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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
TWO JURORS SELECTED
IN QUINCY MURDER
Bert Padeett Selected Yesterday Is
Excused When Defense Uses
Challenge.

QUINCY, H.. March BIB. L.
Schaefer formerly Of Nauyoo, and
George Gum, farmer of Keene
township, were selected yesterday as
jurors to serve IN the trial of Ray
Pfanschmidt for the murder of his
sister.
IS Bert Padgett Of Quincy who was
selected at the Wednesday session,
was kept all night in custody of the
sheriff, but was excused when the de,
Tense used one of their peremptory
challenges today.
The special venire of 100 talesmen
which was ordered drawn by Judge
Williams yesterday, were in couri
and about thirty-fve of them were
excused by the court.
It is thought that it will take at
least another week to secure jury
in the case and that the testimony
will take up from four to five weeks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
A Splendid Tonic,

Cora, Ky.-Mrs. iva Moore, Of this
place. says. II was so weak, could
hardly walk. tried Cardui, and was
greatly relieved. 1t is splendid
tonic. ! have recommended Cardui
to many friends, who tried 1t with
good results" Testimony like this
comes unsolicited. from thousands OF
earnest women. who have been bene.
fitted by the timely use of that sue
cessful tonic medicine, Cardui. Purely
vegetable, mild. but reliable. Cardui
we'll merits It's high place in the
esteem of those who have tried 1t. Il.
relieves women's pains. and strength.
ems weak women. 1t is certainly
worth a trial. Your druggist sells
lit.--Advertisement
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
Breaking UP Of Ice IN the River Puts
Raw Water In Bad Condition
and Much Dirt is
Removed.
PURE WATER EASIER
Suspended slit Can be Removed
by Filters More Effectively
Than When 1t is
Clear.

The breaking up Of the ice in the
river and subsequent disturbances has
resulted in bad condition OF raw
water for the use In water plants
preparing 1t for general consumption.
AT this season each year the water
plants are called upon to remove tons
of suspended silt from the water but
strange as it may seem, 1t is easier to
secure the highest possible per cent
of purity in water at this time than
al any other time.
If the water from the Mississippi
Continued long in its present condi-
ton the water plants along the river
could be selling dirt to fill up vacant
lots. 1t is estimated that during the
Fast two weeks filtration plants have
taken more than six tons. of suspend
ed silt from every million gallons OF
water every four days.
Here in Keokuk the gray color of
the water is noticeable and Superin-
tendent veatch of the water company,
SAYS that the slight discoloration will
remain until the river again becomes
normal although the filters take every
thing but the color out. The load on
the filters which comes with abnormal
conditions and disturbances in the
river is heavier than usual but they
are adjusted to meet conditions.
Tests show that the filtration plant
has been working at practically 100
per cent efficiency in the removal OF
bacteria The raw water in it's pres
ent condition contains thousands OF
bacteria to the cubic centimeter while
after it has been prepared for con.
sumption the bacteria culture are SO
few that the work of the filters is
considered perfect.
The injection of calcium hypochlor
ate into the water after it has passed
through the ordinary filtration method
is now used here. This method, Of
recent discovery and use, is said to be
the best guarantee for pure water that
the people can have.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
MAKES RHEUMATISM
PROMPTLY DISAPPEAR
Chronic, crIppled-up Sufferers Find
Relief After Few Doses Of
New Remedy are
Taken.

1t is needless to suffer any longer
with rheumatism, and be all crippled
up, and bent out of shape with it's
heart-wrenching pains, when you can
surely avoid it.
Rheumatism comes from weak, In
active kidneys, that fail to filter from
the blood, the poisonous waste mat
ter and uric acid; and it is useless to
rub on liniments or take ordinary
remedies to relieve the pain. This
only prolongs the misery and can't
possibly cure you.
The only way to cure rheumatism
is to remove the cause. The new dis
covery, Croxone,. does this because 1t
neutralizes and dissolves all the pois-
onous substances and uric acid that
lodge in the joints and muscles, to
scratch and irritate and cause rheu-
matism, and cleans out and strength
ems the stopped-up, inactive kidneys,
80 they can filter all the poison from
the blood, and drive it on and out OF
the system.
Croxone Is the most wonderful
medicine ever made for curing chron.
ic rheumatism, kidney troubles, and
bladder disorders. You will find II
different from all other remedies
There is nothing else on earth like it
1t matters not how old you are, OF
how long you have suffered, it is
practically impossible to take it into
the human system without results
You will find relief from the first few
doses, and you will be surprised how
quickly all your misery and suffering
will end.
An original package of Croxone
costs but trifle at any first-clas
drug store. All druggists are author
ICED to sell 1t on positive money
back guarantee. Three doses a day
for few days is often all that is
ever needed to cure the worst back
ache or overcome urinary disorders
Adv. -.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
Political Color Chart.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
SPRINGFIELD, H.. March I'll
Representative Madsen, socialist from
Chicago, has hit upon suggestive
color scheme by which he designates
the political complexion of his fellow
assemblymen on his chart showing
the location of the gentleman from
blank"
A key to the chart explains that
yellow designates democrats
white" republicans; green" pro
gressives. and red" socialists
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
AWAITING WORD
FROM ELIOT
II He Will Accept Ambassadorship to
Great Britain, the Slate
VIII Be Full.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON March 21.-Definite
word was expected today from Char
les w. Eliot, president emeritus of
Harvard university, whether he will
accept the post of ambassador to
Great Britain. Until this post Is set
tied. President Wilson will be unable
to complete his diplomatic slate
which is now believed to include VIM.
f. McCombs for ambassador to
France. Prof. Henry Burchard Fine
OF Princeton as ambassador to Ger
many; George w. Guthrie, democra-
tic leader in Pennsylvania, ambassa-
dor to Mexico; Justice James w.
Gerard, as ambassador to Italy. and
John r. Mott, as minister to China.
But until the English position Is dis
posed of. the president will make no
definite announcement regarding any
OF the others.
The cabinet meeting today discuss
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
Sporting Views
By the Editor


The directors of the local baseball
club announced today that McCafiigan
a shortstop, had been purchased for
the local club from Pekin of the IlIf,
nois- Missouri League McCaffigan hit
.2SS last year in 104 games and stole
so bases, which would class him as
one of the best in this league, if he
shows up as well with the Indians.
The price paid by the local associa-
ton was withheld by Secretary
Sterne.
Lamb, who played third base with
Ottumwa last year has accepted terms
with the local club and ~1li report
here with the squad on April 7th.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
.CHA|RMEN NAMED
FOR CAMPAIGN
Ward chairmen Are Selected to Par
tlcipate In the City Cleanup
Campaign This
Spring.
MEETING OF oHA1RMEN
Being the First Day of Spring a
Meeting is Called and the
Plans Are Dis
cussed.

This being the first day OF spring,
II we may believe the calendar, a
conference was held by the leaders
in the 1913 spring clean up campaign
at which the leaders in the movement
discussed the deviations from the
plan of last year
The same general plant will be fol.
lowed except that there will be but
one chairman in each ward who will
be the intermediary between the
executive committee and the block
lieutenants. There will be the sans
three hundred and fifty lieutenan. 8
and it is expected that the Civic
League will also participate in the
work and select feminine lieuten-
ant in each block.
Six of the seven ward chairmen
with the exception of the first ward
are announced as follows:
| 2. James T. Mccarthy.
3. G. J. Kirch
4. Cephas Harrison.
81. M. French.
6. Jacob Scholten
T. Frank Swan.
The general heads of the commit
tee are T. R. Board and William Bal
linger. The cooperation of the school
children is a big factor in city clean
/ up campaign and was a great help
| last year.
The committee has begun the work
| of compiling the list of lieutenants
and active work will begin about the
first week in April and the campaign
will probably continue until May /
when the inspection will be made
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
The Mife neserter

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
MILWAUKEE. Wis, March I'll
Heart-broken and suffering from re.
morse, William Duff today prepared
to take his three small daughters to
North Dakota where he viii endeavor
to make a home for them. Last sum
mer Duff deserted his wife and fam
lily. Yesterday he returned, just in
time to attend his wife's funeral. She
was killed by an automobile truck
which on the way to the work she
was compelled to take up to support
her children.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
Both the house and senate bills were

Both the house and senate bills were
passed by the assembly. The COVER
nor chose the house bill for his sig
nature and the senate bill is vetoed
The measure changes the law in re-
gard to court procedure SO that a
criminal trial begun at the end of n
term of court may be concluded after
the term ends. even II the presiding
judge must cancel his sittings in an
other county in order TO continue the
hearing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21

principle of the measure. but those
voting against it were upstate sena-
tors, who objected to the farm labor
restriction. There seems no doubt
that the assembly will pass the bill
without difficulty as the democrats
and progressives are openly in favor
of the bill. and many republicans will
vote for it.
The bill is an addition to the child
labor law already restricting the en-
ployment Of children In factories. 1t
was aimed principally at the scourge
of home work in the tenement dis
tricts of the large cities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
The Only Hotel.

MflJLVILLE. Calf March 81. Eli
Addington runs the only hotel in Mill
vile. He was arrested at midnight
for selling liquor without license.
Rousing his guests he sent them into
the street and locked UP his hosiery
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
suicide Prevented.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LINCOLN, Neb., March I'll
Through the quick action of Warden
Fenton in the state penitentiary early
this morning, Roy Maynard, a life
term prisoner, was prevented from
committing suicide by hanging. May
nard was user of opium and when
the smuggling of the drug into the
prison was stopped recently, he be
came respondent. When discovered
by the warden, he had tide a sheet
rope to the bars of his cell and was
slowly strangIing to death. He will
probably recover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
appointments generally while

ed appointments generally While
there are to be no recess appoint
ments with the exception of that of
Robert w. Woolley OF Virginia, who
is to be named as second assistant
secretary of the treasury because he
is needed by Secretary McAdoo--it is
understood to be the plan Of the pres
ident to permit the identity of the
men selected for the principal posts
to leak out prior to the assembling OF
congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
House Bill No. PIP.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
SPRINGFIELD I'll, March I'll
Governor Dunno today signed house
bill 212, the emergency measure pass,
ed by the legislature yesterday In or
der that Ray Pfanschmidt might not
escape trial for murder at Quincy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
Shocking Furniture.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, March 81.
Electrically charged chairs. and
table ware were introduced at ban
quet given by business firm. The
hidden Juice" took the place of the
liquid variety, but supplied the same
sensations produced by the latter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
viii Appoint Camp.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, March 21.-Attor-
ney General McReynolds announced
today that he has decided to appoint
j. S. Camp, of San Antonio, district
attorney for the western district of
Texas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
Child Labor Bill.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
ALBANY, =. r., March 21.-By a
vote of 80 to 6, the senate pass
ed the child labor bill prohibiting ths
labor of children under fourteen in
canneries or tenements or under
twelve on farms.
There was no opposition to the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21

For spraIn yo-. will find Chamber
lain's Liniment excellent. 1t allays
the pain, removes the soreness, and
soon restores the parts a healthy
condition rs and SO cent bottles for
sale by wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy
and ]. F. Kiedaisch & Son-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21

There is no better medicine for
colds than Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. 1t acts on natures plan. relieves
the lungs, opens the secrations. aids
expectoration; and restores the sys-
tenn to a healthy condition. For sale
by Wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy and J.
+. kiedaisch & Son--&Adv
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
DR.. BRUCE L. GlLFILLAN

PH4SICIAN AND SURGEON
Office 621h Main street. over
Cooks & Cox Millinery store. Bell
phone 19O-Black.
Residence BIT North Fourth street.
Bell phone 12s0-Red.
Hon.s: 1912 a. m. "a p. m. 7.S
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-21
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIANS.
,R. w. p. SHERLOCK

PHYSICAL. AND SURGEON
Once IS North Fifth street. in the
Howell building.
Office hours-10 to 10 a. m; 2 to 6
p M; evenings. Z to g.: Sundays. II
to p. m.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-24
KILL NE, . PLEADS
WOMAN P|TEOUSLY
She Disappears in Kearny
Meadows When Entreaty
Is Ignored.

For five hours today the Kearny
meadows were searched for a mys-
terious woman in black, who, after
beseeching a muskrat hunter to kill
her, vanished in the forbidding waste
of moorland
The police finally abandoned the
hunt, believing that the woman must
have perished in the quagmire or
been drowned in one of the pools of
stagnant water.
William Eaton. of 1850 Harrison
avenue, Kearny. who is night en-
gineer at the packing plant of Swift
& Co., on the meadows, went out to
inspect his three muskrat traps after
his shift had ended at O'Clock yes
terday morning.
He had penetrated half mile into
the meadows when he heard his dogs
barking sharply. A woman's shrill
scream rang dismally above the barks
Eaton hurried to the spot and found
a woman, about 40 years old, dressed
in a black coat, gray skirt and gray
automobile veil.
She dropped on her knees before
him.
kill me! Kill mel" she cried,
pointing with trembling hand to the
long muskrat hook he carried.
Questioned by the engineer. she said
that she lived in West Twenty ninth
street, New York city, with her hus-
band and two sons and that she was
well off. so far as money went. She
was apparently despondent over some
wrong, fancied or real. of which she
had been the victim.
Eaton found himself powerless to
persuade her to leave the meadows.
He finally retraced his steps and in
structed a watchman at another
Kearny plant to call up the police.
When he himself called up the po-
lice last night to ask if the woman
had been found he discovered that
the watchman mad forgotten to no.
tify the authorities. A search was
begun and continued until midnight
1t was resumed again at 8 o'clock
today. AT 10 o'clock the Kearny
police abandoned it as hopeless.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-24
Found Dead in
GaS-FiIled Room

Carelessness in not turning off a
gas jet when he went to bed last
night resulted in the death by as
phyXiation of John Mclaughlin, a
moulder employed by the Worthing-
ton Pump Works, Harrison. Nc
Laughlin was discovered dead in bed
this morning by Peter j. Bitters. who
keeps a lodging house at 81 Orange
street. Mclaughlin had been
roomer at the house for the last five
weeks, and, according to Bitters, came
home at 12 o'clock last night and
went to his room.
When he did not make his appear
ance at the usual time this morning
Bitters went to call him, discovering
him dead with the gas jet partly
turned on. County Physician McKen-
zie. who was notified, pronounced the
mans death to be accidental, and or
dered the body removed to Mullins s
Washington street morgue. Nc
Laughlin has a daughter in Califor-
MIA and son in Butler Pa. where
he lived before coming to Newark.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-24
TOOK PAPER WORTH
SCENTS; HE'S FREE
CelIuIoid Co.'S Charge Against
Employee Finds Mo Sup
port from Judge.

Armed with decisions and opinions
in English common law cases and
authoritative law books. Edward @.
Keasbey appeared as counsel for the
Celluloid Company today in the trial
before Judge Hahn of Justin Caine,
a New York salesman, charged with
the larceny of tissue paper worth
five cents.
Numerous technicalities compli-
Gated the case, and it was to prove
mis- contention that 1t was a crime
for a person to solicit or attempt TO
solicit a servant to steal from his
master that he quoted from cele-
brated cases. The tissue paper was
of a special make and had great
value In the eyes of the company, it
was declared.
In his summing up julius Field
man, counsel for Caine, declared that
a man could not be guilty of larceny
when he received paper from a serv-
ant or employee, if that man had
been instructed to give it to him to
entrap him He asked for a dismiss
sal of the charge
Judge Hahn, in making his de-
cision, said; 81 have gone quite
deeply into this case and studied it's
different aspects. but | fail to find
anything that would show that this
defendant was guilty of crime. The
paper in question is not patented by
the Celluloid Company, and 1t is my
belief that the complaining company
is unnecessarily agitated over the
matter They are apparently maxi
ing mountain out of mole-hill."
The complaint was dismissed The
company's representatives wanted to
enter another charge against the
salesman, but the court refused to
entertain 1t. Feldman declared that
the prisoner would sue the company
for false arrest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-24
HE'D QUIT JAIL FOR
MOTHERS BURIAL
Donick Asks Freedom for a Day
to Be at Murdered Won-
ans Funeral.

To attend his mothers funeral to-
morrow, George Donick, a prisoner
in the county jail, has applied to the
prosecutor for his freedom for a day.
Donicks mother was murdered by
his step-father John Dolan, after
violent quarrel at their home, SO
Bruen street. Saturday night After
nearly decapitating his wife with a
razor, Dolan attempted to commit
suicide by slashing his throat and
wrists.
Donick is awaiting trial on a
charge of assault and battery. Four
years ago he was convicted of bur-
glary and sentenced to State prison,
During his Imprisonment his mother,
then Mrs. Donick. visited Detective
Brex. who had made the arrest, and
requested him to intercede in behalf
of her son. This the policeman did
and the prisoners term was short
ened When the lieutenant at the
Third precinct received word of the
murder Saturday night, he dispatched
Detectives Brex and Bell and Ser
geant Kull to the scene.
Lying upon a table, near where
the woman lay dead, was a postcard
from the jail, asking her to aid him
in getting out.
Judge Hahn held several witnesses
to the tragedy without bail today.
Alice Butler niece of Mrs. Dolan's,
and Mabel Brown, of Elberon, Wis
itor at the house, were committed
to the House of Detention because
of their youth.
declared that if his wife didn't hold
her tongue he would find a way to
make her At ST. James's Hospital
today Dolan was declared out OF
danger. He has made a confession,
according to the police.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-24

OMAHA, Neb., March "A (via tele-
phone via Lincoln) )--Governor Moore
head, Mayor Dahlman and Polics
Commissioner Ryder stated at noon
today that at least 200 were killed
in Yesterday evenings storm here.
Reports from Council Bluffs Were to
the effect that four more bodies had
been recovered from the ruins of
homes there
The list of injured is expected 10
reach 100 AIanv have been found to-
day in the homes of friends where
they took refuge after the storm.
After visiting the scene of the storm
this morning Governor Moorehead is.
sued orders for the mobliza ton Of
three companies of State militia from
outside the city. The local companies
were already at work assisting tbs
police and regular soldiers from Fort
Crook. together with the city firemen.
In the work of rescue. Three hundred
regulars We're called out.
The morgues and hospitals were be-
siesed all morning by friends and
relatives of the dead and injured, and
others made frantic efforts to learn
of the fate Of loved ones Although
line of soldiers and police was
thrown around the path of the
storm soon after it had passed. much
looting was reported.
Just as soon as the enormity of the
disaster was understood by the citi-
zens here a relief fund was started.
Within an hour thousands of dollars
had been contributed. Many of tho
city's wealthiest men were back OF
the movement. Public buildings were
thrown open as a place of refuge for
the sufferers. The commodious rooms
of the Commercial Club We're among
those thus utilized.
Nearby every home within a dozen
miles of the stricken district is filed
with unfortunates. All the hospitals
In the three cities, Omaha, South
Omaha and Council Bluffs, are filed
to capacity and in many of them the
halls and corridors are crowded with
cots.
At s o'clock this morning the best
available figures placed the number OF
dead between 100 and 2OO with not
less than 100 more seriously injured
and probably 800 more or less serious
ly hurt
All fires have been put out During
the night fifty alarms We're turned in
The first and main storm struck
Ralston, three miles west of South
Omaha, shortly before o'clock yes
terday evening and moved in north-
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