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Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
WASHINGTON.

The annual rivers and harbors ap-
Dropriation bill carrying $3S,000.00
including moro than $10.0O0.oOo for
new projects. was passed by the
house by q vote Of 221 to 131. II
now goes to the Senate.
Reports reaching the Treasury De
partment from numerous sources were
that sharpers have been selling at q
premium the new designed quarters
senting that the new coins are rare.
Food exports from the United
States fell off $43.000.000 last year.
Thetr value is shown to have been
S74S, 900. 900 as compared with $778.-
100000 for the previous year, accord
ing to statistics made public by the
Department Of Commerce at Washing
teA.
The railway brotherhood leaders al
Washington have laid before Presi.
dent Wilson in writing their proposals
for q compromise on his railway leg.
islation program and he is consider
ing them. The labor leaders propose,
instead Of law to prevent q strike
or lockout pending an, Investigation.
that provision be made for investiga
ton BY . mixed board Of employees
and employers.
The resignation Of Bernard Baker
Of Baltimore as Q member Of the fed
srpl shipping board was officially an
nounced at WashinGton.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
Rush for Land at pueblo Land office

Rush for Land at Pueblo Land office.
Pueblo.-The unprecedented rush for
government land located within the
zone covered by the Pueblo land Of
flee since Jan. 1, due to the 640-acrs
homestead act which became effective
on that date, had abated to some e1-
tent at the close Of the past weeks
business at the local land office, al
though there were lit filings for the
week on approximately 72,516 acres.
The total number OF filings for the
month SO. far is 1877, and it is esti-
mated that 740.s00 acres have been
filed upon, leaving an approximated
total Of 259,200 acres in the Pueblo
land district.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
Elk Band In Forest Growing.

Grand Junction.-Elk arc on the in
crease in Battlemeut National forest.
according to Forest Supervisor John
W. Lowell, who authorizes the state
ment that the elk in the forest now
number 649. compared to 400 in 1914.
The number Of deer is placed at 1000.
Forty-eight coyotes, eight Wildcats
and four bear were killed in the for.
est in 1916.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
Grand jury Returns Indictment.

Grand jury Returns Indictment.
Pueblo-The Pueblo county grand
Jury has returned indictments against
W. X. Green, ]. Q. Green and F. A.
Cracken, officers Of the defunct Inter
state Bank Of Commerce, charging
them with embezzlement, larceny, per
jury and conspiracy. The bank failed
more than a year ago and none Of the
depositors has been paid anything.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
Amiek Exonerated for killing.

Denver.-Frank s. Amiok. who shot
and killed Frank Coburn in his drug
store on South Broadway, Jan. IS,
when Coburn tried to hold him up, was
exonerated by q ooroner's jury. Amick
told his story to the coroner's jury.
which was substantiated by the testi-
mony of other witnesses, and the jury
returned a verdict that Amick shot
and killed Coburn in justifiable self
defense.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
For and Against Birth Control

Denver-A fight for and against q
law prohibiting the holding Of meet
ings or the publishing Of matter relat-
ing to birth control in Colorado prom
ises to furnish one of the high lights
Of the present legislative session II q
bill on the subject introduced in the
House is passed.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
To Test Loan Act,

Denver.-A definite test Of the far
mers' loan act passed by the people at
the last election will be made when
members Of the State Land board will
make formal demand on Robert H.
Higgins. state treasurer. for money
from the state school fund to be
loaned on improved farm land.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
MOTHERHOOD
WOMAN'S JOY
Suggestion. to Chldless
Women.

Among thu virtues Of Lydia e
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound il the
ability to correct sterility In tho
cases Of many women. This fact iS
we'll established ~ evidenced by the
we have 1pubiished IL these coiums. M
Poplar Bluff, Mo.-"I want other
women to know what blessing Lydia
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01

". H1nkn1m' Q veR0.
table Compound d has
been to me. We
had always wanted
. baby In our home
but ] was In poor
health and not able
to do my work. Ny
mbther and hus-
band both urged me
totryL Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound. I did
m INV i'm.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01

wouldn't have the nerve r. face the
music.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
Cut From Menu,

what are you paying for egEsr'
Nothing. They're toe blamed
high"
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 1-l-Y. n C. A. Annual Conven-
,tion at Colorado Springs.
Fob. 28-March Carnival OF Mid-Win-
ter Sports at Steamboat Springs.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01


by producing high quality potatoes, a
product which will justify a distinc-
tive name.
J. R. Lowell Of Colorado Springs
was elected president of the Mountain
States Hardware and Implement As
sociation to succeed Adolph Unfug Of
Walsenburg at the annual election of
officers. The other officers chosen are
L. J. Pereau Of Sterling. vice presi-
dent; Charles H. Wohrer, Des Moines,
N M, vice president: ]. F. Jones, Dem
yer, director; ]. F. Schmidt. Grand
Junction. director: L. H. Bancroft,
Canon City. director; A. L Anderson.
Montrose. director, and W. n. Ender-
ly. Thermopolis. Wyo.
The Colorado State Board Of Immi-
grafton has issued q series Of seven
illustrated booklets. q total of 1853
pages. making up the most complete
review Of agricultural and industrial
conditions and opportunities In the
entire state that has yet been pub
lished.
Martin Walter. Jr., was elected
president Of the Colorado State Fair
Association At Pueblo and opened the
offices Of the association IN that city.
Ths offices viii be opsn every day
from now until the fAtr ID hsld next
9sptsmbsr.
Cheyenne record., 1917-02-01
BUFFALO BlH- TRAlLs''.

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Danger of Coal Famine
Passes With Cold Weather !;
City's First LightIess Night

Tonight will see all outside lights
in the city, except street lights. ex-
tinguished, and Harrisburg will ex-
perience it's first lightless night. The
fuel administrator this morning an
nounced that the order affecting the
lights, includes all lights in the city
except the street lights, window
lights, and lights within buildings.
All outside lights must be exiting
uished, and no light will be allowed
to burn in a place of business ac-
cept while business is actually being
conducted within the building.
Window lights must be turned off
at the same time as the rest of the
lights in a store when it is closed at
night. No lights placed outside Il
display window to show off the dis
play within, will be allowed TO
burn at all on the two designated
lightless nights, Thursday ana Sur
day. The order applies to porch
lights of private dwellings, and dts
play signs of theaters.
The fuel commission of Dauphin
county will meet this afternoon. An
effort will be made to fix the price
of coal in small quantities, for the
benefit of the small consumer who
cannot buy q quarter ton. Tho in
tention of the committee is to see
that the coal is ; sold by weight,
rather than by measure.
The advent of milder weather in
the city has eased up the coal situa-
tion somewhat. dealers say. This,
coupled with the fact that IS cars
of coal were shipped to the city this
week, relieves the city of the danger
of an immediate coal famine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
INQUIRY INTO
SUPPLY OF FOOD
TO COME NEXT
Investigation Into Delays of
Gun Supply Now Virtu-
ally Completed
PUBLIC WANTS FACTS
Relation of Garment Shortage
to Disease Prevalence Will
Receive Attention
PUBLIC WANTS FACTS
By .4sSccit TED Press

Washington, Dec. 20.-With its in
quiry into alleged delays in supplying
the war Army with guns and am
munition virtually concluded, the
Senate Military Committee to.day
prepared to investigate the shortage
and production delays in c1oshing
and food for soldiers.
Chairman Chamberlain promised
a thorough investigation of the work
of the Quartermaster's Department,
of which Major General Goethals,
recently recalled to active service,
soon will take charge. The relation
of the clothing shortage to preva-
lence of disease in various canton
ments also will be developed.
One private munitions maker re-
mained on the stand when the hear
ing was resumed to-day to supple
ment the testimony already given
by ether manufacturers as to delays
in supplying machine guns and rifles
during the early days of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20

At noon to-day somewhere in the
neighborhood of $4,000 Harrisburg
men, women and children had Joined
the local Red Cross chapter. That is
1000 less than the 10000 quota as
signed to Harrisburg; and the cam
paign has gone twenty four hours
past the time originally intended.
In the opinion of those in charge
OF the campaign there are several
reasons why Harrisburg seems to
have fallen down"
Either the people of Harrisburg
have no interest in the 1000 men
from Dauphin county in the United
States Army,
Or they are not interested in the
successful prosecution of the war;
Or they have just overlooked the
fact that the dollar they give the
Red Cross may mean the life of an
American,
Or 1t may be that they are German
ymphathizers-som of them.
Last evening Mrs. James Steiner
tContinued on Page 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Germany's Intensified Cam
paign Not a Success, Says
Lloyd-George
IMPORTS ALMOST NORMAL
More Submarines Are Being
Sunk, and U-Boats Are
Sinking Less Ships
BY associated Press

London, Dec. 20.-Speaking in the
House of Commons to-day, David
Lloyd George, British prime minis
ter, said that the margin of losses at
sea was narrowing. The sinking by
submarines, he declared, was decreas
ing while shipbuilding was increas-
ing.
The premier said the sinking of
submarines was increasing. Although
the merchant tonnage was down by
20 per cent, he added, the loss had
been only six per cent. of imports
over that of last year.
Regarding the military situation.
Mr.. Lloyd George said it was idle to
pretend that the hopes formed had
been realized. This disappointment
he attributed to the Russian collapse.
The Germans, the premier said, had
idu Ohly one SuCCGSS WnlCn was uut
to surprise, and this was now enGag-
ing inquiry. The Germans, he stat
ed, had lost 10000 prisoners, valua-
bic positions and hundreds of guns.
The premier said that If the Rus
sian army had fulfilled the eXpecta-
tions of its generals, by this time the
pride of the German military power
would have been completely humbled.
On the whole, Premier Lloyd
George said, the British campaign
had not achieved the expectations
formed but he declared there had
been military successes in Palestine
which would have a permanent effect
on the history of the world. Jerusa-
! lem, he stated, never would be re-
stored to the Turks.
The premier said the losses In ship
| ping had been lighter by 100, 900 tons
than had been anticipated in his An
| gust estimate.
Complete restoration of the terri
| tories taken by the enemy, together
, with compensation, was demanded by
Premier Lloyd George in explaining
the war aim of the Government.
After referring to the Italian re-
verses, the premier said 1t would be
necessary for Great Britain to make
greater sacrifice to- strengt hent its
armies in the coming year, The need
would arise to increase the nations
manpower by taking some men now
exempted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
MANY FOIBLES
TOGOFROM MY
LADY'S TABLE
Powder and Paint Not a War
Necessity, Stores
Rule
MAY TABOO HIGH SHOES
Christmas Shopping, Now On
in Full Force, Breaks
Records

Mercy me, this is going to be "a
terrible war for the fair sex. No
powder or rouge for the unfortunate
women who depend on that camou-
hage to balk Father Time; and shoe
tops cut down from eleven inches to
seven-and-one-half inches. Yes, and
a lot more luxuries will be eliminate
ed when the government sets going
its restriction ban on the supplies
sold by general stores.
All the big department stores in
Harrisburg got the word to-day con-
Yeyed through the National Dry
Goods Association that the Wash
ingtoE government suggests the ELI
mination of five hundred commodi-
ties during the extent of this war.
This list includes a wide selection
of things that many people will be-
lieve they cannot get along with
out, such as pleasure vehicles, brew
cry products, candy, toys, table glass
ware, pottery, jewelry, athletic goods
[Continued on Page 22.1 H
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
BOlsheviki ProcIaims
State of Siege in Petrograd;
Ukranians Given Ultimatum

London, Dec. 1S.-The BolshevilSi
government according to Petrograd
advices. has sent an ultima;um to
the Ukranian Rada. 1t demands
that within As hours a decision be
made whether the Ukraine will cease
to assist General Kaledines by send
ing him troops while forbidding
passage to Bolsheviki government
troops and also whether it will stop
disarming troops in the Ukraine. In
case of refusal the Rada will be con-
sideIed at war with the Congress OF
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates.
A state of siege has been pro-
claimed in Petrograd and the
Ukranian Rada has refused 70 obey
an ultimatum presented by The Boil
sheviki government. Disorders in
the capital, due, it is said, to the
looting of wine cellars and shops,
made necessary the proclamation of
Il state of siege.
Relations between the Ukraine
aud the Bolsheviki government have
not been cordial. The Ukraine has
refused to permit MaXimalist troops
to cross it's territory to attack Gen
eral Kaledines and several days ago
Bolsheviki troops attacked the Rada
as IL was SlltlnB III OueSSd -tnu we're
defeated by Ukranian troops. The
Bolsheviki government has accused
the Ukranian Rada of being friendly
TO the Constitutional Democrats and
the Cossacks, the main factors be-
hind the counter
Rostov- -on-the-Don recently re-
ported captured by the Bolsheviki is
now said to have been occupied
Monday by the Cossacks of General
Kaledines who, according to an
other recent rumor, had been ar
rested by his own officers. The Cos
[Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
600 Applications ON File
For Untitled Coal Orders

Mayor Keister announced 1o-day
that he has taken an accurate list
of the coal needed in the city in or
der to form an idea of the serious
ness of the coal situation here. Every
dealer has been asked to tabulate
his orders during the first days of
this week, and report has been sub
mitted to the Mayor showing that
Tuesday and "Wednesday of this
week, nine out of seventeen of the
dealers of the city had 500 appli-
cations for coal shipments which
they could not fill. Mayor Kelster
began the canvass of the coal situa-
tion last week when there was prac-
tically no coal in the city in order
that he could place before the state
administration the actual condition
of the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20

When the mother of Raymond
Gilbert Hangen, 425 Catherine street,
Steelton, went to call him for break
cold and dead, hanging by the neck
from a bedpost to which he had
hanged himself by a bed sheet used
as a rope.
Raymond was IA years old, a
member of the freshman class of the
Steelton High school, a boy scout, an
industrious boy and well-liked. He
was apparently happy, preparing for
Christmas, and his parents know alb
solutely no reason why he should
take his life. He had just secured
position in Harrisburg to work
on Saturdays to earn little pin
money.
The father, John f. Hangen, said
this morning that his son returned
home last evening about $50 o'clock
lie asked him where he had been
and he told him downtown. He said
lie had purchased Il turkey for the
CHRISTMAS dinner and had been in
Harrisburg and secured a position to
work on saturday.
Did Not Say Goodnight
Mr. Hangen said that on COM
menting on his new job he told his
son he did not care to have him work
for nothing as he had done in sew
eral cases. He left the room. not
bidding the family goodnight, as was
his usual custom, the father con-
tinued. He never before had gone
to bed at night without saying good
night to all.
When the mother called her son
this morning shortly after z o'colck
there was no reply. The mother be-
came frightened and went to his
room where she found his lifeless
body. On a table in his room she
found a note which caid, Good
by 20 all. Put my picture in the
paper" He requested that his par
ents give good-by to four girls
whom he mentioned in the note.
Raymond was born in Steelton
and was well known among the bows.
When in Central grammar school
last year he took an active part in
sports. The family has resided i'm
Steelton for almost thirty years. The
father has been employed at the steel
plant for twenty-seven years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20

The Evening Post says the Ger
mans have officially informed the
Bolsheviki headquarters that the
central powers are ready to consider
the arrangement of peace on the
basis of no annexations and no in
IDENTITIES but pointed out that self
definition of nations was imprac-
ticable.
The representatives of the central
powers informed the Russians they
were ready to discuss peace pre-
liminaries but desired to know the
result of Russia's efforts to induce
the allies to join in the negotiations
before proceeding with them. They
said this point of view might be
changed, however, and that they
might be willing to discuss pence
with Russia alone. The Germans
were of the opinion the Russian
armistice might influence the other
fronts.
The first conference was devoted
merely to a discussion of who would
participate in the negotiations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Expensive Proposition
to Love Kaiser Too Well

Mankato, Mimi. Dec. 20.-A state
ment that the United States might as
we'll be under the kalser's govern
ment as under its own was among
those charged to Frank j. Busch, a
wholesale grocer, arrested on COM
plants that he had made Seditlnus
remarks. He told Municipal vudgc
Ccmstock he was sorry and at the
judges suggestion, bought $1,000
worth of Liberty Bonds, subscribed
800 to the Red Cross and gave $50
each to the knights of Columbus and
the Y. M. c. A. Then. to-day, Judge
Comstock fined him $500.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
HEARS PARENTS
SAVED LIVES BY
1,OOO-MILE WALK
Harrisburger Gets First Let
ter From Home Since
June %, 1914

After giving up his parents and siX
brothers as being numbered among
the countless dead in the great Hun
drive into Poland Max Gordon, pro-
prietor of a shoe repair shop al
Verbeke and Penn streets, to-day
was electrified by receiving a letter
from his father and mother.
1t was the first word that he had
received from his home since June
2S, 1914. His parents are we'll and
fairly happy although driven back
into the country for more than a
thousand miles.
TWO brothers were drafted into
the Russian army, the letter said,
and word has come that one Is a
prisoner in Austria, having been
taken captive In one of the cam
paigns into his native country.
Gordon to-day said that he had
given UP hope of ever hearing from
his parents. He had read carefully
of the accounts of the terrible dis
tress, the murders, the looting, the
starving millions that had followed
i'll the wake of the barbarians entry
into Poland that he believed the
chances of his family's escaping
were extremely small.
The Gordon family, the letter tells,
had walked more than a thousand
miles into the interior with what
household effects they could save.
They are now living many miles back
of Petrograd. There is enough TODD
where the family is living, the let
ter states, but shoes are impossible
to buy.
Gordon to-day was planning to
send shoes to his home. 81 also have
good news for my parents" re-
marked Gordon to-day at his shop.
Since L heard from home l have
married and have q child.n
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Cardinal Approves
Work on Holy Days

Washington, Dec. 20. - Cardinal
Gibbons gave his sanction to-day to
Roman Catholic miners working on
the holy days falling within the
Christmas and New Years holiday
season.
In a letter to Fuel Administrator
Garfield he approved of a suggestion
that miners take only Christmas Day
and New Years Day off and further
proposed that saloons might co. op-
crate by closing from o'clock in the
evening until 8 o'clock the follow
ing morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
CONTINUED on Page 12.l
Former Presidents
Daughter to Wed

London, Dec. 2O.-The engagement
is announced of Esther, daughter Of
the late Grover Cleveland to Captain
l}osanquet, of the ColdStream
Guards Captain Bosanquet a son
Of Sir Albert Bosanquet. has been
decocated with the Distinguished
Service. Order.
Miss Cleveland came to London in
June of last year, after having quail
fled as a nurse and Instructor of the
blind, and took up work as a vol
unteer at st. Duns' Home for blind
soldiers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
RED CROSS TO LOOK AFTER
F FAMILY NEEDS OF HARRISBURG
MEN SERVING WITH COLORS

To see that no family suffers In
any way because any of its members
are serving the colors is the very
definite purpose of the Home Service
section of the Harrisburg chapter of
the Red Cross, recently organized,
and which has taken on increase
activity during the past two weeks.
The chairman of the committee is
Mrs. William l. Laubenstein, with
Mrs. William Jennings as vice. chair
man and John Fl. McCandless as Sec
retary. Among the specific things
which the committee Is doing is to
advise with the wives. mothers and
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SHIPPERS AND CARRIERS MEET


; Hausburg-S and railroad men met to-dayin
the offices Off K, Johnston superintendent the Pbla-
dePhia division the Pennsylvania in an effort to solve
congestion problems The idea to accelerate t2 load
ing and unloading of freight cars, Edward HiIIeary
: presided.
Harrisburg Garfield McAlster. sO4 North Sixteenth
street has gone Camp Gordon Atlanta Georgia where
> he will be assistant secretary of the Y. M. CA
PARIS REPORTS FRONT QUIET
Paris, Dec. 2oThs official statement issued to-day
by the French war office says: There was moderate
artillery activity along the front last night There were
: no infantry actions"
ITALIAN SHIPPING LOSSES SMALL
> Rome Wednesday, Dec. 19.-The weekly report Of
shipping losses shows that two sailing vessels Of more
than 100 and one of less than that size were sunk
One steamship was damaged by mine but reached port
RUSSIAN EMBASSY WITHOUT ADVICES
. Washington Dee. 2o.-Thc Russian embassy to-day
entirely without zdviccs on the progress Of peace
negotiations between the BoIshovild and tho central
powers and whatever adyices the government was re-
ccivng through American ambassador Francis or other
sources was not made public
NAVY INQUIRY MAY BE DEFERRED
Washington Dec. 2O.--The next step. Of the House
subcommittee investigating the war activities of the
Navy had been revealed to-day and appeared prob
able that further sessions would be deferred until after
the Christmas recess The committee adjourned last
night without fixing any time for resumng the hearing
II KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION
Knoxville Tenn Dec 2O.-Eleven miners were killed
in an explosion at mine No of the Oar Dour Coal and
Coke Company Catoosa Memo, Tenn, late Wednes-
day afternoon according work reaching here to-day
. Seventy-hve were in the mine at the time.