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V TWO CENTS THE DAY BOOK TWO CENTS THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Geo. H. Cushing, coal production expert and editor of Black Diamond, predicts that entire country will feel coal famine next winter. Says Illi nois soft coal now selling at $2.75 to $3.75 will be sold for $10 and up ward. Urges people to lay in their winter stock now. Flour advanced 50 cents a barrel yesterday, now $15.20 retail; sugar went up 2 cents; eggs dropped a few cents; grocers should have sold po tatoes 5 'cents cheaper. Butter dropped after the U. S. grand jury subpoenaed members of the Chicago butter and egg board in an effort to get at the inside transac tions of the price jugglers. It is un derstood that among those called are : Arthur W. Hale, ass't sec'y but ter and egg board; M. P. Rutledge, John R. Tyler, Henry Kaischeini and V. F. Priebe. Hale, it is said, was given orders to bring his books in to day. Health Com'r Robertson, after a private investigation, announced that he had discovered that 7,920,000 eggs are being held in freight cars around Chicago for higher prices. Texas onions dropped down 25 cents to $2.50 a case. Rice and navy beans went up. Strawberries went higher. o o HERMAN BAHER DISAPPEARS State's Att'y Hoyne today sent out detectives to search for Herman Ba her, principal witness in the bases being prepared by Hoyne's office against Justice of Peace Beisswanger of Niles and others. Baher disap peared from his rooming house in Lyons yesterday after exhibiting $500 to his landlady. Beisswanger was quizzed by Hoyne aids yesterday and asked to explain the queer pro cess of law by which he threw Baher into jaiL He was told to come back tomorrow. IT'S CUT ALL RIGHT By Jim Manee Yes, we have loads of fine cut glass, Declare the gushing brides Whose wedding days have come to pass; They've other things besides. But do they ever stop to think. This glass they deem so great, Perhaps was only cut from three Bucks to one ninety-eight. P. S. Aw, go on, nothing is cut in price these days. BAKERY STRIKE SEEMS SURE Unless bakers grant bakery driv ers' union demand for a 14 per cent increase in wages, which the bakers refused at conference between union officials and bakers yesterday, union heads will declare a strike next Tues day. The union includes practically all city drivers. If the strike is declared the bread supply will give out, say the bakers, and the demands for flour will be so great as to exhaust the supply. A the conference no agree ment could be made, since employers said demand was out of question. o o , MAN FOUND DEAD Body of a man, about 50 years old, supposed to be that of John Conniff, was found in an alley in the rear of 407 S. Peoria st by Morris Gerber, a newsdealer, at 6 a. m. today. Causo of death unknown. No marks of vio lence. Body at Gavin's, 326 -S. Ra cine av. WEATHER FORECAST Unsettlec. and continued cool to day, probably rain. Tomorrow rain. Winds becoming northeast and increasing. MMAMMMittMMliMMUttiMMft