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agree either to the enormous bond
issue proposed or to any form Of
new taxation they should consider
the great waste and extravaganza
for which the present congress is
responsible, a large part of which
is deliberately designed to EN-
RICH the individual MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS either financially
or politically.
Look at the Pork.
Here are some of the items of
pork and extravaganza regarding
which the American people should
demand a just accounting from
their representatives in congress
and the executive departments be-
fore they assume responsibility for
the debts created or to be created.
First of all is the old fanlil-
lar pOrk-barrel-publiC build
ings and rivers and harbors--
containing an aggregate
waste of not less than $685.
100000, which has no other
excuse for being than the de-
sire of individual congress-
men to do something for
their local districts and
thereby insure their return to
Washington.
OF similar advantage to the pri-
vate fortunes of the members of
congress is the bill which has
passed the house purporting to in
crease the salaries of the repre-
sentatives' secretaries $500 year.
In reality in the majority of
cases it is simply donation of
that amount to the pockets of the
congressman, since few of them
pay their secretaries the salary al
lowance now granted to them by
law but put the difference in their
own purses. This amounts to
about $4,000 a year.
Hay Bill a Failure.
Next on the list comes the pri-
vate pension graft, which, far from
being abated under the democratic
administration, flourishes like the
green bay-tree of Biblical lore.
This amounts to several millions
more.
But the browning eytrava-
gance of all is the Hay mi
Iitia bill, already admitted to
be a failure as a means of de-
Tense and valuable only for
building up in the states a pO-
litical machine at an annual
expense of millions of dollars
year to the federal govern
ment.
There are many other cases Of
similar measures for the "bene-
fit and relief of individual con-
gressmen and their political am
billions, which need not be detail
ed here.
Oil Land Grab.
They, however, pale into insig-
nificance in comparison with the
waste of the nations resources, al
ready completed or in contempla-
ton by this congress, which pro-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Miss Ryan of Ottawa, Ont, is
to marry the man she says is the
father of her baby, the little girl
awarded to her in a suit in which
1t was charged Mrs. Dollie Ledger
wood Matters claimed the child
as her own in order to get great
er share of her husbands wealth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31
HOW TO RELIEVE
RHEUMATISM

After each meal and at bed
time take a tablespoonful Of
the following homemade medi-
cine used all over the uaited
States and noted for its re-
markable results. Relief be-
gins after the first Dose -.
Syrup OF ssrsapariila. ! ounce
Toris Compound .....1 ounce
Simple Elixir ........h pint
This recipe formerly called
for whiskey, but tho simple
elixir is very much better.
Published by Medical ror-
mula Laboratory. Dayton. c.
The ingredients specified can
be procured from any gooA
drug Store
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Yesterdays Late News
NOT TO DEBATE PEACE NOTE
Omitted Press Leased wirel

WASHINGTON, jan 30The will discuss the presi
address subject
force
tabled by vote of 3S to 80 after day preliminary debate
One democrat Senator MARITIME of New jersey against
ending debate.
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SEND FLETCHER AT ONCE
UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O-Secretary Lansing today
officially that
y' to his post in Mexico City,
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Nine hundred and twcnty-nine
Mexicans bathed Tuesday at the
Ell Paso immigration station.
Utah to retain capital punish
ment.
COMMERCIAL BINDERY Il
PRINTING co. Main 4i7s adv.
The great st. Paul outdoor
sports pageant going full blast,
with large crowds in attendance.
Chief Tall Pine of the Pendle-
ton reservation. spoke before the
Minnesota legislature Tuesday,
first through an interpreter, then
in perfect English.
Ask Bill Fehse-he knows.
Olive Branch Cigar Store. VIM.
H. Fehse, Prop. Hotel Donnelly.
adv.
Mrs. Megler, widow of State
Senator Megler, rejoices over
news from Washington that the
Brookfield postoffice is to re-
open. Her husband was postmas-
ter for years there.
Otto Ottoson, 6tO3 South L
had hand badly bruised Tuesday
when unloading a wagon at the
Northwest Woodenware plant.
DIR. Melville Brannon, president
of Idaho state university, resigns
when political charges are made
against him.
Three hundred and forty-two
new students have registered in
the Tacoma high schools in the
mid-winter term.
Ninety thousand dollars were
spent in three years to support
John Jacob Aston.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Steve
Duris, 2620 East l. street, January
90, boy; Mr.. and Mrs. Kaha Mori-
kawa, 1881 Market street, Janu-
airy /, boy; Mr.. and Mrs. Kisuke
Kehana, 1893 Commerce street,
January Il. girl; Mr.. and Mrs.
| c. B. Guttirele, 1884 North 21st
st., Jan. 20, girl.
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NEED MORE NAVY YARDS
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WASHINGTON jan 30A preliminary report of Rear Admiral
Helm and his associates board investigating the
situation will that
lanc and Gulf should be abolished
locations unspeied
II learned today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31
WOMAN SHOOTS MAN DOWN

WASCO Jan. 30.-Sho is
he orcby borrowing
Rasmussen
Mrs Pearl Bozart houekeeper the ranch fired
Rasmussen after he refused to relinquish the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31
WITHDRAW STATE AID
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SALEM Ore, JAM 3O.-Aer long debate the Oregon house
late today passed Bowmans BILL withdrawing financial
from secaran institutions. The vote 3S to 90
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MURDER CASE ENDING
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SAN ANGELO jan 30-Arguments in the murder tria
Harry Spaniel began at o'clock this They
pected throughout
probably to the jury late Thursday
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY


PORTLAND, 31-Joln Hammersley, victim
Willow Dorando
Jackson
him dead and eaten,
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COMMERCIAL BINDERY Il
PRINTING co. Main 417~ adv.
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INDIAN WOMAN DIES

Saie widow Indian Henry" whom
Ienrys Tacoma
Eatonvle, years be
Wednesday the Indian minister George Barr the Shakers Off
catng.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Nine hundred and twcnty-nine
Mexicans bathed Tuesday at the
Ell Paso immigration station.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

CHIEF Tall Pine of the Pendle-
ton reservation. spoke before the
Minnesota legislature Tuesday,
first through an interpreter, then
in perfect English.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

The great st. Paul outdoor
sports pageant going full blast,
with large crowds in attendance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Utah to retain capital punish
ment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Ask Bill Fehse-he knows.
Olive Branch Cigar Store. VIM.
H. Fehse, Prop. Hotel Donnelly.
adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31
GOES TO RUSSIA

MONTREAL, Que, jan 31-Referring q dispatch
Ottawa relative to Vice President Bus trip the Atlantic
Lord Shaughnessy this morning that
handling quantities freight
Vladvostok desirable principle
should
graphical dealing
with transportation problems.
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CONVENTION OPENS nth

convention the Christian Missionary
hall 500 street.
Zimmerman wife of Toronto Canada, Rev.
William Moyser, returned missionary from India will be the
speakers.
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COMING ABOUT FEB. 10

OLYMPIA 31.-Troop and A, signal corps
probably Feb TO-
notified by Bell They only waiting
OF o them
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Miss Ryan, who thought the
baby died after It's birth in an
Ottawa hospital, first learned of
the child when the Matters suit
came up.
William Prinzler, Miss Ryan
says, is the father who will marry
her on his return from the
trenches in France.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Ninety thousand dollars wer'
spent in three years to supper
John Jacob Aston.
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Oil Land Grab.

They, however, pale into insig-
nificance in comparison with the
waste of the nations resources, al
ready completed or in contempla-
ton by this congress, which pro-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Mrs. Megler, widow Of State
Senator Megler. rejoices over
news from Washington that the
Brookfield postoffice is to re-
open. Her husband was postmas-
ter for years there.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

DIR. Melville Brannon, president
of Idaho state university, resigns
when political charges are made
against him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Three hundred and forty-two
new students have registered in
the Tacoma high schools in the
mid-winter term.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-31

Otto Ottoson, 61O3 South L
had hand badly bruised Tuesday
when unloading wagon at the
Northwest Woodenware plant.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
German Reichstag Does Not
Like Idea of Count Won
Hertling Being Made
Chancellor.
HE MAY NOT ACCEPT
First Time In the History of the EN-.
pIre That Such a Situation
Has Come up In
PoIitlca

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. If Count
Won Hertling withholds his accept
ance Of the German chancellorship
because he cannot obtain a full ma,
jority in the reichstag, the German
parliamentary reformers have achiev,
ed an epocha1 victory.
Berlin dispatches today reported
this reason for Hertling's non-accept.
ance 1t is the first time in the his.
tory of Germany that a chancellor
has let anything like reichstag oppo
sition stand in his, way. 1t is the
first time in German history that the
reichstag thus indirectly has man
aged to oppose the will of the kaiser
Opposition of the reichstag major
ity to Won Hertling, it was reported
was due to the Bavarian premier's
violent and reiterated opposition to
all rule of the people. The seventy
four year old statesman is a disciple
of the old school of an autocratic
ring to conduct the government. I'm
mediately after the kaiser's choice ot
such an enemy to popular rule was
announced, leaders of parliam entary
reform groups met and unanimously
voted to resist his selection.
Whether or not this reichstag ma
jority will cause the kaiser's aban
donment of the appointment was no
! limited in Berlin dispatches today
it does, popular rule in Germany ha!
made an unprecedented advance step
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
Lock Julu Germs Lurk
IN Small Pox Vaccine
Military Camps En-
Chemicals
4 2
Thousands Of Lives in Cities a.
dangered BY Poisons.
limited Press Leased

TUnNd dPrssA snce
hfromlo
an militia campi the
This indicated the public health today by official admission that
o
hie occurred from the product the country biggest dealers
n
deaths officially reported from T
said died Of lokaw
D. g.. andJa
of
isentreo on he ma
excene scent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
Was Enroute Home From q
Foreign Port and Not
Badly Damaged by
Submarine.
WAS NO LOSS OF LIFE
Steamer Finland Able to Return q
Port Under Own Steam Aftae
BcIns Hit by
U Boat.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servfce.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The AM
erican transport Finland was tor
pedoed In foreign waters, homeward
bound, Secretary of Navy Daniels an
nounced today. There was no loss OF
life and the transport returned to
foreign port under her own steam.
The damage to the ship was slight.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
statement was as follows:
1.-THE navy department has received
dispatches stating that the transport
Finland was torpedoed while return
| ing from foreign waters.
| THE damage to the ship was slight
and she returned to port under her
own steam. The Finland was under
escort but no sign OF the torpedo or
the submarine was seen"
The Finland ts the second trans
port to be attacked while returning
from its mission to Europe.
The Antilles on October II was
torpedoed and sank with the loss of
sixty-seven lives. The dispatches to
the navy department regarding the
attack on the Finland stated that no
submarine was seen, as was the case
In the attack on the Antilles.
Whether the Germans are using a
new system In hiding the assaults ON
transport ships Is a question puzzling
naval authorities.
The Finland is a 12,7o0 ton steam.
en- commanded by Captain Jensen.
She was formerly a Red Star liner
and was built by Cramps In Phila.
delphia in 1902. She is $50 feet long.
Secretary Daniels has asked. for
further Information on the submarine
attack. No details were given in the
first dispatches to the navy depart
ment to indicate whether any were
aboard the vessel other than the
crew 1t was not stated either wheth-
er any injuries resulted TO those on
board
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
IOWA TOWN OUT OF COAL
APPEALS TO ADMINISTRATOR
Limited to One Weeks supply.

CHICAGO, Nov. deliveries of
coal to Chicago consumers today were
limited to a weeks supply through
ruling of the city committee of the
fuel administration. The rule is ex-
pected to remain In force until the
serious shortage is dealt with
John e. Williams, state fuel admin
istrator, has authorized the appoint
ment Of special committee to deal
with the coal supp.-e -es for public insti-
tutions.
Retail dealers advised the commit
tee today that there is only about
four days supply of anthracite coal in
the city,<7About 90 per cent of the
fuel used here is anthracite. They
declared that a greater tonnage of
that variety had been mined this year
than ever before and with the north
west and east now fully supplied,
tsters should be taken to divert suffi-
cient supplies to this section.
| Portable schools, erected to handle
/ the overflow attendance, have been
dismissed until the fuel situation Is
Lsoived.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
Two Meetings Today to Dis,
cuss Situation of Keeping
State Warm This Winter.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
DES MONIES, Iowa, Nov. l.
Albion, Iowa, is suffering from
a coal famine, according to
word received here today by
Fuel Administrator Webster, from
the mayor of Albion. Webster
Immediately notified coal companies
in the vicinity to give immediate aid.
Two meetings were scheduled here
today to discuss the coal situation.
Iowa mayors, called by T. A. Potter,
of Iowa City, will meet with Web
ster in the afternoon. Coal jobbers
and retailers will meet with the fuel
boss this morning. Webster an
nounced that he had reconsidered
his resignation and would stick on
the job Governor Harding and Ma
tional Fuel Administrator Garfield
had asked him not to resign.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
No More Booze to be Sold In
Washington for First Time
in the History Of the
City.
IAN ORDERLY ENDING
Id Was on Two Hours Ahead OF
Time Because Everything
Had Been Sold
Out.
LBy George Martin, United Press stan
Correspondent

[By George Martin, United Press STAN
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-"Old Bill
Booze" went splashing out of wash
ington two hours ahead Of his l2:Ol
a. m. schedule today in disgracefully
quiet and orderely manner. The ma
tons capital is dry for the first time
in history.
All of the bulbous-nosed old boys
friends here awakened this morning II
at all, thoroughly ashamed Of him.
About twenty of the capitals most
sincere drinkers, was all that could
get boistrous enough to be arrested.
The police department was frankly
disappointed.
Ninety per cent Of the hard drink
emporiums were locked, barred and
shuttered by ten p. m. The others, In
a deplorably bone-dry condition, re-
mained open only to let the mourners
sing about it.
Even Shoemaker's, glorious scene
of many an illustrious party insult
ed the thirsties with nine O'Clock
warning: Nothing left but blackberry,
boys.
And at ten o'clock gurgles it's last.
Only soft drinks will be served there
hereafter. The truth is every drink
worthy the name in every drinking
place in town was lugged home in
more or less straight lines by the
faithful either in jugs or jags early
in the evening.
Thousands Of would be merry max
ers gloomed up and down Pennsiyvan-
ia avenue, seeking excitement they
never found.
More than one veteran, flabbergast-
ed and grieved ct being served
smidging of gin and a sniff of French
vermouth for dry martini. gasped,
choked, glared and went home-and
at ten p. m.
Every erstwhile walking lfbation
lover in Washington agrees today that
when things have reached the point
where a man can't get decently gay
on last night" celebrations because
there isn't enough to go round, it's
nearly time to quit anyhow.
1.-THE dry" boys today are very hap.
py. They say that while the saloon
business departed during the night
taxing with it S500,000 a year in taxes
slo o.0OO, 900 in cash receipts, 1000
white collar jobs and 9uo saloon por
terships, it's all right and everything
will be lovely.
Senator Sheppard, father OF the dis
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
British Advance Through Bot
tomless Bog Despite Coun-
ter Attack of the
Bavarians.
COATING OF
SLIME
Flanders Field is Like Swamp, But
the Tommies Push Through
For Further
Gains.

IBy William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FLANDERS, Nov. IA drab land
scape; yellowish gray mud in un-
dulating oozy ridges; Shiny greenish
reddish water pools; spattered muck
on naked twisted trees and under
brush: that is Flanders today, around
Paddlebeek bog.
Imagine this setting and then
stick in to the picture bedaubed fig
ures plastered with the same all-pre-
vailing muddy drab of the ground.
They look like animated statues OF
clay. They are British tommies.
They might just as well be Germans
as far as any recognition from out
ward appearance went-except the
difference in shrapnel helmets.
United Press readers can visualize
the sort of fighting in the British
drive in Flanders today If they can
imagine just the sort Of general
scheme Of mire and bog thus indicat-
ed
In yesterdays fighting for instance,
British troops crossed the Shiny
slippery, sinking, bottomless pit
which is Paddlebeek bog, under the
fire Of the BavaIians-and got what
they set out to get.
The ba1rage fire squirted veri
table wall of mud up ahead Of these
troops as it struck the Quavering
swamp. Behind 1t the tommies
holding their guns aloft have swan
through the same viscid mess. They
twisted and. fell as they leaped from
hummock to hummock. Many men
lost their footing, plunging face down
In the muck. Some were SO mex
tricably mired that their comrade;
had to yank them out Gun barrels
were choked with the bud cartridges
gummed with it. Through 1t all the
tomnies went on philosophically, buI
swearinginly cleaning smeared VI
guns and fighting tooth and nal
when they came to clinches with the
enemy.
The British held all their gains to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
Made TO Salute Old Glory.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CARMI, Ill, Nov. samuel Sci
bert, pastor of the Church Of the
Apostles, Holy Roller sect, near
here, has changed his mind about
war After having been beaten by
a carpenter for telling his congrega-
ton that "any man who fights in
the present war is not christian" he
was compelled to withdraw his state
ment, stand in the public suare of
Carmi, doff his hat and salute Old
Glory.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
BURIED ARMS AND LEGS
IN POST HOLES IN YARD

dissected parts Of his brothers body
buried on his property, the sixty-four
year old physician continued to pro-
fess innocence of the crime. To
questions regarding discovery of
some of his brothers organs under
the doctors ice house, and legs, arms
and other members buried in post
holes on his property, the physician
only shook his head, declaring his
inability to account for the gruesome
findings.
Meantime authorities are awaiting
for resentment in the doctors home
county to subside before returning
him there for preliminary examina-
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-01
Lines Being Rapidly Drawn
For the Coming Clash
Of Teutons and
Italians.
IN BANKS OF THE RIVER
enerai cadorna, Driven to Bay, is
Ready to Make Desperate
Stand Against
Invaders.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON, Nov. Lines for the all
Iecisive battle Of the Italian plains
we're being drawn rapidly today. Cen
raj Cadorna has skillfully conducted
his retreat; his forces are being
nassed along the flooded bank of the
ragliamento river: the Austro-Ger-
han advance has already slowed up
lppreciably and the situation for Italy
kppeared slightly better.
The greatest menace to Italian
eafety indicated in dispatches today.
was the nanking movement well un-
der way near the Carnic Alps, direct
I'd by an Austrian army under Gener-
i Won Krobatin. This force is max.
ng q desperate thrust to turn the Ital-
an positions on the upper course Of
he Tagliamento. Success OF such
in operation would threaten the
Whole Tagliamento line and force a
Further Italian retirement, possibly to
fhe line Of the Piave river.
According to the Berlin version, the
invading forces have already captured
10000 Italians and 1000 guns. To-
day is the ninth day Of the drive.
In the first four days the captures
amounted to 100000 prisoners and
70o guns. The five succeeding days
brought only twenty thousand men
and 300 guns-indicating decided
Slowing up in the, offensive power OF
the enemy. In nine days the German.
Austrian invasion has seized more
than 1,200 square miles of Austrian
land Italian territory formerly held by
the Italians and penetrated at some
Places as far as forty miles from the
|old positions.
Rome dispatches today told of a
marked relaxation OF the German
pressure on the center of Cadorna's
line, due undoubtedly to lack Of rail
ways
Crisis In Few Days.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The great
Battle of the northern Italian plain is
swinging into the first stages Of Its
srisls today. With Won Mackensens S
.osts now within range of the Taglia
rlento river at some points, General
eaaorna must soon indicate his plan
u aefense along that line.
oadorna apparently is attempting to
aeep the German command in doubt
ABOUT his forthcoming stand. Only
,ne narest information is being given
sut through official channels here to-
way. Cables indicate the italians are
making m a desperate effort to outflank
ue German brigades, taking advant
age or every feature of the terrain tc
lay a, and confuse the advance of the
Ientons.
az u IS now believed the high point in
sne sI fighting will not be reached before
november or 8. It is expected the
struggle will stin be in desperate pro
sress November 15 when the frs,
sleat allied conference with America
particlpating fs held in Paris.
as as result Of Germany's stroke
asalnst Italy. an entirely new wa,
prosram must be mapped out at this
conference.
TOT some days there has been g