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The Newark journal., 1918-08-01
PROPOSED.LEGISLATIVE AMEND
MENT
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Number Ia

Amending Sections and 3 of Arti-
Gle Z of the Constitution of the State
OF Arkansas; providing that the SUI
preme Court of the State shall be
composed of Seven judges one Chief
Justice and Six Associate Justices
providing that Judges may sit in two
divisions, and otherwise providing the
manner in which the court shall sit
and shall render its decisions.
Providing for the selection and cleo
ton of the two additional Judges.
The Newark journal., 1918-08-01
WATCH FOR THE SWEET POTATO
WEEVIL.

WEEVII.
Buy and eat Arkansas sweet pota
toes only Plant nothing but Arkan
sas grown slips. This is the advice
given to the people Of the state by
George G. Becker, Entomogolist, Uni
versity OF Arkansas, because the
sweet potato weevil. a destructive in.
sect which is spread by being carried
in shipments Of sweet potatoes and
sweet potato slips, has long been
known to occur In Texas and Louis
lana and is now dangerously close
to the Arkansas line and may prove
a dangerous menace to Arkansas
sweet potato growers.
Nature OF Its Damage
The sweet potato weeyil and It's
larvae bore into vines and roots OF
the sweet potato and the larvae OF
grubs work their way down the stem
of the vine of the sweet potato whe1t
they cause their greatest damage
Here they tunnel out in all directions
leaving their burrows filled behind
them with a powdery looking excre
ment Sweet potatoes may become sc
badly infested that they are rejected
even By hos, and weevils may be
come numerous enough IN a field st
s. te NIKE tba creg L total failure.
--O--
Tho Tat,T,.o1 fo,. cenaJ ,,,.;14:-n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05
SWAT H. C. LA LITTLE
Score to II in Favor of Lower Cost
Decrease of One Per Cent.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The high cost
of living is on the downward trend,
according to a statement today at the
bureau of labor statistics, which says
that the retail price of food as a whole
for November was l per cent less than
in October OF standard articles
twelve showed decreases, four re-
manned stationary in price and eleven
increased.
The question of whether a cont'nu-
ance of the decline may be expec. ed
was not touched by the bureau. 1t
would take many months like No
vember. however, to put prices back
to pre-war levels.
The bureau announced that from
October to November. pork chops
dropped in price IL per cent, hens 5
per cent. sirloin and round steak 4
per cent, flour 8 and sugar 2. Lesser
decreases We're found in rib roast,
chuck roast. plate beef. cheese ra.sins
and coffee. Beans, bread, ham and
bacon showed neither decrease nor in
crease. Onions increased Is per cent
in price, eggs 5. lard and butter 4, po-
tatoes 8, rice 2 and meal l. with
smaller increases in salmon, milk
prunes and tea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05
FIRE HIS REVENGE PLANTED NITRO!
Farmers Plot To Blow Up
Santa Fe Lands Him in Jail.
Fought New Right of Way
Across His Oklahoma Ranch.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. s.
Enough nitro-gycerin to shake the en-
tire northeastern part of the state is
planted on the farm of William Eas-
ley, wealthy Usage county farmer, ac-
cording to his own testimony before
Federal Judge John H. Cotteral here.
He is being held under $4,000
bond.
The hearing was held on a petition
for an injunction asked by Usage
county and the Santa Fe Railroad
company to restrain Easley from OBJ
structing the railroad from continuing g
construction work on a branch line
of the road.
Refused to Sell Right of Way.
Easley testified that he and another
man, whose name he did not know,
planted 153 quarts of the explosive
at different intervals across the land
and that any attempt to excavate
might set off the entire set.
The Santa Fe had obtained right OF
way to construct the branch from
Caney, Kan, to Pawhuska, Okla. The
routing of the line ran across the Eas-
ley ranch and all ground had been
secured except this tract.
Several miles of grading has been
made, but Easley refused to sell his
land.
Easley is held to the federal grand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05

Lieutenant Dubois graduated with
a first leutenancy from the second
officers training, , camp at Camp
Travis. While home at the close of
the camp he was the perfect picture
of health, and was in Topeka for a
short time looking up scores of
friends.
He was, at the end of his furlough,
reassigned to Camp Travis and con-
tfaeted his illness on the trip to
Texas He became i'll the next day
after he arrived.
Lieutenant Dubois was born and
reared at Bur1ingame. He came to
Topeka to take the position of assist
ant cashier of the Pioneer Mortgage
company and held this place for six
years. He was sent to the Oklahoma
City branch as cashier and from this
point he went into the army service.
In a class of 1S9 in his military ex-
aminations he stood ninth and made
an excellent record in preliminary
work. He was assigned to Company
A, 156th depot brigade.
Lieutenant Dubois was a son of the
late Major Dubois, a civil war veteran,
and at one time prominent in eastern
and central Kansas politics. The lieu
tenants mother and brother OF
Burlingame left for Camp Travis Fri
day afternoon in response to a tele-
gram saying Dubois had suffered a
relapse.
Lieutenant Dubois was engaged to
be married to Miss Dora Craig of To-
peka. Miss Craig started for Camp
Travis Friday in response to a tele-
gram saying Dubois was seriously ill
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JUNK RAILROADS!
Year Saw Almost as Much
Abandoned as Built.
Number New Freight Cars Or
dered Smallest Since 1908.

Chicago. Jan. For the first time
in histor!, nearly as great a mileage
of railroad was junked during 1917,
because of Improbable operation, as
was constructed during the same per-
iod, according to the Railway Age
today.
The mileage built last year was 962,
less than that of any year since the
Civil war. except 1915, when g:
miles were built At the same time
942 miles were torn up and owners
abandon 396 additional miles.
In the last thirty-five years the
greatest number of miles built in one
year was 5000 Several times more
than 5000 miles have been con-
s.ructed.
During 1917, orders were issued for
79,3 367 freight cars for use in the
United States and Canada, or less than
in any year since 1908. There were
also 1854 cars ordered for the gov
-nment's military railroads in France.
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SIays Decline To Resume Meet
at Hun Headquarters.
Renews Request To
Move 1t to Stockholm.
CHANCELLOR REFUSED THIS
Discover German at Work on
Russ congressman.
Civil War Wakes Furious In
Southern Russia.

London, Jan. 5.-When the dele
gates of the central powers arrived at
-rest-Litovsk to resume the peace
negotiations they found no Russian
delegates there, according to Vienna
dispatch to Zurich, forwarded by the
Exchange Telegraph company. All
that awaited them was telegram
from the Russians asking for transfer
of the negotiations to Stockholm
Altho the Bolshevik foreign minis
ter, Leon Trotzky, announced that the
German peace terms would not be ac-
cepted, it was expected that the Rus
sian delegates would return to Brest-
Litovsk for the meetings which were
to be resumed today, to inform the
central powers of Russia's attitude
The Russians requested transference
of the negotiations to stockholm be-
cause they would have less dlfflculty
there in obtaining full publicity con-
cerning the negotiations and also be-
cause they preferred neutral place
to the German eastern headquarters
for holding the discussions.
REQUEST Already Refused.
The German chancellor. Count Won
HertIing told the reichstag committee
on Thursday that the German dele
gates had been instructed TO refuse to
transfer the negotiations to Stock
holm.
London, Jan. 5.-Pending the re-
sumption of conferences at Brest-
Litovsk today, no developments are
reported from Russia regarding the
peace negotiations. Specit dispatches
from Petrograd report attempts by the
German delegates at Petrograd to
make some sort of a clandestine agree
ment with the members of the con-
stituent assembly.
The correspondent of the Daily
News says that the Germans are try
ing thru a neutral diplomat to get into
communication with members of the
assembly. Their object is obvious, he
adds. as the parties opposed to the
Bolsheviki are quite ready to profit
by the Bolsheviki refusal TO make
peace and to tell the people that the
Bolsheviki promised them peace but
gave them war.
To Control Russ Assembly.
The version of the correspondent OF
the Daily Mail is that the Germans
have been putting pressure, direct OF
indirect, upon the government in con-
nection with the summOning of a con-
stituent assembly as the Germans
have been making it pretty obvious
that they are unwilling to recognize
the Bolsheviki as representatives of g
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Former Suitor Of Girl Bound
Her and Fired House.
Farmer Passing Rescued Her
She Accuses Two Men.

Springfield, Mo, Jan. 5.-A former
sweetheart was the man who bound
and gagged her and left her to perish
in the flames of her home near Will
lard last Monday, according to a
statement made to Prosecuting Attor-
ney O'Day last night by Miss Rayma
Parson, Is years old. A warrant
charging arson was issued for the
man named by the girl. Prosecutor
O'Day believes the admissions made
by Miss Pa-son have cleared the mys-
terry.
A farmer passing the Parson home
saw the house in flames and the girl
lying on the front porch. The sirl,
her feet anc arms bound, said she mad
rolled out of the house after being at
tackled by two masked men who set
fire to the dwelling.
Said She Snubbed Him.
Questioned last night by the prose-
cutor, Miss Parson is said to have ad-
mitted that her former sweetheart
called in the absence of her father, ac-
cused her of snubbing him in the
street when she was on a visit to
Springfield, bound her and order ed
her to drop a lighted match on a piece
of oil-soaked paper which he dropped
on the floor behind her. She said she
remembered nothing more until she
was carried off the porch of the burn
ing house. Miss Parson said she told
of the attack by the two masked men
because of being threatened by the
man she names that if she esca ped
and told who committed the crime she
would be killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05
.OvERSHAD0W ALL
Washington Sees Great Signifi-
canoe in Premier's Speech.
Similar to President Wilson's
Demands To Crush Kaiserism.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 5.-Premier
Lloyd Georges speech overshadowed
all other developments of the war to-
day in official and diplomatic WASH
ington and was regarded with the
deepest attention everywhere.
Official expressions were withheld
generally, officials saying they pre-
ferred to examine the full text of the
speech.
1t was apparent, however, that Of
ficials and diplomats alike, realizing
the premier's speech to be of the deep
est significance and far-reaching eff
feet, desired to reserve any comment
until after mature consideration of it,
Lloyd Georges declaration on Eng
lands war aims was held here to be
a British restatement to counteract
Germany's present peace drive.
Bid to Austria and Turkey.
Following President Wilson's lead,
Lloyd George made a manifest bid for
Istrian and Turkish support in over
ruling Germany's sway and toward
making a separate peace.
Authorities held. too, that he was
striving by repetition to emphasize the
demand for demos.atization as a
means to future world peace. 1t was
significant, however, thai he appeared
to relieve his remarks of the spirit of
interference by disclaiming any in
tent merely to overturn Germany's i'm
perial constitution.
Germany must realize that restora-
tion and reparation for damage done
are parts of the allied terms.
Reading between the lines, some
authorities felt Lloyd George had in
effect announced that the war will
not necessarily continue till the kaiser
there is sure evidence that his power is
! crushed.
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Continued. and had discussed the sub
ject of war aims with former Premier
Asquith and with Viscount Grey. Had
the Nationalist leaders in Ireland not
been engaged with the tangled prob
lem of I1ish self government he would
have been happy to exchange views
with them. He had also consulted
representatives of Great Britaln's
overseas dominions.
As a result of these discussions, said
Mr.. Lloyd George, a1tho the govern
ment alone was responsible for the
actual language he proposed using,
there was a national agreement as to
the character and purpose of the ma
tons war aims and peace conditions.
He was speaking, therefore, not
merely the mind of the government
but the mind of the nation and the
! empire.
Not War of Aggression.
we are not fighting a war of ag-
! declared the premier. THE destruc-
/ ton or disruption of Germany or the
| German people has never been a war
aim with US, since the first day of the
war to now. The British people never
aimed at breaking up the German
peoples or the disintegration of their
state. Our wish is not to destroy Ger
many's great position in the world but
to turn her aside from schemes of
military domination to devote her
The premier continued with the
declaration that Great Britain was
| not fighting to take Constantinople
from Turkey nor to destroy Austria
Hungary.
I'VE are not fighting" he said ITO
| destroy Austria-H Hungary or to deprive
| Turkey of its capital or the rich lands
| in Asia Minor and Thrace which are
predominantly Turkish"
Demands Basis for World Peace.
Referring to the pronouncement
made on December 25 by Count
Czern1n, the Austro- Hungarian for
elgn minister at the Brest-Litovsk
peace conference, the premier said
| 1t is impossible to believe that any
permanent peace could be erected on
such foundation. Mere lip service
TO the formula of no annexation, no
indemnity and self determination is
useless"
Premier Lloyd George said that an
independent Poland, comprising all
genuinely Polish elements who de-
Slred to participate, was an urgent
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RUNDOWN BANDITS
Cavalry in Chase Across BOr-
der; Kill 3, Capture 4.
Mexicans Kidnapped 2 q. S. Sol
diers, Who Were Rescued.

Douglas, Ariz., Jan. 5.-Three Mex
leans We're killed and four captured
by members of a troop of cavalry in
a fight two miles south of the Mexi-
can border which followed a raid yes
terday by Mexicans who surprised two
American soldiers at the Slaughter
ranch, twenty miles east of here and
took them prisoners across the line.
When word of the capture reached
army headquarters, the cavalrymen
were dispatched to rescue the Ameri-
can soldiers. Two miles south of the
border they came up with the raiders
who were all armed. The Mexicans
opened fire on their pursuers who re-
turned the fire. In quick order three
Mexicans were killed and the other
four captured, some of the latter be-
ing wounded. No Americans were
killed or wounded in the engag cement
The American soldiers were sue
cessful in rescuing the two men cap
tured by the MeXicans. An ambulance
has been sent from here to bring in
the wounded Mexicans. Conditions at
an early hour this morning were
normal.
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Governor Condemns Action of
the War Department.
Draft Inventors as Well as
Young Men, He Says.
PEOPLE HAVE RIGHT TO KNOW
And They Should Demand New
Methods, Capper Says.
First Direct Attack on Govern
ment by a Kansan.

Governor Capper today condemned
the action of the war department in
refusing to conscript the Browning
machine gun. He declared the gov
ernment should conscript service of
inventors and the output of factories
and machine shops. By the same
token which the government con-
scripts ten million young men for
army service, the governor declared
the government should conscript the
genius of mine and the output of fac
tories.
The governors criticisms of the poll
cies of the war department were based
on recent investigations by the
United States senate committees. He
condemned the policy of the govern
ment in paying two and a half mill
lion dollars in advance royalties for
the Browning gun.
The senate investigating commit
tee this week makes the astounding
disclosure that the war department
has agreed to give one and a quarter
million dollars to the inventor of an
untried machine gun said Governor
Capper, then to hand over an addi-
tional million dollars for the patent
license of this gun to the Colts Au-
tomato Arms company. If in time
of war. as the people have conceded,
the government in its might may con-
; script the lives of ten million young
men. on the same terms it may con-
script and it should and must con-
script inventors and machine shops.
That is the governme ent'S undeniable
right and duty-its plain duty in this
case.
1.-The people, loyalty and unselfish-
| ly giving their all, have every right
to demand this and no less from their
government and to insist that their
. n "a in hvan nch nf
congress shall accept no compromise.
Neither sordid nor merely selfish con-
siderations are behind the insistent
demand of the people of Kansas for
an end of profiteering. They have
had an opportunity to size up correct
ly the far reaching evil results of
profit souging. They consider a
stringent correction of the evil a vital
fundamental step toward the saw
ing of lives, the conserving of national
vigor and victorious ending of the
! war IN the shortest possible time"
! First Direct Attack.
The statement of the governor is the
ministration's war policies by a Kan
sas official since the revelations by
the senate probe. 1t is quite prob
able that the stand taken by Governor
the party leaders of the state, as well
as many people Independent in their
political affiliations
Several weeks ago Congressman
] Phil P. Campbell of the Third Kansas
district directed an attack on the gov
ernment war program in a demand fol
reorganization of President Wilson's
cabinet He declared that at least
four members of the cabinet are inef-
ficient and should be removed An6
Congressman Campbell named the
men whom he said should be retired
He demanded the removal of the sec.
retary of state, secretary. of war, secrc.
tary of navy and attorney general
Concerning the United States attorney
general Campbell declared he wa.
merely "a fourth rate Texas LAWYER
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includes Free Passage of Dar-
daneIleS for Russian Ships.
Return Frontier Lines to Same
as Before the War.
INDEPENDENCE TO PERSIA
Russian Armies Evacuate Ter
ritory Within s Weeks.
To Refund War Losses Incurred
by Civilian Residents.

London, Jan. 5.-Free passage of
the Dardanelles for Russian ships.
Russian evacuation of Turkish terri
tory and the demobilization of the
Russian Black sea fleet are provided
for in the draft of Turkish peace
terms presented to Russia, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Petrograd.
Turkey, it is provided, is to retain
her active army in consequence of
the continuation of war against the
entente.
The main points in the draft pre-
sented by the Turkish delegates are
given in the dispatch as follows:
l. Frontier lines to remain as be-
fore the war.
2. Within two years of the conclu-
sion of peace the contracting parties
shall conclude a convention respecting
sea trade and consulates-
g. War losses incurred by indi-
| viduals to be refunded.
4. Guarantees to be given for the
territorial integrity and development
| of Persia on the basis of her entire
| independence.
Turkey to Maintain Army.
5. Free passage to be granted Rus
sian ships passing thru the Dar-
danelles and the Bosphorus.
6. Mobilization within limits to be
permitted for national defense.
Z. Russia to undertake to remove
her armies to territory within the
previous Russian borders in six to
eight weeks after signing the peace
agreement, leaving only one division
to safeguard her frontier.
s. Russia to demobilize her army of
special Armenian units and also to
| demobilize the Black sea navy
9. Turkey to retain her active army
in consequence of continuation of
J war against the entente
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MOVE TO MIDWEST
New War Factories Will Be Built
There Due to Rail Congestion in East

Washington. Jan. 5.-New plants for
war material production will be To-
Gated entirely in the middle west un-
der the policy of the war department,
which became known today. Because
of congestion in the east, untapped
facilities beyond the Alleghenies have
become necessary to speedy produc-
ton for the present war, while, sites
at least two hundred miles from the
Atlantic seaboard are regarded as
good strategy in case of future wars.
Aircraft production, especially, is
being developed in the middle west.
Most of the training schools for avia-
tors are in the west and south, SO that
shipment of planes and engines from
factory to field involves less demand
on the railroads when the factories
are in middle western cities.
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JAPANESE WILL STICK
No Offer. However Attractive, Could
Win Japs From Allies.

Mexico City, Jan. 5.-If the enemy
proposes a separate peace, no matter
how advantageous, Japan would dis
regard it, Baron Fugitaro Otori, the
new Japanese minister to Mexico. de-
clared today in a statement concern
g the attitude of his county.
Japan, he said, would remain on
the side of the allies and was CO
operating in the war to her full ex-
tent. Being one of the signatories of
the treaty of London, Japan, the min
lister added. would not look upon that
treaty as scrap of paper.
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into REVOLUTION
i Spanish Govt Discovers Con-
spiracy in Nick of Time.
Martial Law Again Rules
Govt Controls Situation.

Madrid, Jan. 5.-A revolutionary
movement has been unearthed by the
government. Telephone and tele-
graph communication has been sus-
pended, and other precautions taken.
Premier Alhucemas announced that
the government was master of the
situation.
The judicial authorities are inves-
tigating the plot, many details of
which are already known.
Altho remaining out of the war,
Spain has mot escaped the political
unrest which it has produced. There
have been frequent strikes and dis
orders and it has been necessary to
declare martial law at times.
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The wind this afternoon was blow
ing twelve miles an hour from the
northwest. The average temperature
for the day was above normal.
Many a hard worked clerk of To-
peka came rushing out of his front
door this morning on his daily scram-
BILE for the seven minutes to street.
car and, thinking that the sidewalks
were merely glistening from a slight
rain, suddenly found himself strug-
Cling and twisting to regain a stand
ing posture as his feet slipped on the
lCnntinued ON Page Twn
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1t. DU BOIS DIES
Topekan a Victim of Heart
Trouble at San Antonio.
With Pioneer Mortgage Com
pany Here for Years.

Lieut.. Kenneth Dubois. who has
been suffering since December 6 with
rheumatism of the heart in a base hos
pital at Camp Travis, San Antonio,
Texas, died at 1 O'Clock this morning.
according to word received in Topeka
today. Lieutenant Dubois was form
erly connected with the Pioneer
Mortgage company at Topeka, and
later represented the same company at
Oklahoma City. His home was in
Burlingame.
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Congressman Mccormick Announces
He Is Out for Republican Toga

Washington. Jan. 5-Medin McCcr-
mick, congressman from Illinois, an
nounced today he would be a candi-
date for United States senator in the
Republican primaries. this yea He
said he would give but little attention
to conducting a campaign while con-
gress is in session.