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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17
Stockholders Confirm Action Of
Directors Which VIII Unite
Three Big Cereal
Plants.
POLICY NOT DISTURBED
No Change to be Made In the
Method Of the Purity Oats
Co. or American Hominy
Co. Toward Jobbers.

The stockholders of the Purity
Oats company of Keokuk and DaTen-
port have both held final meetings
confirming the action of the board OF
directors to consolidate with the
American Honliny company. There
were no dissenting votes either oy
stock represented in person or oy
proxy and the stockholders were
unanimous In feeling that the result
of this amalgamation viii mean
more rapid and substantial growth
both in this country and abroad tnan
has been possible heretofore though
there has never been year since
either corporation was formed that
the business has not grown steadily
with margins OF profit dat have been
eatfsfac-o-y-
TIE ca5acfry OF the cats plants
botn n EanEH-k and Davenport VIII
he Increased Is quickly and As much
- possible 10 meet TIE requirements
az tie trade During the past TWO
Years neither DIa1r has been able 20
HEupTv ar any time 70 exceed sixty
nfrce11s OF the demand Tor PUTTY
cars. Connections II foreign coun-
ties are sending IN very liberal
tr-sers anu tina export department
xfrEa VIII recassira-s an increased
working SURGE Of considerable proper
r.GrE
-ae consolidation means that one
az Tie industries which has SHOWN
zteadr growth n keoIuE furtng
rne past ten years viii be OF sttH
greater importance 20 The community
a. IN employer Of labor and an sd-
rErtzse- CT Iowa products.
S-rorc Financially
The consolidation VII have an
fssue &C three million dollars all
common stock. fully paid Up, with
assets C about nine million collars
OF the basis Of consolidation agreed
H-son. Il Is understood that the assets
az the Purity Oats companies were
approximately one and three-Guarler
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17

roughly resembles a right-angled If
angle, Its apex at the town OF Arcn'
argel, its perpendicular the Archali.
gel-yologda railroad with Vologda ~
the angle, its hypothenuse the pFina
river as far as Viatka, and Its base .ne
petrograd- Siberian railroad, runnins
through viatka and Vologda.
The present front is about one thL1
the way down both legs of the trianslc
from Archangel, along what is nov
the boundaries Of Archaugel provinces
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17
ROSTER OF
IOWA SOLDIERS
Work Commenced CT Complete List
Of Soldiers From This
State in Late
War

United Press Leased Wire Service-l
DES MONIES, Iowa, May 17--GoT-
eruor ". l. Harding and Ad5utant
General Louis G. Lasher. the COM
nittee on the roster OF Iowa sol
diers, met today 10 start the work Of
carving out the provisions OF the
bin zpDropriating $50, 600 for com
pIeting the roster Of all iowa men
IN service.
Governor Harding Is chairman OF
the committee and Col Frank
Lyman, OF the sG5uLant generals
Office. secretary.
Second Lieut. p G. Woods OF
Tama, assistant adiutant OF the gath
division, il assisting in the WORK
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17
BRIBE STORY
ON DICTAGRAPE
Men Said to Have Paid Money While
Government Agento Hid
in the Next
Room

{United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 17-Money
meant nothing to Michael Levy and
is. D. Brill, of Chicago, on trial in fed
era1 court charged with alleged
swindle in the purchase of govern.
Iaent supplies at Camp Dodge.
Captain 2. L. Sinner, camp salvage
3oficer, testified today that the two
men offered him diamond rings and
other costly gifts in addition to 81 900
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17

cash If he arranged a deal whereby
the company they represented would
get sss.oo0 worth Of supplies at
Sc. 800
Sinner. since discharged from the
service. testified the men paid him the
brfbe IN cash while government agents
hidden IN the room Were ioostng on
and while stenographers, through a
dtctagraph recorded the conversation
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17
WHAT 1T COST
UNITED STATES
Americas Actual War Expense Was
s23 1853 900 900 General March
Has Figured
Out

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-America's
actual var expenditures totaIed $685.
5G3, 90, 800, General March, chief OF
staff, announced today. OF this, ST.
O59, 600 900 represented normal gov
eminent expenditures and S21 ,294 900
$50 represented extra war costs OF
this $4,000. 10000 was spent by the
army
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17

IN RUSSIA
Region Near Petrosrad Under Fire
by Cruiser and Two Destroy
ers, Wireless Dispatch
Tells.

UNITED Press Leased Wire SerYicel
LONDON, May IA wireless dis
patch from Moscow today reported
that a cruiser and two destroyers Of
unknown nationality bomDarded the
region north OF Ropsha. twenty-four
miles north Of Petrograd, without re-
suit
[Recent unofficial dispatches have
reported British and French war
ships modelling at Helsingfors pre-
paratoF to an attack on Petrograd,
which the bolshevikf are reported to
be evacuating. There is nothing to
indicate, however. that the vessels
mentioned in the above dispatch are
either British or Frenchl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17
France, I don't know. Perhaps not"

IdHCt, uON KIUW. FeTHHpS HUt
On a piece OF paper he penciled a
rough map of North Russia, embrac-
ing the provinces Of Archangel, Wat
ka, Olonetz. Yuroslavly, and Kostro-
ma, a total population OF about r.
100000. Of this, only Archangel (525.-
900 iniia bitants) remains in the provi-
sional governments control. The boil
sheviks have occupied the other prov
inces.
The present zone OF operations
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17

Pneumatic tires we're the outcome
OF device used by an Irish doctor
TO diminish the ioit!ng Of an Invalid
chair for a patient of his. He fast
ened around the wheels Z piece u
ordlnarq garden hose filed with
water, Instead Of water, air wag
afterwards used with improved re-
suits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-17
strorc Financially.
MOVING, PICTURES.
Mickey"

MICKEY
If You should walk down the street
in a city and see q line OF people
q block long waiting to get into
building. and investigation proved
that building 70 be g picture SHOW
wouldn't you want 20 see the same
picture because someone in the
crowd says, Why, this Is the third
week of that picture, and hook at the
crowd Chances are you would see
it. Well, this is just what happened
in the big cities when Mickey made
her appearance And when you had
seen Mickey you would see why PEG
pie would stand IN line 10 get
ticket ITS the biggest upsEOthe-
minute picture on the road today and
1t Is fortunate for you that it Is go
ing to play in this city. Mickey just
walks right into your heart from the
minute she and her cat crawl before
the camera until the scene fades out
on her in the arms OF her lover.
Mickey is the real treat OF a life
time, and don't miss II. At the
Grand next Sunday night and three
days thereafter at 2:30 and 4:10
natinees and at T:15 and 8 O'Clock
night shows.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
the present time is Paul Des
Chanel, president Of the chamber of
deputies.
PETITION GOES
TO UPPER TOWN
TO ALTER NAME

When the members of the Fair
banks city council gather again in
regular session, there will be pre-
scented for their consideration pc
tition from Nenana requesting that
the name Easy" which in some
mysterious manner has attached
itself to Fairbanks newest thorough
fare, be officially changed to ''Ne-
mana" The idea originated with
o. NJ Jackson and ALT Ekeland, of
the Portland, and received hearty
approval among the people of Ne
mana, about ITO residents having
attached their names to the petition,
which was forwarded to the upper
town yesterday.
The arrival of the petition will
not be a surprise to Fairbanksans,
announcement already having been
made there to the effect that such
movement had been started here.
And reports received from the up
per town indicate that the sugges-
ton is regarded favorably in many
quarters, the only opposition thus
far recorded, in fact, being that of
Editor Thompson, of the News-Min-
er, who devoted over a column on
Friday to a defense of the name
Easy"
The idea of a Nenana petition
suggested itself as a result of an
item which appeared in The Nenana
News last Wednesday, stating that
the matter Of changing the name of
the new Fairbanks street had been
taken under advisement by the city
council, following the presentation
of objections to the name Easy"
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
GERMANS START
ROW At MUNICH:
TROUBLE GRAVE

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. l.
According to information received
in this city today, trouble of such
a serious character has occurred at
Munich, among rival factions, that
it has been found necessary to place
the city under martial law.
Troops are now stationed in all
the principal streets, armed with
machine guns, ready to open fire
on the threatening mobs, and addi-
tional soldiers are held in reserve,
ready for instant call in case of
further disorders.
Street fighting of the past several
days is said to have resulted in the
death Of many persons.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
BUCK PR|VATES
OF GREAT WAR
FORM SOCIETY

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN GERMANY.-The Buck Privates
society, organized at Montabaur by
members of the First division, an
nounced recently that headquarters
in the United States would be OPEN
ed in Chicago this summer, with
Edward NJ. Mcclure, national field
representative, in charge. Branches
are to be established in every state
in the Union, according to present
plans.
Private Paul F. Collins, Battery
D, 9th field artillery, of Los An
geles, Cal, is president of the So
'ciety, which has several thousand
members. All headquarters of the
society in the different states will
be known technically as "dugouts -
A women's auxiliary is also planned,
which will include its membership
all women who served with the Am.
erican Expeditionary Force, such as
welfare workers, telephone opera
tors, and nurses.
AS its platform the society has
adopted these planks: Broader edu-
cational work; cleaner politics; com
pulsory schooling for all boys under
16 years of age; to make bigger
and better Americans, and to in
terest ourselves in industry, COM
merce and labor"
The society is characterized as a
''great monument for the heroic
dead of the A. E. F." and it is
planned to make fathers and moth
ers of men who died in action in
France honorary members. One OF
the duties of members of the society
will be to make an annual visit to
the homes of soldiers who died on
the battlefelds of the world war.
Membership in the society is re-
stricted to privates.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
RECEIVES
MONEY FOR DEATH

PARIS, Sept. 1.-The sum of one
million francs has been paid into
the treasury of France by Germany
for the murder of Sergeant Paul
Maintain, a member of the French
army, who was killed in Berlin dur
ing July by Hun mob.
When the death of the sergeant
became known to the French au-
thorities, an immediate demand was
made for indemnity, with the result
that the Germans finally were COM
PEELED to consent to the settlement
The money has been turned over
by France to the Red Cross.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
INVESTIGATORS
READY TO MAKE
GRAF TIERS JUMP

SEATTLE, Sept. 1.-According to
statements made here by members
of the congressional investigating
committee, the Government soon will
start criminal proceedings against
certain Puget Sound shipbuilders, in
connection with the misapplication
of federal war funds which were
spent on shipyards during the early
stages of the shipbuilding campaign.
Sufficient evidence has been obtain
ed, it is minated, to land some of
the grafters in the penitentiary.
The committeeman have concluded
their hearings here and will con-
tinue their Investigations at Taco
ma, Olympia and Portland.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
LABOR
FEELS BURDENS
OF HIGH COSTS

NEW YORK, Sept. Labor Day
was not observed in the usual man.
ner in this city today, the reason
given by workers being that the
high cost of costumes has resulted
in a loss of interest in the pictur-
esque side of parading The work
ers also feel keenly the cost of
maintaining strikes, which have
been numerous in this city during
the past few months.
The day was generally observed
by the closing of shops and facto-
ries, but there has been no parading.
The workers of Brooklyn held a
big parade this morning, but it was
a very tame affair by comparison
with parades of previous years.
Similar reports have been re-
ceived from a number of other East
ern cities, where parades were dis
pensed with entirely or arranged on
AN unpretentious scale.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
PERSH|NC ENROUTE
TO AMERICAN HOME

BREST, Sep. 1. - General Per-
shing took passage for the United
States today, being a passenger on
the steamship Leviathan, on which
there are many American soldiers
enroute to their homes in the United
States. >~..-.
The general will be met by Presi-
dent Wilson soon after his arrival
in the States, the date of the meet
ing already having been arranged.
A big reception also has been
arranged by the people of New York
in honor of the homecoming of the
popular army man.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
OLD GLEN IS NOT
TO Be CANDIDATE

PARIS, Sept. lit is not be-
lieved here that Premier Clemenceau
will consent to become a candidate
for the presidency to succeed Presi-
dent Poincare. The premier has
stated that it is his intention to
retire from public life at the con-
clusion of pending questions Ringing
on the peace treaty, and it is con-
sidered doubtful if he can be pre-
vailed upon to reconsider his de-
cision.
1t is also claimed that President
Poincare will not be a candidate to
succeed himself, despite the pres
sure which has been brought to
bear upon him to consent to a re-
nomination.
The only candidate in sight at
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
SLAV BUTCHERS
DEC|MATE TOWN
EAST Of 0MSK

OMSk, Siberia, Sept. Chinese
and Hungarian attachments of the
Bolsheviki Red Guards are response
BILE for the death of more than co.
900 persons during the past sew
eral days ing this region, the means
of slaughter being most cruel and
inhuman.
Practically the entire population
of the town of Yekaterinburg is
said to have been wiped out, the
number of victims in that locality
including many refugees VINO had
sought shelter in the town
Bolsheviki armies are now ap-
preaching this city from several d.
rections, and in such force as to
seriously threaten the positions of
the Kolchak troops.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
PERSH|NG EXPLAINS
REASON FOR ACTION

PARIS, Sept. 1.-The reason Civ
en- by General Fershine for refusing
to give testimony in this city be-
fore the congressional committee
which is investigating war depart
ment expenditures, is that his rec
ords are not available. He explained
to the Investigators that ne had
forwarded most of his papers to
Washington, where they may be seen
by anyone authorized to examine
them.
1t is understood that the general
will be questioned later in the Unit
ed States.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
SECRETARY DANIELS
REVIEWS NEW FLEET

on board the old battleship Oregon,
where each vessel was formally well
coined as it passed through the Gold
en- Gate, into the harbor. Fifty-six
vessels, from largest to smallest
naval units, were in the big parade,
and their presence in the harbor
today marks the successful culmina-
ton of hard-fought campaign, on
the part of the people of this and
other Pacific coast cities, to have
a fleet of war vessels stationed per-
manently in Western waters.
The officers and men of the fleet
will be the guests of the city for
several days before proceeding OH
their way to Puget Sound.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
Jones BILL PUTS .
COSTS ON RECORD

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. L.
Senator Wesley L. Jones, Republi-
can, of Washington, has introduced
bill compelling merchants to mark
the cost Of all goods sold in fig
ures which may be understood by
purchasers.
The marking of merchandise in
that manner was suggested by Presi-
dent Wilson as a means of helping
to reduce the cost of living, by pre-
venting merchants from charging
excessive profits.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
ITALIAN RULER
LET'S MILITARY
PRISONERS OFF

ROME, Sept. Forty thousand
Italian soldiers, sentenced during the
war to terms varying from a few
to many years, have been granted
amnesty by the king of Italy, and
considerable number of them will
be restored to their civil rights i'm
mediately.
The action of the king, which has
been under consideration for some
time, has been received with accla-
nation throughout the country, the
belief prevailing that many of the
prisoners were condemned unjustly.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

Little Virginia was known TO
nearly everyone in Fairbanks, where
she lived the greater part of her
life, and to many residents of Ne
mana, where she spent some time
just prior to starting on the fateful
voyage to the States. She had-a
way, all her own, Of getting ac-
quainted with people, and she pos
sessed rare faculty of remember
ing names and faces, accounting for
her large circle of friends-unusu-
ally large for one so young. At
the time the Sophia went down, Vir-
ginia was four years and four
months of age, a native daughter of
the Golden North, having been born
at Fairbanks.
The body of the little girl was
found on July and was held at
Juneau in the hope that the body
of the mother also would be recov-
cred 1t was sent to Seattle, how
ever, on August %, where, after
another delay, it was decided finally
to lay the little body at rest.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-San
Francisco bay was the scene yes
terday of one of the greatest naval
ceremonies ever witnessed in this
country-by far the greatest in the
history of the Pacific coast, and an
event of much Importance to the
Western states. The shores of the
bay and the hills overlooking the
harbor were thronged with thou
sands of people, gathered to well
come the new Pacific fleet, which
arrived from Monterey to pass in
review before Secretary Daniels, just
returned from Honolulu.
The secretary occupied a position
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
LITTLE VICTIM Of
SOPHIA IS BURIED

SEATTLE, Sept. Little Helen
Virginia Markus, daughter of George
Markus, of Nenana. who, with her
mother, went down on the steamship
Sophia last fall, was laid at rest in
Mount Pleasant cemetery yesterday
afternoon. The funeral was ar
ranged by relatives of the little girl
in Seattle and by members of the
Order of the Eastern Star, of which
the mother was a member, and
there were number of Alaskans
also present to witness the last sad
rites.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
OMSK EVACUATED.

LONDON, Sept. 1.-Advices re-
ceived in this city this afternoon
state that the Kolchaks have been
forced to evacuate the city of
Omsk, which is being hard pressed
by the Bolsheviki forces.
The Kolchaks are establishing
headquarters, at Nikloyevak.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

The baseball funeral, staged at
Fairbanks week ago today, is said
to have been suggested by a real
fight, which occurred on the boat,
enroute up river. One of the COM
batants is said to have been about
half strangled when the two men
were separated.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
JOSL|N OFFERS TO
TURN RADIOS OVER

The Fairbanks Commercial Club
has been advised by Delegate Grigs-
by that the chief signal corps officer
has approved the proposition made
by Falcon Joslin, who has offered to
turn his radio stations over to the
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
LITTLE LUMPKIN BOYS
HAVE POISON TROUBL E

According to information received
at Fairbanks, the two sons of Rev.
H. H. Lumpkin were taken i'll while
enroute to the States and are now
confined in the hospital at lKetchi-
kan, where they are being treated
for ptomaine poisoning. The mess
age received at Fairbanks says that
the boys are recovering and will be
able to resume their voyage when
the next boat arrives.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

RED GUARDS SLAUGHTER MANY IN SIBERIAN CITY
EASTERN PARADES HARD HIT BY HIGH COST OF SUITS

Government without cost, if the
signal corps will continue to operate
them and divide the profits, if there
are any, with the owner.
The approval will reach the gen.
eral staff on Wednesday.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

Joe Heacock, oldtime resident of
Fairbanks, and formerly in the en-
ploy of the Alaskan Engineering
commission in the Nenana offices,
was a returning passenger on the
steamer Yukon, from seven
months visit in the States.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

General Storekeeper George Mar
kus and Robert E. Burns spent Sum
day with Johnny Campbell at Mimic,
returning to Nenana last evening.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

Nenana-The Gateway to Mckinley
National Park.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01

lNenana, where Rails and Rivers Meet
, 1919-07-05
Publication.

I is hereby made known that the Horse,
Carriage and Boat Tax for the End half
year 1919 will be received by the Police
master in Christiansted and Ffederiksted
from the goth July until the 10th August
1919, both days included, after which the
list Of arrears will be transmitted to the
PolicemaStel for further measures Each
debtor of tax will be subjected to a fine
of Francs 100 if the tax be under Francs
$500 and Francs 200 if the tax be
Francs $500 or above, besides the ordl-
nary levy expenses.
The tax lists will be distributed by the
Police in conformity with the Ordinance
of 22nd February 1858, on the LIST of July
1919 to be returned to the Policemaster
within AZ hoUrs in the Town and 4 days
in the Country,
Government of the Virgin Islands of the
United States Of America, St. Croix,
July LIST, 1919.
For the Governor
Il. O'HAGAN.
Desprtchjng Secretary
7. J.. STRIDIRON.
, 1919-07-05
Publication.

IT is hereby made known that the taxes
for the year 1918 for Town and C'oun-
= try pronerties became due OF the LIST
OF May a. c., and will b. received at
the Branch of the National Bank OF the
Danish West Indies at Christiansted
for the town and country district of
Chrisuansted, and at the Frederiksted
Branch for the Town and Country Dis
trict OF FrederikSted.
At the expiration of the month of
August the list Of arrears will be for
wardel to the Sheriff for further mea.
sure5.
Government of the Virgin Islands of
the United States of America, St. Croix,
July LIST, 1919.
For the Governor.
r. O'HAGAN.
DeSpatchjng Secretary.
T.. j. STRIDIRON.