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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
Mrs. Walters Trial

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, May 17.-Mrs. Ida
Sniffen Walters will not nave to stand
trial for poisoning her two love
babies" until after her third child is
horn. Justice Weeks today granted a
continuance of the case until next Oc-
tober on motion of District Attorney
Martin. The continuance was asked
for because Mrs. Walters will become
a mother soon "'I do not believe one
man in hundred could be found who
would say he could give a fair trial
to this woman who is to become a
mother soon: he would be preju-
diced" said the judge.
Judge Weeks set bail at $500
which Levy said would be furnished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17

of mountain fighting with many isolat-
ed groups bayoneting and lighting
hand to hand, it has been impossible
to estimate the casualties.
The fighting caused Villa to post
zone his proposed journey to the bord-
er to Investigate new revolutionary
activity by former Huertistas. Fierro's
injury is felt keenly by Villa, as he
was the leaders closest friend and his
prowess with gun is supposed often
to have saved Villas life from would
be aSsasSinS.
Villas Brother Killed.
Ell PASo, Texas, May 17.-Gen. An
tonic Villa, brother of Francisco
.'Pancho, villa. and Colonel Pulido. of
Gen. Raoul Madero's staff were killed
in a quarrel at Chihuahua, following q
Mexican political argument last night.
il was stated in dispatches received
here today. Other officers did the
shooting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
THE WEATHER

For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to-
night and probably Tuesday. Light
frost in exposed places tonight. Warm
er Tuesday.
For Iowa: Fair tonight and Tues
day Frost tonight. Rising tempera-
ture Tuesday
For Missouri: Fair tonight and
probably Tuesday. Light frost ex-
posed places north portion tonight.
Rising temperature Tuesday.
For Illinois: Fair tonight and Tues
day. Frost north and probably CEN
tral portions tonight. Rising tempera-
ture Tuesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
CANADA

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EMERSON, Manitoba, May 17.-ir.
migration officers here and at Noyes,
> mn, early today lined UP with sev.
al sworn deputies, determined to
revent 1000 Austrians, the first of an
army Of 5000, entering the United
States from Canada.
Officials say they cannot enter un'
less they have money. The Austrians
are unemployed and homeless and
have designated their desperate deter.
mination to enter.
MEN ARE IN BAD SHAPE.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 17.-
Canadian soldiers will not be sent to
the United States border to heip pre-
vent the immigration of several hun
dred Austrians who seek entrance to
the United states. 1000 Austrians In
Manitoba plan to leave some time this
week for the border. OF the 900 In
the first contingent, 1t Is believed
that not more than 400 will reach the
border.
Helpless from a lack of food and
clothing, the remainder are lying In
box cars, straw stacks and barn along
the route. Mayor CassIeman has gath.
cred the wayfarers into Agricultural
hall, Emerson, and Is feeding them
with bologna and bread.
For these reasons, military author.
ties decided against military force to
prevent the men crossing into the
states. Inspector Carr, of the United
States immigration office at Winni
peg went to Emerson today. He said
he was merely interested in guiding
the efforts of his subordnates and
deputies sworn in along the border
but that he did not look for force by
arms.
The Austrians are reported dociIe
and unable to offer any resistance.
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Great Showing of the Navy Was Made To-day IN
New York Harbor in Spite of the
Disagreeable Weather.
LAND PARADE WAS TODAY'S PROGRAM
Fleet Will Pass Out to Sea Tomorrow and be
Reviewed by the President and Staff
at the GODDESS of Liberty.

pute over the Lusftania loss. The
president made no comment on the
suggestion and 1t was announced that
he would devote his attention to the
festivities here except for only the
most important matters from Wash
ington.
The presidents only public address
during the two days celebration was
scheduled at the luncheon at the
Biltmore today following tie parade
Yelled comment at most was expect
ed from the president on the interna-
tional situation. 1t was stated that
because Of the seriousness and great
delicacy of the negotiations with Ger
many, he would carefully refrain from
touching upon it in his after-luncheon
address before the officers OF the
fleet, city officials and other dignt-
taries. This afternoon, the president
was to review the fleet as 1t lies at
anchor. He planned to go directly
from the civic luncheon to the May
flower and hoist the blue presidential
pennant at $3.50. His guard Of honor
will be a flotilla OF six torpedo boat
destroyers steanfing ahead OF the
Mayflower. which will be followed by
the Dolphin, Secretary Daniels yacht,
anu l1dHheu ny eAiS ioiS'
six more destroyers, the Yankton.
press boat, harbor police patrol, the
Manhattan carrying civic guests and
another destroyer. Ten knots speed
will be maintained by the reviewing
fleet, 300 yards apart.
Proceeding northward on the west
side Of the anchored warships, the
Mayflower will receive her first fus.
silade when her bow comes abeam of
the stern Of the Wyoming, Admiral
Fletcher's flagship.
In turn, twentyone guns, at five
second intervals, will boom out in
mighty starboard broadside from
each of the gray bulldogs as the May
flower passes to the north end of the
fleet. Returning on the east sidds
near the Manhattan shore, the fleet
will not salute.
A string Of pennants and flags
draping each ship from stem to stern
will flutter out as the Wyoming
sounds the first gun Of the presiden-
tial salute. The men will man the
rail Orders were given to dress
ship" in the best bib and tucker of
vessel and men as the president sails
by Rails will be lined with men and
officers at salute and bands playing
on each ship, as the Mayflower, Dol
Dhin and Isis steam past. The May
flower will anchor south of the Wyo-
ming upon completing the review,
Tonight the president will attend
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
Weather Conditions,

As the northwestern field of high
pressure moved to the eastern slope OF
the Rockies, the temperature fell de-
cidedly from the mountains to the
lakes, and there Was light to heavy
frost throughout this region as far
south as central Iowa.
Rains in the northern sections at
tended the passage Of Saturdays
storm to the eastward, and it is rain
ing in the northeastern states this
morning.
In the west disturbance Is central
in Nevada. which has been attended
by rain on the Pacific coast
Conditions indicate fair weather
with light frost in the low places to-
night, and warmer Tuesday, probably
continuing fair.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
JAPAN

TOXIC, May 17.-Approval of a
government measure adding 10000
troops to the Japanese regular army
now comprising 100000 men, was
deemed certain when the imperial
Japanese cabinet met in special ses-
sion today. The legislative program al
SO includes measures for the expan-
sion of the navy. Following the usual
custom, no business was transacted
today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
Iowa Supreme Court Decisions.

Special 70 lHe NIalS OIty.1
DIES MONIES, May 17.-Town of
Hedrick VS.. Fred LAM, appellant,
keokuk county: reversed.
Earl W. Canady VS.. Baysinger, ap-
pelIant, Warren county; affirmed.
Bennett Savings bank VS.. Smith. ap-
pellant ct al, Linn county; affirmed.
Steinfort VS.. Langhout, eft al, APPEL
lants, Sioux county; affirmed.
Ritev. appellant, VS.. Interstate Busi-
ness Mems Association, Linn county;
affirmed
American Express Co. VS.. Des
Moines county; reversed. Salinger
dissenting.
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kinc is Still Sick.

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LONDON, May 17.-An official dis
patch to the Greek legation today con-
tradicted the bulletin given out in
Athens, stating King Constantine's
conditions was improving. There was
increase in his highness' fever, ac-
companfed by nausea Sunday night, it
stated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-17
FRA NEE
[ BY William Phillip Slmms, United
Press Staff Correspondent

BY WITIIdH1 FHITTTp STHTHiS, OTIIeeI
Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, May 17.-Whole companies
Of Germans were slaughtered in bloody
fighting in a binding rain storm
around NeuviiIe and Souchez, accord
ing to dispatches from the battle front
today.
The Germans attacked fiercely at
four distinct points. They sought to
recover the ground gained by the
French in the Saturday and Sunday
fighting. In each instance, they were
repuised with heavy losses. An ex-
tremely heavy bonbardnent is now
proceeding north Of Arras.
In the region of Hetsas, the allies
have made further progress.
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River Bulletin.

Tho river will fail slightly from Dav-
export to Keokuk during the next
forty light hours.
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Local Observations.

Mean ten nerature 18th, s..
Highest, So.
Lowest, AS.
Lowest last night. 40
FRED z. GOSEWISCH.
Observer.
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Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
THE TREASURE HINT

Our Scout Master. Mr.. Z. H. l. An
drews. and our assistant Scout Master.
Mr.. H. B. Thaw, hid a treasure in the
woods for the Boy Scouts to hunt for
This was to test the abilities of the bows
in several different branches of Scout
craft. They published an account of
how to find it in the Chronicle. which
was to be released on the evening of the
22d of April, This was written in a
secret code, while the clue was given in
a paragraph preceding it.
1t so happened that and another bov.
William Hallett, stopped to deliver a
Saturday Evening Post to one of the en-
ployees of the printing Office on Thurs
day morning, and while in there we no.
ticed half printed Chronicle LAYING on
the floor. asked one of the printers if
we coul have it and he said we could.
We took it to school with us, AMI during
a study period worked on it until found
the code, My way of deciphering ii Wa
as follows
knew. that as it was directions for
finding the treasure. it was bound to cln.
tain some points OF the comp ass, so /
looked for words with either four or five
letters in them. I found two consecu-
tive words of FIVE and four letters each,
so reasoned that the first must be either
north or south. Now as the Scouts are
building a cabin in the woods, and the
treasure was to be hidden in this same
woods, it stood to reason that the start
ing point must be the cabin. But if we
went south from the cabin more than
five PAGES, it would bring us to the shore
of the lake, and so the first word was
not south but north Now came the
hardest part, that of finding whether the
second word was east or west. I already
knew the first word was north, so if we
went northwest from the cabin it would
bring us to the bridge across the marsh, /
and that seemed likely. l took these |
two words as base and from the letters |
in them was enabled to de- |
cipher the rest of the cryptogram. AS
soon as I found the secret to the code /
told William, only to find that he also |
had it, but he did not find it in the same |
way The directions were as follows
From the northwest corner of the cabin .
north by northeast twenty PAGES, thence .
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07

west fifteen PAGES, north ten PAGES, and
east twenty PAGES. At this point the
length of shadow cast by Boy Scout
staff held perpendicularly on April 18th,
50 p. m, will exactly indicate the place
where the treasure is buried.
! We decided to go after it that very af-
| ternoon, but Mr.. Andrews said that it
would not be fair to the other boys if
we went before the Chronicle was pub
| lished. Mr.. Thaw said that if we could
buy Chronicle Thursday afternoon, it
would be all right to go. We waited at
the Chronicle office until they told us
that it wouldn't be printed until too late
for us to go. So we decided to 90 early
the next morning. I'set my alarm clock
for four o'clock, and it did its duty. l
was down at half-past four. I found
William still in bed, but he got up and
was soon dressed. We hurried out to
the cabin, paced off the distance and
guessed the length of the sh, dow. But
luck was not with us, though we paced
the distance off four times. We scratched
and dug until we thought it was time to
come home, but with no luck. That
afternoon after school we went out again
This time there were two other Doys with
us. They were Theodore Hudson and
Robert Foulk. Still we had no luck.
William went out again the next after
noon, but had to work and did not get
to go. He went out again Monday af-
ternoon, but 1 was again unable to go.
On Tuesday afternoon we went out
again, and had hardly arrived at the spot
and measured the length of Scout staff
shadow when William turned up the
treasure. I think he deserves a great
deal of praise for his perseverance and
constant looking for an object almost be-
yond hope, after the many disappoint-
meuts he received.
CHARLES ABBOTT,
Second Class Scout.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
THE LAWYERS FABLE.
Il Took the Sting Out of His oppo-
ncnt's Florid Oratory.

A barrister who was possessed oe an
abnormally loud voice was making an
eloquent address to a jury. His case
was fairly strong; he was much in ear
nest. and his trumpet tones made the
rafters ring. In hurricane of sound
he closed his argument and sat down.
The jury looked serious and thought
full and were evidently much i'm
pressed The opposing barrister had a
face like Ratchet and thin low voice
the exact opposite Of his learned
friend. When it became his turn to ad-
dress the jury he began:
"As | listened to the rather thunder
Gus appeals of my learned friend l re
called a fable which | heard in my
youth. \ lion and an ass entered into
a compact to slay the beasts of the field
and share the spoil They divided the
work; the ass was to go into the thicket
and bray and frighten the animals out,
while the lion was to lie in wait and
kill the fugitives as fast as they APP
peared. Well, the ass sought the dark
est part Of the jungle and, lifting up
his awful voice. brayed and brayed
and brayed. There never was heard
such a fearful din.
'The ass was quite intoxicated with
his own uproar and thought he'd re-
turn to see what the lion thought of it.
With n light heart he went back and
found the lion looking doubtfully about
him. pale in the face and trembling in
every limb. What do you think of that
for brayingY said the exultant ass.
Don't you think l scared themT
Scared thcmY repeated the lion in an
agitated tone. Why, you'd have scared
me If l didn't know you were a jack
assr London Graphic.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
THE BOY SCOUTS COLUMN.
MILFORD BOY SCOUT NOTES.

..essure hunt previously described
ihe aoinmn. has been concluded. The
II luls .s was found by William Hallett,
tr',,,,,,v treasu. with Charles Abbott after an
IL lI,,ous SY search. Much credit IS due them
az az The carefulness and the perseverance
loL och ~ tbev displayed, and the course OF
VIM wHoring they followed in calculating
reasor,-t lt4 .-,,ntoqram and locating the treas
lne " II is hoped that the treasure, which
ule, e,;sted of a fine brass compass, will be
Coli,.,s ms of carefully leading the finder
lne .onv Inv other things that are worth
70 ,.;Is n,' Certainly the qualities the Scouts
wiiIte wS.l.Iayed in the search, are evidence
ulst If their progress in Scout work
Uosu ~ - an ability that should enable them
sne sl.1- ~ on 70 solve many of life's problems.
iats1 tSsa1+Trdav. Nav l, was devoted to
.r';%ei to the lake. and few hours
Ii On the cabin. In this connection
'. W. .horld be noted that within a few
Is j &c the level of the lake will be greatly
,',,'-ered in order to permit of the install
-, of new machinery at the power
80 This will give the needed op-
nort,Iritv for draining the standing water
T. the rear of the cabin and filling in
he depression with sand. Advantage
~ .t,o,,id also be taken of this oppoI tunity
- rstnove the few stumps that yet re-
lin in the lake. While not sufficiently
,ear ,,.'r the surface, at this time, to be a
ietriment to boating, they could easily
'scome so by the lowering of the lake
evsI through excessive drought. 1t
bonId be to the advantage of everyone
nterested in aquatic sports to have these
t,mDs removed and thus provide body
II wafer. near town, that will be safe at
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
The Kinas of Denmark.

The dust of the Danish kings is kept
in great cathedral at Roskilde, an old
town twenty miles from Copenhagen.
Every year the entire royal family al
ways pay a visit to Roskilde in obe-
dience to an ancient custom. On one
of the pillars are marks showing the
height of Peter the Great, Nicholas, the
Iron Gar; Alexander III. of Russia,
the king of England and many other
kings The cathedral was built in the
eleventh century. 1t has two mighty
towers, which can be seen at long
distance. The oldest grave is that Of
King Harold l., who died in 9S7.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
HOW SAVINGS GROW.
Ben FrankIin's Proof That money Is
of Prolific Nature"

Ben FrankIin's Proof That money Is
of Prolific Nature"
After publishing his Poor Richards
Almanac" for twenty-five years and
giving thirty-tvo years more as thrift
teacher of his country Benjamin Frank
lin put into his will provision to dem
onstrate the power of accumulated saw
ings
To the cities Of Boston and Philadel.
phia he left $1,000 each. The money
was to be put out at interest and al
lowed to accumulate for a hundred
years. At the end of that time, he fig
ured, each city ought to have $650,000.
He directed that at the end of the hun
dred years S5OO,OOO should be invested
by each city lin public works which
may be of most general utility to the
inhabitants" The rest should then be
put at interest for another hundred
years when the accumulation should
be divided, One-Quarter to the city and
three-quarters to the state.
When the first hundred years were
past Boston found that she had $685.
D-O " uGI tltull llOll Nut Ldukliu
fund. Taking S5OOO00, Boston estab-
lished a training school for mechanics.
The remaining $163,923 was put out at
interest again.
Philadelphia's experience with the
original fund of $1,000 was about the
same as Boston's.
Now. Franklin figured that at the
end of the second hundred years, when
the fund is to be distributed. each fund
ought to amount to about $20.000,0O0.
But Boston's fund at the end of the
first hundred years exceeded Frank
Inns estimate by $13,923. So here's a
problem:
If Boston handles the fund as sue
cessfully in the second hundred years
as she did in the first how much in ex-
cess of $20.0OO.OO0 will it be?
Franklin's demonstration was inn |
pressive; 5000 will go into $G63,923 !
how many times? Nearly 1873 times. I
Wasn't he amply justified when he
said Money is of a prolific nature"
What sort Of a demonstration can
you make?-John OskisoR in Chicago |
News.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07

all times for any kind of boat. We would
appreciate the cooperation of evervone
interested in bringing about this resnit
II should scarcely necessary to again
mention the fact that the Boy Scout Or
ganization IS non-sectarian, non military
and non-polltical. We havein its ranks.
and as officials, representatives from everv
church, every political party, and ali
branches of civil and military life. II
inculcates the principles of neither party
nor creed, and seeks merely to provide
the opportunity and the training thai
will give the boys sounder bodies. strop
ger minds, and knowledge that will
make them better and more useful citi-
zens. All other matters are extraneous
to it, and have their place either in the
home, the school or the church.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
Eeedinn hv Law.

A law to punish by Imprisonment per
sons found guilty of overfeeding was
actually promulgated in France during
the reign of Charles IN. when the cost
of living reached an uncOnscionable
height. 1t was then ordained that no
person should eat more than three
courses at a meal, the amount to be
scribed. Heavy fines were imposed for
any breach of this law.-Pall Mall
GaZefte
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07

CONTINUED next week
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
To Cool off.

"What has become of that son Of
yours who was going to set the worlL
IN fire one of these days?"
"He has gone into the ice business"
Boston Transcript.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
Their Relation.

"The authorizations Of two Of the
states of the Union ought to be very
close to each other in popular associa-
ton"
what are theyT"
all. and NJ. D."-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
Invincihle.

"What IS a triple alliance. Tommy"
''It's when pa an ma an the school.
teacher agree that I ought to have a
nckin' New York Times.
Milford chronicle., 1915-05-07
DR. WALTER L, GRIER,
u DENTIST.

Graduate of Penn. College of Dental Surgery.
Local anesthetics for the painless extraction ad-
ministered. All kinds of Dental work-gold filings
crown and bridge work speciality.
MILFORD DELAWARE
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-17
CORDOVA'S RAILROAD IS ATTRACTING
 ATTENTION OF PRESS AND PEOPLE

TT HE Statesman, of Boise Idaho publishes dispatch from
 | Washington, in which President Wilson is accused of
 failing to buy the Copper River railroad, part of
 it's system of government trunk ne because of the fear of muckrakers It is also stated in this article that the Corova road is in fine working orer that it has fine tonnage; that it taps the finest sort of mineral country well being in position to tap the Boring river eld while it states that the Alaska Northern not being operated has tonnage present in sight, and is generally white elephant
 This criticism of the administration, well the state ment of fact characterized by the Seward Gateway ub bsh and childish but those who familiar with the dons in Alaska free to admit that the Copper River rail way has the only tonnage route the territory The extension of this line to the Boring River coal fields and the agriculture and quartz properties of the Panama valley would do develop Alaska and it's than work planned by the Engineering Commission, the statement of Seward friends to the contrary, notwithstanding
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-17
THE CoRDovA TIMES CoRDov ALASKA MONDAY MAY

Arctic cruiser built board the Bear during its last to the Far North The workman ship wrought by Seaman A. Rehnsrom, who laboed during his spare time When the Bear returned to civilization the model excited the admiration o the entire department and it decided to include it in the Government exhibit.
 This maritime education is supplemented by the observa-
 tons which be made from the Marina the road srng the grounds for the exhibition along the bay Only few hun dred yards from the beach anchored the baeshp Oregon several of the torpedo boa and passing the grounds num- erous vessels entering and leaving the port The fa lures of the exposition significant for wonderful achievement was brought into existence only because of completion of the Panama Canal which in its turn was built serve the maritime interests of the nations We all hope for the best but only few of expect to get it.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-17
OLD--COPPER
FOR SALE

A high grade Gold property, ten miles from Valdez with several hundred sacks of high grade ore on the dump. This property ad- joins a producing mine and sev. eral Veing of high firade ore are exposed on the surface of this ground.
 Also four groups of copper properties on Prince William Sound, adjoining navIaable water. All of these properties could be made producers with a small amount of money and for a party who can open same up or can se- cure the capital to do so, this Is an opportunity to make a fortune.
 For prices and terms apply to
 S A. TEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-17

We all hope for the best but only few of expect to