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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12

Motoring Department The Herald
l have and when 1 throttle down
the motor for two or three minutes and
then open the throttle the motor seems
TO choke, and sometimes viii stop al
together Could you tell me the trou-
ble2-C. Hoffman,.
Your trobule is in the carburetor.
Would suggest your trying a new aux
iiiary air valve spring. Also inspect
float and float valve and note if same
work freely and properly.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12

knock may be easily located by letting
the motor run idle and then sound
ing the various parts with a piece of
steel rod which is held in the teeth.
When doing this close both ears. II
your trouble is in the magnetic you
readily locate il In this manner.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12

the schools devoted to their comfort
scores must have died in the cold rain
and bitter wind that prevailed Tor A.
hours.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12
MOTORISTS PROBLEMS
ARE SOLVED HERE
By WILLIAM H. STEWART, il.

Who President Of Stewart Automobile Academy York
City, Is regarded leading authority in Motor
Car Education n this country.
Let US solve motoring problems discuss comments
Tel Us Of experiences benefit the other fellow
Correspondence invited for publication every Weekend
Copyright 1918, by ". H. Stewart, j.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12

Motoring Department The Herald
My car had the front axle badly bent.
and since having it repaired I find
the car sways at speeds Of from % to
IS miles an hour. How can I find out
whether front axle and wheels are
right, and how can tell whether
front and rear wheels track p
James Bredie.
The swaying may be caused by the
felloeS Of the wheels being bent. This
can be seen by 6acking up the front
wheels and spinning them. Also note
II front axle stands at right angles to
the frame To make sure the wheels
are lined up properly, measure the dis
lance from rear axle to the front axle
on each side and see If the two wheels
are parallel to each other. After do
ing this point the front wheels
straight ahead and measure the dis
lance from rim TO rim at the back Of
the wheel and front. The rims should
be approximately One-quarter inch
closer together in front than in rear.
II all the axIes and wheels line up
properly, there is no reason why they
should not track"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
BUNNY CEEWED
HER HAT UP
She Sent Request to
Washington.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11-Touched
by an appeal of Lottie Letter, OF the
West Woodland School, Seattle, Wash,
for a "sixty-three cent Panama hat, to
replace the one which her bunny
chewed up Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury Hamlin today despatched
a new hat. donated by local mer-
chant with note, saying: Uncle
Sam wishes me to write to you that
he received your letter, December z
and was very much pleased with It. He
told me to go right out and buy
Panama hat for you as he did not want
to send you enc of those he took from
the naughty man who tried to brine
them into the United States without
payment Of full duty"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
EXTRAVAGANT
AGE is THIS
Borrowers of Money on Life In
surance Policies. Show
Americans Are Not a
Frugal Race.

[United Press "a Wire service.l
NEW YORK =. live have in
this country : extravagant public.
in the most s>favagant age" declar-
ed Arthur %Childs. president OF the
Columbia .ational Life Insurance
company OF Boston, in an address
here today before the seventh an
nual convention OF the association OF
life insurance presidents.
Childs urged the insurance company
presidents to take steps to retard the
increasing practice OF policy holders
in borrowing on their insurance pol.
icies. He said the reserve funds OF
1912 held by American life insurance
companies for the protection Of policy
holders was nearly three and one-half
billion dollars. OF this amount $155.
100000 was borrowed by policy hold
ers up to the end Of the year Childs
attributed this great increase In policy
loans to extravaganza and the ease
with which such loans are obtained.
Statistics were cited to show thai
mortgages on life insurance policies II
this country have increased from l.;
per cent Of the reserves in 1888 to II
per cent in 1912 and may reach Il
Der cent this year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
PLUCKY GIRL
STABS ROBBER
Was Alone in Office When
Bandit Entered With Re
volver and Made Her
Open Safe.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Dec Ii
After driving an armed highwayman
out of her fathers real estate ONCE
last night, Miss Lillian Fairbanks, 10,
was today prostrated from her exper-
fence and under the care OF physl-
clan.
Miss Fairbanks was alone In the
office last night when the bandit enter
ed, and pointing revolver at her
head, demanded that she open tbs
safe.
The girl opened the outer door but
declared she did not have the key to
the strong box The robher then pick
ed the strong box lock with a pen
knife and grabbed a handful of pa
pers and a diamond ring. AS he start
ed to leave the Office he dropped the
diamond and the young woman grab
bed papsr knife made in the form
OF a sword and plunged 1t into hi!
back AS he turned to fight off thu
girl, she again thrust the knife int
his breast. Shrieking with pain. tn,
robber dropped his gun and loot an,
fled
Miss Fairbanks declared today tina
IL the paper knife had not bent doubs
on the second thrust he would neve
have escaped.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
HOTEL GUESTS
WE'RE IN PANIC
Twenty Women Carried Down Fire
Escapes and Ladders When Smoke
Filled House.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 1.-A score OF
guests Of the Lasalle hotel were in
jured early today in panic caused by
a blaze which filed the rooms with
smoke and caused $4,000 damages.
Escape by stairways was cut off and
the elevator boy was missing. Twenty
frantic won en were carried down the
fire escapes and ladders Guests had
no time to get clothes and many fled
into the streets half clad.
Mrs. Robert Chambers, an actress,
ran the elevator from the fifth to the
first floor, many times, each time
carrying out panic stricken men and
women She did not desert her post
until the smoke was SO thick she
hardly could breathe
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
DEATH BED RECONCILIATION
OF DOCTOR AND DAUGHTER

away with Charles Wilson, stable man.
ager for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
and embarked on career that start.
led even New York and London and
finally brought her to Deaths door in
Miss Alston's private sanitarium here,
Miss Schenck's father had disown
ed her. Told by DR.. E. P league
that she could live but a few days, as
the result OF tumor near the heart
the girl asked that he telegraph for
her father Then she lapsed into
coma. The message was sent and Dr.
schenck started Immediately for New
York DR.. league said The girl
would live several days and would be
able to talk to her father before tat
end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
This is Hobby Day.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servtce.l
PIIILADI jPHTA, Dec. II This was
hobby" day at the good roads con.
vention Every expert with pet
theory of road construction, or main
tenance, was given ten minutes time
to explain his plans. At 10 o'clock,
with. the hall packed, gossip began.
Among those expected to speak Wee:
linn White. Chicago; Arthur "A.
Blanchard New York: F. c. Pills
bury. BoEton; f. A. Kingslev, Little
Rock; f. j Watson, South Clrol'na;
C. w. Cooley, Lansing, Mich; J. NJ
Cleary. Cuyahcga Co., Ohio; s. n
Schmidt. Brooklyn ], " Hu te~
Harrisburg H. " Gillespie, the
/ Bronx. New York. and H c. Hill
Meriden, Conn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11

DIVIDEND PASSED BY
For First Time In Forty Years, tho
Railroad Fails to Give Stock
holders Return on
Investment.

UNITED Press Leased Wire service.l
NEW YORK. Dec. 11.-Followina
the action of New Haven railroad In
suspending payment of dividends, the
stock opened from 2ss to 3ss lower on
thu consolidateG stock exchange hera
today. On the New York exchange
New Haven showed loss of 3A ia
AZ on the opening. Five thousand
shares were sold at from 695a to eS,
a new low record price.
The first sale of New Haven on
the consolidated exchange was OF six
ty shares at 70k, a decline OF 2 5-8.
Trading in the issue was active and
It soon dropped to s91a. The highest
price paid for this stock was in 1889
when 1t sold for 279 The loves pre-
vious price was 71ss which was
reached yesterday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
LITTLE PRINCESS
WANTS A BROTHER
VIII Ask Santa Claus to Bring Her
One SO She Can Play
With Him.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
The HAGUE. Dec. 11.-Wlth all
the airs of grown-np queen, Princess
Juliana, the four year old heir to the
throne OF Holland conferred the Order
of the House of Orange on coach
man who has served the royal family
for quarter of century. She made
q digniled little speech to the man.
| Why haven't a little Brother tc
play with? II ask Kris Kringle
won't he bring me one?" was the
Christmas plaint of the little princess
today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
WILL TRY TO PRY
HOUSTON UU1
Secretary of Agriculture to be
Object of Attack by the
Ohio Members of
Congress.
sNuBBED CORN BOYS
Three Cabinet Members WIZ Never
Finish Their Terms Of
Office 1t 10
Rumored.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-That a
concerted attack is to be made on the
department Of agriculture by members
OF congress, because of antagonisms
aroused by Secretary Houston became
known today. 1t will be led by Rep
resentative Frank P. Willis and other
Ohio members and assisted by every
member of the house affiliated with
the National Grange. The recent al
legged snubbing Of the Ohio Boy Corn
Growers by the secretary is to be the
nominal excuse but the officials of the
National Grange assert that the secre-
tary has failed to bring his depart
ment close to the very men for whom
it was created-the farmers and their
wives.
Rumors that Houston, Secretary OF
Labor Wilson and Attorney General
McReynolds would not complete their
terms, have been freely circulated for
the last week. Prompt denials have
failed to end the talk. Their opponents
! insist that Houston and Wilson are
4 sure to go before the present session
Of congress spring being the
4 favorite time fixed-that McReynolds
/ tenure is likewise uncertain. No open
attacks have been made on Mercy.
nolds or Wilson. In the attacks or
4 Houston Ohio representatives will
utilize representations, speoiflcall,
!. criticising the secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
CUPID ALMOST TAGGED OUT
AFTER HIS TWO YEAR CHASE

his pocket is the yes that followed
him all over Asia for fourteen
months before he finally received It,
Plunkett wrote letter of proposal
to Miss Forrest two years ago while
abe was on trip around the world.
Then he went to Korea to inspect OIL
properties. The letter trailed Miss
Forrest through several European CAP
itals. reaching her six months after 1t
was written. She considered for foui
months and then accepted. Her letter
went to Korea then to Manchuris
crossed the Pacific six times IN search
of Plunkett and finally found him III
China. He boarded the next steamer
for San Francisco.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
ISSUE OF
I WOMEN VOTERS
Dismissal Of Superintendent
Ella Flagg Young by Sec
ret Ballot Of School
Board Clique.
UNITED Press Leased wire Service

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO. Dec. 1.-THE virtual
dismissal of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young [
as superintendent Of the Chicago pub
lie schools by secret ballot Of clique
in the board of education that sought
her removal several months ago will
be an issue by women voters in the
spring elections in Chicago.
Mrs. George Bass, Womens' club,
Miss Jane Adams and several other
prominent club women and suffra-
gettes conferred with Mrs. Young to-
day. 1t was planned to make
Mrs. Young's forced resignation
the strength of the women's
organizations Younger officers of
the Chicago teachers fedora
ton discussed the possibility OF
strike of teachers and gigantic pa
rade of protest but 1t was und erstood
that Mrs. Young herself opposed an
move to obtain her reinstatement and
frowned upon the proposed teachers
/ strike
Though Mayor Harrison issve1 a
! stat sment expressing surprise and re-
gret at the action of his appointees on
| the board of education In forcing Mrs
! Young to quit by secret ballot, Dean
! Walter T. Sumner, who led the fieh.
/ for Mrs. Young's retention, todly
/ placed the blame squarely upon the
mayor.
/ I'VE are going back to the exploita-
tion of the schools by political cess
| pool" said Dean Sumner, who resign
ed an important Craftsmanship imm =
diately after the boards action. "Mrs.
Young could not be us cd by politicians
and she retired with honor The one
man responsible is Mayor Carter Har.
rison" Chas. shupe. first assistant
elected to fill Mrs. Young's place. as
sumed his duties today.
4 "It is too early to discuss the pos
sibi1ity that Mrs. Ella Flagg ,Youne
may be launched as the women's
candidate for mayor Of Chicago, but
there is no telling what may c0nae osr
of this situation.
Miss Jane Addams made this state
ment before the Chicago Woman's
Club meeting in special session al
noon to voice it's protest at the forced
resignation of Mrs. Young as superin
tendent OF the Chicago schools late
yesterday. A number Of women hat
! suggested the possibility that Mrs
: Young be made the women's candidate
} to oppose the political forces tina
compelled her to resign.
!, "Chicago has wantonly thrown
$ away one of Its greatest civic as
, sets" said Miss Adams. Mrs
! Young is one Of the leading educator
r ir the United States and yet she wa
: sacrificed, evidently to satisfy cliqu
of petty politicians"
, While her successor, John D. Shoor
2 was taking over his new duties today
$ Mrs. Young remained in seclusion II
Y her rooms in the Hotel LaSalle, dc
d nying herself to everyone but he
closest friends.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
FIRST BURIED
IN SEVERAL DAYS
Snow Drifts Kept Funeral Process.
sIons From Going TO the
Denver Cemeteries.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 11--Burials
were resumed in Denver today with
the interment of the body of three
year old girl. Fifty other corpses
are awaiting interment The huge
snow drifts have made 1t impossible
to reach the cemeteries.
AS the result of the snow. It was
announced today that all of the six
hundred reservoirs IN Colorado will
be filled with water ready for the de
mands Of spring crops.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
La Foul Play.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The Hous
OF Bondage must be given thorough
cleaning or the police will lock the
doors. This was the warning served
by Commissioner Newhurger today
after witnessing the play In which
Miss Cecil 'spooner Is appearins. Mis-
Spooner was held for trial on mis-
demeanor charge following her res
for producing the play.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair TO-
night and Friday Not much change
in temperature. Light to moderate
southwesterly winds.
For Illinois and Missouri: Fair to-
night and Friday. No important
change In temperature. Light to mod
crate variable winds.
For Iowa: Fair tonight and Friday
Slightly higher temperature northeast
portion tonight Light to moderate
southw ssterly winds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Rustles Coming Back.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-They're
coming backyes bustles They'll be
the real thing next spring according
to cloak and sstit sharps who teday
thronged fashion show here where
the latest Paris freaks are on view.
Four of the connections have rear ex-
tensions and one Of them has a vert-
table old "tie back" skirt And to
make it worse. all four specimens still
have the ihobble effect about the feet
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
VIII Wed In AprH.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service j
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Vincent AS
tor and Miss Helen Dinsmore Hunt
ington will be married late In April
Although no definite date was sci
this was the announcement today. fol
lowing dinner last night The eere
mony will be performed at st. Mar
garet's church. Staateburg
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Drunken Negroes Act.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
ABERDEEN Miss, Dec. 11.-Ffye
persons were injured heie when a
drunken negro climbed on an engine
and pulled the throttle wide open.
The locomotive collided with an "ac-
commodation" train 800 yards distant.
The black narrowly escaped lynching.
He said he wanted to go to the next
town and lacked the necessary funds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Weather Condition..

With exception of rain or snow In
New York and New England, which
attends a storm on the northeastern
coast, and rain on the Pacific slope,
the weather is fair throughout the
entire country this morning.
Conditions indicate fair weathsr
with little change Of temperature, for
this section tonight and Friday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
MIssinn millionaire.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Dec. 11-Police OF
New York and Boston were searching
for James Marshall, millionaire hat
manufacturer OF Fall River, Mass, to-
day, following his mysterious disap-
pearance from the Grand Central ter
minal here Marshall was being TAX
en- to Muldoon's sanitarium at White
Plains when he vanishea.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Immigration Record.

limited Press eased Wire Servlce.l
NEW YORK, Dec 11-All records
for the arrival Of immigrants at Ellis
island were broken during this week
and the island was so crowded today
that scores of foreigners were forced
to sleep on rugs placed on the floor
for them. On two separate days 1o,'
600 ali ans arrived from all parts OF
Europe. The former record for a
single day was 1000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Sure Cure for Love.

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, Dec. 11.-When one is In
love and wants to get out, all he
needs to do is to take little serum,
according to Dr. Maurice DeFleury,
the brain storm" specialist. Def. eary
makes the serum. He holds that
being in love is a state OF mental
poisoning. He rates love as the sixth
of the vices, placing alcohol, opium,
morphine, cocaine and ether ahead
of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Searching for Jessie.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11.-Combing
West Philadelphia for evidence that
his sister. Jessie McCann had been
there, Robert McCann, a brother o.
the missing girl, began a detailed
search today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Wayward Girl Who Was Dis
owned Seven Years Ago, to
Be Forgiven.

United Press Leased wire service.l ]
NEW YORK, Dec. IA death bed
reconciliation was expected today TO
heal the seven years breach between
Florence RoSsen schenck and her
aged father Or 7owhattan sehenck
OF Norfolk, Va. 1t had its beginning
when the beautiful southern girl rar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Carried Letters All Over the
World Before They Were
Finally Delivered.

limited Press Leased Wire Service j
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Dec. IL
y TOOK Harry T. Plunkett, oil field
expert two years to get an accept
ance to his proposal of marriage, but
nuay he is enroute to Topeka, Kan
to claim Miss Ruth Forrest. In
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Rexanue for caruso.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
MILAN, De 1.-THE court OF ap-
peals today confirmed the sentence
of three months Imprisonment i'm
posed on Ada Giachetti and Lorla
Etromia for ltbsling Enrico Caruso,
tenor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Confession OF management.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.~-"Passina
railroad is final confession of ten
years Of mismanagement during the
period in which this bnnker-managed
road has sought to acquire n viola.
ton OF federal law, a monopoly OF the
transportation Of New England" This
was the comment today of Louis D,
Brandeis, the Boston attorney, who IA
! considered An expert on the New
Hayen's financial history. mo raiF
road In America possessed q richer
field in its operation. No road enjoy.
ed such high freight rates as the New
Haven's. The stock OF the company
was considered as safe as bonds OF
the highest class. It sold practically
on a four per cent basis as the best
first mortgage bonds In the country.
Throughout the past ten years
New England has been extremely
prosperous. The gross revenues Of
the railroads have recorded large in4
creases each year. The roads dfvfs
dend Of eight per cent as the inter<
; state commerce commission pointed
: out in its recent report. could hava
been easily earned. but for the out
t side operations Of the company, un.
: dertaken in the mad and reckless pur
: suit Of monopolies.
: THE failure of the banker railroad
management supposed to be conserv-
t. 4aI g.. +f>.x
country. The evil of interlockina
directorates is further confirmed as II
+ has been through the Frisco railroad
9 revelations.
t Widows, orphans and business meu
= of the country are now taught the
= great lesson that observance of law
: and truth are the necessary avenues
: TO lasting financial success"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
[ANP|C0 ATTACK l
R!'! The REBELS
Po,r Thousand Mexican 1nsur-
gents Are Battering
Against City's
Gates.
WAR TAX TO BE CUT
boliteal Parties Are Getting Busy
WITH Candidates for the Com
Ing Presidential
Election.
war TAX TO BE CUT

'rUnitod Press Leased Wire Service. ]
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 1.-THE report
/ that Tampico is still under heavy
|rebel attack today. John Lind. special
knvoy Of President Wilson, spent most
|of his time aboard the Michigan, half
h mile off shore. where he is in wire
hess connection with Admiral Fletch-
| er whose flagship Rhode Island, Is OFT
|Tampico. He passed Fletcher's ac-
Eccunts Of the battle on to Washing
ton. About 1000 rebels under Cen
feral Villareal and General Castro at
Hacked Tampico yesterday afternoon.
fI;efore the first shot was fired. Gen
|eral villareal sent messenger, no
|tifying the American consulate. The
commander said that he rad told his
/ men to damage property as little as
POSSIBLE and to protect the lives of all
foreigners. But he urged all other
Foreigners to get out Of the city as
Quickly as possible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
London Not Interested.

LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE passing OF
the New Haven dividend apparently
had no effect on American shares on
thu London market which opened
quiet. There were few transactions
in- american stocks. but all showed 4
better tone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-11
Down TO SO In aoston.

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 1.-THE mar
ket here opened easier today. New
Haven was quoted, at SO, off az, due
to the railroad passing its first divi.
dend in forty years