6 CEM HOTS hsi a a BOM RAID Kaiser’s Spy Net Covered the Entire Country. —■ ■ BERNSTORFF WAS THE CHIEF Teutonic Secret Service, Under Com mercial Guise, Paid for Placing . Explosives on Ships—German S . Money Paid for Revolt in Ireland. The following exposure of Ger many’s espionage and desperate activ ity In America Is possibly the most startling made since the first declara tion of war in August, 1914. It is based on official documents held by tfie United States government which have not hitheHo been made available to the press. IBy the Committee on Public Infor mation.) Washington, Sept. 24. —Within a few days a Gerinan newspaper pub lished in this country employed as the headline to an article dealing with a rumor of Gennan-American disaffec tion In this country the derisive legend, “Lieb’ Washington, raagst ruhig eln.” This Is, of course, a parody on the terrain of “Die Wacht am Rhein,” the German national hymn: t “Lieb’ Vaterland, magst ruhig seln.” “Loved fatherland, be restful (or undisturbed).” In the parody it carries a sneer com prehensible only to one who under stands the German mode of speech and thought. Type of German Propaganda. Of itself the instance is slight. But It typifies a certain important phase pf the German propaganda which Subtly but persistently seeks to pre sent Gennany’s course in America in tlie most favorable light, even to the extent of defending the improper ac tivities of the Teutonic diplomatic rep resentatives before their passports were given them. Because of this continuing propa ganda certain documents in the pos session of the department of justice how assume peculiar importance, in that they prove undeniably the inti mate relations between the accredited representatives of the kaiser in the United States and plotters against the laws and the security of this country, whose enterprise did not fall short of projected wholesale destruction of life and property. In the fall of 1914, when the Ger man plots against Canada were foment ing in this country, there was estab lished at 60 Wall street an “advertis ing” office presided over by a big, suave man of Teutonic aspect named Wolf von Igel. There were two peculiar features about this office. One was that it was frequented during two years of singu larly quiet and unbusinesslike exist ence chiefly by Germans who had nothing whatsoever to do with adver tising. The other was a large safe, bearing the insignia of the German im perial government. Von Igel Defies U. S. Agents. To this office there came one morn ing in April, 1916, while Von Igel was preparing a mass of papers which he had taken from the safe for transfer to the German embassy in Washington, four United States secret service agents from the department of justice, who made their way past the guard dians always on duty, put Von Igel under arrest and undertook to seize the papers. t $ The German was large, powerful and brave. With the aid of one asso ciate he stubbornly fought the officers, striving to rescue the papers, to the safe, to get to the telephone and communicate with his superiors. Re ceivers were drawn by the secret ser vice men. They produced o effect apon the intrepid Von Igile. “This is German territory,” he shout ed. “Shoot me and you will bring on war.” There was no shooting. But after a protracted struggle the defenders were overpowered and the papers seized. Find Proof Plot Was Laid. When the papers were examined by the department of justice the reason for Von Igel’s determined fight be came apparent. Here in the form of letfers, telegrams, cashbooks, checks, ledgers, cashbooks, cipher codes, lists of spies, and other memo randa and.records, were found indica llons —in some instances of vaguest na ture, in others of the most damning noncluslveness —that the German im perial government, through its .repre sentatives in a then friendly nation, was Concerned with — Violation of laws of the United felatel. Destruction of lives and property in merchant vessels on the high seas. Irish revolutionary plots against Great Britain. Fomenting ill-feeling against the United States in Mexico. Subornation of American writers ancTlecturers. Financing of propaganda. Maintenance a spy system under lb j guise of a commercial investiga tion bureau. Bubsldiziog of a bureau for the pu*- pose of stirring up labor troubles in munition, plants. The bomb industry and other related activities. Some df the Plots Against U. S. Briefly, Germany’s spy plots against the United States, as made public by** committee on public information, are as follows: In the fall of 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the war, the Ger man embassy established a publicity department at 60 Wall street, under the direction of }Volf von Igel. About two years ' later this office was raided and documentary proof obtained that Wolf von Igel was the chief spy and plotter of a vast sys tem maintained in the United States under Ambassador von Bern storffs general direction. Paul Koenig, pretending to con duct the secret service of the Ham burg-American Steamship company from a New York office*, was discov ered to be in reality one of the di rectors of the German spy system in the United States. He is now in terned at Fort Oglethorpe! In Von Bernstorff’s code he was known as “XXX.” In a report by Koenig to his boss, Captain von Papen of the German em bassy, Koenig describes an agent who has made bombs to resemble lumps of coal to be placed on board merchantmen sailing from New York for the purpose of blowing them up while at sea. James F. J. Archibald, magazine writer and war correspondent, ac knowledged receipt of $5,000 from the German embassy for propaganda work. Edwin Emerson, another correspond ent, got SI,OOO. John Devoy of New York city, pro fessional Irish patriot, and now editor of the Gaelic-American, was the active agent of Germany in this country In promoting the recent revolution in Ire land. He was the go-between for Bernstorff and Sir Roger Casement, executed for treason by the British government. Devoy handled a check for SI,OOO from the German embassy for Casement. Daniel F. Cohalan, justice of the New York supreme court, asked the German embassy to telegraph to Berlin advice on the Irish revolution, as “the services of this revolution may decide the war.” The Chicago branch of the German and Austro-Hungarian Labor Informa tion and Relief bureau w r as active in promoting labor disorder. Dr. Max Niven of Chicago received S6O for the “labor fund.” Completeness of the German spy system was due to loyalty fo the kaiser of Americans of German extraction who were willing to betray the coun try of their adoption. Canada was also the object of Ger man conspirators operating in the" United States under the direction of the German embassy. There were un successful plots to destroy the Welland canal and to accomplish the separa tion of Canada from the British em pire. G. S. Viereck, editor of the Father land, now changed in title (but not in purpose) to Viereck’s Weekly, offered help in supplying picric acid, a con stituent of many high explosives. William J. Ruff of Quincy, 111., want ed to help “save lives” by providing the Germans with a device to blow up trenches and destroy ships. Ray Beveridge, California artist, re ceived $3,000 from the German em bassy for a pro-German lecture tour, masquerading in part as a Red Cross feature. Bernstorff’s staff was busy also with promoting the transportation of muni tions through Holland, supposedly a neutral. Wolf von Igel’s spy system produced a secret code message April 11, 1916, to this effect: “Herewith respectfully send an extract regarding troops sta tioned in California and the armament of the cost fort fortifications.” More Duplicity Is Shown. How Germany “shamefully abused and exploited” the protection of the United States by secreting in the Ger man legation at Bucharest, after the American government had taken charge of Germany’s affairs at the Roumanian, capital quantities of pow erful explosives for bomb plots and deadly microbes, \Hth instructions for their use in destroying horses and cat tle, was revealed by Secretary Lansing. The latest story is told in a report to the state department from William Whiting Andrews, secretary of the le gation at Bucharest, and a letter from Foreign Minister Porombaru of Rou mania. Stunned by Revelations. The publication of Lansing’s latest bombshell, Bernstorff’s letter to his home government, apparently revealing the fact that he had previously “influ enced congress through the organiza tion of,” actually stunned the capitol. The text of the message, made public on Friday without comment is as fol lows : “To pay out up to $50,000 in order, ns on former occasions to influence congress through the organization you know of, which can perhaps prevent war. I am beginning in the meantime to act accordingly. In the above cir cumstances a public official German declaration in favor of Ireland is high ly desirable in order to gain the sup port of Irish influence here.” MITCHEL WINS, IN YORK jyjayor Renominated by Republicans at Primary by Approximately 1,500 Votes. New York, Sept. 21. —Mayor John Purroy Mitchel won the Republican mayoralty nomination at yesterday’s primary by a plurality of approximate ly 1,500 votes over Bennett* THE DEMOCRAT, MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN. W GERMANS TAKEN PRISONER njwsKi British Penetrate Enemy’s Lines in Belgium. WIN POSTS ON WIDE FRONT Advancing Lines of Infantry Destroyed by Fire From Rifles, Machine Guns and Artillery— Losses Are Enormous. British Front in France and Bel gium, Sept. 22. —During the night the British forces, with comparatively little opposition, consolidated and considerably Improved the new line which they had won in their offensive against the Germans to the east of Ypres. The British captured 8,000 Germans in their latest drive. Today, from the newly acquired enemy stronghold known as “Anzac,” southwest of Zonnebeke, flutters the Australian banner, a symbol of the greatest victory which has marked British operations in the western the ater in the past year, not excluding that of Messlnes. Success Is Complete. The British war office, after the re ceipt of Field Marshal Haig’s report, Issued this bulletin: “More detailed accounts of yester day’s battle confirm the completeness of our success. “During the evening delivered by us In the neighborhood of Tower Hamlets and northeast of Langemarck cleared up a number of strong points and completed the cap ture of our objectives in these locali ties. “It is now established that In the many counter-attacks delivered by con siderable forces of the enemy his cas ualties were unusually great. “The clear light of the latter part of the day enabled our troops to ob tain warning of impending attacks, and in every case the advancing lines of German infantry were destroyed by the concentrated fire from our rifles, machine guns and artillery.*’ Attack Called Fine Success. The British penetration has reached the depth of a mile, “which, consid- In the character of the ground, is a wonderful achievement,” the dispatch adds. It characterizes the result of the attack as a “fine success.” * BIG SHIP STRIKE IS ENDED Temporary Schedule, Releasing 30,000, Signed at San Francisco—Wilson's Plea Heeded. San Francisco, Sept. 24. —A tehmpo rary wage schedule which will permit 30,000 ironworkers, who struck here last Monday, to return to work Imme diately upon ratification of the agree ment by the unions concerned, pending final adjudication of their differences by the federal board of conciliation, was signed here at a conference be tween representatives of the men, their employers and federal mediators. Gavin McNab, a San Francisco at torney, appointed Friday by Presi dent Wilson as a special representa tive of the federal shipping board to adjust the truoble here, said that a telegram received from the president, appealing to “the patriotic co-opera tion of the workmen and their leaders,” \V T as instrumental in effecting-the set tlement. The walkout has tied up govern mental shipbuilding contracts in the San Francisco bay region estimated'at $150,000,000. ARGENTINA HALTS WAR VOTE I— .... Kaiser Disavows Luxburg Just as Law makers Were Ready to Act— Satisfied With New Note? Buenos Aires, Sept. “2,4. —Just as the Argentina chamber of deputies was preparing to vote on breaking diplo matic relations w T ith Germany, an offi cial communication was received from the Berlin foreign office. The German note which is said to give satisfaction to Argentina, disap proves of the ideas expressed by Count von Luxburg, the German minister iiere, regarding Germany’s “cruiser warfare.” The word “cruiser” leaves some doubt whether Germany intends to modify her submarine campaign. A declaration of war on Germany has been postponed, although the ma jority in the house is bent upon a rup ture of relations and proposes to vote for it late today. ** v . PASS ENEMY TRADING BILL Senate Adopts Conference Report on Measure With Only Six Negative Votes. Washington, Sept. 25.—After brief debate the senate adopted the con ference report on the trading-with-the enemy bill, with only six negative votes., The house is expected to ac cept the report and send the measurfc to the president for his signature. \ % Begins Mobilization of Navy. Buenos Aires, Sept. 25.—Mobilization of the Argentine navy has been or-v dered/and unusual activity also is un der way in military circles. “IK A BAD WAY” Many a Mineral Point Reader Will Feel Grateful for This Information. If your back gives out; Becomes lame, weak or aching; If other troubles set in. Perhaps yonr kidneys are “in a bad way.” Don’t delay—use Doan’s Kidney Pills. Here is good evidence of their worth. Mrs Amelia .Grimm, Main St., Cuba, Wis., says: “I suffered from weak kidneys, along with head aches and a tired feeling. I had pains across the small of my' back. 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If you are troubled with indigestion or constipation give them a trial. They will do you good. Twin Oak and Pint. There is in Stevens Point, Wis., a pine tree a&4 an oak tree grooving from the samq stump. Both are 15 feet or more in height. Apparently the trees are branches growing from a common root and one of the pecul iarities of the combination is that the bark of the pine does not appear normal. It appears to have been im pregnated with some of the qualities of the oak. Experience the Best Teacher. It is generally admitted that exper ience is the best teacher, but should we not make use of the experience of others as well as our own? The experience of a thousand persons is more to be depended upon than that of one individual. Man> thousands of persons have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for coughs and colds with the best results, which shows it to be a thoroughly reliable preparation for those diseases. Try it. It is prompt and effect ual and pleasant to take. 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Has a High Opinion of Chamber • lain’s Tablets. “I have a high opinion of Chamber lain’s Tablets for biliousness and as a laxative,” writes Mrs C. A. Barnes, Charleston, 111. ‘‘l haVe never found anything so mild and pleasant to use. My brother has also used these tablets withjaatisfactory results.” * •* Two “Boy Bandits" Arrested. Kenosha, Sept. 18.—Two typical Chicago boy bandits,” Tony Smith, aged seventeen, who gave his home as 4729 Forty-seventh street, and John Crigalanus, sixteen, who claimed he lives at 4418 South Richmond street, inaugurated a reign of terror in Ke nosha. They burglarized a meat mar ket, held up a saloonman and took his money and threatened a deputy with a revolver. Crigalanus Vas arrested after one o’clock and Smith was picked up by the police just at daybreak, when he was found sleeping on his gun un der a buggy in a yard the North western station. Both boys pleaded guilty to burglary and holdup and were sentenced to terms of three years in the state reformatory at Green Bay. Smith was the “gunman 4 ’ of the pair, and he used the gun with great effect, foie boys admitted that they had rob bed a sporting goods store here on Fri day. The holdup was staged at the jsaloon of Fred Krause. He entered his placo just after midnight and found the boys busy tapping the till. Quick hs a flash, Smith whipped out his gun dnd ordered, “Hands up and back out.” Itrause complied with the order and got the police on the trail of the boys. They declared that Jhev were /‘rus tlers” tor a Chicago newspaper until they decided to come out-and “clean up a small town" Nature always warns you if your bowels are clogged or inflamed heed this. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea removes the inflammation, soothes the irritated brgans, aids natural digestion. A cleanser, purifier of great renown —lvey’s Pharmacy. MINERAL POINT MARKETS Quotation of Prices for Thursday, September 27, 1917. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Steers. Good to choice, corn fed 14 0001600 Medium to good grassers \ 900 @ll 00 Common end thin 700 0 800 Heifers. Choice fat 8 00 0900 Medium to good 7 00 0 800 Common end thin 6 000 7 00 Cows. Best fet cows 7 000850 Cutters 6000700 Canners 4 500600 Calves. Good let, 130 to 1801 b 12 00 3 1400 Light, 120 end under 10 00 012 00 Heavy, 200 lb and up 8 00 01000 Hogs. Good 175 to 2251 b butchers. .. .... 1600 0 17 00 Heavy, 250 to 4001 b peckers 14 000 17 00 Pigs 75 to 1301 b 11 uC 0 1500 Sheep Lambs, choice fat 14 00 016 (0 Lambs, medium to good 13 000 14 00 Lambs, thin ..14 00 01100 Ewes 9 00 0 10 00 Flour and Grain. Flour—Straight, per cwt. 7 20 Patent..... 7 40 Buckwheat 7 00 Corn, per bushel, . 160 Ryo, per bushel 75 0 80 Oats, per bushel 75 Barley, per bushel 1 25 Butter and Cheese. 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THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Mexican Independence day was cele-* brated in northern Mexico without any disturbance. Word was received at Cincinnati of the death in California of Frank Fox, bank president and one of the fore most American horse breeders. Disorders have broken out in the Ar gentine railway strike. Movement of troop trains has been stopped by the blowing up of a railway bridge. Six automobile bandits drove into the town of Climax, Mich., held up the villagers and blew the safe at the State bank. They got away with $7,- 000. A United States submarine sank at her dock at an Atlantic port, the navy department announced at Washington. There was no 16ss of life. The cause has not yet been determined. Mrs. Mildred McLean Dewey of Washington, widow of Admiral Dewey, has accepted an Invitation to serve as honorary chairman of the comforts committee of the Navy league. Police and agents of the federal gov ernment broke up a tueeting of the People’s Peace council at Hartford, Conn. They arrested several of the speakers after alleged seditious utter ances. Soap manufacture Is feeling the ef fect of the food administration’s econ omy campaign. Wiiliara C. Proctor, a Cincinnati soap maker, told Food Ad ntinistrator Hoover at Washington that the family garbage can is dwin dling. The German textbook censoring committee of the Cincinnati public schools announced at a meeting they had recommended that the books “Im Vaderland” and “Von Grossen Koenig,” be immediately eliminated in their en tirety. Federal officers are investigating the activities at Fort Bliss, Tex., of Rich ard von Dohlen, also known as T. von Miller, who was bound over to the fed eral grand jury In the sura of $2,500 on a charge of impersonating qp army o&cer. - Organization of a national federal employees’ union was begun at Wash ington by delegates representing fed eral workers in every section of the country. It is expected that the or ganization* when completed will com prise 15,000 members. A third attempt to place in position the central span of the Quebec canti lever bridge is being made. An st tempt made last September failed, ths span falling into the river, resulting in 14 deaths.* Two accidents caused a monetary loss of about $8,500,000. • Notice to the Public. * Tliat there may be no misunderstanding re garding the charges for publication of certain classes of notices in this paper the following rates are published for the information of the public: Card of thanks 50 cents. Resolutions adopted by lodges or other sim ilar bodies, SI.OO. Poetry to accompany an obituary notice, SI.OO. All notices of sociables, 'church suppers or church ~or any other entertainments ments, or other similar matter/ where charge is made for the service rendered by the event advertised, 5 cents, per line, for the reading notices, and regular advertising rates for dis play advertising. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1917. PROFESSIONAL. LAWYERS. ' ' >V . t: •. .. s K. C. FIEDLER JOS. J, FIEDLER FIEDLER & FIEDLER, Lawyers. Mineral Point, Wisconsin. THOMAS M. PRIESTLEY, Attorney and Counsellor Mineral Point, Wis. Will practice in all courts. Office over Farmers and Citizens Bank PHYSICIANS. W. M. GRATIOT, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Mineral Point, Wisconsin. ALLEN D. BROWN, M. D., P’S D. Office, 333 High StreeV, Mineral Point, Wis. Suggestive Therpeutics a specialty. Phone 196. G. SMIEDING, B. SC., M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office Hours: 10:00 to 12:00 a*m.. l:30to4:oi) and 7:00 to8:00 p. m. OBSTETRICAL CASES NOT ACCEPTED Office phono 150-2 Residence 150*3 J. P. PARMLEY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office over Correll & Martin’s, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, flours, 1:00 to 5:00 p. m. S. R. RIDLEY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Mineral Point, Wisconsin DENTISTS. DR. G. A. BUEHNER Dentist Penhallfegon Bldg. Cor. High and Chestnut Sts Office hours: 8:00 to 12:00 a. m. 1:00 to 6:00 p. m. Evenings by appointment Office of Dr. J. P. Parmiey. W. J. MORGAN, D. D. 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