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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Those Bad Spells

Lebanon Jet, Ky.--Mrs. Minnie
Lamb, of this place. says: II be.
iieve would have been dead by now,
had 1t not been for Cardui. haven't
had one of those bad spells s.nce I
commenced to use this medicine"
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Ills from which women suffer. Made
from harmless vegetable ingredients,
Cardui is safe. reliable remedy, and
has been successfully used by weak
and ailing women for more than fifty
years. Thousands of women have
been helped back to health and hap.
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vince you that Cardui is just what
YOU need.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

with pneumonia which rapidly brought
her long life to a sudden termination.
Mrs. Grant united with the Baptist
church in Kentucky where she is still
a member, never having taken let
ter from her initial church She was
woman of strong religious inclina-
tions and all through her life lived
conscientious and christian life Since
taking up her residence in Keokuk she
has not attended church services regt-
iarly, partly owing to defective hear.
ing, common to advanced age, yet she
never departed from the line of duty
drawn by warm and conscientious
heart She was fond of her home
and two remaining children, three hay-
ing preceded her In death.
The two surviving children are. one
daughter. Mrs. Henry Linnenberger.
of Suffer, H., and son, Robert Whit
ledge, of Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
MRS. IRENE GRANT
DIED THIS MORNING
After Short llIneos of Pneumonia
Aged Seventy-seven
Years.

Mrs. Irene Grant died at her home,
412 South Fourth street at 4:30 o'clock
this morning after very short illnes.s
pneumonia being the cause of her
death. She was seventy-seven years
old last August
Mrs. Grant, whose maiden name was
Irene Wheeler, was born in Bullitt
County, Kentucky, where she was mar
ried to her first husband whose name
was Wtitledge. He died in that state
Later she was married to Mr. Grant
Before coming to Keokuk about FIVE
years ago, she again became widow
and has been resident here since.
Only last Tuesday she was stricken
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Bald Headed Banquet.

CANAAN, Conn, Oct. 1G.-One thing
seems certain tonight when the Bald
headed Club of America has It's an
hua meeting banquet here. There
ought not to be any hairs in the soup.
Every member will have a head as
paid as a billiard ball. The proprietor
Oh the hotel Is bald. The chef is bald.
Every waiter has head as free from
alrsute adornment as marble. Robers
!. orr is president of the Bald Headed
CUB Of America. John Rodemeyer, a
pald-headed editor will act as toast
master, and the six Karl brothers, of
'Litchfield. Conn. all as bald as apples.
VIII furnish the music.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
UNWRITTEN LAW
IS HIS DEFENSE
With Wlfe's Written Statement u
Pocket, Man Killed Butcher on
the First Shot.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Oct 16.-Carrying in
his pocket his wifes written state.
ment that Walter Paul, butcher, had
criminally assaulted her, William
Keith, 37O6 West Huron street calm
ly waited In saloon at 1880 West
Chicago avenue today for the butcher
to make his regular morning visit.
When Paul stepped through the door,
Keith shot and instantly killed him.
Keith surrendered to the police and
declared that the unwritten law woul
be his defense. Paul he said brought
an order of meat to his home in his
absence and forcing Mrs. Keith into
a bedroom, attacked her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
DAM NOT HARMFUL
TO NAVIGATION
lCOntinued from page A.

that the steamers have brought thou
sands Of tourists to see, and which
vies with Lake Pepin in scenic beauty.
The old locks. whose dimensions
we're too small for the largest modern
river boats, have been replaced by
great lock sufficient in dimensions
for anything likely to come along in
the next fifty years.
They have shortened the time, by
river, between Keokuk and Burling-
ton, two hours. The look and dry
dock are built even better perhaps
than the government would have built
for Itself They have shown no incli-
nation whatever to spare any expense
in making what they built for the gov
eminent what they tried to do for
themselves, work as perfect as the
present knowledge Of engineering en-
ables them to do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Has Not Used All the Water.

AS a matter of fact the Power Com
pany has not been able to consume
In power the water coming down the
river at any time this season. From
seven to seventeen of the flash gates
on the dam have been constantly open
ever since the use of the power be-
gan. And yet there have been f1uc-
tuations below the dam amounting oc-
casionally to 11s feet.
On the sea coast we all know that
there is tide every twelve hours
which has to be counted on. The tide
varies from nothing to forty feet On
the coast of Oregon it reaches twenty
feet. Even the great port of Liverpool
has such a tide that ships lie off the
port and wallow about In the rough
sea waiting for high water to enter in
safety This is certainly inconvenient
and know it caused suffering for |
spent once miserable night In the
Irish sea waiting to get ashore at
Liverpool
Now let us see how the tide oc-
curing every twenty-four hours, in
stead of every six, effects the port at
KeokuR. After this tide began to be
felt we all noticed that boat tied to
the bank at night would find itself
aground next morning. The coal
barges alongside the dock would be so
hard aground they could not be pulled
off sometimes. Keolsuk has perhaps
the shoalest and --LATEST landing on the
river and what is worse the bottom is
a fiat ledge of bare rock with only
thirty inches of water on it at stand
ard low water OF course there has
gone up protest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
A Marvellous ESCAPE.

Ny little boy had a marvellous es-
cave writes P. F. Bastiams OF Prince
Albert, Care of Good Hope. 1T oc-
erred in the middle of the night. He
tot very severe attack of Group. AS
lucs would have it, had large
tottie of Chamberla;n's Cough Rem
Guy in the house. After following the
directions for an hour and twenty
minutes he was through all danger
scld ty all ealers.-Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Are Looking for Supposed Murderer
Of Art Student in tho
Hassrla Timber
Land.
SHOT AT BUT ESCAPES
Posse Always About Five Minutes Be-
hind the Negro Who is
Seen by Many
People.

Tie negro sought first by Burling-
ton authorities as the possible MUIR
derer of Miss Ida Leeghon In Chicago,
has been seen in the northern edge
+ OF this county and is being sought by
posse. He was reported seen in
the patch Of timber which includes
the Hagerla timber just above Green
Bay
Since yesterday morning the hunt
ers, including Commissioner Haskell,
Chief Of Police Willard and Night
Captain Anderson Of Burlington. Chief
Of Police Watkins OF Fort Madison
and others from both places, with
farmers from the community, have
patrolled the surrounded district.
Overgrown brush piles, thickets Of
vines and small growth completely
fill the surrounded part and the
search must of necessity be a minute
enc.
Found Near Viewer.
AS noted in the above the negro
was known to have been near Viewer.
Suspecting the continuance of his
travel south Commissioner Ed Has
kell and City Attorney Ben Poor Of
Burlington were stationed at the sec
ond bridge south Of Viewer on the
Burlington tracks. And from this
lookout they observed the approach,
later in the morning, of the object of
their search. The colored man ap-
preached until the commissioner lev
eled pistol at his head and repeat
ed the formal statement of arrest
Easkell's companion had not drawn
his gun and the negro showed his dis
regard Of the commissioner by pull
ing his pocket knife. instead of put
ting up his hands. The commiss. oner
feared of killing the man and would
not pull the trigger, nor did he feel
safe to change his aim to the darkey's
feet. The result was that the solici-
tor pulled his own gun, an action
which set the negro running away.
Both men fired at the fleeing legs but
without effect.
While the Burlington force was
being brought to the scene the negro
turned from the tracks towards the
river and breakfasted at the Coins
LONE, the family there not knowing
OF the search. From there he went
down by the old Joe Fry place, ans
wering a hail fr;Sn the tenant who
was in tree, thence down past the
Gore place towards the timber lined
levee The auto load of officers was
FIVE minutes behind their man pass
ing the Fry place and they got in
sight of the timber just In time to see
the negro disappearing among the
trees. The officers took chance shot
or two without result.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Experiments at keokuk.

Now here we have diagram where
the fluctuations of the gauge at keo-
Euk are set down at the highest and
lowest readings each day. Above these
is line showing the level of the wat
ter in the pool. If the level of the
pool goes up. less water Is going out
than is coming in. If the level goes
down more water is going cut than is
coming in.
If you will look you will see both
these things happened. At one time
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Only a Few Inches.

Here is a recent map Of the river
below the bridge at Keokuk. Look at
the depths shown there and Judge
whether three inches or even six
inches Of rise and fall would make
much difference to steamboat.
Now, gentlemen, there is no rose
without some thorns Roses differ and
some have small, colorless flowers and
big sharp thorns, others have brilliant
flowers, and thorns that are reduced
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Reduced to a TrIfIe.

Now you will see that after getting
the men trained and the force organic
ed, the fluctuation has been reduced
to a small amount Experiments were
conducted by me to see how far down
the river this disturbance went You
Will see that 1t scarcely reached Can
ton at all (twenty-four miles DOWN
and already at the mouth OF the Des
Moines -four miles DOWN the fluctua-
ton OF over a foot at Keokuk had be.
come nine-tenths of foot. Since
had these observations made the
Power Company has spent large sum
In studying the subject further. They
have built eight substantial piers with
automatic gauges between Keokuk and
Canton to record the smallest differ
ence of water level and are learning
all they can of how best to control
the flow of water so as to make the
least possible disturbance In the natur-
al state of the river.
1t is all new thing and we have
got to learn great deal before we can
say we know all about this subject.
The party of engineers of the Power
Company, up at Keithsburg, makes a
careful measurement Of the amount of
water passing that point daily and re-
ports 1t to the Office In Keokuk and
that amount of water is passed down
the river at the dam.
If they can reduce the fluctuations
to as little as the diagram shows they
have done in September and October
believe that navigation interests
Will have little to complain of.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

stoppage to boat as heavy as the
Quincy.
You can see from the position OF
this dredge In the picture that the
movement of boats In and out of the
lock must interfere both with the
dredge's work and the freedom of pas
sage Of the boats themselves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16


They would itch and if scratched they would
bleed and smart. The clothing would irri-
tate them at night when it was being re-
moved causing them to itch and smart so 1
could not sleep. A watery fluid would run
from them. My scalp became covered with
6 scale and when the hair was raised up It
would raise this scale; tho hair was coming
out terribly. My scalp and body itched all
the time.
.'After using Caticura Soap and Ointmcnt
with two applications We could notice a great
difference. My way of using the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment was to apply the Oint-
Inent to the sores and all over the scalp, then
after would wash the sores and scalp wit.,
the Soap. In a months time / was com
pletely cured" tslgned) Mrs. Bertha
Underwood. Jan. 8, 1913.
Cuticura Soap 25c. and Cuticura Ointment
soc. ore sold everywhere. Liberal sample of
each mailed free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad-
dress postcard "Cuticllra, Dept. T. Boston. .
GS-Men who shave and shampoo with Gu
tic,lrn Soap will find 1t best for skin and scalp
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
COMPLICATION
OF W0MAN'S ILLS
Yields to Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Athens, Texas. - had a complica-
ton of diseases, some of them of long

SLandlng. l WroCo
to you for advice
and took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
some other things
tn a t you sugges-
ted. / must confess
that I am much bet
ter in every way and
have been relieved
of some of the worst
%ro,,blac Mupa;rb
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Delay Not bv Low Water.

CSiay NIL Wy Low wafer.
This one delay to the Quincy is the
only one know of to any boat due to
low water last season. The Keokuk.
the daily packet, got aground at the
landing but that is because they took
no precautions such as every boat uses
at st. Louis in setting spars to keep
the boat away from the bank. This Is
an inconvenience Of course.
AT once after the occurrence of
August 26 the officials of the power
company took steps to minimize these
fluctuations as much as possible. A
night as well as day crew was put on
the gate crane and observations were
made each hour of the stage of water
above and below the lock.
A special telephone was installed
in the lockmaster's house and every
half hour the lockmaster calls the
power house and reports the stage
below the dam. It is up To the chief
operator at the power house to keep
the flow regulated. When the power
drops off in the night the operator
notifies the crew on the dam to open
SO many OF the flash gates When the
lower comes on and the turbines use
more and more water the flash gates
are closed. The diagram shows
clearly just how nearly they have
managed to eliminate the troublesome
disturbance Of the rivers equilibrium.
The ideal thing would be to have
the level of the pool remain always
fixed and the same amount OF water
passed out as passing into It, The law
requires the Power Company to pass
each day all the water that comes into
the pool in that day, but it does give
them the right to vary the flood from
| hour to hour.
| If they produce tide as we have
seen that they do, 1t must be remem-
bered that this tide goes as much
above the normal stage as 1t goes be-
low and the disturbance OF the natural
flow is one-half the tidal fluctuation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Went Away Empty Handed.

lUNted Press Leased Wire Service1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Dan 1.
bennington of South Dakota called at
.he white house to get two million
collars which he claimed President
wilson had locked up in his desk. He
, y In little black wagon bound for
y. elizabeth asylum without the two
million.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

and grew larger until it was a
large red spot with a crust
or scab over it. This became
larger finally covering the
entire scalp and spread. to
different parts OF the body,
the limbs and back and In the
ears. These sores grew larger
gradually until some were as
large as q. cunrtar Of a dollar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Profitable TO the Government.

They have cut down the $40,0O0.00,
which 1t took to operate the old canal,
to $14,000.00 per annum; capitalized
this mean $560,000. The lock and
dry dock will cost them s1,000,000.
They are cutting a channel through
the rock bottom below the lock to
give a seven foot depth at low water
that will cost them 100000 to $780,
600 more. They are to give the gov
eminent $4,000 to be used as 1t sees
fit in improving the river, If neces-
sary, below the bridge at Keokuk. The
improvement of the river between
Keokuk and Burlington rendered un-
necessary by the dam, means an adj
ded 100000
Let us bear all these facts in mind
while we proceed to inquire whether
they have done any damage to navi-
CATION below their works
They certainly have produced oscil-
lations in the water level below the
cam that we never experienced be-
fore. In my opinion they cannot oper-
ate that plant successfully without
some disturbance of the water levels
and ! will show you by diagrams the
whole history Of the water levels
since the power was turned on June
%, 1918, and our records began.
say they cannot successfully oper-
ate their plant without some such dis
turbance because our life is SO CON
stituted that we require much more
power in the day and early evening
than we do at night.
When the factory hands have gone
home. and are in bed, when only q
few owl cars are running, when the
electric signs are extinguished and
only a light or two is lighted about
the house, the demand for power is
small. At a. M, the power is most
ly shut off and the wheels are idle.
But by a. M, stir begins At Z a.
M. the cars by hundreds have carried
the workers down town, the factory
begins to hum, the wheels spin
around and the machines are devour-
ing their food of metal or wood and
one after another the great dynamos
shake off their idleness and buckle
to the task they we're built for All
this takes water and takes it more at
one time than another.
The whole situation is new to me
as it is to you. though at first that
If there was water wasting overAthe
crest of the dam and going through
the wheels also the result would be
an even flow of the stream as the two
flows would be added together. But,
this is mistake. The flash gate flow
is about constant while the flow from
the turbines is variable. A constant
and a variable added toge her makes
a variable quantity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
ECZEMA COVERED
ENTIRE SCALP
Spread to Body, Limbs, Back and
Ears. # Scratched Would Bleed
and Smart, Cuticura Soap and
Ointment Completely Cured.

RI. D. No. 2, sunfield. Mich. - I was
troubled With eczema 1t began with a sore
on tho top OF the scalp, broke out rs a piruple
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

Read The Daily Gate ciss.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-01
New York Stocks.

New York, Jan. S1,-Profit- taking and
some bear selling on Can stocks followed
the announcement that a plan had beer
devised for paying off the stock dividends
of 81 3-4 per cent. on the preferred stock
by selling 100000 five per cent deben-
lures. The common stock. which had
touched IS - relapsed to- IS and the
preferred sagged from 129 to 124 1-2.
Standard stocks, generally speaking
were not greatly affected by these huc-
tuations. Some attention was paid. in
the gossip of the street, TO the spread Of
corning the composition of the cabinet
of the incoming administration. Bonds
were easy.
Prices held steadily at around last
nights closing when trading began today.
The undertone was firm. There was a
further advance in the American Can
stocks with continuation of heavy trad
ing. The common shares rose more than
point to 46 IS and the preferred
gained 1-2
Round amounts of Can were thrown on
the market and it reacted points Heav
mess also showed in other sections of the
list, Southern Pacific. Reading. Norfolk
and Western and Lehigh Valley fallins
back point.
ffdent fashion with the demand running
largely to the established dividend pay
ers Union Pacific rose l "a, Reading
l as, and Steel /. Copper stocks also
betrayed a healthier tone and there was
! a large accumulation of the low priced
| Independent stocks
Profit taking increased in the middle
| of the afternoon and the list receded a
| good fraction. Discussion as to the ulti-
mate effect of the new financing of the
/ American Can Company was reflected in
! uncertain movements of the stocks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-01

Notwithstanding the fact that Bob
Groom of the Washington team was
one of the leading pitchers in the
American league last year, making
the best record since he Joined the
Senators five years before, he believes
that the coming season will work, and
has written Manager Griffith to that
effect.
Griffith is pelased with Groom's OPP
tiinism. IF he is we'll and strong"
says Griff, Groom will be one of the
best pitchers the game has sever de-
veloped. He showed a whole lot last
year, and look for him to be even
better. now that he has had taste of
a winning season"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-01
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ened manhood, failing memory and lame
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This prescription comes from a ply
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I think / owe it to my fellow man to
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-01

Chicago, Jan. 31.-Battling Nelson,
fighter of renown and one-t time light
weight champion, is not now, and
never was, a superstitious person. In
fact, "23" and "13' are the very best
numbers for him. And so, a few years
ago, when he met a charming Denver
girl on Pixies Peak on the twenty
third day of the month, he said to
himself: Il cannot do better thing
than marry her"
The girl was Miss Fay King. Bat
waited until she was twenty three
years of age. Then he invited her TO
walk to the altar with him. She said:
80, yes indeed, Bat" being very care
full to use words which contained ex-
actly thirteen letters. So they came
tc Chicago few days ago, where Bat
lives, to get married. They rolled
into town on track No. 10 of the Rock
Island at S:13 o'clock in the morning.
The next day, January %, they were
married at exactly twenty-five min
utes past -, and their wedding dinner
was given at Alb p. m. Bat is said