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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-03
United States War Department Max
ing Experiment in This
state. of Grea.
Interest.
COUNTRY LADS WANTED
City Youths Faii to Measure up to
the Standards of Department
For Good Cavalry
men.

Uacic Sam has decided to look To
the farmer boy for cavalry recruits
in the future
The city youth with the pale face,
the pompadour, wrist watch. creased
trousers and cigaret must take back
seat in favor OF the horny-handed lad
IN overzIis
Tie var department Is making an
experiment in Iowa Sergeant E. W.
Savage OF the Eleventh cavalry. Fort
Ogisthorpe. Ga has been detailed by
the government TO remain in the
Havksys state for three years. with
instructions TO organize and instruct
cavalry troops. 10 he recruited exclus-
lively IN the rural districts. Sergeant
" W Armstrong. retired cavalrymsn,
Is assisting In the undertaking. but
receives his pay from the state.
Four troops OF cavalry have been or.
ganizsd- Iowa is the first and onI ,
state n the union to mobilize such
troops in villages of 500 or COO popula.
I ton According to Sergeant Savage, il
k the plan is success in Iowa, the wal
department viii recruit its cavalrym 81
exclusively from the farms for al
I tine to come
There is reason. The farm youth
knows horses from childhood up. The
/ Iowa recruits and all others will fur
nish their own horses This is i'm
1 Iorra1t, due to the scarcity Of horse
flesh brought on by the Europea.
war
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-03
kIomentous Future
In Wonlan's Mind

The expectant
mother revolves in
her mind all we un-
derstand by destiny.
And II Is Of the utmost
importance that her
physical comfort bo
our first thought There
Is a most splendid REM
edy for this purpose.
known as Mothers
Friend It Is applied
over the muscles of the
ctnyna ~ ~,pkr~- .LlA
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-03
Sexa1e Gtde1eiea

Sick headache, biliousness, piles and
bad breath are usually caused by mac.
tive bowels. Get . box Of Rexal
Urderiics: They. act gently and effec-
lively. Sold only by VI 1t 10 cents.
90 snao 'soso 4ssaoeu
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-03
NORWOOD FINDING
FACILITIES POOR.
Water Borne carsoes Handled Only
Little il Any Better Than in Days
When STEAMBOATS, Were
in Prime.
NEGROES VS.. DERR1cKs
The Roustahouts Furnish Vaudeville
Shows When Not Moving Freight
Blacks Dead as Freight
Handlers.
This is the second of series by N
Norwood on River Traffic1
TRy Irving G.. Norwood

This is the second of q series by MI.
Norwood on River Traff1cl
IBy Irving G. Norwood
MEMPHIS. Tenn. August 2S.-Fa-
cilities for handling water-borne
freight at Mississippi river cities are
certainly no better today and in GER
tain specific instances not as good, as
in the period when steam-boating
was in its prime and the river had a
commerce worthy of the name.
Mississippi steamboating." wrote
Mark Twain in the early eighties,
was born about 1912; at the end OF
thirty years it had grown to mighty
proportions and in less than thirty
years more 1t was dead. Steamboating
killed the old fashioned keel boating
by reducing the freight trip from ST.
Louis to New Orleans to less than a
week. The railroads have killed the
steamboat passenger traffic by doing
in two or three days what the steam
boat consumed a week in doing and
the towing fleets have killed the
through freight traffic by dragging six
or seven steamer loads Of stuff down
the river at time, at an expense so
trivial that steamboat competition
was out OF the question"
Today it is possible to say with
equal truth that the lack OF ternin-
ais and adequate facilities for hand
ling freight economically and rapidly
at river landings, finally put the tow
ing fleets out OF business.
Many rivers with good channels
and easy navigation-most OF them in
this country-have no freight com.
merce worth considering. But In
practically every case where a rea-
sonably good channel has been supple
mented by terminals and handling Ia
cflities, water freight lines have
made more than good.
On this almost idle Mississippi, the
Standard Oil company regularly
barges Oil in tanks between New Or
leans and its plant at Wood River, Ill.
We passed one Of their big tow boats
this morning, bound upstream push
ing five barges. Each barge was
loaded with eight big oil tanks and
the forty carloads were plugging along
at good rate of speed, If the truth
be known, at an astonishingly low
cost per ton mile.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-03
YOUNG CoLORED MAN
PASSES AWAY HERE
Clay johnson Had Been III for Past
Three Months-Came Here
Eight Years Ago.

Clay Johnson. a young colOred
man with wide acquaintance in thia
city, passed away at his home, 1920
BIondeau. street at midnight last
night Mr.. Johnson had been in poor
health for about three months. but
only recently did his illness take
serious turn
The decedent was porter in the
barber shop of Roy Sherwood .on
South Fourth street for many years
and possessed many friends both
among the white and colored popu-
lation of the city. He was born in
Shelby county. Missouri. in April
1889 and lived there until about eight
years ago when the family moved to
Keokuk. He was unmarried and is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Anna
Johnson; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Owe
and a brother, Scott Johnson. Two
other brothers died here in the last
three years. The funeral arrange
ments are not completed.
Dollar Day, Sept. A..
People, Not System, at Fault.
Chicago Evening Post. Opponents
of commission government have been
solemnly pointing to its apparent fail
ure in Atlanta. where all the commits
sioners are at loggerhead and the
public is generally disguised with the
whole QUITE. Recent events IL
Georgia, however, are q comment upor
the Atlanta situation. In state where
such incidents as the Frank lynchins
lean happen, where the mayor Of it:
chief city feels called upon to warn :
former governor to stay away If hi
values his life; where the present gov
ernor is threatened with assassination
iii he does his duty. the failure o
commission government or any othe
system of lawful administration is no
surprising. 1t is with the people, no
the plan, that the trouble lies.
Dollar Day, Sept. 4
-Kead the Daily Cat. CITY. Tel
cents per week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THIS COUNTRY
 HAS GREAT YEAR
Contributions Equivalent to $40 for Each of 1,058,804
 Commitments. .-..

New York, Dec. 23.-The Protestant Episcopal church in this country ourished this year, according to Of f.cial figures. For church mainten- ance and all such purposes the gifts exceeded $20,C0O,00O, practically $1,- O0O,0O0 more than in any previous year. In even figures this was $20 contributed by each communicant, a larger average. it is said, than has been recorded by any other sect or by the Episcopalians up to this year.
 Fer Episcopal home and foreign nissicns $1,759,40 was given, an in crease of S713109. Episcopal church membership gained 26,167 and nov numbers 1,05S,S04. The confirma- tion last year were 612S4, the largest ir the history of the church in Amer ica. There are a few more than 100,- coo. communican s in the New York diocese.
 The Sunday school teachers and scholars nfIber nearly 550,000.
 The church's growth is greatest in the larger cities, especially Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis and Chica- 20. In the rural districts of the Middle West no great progress is re- ported. On the Pacific coast, and in most of the mission fields. especially Japan and China, the growth has been "a pid
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
German Secret Service Head in U. $. Offers to .Pur-
 chase Immunity.
PROSPECT 30 YEARS
 IN PRISON APPAL.T,c;
Federal Grand Jury Returns Insiet |. ments Against koenig, Leyenedcker and Justice fer Alleged Con.
 spiracy Against Canada.

New York, Dee. 23.--Paul Koenig whose figure is said t shadow the men higher up in the gigantic spy plot, has made overtures to govern. ment officials locking toward a con. fession, according to information tha' Came tin sevening from an officia source.
 The run or of a confession arcse an hour af,er Koenig and two of hi; alleged agents, Richard Emil Leyen. deher and Edmund Justice, were ar raigned by Federal Judge Mayer, tc this afternoon by the grand jury. Faces 30 Years in Pen. Twc indictments-each with five ccunts-were found against koen.g ard one indictment against each v. the others. Koenig was told that he faces 2 maximum penalty of 30 years m prison and fine of S3O,0OO. This IS said to have caused him to serious ly consider making a full statement that wculd do much tcward winning him immunity.
 The three alleged German agenti
 were indicted today for violating sec. ton B of the United States criminal code by planning, preparing and set ting on foot a military expedition against the dominion of Canada.
 A fine of $3,000, and Imprisonment for three years, is the penalty upon each count Leyendecker and Justice (who is accused only of collecting in- formation for Koenig in Canada), may he giver 15 years in the federal penl- tentiary and forced to pay fine o1 $15,O00 each.
 Bail was furnished for the three by the Hamburg American line.
 Justice Mayer set January 15 as the date for the defendants to change thell mot guilty" pleas if they wish, or tc make any othelSQotions desired.
 The Alleged Ofienses.
 As a part of the plot to destroy ths canal, the indictments allege, koenle and Leyendecker planned to secure employment for their agents in various factories and mills near the canal.
 The military force which the indict- ments charge Koenig and Leyendeckel planned to send from this country was also intended to destroy "varlous plants and properties in Canada other than the Welland canal
 Koenig and Justice are charged III the indictments with having consplreo in the United States to secure for the German government information re- garding the character and quantity ol munitions and other war materials De- ing sent from Canada to Great Britain
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
Discouraged by Cold Recep- ton, HI and Weary, Starts
 for Good Old U. $. A.
RUPTURE OCCURS
 AMONG PILGRIMS
SerioUs Disagrccment Causes the An- ROunc, ment that Colonel Mcclure and Governor l.anna Would Quit
 the Party Others t0 StOckhOln.

London, Dee. 23--Henry Ford, ie ader of the peace mission that left New York City on December 1, to end the war in Europe, today abandoned the members Of his party, according 10 a Central News dispatch from Christiana.
 A statement sent out by that agency was that MT. Ford. broken by the apparent failure of his mission, Lad secretly left for Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, to go on board the steamer BMgenfjord, Of the Narwegian- An erican line, sailing for New York.
 The Central Agency simultaneous " announced that the other members ef the Ford party, ignorant of the de- sertion of their leader and financial packer, had gtne to Stockholm, to carry cut tfe original program of o5- taining recruits for the neutral peace conference.
 This announcement was. at first disputed by another news agency, that sent out dispatch that MT. Ford lad gone to Stcckholm by tram, but later all sources seem to agree Una. l his destination was Bergen.
 The reason for MT. Ford's depar- lure is dual according to these dis lt atches. He has been suffering rom 2. severe attack of influenza and hls over-wrought nervous condition has contributed to the gravity of his ill- ness. His physicians advised com- plete rest.
 The other report was that his dis appointment at the reception accord ed the party in Norway convinced him that, his peace mission was failure, and he therefore abandoned l it.
 The last day of the Ford peace 1.arty in Christiana was a turbulent one. It was announced at an early hour that serious disagreement had developed among the members and that both s. S. Mcclure. the New York editor, and Governor Hanna, of North Dakota, would quit the party.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
CAPITAL BANKER
 SENTENCED 70 IMPRISONMENT
Jury Finds Ed Newald Gull ty of Embezzlement, Inaz
 poses One Year. .=

Little Rock, Dec. 23.--Ed M Newald, former assistant cashier of the Central Bank & Trust company, Of Little Rock, was convicted by Q try in the circuit court today. on q charge of embedding $2, 400 of the funds of the bank.
 He was sentenced to one year 1Ii the penitentiary.
 Attorneys for Newald gave notice they expect to file a motion for q new trial. The court gave them until Monday, December 27, and Newald was released on the same bond that vas furnished shortly after' his ar rest.
 The jury returned a verdict upon the converting of court this morning. The twelve retired at 6:30 o'clock last evening.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
SECOND NOTE TO
 AUSTRIA MAKES
 BETTER FEELING
Lansing Indicates Receipt of
 Favorable Advices as to Reply.

Washington, Dec. 23.-Announce- ment by Secretary of State Lansing tonight that he does not plan to dis crss the AncOna situation with Presi- dent Wilson until the latters return a Washington, January 3, was ac- cepted as evidence that the United States has received favorable ad- vices as to Vienna's reception of the Ancona note.
 When tho president left on his honeymoon, t was announced that Secretary Lansing would go to Hot Springs, Va, to confer with him if the Ancona negotiations reached an acute staga. The critical period in the situation would come, official said, whHl the note reached the Austo-Hungarian government.
 Secretary Lansing was advised by cable today that Ambassador Pen field delivered the second note on the Ancona case to the Austrian foreign ttfice at 6 o'clock Tuesday night, and that Austria had promised speedy reply. Ambassador Penfield, in cabling this news, is also understood to have given encouraging reports of the reception of the ncte in Vienna, indicating that there was a more hopeful feeling there that the Ancona matter would be amicably adjusted
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
RICH RANCHER DEAD;
 WOMAN IS INVOLVED
Fort Worth Police Suspect W. |. War; ren, Whose Body Found Near
 Creek, Shot by a. Female.

Fort Worth, Tex, Dec. 23.-That w. T. Warren, wealthy ranchman ana hotel owner, whose body showing four nisto, wounds was found "Wednesday near here, was murdered ana that woman had a part in the analr, was inc statement today of local 'oflcers who investigate dthe case.
 Warren's body, which was croucheo on the bank of Walnut creek when found Wednesday afternoon by ne gro, showed that the killing had taken nlace several hours earlier, probably Tuesday night. a.oe
 Tracks made by a woman's shoes were discernible near the pooy. Nei.n. or Warren's money nor his jewels were disturbed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
AMoNG'sCHOOL KIDS
 SLAYER FINDS REFUGE
Pursued by Posse, Murderer Who Shot Victim in Cemetery, Runs Into
 Crowd of Children.

Los Angeles, Dec. 23.-Bert w.. Richardson, aged 50 years, vice presi- dent of the First National bank of Tropico, California, millionaire land owner in that section, and formerly a resident of Chicago. was shot and killed today at the entrance of a cemetery. by Thomas Mizar, real es- tate dealer. Mizar was captured by a posse.
 Once in fleeing from the scene of the crime, Mizar drew his revolver and fired point-blank at deputy con stable. A moment later he ran into a crowd of school children to prevent officers from shooting him. The pres ence of the children saved Mizar from death.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
BRITISH SEIZE MAIL
Master os Rotterdam Reports Loss of
 39 Sacss.

New York, Dec. 23.-The steamer Rotterdam on arriving at New York today from Rotterdam and Falmouth, reported that while detained at Fall mouth for two days. the British au- thorities tock 39 sacks of mail ashore IS sacks from Berlin, Il from Con- stantinople and 10 from Sofia.
 Captain Baron vainly protested that the seizure was illegal, and was obliged to accept a receipt for the mail. He was assured, however, that after the mail had been censored Il would be sent by another steamer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
FAST FREIGHT HITS
 NEGRO SPECIAL TRAIN
Engineer and Firemen Killed and
 Nine Lnborers Fatally Injured
 in Crash Near Nashville.

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 23.-Engi- peer Irby Reed was killed and Fire r,an Harmon Lear and nine laborers were fatally injured late this after noon, when a passenger train carry- ing several hundred negro laborers nome fer ChristnasI collided with a fast freight on the Nashville, Chat tanooga & St. Louis railroad, 60 miles south of Nashville.
 Twenty other laborers were injur- ed. The trains met in a deep cut. Responsibility for the accident had not been placed at late hour to- night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
FRENCH SELL BONDS.
American Securities Held in Europe
 Purchased by New Workers.

New York, Dec. 23.-Kuhn, Loeb & company announced today the com pletion of negotiations in Paris for the purchase of bonds of the Central Pacific Railway company. which is controlled by the Southern Pacific company. The bonds are a per cent issue and were sold in 1911 to French banking interests, principal an1 interest being guaranteed by the Southern Pacific. The total amount os the issue is 25o,0o0,0o0 francs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
AUSTRIA FORBIDS
 BAKING OF ROLLS
Another Order Requires PossessOrs of Raw Oils 10 Report Quantity on
 Hand Twice a Month.

Vienna. Dec. 23, via London.-A ministerial decree has been issued for bidding the baking of rolls, biscuits and other fancy breads, and permit ting only the making of loaves of ordi- nary bread. The order does not apply to households.
 A further order requires persons possessing raw oils. benzol and tar oil to report the quantity on hand twice every month. This order authorizes the appropriation of mineral oils ii such a step is necessary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
BRITISH LOSSES AT
 DARDANELLES ll2,921
In Addition to Casualties, 96,6S3 At- tackled by Disease and Sent to
 Hospitals.

London, Dec. 23.-Under Secretary Tennant of the war office told the louse of commons today that the British losses at the Dardanelles up to December il were 112,921.
 This is the grand total of officers and men, including the naval lists Of Killed, wounded and missing.
 The number killed was 25,279.
 In addition to the total of casual ties, the number of sick admitted to hospitals was 96,6S3.
 The losses were distributed as fol- lows: Killed: officers. 1,609 men. 23,679; wounded: officers 2,969; men 72,222; missing: officers 37, men 12,- IA.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
EXPLOSION OCCURS
 IN BROOKLYN PLANT
One Dead as Result of Blast in Fac- tory Engaged in Making Ammu-
 milton for Allies.

New York, Dec. 23.-A police in quiry is in progress into the cause or an explosion in a shrapnel fac lory tonight, in the Bayridge section of Brooklyn, which killed one man and injured another.
 The fact that the factory was max ing ammunition for the entente allies gave rise to rumors of a plot to de- stro yit. @-.t
 The explosion occurred about s o'clock, in the plant of the E. w. Bliss company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
RIOTING IN JUAREZ.
Trouble Breaks Out Anew in Turbu-
 lent Town Across Border.

ElPaso, Texas, Dec. 23.-Riotlns has broken cut afresh in Juarez, Nexico, and street car traffic across the international bridge has been suspended.
 Mobs surrounded the government financial agency demanding pay Llent from the Carranza officials for service in the Villa army.
 General Flashing ordered Amer jeans tC, remain away from Juarez tonight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
French Report Calm.

Paris, Dec. 23.-The following war office communication was given out today:
 "The night was relatively calm ov- CT the whole front South of Arras near Beaurains, our artillery fire kept up its destructive fire. In champagne there was hand grenade fighting east of Navarin farm and in the sector of hill 193.
 "In the Vosges at Hartmansweiler- kopf the situation is unchanged on our left, where the counter attacks of the enemy arep roceedings. Our right continued to make progress yester- day."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
xearess Accidentally Killed.

B1ossie Lawrence, negress, aseu 7e years, was shot through the breast d and almost instantly killed yesteraas
 e. M renoon at her home on the Gibson ,1antation at Pastoria, when shot
 ann was accidentally discharged while it was being handled by hee ralf-brother, Turner Jones' aged 10 years Nc arrests were made, the examination showing it was acclden-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
Trench Contradict Berlin Claim of Success in Coun;
 ter Attack.
|pnSSTAN ASSAULT 1 OF VARNA MYSTERY
ponorts Indicate That BOmbar(ment, l if First Depicted as Formidable At- tack. Nothing More Than Minor Action Among Torpedo Boats.

Iondon, Dec. 23.-HartmansWei iler- kopf. the Alsatian peak that domi- mates the roads into the upper Rhine country, is again in German hands according to the Berlin official re- port
 Taken by the French on the 21st, with reported loss to the Germans of about 1,5O0 men, the kaiser's men have never ceased in their counter attacks to regain the Vosges strong hold. Today they announced it's cap ture with severe losses to the French in dead. wounded and missing. The French admit repulse, but not the total loss of all they had gained.
 Bulgars Hold Jarna.
 The mystery of the bombardment of Varna, which was at first depicted as formidable attack on the chief Bull garian port, has stirred London, but according to reports from both sides, it was nothing more than minor naval action amoong torpedo boats in which some of the batteries partic- ipated. However, a large Russian fleet is said to be in the vicinity of Varna and the action may be merely preliminary to a serious Russian at tack.
 Recrudescene of submarine activity ia the near East is s;gnalized Tn a startling manner by the sinking of the Japanese liner Yasaka Maru. Ap- parently there was no loss of life, but according to marine insurance men the property loss was the heaviest incurred in any maritime disaster ot the war The nature of the valuable cargo remains undisclosed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
Will Talk at Shops.

Rev. H. F. Buhler. pastor oi tns aaw,ev Memorial Methodist caurch will he the speaker at noon tolay. IL inc weekly meeting at the Cotton Beit shons. under the auspices of the rei'- gious work committee or the 'ouNs Mems Christian association.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-24
ARKANSAS AUTOPSY KILLED.
William Weayer's Car Turns Over
 Near Fort Smith.

Fort Smith, Dec. 23-William weaver. 25, of Lavaca, was instantly Mlled, and two others were slightly .urt, when Weaver's automobile turned turtle, ten miles east of here late today.
 Weaver attempted to turn out of ,ne way for car approaching him. ms car turned around, and then turned over.