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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
Had Similar FAILING.

MistreSS-lt's only fair to warn you.
Bridget, that my husband swearS o
little sometimes.
Bridget-That's all right, mum. So
do Life.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
Hard on Henry.

"Fm afraid Henry is going to be dis
appointed with army life" remarked
Mr.. CObbles.
"Why sO?''
Henry was always dead set against
manual labor, an I understand all
them trenches in Europe was dug by
soldiers"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
Wisconsin's Fine Potato Crop.

Wisconsin furnished 36,4OO,OOO
bushels of the entire potato crop of
the United States. which amounted to
440,OOO,oOO bushels in all. This is
about S1a per cent.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
Justjfiabje Ignorance.

The NewcOmer-Did you ever shoot
a man?
The Old-timer-Aye.
what did it feel like?''
Il dinna ken. He never spoke after
wards. Judge.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
The Bio Problem.

Probably one of our knottiest war
problems is to find out how to make a
woman believe she looks patriotic in
last years clothes.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
Expensive Hosiery.

II like to stop at this hotel"
"Why?"
"The proprietor makes me feel as if
I owned the place."
swell, after you've paid your bill
you will feel that you ought to own
the place, whether you do or not"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20

To keep clean and healthy take DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu-
late liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
A Mistake.

"A labOring man has very little
choice of occupation"
''There you are mistaken. He can
always take his pick"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20

Piles Cured In to IA Days
Drue1ists refund money II PAZO OINTMENT fails
Itching, Blind. bleeding PEotrudtng Piles.
First application gives relief. 6Oc.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
women Of
MIDDLE AGE
Need Help to Pass the Crisis Safe.
y-Proof that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Can be Relied Upon.

Urbana, Ill.-''During Change Of Life.
In addition to its annoying symptoms. I
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20
economizinu Time.

su, tconomixing Time.
.,.. mat Will you have for dinner?'
" the affable waiter.
Ie,, ~ ahead and bring what you are
h,, today" replied the hungry
" Don't make me guess"
(u !. doesn't always make right
: puts up hard fight.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-02-20

Cheap notoriety is dear at any price.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-11

If the peoples of the earth become tOling
millions for the Prussian unkers and the Pussan Kupps
they be terrOr-ridden slaves
German Kaisers will Prussianism must be driven back
within it's borders and kept there
Not hreedon French
Our dered n of children homes,
rag No rce o for
hatwoudm ehsown nhtAmK Kt
yHarg-
baI Ioura in France to hrnShh tn
nsand nd darpane the
nEurIean oil W. in h
have to in d drive
~tneluldd own tomesla he
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-11-19
CHAPTER XII.
The Crown Prlnce-and Others.

1 first saw the crown prince profess
sIonally in the spring Of 1905. a few
months before his marriage. -He was
then twenty-three years old. He was
in the uniform of a German army off,
Ger but rocked more like a corps stu
dent except for the fact h his face
was not marked with a seal from duel
ling, as Is usually the case with most
members of the German fraternidea.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-11-19

The time for mailing Christmas par
GELS 10 members Of the American expe-
dictionary forces in France has been
extended 10 November 30.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-11-19

to complaint Don't they complain in
America? The fact is they have too
much TO eat. anyway. They don't know
what they want"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-11-19

copyright. 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
DER Syndicate.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
TO BREAK OFF
ALL NEGOTIATIONS
Impossible for Russian and
German Delegates to Come
to Any Agreement
on Peace.
UNANIMOUS FORECAST
RoIshevikI Claim Victories over tho
Ukralnian Troops With Deceive
Battle Expected
Shortly.
UNANIMOUS FORECAST
[By Joseph Shaplen, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENT.

[By Joseph Shaplen, United Press
Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD. Jan, 23.-Breaking
off of all peace negotiations at Brest-
Litovsk. was forecast in all the Boil
sheviki newspaper organs today.
Their unanimity would appear to
indicate this prediction came from
authoritative circles.
The Bolsheviki view Is that the
only good accomplished by the nego-
tations has been to unmask the real
imperialistic nature of the enemy
demands.
According to comment here, moth
ing more can possibly be expected
from the discussions.
Both the Pravda and the Isvestia
today bitterly assailed German For
eign Minister Kuehlman's treacher-
GUS dual policy.
OflciaI Bolsheviki reports today
claimed victories over the UArainia
rada troops at Poltava and the oc-
cupa ton of that city by the red
guards. On yfthe south UkrainiaI.
front, further advances have been
registered. SNovogorod-Seversk cap
tured and fprogress made toward
Bachmach. The Ukrainians are re-
treating. A decisive battle is expect
ed shortly.
The Bolsheviki have already taken
Sarna, Achtiirna and Troitsk.
Out of respect to the memory OF
Fridays victims of assassins whose
funerals are today, the Bolsheviki
government postponed a scheduled
demonstration at the winter palace
and Smolny institute.
Tvl~a 1T +.
been informed that the general peace
strike at Vienna is due to the stand
adopted by the central powers al
Brest-Litovsk.
One paragraph in Foreign Minister
Trotsky's formal report ON the Brest-
Litovsk proceedings today had this
forceful description of the situation:
The revolution cannot live in an
atmosphere of deceit and falsehood.
At this given moment the revolution
may not be in a position to repudiate
annexationists, but it will not humil-
late itself to call black white; it will
not cover up brutal annexationist
pretensions with the fig leaf of de-
mocracy
( "The Brest-Litovsk pour parlers
make It clear nothing more can be
demanded from the Germans
Delayed dispatches from Best
Litovsk received today told of for
NAL protest to the peace conferees by
General Hoffman in which he declared
he would be compelled to withdraw
the German commission on prisoners
of war from Petrograd where it is
now negotiating If the soviet expected
to place German officer prisoners on
the same level as private soldiers.
The Russian delegation, 1t was as
serted. had lodged complaint to
Kuehlmann and t. ernin that central
powers newspaper accounts of the ne
gotiations, omitted Trotsky's declara-
ton in which he denounced the re-
versal of position by Germany on
the principles accepted by the Rus
slams December 25.
The protest, it was stated, had
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
7luo WheatLess and W <utless
Days for Each NkGek Now
Great American Kitchen to Be Ask to Make Another
Greater Sacrifice to Wars Needs

Press sIsdW Wire he
az week.
ions
enfoT observan Of theseda 6
with
ahon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
ANOTHER BLOW is STRUCK
IN FACE OF COMING STORM

McAdoo's order followed receipt of
official forecast from the weather bu-
reau announcing more snow during the
next twenty-four hours in the centra!
east and lake states. Some moder-
alton, however, is promised and the
embargo will remain in effect only un-
til thaw breaks over the eastern sea
board and adjoining states.
Priority orders, embraced in the
Garfield Industrial suspension order
which ended last night, continued to-
day. Garfield instructed state admin
istrators to supply domestic and other
preferred consumers, before all others
Work of coaling ships at seaports
continued. A score of ships We're re-
ported coaled in New York harbor
alone during the last twenty-four
hours.
The embargo covered the Pennsyl,
yania east of Pittsburgh; the Il. and
| @. east of the Ohio river, and the
lHhilaAslphia and Reading.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
EN- BILLION DOLLARS TO
BE RAISED BEFORE JUNE

endangering notation of the next Lib
erty loan, he warned.
With the status of railroad securi-
ties up in the air because of no
legislation, the holders of those
bonds which form big part of the
credit foundation of the country, are
In no position to subscribe to future
Liberty loans," McAdoo declared.
The savings banks and other de-
positories of the average man hold
more than $4,000, 100000 in railway
securities, sufficient to spell failure
for the next Liberty loans, unless
the holders are assured by legisla-
tion that the government Is guarsn-
feeling these securitieA"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Strikes Are Genuine Outbreaks
by People Who Are Weary
of Militarist
Control.
NOT STAGE MANAGED
Plain ctiizenry Realizing That This
War is Not Ono Of Defense
by the Teuton
I Junkers.
by Ed. l.. Keen, United Press Staff
Correspondent

by Ed. l.. Keen, United Press staff
Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 23.-The Austrian
strike troubles are genuine. accord
ing to conviction expressed in
authoritative circles today. First
suspicion here that they were stage
managed by the government itself,
was dissipating rapidly.
According to the most authentic
news reaching here, the general
movement in Emperor Karrs mon.
archy, Is due to the public's weari
ness with the war, to widespread
dissatisfaction with Teutonic manipu
lations at Brest-Litovsk and to in.
creasing scarcity OF food.
The public's longing for peace has
been recently accentuated by the
boldly democratic war aims proclaim.
ed by Premier oyd-George and by
President Wilson.
The plain citizenry of the dual
monarchy, reading these terms, can
find little in them to support the
frantic pleas of the German junkers
and militarists that the allies seek
to divide the central empires and
that the main aim of Germany's enc.
mics is conquest
The widespread growth of this
sort Of public feeling. in the opinion
Of well informed officials. is bound
to make resumption Of the Brest.
Litovsk negotiations ticl1lish mat
ter for the central powers.
OF actual news of the development
in connection with the strikes, the
Austrian censorship today permitted
only the most fragmentary reports
Enough leaked through, however,
to indicate spread of the industrial
tie UP to Prague. Brunn and other
cities.
Copies of the Vienna Arbeiter lei
tung, received in Switzerland contain
appeals to workers to allow resump.
ton Of railway traffic. but the edi.
torial frankly exults in the success
achieved by the strikers.
"We hope the government under
stands" the editorial asserted, "that
the will of the workers is a power
they cannot contest without endan-
gering ITSELF
NJ. Litvinoff. Bolsheviki ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, In his speech
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Democratic Leaders Lash to
Whip Party Members into
Line During Debates
in Congress.
COMPROMISE Is H1NTED
Chamberlain Determined to Force
Through His Bills for War
Cabinet and compuI-
sorry Training.
IBy l., c. Martin, United Press Staff

by l., c. Martin, United Press Stafl
Correspondent
| WASHINGTON, Jan 23.-Under the
lash that without harmony, the war
will be lost" democratic leaders are
whipping into line party legislators
wavering on the Chamberlain war
cabinet" bill.
Today 1t appeared likely that the
storm which has broken between the
white house and congress on the
lpromise. The presence Of Theodore
Roosevelt on the battle ground had
done much to consolidate the demo
Gratis back Of President Wilson's wish
es on the pending legislation. There
ing shortly between the president and
Chamberlain.
The telling argument advanced by
the democrats is that a.bilI as repug-
nant as this one is to the admfnistra-
ton, would, If passed, hamper war eff
forts even though an efficient measure
itself.
Meantime, however, Chamberlain Is
prepared for q real fight.
Backed by letters of soldiers moth
ers and fathers anent camp conditions,
armed with data on what was regard
ed as misleading senate testimony OF
Secretary of War Baker, Chamberlain
proposes to go ahead with his war
cabinet bill and his compulsory train
ing law. Popular support of these
measures grew, despite the admins
tration's very strenuous efforts to kill
them, particularly the war cabinet
BILL The fight will develop In earnest.
Senator Swanson for the administra-
ton will try to have it sent back to
both the military and naval commit
tees. Were it sent back to the mill
tary committee alone, action on It
would be favorable. With the double
reference, 1t would be caught In the
Jam, hence if Swanson wins, the bill
may die.
Swanson's move to refer it will be
the signal for Chamberlain to go over
the top. He has his bayonets ready
and he proposes to submit data tend
ing to prove that the president has
been misled into thinking war condi-
tions are better than they really are.
He also will submit evidence in an
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Freight Embargo for Eastern
Railroads to Last Until
Weather Improves.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-D1rector
General McAdoo struck again at the
paralyzing forces gripping the nation
al railway in the east.
He declared an embargo on all
freight shipments except food, fuel and
necessary war supplies over several
big eastern trunk lines.
He further declared that restriction
Of passenger traffic must come soon.
TO this end he favors increased pas
senger rates and need for greater trav-
ell reduction to develop thereafter
passenger trains will be further cur.
tailed,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
HER TROUBLE IN
/ SUPPLYING TROOPS
Great Britain Gould Not Han
die Heavy Load for Mary
Months After Start
Of War.
is Low ON CLOTHING
Took Hard Work, But the Govern
ment Finally Was Able to
Keep Up With Re
quIrements.
s slow ON CLOTHING

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
1.-THE United Press recently asked
Its London Office to find out exactly
what had been Great Britain's expert
ence in the matter of supplying her
troops Immediately after the out
break of the war. The idea was to
find out. for information of the Amer
ican public. whether that nation had
encountered the same difficulties as
America. as to uniforms, equipment
and supplies, which have been aired
at recent congressional 1nvestiga-
tions. The following is the first Of
two stories In reply to this Query.l
IBy Lowell Mellett. United Press
Staff Correspondent
LONDON. Jan. 23.-America can
take consolation and incidentally
learn many lessons In Quitting
troops. in Great Britain's experience.
Asked by the United Press today
how long it had taken the. govern
ment to catch mp with the army's
demand for uniforms. the British
general In charge of that department
answered:
eve were on top Of the demand
by July. 1915" Then he added with
rueful, reminiscent smile, ut was
-on top OF us until them
Asked how the difficulties had been
overcome. he replied:
by darned hard work"
Great Britain's trouble was like
Americas. Her standing army. not
much larger than Americas. she was
called on suddenly in 1914 to equip
IN army of millions. The army
clothing department, In charge of
four officers, employing 1,500 men,
had to grow. 1t Is now in charge OF
fifty-one officers and employs six
Thousand.
There was no difficulty in provid-
ing for the $4,000 regulars first to
go and the famous first hundred thou
of something like million men in
training camps many had to drill for
months in their own old clothes.
BY December 1914, the first uni
forms made for the new army were
delivered. They were of blue cloth.
Khaki had not been obtainable. None
of the men went to France in the
blue; by the time training was COM
pleted there were sufficient of the
brown uniforms. The blues were
then passed along to newer recruits.
First deliveries of uniforms were
made by the Manchester cooperative
societies at twenty-one shillings each
(about $500. Meantime other con-
tracts were let for khaki. Deliveries
of these began in April 1915.
So it was between eight and nine
months after England entered the
war that the first fighting uniforms
manufactured as a direct result of
her entering were ready. In three
more months supply sufficient for
all needs had been assured.
Until March 1917, the government
simply bought at the best price 1t
could, price usually being less of "a
consideration than quality and speed.
Since then the entire trade has been
under government control from raw
wool to made up material.
"The chief mistake we made" the
general explained. was in not get
ting the trade together at the very
outset. finding out what each manu-
facturer could do and telling him to
do it. OF course we were handi-
capped for long time by not know
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Railroad Situation Seems to
Grow Worse Daily Instead
Of Showing I'm
provement.
ANOTHER CLOSE DOWN
Fuel Administration May Order Fao-
tories Stopped for Four
Days an Febru-
ary.
[By Robert j. Bender, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENT. ]

[By Robert j. Bender, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Prodded
by a threatened crisis in America
ship building program and increasing,
ly serious conditions at ports and
inland terminals, Director General
McAdoo was urged to take more
drastic steps that the national rai.-
road may break congestion.
Complete shutdown of steel ship
building plants appear inevitable
soon, unless the railway relieves the
shortage in ship plates, officials adj.
NIT.
One thousand cars Of plates. prac
transit since December 20 and be-
fore, are storm bound. Trace of
hundreds of the cars has been lost
by traffic men of the shipping board.
Meanwhile, steel supplies In the con
struction yards are diminishing rap
idly.
In nearly all of the seventeen ship
building yards, where steel ships are
under construction. many men are
idle as result of cold and lack OF
material.
The shipping program is far be
hind schedule and new delays in OBJ.
tanning tonnage mean more dimcult'
les in keeping up stream of troops
and supplies to the war zone, 1t was
explained.
Should the plants be forced to gus
pend operation thousands OF en-
ployes will be idle with the govern
ment paying the Dill, officials said.
In these circumstances the fuel
administration has appealed to Nc
Adoo to call for a general embargo
on all freight shipment aside from
that of vital war supplies and fuel
Although the priorit1es section OF
the Garfield order, covering preferen-
tial coal yard shipments is still ef
erwise ordered, no great headway
can be made unless the rails are re-
lieved of thousands of cars of unes
sential freight, Administrator Gar
field believes.
Continued cold weather today
brought with it reports of critical
suffering in many communities and
situation at some point worse than
that which existed before the Gar
field order went into effect five days
ago.
The only marked relief was that
accorded ships at number Of ports.
Bunkering was materially increased
during the industrial suspension.
Further suspension orders are in
prospect 1t is pointed out that
Washington's birthday falls on FIJI
day, February %, with Saturday
half holiday and Sunday and Mon
day worllless days anyhow. Urgent
requests to industry and business to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
a. :, gums invested in Rail.
sy ~, stocks May be Unavail-
que Tor Liberty Loans.

wAsHINlensTSoLe lesS Leased Wire Service. !
b dollars Jan. 23.-Ten bill.
ne 80, n;rnl asl be raised before
Ptihed befn,e f,rector General McAdoo
nmerce core coa the house Interstate
conrress !, committee today. s'"'e
Broad sisi lesia,. delay in passing the
'ais gigantic work OF ses,ousiy ans y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
Adolph Judd Arrested.

/ AOOIpN JuUQ tATTCSICO.
TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 23.-Arrested
on charge OF being an alien enemy,
Adolph Judd, 3s years old, is a pris-
oner in the county Jail here today,
while papers found in his possession
have been taken to the Bremerton
navy yard for examination by naval
officials.
A search of Judd's room revealed a
large amount Of documentary evi-
dence which indicates he is an expert
chemist and mining engineer. A blue
print OF gun base manufactured by
the Krupps and many passports and
letters were also found. Judd ad-
mdtted to the officers, 1t is said. that
he Is a graduate Of German uni
vcrSity and had served in the German
ar1xy. He speaks seven languages.
Two hundred regulars of the 44th
infantry from Camp Lewis. went on
guard along the water front today to
protect ship yards and other indus
tries from threatened destruction by
enemies.
Tight as Drum.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.-San
Francisco water front was sealed up
LlSuL dS QTuIu tOudy IOT TIE HTSC
time in it's history, as precaution
against pro German plots.
Armed soldiers, marines and
mounted police patrolled the embar-
cadero from end to end. For the
first time in months the sentries at
the Yerba Buena island naval station
walked their posts with loaded rifles
On the decks of over sixty vessels in
port, armed marines supplemented
each deck watch.
While every precaution was taken
ashore, powerful searchlights during
the night swept the bay from shore to
shore.
Meanwhile federal, state, city and
military Investigators were running
down even the flimsiest rnmor of
plotted violence. Admittance to the
Water front was by pass.
The San Francisco chamber Of COM
merce took cognizance of the situa-
ton by passing resolutions demanding
the death penalty in cases Of convic-
tion for pro-German violence.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-23
LIGHTED CANOL
ON LUMBER PILE
First Actual Attempt BY Fire
Bug u Start Big Blaze
on the Pacific
Coast.
WATER FRONT GUARDED
Frisco Harbor Sealed Up Tight as a
Drum Today, With Armed
Soldiers on
Duty.
WATER FRONT GUARDED

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 23-Discov-
cry of lighted candle, placed on a
dry piece Of lumber so that this upon
ignitinC, would spread the flame to
the piling of the Supple and Balm
dock early today, frustrated the first
actual attempt at arson discovered
here since extra guards were placed
about all water front property.