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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Petition of j. 7. Tompkins ct y!
for new road, granted and surveyo
ordered out. Same order in Augue
Fischer new road
Petition of f. II. Noting ct. a
for change of road approved. AM
surveyor ordered out.
The clerk is ordered to notify z
persons delinquent on INTEREST on bcl
rowed money to pay rp at once.
On Thursday, the court IN a body
visited and inspected the county farx,
finding it in much improved COZ
dition.
The court makes tax levy for 1919
as follows:
State, 10 cents op 800 valuation
County, SO cents on 500 valuatica
Railroad, 30 cts on 800 valuation
Road, 20 cents on 800 valuat,oo
Fred II. Monsees change of road
approved
School fund mortgage of John X.
Monroe and Enoch Moritzky ordered
foreclosed.
Account of Chas. H. Goodman,
services as sheriff, allowed in cum OF
$37.15.
Warrant issued to John A. Han
nay, collector, contingent expense of
office, in sum of $lO.55.
Account of Versailles Leader, for
printing allowed in sum of $3.50.
School money loaned IN sum of
$3.50.
Warrant issued to Elmer Mattox
in sum OF $3.50, carriage for court
visit to county farm.
Financial statement ordered print
ed in Versailles Statesman and
Leader.
Warrants issued to the county judges
as follows: w. +. Bowen $3.50, w.
Z. Tagtmeyer, $500, 7. g., Snor-
grass $37. 40.
Court adjourned to June II.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16

Emery, deceased and Amanda Brad
bury, deceased.
+. NJ. Napier, administrator Of
estate of John Freebsirn, deceased,
files report of sale of U. 8. bonds
and shares of stock of Winerva Mer.
camille & Development 20. Sale
approved and bonds aud stock order
ed transferred to purchasers.
Final settlement Of estate of John
Adair, deceased, fled and approved.
Nothing due estate. Administrator
discharged.
Sale of real estate of Campbell
minors approved and deed ordered
made.
+. NJ. Napier, administrator es-
tate of John Freebairn, deceased, re-
lieved from certain small accounts
charged in inventory. Final settle
ment of SAID estate filed and approx
ed. Balance due estate, $28, 1871.
Order OF distribution made.
Final settlement filed and approx
ed Of estate Of G. G. Lutgen, deceas-
ed. Balance due estate $l46. 81.
Order of apportionment made among
fifth class demands.
First annual settlement Of estate
Of George p. Clark, deceased, filed
and approved. Balance due admin.
lstrator $34. .53.
Final receipts of all the heirs of
John Freebalrn, deceased, fled and
administrator discharged.
Annual settlement of estate of
Gesch Dahlke, insane, filetl and ap-
proved. Balance due ward $4.15.
Inventory and appralsment of es-
tate of +. +. Kenney, deceased, fled
and approved.
Inventory and appraisement OF es-
tate of Hiram Madole, deceased, fled
and approved
First annual settlement of estate
Of J. NJ. Duff, deceased, filed and
approved. Nothing due estate.
Order of sale of real estate at pri
vate sale made.
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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
Chas. Petree sunday.

Chas. Petree sunday.
Arnold Fredericks has been en-
ployed to teach Prairie Union School
again with wages advanced to S55
Per Month.
Misses Lois, Bessie, and Josephine
Williams accompanied by Arthur
Snodgrass and their little brother
Vincil, were fishiug and boat riding
on Simpson Creek last week.
They we're joined at the mines by
Misses Audry and Grace James and
Arnold Fredericks, and all spent a
pleasant afternoon.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
Probate Court Proceeding

Probate Court Proceedings
The Morgan Probate Court met in
regular May term last Monday. Fol.
lowing are the proceedings up to
Thursday morning:
Proof of Publication of docket
made and filed.
All work done IN vacation of court
approved.
Final settlement of estate of Chris
tian Meier, deceased, filed and approx.
ed. Balance due estate 1916. S..
Balance ordered paid over eccordiag
to will.
Proof of publication OF notice OF
letters made and filed in the follow
ing estates:
George W. Petty, deceased, W. p.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Versailles Lodge, No. 231, I. O.
o. F., will elect officers for the en-
suing six months at meeting of Tues.
day night, June 4th. A good atten.
dance is asked for the N. G., so dom,
forget the date and come out and
help,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
A Reception.

The entertainment given by Mrs.
I. c. Legere, Mrs. P. G.Woods, and
Mrs. E. P. Yarnall at the residence
of Mrs. Legere, Wednesday afternoon,
was most enjoyable affair and one OF
Versailles "May day" society events.
1t was given in honor of Miss Roma
Wray, whose wedding cards are
already out, to take place the a7th Of
this month. Those present were: Mes
danes Wray, Woods, Hargett, Kelly,
Krauss, D. c. Hardy Jr., Jesse
Hardy, Beal, Harrison, Pepper, Deal,
Crewson, H. X. Enloe, of Jefferson
City, d. A. Farley, Marcy FARLEY.
Lutman and Yar"all, of California.
also Misses Beulah Hubbard, Mary
Hubbard, Mary Beale, Bryant How
ard, Irene and Lorene Petty, Lily
Shaper and Maud Blair. A splendid
luncheon was served about five
O'Clock after which the guests went
to their respective homes pronounc-
ing the entertainment a great success
in every way.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-16
At, The
Millinery Bazaar

You will find Bargains in hats and
flowers. work guaranteed to please
N.E.MOUNTs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-09

tender in the "Sperry and Hutchinson Co. Premium Paror
1o4 South st Avenue Of their places scattered hro
United States They will obtain for Furniture Rugs Ora
boh plated and Serng Cut Glass Lamps Musical In
Pictures hundreds of high grade articles for house and
We get increased business which will compensate us for this
with This is how both benefit by this plan
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-09

McNauehton Co.. Muncie, Ind.
W. V. Snyder Co., Newark. N. ].
Rothchild & Co.. Chicago, Ill.
Henry Seieel & Co., Boston, Mass.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
A Newspaper

The Gate City conceives its func-
tion to be to purvey facts, not
fancies-news, not sensations.
If you want the truth, read The
Gate City. If you want thrills, read
some other paper.
The men who secure and write
the news for The Gate City are
carefully selected and urged to
maintain reliability in reporting
hence The Gate City STANDS high
and it's readers feel that not only
its news but it's advertisements
have character.
Character, after all, is the cor
ner stone Of successful newspaper
making-the advertiser knows that.
And newspaper must have force
that helps add character to all Its
varied departments.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON. April 6.-Represen.
tative Sharp (dem. Ohic) today intro
duced resolution urging creation of
federal commission on railway
construction and operation" to consist
Of fre members to investigate, the
cause OF the frequency of railroad
wrecks and their prevention. Subjects
suggested by Sharp for investigation
are the kind and size of rails used:
whether they have been made heavier
in recent years to meet the demands
of heavier cars; manufacture of rails
and ties; sharp curves; crossing OBJ
structions; car wheels; use of metal
cars, and the speed of trains, both as
to time schedules and in making up
los. time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
An Easter Tragedy.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, April Ga longing
for clean white gloves for Easter
probably cost the life of Agnes Rooney
here today. While cleaning her Easter
gloves with naptha the girl left the
bottle near a lighted gas jet and ii
exploded. She was fatally burned ano
her mother and younger sister were
seriously burned trying to rescue
her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
Town Washed off Map.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, April 6-Two bad
breaks in the Arkansas main levee
occurred at Holly Brush and Ft. Claire
at $3.50 this afternoon practically wip-
ing the little settlement of st. Claire
off the map and flooding thousands of
acres of farm land, also the towns of
Marion and Hubert, Ark.
An unconfirmed report says three
negro families were drowned at st.
Claire but this cannot be verified on
account Of the telephone wires being
destroyed.
Miss Fannie Gray, a telephone op-
orator at Marion, heard the levee give
way. Despite the roar of rushing
waters through the slough toward her
home town, she stuck to her post and
sent the alarm everywhere possible.
AT $50 this evening the waters had
reached Marion and soon thereafter
the streets We're covered. Women
and children were rescued but the
men stuck to their posts endeavoring
to save their property. At o'clock
the water reached Hubert. The Rock
Island railroad maintains yards and
small shops at that point. 1t has a
population of 1000. AS soon as the
alarm was sounded a train was gotten
ready and brought great many peo-
pie into Memphis. Fears Of the rail
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
NOAH HIMSELF WOULD HAVE To ADMIT
THAT THIS FLOOD is A VHOPPER

cal attention. The mother is hardly
expected to live, as she had very lit
tie to eat for several days.
Another woman, refugee from Fl-
ture City, gave birth to child within
two hours after she had fed from her
home and had been carried to the top
of the approach of the Illinois Central
bridge.
At the subway which leads into
Cairo from the drainage district,
thousands of rabbits, snakes and other
small animals are drowned. They ran
to this place ahead of the rushing
waters and brought up against the
bulkhead that protects the city.
A negro janitor who was employed
at a school in the flooded district, was
told to stay in the building until re-
lieved. When the water broke through,
he refused to leave and today one OF
the authorities went out in launch
and brought him out. Scores were
taken from their flooded homes in
boats today and had their first bite to
eat in two days when they reached
Cairo The work of feeding and
clothing the refugees is well organized
and government rations are now be-
ing used.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, April Missouri:
Fair and cooler Sunday Monday fair
and warmer.
Iowa: Fair Sunday and Monday;
warmer.
Illinois: Colder and generally fair
Sunday; Monday fair.
Local Observations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
HOW IOWA STANDS I
ON TIE QUESTION 4
Taft Has State by Seven and !
} Clark Also
} Leads.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Serv- =
. ice.] .
= DES MONIES, Iowa, April O. .
= Iowa republican politicians are q
, on the verge of nervous pros =
y tration over the apparent tie in =
= the republican state convention =
= at Cedar Rapids for control of .
= the four delegates at large TO =
. the national convention. Whp .
= the Taft men claim the state 81
= Z, the progressiyes say thai =
. delegates to the state co 81 =
= ton are still to be elected OF =
. these the progressives : 5S .
. to win and the Taft mey = So =
. far Cummins and Roos~ - have .
. 6S3 and Taft 712. - Alto .
= county formerly pro i've has =
. gone for Taft with Sstes and .
. the battle will rage next week .
= in Muscatine, Allamakee and =
. Cedar counties. Z
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
With the Democrats

y vVtkU VIC 0C'tOSIdko
. DES MMNES, Iowa, April g. 4
. Iowa democrats caught the politi- 4
. cal frenzy today and after it
= was apparent that Clark men con- 4
. trolled the Woodbury. convention 4
= at Sioux City and the twenty 4
= delegates, the Wilson men with 4
= drew, organized their conven- 4
. tion and sent contesting dele
= CATION to the Burlington conven-
= ton. The Wilson men claim
= fraud and packed caucuses. In
= Polk county in which Des Moines 4
= is located, Wilson got solid
= delegation Of SS men all instruct 4
= ed. The net result of the days I
y work in eight counties is 63
= delegates for Wilson, AZ for I
= Clark and 20 contested. The I
= grand total up to date is:
= Clark 270; Wilson, 1885; Har- I
= mon or doubtful, z. I
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07

FTec1pllatIOH UU4 inches.
Maximum temp, a.
Minimum temp, so.
Stage of river at p M, IT'S it..
Rise o.2 feet.
j. C. JENSEN,
Temporarily in charge
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
Militia to Help.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 6.--Gov-
ernor Deneen tonight ordered the Al
ton company Of naval reserves to
cairo to aid the flood sufferers. The
company, composed of 55 picked men,
left Alton, at II p. M, under Lieuten-
ant ]. B. Maxfield, with several boats
and other equipment. The reserves
are all experienced river men and per-
formed excellent service in st. Louis
during previous floods.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
A Raging Flood.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 6.-Two
Francis levee district occurred oppo-
site Memphis on the Arkansas side Oh
the Mississippi river late today and
tonight raging flood with cres,
twenty feet high is sweeping across
the Arkansas lowlands and will not
be checked until the first highland,
Crowley's Ridge, forty miles away, has
been reached.
The first break occurred at the
plantation of NJ. c. Pierce between
Holly Brush and st. Claire, Ark.
The levee here is lower than it is
at other points. Five hundred men
had been working night and day
building the levee higher with sano
bags and earth and today when the
river went to ASS feet, a third of a
foot higher than the greatest predic-
ton, workers we're defeated and men
working on the levee had to flee for
their lives when the flood lashed into
fury by high wind, began to flow
over the levee and soon the embank-
ment twelve feet wide at it's top,
eighteen at It's base, was cut through
by the water and in less time than
lit takes to tell it a crevasse $50 feet
wide had been made by the cave ano
washing in of the levee structure and
through it was rushing all the pent
up fury of the turbulent river.
Tonight the flood had reached
Marion shortly before midnight.
Thousands of acres had been inun-
dated, homes swept away but the
people residing in the sparsely settled
district through which the flood
passed, had for the most part fled to
places Of safety. No deaths had been
reported up to late hour tonight.
At Marion the water will not reach a
depth of more than eight or ten feet
l
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07

tUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 6.-With a
high wind blowing from the southeast
and heavy rains falling throughout the
flooded districts north and south of
Memphis, with three breaks in the
levees in this district, and the govern
ment gauge registering 45.1 feet to-
night, government engineers have
about given up hope of holding the re-
naming levees protecting Arkansas
from Missouri to Louisiana.
BY daylight over 100000 acres win
be under water and $1,000 persons
will be homeless. President Killough'
of the st. Francis levee board issued
bulletin at O'Clock tonight saying
the whole situation is very grave.
Breaks are hourly expected at Golden
Lake, Ark, and Cream Point, where
the river rose 3 of a foot between
six and eight o'clock tonight. The
towns of Barfield, Ark, Evadale, Ark,
and Wilson, Ark, are In imminent
danger. The country districts about
Fairfield opposite Memphis have
population of 10000 and while the peo-
pie have been warned to flee few heed
ed the warning, partially because they
delayed at home long after railroad
trafHc along the river division OF sfss
Frisco railroad had been suspended.
The Memphis boat club will send
scout boats all along the Arkansas
flooded territory tomorrow searching
for refugees.
Reports from Tiptonville, Tenn, to-
night say conditions there are deplor-
able. Over 500 sufferers are now be-
Ing sheltered and cared for by citizens
of that town and still rescue parties
are returning with families, some TAX
en- from roofs and others from trees.
Government agents left Memphis to-
night in a boat to distribute provisions
and other supplies to sufferers. Mayor
e. Fl. Crump of Memphis is taking care
of hundreds arriving from Arkansas
While back water from Bayou Gayoso
has flooded certain sections of Mem
phis in the north and southern sec
tions of the city, Mayor Crump says
there is no suffering except from those
brought here from country districts.
At o'clock tonight there was an
unconfirmed report that the levee be-
tween Lula. Miss. and the river, had
broken. The United States engineers
odice here cannot find out the facts
because of bad telephone communica-
ton.
So far there has been no reports of
loss Of life in this district other than
the negro families believed to have
been drowned at ST. Claire.
Local Weather Observer Emery is
sued bulletin at o'clock saying the
Mississippi river at Memphis reached
stage of 45.1 but is falling slightly
because of the two crevasses. He
does not believe any relief will come
to Helena, Ark, because of these
breaks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
A City of Tents.

IllSTMA4>b n.y. April ". Will -
600 refugees from the flooded Reel
Foot district and from Belmont and
other points in the flood district of
Missouri almost all of Hickman is
composed of tents tonight.
Several hundred army tents were
received here from Louisville today.
Other Kentucky and Tennessee towns
are housing thousands of refugees.
The roaring of the waters through
the 1000 yard break five miles below
this town, which will flood nearly :
300 square miles, can be heard here
Many people are rushing out of the
parts of the district that has not been
covered and it is feared some will not
escape. Contributions for the refu-
gees are flowing in. The city of
Louisville tonight wired $3.50 from
the city treasury Other towns have
sent amounts aggregating over s12.-
600. Several carloads of provisions
and clothing were received today and
others are on the way. Louisville also
wired Columbus $3.50. Congressman
]. j. Russell of Charleston has advis.
ed the Hickman authorities that 81 900
will be sent by the war department.
In Missouri many towns are under
but most of them have plenty of pro-
visions. Thousands of dollars damage
is being done wheat growers and much
stock has been lost.
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CONTINUED on page 81.
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subscrIbers Of Tho Daily Gate City
are Served the full Leased Wire SER
Vice Of the United Press Associations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
Wreck Commission.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-20
OK'S BROOKLYN DOCK PLAN
Board Approves S190,000,0OO
Waterfront Improvement.

The Board of Estimate yesterday for
mslly approved the plan for improving
the South Brooklyn waterfront, according
10 the plans OF Dock Commissioner Tom
Nns, as amended by the terminal COM
mttee Of the board.
The plan calls for the laying out OF
waterfront terminal and the construction
Of 2 marginal railroad from Fulton street
10 s5th street, where the lines of the
Pennsylvania Railroad will be TAPPED.
This will give direct access TO the South
and 10 New England over the connecting
bridge 10 be built over Wards Island.
The plan also provides for the ultimate
acquisition by the city of all the dock
property between the two points men
toned. The construction Of the terminal
and the railroad is variously estimated to
cost from S3o.OooO0O to 100000. To buy
an the dock property will cost probably
N5A0OOo
As soon as the Appellate Division Of the
Supreme Court releases the $I5.WVw IN
dock bonds from the debt limit the CITY
wnl take title to the property needed LOT
the terminal The carrying out OF the
sthsr parts OF the plan will be a matter
Of many years i'm all probability.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-20
Mr.. CREELMAN RESIGNS.
Civil Service Head One of Cay
nor'S First NominatorS.
BREAK WITH MAYOR DENIED
Rumor of Breach That Started
with Criticism of Cropsey's
Police Selections.

James Crcelman. former war CORE
spondent and friend Of Mayor Gaynor,
has handed his resignation as president
of the Municipal Civil Service Commits
sion TO the Manor. Neither he nor the
Mayor would talk about it yesterday. IT
was learned. however. that the resisna-
ton had been i'm the hands Of the Mayor
for two days. and that the latter had
done all in his power 10 persuade Nv
Croclman TO change his mind.
There were various reasons assigned
for the action of Mr. Crcclman-onc THAI
the resignation followed a quarrel with
the Mayor. Another was that the head
Of the commission was in poor health and
had desired to give up his city duties for
some time.
\ friend Of Mr. Croelmau said last
night that it was absurd to say that Mr.
Crcclman was in poor health, as he had
never been better. He also denied that
there had been any open rupture between
him and the head Of the city government
1t is true. however. that the two have
been growing apart for some time. Mr..
Crcelman has told his friends that he
was not at all satisfied with the way IN
which the Mayor had responded to his
request for a large number Of additional
examiners and character investigators.
AIr Crcplman was a member OF the
famous Committee of Nine which nomi-
mated Mayor Gaynor for that office indie
pcndently before he was taken up by
Tammany Hall After his election the
Mayor made Mr.. Creelman a member OF
the Board Of Education. and on May j.
1911. appointed him head Of the Civil Ser
vice Commission. TO succeed John &. NC
CURE
il was the letter Of Commissioner Creel-
man oritcsing former Police Commits
sioner Cropsey for not taking men in OIL
der from the civil service lists which was
followed by the resignation Of Mr.. Crop
sey.
When Police Commissioner Waldo. who
succeeded Mr.. Cropsey, was put on the
rack by the aldermanic investigating
committee for appointing men of bad
records the Commissioner blamed It on
| the Civil Service Commission. saying that
| il was TO he presumed that they had in
vestieated the character OF the men on
| their lists.
Commissioner Creelman explained that
bis department had not enough men 10
make a proper investigation OF all the
men on the civil service lists When the
! budget for 1913 was being made up Mr..
| Crcelman asked for Il large number e.
additional men. He got only nine. He
| believed this number totally Inadequate.
| Even the money for those men was cut
( out OF the budget by the Board OF Alder
men. The Mayor restored it, however,
but this did not altogether mollify the
| Commissioner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-20
CHIMES ON CHRISTMAS EVE
Bells to Ring Out as City's Tree
Is Illuminated.

Chimes in many churches in the city
will ring for half an hour Christmas
Eve as the giant tree in Madison Square
Park becomes ablaZe with hundreds Of
colored electric bulbs that will be used
instead Of candles. According TO the
committee, the chimes Of Trinity Church.
ST Andrews. 81. Georges, 81. Michaels,
ST Patrick's Cathedral. the General
Theological Seminary and the cathedral
at Garden City will ring. II is planned
to get other churches to join in.
The tree will be lighted at $50. Then
there will be choral music. From 9 to
10 there will music by the band, and
again from II to -. The music, IL was
said. had been arranged for Christmas
Eve only, but there was a possibility
that further contributions would make
it possible TO have it on Christmas night