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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
CLAIRVOYANT
FACES PEN
Found Guilty of Swindling
Woman Patron Out Of $15,-
500 Thropl Professions
Of sction.

UNITED Pre- g leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO = ov. TO- Barney Bertz-
sche. repu IN politician, and James
Ryan, aliS Prof. Charles T. Crane"
clairvo !. were found guilty today
Of swindling Mrs. Hope L. McEldow-
ney Of West Salem. Wis, out of $15,-
500. A sealed verdict came shortly
after midnight and was read when
court convened today.
Bertsche and Ryan were the first OF
the men indicted in the clairvoyant
trust" investigation, to go to trial.
Ryan, the state charged, induced Mrs.
McEldowney, wealthy widow, to en-
trust her bank book to him through
professions OF love, automobile rides
and proposal Of marriage. Bertsche
was accused of having accepted pro-
lection money from members of the
trust" acting as a go-between be-
tween protected clairvoyants and po-
lice officers whose names we're not
brought out.
Mrs. McEldowney. in neatly tailor
ed suit and wearning large bunch of
violets, was In court when the verdict
was read. She listened intently and
then cast a meaning smile at Ryan.
who she admitted on the witness stand
captured both her love and her bank
roll.
Both men were found guilty on
counts charging practicing confidence
game and not guilty on cyarges of lar
ceny and conspiracy. yhe confidence
game conviction carries with It i'm
prisonment for maximum term of fif-
teen years. Sentence will not be i'm
posed until motion for new trial
has been disposed of.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
NEW METHOD
OF TRANSMISSION
Hypodermic Syringe Used With Pa.
tient In Next Room from
Blood FurnIsher.

GUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO. Nov. 20.-Chicago ply.
stcians today expressed keen interest
in the demonstration by DR.. H. w.
Abelmann Of the Evangelical deacon
ess hospital of a new method of bIood
TRANSMISSION.
Before 200 surgeons, DR.. Abelmann
took blood from the arm OF healthy
man into hypodermic syringe. car
ried it into the next room and inject
ed 1t into the veins of an anaemfc
woman. The operation was painless
The uneasiness and nervousness that
usually accompanies such operations
when the two patients lay side by
side for the TRANSMISSION by tube.
was entirely missing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Gener.
ally fair tonight and Friday. Not
much change in temperature. Mod
crate southerly winds.
For Illinois: Fair south, unsettled
north portion tonight and Friday.
Cooler north portion tonight Moder-
ate southerly winds.
For Iowa: Cloudy unsettled wealth
er tonight and Friday. Somewhat
higher temperature northwest portion.
Light to moderate southerly winds.
For Missouri: Generally fair to-
night and Friday. Not much change
in temperature. Moderate southerly
winds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
No Doubt About II.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LAWRENCE, Kans., Nov. 20.-"It's
mistake to suppress puppy love-"
today declared Prof VIM. McKeever,
head of the child welfare department
OF Kansas university in a lecture.
Boys and girls must have chance
to make love" he added. Puppy
love is an expression of heart hunger
which has an important influence up
on the nature Of the child"
Fairgrounds where the instincts of
children can be asserted were urged
by the professor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
They Made a Haul.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2O.-That st. Louis
and San Francisco officials beaded by
B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the board
of directors acting as promoting syndi.
cate cleaned up $4,000 in the promo
tion and sale of the New Orleans
Texas and Mexico railway to the F'ris
CO was the substance of the testimony
of Vice President G. w. Hullyard be.
fore Chairman Clark of the Interstate
commerce commission who is probing
the Frisco receivership.
Ninety-nine investors profited by
the transfer and the st. Louis and
Union Trust Company finally agreed
to furnish the commissioner with a
list Of those interested.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
FLUSHING OUT POISON PREVENTS
DEATH FROM BICHL LORIDE

Surgeons at Fordham hospital last
night removed the coverings from the
kidneys of Mrs. Thelma Peasants,
who had taken mercury the previous
Monday and flushed them of the pois-
on. Today it was declared she would
recover despite the fact that the oper.
alton was performed when the pa.
tient was near death.
The first successful operation of this
sort was performed last week upon
Mrs. Jacob Jannon, a society woman
.oi West Brighton. Physicians today
said she was taking solid food and
was out of all danger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20

HOW BELL BUYS OUT
Secret Possession Of Rival Companies
Which Are Then Shut OFF
From Outside
Connections.

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CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-Intimations
that the Independent Telephone AS
sociation Of America, an organization
of independents, is itself monopoly.
were made by General Counsel r. s.
Pillsbury OF the Pacific States Tele-
phone company, at the hearing here
today of special examiner in the
government prosecution of the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany under the Sherman antitrust
act. w. S. Vivian Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, secretary of the independent
organization, resumed the stand to-
day to testify against the A. T. and
L. Co., and was cross examined by
Pillsbury. Vivian admitted that the
independents had adopted uniform
standard of telephone construction
and bought most Of their supplies
from few manufactures. He said
that concerted action In buying was
necessary for the Independents to
combat the alleged trust.
- .
Have you ever sought legal ad-
vice to learn whether your organiza-
ton was not violating the Sherman
act?' asked Pillsbury.
Vivian shook his head.
Better try it." advised Pillsbury.
G. J. Smythe, OF Omaha, special at.
torney for the government drew from
Vivian the statement that one of the
purposes OF the organization OF in
dependents was to ferret out secret
purchases OF independent companies
by the Bell interests. who Vivian as
serted, were then rented, to eliminate
suspicion that they had fallen into
the hands of the trust" The Bell
People, he said, used this method to
isolate small companies by shutting
them of from outside connections.
Kansas City, Vivian said, was one
of the cities where the alleged trust
secretly bought out the independent
company The deal was made in 1912
he said, and is not now admitted by
the Bell interests.
Other witnesses to be called today
include B. j. Hubbell, of Buffalo, N
Y, president Of the Federal Telephone
and Telegraph Co., and Richard Val.
entine, Of Janesville, Wis, president
of the Rock County, Wis, Independent
Telephone Company.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
WHEN TWO MEN PAY COURT
TO ATTRACTIVE GRASS WIDOW

of Altoona, Pa, has severe scalp
wound and is in Jail as the result Of
the quarrel which ensued when the
men met at the home Of Mrs. Grace
Clark here.
Both had been paying attentions to
Mrs. Clark who has separated from
her husband Each resented the 9th
er's presence at the Clark home and
when they arrived simultaneously yes
terday afternoon. Hutchinson opened
fire. Dunnebecke fell with a scalp
wound, and Hutchinson thinking his
victim dead, shot himself twice in the
head. ,.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
Governor Endorses Tango.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Nov. 2O.-Gover
nor A. o. Bberhart is ON record to.
day with an Endorsement of the tango
the hesitation waltz and the castle
walk.
The governor is brilliant tripper
of the light fantastic and last night
at the annual ball given for charity
at the auditorium here, the chief
executive went through the ma'zss OF
the popular dances with the agility OF
mordken. Mayor Keller of st. Paul
also favored the new dances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
weather Conditions.

West of the Mississippi the pres
sure is generally low, with marked
depression in northern Montana The
weather is generally fair, with mild
temperature in this low area, while
rain has continued on the Pacific
slope, and extended to Arizona and
western Texas.
Conditions indicate generally fair
weather. with little change in temper
eture for this section tonight and Fri
day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
Second Operation of the Kind
Performed and Patient
Expected to Recover.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK. Nov. 2o.-For the sec
ond time since the bichloride of mer-
curry POISON wave swept across the
country. radical operation today
bade fair to save the victims life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
No Charity In That.

Wife-I say, do you know the girl
in the fiat above US won a piano at
the charity bazaar lottery yesterday?
Husband-A piano? Great Scott, And
that's what they call charity bazaar!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
Arrlve at House at Same Time
and Bullets Put Sudden
End to Wooing.

w., ..so Press Leased Wire Service. ]
tv,. ,%AohESHA, Wis. Nov. 2o.-shot
son 's N the head. William Hutchin-
an, NJ - rhlladelphia. is probably fat
wounded, and Joseph Dunnebecke
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
NOMINATIONS
BY PRESIDENT
Mr.. Wilson Names Over Forty
Diplomats Today to Serve
in Foreign
Countries.
ALL OVER THE WORLD
Consul Generals, consuls, Secretaries
Of Legations and Other Off,
claIs Have Beer
Appointed!

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.-President
Wilson today nominated over forty
diplomats. To be consul at large,
Stuart ]. Fuller Of Wisconsin, and the
following consuls generals:
William w. Handley of New York.
at Callao, Peru.
Michael J. Hendrick Of New York,
at Christiana. Norway.
Carl B. Hurst of the District Of Co
lumbia, at Barcelona, Spain.
Ransford S. Miller of New York, at
Seoul.
Henry H. Morgan of Louisiana, at
Hamburg, Germany.
Thomas Hammon OF Washington, at
Shanghai.
Geo. H. scidmore, Wisconsin, at
Yokohama.
Robt. P. Skinner. Of Ohio, at Berlin.
John @. Wood, Hawaii, at Ads
Ababa, Abysinnia.
The president today also nominated
the following consuls:
Henry D. Baker Of Illinois. at Bonn
bay, India.
John x. Baxter OF Tennessee, at
Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Harold D. Clum of New York, at
Corinto, Nicaragua.
William DawSon. Jr., OF Minnesota,
at Rosario, Argentina.
W. Roderick Dorsey Of Maryland, at
Tripoli, Liberia.
VIM. F Doty. New Jersey, at
Nashaua, Bahamas.
Julius Dreher OF South Carolina, at
Toronto, Canada
Cornelius Ferris, Jr., Of Colorado, at
Port Antonio, Jamaica.
Charles Foreman Of Louisiana, at
Moncton, New Brunswick.
Paul H. Foster Of Texas, at Jerez
De La Frontera, Spain.
A. T. Haeberle of Missouri, at Saint
Michaels, Azores.
Lewis W. Haskell, South Carolina,
at Belgrade, Servia.
Charles M. Hathaway, Jr., OF Penn
sylvania, at Hull, England.
Frank A. Henry, Delaware, at Puer-
to Plata, Santo Domingo.
Charles A. Holder, Colorado, at
Cologne, Germany.
Douglas Jenkins, South Carolina, at
Riga, Russia.
Milton B. Kirk, Illinois, at st.
Johns, Quebec.
Myrtle S. Myers, Pennsylvania, at
Swatow, China.
Kenneth s. Patton, Virginia, at
Cognac, France.
Albert w. Pontius, Minnesota, at
Nanking. China.
John A. Ray, Texas, at shefield,
England. T,
Emil sauer, Texas, at Goteborg,
Sweden.
Maddin Summers, Tennessee, at
Santos, Brazil.
Robert H. Thompson, Illinois, at
AK La Chappelle. Germany.
Frederick Van Dyne, New York, at
Lyons, France.
Jay White, Michigan, at Naples,
Italy.
Charles L. Williams, Ohio, at Dalny,
Manchuria
Other nominations were: To be sec
retary of the embassy at Madrid. Spain,
Fred Morris Dearing Of Missouri.
To be secretary of legation at Brus-
sells, Belgium, Hugh s. Gibson of
California, formerly at Havana.
To be secretary of legation at Ha-
vana, Cuba, Gustave Schools of Mimi
esota.
To be naval customs officer at Chi
cago, William Brown of Illinois.
To be collector of internal revenue,
18th Illinois district, John M. Rapp of
Illinois.
To be collector of internal revenue
for Tennessee, Edward B. Craig.
The president also nominated the
following postmasters:
Spokane. Washn.-Dana Child.
Pasadena, Calif-Walter Des-
mond.
Memphis, Tenn.-charles w. Met.
calf. Jr.
Franklin, n. J-Daniel w. Shell
don, Jr.
No Charity In That.
Wife--I say, do you know the girl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
Local Observations.

Mean temperature, Nov. Ig, 81.
Highest temperature, 70.
Lowest temperature, 81.
Lowest temperature last night, SO.
FRED q. GOSEWISCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-20
Daily River Bulletin.
Stage. height. Change. Wea 'h'r
River Forecast.

RiVer Forecast.
Change in river stage will be slight
from Davenport to Keokuk.
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THE WEATHER

Fair. Temperature I'M
changed. Local temp p. m.
81; Z a. m. GA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15
COTTON STEADY At
UNCHANGED PRICES
Chief Feature Appears to Be
Readjustment of Interest
in Near Months

New York, July 14.-The chief trading
feature of today's cotton market ap-
peared to be a readjustment of the in
terest in near months. Influence, doubt
less by the continued light arrivals of
cotton here from the south for delivery
on contract and further reductions in
the local stock there was considerable
covering by scattered July shorts and
the strength of the spot position natu-
rally created some demand for August
This>was supplied however, my selling
attributed to old longs. who seemed to
be switching their contracts to later
months particularly October and in the
absence of important new crop offerings
the demand proved sufficient to mpart
generally steady undertone to the sit
uation with the close showing net gains
of from / TO s points.
Liverpool a shade better than due,
if anything, after the holidays of last
week with private cables reported
enough trade demand for the purpose of
fixing prices to absorb continental liqui-
dation. The local market opened steady
at unchanged prices to a decline of 2
points under scattered selling encour-
aged by favorable weekly crop reviews
but the demand for the near months
soon steadied up the list. and 1t looked
as if selling of late deliveries was re-
stricted by the forecast for continued
warm weather in the southwest or fear
of insect damage, owing TO the reported
prevalence of boil weevil At any rate
there was very little cotton for sale at
any time during the day. and after
showing a net advance of about 2 to 10
points the market closed within or 8
points of the best
The census figures of supply and dis
tribution for June seemed to be without
any special influence. They indicated a
loss of about 100000 bales in domestic
mill stocks for the month, but also
showed some falling off in consumption
as compared with May. although tending
to confirm estimates placing total mill
consumption of this country for the sea-
son at about 5,SOo0,O0O bales. The first
bale of the new crop was sold at auc-
tion here about 10 days or two weeks
later than the average crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15
Roads and Cost of Living

Until very recently the vast majority of
people failed to understand that the good
road is not mere country dweller's con-
venience, or the means to motorists
pleasure, but that 1t is an actual econom-
ic necessity, says Suburban Life Maga-
zine That it costs the farmers of this
country more for a 10 mile haul of pro-
duce from farm to town than 1t does to
ship that produce from New York to
London, is a fact. That it costs farmers
abroad from one-half to one-tenth as
much to haul ton a mile on a road as
il does the farmers of this country is an
other fact. That practically every pound
of flesh and bushel of wheat we consume
must travel over road at least once and
sometimes twice before we eat it, is a
third fact The three are the answer to
one part of the question, "Why does 1t
cost so much to liver Some one has to
pay for the expensive hauling. Some one
has to pay for the depreciation in the
value of horses and vehicles caused by
poor roads. Some one has to pay for the
extra time it takes to haul cotton to mar
ket. when two mules are required to haul
two bales 10 miles in one day, when ON a
good road the same two mules could haul
"a bales in the same time with the same
effort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15
New York Cotton Futures
Port Cotton Movement

Galveston: Quiet; middling, IL 5-16c
net receipts, 1892; gross receipts, 1882;
sales, 921 stock. 42,993; continent,
4094; coastwise, S31.
New orleans: quiet; middling,
IL 7-16c: net receipts, 444; gross re-
ceipts, 446; sales, II; stock, 36,119.
Mobile: Steady; middling, Ice; net re-
ceipts, SS; gross receipts, 3S; stock,
1920; continent, 8.
Savannah: Firm; middling. 12c; net
receipts, SO; gross receipts, SO; stock
23, ATS; coastwise 453.
Charleston: Nominal; net receipts
7S; gross receipts, 49, stock, 4150 coast.
wise, 1877
Wilmington: Dull; middling, 12c; ne
receipts, 2; gross receipts, 2; stock, 10,
1872
Norfolk: Firm; middling, 12sc; net
receipts, 500; gross receipts, 320 stock
f7,431; coastwise, 740
Baltimore; Nominal; middling, 12hc
gross receipts. 1885, stock, 6341
New York: Quiet; middling. 1890
gross receipts, 2196, sales, 1900; stock
43,175; Great Britain, 81; France, 400
continent, $50; coastwise, 1907.
Boston: Quiet; middling, 12.30c gross
receipts, 106 stock, 1865.
Philadelphia: steady; middling
12.55c; stock. Sic.
Texas City: Stock, $3.50.
Brunswick Stock, 569S.
Jacksonville: Stock, SOL.
Total today, at all ports: Net, 226s
Great Britain, 81; France, 400; conti-
nent, 5S44; stock, 205,100.
Consolidated, at all ports: Net, 371g,
Great rBitain. 1912; France, 400; con-
tinenS 1884.
Total since September 1, at all ports:
Net. 9,73966S; Great Britain. 3,460,082;
Japan, 3S4,020; Mexico, 14,75o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15
South Africa's Riches

Isaiah's many prophecies concerning
the fertility of the desert places of the
earth are having some measurement OF
fulfillment in South Africa, according
to DIR. Macdonald, of the union depart
ment of agriculture, says the Pail Mall
Gazette.
DR.. Macdonald is best known as the
enthusiastic exponent and pioneer of
the dry farming movement, which has
revolutionized agriculture in that coun-
try. DIR. Macdonald says:
Before the government started eX-
perimental dry land stations 1t was
widely believed that farming was only
possible beside the water furrow. This
meant a few irrigated patches of land
and the rest of the country a desert.
But we have changed all of that. In
each of the four provinces and in Rho
desia thousands of acres of dry land,
once considered valueless, are now be-
ing plowed up and planted and are
yielding excellent crops.
America has grown wheat on an
eight inch rainfall, Australia has
grown wheat on a five-inch rainfall,
but we in South Africa, have grown
rain1ess wheat. That is to say that
during the past season at Lichtenburg,
which Is in the dry zone OF the Trans
vaal. we have grown wheat without
a single drop of rain falling upon it
the Durum wheat, Apulia which we
originally introduced from the dry belt
in Italy. Our success has been due to
the use of what we term moisture
saving fallows.' The great problem
in South Africa agriculture is not the
problem of fertility. 1t is the problem
OF the conservation of moisture. We
have now solved that problem, and
made possible the immediate settlement
OF our dry or arid lands.
But perhaps the most dramatic
success in the campaign against in
sect pests is to be seen in the conquest
of the locust by means of arsenical
sprays. The flight. of every swarm of
locusts is registered and telegra ghed
to the headquarters of the union
department of agriculture at Pretoria.
and when the young locusts emerge
the weld is ringed by poisoned grass
over which they cannot pass. A short
time ago the government of Peru sent
an expert to the Transvaal to study our
method of locust destruction but the
only locust which the entomologist
could show him was to be found in the
museum,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15
COTTON OPENS
LOW AND STEADY
New Orleans Market Quiet.
Advanced 3 to Z Points
Over Saturday

New Orleans, July 14.-The opening ses-
sion of the week in cotton was quiet.
Prices declined slightly in the early trad
ing, and afterward made small advance
The close was very near the level of Sat
urdays close. Operations were small and
business generally was restricted by un-
certainty over the new crop and also by
the suspense over threatened federal leg
islation against future trading
The opening was steady at decline of
to points. Weather and crop returns
from the cotton belt were favorable but
failed to arouse any selling of conse-
quence. First prices were about the lowest
OF the day. The census bureau issued a
report showing that the consumption of
cotton in this country in June was 1885,
91f bales, a somewhat larger amount than
looked for. These figures gave the mar
ket steady undertone and put the mar
ket to points over Saturdays final fig
ures. In the afternoon the ring was in
active. The market closed steady, l point
down to points up, compared with Sat
urdays close
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15
CHICAGO MARKET
CLOSES STRONG
Rumor of Discovery of
Black Rust Has Bullish
Effect

Chicago, July 14.-Alleged discovery Of
black rust in North Dakota and Min
nesota had bulish effect on wheat to-
day, and the market closed firm at an
advance of 1aQ&c net. Corn showed a
gain of 1A@1l4c to 15sc, and oats a rise of
5sm11sc. In provisions the outcome va
ried from o0c decline TO an upturn of
21se.
Although rumors concerning black rust
did not receive anything like full credit.
such gossip almost monopolized atten-
tion of wheat traders in the last part
of the session Fargo, n. D.. and Ada,
Mimi. were the points from which news
of the blight was said to emanate. The
mere chance that a serious basis might
be found for the rumors led shorts to
cover on a big scale.
Country offerings of new wheat were
much lighter, and there was decided i'm
provement in export inquiry. Except for
a temporary dip at the opening, the mar
ket accordingly tended upward the greater
part of the day. On all swells, however,
longs did enough realizing to keep net
gains much less than enthusiasts had
hoped.
Seaboard clearances of wheat and flour
eoualled S31 600 bushels. Primary receipts
were 1881, 900 bushels, year ago Ss2,ooo
bushels
Damage reports from Kansas and Okla
homa nut strength into the corn market.
Besides. receipts here were extremely
small. oats rose in sympathy with corn,
but a big increase in the visible supply
total checked buying to some extent.
Provisions prices suffered under free
selling due to an unexpectedly heavy run
of hogs here. Afterward, the market
steadied on the bulge In coarse grains.