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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19

MODERN wOoDMEN OF AMERICA
W. o. W-Gate City Camp No 81,
Woodmen of World, meets second
ard fourth Tuesdays Of each month
at Hawkes. hall, corner Eighth and
Main streets. Visiting soverigns cor
daily invited E. E. Severn, consul
commander: e E. Hawkes.. clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
sPIRELLA CORSET

II you wish to be delighted with your
new gown have it fit over a Spirella.
New models in both font and back
lace. Tailor made, never break.
MRS. AMELIA RElNiG
Boil Phone 1265-Red.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE.

LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE.
Keokuk Lodge No. 704 meet svery
Wednesday night at s p. N. in Hawkes.
hail. corner of Eighth and Main. Visit.
ing brothers cordially invited Ed G.
Vaughan. Dictator. Roy M. Martin.
secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
a. O. U. w.

Keokuk lodge. No. 25e, meets every
Thursday night at 1880 o'clock at hall
over Keokuk Savings bank. corner
Fifth and Main streets. Visiting
brethren cordially invited. A. l.. Laub-
ersheimer, M. W.: A. E. Moore. re-
cordeI.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
B. P. o. ELKs.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF OWLS
Regular meeting of the Independent
Order Of Owls the first and third
Tuesdays Of each month at their hall
in the Hubinger building, Is North
Sixth street. Visiting Owls are cor
daily invited. Lee Hovey, worthy
president: Ed. w. Kiser secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19

Candidate Lieutenant
in
public
he
winters
practice in
Woodbury. and has been
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
FRATERNAL CARDS
MASONIC.

Hardin Lodge No 20, holds it's regu.
lar monthly meeting the second Mon.
day evening OF each month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
Clean Up Day.

Chief Schevers said that many
complaints had been made to him
about the women and that he intend
ed to clean up that portion of the
city and keep 1t clean. The raids
that were made last night are but the
beginning of war against these sort
of people that the police were start
ing to wage, and that no favoritism
would be shown, no matter where the
influence lay.
The raids were complete surprise
to the persons implicated and were
pulled off quietly about ten o'clock.
The wagon was kept busy for quite a
while.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19

The Telephone Girl.
The telephone girl sits still in her
chair
And listens to voices everywhere.
She knows all the gossip, she knows
all the news,
She knows who is happy and who has
the blues,
She knows all our sorrows, she knows
all our joys.
She knows all the girls who are chas-
ing the boys.
She even knows every man who talks
mean to his wife,
She knows every time we are out with
the boys.
She knows the excuses that each fell
low employs.
If the telephone girl told half that she
knows
It would turn all our friends to bitter
est foes.
She would SOW a small wind that
would soon be gale,
Engulf us in trouble and land us in
Jail.
she would start forth story which
gaining in force,
Would cause half our wives to sue
for divorce.
She would get all our churches mixed
up in fight,
And turn our bright days into sorrow
ing night.
In fact she could keep the whole town
in a stew
If she told one-tenth that she knew
Say. kid, but doesn't it make your
head whirl
When you think what we owe that
telephone girl?
| =Sl1lliran Co ReyiaW
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19

ried out. Baker was sentenced to
fourteen years in the penitentiary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
Blind Tiger.


The police also raided the restau-
rant of John E. Collins on the levee.
Aimed with search warrant and
with a couple of officers and a news
paper man, Chief Schevers went to
the place about eleven o'clock. Col
Inns made no effort to Keep the Off
GERS from looking about the place and
after great deal of trouble they dis
covered a quantity of beer and whis-
key in the cellar at the rear of the
restaurant
Several cases with their contents
labeled Local Option Fizz' were dis
covered in hall at the rear of the
place. These We're not taken but one
full barrel and one barrel partially
full of bottled beer and several pints
of whiskey were confiscated and
brought to the station. Collins was
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19

Suburban.
Men in suburban garden zeal are
never known to cease
Until they find their radishes cost
twenty cents apiece
Dallas News.
Men in suburban garden zeal are new
er known to labor
AS hard as when they work to feed
the chickens of the neighbor
-Milwauke Sentinel.
Men in suburban garden zeal are new
er known to stop
Until they've raised of fishing worms
an all sufficient crop
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
We Thank You =

The county superintendent, the city
superintendent and the teachers of the
Cresco Public Schools hereby heartily
thank all those who entertained teach
ers during the session of the Big Five
Association. It is matter of gratifi-
cation to US that we were able to take
care of about 45O people without the
necessity of refusing entertainment to
single one. We realize the sacrifices
you made and we assure you that we
appreciate it. We also wish to thank
those who kindly loaned us the use Of
their automobiles, the Ladies' Aid
Society of the M. E. church for serving
supper Friday night, the Boy Scouts
for their ever ready helpfulness in
plotting the visitors to their places of
assignments, carrying chairs. etc, the
four classes Of the high school for con-
structing the beautiful booths for the
reception and serving the frappe, the
girls orchestra for furnishing the
music at the reception, the girls glee
club and others for furnishing music at
the regular meetings, also wish to
thank Robert Thomson for delivering
the address of welcome tc
the visiting teachers, and the many
Incidental acts of kindness that made
possible the most successful meeting
in the history of the association.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
ASToR's BODY RECOVERED
NOW ON BOARD THE cA7LE-Sh1e
MAcKAY-BENNETT.
Bodies Of Isador Straus and President
Hays Of the Grand Trunk
Also Identified.

New York, April 27.-The bodies Of
Colonel John Jacob Aston and Isador
6traus, the millionaire merchant, of
this city. who lost their lives in the
Titanic disaster, have been recovered,
and are on board the cableship
Mackay- Bennett. News of the recov-
cry of the bodies was contained in a
dispatch to the White Star Line COM
pany.
The news of the Identification of ].
J. Astor and Isador Straus came in a
wireless dispatch relayed by the
steamship Caledonian, to the Cape
Race wireless station. 1t simply read:
Further names-William Aless, F.
Dutton, j. Stone, Phillip J. Stokes, Ed
win H. Petty, William Eastwood. w.
Hanlon, Thomas Anderson, A. Laur.
ence, ]. Adams, A. Borthby, Ragozzi
Abel, j. Butterworth, A. Robbins,
Charles Touches, Olson F. Penny,
Charles Chapman, Albert Wirz, Achille
Wallen, Carl Asplande, ]. S. Johnson,
H. Allen, w. Y. Anderson. H. P.
Hodges, ]. Talbot, J. NJ. Robinson, X.
A. He'll, ]. w. Gill, A. Johnson, A. Lii
ly, e. D. Barker, G.. F. Bailey, O. s.
Woody, P. Hewitt, P. Connors.
Following have been embalmed:
c. C. Jones, lsador Straus, Reg. But
Ter, H. H. Harrison. T. w. Newell,
John Jacob Astor, Milton G. Clong, w.
c. Dulles, H. j. Allison, George Ora
ham, Jacob Birhbaum, Austin Part
ner, F. F. White, Pyroll w. Cavendish,
Henrik J. Silner,"
The name of Milton C. Clong ap-
pearing in the list of names was stat
ed by the White Star officials to be
undoubtedly that of Milton c. Long of
Springfield, Mass, passenger on the
Titanic. The confusion was due to
wireless transmission. The names w.
c. Dulles is undoubtedly that of Wal.
ter S. Douglass of Minneapolis.
Halifax, N. S.-The body of c. NJ.
Hays, president of the Grand Trunk
railway, hasqbe added to the list
of identified dead picked up near the
scene of the Titanic disaster. This
announcement was made today by A.
G. Jones & Co., Halifax agents for
the White Star line, who received the
news in wireless message from the
cableship Nina.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30


began giving money away to needy
colleges in 1883 and in sums ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 disposed of
more than $5.000,000. His last gift, he
said, left him comparatively poor with
IN income sufficient to keep him from
want. His death defeated his often.
expressed expectation that he would
live 100 years. Recently he sold out
his home to go to the sanatorium.
The value of the home and an endow-
ment were given for public library
to Hinsdale, ILL.,, his place of resi-.
dence.
DR.. Pearsons was born in Bradford
Vt. He began practicing medicine In
1912. Coming to Illinois in 1857. he
made fortune In buying and selling
Illinois farm lands. He was Chi.
cago alderman in 1875 His first not.
able gift was 100000 to Beloit col.
lege wisconsin,. He gave Beloit in
Ill 100000. ..
Other donations by him were:
Chicago Theological seminary,
I2sO,OOO.
Mt. Holyoke, $15o,oOO.
Wooster university, 100000.
Knox college, 100000.
Drury college, Springfield, Mo-,
100000.
Berea college, Kentucky, 100000.
Colorado college. 100000.
Whitman college, Washington,
100000.
Other colleges aided by him were in
Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Tennessee, Illinois, Georgia
and South Carolina.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
WooDMEN BILL PUSHED
Measure Before Illinois Legislature
Pleases Insurgents.

Springfield, ILL.,, April 27.-Members
of the Modern Woodmen of America
are being urged to appeal directly tc
the members of the Illinois senate to
pass the Donohue bill, which was put
through the house last week. Although
the house only passed the bill after
the emergency clause had been strick'
en- out, in consequence Of which II
cannot become operative until July 1,
1912. the insurgent Woodmen are
keeping up the fight for it.
1t was at first announced that the
law, if passed by the senate. would
not become effective until July, 1913,
but this was an error. The bill cannot
be made retroactive, but its sponsors
are hoping that the moral effect of its
passage will prevent the Woodmen Of
ficers from putting the new rates into
operation before the law can go into
effect
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
DALE NO. l2277

DALE is a bright bay, Clydesdale
Stallion of excellent draft horse type
and character. He was foaled May l9,
1905, bred by j. H. Duxbury & Bro,
Preston, MINI. Sired by Pride Of
Bloomfield, 9467, by the imported
Lothian Prince (7916), 1857 Dam,
Fancy Wayne, 95ll, by Baillieston
Chief $500, 1916, by Top Gallant,
1850, by Darnley (222).
DALE has been prize winner
wherever shown, including the Mime
sofa State Fair, the last two years.
Besides winning at State and County
Fairs, DALE has won an enviable rep
utation as sire of high class draft
colts. Use him and you will be con.
WINGED of his prepotency.
DALE will make the season at
Whites Livery Barn and in the vicir,-
ity of Cresco.
DALE'S fee is $500 to insure a
live colt one week old; or $1,000 by the
season. Season fee payable August
Is, 1912. Care will be taken to guard
against accident, but all mares are at
owners risk. Owners of mares who
dispose of or remove same from the
community will be held for service fee
unless satisfactory evidence of not in
foal is produced.
DALE is licensed to stand for public
service in the states of Iowa and Min
nesota. '-NrS
Thanking our many patrons for past
favors and soliciting q share of your
future business, we await your COM
mands. Yours for affair deal.
J. H. DUXBURY & BRO.
j. F. McIntire, Groom.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
MARRIED

Yesterday at the Sacred Heart
Church at Reilly Ridge, occurred the
marriage of Miss Mary Evelyn Smith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Smith, to MIR. James A. McCrville, sor
of Mrs. Thomas McCarville. Rey.
Father Craney of the settlement offici-
ated at the ceremony.
The young couple are spoken, of in
the very highest terms by their many
friends who have known them all their
lives.
Mr.. McCarvifi is a brother If Mrs. J.
M. Murphy Of this city.
The bridal pair left for Des Moines,
Dubuque, Chicago and other points.
They will be at home to their friends
after May LIST at Armour, S. D.-New
Hampton Tribune.
MIR. and Mrs. McCarvill arrived in
Cresco last Thursday for visit among
Cresco relatives. sEt
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Or. 0. K. PEARSONS IS DEAD
NOTED PHiLANTHROPlS1 HAS
LITTLE MONEY LEFT.
After Giving Away $4,000, 900 "Fo'
Fun" He Dies Happy at the
Age Of 90.

Chicago, April 29.-Dr. Daniel Kim
ball Pearsons, 80 years old, who in re
cent years gave more than $5,0OO,0O(
to small colleges chiefly in the middle
west, died in a sanatorium compare
lively poor man.
Pneumonia, with complications due
to old age, was the cause. For sew
eral days he had been sinking, pa
tient in an institution where he main
tanned himself on an income of $4,000
q year, paid him by college to which
he had contributed $250,000 on the
condition that he would be
per cent of that amount for the re-
mainder of his life.
It was DR.. Parsons who declared
giving away money is greater sport
than baseball and more fun than any
other form of entertainment" He
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Real Estate Transfers

The following transfers were flee
with the County Recorder for the
week ending April q, 1912.
w. T. 7. Davis to E. w. Richmond
und. ] int. lot q, blk 10, Elma. $500
r. S. Caward to j. w. Jinderlee,
lot ID and WI lot IA, blk Is, Baldwin'E
add. to Cresco, $l.OO &c.
l.. j. Rowell to Geo. Beatty, Sc /
and 81 ne / 1922, $1.OO &c.
Anna Norton to Martin Scully, W sc
of Sd of sw ! ne / 12-97-14, $500.
Minnie C. harrington ct al, to Hattie
E. and Neil Miller, lots l, 2 and 8, blk.
Z and S ] lot 3, blk. 2, Lime Springs,
$l.OO &c.
Jennie L. Mitchell to John NJ. Ev.
ans, lot ID. blk. E, Robisons add to
Elma, $25.
J. N. Freshwater to C. F. Davis,
n J sw 29-99-l4, ex. la, $500.
Michael A. Montague to Alexander
Carlisle, ! sw Is and NV / ne / e.
lOO-14, $l14OO.
J. w. Mulick to E. kE. Evans, lots
l, 2, 3, 4 S and 6, blk S, Elma, $l45. {.
Walter A. Gleason and wife to E. L.
Davenport, lot blk. 10, Cresco, Iowa,
5000. Ink. ...
George Smith and wife to G. c.
Mabry, WI ne /, 17-lOO-14, $1,000.
Frank Vrba to Anton Vrba 20. C. D. }
sw /, 27.9S-l1, $500.
w. E. Peavey and wife to Nellie M.
Wilkes, lot sub-div. lot z on n J, 81
1914, $1,000.
Martin Tienken and wife to Fred
Graef, e ] ne / 2S-lOO-l4, 81 and other
consideration. g ~
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
! BROUGHT /; 1E TO LIGHT
Cresco People Receiving the Fun
Benefit.

There have been many cases like
the following in Cresco. Everyone
relates the experience of people we
know. These plain, Straightforward
statements will do much toward re-
lieving the suffering OF thousands
Such testimony will be read with in
terest by many people. In
j. ii. Andrus, living on Oak Street,
Cresco, Iowa, says: 'For five years l
drove the local stage out of this town,
and covered IS miles every y The
constant jolting of the wagon brought
on kidney trouble and suffered ter
ribly. There we're severe pains acroes
my loins. and my kidneys were ydis-
ordered, causing me great annoyance.
I tried various remedies, but without
getting relief, and at last when
friend recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills highly. procured q box at the
Milz Drug Store. They seemed TO
be just what l needed for in 4 few
weeks they drove away the trouble
and restored me to good health
{ From statement given Nov. 7. 1902
A LASTING CURE.
% July Is, 1908, Mr.. Andrus ssaid {:
II never enjoyed better hea th
than l have since | was cured by
Doan's Kidney Pills. know tn is
remedy to be one of merit, and .Ihave
told many people about it,"
For Sale by all Dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster .Milburn Co. Buffalo.
New York, Sole Agents for the United
States. W.
+ Remember the name Doan's-and
take no other. q
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Banker 10 FIGHT Extradjt,on.

Chicago, April o27.-Extradition Of
DR.. VIM. Beattie Nesbitt, wanted in
Toronto, Canada, on a charge Of
wrecking the Farmers Bank Of Cana
da. was ordered by United States
Commissioner Mark A. Foote. Nesbitt
was placed in the county Jail. Attor
ney William X. Pattison. counsel fol-
Nesbitt, announced that he would file
writ of habeas corpus and Ger
tiorari, demanding a review of the
evidence, in the United States district
court. Final action in the case mus
ha taken nv Secretary OF State KnoI.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
GIRL SUED BY CARUso.
italian Tenor Wants $4,000 Damages
for Defamation Of Character. E.

Milan, April 29.-Counsel for Sig.
norina Canelli, the young woman who
lost her suit against Enrico Caruso.
the operate tenor, has taken an ap.
peal from that judgment Counsel for
Caruso has now entered counter
claim for $4,000, which, it is claimed
the singer spent for the young WON.
ln's trousseau and also moral damages
Tor defamation Of character.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Good Rookkeeplnd.

Sir Walter Scott. in lending a boob
one day to friend, cautioned him ia
be punctual in returning it. This IL
really necessary" said the poet IN
apology, TOR though many of my
friends are bad arithmeticians, OBJ
serve almost all of them to be good
bookkeepers.' 4u
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Political Jokera.

"What is the difference" asked
Mr.. Bones, between a statesman and
a boss?" "a statesman replied Mr.
Tambo, quits himself in the hands Of
his friends, but the boss devotes him
self to seeing what he can get his own
hands on :"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Plants 1000 Acres Of Wheat,

Miller, S. D., April 29.-George b
Garrel is finishing planting 1000
acres of wheat on his farm southwest
Of town. He has 200 acres of rye and
expects to plant 300 acres of corn
The wheat is already up and makes q
6ne showing.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
The Season

S now here when it is time to get busy.
There's surely somebody wants what
you have, and the other fellow may
have what you want. l will try to
OWENS, Land and Investment Office,
opposite Court House, Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Instructors Bar New Dances,

Paris, April 29.-Because they char.
acterize them as 'epileptic evolutions
hostile to good society," the Associ.
ated Dancing Masters of France have
decided to refuse to teach the turkey
trot. grizzly bear and bunny hug
ia- oeS,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Lusitania eerths All Taken.

London, April 29.-There was moi
Z single berth left on the Lusitania
when she sailed for New York. Among
the passengers on board were Jesse
Straus, son of Isidor Straus, who was
lost on the Titanic.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Fatally Shot BY Detective.

Oskaloosa, Ia, April 29.-Howard
Burton, local police character. was
fatally shot by a railroad detective.
Burton was discovered breaking into
I merchandise car.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Amen.

The ones who have thought most
about it tell US that man cannot be
happy without being good and like.
wise that he cannot be good without
being happy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
The Spires o. Life,

Many men build as cathedrals were
built-the part nearest the ground
finished, but that part which scars
toward heaven, the turrets and the
spires, forever incomplete.-Henry
Ward Beecher.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
To Learn Secret Of Andrea. Death

New York, April 29.-Convinced that
he is in possession of information
that will lead to the discovery of the
fate of S. A. Andree. the polar ex
plorer, who. with two companions, left
Danes Island. Spitzbergen. on July
16, 1897, in gigantic balloon, only
to be lost in the frozen north, Chris.
tian Leden, polar explorer, of the
University of Christiania, left New
York on board the steamship Cincin
natl, this week, for Copenhagen to
complete arrangements for an expedi
ton to search for the Inflated Andree
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
The Farmers Home.

A $1.0O a day house. Especial at
tention paid the farmer trade. With
more stable room l am prepared to
give farmers better accommodations
than ever. ]. w. WENTWORTH.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
IN. View Of WASHINGTON.

Washington, April 29.-The capita
city is so naughty that 1.-The man il
the moon holds his nose every time
he passes over it, according to j. B
Hammond, of the Worlds Purity Fed
nation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
For Sale [!

Dwarf Victor Rape Seed, a hundred
acres grown on our farms every year.
You know the kind; we have large
quantity of this this year and can
supply your wants. 65w6
G. d. NICHOLS LIVE STOCK Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
WANING ChjvaIry.

In days of old the knights were bolt
and rescued maids they met; but nov
they fail to offer bail to help suffra
gette.-Pittsburgh Post.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
False Teeth

mounted on cast aluminium base pro-
duces the lightest, strongest and most
sanitary plate | know of. Where
recommend this plate guarantee sat
isfaction DIR. E. H. Allen.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Levee Bill Passes House.

Washington, April 29.-The senate
bill appropriating $1,5OO,OOO to repair
the crevases in the broken levees OF
the Mississippi river and its tributar
les, was passed by the house.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Seed Corn for Sale

Minnesota grown, high test, and will
mature in this locality.
AT THE ALLIANCE.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-30
KANSAS CASE
WILL BE APPEALED
Supreme Court Will Be Asked to Re-
view Findings Of State Judges;
Taft Managers Fight Case.

Washington, D. c., July 29.-Presi.
dent Taft told callers today that the
first information he had of the plan
to have the Kansas electoral cases
heard by the supreme court came
from Chairman Hilles. of the republi-
can national committee. The move to
carry the cases to the supreme court,
the president said, originated in Kan
sas City and the white house had moth
ing to do with 1t.
Representative Martin Olmstead of
Pennsylvania, who will have charge
Of the cases for the Taft forces, called
at the white house today and con-
suited with the president. Chairman
Hilles, Mr.. Olmstead and republican
leaders in Kansas, the president was
told, had proceeded so far as to make
preparations for an appeal to Justice
Pitney, who is in New Jersey, or
Justice Vandevender, who is spending
the summer in New York
Mr.. Olmstead is understood to have
told the president that he had asked
Justice Pitney for hearing and that
Governor Stubbs of Kansas had asked
for hearing on behalf of the Roose-
welt faction. The president will not
interfere. He told friends all along
that he does not intend to make his
campaign personal. but will rely on his
managers. The president told visitors
today that he believed the Kansas case
was worth fighting to the finish.