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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-20
Official Council Proceedings

i Official Council Proceedings
There being no further business 1915
i
A''eSl = w !" 'Nt wy 80 May I. 1915 9
convened recess all members present
1855
Be City Council of the City Of Knh u,
p Warrant No Name what for Account Amount
1919 Abel Pencil zines Fire %
1920 Acres Backmar treasurers record and receipts Genera 40
1922 Bland shoeing Fire %
General %
1923 Collins II p damage to fence by buffalo Park $40
glass Fire ~
1928 freight Park 40
1881 cameons Sons Jas flushing March
1852 camons Sons Jas hauling tile Sewer
1888 cameons Sons Jas. cement street oI
Donery wooley Fire s. 80
1887 plumbing % 80
1888 printng General 30
Police 81 40
1e41 1naepa LUMBER ~ 20 u and lumber Street 80 IS
I1s4a H. repairing General 1.79
street light Light 800 w
Light 2oe 80
hydran rent Water 500 90
Water 21s 80
1s4s Quarry 2o4 80
1880 Keokuk Lumber Co. lumber Grading so
Street 4s 90
Sidewalk IL %
90
1854 Keokuk %
and shorts Fire ~
'' rts eO Genera, neral - ...................... 1900
1857 Kenney John NJ killing
1858 Kennedy Peter D. sidewalk intersections 80
repairs steam roller improvement. 81 10
Police
hauling Street
COAL Grading o.
COAL Improvement y
McNamas Sons Jas COAL Street
1000 Nsi, R e co. oil Improvement .......... 2s5
1868 Refining Street = so
Typewriter Co. repairs General ~
Rollins C. H. paper Police
W. service Fire l %
examining books General 1s2 80
SWAMI River Front 400
Swan Street $40
Scots Police ~
buffalo to dump etc. Park
hauling t Sewer - W
1879 snon Wm hauling General
coal, Police oo1
River Front 30 90
iron crate Street
2.4o
stutenburg sharpened etc. Grading soo
1856 Stark Improvement %
Heating Co. pipe and labor Water 500
Sutton w p faucet Fire col
w. splicing rope Fire ~.
sandbeg Office supplies General ''oo
w, etc. Grading 90
filing saws Sidewalk 10
w, buffalo chase Park 90
Tumelty bond, General s'oo
Lumbe lumber Street 10 10
1897 Taber Lumber Co. cement sewer ,,a %
Sal 1an Immher Co lime Board Of $50
A, supplies, Street
A, River Front ~
1902 weber Co.. A., ands General $50
1908 A, Police 40
1904 etc. Fire
August c. repairs Fire
drugs Fire s.a
los westerns Wheeled scper Co.. clamp
service April General ~
April tax apportionment Fire PENSION
i iii Merriam Geo s. hara~a1s 80 atc par. 40
/ Aye-Moorhead Collins Schmidt
| t..cEv aSAN
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American League.

Westinghouse Louis game post
poned; cold weather.
Chicago. 8; Philadelphia, I.
Cleveland, s.; Boston. 2.
Detroit, 8: New York, I.
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Beard Reinstated,

The national commission, the hnal
court in baseball. has reinstated Pitch
er Guy Beard of the Ansons, who was
suspended a short time ago after
news went out that he had trained
with the Chicago Federals- Manag.'r
Richards of the Ansons announces
that Chairman Hermann OF the nation.
al commission favors the reinstate
ment of Beard on the grounds that the
player could not be declared ineligible
If he had not participated in any
games with the Federals and joined
the Ansons at the proper time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-20

Where They Play Today.
Keokuk at Burlington.
Clinton at Muscatine.
Cedar Rapids at Waterloo.
Marshalltown at Mason City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-20
Federal leaque.

Newark, Z; Pittsburgh, 3.
Other games postponed on account
of rain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-20
Bunnies Seek New Flfnqer.

is putting forth strong efforts to build
up his pitching staff. Only a couple
of days ago, the Bunny leader com
pleted a deal for the acquisition of
LETTERS, the pest moundsman in the
Michigan State league last year, and
today comes the announcement that
the head of the club is negotiating COR
the services Of Pitcher Lam bert OF St.
Joseph, formerly with Wichita in the
Western league. 1t is said that Sci
bold, the youngster who joined the
Bunnies as an infielder and later be-
came a pitcher. has deserted the club.
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New HurIer for Pilots.

When the Pilots clash with the
Muskies in the first of the series to-
morrow, several new faces will be
seen in the lineup, one of the latest
men to join the club being Pitcher
Gross, last year in the Kitty league.
Gross won twelve games and lost
eight last year and Pilot officials are
hopeful of making him regular
Pitcher Webster, with the Dubuque
club in 1918, has been released by
Mana ger Manush.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-20

- .sss.ss S. W. MOORHEAD Mayor
Attest: O. W. City Clerk
Mochead received and placed On ME- as
the activities OF the
them full and explicit
information
municipal affairs This necessaed
notably repeal within
official
particulars but this
Measures
Gripping
nsneiaI
of exhaustyey
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Council took recess until May " 1912
{. m. CIV
o. sANDBERG, Clerk
" . May T. a. m.
convened with all members. present
Resout lion 1885
Be II Resolved nv the CITY Council of Keokuk
following and ordered
Z
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27

underwater craft. which then. through
the combined use of shellfire and
bombs, sent the vessel to the bot
tom.
The London evening papers, in tell
ing of the incident, employ, in some
cases, suggestive captions, such as
.An Unfriendly Act" but because the
American note laid so much stress on
the demand that American lives on
merchant ships should MOI. be leopard
lied without warning, 1t was difficult
for the English mind to determine
whether the sinking of the ship after
the crew were taken off constituted
what America would regard as a repe-
tition of acts which she insists must
cease
E. H. Dennison, the American con-
sui at Dundee, has the matter in
charge. He sent The Associated Press
the following message tonight:
mo details yet, except crew landed
at KirkwaIl this morning. Have or
dered them sent to Dundee on tomor-
rows boat"
When last seen the German sub
marine was in pursuit of a steamer,
the smoke Of which was observed after
the Leelanaw's crew had been towed
toward the shore.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
GREAT BRITAIN REPLIES
TO AMERICAN NOTE
Which Protested Against the Order
in-counciI.

Washington, July 26.-In announcing
today the receipt from Great Britain
of a reply to the American note of
March 80. which protested against the
British order-in-c council and French
decree Of similar contents, Secretary
Lansing stated that the despatch of
a new note to the allies on the sub
ject, which has been under considera-
ton for several weeks, would now be
delayed until the latest communica-
ton from London was thoroughly
studied. With the sending of the note
last week to Germany on submarine
warfare the general impression given
in official quarters was that the pro-
test to Great Britain would go for
ward within another week. The ar
rival of a new note from Sir Edward
Grey, arguing at length in defense of
the so-called blockade under the or :?
-in-council, has given the lawyers
of the state department additional
phases of the case for examination.
The note, which arrived from Am
bassador Page today, does not, it is
understood, reveal any important de-
Walton in the argument already made
by Great Britain, but lays added en-
phasis on the policy pursued by the
United States in the Civil war as a
precedent justifying the British posi-
ton.
Legal experts of the government in
dicated that while the new British
note would require study, it does not,
in their opinion, affect the American
position in insisting that non-contra-
band goods destined to or from belli-
gerents through a neutral country is
not subject to the rules of blockade.
In support of this, the American gov
ernment stands on the famous Mata.-
moros cases in the Civil war in which
the United States supreme court ruled
that the non-contraband portion of a
cargo shipped from England to Mex
leo, destined to Texas, which was then
blockaded. must be released, since a
blockade could not be legally operated
against neutral coast.
Secretary Lansing probably will
draft q new note on the entire sub
ject and submit it to President Wilson
on his return to washington.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27

While there Us comparative 1ull
jim the fighting on the southeastern
Poland, measured by the vicious COM
bats last week between the Russians
and the armies of the Austrian arch
duke. Joseph Ferdinand. and the Ger
man field marshal, Won ,Mackensen,
there has been no diminution in the
German attacks northwest Of War
saw and northward of this region,
over the Polish border. in the govern
ments Of Kovno and Courland.
Along the Narew, despite the OBJ
etinate resistance of the Russians, the
Germans have forced a crossing of the
river. About and below the fortress
of OstrolenlSa, the Russians are being
river and the Germans are advancing
toward the fortif1cations around Novo-
georgievsk and Warsaw.
German Air Raid on Vistula Bridge.
A German air raid on the vistula
bridge at Warsaw was without ma
terial result, but several civilians were
killed. In southeastern Poland the
capture of a large number of Russians
fs claimed by the Germans. and minor
gains in the Chelm-Lublin region.
The advance of the Germans south
ward from Courland through Kovno,
evidently with the intention of cap
turing the railway lines leading to
Petrograd, and thereby cutting of di-
rect rail communications between the
ing fair headway. The Germans have
reached Poniewesch, southeast Of
Shawl, the junction OF the line run
ming from Wilma to Libau, which would
give them control of the railroad from
the south to the Baltic. Their next
move probably will be eastward
against the Kovno-Dvinsk line at
Dvinsk, in the capture of which town
Petrograd would be isolated from di-
rect communication with Poland.
Artillery Active in France.
The fighting in the western war the
atre continues as far several days
past. 1t consists mainly of artillery
engagements and sapping operations
in which no material gains have been
made by either side.
Fierce Battles on Austro- Italian Front
Fierce fighting continues to rage on
the eastern sectors of the Austro-
Italo front, especially on the Doberdo
d lateau, where the Italians have at-
tackled relentlessly, but. according to
Vienna, have secured only temporary
local successes, which the Austrians
afterwards counter balanced by re-
capturing their original positions.
Italians Suffer Heavy Losses.
In the region of Krn the Italians
are declared to have suffered heavy
losses from the Austrian artillery after
having been repulsed in hand-to-hand
fighting in which boulders were rolled
down the mountain side on their foe
by the Austrians.
An Austrian aviator has dropped
bombs on Verona
British Defeat Turks.
Fresh successes for the British
against the Turks along the Euphrates
river and the capture of the town of
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
DEFINITE STEP TOWARD
SETTLING MEXICAN PROBLEM.
President Wilson Said to Be Consider
ing Several Suggested Courses.


Washington. July ga definite step
toward settling the Mexican problem
will be taken soon by the United
States government. Authoritative an
nouncement to this effect was made
today at the state department although
the nature of the contemplated action
is understood to be considering sever
al suggested courses. His decision
probably will not become known befoe
his return to Washington from Corn
ish, n. II.
The warning Mexican factions have
failed to heed Mr.. Wilson's suggestions
of two months ago that they COM
promise their differences and restore
peace, the president apparently has
determined that the other measures
which the Washington government an
nounced it must take if the battle of
the factions continue must now be
resorted to.
course, it was reported tonight. would
be to urge General Carranza for the
last time to confer with the other
faction leaders in an effort to bring
about peace. Should Carranza again
refuse. this plan. it is said. contem-
car leaders who will represent a ma
5crity of the Mican people.
Such a conference, 1t has been sug-
gested, might be held in Northern
Mexico, if it is possible TO free II from
military interference. If not II might
be held across the border in the
United States The conference would
arrange for a constitutional convention
which would plan for an election and
the establishment of a government
which the United States would rec
ogrlize and help to maintain.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27

accept you as employees or not, ~.
as they choose 1 will protect alp men
who want to go to work when the
plant reopens.
Law and Order in Control.
Law and order is now in control
in Bayonne and the first man who vi
olates it will be placed under arrest"
The sheriff added that he had 1000
men now and would positively enforcs
what he had said.
1t was learned later that Frank Tan
nenbaum, of New York, who has been
active in the work of the Industrial
Workers Of the World, was placed un-
charge, 1t was said. was melting riot.
Arrest of Chairman.
The arrest of jeremiah ]. Bailey to-
day came while the men were receiv-
ing their wages at the Tidewafer
plant 1t was shown by the records
that Baly had never been an en-.
ploye of the Standard Oil company and
he was taken in custody on suspicion
that he had been influenced by outside
interests to incite trouble among the
strikers in Bayonne.
Baly, in a signed statement, which
was made public by Sheriff Kinkead,
who ordered his arrest and is investi-
eating his career. said that he had
falsely and maliciousIy represented
himself to Sheriff Kinkead. the strikers
and the Standard Oil officials as an
employe of the company and that he
regretted the part he had played"
Impressed the Strikers.
Baly, who is % years old and says
he was born in Bohemia, lives in
Elizabeth, n. J., and was an employe
of a sewing machine company there
q pto the time of the Standard OIL
strike started. He gained remarkable
influence. over the strikers shortly aft
er joining ir their discussions and
was apparently accepted by them as
a fellow workman
In a statement to newspapermen
Baly emphatically denied, in answer
to questions. that he was at work in
Bayonne in the interest of any foreign
government He vaguely said that a
friend had urged him to go to Bayonne
to help the strikers and that he had
done so in the belief that he was fight
ing for the rights of man, a doctrine
which he strongly held The man VIII
be held pending a thorough inquiry.
The unrest among the oil workers
reached Jersey City today when the
coopers employed in the Eagle OF
company at Caven Point, a subsidiary
of the Standard Oil company, struck.
The strikers claimed that all the p
500 men in the plant would join them
tomorrow.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
HITCH IN SETTLEMENT
OF REMINGTON STRIKE.
Some of the Returning Men Were Re-
fused Their Old Places Back.


Bridgeport. Conn. July 26.-An un-
expected hitch occurred in the settle
ment of the strike at the Remington
Arms and Ammunition company today
when returning strikers were refused
their old places back. Manufacturers
said only a half dozen or so "agitators
were turned away, but members of the
machinists union say the number
reached $50. When the iron workers
learned of the turn of affairs they
again quit, but a few Of them returned
this afternoon, and the remainder will
go back tomorrow, pending further
attempt at a final adjustment of the
difficulty.
J.. ]. Keppler, vice president Of the
machinists. ]. A. Johnson. vice presi-
dent of the iron workers, and John
Flynn, national organizer Of the car
penters' union, left tonight for New
York. where they will confer regarding
the eight hour demand made upon the
International Paper company. Before
leaving, Mr.. Keppler said:
Il do not know what caused the
hitch today. 1 will investigate this
phase of it while 1 am in New York.
adjusted by o'clock Wednesday af-
ternoon. another strike will be called.
If the manufacturers want fight, they
shall have it"
1t was intimated that a general
strike of the allied trades would be
declared against not only the Reming-
ton plants but every other factory do
ing any work for them in other parts
of the country. The only men now out
are those employed in four smaller
factories doing sub-contract work for
the Remington company here.
The statement was made on good
authority here today that Mr.. Keppler
has never conferred with a single off,
cial of the Remington company and
that no agreement was ever made with
him or any other official of the union.
No comment on this development was
obtainable from the company.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27

New York, July z6-Two important
developments marked the progress of
the strike Of oil workers at Bayonne,
N. J., today. The first was the re-
fusal of another offer from the Stand
ard Oil company. through Superin-
Kinkead and city officials also ap-
peared to view in a favorable light;
the other was the unmasking and ar
rest of jeremiah ]. Baly, chairman of
the strikers committee, and virtually
their recognized leader.
Sheriff Controlled Meeting.
Sheriff Kinkead presented Mr.. Hem
nessey's offer to about 500 strikers late
today at a meeting which he dominat-
ed by virtue of his right, it was stated,
as the county's chief peace officer. He
walked in with a squad of men, took
possession of the proceedings, had two
OF his men unfUrI an American flag
and asked the strikers to cheer the
colors, which they did Then he call
ed on those who were not strikers to
leave the hall and about a dozen men
who responded were escorted out
One man who declared himself a So
cial revolutionist, was placed under
arrest by the sheriff's orders After
announcing that no man could speak
without his permission, the sheriff an
nounced the fact Of the arrest of
Baly, their committee chairman, but
no demonstration was made by the
men
The sheriff then read Superintend-
ent Hennessy's proposition which was
an offer to recommend to his supe-
riors that the men be granted en- in
crease in kages as soon as they return
to work. The communication follows:
To Recommend Increase in Wages.
This is your authority for saying
to the strikers that you have been in
conference with me today and that you
have got me to give you my positive
assurance, in which you assured me
you had every confidence that just as
soon as the men on strike return to
work, Just that soon will recommend
to my people an increase in their
wages which know will promptly re-
ccive fair and favorable considera-
ton"
Urged Men to Accept Offer.
The sheriff strongly urged the men
to accept the offer and return to work
tomorrow, but after a discussion last
ing over an hour a majority Of the
men by a viva voce vote declined to
accept it.
Just before the meeting closed, the
sheriff told the men:
unless you accept the offer, pro-
pose to have, the Standard Oil COM
pany reopen their works and they can
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
HEARING. ON VIOLATION
OF NEUTRALITY LAWS
British Government Will Be Repre-
sented by Consul at San Francisco.

Washington, July 26-The British
government will be represented by
counsel at the hearing at San Fran
cisco in August of the persons indict-
ed for violation Of the neutrality laws
by assisting British citizens to return
to Europe for military service. The
British embassy contends supplying
passage to British subjects does not
constitute such hire or compensation
as is prohibited by the foreign enlist
ment act. The embassy has not only
countenanced such assistance but ad-
vised applicants how to proceed.
The Russian embassy is watching
the case of the Montenegrins held for
trial in Seattle on charges of enlist
to have counsel at the hearings.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
HAND CRUSHED WHEN HE
FELL ON TROLLEY TRACK
Former State Auditor William p.
Bailey of Bethel Became Dizzy.

Danbury, Conn, July 26.-William
P. Bailey, of Bethel. state auditor, and
formerly state senator from this dis
trict, met with an accident here to-
day which resulted in the loss of one
hand. He fell beside the trolley
tracks, while crossing the street, as a
car approached. One hand fell on
the rails and was crushed by the car
so badly that it had to be amputated
at the wrist. Bailey was said tonight
to be resting comfortably at the hos
pital. He is 55 years old. How he
came to fall is not known, but it was
learned that few moments before he
had complained to a friend Of feeling
dizzy and 1t Is thought he may have
suffered an attack Of dizziness while
crossing the street.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
EXACT FIGURES OF RECORD
BREAKING EXPORT COMMERCE
Trade Balance of os4,422,7 1872 for the
Fiscal Year Ending June 80.

Washington. July 26.-Exact figures
of the record breaking American export
commerce OF the fiscal year ending
June 80, made public today. show that
the trade balance in favor of the United
States-the greatest in its history
was $1,o94, ,422, 1872, an increase of $685.
500, 900 over the year preceding and
$42S, ,000, 900 more than the best previ-
Gus record made in 1908.
Exports totalled 50, ,768, ,443, $50, an in
crease of $404 100000 over the preed-
ing year. Imports were $1,674, ,220, 740,
a decrease of $21e, 700, 900.
The gold movement, which reflects
the effect Of the war, shows imports of
$171, ,56S, 755 and exports of $146, ,224, ,j148
as against $66,53S, $50 imported and
s112. .03S,52 exported the year before.
The official figures show little varia-
ton from estimates previously an
nouuced.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
PRESIDENT AWAITS DETAILS
OF SINKING OF LEELANANN
Up TO Late Hour Had Received Only
Newspaper Dispatches.

Cornish, N. H. July 26.-President
Wilson was waiting tonight for details
of the sinking OF the American steam
ship Leelanaw, by a German subma-
rine before making up his mind what
course will be pursued by the United
States. Up to a late hour tonight he
had received only newspaper des-
patches telling of the attack and did
not know officially whether the Lee
lanaw was given any warning or
whether she attempted to escape.
The president came here with the
intention Of returning to Washington
if any important business should de-
velop, but he made no plans tonight
for going back He, read the brief
newspaper advices earnestly, but re-
fused comment, pending the receipt
Of further details.
The president was deeply in earnest
when he sent the last note to Germany
on submarine warfare. but will move
carefully before taking any further
action,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
seey. RedfieId eoerto Chicago.

Washington. July 26.-Secretary Red
field of the department of commerce.
will arrive In Chicago tomorrow to
take personal charge OF the depart
ment's investigation Of the Eastland
disaster. He is en- route tonight from
Syracuse. N. Y, where he has been
taking vacation.
Solicitor Thurman, of the depart
ment, armed with all theTecords reIat-
ingtto the Eastland. left tonight to Join
the secretary -Rnd George Uhler, chief
fof the steamboat inspection service,
now touring the Pacific coast, probably
Will be called to Chicago also.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-27
NO MOTORCYCLES IN
RURAL DELIVERY SERVICE
Postmaster General Issues Order
Which Becomes Effective Jan. 1.

Washington, July 26.-Use of bicy-
cles or motorcycles in the rural de-
livery service is prohibited by an or
der issued today by Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson. effective Jan. /, 1916.
In announcing his order. Mr.. Burle-
son holds that vehicles of these types
do not have the carrying capacity
needed for the parcel post service and
do not afford necessary protection for
the mails in bad weather. The order
will affect about 5000 carriers, who
now use the bicycle. or motorcycles to
cover their routes.