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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
ADMIRAL FIsKE AND ONE OTHER.

There is no escape from the conclusion that
there is a man in high official position at Wash
ington who is capable of making statements
which are at variance with the facts. This is
not to say that he is wilfully unveracious
That suggestion mi ght do him great in Justice,
for he may be congenitally incapable of dis
tinguishing between truth and falsehood; or his
imagination may be so vivid that a scene his
fancy pictured may have come to seem as real
to him as though it actually occurred 1t is not
necessary to assume that he is mendacous pre-
pense, or that he would deliberately shade
the truth to suit his purposes But it is incon-
testibe that one of two men has related as
fact an incident that never occurred, and these
two are Secretary Josephus Daniels and
Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske.
The admiral says he handed a letter relat-
ing to the country's unpreparedness to the sec
rotary and watched him while he read it. The
secretary says the letter was never given to
him but was handed, as he learned some months
later to some employee in his office and placed
on file by him.
In boldly contradicting and browbeating his
subordinate, Mr.. Daniels has more than once
taken an ugly advantage of the superior rank
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
X. OF G. TRI-CITY
INITIATION JUNE
Will Be Held In 6uriinoton--o
FIFTY Candidates for Degrees
From Three Cities.

On Sunday, June A. there will
held the tri-city initiation of
knights of Columbus. the ceremony
to be held in Burlington. at whii
time, it is estimated, that there WI
be over fifty candidates from Keok!9
Fort Madison and Burlington recei1
the second and third degree. T1
team to put on the initiatory VOL
has not been announced as yet.
Members of the local council al
planning to attend the ceremon
which is to be followed by an elabo
ate banquet and after dinner pr
gram. There will be a large repr
sentation from here at the tri-ci
initiation. Just who the main speak
will be for the occasion and what Il
program will be has not been a
nounced yet, but the local knights al
looking forward eagerly to the NEE
ing which is certain to be a big on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
DIES MONIES COUNTY
IS FOR G. A. KENNEDY
Republicans in Convention There En-
dorse First District Represen-
tative In Congress.

Des Moines county republicans are
for Charles A. Kennedy for congress.
In convention Saturday, they en-
dorsed his candidacy with the follow
ing resolution:
Whereas, in our present represen-
tative, Charles A. Kennedy, the dis
trict has been faithfully served for
eight years, and,
Whereas, at all times he has
proven true to the interests Of his
constituents and to the cardinal prin-
ciples of his party, and has faithfully,
diligently and wisely performed his
duties, and,
Whereas, the present is most
critical time in the affairs Of our
country, therefore, be 1t
Resolved, that we most heartily
favor his denomination and election,
and pledge him our united support.
After the adoption OF the measure
endorsing Congressman Kennedy, the
meeting adjourned.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

| Burlington Hawk-Eye: -Four hun
| dred and forty Iowans have filed
their nomination petitions for state,
congressional and district offices.
| When it comes to serving their
! country, Iowa can always furnish
more than its quota Of patriots.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Most
people have little difficulty in finding
evidence to sustain their views. The
Burlington Gazette, for example.
finds that 80 per cent of the women
! in that town don't want to vote. 1t
| is, therefore, against votes for wom-
en-. AS a matter of fact, the Gazette
guesses that 80 per cent of them
don't want to vote.
Waterloo Courier: The candidates
for. governor are doubtless unani-
nous in denouncing the high price
of gasoline.
Dubuque Times-Journa1: The incest
way to rebuke your neighbor who re-
fuses to clean up his yard is to set
| good example and make him asham-
ed Of himself
Davenport Times: Iowans in Wash
ington who have a right to vote in
Iowa but who cannot be at home for
the primary election are taking s.d-
vantage of the new law permitting alb
sentees to cast ballots by mail. They
are sending applications for ballots
and these viii be filled out and re-
turned on or before election day. The
new law will prove a great conven-
fence to large number of people.
Waterloo Times Tribune: That
Roosevelt boom is like Villa, some
days it has just broken leg, another
| day it is short of a leg, another day
it's dead-but it isn't going to go in
! hiding, not so long as he can talk.
| Cedar Rapids Gazette: If Villa is
not dead this inforced silence will
certainly kill him, and meanwhile he
must be undergoing horrible torture.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
Iron Is Greatest Of All Strd|
Builders, Says Doctor
A Secret of the Great Endurance and PosOer Of Al

per form. And this after the
some cases been doctoring for
without obtaining, any bene
don't take the old forms OF
iron, iron acetate or tincture
simply to save q few cents. I'd
take iron in a form that can BID
absorbed and assimilated like
iron il you want 1t to do you an
otherwise 1t may prove worse tn,
less. Meny an athlete or prize
has won the day simply becau
knew the secret of the great ST
and endurance and filled his bloc
iron before he went into the
while many another has gone do
inglorious defeat simply for the
of iron.
-Nuxated Iron recommd
above by DR.. Sauer is not a p|
medicine nor secret remedy, bud
which is well known to druggists
whose iron constituents IL widely
scribed by eminent physicians e
where. Unlike the older inor1
iron products, 1t is easily assimil
does not injure the teeth, make
black, nor upset the stomach; or
contrary, It is a most potent rem
/ in nearly all forms OF indigestion
we'll as for nervous, rundown c
lions. The manufacturers have
great confidence In Nuxated Iron
they offer to forfeit $4,000 to
charitable institution II they ca
take any man OF woman under 60
lacks iron and increase their sire
200 per cent or over in four W
time provided they have no Sc
organic trouble. They also offer
fund your money IL it does no
least double your strength and e
ance in ten days time. 1t is dispe
| in this city by Wilkinson & Co. al
other druggists.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
ToDAYs BIT OF VERSE
THE SONG BEYOND THE CITY.

THE SONG BEYOND THE CITY.
Oh the song beyond the city,
Don't you hear it, don't you hear,
The silver, mystic music
That is ripping on so clear?
With the bluebirds bearing banners,
And the robins in the band
Oh that song beyond the city.
In the golden springtime land!
Not your whistles on your engines
Or your driving dynamos
Can drown that burst of music
Where the springwind paints the rose;
Not the thunder of your trumpets
On the walls of toll and trade,
Can put out that song Of summer
In the green leagues of the glade
Oh the song beyond the city.
Have you never heard its sweet,
Pouring up through memory's' portals
To entrance the roaring street?
Hark! Beyond the towns grim border,
There's a song you'd love to know,
OF the woodbine and the crocus
And the elfn golden-glow!
Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
WILLIAM A. DORSON,
Blondeau Street.
Miaht Have Been rwins

To the Editor of The Gate City:
I noticed in your paper OF May 5, a
dispatch from Council Bluffs in which
it said man had fallen down a
pair of stairs"
Now have built and designed stair.
ways for several years and have never
seen or heard of a pair of stairs.
II two parallel flights were meant,
how could one man fall down these at
the same time.
Will someone kindly describe pair
of stairs and If possible let me know
where can see one.
Very truly yours,
JOSEPH L. BRADY.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

Editor Brisbane of the poster type New
York Journal declares he does not believe III
monopoly, yet he says he is proud Of being a
yellow journalist. If being yellow journalist
is not almost being monopolist what is?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

There that is admirable In modern civilization
knowledge, poor in private virtue But
private unsustaned by virtue of the public system
is oppressed disabled And this is the type OF oppres
sion which called upon to recognize TO en-
counter, and subdue.-David Atwood Wasson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

One electrical company at Sctnef
tady, N. Y, has $4,000 employee; .
the roll at the present time--4mo1
than ever before in the history :
the company-and it Is likely NOR
hands will be needed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
Not CONVINCING

Topeka Capital: The fact that a
man can advertise for a wife and get
one is no proof that advertising pays.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

An ounce OF gold leaf will cover
space fourteen feet square.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08
WILL IT BE AN UNKNOWN?

Students of political history are busy search
ing the records for parallels of the republican
national situation as it is at the present time
The convention is about four weeks away, and
still all is uncertainty. Many surprises have
been wrought in republican national conven-
tons, however, all of them within the memory
of men now living. The nomination Of Ruther-
ford B. Hayes in 1876, of James A. Garfield III
$780, and of Benjamin Harrison in 1888 are all
conspicuous examples Of the uncertainties OF
Ipolitics The office of president occupied
by democrat in 1888, just as it is now. The
Headers in the republican convention In the first
ballot were Sherman, Alger, Gresham and De
pew Nineteen candidates in all were voted
for. Harrison as much OF a stranger to the
mass of republicans when he was nominated as
the most obscure of the ''favorlte sons OF to-
day
Less than 300 of the delegates to the 1916
convention, out or 9S5 to be chosen, are pledged
to anv one man. This is an extremely FORUM
ate circumstances The great majority of the
delegates are thus left free to discuss the mer-
it's of any man suggested as available candi-
date, and free to frame platform that will
harmonic with conditions as they may exist
when the convention opens.
! Some of the states are learning that the
roads most necessary to be built and improved
are those forming main arteries of communica-
ton. Such a state, for example, is Mime.
whose highway authorities have planned sys-
! TEN of state roads of some thirteen hundred
miles. This is only a twentieth of the total
road mileage of Maine, yet the system planned
will serve nearly threequarters of the total
population. The reason is that the roads Sc
lected are those which connect the large COM
munites of the state and in their course pass
through territory populated to great extent by
farmers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

Cedar Rapids Gazette: If Villa is
not dead this inforced silence will
certainly kill him, and meanwhile he
must be undergoing horrible torture.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

Dubuque Times-Journal: The nices
way to rebuke your neighbor who re
fuses to clean up his yard is to Sc
good example and make him asham
ed Of himself
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-08

Waterloo Courier: The candidates
for governor are doubtless unani
nous in denouncing the high price
of gasoline.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
States Have Right to
Condemn Land Sites

WASHINGTON. Jan M--In a decision
of wide effect to water power develop
ment throughout the United States the
supreme court held today that states
possess the power 70 enact laws author
ixing condemnation OF power sites and
water rights. by right OF eminent do
main.
The decision was announced by Justice
Holmes in UNFOLDING the constitutionality
OF the Alabama water power eondemna-
ton statutes In case touching the i'm
provement OF Tallapoosa river.
THE principal argument" said Justice
Holmes. lis that the purpose of the con-
domination Is not a public one. In the
organic relations OF modern society IT
may sometimes be hard TO draw the line
that Is supposed to limit the authority Of
the legislature to exercise OF delegate the
power OF eminent domain
'But to gather the streams from waste
and 10 draw from them energy. labor
without brains. and 30 TO save mankind
from toll Is to supply what next TO In
telligonce u the very foundation OF all
our achievements. II that purpose il not
public we should be at a loss to say
what H."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
Two More CargOes
from United States
Taken to Kirkwall

LONDON. Jan. 2i-The STANDARD oil
tanker Petroiite. from Philadelphia,
January z, for COPENHAGEN. with a cargo
Of petroleum. and the Norwegian steam
ship Mons. from Baltimore, January 1,
for Christiania, with cargo Of wheat.
rye and barley. have been taken into
Kirkwali
II was announced from Washington on
january II that State department officials
we're investigating an affidavit by Cap
tain Thompson Of the Petrolite that his
vessel was fired on and stopped by an
Austrian submarine off Alexander,
Egypt on December 5. last. and that
supplies were removed. The affidavit
was said TO declare that fourteen shots
were fired at the ship. one OF which
crashed into the engineroom and injured
Danish seaman and the submarine
commander took one of the Petroiite's
crew aboard the submarine and held him
MS a hostage while he obtained provisions
from the tank steamship.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
King Of Montenegro
is At Rome On His
Way to France

ROME, Jan. 74-King Nicholas OF Mon
tenegro, accompanied by his son, Prince
Peter and by three officers Of his suite,
arrived In Rome yesterday from Brindisi
In tho royal train. which had been put at
his disposal to emphasize the purpose of
the Italian government in wishing to do
him honor. King Nicholas. VINO was
dressed In the national costume. with
black cap. white jacket and red sash,
looked very worn as a result of hts hur-
RED trip on horseback from Podgoritza
to the sea and the subsequent passage
and the trip from Brindisl.
King Victor Emmanuel met the king OF
Montenegro at the terminal station.
where an immense crowd had gathered
60 applaud him. They proceeded in au-
tomobile to the villa Savoia, where queen
Helena. daughter of King Nicholas.
awaited him with her four children.
The exiled monarch will leave Rome at
Q o'clock tonight to Join his wife and two
daughters in Lyons.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
WILSON DECIDES
TO VISIT ST. LOUIS
President Will Make Formal Stop at
the Mound City on Morning
Of February 8.
REFUSES MANY INVITATIONS


WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Presi-
dent Wilson decided today 10 in
clude 81. Louis in the itinerary of the
middle western trip be will begin Fri
day night. He will visit st. Louis on
the morning OF February 3, on the
way back to Washington from
Topeka, Kan. The addition Of St.
Louis means that he will make eight
formal addresses during the trip.
More invitations TO speak in various
parts OF the country on the forthcoming
or on later trips were received by the
president today. Amoss them was an in
vltstion to visit Pueblo, Colo, extended
by Representative Heating. TO all the
requests the president replied that he
wished to VISIT a. many cities as possible.
but was uncertain about his exact plans.
Wants All Meetings Open.
President Wilson wants the meetings
at which he will speak to be open to the
general public as far as possible. The
committees in charge have been notified
That the president does not desire en-
tertsinments Of a political character.
The object OF the president in making
the trip. White House officials said, is
TO speak TO the average citizen in the
middles west.
AZ st. Louis the president will speak
at breakfast given In his honor by the
Business Msn's association.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
UNABLE 70 WORK.
!. kidney TROUBLE OVERCOME

This is to certify that I. Jerome j. Nc
Cormack. OF Si7 Ivy Street. Johnson City.
Tenn. suffered from Congestion OF the
Kidneys. 30 that at times was obliged
TO move about the house with the aid OF
q chair and unable to work until used
three bottle OF your swamp-Root. I keep
Dr. Kilmer's swamp-Root In my house
at all times. as know from experience
that II is the best Kidney medicine can
use.
Very truly yours.
]. H MCCORMACK.
Johnson city. Tenn
Sworn and subscribed to before me q
Notary Public. this March S1st. ialA
SAM r. WILLARD.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
Mrs. Mohr's Petition
for Separation is
+ Put in Evidence

PRovIDmSCE. r. L. Jan s4.--Aimost
at the point OF resting It's case. the prose-
cution today introduced as evidence
against Mrs. Elizabeth r. Mohr, Cecil
Brown and Henry Spellman. jointly on
trial for the murder Of the woman's hus-
band. DR.. c. Franklin Mohr. the divorce
petition which was filed by Mrs. Mohr
on February 7. 1914 The case was TO
have come up for hearing on September
1. last. the day after DIR. Mohr was killed.
The petition as amended ON July g. 1914
charged cruelty. referred to DR.. Mohr's
association with other women and con-
tanned the charge that he had used drugs
excessively Separate maintenance for
the wife. instead Of absolute divorce. was
asked in the amended bill The docu-
ments were brought into the record Of
the case through Identification by Robert
c. Root. assistant clerk of the court
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
Water is Receding
from the Business
Part of Yuma City

YUMA. Ariz.. Jan. 4.-The water had
completely receded today from the bust
ness section OF Yuma and t-s greatest
menace now apparently Is danger Of coi-
lapse OF several large buildings. The
Candaifo hotel has been condemned as
unsafe. The foundations OF several
stores appear to be settling.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 24.--Travel by
land and sea and communication Of all
sorts were out Of Joint today In the
western one-third OF the United States
because Of rain. snow and wind
Gales reaching ninety-four miles an
hour swept the northern Pacific coast.
but apprehension for shipping was con-
siderably relieved by reports that the Ad-
miral Schley. from Seattle to San Fran
cisco with about 100 souls aboard, was
safe and probably would make port here
late today. For many hours II was not
heard from. The coastwise steam schooner
Centralia. from Gray's Harbor TO San
Francisco with four passengers. lost its
deekload OF lumber. but was reported TO
be getting along under it's own steam
after having been towed some distance
by the steamship Governor Of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship line. The tanker
Frank B. Buck Of the Associated oil COM
pany. reported off Coos Bay, Ore, with
disabled steering gear. was the only
other boat known 20 be IN trobuie.
While traffic across Montana was re
ported more or less obstructed, railroad
transportation generally showed more
promise than for a week. six hundred
men were at work at Corea, Wash.
clearing the track there. following an
avalanche Saturday which swept two
cars from the Great Northern track. kill
ing eight persons.
Rescue parties at Yuma. Ariz., began
extending relief to ranchers made home
less by floods In the Colorado river.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
Labor Riot at
Rockford Plant;
Twenty Arrested

ROCKFORD. Ill. Jan. A.-Twenty-two
men were locked up here today following
a battle between deputy sheriffs. police
men and rioters at the spensier-Loomis
company plant. Nine men. discharged
by the company Saturday night. APP
peared with others at the plant this
morning and a riot followed. Two women
employees were roughly handled when
they attempted TO enter the plant. Clubs
and pistols were used and several rioters
were dubbed. but none seriously In
jured Officers dispersed the rioters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
BERLIN REPORTS LIVELY
FIGHTS IN WEST FRANCE

BERLIN, Jan. 2f-(By Wireless TO
sayvilie.) 1.-THE following official state
inent was given out today by German
headquarters;
western front: There have been
ilsely artillery and aeroplane actions.
An enemy squadron bombardsd Nets.
where bombs fell on the bishops dwell
ing and on = house In the hospital court
Two civilians were killed and eight
wounded. One aeroplane was shot done
down and It's inmates made prisoners.
German aviators. have bombarieT
railroad stations and military establish
ments behind the enemy's front. In sew
eral air engasements the Germans had
the upper hand. ....
Eastern front: German artillery
ehslled and set on firo Russian rail.
road train north Of Dvinsk
Balkan front; An enemy air squadron
coming from Greek soil bombarded Mon
essir. There were several casualties IN
killed and wounded among the inhabi-
iants"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
FOrty-Five French
Aeroplanes Drop
Bombs on Monastir

PARIS, Jan. A.-Bombardmen OF
Monastir. in southwestern Serbia, by a
squadron OF forty-five French aeroplanes.
Is reported by the Hiavas correspondent
at Saloniki. Considerable damage Is said
TO have been done to ammunition depots.
the quarters OF the general staff and the
railroad station.
The correspondent also reports that the
Italian expeditionary force in Albania
Is soon to be attacked. Bulgarians who.
in cooperation with Austrians. captured
tho Albanian town OF Berst, arc reported
to be advancing toward Avlona, which
Is held by the Italians. Austrian troops
are said to be moving in the direction Of
Durazzol. where Essad Pasha, at the
head OF his Albanian troops. is preparing
resistance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
President FavOrs
Tariff Board

WASHINGTON. Jan. 24-President VII
son soon will recommend the enactment
Of legislation providing for a permanent
tariff commission.
An administration bill for the creation
Of such a commission virtually is ready
now and may be laid before congress in
special message by the president. The
objects Of the commission would be 10
gather data on the tariff and 10 co-or-
dinate similar powers not believed to be
held by existing governmental agencies.
The legislation Ia designed particularly
TO meet conditions which are expected to
arise when the war ends.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
Denies Copper is
Hidden in Lard

LONDON, Jan. A--The agents for the
swedish-American steamship Stockholm.
which is now disoharging part OF its
cargo for the prize court at Liverpool,
deny that any copper was discovered on
board the vessel.
A dispatch from Liverpool ON satuP-
day last said. that British newspaper
published a report that pals on board the
Stockholm. supposed TO contain 800 tons
Of lard really contained copper ingots
and that heavy parcel post packages
contained a large quantity OF rubber.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-25
INDEPENDENCE FOR
FILIPINOS SHORTLY
Wilson May Support a Bill Fixing
Maximum Stay Of U. S. There
at Four Years.
HITCHCOCK SEES PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.-Grant-
ing independence to the Philippine
islands in not less than two years
and not more than four years may
be favored by the Wilson admins
tration. Senator Hitchcock, chair
man of the Philippine committee,
discussed with President Wilson late
today a provision to that effect
which Senator Clake OF Arkansas
had introduced as an amendment to