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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
Seven People Killed in Wreck
and Engineer is Charged
With Manslaughter.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
AURORA, H., Sept 18-"Cough
medicine" which an engineer had
peen taking for heavy cold was
believed today to have been respon-
slole for the wreck of two stock
trains on the Chicago. Burlington
ana Quincy railroad near Earville,
H., early yesterday, resulting In the
ueath of seven persons and injury of
half dozen others.
a. c. Carlson, engineer of the train
which crashed into the rear of an
other, told the coroner last night that
n, ne was asleep when he ran past a
Diock signal and blamed the cough
medicine" for his condition.
Inc last signal he. rem embered
seeing was at Meridian. ten miles
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
All Saloons Within Half Mile
of Iron Works Are Closed
to Prevent Expected
Trouble.
STRIKE IS LARGE ONE
All Ship Building on Pacific Coast 10
Tied up In Spite of Urgent
Need for
Speed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1S.-Unit-
ed States marines stood guard today
in the Union Iron works plant, where
construction Of government ships
valued at millions of dollars had
been completely stopped by the
strike Of ship builders in the San
Francisco bay cities.
Two companies of marines were
hurried to this city from Mare Island
during the night at the request Of
Captain Harry g. Leopold, U. S. N,
in charge OF naval construction at
the plant.
Early today Captain Leopold or
dered the closing Of all saloons with
in half mile of the big San Fran
cisco plant, fearing the lettering
men, inflamed by liquor, might
create trouble there.
It was reported that additional
companies Of marines might be sta
toned at the Oakland and Alameda
yards of the big ship building COM
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
Spy System Has Been Given
Several Bumps in Various
Sections During Past
Few Days.
PLOTTERS BOUNDED UP
Exposures in Argentine, Mexico and
Philippines Have Made Teuton
Works More Cautious
Than Ever.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
WASHINGTON, Sept 1s.-Ger-
many's spy system and her interna-
tional intrigues are being rapidly up
rooted by governmental disclosures.
While a spy system still flourishes in
this country, officials declared today
that the exposures of the Argentine,
Mexico and Philippine plots have
made Germany's workers more eau
tious than ever before.
AS for the Philippines, authorities
said that the detention of German
Vice Consul Conrad Andre, Of Cebu,
on charge Of trying to incite an in
surrection, had proven quite effective.
Since that time there have been no
evidences of any German attempt to
stir up the natives and to cause trou-
BILE for the United States.
In addition to the Andre revelation
1t is known that the Germans have
pursued their intriguing methods in
the far east extensively. China was a
hot bed Of activity. but this has been
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
Three Day Conference on High
Cost Of Living Brings
Many Farmers to
st. Paul.
LA TOILETTE, SPEAKER
No Disioyal Utteranoes to be Al
lowed and Meetings Are Do
oiared to be Patriotic
Affairs.

EUn1ted Press Leased Wire Service.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 1S.-With
the opening Of a three day conference
on the high cost of living, the Farmers
National Non-partisan league today
began it's big fight to wipe out war
profits and distribute the burden OF
the war equally on all economic
classes
Every train brought hundreds OF
farmers to attend the session.
Senators LaFollette and Gronna
headed, the list of speakers.
President Townley answered critics
when he announced that seditious or
disloyal utterances would cause eJec-
ton of the speakers.
The meetings are to be patriotic, he
and other league officials declare.
Early arriving delegates, however, ex.
pressed frank dissatisfaction at the
food administrations price fixing
Farmers had expected SO wheat. They
are prepared to cite figures that the
low the cost Of production.
I'VE are willing to carry our share
of the war and are willing to accept
S2.20 for our wheat, only provided the
government fixes the price Of flour
modities," one delegate said
Officials expect six thousand dele
gates. These will represent three
million producers, making it, President
Townley claims, the largest consum-
ers meeting ever held in the United
States.
Among organizations sending dele
gates are the American Society of
Equity, National grange, American
Federation of Labor, National Market
ing association and the Nonpartisan
league.
Farmers are Patriotic.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 1S.-"Farm-
ers and wage earners are willing and
ready to support any law that makes
for the success Of this war for liberty
and democracy"
THAT is the answer Of President A.
G. Townley, of the National Nonparti-
san league to the charges that the
farmers are holding wheat and resist
ing the food administration because
the price fixed by the government was
less than expected 1t was also his
answer to charges that farmers Of the
northwest are not wholeheartedly be-
hind the war He sounded the key
note at the producers and consumers
conference on the high cost Of living
here today. Governor Lynn Frazier, of
North Dakota, presided. Senator
Gronna, one of the "wilful twelve" >is
the leading speaker on tonight's pro-
gram.
"The farmers patriotism is big
enough and broad enough to make up
for the war profiteers' lack Of patriot
ism and manhood; and, If necessary,
the farmer will go on producing food
for less than cost, even with profit vul-
lures clutching at his throat, he win
feed the world and its armies of free
dom to make the whole world safe
for liberty and democracy" Townley
declared.
''The purpose Of this convention is
to aid, strengthen and support the gov
ernment and expedite its efforts to
finish its program to reduce PRICES.
The biggest thing that you can do
and the thing you must do If autoc-
racy is to be beaten and liberty and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
Nearing to Take Charge.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-Scott Near
ing, educator, whose Toledo home was
recently raided by federal detectives,
will take charge of the Peoples Coun-
ell work in New York. 1t was an
nounced today. Nearing will transfer
his residence here.
The council, which Is under an Off
cial ban, has succeeded in holding
three quiet meetings here since Satur.
day. its members disclosed today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
French Citizens Given Medals
for Bravery While Serving
on Field of Battle.
[By Henry Wood. United Press Staff

[By Henry Wood United Press Staff
Correspondent
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Sept. 1S.-Seventy
thousand French women are now
serving in Red Cross ambulances
and hospitals with French armies in
France, Algeria, Morocco and the
orient. Ten thousand additional
women. of various foreign national
tiles are aiding them.
The eighty thousand are beyond
all dreams of woman's part in the
Wsr which any army chief or fem
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
kerenskY Goes to front.
vnch Iaw conoemned.

LONDON, Sept. 1S.-The Petrograd
council of workmen and soldiers has
issued formal appeal to soldiers and
civilians to refrain from institution
of lynch law, according to dispatches
today to the Evening News.
The Kronstad council of the same
organization, it was reported, had de-
manded liberation without trial Of
sailors arrested at that fortress fol-
lowing the unsuccessful revolt there
in July.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
TREASON CHARGES
AGAINST GENERAL
Korniloff and Officers Con-
fined in Hotel, Carefully
Guarded by Govern
mont Troops.
THEIR FATE
All Russia Anxious to Know What
Will be Done With Man
Who Lead the
Revolt.
AWAITING THEIR FATE

[United Press Leased Wire Service.1
PETROGRAD, Sept. lS.-General
Korniloff's fate was in the hands Of
the provisional government today.
He completed his defense last
night before the special govern
mental comm ission appointed to in
yestigate the causes of the generals
revolt, submitting a full statement in
writing. Examination Of other off,
GERS involved with the former COM
mander-in-chief in the rebellion was
continuing today, but full report
from the commission, making recon-
mendation as to future action, is ex'
pected shortly.
Meanwhile Korniloff continues In
strictest custody of the provisional
government. He and twenty-three OF
his officers are confined in a hotel
at Mohilev, guarded carefully.
All Russia is anxious to learn what
defense the former generalissimo has
made to the treason charges against
him. The demand on the part OF
the public that he be executed as
the best possible example to all Rus
sia's troops that discipline is to be
enforced without fear or favor, show
ed little abatement today. In the
streets the greatest interest was
manifest in whether the investigating
commission would recommend civil
trial or military courtmartial for
Korniloff.
Premier Kerensky's proclamation
specifically branding Korniloff as a
traitor, it was recalled. ordered that
he and his accomplices be delivered
to "civil tribunals Of Justice"
kerensky Goes to Front.
PETROGRAD. Sept. 1s.-Premier
Kerensky, accompanied by General
verkhovsky, assistant to Chief of
Staff Alexieff, and Admiral Verderev-
sky, minister of marine, have left for
main army headquarters. it was an
nounced today.
The premier desires personally to
see the loyal troops and ascertain at
first hand some of the causes of the
Korniloff rebellion.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
Lmerica Will Not Allow Him
to Beg Off Simply by
Returning Stolen
Goods.
,EsToR1NG BELGIU M
|ope viii Not Make German Peace
Reply Public Until After
tho Week Of
Prayer.

by j. W. T. Mason. Written for the
United Press.l
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-Early res
pration OF civil authority in Belgium
B the Belgian people is foreshadow-
d by the German governments fail
re to fill the vacant posts Of civil
Overnor and assistant civil governor
Belgium, previously held by Ger
han officials.
German newspapers have been
uick to find significance in the fact
hat these two important Offices are
ow without incumbents; and 1t Is
robable the kaiser's cabinet is now
bunding public opinion at home.
bncerning the abandonment OF Ger
han civil control OF Belgium. "A
hove OF this character would be a
Natural preliminary step by the kais-
r to an eventually complete restor-
&tion OF Belgium. It would prepare
, he pan-Germans for the failure of
their imperialistic ambitions and
would be plea for peace.
Belgium would still be subservient
to the military flats Of the German
army chiefs, and no harm would be
worked to German tactics and STRAIT
|egy If in purely local affairs the
Belgiaps were allowed to exercise
the powers Of the civil governor and
his assistant. The Belgian govern
ment, itself, could of course, accept
no such compromise with Germany,
but the Belgians at home might find
1t possible to do so.
The kaiser's principal purpose in
granting concession Of this nature
would be to save his own skin. If
the allies were to accept the restor-
alton of Belgium as a sufficient peace
offering, and were to permit the
Kaiser to retain his irresponsible,
autocratic powers, all the advantage
of the exchange would rest with tho
Hohenzollerns. This is the stake for
which the kaiser is now playing. But
the plan is unavoidable. With Amer
lea in the war, the Hohenzollerns
won't be allowed to beg off simply
by returning the loot.
Delay in Appointments.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1S.-German
newspapers received here today at
tach significance to the German gov
ernment's failure so far to appoint
successors to Civil Governor Won
Sandt, and the assistant civil governor,
Baron Won Lutz, of Belgium. None Of
the newspapers here attempt to specu
late on what the delay signifies, how
ever.
After Week Of Prayer.
by John H. Hearley, United Press
Staff Correspondent
ROME, Sept. 18.-The vatican, will
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THE WEATHER
Generally fair and warmer.
Local temp p. m. II; Z a. m.
81.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18

The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
tion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-18
Delay in Appointments.

After Week Of Prayer.
lBy John H. Hearley, United Press
Staff Correspondent
ROME, Sept. 18.-The vatican will
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove Il

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the substi'
tute for calomel, act gently on the bowels
and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath find
Quick relief through DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. - The pleasant. sugar
coated tablets are taken for bad breath
by all who know them,
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act gently
but firmly on the bowels and liver,
stimulating them to natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purifying
the entire system. They do that which
dangerous caiomcl docs without any
of the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty. sickcning,
gripping cathartiCS are derived from DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets without gripping,
pain or any disagrecable effects.
DIR. F. NJ. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years of prac'
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with the
attendant bad breath.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arc purely
a vegetable compound mixed with olive
oil. YOU will know them by their olive
color Take one or two every night for
a week and note the effect. lOc and 20c
per box. All druggists.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Exnms for .Nrmx Medicos.

Dr. r. NJ. Henderson this morning
received a letter from CAPTAIN Ralph
Feutou, NJ. X. g., stating that OK
amiuatiOus viii he held i'm PcndIc.
ton in the near future for Candi-
dates for commissions in the medical
reserve corps, the exact date to be
announced later. All medical men
of this vicinity are asked to take no
ticC. All physicians. homeopathic
regular and electric, under 80 are
eligible. Physicians needed at hos
pitfalls or in remote districts should
he discouraged. the surgeon general
declares.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Charge Dismissed; Another rfIcd.

Evidence at the hearing of Guy
Mccoy of Helix saturday afternoon
falling to he strong enough TO cstab-
lish the crime of attempted rape
Justice Of the Peace Parkcs dismiss
ed The complaint. However, District
Attorney Kcator at once filed anoth-
er charge of contributing to the dc,
linquenCy OF a minor. The complain
ing witness is J. II. SihlcN, step
father of the nine year old girl in
volvcd in the case.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

The % boys who represented Una
tilla county at the Older Boys Con-
ference in La Grande last week ar
rived home on delayed trains this
morning. They report an excellent
convention. Wallowa county had the
banner delegation of f6 at the con
yontion. In all there We're l90 at
the conference. Enterprise landed
the 1918 convention.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Indians Attack JRps.

An iutcr-racial war was wagcd fu-
riously for a few minutes last evening
i'm the Japanese pool hall ON Main
street when J. y. Bushman and
Charley Bennett Jr.. Indians from
the reservation attacked the two Japs
there. The red men were the aEErCs-
sors, and had the best of the arEu-
mcnt. as proven by marks on the
faces of the brown men, but after all
Is said and done they may get the
worst Of II as the peace officers have
taken hand in the matter. II is
charged that Rushman, after attack
ing the Jap called Smokey, drew "a
razor and was about tn do some cary
ing when the other Jap seized his
arm. This led to the police turuinE
him over to the sheriff and district
attorney for action ina the state
courts Bennett disappeared and has
not yet been located.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Abraham Cohen, the man detect
ed trying to enter store at Rieth
recently, and who was later stunned
by fall while trying to escape, viii
he given "A hearing this afternoon be-
fore Judge Parkes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Judge Fitz Gerald dismissed The
complaint against Ernest Bronson
taxi-drlver charged by Ray McCarroll
with speeding. upon hearing the ovi-
dence saturday afternoon. The tes-
tmony showed that Benson had the
right Of way and was forced into the
sidewalk by McCarrolls car.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Rcturn TO mcIIX.

Mr., and Mrs. j. E. Lewis, who have
been farming near St Anthony's
Idaho, for some time past. have re-
turned to Helix in which vicinity
they formerly farmed. They expect
to resume their residence there. Mr..
and Mrs. Lwis returned by train and
the children are following by auto.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Charged With speeding.

Among the SO persons arrested ir
Portland for speeding during the
weekend. appears the name of E. j.
Burke of this city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Leaves 10 Enlist.

Byron Gumm, who has been in the
sales department of tlJc Pcndleton
Wooden Mills for several years, re-
signed his position Saturday prepar-
atory to enlisting in some branch of
the service.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Robert Ankeny Xisits.

Robert Ankeny, formerly Of Salem
ana now in the United States navy, Is
here today visiting his brother Ncs-
mith Ankeny.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

The reading room Of the Pendlcton
public library will open this evening
at the city hall at o'clock. Al of
the magazines have not arrived but
there are quite number there and
others are arriving daily.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Ralph Rhodes of this city under
went an operation at the hospital this
morning. The little daughter Of
Rudolph Scheckelmcycr of Umatilla
underwent an operation for appen-
dicitis Willard Elder of Echo un-
derwent an operation this afternoon
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

No II from the east was annulled
today owing to the delay to traffic
caused By storms in the cast. No. 10,
due al midnight did not arrive here
Until 1870 today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Pendlcton's Quota Is $3.50.
According to word received from
the headquarters of the Armenian re-
lief fund the Pendleton quota for the
fund being raised for such relief is
$13bO.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Mr. and Mrs. Claude CROW and
daughter left this afternoon over tho
Northern Pacific for Rochester
Mimi, where the daughter is to take
treatment from Mayo brothers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
Another Il. O. Man Goes.

Milton Lander, employed in the
press room of the East Oregonian, e%-
poets to leave Thursday for Portland
to enlist in the coast artillery. This
is the third East Oregonian employe
to answer the call.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10
NEWS NOTES OF PENDLETON
II. s. Tomorrow.

, Evangelist at II. s. Tomorrow.
Rev. Marshall the evangelist at
the Baptisct church, Will speak to tho
students of the high school tomor-
row morning.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Announcement is made that there
are now approximately 100000 men
In the American military service. Ne
wonder Germany is in hurry to
finish the argument
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

\ marriage license was issued Sat
urday to Walter Caldwell. q, and
Ella Dawson. IS, both of HCrmIston.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Hurst are re.
ceiving congratulations upon the
birth Of . daughter at noon today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-27
EATING FOR EEFICIENCN.

Eating FOR efficiency j. tie Geliultlo.
given 10 food conservation by food
expert Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,.
the head Of the Cornell home economics
department There viii be little put
upon the table" SAYS Miss Van ReEs-
selaer and il j. up 20 the American
woman 10 make that little palatab'e
We have become acquainted with scieu-
tiGc management NJw those powers
can be called ilto play with reiation 70
the most commonplace thing Of oUr
daily lives eating. We VIII 20 back %
simple living To the ways Of the pio-
neers- We mast give up personal graft
ficauon.
The most serious question in food
supply Miss Van Rensselaer, told the
women was the shortage oi labor. The
Increased production uf last spring in
potatoes and other c-ops. had made
evident the need of farm wo kers.
pon't go on the farm unless you know
something about farming. she advises
women. Take place> in the factories.
and release the meH who nave come
from the farm and know how 90 farm
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-27
SOLDIERS WANT MORE CHEWING GUN

So much has been heard and rea
about the part smokes" have playe
in the trenches that full credit has no
\ always been given To the smoke
onpanion-American chewing gum.
such is the opinion Of 4 large number
OF returned Canadian soldiers who pro
test vigorously against what they con
slider undue discrimination.
"Why don't you folks back home send
out more chewing gum" asked one in
iisnant hero from the Land of the
Maple Leaf why" he continued. II
could tell you stories that would make
your hair curl. when good Old chewing
gum was mans best pal-next to
Tags"
There can be- no doubt. after a careful
investigation Of the consensus Of opin-
ion among the men who have actually
been 70 the front as well as those there
or preparing to 90. American chewing
gum i a big favorite with the soldier
boys. Only one thing can account for
this great popularity. ana that is the
benefits derived from chewing gum.
For instance. one of the most amazing
and often amusing spectacles of the
war Is 10 :ind man from one Of the
great universities insisting upon getting
his share Of chewing gun-a com
modify. let il be whispered. that the
same gentleman considered plebeian be-
fore the war But. different times. diff
ferent customs, Ard the war has Ger.
tainiy proven a great factor Tor denlOc-
racy.
There would be no need to tell in
detail the benefits of chewing gum to
our gallant boys in the army and navy.
The one big outstanding fact Is that
they positively crave Il and they can't |
get enough OF il II stimulates the |
brain, quickens the digestion. and calms /
the nerves. a very famous English |
general has chewing gum served every |
night at mess Where men must be
alert YOU win find chewing gum. has
become 4 proverb.
And OF course, our boys depend for /
their chewing gum upon their friends.
whose battles they are fighting That's
why a numbe. of public spirited people
in the Navy League have periodically
the arduous task Of super
visiug the distribution OF pIbl.c gifts
10 our fightins forces.