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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-20
Westbound.

Westbound cars leave Ottawa sta
ton for Chautauqua Park, Starved
Rock, Utica, La Sale, Peru, Spring
Valley, Ladd, De Pue, Bureau Prince.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-20

(TO BE CONTINUED
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-25
Yard Wide Muslin


This dollar day offering is wonder
full bargain, for owing to the enormous
advances in cotton goods, it is no long
er possible for merchants to buy a So
in. muslin for Zoe a yard. 1t is a
light weight quality but is suitable for
many purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-25
Six Pounds Of 3Oc Coffee

Here is coffee that has been
tried by hundreds of our customers
The assertions of the ones who
have tried his bear out our asser-
ton that it is as good and possibly
better than any SOC coffee on the
market. Put up in sanitary pack
ages and is steel cut.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
Onited Press Lensed Wirc.l

NEW YORK, June II. = Lord
Northcliffe, noted British pub
licist and publisher, arrived at an
American port today.
Northcliffe came TO America at
the request of the British war cab
met to coordinate the work of
the various British missions here,
In statement issued upon his
arrival today, Northcliffe said.
Until | present my credentials
at Washington it is impossible for
me to make any statement.
Il can, however, express my
very great pleasure at being again
in America, which | have so often
visited and which has many de-
lightful associations and friend
ships for me.
Nor is II saying too much when
! add that the whole British peo-
pie have profound sense of CRATE
full appreciation of the magnifi-
cent welcome accorded to Mr.. Bal
four and his associates and the
complete success of his mission. y
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
PROMISES
AMAZING
EXPOSURE

Sam Wall, representative
of the Justice to the Noun
tain committee at the ma
tional geographic board
hearing, and chief of the
''curse'- lifters, Is back from
Washington full of plans for
carrying on the campaign to
change the official name of
"Rainier" to Tacoma"
He says the fight should by all
means be continued, and takes
decided exception to the attitude
of Attorney Maurice Langhorne,
a member of the com mittee, who
came out Saturday with a state
ment urging that the fight be
dropped.
Wall Is going to launch the new
chapter in his fight with a hot
series of newspaper articles, OPEN
ing tomorrow in The Times. In
which he promises some sensa-
tional disclosures in regard to the
national geographic board.
Missed Point.
"Mr. Langhorne, it seems to
me, misses the point entirely"
said he today.
I'VE went to Washington seek
ing justice. 1t was denied.
1.-THE authority that perpetrat-
ed the injustice refused to correct
It. Shall we lie down, then, for
no better reason than that the
Justice that was once denied was
denied a second time? I shall not
do so.
"Nr. Langhorne says: The
committee on Justice to the Noun
tain petitioned the geographic
board for a change of name. II
gathered its evidence, filed Its
brief and submitted its cause to
q body having jurisdiction of the
subject matter. The committee
in effect said, as II necessarily
had to say, I'VE recognize your
authority and will be bound by
your decision"
VIII Take Appeal.
"Mr. Langhorne has evidently
not followed the proceedings as
we all had a right to expect he
would. The committee on Justice
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

qThe Times today subscribed for
$4,000 worth of Liberty bonds thru
the National Bank of Tacoma, and
at the same time set aside another
$4,000 to finance the purchase of
bonds by it's employees.
qThe Times purchase of Liberty
bonds, and its plan to assist EN-
plOyes to subscribe for bonds, is
part of a general program of the
Scripps newspapers thruout the
country, by which approximately
100000 worth Of Liberty bonds
will be bought.
qUnder The Times plan, all EN-
ployes who draw less than $50 sal
airy a week will be entitled to pur-
chase Liberty bonds to an amount
equal to 10 times the employees
weekly salary. The Times will
finance the purchase of the bonds
and permit its employees to pay for
them in so installments.
GThe bonds will draw interest from
the date of their issue and the en-
ployes will be entitled to the full in
terest on the bonds. The employees
will be charged no interest on the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

to the Mountain did not petition
the geographic board to change
the name of the mountain; the
people of the state of Washington
did that, and even as Mr.. Lang
horne seems to have done, the
geographic board looked away
from the cardinal point in reach
ing the conclusion. 1t did more I;
its action was based on testimony
not made public-the authority
for which ! asked the members
to give me and which they fatty
refused to do.
eff case is decided by jury
contrary to the evidence before
them the judge-as Mr.. Lang
horne knows-is warranted in
setting the verdict aside. / shall
ask the Justice to the Mountain
committee after have related
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
AGED MAN is
HIT BY CAR

j. Salaun, age so, 1909 Tacoma
ave-, was seriously If not fatally
injured Monday morning when he
was run down by South Tacoma
car on Broadway at 18th street.
The aged man was crossing
Broadway, behind a north-bound
street car, when he walked into
the path of the other car. He was
badly bruised.
At the Tacoma General hospital
1t was reported late Monday that
he had not regained consciousness.
Salaun's name was determined
through a censored letter mailed
to him from Dunkirkhead, Eng
land, which the police found In his
pocket.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
WAR IS MAKING
GERMANY ALAMD
WITHOUT BABIES
BY j. w. T. MASON
Famous Historian of the Great War.

NEW YORK, June 11.-If the great war lasts two
and half years longer, babies will disappear almost
completely in Germany, unless the government de-
vises measures to check the fall in birth rates.
Germany is facing the greatest catastrophe that
ever threatened modern nation. An alarming de-
cline of childhood is lowering the land at home,
while the obliteratiOn Of Germanys youth and man.
hood is occurring the battlefieds.
Decay of the German race. because of insufficient
replensment from sources inside the country, is not
fantastic dream of Germanys enemies, but is dis
quoting possibility of the future, which German sci
entiss have been ordered by the government to in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
Bill LION FOR u s. AIR FILE ET
we've GOT OURS;
HOW ABOUT YOU?

money advanced by The Times.
GIN announcing it's subscription,
The Times takes the opportunity to
appeal again to its readers to sub
scribe, according to their individual
means.
lTens Of thousands of young
Americans are to be called into SER
vice shortly in the worldwide fight
for democracy against autocracy.
gYou who have money should be
as willing and ready to enlist your
dollars in the cause of liberty. Do
not delay. There is need for imme.
date action.
qUncle Sam, banker for the world,
stands behind the Liberty loan.
qEvery citizen of Tacoma has his
duty to perform.
qWhether your subscription to the
Liberty loan be large or small, you
should respond instantly.
qPut your dollars on the firing
line in support Of your son, your
brother or your friend who answers
the call to the colors.
gland do it now
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

During 1915, German births
fell by 20 per cent below the
record for 1914, the year the war
began, and according to figures
which have just eluded the censor,
the decline in 1916 was about 40
per cent under the 1914 figures.
The same steady fall in births
would make 1919 see the practi-
cal disappearance of babies from
Germany.
AS German statistics refer not
to small country villages, but to
cities of 1900 or over, 1t is pos
sible the birthrate has not fallen
SO extensively in the agricultural
districts; but IL not, this is due
to a large excess of Legitimate
births. Russian prisoners of war
are being extensively used to
supply the wars deficit of agricul-
tural laborers in Germany, and
these are understood to have
usurped the places of husbands of
German peasant women.
The German governing
class realizes there Is no
future for Germany IL IL has
to depend for its coming man
power upon such unions as
these.
Germany has lost 100000 in
dead since the beginning OF the
war, and 100000 in men so badly
injured as to be useless for seri-
Gus work when war ends. About
100000 German youths reach
military age yearly.
Decline by 20 per cent of Ger
man births in 1915 means that
20 years thereafter, there will be
only 100000 Germans of military
age; and decline of 40 per cent
Of births in 1916 means that in
1895 no more than 100000 Ger
mans will be ready for the army.
Militarism cannot exist without
manpower; and there can be no
adequate manpower for Germany
with births declining In anything
like the present proportion.
Since the Franco-P russian war,
there has been fall, decade by
decade, in the German birthrate.
The increase in German popula-
ton has been due, during that
period, to reduction in the death
rate, which the government has
accompanied by hygienic i'm
Iprovements and better living con-
ditions. But the present fall in
the birth rate is accompanied by
1.-THE greatest increase In the death
Continued on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
WALL BACK FULL Of FIGHT!
KIDNAPER
LEADER A
WOMAN?

United Press Leased wire.)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June
11.-That n woman was the
guiding spirit in the Keet
KIDNAPPING case and not only
participated i'm the actual alb
ductiOn, but was the brains
behind the conspiracy, is the
belief of the authorities.
In fact, the only clews,
black silk skirt and three let
tiers, held by the police, point
to nothing else.
j. Holland Keet, father OF the
dead boy, turned over to authori-
ties the three letters he received
from the abductors.
The first was received the day
following the abduction, the sec
ond the morning after Keet's har.
rowing ride over the stormswept
Ozark hills and the third while
he was carrying out the instruc-
lions of the second letter.
All are written in a bold femin-
Inc hand. No effort at capitaliza-
ton or punctuation is made and
the attempt to disguise is evident
The letters and the black skirt
found with the baby's body are
the only tangible clews and both
point to the participation of a
woman In the case.
Funeral Today.
/. The body of little lloyd Keet
was to be buried here this after
noon in Maple Park cemetery
Thousands of people will attend
the funeral, although only imme-
date friends of the family and
Continued on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
On Business

LONDON, June IL. = Lord
Northcliffe's mission to America
is purely a business one-and In
no sense diplomatic, Chancellor OF
the Exchequer Bonar L@w ex-
planned to the house of commons
today. His statement was made
In reply to several interpretations
seeking light on the exact duties
OF England's famous publisher and
editor.
Northcliffe's opponents in the
house of commons have been Wig
orously insistent of late on ascer-
tanning exactly what status North
cliffe occupied and in what ca
pacity he would be head of the
British mission"
Some of the publishers politi-
cal enemies openly expressed ami
mostly to his succeeding Balfour
in any capacity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
"A Big Man

Especial TO The Times.D
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
June Unpopular and pow
erful as Arthur Balfour has
been i'm welding the war
spirit of England and Amer
lea, as head Of the British
mission, Great Britain is re-
placing him with even
stronger and more popular
influence toward more spirit
ed American participation In
the war.
England sends Lord Northcliff
to America because he is the mos
suitable man Ter the job. He
the most American of all English
men, a Napoleon in his actions,
genius in foresight, the man o
Continued on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
ALL
SLACKERS, IS
u. S. ORDER

WASHINGTON, June 11.-Or-
ders went out today to all police
depaI tments to bring in the slack
ers."
The period of leniency allowed
by the provost marshal general in
regard to persons registering has
now passed.
Beginning to morrow, police
will arrest any and all men who
have not registered. They will be
taken, "forcibly If necessary" be.
fore the proper authorities and
will be required to register. Then
they will be taken before u. s. dis
trict attorneys for punishment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
ZIONISTS PLANNING
A JEWISH REPUBLIC

Omitted Press Leased Wfre.)
PETROGRAD, June 11.-De-
claring that the Jews of the
world must have a place at the
peace table which will close the
great war, Zionists' meeting here
today was considering Jewish
republic in Palestine.
DR.. Usishin, leading the move,
declared referendum was being
planned to the 100000 Jews
In the world.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
DEMAND GEAR BE
PUT IN FORTRESS

PETROGRAD, June 11.-Sail-
ors on the cruiser Diana adopted
formal resolutions today demand
ing that the ex-czar and his fam
lily be confined in the fortress Of
Kronstadt, declaring otherwise
they would sail up the Neva to
Petrograd to fight for. It."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
HANDS RAILROADS
GIFT OF MILLIONS

WASHINGTON, D. c., June IL.
The supreme court, in far
reaching opinion today decided
the Kentucky franchise cases. in
volving millions of dollars Of
taxes in dispute between the state
and railroads under the state fran
chise tax law, in favor OF the rail-
roads.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
BITHULITHIC TO BE
LAID ON PACIFIC Av

Pacific avenue will be repaved
with bitulithic surface between
21st street and Puyallup avenue,
this summer The new surface
will cost $13,391, according to
city estimates. Property owners
made the choice.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

bright along this line see
suggestive cartoon entitled,
"The Open Road to Berlin"
and United Press dispatch
descriptive of great part play
ed i'm last weeks west front
battle by air machines, on
page A.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

This became known today when
the decision was reached by the
subcommittee of the senate mill
tary affairs to begin hearings to-
morrow on the Sheppard-Hulbert
bill, creating a separate aeroplane
department in the government.
Hubert said that all the mill
tary authorities of England and
France have stated that air service
must be developed on a great scale
and declared "the greatest service
the United States can do In this
war at the present time is to send
machines and aviators to France"
The subcommittee to meet to-
morrow includes Senators Shep-
pard, Brady and Sutherland. 1t is
proposed to hear military authori-
ties on the ACCESSIBILITY of adding a
new administrative department to
the government to direct the aero
work,
To Spend Billion.
Were going to spend a billion
dollars this year in aero work,
Hubert said. at is obvious with
this sum to be handled, there must
be q separate executive depart
ment."
Owing to the novelty of the serv-
ice, leaders in congress believe
thousands of young men would Of
fer their services at once In this
department.
That the aeroplanes will be "a
factor that determines the out
come of the war" was expressed on
many sides today, following care
full digestion of recent dispatches
from the British front showing
how the aero service made late al
| lied victories possible.
Put out the eyes of the enemy
and artillery will do the rest" HUI
bert said.
Separate Department.
Hubert has gone over the sub.
ject carefully with members of the
council of natiCpal defense and be.
lieves the only~way to effectively
carry on the gigantic work ahead
is to establish separate depart.
ment.
Ammunition, when shot away
by the billion dollars worth, is
gone forever" he said. "Cannons,
after this war is over, will be
turned into pillow shares.
THE aeroplane, however, will
live forever, and those stations
which 1t is proposed to establish
now to prepare men for flying will
later become terminals or division
points for the railroads"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
SAN DOMINGO BREAKS

LONDON, June 11.-San Do
mingo has broken diplomatic re-
lations with Germany, a Reuters
dispatch from Berlin reported to-
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
DATO sPAIN,s PRENfIER

MADRID, June 11.--Eduardo
Dato today accepted the post of
premier, succeeding the Marquis
Preito.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

Greetings, how do your
dandelions grow?
Mary bought little bond,
And SO did Ma and Pa.
They thus helped schlag Won Hin
denberg
Between sein augen. ia?
Il. A. A.
Flattery IL having someone tell
us the nice things we have always
thought about ourselves.
Wilhelm says ''Love me,
love my Won Bethie."
Now that nationwide prohibi-
ton Is so near, why not movie
entitled 1.-THE Breath of a Nationf"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
WILL PUT OUT
EYES OF ENEMY"

(Unfd Tfess Leased VUe) 7"'
WASHINGTON, June 1l.---The government
will soon ask congress- for an appropriation of
OO.OOO,OOO the first move in develop
ing the American aeroplane service on grand
SCALE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11
IN CHICAGO.

IN CHICAGO.
A. H. link, who's raising the
Tacoma General fund. was once
held up in Chicago. his home town,
by three footpads.
He says he'd have handed over
all he had IL they had asked for Il.
but instead they demanded 1t.
One Of them hit him; another
shot him in the collar~bone.
A neighbor down the street
heard his cries for help--and ran
to the corner drugstore to phone
the police.
A man across the street raised
a window and shouted over some
good advice.
And the fellow who finally
came to my assistance" explains
the once-beleaguered and harassed
Mr.. link, was q wife-beater and
a drunkard."
Being too heavy for light
work and too light for heavy
work leaves nothing open for
. fella except baseball or
politics.
Courtsa nd journod
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

On this, the Goth day
of the war, can't you
take a Liberty bond,
then give it to the Red
Cross?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

wilhelm says "Iove me,
love my Won Bethie."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-11

Courts adjourned.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-06-28
Left Trail Of Blood.

Washlngton's plan was to cross the
river Christmas night with a body of
picked troops, time when he thought
the German commander, Colonel Rail-,
and his officers and men would be
cnrouslng. He assembled the attack
ing force quietly on his side of the
river.
Some of the troops Washington had
ordered to join him failed to arrive at
the crossing point IT, time. But de-
spite that disappointment Washington
pushed on. He determined To make
the attack with the column he had ac-
companled. Washlngton's troops We're
so poorly clad on the march that day
that a courier from General Gates In
Philadelphia was able 10 trail Wash
ington's force by bloody footprints in
the snow. When men key their cour-
age to that point nothing can stop
them.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-06-28

a terrific storm of snow andsleet drove
into the faces of the soldiers. 1t soon
ruined what little powder Washing
toms men had, SO the order was passed
TO rely on the hayonet. Washington
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-06-28
Friend Of Great Men.

About this time the revolutionary
spirit was running high, and Ann RAM
say became fully imbued with patri-
otic fervor. Her zeal took the form of
collecting money for the equipment
and use of the army, and so great
was the confidence placed in her abil-
ity in this regard that she was made
treasurer of all moneys collected for
the purpose in the township Of Alex
andria.
So successful were her efforts that
she turned over sum exceeding $75,-
900 TO the cause. Thomas Jefferson in
his writings accredited her with be-
ing one of the most patriotic women in
Virginia, and George Washington Of
fered TO assist In the education of one
Of her sons.
Mrs. Ramsay reared two sons to
fight for the cause of American indie
pendence. One served as a surgeon
in the Continental army; the other as
a colonel in the Virginia line.
When this brave woman died, on
April 1, 1855. Washington attended her
funeral, for his diary contains this en-
try: "Went to Alexandria to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Ramsay on Fri
day last"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-06-28
Splendid Work Of D. A. r. |

To come down to present-day wom-
en-, the Daughters of the American
Revolution have surely done their part
for American independence. They have
accomplished an immense amount of
memorial work, and there is hardly
city or town ON the Atlantic seaboard
in or near which battles of the Revo-
luton were fought where there is not
some evidence of their work in record
Ing the revolutionary deeds OF their
ancestors their aim being to perpetu-
ate the memory of the heroes who
wrought independence for our coun-
try.
American Independence was mani
tested and sustained by the women at
the time of the Revolution, as it was
in later years, and as 1t Is being mani
tested and sustained today In every
section Of our land
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-06-28

and others of the great spirits of that
day We're among her correspondents.
Her home was the rendezvous of much
company, and she herself said: "By
the Plymouth fireside were many po-
litlcal plans discussed and digested."
Elizabeth Schuyler entered warmly
into her husbands plans and sympa-
thles when she became the wife of
Alexander Hamilton; and Susan Llv-
ingston, the eldest daughter Of Will
liam Livingston, governor Of New Jer-
sey at the time of the Revolution, is
credited with two strategic moves
against the enemy which might have
done credit to the cieverest daughter
trained in camp life today.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-06-28

Ramsay, a native of Scotland, who set
tied as trader and merchant in Alex
andria in 1744, and early and fully
identified himself with the colony Of
Virginia. His extensive commercial
and shipping connections enabled him
to supply much of the outfit to the mih-
tary expeditions of Virginia from 1754
to 1763, and he served for time as
captain of military company under
Washington. Records show that his
family was on terms of intimacy with
the family at Mount Vernon.