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ger. would be fatal to the Labor
nartv's great hopes for the future.
They favor swallowing their resent
ment toward the present government
while getting on With the War-and
developing their own plans.
Other resolutions include a numb
providing for an international labor
conference either before or slmulta-
neously with the final peace confer
ence.
mediate steps toward peace by ne
collation. On the other hand, the
Chesterfield Trades council offers this
one:
Slap for Pacifists.
THAT the members of the so-called
Pacifist party shall be given to under
stand that they are not to have any
voice in the setting up of peace terms
beyond their representative strength y
The utilization by the government of
the great resources and dfstrlbutlVe
continent of the British cooperative
societies, as a means toward prevent
ing profiteering, is demanded in more
than one resolution. Action along this
line is sure to be taken by the confer
ence.
The Women's Labor league asks for
the abolition of conscription.
The National Union of Boot and
Shoe operatives suggest the abolition
of the house of lords.
Electoral reform will be considered
by the conference, the disposition be-
ing to regard the governments pro-
posals in this direction as merely a
compromise.
Raise Soldiers Pay.
Soldiers pay and pensions are due
for considerable thought. More than
one delegate carries in his pocket
memoranda on the pay of United
States troops and the United States
insurance scheme. The Independent
Labor party will urge a resolution pro-
viding that soldiers pay, shall be based
on rates of civil wages and shall re-
spond to the great rise in the cost of
living.
Taxation questions have brought a
flood of resolutions. The retention of
excess profits tax after the war is
proposed on the one hand and an inn
mediate levy on apital on the other,
by different organizations. Proposals
to raise the minimum income subject
to the income tax are numerous. The
present minimum is $3.50.
THAT the party press for the ma
tionalization of all means of uroduc-
ton. distribution ami exchange is
asked by the Great Yarmouth Trades
and Labor council and the same idea
is put forward by the LONDON Trades
council and the Edinburgh Labor par
ty, with special emphasis on the ma
tiOualiZatiOn of the land
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CHICAGO FACING A CHAOS.
Windy City Must Have 1,25O,OO0 Tons
of Coal for Normal Supply.

Chicago, Jan. 22.-The worst fuel
situation in the history of the city
confronts Chicago, according to John
E. Williams, state fuel administrator
Despite the five-day suspension OF
business, including the saving of 3d.
900 tons yesterday, no surplus was
created.
The new coal, mined before the
great blizzard which started Janu-
airy Sc. went promptly into empty
bins and yawning furnaces.
The coal mined before the storm
has been consumed. Mr.. Williams said.
and industries face another shutdown
because of the lack of fuel. The city
is row entering on a period where the
recent paralysis of mining and trans
portation will be felt at its worst.
Mr.. Williams said that instead of a
coal deficit in Illinois of $4,000 tons
as was at first estimated, the admin
istrators have found shortage OF
1,250.000 tons which the mines must
produce to bring the situation to
normal
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Morning Grain Gossip.
FURNISHED by the Topeka Board OF Trade

| New York, Jan. 23.-The journal Of Com
merce says: The most discussed factor In
the cotton market today was the request of
President Wilson for authority to fix prices
of all commodities for the period of the
war. The effect was bearish and caused
| a good deal of realizing. Buying by trade
was easily satisfied by Wall Street and the
pool selling on the whole the market was
quiet and fairly steady but it lacked snap
and eased quickly on small selling orders.
The better prospects of rain in the south
of these interests which were big buyers
| toward the close of last week appeared to
New YORK. Jan. ss.-Coffee Market-The
Evening Sun says: The bullish sentiment
is apparently based on freight situation and
the prospects of a favorable peace move
Local coffee men express the belief that if
these conditions work out as predicted,
| derstspd cash inaerests are the prime NOV
| ers in the present activity and it is thought
the renewal interest in coffee reflects the
| dullneSs which prevails in grain for the
present. 1t is also thought that the bullish
possibilities in the coffee market which have
lain dormant since the war began are sud
denly becoming effective.
| Chicago, Jan. 23.-The Herald says: Or
ders have gone out for strenuous efforts 70
be made by the western railroads to move al
the corn possible in the next 60 days. This
makes some people bearish on cash corn
and they predict that prices will work
nearer to futures. A majority of the trade
in corn and oats was bearish last night
and bought bids They have been doing it
| for nearly a week without getting action
They appeared more confident of being
right than even last night. 1t was the i'm
preston of close observers of pit conditions
| that most of the pit element were short at
the close. Traders who are bullish in oats
say, with cash premiums of &c to SIC over
May there is nothing to get bearish on. and
| they believe the cash grain will command
good premiums for some time. A shortage
! in choice white corn for milling purposes
hampered production of corn flour in some
sections. 1t is said there Is only part of the
country that raised very much Of the kind
| of 10 mill 10 70 h0u
| New York, Jan. 23-Twenty industrials
1915, off IS; 20 rails 77.9O. off "a.
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MORE THAN MILLION

Continued from Page one.l
clusion of peace with Russia and the
central powers have been unable to
agree to*a. treaty with the Ukraine. A
peace with. the Ukraine would open
the food producing territory of little
Russia to the Austrians, who have
been refused food by Hungary
Little news has come from Germany
on the POLITICAL situation there. but it
is indicated that the Austrian emperor
is not unmindful thai the trouble in
his own land may force Emperor Will
liam to change his attitude toward the
peace negotiations 1t is reported that
further pan-German attempts to hold
meetings in Germany have been
broken up by peace adhere@:s
The refusa on the part of Germany
to give Il guarantee of the evacuation
of occupied territories is emphasized
in long statement dealing with the
peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk is
sued thru the Belsheviki telegrap phi
agency. The statement speculates on
the attitude of the Germans during
the negotiations and adds that the
Significance of pour parlers is that
it stripped the imperialists of their
false pretensions to democratic prin-
cipleS.
No Changes on Front.
On the fighting fronts the situation
is unchanged. Small raids and spirit
cd artillery actions at various points
90 ~ oiliS oSIifilieS ol lile western
and Italian fronts. There have been
no further Bulgarian attacks in Mace
donia, but in Albania the French have
repulsed enemy reconnaissance in the
Skumbi valley.
Two Meatless Days for Britain
The British Labor party opens it's
annual conference at Nottingham to-
day. Labor's attitude toward the
carrying on of the war and peace aims
will be discussed. The food situation
in England, which has resulted in the
ordering of two meatless days a week
by the food controller. is expected to
be the subject OF several resolutions
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COLD SPELL BROKEN
Continued from Page One.)

was caused by the sweeping meteor
that scared over the city Tuesday eve
ming cannot be ascerta1ned. At any
rate that meteor gave MeteoroloS1st
Flora his first use for his title Flora
insists on being called a meteorologlst
but up to Tuesday evening he had had
no special excuse to offer the pubic
for the use of the title.
1t is expected that the temperature
in Topeka tonight will not drop below
20 degrees, possibly it will go up to 20
tomorrow afternoon and then down to
10 degrees tomorrow night. The high
record for the date was 65 degrees in
1909 and the low one below in 1894.
At Oklahoma City this morning the
weather bureau reported a sun shining
in a clear sky. with a warm breeze
blowing from the south. all combining
to make an ideal day for the soldiers
at Camp Doniphan.
The official forecast for the day
says, generally fair tonight and Thurs
day; warmer tonight in east and eX-
IRENE south portions. colder Thurs
day. winds from northwest.
Shippers should protect thirty six
hour shipments north and west against
a temperature of IS degrees; east and
south IS degrees.
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CENTRAL POWERS ON BRINK.
German Paper Indicates Pan Germans
Arc Stirring a Revolution

London, Jan. 23.-The peace agita-
ton in Austria Hungary is receiving
a great deal of attention in Germany
The Socialists newspaper Vorwaerts of
Berlin, emphatically declares the So
lidarity of the German proletariat with
Austrian labor in the peace struggle
and maintain that events in the dual
monarchy must have a deep reaction
in Germany.
I'VE have been walking on the edge
of a precipice in the last few days"
it says, and goes on to demand that
the German government resolutely
takes its place by the side of it's Aus
trian ally.
LAS the fruit of pan-German propa-
ganda". it continues I'VE are menaced
not only with the wrecking of the
peace negotiations with Russia but
also with complete political isolation -
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SETS new COAL!
Labor Party OF England Now
Branches Out Into Politics.
Future Policy Discussed at Ma
tiOnal Conference Today.
FOR A labor GOVERNMENT"
Recent Alignment Makes Total
of 4 100000 Votes.
Numerous SOcialistic Reforms
VIII Be Up for Discussion.
BY LOWELL MELLETT.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Nottingham, Eng, Jan. 23.-The
Labor party met in a national confer
ence today that is likely to hive con-
sequences affecting the next several
generations of British politics The
chief question before the three-day
meeting is whether or not the Labor
party shal cease to pc simply the
Representatives of organized labor and
kindred societies and become instead a
fledged political organization
seeking votes wherever they may be
found.
The decision is expected to be in
favor of the big step forward. The
party's executive committee has rec
commended it. They believe the Labor
party, now seventeen years old, is
destined to play as big part in the
present century as the Liberal party
played in the nil .eteenth century
Their goal. frankly admitted. is a labor
government and they have confidence
that the goal is not as far distant as
1t may seem.
Revive Old Fight.
The recent alignment of the big CO.
operative societies with the Labor
party bringing the number of votes
represented up to about 4.5oO,ooo,
is one cause for this confidence.
BTOduenlnS the party > program sun
further. the leaders claim, should
give them sufficient votes to sweep the
country.
Aside from this predominant ques-
ton the conference has many live
issues before it. One is whether or
not Labor party representatives should
withdraw from the present coalition
government There are several reso-
lutions. variously worded, to this eff
feet before the meeting. The British
Socialist party offers one reading in
part:
This conference holds that the
methods employed to remove Mr.. Hen
derson from the war cabinet when
acting in perfect accord with the de-
cisions of the Labor party. prove that
participation in the government and
fidelity to the labor movement are
Incompatible"
Wants Laborites TO Resign.
The Willesden labor party has a
resolution putting the question in this
blunt fashion:
This conference demands that all
members of the Labor party resign
their ministerial offices under the pres
cnt government"
= The East Ham Trades and Labor
councils resolution calls for with
'drawal lin view of the continued bare
faced robbery of the people by the
food pirates and the oper support
gwen by the government to this ac-
ton"
There are others.
Objection to withdrawing from the
coalition government is voiced by
many leaders, however, because they
believe refusal to participate in the
government in time of national dan
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3 AMERICANS KILLED
Infantrymen Slain in Action in France
Pershing Reports Without Detail.

Pershins Reports Without Detail.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 23.-General
Pershing today reported three Ameri-
can infantrymen killed in action on
January 81. He gave no details of the
engagement.
The dead are:
PRIVATE ALBERT COOK, West AL
mond, N. Y.
PRIVATE HARRY V. GARMAN, Ca
tawba, Va.
PRIVATE LEO E. RADI, Cleveland,
Ohio.
The Pershing report carried only the
bare fact that the men were KILLED in
action"
Probably i'm Patrol Skirmish.
The report indicates that clashes be-
tween American boys and the Germans
are becoming more frequent, one hav-
ing been reported killed Sunday in
reports received here yesterday.
1t is assumed they were minor pa
troll skirmishes developing along the
sector in which the Sammies are train
ing.
Private Ovid Herrick. Franklin, Ky,
who was announced as having died of
gun shot wounds on the 226, it is
thought probable was wounded in the
action Sunday
seven deaths from natural causes
also were reported by Pershing.
Three U. S. Flyers Killed i'm Collision.
Washington, Jan. 23.-First Lieuts
William H. Cheney and Oliver P. Sher-
wood, and Private George A. Beach
were killed Sunday in a collision of
alrpianeS over an American aviation
school in France, the war department
mas been advised by General Persh1ng.
Engineer, Missing, Is Prisoner.
| Washington, Jan. 23-Sergt. Paul
M. Swenson, engineers, reported on
december 16 missing in action is now
a prisoner in Germany. His mother,
MRS. j. E. Swenson, lives in New York
City. The information came thru the
Red Cross
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Kansas City, Jan. 23.-HOGS-Receipts
1900. Market steady. Bulk of sales, $3.50
GIGS; heavy. s162o@16.35; packers and
butchers, SIC: 1o@ 1880: light $1,000 20 !;
packers and butchers, S161O@ 1850; light,
$1600@16.20; pigs. 81. 50M 1880.
CATTLE-Receipts 1000 Market steady.
Prime fed steers, ST. O00 1850; dressed beef
eteers, $10.50d12.25; western steers, $500
1925; southern steers. $7.00@10.0o; cows.
S6.50td 1850; heifers. $7.O0@11.0O: stockers
and feeders. $7.0O@11.50; bulls. $6.50@10oO;
calves, S7.OOQ14.0O.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market steady
to strong. Lambs, S15.156165O; yearliEgs,
s13OO@ so; wethers, $11 OO@1275; ewes,
S100O@12.0O; stockers and feeders, $7.0O@
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APPROVE TERMS

Labor Conference Welcomes State
ments of Wilson and Lloyd George.
Nottingham, Jan. 23.-The labor
conference unanimously adopted a
resolution welcoming the statements of
Premier Lloyd George and President
Wilson and calling upon the allies to
formulate their war aims at the ear
Hest possible moment.
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Broken Rail bitches Train

Marion, Ohio, Jan. 23.-Four per-
sons were painfully injured early this
morning when a westbound big a.
passenger train enroute from Cleve-
iand to st Louis struck broken
rail two miles west of Marion and
five cars went into the d:.ch
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New York. Jan. 3-MONEY-Mercantil
paper. 505a4. Sterling, GO day bills. 4.72;
commercial, 60 day bills on banks, 4.71E !;
commercial: 90 day bills, 4.1A; demand.
572: cables, $40. Guilders. demand. 43A !;
cables. 43A. Lire. demand; s-42: cables.
S.41. Rubles. demand, Is: cables. E5A- Bar
silver. S7Ac; Mexican dollars, Tie. Govern
ment bonds irregular. Time loans. firm !;
60 days, 90 days and months. 81 @6..
rate, 51s: closing bid liz; offered at 2;
last loan, >
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Chicago. Jan. 2a-HoGs-Receipts Il. 900
Market steady. &c higher. Bulk of sales
S16.40@16.S0; light, $15.S0M 1910: mixed
$16.1O@16.S0: heavy, $16.10@16.S5; rough
$16.10@16.25; pigs, $12 .75d 10 20
CATTLE+Receipts 5000. Market strong
Native steers, $S.500 1880; stockers ant
feeders. $7.1o@109O; cows and heifers, SGT
@11.S5; calves, $9.25d165O.
SHEEP-Receipts 1900. Market firm
Wethers, $9.7O@1 3.25; lambs, S14.40@1 go.
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Chicago, Jan. 23.-BUTTER-Market
higher. Creamery. 41@49c.
EGGS-Market higher. Firsts, 59d Coo :;
ordinary firsts, 55057c; at mark. cases in
cluded, 50G5Sc; refrigerator firsts, 430Q44c.
POTATOES-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Alive, higher; fowls, 2oc
springs 23c
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FRENCH GET HUN SHIPS
lrterS Thirty German V
Seized by Brazil.

Washington, Jan. 23.-The thirty
German ships seized by Brazil when it
entered the war have been chartered
by the French government for war
purposes. The vessels represent an
aggregate of about 100000 gross
tons
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Colds cause Grip-LAXATIvE BROMO
QUININE Tablets remove the cause There
Is only one 'Bromo Quinine." F. w
GROVES signature on box 3Oc-Adv
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TOPEKA MARKET REPORT.
PoultH and EZRA

7
FURNISHED BY the Topeka Packing Com.
pany, corner Laurent and Madison.t
Topeka, Kan, Jan. %.
HENS-Sh lbs. and over. &c: under 3H
lbs. lie: springs over :. lbs. 19c: roosters
13c; shaggy young ROSTERS. Ice; broilers,
lbs. and under, 23c.
Eggs are retailing in Topeka 59c.
BUTTER-S652c
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New York Produce Market

New York. JAN 23.-BUTTER-Market
firm. Receipts S.S22. Creamery higher
than extras, Ih@55c.
EGGS-Market unsettled. Fresh gather
ed extras 70@71c.
CHEESE-Market steady. State held spe-
Gals. 24A M25Iac.
POULTRY-Alive, firm; dressed, steady.
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Shorn lambs and Ebeep &c under above
prices. Positively cannot use sheep or
lambs unless tat
Retail Hay.
FURNISHED by w A Gilchrfst. GIG Quincy
Street,
Topeka Kan, Jan. %.
PRAIRIE HAY 5000
ALFAGFA-S25 10
Topeka Grain Market.
FURNISHED by J. B. Billiard, corner Kansas
Ave and Curtis Stl
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 23.
oATS-72675c.
NEW .-ORN-sl 10
Topeka Hay Market.
Topeka, Kan. Jan. 3.
PRAIRIE HAY-Sad.oc.
ALFALFA-S25.00.
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New York Stock Market

SpeeiaIties were again the chief elements
Of strength at the opening of today's stock
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market, representative shares showing ir
regularity. One point gains were made by
Mexican Petroleum, United States Rubber
and Beet Sugar Shippings, Tobaccos and
Dlstlilers' Securities also scored moderate
advances. United States Steel reacted Il
rails were again ignored. Liberty bonds
held steady.
The short interest became more aggres-
s1ve later, placing an unfavorable interpre-
tation upon the extension of the freight en-
barge and reaffirmation of Copper prices
by the war board.
United States Steel was the center of
extreme decline of Il. Utah Copper yield
ed 1N and leading rails reacted fractional
w. Shippings and Oils forfeited early
gains but at midday a rally set in under
lead of Steel and minor specialties. Liberty
SIS sold at 9S.2S to $50, firsts As at
BIO to 969O mad second As at 1854 to
90.2S.
New York sugar Market.
New York, Jan. 23.-SUGAR-Raw,
steady; centrifugal. 605: molasses. nomin-
nal; refined, steady; fine graduated, 7.45.
Kansas City Live Stock Sales
(The following sales were made this morn
ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City and
reported over long distance telephone di
rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin
son Co.. live stock commission mer-
chants)
Kansas City, Jan. 3-CATTLE-Receipts
1000 head. Market slow steady
HOGS-Receipts 1000 head. Market
strong to 1oc higher. Bulk of sales, S16.10@
1880; top, $16.4G.
sHEEP-Receipts 1900 head. Market
| he -
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New York Cotton Market.


New York Jan. 23.-COTTON-Spot
quiet; middling,. 31.15.
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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty -four hours
ending at I a. m. Wednesday.
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New York Sugar Market.
New York, Jan. 23.-SUGAR-Raw
steady; centrifugal. COS: molasses. nomin
nal; refined. steady; fine granulated, 7.45
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Chicago Grain ana Provision Market.
(The range Of prices on grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reI orted by
rhos. J. Myers. 201 N. e BIdg1
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Won1en's

Women's good. weight, fast
black cotton Hose; closely woven,
warm and durable. They have
heavy ribbed tops and double
heels and toes: all sizes-neatly
mended seconds of n
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-20

Wednesday Of this week will see a
front line drive locally, when the
surgical dressing department Of the
Fargo Red Cross will feature a tam
pom drive
A tampon is small plug made Of
cotton used to stop hemorrhage, and
six of these small dressings are plac-
ed in every front line packet. There
are still people who are ignorant of
the fact that in the local Red Cross
rooms are being made dressings
which are used to staunch the blood
flowing from the wounds received in
the front line Of battle. These front
line packets are just what their name
implies, a packet Of dressings for the
use Of the surgeons who care for
the men carried from the field Of bat
tie to the dressing stations in the
front line trenches. The materials
for the dressings are provided by the
army and the Red Cross has been
asked to furnish the labor Of making
them.
Fargo has been asked for $500
its quota. Last month only 1867
packets were completed and, having
failed in the April supply, the May
quota has been placed at 1850. In
each of the packets are placed six
Of the little tampons and, as there
remain 1443 packets from last month
and there are 1850 packets to be pro-
Vided for May, by extreme cOncen-
tration and the applicati ton of early
learned principles of arithmetic, one
can discover that the local depart
ment has the grand total Of 1888
tampOnS to produce.
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American Altman
Gets Second Hun
(By Associated Press.)

With the American Army in
France, Sunday, May 19-Lieut.
Douglas Campbell today gained his
second aerial victory. On the Toul
sector he shot down in flames an
enemy biplane containing two Off
GERS.
Returning from a trip over Ger
many at height Of $500 meters, the
lieutenant met a German photo
graphic biplane going home. He
maneuvered until he got under the
tail of the German machine and then
opened fire.
The German machine burst into
flames and fell inside the American
lines, southeast of FGirey.
A French aviator this afternoon
shot down an enemy plane back of
the LuneYille sector. Two men from
the plane were captured - by the
Americans. The Germans came
from somewhere in the rear. II is
although not confirmed,
that this is the machine which
brought down Major Lufbery.
There has been extraordinary
aerial activity all day in this sector.