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Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
PERSONAL Mention

X. B. Brown left for Denver Sat
urday to assume his duties in the
office Of the state bank examiner.
G. P. Goodier is filling his position
in the Rocky Mountain bank.
James Barbee went to Denver Sat
urday TO procure, seat for the OBJ
server buggy, which met with sligh
mishap last week.
A. l.. Anderson, wife and son, of
Montrose, visited with the James
Moody family last week.
Miss Mary Clair left Saturday af-
ternoon for Georgetown.
NJ. J. Leahy and wife spent Sunday
in Golden.
Mrs. Ike Hardy and daughter Were
passengers to Denver Sunday morn
ing.
Mrs. R. S. Mayor and daughter
were among the passengers to leave
Sunday fer Denver.
Mrs. Geo. ID. Henderson and daugh-
ter left Sunday for the valley.
Jus. OWtIS anu MISS MdDcl Ep-
lett spent Sunday in Denver.
Foster Mabee was up from Denver
the latter part of the week.
II. Irving Jones was bushes SIS
visitor to the county the latter part
OF the week.
Victor Maymon, connected with the
telephone company, was in Central
during the week on business.
Miss Stella Baleria and Mrs. Pat
terson returned Monday from a visit
to Silver Plume.
Misses Sadie and Mamie Cody re-
turned Monday from weeks visit
in Denver.
Mrs. G. w. Adams and mother-in-
law left Tuesday morning for the val
ley.
Mrs. NJ. Flaherty accompanied her
father and brother as far as Denver
on their return to their home IN
Iowa.
o. ]. Duffield was business pas
senger to Denver this week.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
NOT NUMEROUS, BUT EARNEST.

Whats this hall lighted up fort"
inquired the reporter.
This is a meeting to protest against
any further delay in putting lamps at
the corners of this street." said the
man occupying the big chair on the
platform.
You seem to be the only person
here"
Yes, and there ought to be a full
house. l tell you, sir. it's a blamed
outrage that this part of town has
been neglected 80 long. and"
Say you're a pretty husky citizen.
How much do you weigh?'
Two hundred and thirty-nine
pounds. What's that got to do with
I'll just say the meeting was large
ly attended and full Of enthusiasm.
Goodnight"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES

Services for Sunday, August oath,
will be as follows:
Class meeting at ten o'clock. VIM.
Auger, leader. Morning worship and
sermon by the pastor at II a. m.Sun-
day school at 2:45, C. o. Richards,
superintendent. Lesson, THE Bread
From Heaven" Elk. 1927: 1886.
Epworth League devotional meeting
at 6 p. m. Topic, Books That Have
Helped Me-" Evening preaching ser
vice at Z p. m. The Wednesday
evening prayer service at 1880 will
be followed by the official board
meeting.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Needless Alarm.

An old German farmer entered the
Office of a wholesale druggist one
morning and addressed the proprietor;
mister Becker, have der schmall
pox-"
"Merciful heavens, Mr.. Jacobs!" ex-
claimed Becker, as the Office force
scrambled over each other in their
hurry to get out, don't come any
nearer"
"Vot's der madder NIT you fellers
anyhow" quietly replied Jacobs. 81
say haf der schmall pox Of butter out
in mine wagon, vot Mrs. Becker or
tered las week alreaty."-National
Food Magazine.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Needless Expense.

Father" asked the girl who was
going to marry poor man. do you
think l ought to take a course Of
household economics. They offer a
lovely one at Briny Moore for $780,"
NO." replied pater grimly. You
will get one for nothing after you are
married."@Judge.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
CounterThrust.

"A very good retort!" said Senator
Lodge in an argument over the immt
grafton bill. "A very good retort in,
deed! 1t reminds me of Weeks.
Weeks and his wife were quarrel
ing.
THE night you proposed said
Mrs. Weeks, with a hard, scornful
laugh. you acted like fish out Of wa
ter
Weeks sighed
"'But very cleverly caught fish.
he said in a musing voice."
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
THE UPWARD TREND
OF FURNITURE

You would not have in your home
much of the furniture that was sold
at big prices a generation ago. Sim1
pie lines, and plain, beautiful de.
signs. are replacing the big clumsy
creations of lumber formerly. used.
This month, our store is unusually
attractive. Dining rooms in fumed
oak, golden oak, etc. In fact, every
thing to make the home beautiful
and complete.
c. o. Richards Furniture Co.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
TO THE PUBLIC.

Henceforth and during the summer
months. moving pictures will be
shown at the opera house on Sat
urday and Sunday evenings Of each
week. Admission 10 cents.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Shy on Ideas.

Sometimes" declared Mrs. Wom-
bat, 'I think men are too feeble-mind.
ed for any use."
How, now?"
"For twenty years I've asked my
husband daily what he wanted for din.
ner, and he's never been able to make
o. suggestion yet"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Selling Relics.

SCTTIUV HCIICS.
"You say this sword came from q
genuine battlefield?"
yep"
How much?"
Three dollars. with an appropriate
anecdote. Or. If you don't care for
the anecdote, you can have the sword
for two dollars"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Numbered.

what mover did you engage this
year?" the wife asked.
THE same old man." replied hubby.
"You know, he has the combination Of
our numbered furniture"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
NOTICE.

Miss Minnie Sorenson is hereby
authorized to collect all accounts ow'
ing the undersigned.
]. p. RICHARDS.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Preposterous.

She-George, the last dress bought
has lasted me nearly year and half.
He-Gee, but you women are lucky.
That last tire l bought hasn't lasted
me a month and a half!
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Point Of View,

"Well, we certainly had an open
winter" a gentleman remarked TO his
coal dealer recently.
"Yes." grunted the other. open to
objection"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
knex Aia canacitx.

well, where have you beenT
'My dear, If should try to tell you
all the places I've been"
81 Judge by your condition that you
have been to more than seven"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Tastes Differ.

Bring me demi-tasse. waiter. VIII
you have the same, JohnT'
None of them fancy drinks for me,
Just bring me some good, strong cvf.
fec"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Bitten Yet.

II any one on earth has got
More redbugs than are mine
They're worse of than I am and they
May have my bacon rind.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21

The Reformer-Well. some day we
will have laws abolishing trusts.
The Politician-Very unfair. The
trusts haven't made any threats about
abolishing the laws.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21

Read the Observer. $500 per year.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21

Hay and grain at Hawley's.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
Youths lndIscretlon..

Youths lndIscretions.
Though Willie Moth was young and
green.
OF course. he thought he knew It all,
That's why he Dragged that he had been
Invited to q camphor ball.
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21

Paradoxleal Progress.
What's the best way to get fol
ward?"
Get backing"
Gilpin observer., 1913-08-21
His Glass,

Hlo Class.
When a man Is crazy about osculG
ton"
"Well?"
Couldn't he be correctly described
as kissing bugf"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
FIGHTING
VICE: COMMISSION
Springfield Newspapers Call the In
vestisation Farce and ~
Most Humillatins =
Spectacle.
=
EVIDENCE IS ioK1Ne
o'Hara Made Mistake Of His Life
When He Said That the Re-
porters Were Block
heads.
R EVIDENCE IS IoK1NG

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. 7
SPRINGFIELD, H., April 2s.-That
the Illinois senate vice commission
would have more opposition in Spring
field than In any other city thus far
visited was evidenced today when
three of the four local papers came
out in direct opposition to the vice
probe. Indications were that they
would fight 1t strenuously.
The Springfield News today printed
a list of seven interviews with young
girls now employed at the 1nternation-
al Shoe Company's factory. They
were to substantiate the editorial of
Saturday night in which the News
asserted that "the investigation in this
city has been a farce, a humiliating
spectacle
1t called the proceedings "nauseat-
ing and disgusting" and said that
mot one iota OF evidence was adduced
that had bearing on so-called white
slavery"
The Journal comments on the want
of decent discrimination In coupling
fallen women with the working girl
and in handing out for publication the
names of working girls In the same
list with names Of fallen women. 1t
states that 1t is time the assembly
took notice of what the commission
lis doing in Its name.
The girls quoted by the News de
MED that girls were mistreated in the
| factory They said that the girl who
testified she was making thirty cents
day was a "loafer' who spent much
time in "primping.' They said that
| girls working at piece work beside hel
made 50 a day in some cases. Sever
al OF the girls said they made $12
week and had no complaint to make.
/ Springfield newspaper men have
said freely that they took exception te
/ the remark attributed to Lieutenant
Governor O'Hara that Springfield
newspaper men were blockheads' and
have said they will SHOW him up
O,Hara has since denied that he
made the above statement printed II
Chicago newspaper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
DIRE DISASTER
IS PREDICTED
Serene Payne, Veteran Tariff Builder
Says Wilson, underwood Bill
Is Poor
One.
CALLS IT RIDICULOUS
Rainey Takes Opposite View and Says
the Cost Of Living 10 Co.
Ing to be Re-
duced.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Predict-
ing dire disaster to the country If the
Wilson Underwood bill is passed, as
framed, Representative Serene E.
Payne. of New York, veteran tariff
builder, and author of the present law,
today assailed the democratic tariff
program in the house. incidentally he
defended his own bill.
Men falsely asserted four years
ago that the tariff was revision up
ward" Payne shouted at the demo-
Gratis. why, the righteousness OF
how that flight of Imagination ever
Impressed itself upon the minds OF
the people is difficult to see."
He declared that the democrats
themselves were fearful OF the effects
Of the bill.
"The manufacturer" he said, dis
secting the measure, "is cody told
that he does not understand his busi-
ness, that he must set his wits to
work; employ new methods, and
bring his factory up to the highest
efficiency, and make the best goods in
the world"
Payne said that as tariff for
revenue measure the bill is signal
| failure and predicted that III the
threatened stagnation in business is
matarlalized, there will be a. falling
off in customs revenue and in income
tax receipts, creating a large deficit
Just where It will land when the
bin leaves the senate, Is something
that no prophet can tell" he said.
The New York member said that af
ter having assaiied President Taft for
his veto Of the metal revision bill
which veto was based on the ground
that the measure destroyed industries
the democrats have now indicated his
disapproval by adopting in the meta
schedule Of the Wilson Underwood
/ bill, the views he expressed.
Today's debate opened with an at
tack upon swollen fortunes" by Rep
resentative Rainey, Illinois demo
crat, a member of the ways anc
means committee. Swollen fortune.
are based upon franchises. tariffs, tar
iff protection or patents" said Rain
ey. They have been made possible
only by favor of the government. Few
If any, have been accumulated in any
way except through favor"
Rainey made this argument In sup
4 port Of the income tax feature OF tn,
Wilson Underwood bill.
4 There is peculiar Justice he said
"in compelling the recipients Of larg
incomes to support the government
Under the present law we expect t,
collect s6,ooo,0o0 annually with thu
income tax from one hundred multi
miilionaires.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
AUBURN PRISON
IS BLACK HOLE
Inmates Treated Far Worse
Than Majority Of the Dogs
Of the Country

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
ALBANY, N. Y, April 2S-Governor
SuIzer was expected to take quick &C
ton today on the report OF his in
yestigators OF Auburn prison In which
1t is charged that cruelties and pun
ishments worse than the tortures OF
ancient times are inflicted on refrac-
tory prisoners.
The report arraigns DR.. John Germ,
the prison physician, on charges OF
brutality, Indifference to suffering,
refusal to treat women prisoners In
childbirth, and with driving scores of
refractory prisoners insane by per-
mitting solitary confinement beyond
endurance.
George w. Blake, the investigator,
declares that DIR. Germ permitted Wo-
men to bear children with only such
attendants as could be found among
the female prisoners, including such
nurses as Mrs. Augusta Mack, con-
yicted OF completely in the horrible
Guldensuppe murder.
OF the solitary cells, Blake says
thew are absolutely dark, unyentilated
ho,es. eight feet long and four and a
half foot wide with no furniture ex-
cent a tin can in which DR.. Germ al
lowed the prisoners only two gills OF
water day. The prisoners had to lie
down on the floor to sleep, which was
impossible, Blake declares in his re
mort. owing to the fact that the floor
ing is studded with rows of rivet
heads.
Bake recommended the immediate
removal OF Warden George w. Ben.
ham. republican, who has been in
lofice since 1905.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
FLEEING FROM
FOREST FIRE
Seven Thousand Sheep Burned
and Settlers Are Running
For Their Lives.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service |
GREAT FALLS, Mont, April 2S.-
Hundreds of ranchers are fleeing be-
fore prairie fire that is devastating
miles of country near Malta, accord
ing to a message received here today.
More than a score OF ranchers have
lost their homes and many have had
narrow escapes from death.
1t was impossible to get into com.
munication with a Russian settlement,
lying in a ravine near Malta, today. 1t
was feared that the entire settlement
had been wiped out by the flames.
John Elites and children, who
reached here today in the vanguard of
fleeing ranchers, escaped by running
the fire line but lost everything they
! possessed.
More than 1000 sheep, owned by
the J. B. Long Company, were penned
in ravine and burned to death
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
American Rights Have Been Sold to
syndicate Which VIII Open a
Hospital In Every
State.
TWO MILLIONS PA.
Discovered Gets s125,ooo Cash and
s1,soo,ooo Of Stock In the
Thirty-six friedman
Institutes.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, April 2S.-The Amer
lean rights to the turtle culture treat
ment for tuberculosis brought to
this country by DR.. F. F. friedman
have been sold. This was admitted
to the United Press by DR.. Friedman
himself today, and confirmed by Nor
ris Eisner OF the Eisner-M -Mendelsohn
company, the firm which has purchas-
ed the rights. DR.. Friedman said the
poor would be treated free.
DR.. Friedman and Eisner were
busy today drawing up the final papers
clinching the agreement, which has
been entered into, and although no
formal statement was made, 1t is un-
derstood that the German savant is
to receive $125,000 cash and s1,S00, 900
in stock of thirty-six friedman in
stitutes" which are to be establish
ed in as many different states in this
country. The Institutes which are to be
established are to have a total capit-
alization of $5,400,000.
DR.. friedman was in high spirits
today as he and Eisner went over
the papers giving the latters company
the sole right to distribute the tuber-
culosis treatment in this country, He
was pleased with the arrangement
but declared that he had not entered
Into 1t until assured that persons1too
poor to pay for treatment In the pro-
posed hospitals to be established,
would be treated without charge
"The one main contingency on
which agreed to entere into this ar.
rangement was that the poor could be
treated free,' said DR.. Friedman.
Both DR.. Friedman and Eisner in
sisted that 1t would be impossible tc
outline the detailed arrangement un
der which tuberculosis patients wo,ld
be treated under the contract until
the plan is definitely settled tonight
| 1t is understood that the first insti
tute will be opened in New York
within a few days. Others will be
established In all states, except those
where tuberculosis is practically un
/ known DR. Friedman, 1t is under.
stood, will be given free hand In
arranging for assistants. and other
details in the actual treatment Of pa
tients.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Learning
Home Efficiency"

Home efficiency is as impor-
tant as business efficiency"
says Louis Brandeis.
Home efficiency is not diff
cult to practice, and If applied
to your buying will save you
money, worry, time and effort.
Common sense is the first
step toward efficiency in shop
ping. Consider how to use your
time and money to best adj
vantage. Know where to shop.
This In turn requires thought
on the things you need, the
money you can afford to spend,
and the values to be had. Effort
may be saved by shopping at
the proper hour, shopping by
phone. or by anticipating your
wants and placing standing or
ders.
The merchants advertising in
THE GATE CITY will gladly
cooperate with you along these
lines. Read their ADVERTISE
ments In THE GATE CITY to-
night and every night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
GIRL L-MOTHER TELLS
MOST REVOLT TING STORY

ling investigating committee, at Its
meeting here today.
The sad-eyed child, a victim of
mans passion. also described how she
was forced under a threat of being
turned out upon the streets, to scrub
floors. up until the very hour her in
fant was brought into the world. She
was but fourteen years old at that
time.
She said she scrubbed eight flights
of stairs, mopped big room and
waited on tables the day her child
was born. For six months after her
confinement, she worked for the at
tention she received, Today, she Is
still child but is caring for an in
fant eleven months old.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
SISTER WAS
SIMPLY BARGAIN CRAZY

visiting us all my earnings were eaten
up by drygoods bills
This statement, attributed to Jack
Clifton, explained today his motive in
fatally shooting his sister-in-law, Mrs.
James Harrison, the wife of Chi
cago plasterer, while she was guest
at his home, and then ending his own
life. A bullet pierced Mrs. Harrison's S
body and she is dying at local hos
pital
The shooting followed quarrel at
the dinner table. Clinton upbraid-
ed his wife's sister, charging that she
was saddling him with debt by her
visits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Rumors That European Powers VIII
Use Force to Make Little coun-
try Give up
Scutari.
SITUATION rs ACUTE
Essad Pasha at Head Of Forty Thous-
and Men ProcIairs Himself
as the King Of
Albania.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
LONDON, April 2s.--M Popovitch.
the Montenegrin envoy to London, to-
day appeared before the ambassadors,
in consultation at the foreign ONCE
with Sir Edward Grey. foreign eecre-
tary. and made strong formal pro-
test against the demand that HIS coun-
try evacuate Scutar He said that
he was acting under orders from Get
TIME when he characterized the ac-
tion OF the powers as unjust, cruel
and unwarranted.
1t was confidently expected IN milf
tary circles that the ambassadors OF
the powers would Immediately formu-
late some definite plan for Joint action
regarding scutari. In order to head
of the Independent action contemplate
ed by Austria Hungary.
Dispatches from Berlin and Rome
said that 10000 Austria-Hungarian
troops we're marching on Montenegro
to forcibly wrest Scutari from King
Nicholas, and that an Austria Hungar-
ian fleet was leaving Trieste. indepen-
dent Of the international blockading
squadron, to harrass the Montenegrin
coast. A Berlin rumor said that the
kaiser was informed that the Aus
trians already were in possession OF
.AntiviH and two other coast towns
and were marching on Cettinje, but
this was discredited.
The situation is acute and the rum
ors from Austria Hungary are expect
ed to goad the ambassadors in quick
concerted action. In siew of the
strained relations now existing
throughout Europe, diplomats realize
that 1t will be unfortunate for any
one nation to move independently
against Montenegro.
The six powers agreed to make
Scutari the capital of Albania and
they still adhere to that decision, but
Cor any one power to undertake to
coerce the little kingdom, not waiting
for the nations to act jointly, might
possibly precipitate grave complica-
| tions The aloofness Of Nussia in the
Montenegrin affair already has caused
! uneasiness.
Russia, while member OF the
| triple entente, is essentially slav. So
! Is Montenegro. Austria Hungary Is
| decidedly anti-slav. 1t is pointed out
by diplomats that while Russia doubt
less would abide by any action OF all
the powers, she might resent an indi-
vidual movement against King Mich
olas by single power,
More Trouble to Follow.
VIENNA, April 2S.In the event
that the powers collectively, or any
one OF them, force Montenegro to give
up Scutari, they may still have their
hands full when 1t comes to setting
UP the autonomous kingdom of Al
bania that the ambassadors in Lon
don planned last December.
Essad Pasha, erstwhile Turkish
commandant OF Scutari, whose men
the conquerlng King Nicholas allowed
to walk out Of the captured city with
i all their arms and ammunition, has
j proclaimed himself king ol Albania
and with 10000 men at his back Is
today marching to Tirana Once
there. he intends to have himself for
mally acclaimed and will take posses
Il sion
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Fifty Cent Tickets.

CHICAGO, April 2s,-The theater
ticket scalper in Chicago is today
feeling his graft slipping away from
him following the enormous sale of
fifty cent seats at the Powers theater
last night. The rule now in vogue IL
that all seats not sold by 7:3o p. M,
will go at fifty cents and it has prov
ed a success for the box office.
An iron.clad rule recently went into
effect prohibiting the issuance of
passes, and to offset the decrease in
audiences the new fifty cent rule was
put into action. The patrons are
pleased. but the scalpers are dis
gruntled.