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The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

John Deal and Lester Snyder shipped
car Of immigrant movables from
Keota Tuesday to Boulder. Mr.. Deal
having purchased dairy tract about
four miles northeast Of there. The
Deal and Snyder families left the same
day. bv auto. for their new homes.
W. e. Scott and son. Lamar. went to
Cheyenne Monday. to work. They
were accompanied BY Misc Veda Scott.
who will keep house for them and at-
tend school when Il rsopsns there.
Mrs. H. p. Nagls b recovering from
IN illness Of several weeks.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

Frank Bowers drove to Denver Mon.
day 70 inset his wife. who returned
from visit at Pueblo. and they came
home Wednesday. While In Denver
Mr.. Bowers bought IN electric genera
tor. to b installed In The new garage
now being built, and be states that Il
will have capacity sufficient for oil The
present needs Of The community.
Jacob Rotharmsl returned Wednes-
day from . trip to Evans and Sterling.
He was accompanied from Sterling By
bic uncle, David Rotharmel. l.
Whea yeu leek yess bsst see Festsss.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13
N. 3. Church Services fer ss.ds
Doeeabee Is

n. Is. Church Services t01 S000oy,
December Is
Sunday School at 10 .. N. D. W.
Schoonover, superintendent.
Morning worship at II .. N. Dr.. F.
r. Hollemback will preach. First quar-
terly conference Immediately after
preaching.
Epworth League at $50 p. m. Charles
Kurts, president.
Evening worship at 7:oo p. N.
A cordial welcome to Ill.
EDGAR DICKSON. Pastor.
0eA0ol Notso
The Juniors and Seniors have begun
The study Of "Idylls Of the King" The
Sophomores are studying ''Sohrab cd
Rustum."
The grade pupils are preparing .
Christmas progan; and Tie high seAeoa
b also planning to hold . Christ0as
entertainment.
At present the class IN ancient histsey
b very much interested In . study q
the aericultural methods Of Egypt.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13
Mov....t to Divid. Keot. School Dis.

Movement 70 Divide Ae0to School Ut0.
tSiet
w. K. Bowles. secretary Of School
District No. s2. together with W. A.
Rhosdarmsr and C. e. Andrews. went
to Greeley Wednesday to hle with
County Superintendent Copeland . pct
ition asking for an election to vote on
the proposition Of creating . new school
district by dividing the present one.
The petition was signed by more than .
hundred school patrons. and asks for .
division Of the district on lines that
would leave Keota - the approximate
center Of the new district. Tho re-
mainder would then comprise District
No SO. and includes territory tributary
70 the Spencer. Swanson. Heinle, Daw-
son. and Judd schools. or that part Of
the present district now farthest re-
moved from Keota. It b not thought
that the division will b especially un.
desirable to thepatrons Of those schools.
% their interests are different from the
interests Of the north end Of the pres
ent district. and the arguments are all
In favor Of the division % far - this
end 10 concerned. The new district
would contain approximately s. see-
boas, end ti,s Cd approximately IS sse-
t;oos Of land. Murphy. Daks. Buchss.
Hobbs, Rohn. Psgg and Ksota schools
would b included In ths nsw district,
giving Il seven grade sehssis and oos
high school to usaintain. - compared 70
Ave grade schools for ths other. County
Superintendent obpsland ct I p. 10.
Wednesday for . hearing Of opposing
arEument, should there b any.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
SHIPPED BODY C. O. D.
Army Officials Made Family Pay to
Get Corpse of Son.

Washington, Jan. 26.-They shipped
the body collect"
Senator Sutherland, of West Vir-
g1nfa, read into the record of the sem
ate war probe Friday, a letter telling
of the death of a Wheeling, w. Va
boy at the Hattiesburg, Miss, camp
on Christmas Day.
Death was due to mastoiditis
1t was not until January 7. thirteen
days later, that the body reached
nome. The remains had been shipped
collect"
AS the family was poor, the local
unoertaker advanced the necessary
$45 The coffin was described in the
letter as Cheap
The clergyman who signed the, let
ter. wrote:
Ii all the boys are sent home this
way l have nothing to say L only
want to know"
Let me have that letter." said Sur
geon General Gorgas. who was on the
stand II will have the matter in
vestigated."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
is TACCART in IT?
Kansas Congressman Named as
Friend of the Packers.
Trust Called DOOlittle "A Boy
We Need Not Fear"

Washington, Jan. 26.-Emphasizing
political efforts of the packers to OBJ
tain adverse action on the meat probe
resolution, Heney produced a copy OF
telegram from r. C. McManus,
Swift's attorney. to Henry veeder, gen.
eral attorney for the big five.
Investigator Heney told the com
mission he did not know how McMan-
US obtained the information which is
given in the telegram which follows:
Washington, August 21, 1916:
I'VE can rely on Webb of North
Carolina; Carlin, Virginia; Thomas,
Kentucky; Taggart, Kansas; 1goe
Missouri; Williams. Illinois; Whal-
ey, South Carolina; Dale, New York;
Carroway, Arkansas and Dyer, Mis-
souri,
II am also assured that Gard,
Ohio, can be controlled
"Compliment," Says DooIittIe.
Representative sDooIittle, Kansas,
charged in packers correspondence as
"a boy of small ability whom we need
not fear" said today he regarded the
packers remark "a distinct compli-
ment in view of what is now being
revealed"
Il urged the investigation, because
cattlemen of how the packers con-
trolled the entire meat industry"
Joseph Taggart, Democrat, and
former congressman from the Sec
ond Kansas district, was named in
June. last year, as a special attorney
for the federal trades commission ct
a salary of $1,000 a year. Taggart
was defeated for reelection in 1916
by Ed Little, of Kansas City, Kan,
Repu b1ican Tagsart succeeded the
late A C. Mitchell. of Lawrence. Re
publican, to congress from the Second
district. He was fl st elected at special
election in 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
WILLING
Ready To Make a Separate
Peace With Russia.
Peace Strikes and Revolution
ary Uprising Growing.

London, Jan. 26.-Austria hS de-
clared her readiness to conclude a
separate peace without. Germany and
to accept the Russian democratic pro-
gram with the exception of self-deter-
mination of nations says a dispatch
from Petrograd to the Exchange Tel
egraph company.
Another dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company from Petrograd
Friday says:
The Bolshevik newspapers today
report that great demopstrations are
taking place all over sAustria-H Hun
gary Workmen and soldiers organiza-
tions have been formed at Vienna and
Budapest A big strike has begun at
Warsaw.
The socialist congress at Warsaw
has resolved to organize a revolution
ary council of workmen and soldiers
deputies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
LabOrites Accept President Will
son as Peace Prophet.
Every War Resolution an En-
dOrsement of American Terms.
rid WORLD OF MILITARISM"
That Is Emphatic Cry Voiced
by Great Labor Convention.
Outburst by Radicals and Paci-
fists Found No Support.

Nottingham. Eng, Jan. 26.-The
British Labor party has closed the
most important convention in its his
tory The outstanding fact of the
three days proceedings is the firm
stand taken on .the war. British labor
emphatically reasserted that ''The
world must be completely and finally
rid of aggressive militarlsm. The
pacifist element in the conference,
altho demonstrative, was beaten de-
cisive'v or every occasion its pro-
posals reached the voting stage. For
three years the question of the con-
duct of tie war has been the prin-
cipal occupation of this annual con-
ference and each time labor has de-
cided to go on, but it never before has
spoken in such an emphatic and spe-
cific a manner as this year, nor with
such unanimity.
Wilson a Favoritc.
For the American public one of the
main points of interest is the party'S
acceptance of President
Wilson as its own prophet. Not a sin
gle resolution or declaration that was
made during the conference on the
subject of war or peace omitted an
endorsement of Wilson's war aims and
attitude No other allied statesman
received a similar tribute. Premier
Lloyd George had many carping critics
and President Poincare was not men
toned, but not even speakers represent
ing the disaffected fringes of the party
spoke a disparaging word on the at
titude of the American president or
people.
During the course of the conven
iion there were occasional outbursts
CT rev olutionary sentiment from ire
cnn0SihIp DELEGATES bnt Art hI1T- Hem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26

At 2 o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing twelve miles an hour
from the north and the mercury was
still going down. The average tenn
perature was degrees below normal
during the morning hours and 20 oe-
grees below normal this afternoon
THE cold wave is sure enough on
the way" that was Meteorologist
Flora's statement today Flora didn't
make that statement merely for the
fun of taking the joy out of ones life
either, but spoke in a convincing tone
and a rather regretful manner. Open
ing the day with a temperature of p
degrees the mercury forthwith hit the
slide and dropped to Is shortly be-
fore 8 O'Clock. 1t was not expected
that the slide. would stop short of 5
below, and the prospective cold for
Sunday will be much worse thru the
agency of increasing winds from the
(Continued on Page Two1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
HUMASON is GUILTY
Jury Convicts Topekan on Charge of
Possessing Liquor.

Jack Humason today was found
guilty of having liquor in his possess
sion and unless the case is appealed
Humason will go to state prison. In
structions given to the jury by Judge
Wf1itcomb relative to any accomplieeS
who might have aided Humason
caused the jury no end of concern
and kept the case before the jury for
several hours
Attorneys for Humason contended
that if Humason really did have the
liquor in his possession, Ed Davis and
Mollie Gonzales were accomplices, as
guilty as Humason. The jury ex-
pressed itself as puzzled over the in
structions and the judge permitted
attorneys on both sides to argue the
accompEce proposition for ten min
utes. The jury went out again and
returned in a few minutes with a YER
diet against Humason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
STANDS UP FOR T. R.
Arkansas Governor Condemns Senator
Stone for His Political Speech.

Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 26.-An echo
of Senator Stones recent attack on
Theodore Roosevelt was heard here
when Governor C. H. Brough of Ar
kansas, in an address before the Tri-
State Press associa ton, said:
~ decry and regret that a United
States senator, even of my own party
should violate his obligation to the ma
ton in this hour of international
strife, by injecting party politics into
congress at this time. And 1, for one,
have an abiding faith in the patriot
ism and integrity of that former pres
ident and splendid American, who has
four sons in the army, three of them
on the battlefields of France, Theo-
dore Roosevelt"
The declaration of Governor Brough
was met with an outburst of applause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
BOOKS THEY
LOVE TO GET

(The women of Topeka have appointed
themselves censors of the books to be sent
to the boys at the cantonments. Bertha
Clay, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Laura Jean
Libby, Eleanor Gates. and Zola are some
of those on the prescribed list. Spelling
books, readers, etc, are being substituted.
News note.)
Take, oh take that book away
For the authors Bertha Clayi
1t would lead me all astrayi
Let me read, when l am sick,
Arithmetic,
Libby? Laura Jean? Oh, no!
That will also have to go,
For her style is very low!
Let me have a-when I'm weary
Dictionary
Ella Wheeler Wilcox? Graciousi
Nothing, please, quite so salacious.
Nothing morally audacious,
Send me, say, for a best seller
Some ones Speller!
Encyclopedias make me fight.
Send them-anything not light
Anything that's dry's all right,
Send me books l do not need,
And will not readi
q La Touche Hancock.
(From February Cartoon Magazine of Chi
vagO.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
Coal Bins in Many Homes Are
Scraped Clean.
Majority of Dealers Have Quit
Taking Fuel Orders.
POOR UNABLE TO KEEP WARM
PrOvident Association Cannot
Get Coal for Them.
Danner May Order All Stores
Closed on Sundays.

With a near-blizzard raging today
and zero temperatures predicted for
tonight, the coal crisis in Topeka
reached a panic today and intense suf-
fering among the poor and others
caught with empty fuel bins seemed
unavoidable. Despite c. H. banners
drastic Conservation" order, condi-
tons, many dealers asserted, are as
bad if not worse than when the order
went into effect last Monday.
The majority of retail dealers to-
day said that they were entirely out of
coal. Some of them stopped taking
orders altogether. Others said the
small supply in their yards had been
sold and future deliveries for new buy
ers can not be made, of course, until
more coal is received Practically ali
the retailers said they had cars in
transit, but they did not know when
they would arrive.
Poor Ask for Coal.
The situation faced by the Provident
association is not a pleasant one. Mrs.
Myrtle Callahan, secretary. said short
ly before, noon that calls for coal had
been coming in all morning.
I'VE are kept running from one
place to another to get a little coal
here.and a little there" she said TO-
day l 'phoned orders to severai deal
ers and they turned me down. They
said they were entirely out of coal and
didn't know when any more would
arrive"
Nowhere was the panic more ap-
parent than at the offices of the deal
ers. Consumers, caught with only a
small fuel supply when snow began
to swirl this morning, kept the teie-
phones almost constantly ringing.
Obtaining no promise of early deIiy-
cry from one dealer. the consumers
called another dealer and another.
and scores met but little success.
Close All Stores Sundays.
c. H. Danner today, admitted that
the city is in bad shape" DESPITE
the fact that his orders so far have
failed in a1leviating conditions, he in
tlmated today that he would make his
closing hours in the business district
more drastic by closing all stores. in
Guiding drug and cigar stores, on sun
day
Under the present schedule" Dam
ner said, drug stores and cigar stores
may remain open on Sunday for the
same hours they do business on week
Gays. If the condition grows worse
ana necessitates it, an order will be
issued closing all stores on Sunday.
In observing the present order all
stores in the habit of closing Sunday
must not open tomorrow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26

that no kilograms, either press or
commercial, We're received in Holland
on Friday direct from Berlin, but all
came by roundabout routes. None OF
Thursdays Berlin newspapers have
arrived
People Goaded Into War"
Amsterdam, Jan. 26.-The Cologne
Prussian lower house says that a
great uproar arose over the speech
of Herr HI ffman, Independent Social
list, who said the government was
uancing on a volcano.
. The events in Austria are the writ
ing on the wall and here as in Austria
we are within close range of catas-
trophe," he said. THE people have
had enough of being goadec to war
Prohibit Public Meetings
Amsterdam. Jan. 25.-In conse-
quence of the disturbances of the
meetings of the Fatherland party at
Stuttgart the deputy general of the
thirteenth Wurtemburg army corps
has prohibited all public meetings in
Stuttgart and the surrounding district
for the discussion of political or mill
tary matters
What the Socialist organ, the Vor-
waerts. terms "a spontaneous move
ment to show the Fatherland party
what the masses of the Fatherland
lHlHh NOI InelT dCl1Vlt1eS, mas COM
pelied~the party to take the strictest
precautions to obtain a hearing any
where. Only known sympathers are
admitted to their meetings.
Would Ditch the Kaiser.
Amsterdam. Jan. 26.-PhiIlip Schei-
demann president of the Social Dem
ocratic party in Germany, answering
Chancellor Won Hertling's speech in
the main committee of the reichstag,
warned the military leaders of the
imperial government that if they did
not bring about peace between Ger
many and Russia, they would be
hurled from power"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26

Newark, Jan. 26.-More than a mil
lion dollars worth of property was
destroyed today in a fire believed to
be the work of German spies which
burned up oil barges, a pier, ware
houses and freight cars on Newark
bay close to the plant of the Sub
marine Boat corporation and store
houses of the quartermaster' depart
ment of the army.
New York, Jan. 26.-Seven United
States depot quartermaster's ware
houses and nearly mile of municipal
stroyed by fire today. The, store
houses were empty. New York fire
boats saved the plant of the Submar-
inc Boat corporation, working on
government ship contracts, from the
flames. Twenty-Five secret service
round up suspected spies. g
The fire started early this morn
ing in oil barges moored at the
wharves. Several barges were burned
A trainload of coal near the sub
marine boat corporation plant caught
fire Several heaps of coal near the
ship yard also igpited.
s. The sweep of the fire was aided by
burning oil flowing over ice and by
the wind which swept the flames along
the docks
Rumors of Spy Being Shot
One of the bunned docks was in the
Submarine Boat corporation property.
Flames menaced two big shipways,
just completed.
There were many rumors of spies
being shot.
The quartermaster's warehouses
were in the course of construction.
The municipal docks lined the Newark
ship canal
Two men, arrested near the fire,
were sent to district attorneys office
for examination.
The Submarine Boat plant seemed
doomed until two New York fire boats
broke a path thru the ice and checked
the conflagration. Dynamite also was
used.
Started in Oil Barges.
New York, Jan. 26.-The plant of
the Submarine Boat Co. at Port New
ark. which is employed in building
ships for the government, was threat
ened by fire early today as the result
of what is believed to have been spy
plot
: Flames flashed up from oil barges
lying alongside a pier.
Shots were fired by soldiers at men
they declare they saw running from
the pier. A United States army ser
geant's hat was pierced by bullet
he said was fired at him by a man
on the roof of warehouse.
A pier and four oil barges were de-
stroyed.
Rumors of a spy plot to destroy the
Boat corporation plant
were circulated more than a week
ago, just prior to a visit paid the
plant by Edward n. Hurley, chairman
of the Emergency Fleet corporation.
When Hurley left. a guard of 200
soldiers was sent at once to the yard
and began a patrol. Police also were
sent from Newark.
Plant One of Largest i'm U. S.
The plant is one of the largest in
the country and has just been COM
pleted. One ship already is on the
ways and nearly ready for launching.
Others are being laid down.
Soldiers used dynamite to demo1-
lsh buildings between the blaze and
the huge ship yards. The docks at
the quartermaster's pier were blaz-
ing at an early hour.
Oil barges which had been frozen
against the dock spilled oil on frozen |
Newark bay and. it ignited. The sky
was lighted up for miles around.
The entire Newark fire department !
was rushed to the blaze. Fire boats !
were sent from New York, but had
8Continued on Page Two)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
FOR THE REVOLUTION
Austrian Cities Form Soviets to Over
throw the Government.

Petrograd, Jan. 25, delayed via
London, Jan. 26.)-Bolsheviki news
papers today printed reports that
soviet organizations had been formed
by the workmen in Vienna. Budapest
and Warsaw for revolutionary pur-
poses
THIS report follows closely the dis
patch of Thursday from Petrograd,
reporting receipt by tie Smolvy insti-
tute of wireless reports indicating
revolution in Vienna.
The Russian word soviet means
council. Under the Russian Tevolu-
tionary government, there were
"soviets'' of workmen, soldiers, peas
ants, ETC., all elected and who are
SUPPOSED to represent public opinion
of their respective classes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
GERMAN SPIES
START MILLION
DOLLAR BLA AzE
Seven Govt Warehouses and
Mile of Docks Are Destroyed.
Aim To Burn Huge Shipyards,
but Plant Is Saved.
SOLDIERS FIRE ON SUSPECTS
Many Fires Indicate Attempt at
Frightfulness Plot.
President Received Warming OF
Nationwide Conspiracy.
Aim To Burn Huge Shipyards,
but Plant Is Saved.
SOLDIERS FIRE ON SUSPECTS
Many Fires Indicate Attempt at
Frightfulness Plot.
TODAY's MYSTERIOUS WAR PLANT
FIRES

Seven quartermasters storehouses and
municipal docks burned at Newark.
Submarine boat corporation plant men
aced. Conflagration followed spy
fumOrs.
Westinghouse Electric company plant,
Buffalo, burned. Damage 100000.
Della mills and H. w. Smith Dry
Dock company plant, near Baltimore,
destroyed. Damage nearly 81 100000.
Paterson. n. J.-Eidelity Storage
company warehouse burns; loss $50 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
Release Political Prisoners.

London, Jan. 26.-The social revo-
lutionary members of the recent con-
stituent assembly who were arrested
have been released, according to q
Petrograd dispatch to Reuters Linn
tied. The same dispatch states that
the congress of peasants which is sup
porting the constituent assembly has
been dissolved and the members of
its presidential board arrested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
HOFFMAN PLANT FIRE
Stove and Furnace Plant Blaze Causes
/ S17S.OOO Loss.

Kansas City, Jan 2c.-Fire early
today destroyed the plant of the A
Hoffman company engaged in the
manufacture CT stoves and furnaces.
The loss is placed at s17S,000. The
fire is supposed to have been due to
spontaneous combu stion in a quantity
CT greasy rags.
The building was three-story
structure.
Tie Hoffman Heating company has
a plant at 621 Quincy street, Topeka.
F. Bassett is lthe Topeka manager for
he company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
NAME R. R. RECEIVERS
President Brown of Rio Grande and
Frisco Attorney Take Over ID. & r.. q.

Denver. Jan. 26.-Alexander n
Baldwin of San Francisco, yice-presi-
dent and general attorney for tbs
Western Pacific railway and Edward
l.. Brown, president of the Denver e.
Rio Grande railroad were named re-
cefvers for the Rio Grande railway by
Judge Walter H. Sanbprn in the
United States district court here today.
They were sworn in and gave bond
of $4,000 each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
KATY WRECK KILLS TWO
Dead Engineer. J. C. Blair. Oldest
Pilot on Entire NJ. "A. & T.

Denison, Texas, Jan. 26.-Two men
were dead today and seven injured,
the result of a wreck when the Katy
Texas special left the track three miles
north of Bells early last night. One
of the dead, j. c. Blair, engineer pull
ing the train, was the oldest engineer
in the service of the Katy system, hav-
ing begun work for the road in 1876
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
Missouri Editor Dies Suddenly

S. Griffith. 43, editor of the Green
field, Mo, Gazette. and prominent
Missouri Republican. was dead here
today, following sudden attack Of
heart disease in a local hotel He
came here yesterday for treatment,
and died last night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
Soldiers Parents for Wilson.

Portland, Ore. Jan. 26--"God bless
the President and to ell with our in
surgent declares a message for
warded to President Wilson by H NJ
Esterly, Democratic national commit
teeman. The message was signed by
parents of oregon soldiers