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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
WEEKLY REVIEW
Of WAR MOVES
Germans Retreating From the
West Front, But Making
Inroads in italian
Campaign.
BIG CASUALTY LIST
Allied Superiority Is increasingly Ap-
parent With important Develop
ments Expected
Soon.
BIG CASUALTY LIS
LIST

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-While
predicting another strategic retreat
by the Germans on the weet front,
Secretary Of War Bakers weekly war
review today admits that "Italy is
passing through difficult moment
No indication is given as to what
the allied war chiefs may do to re.
lieve the gigantic pressure of Hun
hordes sweeping over the plains OF
Italy. Bakers report apparently was
prepared before the Austro-German
thrust assumed its present critical
proportions. 1t outlines as the fore
most developments of the week the
British and French advances on the
west front.
Anticipating important develop
ments" soon, the report states that
any strategic retirement by the Ger
conditions less favorable than here
tofore.
The allied superiority is increas
fingIy apparent. the statement adds
There Is steady rise in the enemy
casualties.
Russia. Baker adds, is apparently
consolidating her resistance and he
believes the Germans will probably
not try to do more than strengthen
their Riga holdings now.
The statement follows:
Renewed activity prevails in all
theatres of war.
Important developments would
appear to be impending.
"Along the western, eastern and
Italian fronts, in Macedonia, Ru-
mania, Mesopotamia and even in
east Africa, significant operations are
in progress.
'Tt is evident that the allied drives
along the western front are broaden
ing in scope and intensity. The
whole front from the Houthulst wood
through the Passchendaele ridge,
southwark to Lens and on to the
Aisne Is becoming the scene of in
creasingly heavy allied pressure,
which the enemy is withstanding
with difficulty.
"Side by side the French and
British are pushing on through the
Fleming lowlands toward Roulers
'"The enemy, believing he might
find rift in the otherwise impreg-
nable allied line at the point of juno
ton between the Franco-British
forces. directed repeated heavy coun-
ter attacks there. These were re-
pulsed.
while the British attacks during
the past week have been carried out
with imposing effectiveness, it is
apparent that the British command is
in order to gain impor-
.ant tactical advantages at a mini
mum cost.
1.-THE casualties to the enemy are
Using steadily.
SLOWLY the allies are enlarging
heir gains in Flanders, driving into
he heart Of German resistance in
he west.
"The German armies fight on stub
oornly. If any further evidence OF
lllied superiority be needed, it seems
o be supplied by the decisive sue
;esses won by the French during the
,ast week.
"This offensive was launched ON
'ix mile war front near the west
End Of the Chemin Des Danes at
lawn of October 23rd.
General Peain SO well masked his
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
COOK At CAMP
IS spy SUSPECT
Said to Have Sold Plans of
Fort to German Official
for Thousand
Dollars.
MAY LEAD TO OTHERS
Entire German Espionage System on
the Western Coast, May be
Unearthed From
Him,
MAY LEAD TO OTHERS

limited Press Leased Wire Service
| PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 29.-Feder
al investigation of the activities o.
William Dolfen, cook in the Thlrd
Oregon regiment, arrested Saturday
as a spy suspect, has only begun.
This was the statement today OF
local federal authorities. Through &
study Of Dolfen's activities, they
hope to open up the entire German
espionage system on the coast, with
which the army cook is said to have
been connected.
Deputy U. S. Attorney Rankin in.
timated today that a number of prom
inent Germans had already been IN
vestigated. Dolfen is charged with
having sold plans of Fort Roscranz
to a German official in Portland for
$1,000; to have been in the pay Of
Germans while in the army and to
have engaged in pro-German and
treasonable work. Arrests Of those
alleged to be involved in transac-
tions with Dolfen arc now expected.
Dolfen will probably be sent to an
interment camp soon.
PIotters are Sentenced.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-Gustav Jacob
sen, Albert Wehde and George Paul
Boehm, German aliens today were
sentenced to three years imprison-
ment at Leavenworth penitentiary
and fined $4,000 each for conspiracy
to foment a revolution in India
Heramba Lal Gupta, Hindu, con-
victed with them, was given eighteen
months imprisonment and fined 5000.
The three Germans also were SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment for
actual carrying out of the conspiracy,
but the two sentences will be served
Federal Judge Lands. in pronounc-
ing sentence, declared the defend
ants were merely puppets for bigger
men behind them"
Gupta is under indictment on SINH
lar charge in New York and San
Francisco.
Counsel for the defendants took
an appeal.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
Her Husband in Army.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-Mrs. Lefie Tet-
zloff. 25, who was married four
months ago, saw her husband leave
for Fort Sam Houston, Texas, with
the Second Illinois infantry few
weeks later. She had no money with
which to follow him.
Today she lay in morgue, a sui
eide from gas.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
Long Delayed Victory Now AS
sured Since New Ally
Has Arrived.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, Oct. 29.-The British
press came as near rhapsodiZing as
the British ever could be expected to
rhapsodize today over American
troops in French trenches and Amer
lean gunners in action.
All newspapers agreed the news
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
oentral Powers Willing to End
the War, But on Their
Own Terms.

zaed z1,eq Press Leased Wire Service.]
ooro.iCH, Oct. 29.-"The central
reaa,. continue to declare their
psrs,aess for peace; If the enemy
ans a0,s.s - war We will show the power
sApSs.l.'or .orce Of arms" declared the
'an premier. d.. Won Saidler IN
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29
Iowazin Grip of Cold Wave
With .Sn0lu in All Parts
Mercury Took Tumble Last Night and is Expected t
Reach Ten Mark Tonight

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29

Barley gave much better results
than oats as sheep fattening food
in tests conducted by English farm
ers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-29

THE WEATHER
Fair tonight. Warmer Tues
day. Local temp p. m. So;
7 a m. 81.
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The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
tion- Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

boasted that through a promise he made his mother he had never tasted whisky. al though frontiersman. Recently he had attacked the pacifsts at every opportunity, and one of his protests against peace at any price was My Mother Raised Her Boy to Be Soldier written in answer to popu- lar song"
 Before he answered to taps" as he would have phrased it, he had been sick for weeks with complication of diseases, and was kept alive only by his extraordinary constl- tuition. In the words of the Evening Sun:
 "As he lay in bed, i'll from q complication of diseases he got the news that Colonel Cody, with whom he had ridden Tn many a wild charge against the Sioux, had gone over the great divide It depressed him.
 So Bill Cody has goner said Captain Jack I guess they will be sounding taps over me pretty soon. We'll when we meet Tall Bull and that tough old codger, Sitting Bull, on the other side, and stick up our hands palms forward, and say How Kola" there will be lot to talk about "
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THE BRITISH IN MES0POTAMlA

An in the this week that the British have swept the valley of the Tgs for distance of eighty miles north Bagdd" An apparently unmportant statement to be sure that aught with the greatest significance to the struggle which the o the world illustrates than tales of mighty battles the western the dogged persistence and ndobe determination to do which has been responsible for Britan wonderful hold populations of her Eastern possessions and weight to the expressed Britain and her colonies fight the bitter end for the extermnaon of that spirit of Prus nltarism which is the of the world today.
 year ago Townend and his 10000 British and Indian troops starved into surrender Anara almost within sight of Bagdad The blow British prestige in the much because of the surrender of such large because of the fact that British force could be defeated all In the eyes the Teutonc allies the death blow British dominance India and the opening up Ger many of her long cherished scheme of open road from Berlin Bagdad and control of the land route to India.
 But the bulldog tenacy of British statemanshp and British military spirit daunted by failure and when General Mau captured the famed city of Bagdad which Townshend had failed reach he only restored British prestige the East but he put end to German dreams of Indian conquest
 The significance of the British in Mesopotama may be gaugd by the fact that the New York Sun that Bagad
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DEATH OF CAPTAIN JACK"
Literary Digest)

The great scouts who led Custer and the Seventh cavalry into the sagelands or took the dust" of the willy Apache chief Geron- imo are all dead now, for Captain Jack Crawford has followed his friend Buffalo Bill on the long trail. A sketch of his life is printed in the Brooklyn Eagle:
 Captain Crawford had little or no early choolng. When the civil war broke out he was only lad and twice ran away to go to the front but had difficulty in join ing the army on account of his youth, He finally succeeded in enllstlng in the Forty eighth Pennsylvania volunteers and was severely wounded in action. It was while lying wounded in a military hospital in West Philadelphia that Captain Crawford was taught to read by Sister of Charity
 Captain Crawford went West at the close of the war and was long engaged as a gov ernment scout, later becoming chief of scouts under General Custer at the time of the massacre, but it is said that at that time he was on his way to Clusters head quarters with dispatches, having made one of the longest and most dangerous rides in the history of Indian warfare in carrying the messages. Later he played an active part in the pursuit of Sitting Bull"
 When the red-fannel shirts and predatory Indians of the West gave place to linen collars and taxi-drivers, Captain Jack turned his attention to verse and the lecture plat form. speaking and writing of the men he had known and the events he had shared The New York Evening Sun remarks of this portion of his career:
 Picturesque of appearance, Captain Craw- ford was best known for his stories and poems perhaps the most famous of the latter being Rattlng Joes Prayer He was a familiar figure on lecture platforms and was a staunch prohibitionist. He
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RARE POLITICAL DOCUMENT
 GIVEN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

SEATTLE, March 3l.-The original man uscript copy of the political call which re suited ill the birth of the present Repub lcan party, in Jackson, Mich, July 6. 1854, has just been given to the University of Washington museum by Mrs Maude F. Nc Vickner of Victoria, B. c.
 The historic document is written on fools cap, faintly tinted with the yellow of age and beginning to crumble along the edges from the handling 1t has endured for sixty two years The writing, sg;ii clearly Iegi- ole Is done in careful, painstaking hand
 Inasmuch as this instrument IS the only political document of it's kind known to be in the West, Curator Frank s. Hall of the state university museum thinks it has con siderable value.
 A typewritten copy of the call and pho tographs of some of the principal men talk g part in the first Republican conven- ton accompanied the manuscript gift.
 The principal photograph is that of Charles V. Deland. who was secretary of the convention which formulated and cir culated the call for the meeting of dele gates to create a new party.
 The document now in possession of the university is written in DeIands hand. lie was at the time of the convention a special writer on the Toledo Blade Among the several other photographs is ne of Austin Blair, in whose office in Jack Il tba early conferences were held among 'he men who were dissatisfied with the ex- lsting political p9rtIes,
 The donor of the collection was formerly 9 reporter in the Middle West, and worked VI many Of the big papers. She has col, lec;ed the data on the founding of the Re r5lcan party and turned it over to the university.
 A newspaper clipping published in 1879 in the Detroit Post and Tribune, on the twenty-ffth anniversary of the nartys birth, : amonc the articles in the collection.
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Advertising Rates on Application
THE STRANGER WITHIN OUR GATES

Appeals to the people fobear from act of suspicion aggression against aliens the event o war nave been by the Council of National Defense This council recently body empowered by and backed by the President put Amecas house in order, nualy economically and individually declares that the here at this time of perhaps SOOOOOO aliens deeply and obery to be weighed"
 Through w. S. Clifford director of the council the following statement was made foresa bitter dssenons of arising from acts of passion
 The Council of National Defense touches the life of the
 nation at practically every point In the words of the
 get creating $ charged merely with the conccil
 ratioi and utilization of the resources of the nation It
 is its equal duty times of stress mobilize good will
 within our borders forestal bitter di>senons of race
 of individuals arising from acts o passiol and Tn every
 way to the national unity.
 and personal liberty, of holding all persons within the land
 loyal unless by their acts they shall prove the
 contrary, call upon all citizens, Ii utowaTd events
 should ccne upon us present these lens many Of
 whom will be Americans attitude of neither
 suspicion nor aggresslyeneSs.
 We urge upon all Americans meet these millions of
 foreigIborn with unchanged manner and with nNr''d-
 iced rind Any other Is unworthy ot our 'raduonS
 and against public policy and ti i''c '" o governments" The above advice of the Council of National Defense sound and logical American citizens should be the last yrannlze others because of nationality As rule they 1oo" rigiousy the taught by democratic institutions dealing with they find him If there should be dscord American citizens and oreignborn residents the chances greatly belief that will be brought about 
 HOT encouraged by American citizens.
 But the advice of the council does far enough few
 words of council advice should have been bestowed aliens who are temporarily permanently sOourrng midst They should kindly and orceiuy told that they enoyhg the benefits of American government and institutions and that the United allegiance sovereign but the people them selves long they obey the laws they will receive the same treatment though they citizens that If govern nnt and institutions epugnant them they should conceal the fact until troublou when listen criticism and with patience and tolerance; that Ii they sappove officials and adnlnlstra o place express such sentiments the pvacy ot their own homes and the hearing of whose loyalty to their country may prompt them forget wise admonlons ot tolerance patience that while this of free speech speech does the license of an bred tongue Above a they should be gently but firmly made to that this country and be theirs also should they prove themselves worthy.
 With thorough understanding along these lines there should little necessity the adoption of the resoe to in European dealing with foreigners This free country should be the purpose a foreigners well citizens 0 keep free.
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EFFICIENCY AND CONCEPT
l.Tllneau Ennire ]

Germany's offer to give Japan all the United States west of the Rocky mountains in return for her aid in fighting the United States, besides being very generous, causes one to wonder to whom she has given Can ada and Madagascar, Siberia and Scotland. IL also causes one to wonder what German statesmen have meant when they have said Germany has DO designs on the map of the world.
 But it also conveys another lesson, and enc that counts for much that has tran spired since that "six weeks for France. six months for Russia and year for England purpose was announced It tells us that with the development of that German eff ciency was developed conceit and self centeredness that has caused the densest sort of ignorance of conditions beyond her borders Her statesmen were firmly con- vinced that there were enough German- born people in this country to take care of the United States in an emergency until Bernstortf sent Dernberg to Berlin, who only half convinced them that there was a national spirit in America. They expected the German-Amercan voters to defeat Will sen for reelection and make America sn ally, little dreaming there could be two presidential candidates in the United States who were both for America first"
 But not only has Germany been blind to actual conditions in the United States but she has been likewise elsewhere. She was convinced that Britain's colonies would not support the mother country. She con fdently expected the active assistance of the Boers She was certain that Ireland would rebel She little dreamed that colo nists by the hundreds of thousands and colonsts' money by the hundreds of millions would pour into the fight She was dum- founded when the Boers instead of revolt ing, sailed forth and captured German Southwest Africa She probably does not sealize yet that hundreds of thousands of irish officers and privates are pounding her front in France. Germans have thought so much of themselves and admired themselves 70 greatly that they have not had time to
 knowledge of others. They have taken 1t for granted that all patriotism, all wis dom, all efficiency and all kutur are in Ger many. The rest of the world was made to furnish trade for German industry and an audience for German performance
 Job Printing at The pionper ofica
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

Contrary statements recently made that many 500 newspapers and periodicals in the United States had to suspend publication during 1916 because of inability the high produco the years record compiled by the 1917 American Newspaper Annual and Directory does show it. According this authority there BAY publications the United than there the beginning of 916 The total Der aies the United States and Canada 26G6 The Southern made the biggest the number of dMes s,lyng twenty the gross of the United States England the Western and the Pacific slope states These gains offset by suspensions of two dv papers York the middle Atlantic and five in the Middle West.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

Charles A. Suer delegate in congress from Alaska gave out
 statement the people of the territory the o his de take his congressional york; winch was III part as follows: am leaving labor for Alaska along the lines set forth in the platform upon which elected Alaska for Alas kans in it's application and for other things for which we fought and live today Ii to serve the people the territory the best of ability and my earnest hope that people will keep fully advised from p sections as to their needs the representative of all the
 one and not standard bearer of any political and have cooperation of 2 regret that circumstances force me before ending term in the senate
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DEATH OF W. D. WOOD

" D. Wood, former mayor of Seattle and one of ;he early pioneers of that city, died in Seattle on March 23 He was at the lead of the Humboldt expedition to the klondike in 1897, and was well known by hundreds of Alaskans
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

Much will be felt by the friends of Dan SutheI land that he should have made such spectacle ot himself in the legislative halls at Many who voted for Dan be cause be good fellow had nIsgvlngs as to nls oualhca
 tons as legislator And these mgvings have been more than e nfrned public who calls into question the integrity m the courts should have more solid grounds than have been qarent from anything that Sutherland has said
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tenod the the world today that has Verun Ger
 many both" Another New York paper the Globe says that impossible that the future historian will say that the turning point of the came not France the Kar pahan front Salonka but far away desert Meso pOtamia.
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GRAYSOM CONFIRMED

Dr, Grayson, President Wilson's medical aid who was promoted to be medical di rector of the navy, with the rank of rear admiral was confirmed by the senate on March Is, according to Washington dis hatch
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

Confirmation belief that should Germany have been sue ccsu over the allies the United States would have been the next nation t be attacked by the mad Pussn unkers found m
 recent ut erance German newspaper the hoelnlsche Nok Zeiurg have aways mantalned says the ne"spaI er that victory over England would be impossible unless we also determined to face America This has arrived an American declaration of war arrives the German people will accept with the eternnaton and confidence with winch they nave accepted ell previous declarations
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REVERIES OF A BACHELOR

At times beside the chcery blaze, When Care and l are leagues apart, A gentle phantom steals and lays A tender hand upon my heart. Then, nestling closer beckons where A smaller phantom laughs and crows. wake and wonder; life is fair, And glad, and free, and yet-who knows
 Life
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

There has been considerable speculation to how the President came into of the details of the plot by which Germany attempted embro the United States with Mexico ana Japan while still maintaining friendly relations with ths country
 dispatch from Houston, Texas, gives what purort to be the facts in the fellows Four commissioned officer three of the First Indiana infantry and not service arrested the messenger of nbasadof No en route City deliver the Zimmerman note Won khard German minister to Mexico This has just beer learned who helped make the arrest and their story is fully substantated.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

The new Russian government has officially proclaimed the ab scue couaty of Jews of the country with all ot flssla other inhabitants This taken that the persecution o the Jews in Russia at end According the proclamation issued as stated cable received at the Russian en- basv in Wrgton may hold property and live any where they please They also serve 1n the army and navy d be country and share in educational and political ad vantages The proclamation hailed of the great events in Jewish history
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-04-28

The Anaconda Standard offers that The Colonel and his four lick the kaiser and his six oughand- tumble rules to govern There those hereabou who will go the Montana newspaper better and offer odds and let the i H0henzolern outfit choose the rules.