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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
RUSSIAN T!H7z lO|L
I OVER HG9*. RULE
Three Dtstri Iould Set Up
Little ants Of Their
Own, Causing
Split.
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
Cabinet Members Resign, Armed
Autos Dash Through Streets
and People Arc Greatly
Excited.

[Ey william G.. Shepherd. United
Press Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD, July 18.-Russia Is
in the throes Of a "home rule fight
which today has assumed Importance
second only to the war. 1t was the
direct cause of Russia's cabinet split.
Ukrania, Finland and Kronstadt are
all seeking home rule-not tndepen-
dence.
The cabinet designations Of cadet
members, followed revelations that
Foreign Minister Tereschenko and
Minister of Communications Tsere-
tell had gone to Ukrania and signed
an agreement that Ukranian officials
should be responsible only to the
Ukranian congress-.
This agreem ent was signed Satur-
day when Tereschenko and Tseret-
elli at Ken were in constant touch
by telegraph with the cabinet in Pet
rograd. The cabinet instructed them
to get Ukrania's Views. but not to
sign an agreement. On Sunday the
two ministers returned and the cabi-
net met for . long session at Prince
Lvofr's home. Early Monday morn
ing Tereschenke and Tseretelli
brought out the agreement they had
signed. There was an immediate
storm in the meeting. The cadet
members refused to ratify the
pledges Prince Lvoff sided with the
socialists and radicals who approved
the step. The cadets finally quit the
meeting at three o'clock in the morn
ing.
Later they resigned
The cadets apparently are still
showing the same misunderstanding
OF the aims of the Russian common
ers that caused the. fall OF former
Foreign Minister Miliukoff.
The cabinet crisis caused intense
excitement here. All night Monday
there were crowds on the streets and
there was the greatest display Of
arms since the revolution.
At midnight automobiles carrying
rapid fire guns and armed soldiers
dashed up and down the Nevski
Prospekt dispensing the crowds. The
radical element insisted that social
lists should replace the resigned
cabinet ministers and the conserva-
tives disagreed.
M Tscheidze. president Of the SOL
diers and workmens council, was in
Helsin gfors. Finland. today endeavor-
ing to adjust the 'home rule" fight
there.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Rena Mooneys Case.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1s.-Evi-
dence in the Rena Mooney bomb plot
case will be completed today. AL
though no time limit has been set
for the arguments, there Is tenta-
tive understanding between the attor-
neys that they will conclude their
addresses in time to permit the case
reaching the jury by Saturday morn
ing. Two attorneys on each side will
speak, District Attorney Fickert and
Deputy District Attorney Ferrari rep
resenting the prosecution and Attor-
neys N. c. Coghlan and Maxwell Nc
Mutt the defense. Mrs. Mooney ex-
pressed confidence of acquittal when
the case opened today.
The greater part Of the rebuttal
testimony the state offered was re-
garding police methods used at the
time the detectives secured a state
ment from Israel Weinberg, one Of
the bomb case defendants.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
SHIP BUILDING PROGRAM
is DEL LAYED BY ROW

with Goethals' reply. The informa
tion Goethals furnished yesterday
was unsatisfactory and not very
definite according to members OF
the board. Goethals' letter tolay
forwarded contracts for the yards
and for four hundred fabricated steel
vessels and gave the costs Of the
communicating and speeding up con.
struction under way.
A demand has been raised here In
official circles that Denman and
Goethals settle their differences and
get to work.
Goethals stated today he has not
appealed to the president yet to back
him Denman reiterated that as
owner Of the majority of stock in the
Emergency Fleet corporation, he in.
tended to pass on all contracts.
1t is likely Denman will object to
the cost prices given in the ship
yard contracts which Goethals was
reported ready to award to the U. s.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
WOMEN CALLED
To FILL POSITIONS
Vacancies Begin to Be Noticed
as Men of Country Answer
Call to the
Colors.
MANY JOBS ARE OPEN
Several Large Concerns Already
Placing Female Help and
Mors VIII Be
Required.
MANY JOBS ARE OPEN

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 1S.-Rallroads,
meat packers and the farmers nave
appealed to the American woman to
aid them in relieving men for war
service.
Plans were started today by sever
al of the big Chicago stock yards
packers to fill the places of men EN-
ployed as butchers. foremen. clerks,
skilled laborers and department
heads.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy railway sent out notices to all lts
branches, instructing agents and shop
men that women would be employed
to fill any jobs where they are able
to do the work. Among the posi-
tions which the railway Is desirous
to obtain women to fill are:
Upholsters, station agents, tele-
graphers and clerks.
1--WE have prepared the way to use
women in any capacity in which they
are able to work" said w. B. Farris,
! superintendent of the Morris and
Company meat packing plant. I'VE
| will also use all the boys we can
get We will use them at almost
anything except the heavy butchering.
! Women will be employed in the
butchery department to do skinning
and washing Of carcasses. We have
already started to fill the Offices with
women. in place of those who have
enlisted. We will put the boys
through an intensive training"
!! SWomen will be employed to good
advantage" said an official Of the
Burlington road, which employees
$4,000 people. Notices were sent
out today stating to the public that
we would use women to fill any job
they are capable of filling"
The road has already begun to fill
it's offices with women.
| At Armour and Co., it was said they
have begun to hire women to fill
mems Jobs in the offices. 1t Is esti-
mated that 100 office men have quit
to go to war. At the packing plant
it was said they would use women
wherever possible. The same state
ment was made by Swift and Com
pany. Both plan to use women in
the smoke house, officials said.
There will be little difficulty in
harvesting the grain crops. according
to reports gathered by the United
Press. In only one state is there a
real shortage-in North Dakota
where the labor shortage is so acute
that the state efficiency commission
has appealed to the war department.
to exempt it's farm hands until after
the harvest. In other states most Of
the crops will be harvested before the
men are called out.
Iowa's crop IL above normal. What
little shortage Of men there Is will
be met by the volunteering of the
Iowa women who are laboring beside
the men in the fields.
Nebraska has practically no winter
wheat. No labor shortage is expect
ed until corn husking time. Many
students are working, thus creating
the smallest harvest hand shortage
in years.
Texas grain harvest is practically
over, but a labor famine Is threaten
ed in the cotton fields.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Kansas City Live Stock.

KANSAS CITY, July 1S.-Cattle re.
ceips 10000; market strong, 15c
higher. Steers. $7.25@13.S0; cows
and heifers, $6.00@13.00; stockers
Nand feeders, s6.5o@1O.50; calves,
s700@13.50.
Hog receipts 1000; market 10000
lower. Bulk, s14.60@15.40; heavy
s15.3O@15.50; medium, S15.00@15.40;
light, s14.50615.20.
Sheep receipts 5000; market $50
Csc higher Lambs, $14.75@15.40;
ewes, sS2599.25; wethers, s65o9
1850.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Reason for Draft Quotas
Move for New Trial.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
HARTFORD, Conn, July 18.-At.
torneys for Mrs. Amy Archer Gill,
gan, under death sentence for the
murder of an inmate in her home for
aged at Windsor. are today preparing
evidence to be presented in a move
for a new trial.
Governor Holcomb has said /,
would grant the condemned woman a
stay Of execution to enable her attor.
neys to apply for a pardon from the
state board at it's next meeting on
December TO-.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Denman, as Owner of Majority
of Stock, Objects to
Methods of
Goethals.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The
Goethals-Denman row continued to
hold up the governm ent ship build
ing program today.
Goethals as requested by Denman,
sent the shipping board additional
details of the plans for two govern
ment ship yards and for commander
ing steel merchant ships now build
ing.
A meeting between Goethals and
the shipping board will be held pos
sibly today, If Denman Is satisfied
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
|Sew First Lord Had Training
in United States
Manufacturing
Plants.
FBy Ed. L. Keen, United Press Sta1
COfresnondent I

BY Ed. L. Keen, United Press Stafl
Correspondent
LONDON, July 1S.-Premier Lloyd
seorge will have an exponent OF
american pep" as his new first lord
the admiralty in Sir Eric Geddes,
no received much of his training In
tne United States.
Choice Of this young business man
= mead the important admiralty post
utter disregard for precedent re-
u',ing that ministers be members of
saiiam sha ent-was the most popular OF
changes announced by Lloyd
1sorge in the interest of efficiency.
me British press today generally
.euicted Sir Edward Carson, shifted
oecome a member Of the war
unet, would At in better at his
es lso,.. post than in the admiraly. He
sAs purely administrative qualities
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
LIKE A PICNIC
INSTEAD OF WAR
Plans to Entertain First Half
Million Drafted Men,
Include Many
Amusements.
THEATRE IN EVERY CAMP
Daily Program to include FIddIers,
Charlie Chaplin, Frank Gotch,
Vampires, Bowling,
Swimming, etc.
LEY George Martin, United Press
Staff Correspondent

LEY George Martin, United Press
| Staff Correspondent
| WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Uncle
Sam will have all kinds of entertain
ment and sports for his first 100000
drafted sammies in cantonment camps
this fall.
Chairman Raymond D. Fosdick. OF
the war department commission on
training camp activities, today out
lined to tho United Press the program
now nearing completion.
Each camp will have monster
theatre. Broadway successes will
tour them on a regular circuit.
Caruso, Farrar, John Mccormack,
Fritz Kreisler, the violinist, Pader-
weski and other world famous artists
will appear.
Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin.
Douglas Fairbanks and kindred movie
stars. including brigade Of vam-
pires, will appear in person.
There will be picked vaudeville
acts.
Well known theatrical men will or
ganize home talent shows, famous
Iplaywrights framing the plots.
To teach wrestling and boxing will
Ibe Frank Gotch, Mike Gibbons. John
ny Kilbane, Tom Gibbons. Johnny
Dundee, Frank Moran. Fred Fulton.
Jack Dillon, Kid Mccoy. Packey Nc
Farland, Jess Willard, Sam Langford
and others. Boxing is fine bayonet
training, the war department has
learned
Such masters of the cue as Willie
Hoppe will give exhibitions In the
camp billiard halls.
!. A monster Y. NJ. C. A. building and
another OF equal size for the knights
of Columbus are being erected at each
camp.
Branch libraries will be established
by the American Library commission.
The government will install college
professors to teach French, Italian
and other languages. Intensive
courses will be taught in any trade
desired.
Sixty-seven war department experts
today are scattered through the towns
near each cantonment, teaching the
citizens their share in entertaining
drafted sammies on leave.
Small towns ara practically being
rebuilt and doubled in size by the war
department. At Junction City, Kan
sas, near the Fort Riley cantonment'
movies, club houses, swimming POOLS
bowling alleys, billiard halls and read
ing rooms are going up. :.
"A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
campaign is being press asenteo
among the cantonment town citizens.
Lodges are being equipped by the
government to provide special enter
ta1nment for soldiers who belong to
their respective organizations.
Dance halls are being built. Dances
and parties will be constantly on the
program.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Offer Of Four Ships.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Sc

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SAN FRANCISCO. July 1S.-An Of
fer to the government shipping board
to take over four of the German YES
sells seized at Manila has been made
by the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany. according to announcement to-
day by General Manager X. H. Ros-
setter.
liz the offer is accepted, the vessels
will be placed in the Pacific trade and
shippers believe welcome relief Of the
shortage OF tonnage will result.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
|rawing of Master Numbers
Nav Take Place Without
Slightest Advance
Announcement.
IMPLICATED SYSTEM
Intt Trouble Not Unexpected and
Federal Authorities Prepare
to Deal With
Outbreaks.
, webb Miller, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON JIIlv "a

COTTeSpOuOeuL.J
WASHINGTON, July 1S.--
- Picking Americas first big
@ national army by lot will be
sSE staged within fifty-six hours,
ccording to indications today. Either
he great reception room off Secre-
hry Bakers office or one Of the his
brio chambers of congress will be
he scene. Everything is ready for
he human lottery except for few
allying registration districts.
The little capsules with the fated
umbers are slowed safely in tho war
epartment, while regulations gov
kninK the drawing Of these master
umbers are In printers hands to-
sy. These rules will be announced
hrough the press before the drawing.
An air Of mystery has been thrown
bout the lottery.
Oficials refused to be specific as
just how and where they will pull
be numbers, though they did say the
raft will occur just as soon as the
lst lingering red ink draft numbers
Ire tabulated. ~
One authority said tina. this might
ccur within two hours after the last
oyernor had declared the numbers
Fere in-irrespective OF the time of
Jay.
The house ana senate military COM
bittees have been chosen official
illnesses and Secretary Baker may
raw the first capsule.
Secretary Baker, Chief OF Staff
bliss, Quartermaster General Sharpe
ind others have arrived for con-
erence on final Details.
In general the order in which the
haster numbers are drawn here will
hdicate the order OF liability for
ervice. though owing to varying
egistrations in different districts
he numbers will be divided into
ome group form, making the system
bore complicated than at first an
icipated.
Almost Immediately after the lot
cry, local exemption boards will
ummon men for physical tests. Ev-
~ man summoned must take this
{est, whether or not he intends to
nake an exemption claim. Heavy
penalties attach to failure to appear.
Federal authorities have not over
(ooked possibility of draft troubles
New York and other big cities
md are prepared to deal summarily
With any outbreaks.
The method Of apportionmen Of
Fne quotas, based on revised popula-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Enolneers Leave for France,

CHICAGO, July 1S.-The Thir-
teenth engineers, formerly the Third
regiment, of Chicago, will be off en-
route to Somewhere in France" this
afternoon. 1t comprises Chicago rail-
road men almost entirely. Prepara-
tions for immediate leave followed
orders from the war department early
today. The regiment will go direct
to an American port, 1t is announced
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Trouble In Portugal.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LISBON, July 1S.-Bombs exploded
under tram trains by rioters caused
injury to a number of persons here
today. At number OF points in the
city there was spirited fighting be-
tween police and malcontents.
Unrest has been reported recently
In d number of Portuguese cities.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18

Simon B. Luley, 81, is preparing 10
become a candidate for his nineteenth
term as mayor OF Miltonsburg, y.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
Three Germans Arrested for
Selling Court Plaster In
fected With Lockjaw
Germs.
CHEMIST FOUND THEM
Mon Held In Secret for Fear Of Lynch
Inn II People Learned
Of Their Iden-
tIty.

rUntted Press Leased Wire Service ]
KANSAS CITY, Kan, July 18.-
Charged with conspiracy to scatter
widecast infectious and deadly dis
ease germs, through the medium OF
court plaster, three Germans. agents
of the kaiser, according to Fred
Robertson, United States district at
torney, are being held incommuni-
cado In Kansas towns today.
The alleged conspiracy was dis
covered by w. r. Smith. state chem
list. upon analysis of court plasters.
distributed free by the three men IN
various Kansas towns and villages.
The first laboratory test made by
the state chemist proved q puzzle,
SO three other expert chemists were
summoned. All three found tetanus
(lockjaw) germs in their samples.
other germs. not yet identified, were
also found.
The chemists state that country
doctors, without the aid Of analytical
facilities, would easily be deceived
by the court plaster. The germs are
so made up that detection Is almost
impossible.
The three men-there may be 9TH
ers, offlcials believe-traveled through
the state selling the plasters where
possible and in many instances CIV
ing them away.
Charges of assault with intent to
kill, fraudulent use of the mails, vio-
lation of the pure food laws and con-
spiracy will be filed against them
here today, Robertson said.
The names Of the suspects and the
towns where they are held Is being
kept secret for fear Of lynching
should their identity and connection
with the disease plot" become
known.
Reason for Draft Quotas.
WASHINGTON, July 18.-A reso-
luton asking the secretaries OF war
and commerce to furnish the house
with the reasons for fixing the draft
quotas on the basis Of the June 5th
registration instead of on popula
ton basis, was introduced today by
Representative McCulloch, of Ohio.
In letter to Secretary Baker, Nc
+Culloch stated the registration basis
disseminated against industrial
states in favor OF non-industrial
states and the burden is shifted to
Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New
York, and other northern states
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, H., July 1S.-Railroads,
meat packers and the farmers have
appealed to the American woman to
aid them in relieving men for war
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-24
Managing Editors
Column

T HERE has been such an Improvement in
the circulation department lately.and the
book orders are beginning to revive, it has
made us feel that we might take chance.
and put on another machine operator.
The new man will have book work exclu
slvely, and that means that we will soon be
able to fill orders for the new edition Of Life
and Times of Andrew jackson; Prose Mis-
cellanles; and several of the smaller books
that have been out Of print for some time.
MORE ABOUT OUR BOOKS.
Mr.. Watson is at present finishing what
promises to be one of the most interesting
and valuable Of his historic series: E'ITistory
Of the Roman Catholic Popes.''
The ancient, out-of- print rare books he
has secured for this gigantic work, would
amaze the average book collector For several
years he has had standing orders with the
book dealers, especially the antique book
dealers in London, England; Edinburgh.
Scotland; New York, Philadelphia, and
Canada, for all works bearing in any wav on
these periods of history; and a most amazing
thing to learn was, the indefatigable efforts
the Roman Catholic church has made. from
the earliest time of it's history as an hierarchy
to destroy and suppress, all that was IN
favorable to it.
Intimate histories Of the vatican and its
people would make spicy reading-and they
would also tell too much of the earth
earthly heads of the hierarchy; hence, these
too intimate journals of those who knew, were
destroyed.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-24
Mrs. Saint Peter -!

rs Bishop Canevin's Romanist paper, The
Plttsburg Observer questions are asked
and answers given.
Here follows an example:
Query:-Was st. Peter ever married? If So
what became of his wife after he became an
apostle?-"M. L. MEG"
Ans.:-As the Bible mentions the distressing
fact that st. Peter had a mother-in-law, we per-
force conclude that he had wife Matt. VIIl-14)
This is the only reference to st. Peters wife or
mother-in-law, and we do not know what became
Of her. AS 1900 years have elapsed since the
days of st. Peter and his wife, and as time cures
all evils, you will gain nothing by worrment over
God.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-24
THE eJEFFERSONIAN
Thursday, May "A, 1917.

Is it in order for me to rise and say, that
Tn shocked?
Mrs. Saint Peter! Don't worry over her:
'she is in Heaven with God"
And yet, 1--WE do not know what became of
her!"
If she is in Heaven, we do know what be-
came of her; but how and when did we come
to know it?
Bishop Canevin should tell us, for this is
most interesting detail
If Roman bishops know so we'll who are in
Heaven, we'd like to know about some others
besides MRS. ST. Peter"
How about Mrs Bathsheba David?
How about Mrs. Ada Cain!
How about Mrs. Solomon
l mean the whole 800 Of her?
And how about Mrs. Pope Joan?
1t smacks OF lrreVerence for a Catholic
bishops paper to call Peters wife, ''AIrs. St.
Peter" for it creates the impression that they
will be calling the human mother Of the hui
man Jesus by the fippant title of . $ st.
Joseph"
We Protestants do not worship Mary, nor
make craven images Of her, nor bow down to
those images after having made them.
We Pr0testants have not, In effect, rebuked
the Almighty by annulling the Second Com
mandment
Still, 1t would CRATE on us to see Bishop
Canevin's paper fall into such sacrlegious
levity as to call Mary b. the name Of Mrs.
St. Joseph"
My! MY! Reverence is a fragile plant,
tender in It's fibre, weak in its stem, and easily
Frustrated: and therefore it is dangerous to
NEEDLE with it,
Mrs. Melissa Melchizedek, and Mrs. Sarah
Abraham. and Mrs Rachel Jacobs. and Mrs
Mahala Esau, are no doubt correct titles. but
they do not conduce to reverence.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-24
PAGE SIX

Methodist church Bruce Young, his son, whom
he lived with at the time Of his DEATH married
one of Bryan Lawrence's daughters, who is q
Catholic
1 have NO idea in the world that Bill Young
knew anything about Catholic priest being with
him at the time OF his death. l think and
those | have heard speak of it, think, that his
sons wife the cause of his having a priest
there. 1t was very private affair, and Bill
xoung was too near dead to know anything of
What going on.
Best regards to Miss Georgia and all the family
Your friend
EX-THOMSONIAN