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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Criminals, Released When In
dependence Declared, Flock
to City and Become
More Bold.
CLERKS ARE ON STRIKE
tRtoting and Parades by Anarchists
Cause Turmoil and Blood
shed In Russian
Towns.
by William G. Shepherd, United
Press Staff Correspondent.l

by William G.. Shepherd, United
Press Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD, June Russia 8
criminals, all released from prison in
the first joyous celebration of indie
pendence, are fast maA'ng Petrograd
unsafe. A wave of robferies and vic.
lent crimes is sweeping the city.
Minister of Commerce Konovoloff
rendered his resignation today on ac-
count of differences with the minis
ter of labor as to financial and eco
nOmic measures.
Today millionaire merchant,
Gregorioff, was shot down at his man
sion in the very heart of the city by
three men. The trio claimed to be
anarchists and demanded money from
the merchant. Militiamen and work
ers responding to Gregorioff's cries
for help, killed one bandit and cap
tured a second. The third committed
suicide. The 10000 roubles ($15, ,0OO)
which they had forced Gregorioff to
give them, were recovered. When
the new democratic government took
hold, all criminals were released from
the prisons. They sought out the
bolder and bolder in thievery and
murder. The unrest in the city has
been augmented by strike of clerks
in Petrograd shops. They are de-
manding double wages, retroactive
since the start of the war, equivalent
from 10000 to 10000 roubIes (s5 900
to $10,000) per clerk. Many shops
were closed today, proprietors declar-
ing that they would remain so. Some
owners insisted even if the clerks
demands were\ acceeded to, the men
would not work Twenty shop
keepers complied with their en-
ploye's demands.
No additional details were received
today on yesterdays rioting at Kieve
where $4,000 absentee soldiers were
said to have organized formidable
demonstration in protest against
Minister of War Kerensky's rigorous
orders furnishing desertion with penal
servitude.
The latest information was that
number of rioters were killed and
wounded.
The provisional government will
endeavor to obtain revocation of the
vote of the council OF workm en- and
soldiers yesterday, assuming control
of the fortress of Kronstadt, principal
defense of Petrograd.
The journal of the workmen and
soldiers delegates announced today
that confscation of property and
money may be necessary, owing to
the slow progress made in obtaining
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
AMERICAN FLYERS
OBJECT OF HATE
German Aviators Bend All
Energies on Downing Aero
planes Flying Stars and
Stripes.
DON'T GIVE FAIR CHANCE
Appeal for Support and for Funds
and Comfort for Members Of
the Lafayette
Escadrille.
DON'T GIVE FAIR CHANCE
[By w. S. Forrest, United Press STAFF
CorreSDOndentl

[By w. S. Forrest, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
PARIS. June German aviators
are concentrating their hate on the
American flyers in the Lafayette
escadrille. No machine flying the
Stars and Stripes is given fair
chance in single combat-the enemy
tries to overwhelm it with q number
of fighting planes
DR.. Edmund Gros, chief organizer
of the famous corps, made this state
ment today in voicing an appeal to
Americans back home" to give the
escadrille moral and material sup
port.
When an American aviator ap-
pears in the sky. 1t is signal for
an enemy attack in force" he de-
clared. 1.-The American flag and the
Indian head-the sQuadron's emblem
painted on their planes-have but one
meaning to the enemy and that Is re-
venge against America.
"Our aviators aren't given q. chance
to fight an equal fight-they must
fight against several-and they are
doing it with = bravery that ought
to be better known in the United
States.
"These men are upholding Amer
ica's honor with their lives-and
mostly on funds scraped together by
interested Americans. The American
war department has not even sent
them uniforms yet, although they fly
the Stars and Stripes.
LET the American government
back up the flag and this American
bravery with real support; let them
grant these men chance to fight
the enemy on equal terms. I am
sending this appeal to Americans
through the United Press-an appeal
for support and for funds and COM
fort for their compatriots.
Take the case Of young Clyde n.
Balsley of San Antonio. Texas. He
worked his way to Europe on cattle
steamer, landed with 81 in his
pocket, offered his services at the
Pau aviation school, fought with the
Lafayette escadrille at Verdun and
is now in hospital, his body shat
tered by an explosive bullet which
may make him an invalid for life
if he survives. He needs comfort
and the support of his fellow coun-
trymen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
WITHIN REACH
OF GRAND JURY'S CT Avs

one or two Elgin butter specmatorJ.
The grand jury through its investi-
cations during May is understood to-
have found that butter and egg deal
ers have entered conspiracies in
restraint of trade by boarding sup
plies; that prices have been fixed
arbitrarily by agreement, and thai
prices under these agreements have
been manipulated in accordance with
a fixed program.
In addition 10 these indictments,
the grand jury is expected to sub
nit a report covering the food situa-
ton in general and embodying
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Weekly Bank Statement.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW York, June 2.-The weekly
bank statement today showed the
following changes:
Surplus decreased $79,559, $50.
Loans decreased $13,235, 900.
Reserve In own vaults increased
$1S, $4,000.
Reserve in federal reserve banks
decreased $107. $4,000.
Reserve in other depositaries de-
creased $7,799,000.
Net demand, deposits with U. 9.
deposits, deducted, decreased. $73,.
$4,000.
Net time deposits. decreased $21,-
965,000.
Circulation increased $1,66O,000.
Aggregate reserve, $715,763, 900.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
knado Sweeps Through
Three States, Taking a
Toll of Twenty
Lives.
kNY TOWNS STRUCK
\ Hundred Houses Destroyed at
coffeyvlIIe and Town Of Name
field, Ark. Wiped
Entirely Out.

nited Press Leased Wire Service.]
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June AT
st twenty persons are known to
re been killed and scores injured
tornado which swept eastern
nsas. western Missouri and parts
Oklahoma, and Arkansas last
Int. At Coalgate and Drake, Okla
ha, fifteen deaths are reported.
OIathe, Kansas, three are dead,
lie more than thirty were SER
sly injured at Coffeyville and
nth Coffeyville, Kansas, near the
rm center.
Coffeyville, where more than 200
bidences were destroyed, was placed
|der martial law Immediately, a local
mpany OF national guardsmen and
D civilians taking over the situation.
There is no wire communication
th the city.
Nine were injured at Seminole.
kla.. some perhaps fatally. At Drake,
e members of the family Of w. A.
lliams were killed while sixth, a
nd boy, escaped unharmed.
Mansfield, Ark, is believed to- be
irely wiped out The message
ne to Little Rock from a telegraph
tion at Blue Mountain. All wire
Twice is out.
fhe tornado was accompanied by a
bvy downpour OF rain and hail in
he sections. Violent electrical
(rms followed. Damage estimated
a million dollars was caused by
hfnirx cfrixiro 0{ for IN tho
&aldton, Oklahoma. field. All Of
etern Kansas, which had the best
Pp prospect of any section OF the
tie, suffered severely. The damage
pbably will run close to a million
liars.
Two deaths are reported at Nc
me and one at Montana, Kansas.
pther is dead at Bartlesville, Okla.
he tornado missed Kansas City
a few miles. but more than an inch
rain fell within an hour. The Mis-
lri river rose rapidly to within one
u of flood stage.
I'he known dead at Coalgate are:
Two year old baby of A. L. Cook,
rchant. Four year old daughter of
prris Milstein, banker Six months
baby Of Mrs. NJ. G. Tonini. Sew
year old daughter OF Mrs. Frances
Ieenan. John Edging, 35.
lwo coal miners, names unknown.
70 negro men, one negress and one
gro girl. The Elks club rooms
fre turned into an emergency hos.
fai and the part OF the town not
ftroyed by the storm, housed the
)ured.
Y special relief train was rushed
Coalgate from McAllister. Aboard
Pre- number of Red Cross nurses
10 have been doing organization
Prk in the state.
At Sulphur, Oklahoma, five per
rs are known dead, one missing
|d number injured:
IN Logan county, crops and farm
laldings suffered, when, according
reports from Guthrie. Okla, five
parate twisters passed through the
I
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
HAY CLAP MR.. ROMANOFF
IN COLD DARK DUNGEON

Gil today adopted resolution ap
proving the rem oval OF the former
czar of all the Russians from his win
ter palace at Tzarkeo Selo to the
great fortress of Peter and Paul
The delegates were convinced that
the autocrat of other days is care
lessly guarded under the present ar
rangement.
Peter and Paul fortress has house,.
many victim of Russia's secret
police Of the other days. Its gloomy
corridors date from the very founda-
ton of Petrograd itself The fort
ress is situated on an island in the
Great Neva river. In the city linass.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
British Flying Machines Drop
Tons of Bombs ON German
Bases Along Belgium
Seacoast.
LULL ON THE WAR FIELD
More Quiet Than Usual Last Night on
the British Front In
France, Haig
Reports.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON, June british naval
planes dropped several tons OF bombs
over German bases on the Belgian
coast yesterday, an admiralty state
ment today announced. In the morn
ing British planes attacked the
enemy aerodrome at st. Denis
Westahr. At night seaplanes raided
Zeebrugge, Ostend and Bruges.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Indictments Expected for the
Members of Butter and
Egg Boards.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO. June Food profit.
eers," especially butter and egg deal
ers, were expected to be named in at
least six indictments by the federal
grand jury today. These probably
will include members Of the Chicago
butter and egg goard and probably
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Railroad Man Dead.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June O.
George w. Creighton of Altoona,
Pa. general superintendent OF the
eastern division of the Pennsylvania
road, died here today. He was one
of the most prominent men in the
operating department of the road.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Was Mild Winter.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
COPENHAGEN, June 2.-Dr. Hunt,
a member of the MacMillan-Crocker-
land expedition arrived here today, re-
porting the expedition still in north
ern Greenland. He said the winter
had been an unusually mild ona
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Auto Bandit Killed.
EIoping Youngsters.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, June 2.-Gerald Bur
den, Is, and his sweetheart, Dorothea
Field, IA, who eloped from Potts
town, Pa, were willing to return
home today They were detained by
detectives in the union station late
yesterday as they were waiting to
board train for Kansas City They
said they felt their parents had
abused them, and decided to get mar
ried
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Congratulated by Kaiser.

AMSTERDAM, June 2.-Kaiser
Wilhelm has wired hearty congratu-
lations to Emperor Charles of Aus.
tria for the Austrian defense on the
Italian front, according to Berlin dis
patches today.
"Your army on the Isonzo has bid
den defiance to a mighty and stub
born onslaught and caused it to fail,
the kaiser declared. II congratulate
thee and thy brave troops on their
great success, God helping u.s."
LuIl Last Night.
LONDON, June 2.-The, lull on the
British western front continued with
even more than usual quiet last
night. Field Marshal Haig's report in
dicated today.
"In the neighborhood of Bullecourt
the enemy's artillery was active at
night he said. THE fire was also
around Vimy village"
Quarter Mile Advance.
ROME, June "A quarter of mile
advance into the Austrian positions.
across a front of more than mile,
south of Castagnavfzza by strong
days official report. The statement
also detailed repulse by General Ca
dorna's troops Of attacks in the Vo-
dice, south of Crazinga and north of
Tivo1i.
Americans On List.
OTTAWA, June Six Americans
appear in todays' casualty list:
Presumed dead-Private P. Nc
Gwen, Detroit, Mich; Private T. In
golia, st. Louis: Private E. Ofsted
hal, Grafton. N. D.
Missing-Driver ]. Gordon, Pitts
burgh, Pa
Wounded -sapper ]. R. Davis. Ca
thav, n. d.
Gas poisoning-Private j. varin.
New York City.
Scattered Attacks.
PARIS, June 2.-Scattered local
German attacks around Hertebiz Cra-
onne Chevreux and in particular
northwest of Eroidmont farm to west
of Cerny were easily repulsed last
night, today's official statement as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
ormer Gear Of All Russia Not
Thought Safely Enough
Guarded in Palace Yard.

Py VIM. G. Shepherd, United Press
Staff Correspondent
|FHfROGRAD. June 2.-Nicholas
,manoff may find out from personal
Eperlence the rigors Of the punish
[enI ne used to mete out so freely
russian political offenders.
Inc Workmen's and soldiers coun-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02

AZ prom
hewo
watched The arrested late
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
KIDNAPPED BOY
STILL MISSING
Abduotors Will Turn Child
Over if Ransom is Paid,
But Negotiations Are
Not Complete.
NO REWARD OFFERED
Banker Perfectly Willing to Pay Any
Sum Asked for Return Of
Fourteen Months Old
Son.
o REWARD OFFERED

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June 2.-The
kidnapped fourteen months odd son of
James Holland Keet, millionaire
Springfield banker, is still missing
today, but early this morning an at
tempt was made by the 'kidna2ers 70
get into touch with Keet, police be-
lieve.
Shortly after 1 o'clock a small
boy stealthily approached the Keet
home. The banker answered the
door bell and took the message, read
it and disappeared in the house. A
few minutes later he opened the
garage door, backed out his yellow
! roadster and hurried away.
Two hours later he was back
without the child.
Judge Arch Johnson, of the Greene
county criminal court, also received
mysterious telephone call shortly
after midnight. He left his home
hurriedly and early today his family
had heard nothing from him. He has
been assisting actively in the search
for the abducted boy.
The roads around Springfield are
impossible, made so by unusually
heavy rains. Keet's failure to make
another trip last night is attributed to
this. Mrs. Keet is said to be in
critical condition. The curtains are
drawn at the home and no one, not
even intimate friends, are allowed to
call.
Keet today denied authorization of
the $4,000 reward for the return of
the child.
II have not offered the reward"
he said. Not that l would not give
gladly ten times that amount, but be-
cause his abductors will not think I
am playing square If make such an
offer. I want my son back and If
money will bring him, they can have
the money
Auto Bandit Killed.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
CHICAGO, June 2.-"It's my first
job and 1 guess it's my last" said
Kenneth Conway, youthful auto ban
dit, as he died at a hospital today.
Conway was shot in the back as he
leaped from the wreckage of an au-
tomobile in which he was fleeing with
six companions from the pursuit of a
police auto.
Conway was nineteen years old.
The others escaped.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
ANOTHER TORNADO SWOOPS DOWN
Six LoluQ Men Arrested
For REASONABLE Ufterunces

Railroad Man Taken From HON Police Upon Lnfor-
nation Furnished Secret Ser, IS Agents by His Son
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Partly cloudy Warmer Sun
day. Local temp p. m. 63;
Z a. m. 81.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02

,The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
tion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-02
Plotters Against Conscription
Not so Active Since Lead
ers Are Landed in
Jail.
THE HUNT IS CoNT1NUED
After Registration Day, Slackers WIFE
be Run Down and
Given One Year
Sentence.

[By Carl D. Groat, United Press Stafn
Correspondent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
Come to the Alabama State Fair October 8-13
|BULL ASSOCIATIONS PAY WELL

Seyenty-six dollars represents the av-
erage dairyman's investment in bulls
Two-thirds of this money can readily be
saved and better bulls obtained by join
ing bull association, according to spe-
cialists of the United States department
of agriculture. Through this co-opera-
tive organization dairymen can save
money, make their enterprise more eff
ficient and obtain better bred cows cap
able of producing more milk In THIS
way community breeding is established,
constructive breeding is encouraged, bulls
are used to their full capacity, good
bulls are kept as long as fit for service,
and contagious disease is successfully
controlled.
The typical cooperative bull associa-
ton, composed of from 10 to so farmers,
jointly owns five bulls, divides its terri
tory into five blocks, and assigns bull
to each block From 30 to 20 cows are
owned by the farmers in each block and
the bull is kept on some farm convent
emily situated. Thus cooperative bull
association is an organization of farm
ers for the joint ownership, use and ex-
change of high-class, pure-bred bulls.
In addition, it stimulates the careful
selection of cows and calves, introduces
better methods of feeding, helps it's mem
bers market dairy stock, and in other
ways assists in lifting the dairy bust
ness TO a higher level.
A bull association reduces the number
of bulls to the minimum, because one bull
serves several small herds. This means
that for the same or less money much
better bulls can be owned, and as the
number is smaller the cost of keep
is consequently reduced. The original
investment per member in bulls under
this plan ranges from $40 to 800. COW
ering period of 10 years. Good, pure
bred bulls, therefore, are brought with
ing the reach of any farmer, no matter
how small his herd In fact, it is less
expensive than to own scrub bull.
While few farmers can afford a $1,000
bull, every farmer can own share in
one. Such a bull, wisely used, will pay
for himself several times over in the
first generation of his offspring. In fact,
the first seven daughters of one associa-
ton bull showed an average butter-fat
production of 81 pounds more than their
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20
Will Not Seize Food

There is no truth in a widely eircu-
lated statement that the government ex-
poets to take food supplies from any
and the department of agriculture join
in statement to counterfeit what seems
to be a deliberate propaganda to the eff
feet that the government intends to take
from every family all canned goods put
up in excess of 100 quarts.
This is only one Of the variations of
the rumor, which has been widely cir
government has been urging the canning,
drying and preserving of fruits and vege-
tables so that they will be in a con-
venient form for the government to
handle and transport when it takes them
away from the people. Further efabora-
ton is that these goods are to be taken
away from the American homes and
shipped to England
In one instance motorist stopped at
a farmhouse to fill the radiator of his
automobile. In the course of conserva-
ton he casually inquired whether the
farmers family was canning all the sur
plus fruits and vegetables in order to
help conserve the food supply. He was
informed that the farmer was not doing
this because the government intended to
take all the canned goods away except
a small part Of it actually needed by the
family itself.
The authorities state emphatically that
no such course has ever been contem-
plated by the government. On the con-
trary, both the department Of agriculture
and the food administration are strong
ly urging housewives to can and pre-
serve. especially at this time, all surplus
fruits and vegetables in order that the
households themselves may have cheap
and plentiful supply Of food
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-09-20

dams, and the first two daughters Oh
another bull in the same association
showed an average butter-fat production
of 116 pounds more than their dams AT
the price of 30 cents a pound for butter
fat, the seven daughters of bull. No. |
will earn in four years time $500 more
than their dams. 1t is only when the
lifetime production records of all his
daughters are computed and compared
with those of their dams that the full
value of a pure-bred bulls services to
one generation can be shown. In addi-
ton, his influence on the herd will be
noticeable for many generations, though
the improvement is not 50 spectacular
after the first generation The damage
done by an inferior bull may be equally
great.
Cattle breeding is especially adapted to
cooperative effort, and it's greatest de-
velopment will come through community
BY eeding. bull association encourages
the keeping of only one breed of cattle
on the farms of its members. and the
establishment of that breed in the COM
munity. Breeders will realize that buy
ers visit districts where large numbers
of the type Of cattle they seek can be
found.
Constructive breeding is often difficult
for the small breeder because of the
great expense involved In this respect
the breeder of pure-bred live stock suffers
most The bull association offers an ex-
cellent opportunity for the slSillful mat
ing of superior animals and for intelli-
gent, long-continued. line breeding.
When the association is composed OF
five or six breeding blocks, all its good
bulls are used to their full capacity and
kept as long as fit for service. Advanc-
ing the bull to the next block at the
end of two years does not eliminate him,
but makes it possible to avoid in-breed-
ing.
Contagious diseases are much feared
by cattle owners, for the losses which
they entail are enormous. The properly
managed bull association furnishes it's
members with a means for controlling
tuberculosis and contagious abortion in
their herds. Such an association requires
the cattle of each member to be tested
for tuberculosis and takes every known
precaution to prevent the introduction
of contagious abortion.