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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-05

LADIES, LISTEN TO REGULAR
TALK ON LOVE AND so FORTH
A crowd of wealthy ladies-pre-
sumably the siIk-stOckinged sort
listened with shocked but rapt eX-
pressions to a regular talk on love
and kindred things yesterday at the
Blackstone.
Jesse Quitman, he was the lectur-
er, said, among the printable things:
Much of the modern love is a
thrill of Ownership-the pride of
proprietOrship in a successful man
the, same as in that Of an expensive
automobile.
ct is conceded that man is wom-
ans prey. Man always has prayed
to beautiful women. Primitive man
always prayed to those who devoUred
him.
Primitive man was much more
chaste than modern man. Modern
man is the most profigate Of all ami
mails. The present wonderful inter
est in love is due much to the fact
that the excitement of food hunting
has been transferred to the field Of
love.
Marriage is unnatural in that sex
relations are established without
courtship. Courtship is much more
important than love.
"Courtship is the stage where man
takes a pleasure in eXerting an in
fuence, while woman takes a pleas
ure, within certain limits, Of receiV-
ing it. Women. do not object to
being beaten by courageous men. 1t
is the cowardly types who are always
hailed into court by their wives"
1890
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
ALLIES PLAN NEW BIG DRIVE
WEST FRONT TO BE SCENE OF
STRONG OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN.
Hope to Catch Teutons Short of NUM-
tons Large Stock of Which Is Now
Being Manufactured.

London, Jan. 1S.-A new big drive"
against the Teutonic lines in France
is planned for the near future by AL.
lied war chiefs.
The feasibility of such an offensive
was discussed in London at a confer
ence just ended between Lloyd George,
his "war cabinet" and the Allies
fighting leaders, General Nivelle,
French commander in chief and Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, comman-
der of the British forces in France.
Offensive to Start Soon.
In London it is believed the offenl
sive will start very soon. The Allies
haste is looked on as design to catch
the Germans before they have had OPP
portunity to strengthen their positions
with the vast stores of ammunition
and guns that they are known to be
manufacturing.
A possible forecast of other more
stirring activities in the war zone than
have marked the conflict for some time
comes in the announcement that Swift,
zerland, fearing violation of her neus
trality, has modified additional from
tier guards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
BUTTER AND EGG BOARD
BOOKS ARE INTERESTING
After Examination, However, Federal
Agents Decline to Comment on
Evidence of Price-Fixing.

Chicago, Jan. 16.-Special agents of
the department of justice have exam
ined the books, records and files of
the Chicago Butter and Egg Board,
seized in an attempt to determine
whether the organization had violated
an injunction issued by Judge K M.
Lands of the federal court in 1914,
preventing the fixing of prices.
Robert w. Childs, special assistant
to the United States attorney general,
described the records as very inter.
esting," but declined further comment.
1t was intimated, however, that seiz.
ure of the books and records of Elgin,
Ill.,, butter and egg dealers was con,
templated, it being believed that they
would throw light on the operations
of the Chicago board.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, cal9mel- cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found.
ed. Their tender little Hinsides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for a 5o-cent bottle
Of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
CAN'T GET BEAR OUT OF CAGE
Newly Arrived Bruin Presents Prob
lem to the Attendants at Brook
Ign Zoo.

How to get BrOoklyn's new bear out
of the cage that he came here in is
one Of the problems that is confront
ing the Prospect park zoo authorities,
according to the Eagle of that city.
"The case is so strong that it looks
as if nothing less powerful than dyna-
mite would open it," one officer ex-
planned. 1T is made Of very heavy
planks, spikes, together with shipbuild-
ers' spikes. The cage was built by the
same men who make Norwegian sail
ing vessels, the most durable in the
world"
The difficulty of getting Bruin out
of the box led to question as to
how the Norwegians, who sent him,
managed to get him in. The only hole
in the cage is barely big enough to let
him get his nose out.
II guess they must have tied his
feet, or wrapped him up in net and
then built the cage around him." one
of the tall Scandinavians on the Chris
tianiafjord said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
GERMAN OFFICER MAY BE
ON MISSION TO GREECE
Won Falkenhayn Believed to Have Ar.
rived in Greece by Submarine
or Aeroplane.

London, Jan. 17.-That General Won
Falkenhayn and not General Baron Won
Falkenhausen is on a mission to
Greece is affirmed by the British &C.
credited correspondent at Saloniki,
who cites information received in
French official quarters there to the
effect that Won Falkenhayn is at Elias
soma, % miles northwest of Larissa.
General Won Falkenhayn is supposed
to have arrived in Greece by subma-
rine, but the correspondent remarks
that it would have been possible for
him to cross the Allied lines in an air
plane land in any case the object of
visit which was attended with so
much danger cannot be mistaken"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
DESTRUCTION OF. ALLIES
SHIPS ALARMS OWNERS
Danger of Disappearance of Merchant
Marine Not Unlikely, According
to French Authority.

Berlin, Jan. 17.-In connection with
report of the action of committee
of French ship owners in calling at
tention Of the French government to
the danger of the disappearance of the
merchant marine, the Overseas News
Agency quotes Rear Admiral Degony,
retired, of the. French navy as stating
that he regretted that the censorship
prevented him from making disclos-
ures of the relative losses of the great
warships and numerous trading ships
of the Allies.
According to this agency the rear
admiral asserted the destruction of
three armored cruisers within three
weeks was alarming, that the danger
undoubtedly was becoming greater and
that the measure heretofore taken to
parry such attacks must appear insult
fcient even to outsiders.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
ANTl-ALIEN LAND BILL n
PLAN OF OREGON SOLONS
New Measure Is Patterned by Law
Now in Force in California
Makes Some Allowances.

Salem, Ore, Jan. 17.-An anti-alien
bill said to be patterned after Cali
fornia's anti-alien land ownership law
which, at the time of its passage
threatened international complications
with Japan, has been introduced in the
Oregon state senate.
The bill would prohibit Japanese,
Chinese and Hindoos from inheriting
real property, but allows them to &C
quire and transfer real property to the
extent prescribed by existing treaties.
On the death of aliens now owning
property, the bill provides the court
shall sell for the heirs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
RElNFORCEMENTS TO CUT
LINE TO CONSTANTINOPLE
saloniki Army Expected to Prevent
Supplies of Foodstuffs From Asia
Minor Reaching Germany.

London, Jan. 16.-The Allied army
on the Saloniki front will be rein
forced as a preliminary to an effort
to cut the Berlin-C onstantinople rail-
road, according to a dispatch from a
British correspondent with General
Sarrail's forces. The writer lays it
down as the most urgent task of the
Saluniki army to cut the railroad and
shut off Germany from the supplies
OF 2oodstuffs and men which she is
drawing from Asia Minor. He de-
scrtbes Asiatic Turkey as a granary
which Germany is developing on SCI
entific lines, while it is also the home
of 100000 magnificent fighters, who,
he says, are being trained and drilled
under German instructors.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
FINAL DISSOLUTION OF CONFER.
ENcE COMES AFTER cARRANZA
HAD TWICE REJECTED PRO.
POSED AGREEMENT.
ENTIRE PROBLEM NOW
REVERTS TO PRESIDENT
Maintenance of an Ambassador al
Mexico City Removes Cause for
Existence of Commission-Warn-
ing Given Against Further
Raids in v. S. Territory.

New York, Jan. II. - The Mexican
American joint commission, which fail
ed to effect an adjustment of the ques
lions at issue between Mexico and the
United States after a series of con
ferences that began four months ago
has been formally dissolved.
Secretary of Interior Lane and the
other members of the American com
mission, DR.. J. R. Mott and Judge
George Gray, told the Mexicans that
they had recommended to President
Wilson the dispatch to Mexico of Am
bassador Fletcher and the withdrawal
OF American troops from Chihuahua.
Up to Wilson Now.
The Americans impressed upon the
Mex:cans that with the dissolution OF
the commission, the Mexican problem
reverted to President Wilson. They
were careful not to leave in the minds
of the Mexicans the conviction that
President Wilson would accept the rec
concentration that an accredited diplo
mat be sent to Mexico and that Gen
eral Pershing's force be withdrawn
but the intimation that he would dc
so was conveyed.
All Agree to Quit.
The American commissioners ex
planned to the Mexican representatives
that they regarded further discussion
by them of international questions i'm
practicable. Twice General Carranza
had refused to ratify the protocol al
Atlantic City, N. j., in which condi
tons for the withdrawal of troops had
been made.
1t was pointed out to them that the
maintenance of an ambassador in Mex
leo would remove cause for the exist
ence of commission since all inter
national questions pending or any thai
might then be handled through diplo
matte channels. 1t was explained that
with the dissolution of the commission
the President would be free to act in
dependeutly in the problem presented
by the presence in Mexico of an Amer
lean military force.
Warned Against Future Raids.
No direct reference was made in the
final session to what the attitude OF
the United States would be in the
event the American troops are with
drawn and new raids across the Dor
der by Mexicans are made, but neither
was there any modification made IL
the warning of Secretary Lane that &C
,companied the protocol to Mexico thai
this government reserved the right te
unlimited and unrestricted pursuit Of
bandits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
TEUT0N|C POWERS
MIGHT GIVE TERMS
BELIEVED PROBABLE CENTRAL
ALLIES WOULD COMPLY WITH
REQUEST FROM WILSON.
SEE NO PEACE AT EARLY DATE
Wilson Has Not Determined Whether
to Wait for German Initiative in
Stating Peace Terms Before
Making Move.

Washington, Jan. ia statement
| of terms from Germany and her allies,
at least as comprehensive as those set
forth by the Allies in replying to Pres
ident Wilson's note, is the next move
hoped for here in the peace negotia-
tons.
Wilson May Make Next Move.
Whether time will be allowed for the
Teutonic nations to state their terms
on their own initiative, or whether
President Wilson Nill make some
move to give an opening, remains un-
determined. There are indications,
however, that if no statement of the
Teutonic terms is Forthcoming within
a reasonable time, the United States
| may seek a means to indicate the de-
STABILITY Of such a course.
1t is reiterated that the President
has not determined on his position.
In other administration quarters it
has been suggested, however, that the
objects which the president had in
mind could best be promoted now by
ing their terms.
Officials Waiting AnxiousIy.
Officials are watching particularly
just now the trend of public sentiment
abroad and the apparent change since
the dispatch of the Presidents note
has proved source of increasing
qualification. There is no indication
in official circles, however, that an
early peace is thought probable.
Germany Would Name Terms.
The German view here is that there
is little likelihood of public state
ment of specific terms by the Teutonic
Allies at this time unless a further
move to that end is made by the
President. Should request for such
a statement be forwarded to Berlin,
however, it is declared Germany prob.
ably would comply.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
INTERPRE1S WHITE SLAVE LAW
COURT HOLDS ACT NOT LIMITED
TO COMMERCIAL VICE.
Personal Immoral Escapades Punish
able, Says Supreme Tribnal-Rail-
roads Lose Mail Pay Cases.

Washington, Jan. 16.-Interpreting
the Mann white slave law. the SUI
preme court has just decided that
prosecutions under the law for trans
portating women in interstate com.
merce are not limited to commercial
lied vice and include personal, i'm
moral escapades.
Conviction of F. Drew Caminetti and
Maury /. Diggs of Sacramento was
affirmed.
The court was divided. The major
!ty opinion was given by Justice Day.
Justice Makes Statement.
Chief Justice White and Justices Nc.
Kenna and Clarke dissented. Justice
McReynolds took no part in consider.
alton of the cases.
The plain terms Of the act must
take precedence over the designation
and the report that accompanied it to
congress-" said Justice Day. ut is
said it will open the door to black.
mail, but that is to be considered by
congress. We think the power of con.
sress to regulate transportation of pas.
sengers affords ample basis to eXer-
else authority in the case of this stat
ute.'
Following Interpretation of the Mann
act, the court also affirmed conviction
Of L. T. Hays of Alva, Okla.
:iaiI Pay Case Decided.
Test cases regarded as decisive of
about 500 railroad claims against the
government for approximately s35,000,.
BOO additional compensation for carry
Ing the mails from 1907 to 1911 were
decided by the supreme court against
.he railroads. Appeals Of the Chicago
4 Alton and Yazoo & Mississippi Val
by railroads from rejection of test
laims were dismissed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
NOTED MARINE FIGHTER PASSES
AWAY AT WASHINGTON HOME
FROM BREAKDOWN DUE
TO OLD AGE.
HAD SERVED IN NAVY FOR
OVER THREE SCORE YEARS
Was Ranking Naval Officer of the
World and Whole Nation Mourns
His Death-President Wilson
Is Prompt With Tribute to
Great Sea Fighter.

Washington, Jan. 1S.-Admiral Dew
ey, the nations Spanish war hero and
by priority of grade the ranking naval
officer of the world, is dead at his
home here in his eightieth year.
He had not been conscious for two
days, when he lapsed into coma, still
believing that in few days he would
be back at his desk in the Navy de-
partment. His death ended 81 years
Of active service.
A general breakdown accompanied
by arterio sclerosis incident to old age
was the cause of death.
Disease Had Hold.
The disease had been gradually
spreading it's hold upon the powerful
body for year and half, but the
admiral, proud Of his physical vigor,
had fought it off and even kept its ex-
istence a secret from most of his in
innate friends.
About week ago he was at his Of
flee, apparently hale and hearty. The
next day he collapsed as he was pre-
pairing to leave the house and the be-
ginning of the end was at hand.
Mrs. Dewey and the admirals only
son, George, were at the bedside last
night. They had known for two days
there was no hope.
Wilson Is Notified.
President Wilson and Secretary DAN
iels were notified at once and the
news was flashed by wireless to Amer
lean naval vessels and stations all over
the world. The message carried or.
ders that all flags be half-masted.
The President will confer with Sec
rotary Daniels and Rear Admiral Bad
ger to arrange for the funeral, which
probably will take place Saturday.
The body will be buried at Arlington
National cemetery.
Only two other men-Farragut and
Porter-have held the rank of the Ad.
miral of the American Navy and since
Civil war days no military figure had
held such a place as Dewey in the af-
lection and admiration Of the Ameri-
can people.
President Pays Tribute.
When the news of the admiraPs
death was received at the White
House, President Wilson, in express
ing his grief at the death of Admiral
Dewey, said ''the whole nation will
mourn the loss of it's most distin-
guished naval officer, man who has
been as faithful as intelligent and as
successful in the performance of his
responsible duties i'm time of peace
as he was gallant and successful in
time of war.
ut is Just such men that gives tho
service distinction and the nation q
just pride in those who serve it."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Allies Duty to Increase Efforts.

London, Jan. 16-The Times mill.
tary correspondent maintains that the
prolongation Of the war, as the result
of the foredoomed failure of the peace
move" throws on all the Allies the
duty of making greater efforts in or.
der to deserve victory. He says that
Germany initiated measures a month
ago to expand her supply of men and
munitions. I'VE ought to see," he
writes, clearly enough now that our
efforts, especially on the western
front have not been adequate to Sc
cure decision or even to deserve it."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
HEADED BY J. p. MORGAN, SEW
ERAL ARE SUMMONED TO
TELL PRoBERs WHAT THEY
KNOW OF LEAK.
LAWSON SHIFTS BLAME
TO WOMAN WITNESS
Latter Had Disappeared But Later Is
Found at Her Apartments and
Served With Subpoena-Law-
son Says Either He or
Henry Is ?srjurer.

Washington, Jan. 18.-Spreading q
draSnet over the financial district OF
New York, the House rules committee
has extended the peace note leak in
vestigation into a general inquiry
into the stock market. At an execu-
tive meeting the committee considered
the ACCESSIBILITY of employing expert
counsel familiar with financial affairs
to conduct the examination of witness
es. 1t also planned to ask Congress
for an extension Of time to report.
Morgan Is Summoned.
At the first step in enlarging the
scope of the hearings, the committee
subpoenaed ]. P. Morgan, H. B. Da-
wilson, F. A. Vanderlip, Arthur Upper,
Sol c. Wexler and ]. s. Bache, New
York financiers.
Vying in interest with the summon
ing of the new witnesses was the dis
appearance of Mrs. Ruth Thomson
Visconti, who Thomas w. Lawson says
told him Secretary Tumulty, land
Others" had profited in the stock mar
ket by the leak and that William w.
Price, one of the White House CORE
spondents, had acted as the "go be-
tween" in the affairs and received
$4,000 for his work. Sergeant-at-Arms
Gordon and several assistants tried in
vain to find Mrs. Visconti Lawson
expressed great surprise at her disap-
pearance.
Mrs. Viscontl Reappears.
Mrs. Visconti surprised the search
ers by reappearing at the apartment
house in which she lives and which
had been under surveillance since last
night. A deputy sergeant-at-arms
promptly served subpoena directing
her to appear before the committee.
She promised to be there, and the Of
ficer left her in the apartment.
Lawson, whose sensational testimony
has aroused the committee to go to
the depths of the leak rumors, occupied
the witness stand again.
One Is Perjurer.
Lawson attacked Representative
Henry's denial of his testimony and
or Henry was guilty of rank perjury.
In a characteristic outburst, Lawson
shouted his reiteration that he had
told the truth.
when there is a direct difference
of opinion, stronger than a question of
veracity," said Lawson, ''it is perfect
ly obvious that one or the other of us
is committing perjury, deliberate, rank
perjury. Unless your chairman said
the things that have said he did, l
am guilty of foul perjury and am un-
fit to be outside the bars of jail"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Says Assistant Accepted Brides.

New York, Jan. 16. - Charges that
Lucian S. Breckenridge accepted fees
from Employers associations while
engaged as an assistant district attor-
ney to prosecute employers for dis
orders in connection with East Side
strikes, have. been presented here be-
fore Chief Magistrate McAdoo in be-
half of District Attorney Edward
Swami. A check showing payment
of $500 to an alleged go-between was
introduced in evidence and witness
testified that the money was for Mr..
Breckenridge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Kills Son of Employer and Self.

Burlington, Kan, Jan. 16.-Jealousy
Is believed to have been the motive
which prompted Miss Josephine
Holmes, 19-year-old domestic, to shoot
and kill Clarence M. Wood, 2S-year-
old civil engineer, and then turn the
revolver upon herself here. The shoot
ing occurred at the home of Woods
mother, Mrs. E. w. Barker, where Miss
Holmes was employed. A brother Of
the dead man found both bodies in
Miss Holmes room. The young wo-
mans hand still held the revolver.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Deputies Battle BiackmaiIers.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jan. 15.-Depu-
ty Sheriff George Gillapey lies in a
precarious condition and Roland Bar
bee is in jail as the result of pitched
battle In the dark at Oscar Lawson's
farm, near Oakland, this cunty. Tween
ty-seven bullet holes were counted in
doors of the driveway at the barn
where the battle occurred. Lawson
received blackmail letters instructing
him to place $500 in currency in the
feed grinder in. the barn, under pen
atty of burned buildings, and three Of
ficers lay in wait for the blackmaiIers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Sink Sunk Legally, Say Germans.

Berlin, Jan. 16.-The German gov
ernment here has transmitted to Unit
ed States Ambassador Gerard a note
justifying the sinking of the Norwe-
gian steamship Tripel by German
submarine. The note says: Gas stat
ed by the German naval authorities,
the Norwegian steamer Tripel on
November 10, 1916, was stopped by a
German submarine and captured after
it had been made certain that the car
go was of steel, and under Italian war
command, with Geneva as her port Of
destination. The steamer was sunk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Great Gain In Explosives OUTPUT.

London, Jan. 16-English munition
factories are now turning out every
48 hours more heavy gun ammunition
first year of the war, and the produc-
ton is increasing each week in prep.
aration for the great offensive on the
western front which British military
critics believe will come next spring.
There is no avowal on the part of the
ministry of munitions of any intention
to discontinue the importation from
America. The increase in the manu-.
facture has been tremendous.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
TO DETHRONE KING OF GREECE
Allies to Place italian in Power, Ac-
cording to Rumor.

New York, Jan. lit is under
stood that King Constantine of Greece
will be deposed and an Italian prince
placed on the Greek throne" declared
special dispatch from Rome pub
nshed by the New York Tribune.
This action" the dispatch contin-
ues, according to report, has the full
approval of the Venizelos faction. The
decision is said to have been reached
at the recent conference of Entente
leaders here"
The dispatch added that the Duke Of
Aosta has been chosen as Constan-
tines successor. but has not yet ae-
cepted.