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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
Reports Are Gratifying

Especially gratifying to officials are re-
ports from Camp Devens. Aver, Mass,
and Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. and in
order to learn the spirit of the men at all
training camps the department decided
today to call upon divisional commanders
for reports.
At Camp Devens the company officers
report many instances where the men
come IN from eight hours Of intensive
training still eager for work. Instead Of
seeking rest in their quarters the new
soldiers turn out into the company
streets and continue practlcing what they
have Just learned. They are eager to
fit themselves physically for the great
task ahead of them, the officers report,
and a spirit of loyalty to their companies
or their regiments is rapidly developing.
Desire for Service
War department officials expect hat
complete official reports will set at rest
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
Augusta Man Heads Representatives

At the meeting of the Past Grand Rep
resentatives' Association tonight the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President,
VIII {. Miller of Augusta vice president.
Elery Bowden Of Winterport; secretary,
George T. kenworthy Of Portland: treas
urer. William z. Plummer Of Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
FUND TO Save THE HOSPITAL
$4,000 INSIDE TWO DAYS

Workers Put Issue of Campaign Squarely Be-
fore Public by Asking for Subscriptions to
Keep a Hospital in Community and Send To-
tai Past First Quarter Mark, Indicating a Bril-
liant Success for Movement Keen Rivalry
Stirs Volunteers in Race for Daily Champion
ship Banner
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
Gompers Favors Plan

President Gompers Of the American
Federation of Labor is understood to
favor the plan of exempting shipyard
employees and has assured the board
OF his cooperation.
The expansion of present yards and
the building of many new ones in Or
der to meet the governments require
ments for both merchant and war yes
sells has created a great demand for
workers in the trade. Sufficient skilled
men are not available and new men
must be trained. Officials Of the board
think hat men thus trained should
rot he taken into the military estab-
lishments, as the shipbuilding program
is a most essential n to the conduct
Of the war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
GERMANY TO DECLARE
OF UNITED
STATES WAR ZONE

London. Oct. 16.-According to news
from Berlin in an undated dispatch re-
ceived by the admiralty by the wireless
press, Germany is expected shortly TO
declare the coasts of the United States.
Canada and Cuba war zones,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
Consumption Not Reduced

during the past 80 days.
Consumption Not Reduced
The shortage is due, the administra-
ton says, to the failure of the public
outside of a few loyal homes to re-
luce consumption and the unusual ex-
ports to France in order that the
French people may have their meagre
ration of one pound of sugar per per-
son per month.
In regard to prices attention is call
ed to the fact that by agreement the
price of beet and Hawaiian sugar has
been at Z ia cents a pound, Atlantic
and Pacific seahoard basis, under
which the maximum retail price at in
terror points should be s IA cents,
while by an agreement at the cane re-
finers' and Cuban producers the price
Of cane has been set down 50
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
Avoid General Engagement

Avoid General Engagement
The Russians are disinclined to
throw their naval vessels into a gem
eral engagement with the invaders,
fearing that the superiority of the
Germans would result in losses to
them which would leave open the
pathway throughout the Gulf Of Fin
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
INCENDIARY
Kansas City ~Stockyards
Fire Thought Set
First Fire Company to Arrive Found
Three Fires Burning 1000 Yards
Apart-11,ooo Cattle and $500 Hogs
Burned-Loss $75o,0o0

Kansas City. No. Oct. 1e.-Reports
that the FIRE which today destroyed
a large portion Of the Kansas City
stockyards and resulted IN the death
of approximately 1900 cattle and $500
hogs, was of ~incendiary origin persist
though discredited by officials OF the
corporation owning the yards.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
40 COAL Mines
SHUT DOWN
IN ILLINOIS

Springfield, Ill, Oct. 1S.-More than
40 coal mines in central and southern
Illinois employing between 1900 n
$4,000 miners, were shut down today
and the coal mining industry Of the
state tonight faces practical paralysis.
operators here stated, as a result OF
the spreading strike Of miners who de-
nanded immediate wage increase.
Wage Increases Held Up
Miners said today they were given to
understand that the new wage agree
ment, reached at Washington, would be
effective without delay. Operators on
the other hand. pointed to "A clause
making the increases contingent upon
a II advance by the fuel administration
in Illinois coal prices, declaring pres
ent prices prohibit wage increases.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
THE WEATHER
FAIR

Forecast: Fair Wednesday and
Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
Loss Approximately $75o,o0o

HllS no OeUulle estimates HdNo
been made. insurance adjusters and
officials of the stockyards corporation
place the loss at approximately $780,
900. Heavy insurance was carried
both on the buildings of the stock
yards and o the livestock. the
amount has not been announced.
Investigations were made during the
day Of the burned area by ]. E. Mar
vim. fire warden, and Chief John Egg
ner of the Kansas City fire depart
ment. Both men believe that the fire
was set, but declare that the area is
so devastated that no indications OF
an incendiary origin could have es-
capped the flames.
Three Fires Were Burning
The statement of the officers Is
based largely upon the assertions Of
Lieut.. f. j. Bishoff of the nrst hre
company to arrive at the yards after
the alarm had been received. who said
that three fires were burning fully
1000 yards apart in different portions
of the yards.
George E. Collett. general nag
OF the stockyards. declared he believ-
ed the fire resulted from natural
causes and that the wind had blown
sparks from the first fire. starting the
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Eastern States Facing
Temporary Sugar Shortage

ity in the East than it has been paying
during the past 30 DAYS.
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Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
COUNTY AGENTS TO MEET MONDAY WITH
 DEFENSE COUNCIL

PHOENIX, Ariz.. Nov. l0.-On Mon day all county agents and members of
 the seed committee of the University are to be guests of Chairman Dwight B. Heard of the state council of de fense. at a dinner at which will be
 presented details of the crop survey
 lately completed. covering the entire
 state. It is proposed to make this survey the basis of most practical
 work leading toward the betterment oi
 the food supply. as one of Arizona's
 contributions to the nations wartime
 needs. For instance, a much larger acreage of wheat is needed in Marlco- pa county while the bean acreage in Cochise county and Yuma could be increased materially. Every county
 agent is to receive all the agricultural data concerning his own county, cover ing crops and product acreages. especi
 ally for the patriotic work op which
 he is expected to engage at once.
 Chairman Heard has just returned from a meeting at Washington of large importance. Assigned to him is mem
 bership on the committee on cattle
 within the meat division of the Food Administration. He has asked that
 members of the council of defense re-
 port as soon as possible at headquart-
 CTS. 1l2 North Central avenue. for there is much to be done and the ser
 vices of every patriotic worker are to
 be needed
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STORY OF THE CRUISE OF
 GERMAN RAIDER SEEAD[ER TOLD
 FOR FIRST TIME BY US. CAPTAIN

poop and splashing water on the ship
 any use, and I lowered down spanker
 clewed down topsail, hOisted American
 flag and hove to. About z o'clock the
 raider was up alongside and asked
 what ship. l told him what it was
 and he told me to lower down sails and stand by and he would send an officer aboard me Shortly after the prize officer came aboard and a doctor and about 10 men. These officers were
 in uniform. They told me to leave the ship and to go on board the raider and they would give me time in the morning to pack my clothes.
 They took all our men aboard the raider except the cook. Next morning
 went hack on boIrd with all my nen and packed up. We left the ship with our belongings June IS. We were put on board the raider again. Shortly after I saw from the raider that they cut holes in the masts and placed dynamite bombs in each mast and put fire to both ends of the ship and left her. I saw the masts go over the side and the ship was burning from end to end, and the raider steamed away"
 Captain Smith said the raider was full-rigged ship of steel or iron. about 2300 tons, propelled by oil burning engines Her captain was Felix Graf von Luckner. active cap tain lieutenant; the first lieutenant. Alfred King; prize officer. Richard Pless. There also was a chief engi- neer a navigating lieutenant, mate and a doctor. All told, her complement was 6S officers and men. Mounted between decks she carried two finch guns (10.5 centimeters) and two ma chnie guns. The name on her bow was Irma.
 When the men from the Slade ar rived aboard the raider they found nine prisoners from the American schooner A B. Johnson of San Fran CISCO. cdpluTtu lnICc udNS Dp4OiC. OH July s, Smith stated. the schooner Manila was captured and dynamited after the 10 officers had been taken off. Aboard the Seeadler, he said, was a Hollander who had been taken off the first ship captured and was kept aboard because he had made an remark to the captain about German money.
 For about three weeks the raider kept beating up and down looking for passing ships. Meeting none, they went south to Mopeba on July S1, anchored on the lee side of the island. and on August ? the ship was driven hard and fast ashore. The three American captains had gone ashore with the German officers on a picnic and the prisoners were left on the ship. Cannon were fired to tell the party the ship was in danger, but when they returned they found the propeller twisted on the coral reef and
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
You Can Shake Loose from
 The Tortures of Rheumatism

treatment of Rheumatism. It acts directly upon the blood. which 1t promptly purifes of all disease germs. It is powerful sntidote. and elimi- mates from the blood all trace of rheumatic germs. building up and strengthening the rundown system
 Write to-day to our medical di- rector, who will give you valuable advice regarding the proper treat ment of your own case. Address Swift Specific Co, Dept. I Att lanta, Ga.
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CBy Rievew Leased wire)


 WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The full story of the cruise of the German raider Seeadler has been obtained by the navy department from Capt. Hal dor Smith of the American schooner R. c. Slade and three other mariners, who landed at Tutuila in an open boat September 29 after being marooned on Mopeha island by the master of the Seeadler when the raider grounded and was abandoned.
 The Seeadler, formerly the Ameri- can ship Pass of Balmaha, belonged to the Boston Lumber company, and was in the Nova Scotia trade before the war. After the war broke out she was put under the American flag and was captured by the British and a prize officer was put aboard her with instructions to take her to Kirkwall, Scotland. On the way she was cap tured by a German submarine and sent to Bremen and fitted out as raider. A picked crew was placed aboard, some of whom spoke Norwe- eian. and sent out into the Atlantic under the guise of Norwegian shlp.
 The ruse worked so well that after leaving Bremen on December 2l, l9l5' the Seeadler was held up by the Brit ish auxiliary cruiser Highland Scot, examined and passed. Sailors identi- cation books issued by the Norwegian government were furnished the men, although they probably were taken from captured Norwegian vessels and given to the men who seemed to fit the descriptions given. These. to- gether with pictures of Norwegian kings and queens, gave the ship the appearance of a Norwegian.
 Captain Smith learned that, while cruising in the Atlantic. thirteen ships valued by the Germans at 60,000,OOO marks were captured, and four in the Pacific. the American schooner A B.. Johnson, the American schooner Man fla and the French schooner Lutece.
 Relating the story of the capture of his ship, the Slade, Captain Smith
 
 said:
 q left Sydney on April 24, 1917.I and proceeded without any incident until the evening of June IT, when | was in latitude about north. longi- tude 150 west. On the evening of June 17, about o'clock. the second mate reported to me that a ship was firing on us I went on deck and looked aft, and instantly, as came on deck they fired again. and saw the shell fall short about two miles. She was about eight miles of. There was a heavy squall starting to eastward wind favorable to this time-ano | thought it possible to get away and kept holding on. But she kept firing on me at intervals of about five to ten minutes, and was coming upon me fast.
 -The ninth shot, fired about 5 o'clock. struck very close. passing the
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the vessel beyond help. After working all afternoon they gave her up as lost and took ashore everything they could move, including the boats. gear and wireless. The wireless plant, a very powerful one, was set up between two cocOanut trees. It was equipped with sending and receiving apparatus and without difficulty they were able to hear Pago Pago. Tahiti, and Honolulu On August 23. Captain Smith relat. ed the German officers fitted up and armed a small boat and started for the Cook islands or the Fiji islands where they hoped to capture an American ship and come back for the crew. Count von Luckner, the master was in charge. They were never heard of again at Mopeha island.
 After their departure wireless mes- sages in code from Pago Pago to the American consul were intercepted and the German crew believed the count had been captured. On September , French trading schooner from Pa bette, the Lutece, put in at the island. First Lieutenant King took motor boat and machine gun and captured the ship. She had a large cargo of flour, salmon and beef and a supply of water. King and his crew disman- tied the wireless apparatus and left the island in the Lutece that night, leaving AS souls, including the Amer jeans. the crew of the French trader and four natives of the island. Scant provisions, and bad at that, were left them. Besides these they found a few cocoanuts, but the great number of rats on the island destroyed them. There was plenty Of fish and turtles.
 small boat had been left behind and the marooned men fitted 1t up. The captain of the Manila with a small crew started out in the boat for Tahiti on September s. They failed to reach Tahiti and returned exhausted on September 16 Captain Smith with three men took the small boat and managed to reach Pago Pago ten days later.
 Captain Smith said that after the Seeadler was abandoned the Germans used dynamite to destroy the ships masts so that passing vessels might not see them They were unable to sink the Manila, as she was loaded win lumber and the derelict now probably is a menace to navigation. Although the Seeadler may be a wreck, it is possible that her guns still are in position to use.
 Forty-four persons still are on Mo peha island, but Captain Smith said they were in no immediate danger of starvation There are turtles and fish on the island. he said, and the water, while brackish, is not danger ous. The only danger, he said. is of sickness. One man had gangrene when he left Some medicine was left, but he doubted that he survivors knew how to use it.
 Recent dispatches indicate that the captain of the Seeadler and five of his crew were captured on September 31 of the Fiji islands by Fijian canstab- ulary. What became of the men who left Mopeha island in the Ld:ece is not known.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

Mrs. Bessie Budd is the first appli- cant in the state for the mothers pen sion under the state law. Her appli- cation was submitted to the county welfare board of Maricopa county. which has just held its first meeting. Inasmuch as Mrs. Budd has seven chil- dren. it is possible she will receive the maximum pension of s6O a month This pension. however, goes only to permanent residents of Arizona
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
The Churches
First 5aptist Church.

Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. MT Branaman, superintendent.
 Morning service at II a. m. Ser mon subject. Watching Jesus on the Cross"
 Junior B. Y P. U. at s:45 D. ID. in church parsonage.
 Senior B. Y P. U. at 6:45 p. m. in church auditorium. Subject. Seeking Worth While Things Leader. Miss Watkins.
 Evening services 7:45 p. m. Sermon subject, Wild Oats.
 The ordinance of baptism will be ad- ministered following evening services.
 All are cordially invited to attend these services. F. NJ Pittman. pastor. L. R. Davison. chairman of press com mittee.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

Sheriff Miles drew the strings Fri day It Tucson of Ut .ha: hal been iaiG over the city Guf'ng the last two weeks by the Thief Detective Service .--. the a.y a'-@ as a re- Sail e men were herdad into the sl- ready overcrowded county jail. 1s charged with bootlegging and one with running a gambling joint under a ci- gar store on Congress street
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
By using s. s. s.

The germs of Rheumatism are in the blood. which is laden with mil lions of the minute demons of pain, causing untold suffering and bringing its victim from vigor and strength to almost helplessnesS. To get real and genuine relief from this disease. these disease germs must be com pietely routed out of the system through the blood.
 s. s. s. has been used for fifty years with satisfactory results in the
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
PROPAGANDA THR|VES IN
 SWITZERLAND; MILLIONS SPENT
 IN EFFORT TO GET GOOD WILL

an uphill battle that was not of their choosing.
 The effect of the German-Austrian press propaganda is a curious contra diction. The German tends to alien ate, the latter attracts. The German campaign for many months was, de- spite it's unwelcome features, success full for simple reason that there was almost no counter propaganda. The Swiss papers, much as they wanted to present both sides, and to be primar- fly pro-Swiss, had little choice but to print much of what came from the Ger man press agents because there was nothing else but the official reroprts from the warning countries.
 The genuinely Swiss papers in Ger man Switzerland protested in vain. The mails continued to be choked with
 Literature" and the wires with news" from the eight or nine German and Austrian news bureaus. Those who know assert that at heart a big percentage of German-speaking Swift zerland was pro-German.
 The entente evidently thought SO too. and they were clever enough to see that there would be no necessity for matching dollar for dollar the out lays of Germany for propaganda in or der to neutralize if not nulify the effectiveness of the eight or nine bu- reaus. One tenth as much money and several times as much cleverness would do the trick.
 Details are inadvisable. Suddenly the Swiss papers, especially those printed in German, began to receive extremely objective well written news about entente affairs. The accounts were some times supplemental to the official reports but also they covered a vastly larger field. They were ac- cepted gladly by all but the papers that had been acquired by German interests.
 Then the entente forces added a feature which the Germans as yet have only faintly tried to copy. The pro-Swiss and the pro-German papers began to receive a German service that was a revelation to them. They began to get extracts from German papers, views expressed editorially and accounts of occurrences that were brand new to them-because the eight agencies had not carried them.
 The effect was not instantaneous but today is very marked. and grow ing much more so. The uninitiated reader still has to pick and choose very carefully which paper he shall buy, but if he knows which are the genuine Swiss papers he will find both sides of the struggle daily we'll repre- scented by news items and stories that are not distorted or colored.
 Careful observers. both Swiss and American, who have lived in Switzer- land either all t,leir lives or since the war, say there has been. during the past months. d gradual but decided shift in public opinion. German Switzerland, they say is no longer ifI it ever was, overwhelmingly pro-Ger- man. Today it is part pro-entente and much more pro-Swiss.
 That has not prevented Germany from redoubling it's efforts. Some thing is happening all the time. but most of it is propaganda, and most of the propaganda is German. but onI this neutral battlefield the Germans seem also to be fighting losing fight.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

Since the United States entered the war more than s25,OOO.000 worth of food has been destroyed by fire in this country. enough to feed an army of 100000 men for almost third of a year.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
Assembly of God.

Sunday school at 10 a. m.
 Sunday preaching at and 1880 D. m. Tuesday Bible study at 7:3O p. m. Friday prayer meeting at 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited to at tend these services.
 Mission on Naco road. one block below the depot. John Fitting. pastor
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

Issue price of new 4S, French loan will be 6S.6O. at which figure the loan will pay investors 5.SSqs. Subscrip- ton lists will be open from Novem- Der 26 10 December 16.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

St. Johns Episcopal Church. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Morning service at II a. m. Warren Sunday school at 9:45 a. n
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11

Rev. A. J. Irwin will hold religious service at Don Luis. Sunday. Nocem- Der II. at II a. m. and at Warren at D. m. Please note the change in time for the evening service. Come and bring a friend with you.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-11
Choir practice Wednesday at7 p. m H. s. Brewster. rector.
Christian Science Society

Christian Science Society of Bisbee holds services in the Woman's Club building on Quality hill at 11:15 on Sunday. Wednesday evening at 7:45 The public is welcome and invited to attend. Subject for Sunday. Novem- Der II. Adam and Fallen Man.