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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
Expense to All Nations Totals
$6,5OO,OOO an Hour.
Interest Abs0rbS 10 Per Cent OF
German Peoples Income.
So MILLION SOLDIERS IN IT
Allies, 33 Million Men; Central
Powers, 90 Million.
U. S. Paying More for War
Than Amy Other Nation.

New York, Oct 16.-The war is
costing the belligerent nations of the
world at the rate of $3.50, 900, 600 day
-$6.5OO,00O an hour-and the United
States is paying at least one-quarter
If this staggering sum, according TO
estimates made today by the Me-
chanics and Metals National bank OF
New York. The estimated daily cost
at the beginning of the war was $780,
100000 and a year ago it was $780,
900, 900. This country's rate of ex-
penditure is greater than any other
nation, Great Britain being second and
Germany next.
BY next August. according to the
banks figures the total cost TO the
world will be S155, 900, 100000
, Already expenditures have exceed
ed 100000, 100000, of which all but
a fraction has been translated into
permanent national Indebtedness; in
terest on public debt is now calculated
to be more than 10 per cent of the
normal income of the German people,
as compared with less than one-half
of l per cent in the case of the people
of this country.
Combined Wealth of Nations.
The developed national wealth OF
the allies is placed at $500, 0OO,00 600
|. by the bank, while that of the Teu-
tonic powers is given as $3.50, 700, ,000,-
900.
About 5S.OOO,00O men are today en-
gagged in the war. To what extent the
entente allies have gained superiority
over Germany is shown by the bank
in striking fashion.
! With no more than 100000 of
American manhood enlisted, the total
military strength of the allies is
100000 against total for Germany,
Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur-
key of 20,0OO,000. The population of
the fourteen entente allies from which
the ranks of their armies may be re-
plenished is altogether 13OO,OOOOOO
against a population CT less than / 15c,
00O,00 in the central European ma j.
tiOnS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
EMBARGO Goes ON
Santa Fe Stops Livestock Ship
ments to Kansas City.
d
Ban To Stay On Until Fire Con-
ditiOnS Are Over.

Because of chaotic conditions due
to the fire in the Kansas City stock
yards. the Atchison, Topeka q Santa
Fe railway today clamped an embargo
on all live stock shipments into Kan
sas City. Other roads running into
the market are expected to take SIM
liar steps,
Freight officials said today that the
embargo would continue until the sit
uation is relieved so that the stock
may be properly taken care of in the
yards.
Live stock shipments err route to
Kansas City over the Santa Fe were
stopped at the nearest yards and win
be held. No shipments will be accept
ed until things are cleared UP.
The embargo by the Santa Fe also
affects shipments to other points
where transfer to another road at
Kansas City is necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16

According to some of the jurors.
all but one of them were agreed on
a verdict of guilty within a few min
utes after retiring to the jury room.
One man held out for acquittal for
five hours After he also agreed, it
took about minutes to fix the PEN
atty. The member who had held out
for acquittal wanted to fix the punish
ment at 20 years. Some thought the
sentence should be fixed at SO years.
A compromise finally was agreed up
on by a process of addition and di-
vision.
Piersol seemed cheerful this morn
ing. Apparently he hopes that a new
trial will be granted November 5.
Bonds were fixed for all the other
defendants here. They probably will
be tried next January. The town was
quiet today.
Bail in Other Kidnap Cases.
Mr.. and Mrs J. Holland Keet, par
ents of the kidnapped infant, were in
the court room when the verdict was
rendered as were the parents and sis
ter of Piersol.
The case went to the jury at 4:43
o'clock
After the jurors had retired Judge
SkinlIer fixed bonds for all the de-
PENDANTS held here on kidnapping con-
splracy charges. In the Keet case
the bond of Taylor Adams was fixed
at $4,000. and that of his son, CIetus,
at $4,000.
In the Clement conspiracy charge
the bonds set by the court follow:
Taylor Adams, $4,000; CIetus Adams,
$4,000; Mrs. Allie Adams, $4,000;
Make Adams, 6 years old, $500; Sam
McGinnis, $4,000; Dick Carter, who
testified for the state, $4,000.
The Clement conspiracy charge
| deals with the alleged plot to kidnar
G. A. Clement, wealthy Springfield
No, jeweler-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
Defense Board Discusses Means
To Increase Workers.
Take Soldiers To Cope Short
age in MunitiOn Plants.
MORE WOMEN IN FACTORIES
To Index Industrial Ability OF
Men in Next Draft.
Unions Opposed to Admitting
Women to Closed Shops.

washington, oct. 16.-War labor
,,roblerns. constantly increasing, are
crvstaIlizing sentiment among hlsh
government officials for war service
labor board today.
Renlacina men with women. ad-
dition of women, exemption of skilled
yorllnen from the draft, and labor
"conscription" to cope with shortage
are among the subjects with which
such a board would deal.
The proposal, formulated in detail
is before the council of national de-
fense today.
Advocates of the plan declare labor
shortage in some munitiOn plants has
already reached the stage where war
department officials are considering
taking battalions from the canton
ments to factories. The card index
new being made of every drafted
mans Industrial ability is preliminary.
Army engineers need a battalion i'm
mediately for a certain task
Returning Recruits to Trades.
In the second draft it is likely the
industrial census will be taken at ex-
animation time and that indust rial
exemptions will be more literally
made Already soldiers are being re-
turned from cantonment to their
trades because they are essential to
war work. This has occurred in avi-
alton plants, the men remain in the
army, however.
Employers are beseeching the de-
fense council for aid in obtaining
changes in state labor laws to permit
women to work on night shifts, Sun
day war work and to add women in
union shops. To these proposals
labor leaders have so far withheld
approval. They have entirely ig-
nored suggestions actually received
for importing 100000 Asiatics, $780,
600 Siberian Poles and thousands of
Hindons-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
LOOKS LIKE IOWA DRY
Early Returns Indicate State for Pro-
hibition by 10000 Votes.


Des Moines Iowa, Oct. 16.-Returns
from more than two-thirds of the pre-
cincts of the state this morning on
the election on constitutional prohibit
ton held in Iowa yesterday indicate
that the amendment fOrbidding the
manufacture and sale of liquor was
adopted by a majority of about ten
thousand.
Early Majority Is Reduced.
Later: With complete returns from
A6 of the SO counties and but 722 pre-
cincts out of a total of 2,34S missing,
indications today are that constitu-
tional prohibition forbidding the
manufacture and sale of liquor IN
Iowa was carried in yesterdays special
election by a majority of five to eight
thousand.
Reports from l. 626 precincts, which
include all the important wet strong
holds, give a vote of 125, ,514 to 122,
for the amendment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
TO TIGHTEN EMBARGO
Every Cartridge Sent From U. s. to
Mexico Must Be Licensed.

Washington. Oct. 16.-Every cart
ridge that goes into Mexico must be
licensed by the new war trade board.
The announcement of the tightening
of the embargo regulations on the
southern border was the first order is
sued by the newly constituted board.
No explanation Of the new order was
made other than to say that it was for
the protection of the supplies of nu-
nitions in the United States.
The order is connected, howeveF.
with the reports of recent raids ana
fear of raid by Mexican bandits. 1t fa
not believed here that the order fs
aimed at the Mexican government. as
it can undoubtedly secure such milf
tary supplies as it actually needs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
German Socialist Says Work.
men Demand Peace.
''Nine-Tenths Would Approve
Peace by Agreement"
"JUNKERS" CONTROL PRESS
Charges War Party Invests
Millions in Newspapers.
No Foreign Delegates at Wurz-
burg Socialist Meet.

Amsterdam, Oct. 16.-In his speech
at the Wurzburg convention Herr
Ebert, president of the German Soc
ialist party, said speedy conclusion of
peace was a vital necessity for work
men in all countries and that the
policy of the mailed fist would dis
appear after the frightful horrors of
the war.
IF a ballot were taken today" he
added, ''nine-tenths of the people
would approve peace by agreement"
Herr Scheidmann referring to the
Won Capelle incident, said that un-
fortunately it could not be discussed
in public.
THE fact is he continued that
if they wanted to catch all who were
connected with similar incidents,
they would have to take action
against 800 persons simultaneously.
Every day soldiers come to US with
complaints and we have opened a
special bureau to investigate them.
The main thing is not to talk or
write about grievances, but to combat
them"
Chancellor Leaves Capital.
Copenhagen, Oct 16.-No steps in
the ministerial crisis and no action on
the resignation of Admiral Won Ca
PV4lCf Tic IililllSlSI VI IS 6A-
pected by the German newspapers
until Emperor William returns to
Berlin from his Balkan trip. DIR.
Michaelis, the imperial chancellor
meanwhile has left the capital to
study conditions in the occupied dis
trict of Russia, as if nothing was more
remote from his mind than the
thought of retirement
Demand for the dismissal of Chan
cellor Michaelis was the leading
theme at the opening session of the
Socialist convention at Wurzburg
Bavaria, Sunday, at which Philip
Scheidemann, the majority Socialist
leader in the reichstag, was a speaker
Friedrich Ebert, a Socialist member
of the reichstag, assailed these mem
bers of the party who attempted tC
prolong the war. He declared also
that the advocates of the so-called
German peace were working in thei1
own pecuniary interests and not fo4
the fatherland. Scheidemann said
war profiteerS were investing millions
/ of marks in the German press which
accounted for the increasing number
/ of newspapers attacking the advocates
/ of moderate peace.
The convention was far less impOs-
ventions. Foreign delegations were
/ German delegates owing to the de
| crease in party membership thru the
| detection of the Independent Social
1 lists and the absence of hundreds OF
thousands of Socialists at the front
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
GROCER CLERKS STRIKE
600 in Lower n. Y. City District De-
mand 'Homes of Their Own

New York. Oct 16.-Six hundred
grocery clerks in the Bronx, Harlem
and the lower East side are on strike
today for an increase in pay and the
right to have homes of their own
Under the system in vogue according
to the strikers they are required to
board with their employers and many
do not have homes of their own.
I'VE intend to have every grocery
clerk have his own room so he can
get married and have a family if he
so wishes" said David Brodsky, a
union organizer.
The men ask SIS a week. an eleven
hour day and a stop to the system Of
working unlimited hours
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16

The temperature today averaged
degrees above normal The wind was
blowing is miles an hour from the
east at o'clock this afternoon.
More fall weather, and that's all,
was the prediction for tonight and
Wednesday. Temperatures averaging
around the same today were fore
cast. A few clouds tonight but no
rain completed the observation today.
The official forecast promises gen
orally fair weather tonight and
Wednesday. with not much change in
,Continued ON Page TMoI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
WAR OVER NOW, If
Roosevelt Points to Importance OF
Universal Military Training.

Washington, Oct. ia letter from
Theodore Roosevelt, endorsing the
proposal to register all men between
the ages of 10 and 81 for military
training, as a permanent policy, was
made public tonight by the National
Association for Universal Military
training. The colonel praised Lieut..
Gen. S. B. NJ. Young, head of the as
sociation, for advocating the principle
of obligatory training, when its ad-
herents were few.
IF our people had followed his ad-
vice when it was first given he
wrote, this war would have been over
now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
SIX MONTHS IN JAIL
That Is Penalty Imposed on White
House Stuff PicIxets Today.

Washington, Oct. 16.-Six months
each in the work house, the heaviest
sentence ever imposed on White
House pickets. was today imposed on
four by Judge Mullowney in police
court.
Declaring the Woman's party will
not recognize any law in the making
of which women do not participate,
the SuffragetteS announced that a
monster demonstration will be held in
front of the White House on Novem-
ber 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
NO NEW DRIVE TODAY
Raids and ArtiIIeryfng All the Fight
ing on British Front.

London, Oct 1e.-Raids and ar
tillerying were all the fighting activity
reported today by Field Marshal HaiS
from the British front.
Northwest of Bullecourt." he said.
sthe Irish carried out successful raid
early in the morning. In the neigh
borhood of the Ypres-Staden railway
there was hostile artiIlerying of con-
siderable activity last night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
KERENSKY SICK IN BED
Russian Premier Confined With At
tack OF Influenza

Petrograd. Oct 16-Premier Ker-
ensky is confined to his bed at grand
headquarters with an attack of in
fluenza, according to dispatches from
the front received today. He had been
reported as ailing for several days.
But news that his illness was suffi-
c1entIy serious to make him take to
his bed had not been expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
SHIP DOWN WITH ESQ
Torpedoed With 500 Passengers and
Munitions Blow Up.

London, Oct. 1.-two hundred ana
fifty lives were lost when the steamer
Medic was torpedoed, September %. in
the western Mediterranean, says 9
Reuters dispatch from Paris.
The explosion of the torpedo d.
tonated the munitions in the shfpsa
cargo. There were more than 500
passengers on board the steamer, in
Guiding soldiers and prisoners of war.
The Medic was a French vessel AZ
4,41O tons She was built in 1912 ana
her home port was Marseilles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
PIERSOL GUILTY!
35 Years Sentence Given Kid
naper of Keet Baby.
One Juror for AcquittaI Held
Jury Out Five Hours.

Marshfield, Mo, Oct. 16.-It took
the jury five hours and forty-two
minutes here last night to find Claude
Piersol guilty of kidnapping Lloyd
Keet He was sentenced to 35 years
impriSOnment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
TORPEDOED CREW LOST
American Negro, Five Fflipinos and a
Porto Rican Among Missing.

London. Oct. 16.-An American ne
gro, John Allridge, of New Orleans,
five Fihpinos and one Porto Rican
were among those lost in the torpedo
ing of an outgoing vessel from a Brit
ism port, it was announced today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
DOWN TWO U-BOATS
French Warships Destroy Submarines
i'm Western Mediterranean.

Paris. Oct Is-French warsh,pa
destroyed two Teuton submarines in
the western Mediterranean in the lass
week Of September according to In
formation received today by the
French ministry of marine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
HERE ARE THE FINANCIAL
FIGURES ON WORLD SERIES

The total attendance of the six
games of the worlds series was
1864. The total receipts were
$435,217.5O. The financial statis-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
SAME FALL BRAND
Additional Ideal Weather in Store for
Kansas.

Hourly temperature readings for the
day reported by the local office of the
United States weather bureau:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16

INSURANCE cannot replace the loss
of needed war food at the IA. e.
stocLyards fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Fair tonight and Wednesday. Not
much change in temperature.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-17
Writers of "Home, Sweet Home"

The words Of the popular song.
"Home, Sweet Home" We're written
by John Howard Payne, an American
rowing actor, who was born h New
York, 1901, and died in Africa in 1852,
and never had much of home any
where. The music was written by Sir
Henry Bishop, an English composer,
born in 1856 and died in 1855, who in
corporated the song in an opera en-
titled "Clari." The song was popular
in England before it was ever heard
in the United States.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-17
Demand for Imitation Leather.

Imitation feathers of certain grades
and colors have real market in
Venice at this time, and the trade is
growing, writes a correspondent. For
merly the demand was found almost
exclusively among the makers of art
furniture, but this has decreased be-
cause transport difficulties and restric-
tions placed upon articles of luxury
have brought the manufacture ana
expectation of art furniture almost
to q standstill.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-17
WASHINGTON

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, the Supreme Court held, has au-
thority to compel railroads to estab-
lish through routes and joint rates in
connection with other carriers.
President Wilson is expected to
issue a proclamation soon, requiring
every alien enemy within the United
States to register, as a step toward
'idding the country of spies and sa-
botage.
On seventy-seven of the principal
railroads of the United States a saw
ing of 114,110 cars was effected in one
month this year, solely by increasing
the average loading of less than car
load freight.
The effect of Germany's political
ffensive" against Russia and Italy
ipon the task ahead of the allies is
ecognized in Secretary Bakers week
review of military operations is
sued by the War Department.
Confirmation has been given by the
'erman government itself to the often
enied reports current for the last
ar that young girls of Alsace-Lor-
aine have been carried away from
heir homes and forced to labor for
he German army.
More than $4,000 soldiers and sail
RS have applied for government life
lsurance aggregating nearly s400,-
100000.
President Wilson's speech to the
merican Federation of Labor is to
e printed in various languages and
stributed throughout Europe.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-17

A state OF war has been declared
in Finland
China is preparing to send an expe-
dictionary force to France.
The British have gained further sue
cesses over the Turks in Palestine,
| Troops in two Russian garrisons
have pledged loyalty to Kerensky.
The allies are represented on the
new front by some British batteries
from the Carso.
The government has issued a de-
cree ordering the closing of the port
of Rio Janeiro.
In the month of October the entente
powers lost 244 airplanes and nine
balloons, according to the official
statement issued by the German war
office.
American troops on the French
front have been gassed for the first
time by the Germans. The rain of
shrapnel between the two forces has
been increased.
Frances confidence that the Teu-
tonic drive into Italy has been
stopped is expressed in the war office
statement cabled to the French EN-
bassy at Washington.
The United States is about to add
several hundred thousand tons of
shipping to the stream of ships carry
the aid of the allies.
The Italian forces appeared Tues
day to be holding their own along the
Piave. The Germans, however, re-
port the capture of two towns. The
italian forces, according to the Rome
report. have made their real stand on
the Piave river and the supreme
struggle is on. The British are hold
ing their part of the line.
A conglomeration of reports from
Russia on Tuesday leaves war stu
dents in a puzzling position. Some re-
ports say Kerensky has defeated the
rebels and entered Petrograd. A dis
patch from the capital declares the
Bolsheviki has defeated the premier's
| forces. The American consulate in
Moscow has been the center of the
| fight of Russian rebels and loyalist
| forces.
WESTERN
Utah raised s16,320,9S0 for the sec
ond Liberty loan.
Sixty-three Industrial Workers of
the World were arrested at Omaha in
raid conducted by federal agents.
,i,a ~.
| from Pima, Ariz., was shot and killed
at Globe. Lynn Marksbury, an en-
ployee of a copper mining company
at Globe is under surveillance.
The Armour Grain Company at Chi
| cago declared that only the reduction
of potatoes to so cents a. bushel will
prevent fully 100,000,000 bushels of
the new crop from rotting or being
fed to livestock.
An appeal to the patriotism of the
members of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers, in
volved in wage disputes in Arizona
copper districts, and all others be-
longing to the organization was made
by the president of the union, Charles
| H. Meyer, who suggests that there
shall be no strikes while this country
is at war until after the disagreement
with an employer shall have been sub.
nitted to the government for consid-
Grafton.
WASHINGTON
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, the Supreme Court held, has au-
| thority to compel railroads to estab-
lish through routes and joint rates in
connection with other carriers.
President Wilson is expected to
issue a proclamation soon, requiring
every alien enemy within the United
| States to register, as step toward
'idding the country of spies and sa-
botage.
On seventy-seven of the principal
The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-17
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Newspaper Union News Service.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-19

c. Quellmals,. wife and con OF San
Francisco. are guests Of the White
Pelican.
Sam Short is among the citys busi-
Rsss visitors today. He operates .
ranch n Poe valley.
Maaassr> Is. J. Grant Of the Also-
ma Lumber company b IN the city
iookins after matters Of business.
Robert Rigs left this morning for
San Francisco. where he will take the
for the aviation corps.
Mrs. 8. c. Rourk and Mrs. Kate
Naeker are here from Crescent to at
tend the trial now on In the justice
court.
L. p. Fleming and son. H. A. Flem-
Ing. and H. n. Fleming are members
Of . tourist party visiting in Klam-
ath Falls from Fresno. They are reg
istered at the white Pelican hotel.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-19
NEW INCLINE FOR
BIG FIRE TRUCK

a new concrete incline for the biz
ars truck from the door Of the city
hall into the street was completed
ysstsrday. and will facilitate. getting
the msehtns In and out Of the build.
Ing considerably. 4 concrete walk
commencing is front Of The city hsli
steps snd exteattns 70 the corner ;oi
S'tte snd klamath. sua sroanx - III
q tse Central gsrsys on xlsmsth,
rsssse'ss tie oh vssdss .stsuetsrs.
y now ready for uss.