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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
Trend of Prices
Is Downward,

Is DOWnWard,
Food Administrator Says
The downward turn in the high
prices of food commodities announc
ed by the food administration ap.
plies to wholesalers and jobbers on.
ly.
While scarcely perceptible at this
time, it is freely predicted that by
the first of next January the effects
of the downward trend will be ma.
terial. 1t is up to the retailers. to
keep in line with any drop in prices,
the food administration says.
Shows Duties
of Photographers
Called from Newspapers
The release of experts for work in
the American army is asked of news
papers and newspaper syndicates.
The men are wanted for photograph
ic work in laboratories or in motor
lorries close behind the lines of the
air forces.
Candidates for this work are asked
10 write the Signal Corps, Photo
graphic division, Washington, or to
enlist at their nearest recruiting of
ice as in the signal corps. There
will be brief period of training for
those accepted, who will become the
foundation of the laboratory force
he army must build up.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
W. s. CHARLES TELLS OF
LIFE AT CAMP LEWIS.

Many persons who have been false
ly impressed concerning the moral
and physical condition of the SOL
diers at Camp Lewis, American Lake
were enlightened as to the real facts
of the case by Mr.. w. S.Charles, rep
resentative of the Spokesman Re.
view, who stopped over here COUP
lie of days last week on his way
lome from the coast. Mr.. Charles
aas been to American Lake where
ne went into the matter thoroughly.
he related the following story to the
Dispatch editor while in Coulee
City:
"Since coming to Coulee City l
have heard it rumored that the moral
conditions at the Camp Lewis Can
tonment are bad and that they are
lot as they should be. Having spent
>ne week among the various bar
'acks just recently at Camp Lewis,
md having come in close touch with
10Th the officers and men of the
'anks | wish to brand any such re-
,ort as absolutely false and without
my foundation whatever. The camp
under strict military discipline;
lean and sanitary in every respect
nd all conditions are carefully look
d into which concerns either the
.ealth of the general welfare of the
5000 young American soldiers in
raining there.
Any mother, sister, wife or friend
# soldier who wishes to visit them
will be carefully looked after and
ire as safe in every respect as If
hey were in their own community.
he military authorities are train
ng the men to be not only soldiers
,ut American Gentlemen in every
aspect and knowing the quality of
lie men who are serving there under
rms for the cause of liberty l can
afely assure all parents or others
oncerned that this rule will be car
ed out according to Americas high
st ideals.
The camp is under command of
eneral Green, a true American,
)ldier of long standing and thor
ugh Christian man as well. He has
leared the camp of immoral women
nd also Tacoma. Furthermore Gen.
raj Green has made it known to
layor Gill of Seattle that unless the
anne conditions exist in that city
lat he will take steps to clear it of
he menace himself by issuing an
rder to the soldiers of Camp Lewis
refrain from entering the city.
AS veteran of the Spanish-Amer-
an War and one who has been thru
amp life and campaigns, will say
lat the soldiers in Camp Lewis are
ne finest body of men l have ever
cen in one military camp, and are
cling housed, fed and cared for
lille in training in modern and
loroughly scientific way. Any ru-
lor to the contrary is absolutely
alse and without grounds"
Mr. Charles ended by saying that
.atements to the effect that boys in
aiming camps were contracting dis
ases in great numbers was absolute
untrue and that those spreading
uch rumors were violating military
aw and liable to prosecution.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
Adequate Supply
of Coal for Winter
Ia Promised

Is frOmlSed
Fear of a scarcity of coal becomes
more pronounced as winter ap-
proaches. The language used by DR..
Garfield, national fuel administrator
to the striking miners and their en-
ployers, admits of but one interpre-
tation-that an adequate coal supply
will be maintained. DR.. Garfield
says:
American citizens engaged in the
mining of coal, whether operators or
miners are, for the most part, mind
full of the fact that our country is al
war and that the burden rests upon
them to produce coal needed without
interruption. But there are evident
ly some who fail to understand the
gravity of the situation and who do
not hesitate to advocate strikes al
the present time as a means of fore
ing the government to at once decide
whether the wage increase agreed tc
at the meetings recently held in
Washington should justly be covered.
by an advance in the prices fixed b,
the president.
II am giving close attention to th.
question and hope to reach decis-
ion at an early date.
"If either the operators or the min
ers attempt to bring pressure upon
me to reach decision, l shall post
pone it and use whatever powers are
necessary to compel the production
OF coal to meet the country's needs. :
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
eeks work.
Fifth and Sixth Grades

4AbAk &hO OAAsh 0A ooSS
The following received 100 in spell
ing: Frances CARED, Verlie Barry
Mildred Davis.
Ruth Jones is back again after sew.
eral days absence ON account of ill.
ness.
The sixth grade gave Halloween
party to the fifth grade.
The sixth grade put up their colors
on the side of the room Monday
morning and the fifth, not to be out
done, put up the Blue and Red Tues
day..
Third and Fourth Grades.
Jessie Davidson is absent on ac-
count of illness this week.
Come in and see our cats and
witches.
Mrs. S. H. DePue visited school one
day this week.
George Lowary is out of school
on account of bad burn received
last week.
Ivy Gill is absent this week.
Primary
The members of the second grade
have started their silhouette book,
and are working with Halloween
figures.
The equipment for the kindergar-
ten room is on the way and when
t arrives the little folks will have
a separate room which will help
hem greatly.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
WEEKLY WAR NEWS.
and other institutions.

and other institutions.
Approximately $4,000 tons of ma,
terials are now being distributed
monthly from these warehouses.
large proportion of these supplies is
received directly from the United
States. Owing to the great shortage
OF ocean tonnage, large quantities of
supplies have been purchased in
France.
Plans are now under way to in
crease the warehouse facilities of the
commission at French seaports. AT
present these are very limited.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody had seen silo.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Cream was cents pint.
CantaloupeS were muskmelons.
Milk shake was a favorite drink.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
You never heard of "tin Lizzie"
Doctors wanted to see your tongue
The hired girl drew one-fifty
week.
Farmers came to town for their
mail.
Nobody Listened in" on the tele-
)hone.
Nobody cared for the price of gas
oline.
FOLKS SAID pneumatic tires were q
joke.
The butcher threw in" chunk
of liver.
Straw stacks were burned instead
of baled.
People thought English sparrows
were birds"
There were no sane Fourths, nor
electric meters.
Jules Verne was the only convert
to the submarine.
Publishing country newspaper
was not a business.
You stuck tubes in your ears to
hear phonograph and it cost dime
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
ATABOY!

AlAbO1!
The Kaiser aims the world to own,
He'd like to boss it all alone,
And rule the wave from zone to
zone
But can the Kaiser?
He'd like to stamp Democracy
Forevermore from land and sea,
And make earth's motto "Gott und
me-"
But can the Kaiser?
Not much! Your Uncle Sans the
man
To knock the tar from such plan
And so, in plain American
It's CAN the Kaiser!
Ella Bentley Arthur-From the New
Puck.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01
Thirteen Red Cross
Warehouses Now Behind

French Lines
To serve the American troops and
the hundreds of war hospitals now
behind the French firing line, and to
reach the thousands of refugees, the
Red Gross commission to France
has established a system of Is large
warehouses throughout France.
Six of the warehouses have been
located in Paris, which serves as the
center of the system. The others are
located outside the capital, and from
these supplies are distributed by mo-
tor trucks and wagons to hospitals
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01

Sergeant (to red-raw recruit:
Now, my man, your job this morning
will be to clean up the Officers Mes,
R. R. r. G'wan, let i'm clean j
up 'isself.
From the New Puck.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01

Seattle's shipyard strike has foi
the present, at least, been settled
and the men have returned to work
pending the final decision of the
Shipping Board of the Government
as to the wages to be paid. The
strike is likely to be renewed as
soon as the decision of the Board is
announced, for the local employees
struck in the hope of obtaining the
high wage paid by the Skinner-Eddy
Corporation, which captured fat con
tracts for ships and was enabled to
pay its employees the highest scale
of wages on the Pacific Coast. The
employees of the other shipyards de-
manded similar wages, and when
their demands were denied, went
out. The U. S. Shipping Board,
whose representatives came to Sc
attic and took testimony from strik-
ers and shipbuilders on the subject
of wages, will announce its decision
shortly, and it is reported that the
Board will favor a compromise wage
instead of the Skinner-Eddy scale
In case such decision is rendered
it is questionable if the men will be
satisfied, and another strike will ir
all probability be the result.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-01

SEATTLE.-The cry of a hos
shortage in the Pacific Northwes,
has gone out and so serious is the
situation that the Seattle committee
OF the U. S. Food Administration has
taken up the matter by telegraph.
with Food Commissioner Hoover a,
Washington. That the Commission
er is we'll aware of the threatene,.
hog shortage throughout the entire
U. 5. was proven during the past
week when he gave out an inter-
view urging the people of the United
States to husband their pork supply
and to do everything in their power
to stimulate hog growing. Ships
wheat and hogs are the great needs
of the present war, declares the Con
missioner. every pound of fat,
he declares, "iS as sure of service
as every bullet and every hog is OF
greater value to the winning of this
war than a she'll" Pork products
he says, are more needed by the al,
lies than beef. The Commissioners
further points out that the shortage
of hogs in America will mean high.
er average price for pork products
and therefore it would be to the
final advantage of every farmer to
raise more hogs. "We need keep.
a-pig movement in this country
said the Commissioner in his state.
ment to the public.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
HURT IN AN AUTO MIX-UP
Frank Hennessey and Casper
Heinzman Shaken Up In
Collision

Two automobiles were damaged and
a lamp post was smashed to pieces in
a collision that occurred last evening
on North Front street at the corner
where the Hugo shirt factory is To-
Gated. Frank Hennessy was driving a
Ford up Elm street and was turning to
go up Front. Caspar HeinZman was
also in this car. Another and larger
car was being driven up Front street
by an agent of the self-starter appa-
ratus. In some way the large car col
lided with the Ford and the Ford was
dashed into the lamp post. The lamp
post was broken and fell on the top of
the Ford, crushing it in. The wind
shield of the Ford was broken. The
iron post hit Hennessy in the foot.
Hennessy also got a piece of glass in
his eye, and had a doctor remove it.
Heinzman received cut in the head.
The large car was also somewhat
damaged.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
FORDS FOUND GUILTY
Faribaut Newspaper Folk Sentenced
to Pay $500; Jail Also.

Faribaut Newspaper Folk Sentenced
to Pay $500; Jail. Also.
E. B. and Elizabeth Ford, indicted
for printing disloyal utterances tend
ing to discourage enlistment in The
Referendum, Faribault, were declared
guilty by a jury Wednesday night and
sentences of $500 fine and twelve
months in the county Jail were i'm
posed. The trial of Ed. Bosky, one
of the editors of The Referendum will
be taken up next.
The article for which Ford and his
wife were indicted and convicted for
printing was as follows:
1--WE read every day in the criminal
capitalistic press about what heroes we
have in the war. We fail to see how
men are heroes who voluntarily stand in
trenches and shoot one another to death
to protect the property of the kaiser. the
king of England the car of Russia eft
al ard the American Rockerfcllcrs and
been taught and their children are being
taught in school, church, college and
press. and it is a lie!'
Assistant Attorney General J. e. Pal
mer conducted the case for the state
with the assistance of county attorney.
James p Mcmahon. On the witness
stand Mrs. Ford stated that she owned
the paper, wrote the article and was re-
SDOiiSiuie III every way lOF the dcl
In his final address Mr.. Palmer re-
lentlessly scored Ford for allowing his
wife to take the blame for the deed. He
chara cterized the act as one solely to
win the sympathy of the Jury and brand
ed Ford as coward and a sneak.
The jury was out on the case approx
mately three hours and when they re-
turned Judge Childress imposed the
this offense. 1t is not known whether or
not Attorney Phillips of Minneapolis.
representing the defendants in the case
will carry an appeal to the supreme
court. City ttorney Lucius Smith of
Faribault was an assistant counsel for
the defense.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
MURDER IS CHARGED.
AGAINST THE WOMAN
Mrs. Katie Alters Placed On
Trial For Shooting Phil
{. Tucker
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch

Dallas, Tex, December 3.-Mrs.
Katie Alters, alias Mrs. Katherine
Trayers, was placed on trial here to-
day charged with the murder of Phil
E. Tucker, a Dallas broker, who was
shot and instantly killed October 81
on crowded downtown street Mrs.
Alters also is under indictment for
killing Miss Myrtle Cunningham, stem
ographer in fuckers office. who was
fatally wounded at the time Tucker
met death. Miss Cunningham died in
hospital November s, without having
regained sufficient strength to make a
statement concerning the cause of the
tragedy. The latter charge against Mrs.
Alters, is to be tried later.
Mrs. Alters surrendered Immediate
ly after the shooting and, according to
the police, told them in substance, the
following story as to the cause Of the
shooting: She did not intend to shoot
Miss Cunningham, but the latter
jumped between Mrs. Alters and
Tucker just as the first shot was fired.
Mrs. Alters came from Shreveport
about two years ago with Tucker, who
promised to marry her. Tucker had
spent $4,000 of her money but then had
treated her coldly and on sevcrci o.
casions had publicly sneered at her.
On the afternoon of October 81 she
had been told Tucker and Miss Cum
ningham were to be married Novem-
Der %; later in the evening she met
the couple on the street and the
shooting followed almost Immediately
without a word having been spoken.
The first shot struck Miss Cunning
ham and the second bullet pierced
fuckers heart, Miss Cunningham, who
was twenty eight years old, came to
Dallas two years ago from Indiana,
Pa and was highly respected. Tucker
was born at Fort Worth, thirty six
years ago and had lived at various
times at Corpus Christi. Fort Worth,
Shreveport, La, and Dallas.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
CHARGED WITH sEDiTlON
Number of People Living Near San
born Are Under EaaIe Eve.

Number of People Living Near San
bern Are Under Eagle Eye.
Sanborn, Mimi, November 30.-No
less than fifteen cases of sedition
have been reported from the vicinity
of Sanborn and are under inyestiga-
ton by the department of justice in
st. Paul. At least ten of the cases
are complete with sworn affidavits
from witnesses, and wholesale arrests
may be expected at any time.
The parties against whom cases
have been prepared include business
men, village officials, women, farmers
and retired farmers. The complaints
charge such utterances as slandering
the Red Cross by words and with
written poetry, calling the president
fool and the congressman a bunch of
murderers, disturbing church services
allowing disloyalty meetings in bust
ness places several of which may be
closed or their proprietors arrested
and obstructing the sale of Liberty
bonds.
Much of the evidence has been
gathered by government agents who
have been working here off and on
for the past six months. A few more
complaints from this vicinity will
cause the department to prepare
warrants for all the cases completed
and place the warrants in the hands
of the six deputy sheriffs who were
appointed iii Sanborn some time ago
for immediate service. The govern
ment recognizes no relationship, no
class nor creed, and all will be treat
ed alike regardless of their standing
in this community.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
MAY LOSE HIS RIGHT EYE
Harry Houske of Winnebago
Was Hit In Optic BY Piece
Of Wire

Master Harry Houske, seven year
old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Houske
of Winnebago suffered an unfortunate
accident on the evening of Thanks
giving day, which may result in the
loss of his right eye. The little fellow
was running along the sidewalk with
his sled. intending to fasten it to the
back of the wagon driven by his faith
er. AS he hurried along he got en-
tangled in a portion of woven wire
fence which protruded over the walk,
and piece of the wire re- bounded and
struck him in the eye. He was taken
to a physician in Winnebago for
treatment, and was brought to Man
kato for treatment by an eye special
list today. The pupil of the eye was
badly injured, and it is feared the
sight is totally destroyed
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
DEATH TAKES MRS. HARTiG
She Had Been Resident of Mankato

she 7ao Been Resident OF Mankdto
Since 1873: Aued Lady.
Mrs. Caroline Hartig passed away
Saturday night shortly after nine
o'clock, death being caused by all
ments attendant upon old age, having
been seriously i'll since Thursday
night. She died at the home of her
son and daughter-in law. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Hartig, 921 North Front
street where she had been cared for
during her declining days.
Deceased was born August 10, 1888,
in Mecklenburg, Schwerein, Germany
and came to America with her hus-
band in 1878. They lived at Daven-
port, Ia, for some time, and moved
to Mankato in 1884, the family hav-
ing made their home in this city
since then. Mr.. Hartig died fifteen
years ago.
The surviving relatives are two
sons and daughter, Fred and Charles
Hartig, Mankato; and Mrs. Henry
Sennern of Willow Creek, N. Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sennern have arrived in
the city, and Mr. and Mrs. V. S.
Schippel of Westbrook will arrive in
time to attend the funeral.
Services will be held at the resi-
dence tomorrow afternoon at lis
o'clock and at 1:45 o'clock in the
German Lutheran church. Rev. A.
F. Winter, the pastor, will Officiate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
GOES TO THE STATE Pen
Arthur N. Graft of Truman Was
Handed Sentence at
Fairm0nt

Arthur N. Graft of Truman, con-
the age of eighteen, was sentenced to
the state penitentiary by Judge c. E.
Dean. The limit for the offense is sew
en- years and the minimum one day in
Jail.
Linda Kitzerow, convicted with
Homer Bursell on charge of conspir-
acy to induce Bertha Schwartz, the
complaining witness against Graft, to
leave the jurisdiction of the court, was
sentenced to ninety days in the county
Jail. The sentence was suspended on
the provision that for the next year
she shall not communicate with Bur-
sell in any way.
Bursell, also convicted of conspir-
acy, was fined $780,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
CONDEMNED SIM FEINERs
John Dillon Made Verbal Attack On
The Organization.

John Dillon Made Verbal Attack On
The Organization.
Dublin, November .-[Correspon-
dence of The Associated Press. T.
John Dillon, nationalist member of the
house of commons, addressing the
Ancient Order of Hibernians in Dub
lin recently condemned the Sim
Feiners for alternating the sympathy
of the United States from the Irish
cause" The friendship and support
of the Americans in Ireland's struggle
for liberty was their greatest asset,
he said.
But what was happening in Ameri-
ca today filled him with horror.
Friends and supporters of the Sim
Feiners in Ireland, he said were now
charged with treason to the flag, and
with entering into combination with
Germany to defeat America. He
was deeply convinced that the Irish
race in America would take steps i'm
mediately to disassociate the name of
Ireland from such conduct.
5 Nobody, said Mr. Dillon, could
exaggerate the fatal character of the
policy of undertaking to make Ireland
republic, and first step in that
career, quarreling with the United
States and turning on the flag which
was the dearest to the Irish race of
any flag in the world.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
SLAIN BY HIS own HAND
EIgin, Minn., Man Reported to
Have Committed Suicide;
He Shot Self
From Mondays Daily.

Rochester, December 3.-Frank
Schmiedeberg met death at Elgin by
a gunshot wound. The affair hap
pened in his own home in the village.
Whether it was suicidal or accidental
was not known by those interested in
the family according to report.
Mr.. Schmiedeberg had worked in
the hardware store, where he was en-
ployed during, the afternoon. He left
there and went to his home. At four
o'clock the shot was fired. At eight
o'clock Mr.. Schmiedebery died.
One version of the affair was that
Mr.. Schmiedeberg had quarrel with
his family when he returned home.
1t was said that he threatened to shoot
up the house, but the family escaped
before harm came to them. He then
shot himself
Schmiedeberg was a man about
fifty years old, and is survived by his
wife and two daughters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-12-07
PATRON CRIED CAKE
Disturbance At Grand Theatre During
Perform ance Yesterday Afternoon. J.

Disturbance At Grand Theatre During
Performance Yesterday Afternoon
During the showing of the picture
Grand theatre yesterday afternoon, when
the scene of the German soldier Selling
the child away from the arms of the
mother and the mother killing herself
was being enacted, a voice was heard
uttering disparaging remarks about the
picture. 1t is understood that this voice
announced that the picture was a fake
and not rue representation. There was
some connection. and Leo Honetschlager
vas escorted by The police up to the Of
fee of Judge w. L. Comstock of the dis
trict court. The police also took hold
of Louis Christensen, who boards at the
Honetschlaeger place, and Fred Schwartz.
the police station. Honetschlaeger was
the only one of the three who had a
talk with Judge Comstock.
1t has. been learned that nothing Of
fetal in regard to the matter was done
in the district court.