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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-03
Best Present This Season VIII
be Five Dollar War Saw
ings Certificate.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.-A con-
certed assault on all extravagant and
useless Christmas buying will be
part Of the gigantic war thrift cam
paign to be started shortly by the
treasury department.
Frank A Vanderlip, president of
the largest bank In America, now
the dollar-a-year director of the two
billion dollar issue of war saving
certificates, will drive home to the
people the Importance of buying yule-
tide gifts on strict economy basis
A spirited educational and patriotic
campaign to have the SIS certificates
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'aake Has Not Been Called
xet, Although Hour Was
Set Several Times.

onited Press Leased Wire Service ]
onss. saN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.-The
t,s,ion te,oaln OF government seizure of
|teiephone II lines in five Pacific states
|ofRc;.,eer 10 end the dispute between
|re,aars ol the Pacific Telephone and
|and &c apn Co.. and their employees
|phona assure uninterrupted tele-
|hands service, rested today in the
rus OF President Wilson.
|ma,un oWing the expiration of an ulti-
|panr = issued by him to the COM
b united States Mediator Werner
[Lahnr w., representing Secretary Of
tarv wilson, telegraphed the secre-
linz ,h ast night urgently recommend
'nat the plants. properties and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-03
PRICE OF MILK
IS REDUCED
Chicago People Getting it Now
Two Gents Less Per Quart
Than They Former
ly Paid.
GOVERNMENT STEPS IN
Farmers Strike Ended by Mediation
and the Consumer, for Once,
Gets the Best
Of 1t.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servlce.1
CHICAGO, Nov 3.-Peace has been
declared in Chicago's milk war
and the consumer gets the best of 1t.
He will get milk for twelve cents a
quart until January first, as the re-.
suit of an agreement reached last
night by big Chicago dealers and the
Milk Producers association, repre-
senting 5000 farmers in northern
Illinois and Indiana, southern Wis
consin and southwestern Michigan.
This Is a reduction OF one to two
cents a quart.
The conference was referred by
Harry A. Wheeler, Illinois food ad.
ministrator. He induced the farmers
to accept wholesale price at 1922
a hundred pounds for their milk dur
ing November and December. Begin
ming January first the price will be
set by the food administration. If It
is found the farmers lost money dur.
ing those two months, they will be
granted an adequate increase, to be
spread over the ensuing period unti'
July first.
The farmers Strike" which threat
ened milk famine in Chicago, was
the result of price war with the
dairymen. In October, the produc-
ers' association raised the wholesale
price to $342 which necessitated an
increase by the dealers to Is and IA
cents a quart retail. At the expira-
ton of the October contract, the
farmers demanded a big increase,
averaging $3.71. The dealers re-
fused to pay more than SO. The farm
ers generally withheld their product,
declaring they would feed it to the
hogs rather than sell at the dealers
price The result was that only
about twenty per cent Of Chicago's
normal supply was delivered yester-
day and the day before.
Food Prices Reduced.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Retall
food prices in the United States have
decreased an average of ten per cent
from the high water mark reached in
May and June, it is officially an
nounced today.
Meat prices are dropping and Of
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Watch Your Step!
Burlington Hawk-Eye: II your ma
tionality is hyphenated, be sure and
stand on the sunny side of the hyph-
en-.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-03
|GETT|NG READY
T TO RETREAT AGAIN
German Forces are Withdrawn
From High Ground of
Ladies Highway in
France.
WEDGE SINKS DEEPER
Hindenburg Line Split so Deep That
strategic Retreat" Is
Expected to
Occur.
WEDGE SINKS DEEPER

lUn1ted Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LONDON. Nov. 3-Withdrawal of
German forces from the high ground
of the Chemin Des Danes, officially
announced in last nights Berlin war
office report, may forecast another
general strategic retreat" on the
western front.
The full extent of the German with
drawal in the Aisne sector was not
apparent today. The operation, how
ever, was hailed by observers here
as a bloodless victory by General
Petain, which may prove to be OF
tremendous import.
The last French drive Of ten days
ago, inserted 2 wedge at the very
base of the Hindenburg line. where
Siegfred line. The Chemin Des
Danes (Ladies Highway runs al
most east and west. The German
line takes sharp turn no1thward
from near Anizy to LaFere. The
French struck successfully on this
corner, making great gains toward
Laon and menacing both the north
line and the east and west line.
The west battle front today, with
the various dents made therein by
the recent British and French Of.
fensives in Flanders and the Aisne
sector, curves and twists more than
II has for year. Such curving,
twisting front requires many more
men than a straight line It would
not be surprising, therefore, in view
of Germany's need for men, that her
high command should stage STRAIT
egic retreat" all along the whole line
from the sea to Laon in an effort to
shorten the front and save men.
Great Advance Made.
PARIS, Nov. 3.-Occupation Of
Courtecon. Cerny, Allies and Chew
reux in French advance over a
frontage Of thirteen miles on the
Chemin Des Danes was announced by
the war Office today as the result of
the German retreat from the Aisne
sector.
Owing to pressure by the French
infantry and crushing effect of the
French artillery, the Germans have
evacuated the Chemin Des Danes" :"
the statement said.
THE French have advanced over a
front OF twenty kilometers and to a
depth of one kilometer (two-thirds Of
mile)."
TChevreux Courtecon. Cerny and
ALLIES, now occupied by the French,
are all beyond the Chemin Des Danes
road and the ridge, on the way to
Laon. The cities form chain all
approximately eight miles due south
of Laon and from Courtroom, on the
west, to Ehevreux, on the east, the
total front they represent being about
nine miles.
Some of the most intense fighting Of
the war has centered about Cerny
and Allies. The French took the line
of the Chemin Des DANES here after
repeated assaults and hardly a week
passed from that time until General
Petain's victorious assault far to the
west ten days ago, that the Germans
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Military Outlook Not so Bad
Even if New Republic
Has Decided to Take
Rest.
STRONGER NEXT SPRING
All Energies to be Bent on Cultivating
the FruIts Of Revolution,
Then Look to Her
Army.

[By Robert J. Bender, United Press
Staff Correspondent
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Food Prices Reduced.

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/ The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
,;on- Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-23
PEARY ASKS
BIG AIR NAVY

Contrasting Americas 10 army
and navy aeroplanes with the TO-
900 craft in use by each of the
largest warning European nations
L-Germany. France and Great
Britain-Robert E. Peary, rear ad-
miral of the U. s. navy and chair
man OF the National Aerial Coast
Patrol commission, today issued an
emphatic appeal for more aircraft
for this country, through the Army
and Nav News.
Peary Is now on the Pacific
coast In the interests of a larger
CIR fleet for this country. He will
be In Tacoma within two weeks to
visit the American lake army post
ute, with view to recommending
that the government establish a big
cir corps there.
Vac discoverer of the North Pole
declares that the airship division
pf We governments defense should
be under single head, instead of
being divided between the army
And navy, as II now Is.
y calls attention to the fact
that Canada recently appropriated
$50, 900, 900 for an air fleet, while
our appropriations are scarcely
e1s,ooO,000.
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SEA ENGULFS ALASKA,S WONDER MINE
Will Kaiser Fall at Waterloo?

LONDON, April 23.-Wilhelm Hohenzolern may
fall where Bonaparte fell-at Waterloo. And on the
same date, 102 years later
Strategists figure that at their present rate of
progress the French, British and Belgians will have
forced the Germans to Waterloo by June IS, ami
versary Of the famous battle
The "Hindenburg line" already is considered
broken by the British advance at Lens and the Franco
British assault on st. Quentin.
The Belgians have pushed forward at Dxmude and
the French have driven great dent into the German
front between scissors and Rheims.
From Lens to Waterloo is 70 miles,
AT the rate OF the past few weeks the Germans in
their retirement would just about reach that position
by mid-June.
Should they stand at Waterloo, and be defeated,
they would have to evacuate all the Belgian coast
Brussels and Antwerp also would be untenabe.
That is why German defeat at Waterloo would
end the kasers dream Of reaching the English chan
nel just as the defeat of Bonaparte by the British
and Germans in 1915 ended the great Frenchman's
dream of world-empire.
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SPIES TRYING
TO REACH U.S..

COPENHAGEN, April %
Berlin is thronged with Turkish
troops en- route to the western
front and stirred by socialist peace
talk, according to information
from the German capital reaching
here today.
A number of German spies have
been discovered here, trying to go
to America. All are being closely
watched and none permitted to
sail
Despite the bolstering of the
western front, revealed as neces-
sary by the drawing in of Turk
ish forces. the Berlin public is
being fed on victory" stories by
the Berlin newspapers and the
German staff.
All information from Berlin in
dicates tacit encouragement, IL
not active aid, extended the So
cialists' peace efforts by the Ger
man government. The aim is en-
enlargement Of the peace party
among the Russia socialists.
There has been a great influx
o. Germans to Copenhagen re-
Gently and the American legation
has been extremely busy in anti
spy work.
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BRITISH
GIVE A
WARNING
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LONDON. April 23.-Ameri-
cans here join with the British
In the hope that the United States
will raise it's army by conscrip-
tion-not by the volunteer sys-
tenn.
A careful canvass of scores of
prominent Americans here, to-
gether with the views expressed
in the Hobbies of the house of
commons, developed this unity
today.
Members of commons are in
favor of the idea that America
send an expeditionary force at
as early date as possible-under
Roosevelt or any other leader.
They think the effect would be
splendid.
But almost without exception
the members privately expressed
a strong warning that America
benefit by Englands experience
and avoid the stripping of the
nation of trained men needed to
organize and drill the proposed
big army.
Among Americans here the
principal subject of talk is the
congressional action providing for
the raising of Americas army. 1t
was generally suggested that
Lloyd-George had the failure of
the British volunteer system in
mind when he urged in his recent
speech that America profit by
England's mistakes.
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friends when they we're boys,
though Cousin Wallace is a few
years older. Father and he went
through college together. They
both were looked upon as young
men of very unusual promise
Mr.. Blatchford especially. Then
father was blinded-he was Just
16; 'and-and Cousin Wallace
never fulfilled the promise he had
given"
81 don't quite see the connec-
tion," Eaton offered.
"Oh, / thought Cousin Wal
lace must have told you. 1t was
he who blinded father. II was
a hunting accident. Father al
ways said 1t wasn't Cousin WAL
lace's fault; but Mr.. Blatchford
was almost beside himself be-
cause he believed he had ruined
fathers life. But father went on
and did all that he has done,
while it stopped poor Cousin Wal
lace"
81 think | shall understand him
now" Eaton said quietly.
Il like the way you said that"
Continued Tomorrow
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/ You deny all four possibili
ties?"
! Yes"
yes"
| Then you are using denial onl,
to hide the fact; and OF the foul
possibilities | am Obliged to select
the first as the most likely"
THAT | attacked your"
! That is not what | said. | said
you must have taken the train ia
injure me. But that does not mean
necessarily that it was to attack
me with your own hand. Any at
tack aimed against me would be
likely to have several agents. Mr..
Eaton, l am Obliged to assume
that you knew an attack was to
be made by some one upon that
train. In addition to the tele-
gram addressed to you under your
name of Eaton and informing of
my presence on the train, | have
also been informed, of course. of
the code message received by you
addressed to Hillward. You re-
fused, | understand, to favor Mr..
Avery with an explanation of it;
do you wish to give one now"
No said Eaton.
1T has, of course, been de-
ciphered,' the blind man went on
calmly.
Eaton made no comment. San
tome continued:
And that very interesting
meaning presented another posi-
BILE explanation-not as to your
taking the train, for as to that
there can be only the four l men,
toned, but as to the attack itself,
which would exonerate you from
participation in it. II that ex-
PLANTATION were correct, you would
have had nothing to do with the
attack. and yet you would know
who made it,"
Eaton started at the blind man.
What do you mean" he said.
Santoine did not reply to the
question. What have you been
doing yesterday and today?" he
asked.
Waiting, Eaton answered.
For WHAT"
"For the railroad people to turn
me over to the police"
so l understood. That is
why | asked you. Lam willing
to tell you that there is no like
lihood of your being turned over
to the police Immediately. I have
taken this matter out of the hands
OF the railroad people. | certain
ly shall not allow publicity of the
fact that | have been attacked so
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Eaton finished his breakfast.
but remained while Blatchford
continued to boast, in his queer
humility, of the blind man. He
checked himself only when Har-
riet Santoine appeared in the
doorway.
MY dear! He wants to see
me now?' the tall man almost
pleaded.
"Of course, Cousin Wallace. :"
the girl said almost with COM
passion.
You will excuse me then, SIR"
Blatchford said hastily to Eaton
and hurried off. The girl gazed
after him, and when she turned
to Eaton her eyes were wet.
Good morning."
Good morning, Miss Santoine.
You are coming to breakfast"
"Oh, no; I've had my break
fast; | was going out to look
about"
May l go with your" Eaton
tried to ask casually. Important
to him was the plan of the house
and grounds.
She hesitated.
Very WE'LL" she said at last.
She was distracted as she led the
way out to the terrace.
Your father is still better this
morning." Eaton asked.
Eyes; fathers improving stead
ily."
Mr.. Blatchford told me as
much"
"Oh, you had come talk with
Mr.. Blatchford, them"
1--WE introduced ourselves"
Harriet was silent for mo-
ment.
He is your cousin?"
~ call him that: he's fathers
cousin. They we're very close
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The Blind Mans
S sz 1 sss E yes s:s: .: s;s:
From Our Last Issue)

Continued From Our Last ISSUE
He would be called a rather
likable-looking MANI" Santoin,
said tentatively.
Il think he makes that impress
sion"
Certainly he does not make the
impression OF being a man who
could be hired to commit g
lcrime?"
Very far from it."
"Or who would commit a crime
for his own INTEREST,""
No"
But he might be led into crime
by some strong personal feeling?'
Yes"
Mr.. Eaton" - Santoine ad.
dressed him suddenly-"you have
admitted that you we're at the
house of Gabriel Warden the even.
ing he was killed."
Yes"
You are the man of whom
Warden spoke to his wife?"
II came by appointment to call
on MIR. Warden that night"
What was your position In re-
gard to Mr.. Warden?"
Eaton remained silent.
The blind man stopped. He pro-
ceeded on a line likely to meet
less prepared resistance.
Mr.. Eaton, have | ever injured
you personally: have | ever done
anything which indirectly has
worked injury on you or your af-
fairs"
NO"
Who sent you aboard this
train?"
No one."
Did you take the train in or
der to attack me?"
No"
To spy upon me?"
mo"
What was it you took the train
to tell me?"
81? Nothing"
Mr.. Eaton, In one of the three
answers you have just given me,
you are not telling the truth. You
took this train to injure me, or to
protect me from injury; to learn
something from me, or inform me
of something. | discard the second
OF these possibilities because you
asked for berth in another car.
However, l will ask 1t of you. Did
you take the train to protect me
from injury"
No"
Which of your former answers
do you wish to change, them"
None"
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Uncle Sans Coat of Arms and His Allies

soon after the successful attacl
upon Mr.. Warden-and in q SINH
lar manner-until | know NOR,
about both attacks and about yot
why you came to see Warder
that night and how, after failint
to see him alive, you followed me
and whether that fact led to the
attempt at my life"
~ Eaton started to speak, and
then stopped.
Santoine motioned with a hand
in dismissal. THAT Is ALL"
Eaton started back to his com.
partment. AS he turned, Harriet
Santoine looked up at him, Their
eyes met; and Eaton realized how
she must have taken his side
against Avery in reporting to her
father.
The warmth of his gratitude
suffused him as he bowed to her;
she returned a frank, friendly
little nod.
When he was again in his COM
partment, no one came to lock him
in. The porter brought his
breakfast and soon the train
started, presumably bound from
Minneapolis to Chicago.
At nine o'clock in the evening,
some minutes after crossing the
state line into Illinois, the train
stopped and Eaton's car was cut
off. Eaton, seated at the window,
saw Santoine carried out on a
stretcher and put into an am
bulance. Harriet Santoine, after
giving a direction to a man, got
into the ambulance with her
father. The surgeon and the
nurses rode with them. They
drove off. Avery entered. anoth-
er automobile, which swiftly dis
appeared. Conductor Connery
came for the last time to Eaton's
door.
Miss Santoine says you're to 20
with the man she's left here for
you. Here are the things l took
from you"
The porter appeared with his
overcoat and hat. Eaton put them
on and stepped out of the car.
The conductor escorted him to a
limousine car. The chauffeur to
whom Harriet Santoine had spok-
en- opened the door of the limou-
sine; another man, evidently a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-23
RUNS
INTO MANY
MILLIONS!
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United Press Leased WIRE,
JUNEAU, April 23.-All Alaska
is dazed today at the loss of the
famous Treadwell mines, largest
gold quartz properties in the
world.
The mines were suddenly
wiped out Sunday morning when
the waters of Gastineau channel
broke into the underground work.
ings.
Every mine, except the Ready
Bullion, was flooded.
The properties, which have
produced more than $4,000, 900,
are believed to be a total loss. All
except two miners have been 40
counted for, and 1t is believed no
lives were lost.
Mining engineers have been de-
tying the waters of Gastineau
channel for a number of years
by driving tunnels far out under
the channels bed. A settling Of
the earth In the vicinity of the
Seven Hundred mill had been no.
ticeable for some time, but con-
ditions were not thought to be
serious.
Narrow Escapes.
The water, breaking through
the tunnels, appeared so suddenly
that miners and other employees
barely had time to escape with
their lives.
Hardly had the miners been
lifted from the 1500-foot level
than the water shot up through
the shaft of the Seven Hundred
mill to height of 200 feet. All
tunnels as far up as the famous
GLORY Hole" were filled.
Many miners had narrow es-
capes when they rushed into the
mines to give the alarm. Cages
in which men were being rescued
became damned and shafts were
forced out of line by the sudden
sinking Of the earth. Fifty horses
and mules were left to die In the
underground workings.
The loss in machinery and
equipment probably will reach
$10,000.000.
Produced Millions.
The Treadwell mines were To-
Gated on the northeast side
of Douglas Island. They en-
braced four mines-the Seven
Hundred, the Mexican, the Ready
Bullion and the Treadwell. They
had been consolidated under the
management of the Alaska United
Gold Mining Co.
Five stamp mills were included
in the properties, operating 1000
stamps, which have been crush
ing 5000 tons of ore a day.
The payroll of the 1900 en-
ployes averaged $4,000 a
month.
Up to Jan. 1, 1916, the mines
had produced 24,117,633 tons OF
ore, yielding $5S,366,937.
Douglas is the city hardest hit
by the loss of the mines. It has
been the business and residential
section for the force employed at
Treadwell. Juneau also is direct
ly affected.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-23
3 BOYS DIE
in GAS TUG

SEATTLE. April 23.-The bod
les of three boys, Bailey Williams.
6; Raymond Mills, 8, and Jack
lizard, IL, were found in the pilot
house of the gasoline tug Helen
g, Sunday, on Lake Washington,
where they had been asphyxiated
by gas while playing.
Par ties had been searching for
the three missing children since
Saturday evening, when they fail
ed to return home. All of them
lived near Leschi Park, and the
boat into which they had crawled,
was moored about 10 feet from
the houseboat in which Jack Iz-
Yard lived,
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UNITED Press Leased Wire.)

WASHINGTON. April 20. -
England and the U. s.. through
high war commissioners. Joined
hands here to-day to frame Ameri-
cas- part in the greatest war in
history.
Previous utterances of Foreign
Arthur ]. Balfour, head of the
British commission and OF Presi-
dent Wilson, crystalline the CO.
operative conference which begins
a worldwide continuation of
Americas battle for freedom be-
gun in l778.
Welcomed here with an acclama-
ton worthy OF kings, but with q
manner wholly democratic. the
British commissioners met Secre-
tary OF State Lansing today and
then saw President Wilson.
Their mission is not one OF re-
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ENGLAND and U. S. JOIN
HANDS IN WAR PLANS

ceivins; rather 1t Is one of giving.
They would have America profit
by England's mistakes and they
propose to show the chiefs of
naval. military, aeronautic supply
and diplomatic corps just how
America may tread the wisest
path.
Americas aims and objects and
the part she desires to play in the
war will be outlined to Balfour by
President Wilson.
Balfour, for his own part, Will
speak for all the allies in re-
Spouse to the presidents views on
the international agreement and
recognition by the allies OF the
letter and spirit of world Mon
roe Doctrine"
While Balfour visited Wilson
and Lansing, other members call
ed upon leaders of their own
branch of service.