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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
GREAT STRIDES BY
RUSSIAN LEADERS
UNDER NEW REGIME

Petrograd, March 22.-Free Russia is
democratizing every possible feature of
her governmental machine.
Announcements from duma leaders
today indicated that the constituent
assembly which will decide the exact
form of the future government will be
held as soon as possible. In the mean
time at least one of the duma leaders
favors extension Of suffrage to women,
granting them a voice in their choice
of the form of government.
PASSES TO PRISONERS.
In session today the ministers de-
cided to grant free railway passes to
pardoned prisoners-including the vast
number of political prisoners exiled to
Siberia by the old government. Foreign
Minister Lukoff was also authorized
to grant subsidies to emigrants in
other nations who might desire to re-
turn to Russia under the democracy.
Liberation of political prisoners
goes on throughout Russia. Word re-
ceived today from Chitra told of a
great celebration there on the arrival
of Maria Spiridanova, reform leader,
with a number of her associates in
Punishment in Siberia. All were car
ried on the shoulders of the crowds,
who shouted for joy and paraded car
srying the red flag of the revolutionists.
GRAND DUKE IN LINE.
I'VE would have lost the war under
the old government" declared the for
mer grand duke, Cyril of Russia, today
now simple Admiral Romanoff,"
under the democratic regime.
''Just now," he said, my house por-
ter and myself see alike.
1T was useless" he said, describing
attempts to ameliorate conditions of
the old autocratic regime, ito discuss
the matter with the czar. We simply
could not break down the wall inter-
posed by Sturmer, Protopopoff and
others"
1t was learned today that the grand
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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
MEXICAN DEPUTIES CALLED.
PLOT TO RELEASE
GOMEZ FROM PRISON

Havana, March ga letter conceal
ed in a sandwich which the wife of one
of the revolutionary prisoners sought
to give her imprisoned husband re-
suited today in discovery of a wide
spread plot at Principe castle to effect
release of General Gomez and his as
sociates. waiting trial.
Secret police arrested a captain of
the prison guard and number of his
men. The sandwich letter" had given
full details of the plot.
General Gomez leader of the recent
revolutionary movement, is languish-
ing in Jail in default of bond of mil
lion dollars. Several score of his sub
ordinates are likewise awaiting court
martial
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
MARYLAND TROOPS
GUARDING BRIDGES

Baltimore, March 22.-Maryland
state troops began their bit in the de.
tense of the national capital today.
Two companies assumed control of
the railroad bridges over the Susque-
hanna river to halt any attempt to cut
off communication between Washing
ton and the seaboard. The companies
were ordered out by Governor Har-
Tington
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
AMERICAN VESSEL
REPORTED MISSING

: washington, March 23.-The
+ American steamer Maryland,
+ Philadelphia for London, Dec.
+ 23, was posted at Lloyd's yes
+ terday as missing. according to
+ a state department cablegram
+ this afternoon.
+ The Maryland was reported
+ as from Milwaukee. Registers
+ do not show r ship OF that name
+ from Milwaukee. but she might
be a small lake steamer trans
: ferred to ocean service.
: 4 q 4 4 z. + + r = + = = = . = .
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
Berlin Tells of Reign Of Con-
fusion With the Old Fac
tional Differences Threat
ening to Break Out Anew.
STREETS OF CAPITAL
SCENE OF AGITATION
Socialist Orators Expound
Their Views Without MO
lestation- -Populace Moved
to Pitch of Excitement
and Thousands Reported
Killed.
BY JOHN GRANDENs
United Press Staff Corresponds

Berlin, March 22.-(Wire-
ss)-Russia is in confu-
sion. Anarchistic agitation
against continuance of the
war is growing. The work
ingmen have refused to re-
spond to appeals that they
resume work.
This information reached
here today via Stockholm. 1t
indicated the provisional
government is far from be-
ing in control of the situa-
tion; that discipline in the
army has relaxed, and that
various factional differences
now smouldering may again
break out.
SOCIALISTS ACTIVE.
According to the Stockholm infor-
ed with speakers spreading Socialist
propaganda and working against the
present provisional government An
archistic pamphlets have widespread
circulation. Some of the old govern
ment elements are aiding in this dis
tribution.
The Petrograd police have been re-
placed by students, whose authority is
not respected by the masses of the
people, the reports state.
The behavior of the soldiers on the
streets of the Russian capital shows
utter laxity. Men refuse to salute Of
ficers and seem to lack control. The
populace has been moved to a pitch Of
excitement where there is no telling
what they may do. Travellers arriv-
ing in Stockholm declare that 1000
persons have been killed in rioting in
Petrograd and 1000 woundSd.
Particular significance attaches to
the above story i'm view of the fact
that it was Berlin that gave first word
OF the revolution by which the czar's
regime was overthrown. Various stor-
les from Petrograd have indicated on
ly slight difference of opinion among
government leaders. But the new gov
ernment is in control of the censorship
and presumably has made use of the
elaborate censorship machinery left
over by the old regime.
The fact that the allied governments
have so far withheld recognition Of the
new Russian government. coupled with
disinclination Of British statesmen to
comment on the situation. may be fur
ther indication that conditions in Rus
sia are still very serious.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
PLOTTERS GIVEN
SENTENCE OF TWO
YEARS In PRISON
Scathing Arrangement by
Court of Men Who Con-
spired Against England
in United States.

New York, March 22.-Albert O..
Sander and Carl N. Wunnenberg were
sentenced today to serve two years in
the federal penitentiary and to pay
fines OF 32500 each on pleas OF guilty
to charges OF sending spies to Eng
land.
The two men pleaded guilty yester-
day when revelations of George Vaux
Bacon. an American newspaper man.
brought back here from England laid
bare the plot. Invisible ink used in
transmitting valuable information in
seemingly harmless communications
figured in the evidence placed before
the grand jury which indicted the
men.
STINGINo REBUkE.
In a scathing arraignment Of the two
men, Judge Van Fleet declared that the
penalty was inadequate to meet such
cases and requested that the district
attorneys office bring this affair be-
fore the department of Justice and
congress" The maxium penalty is
three years Imprisonment and $4,000
fine.
The sort of thing these men did"
the court said, does not speak Glenn
ency for them. But we shall have to
take into consideration the fact that
they pleaded guilty. 1t is such acts as
these that have been the cause OF in
volving us in the war. The thing that
strikes me most is the total made
quacy of this statute to meet the Of
fense involved. I cannot help but be-
lieve these men pleaded guilty simply
to shield the names Of others who
would have come out in an investiga-
tion If the case had gone to thorough
trial.
USED INVISIBLE INK.
District Attorney Knox, in address
ing the court, brought out the fact that
newspaper correspondents sent abroad
to carry out the spy work carried in
visible ink concealed in a pocket inside
the tops of their socks.
Knox declared that the department
had definitely learned it was the pur-
pose of the newspaper men employed
as spies to locate anti-aircraft bases in
London and other big British cities.
Their next most important task was
to secure a geographically correct no.
tation of places where cables between
the United States and England first
touched British soil.
This is simply another line in a
vast and mighty chain of wilful viola
tion of American laws to serve the
German empire" Knox said. These
men never better served the German
empire than by pleading guilty and
shielding the names of other men we
wished TO question"
PLEA FOR CLEMENCY.
In short plea for clemency the de-
fense simply said that Sander and
Wunnenberg were German. but
not anti-American. Their attorney ask
ed Judge Van Fleet to disregard the
present feeling between Germany and
America, which he feared might pre-
judice justice. When he declared that
the prisoners had not actually taken
any steps against the United States,
Judge Van Fleet interposed casually:
These men jeopardized the peace of
the United States with another nation
with which we were at peace
Bacon, who was indicted with San
der and Wunnenberg. will be tried
here. II is understood, on the same
charge on which they were sentenced.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
Los ANGELES BISHOP NAMED.

Rome, March 22.-Bishop Muldoon of
Rockford. Ill.,, has been named bishop
OF Los Angeles. according to q vatican
announcement today.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
BULLETINS
FOR GREAT AIR FLEET.

Washington, March PA man.
moth fleet of 5000 standardized types
Of aircraft to augment the present
aerial forces Of the United States is
planned by the national advisory COM
mittee of aeronautics, il was stated to-
day. The committee, army and navy
officers, and some 80 manufacturers Of
aircraft met hero today to decide upon
the quickest possible way to turn out
this large fleet in case Of war.
GREETINGS TO RUSSIA.
ST. Paul, March PA resolution
sending greetings of tho Minnesota
legislature to the Russian duma and
eongratulating the people of Russia "on
the overthrow Of absolutism" was in
troduced in the house Of the legisla-
ture today.
MEXICAN DEPUTIES CALLED.
El Paso, Tex, March 22.-consress-
man Carlos Plank, of Sonora, Mexico,
today announced that Carranza has or
dered the Mexican house Of deputies to
convene at Mexico City, April 2.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
HIpEoUs VANpALIsM.S


relentless Anglo-French pressure, the
ugliest side of the war is uncovered.
Hideous evidence of vandalism abound
everywhere.
But most tragic of all are the hu-
man wrecks left behind. They stare
at the incoming British and French
troops with eyes made wild by suffer
ing. Their faces wear a blank express
sion because back of them are brains
dulled by lack of proper sustenance.
The faces of babies and the younger
children are especially pitiful. Color
under the eyes. Not one has tasted
meat for six months or more.
PRAISE FOR AMERICANS.
Wherever we went we heard praise
of the American relief commission.
whose efforts reached to the foremost
villages behind the German lines
However. the people declared that the
Germans profited through these sup
plies.
Babies through all the region were
especially hard hit, owing to lack of
milk. Cattle disappeared entirely long
ago, and the babies have been without
milk since then.
CARING ron THE OLD.
The problem of feeding the old peo-
pie and the babies is difficult but is
being rapidly attended to.
Citizens between 16 and 60 were
mostly driven back before the retiring
Germans, presumably in order to force
them to work.
The retreat continues today. The
British are within five miles Of st.
Quentin, and are still pressing on to-
ward the Moro canal, which the enemy
is utilizing for purposes of defense.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22
Villages, With Only Old
Men and Children Left in
Them, D elfb erately
Shelled by the Retiring
Teuton Troops.
ONLY HUMAN WRECKS
BEING LEFT BEHIND
Praise Heard Everywhere
for the American. Relief
Commission-Claime the
Germans Profited by Sup
plies Sent From This
Country.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs
United Press Staff Correspondent.


With the British Armies
Afield, March 22.-The hor-
ror of the German retreat
grew today when it became
known that the Teutons at
Rouy lie Petit collected
about 200 old people and
children, in addition to the
usual population of the
place, and then deliberately
shelled the village.
A number Of these de-
fenseless, innocent people
were killed.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-22

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10

Recognizing the Impossibility of
passing the bill this week as planned,
Senator Chamberlain late today pre-
sented a new request for an agree
ment to vote finally Saturday, July 81,
with debate limited in the meantime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
Extraordinary Purchases An
nOunced in Topeka Today.
ExpenSiyes Effort To Relieve
the Car Shortage.
BIG INCREASE IN COST
Cars Alone Cost 100 Per Cent
More This Year.
Order Includes 1900 Cars and
100 Locomotives.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway, it was announced today thru
the State Journal from the office of
E. P. Ripley, president, has contrib
uted toward a solution of the car
shortage problem by the purchase of
$500 new freight cars, which will be
delivered during August, September
and October The lot includes 1900
coal cars, 1000 stock cars, 500 refri-
gerator cars, and 500 tank cars. The
company, it is announced by Mr.. Rip
ley, has also purchased 1870 locomo-
before January 1, 1918, and SIS in
1918.
The purchase price of the $500
cars is $S.91O,0OO. Tank cars in large
lots now cost $4,000 apiece, as against
$1,255 in 1915, when the Santa Fe
made heavy investment in this line
of equipment. Coal cars now cost
$4,000, as against S1,2S3 in 1918; re-
frigerator cars, $4,000 as against ST.
449 in 1916, and stock cars, $4,000, as
against S1,0S9 in 1916.
The purchase price of the 100 loco
motives is $6,50O,00O, or $4,000
apiece. In 1915 the Santa Fe bought
the same type of locomotives for $780,
767 apiece.
The total cost of new locomotives
and cars for the Santa Fe at this
time, including rs baggage cars and
10 passenger coaches is SIS, 1852, $50.
The passenger coaches now cost $780,
538 as against S16.152 in 1914, and
the baggage cars, $4,000 as against
S10,2S7, same year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
ABANDON U-BOAT
Catholic Leader in Reichstag
Demands Kaiser COncede.
Also Must Drop Annexation
and Indemnity Schemes.

Copenhagen, July 10.-A German
arriving here last night from Berlin
declared that the purpose of Herr
Erzberger, the Cathalic center leader,
in making his sensational speech be-
fore the main committee of the reichs-
tag Saturday, was to secure an aban-
donment of the submarine campaign
as well as the proclamation of a peace
purogram without annexations or in
IDENTITIES.
The majority in the reichstag prac-
tically has been formed on the basis of
demands which it was thought would
align America and Russia for peace
and powerfully influence France and
England. 1t was said the same ma
jority has been secured for a demand
for the institution of a parliamentary
ministry with DR.. -Gustave Stresse-
mann, Nationalist, and Philip Scheide-
mann as candidates for the portfolio.
Count Won Reventlow, naval expert
of the Tages Zeitung, declared that
ErZberger and his supporters were
aiming to destryo with the submarine
war the nations confidence in victory
and the prospect of German peace.
Herr ErZberger's criticisms in which
Count Reventlow intimateS the for
eign office sympathizes, seem to have
a tender point in the German subma-
rine policy, namely, the failure to
produce promised results within a
fixed time limit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
Threat of General Strike of $4,000 in
The Northwest.

Chicago, July 1O-A threat of a
general strike of more than $4,000
agricultural workers and d complete
tieup of the harvesting of the wheat
crop in the northwest was made here
by Frank H. Little. member of the
federal executive board of the Indus
trial Workers of the World.
Little, who had charge of the or
ganization work of the miners now on
strike in Arizona and Montana, frank
ly admitted the /. w. w. was taking
advantage of he war Sit.ta ion to fur
Their the interests of its n smbership.
He declared the wa1kout of the farm
hands would be certainty if the de-
mands of the miners now on strike for
a siX-hour work day and Sc a day
were not granted immediately, and in
timated that the granting % the min
ers' demands would not necessarily
avert the other strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
ALL UP TO HOLLAND
Dickerson Says He Must Transfer the
st. doe Franchise.

Kansas City, Mo, July Hoe. w.
Dickerson, president of the Western
league, returned this morning from
Rock Island, I'LL, and announced the
following players had been signed:
For st. Joseph: Shortstop Falk and
Outfielder Pettigrew of the Moline, Ill,
club of the Three-I league, disbanded;
for Wichita: Catcher Dobbins, Pitch
err Marks, Outf1elder Mcbride, Infield-
er Berger, all of the Moline club. The
players will report at once
President Dickerson said the trans
fer of the ST. Joseph club to Hutch
inson, Kan, had not been definitely
decided upon, altho it was more than
probable Jack Holland, owner of the
st. Joseph club, is in Chicago today
and President Dickerson said an
nouncement as to the decision prob
ably would come from Holland.
Advices from st. Joseph that pre-
sumably the team would not bear the
name of st. Joseph after today were
characterized by President Dickerson
as unofficial.
The possibility that another West
ern league club may transfer to St
Joseph was intimated by President
Dickerson who declined to say what
club management is contemplating
the transfer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
NO BLUFF THIS TIME
Argentina Believes Germany Will Not
Give in and Predicts Break.

Buenos Aires, July 10.-Argentina
officials regard a break with Germany
as inevitable.
From high officials today it was
learned that the government does not
expect Germany to agree to Argen-
tina's demand that Germany promise
no further sinkings of Argentina ships.
If this promise is not made, it is GER
tain the republic will Immediately an
nounce a severance of relations.
While Argentina thus hovers on the
brink of a diplomatic rupture, the
greatest irritation is manifest here
over reports from the United States
that South Americas first necessity is
to GUST German spies Latin-Ameri-
cans insist that the activity of German
agents here does not exceed and very
probably does not even equal the
work they are doing in North Amer
lea. Altho no officials will discuss the
matter for publication, it is privately
limited that the United States would
do well to clean its own house before
suggesting that other nations do SINH
lar work within their own borders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
ANTI-DRAFT STRIKE
All Winnipeg and Other Unions
Threaten to Quit if Draft Comes.

Winnipeg, Man, July 10.-All labor
unions in Winnipeg and other cities
in western Canada are voting on the
question of calling a general strike
if CONSUMPTION is adopted by the Can
adam parliament, according to re-
port here today.
At Calgary, the machinists' union
voted on the question of a general
strike Saturday, approving it by a vote
of to 1. Brieklayers, masons, black
smiths, and other unions there are
reported to have voted likewise. Some
said they would withdraw their oppo-
sition to CONSUMPTION if the govern
ment conscripted wealth before con-
scripting men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
DRAFT BOARDS BALK
Many Members Fear They VIII BE
Accused of Favoritism.

Fearing that political influences will
be brought to bear in their efforts to
settle draft disputes, twenty of the
members of original draft boards have
asked dismissal froY the service. Only
in rare instances and where good
cause was shown have state and fed
eral officials consented to withdrawal
of men from places on the boards
number of members of draft
boards have written to officials in To-
peka concerning Influences brought to
bear on board members. Several let
ters have indicated that men with
political influences have exerted their
efforts in securing commissions or
favors for sons and relatives. In q
number of instances. it is asserted,
influences are being brought to bear
to secure exemptions for relatives.
The exemption boards have full sway
in making selections and granting ex-
emptions and number of the men
selected for places on the boards have
declared that they desire to escape
the prospect of charges of favoritisrn
in making selections. Very few of
the men seeking relief from board
service have been excused.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
CAN'T STOP RUSS!
1000 Prisoners and More VIII
lagos Captured in Galicia.
Penetrate Enemy Defenses Z
/ Miles In Two Days.

Petrograd. July 10.-General Korni-
lofts offensive in eastern Galicia
continues, says todays official Rus
sian war department statement, de-
spite the energetic resistance and
stubborn counter-attacks of the Teu-
tons. Additional villages have been
captured. More than 1000 prisoners
were taken yesterday. The Russians
also captured three field guns, many
trench mortars and-machine guns and
a quantity of war material.
The statement says the enemy has
retreated to the Lomnica river. In
two days the Russians penetrated to
a depth of 70 miles the enemy posi-
tions west of Stanislau.
1.-The villages captured after san
culinary battles were Pavelce, Buko-
wick, Viklorov, MADAM, Ruciska and
Pacykov," the statement said. THE
enemy is retreating to the River
Lomnicka. We have penetrated their
line ten yersts," approximately n
miles)
Admit Russ Victory.
Berlin, via London, July 10.-The
German war office today announced
that the German forces fighting in the
Stanislau sector of the Galician front
were yesterday withdrawn behind the
Lomnica river
Near Riga, DvinSk and Smorgon, on
the northern end of the Russian front,
the official statement added, fighting
between the Germans and Russians
has increased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10
NO EASY PEACE FOR L. s.
TeTms-kaiser Must Be Crushed.
BY CARL ID. GROAT.

Washington. July 10.-Germany's
present political upheaval is only a
hopeful sign of later explosion, in
view of officials here today.
From what they can learn thru
meager reports from neutral coun-
tries, they think Germany as a whole
will stand steadfastly with the kaiser
for the time being. The demands for
a statement of peace terms-without
and indemnities-is view
ed as a sign, however. of an underly-
ing discomfort with things as they are,
which will grow louder and more in
sistent as economic and military pres
sure intenSifieS.
The Russian offensive has been a
blow to Germany. The entrance of
America into the war, while scoffed
at by the German press, is neverthe-
less thoughtfully considered by Ger
many's students and leaders.
But Germany Yet Is Unbeaten.
AS for new peace terms, the atti-
been-no peace until the seas are safe
and Germany so crushed as to make
her impotent for further "schreck-
.ichk -frightfulness. A peace on
Germany's own terms, as always hith-
erto offered, will be promptly spurned
in the past, they will tend to bring
the two sides nearer a common basi.
for negotiation.
Germany is still unbeaten and will
remain so for some time, military ex-
perts say. America might as well
realize that first as last. they say
America might know too that despite
the present mutterings the German
autocracy is able to bluff its populace
to continue the war for a long time
The real explosion is not yet at hand
but these events are straws showina
the way the wind blows" said one OF
the most prominent government head,
TODAY