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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
HOG CHOLERA
FIGHT WAGED
Inspector Announces There Will be
Redistricting Of State for
More Efficient
Work.

J. S. Koen, federal inspector, has
issued the following announcement:
The work for the control of hog
cholera is to be extended on Septem-
Der l to include the entire state in
stead of just the twenty eight coun-
ties in which we have been working
during the past year. This extension
of the work will necessitate the re-
districting of the state and the chang
ing of headquarters for some of the
inspectors We will put inspectors
over the state in such a way that 1t
will be possible for us to keep in
touch with outbreaks of cholera
wherever they may occur and assist
each community in controlling the
disease and preventing serious losses.
We will continue the organization
of animal industry organizations as
rapidly as time will permit. We are
anticipating the cooperation Of every
one who is interested in the live
stock industry of Iowa to assist us
this year in saving all the hogs pos
sible that we may thus aid In bring
ing the war to a speedy and success
full end.
We are very grateful for the hearty
and earnest cooperation that has
been accorded US in the twenty-efght
counties, and we expect from them
not only support in each county, but
that their influence will also be eX-
tended to the, new territory that they
may assist materially in successfully
/ inaugurating the work there.
| The cholera situation is not alarm
ing in any of the twenty-eight coun-
| ties, yet there is sufficient 10 cause
| each county. township and school dis
! trict' officer TO be constantly on
! his guard during the next few months
! and to report early any outbreak OF
! the disease. Announcements will be
! made of new districts and the in
spectors assigned to them as readily
as they can be arranged.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
.aIter BIedsoe, Negro Arrested Here
Monday Morning, is Sought
by the. St. Louis
Authorities.
HIS RECORD Is GIVEN
Was Sent to Missouri State Peniten-
tiary in 1914 For Two Terms
OF TWO Years
Each.

That Walter Bledsoe, alias Frank
Smith, the negro arrested here early
Monday morning. charged with
breaking and entering the BRASIL
lunch car on South Fourth street, is
wanted in ST. Louis on two charges
Of burglary, is the information con-
tanned in a letter received by Chief
of Police Hennemann this morning
from William Young, chief of police
of st. Louis. A photograph of Bled-
soc was sent in the letter and is a
likeness of the man being held here.
Bledsoe was arrested here Monday
morning by officers Conn and Crit
fey, who found him rummaging in
the lunch car, it is reported. At the
police station he was searched and
cigars, sandwiches, candy, packages
of chewing gum and some pennies
were found on his person. When
arraigned in the superior court he
waived preliminary examination and
grand jury in 500 bond He is at
present in the county jail.
Following is the letter from the
st. Louis chief of police detailing
Bledsoe's record; received in answer
W one WIllltu ny SulSl
Walter Bledsoe, alias Frank
Smith, colored, subject of your
letter of September A, 1917, is
well known to this department
and l enclose his photograph and
Bertillon description. His record
Is as follows:
ARRESTED September 8, 1911,
on charge of burglary, and SEN
fenced to the Missouri state re-
forInatory at Boonville. Mo. Ar
rested January 81, 1914. charged
with burglary and larceny-two
counts; sentenced to Missouri
state penitentiary, Jefferson City,
for two terms of two years each"
This negro resided at 2622-A
North Newstead avenue and is
now wanted by this department
on two charges of burglary. In
the event you fail to convict him,
please hold him and advise me.
If the negro Is convicted by the
local court he will serve his term
here before being turned over to the
ST. Louis authorities.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
NO JURY FOR
AK CRIME CASE
judge Orders Cameras Out OF Court
Room Under Penalty
Of Charges of
Contempt.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
RED OAK, Iowa, Sept. the
work of selecting prospective jurors
for the Kelly murder trial here was
pushed today to enable the begin
ming of pre-emptory challenges be-
fore the court recesses tomorrow
night. 1t had been planned to recess
tonight until Monday, but the slow
ness of tentative selections has blast
ed this hope.
While both the state and defense
plan to open the trial proper Monday
morning, it seems likely that the
twelve men who will try Kelly for
the murder of eight persons at Vii
lisca in 1912 will not be selected by
that time.
Thirteen tentative jurors had been
accepted when adjournment was tax
en- last night, which leaves nineteen
still to be accepted, before the chal-
lenges can begin. Each side has ten
challenges.
Judge Boies, presiding. took some
more theatricals from the trial when
he ordered the photographing of
Kelly stopped under penalty of con
tempt charges.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

While in Keokuk not long since,
with a little time on our hands, 1t
occurred to us to see the city" Not
the busy marts of trade nor the man,
factories that crown her hills-we
were in a retrospective mood, and
our thoughts went back to the old
Keokuk of pioneer days.
We glanced from where we sat in
the comfortable seat of a twentieth
century gasoline steed, and our eyes
rested upon the statue of man on
horseback hero of the civil war
General Curtis; and as We gazed
there passed in imagination before
our eyes the blueclad figures of d
multitude marching to martial music.
| We awoke, and the pilot at the wheel
sped on his way, and we soon found
ourself amidst the leafy bowers OF
the primevial forest, whose grateful
shade we now stopped to enjoy, wheit
before our astonished vision stood a
noble red mana genuine unhyphen-
ated American Chief Keokuk-
whose name the city bears; and as
we gazed there came into our
thooghts these fragmentary lines:
"Here lived and loved another race
of beings: beneath the same sun that
shines for you the Indian hunter pur-
sued the painting deer; gazing on the
same moon that now sheds its efful-
gent rays the Indian lover wooed
his dusky mate"
And our mind went back to time
almost beyond the memory of those
who have outlived the Biblical allot-
ment Of life; back to the hardy
pioneer-those brave souls who in
the western wilds gave to liberty a
habitation and name. The cycle is
complete-we have wandered from
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

civilization back to barbarism-now
for home. Which way? Follow the
street car track Our meditationS
were soon disturbed by the realiza'
ton that we had been changed from
dead level to what was apparently
in places a perpendicular; the ca
swayed and swung and grated over
what seemed to be a volcanic erup-
ton, and our inquiry ELECTED the in
forma ton that we were travelling on
a popular thoroughfare for tourists,
known as Franklin street We pom
dered, unable to understand why this
street had alone escaped the onward
march of civilization, when suddenly
we became pregnant with thought,
and we exclaimed, Eureka. 1t Is all
plain now they are preserving 1t as
faithful representation OF the ante
diluvial, or stone age.
In the generations yet, to come,
when we who now occupy life's stage
shall have returned to the dust from
whence we sprung, those who follow
us will gaze upon the hero of the
civil war, when the shackles of the
slave were broken and the union
cemented into one common country;
the noble red man will remind them
of the pioneer days when westward
the star of empire was taking It's
way; and as they trace their path,
painfully and slow Ger Franklin
street, their thoughts will instructive
ly turn back TO a time before civil
ization's dawn, when might made
right, and progress was word I'M
known And they will not only re.
ceiye valuable lesson in ancient
history but possibly puncture more
tires and emit more opaque profanity
than will be consistent with the fu-
ture welfare of their immortal souls.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
A Home Recipe For
Removing Wrinkles

Who will blame the modern woman
for trying to look as young and at
tractive as she reasonably can? Why
should she be placed at a disadvantage
in numerous ways by wearing wrinkles.
If she can avoid these hateful marks of
advancing ages Few women, however.
know what to do to effectualy rid them
selves of wrinkles or sagginess- Most of
the advertised preparations are ur1satis-
factory and very expensive. But very
simple and harmless home remedy, which
where all the patent preparations fail
Buy an ounce of powdered saxoLtte at
any drug store. Dissolve the whole ounce
In half pint of witch hazel and use as
a wash lotion. The results are practically
instantaneous. Marked il provement is
noticed immediately after the very first
trial. Wrinkles and sagging are corrected
and the face feels so refreshed and sinug-
like
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
WOMEN'S CLUBS
TO BOOST IOWA
They Will Co-ope rate to Make Week
Bio Success-Meetin9s Planned
During Cee-
bration.

The women's clubs Of Iowa have
promised an enthusiastic cooperation
toward making Greater Iowa Week q
complete success. A very careful can
vass of all of the women's organiza-
lions in Iowa, made by the Greater
Iowa association, shows a universal
desire to buy Iowa-made goods and to
do whatever else the women can to
make Iowa a greater state in the
broadcast sense of the term.
Many individual pledges have been
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
Mrs. Wilson Wants Divorce.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
RENO. New, Sept IA divorce
suit against Huntington Wilson, for
mer assistant secretary of state
under Roosevelt, is on file here to-
day
Mrs. Lucille Wilson's complaint
says she has lived "a miserable
existence" with her husband and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

characterizes him as "cruel and
domineering." While she was in
delicate health, she says. she was
forced to take tedious trips through
the country with Wilson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
Another Operation Avoided.

Richmond Ind-aFor years sick and weak from
female trhes that when going had slowly
with my steps, sit down at the top to rest me
operation, and friends
thought into our new house my daughter
taken good results did my weakness dsappeared,
home, do all Kinds OF
work and raised chickens and ducks cannot say
enough in praise Lydia Pnkhams Vegetable Compound
M o. JOHNSTON Route d, Box $780, Richmond Ind.
Of course there are many serious cases that only a
surgical operation will relieve. We freely acknowledge
this but the above letters and many others IKE the
medicine in many cases is all that is needed
r. WI, want special to Lydia f. Pinham ed-
- yuu Mass. opened,
enc 70 by woman confidence.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
The Right Medicine in Many Cases
Does Better than the Surgeons
Knife. Tribute to Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.


Des MONIES, Iowa.-"My husband says would
have been in my grave today had it not been for
Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound. / suf-
said could not live one year without operation
NV husband objected to the operation and had me
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. :!
soon commenced to get better and am now well
and able to do my own homework. / can recon-
mend lydia Z. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound to
anv woman as wonderful health restorer" Mrs.
BLANCHE JEFFERSON, 7O3 Lyon St., Des Mones Iowa.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

only made it worse, and then you
put some "Gets-It' on and the pain
eases right away. and the corn pecls
right Off like a banana skin
"ain,t it a grand and heavenly feel
ing?"
"Gets-It" has revolutionized the
corn history of the world Millions
wear smaller shoes and have pain
free feet We old fellows and
young fellows forget our toes and
feel frisky as colts. Everybody
with corn or callus needs Gets
It." We will ali walk about and
enjoy ourselves as we did without
corns. Get bottle today from your
druggist, or sent on receipt of price
by r. Lawrence & Co, Chicago, ILL.,.
sc is all Won need to pay.
Sold in Keokuk and recommended
as the worlds best corn remedy b!
& Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

who can repeat from memory the
greatest number OF Iowa-made arti'
ELSEWHERE they are made,-the
trade name Of article, etc.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

Subscribe for The Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
keokuk Always Fully Appreciated
the Farmers and Their Families,
and Sincerely Sought Their
Friendship.
APPRECIATION MUTUAL
AqricuIturists Around Here, In Three
States, ave Always Been Cordial
to keokuk People and
Merchants.

The real aristocracy of Iowa, I'LL
nois and Missouri today lives on the
farms,
Keokuk has always recognized. the
high standing. socially, economically
and in every way of the farmer and
his family. For over half a century
families Of farmers in the three
states have been an important part
of the social life of Keokuk.
Keokuk business men have always
recognized that the farmer is the
most important customer they have.
They have rejoiced in a large farmer
trade in the retail stores of Keokuk.
They have held this trade by their
sincere appreciation of the good
citizenship and fine brain power to
be found on the farms around keo'
ll1k
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
FRANKLIN STREET, KEOkUk

Dublin Backed
Map.
he Donnellson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
They Enjoy Coming Here.

Keokuk business men have never
tried to jolly the farmer, but have
sought to make him and his family
enjoy coming to Keokuk and trading
here. In this they have succeeded,
largely because of their sincerity.
While some other towns have
loudly advertised carnival companies
as attractions for the countryside,
Keokuk has put on big festival
comprising some of the best shows
in America from Ruth Law to can
ming contests. On these they have
spent from ten to thirty thousand
dollars each year, sincerely believing
that nothing Is too good for the peo-
pie from the country homes, and
nothing too good to be appreciated by
the families of the farmers here
about
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07
Sincere friendships Last.

This sincerity Of appreciation OF
the farmer and his family by Keokuk
merchants has had it's natural re-
action in high appreciation Of Keokuk
retailers by the people of the sur
rounding country in three states.
Keokuk stores sell their goods for
many miles around, and in the homes
on the farms are found Keokuk
goods of every description, the year
round, to which additions are being
made constantly.
Keokuk appreciates the people Hv-
ing in the homes around this city.
The people in the farm homes seem
to appreciate Keokuk. This fine
state of affairs promises to continue
permanently, as 1T has existed for
three quarters Of a century.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-07

Gate City want ads.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-28

maj mas 111c11nng 70 10 WIN me," j
replied sharply. II was not the. skip.
per then but am now. Your names
are on the papers regularly enough,
and the only thing need to explain
is the necessity for change in our
sailing course. AS most Of you know,
war has broken out in Europe since
this ship cleared from Baltimore. The
chances are about hundred to one
that we would be captured, or sunk, If
we tried to reach our port through the
Channel" 4. ,ss II y J. az+t,,.,
by whomf" 1t was Liverpool who
spoke. .~ .%:.5 r.
English or French warships."
! "It's a d. Dutch cargo then we've
got in the hold. That's the way fig
ured it. Well, now look here, sir.
Smitz is the. only Dutchman aboard,
an the rest -ov us don't take kindly to
that sort O. job
you're sailormen, and shipped on
this voyage before ever war was de-
clared. Now will you listen to me I'M
til I get throughT'
""Ah, let him talk, Red" someone in
terjected. -...- K. l~. ..
outlined my plan in as few words
as possible, and they seemed to listen
respectfully enough, only occasionally
interfering question. Liverpool did
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-28
SYNOPSIS.

IVOT VIZ
CHAPTER Robert Hollis, one
time sea captain, who tells the story,
is a guest on Gerald Carrington's
yacht, Esmerada. 1t is supposed to
be a stag party and Hollis is sur
prised on discovering a woman, who
evidently wishes to remain unknown,
aboard.
CHAPTER II-IIollis, the next
night, succeeds in having an interview
with the woman. She re- tells
nim her name is Vera.
CHAPTER IlI-Carring his
guests of the coming war, ID that
re is engineering copper pot:
CHAPTER IV-The yacht is sunk
in a collision and Hollis saves Nc
Cam, millionaire, and one OF the par
ty.
CHAPTER V--Hollis and Mccain
rescue Vera and leave the ship in a
small boat.
CHAPTER VI-Hollis and Vera be-
come friendly, though he is unaware
of her identity
CHAPTER VII-McCann refuses to
submit to Hollis authority, and the
. enforces it. 49,.
L:rAPTER VIII-The castaways are
I'D by ship, the Indian Chief,
Mich takes. them aboard.
CHAPTER IX-The Indian Chief
has recently been struck by lightning
and is almost a wreck All the off,
GERS are dead. Hollis meets the own
err, who tells him the vessel has
cargo of ammunition, consigned to the
German government.
CHAPTER X-Hollis consents to
take charge of ship and continue voy-
age Vera recognizes an old friend in
Robert Bascom, owner of the Indian
Chief
CHAPTER Xl-Some dissatisfaction
among the crew uqickly develops, and
Hollis selects his officers.
CHATTER XI!-- Mccain wants to
return to New York, and tries to cor.
rupt the crew.
CHAPTER XIII-Hollis finds him.
self forced to confine Mccain to a
cabin.
CHAPTER XIV-Vera and Hollis
agree that for Bascom's sake the ship
must be taken to it's destination. HOl-
lis learns that Vera is Gerald Caring
tons daughter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-28
PRICE OF WHEAT.

There has been considerable price
hysteria the last few days. All sorts
and conditions of men have aiken
their pens in hand to decree price
fixed not upon economic conditions
but purely and simply upon their own
Grass ignorance of the situation.
The government should consider the
cash price of wheat at terminal points
when government control sent the
prices sagging and created a condition
that threatens severe financial loss to
the farmers of the northwest.
1t would only be fair and equitable
to establish price in harmony with
prices prevailing on the open market
when the food administration bill was
passed and before prices were forced
down through governmental interven-
tion.,
The price millers and others in need
of wheat were paying, under the nor
nal operation of the law of supply
and demand surely should form the
basis of present prices. 1t would be
unfair to make the farmer sell for
less than the market offered before
governmental price fixing: absolutely
demoralized the grain market
No one can question the fairness
of the prices offered for cash wheat
at Minneapolis prior to the passage of
the food bill These prices were based
purely upon supply and demand. No
speculative factors entered into the
fixing of that price at all. The wheat
was in demand, the supply was linn
tied and the farmers of the northwest
are entitled to what they would have
received for this crop had not those
prices been depressed by the effect
on the market of the food bill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-28
WHAT BRITAIN WANTS.

What does England want out of the
war?
The question is suggested by one of
the recent phases of The kaiser's prop.
uganda in this country, as shown in
the utterances of some of the kaisers
senator's and some of the kaiser S
newspapers
These have done their best to Gre
ate the impression that Britain in
some mysterious way is blocking
peace negotiations until she can grab
certain advantages, or territories.
1t is just as false as all the other
stories which the kaiser lovers have
sprung. 1t is false on the whole and
false in detail
In the first place it is not Britain's
say as to when peace shall be de.
clared. AS the banker of the allies,
the United States, through President
Wilson, can call the war off at any
time AS the principal military power
in the alliance, France can do the
same thing.
What England does want out of the
war is best explained by the record of
what England has asked for.
First-She wants Germany to ge.
out of Belgium. She declared war on
Germany, when Germany refused to
stay out of Belgium, and offered Ger.
many every opportunity to preserve
the peace by submitting every issue
to arbitration.
Utterly unprepared for war, Britain
only drew the sword when Germany
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-28
GIRLS! USE LEMONS!
make A BLEACHING,
BEAUT|fY|NG CREAM

The juice of two fresh. lemons
strained into a. battle containing
three ounces of orchard white makes
whole quarter pint of the most re.
markable lemon skin, beautiffer 1t
about the cost one must pay for a
small jar of the ordinary cold creams.
Care should be taken to strain the
lemon juice through a fine cloth 80
no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is
used to bleach and remove such blem-
ishes as freckles, saHowness and tan
and is the ideal skin softener, smooth
ener and beautifier. 49,
Just try it! Get three ounces Of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemons from the grocer and
make up quarter pint of this
sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and
massage it daily into the face, neck,
arms and hands. 1t naturally should
help to soften, freshen, bleach and
bring out the roses and beauty pf
any skin. 1t is simply marvellous to
smoother rough, red hands.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-08-28
NEWSPAPER MEN HAVE
INSURANCE COMPANY
Mutual Organization to Protect
Plants of Rlickertail Pub
.. fishers b.. >,

The Publishers Mutual Fire Insul,
ance Co., which has been in process
Of organization for some time. finally
has applied for a charter and now is
being examined by: the state insur-
ance commissioner preliminary to the
granting of permission to operate.
The home office of North Dakota's
first Fourth Estate. insurance com!
pany Is Devils Lakes,ands the incor-
porators are N. M. Crary of Devils
Lake, N. ]. Forkner of Langdon, T..
A. Monteith of Finley, e. l.. Richter
of Larimore, and David r. Carlson Of
Towner all well known newspaper
men prominent in the North Dakota
Press association. Being a purely mu.
tual organization no capital stock is
required.