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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
OUTPUT Of COAL.
OVER LAST YEAR
HAS BIG GAINS
Increase in Manufacturing and
Transportation Creates De-
mand for Soft Coal in Ex-
cess of Any in Past,

ESPECIAL co ossssposoEscs ro sopstsa JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Oct. 19--So much is be-
ing said about the shortage of bitumi-
nous coal. and the general public real
ICES so little the important gains In
output made by the operators under
trying conditions, last summer, over
all previous records, that the state
ment just issued by the United States
geological survey, department of the
interior, on production in 1917 COM
pared with 1916 is particularly timely
In commenting on this report, pre-
pared by the statisticians of the geo
logical survey, Director George Otis
Smith points out that the shortage is
not due to the failure of the soft coal
mines to produce more coal than in
the past, for the country on Septem-
ber | was about a month ahead of last
year in output and is expected to
finish the year with an increase of 10
per cent over 1916, the banner year,
and 25 per cent over 1915.
The tremendous increase in manu-
featuring and transportation activities
this year has created a demand for
soft coal in excess of any In the past,
an increase in demand that Is diff
cult to- measure in terms of tons but
that Is certainly more. than the o per
cent by which production has in
creased. To meet this demand the
mines have been producing soft coal
at rate never before equalled. In
the second week of July, 1917, the
average daily production was more
than 100000 tons, the highest point
yet attained; in the middle of August
che lowest rate for the summer,
1,6SS,000 tons. was recorded; and in
the last week Of September the daily
rate was 1.s23,000 tons In the first
eight months of 1917 the output of
soft coal was $500, 900 tons, or 81.
100000 tons more than in the first
eight months Of 1916. In the same
period shipments of anthracite in
creased 16 per cent over those of 1 GIG.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
SWEDEN REQUIRED TO
FURNISH STATISTICS
10y aoss,se ,ov.s.L SPECIAL ts.s,p VIA.

Washington, Oct. 19.-Axel R.
Nordvall and DR.. Hjalmar Lundbohm,
Swedish commissioners in Washing
ton, endeavoring to arrange for ship
ment of foodstuffs and other goods to
Sweden, have requested the Swedish
foreign office to send by cable the
statistics asked. for by the United
States war trade board regarding con-
sumption. production, export and i'm
port
The information desired is contain
co in the mail pouches seized by Brit
ish authorities and now at the British
embassy here. 1t was said today 1t
was uncertain when the pouches
would be released.
Efforts of the Swedish officials here
to communicate in code by cable with
their government have been unsuc-
cessful The messages apparently
were held up somewhere en- route.
State department officials today dis
claimed knowledge of the cause Of
delay
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
LOUISIANA BAD
MAN HANGED FOR
KILLING SHERIFF
HeIaire Carriere Is Executed at.
State Penitentiary at Baton
Rouge for Killing Officer
Swords Last July,


Baton Rouge, La, oct. 19.--Helaire
Carriere, Louisiana bad man" was
hanged today in the state penitentiary
here for the murder of Sheriff Swords
last July. Run down in the cane
brakes after a sensational hunt of
weeks, Carriere resisted execution to
the last moment, even to the extent
Of attempting suicide in his cell last
night.
Carriere protested his innocence Of
the murder to the last, contending the
shot which killed Sheriff Swords was
fired by one of the sheriff's posse.
Last Wednesday night, in an attempt
to escape from the parish prison,
Carriere wrenched a piece of pipe
from the plumbing in his cell and
fought for more than an hour with
the warden and five deputies before
being subdued. Last night in the death
cell nc slashed his throat with a safe
ty razor blade he had secreted.
Carriere was so weak from loss OF
blood from the wound in his neck
and from self starving that it was
necessary for guards to carry him to
the scaffold.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
Fortified Port Of RevaI at En-
trance to Gulf Of Finland Is
Being Evacuated by MuSco-
ViteS.
ANCIENT MOSCOW IS
TO BE NEW CAPITAL
Sailors Want to Go Out and
Fight Teuton Fleet, but Au-
thorities Regard It as In
practicable,
,sv so"~,ae JOURNAL srrer.. ts.sso wi.s,

tsV sosNise JOURNAL SPECIAL txAssp wIsg1
PetroErad, Oct. 19.--The govern
ment has definitely determined to
move to Moscow in the very near fu-
ture.
The newspapers publish an official
announcement that the evacuation OF
the fortified port of Reval on the
Baltic at the entrance to the gulf of
Finland has begun. The schools at
Reval have been closed. The inhabi-
tants of the city are being sent to the
interior of Russia.
Announcement that the government
will move to Moscow was made today
by NJ. Kishkin, minister of public
welfare.
Sailors Want TO Fight.
The sailors of the main Baltic fleet
are demanding that the ships be sent
out to meet the Germans but the gov
ernment is understood to have taken
the position that as the enemy forces
are of superior size, it would be dis.
astrous to leave Petrograd undefend-
ed.
Though a definite date has not
been set, it will be in the very near fu.
ture," said NJ. Kishkin. in announcing
the governments intention to move
in an interview in the Bourse Gazette
mo one is now permitted to go to
Moscow except on government busi-
ness" he continued. The proposed
evacuation has been under way by
,.t,N
long time.
The government is to occupy one
of the buildings in the Kremlin, the
ancient capital
The preliminary parliament will
convene in Petrograd on Saturday and
move to Moscow later.
Ciy i'm War Zone.
The determination to move the gov.
ernment is said to be in keeping with
the belief of the chief of staff that
Petrograd is now in the direct wal
zone.
The government takes the position
that it is merely following the prece,
dent set by the French government
when 1t moved to Bordeaux the firs'
year of the war.
The announcement of the decision
is to be made to the preliminary par
lament at its first meeting. Quarters
arc to be found in Moscow for the
parliament and also for the diplo'
matte corps.
The correspondent was informed
last night by diplomatic representa-.
twas here that they had not been Of
ficially notified Of the decision. They
understood, however, that the gov
ernment has sought quarters for them
in Moscow in the event of an emer-
gency.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
BANDITS RAID GROCERY
STORES; ESCAPE IN CARS

tsf MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL Lease, W.T.
Aurora, ILL.,, oct. 19.-The cry for
food was brought home to well-fed
farming folk in striking fashion last
night by automobile robbers who
raced from one village to another,
plundering grocery stores while pass
ing up cash registers. The robbers
drove a big truck and made stops at
general stores In Millington. Newark.
Lisbon and Helma. about twenty miles
south of here. Sheriffs of half a
dozen counties are securing the coun.
|tfyside for them.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
ST. LOUIS TO SELL COAL
TO POOR AT LOW PRICE

st. Louis, Mo-, Oct 19.-The board
of estimate and apportionment of st.
Louis today approved the plan of the
director of public welfare that the
city establish twelve coal yards at
which fuel will be sold to the poor at
a low price.
The board approved an appropria
ton of $25, 900 for the purpose. The
aldermen will be asked to vote the
money at once so the yards can be
opened within three weeks. 1t Is
planned to sell the coal at IL cents a
bushel or So ton.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
j. S. TRANSPORT ANT|LL'.'I;
IS TORPEDOED AND 1>}hk
BY GERMAN SUBMARINE IN
WAR ZONE; 70 LIVES LOST
HIT AMIDSH|P, SINKS
IN FIVE MINUTES; ENGINE, AND
FIRE ROOM FORCES PERISH

Vessel Was Returning to America After Having Landed Troops
in Europe; Besides Crew. She Carried Some Enlisted Men
OF Navy and Number of Soldiers Who Were Returning Home
for Various Reasons This Tragedy of the Sea- the First in
Which an American Ship Engaged in War Duty Has Been
Lost Brings Home to People of This Country Rgors Of War
in Which They Have Engaged Against Germany Gable From
Admiral Sims Lacks Details.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
sLAyA WAS SUNK BY HER
OWN CREW, SAYS MINISTER,

Petrograd, Oct. 19.--"The Slava was
unable to follow the other Russian
ships retiring northward and was sunk
by her own crew in order TO bar the
way to the enemy vessels said Minis
ter of Marine verdervski, just before
starting today to join the Baltic fleet.
The minister said he considered the
action of the Russian forces in going
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20

soldier in q training camp in this
upon the battlefields of France, the
shock of whose bullet or the explo-
sion of whose blank cartridge in gun
practice is not transmitted to the
treasury building in Washington? Do
you realize that there Is not a cent
expended upon any activity of this
government that Is not drawn from
that your army and your navy and
your air fleets and your merchant ma
Ii'ine, and every single activity in
which this great nation is engaged is
transmitted from money in the treas
ury of the United States? The draft
is upon the treasury; everything is
felt there exactly as when you turn
on the electric lights at any point in
this city the immediate effect Is felt
in the coal pile of the power plant
which Is producing that electricity. I
want you to realize that, because il
will impress you with the magnitude
of the problem confronting the Amer
ican people and the vital necessity of
keeping the gold pile of the treasury
sufficiently large to take up the shocks
of these demands and make America
constantly safe. If one single loan
.offered to the American people should
fail, it would be a more fateful dis
aster than the loss of a great battle.
Gifts Are Not Asked For.
THE government does not ask you
to give dollar. 1t does not ask for
ANY gifts so far as money is concern
ed. 1t offers a superlatively safe and
desirable investment-the greatest
ever offered to any people. There is
nothing so good as government bond.
And while you are buying that bond
you are helping this splendid cause,
and you are helping every soldier;
every sailor who wears the uniform of
this country, and you are helping,
moreover. to keep the flag of America.
the Stars and Stripes, in the skies.
Never shall II be trailed in the dust
while there is drop of blood in the
veins of an American freeman. We
want it always on high as hope for
humanity: We want it to be main
.ained there in order that the rights
~ our people at home NAV always
have nroteetion. that democracy here
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tContinued on Page Two.)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
20 PERSONS KILLED IN
AIR RAID ON PERNAU

Petrograd, Oct. 19.-Zeppelin air
ships appeared in the Gulf of Riga
and the Gulf of Finland Thursday
night, according to an official COM
munication issued today. Twenty
bombs were dropped on Pernau oh
the western short of the Gulf of Riga
Ten persons were killed.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
First United States Troop Transport to Fall Victim Submarine
Sent to Bottom in War Zone VESSEL Returning Home Had only
]67 Men Aboard All Members of Crew. Loss of 20 Lives Reported

cut to meet the German fleet one OF
great valor for each German dread
naught of the Koenig type was much
more powerful than the entire Russian
squadron.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
Merit system for Missouri Prison.

jefferson City, Mo-, Oct. 19.--An-
nouncement was made today that be-
ginning March / the merit system of
prison discipline will be introduced in
the Missouri penitentiary.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
Furthcr Advances to AlIics.

Washington, Oct. Is.--Advances Of
$25,000,000 to Great Britain and $20,-
100000 to France, made by the gov
ernment today, have brought the total
thus far loaned the allies up to
$e,756, 400, 900.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
Several Hun Planes
Raid England; Rain
Bombs on London

London, Oct 20-12:33 a. m.)-At
midnight six or seven airships raided
the eastern and northeastern counties
of England, dropping bombs at va
rious points, including a few in the
London area, according to an official
statement just issued,
At this hour the raid is still pro-
ceeding.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-20
Daniels Issues Statcme

Upon receiptof the cablegram from
Admiral Sims the government kept
its promise not to withhold bad news
from the public. The issuance of the
statement was delayed only until the
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
Chinese Like Automobiles.

American automobiles are rapid
ly growing popular in China. Their
use is limited not by the desire of the
wealthy natives to possess them, but
by the total lack of roads outside of
a few city districts. Many of the
wealthy Chinese own several motors,
and in Shanghai 1t is said to be diff
cult to maintain a taxicab business be-
cause the natives charter all the cars.
The Chinese have also established sew
eral motor driven bus lines. Chinese
chauffeurs are said to be the coolest
and steadiest drivers in the world. but
poor mechanics.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
Views Desolation Wrought. by
War on Flanders Battle
Front.
SOUL OF YPREs LIVES ON
Town, Which Has Been Through TWO
Great HelIs and Many Lesser
Ones, Is Symbol of Tragedy
of Belgium.

Knoxville, Tenn.-IIow long will the
war last?
The best. answer to this question
heard along the Flanders battle front
by Prof. George Herbert Clarke, who
has returned to the chair of English
at the, University of Tennessee. was
by South African, who remarked re-
fiectively: "Well, sir, can't rightly
say; but it looks to me as though this
ere war as settled down now into n
sort of instichooshun."
Professor Clarke ventured to ask
the question all along the firing line,
"How long is piece of string?" re-
torted an English statesman.
"a certain major did me the honor
to invite my own conjecture" Profess
sor Clarke says, "and, still better,
agreed with it; but 1 found, for the
most part. the expected wide diver
sity of opinion"
Another interesting question arose
on board ship during Professor
Clarke's return from Europe: Is a
ship safer than the trenches? Ger
tain Canadian officers on the boat ar
gued the negative of the question, but
the university professor was stanch
for the affirmative.
Less Danger in Trenches.
Canadian officers said that there
was less danger in trenches because
shells seldom Struck the trenches, and
the shot usually went over the heads
of the men. But Professor Clarke was
of the opinion that there is less risk
In ship on the ocean, even though
the kaiser's sea sharks, submarines,
menace vessels, and should boat be
torpedoed, 1t would probably not be
long until passengers were bound for
Davy Jones locker, even if they were
In lifeboats or life savers.
The desolated town of Ypres was
visited by Professor Clarke while in
the war zone. "The American imagi-
nation has been deeply touched by the
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
OUR BOYS IN FRANCE AND
HOME PROTECTION

The men on the firing line represent
the pick of our American youth. One in
four of our boys at home was sick, re-
jected because of physical deficiency.
Many times the kidneys were to blame.
If We wish to prevent old age coming
on too soon, or If we want to increase
our chances for long life. DR.. Pierce of
the Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N. Y, says
that you should drink plenty of water
daily between meals. Then procure at
your nearest drug store Anuric double
strength). This An-u-ric drives the uric
acid out and cures backache and rheuma-
tism.
If we wish to keep kidneys in the
best condition diet of milk and vege-
tables. with only little meat once a day,
Is the most suitable. Drink plenty of
pure water, take Anuric three times a day
for month.
Step into the drug store and ask for
Anuric eco cents a package) or send Dr.
Pierce 10c for trial pkg. Anuric, many
times more potent than lithia, eliminates
uric acid as hot water melts sugar A
short trial will convince you.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
Aunt Virainia Saws:

To attempt to plan your life for a
year, month, week ahead is. just
as foolish as it would be to commence
to add up a column of figures without
knowing what more than half of them
were.
Justice to the innocent sometimes
demands that we expose the faults of
our neighbor. but we ought to meet the
occasion as an unpleasant duty. not as
joyful opportunity.
1t pays to be generous if only for
the claim 1t gives us on the generOs-
ity. of others when our time of need
comes.
1t ought to be made a penitentiary
offense to thrust upon the radiant hap
piness of newly married lovers the
cheap, coarse cynicism that, "it won't
last"
Some people imagine they are disci-
plining their children when they pun
ish them brutally for doing something
the tenth time that they have been
allowed to do without protest nins
times before.-Farm Life.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
Not Bread Alone.

A japanese newspaper, in emphasiz-
ing the gravity of the responsibility
resting ON Japan and America on ac-
count of the fact that the world ac-
tivity Is shifting from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific, says that these two great
nations are bound to exchange more
and more of their products and de-
clares that they must come to agree on
high principles. Man cannot live by
bread alone" quotes the editor-which
is perfectly true; but, as the old
darky remarked, observes an exchange,
ut keeps er man hustlin' fo' little
piece o. meat"
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
TONNAGE NEEDS OF ARMY ABROAD

cord per day per hundred men, would
amount to 1850 cords. Owing to
scarcity of fuel part of this may have
to be brought to France.
With 100000 men, there will be ap-
proximately 100000 animals. At IL
pounds of hay day, there would be
required for six months over $4,000
600 pounds of hay, which must he i'm
ported, and also 36O,OO0,OOO pounds of
oats. Rations will require S15, 600
pounds. Ammunition will run into bill
lions of pounds.
This freight calculation does not
consider what would be required in
building or rebuilding railroads or cam
tonments. The space required for store
housing at the base would be about as
follows: Rations, ETC., $50 acres; fuel,
$50 acres; forage. 450 acres; remount
depots, $50 acres; cantonments for cas-
uals, etc, 800 acres; sick and wounded.
1000 acres; engineer, ordnance, and
signal corps, 1900 acres. Allowing for
roads, office buildings, barracks. etc.,
the total would be about 5000 acres.
Confusion in Figures.
Always there is considerable confu-
sion about shipping figures. There is
no one on this side of the Atlantic, so
far as / am able to find out, who can
tell precisely the difference between a
gross and net ton. AS a matter OF
fact, net tonnage is not fixed term.
In referring to submarine sinkings,
gross tons are always used, together
with the sEnglish reckoning of 2,24O
pounds to the ton. In general way
cargo carrying space is figured in cubic
feet and then divided bv 100 to get
gross tonnage. Displacement is quite
another matter. That kind of tonnage
means the weight of the ship itself, as
l understand it, although the word
suggests the weight of the water dis
placed by the ship. Those who follow
the submarine news should bear in
mind that tonnage given is gross and
that weight of cargo is not included.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23

miss the rare places of Ypres that are
still, in their grim settling, more or
less visible.
"The other day he helped Bel.
gian to discover his little hoard of
francs that had been buried in the
town during the first bombardment.
He shows firm Judgment and instant
sympathy as each is needed. If Ypres
Is Belgium, he english as he isis
Ypres: brave, steady, enduring and
confident. Looking up whimsically al
II shell that seemed to me to burst
uncomfortably near (but then, they
all sounded like thaD, he remarked:
'Ah, high explosive; / thought as
much. Perhaps you had better be
going now And we went with a sense
of abiding regard for this sturdy sol
dier, while deafening crash close by
announced that the British guns had
something urgent to say TO the enemy,
something that could not watt
A Dantean DesoIation.
The word S6mme similarly has ex.
panded into novel and grotesque
symbol, Professor Clarlxs says. "For
the Somme is n Dantean desolation,
extending mile beyond mfle-a desc.
lation of splintered tree trunks.
stripped, woebegone boughs, churned
up subsoils that look like plague spots
upon the corpse of earth. thought
of Coleridge's 'rotting sea- The ad.
jective is pale and ineffective here. l
thought of Browning's 'Childe Ro-
land"
But there is another side to the
Somme picture: brisk movement at
the appropriate spots is not wanting,
as there is distant train hauling its
freight; German prisoners working the
roads; Tommy at his endless fatigue
jobs; guns volleying overhead; the
army service corps, carrying on" with
its never-ceasing string of numbering
lorries; and, perhaps most completely
diverting of all, the momentary ap-
pearance of a Kentucky mule on the
skyline, tossing his heels in an aban-
doned ecstacy.
Professor Clarke was connected with
the intelligence department of the
British war office in the war zone.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
PROFESSOR TELLS OF TRENCH VISIT
lLLITERATE INDIANS
ARE TAUGHT IN CAMP

San Antonio, Tex.-More than
four hundred enlisted men in
the National army at Camp
Travis can neither read, write
nor speak the English language.
and their military education
must be started from the ground
up" before they can be made to
understand just what all this
training of men means. They
are mostly Indians from the re-
mote and mountainous regions
of Oklahoma, and Mexicnns
from country precincts sf Tex
as. They are so distributed in
the various military units as to
be close to comrades who may
act as interpreters for them
while the army schoolmaster is
giving them their first lessons
in English and history. re-
enforced by geography. with the
war maps of the world in coIors
and characters denoting battles.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23

tragedy of Belgium" he says, "and.
with the exception of its brutal protag-
onists, all the world shares that pity.
''Ypres is Its symbol. The towns
body is denuded, dead. 1t has been
through two great hells and many les
ser ones, but its soul lives on, intact.
The town mayor impressed me as pre-
cisely the type of man to govern Ypres
today. He is its military mayor,
sort of father-and-mother to Ypres,
n brave, broad-shouldered Cornishman,
who has risen from the ranks, and
who administers the affairs of his
ruined borough with pride and zeal
that are not short of beautiful. He is
not wholly obsessed by military val
ues; he does not wish the visitor to
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
A PRETTY FACE is 1

Tor woman's ailments = It cures those
arrangements and weaknesses which
make womans' life miserable.
You can overcome most bodily ills,
escape sickness, build up your health
with regular hours, plenty of water, SEN
sible food, and chance to get the poison
out of the system. Take a natural laxa-
tive once or twice weekly. Such one
is made of May-apple, juice of aloes, and
root of -jalap, sugar-coated and supplied
to all druggists years ago by Doctor
Pierce and known as Doctor Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. Get them today