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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
LEADING Five Months.
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
Yesterdays hero-Charley Herzog.
With two on bases and two out, Her.
zog slammed out triple and put over
the tieing runs for the Giants, en-
abling them to win their twenty third
straight victory.
Bob Steele was the ST. Louis pitch
or who took the count
The Braves and Pirates spent an
afternoon off, for the Braves did their
bit OF ball game winning in a morn
ing pastime.
Elmer Meyers started against
Washington for the Athletics and
was pounded for seventeen hits. sew
en- Of them being doubles and one a
home run.
Foster and Morgan, of Washington
each made four hits.
The Red Sox drew away by anothe,
| half a game by whipping the Yankees
while the White Sox loafed.
1 The New Workers. forced the world
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
FACT
Local Evidence.

Local EVlocnSS.
Evidence that can be verified.
Fact is what we want.
Opinion is not enough.
Opinions differ.
Here's q Keokuk fact
You can test it
Mrs Lucy Santo, 1902 Concert St.,
Keokuk. says: 81 have taken Doan's
Kidney Pills several times and / have
found them a splendid medicine for
bladder trouble 1 strongly recommend
them for that complaint 1 have Of
ten advised my acquaintances, whom
4 have found suffering from lame
hack or rheumatic pains to try Doan's
kidney Pills. know others who
have been benefited by this medicine
and praise it as highly as I do. No
other kidney medicine has ever done
me as much good as Doan's Kidney
pills"
The above statement was given
MAY 2. 1910 and on September Q, 1915
Mrs Santo said: II think as well OF
Doan's Kidney Pills now as / did
when / first endorsed them. They are
4 splendid medicine for backache and
kidney complaint
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't sim
piy ask for a kidney remedy-ge,
Deans Kidney Pills-the same tina,
Mrs. Santo has twice publicly recon
mended. Foster MiIburn Co., Props
Buffalo. N. Y.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
ELDERvILLE, ILL


Mrs. Jay Bride and son Arthur OF
Keoguk were week end visitors al
the Conrad Koehler home.
Harry Wright sports a brand new
buggy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Habel, south OF
Tioga, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Mar
shall spent Sunday at VIM. Vogefs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Rosenbaum
and family of Basco visited witD
John Rosenbaum and family Sunday.
The Mt. Pleasant Sunday school IL
planning to hold bazaar at the
church on October %.
j. w. Reed and wife from Sonora
spent Sunday at Oscar Bradley's.
Mrs. Henry Hempen is In Hamiiton
caring for her mother who Is quite
sick at present.
Leonard Bradley attended Sunday
school and church at the Baptis'
church at Elvaston Sunday.
A baby girl came to make her home
with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmitt ias'
Thursday, Sept. 81.
Harry Elder and family from DON.
Nelson, Iowa, were calling on reia'
tives and friends here Sunday -
Mrs. elmer who has been Quite
sick. Is well enough to attend tnc
switch board again.
Most an of our pleasure seeker
here attended the county far :.
Carthage last Thursday and Ff1oay
and report good Time
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
AMATEUR GAMES
ARE SCHEDULED
keokuk Indians 70 Play Three Foot
bail Contests Friday and
Saturday.

Amateur football here will be given
its inning this week.
Thomas p McManus. 1901 Morgan
street, who has organized a crack
football squad Of boys Of about fiji
teen years of age, called the Keokuk
Indians, mas arranged for several
games for the remaining days of this
week.
Tomorrow morning at the athletic
heid the Indians will clash with the
team Of Merle Francis and in the
afternoon will meet John Burrows
SQUAD. On Saturday morning the In
dams will play against the St. Peters
squad.
The team IF looking for other
games to be played on Saturdays
after September 30. Managers wish.
ing games should call Black 1895.
The average weight OF the squad is
100 pounds.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
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|lIBIlgZsIABIgls y NEWS a
Keokuk High Opens loUa
Schedule on Saturday
How Madison opened.

| Fort Madison defeated New Lon
don 38 to last Saturday. But New
London is one Of the weak sisters.
It was q soft opening game Tor the
prison town team and Is Of no value
! in computing comparative strengths.
Fort Madison's first real test comes
on Saturday when 1t meets Burling-
ton at Burlington. The Hawkeye
team Is not rated quite so strong as
last year and the odds at the present
time are on Fort Madison. On the
other hand 1t is said that the Madi-
son team is q one man team. That
country teams up north, but will have
hard shedding against the eleven that
Keokuk has put out this year.
One more element enters into the
matter. There is one more team in
this territory, that although repre-
senting q small town, is rated as
high as either Madison or Burling-
ton. This is Washington. Keokuk
does not have Washington on its
schedule, but both of her rivals have.
washington, admitting that much In
the other teams, or will dispute Keo-
kuk in her championship claims II
the Indian team is successful this
year.
Some Important Games.
So this Saturdays game will have
a big bearing on the seasons result.
Fort Madison plays Burlington and
then comes to Keokuk two weeks
later. Thus will be partly solved the
Burlington-Fort Madison-Keokuk tri-
angle.
burlington has almost a new team
and the squad lacks the experience
of a veteran machine. The Hawk
eyes are none too sure Of their games
with Keokuk, Fort Madison and
Washington. admittin gthat much in
the papers. The Burlington Hawk
Eye says as follows:
washington and Fort Madison.
both of whom are on Burlington
schedule, won their games by big
margin over good teams. Keokuk
won by a score Of Is to Z over a
team that outweighed them great
many pounds to the man. They viii
all give Burlington hard battle.
that with Washington being probably
the hardest game of the season"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28

champions to an extra inning, but the
necessary punch was forthcoming in
the tenth inning
Bob Shawkey, the only consistent
winner for the Donovan clan, was the
victim.
Big Jim Vaughn oficiated for the
Cubs when the Dodgers and Sherrod
Smith took the final game OF the
Cub series. The Cubs struggled IN
vain for they never got nearer to the
palte than third base.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
Three Game Series May De-
eide Pennant Race in Nat
ionol
by H. C. Hamilton, United Press
STAFF Correspondent

STAFF Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept 2S.-The SUI
preme test Of season will be applied
to the Brooklyn Dodgers this after
noon. With a day OF under their
belts and with every man in condition
to play the game Of his life. the
Phillies will meet the Dodgers In the
first of a three game series which
probably will decide the National
league championship.
The standing today found Brooklyn
leading the league by a game and a
half over the Phillies. They added
half game to their weak hold by
winning on the day dedicated to the
laying of ghosts by Charles Ebbets
and Joe Tinker.
| This afternoon probably will find
RUDE Vanguard pitted against Grover
Cleveland Alexander. Vanguard was
given rest yesterday by Robinson
and Sherrod Smith was sent out to
| haul down the colors of the Cubs. 1t
was Marquard's day to work but he
was saved for the lid-lifting ceremon-
| les against the Phillies.
Alexander. who has turned back
National league clubs fifteen times
this season in shut out games, has
not worked since Saturday, when he
twice defeated the Reds.
Leading Five Months.
The Dodgers, after leading the
National league parade for five
months. surmounting obstacles at the
crucial moments and then dropped
back into third place, which snatched
their foundation from under them
find themselves confronted by the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
THE BIG STICK BATTLE.
carIeasure W. Reality.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: What . diff
ference between the farmer In the
"Rube" drama, who wears his trous-
ers inside his boots, has hay seed In
his hair and says by Heck" and
the real Iowa farmer. who 10 well
dressed, carries a fountain pen and z
check book and uses better English
than many OF the city foakA
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28

Sioux City's high school opened
with an enrolment Of 1900 pupils.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28

An Indiana man breaks into the
limelight by claiming to have read
the New Testament sixty-seven times.
Such . waste Of time and all Hoosier-
dom throbbing with up-to-date politi-
cal literature!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28

Tho Cane Cod cranberry crop 10
,..rJv harvested and promises TO
xieId 10000 barrels. Reports nom
t,,rEevdom are equally appetizine ana
I'm remain so until the price tas Is
visible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28

WEDNESDAYS RESULTS.
American League.
washington, 1870; Phlaoeipnia'
$50 Boston. s.1s; New York. s-s-z 90
innings). ,,,,
National League.
New York, 3-s-1; st. Louis. z-lo-z
VIZ prnoklyn. PSI: Chicago, o-5l.
Pnstnn. 1876: Pittsburgh. $40.
Omen date for other clubs.
TopAY's SCHEDULE.
American League.
o,ar date for st. Louis and Dc
troit. r.us,.h,.
Chicago at Cleveland
New York ct Boston.
National League.
philadelphia at Brooklyn.
poston at New York 1.-TWO games).
Omen date for other clubs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
safe, q Any Rate,

Atchison Globe: The weather ma,
be . tiresome topic, but 1t Il bettel
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-28
Milton viii be First Step
ping Stone 7otOard South
easteynsC Championship

Keokuk high school win open its
Iowa season on Saturday at Milton
Keokuk will make strenuous Efforts
this year to win the championship Ci
southeastern Iowa away from both
Burlington and Fort Madison and the
Milton game will be one OF the I'M
portant conteS.s on the local sched-
ule. as both Burlington and Madison
play that team later in the season.
Milton is small town, but some
teams of large caliber have been de-
veloped there and the locals expect
to have just as hard contest to
win as they had last Saturday. With
the pep and aegressiveness shown in
the initial game, and the result OF
another week Of practice, Keokuk
should be able to cope in every way
with Milton and start the Iowa
season OF with bang tnat viii bid
to fairly carry Madison and Burling-
ton OF their feet
Schedules are Different.
The schedules of the three contend
Both Burlington and Madison have
picked games with teams all to the
north of Keokuk On their schedules
are New London. Fairfield. Bloom
field, Keosauqua, Washington and
others that Keokuk will not meet this
year. The only two teams that both
Madison and Keokuk meet are Bur
lington and Milton. so that especial
interest attaches to contests with
any one of these teams, as compare
tive scores can be obtained that will
give some insight on the seasons
outcome.
Keokuk will have to be decisive In
it's defeats of Iowa teams if its title
is to be clear. for out of nine sched-
uled games, only four are with Iowa
teams. However, If Madison and Bur
lington clean up on material in their
section and the locals turn around
and give those teams good sound
drubbings in turn, there can be slight
contradiction to Keokuk's claim.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
A DIREFUL YEAR.

It should not require much perspl- cacity on the part of the taxpayer to see the difference between business affairs in the city today and at the time the present council took its seat. At that time there were several hun dred more people here, several more business houses, more jobs, and bet ter times. The new council took it's seat under the most suspicious cir cumstances Business was picking up, times were fairly good, and a large immigration was headed to- ward Alaska. The new organization promptly elected one of their num- Der mayor, and started in to Bran deis" the town. And they have suc- ceeded beyond their widest anticipa- tions. So well, in fact, that the chief agitator has been forced to sell his business and leave the nest he has rendered useless to others. Our mer- chants have been penalized, our banks persecuted, and business torn up so badly it will take months to get things back to a sound business ba- sis when the rats abandon the ship. Had the four members of the city council responsible for the present chaos joined hands with the conserv- alive members of the board, the situ- ation might have been ameliorated even then.
 But with the present attitude of this quartet of trust-busters in the saddle the result has been that both capital and home-seeker has passed us up. Neither will locate where they are liable to be scourged out of busi- ness by the councilmanic rod, and chastened by the assessor.
 Our money is gone, our credit is ruined, and our city has become byword for incompetency and mis- management. Our population has dwindled, our buildings are empty, but the council chamber is still re- sounding with threats of these mal- contents to "get" some one.
 What the future will bring forth is hard to forecast; but if the coming year is as pregnant with dire disas- ter to our business interests as the past year, we can look for still further exodus.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
PLANNING GREAT DRIVE 0N WEST
Believed that Germans will Attempt to Break Deadlock and Again
 Threaten French Coast.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 19. - Dis patches from the western frontier state that the Germans are prepar- ing for the greatest of all drives against the Allies on the west with the object of breaking through the deadlock and reaching the coast of France. It is also believed that Paris is again to be threatened as troops in great numbers are being concentrated at a point within one hundred miles of the city.
 Recent arrivals from Belgium re- port that troop trains have been ar irving in Belgium from Central Ger many during the past week and it is believed that the supreme effort to crush the Allies on the western front is soon to begin.
 It is also reported that the British and French reserve troops have bsen sent to the front where they would be instantly available to strengthen threatehed positions.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
MAKE MARVELLOUS RECORD" /"

The city treasury is now empty
 Out of $16,OO0 tax money and $40OO license money not a dollar re- mains.
 And what has the city got out of this immense sum, besides few sala- ries?
 Nothing! Absolutely nothing.
 Not even q new plank in an old sidewalk.
 Honest John" drew his salary regularly, and the Senator and Law yer Ray of Seward got theirs; but what have the taxpayers received out of it?
 Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
 From now on the city will run a credit business; with the dead nor al certainty of anyone who accepts the warrants of the present council being stung good and proper; be- cause the present councils policy of repudiating the warrants of previous councils has given the city's credit a black eye with the banks and busi- ness men.
 $2O,O0O thrown to, the dogs; made ducks and drakes out of by the most profiigate council the city has ever had saddled upon them.
 A little soft soap, few moss grown articles about the "dear peo- |ple," and the rest was easy.
 But the people are reaping the har- vest; they sowed incompetency and mismanagement, and the crop is a bountiful one.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
Weather Report.
 Valdez, Feb. IS, Is
Interior Weather.

Interior Weather.
 Valdez. Alaska, Feb. 19, 1916.
 Fairbanks, 0; clear, calm. Salcha, 8; cloudy, calm.
 Richardson, 8; cloudy, calm.
 Mccarthy, 15 above; cloudy, calm. Donnelly, 42 above; cloudy, light wind, trail heavy.
 McCallum, 35 above; 45 inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
 Paxson, 32 above; 3S inches of snow; cloudy, light wind, trail soft. Hogan, 25 above; 30 inches of snow; cloudy. calm, trail heavy.
 Gulkana, 21 above; 30 inches of snow; showing, calm. trail heavy
 Gulkana, 21 above; 30 inches of snow; showing, calm, trail heavy
 Copper Center, 25 above; showing. calm, trail heavy.
 Tonsina, 90 above; 25 inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
 Teikhell, 26 above; 60 inches of snow; showing, calm, trail closed. Beaver Dam. 30 above, AS inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail closed. Summit, 100 inches of snow; showing. windy, trail drifted.
 Wortman's, 36 above, 50 inches of snow; showing, trail closed north: drifted south.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
JUDGE AND MRS. BROWN
 RETURN FROM STATES

Judge Fred M. Brown of the dis trict court, accompanied by Mrs. Brown, returned to Valdez this morn ing on the Admiral Farragut from their trip to the States. They visited San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, and made the trip from Los Angeles down the coast to San Diego in their auto, in company with MT. and Mrs. Middlecamp, and while in lower California cities they were ma rooned by the floods and were forced to take passage on steamer back to Los Angeles.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
Notice.

Notice.
 Sunday school at the Episcopal church every Sunday at 12 m. Every one invited to attend these services.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

After reading of the masterly man. ner in which our competitor licked the Unionism out of that IFS pound phenomenon in Juneau, we humbly beg permission to retract all we have hitherto said. We are willing to cross blades with a newspaper man, but to tangle up with a swashbuck- ling rough and ready half-hoss, half alligator-wow! Not for us!
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

The Star says that the four busi- ness buds of councilmanic fame desire to turn the town back to the taxpayers free of debt. From all re- ports the taxpayers are fervidly anx- ious to have 1t turned back in any old condition--befOre the salvage charges mount up to a prohibitive figure.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

tive industry in the country today.
 These are the farmers for whose benefit application was made to the Treasury for insurance of contra band, and who are ready for any na- ..vnai trouble to protect them from the wicked bears.-New York Times
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

With Wick furnishing the build. ing, Friend Hickey the money, and Honest John" the experience-how are you willing to gamble on the out come?
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
FRANCIS WILL BE U. s.
 AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1e.-- It is announced that President Will son has rendered the American am bassadorship to the Russian court to David R. Francis of St. Louis. and that he has accepted it.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

Ten years ago, says the Star, Wick was the close associate of ex-convicts and other men of that class. Today he is claimed as a confrere by "Hon- est John" and "others of that class. " We much prefer the Wick of ten years ago.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916
TEXAS COTTON AND BRITISH
 BLOCKADE.

lO"diu llIo SuO OL IAC past "OSn the Treasury refused to insure cot ton sold for delivery to Germany by way of Holland. The application was made by the President of the Far mer's Union of Texas, which has a contract for the delivery of 3 mill lion bales at 27 cents to belliger- ent country which will accept the cotton at neutral port. The expen- ses of the operation are put at only enough to reduce the net of the in- genous farmers to- 20 cents, a price which looks very good to them. Their proposal is to ship the American cotton in American ships owned by Americans. In the words of Presi- dent Pope:
 We are gong to test this thing.
 l say we ought to be able to sell
 our cotton in every part of the
 world. 1 have determined to find
 out whether the farmer of the
 South has a market for his crop
 except through the spectators of
 this country, we are bearing the
 market every day. We want to
 Know whether we are to continue
 to be preyed upon by the bear
 element of this country, buying
 our cotton at II cents when it is
 worth 20 cents to 30 cents i'll the
 markets of the world. We are go-
 ing to try to reach the markets of
 the world.
 In support of these ideas there have been introduced bills laying an embargo on all trade with any coun- try which intereferes with trade con- trary to the Declaration of London. It is curious what ideas drift to Washington The Declaration of Lon don never was international law. Even our own Government, in it's protest against the British Orders in Council, relied upon" existing rules of the United States, irrespective of the Declaration of London. That de- claration is as dead as any corpse which floats within the Niagara Whirlpool, which gathers driftwood as naturally as Washington gathers curiosities of law and national po- 1icy. Cotton is absolute contraband, as truly and certainly contraband as the munitions of which it is propos- ed to forbid the sale, if the sale of cotton is interfered with.
 No nation protects trade in contra band, and the munitions trade is worth more than the cotton trade. The ingenious farmers who think they have a right to escape from the bears by embarrassing their coun- try's foreign policy thing that they. have something like natural right to the highest price quoted anywhere in the world for cotton. They are just as much outraged now as when they were suffering the general dis turbance of prices at the outbreak of the war, but made a plea for peculiar assistance. Now it is different. Prices of cotton have doubled, and the cot ton farmers are rolling in unaccus- toned wealth. According to a lead ing article in The Economic World:
 .'The present price of cotton af-
 lords the least efficient, or "mar-
 ginal." producers of it as profit,
 over and above the cost of pro-
 duction, of nearly 25 per cent;
 it affords the average producer
 profit of over 50 per cent; and
 the most efficient producers are
 making a profit of full 100 per
 cent. These are rates of profit
 probably not even approached in
 any other departments of produc- e-$-s"**E'++E-++S"s9"F's"E-E~v-E~E1-<+].
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

We are willing to admit John to help save your face-that Wick is very different man from what he was ten years ago.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

WANTED: Experienced woman de- sires work as cook or maid. Refer ences given. Address Prospector.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-02-19

Over 6O0,O00 tons of lead were mined in this country last year.