss
ing numbers. A blank capsule was
found in the drawing. At the time a
notation was placed on the tally sheets
showing that the blank had come up
number 10000. The drawing was car
ried through, however. without regard
to the blank, the next number an
nounced being placed as number TO-
004. 1t appeared more likely that an
empty capsule had been placed in the
jar inadvertently than that number
ed slip had been lost. The empty pei
let was put back each time it came up
thereafter with the hope that It would
be found to be 10,501 when the draw
ing was finished.
When number 10,499 had been
drawn, however, the empty capsule
was all that remained in the jar and
1t was known that one slip had not
been placed in the drawing. Today's
checking showed the missing number
to be 1864 in the serial lists of reg
istrants. That number will be placed
as number 10000 in the liability lists
on the official record, and all num-
bers drawn after that will be moved
Continued On Page rwO.)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
CROP OUTLOOK IN
NORTHWEST NOT GOOD

IsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL tEAego WtRnl
Minneapolis, Mimi, July 21.-Due
to continued dry weather, the grain
crop throughout large portions of
Minnesota the Dakotas and Montana
at present seems likely to be consid-
erably below normal, according to
comprehensive crop report issued in
bulletin by the federal reserve bank
today. The report Is based upon tele-
graphic reports sent yesterday at the
banks request by crop experts in vir-
tually every county throughout the
district.
The present outlook, according to
the report, is for a normal crop in
the central and southern portion of
Minnesota, the eastern part of South
Dakota and the portions Of northern
Michigan and Wisconsin included in
the bank district. However, says the
report. the crops in northwestern
Minnesota will be somewhat below
normal,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22

not obtainable here. A movement is
under way to interest Americans in
Paris in sending old magazines and
books to the camp. The representa-
tives here of the Y. NJ. c. A. hope to
be able partly to make up the defi-
cheney in reading matter before long.
In their spare trme--which Is not
uperabundant-the men have devel-
oped a veritable passion for letter
writing, which has swamped the
company censors. Many soldiers turn
in a dozen letters daily most of them
written, as one censor explained, to
every queen the men have met on
their way here"
A rule has been made, therefore.
that the letters must be enclosed in
a blue envelope and sent to Paris for
censorship.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
VILLA ARMY REPORTED
NOW TO BE 5000 STRONG
nv so.~rSo ,eu.a.l ...e,.. .s...o w,..,

Juarez, Mex, July 21.-Villa fol-
lowers to the number of 5000, un-
der command of Francisco villa and
Canuto Reyes, are reported moving
on Torreon from the north and the
south along the Mexican Central rail-
road. Jiminez, 131 miles north of
Torreon, which was occupied by Villa
a few days ago has been evacuated
by the rebels and General Francisco
Murguia has moved his headquarters
there from Chihuahua City. The cap
ture Of Torreon by the rebels means
the isolation of northern Mexico from
the capital. Reyes, who is reported
to have 1000 men, has recently been
identified with the Felix Diaz move
ment in the state Of Oaxaca.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
viii Lower Bread prices.

London, July 21.-A reduction of
% per cent in the price of bread at
an early date was announced today
by Baron 'Rhondda. food controller. A
graduated reduction in the price of
meat for the army and CIVILIANS which
by January will mean 80 per cent
decrease from the amount now paid.
also was announced.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
KERENSKY BECOMES
PREMIER OF RUSSIA

Petrograd, July 20.--The Bourse
Gazette announces that Premier Lvoff
has resigned and that Alexander F.
Kerensky has bee1 appointed pre-
mier but will temporarily retain his
portfolio of minister Of war and ma
rine.
M. Tseretelli has been appointed to
the post of minister of the interior,
which was held by NJ. Lvoff, but will
retain his portfolio of minister of
posts and telegraph.
M. Nekrasoff has been named pro-
visionally as minister of justice in
place of M. Pereviezeff, who resigned
Thursday.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
Believed Feigning Insanity.

Johnstown, Pa, July 21-Passing
back and forth in his cell in the Cam
bria county Jail at Ebensburg and
crying II didn't do it; I didn't do it,"
George c. Tompkins of Philadelphia,
who Thursday confessed to the mur-
der of Edmund I. Humphries, promi-
nent coal operator, Mrs. Humpries and
their 15-year-old son last night, re !.
pudiated his confession according to
the statement of Warden Knee. 1t Is
believed Tompkins is feigning in.
sanity.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
LOCAL REPORT.

A summary of the weather con-
ditions for the twenty-four hours end
imum temperature, 95 degrees min
imum. 61 range, "a; temperature at
6 p. M, rs; southwest wind; partly
cloudy.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
HOMESTEADERS TO BE
S|GNAlLY FAVORED
tay MORNING Joua~AL SPECIAL LEASED w,sgJ

Washington. July 21.-A house and
senate conference report agreeing
upon bill to give full credit for all
time spent in the army and navy in
the war to homesteaders, was filed
with the house today by Chairman
Ferris of the public lands committee.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
$780, 100000 Appropriate for Conquerng Germany the
Passes House Bill and President Wilson'S Signature Is AU THAT Is
Lacking for Most Gigantic War Measure EUer Undertaken America

Washington, July Fl. The
house bill appropriating $780,
100000 for the aviation service
was passed late today>by the
senate without amendment or
a record vote and with lessthan
an hours discussion. It now
goes to the president.
The senate's only dispute, with many
members expressing desire to pass the
bill Immediately, was over an amendment
of Senator Hardwick of Georgia to strike
out a clause authorizing drafting of the
men for the aerial service. The amend
ment was rejected, &c to Il, after Senator
LaFollette and Senator Gronna made brief
speeches opposing the draft
Details of plans for expending the huge
sum appropriated have been withheld, but
it is known that it provides for about $4,000
airplanes and nearly 100000 men.
The president is expected to sign the
bill Monday and the work of building one
,of the greatest air fleets the world has seen
will be pushed with vigor.
Senator Calder offered as an amend
ment the resolution of Senator Chamber
lain, chairman of the military committee,
proposing to amend the army draft law to
make aliens subject to conscription, ex-
cepting subjects of Germany or those ex-
empted by treaty. He said of the lO,-
100000 men registered over 100000 are
aliens, Arizona alone having 40 per cent of
aliens.
Senators Wadsworth, Stone, Brandegee,
Lodge and others also urged legislative
action to subject aliens to yesterdays draft
as we'll as future calls.
The amendment was finally withdrawn
to expedite the bill.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver, Colo, July 21.-For New
Mexico: Sunday and Monday partly
cloudy; not much change in temper.
ature,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
CHAMPAGNE GIVEN
j. 5. SOLD|ERSbY
FRENCH PEOPLE
American Staff Allows Men to
Drink Rare Vintage Present.
ed to Them by Gallo Govern
ment,


American Training Camp in France,
July 2t (by the Associated Press >.
This was champagne day for the
American soldiers. After long dis
cussion, the American staff decided
to allow the soldiers to accept the
champagne and red wines which the
French government presented to them
July IA. Bastile day.
The LIQUID delicacies were distrib-
uted during the forenoon and proved
a welcome variation for the custom
ary filtered water with its slightly
salty taste. Gift wine, however, was
not the only wine drunk by the men
who. with their pockets filled with
money from yesterdays payday, soon
exhausted the normal wine supply of
the nearby city. except for cham
pagne, which was cheap and plenti-
full.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
Men in Haig'S Auxiliary Ser
vice Are Being Sent to Front
While Mothers and Sisters
Take Places.
GIRLS DRIVE L0RRIES
AND SUPPLY WAGONS
Six Weeks Of instruction Civ
en- Before They Are. Sent
Across Channel to Do All
Sorts of Service.

British Headquarters in France,
June 30 (By MaiD The feminine
section of the British army is grow
ing larger day by day. Khak-clad
young women, at first confined to
the Red Cross section of the field
army, are rapidly pushing into many
departments of army activity dis
placing men, who in turn are passed
along to work nearer the front line
trenches.
Come by Boat Loads.
Every boat coming from England
brings new companies of women
workers. At first their work was
mostly at the remote bases, but now
they may be found working further
and further afield, sometimes within
clerical departments at the chief
bases women have very largely dis
placed men. AS chauffeurs they are
being employed by hundreds, not only
on ambulances and light supply wag-
ons, but also on heavy transport lor-
lltSr anu WIFI tIllTb SUCCbSS.
Women Carpenters.
Six hundred young women car
penters are at work building army
huts. They have only six weeks of
instruction and preparation in Eng
land before crossing the channel.
Their work here is practically shop
work" The huts are of the new semi-
cylindrical Canadian type, which is
being turned out by the thousand in
knock-down form, every hut exactly
alike.
Dress In Khaki.
The young women wear a neat uni
form of regulation khaki, with short
skirt and knickers and a sleeve badge
Each girl has to know only one small
part of the whole process of hut
building; each day she repeats the
same oreration; whether Il he with
saw, hammer or plane, and then
passes on the work to the next op-
erative.
The housing of the women work
ers has been accomplished without
particular difficulty. Some units are
in huts, others billeted in hotels
Each unit has its own supervisory Of
ficers and chaperons. While at work
1t is under command of young women
lieutenants, who act their part as
smartly as any British subaltern with
the actual fighting forces.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
American Badly Wounded

Paris, July 21.--Charles M. Ashton,
Jr., of the American field service. has
been badly wounded.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
Need Reading Matter

The greatest need of the American
soldiers seems to be reading matter.
Magazines, newspapers and books are
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-22
Thirty two BOartis Named.

Another step accomplished during
the day was the appointment Of the
district boards of thirty-two of the
states and announcement of the
names of the five men who will com.
pose each of them. Some states have
six or eight boards to ease the task.
Some federal judicial districts, the
The Tomahawk., 1917-04-26
Exploits OF "PusSyf00t'' Johnson
i'm Cleaning Up Indian I Territory

real fight with real opposition, John
son isn't particular whether the ad-
versary is a pugilist, and the game a
physical one, or a constitutional law
yer, and the weapon required legal
talent. He is always on the job. He
never had a chip on his shoulder, was
never looking for one to knock off,
but he felt himself lucky, indeed, when
he had an opportunity for action.
What Johnson says goes. If he ever
made a misstatement in his life it was
an unintentional error, and it isn't too
late vet for him to make the correc-
tion.''
When Oklahoma became a state
Johnson's activities we're ended there
to become national ones. He was maC1-
chief special officer, with duties ex-
tending over every Indian reservation
in the country. "Pussyfoot" became a
national name.
In Oklahoma one man transformed
the situation from one Of lawlessness
to one of respect for the government.
But he had sown seeds of hatred
which were to blossom into crop OF
deaths and sanguinary battles, in re-
lentless tracking and in dramatic re-
venge.
Copyright. by w. G. Chapman)
The Tomahawk., 1917-04-26
De WET WAS HARD TO CATCH
Boer Leader Took Delight in Telling
of His Achievements in EVad-
lnG tt4 Pursuing Britons.

OF the three great figures that
emerged on the Boer side in the war
Of defense that developed after Lady,
smith--Rctha. De Wet and Delarey-
De Wet was much the most impress
sive. His face was a study in resis-
lance, says Harold Spender in Gen.
eral Botha, the Career and the Man.
His body seemed all muscle. Looking
on him, one could understand the fear
that he inspired in his own men. But
it was his schemes Of escape, almost
miraculous in their cunning, that per-
picked an empire and puzzled plan
ct.
On one or two occasions have seen
his face light up when he referred
to one Of his own achievements in
evasion, and of those achievements
one still stands out in my memory.
One evening, after a long days
march-so he told us-all his wander
ings seemed to have come to an end.
The lights Of the British bivouac fires
twinkled from every point of the hori-
ION. De Wet, as was his wont, went
apart from his men and sat alone in
dumb despair. Then there came to
him softly one of those wonderful
scouts who served him so we'll. The
scout had discovered slight gap in
the British lines between two regi-
ments that were not quite keeping
touch. 1,
In a moment De Wet was on his
feet. Within an hour every horses
foot was muffled with cloth or wool
and every wagon wheel was swathed.
The Boer camp fires were lighted and
were left burning brightly. Then the
whole Boer force crept out through
the darkness of the night in utter 81
lence, penetrated the gap in the Brit
ish lines and started on q new course
of fugitive warfare.-Youths Compan-
ion.
The Tomahawk., 1917-04-26

At an editors desk in Westerville,
o., there sits stoutish man of about
fifty-two, preparing the lay-outs of a
chain of temperance magazines and
newspapers His head is as bald as an
egg, and it would surprise anyone who
had Just met him and was listening to
the editors gentle, half-timid accents,
to know that the several indentations
in the top Of it come from revolver
butts implanted there during a strug-
gle in a courtroom somewhere in
Texas, when the said editor was
known as the most sensational news
paper detective west of the Missis-
sippi.
William Eugene Johnson is a
naturalborn bad man. That his &C
tivities have always been enlisted on
behalf of good citizenship is probably
an accident due to early training and
environment. Picture a man of about
six feet three, by four feet in diameter,
an elongated -four barrel, with mus
cles bullying out all over him; the face
of a bandit, utter fearlessness, a love
of fighting SURPRISING an 1rishman's,
q strain Of Indian blood that makes
him as tenacious and resolute as a
fuil-blood, and one governing princi-
pie. That is Johnson.
The governing principle is this:
Save the Indian from the bootleggers
who are debauching them with illicit
alcohol.
Johnson is a stanch temperance
man, but no fanatic. It is only when
his blood brothers, the Indians, are
ruined by rum" that you can see the
mans moral indignation aroused to
the point of fanaticism. For six years
he fought a battle in the West on be-
half of the governments wards that
has never been equaled in strenuous
activity The tale of his exploits is
here to be set out in full for the first
time.
In August, 1906, at the suggestion
of Commissioner Francis e. Leupp,
Johnson was appointed by Secretary
Hitchcock to be special agent in In
dian Territory, for the purpose OF
etamping out the sale Of intoxicants to
Indians. In 1908 he was made chief
of the service, and after Oklahoma
achieved statehood his duties were
extended to cover all the Indian reser-
vations throughout the country.
4,,-"Go down there" were Johnson's In
structions, "and put as many bootleg
gers and illicit whisky sellers out of
business as you can. Put them in jail
for as long as you are able, and, when
they get out, throw them back again."
Johnson, arriving at the scene of
operations, found four courts and
eight judges, with 5000 criminal
cases awaiting trial. It was evident
that he might kick his heels till judg-
ment day so far as bringing criminals
to trial was concerned. He found his
deputies bulldozed and disheartened
and laughed at by the grog-sellers.
That was where Johnson began.
.. His first move was to make the best
collection of so-called Temperance
drinks used for debauching Indians
that was ever assembled. He
scocped up bottles of "Uno," 'Ino,"
Mistletoe," "Longhorn." "Waukesha,'
New State" Meth" "Teetotal," "Tin'
top "Uauto," "Nottox," "Pablo," etc..
ana had them submitted to expert
analysis Every one of them proved
to be beer, highly charged with alco'