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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-11-29

AS we grow older and less active.
less and less food is required to meet
the demands of our bodies. If too
much is habitually taken the stomach
will rebel. When a man reaches the
advanced age of IS or 80, you will
find that he is a light eater. Be as
careful as you will, however. you will
occasionally eat more than you should
and will feel the need of Chamber
lain's Tablets to correct. the disorder.
These tablets do not contain pepsin,
but strengthen the stomach and en-
able it to perform its functions nat
uraly. They also cause a gentle move
ment of the bowels
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ID PAY BIG TAX
 TO TERRITORY

Alaska copper and gold mines will pay during 1917 larger tax to the territory than in 1916. Although the bulk of the tax money will not reach the cofFers of the territory until next February, already small sums are coming in as the placer camps arc closing.
 The Kennecott Corporation leads the list, and will pay approximately a S225 ,OOO tax. The Chichagof com pany comes second on the list with about $6,OOO, although the Yukon Gold. a Guggenheim corporation oper- at.ug dredging ground at Iditarod, will come within a small amount Of an equal sum.
 The Pioneer Mining Company, op- erating dredges and hand placers at Nome and the Ellamar company oper- ating a copper mine, will be rivals for third place with about $&,OOO each. The Berry brothers, operating a dredge at Forty-miIe. will pay in ap- proximately $2,5OO.
 The Alaska Mines Corporation, op- crating at Fidalgo bay, and the Good row Mining Company, near Ketchi- kan, will pay about $l,OOO each.
 Among the small producers will be the Grauby Company, Ready Bullion and the SuIzer mine, with about $500 each.
 The big gold mines in Gastineau channel, although heavy producers the year round, are in the development stage and all surplus is being charged to developing ground and milling plants. They will not pay any net out put tax for 1917.
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Pestilence Kills

In January, 1916, Dr. Riggs said, there were 485,OOO deported Armeni- ans in Mesopatamia, while in May, 1917, the most careful investigation showed only 1l2,OOO survivors, more than three-quarters having perished from famine, pestilence and massacre in fifteen months.
 "The only bright feature of this ter rible picture is the help that has ac- tually reached a fraction of these peo- pie through relief funds from Amer ica's ever-ready generosity" Dr. Riggs said. "In Harput we were able to give daily rations of bread to nearly 5000 widows and orphans. If more money had come there were 10000 within reach equally in need. Upon the rupture of diplomatic relations, the Turkish government confscated our food supplies and many of these people perished of hunger"
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was taken into a ravine and ordered to sit down, he told me. Then the gendarmes climbed up on the sur rounding rocks and fired with their rifles into the crowd of bound prs- oners as long as they showed signs of life.
 "The man who told me the story succeeded in getting his knife and cut ting himself loose. As he made his dash for liberty he was followed by 2 volley of shots but got away unscatl- ed. All the other men of that and similar parties were ruthIessly but chered.
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JAPAN WILL
 NOT TRY ID
 GRAB CHINA

NEW YORK, October IS, 1917- Viscount IshH, head of the Japanese mission, speaking here, proclaimed what he termed "the Monroe Doctrine of the Far East" The nobleman, who is regarded as the spokesman for his nation to the Western World, gave warning that Japan would not toler- ate any aggression against the inde- pendence of China, and, further, he pledged that Japan herself would not attempt similar aggression.
 The "open door" is to say open, ac- cording to the distinguished envoy and Americas cooperation in keeping it open will be welcomed by the Nip ponese kingdom.
 Much satisfaction is being express ed over the represenJaUOnS maue Dy the Viscount speaking for his govern ment. The matter of a close relation ship between the United States and Japan in the war could have been eff fectively blocked by an unfortunate attitude of the island power toward China. Japan's action in taking over the German lease-hold, Kiauchaui, in China early in the war, caused some to wonder if she intended attempting to move aggressively toward her neighbOr. This, despite Japan's pro- testations that the lease-hold would be returned to China after the war.
 The Viscounts speech is regarded as a quieting answer to such doubts.
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PidfuI Sights

"The women and children were then started on the road toward Mcsopa- tamia in companies of two or three thousand. By indirect routes they were forced to wander about until the summer heat and disease wasted away the majority. No transportation was provided. l saw one old man, wlo had travelled 200 miles, start out to go the remaining 25O miles carrying on his back his pack of quilts and clothes and on top of that his aged, palsied wife, who could not walk.
 "Often the routes chosen took the people over waterless deserts where thousands perished from thirst. l passed through such a region where thousands of bleached skeletons each side of the way told the story of a waterless journey across the plains in August
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ARE BURIED ALIVE IN TRENCHES
 WITHDEADMOTHERS

"The gendarmes said they could not take care of the babies that were left behind, so many of those were buried with their mothers" Dr. Riggs said. "When visited this camp frequently saw Turks wandering about among the Amenians picking out pretty girls and little children to take away to their homes. The mothers told us that they had themselves thrown their ba- bies into the Euphrates river rather than allow them to be taken to Mos lem homes. Many more threw them selves into the river to escape a bond age of shame worse than death.
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NOTICE OF SALE

II. J. Raymond Company, a corp0r- ation, vs. John w. Dudley, ss.
 Tn and by virtue of an Alias Writ of Execution issued out of the United States District Court at Juneau, Alas ka, in the above entitled cause, and dated the 18th day of September, 191T l have levied upon all the right, title and interest of the defendant in and to the following real property, to-wit: Lot Twenty-nine (29) in Block Thirty (3O) and Lot Thirty-nine l39) in Block Twenty (2O) of the Town of Seward, Alaska, as the same appears of record in the Recorders Office for Kenai Re cording Precinct, Alaska.
 Notice is hereby given, That l will on Friday, the 26th day of October, 1917, at II o'clock in the forenoon Of that day, at the office of the United States Ma 'shal, at Seward, Alaska, sell all the right, title and interest Of the defendant John W. Dudley in and to the following real property: Lot Twenty-nine l29) in Block Thirty l3O); Lot Thirty-nine (39) in Block Twenty (20) of the Town of Seward, Alaska, at public auction Co the high est and best bidder for cash, to satisfy said execution and cost.
 Dated at Seward Alaska, this 2Gth day of September, l9l7
 F. R. BRENNElIAN.
 U. $. Marshal.
 By ISAAC EVANS,
 Deputy Published Sent 2G. Oct. 4 ILL Ia- 2L
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Address:
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To J. c. Ducken, his heirs and admin
 istrators, and to all whom it may
 concern:
 Take notice that l have done Three Hundred Dollars, (S30000), worth of labor each year in order to hold the following described quartz claims, known as the Bonanza, Eureka and Phoenix Claims, situated on POpOf Island, in the Unga Peninsula Mining District, Territory of Alaska, the nO- tices of location whereof are recorded in the office of the Recorder of the Unga Peninsula Mining District at Unga, Alaska, in Book l, at Page 264, of Locations for the Bonanza Claim, in Book 2, Page 90, for the Eureka Claim, and Book No. 8, Page 39, for the Phoenix Claim, of the records of said District for the years ending De- Cember 31st, 1913, and December 3l, 1914, and December 31, 1915, and De- cember 31, 1916, and unless within ninety days after this notice by pub ication you fail or refuse to contrib ute your portion of such expenditure, viz: Six Hundred Dollars, (S6O00U), being One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, ($15O00), for each of said years, your interest in said Bonanza, Eureka and Phoenix mining claims will be for feited to and become the property of the subscriber under Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
 LOUIS HERMAN.
 First Pub. Aug. S1.
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Work of Relief

Since then, however" Dr. Riggs continued, arrangements have been made to continue the relief work thru neutral agents who are disbursing the funds and supplies gathered through the American Committee for Arme- nian and Syrian Relief in New York City. The question of saving the rem nant of the Armenian race, he said, can be solved only by American gen. erosity.
 "The Armenian men are dead" he said, "and the women have been crushed and cannot long survive the terrible experiences through which they have passed. But there are 4OO,- 900 orphan children, most of whom are begging their bread today. The hope of the future is in gathering to-
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Air Foul From Dead

"The people who passed thru Har- put from the north usually spent two or three days in camp within sight of my home. The sights we saw there can never be forgotten. They were absolutely without shelter, day or night. from heat or cold. The air was unspeakably foul from dead bodies ly- ing near. As we approached, the women and children came around Us like hungry wolves, all restraint los- in the one desire for a piece of bread.
 "The sick and dying lay around m- der the blazing sun with no one to care for them, waiting for the end. One place l saw a row of twelve dead women and children who had been ly- ing in the shade of trees. With them was one little baby still alive. The shade had shifted and the burning August sun had fallen on them and killed them. A long trench was dug beside the field where these peop;e were encamped. The people them selves were obliged to dig and fill it.. As soon as one died she was dragged to the trench"
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-Burial alive of babies in trenches with the bodies of their mothers who had been slaugh- tered OF allowed to perish from expos we. was practiced by the Turks in their work of exterminating the Ar menians, it was declared here today by the Rev. Henry H. Riggs, mission ary of the American Board of Com missiouers for Foreign Missions to Harput. Turkey, who recently came back to this country. A trench was dug beside a camp of Armenian wom- en. he said, and as they met death the survivors were forced to drag their bodies to it and bury them.
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gether these remnants and saving them for the seed of the future Ar menian race. These children look to us today. If they can be fed and housed and educated for the next ten years they can constitute the leading
 progressive element in the life of a new Turkey as their fathers did in the old."
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10000 Human Bodies

About fifteen miles from Harput is lake hidden from sight with many ravines about it. We were told that the Armenian exiles were being killed and left in these ravnes. Two Amer jeans investigated and brought back photographs and actual facts. They saw in a twenty-mGe ride 10000 hu- man bodies, most of them killed by the bayonet. With a few exceptions they were women and children and the mangled condition of their bodies showed the horrible fate that has been theirs"
 The story of the deportation of the Amenians of Harput is one of per idy, violence and murder" Dr. Riggs went on, adding, "It is nearer to the truth to say the Turkish government undertook the extinction of the Ar mcnian population" After the issue of an edict for all Armenians to go to Mesopatamia, he said, there came the arrest of all the men of standing.
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Beaten to Death

"They were sent out on the road tied together in groups of two to fve," he said, driven and beaten by the gendarmes. Of the first party of 500, one young man survived to tell the story of what happened. The party
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APPLICATION re PURCHASE Land Under Act Relating to Trade and Manufacturing Sites.
 Serial 0ljSJ

Department of the Interior, United
 States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
 August lG, 1917.
 Notice Is hereby given that the ka- diak Fisheries Company, by it's agent Jacob Krciisheimer, whose pOslOtllue address Is 4l2-lG bowman Building, Seattle, Washington, has filed in this office it's application under the proyi- sions of the Act of May 4th, 1895, and Section 10 thereof, to make Trade and Manufacturing Site Entry, No. Ol5s5 of the following described tract, to- wit, U. $. Survey l086, situate at St. Paul Harbor near Kodiak in Lat 57 deg 47 min. N., Long. lJz deg. 20 min. 45 sec. w., more particularly described tO-wit:
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1, N. C., on line of ordinary high tide, St. Paul HarbOr, and whence astronomical sta- tion bears N. 66 deg I3 min. 47 see. F.. 554O chains, and Cor No. 4, Sur 559, bears x. 74 deg. ID min see. F., 47S2 chains, and W. C. bears N p deg. 29 min. w. 2.37 chains; thence meaudering CD s. 6l deg A min. W 3.GO chains (2) $. 70 deg. D min ". 4.5O chains (3) s. 7o deg. l4 min. W. 2.57 chains to Cor No. 2, M. C., whence w. c. bears N 25 deg. 2g min W. so links, thence on said course 2.OG chains to Cor. Mo- g, thence N 64 deg. 3l min. k. lO5T chains to Cor No. 4, thence $. 20 deg. 29 min. E. J.J5 chains to Cor Mo- ], the place Ot beginning, containing am area of 3.Gl acres, Mag. Var 24 deg. 45 min. j.. Said tract is situate on tue north side of St. Paul HarbOr about 40 chains Northwest of the village of kadiak."
 Upon said property the kadiak Fisheries Company now has and for some time since has maintained it's canneries, say mill, cook house, bunk houses, wharf and other buildings, ap- purtenant thereto.
 NOTICE is hereby further given that any and all persons, corporations or associations having or asserting an adverse interest in or claim tO the tract of land so applied for or any part thereof, may and they are hereby re- quired to file their protest Co said ap- plication in the Land Office at Juneau, Alaska, that being the office where such application is pending, setting forth under oath: The nature and ex- tent of their said claim within the period of publication, which period has been set by the Register and Receiver of said Land Office for 50 days, or within thirty (30) days after the eX- piration of said time as by law pro- vided.
 KADIAK FISHERIES COMPANY,
 By Chas. z. Frey,
 Its Vice. Pres. Address:-
 Kodiak, Alaska.
 Notice of the above application will be published in the Seward Gate way printed at Seward, Alaska, which hereby designate as the news paper published nearest the land ap- piled for in said application.
 C. B. WALKER, Register, United States Land Office,
 A1grlr1
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FOR RENT

FOR SALE-5-roOm furnished house and bath; cheap; terms. See Dough
 erty O2O
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WEPAY

-" SI-2c pound for lead. S2.75 a hundred for rags. S53 ton for east iron. 21l-2c pound for copper. 5c pound for rope. lSc pound for brass. 71-2c pound for rubber. 2-c dog. for beer bottles.
 ATLAS JUNK co.
 1913 R. R. Ave. So., Seattle.
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FOR SALE

7=7|7e"e.'r.rr.
 FOR SALE-One S2-yoIt, direct cur rent R-hOrsepower motor; never used. Built especially for DeIco system. Price, SsO. c. F. Peterson, Anchorage, Alaska OlS Proof of labor blanks for sale at Gateway.
 9 c. Kodak, Jr., Kodak S12aO- Seward Drug Go.
 Long distance telepnone booth at The Branch.
 NEW shipment of gasoline and kero- sene. Kerosene at $l75 can. Just received at Brown & Hawkins.
 l., City Express. Phone Main 122.
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JUST received, a shipment of Perfec-
 tion Oil, Heaters and Cook Stoves, Rayo Lamps and Flashlights, Brown & Hawkins. h.
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MEN-Read COtter's Ad Today.
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Rayo Table Lamps with shades at Graef's. Ol5tf'
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bodies to it and bury them.
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A. McIver, licensed undertaken.
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City Express. Phone Main l22.
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Published Sept PC; Oct. 4, II, Is, 25.
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1lP1F ElIEHElIElIEllE1I5uEIuEu5lu 0l-7IlGIl1I97lInl9rl9
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01

order that the members may enjoy
the privilege of attending the c. E.
convention which Is to be held in
this city on Thursday and Friday.
August 2 and 8. The c. w. B. M.
will hold its meeting on August at
the home of Mrs. Hannah Thompson.
Mrs. Alme dia Kimbrough is seri-
ously Ill at her home in the southeast
country, having suffered second
paralytic stroke about a week ago.
Judge c. J. Scofeld. Philip Dallarn
and DR.. s. NJ. Parr. comprising Han
cock county's exemption board hav-
ing received the master lists of con-
scrtption drawings in the mali Satur-
day, were in session in the circuit
judges room In the court house for
further business. The number quoted
for Hancock county is 227, and the
board is mailing notices to twice that
number of registrants, who will ap-
pear before the board on Monday for
physical examination. If this number
Is not sufficient to I'LL the entire
quota for this county, more will be
called, until the quota is filled. The
lists published in the newspaper here
tofore were unofficial, but the lists
are now received from Provost Mar
shall Crowder. The exemption board
is to investigate each Individual case
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
NEW PLAN TO GET
TO FRANCE QUICK
Men Desiring Immediate Service May
Enlist in American Field Ser
vice, But Must Pay
Fare to Paris.

Men who want to get to the Tight
ing line in France in a hurry, have
a way opened by plan announced
in a government bulletin. They may
enlist in the American field service,
but must pay the $210 necessary to
get to France 1t will be possible to
reach the firing line in two or three
weeks.
The service Is maintained under
the advice of the French military
authorities and the American mill
tary commission in France. It has
received the sanction of the Ameri-
can war department, which has been
permitting men registered for the
draft to enter the service.
Men disqualified to become soldiers
because of the age limits in the draft,
or because they are physically dis
qualified, but are able to comply with
the physical requirements of the
American field service, are eligible to
enter at once.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01

woman at the time she was shot, IL
held In the county Jail under bonds
or $1,000. He pleaded not guilty to a
charge of assault with intent to kill,
when arraigned before Judge Reardon,
tuesday morning. The preliminary
hearing was set for Monday morning
at 8 o'clock.
Pflug still preserves the same stole
attitude he has maintained since ar
rested. He adheres to the statements
he has made to the police, when ques-
toned, that she fred the shot The
powder burns on his hand, he does not
explain.
'Pflug caused it ALL" said John Hoy.
husband Of the wounded woman, Tues
day evening. He declared his inten-
ton to see the case through, and be-
lieves that a good case can be built
up against the man who took his wife
to the park.
Under orders from the attending
physician, Mrs. Hoy is not allowed to
discuss the shooting. The husband
believes that when his wounded wife
has recovered slightly from the eff
fects of the wound, she will cease to
take the part of Pf1ug, and accuse
him.
Hoy's confidence In his wife is I'M
shaken. Pflug's statement that he had
gone with Mrs. Hoy many times, he
answers with strong denials, and de-
clares that the arrested man makes
such statements merely to strengthen
his position by casting reflection on
the character of the wounded woman.
If Mrs. Hoy does recover. Pflug will
still be liable to the court even If she
still shields him. The charge of as
sault with intent to kill then will be
changed to one of carrying concealed
weapons, as he admits taking the re
volver that fired the shot, to the park.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01

Mrs. Elizabeth Akers died at ST.
Joseph hospital in Keokuk. Saturday
evening at nine o'clock. the body
being brought to this city on Sun
day. Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at the home on Prairie
avenue at 3 o'clock, Rev. E. M. Smith
of the ChrjStian church officiating.
Burial at Moss Ridge. Mrs. Akers
had been In the hospital fer the past
two weeks, suffering greatly during
that time. She was born in Column
bus township, Adams county. Illinois.
Dec. 10, 1875, being the daughter OF
Douglas and M1rtha Lake. On No
vember %, 1889. she was married to
Wesley Akers. To this union there
were born nine children. eight Of
whom survive. Alva, Stephen, Ellen,
Marion, Willis. Pauline, Ora May.
Ralph. She leave, surviving also her
husband and three sisters and one
brother: Mrs. H. C. Lee Of Rock
island. Mrs. Jerome Smith Of Avon.
Mrs. Charles Clothier Of LaSalle, ILL.,.
stephen Lake of Avon. Mrs. Lee.
Mrs Smith and Mr.. and Mrs. Lake
attended the funeral ...
A special meeting Of the city coun-
Gil was held Thursday evening LOT
the purpose Of appointing board Of
health, receiving the resignation from
present appointee members. and for
appointing 81 health officer, and for
making preparations to defray OK
penses in regard to quarantine.
Roll call showed all members
present; the minutes Of the previous
meeting were read and approved.
The resignation of DR.. c.. l.. Ferris
anu DR.. G. E. Humphrey as members
of the board Of health. were read, and
upon motion, accepted by the board.
Mayor Hartzell appointed Henry
Sickle and James McCarty as mem
bers Of the board of health to fill
vacancies made by the resignation of
the above members, which appoint
ments were confirmed by the council,
the members of the board Of health
to be allowed $500 for each meeting.
The clerk was authorized to issue
voucher for 500 payable to the pres
ident of the board of health, to meet
expenses.
DR.. and Mrs. Fred Johansen and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-01
PLUG UNDER
$1,000 BOND
keokuk Man Being Held In Quincy
JaiI-Plsads Not Guilty to Charge
Of Assault With Intent
to KIN.

The following additional facts con.
corning the Monday shooting scrape
at Quincy of which William Pflux OF
keokuk was principal. are printed
In this mornings Quincy Wing:
Mrs. May Hoy. shot in a mysterious
manner in Indian Mound park. Mon.
DAY afternoon, may die as the result
OF the wound. states DR.. w. A. Millen
The attending physician. Septic pneu,
mon1a Is feared, and If this corlpIica.
, u results. death is very probable
II VIII be thirty-six hours before the
crisis Is passed. She has been taken
rom st. Mary's hospital, 20 her home,
6l5 Jersey street.
Her pulse is 100, and her respira-
uon 80, both far above normal. all.
lnough her temperature is only
signify high. The bullet is embedded
N her left lung, and the inflammation
10 the lungs from its presence, is
reared, will lead to septic pneumonia,
COMPLICATION nearly always fatal.
william Plug, who was with the