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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
SOLDIERS IN FRANCE TOBACCO FUND
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Occasionally, even in this holiday season of more or less confusion, some good-hearted person thinks of american soldiers in France and snelr craving for good American to- Oacco. When they do, t.iey step around or send to The Graphic of nee contribution for the fund to provide the men with tobacco. Two oI these thoughtful, generous ones ones are J. M. Jacks and Jake Novy, Swno yesterday contributed 50 cents eacn. The dollar will send four kits ol tobacco to the boys lover there.'
 Fine Bluff has met generously ssery demand upon it, but it should 4et neglect to do it's part in provid- ag American tobacco for the Ameri- xaa Doys in France. If. every smok- ct ct hefe will invite a soldier in France
 U nave a cigar" just once each day aau send the accumulation once each meek to The Graphic just about a ,,,.s, s.s'inent of good Yankee scrappers ~n pc kept supplied with tobacco ,ne Kind of tobacco they crave <: n.ne nerican tobacco. Don't wait for the ..ner sa,s fellow. Start this plan your ''en And begin today!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
GENERALS TELL
 0f CONDITIONS
 IN TWO CAMPS
Camps Bowie and Doniphan Suffered Heavily-Still
 Short Rifles and Guns.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Disease epi- demic and clothing and equipment shortage at Camp Bowie, Texas, and Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, were des- cribed to the senate military commit tee by the respective commanders of htose National Grand cantonments, Major Generals Prebel and Wright. Each officer said the epidemic at his post now wa; under control, and that adequate supplies of overcoats had been received, but each gave dis mai picture of earlier conditions. Each told, too, of enormous short age of rifles, machine guns and other equipment still existing, but food has been plentiful and of good quality. General Prebles' story showed con- diticns at Camp Bowie to have been the worst. He declared the lives of many men who recently died there would have been saved had there been winter clothing, sufficient tents to avoid overcrowding, proper hospital facilities and sanitation pro- vided. General Prebles said 5000 men, or about one third of his com mand. passed thru the hospital with deaths averaging 16 daily. At one time 1,so0 men were cdowded into a hospital built to accommodate 800, and that without a sewerage system. In September, the general said. he protested against growing F men in to tent and gave warning that sick ness would result Before more tents arrived the epidemic broke out. Now, however, he added, there are 800 men on the sick list.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
STEPHENS ARRIVES,
 IN NAGASAKI JAPAN
Railroad Commissioner to Russia Takes All Accommodations of an
 Entire Hotel for Staff Members.

Tokio, Thursday, Dec. 27.-John s. Stephens, chief American railroad commissioner to Russia, arrived at Nagasaki December 19 from Vladovo- stok. He has taken all the accom- modations of an entire hotel for the 300 members of his staff. In state ment to The Associated ress, MT. Stephens said he would soon expect to return to Russia to assist in the proposed work of assisting in the Russian railway reconstruction. He denied that the commission would
 return to the United States. The commission is composed of many America's best railway engineers and their absence from America invoves the sacrifice of home interested, but Mr. Stephens says he considers the Russian railway situation the most important facing the work at present.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

In the meantime the French had fought and won the culiminating bat tle for the liberation of Verdun, in the course of which the French troops reganied nearly every inch of the ground around the fortress which it had cost the Crown Prince 300, ,O0O men to capture in 1916.
 Aviation Pays Big Part.
 Aviation played leading part in all operations in the course of the year. No matter what weather pre- vailed, the airmen were out observ- ing, reccnnoitering, fighting off Ger man airmen accompanying the at tacking invader, bombarding the com munications and depots of the enc my or making raids on German towns. This latter, although they ef- fected only sue htowns as were used as military centers, were made by way of reprisal for German air a,. tacks on French cities in tho east ana north, where numbers of Frenca civilians had fallen victims to Ger man bombs.
 In aerial combats the French av1a- tors undoubtedly proved themselves masters of their German adversaries By the end of October, the last com plete return available, French avia- tors had destroyed in ten months 517 German airplanes whose fate it was possible to confirm vita certainty. Besides these they brought down an other 513, the absolute destruction of which could not be of fatal crash.
 These figures totalling 1030 make an excellent record and to them must be added 22 German captive balloons
 The American aviators of the Ea- fayette squadrilla who nave now been incorporated in the American army played very creditable part With their French comrades in the con- flicts in the air. Several of them lost their lives in 1917 as did three of the best known French airmen, Guy nemer, Dorme and Lenoir
 Besides the bombardment o1 French open towns, German airmen on several occasions bombed French field hospitals at Gugny, Vadelain court, Chateau Petit 'Monthairon ant ] Belrupt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
America Will Not Act.

Washington, Dec 28-America's war aims are regarded by the ad- ministration as having been suffi- ciently disclosed in President Wilson's reply to the pope's last peace pro- posal and in his recent message to congress, consequently. unless there are further developments in the peace propaganda set afoot by the Germans and Austrians through their negoti- ations with the Russian Bolsheviki there is no intention on the part of the United States government of at tempting to elaborate or expand the statement of American purpose laid down in these documents. It is fully understood in Washington that there may be internal reasons in entente countries for making some conces- sions to certain powerful political elements which are pressing for another statement of the entente's war aims. These considerations will be weighed and acted upon in the discretion of those countries. The de- cision involved is regarded as of great importance because of the possibility that divergent statements might af- ford the German plotters opportunity to weaken the ties that bind the allies together.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
Britain and France Will Fight to Finish for Peace
 Outlined by President.
BRITISH LABOR
 BACKS GOVERNMENT
Conference Afiirms Decisions to Fight for Safety of DemOcracy-RuSsians Still HOpe-AdiOurn Con-
 ference to January f.

Great Britain and France, respect lively thru their prime m4nister and minister Of roreign affairs, have made known to the world that the terms under which the Teutonic allies seeK general peace are not sufficient, and, backing up their prime minister, the British proletariat, represented by national labor conference, has reaffirmed without equivocation that it is the determination of labor to con tinue the war in order hereafter to make the world safe for Democracy. Fortified by the known attitude of President Wilson as to the require ments of the United States if the war is to end and peace be concluded, the utterances of Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Pine hon, and the almost unanimous senti- ment of British workers, seemingly make certain that the Teutonic allied Proffer given in reply to the Russian Bolsheviki proposals will go for naught, unless it is materiallay added to and brought into line with the de- mands that the United States and the entente allies have laid down as con crete basis for the discussion of peace.
 The Bolsheviki still Hope.
 Nevertheless the Bolshevik ele- ment in Russia apparently nave not lost heart that something may come from the Czernin proposals, for the Brest Livotsk peace conference at which it was made has taken recess until January 4, and meanwhile Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign min ister, proposes to send note to the allies embassies in an endeavor to have participate in further peace parleys, and also is drafting note to the people of the world.
 Internal Situation Obscure.
 Inside Russia the situation still re- mains obscure owing to the various revolutionary forces. On of these re- ports it is to the effect that an arm istice between the Kaledines' and Bol- sheviki troops has been effected at Rostov- -en-Don, with neutral zone between the fighting lines. Kaled- the first of the Russian counter revol' utionary forces to take up armi against the Bolsheviki.
 Quiet on All Fronts.
 Artillery battles are in progress along the entire northern front in the Italian theatre. The infantry on both sides being inactive except for pa trols. Likewise on the front in France. The artillerists are doing the major part of the fighting. The Germans have not offered battle to the French on the Verdun sector since Wednesdays sanguiuary re pulse. Snow and cold weather pre- vails over the entire line from Bel gium to the Swiss border.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
GOVERNMENT WILL
 TAKE OVER ENGINES

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Two hun dred locomotives under construction in this country for Russia will be taken over as part of the governments plan for improving railroad equipment. The engines will be changed in gauge to fit American tracks. The govern ment will also hold for a while num- Der of locomotives built for tuse in France.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
U. s. ACQUISITIONS
 ALL NIAGARA POWER

Washington, Dec. 28.-To encure an adequate supply of electric power for establishments engaged in war work at Niagara Falls and Buffalo, the gov ernment today requisitioned the elec- tric power imported and produced by the Niagara Falls Power company the Hydraulic Power company of Niagara Falls and the Cliff Electrical Distrib- utlng company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

conference. The deliberations thus far have progressed to stage where . brief interruption in the negotiations is expected in order to enable the dele- gates to communicate with their gov ernments,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

Rabbit Maranville, crack shortstop of the Braves. who is now in Uncle Sam's service, has been placed in charge of the Boston Navy yard basketball team.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
BRITISH DEFEAT TURKS.

London, Dec. 2S.-The British troops in Palestine have repulsed a Turkish attack north and northwest of Jerusalem and made an advance of abtut 2 1-2 miles on front of g miles along the Turkish right flank says an official communication toda0.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
London Thinks First Step.

London, Dec. 28.-That the Austro- German peace proposals to Russia are only the opening gun in an elaborate peace campaign by the central powers, is the opinion here. It is likely that the next step by Germany, according to well informed London opinion, will be a direct approach to the allies, either through the vatican or neu. tral power.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

Roy Moore. the St. Paul bantam weight, who recently has been putt decided to try his hand at the game ting 'em away in the middle West. has in the East.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

London. Dec. 2s.-A German submarine was sunk by the guns of an American passenger steamer approaching the British coast Thursday, according to reports :, of the passengers and gunners aboard the vessel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

frank Moran, the Pittsnurg neavy. s.eisnt' \ IS instructing the soldier boys ,r ~o. .ae art of boxing at Camp Wads-
 o''n Spartsburg, S. c.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29
Conference Continues.

Brest-I t-Iivotak. Dec. z7 (Thursday) \
 Discussi6n hy t feutonic alliea and tho 1u1(laN lxGat4s of special questions at the peace
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-29

(Continued q paee hvesl
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08

J. B. KELLY.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08

mind that the exigencies of the future may cause changes, particularly with regard to the estimates for the war and navy departments" The estim- ates on which the secretary bases his figures are made by the various gov. ernment departments.
 The outstanding fact apparent from these stupendous figures is that the cost of the war to the American peo- pie, including allied loans, for the two years ending June 30, 1919, will be at least $36,OOO,OOO,OOO.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08

From this date on the Cordova Mill and Lumber Go of Cordova, Alaska, will not be responsible for bills made at stores or contracts made without first being o K.'ed by the manager.
 J. B. KELLY.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08
JAMES SMITH
NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL
 ACCOUNT.

Third Division, Cordoya Precinct, at
 Cordova. No. 104. In the matter
 of the Estate of J. Y. Ostrander, de
 ceased.
 In accordance with the order of the above named probate court, issued on the 18th day of November, 1917, mo- tice is hereby given that the under. signed administrator has filed his fin al account, asking that the same be allowed and approved, and that the probate judge of the above named court has set the 18th day of January 1918, as the day for a hearing on said final account; on which day in the office of the above probae court, in Cordova, Alaska, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. any person interested may appear and file objections in writing to said final account and the allowance of the same.
 Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 18th day of November, 1917.
 THOS. S. SCOTT. Administrator of the Estate of J. Y Ostrander, Deceased. [ First publication Nov. 22, 1917 Last publication Dec. Is, 1917.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the Probate Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, Third Division. Val dez Precinct, at Valdez, in Probate. In the matter of the Estate of Robert D. Gray, Deaceased. No. 173. The undersigned, having on the 9Oth day of November, 1917, been appointed executor of the estate of Robert D. Gray, Deceased, notice is hereby given to the creditors of and all persons having claims against de- ceased or his estate, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice to said executor at his office and place of business in Cor dova, Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction of business for said estate in the Territory of Alaska. The~first publication of this notice is published on the 9th day of December, 1917.
 JAMES SMITH Executor of the Estate of Robert D, Gray, Deceased.
 First publication December. 6, 1917 Last publication December 31, 1917.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08
ARCTIC EXPLORER BELIEVED TO
 bE DEAD

DAWSON, Y. T., Dec. 8.-What seems to be a definite indication of the fate of Hubert Darrell, we'll known Arctic explorer and former Klondike miner and prospector, was secured recently on the Arctic coast by Bish- op Stringer. Darrell had travelled, trapped and mined in and about Daw- son for years before going to the Mac kenzie valley. The traces of him were in the vicinity of Anderson riN- CT, eastward from the Mackenzie. Two or three years ago natives brought in word that they had found an inscription on a tree in that local ity which they took to be his farwell message. Bishop Stringer this sum- mer met the natives who saw the in scription and had them show him a copy. They could not read English, but had made a copy of the letters as well as they could. The bishop re- ports that he learned that a camera and other equipment were found which would indicate that Darrell perished after the inscription was written and that at the time of the writing he man was in no danger
 Darrell is supposed to have per ished in the winter of 1910 or 1911. Bishop Stringer spent many hours with the natives who saw him alive. He had his camp on the Anderson river, ten or fifteen mile from the camp of the Eskimos, whom he visit ed for the last time about November 15, 1910. In the following spring a visiting Eskimo found Darrell had left his camp, and on a tree he made a copy of the following inscription:
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-08
Hubert Darrell

Bishop Stringer interprets this to read: 1910 Got frozen in Oct 4th. Leave here today November 24 west ward for Mackenzie river.'' Darrell left his camp and was never seen again. In March, 1916, an Eskimo found his camera and some other ar ticles in cache fifty miles away, and signs of a camp, but the explorers body was not found.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-28
BUTTER! HANDFUL OF MEN IN TINY ROOM IN
ELGIN DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL PAY FOR IT

ELGlIN DEClDE VITA i
BY HONOR TANNING
EIgin, III., Feb. 28.-Whether you
had dinner today in Topeka, Kas., or
in Toxic, Japan, the price of the but
ter you spread on your bread was
fixed in Elgin, III.
If the car of Russia eats butter
with his bread, and they say he does,
EIgin decides just how many kOpecks
he pays.
If a farmer in Connecticut SELLS
butter, Elgin quotations influence the
price he gets; if a hOusekeeper in
Seattle BUYS butter she pays for it
according to quotations made in FL
gin.
From which you will gather that
Elgin cuts some butter in the pro-
duce markets or the world and will
understand why it is called the but
ter capital"
The Elgin butter board, ], 900 miles
from Wall street, tucked away,
third floor back, in a three-stOry Of
flee building in a country town, hits
the front page every now and then
with a splurge that exceedingly an
nOys the board"
I watched half a dozen of them
Elgin dairy farmers and commission
men and a slick young broker or two
from Chicago - when the board"
met last Saturday morning. They
bought butter and sold butter, and
when the ScrimU0a0n was over the
markets Of the world were quoting
butter at the price at which Elgin
closed.
The dairy industry was brought
into Fox valley by New England
farmers, 100 years ago.
In 1871 nineteen farmers and
cheese makers banded together to
find an outside market for their in
creasing products. In March, 1872, |
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-28

! Taking Denmark's butter boards as
a model, pTice-fXing committee of
five was appointed to consider all
bids offered, and decide upon the
official quotation, the 'Elgin price
that would govern butter contracts
for future delivery.
In 1910 Senator Lodge jabbed his
H. c. L. probe right into the price
fixing committee, charging it with
violation Of the Sherman antitrust
law by restraining trade. In April,
1914, the board was enjoined by the
department of justice from quoting
prices puTpOrting to be market
prices unless such prices be those
which have been obtained on said
board by bona fide sales of butter"
The price-fxing committee was
abolished and the direct sales system
adopted. Every sale made is report
ed to the department of justice. The
Elgin quotation is now the majority
quotation made each Saturday on
the call board.
In 1872 Elgin's new board handled
3O,734 pounds of butter The same
board handled in 1914 55,231,342
pounds. In 1872 the value was $751;
900; it now exceeds $18,OOO,OOO.
The boards 300 members repre-
sent almost every state.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-28
Basketball Scores

Basketball Scores
Chicago 25, Northwestern %.
Sem lights IS, Schurz 4.
Sem bantams Is, Waller Is.
Phillips lights Is, Calumet 6.
Phillips bantams Z, Hyde Park 6.
Crane lights 20, EnglewoOd Is.
Bowen bantams SO, TiIden 10.
De La Sale 43, st. Rita II.
De La Sale lights Is, st. Rita z.
Chicago "Y" Sc, Dubuque 20.
w. S. Browns 40, Lewis 10.
st. Simon 20, Atticas 9.
w. Panthers 81, Sonora A c. 13.
-O-O
Halifax. - Frederik WILL, with
Count Won Bernstorff and his party,
sailed last night for Copenhagen.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-16
CANOE VALLEY.
May IL. 1917

May IA, lSli.
Miss Violet Ward closed a success
full term OF school in District No 3
last Friday with picnic. The after
noon was spent in playing games
and other amusements and a pro
gram was given by the children. All
those present enjoyed the day i'm
mensely
Are you going TO the circus? has
been the salutation among most OF
the people the last days
Mr.. and Mrs. John Naryeson visit
ed with the formers parental home
in Spring Water Sunday.
Several from this burg attended the
confirmation exercises II DEBORAH
Sunday.
Mrs. Peter Peterson ard children
came up from DEBORAH Saturday for
an over Sunday visit at the o. p. Oh
son home.
Ole Dotseth came over from Wau-
kon to visit with home folks over
Sunday.
Mrs. Claus Sivertsgaard is visit
ing with her son Andrew Haugen
and family near Cresco at present.
Peter Peterson visited at his par
entail home over Sunday, returning to
DEBORAH again Monday.
Several from here attended the
services in Spring Water Sunday af-
ternOon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-16
VETERINARY DOES HIS BIT.
Saves SiNty-two Yeariing Hcifers For
Breeding Purposes.

Tama, May l4.--Dr. F. NJ. Max
field, veterinary surgeon of Tama,
showed his willingness to do his bit
in food conservation last week when
he was called to perform the oper-
Iation of oyarotomy upon sixty-two
yearling heifers for a south Tama
county farmer. The doctor refused
to perform the operations and offer
ed to find the farmer a buyer for the
heifers at price equal to their value
as beef in order that they might be
saved for breeding purposes. These
heifers will be valuable addition
to the country's food supply next
winter as fresh cows, to say nothing
of the value of the sixty calves thus
saved to do their bit as we'll.
This act of the doctors is consid-
cred as one which ought to be more
common il this country at this
time especially and if the farmers
can only realize the seriousness Of
the food situation none of them
would even consider turning their
heifers into beef.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-16
FOR WIFE DESERTERS.

There is a fellow down IL one or
the central counties of Iowa who ran
afoul of the law recently passed
which in brief says that man can't
assume the responsibilities OF wife
and children and, some bright or
cloudy morning when he happens TO
be in the mood, skip off AID leave
them in the lurch. The chap In
question did this and hiked for Mon
tana. That was several months ago.
The other day he returned to Iowa
for a visit with some Of his relatives
ana was summarily nabbed and put
in iail. 1t looks as If he would get
what was coming to him and the
fair minded person viii agree that ne
ought to. II there is any dastardly'
unhuman trick that any one VINO
wears the masculine garb can perpet-
rate II is marrying a woman, the De-
getting of three or four little cnli-
dren. whose claims make her all the
more unable to look out for herself
and then because of downright lazi-
ness, gambling, booze or worse. just
shocking the whole responsibility
and running away. A fellow who
viii do a trick of this kind ought 10
be exposed to public gaze in the
stocks one day out of every week
for a period of year and the rest OF
the time kept on municipal WOOD
or stone pile and the proceeds of his
labor turned over to those dependent
on him.