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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-15
Weather Conditions.

Generally fair, cool weather is fol
lowing iu the mountain and plains
states, where there was frost in the
northern portions last night.
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VIII Mix Tonight.

PHILADELPHIA, May 15.-Gur-
boat Smith and Battling Levinsky are
scheduled to meet here tonight In >
six round bout.
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said he was arrested as he entered
motor car that was to drive them
to a rebel meeting place
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New. York Produce,

New York Produce.
NEW YORK, May 15.-FIour mar
ket inactive, unsettled.
Pork market steady. Mess, s25.5o@
$500.
Lard market quiet. Middle west
spot, $13.10@13.2O.
Sugar. raw, market dull. Centrifu.
gal test, $6.39@6.62; Muscavado SO
test, $5.62@5.75.
Sugar, refined, market dull. Cut
loaf, $3.50; crushed, 1855; powdered.
$775@7.S5: granulated, $7.65Q7S0
Coffee Rio No. Z on spot, CSC.
Tallow market dull City, 10Ac.
country, 10A @1OAc; special, lie.
Hay market firm. Prime, $1.oo: No
8. $1.15@1.25; clover, 55@$1.a7k.
Dressed poultry market STEADY.
Chickens, 1s@30c; turkeys. 20@3Sc:
fowls, 16922c; ducks, Long Island,
25c.
Live poultry market firm. Geese, 10
q 12c; ducks, 13@15c;, fowls. 800
1910; turkeys. 22c; ROSTERS, 1sc:
chickens, broilers, 33@42c.
Cheese market steady. State milk
common to specials. 15Q19hc.
oAAAAAAoS SSiiAAhOh ~ opcSld16, OOlfHC,
Butter marke steady. Receipts 1887.
Creamery extras, Doc; dairy tubs,
26h @S0c; imitation creamery frsts,
27Q2Sc.
Egg market firm. Receipts 27.67e
Nearby white fancy, 25@26c; nearby
mixed fancy. 22h @24c; fresh, 21%@
Csc.
New York Money Market.
NEW vnpH
call, TX percent.
Six months. 81 @sh percent.
Mercantile paper, 3A 03is percent
Bar silver London. a6Ad.
Bar silver New York, 75hc.
Demand sterling. $4.75N.
Stock Market Notes.
NEW YORK. May 15.-United
States Steel led an advance on the
stock exchange today, advancing IA
and selling at ssh at noon. Sales for
the morning were $4,000 shares OF
this total $4,000 shares were steel.
Crucible. sold at Say; Reading es-
tablished a new high at 921k; Mexi.
can petroleum at 1O9A.
Westinghouse was the strongest OF
the munition shares during the morn.
ing, gaining steadily to Ga After the
first few sales trading in rails slowed
of without price recessions.
New York Stocks-CIose.
FURNISHED by Long Commission Co.,
4o3 Main. Telephone No. 1901
American Beet Sugar. ...... 70
American Can (common) 49,. 5SA
American Car & Foundry. $50. 61A
American Locomotive 70a
American Shelter (common) :. 991a
American Tel. and Telg. Co. 49,. .12s
Anaconua ......... S5E2
Baltimore & Ohio. S9A
Brooklyn Rapid Transit ..... S6A
Butte q Superior. ........... 96A
Canadian Pacific -. 1864
Chesapeake & Ohio ............. 63A
Chicago Great Western, common 1873
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul 9612
Chicago. Rock Island Q Pacific Il
Colorado Fuel 4 Iron. ......... A
Crucible Steel ...... S4Ss
Erie, common NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S7%4
General Electric ...167k
Great Northern, pfd. 49,. .1204
Illinois Central ................ 1O2A
Inspiration Copper ... 46A
Lehigh Valley :. 1914
Miami 81
Missouri Pacific ....
New York Central. 1864
Northern Pacific .113ss
Pennsylvania Observation-Disclosures. 81
Ray Consolidated Copper. 23A
Reading 912s
Republic Iron G. Steel. com. 49A
Southern Pacific $685.
Southern Railway .. 22I
HAS
Union Pacific 1864
United States Steel, COM. S5A
United States Steel, pfd. .116Hs
Titan Copper ................. olA
Westinghouse .............. 63h
Bethlehem Steel AS
Conee, spot ...........-...... US
Cotton
May ................. ~ %
July ,.................. 1850
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During the last year the Navajo In.
dian blanket industry reached a total
II $3.50. 900.
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River Bulletin.

The TlTeT VIII fSLII Slowly ITOLl DIV
export 70 Burlin gton during the next
IS hours.
South OF KeolrIk It will remain
nearly stationary with tendency TO
fall during the next ~ hours.
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Articles Of Incorporation.

Articles of incorporation were filed
with Recorder E. o. Reaugh Thursday
by the Basco Electric Light and Pow
er company, the capital stock being
$4,000. fifty shares of 500 each.
August Ancelot of Basco is president
and William o. Fisher, secretary
treasurer of the association.
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Local Observations.

Precipitation ga bours), hun
credths.
From Thursday night TO Sunday
night, go in.
River stage, g m, is rect, 4
tenths.
Grange in "a hours, rise tenths. D..
Mean temperature, May u, 68.
Highest, 79.
Lowest, IS.
Lowest last night, -.
FRED Il. GO5EWISCH,
Observer
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Quiet at Headquarters.

SAN ANTONIO. Texas, May 15.-
With the Villa expedition apparently
playing a waiting game, General
Funston remained secluded at head
quarters today, mapping out plans
for disposition Of the militia placed
at his command. The job of placing
the guardmen most advantageously is
a big one, he said, and it may be
several days before the plan is COM
pleted
No reports except of a routine ma
ture were received from the expedi-
ton today, it was announced. Gen
eral Pershing reported the situation
quiet
Funston has ordered searching
investigation of the fires at Fort
Bliss, FL Paso.
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HOUSE CLEANING
IN MEXICO
CONTINUED from page ~

cost He said the de facto govern
ment recently failed in efforts to
have him deported as an undesirable
foreigner. His letter reads in part:
Il have lived in the United States
more than a year. Several weeks
ago, Carranza agents deceived the
department of labor into arresting
me on the charge of violation of your
immigration laws. 1 finally was lib
Grated under bail and went to Wash
ington. After Secretary Wilson read
documents l showed him, he ordered
my absolute freedom, refusing that
be sent back to Mexico to become d
victim of political fury"
Villareal said "a bitter campaign
of abuse" was waged against him be-
cause delegates to the Aguas Cali
entes convention in October 1914 op-
posed to Carranza and Villa, tried to
elect him provisional president Of
Mexico.
Anybody, who knows my political
career" Villareal's letter continued,
will understand it is impossible for
me to be associated directly or indi-
rectly with the Glenn Springs raid.
have condemned and condemn now
with all my energy, the acts of raiders
at Columbus and Glenn Springs. AS
a Mexican especially l condemn them
since the welfare of our country
should be our principal concern and
does nothing but add to our national
misfortunes; / desire to have my
country's sovereignty respected by all
nations and therefore l protest any
unjustified act that will tend to in
volve Mexico in international con-
flicts"
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ST. Louis Cash Grain.
furnished by Long Commission Ct

Furnished by Long Commission Co..
4O3 Main. Telephone No. 1901
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 15.-Wheat-
No 2 new. s11S@1.23; No. 3 red,
new, s1.156119.
Corn-No. 2, 73@73kc; No. 3 yell
low, 74h 975c; No. 2 white.74c; No.
3 white, 721s @73c; No. A white, Tic.
Oats-No. 2, 43c; No. 3, AIN 042c;
No white, 40@4011c:. standard.
451kc; No. 8 white, 4sk@45c; No. 4
white, 424 422c.
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warded by the captor with the least
possible delay"
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Kansas City Cash Grain.

[Furnished by Long Commission Co,
403 Main. Telephone No 1901
KANSAS CITY, May 15.-Wheat--
No. 2 hard. s1.09@1.13; No. 8 hard,
$1.OSk OILS: No. hard, s1.01@1.07;
No 2 red. s1.15; No. 3 red, $1.04k;
No 4 red, 96c@s1.05.
Corn-No. 2, 7097O1sc; No. 3, 691a
@7Oc; No. 2 yellow, 7SAc; No. 3 yell
low, TIC; No. 2 white, 71@71kc;
No. white, 70k @70Ac.
Oats-No. 2, 40@42c: No. 3, $500
41c; No. white, 46@47c; No. 3 white
44046c.
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PEORIA. ILL.,, May 15.-Corn-M Mar
ket unchanged, nc higher. No.
white, No. 8 yellow, No. 8 mixed
73hc; No. yellow, 721sc; No.
yellow, TIC; No mixed, 74c; No.
mixed. 72h @73kc.
Oats-Market unchanged. No.
white, 431s @435sc.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-28
FIRE PREVENTION.

Three conragrations within two
days, all IN the south, and with a
property loss now estimated at over
$500, 900, recalls attention to the con-
hagration hazard and to the need and
importance Of fire prevention work.
The spread OF each Of these fires is
attributed to the shingle roof hazard,
the conflagration blast carrying the
blazing shingles far ahead of the firing
line, where they started new fires on
other shingle roofs and thus increased
the confiasration blast.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada for January and February
OF 1916 were s46,194,12o. as compared
with $33,141,S $50 for the same months
OF 1915. These southern confagra-
tons. with the other losses OF the
month, make It certain that the fire
OF the year viii show an increase of at
least ao.oo,0 900.
1t Is apparent that not only better
fire protection, but a deeper sense of
individual responsibility for the pre-.
rention OF fres is absolutely necessary
to prevent this enormous waste. The
state fire marshal Of Illinois says that
eighty per cent Of the fires are due to
preVentable causes. One of the best
ways to get lower insurance rates is
to have fewer fires.
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QUICKLY STOPS HEAD
COLDS AID SNUFFLES
Catarrhal Germs Cause Of Most Colds.
New GermicidaI Air Treatment
Best Remedy For These
Common Ailments.

Reliable authorities say that up
wards Of so per cent of the so-called
colds in the head and throat are in
reality dangerous indications of the
presence of acute catarrh. When you
hear person sneeze or cough its al
most certain they are throwing ca
tarrh germs into the air for some
other person to breathe and its just
as certain that the person breathing
these germs will soon have catarrh
or a catarrhal cold. The time to
make these germs harmless and drive
out your catarrhal cold is the very
instant you feel desire to sneeze
or cough, OF start to shuttle and wipe
your nose every few minutes.
The quickest and surest way to
stop a head cold and drive catarrh
germs out of your system is to pour
a few drops of the oil OF Hyomet fpro-
nounced High-o-me) into one Of the
Hyomei inhaling devices which comes
with each large package and place
the inhaler between your lips and
breathe the germicldal but pleasant
smelling air into your nose, throat
and lungs. This air utterly destroys
all catarrh germ life, quickly opens
the closed air passages, makes
breathing easy, clears your stuffed up
head, cleans out your throat and ends
your snuff1ing and nose blowing.
There certainly Is no quicker or more
satisfactory way of breaking up a
cold, even after it is well started.
and a few weeks use will do away
with all danger Of chronic catarrh.
Sold by druggists everywhere tnclud-
ing Wilkinson & Co., who agree to
return the full purchase price to any
one who use it and are not satisfied.
In buying Homei for the first time
he very sure to get the large size
which contains the inhaler as this is
very essential for best results.
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MEXICO TROUBLES.

The Mexican problem is not new.
Neither is It one peculiar to the Will
son and the Taft administrations.
AS long ago as the time Of Abraham
Lincoln the problem was perplexins.
To show you that the policy Of Lin
coin was not so far removed from
that of woodrow Wilson, the follow
ing extracts from private letter OF
Abraham Lincoln are given:
For a few years past the condi-
ton OF Mexico has been SO unsettled
as to raise the question on both sides
Of the Atlantic whether the time has
not come when some foreign power
ought, in the general interest of So
ciety. to intervene, to establish a
protectorate or some other form Of
government in that country and guar
antee its continuance there.
You viii not fail TO assure the
governm ent OF Mexico that the presi-
dent neither has, nor can ever have,
any sympathy with such designs, in
whatever quarter they may arise or
whatever character they may take on.
1.-The president never for NON emit
doubts that the republican system is
TO pass safely through al ordeals and
prove permanent success in our own
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THE NEWEST REr1EDY
FOB
Backache, rheumatism and Dropsy.

Kidney, Bladder and Uric Acid troubles
bring misery to many. When the kidneys
are weak or diseased, these natural filters
do not cleanse the blood sufficiently, and
the poisons are carried to all parts OF the
body. There follow depression, aches
bility, headaches, chilliness and rheu-
matism. In some people there are sharp
pains in the back and loins, distressing
bladder disorders and sometimes obstin-
ate dropsy. The uric acid sometimes
forms into gravel or kidney stones. When
the uric acid affects the muscles and
joints, it causes lumbago,, rheumatism,
govt or sciatica. This is the time to try
'Anuric,"
During digestion uric acid is absorbed
into the system from meat eaten, and
even from some vegetab ies. The poor
kidneys get tired and backache begins.
This is a good time to take TAnqric,"
ney trouble and Backache. Neglected
kidney trouble is responsible for many
deaths, and Insurance Company examin-
ing doctors always test the water OF an
applicant before policy will be issued.
Have you ever set aside a bottle Of water
for twenty.iour hours2 A heavy sedi-
men or settling sometimes indicates kid
ney trouble. The true nature and chac
acter Of diseases, especially those of the
kidneys and urinary organs, can often
be determined by a careful chemical an
alysis and microscopicai examination
this is done by expert chemists Of tho
Medical Staff of the lnvaiids' Hotel. II
Sou wish to know your condition send
sample Of your water to Doctor Pierce's
Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, n. Y. and de-
scribe your symptoms. 1t WIFI be ex-
amined without any expense to you, and
Doctor Pierce or his Staff OF Assisting.
Physicians will inform you faithfully
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ADvERTIs!No's WORK.

When you pick up your copy of The
Gate City you meet with more than
stories OF travel. progress, war, cat
astrophies; stories political, social,
religious, community and events from
nearby towns and cities. You also
receive stories told In paid advertis-
ing. And If it were not for this ad-
vertising you would not-could not
receive the publication you do for the
little it costs you
Some persons think that machinery
alone has reduced the price of publ
cations like The Gate City. But that
is not fact. II in some manner all
advertising would be stopped, and
the paper would have to be produced
minus their financial aid, the price
would jump to three or four times
what 1t is at present.
Besides, the paper would not be as
interesting. People have come to re-
gard the advertisements in The Gate
City. as in other newspapers, as re-
liable compendiums of merchandise.
and they have come to learn that what
is worth advertising is worth buying.
1t Is important that you realize the
work that advertising plays in the
world Without 1T hundreds OF articles
found in every home could never have
teen brought to your attention; you
never would have purchased them and
enjoyed theft use. And the factories
that are making these articles, en-
ploying hundreds of thousands Of
hands, in the aggregate, would not ex.
list, for they Depend on advertising as
the cheapest and most effective say
to distribute their goods
The advertisements in The Gate
City are an integral part of the paper:
they are not something to go with
reading matter, but are something to
read for profit. You cannot permit
such bargains as are constantly ad-
vertised IN The Gate City to slip by,
because If you do you are not getting
the full value out of the paper.
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and nifty percent more than Keokuk.
There may be noting rotten in Den
mark. Lee county, but give US an as
SCISSOR like these prosperous, puisat-
ing, go-ahead towns have and we can
increase In population and pay much
less taxes.
Well there Is a pretty little town
called Centerville. It has 100 popu-
lation, but the good assessor says
So, 100000 is enough FOR his progress
sive little town. Half our popula-
ton, with less than one-fourth our
valuations on property for assessment
purposes A regular commercial club
booster for greater Centervtlle.
Charles City with $500 population.
but with valuation on property by
the assessor of only $1,499.000. Good
old scout.
Let US get little beyond our class.
Dubuque, population 41,000; but the
assessor says $26,O00,000 is all his
town is worth. Do you believe it?
Almost three times our population,
but the assessor says it is only worth
81, 100000 more than Keokuk. Do
you get 1t?
Council Bluffs has $1,000. Twice as
large as Keokuk, but the honest as
SCISSOR there says S19,00O,O00 is
enough. &C. B. has eight trunk line
railroads, and hundreds Of miles of
yard trackage also)
might pick out town after town
and you will find in comparison
honestly made, Keokuk property is
valued on an average one-third too
high and in many instances by COM
parison two-thirds too. much.
If this don't awaken you, all I have
to say then there is no hope and
"tpile it on until there is sinking In
the mire so deep nothing will pull
you out" These figures arc mathe-
maticaIly correct Notwithstanding
the high valuation, city and county
officials are piling up an Indebtedness
by the illegal issuing OF warrants
which some day will cause trouble
financially for someone.
The question is why should Keokuk
pay more than other cities In its
class. Why should property be as
sessed fifty percent higher here than
in other Iowa towns.
Keokuk is entitled to one OF the
county seats even If 1t paid only half
the taxes which it does. & It is about
one-half the population Of Lee county
and does all it's own improving of
streets and looks after its wants and
It sounds ridiculous to say that the
county seat should be shifted to the
center of the county, and $4,000 peo-
pie inconvenienced and disconnected
in examining mortgage, deed, court
and other records.
Why not secure the passage OF an
act establishing county for Keokuk
or jackson township county. This
will oiya Fort Mpdfaon tts county
seat and the country can take care
of itself. Let's work for the latter
plan. Divide up the county indebted
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keokuk. Iowa .----.. March %, 1916
THE HOME TOWN,

THE HOME TOWN.
Some folks leave home for money
And some leave home for fame,
Some seek skies always sunny,
And some depart in shame.
I care not what the reason
Men travel east or west
Or what the month or season
The home town Ia the best.
The home town is the glad town
Where something real abides,
'Tis not the money-mad town
That all ita spirit hides.
Though strangers scott and fiout It
And even jeer its name
II has a charm about it
No other town can claim.
Tho hometown skies seem bluer
Than skies that stretch away.
The hometown friends seem truer
And kinder, through the day,
And whether glum or CHEEKY
Lght-hearted or depressed,
Or struggle-rt or weary
/ like the hometown best
Let him who VIII go wander
To distant towns to live,
OF some things I am fonder
Than all they have to give
The gold of distant places
Could not repay me quite
For those familiar faces
That keep the hometown bright.
Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free
Press.
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country, AND SO to be recommended to
adoption by all other nations.
But he thinks also that the sys-
tenn everywhere has to make its way
painfully through difficulties and en-
barrsssments which result from the
action of antagonistical elements
which are legacy of former times and
very different institutions.
The president Is hopeful Of the
ultimate triumph of this system over
all obstacles, as well in regard to
Mexico as in regard to every other
American state; but he feels that
those states are nevertheless Justly
entitled to a greater forbearance and
more generous sympathies from the
government and people of the United
States than they are likely to receive
In any other quarter"
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REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

By direction OF the republican state
central committee Of Iowa, a delegate
convention Of the republicans OF Iowa
Will be held IN the city Of Cedar Rap
ids, May II, 1916. at II O'Clock a. m.
The duties Of said convention shall
be to formulate and adopt resolutions
and transact such other business as
may properly be brought before It.
At 10 o'clock g. m. Of the day Of
the aforesaid state convention, the
delegates from the several congress
sional districts shall meet in caU-
cuses to transact such business as may
properly come before them and select
the usual committees Of the state con-
gentiCn.
The basis OF representation IN said
convention shall be az follows: One
delegats for each county, and one ad-
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DONE Ellison.
. . . . : . . . : . - .

Mrs Daw Refer and little Miss
Clara Ball returned home Wednesday
evening from a weeks visit at the
Rev. A. W. Freuechte home in Quincy
James Wilson has returned home
tana.
Miss Minnie Burgderf has returned
to her home near Viele after sew
eral months stay here.
Mrs. Peter Felt and Mrs. John
Frank were Pennington visitors last
week.
Rev. Ben Harmon returned to his
home in Shenandoah Tuesday, after
a weeks visit at the II. Meinhardt
home.
Miss Ella Best has gone to Oakdale
for a several months stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Casper of Mont
rose are visiting here.
Mrs. Madeline Tullis of Fargo, N.
D., mother Of Mrs. Jas. Wise and an
aunt, Mrs. Scott Howard, of McConet,
Ill. were recent visitors at the Jas.
Wise home.
Mrs. Emil Henmes is home from q
two weeks stay in. Centerville. She
reports her sister improved.
Mrs Peter Felt visited at the l. H.
Hentzel home in Keokuk the fore part
of the week
Mrs. Alfred Best was an over Sun
day visitor In Montrose and Keokuk.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Schoene OF
Milan. Mo-, visited relatives and
friends here the fore part of the week.
MT Whetstein and family Ct Fort
Madison have moved into the house
recently vacated by NJ. 7. Helm.
Mrs. John Dumenfl of keokuk visit.
ed home folks the past week.
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Mark rmain's Presence of Mind

Many anecdotes Of Mark Twain's
life as Mississippi River pilot will
appear, it IS stated, in the February in
stallment of Albert Bigelow Paine's
Boys Life OF Mark Twain" which is
appearing as a serial In st. Nicholas.
One of them is a story remembered
and retold by an old fellow-pilot.
Boys" the great humorist is reported
to have Bald, Il had great presence of
mind once. 1t was at a fire An old
man leaned out of four-story building
calling for help Exerys ody in the
crowd below looked UP, but nobody
did anything. The ladders weren't
long enough. Nobody had any pre-
sence of mind-nobody but me.
came to the rescue I yelled for a
rope. When it came, T threw the old
man the end of it. He caught It,,
and l told him to tie 1t around his
waist. He did so, and l pulled him
down"