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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
AL Objections Absolutely De-
void Of Merit is Text
of Decision.

Runited Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. THE SUI
Ileme court today declared the draft
aw constitutional.
onief Justice White. in handing
lown the decision on the nine cases
asalnst the draft law that reached the
upreme court, said the arguments of
tne objectors were absolutely de-
void of merit"
our mind Is unable to conceive that
aising armies by draft is slavery and
raolates the thirteenth amendment" :"
snlef Justice White said
me decision of the court was un.
|animous.
aetuting the argument Of the draft
oFectors that government did not
1--WE oa. the power to draft citizens, the
|chlef justice said:
AS the mind cannot concet Sc an
without men to compose 1t, on
ne face Of it. the question that It
'oes not give power to provils for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
War Contracts Have Been Let
to Firms in Which Gov
ernment Officials Have
an Interest.
NAMES ARE REVEALED
Senate Military Investigation Testi-
nony May be Placed in Hands
of Department Of
Justice.
[By l.. C. Martin, United Press Staff

[By L. C. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Crimlnai
prosecutions may follow the senate
military investigation.
Senator McKellar, member of the
investigating committee, will ask
that the testimony be laid before the
department of justice. McKellar's
motion will be unanimously support
ed, other committee members said to-
day.
Decision to take this step followed
testimony that showed the letting OF
$12s, 900 900 in government contracts
to the firms Of persons officially
serving the government. Federal
statutes expressly forbids this.
The contracts represent only a
small percent Of the total number TO:
all government departments in viola
ton of this law, committee members
said The S12S,000,000 contracts were
let according to testimony Of Chas.
M. Eisenman by the supply commit
tee of the council of national defense.
They are chiefly clothing or woolen
goods contract Eisenman frankly
gave the names OF persons working
for the government with whose con-
Germs contracts were let and as frank
ly acknowledged he knew of the law
against the practice. The law was
not violated, Eisenman declared, be-
cause the men with whose companies
the contracts were made had no per-
sonal part in making them
Eisenman said when contract
was made with the Cleveland Worst
ed Mills Co., in which he is stock
holder, he personally took no hand
in it. 1t was done by the supply COM
mittee of which Eisenman is vice
chairman.
The department of justice also will
be asked to look into other phases OF
government contract making.
The committee today will con-
clude it's inquiry into the wool cloth
ing situation and will then begin in
vestigation OF the cantonments.
General Littell, in charge of con-
struction, will be the first witness.
Railroad Fight Starts.
WASHINGTON, Jan. forces ris-
ing to block government ownership of
the railroads revealed themselves in
congress and railway circles today.
While Director General McAdoo was
compiling statistics for congress on
his financing plans under federal op-
Grafton, Senators Watson. Indiana,
and Gallinger, New Hampshire, intro
duced bills preventing indefinite gov
ernment control after the war.
Before the senate interstate COM
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

FOR RAILROADS
Director General McAdoo Asks
Information From Every
One Of His Newly
Acquired Lines.
STATEMENT
How Much Money VIII be Required,
What 1t Is For and How
Many Cars on
Hand.
+FINANuIAL STATEMENT

CUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Director
General McAdoo today called on the
railroads for estimates of their mon
ey requirements during 1918. He
asked all railway presidents to report
not later than January what capital
will be needed and what plans for
raising it are recommended. At the
same time he asked for detailed in
formation on operating revenues, ex-
penses and incomes for the fiscal
year ending June 30. 1917.
The director generals order seeks
to arrive at a basis for financing the
national railway now under his direc-
ton. The order follows:
"You will let me have not later
than January 8, the following infor-
nation:
"First, a statement showing the
amount of capital your company will
require to raise during the calendar
year 1918 and also separately for the
first six months of that calendar year.
Ito meet all maturing bonds and
note issues which have not already
been provided for or which are not
to be paid out of the cash resources
of your company, showing dates of
such maturities; 2-To pay for I'M
provement, betterment and construc-
ton work already contracted for and
partially finished (this statement
should show what proportion If any,
Of such work can be stopped now
without detriment); 3-An approx
mate estimate Of the capital which
may be imperatively important TO
provide for other construction work,
improvements and betterments, In
cluding additional terminals and new
equipments, (showipg equipment sep
arately); Am approximate estimate
of the capital which In the Judgment
of your company, it is desirable to
provide for the above purposes, but
for which the demand is not abso-
lutely necessary for the protection of
tba nroperty or for the maintenance
OF its earnings.
"Second-A statement as to the
character of stocks, bonds or notes
with which your company expects to
ne able to raise the capital so re-
quired."
information as to the number OF
freight, coal and oil carrying cars in
owned and in repair shops
ON December 81, also was asked.
Further unscrambling of freight
was in prospect as a re-
suit of order increasing car demur-
rage rates.
With this process will go, too,
some increases in living costs, Nc
Adoo indicated. Extra labor will be
required to get prompt unloading.
His new schedule effective January
81, will allow cars to remain side
tracked two days free, but thereafter
rates will go fifty to one hundred
per cent above the present.
McAdoo held that requirements of
the war and the health and comfort
of the nation demand the extra ef-
forts. He expressed the view that
shippers and the public will readily
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Foot and Half Deep on Level, With Drifts
From Ten to Fifteen Feet High in
Some Places.
PEOPLE DIGGING THEMSELVES OUT TODAY
Train Service Paralyzed and Business Sus-
pended Where Blizzard of Sunday
Reached Climax.

Uhited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Jan. THE middle west
was q great white desert today.
The heaviest snow fall on record
was whirled by mile-a-minute gale
into huge drifts twelve and fifteen feet
deep. paralyzing all traffic and forcing
business throughout this region prac-
tically to standst1ll.
More than one third of a seasons
snow had fallen in twenty.four hours.
The weather bureau reported a fall of
1917 inches on the level early today,
on top OF AZ inches previously fallen.
This was nearly half the entire snow
iall Of 1915.
The storm was centered over the
lDser. Mississippi valley Saturday and
moved northeastward and today ex-
tended from Missouri eastward into
Ohio. The heaviest precipitation was
"a Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and
northern Indiana. The weather bu-
leau expected the wind and snow to
ibate In this territory some time to-
cay.
More than half the transcontinental
nilfoads entering Chicago were forced
% cancel from one train to their en-
TIRE service Suburban service was
practically abandoned. But few sur
face cars attempted to buck the drifts.
Taxi companies refused to send out
their cars. Scores Of privately owned
automobiles and motor trucks were
abandoned in the streets. Only the ele-
vated railways maintained semb-
lance OF schedule. Even pedestrians
we're exhausted by the struggle against
the snow and wind.
The Chicago and Alton railway
abandoned all train service out of the
city The Chicago and Northwestern
vas making no attempt to operate ac-
cording to schedule and all through
rains via Minneapolis were abandon
e. All inbound trains on the Penn
eyivania were five to ten hours late.
AH north bound trains on the Chicago.
milwaukee and st. Paul were tempor-
arly suspended. Rock Island trains
left one to three hours behind sched-
ule Trains on the New York Central
ana Michigan Central were six to ten
hours late and many were cancelled.
Inc Illinois Central was operating
service as I'VE can"
Telephone and telegraph service
vas badly crippled and many cities
we're entirely isolated A milk and
mel shortage was imminent in Chicago
and surrounding cities. The only
cheering feature Of the situation was
comparatively high temperatures, but
NTH the abateHfent of the wind and
snow the mercury was expected to
ofop to about twelve above zero.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

Last night was "Iightless night" in
chicago and the storm put thousands
! Of street lights out Of commission,
making the lack Of illumination greater
than was intended. Holdup men took
advantage of the situation, scores OF
robberies being reported.
Two persons were dead In this city
and nine seriously injured as result
| of the storm. Fffty-seven fire alarms
We're turned in, but none of them prov
ed serious, despite the fact several
pieces of apparatus were stalled.
Lake traffic was in great danger.
The steamers Missouri and Indiana,
caught in the ice of Chicago harbor
for hours made port early today. The
steamer Illinois was still trapped in
the floes. Other vessels were unre-
ported
The city abandoned attempts to
clear the downtown streets early last
night after men and horses had be-
come exhausted. An appeal was made
to citizens to aid today. Many schools,
which were to reopen after the Christ
mas holidays. will remain closed.
The snow ceased during the fore
noon and the sun began shining
brightly.
Digging Out Today.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. wis
consin was digging itself out of
snow drifts man-deep today to get
to work.
Rail traffic was blocked in many
sections. Snow plows We're preced-
ing trains and gradually opening up
traffic, although 1t may be many
hours before anything like normal
operation is possible. high wind
was shifting the snow.
Government reports show about
sixteen inches of snow fell over Sun
dav in this section of the state.
schools were closed here for the
first time in years. Hundreds had to
walk TO work because of irregular
city line service.
Icy Coating for New York
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-One man
was killed and several persons were
injured by falls this morning on ICY
walks and pavements.
mist began falling early in the
night and was still going strong
early today. Sidewalks were coated
with extremely slick ice. trolley
cars sputtered and fumed. Elevated
trains reeled drunkenly around
curves and skidded into stations. All
transnortation was slow and d1sor-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Eagerness to Have Legislature
Act, May Spoil Plans
of Advocates.

[ United Press Leased Wire Service ]
DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. DRY
leaders are not all in the same camp
on the proposition to have the propos-
ed extra session consider the ratitica-
ton of the prohibitory amendment.
Some are known to be opposed to
such action and those who came out
in favor OF ratification this winter
should the assembly be called to-
gether, are now wishing they had
counted noses before putting them
selves on record.
1t would have been better politics
in any case. many said, to have kept
quiet until the session was called, for
it is probable that the agitation of the
liquor issue following so promptly on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Mccormick Has Enlisted.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service |
CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-Cyrus Nc
Cormick, son of Cyrus Hall Nc
Cormick, leaves tomorrow for Colum
bus, Ohio, where he viii join the sig
nal corps of thu ground aviation serv-
ice as q private
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Leaped From Hospital Window.

Ieaped From Hospital Window.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.-Stephen
G. McMurray, q Salt Lake City miner,
is dead as a result Of a leap yester-
day from the third story of a sani-
torium where he was undergoing
treatment. His nurse entered Nc
Murray's room in time to see him dis
appearing out the window He held
a pillow under his arm. She at
tempted to save him, but he over
powered her
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
NitroqIycerIne Exploded.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, Jan. T.
Explosion of four hundred quarts of
nitroglycerine in a store room of the
American Glycerine company near
here early today broke hundreds of
windows in business houses No
fatalities have been reported
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Raids Thrown Back.

PARIS, Jan. 7.-"German raids on
the left bank of the Meuse river and
north Of Hill 304 were thrown back
the official war statement declared
today. Artillery actions in the Cham
pagne sector to the right of the
Meuse river near BensonvauX and
Chambrette were also reported
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Brick THROUGH Window.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-When mem
bers of the firm of Roberts and Com
pany, diamond importers, arrived at
their shop today they found a broken
plate glass window, and $500 worth
of diamonds missing. A brick was
found inside the window.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Bomb in 7eaclxrs Desk
PartiaLX Wrecks School
One Pupil Injured W1e Internal Machine Be1D up and
Knocked Building Into KindL;ng

Press @
attended by partially wrecked bomb in desk Miss Cecilia
Carl Burgwa 13 seriously injured He the only the building when
succeeded getting outside calling
a
n that prematu
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
IOWA DRY LEADERS SORRY
THEY WERE SO ANXIOUS

HardlnSS announcement that a Ses-
sion might be called, is largely respon-
sible for the governors delay in max
ing decision.
Governor is Not Detective.
DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. TIN
not a detective"
This was Governor Harding's reply
today to charges that he was winking
at law violations in Des Moines and
other Iowa cities.
The charges were made by Rev.
McDade in his sermon yesterday
Il haven't got time to gumshoe
around and discover whether liquor is,
being sold or if disorderly houses are
running" said Governor Harding. IF
Dr.. McDade comes before me officially
and presents his evidence, I'll do all ]
can to get after the law breakers IL
there are any
The governor returned this morning
from q tour of Ohio and Indiana and
made the reply to McDade his Sfrst Of
fetal business Of the day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
OCCASIONAL
AR7ILLERY|NG
War on Western Front Today
Consists of Exchange of
Shells by Big
Cannon.
TWO FLYERS KILLED
American Avlators on Duty in France
Lost Their Lives Recently
Through Ac-
cIdents.
lTWo FLYERS KILLED

tillerying" southeast of Messines was
reported by the British war Office to-
day as the only activity on the west
front.
Two Americans Killed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. T. Two
American flyers were killed in aero.
plane accidents in France, the war
department announced today. They
were:
First Lieutenant William F. Ely,
Rochester, N. Y.
Sergeant G. e. Houdek, killed Jan.
uary A. His sister, Mrs. Marie Czech,
lives at Ills Monticello avenue, Chi.
cago.
No details were given. Two other
deaths from natural causes were re-
ported by General Pershing today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Two Americans Killed.
Confined to ArtjIJe-vinn

Confined to ArtiIerying.
BERLIN, (via London) Jan. T.
Fighting on the western front was
confined mainly to artillerying, to-
days official statement asserted
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The Telegraph Service of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
tion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

Light snow tonight. Warmer.
Local temp p. m. 21; Z a. m.
IL.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

At a regular meeting of the coun-
Gil last Tuesday night the following
members answered when their
names were called: Wunder, Pip
kin, Eresch and Warner.
After reading and approving the
minutes of the last previous meet
ing the first thing to come up was
the allowing of the bills that accum
ulated since the last meeting.
The treasurer's report was con-
sidered, accepted and filed.
A motion was made and adopted
that the water be shut off from all
delinquent users, and that no water
charges be made for a less amount
than $3.50 per month.
The matter of making needed re-
pairs to the viaduct was left to the
street and alley committee with
power to act. "
There was some further discus
sion about the advisability Of put
ting in a check valve In the pipe
line connecting the city line with the
line of the Great Northern Lumber
Co. to the end that a greater pres
sure could be had in the event of a
fire, was INDUCED in without reach
ing a conclusion, after which the
council adjourned.
Following are the bills allowed:
X. & V. B. Hardware o., sup
plies, SALAD.
L. j. Nelson, transfer Of bond,
1922.
Geo. A. Blocksedge, deputy clerk
July 20, 80 and 81. $12.45.
Borroughs Adding Machine c.,
care of adding machine, $500.
F. S. Jacobsen & Co., lumber for
side walk, $6.4O.
Mutual Nero. Co., supplies, $2.35.
f. G. Gowing, lumber for side
walk, 95 cents.
Cascade Garage, supplies for
auto, $1.40.
Wenatchee Printing Co., treasur-
er's report book, $3.50.
w. L. Howerton, work on streets,
$1,000.
Tumwater Light & Water Co.,
street lights, S125.O0.
Leavenworth Supply Co., supplies
for auto, $44.49.
Great Northern Lumber Co., lum
Der, $3040. -
L. @. Taylor, lamps on streets,
$3.50.
Geo. A. Blocksedge, supplies and
stamps, $3.50.
Leavenworth Echo, printing and
supplies, $12.35.
Total bills allowed, s321.76.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
WILL "USE NOTHING GERMAN"
Club Organized for the Purpose OF
Boycottino Products Of Hun
Manufacture.

Chicago.-High art and low art,
music and literature and dolls that
talk and walk are to be taboo forever
and forever to members of new club
here, when they bear the made in
Germany" stamp or flavor.
"Use Nothing German" Is the name
Of the club. And the women who have
formed 1t swear that they mean what
they say, and that after the war they
intend that the kaiser does not re-
cuperate from the ills he has brought
upon himself through their aid.
The club expects to spread its mes
sage countrywide, and thus to induce
women throughout the United States
to back them up in ignoring every
thing German.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16

FOR SALF-1-4 horse power
Westinghouse motor Inquire at the
Echo office 33tf
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
GOODWIN FOR CONGRESS

Frank NJ Goodwin of Spokane, who
repI )lican nomination for Congress,
is described by the veteran editor of
the Oroville Gazette as a man of pleas
ing personality-fully competent for
the position he seeks.
Since the declaration of war, Mr.
as a speaker on patriotic occasions.
His recent Flag Day address at We
natchee, heard by more than 2000 peo-
Pile, was highly praised by the We
natchee Daily World and by those who
heard it.
Mr.. Goodwin is AZ years of age-in
the prime of life---and the son of a
Union veteran. He is a married man
and has three children. At the early
age of Is he began active life as a
,aborer in the coal mines, and was so
employed for more than four years.
He attended night school, graduated
from the Maryland University, and
was finally admitted to the bar in
1896 He was deputy prosecuting at
torney of Spokane county for two
years. AS an assistant attorney for
the United States, he uncovered big
land and timber frauds in Idaho and
Montana and engaged in the trials that
followed. Nearly seven years of ex-
perience in government service will
be of great value to him as Congress
man.
His friends believe that he is not
only we'll equipped but the logical man
for the republican nomination.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
POLES DRIVEN TO
GERMANY TO WORK
Hun Commanders Brutal Order
Issued to Conquered and
Helpless People.
Every Able Bodied Man Forced to
Leave His Starving Family and
Labor Under Shocking condl-
tlons for the oppressor.

This ] have seen. could not
believe II unless ! had seen II
through and through. For sew
erai weeks ! lived with II; |
went all about 1t and back Of
1t; inside and out OF II was
shown to me-until finally !
came to realize that the incredi-
bic was true. II is monstrous,
1t 10 unthInkable, but 1t exists.
II 10 the Prussian system.-F. C.
Walcott.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
NOTHING ELSE LIKE 1T
IN LEAVENWORTH

There has never been anything in
Leavenworth with the INSTANT
action of simple buckthorn bark,
glycerine, ETC., mixed in Adler-i-ka.
ONE SPOONFUL fushes the EN-
TIRE bowel tract so completely it
relieves ANY CASE sour stomach,
gas or constipation and prevents ap-
pendicitis. The INSTANT, pleasant
action of Adler-i-ka surprises both
doctors and patients. Wheeler's
Drug Store.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
TIE Youths Companion offers tbes

TIE Youths Companion offers thes,
new words for popular tune:
Keep the old clothes going,
Do the needed sewing;
Though the boys are far away,
The bills come home.
If there's still a lining
Through the old clothes shining,
Turn the old suit inside out
Till the boys come home.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-08-16
FREIGHT SMASHUP IN YARDS
YESTERDAY EVENING

Two empty box cars and an
empty oil tank car piled up across
two sidings about seven o'clock at
at the east end of the railroad yards
Just east of the viaduct One truck
on freight car took the wrong
rail at switch and pulled two
other cars off the track before the
train came to a stop. The work of
clearing the track began an hour
after the wreck occurred. The main
line was not affected by the wreck.