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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
ADJUSTMENTS
Dustin Farnum Tonight.

Ou8tin TATHuH OubNut.
1.-THE gentleman from Indiana"
Booth Tarkington's best loved work
and one OF the most popular books
ever written, is shown tonight at the
Grand, with Dustin Farnum most cap
ably playing the leading part. In
his support is pretty Winifred King
ston and other popular players. Page
Peters, Herbert Standing, Howard
Davies and Juan de la Cruz. The
play is the first contribution from the
Pallas Pictures, new Paramount
company, and is perfectly mounted
in every detail.
The Grand's Offering tomorrow Is
"The Reform Candidate" a comedy
drama in which Maclyn Arbuckle Is
supported by the beautiful Myrtle
Stedman and by Forrest Stanley.
"The Reform Candidate" is a dand-
and also Pal1as-Paramount subject
"The Gentleman from Indiana to-
night, follows the novel closely. 1t
is filed with thrills, among which is
real college football game to start
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
FUNERAL NOTICE.

MENZ-The funeral of the late Mrs.
Christine Steiner Menu will be held
from the home, o19 Fulton street, on
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Friends Of the family invited. Burial
private.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
Albert Axfngsr's Sons Begin Cutting
Near Old Second Loek-Laks
Cooper Ice company searts
Tomorrow.
ICE TEN INCHES THICK
10 sasd TO be o. Fine onk1ltyc. g.
Z q. Expects Cars In To-day
to Take Caro- Of Early
shipments.

Keokuk's annual ice harvest start
ed today and by tomorrow viii be
in full blast.
Albert Azingers Sons Ice company
began cutting at o'clock this morn.
ing with force Of men. The ice field
this company is working is situated
near the old second lock. about a hall
mile below the Azinger ice house.
The Azingers are using all new ma
chinery this year and look for boun-
t1fu1 harvest The ice is described as
being Of very good quality and Is
from ten to ten and one-half inches
thick.
The Lake Cooper Ice company VIII
begin operations tomorrow morning at
n o'clock with a force of fifty mon.
The ice house is situated. at the foot
of the old Absolute hill and the cut.
ting win be in the vicinity Of the
house. The ice at this point IL on an
average of ten and one-half inches
thick. Between sixty-five and sew
enty men will be employed by the
Lake Cooper Ice company % long -
from the ice house today. the quality
Of the Ice IL the best In years Two
tons q minute will be the capacity Of
the company.
Both the Lake Cooper company and
the Azinger company will ship part
Of their harvest and store part. A
start Will be made on filing the Azin-
ger ice house tomorrow.
Shipments may be hindered because
Of lack Of cars, due to the freight
congestion in the east. The c.. B. &
@. railroad is expecting several cars
here today to take care OF the first
shipm ents. As usual this railroad will
require q large quantity Of ice and
several thousand tons will be supplied
by local cutters. According to reports
from the railroad office today, efforts
will be made to get enough cars to
take care Of the ice shipments.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
BAND PLAYS WHILE
SOLDIERS FIGHT
(Continued from page L.

matter what the war councils say or
what the general thinks best. With
the French Zouaves this thing Is their
band.
This was on December 2, and that
morning General Sarrail, back at
Salonika. had ordered his forces to
retire. This band had marched down
TO Valandova from the mountains.
Perhaps they didn't know their march
was part Of a retreat, but, at the very
hour they were playing and singing
SO blithely about the Arabs, their fell
low Zouaves in the mountains were
packing up their things in their dug
outs and awaiting orders TO retire
from the mountain top trenches.
We were taken to hospital tent at
Strumnitza and found a dozen hospital
cots ready for US and our military
guide. In the center Of the tent was
big wooden stove which huge
French soldier kept filing with fire.
wood. The lights were candles.
A canvas tunnel ran from our tent
to another, in which lay thirty French
soldiers whose feet had been 'rost
bitten
1--WE start tomorrow for Paris" one
of them said. But it's a long way.
First we ride by train to Salonika.
Then they put us on boat, they tell
me, and take US out to a hospital
ship. Then the ship travels eight or
nine days till it reaches Marseilles.
Then we get on train and ride twen-
ty-four hours until we get to Paris
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
Western Rate Case.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON. Jan. IA peti.
ton for a rehearing in the western
rate cases was filed with the inter
state commerce commission today by
the Nebraska state railway commits
sion, which asked for revision of
passenger rates in northern Kansas,
northern Missouri, portions of Illinois.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Ne
braSka-
The petition says the commission
established rates Of "a cents pas
senger mile in this territory because
it found the return to the railroads
1858 on passenger traffic and 5.07 on
freight traffic. The finding OF the
Nebraska railway com omission is that
the return on passenger traffic is sos
percent and ATS on freight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
NOTICE.

am now in position to give close
attention to your beer and hquor or
ders for personal use only. Mail your
orders to J. w. Brady, Box "A, War.
saw, III Phone 70.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
|CALL EXTENDED
| TO REV. BACON.
Congregation o. First Christian ohrci,
Sends Invitation to Young
Des MoInss Man 70 be
PISTON.
HE rs DRAKE GRADUATE
Preached Here Week Ago and Was
Favorably Received Other
Churches Are After
Him, Too.
HE rs DRAKE GRADUATE

The Rev. Wallace r. Bacon Of Des
Moines was given a call to the First
Christian church of Keokuk yester
day. The action Of the congregation
will be ratified by the official board
at Its meeting tonight, and Rev. Ba.
con viii receive letter asking him
to come to the Keokuk church.
Rev. Bacon preached In Keokuk q
week ago, and made a very favorable
is being sought for by other congre-
cations. among them the one at Du-
1uth- There were other candidates
considered by the local congregation.
but Rev. Bacon was thought to be the
best, and the call given him.
He is resident of Des Moines, and
graduate of Drake university. He
is twenty-eight years old and is mar
ried. His wife Is a Des Mones wom-
an and graduate of Drake university
also. Both of them hold degrees In q
liberal arts course at Drake, and Rev.
Bacon graduated from the minis
terial department there.
The call to Rev. Bacon was voted
at the meeting Of the church yester-
day morning. A wire was sent to Des
Moines apprising him of the congrega-
TONS action. The official board will
address, letter to Rev. Bacon after It's
meeting tonight. It Is expected that
an answer will be received within a
few days.
The local church has been without
a regular pastor since the first Sun.
day in the year, when Rev. w. NJ.
Baker, now at Marshalltown, preached
his last sermon here.
The committee in charge Of secur-
ing a new pastor is under the CHAIR
manship Of L. d. Davidson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
Usury by Ia INKS.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON. Jan. i7.-Repre-
sentative Howard of Georgia before
the house rules committee today
charged a number of banks. particu-
larly in the south, have made gen
erai practice of exacting usury. Banks
in the New Orleans, Atlanta and Dial.
las federal reserve. districts he de-
clared were guilty.
Some Of the banks have charged
interest as high as twelve and four
teen percent. he asserted. He urged
the committee to report his resolution
for a congressional investigation
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
CITY NEWS.

Masonic. Special. EAS1e. Tuesday
7:30 o'clock. End degree.
The Paxius club of the Y. N. c,
A. will meet at the association to
night.
~. B. Well is able to be at the
store again. after an absence Of four
days caused by illness.
Frank M. Ballinger went to Bur
fngton today to appear in case
there involving a telephone company
Knights and Ladies OF Security
meeting tonight at o'clock at Cam.
eron's hall.
Division No. 1, A. o. n. will give a
card party at their hall, Ninth and
Bank streets, Thursday evening, Janu-
airy 20. Admission 15c.
The High school Bible class will
meet at the Y. NJ. G. A. this evening
for supper and study. Alfred Lee
Jones will have charge Of the class.
-Cigarmakers' fifth annual ball al
Woodman hall, Thursday, Jan. Goth
Agnes fourteen piece orchestra
Tickets $10O Ladies free. Rights OF
admission reserved
Miss Rosemary F1nigan, who un.
derwent an operation for appendicitis
at st. Joseph's hospital on Saturday
evening, is reported as out OF danger
and on the road to early recovery.
Fort Madison Gem City: That a
new form Of tax. the vehicle tax.
will soon be introduced by the city
council. as one of the modes of re-
trenchment, was stated by city Off
cials today. The tax will affect those
engaged in hauling, by teams in the
city. 1t is expected that the adoption
Of this method of taxation will add
goodly sum of money to the weak
ened funds Of the city.
The weekly pay roll was passed
at the meeting OF the city council
this morning. P. d. Kennedy, who
has been granted the city contract
for putting In cement walks next
spring. has been given an extension OF
sixty days in which to complete the
work. The date set for the compile
ton of the work was originally May
Howard Hank. who was brought
here from WapelIo. and who is
charged with the sale of whiskey
without having paid the special gov
eminent license, was released on 5000
bonds today. Hank was brought here
last week by Deputy q. 8. Marshal
Crowley and was bound over to await
the action Of the April grand jury in
the federal court. He was released
this morning when his bonds were
signed.
Illinois banks have been notified
to be on the lookout for several thou
sand dollars in new bills, which were
stolen recently from a train near
Pittsburgh, Pa, enroute to the printer
to be signed. Not one Of the notes
were signed. according to the notffi-
cation, and it is the signatures that
will have to be watched, the remain
der Of the notes being perfect. Ac-
cording to bank officials, it will be an
easy matter for the party or parties
who stole the notes to forge the sig
natures SO the notes will be hard
to detect The banks also received
word to be on the lookout for some
counterfeit silver certificates. The
banks also have been notified regard
ing the recent appearance Of a SO
counterfeit on the federal reserve
bank of the series 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
SCOVILLE MAN TO
BE HERE TONIGHT
Guy S. Williams to Meet with Evan
oellstic Committee at the
~ NJ, C., A,

Guy s. Williams. advance man and
publicity agent for Charles Reign SEQ.
Vile. the evangelist, will arrive In
Keokuk this evening and will DO pres.
ent at the weekly meeting OF the
evangelistic committee at lho y. NJ.
G. A.
Blue prints OF the tabernacle have
already been received here and Nj.
Williams will explain these and prob
ably set the exact date for the meet
insS here, best les giving addit onai IN
forina ton to the Keokuk committees.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
Trial Rostnoned Again.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-Start OF the
trial Of former Senator VIM. Lori
mer and his associates in the La
Sale Street Trust and Savings bank.
as alleged bank wreckers. was De
layed again today. Counsel for Lori
mer secured a continuance until Feb
ruary IA on their motion to conson-
date charges against him. The prose
cution notified Judge Devere it VIII
insist on immediate trial on that
date.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
CITY NEWS.

On Wednesday, Jan. rs. at Bur
1ington, is to be held meeting of
great importance to the democracy of
the first district Of Iowa. The meet
ing is called by Hon. A. e. Johns
Of Fort Madison. member Of the demo-
cratic state central committee from
this district, at the behest Of Nation
81 Committeeman Marsh and tho
state committee. Similar Uooe1nGs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
KEOKUK WOODMEN
TO MEET TONIGHT
Special Session Will be Held with f
G. Horns and Truman Plantx

G. korns and Truman PIantx
as Guests.
A special meeting of Keokuk camp
No. 623, NJ. w. A.. will be held this
evening In Woodmen hall. There will
be a class Of twenty-five candidates.
and F. G.. Korns of Des Moines, and
Truman Plantz Of Warsaw will be
guests of the order. Mr.. Plantz Is
the general counsel Of the order. and
Mr.. Korns is head OF the directorate
of the order.
Special effort Is being made to get
a big crowd for the meeting tonight.
Following the initiation there will be
refreshments served.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Mr.. Hughes's Philadelphia Speech

Gerard. in The Philadelphia Led0er)
Comments ! heard around me at the
Hughes meeting in the Opera House:
'Hs beard is not so gray as | thought
it was from his photographs"
"What a deep voice he has"
Wonder why he wore sack coat"
"Glad he only refers to his notes oc-
cssionally."
I have heard q good many Presidents
or Presidential candidates speak
Blaine, Cleveland, Harrison, Mckinley,
Bryan, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
Mr.. Hughes compares favorably with
that exalted coterie as a stump speaker.
He is highly srgumentative, as we're
Blaine and Harrison. He is less in
cisive than Roosevelt and not so ro-
tundly oratoricsl as Bryan and Nc
Kinley.
President Wilson's style is the most
polished of all, the most precise in its
correctness oftliction.
But the President does not reach so
many snappy clima1es which command
cheers as did Blaine and Bryan. Some
Of Mr.. Hughes's sentences are very
long. He has no little Alterations OF
speech, and does not, as so many public
takers do, have a few pet words which
he pronounces differently from nearly
everybody else. | like that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Court of Appeals Efficiency

In not a single instance during the
last thirty years have the people of
the state chosen as the Chief Judge
of the Court of Appeals one who
was not a member of that court at
the time of his election. For a gen
GRAFTON or more the choice has in
variably been made from among
those of ripe experience upon that
bench. The wisdom Of this is mani
fest. The ablest of practitioners at
the bar, even the most competent OF
Judges Of another court, cannot take
up the duties Of presiding judge OF
the highest tribunal OF the state and
perform them as efficiently as man
who has long and faithfully served
as associate judge and become init
mately acquainted with the rules,
practices, traditions and decisions of
the court.
Whether the experiment shall be
tried of setting aside this well es-
tablshed and salutary rule is an
issue to be decided at the November
election. Chief Judge Bartlett re-
tires at the end Of this year because
Of constitutional limitation of age.
To fill the vacancy, the Republicans
have nominated Frank II. HiScock,
Associate Judge of the Court Of APP
peals, who has served continuously in
that court since 1906. The Demo-
Gratis have nominated Almet +.
jerks, Presiding Justice of the APP
pellate Division of the Second De-
partment, who has never sat in the
higher court.
If there were any doubt Of Judge
Hiscock's fitness for the place the
question might be an essentially diff
ferent one. But it is no disparage-
ment of Justice Jenks's fine judicial
qualities to state what seems to be
the well recognized fact: that no oc-
cupant of the bench in this state
stands higher than Judge Hiscock in
the general regard of the bar for his
uprightness, ability and efficiency
and for the possession of the finest
judicial qualities. In our judgment
fairness to the other judges of the
court and the protection of the best
public interests call for the election
of Judge Hiscock as Chief Judge Of
the Court of Appeals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Columbus Day

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I find myself confronted with
conundrum. This day, October l., by
virtue Of an act Of the Legislature, is a
holiday in the State of New York, yet
passing through the streets Of THIS city
no one could detect cessation of labor
anywhere; all stores were open, tac-
tories. if anything, seemed more than
ordinarily busy; there were the same
weekday crowds. in Tower Broadway,
and they were not pleasure bent.
MY thoughts Drift back to last Satur-
dsy. when the business districts OF
Manhattan. looked deserted. Broad
wsv, between Canal and Twenty-thlrd
streets. had the aspect Of cemetery
at midnight. One of the busiest post
Offices in the wholesale district on or
binary days, Station d. at Fourth Ave
nue., was open for business, but there
were no clients. To-day, Of course, that
Office was closed; but saw number
of people vainly attempting to obtain
entry.
begin TO wonder if it is not a waste
Of time for the State Legislature TO
create a legal holiday since apparently
in this city at least, no business man
beyond Wall Street seems 20 recognize
il. Perhaps the state sets too high a
value on patriotism. This city appears
to prefer faith. CHARLES SLEEtb. '
New York. Oct. T., 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
The Negro Laborer
From tn. Rochester Herald

From The Rochester Hrrdid.j
Southern industries find themselves
in peculiar position because the
scarcity of labor in the North has sent
many industrial agents into that terri
tory in search of negroes for various
kinds of work. 1t is said that the
Pennsylvania Railroad has taken 1900
colored men from below Mason and
Dixon's line into its employ, and an
Ohio iron mill has secured thousand
Of these negro workers, and expresses
satisfaction with their labor.
At the capital of Alabama much alarm
is expressed at this exodus OF the
negro worker, and the City Council has
hastily enacted an ordinance penalizing
the commercial agent from the North
who invades that city on enticement
bent. Other places probably will take
the same means to discourage the &C
tivities of these agents.
II is long lane that has no turn,
and the creation of labor famine in
the agricultural and manufacturing in
dustries Of Dixie may arouse that sec
ton TO an appreciation OF negro labor
which has not been very much in evil
dence in recent years. We have heard
a great deal about the drifting niger"
down there, but precious little about
the Industrious ones. If the creation
of labor famine in that section shall
have the effect Of arousing the South
to an appreciation of the negro's eco
nomic value great deal will have been
accomplished in the settlement of what
has come to be considered vexing
problem"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Defective Criminals

Reestablishment of the police bu-
ureau for detectives, or psychopathic
laboratory, is an event on which the
public is to be congratulated. 1t is
unfortunate, perhaps, that this sig
nificant public work should have to
be carried on by funds privately sub
scribed, instead Of by public moneys.
Nevertheless, the resumption of the
work, now in an experimental stage,
though hardly TO be considered an
experiment because of the results al
ready produced, must demonstrate
its value in penology TO such an ex-
tent that public money will be forth
coming TO extend the scope of the
plan to the entire city.
ltGs manifestly absurd that men,
tai defective should, as has occurred
with many Of them, be sentenced and
serve his term with ordinary Grim
inals, TO come out and repeat the
crime and the servitude. That is TO
impose on the community a heavy
charge for police, courts and jails
without adequate protection for So
ciety or any hope Of help for the in
dividual. The advantage of the
psychopathic laboratory is that il
weeds out from the crop of criminals
those Of pronounced mental defects,
gives opportunity for study Of their
cases, and leads to hospital treat
ment where cure is possible, or TO
life segregation If that gems the
only way TO protect the community
against the unfortunntcs. That is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Autumn

From The Atlantic kor,hivD
Now when the time Of fruit and grain
is come,
When apples hang above the orchard
wall,
And from a tangle by tho roadside
stream
A scent Of wild grapes fills the racy air,
Comes Autumn with her sun-burnt
caravan,
Like long gypsy train with trapping,
gay
And tattered colors of the Orient,
Moving slow-footed through the dreamy
hills.
The woods OF Wilton, at her coming,
Tints of Bokhara and Of Samarcand;
The naples glow with their Pompeian
red,
The hickorics with burnt Etruscan
gold;
And while the cricke,s fife along her
Behind her banners burns the crimson
sun. BLISS CARMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
fielding Boston, American, was IN the

fielding Boston, American, was IN the
lead.
In the post-season games this year
Boston beat Brooklyn four games 70
one; the Chicago Americans beat the
Chicago Nationals four games
straight; the st. Louis Americans
Leaf the St. Louis Nationals four
games to one. In the post-seasoh
series of 1916 the Boston Americans
beat the Philadelphia Nationals four
games to one; the Chicago Amerl-
cans beat the Chicago Nationals four
games to one; the st. Louis Ameri-
cans beat the st. Louis Nationals
four games to one. In the last seven
wears the National organization has
won only one worlds series.
For this startling inferiority all
along the line there can be only one
Observation-Disclosures methods and
management in the National League.
This league, for one thing, pins Its
faith too much to veteran players.
For example, the Boston Americans
defeated the Giants in the worlds
series of 1913. But in 1915, when
the Boston team played the Phila-
delnbia Nationals for the worlds
title, it presented an entirely new
staff of pitchers-all of them stars.
In the series this year Brooklyn de-
pended largely on Marquard and
Coombs. But both of those twirlers
appeared in world series Of the past
in 1913 and prior years-though
not then under contract with Brook
lyn. Manager McGraw kept the old
Giant team intact-a collection of
veterans-until it rusted, snapped
and fell into last place or there
abouts.
The American League managers
are keener to hunt out and develop
new players. Youth must have Its
way in a sport like baseball, in which
it is much better to experiment than
to stand pat. That is to large ex-
tent the secret of the junior leagues
success-a success which has been
startlingly emphasized once more by
the hollow, one-sided character of
this years fight for first honors in
the baseball world.