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civil Service Commission DEGREES
That Policeman Shall Take Lay
off Of Ten Days for
Dlscourtesy.
pR1NTY IS SUSTAINED
Makes Second Appeal to the Commits
sion In Scrap With Commission
er Hickey About City
Steam Roller.

FAVORABLE action by the civil service
commission resulted last night after
-rmeroua witnesses had been examin-
"a in the appeal OF NJ. NJ. Printy.
engineer of the city steam roller from
tho second discharge OF Commissioner
hickey. and In the charges preferred
AGAINST officer Tigue by p. T. Bart
ruff The Tigue decision, however,
was only half way victory for Bart
ruff.
IN the Printy- Hickey controversy,
printy was ordered replaced in his old
position as engineer of the steam roll
ler and It was also ordered that he
shoua he reimbursed for the time
list after his first discharge by the
commissioner. The commission order
Cd officer Tigue suspended for ten
DAYS for discourtesy. The examination
81 all witnesses was held in the SUI
nerior court room, before a number OF
interested people. Commissioner
Hickey and Engineer Printy each
handled their own examination and
cross examination of witnesses, while
IN the BartMff-Tigne hearing, Attor-
ney Ballinger represented Bartruff
and Attorney McManus appeared for
the officer.
The Tigue hearing lasted Tess than
an hour. Bartruff was the only wit
ness put on in behalf of the plaintiff.
He said he went to the police station
for friendly chat and encountered
Tigue. After he had short converse
ton with Tigue he said the latter told
him he did not believe anyone had
entered his place, that II there had
been a robbery, Bartruff had ROBBED
himself. Then is when Bartruff says
Tig1ie called him a thief, and immed
lately says Tigue emphasized 1t with
an expletive.
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A Lie of War
UNITED Press Leased Wire Ser,

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, May 14.-ln an effort to
force immediate consideration of the
demands of union tugmen, who have
been on strike for week here, orders
were given the union engineers, stok-
ers and other allied trades working on
tug boats to strike today at noon. The
orders will make about 1000 men idle,
and will tie up practically every tug
in Chicago harbor The men are de-
mandng new contract with the own
ers containing an increase over their
present wages. An order was also is
sued extending the strike TO the har-
Dor OF South Chicago
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port and they will brook no delay in
the matter.
The purposes for which 1t will be
built and the building itself, to be one
of the most attractive in the city,
will add much to the pride and pres
tige of Keokuk. 1t will be one of the
buildings that will be invariably point
ed out to visitors with commendable
satisfaction and will go far in lifting
Keokuk to higher plane. If every
little helps, then home for the
Young Women's Christian Association
must help greatly to fix Keokuk more
prominently on the map as city of
moral, civic, commercial and industrial
progress.
In these days something Of import
ance is Matched ever day in Keokuk
with tendency to push her forward
il the eyes OF the progressive people
of the country.
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nual meeting of the Company in Jan
uary 1913 the following constitute the
directors Frank l.. Griffey, George
S. Tucker, B, c. Raber, Thomas H.
Joyce and Walter j. Weisman.
Six. The highest amount Of in
debtedness to which the Company
shall at any time subject itself shall
not exceed two-thirds of its capital
stock actually subscribed and paid in.
Seven. Private property of the
stock holders shall be exempt from
all corporate debts.
INDEPENDENT LUMBER COMPANY
By Frank l.. Griffey, It's President.
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Tiaue Denied SAYING Il.

Tigue and others connected with the
police department vent on in behalf
of the officer. Tigue told of the con-
versation with Bartruff but said the
only time he recalled the word "thief''
being used was when Bartruff return
ed to the station and told him. 'sYou
have called me thief and am going
to make you prove IT,"
Others who testified for Tigue were
Officers Dunn and Fields and Chief
/ schevers and Commissioner Gray
1 Dunn and Fields could not substantl-
ate Bartruff and neither OF them
heard the remark Bartruff claims
Tieue made. Gray and Schevers testi-
fled to the good conduct of Tigue and
his efficiency as an officer.
number of witness were examined
IN the Printy-Hickey affair. Hickey
put number of witnesses on the
stand to show that the steam roller
was not in coed repair at the time
u was examined and he also sought to
show that there had been destruc-
1on OF property in certain parts of
me city where the roller had been
used by Printy. The witnesses put on
by Printy We're put on to show that
trinity was an efficient engineer, and
CAPABLE of handling the machine and
qualified to do efficient work Each
OF the witnesses nut on by Printy were
emphatic in their belief that he was
fsted to handle the machine.
1t vas shortly before II o'clock that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-14
At Three O'Clock.

CHICAGO, May 14.-Three men
went into saloon to drink. Some one
outside threw three eggs against the
window The proprietor went out to
investigate. Three patrons and the
cash drawer were robbed of $500.
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Anti Eat Treatment.

WAUKEGAN H., May IA Desk
Sergeant Frank Tryon weighed go
pounds six months ago. Each day he
eats two prunes and drinks three
glasses of water out of Lake Michigan.
He has lost sixty pounds.
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A Clear BraI and healthy body are
essential for success. Business men,
teachers. students, housewives, and
other workers say Hoods Sarsaparilla
gives them appetite and strength, and
makes their work seem easy. 1t over
comes that tired feeling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-14

A touch of rheumatism. or twinge
of neuralgia, whatever the trouble is,
Chamberlain Liniment drives away
the pain at once and cures the COM
plant quickly. First application gives
relief.
Sold by Wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy,
and j. F. Kiedaisch & Son.
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The Theatre Hat Wins

BERLIN, May 14.-Women theatre
goers won victory when the court of
appeals nullified the police presi-
dents decree against the wearing of
hats in opera boxes.
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service j
LENOx, Mass, May IA. Miss
Lillian Goeppler was drowned while
trying to rescue her pet dog.
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pits. with the pad that comes with each
box. and then my glory beginsl
No matter what the weight Of your
clothing. no matter how hot and stuffy
1t may be indoors, you need never be
afraid OF perspiring any more in your
Hrm-pits than you do on the back OF
your hand, If you use PERSPI-NO.
It's marvellous yet simple powder
that anybody is safe in using. 1t keeps
your arm-pits just as fresh and dry and
natural as any other portion of your body.
Use PIE RS PI-NO and hot theatres,
dance-halls. and social affairs will have
no more terrors for you in arm-pit per-
spiration. It's goodbye dress shields
forever. Satisfaction guaranteed.
JPERSPI-NO is for sale at your drug.
gist's at ESQ q box. or sent direct, on receipt
of price, by the Perspo Co.. 27l5 Lincoln
Ave. Chicago. For sale and recommended
In Keokuk by Wilkinson &. Co., McGrath
Rros. Drug Co.. City Drug Store.
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seventeen Crying Babies

WASHINGTON, May 14.-Dr. G.
French's injunction suit to stop the
crying OF seventeen babies in the
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the commissioners had finished hear
ing the evidence and retired, to an
nounce their verdict later.
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Open by Christmas.

1t is not given as fact, but as a
pretty strong belief, that dirt will be
stirred on the let for the new Young
Women's Christian Association build
ing before another month has elapsed,
and that on Christmas day of the pres
ent year, Wednesday, December %.
1912, the girls of the association will
be enabled in their new home, to
furnish an elaborate Christmas din
ner for their large number of friends
and patrons.
That is contamination Very much
desired, and while there Is nothing
absolutely certain about the time the
building will be completed, the way
things have been working recently,
even ever since the close of the cam
paign,- leads to an early commence
ment of the construction with an early
completion of the building The girls
think they need the new home, the
citizens have come nobly to their sup
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PROSPECTS FOR
Y. v. c. A. HOME
It Might be Finished In Time for an
Elaborate Christmas Dinner
for Friends and
Patrons.
NEW SPIRIT OF KEoKUK
Shown In All Parts of the City In the
Number Of Enterprises
Now Under
Way.
NEW SPIRIT OF KEoKUK

With evidence of building progress
all around US in every section OF the
city certainly is conclusive of the
new spirit which has aroused the com.
munity. and this change in the condi-
tons is founded upon a basis as sub
stantial as the concrete work on the
great dam now in course Of construc-
ton here. That is the father of the
forward movement all along the line.
New buildings are dotting the city in
every direction and contractors are
being rushed for plans and the com.
Imencement of other new buildings al
ready determined upon. Some of
these buildings are of unusual proper.
tons for city of the size of Keokuk,
but they are being built upon the solid
idea of greater Keokuk. People in
keokuk now are not building for to-
day alone but are looking toward to-
morrow.
! The Young Woman's Christian AS.
sociation's new home, with lot pur-
chased and plans being worked on by
skillful architect, and about COM
pleted and in the hands of the com
mittee for the selection of the most
satisfactory plan, will soon be in
course of construction, much sooner
perhaps than the average citizen an
ticipates. Since the whirlwind build
ing campaign a few weeks ago, every
thing has seemed SO quiet about this
building project that many have no
doubt concluded that the enterprise
| is plodding along at low speed and
nothing definite is being done. That
| is not the spirit of Keokuk today,
and the ladies have shown themselves
even more enthused if possible, than
the men in the spirit of enterprise and
! progress. The end of the whirlwind
campaign gave them new courage, and
they continued on, propelled by the
whirl of the wind, until they have
reached point when the sky looks as
clear as bright morning in June.
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Treasure shjp

WASHINGTON, May 14-The hulk
of an old Spanish ship, loaded with
zinc, has been uncovered by dredges
in the Potomac river. causing a disap-
pointing scramble for treasure The
boat was sunk before the revolution.
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Christ WAS AthIete

BOSTON, May IA Anthony j..
Drexel-Biddle, the Philadelphia boxer
evangelist told the New England con-
ference of the brotherhood of ST.
Andrew that Christ was an athlete.
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Saved His Soul,

NEW YORK, May 14.-While fifty
men worked frenziedly to rescue an
Italian buried in cave-in, a priest was
lowered with a rope to administer ex-
IRENE JUNCTION. The buried man died !.
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Mercy home, near his residence and
the Filtration of their nurses with his
young son, was dismissed in court.
Nobody Would Listen.
BERLIN, May 14.-Glazunoff the
Russian composer is at work on a
symphony he hopes will depict the
Titanic disaster in musics
The Nurses Will.
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE will of
Margaret Sweeney. for twenty years
a servant in the household of William
Hazard, left $500 each to the five
Hazard children she had nursed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
DAM. BRERKS
AT ALBERT LEA.
ALL LOW PARTS OF CITY ARE
SUBMERGED AND 100000
DAMAGE SUSTAINED.
R. R. BRIDGES IN DANGER
Residents Flee Homes After Asking
HeIp-Passengers Are Car
ried From Incoming
Trains In Boats.

Albert Lea, April with one-third
of the city covered with from a few
inches to several feet of water. dam.
age conservatively estimated at $780,.
600 has already been done in Albert
Lea as the result of the breaking OF
about 100 feet of the dam between
Fountain and Albert Lea lakes.
The water is rising at the rate Of
two inches an hour and it is expected
that half of the city will be covered
before it reaches its level.
The Rock Island railroad yards are
submerged and passengers are car.
ried from the trains of that line into
the city in boats.
The bridges Of the Rock Island and
Milwaukee railroads over the channel
between the two lakes are also sub.
merged and If the ice in Albert Lea
lake gives way both bridges will be
washed out. These bridges are valued
at $4,000 each.
Residents in the low parts of the
city are fleeing their homes. This
morning they addressed an appeal to
the mayor asking assistance in the
moving of their belongings. The
whole north end of the city and the
country beyond that is cut of.
Residents of the city are greatly *.
cited The water has crept up slowly
until it has reached the paved streets
in the center Of the city. 1t may take
fwO dava for the water to reach a
level if the ice in the upper lake holds.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
USE PANAMA MACHINERY
Fisher Has Plan to Construct Govern.
ment Railroad in Alaska.

Washington. April Secretary
Fisher is urging the house to clothe
the federal government with imme.
date authority to use the construction
equipment and supplies on the Pana
ma canal. as they are released there
by completion of the work. for build
ing a government railroad in Alaska
from tidewater at Resurrection Bay
to the Yukon Valley. Chairman Flood
of the house territories committee has
prepared bill to provide for a re-
port upon such project to some fu.
ture session of congress.
Secretary Fisher, in letter to Rep
resentative Booher Of Missouri, makes
some suggestions for changes in the
Flood bill and also outlines substi
tute measure to provide for immediate
action. The secretary presses the
point that if legislation be delayed.
utilization of the Panama canal con.
struction equipment will not be prac
ticable. He calls attention to the gov.
ernment's engineering feat at Pana
ma under very simple act of con-
gress and wishes to apply the same
measures to the railroad in Alaska.
Resurrection Bay has already been
selected as coaling station site by
the navy department.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
OXFORD VICTORY DENIED
Rough Water Made Annual College
Race . Comedy Of Errors. =

London. March Slater Oxford
won the annual boat race with Cam.
bridge, the race was declared no con.
test by the officials because Cambridge
was swamped en- route, while the Ok.
ford crew stopped in the middle of the
course to empty the water out of their
shell.
The race throughout was . comedy
of errors and the Cambridge officials
protested that, as Oxford had failed ia
complete the distance in the boat after
getting the starting signal, although
the entire four and one-quarter miles
were covered, they could not fairly
claim a. victory. The officials took
the view and promptly declared the
race of. Many Of the Oxford adher.
ents dissented and insisted that the
Oxford crew acted wisely in stopping
en- route to empty their boat, which
would otherwise have been swamped.
Although their craft was filled with
water the Oxonians slowly padded
to the finish line and were recorded
victors in the most unsatisfactory con.
test in the history Of the race, which
dates back to 1929.
The weather was hne, but the wind
was blowing very strongly and the
Thames was very choppy, making ex
pert Workmanship almost an impossi
bility. Oxford was the favorite in
the betting. her crew having made Q
great showing In practice, so that the
result was discounted. The time for
the four and one-quarter miles was
29:3S, farcical in the extreme.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
Beauty of Body.

A healthy body is beautiful body
and beauty of face. 1t is easy enough
for woman to have good complex
ion if her body is in good health. To
insure good health it is necessary to
keep the stomach active and the bow
els open. This can best be done by the
use Of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
the great :stomach, liver and bowel
regulator. 1t is absolutely guaranteed
to do what we claim, and if you want
to try it before buying, send your adj
dress for free sample bottle to Pep
sin Syrup Co., 119 Caldwell Bldg,
Monticell. III. 1t is sold by all drug
gists at SOC and 81 a bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
PRIMARY IN ILLINOIS.
Sucker State to Have the PresidentIa,
Preferences.

Chicago, April with the signing
Of the presidential preference primary
bill by Governor Deneen, Illinois be.
came the battle ground for the candi.
dates for the presidential nomination
in both republican and democratic
parties. Fifty-eight delegates are to
be chosen to the national conventions.
With only ten days in which to lay
out their campaigns and build their
fences before the vote is cast, the
contest took on the aspect of a bit.
ter struggle.
Five minutes after the emergency
or primary bill was signed the Clark
organization had filed with the secre.
tary of state at Springfield it's list Of
1900 names petitioning that Champ
Clarks name appear on the primary
ballot.
President Taft was the first repub.
lican candidate in the field His peti.
ton. carrying $500 names, was filed
with the secretary of state by Post.
master Wheeler of Springfield, twenty
minutes after Clark's. Petition for
Roosevelt, La Toilette and Wilson
were also filed.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
BRIEF STRIKE FOR
100000 MINERS
BITUMINoUs MEN WILL BE OUT
UNTIL CLEVELAND AGREE.
MENT 10 RATIFIED.
NO TROUBLE EXPECTED.
Anthracite Workers Await Outcome
Of Philadelphia Meetings, April
1o-Settlement In Both Cases
Expected Soon.

Indianapolis, April NO anthra
cite or bituminous coal will be taken
from the mines this month by union
miners as result Of the suspension
which went into effect at midnight
March 81, due to wage troubles More
than 100000 miners, about 10000 in
the anthracite field and 100000 in the
anthracite field and 100000 in the
bituminous, will take vacation, which
probably will last only few weeks.
The miners will leave pumpmen and
others at work to protect the mines
from flooding or other trouble during
the shutdown.
The bituminous miners will be out
long enough for the wage agreement
reached in Cleveland to be ratified by
the miners by referendum vote, as
it is believed the agreement will be
sanctioned by large majority of the
men. The suspension in the anthra.
cite mines will be of longer duration,
as no agreement has yet been reached
between the anthracite miners and op.
rators.
DOth udNo dSlCCu W HCcI ia
Philadelphia on April 10 and reopen
negotiations.
Now that the bituminous miners and
operators have agreed on wage con.
tract for the next two years, it is be-
lieved the anthracite controversy will
soon be settled when the miners and
operators get together in Philadelphia.
The suspension does not affect all
of the mines in the South as the union
is not SO strong south of the Ohio
river as it is in the northern states.
The mines of Wyoming. Washington,
Colorado and Montana also will not
be affected because the union con-
tracts in these districts do not expire
April /.
1t is said the miners will lose ST..
100000 every day they remain out
and that the suspension will cause a
loss in coal production to the country
of nearly 100000 tons month. No
formal order was issued by President
White for the miners to leave work
as the suspension was automatic. since
the miners have no agreement for
work. No trouble is expected at any
of the mines involved. The suspen-
sion of work affects more than 100000
miners in the anthracite and bitumin.
GUS fields.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
SENATOR BOB TAYLOR IS DEAD
NOTED TENNEssEAN sUCcUMes
At WASHINGTON.
Operation for Gall Stones Proves Fa.
tai to the "FiddIing
Statesman"

Washington. April 1.-Robert Love
Taylor, United States senator from
Tennessee "Fiddling Bob" to all the
south, died, unable to withstand the
shock of an operation for gall stones.
Mrs. Taylor was at his side when the
end came.
"Fiddling Bob" Taylor. so known
because he played his way into the
hearts of his audiences, carrying his
violin wherever he campaigned, was
81 years old.
Once pension agent at Knoxville,
then governor Of Tennessee, from 1887
to 1891 and 1897 to 1899. Senator
Taylor was sent to the national house
of representatives from the same con-
gressional district that had previously
sent his father to congress and later
his brother, Alfred A. Taylor, whom
he subsequently defeated for cover.
nor.
Senator Taylor was Cleveland
democrat. Senator Taylor is survived
by his widow, a son. David Taylor
and three married daughters. in Ten
nessee.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
HAD $4,000 BUT STARVED
Money, Food and Skeletons Of Ami.
mails Found In Dead Refuses
Home.

Springfield, Mass.-Miss Elizabeth
Armstrong, seventy-one years old, an
eccentric recluse, died in sanato.
rum in West Springfield. where she
was taken after being found In her
home at the point of starvation. She
objected so firmly to being moved that
1t was necessary to chloroform her.
Prior to removal to the sanatorium
she had not been outside her dooryard
in twenty-five years. In her home
were found $500 in small bills,
large quantity Of provisions which she
had boarded and hundreds of shele-
tons Of cats, dogs, mice and other ami.
mails. Her estate is estimated at
$4,000. She leaves no blood relations.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-05
CONDEMNS T. R. AND TAFT
Philadelphia Scores Them for Giving
Gift to Brewer.

Wabash, Ind, April President
Taft and former President Roosevelt
were condemned for having given
pieces of gold to st. Louis brewer
on the recent anniversary of his fif-
tieth wedding anniversary, by DR..
Munhall of Philadelphia, who address.
ed the North Indiana Methodist Epis-
copal conference. DR.. Munhall's con-
domination of Mr.. Taft and his predec-
essor came during discussion of the
liquor traffic and the speaker declares
he would not vote for either because
of their gifts.
DIR. Munhall declared that crime is
largely due to adulterated liquor, stat.
ing that in former years there was
much drunkenness. but little crime and
he placed this on the shoulders Of dis
tillers who manufacture adulterated
liquor.