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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
GRIMES AND CONDITIONS.

A correspondent criticises The Gate City for
conderning the anarchists and I. ". W. who
are creating so much disturbance in the west
instead, he says, of attacking and seeking to
remedy the conditions that produce such bodies
of men.
But what conditions here in America can be
said to produce men who advocate the burning
of other mems crops' IF by frugality and
faithful work men are able to secure for them
selves things that the less industrious eovet, is
that a condition to be attacked and cured' The
fact that the inequalities of possessions in our
country are as great the inequalities of effort
and will to succeed does not make critics or
enemies of society of the masses Of men. Onl!
a small part of the people of America consider
that a condition which ought to be changed by
violence or crime.
1t is safe to say that every man finds far be-
vond his reach something that he desires-as
far perhaps as affluence is from thriftess idlers
vet that does not move him to burn hard
working farmers crops. When the great body
of Americans are Industrious and honest and
only the few are l. W. VS. and anarchists.
how can the responsibility for these be thrown
upon conditions that exist for all? Individuals
react differently TO the same conditions, AMI
why should we attack and change conditions
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
TO
BLOW UP BRIDGE
Two Men SsuFking on Structure Just
Before TrainIoad Of NUM-
tons Was Due to
Cross

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
kANKAEEE. III. Aug. Am at
tempt 10 blow up the 400 foot steel
bridge Of the Big -Four railroad at
Aroma PARK, five miles from here,
just heto.s : E-ainioad OF munitions
was 20 pass over IL was foiled early
today by VIZ Bean. night section
foreman after Al exchange Of shots
With two ue1 VITO escaped
Police believe TIE intention O, the
two men ~S 20 bomb the bridge as
the train passed oTe- e. The train
comprised EEs--- CAFE OF motor
trucks and TWO coaches O. drivers,
and was bound for Al Atlantic port
Bean had been se-- 20 the bridge
20 make IN nspsc-ioa before the
train was d3a s-5 discovered the
men craving to-s-d the farther end
on their hands and Neez He opened
fire with Z shnt El and they re.
turned # With pistols. az they fed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Strike is Prevented.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 4.-There
will be no strike of Southern Pacific
employees tonight
Following eight hours OF confer
ences, announcement was made to-
day that the brotherhoods, yielding
TO pressure from the federal board of
Cancellation and mediation and the
national defense council had agreed
to postpone the strike. pending arbi-
tration. The board OF mediation and
Cancellation will act as the medi-
atorS.
oar future course depends on the
mediation boards decisions" was the
statement from brotherhood head
quarters today.
The strike had been set for six
o'clock tonight and would have call
ed out $500 engineers, fremen, con-
ductors and trainmen on the South
ern Pacific lines.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

Des Moines Capital: Loyal men In
the state Of Montana got up In the
nighttime and, with masks over their
faces, took Frank Little, an /. w. w.
leader, out and hanged him until he
was dead. Little had been talking
treason. He had been melting insur-
erection. He had abused the consti-
tuition and laws of his country, wind
ing up by calling our soldiers scabs
In khaki. This last assertion was
too much for the citizenship of Mon
tana.
This tragedy might have been ex-
pected. Other tragedies like 1t will
follow. The government Of the
states and the nation ought to inquire
In order to ascertain whether or not
these men, who call themselves /. w.
VS. have any just grievance against
any state or nation. 1t ought TO be
asce-tained whether or not they have
been oppressed or wrongfully dealt
with by any one in authority. II
there is a just grievance, 1t ought to
be Immediately remedied. If 1t Is
ascertained that these men are de-
termined not to work and have adopt
ed lawless method and, IN meas
ure, attach themselves to the cause
OF labor. then they ought to be sup
pressed. Stockades should be built
and every man should be placed In
lie stockade to be kept there until
the war Is over.
This Is a big free country. There
is room for every, man and. there is
work for every mans hands. There
are millions of acres of public lands
which could be taken as homesteads
by these members OF the l. w W.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
TODAYs BIT OF VERSE
In The OPEN,


On the mesa IN the open.
With It's background of the hills
Where the hazy, golden sunlight
Over purple reaches spills;
And the scent Of sage is waited
On the zephyrs passing by,
Breathing low with covert passion
Like q lovers plsintive sigh;
| could stand and gaze forever
Drinking the beauties rare,
Breathing deep the fragrant breezes
That are made TO strange care;
And adore the God OF Nature
In his vast expanding home,
unadorned in spreading grandeur
Here beneath the arohing dome,
In the distance silver ripples
Mark the winding OF a stream.
Flashing diamonds OF sunlight
AS the waters CLINT and CLEAN;
And the mountains to the westward,
Softened by an azure haze,
Form paradise Of beauty
While feast my soul and gaze.
Tell me- not OF Arts dominion,
Tell me not Of Mans estate,
am looking into heaven,
YesI am standing at the gate:
In the open. on the mesa,
With the rolling hills in view.
Old as sun and earth and heaven.
Yet like love. forever new.
Jake H. Harrison. IN Springfield Republican.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

Of
= .' Aaains or

They are not compelled to work for
monopolies. They are not compelled
to be. as they say. slaves Of capital.
They could be Independent II they
should avail themselves Of. opportuni-
ties offered.
The men who are enlisting to hight
for the freedom of this nation do not
intend to endure or permit treason
at home by anybody. The nation
and the state should take immediate
action to suppress these maraudlng
bands who have the impertfnence 10
set up a government of their own
They are doing in this country what
the marauding bands are doing In
Russia. In Russia they do not know
any better. They have not been tree.
They have been suppressed so long
that they do not know what to DO
with themselves. Nobody has been
suppressed in the United States. In
the hearts OF men who do not desire
to work, it Is easy enough to plant
discomfort. They are unhappy any
way. They are Jealous of those who
work and try to save. They want
to attain results without working and
without saving They denounce III
gotten wealth and then attempt 10
practice the work of the highway
man.
This /. W. w. scheme 10 danger
Immediately at hand. 1t will have to
be met by lawful action or, when the
grievance grows greater, men who
have homes and f1resides will defend
the same In their own way.
The I. W. W. is a dangerous form
of treason. It's suppression is up to
the government OF the states and
the nation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
rhr.. sznef.s &c. 500.

United Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Aug G-reriug the "a
rade o: Caics zosas IL the nsE ma
tioasI army today, three bandits over
powered and bound three payroll
CLERKS IN the Once Of ]. Snyder & Co..
contractors On tie eighteenth floor Of
the Peoples Gas company building
and ESCAPED With $500 The police
were notified by telephone operator
who was sfglaIIed when one Of the
CLERKS crs-Isd 20 telephone. knock
ed the instrument 10 the floor and
yelled for help
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Race War for Tonieht.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
DASVTLLE. Va. Aug. Wild ru-
mors OF conspiracy among negroes
OF this section to participate in a race
war tonight after bad feeling for the
past several weeks. resulted late to-
day In the hurried swearing In OF hfs
~ special deputies at Schoolfeld.
near here and general alarming OF
the whites. Negro intormants have
told the police all negro women
have been warned to stay indoors to-
night because OF trouble with the
whites.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Shot Wifi and Self.

United Press Leased Wire Service
BOSTON, Aug 4-Major VIM
Hoffman, L. s. A, retired, early to-
day shot and killed his wife. Orc, ana
then committed suicide IN his apart
ment IN Dorchester. The reason for
the act is unknown.
: a physician in the building heard
the shots and a few seconds later
broke into the apartment TO find the
couple lying side by side on bed
Both died in a few minutes
Major Hoffman was seyenty-eight
years old
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Objectionable Bed Ticks.

I nited Press Leased Wire Service.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4.-Red,
white and blue mattress coverings
may be all right in Norway, but they
are not welcomed in America
The captain of the Norwegian
steamer Terrier was so informed to-
day by customs officials here, after
workmen at a ship yard had COM
planned the national colors were used
for bunk coverings on the ship. The
objectiona BILE ticking was destroyed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Discolored or Spotty
Ski, Easily Peeled on

The freckling discolortng or rousnes =.
Ing to which most skins are SUP 81 II
this season, may readily be gotten ~ the
face before retiring and removed " la.
morning with soap and water, cofnl ED. an
" pesls OF the dts6SUred skin; Gssts
There's no more effective way OF oahEns
ing tan, freckfes or other cuta Al
defects- Little skin Particles coIs.nt
each day, SO the process itself doesnn
even temporarily mar the com pien ,,sg'
and one soon acquires brano ~
EpotleSs. giriishly beautiful face
Wrinkles caused by weather. wonsjT.
Illness, are best treated by q sim pie sd AZ.
ton OF powdered saxolite, one ounce
solved in one-haff pint vitch ..s,,,l,
Bathing the face in this produces
mar Vicious transformation
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Substitute for ea,oIlne.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug "A sub
stitute for gasoline which has proved
successful in severe tests by automo-
bile experts is the discovery claimed
today by F. A Kormann, San Fran
cisco chemist flst
Ten cents worth of his compound
mixed with water IN the proportion
Of two ounces TO gallon OF water,
has run a loaded six cylinder car up
and down hills for 100 miles, Kor-
man declared
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

highest virtue 10 always unconscious The reason
why good people often disaseeable why we nee
them, 10 because they working at it too hard
when meet those who kind honest generous
helpful dependable and clean, and don't realize it. you
Feel delightful atmosphere OF course It Is neces
sary through the stage Of struggle you
arrive the high level Of mastery And better to
strive than But the point you
still In the struggling plane conceal IT, as Is more
likely give offense than to do sood-0r Frank Crane
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
ADJUSTMENTS.
At the Hippodro,.

Bessie Barriscale Is seen
fantasy-drana of the mountain
"Bawbs o'Blue Ridge" a nan, IN
angle-Kay Bee play from the ne,
Monte NJ. Katterjohn. This tsu o.
subject that has been spoken ~ me
second edition Of Peggy" and - a
it Miss Barriscale is said tn nrN u
a characterization quite as naiva seal
charming as did Miss Burke IN anu
former TriangleInce success. ~s
A new leading man-new ~
to Triangle patrons-is seen opnosiss
Miss Barriscale In this play Hn
Arthur Shirley, and he plays the M. -
of Ralph Gunther, the "wrttin, n, par,
who at last brings happiness into ~
life Of the little waif. This alor @s
to be presented at the Hippodronss
tonight.
In conjunction with "Bawbs .. .,
Blue Ridge" will be shown a ,h. Te
ing Helen Holmes r. r. dran,a Ai
new Triangle comedy. Brine a ,ha
children.-Adverttse 'ue
Earle Williams In 1.-THE Hawk,
Adapted from the celebrated nla,
The Hawk" appears at the GranI
tonight In picture form, one Of the
best OF the season, Earle William.
always attractive and popular !.
seen in the leading role and the snn
porting company is made up OF my
cream Of VitaEraph's artists DIV
sides this five reel feature tonight
Victor Moore comedy called "No,o,
Boating." viii be shown. This nv
gram is ono that Is we'll worth ~ sas
ing. Tomorrow night the Grand
takes great pleasure in announc,ns
the third appearance Of the distins
uished actor, Mr.. Frederick Wsrds
in new Pathe Gold Rooster plsy
The Fires OF Youth" Mr.. Ward.
will be supported by a wonderful css'
including Jeanne Eagels. Earnss.
Howard and Helen Badglev. "Ths
Wrong Mr.. Fox" clever comedr
will also be shown on tomorros
nights program The same oonnlo,
prices prevail at the Grand. balcony
five cents and the lower floor TO,
Observation-Disclosures.
The Great Patterson Shows
d. d. Reeves wishes to Announce
to the circus and show loving peonIs
of Keokuk and vicinity, that he has
contracted with the great Patterson
Shows and trained wild animal cir.
Gus for weeks engagement. com.
mencing August 13. The Patterson
fier, on which tons OF para ,hernali.
scores of circus wagons, elephants
horses. ponies and three hundred
people, connected with the show. ara
transported, on an all steel train Of
thirty cars. The Patterson aggresa.
ton is by far the largest outdoor
amusement institution Of the kind in
the world. No less than twenty sepa.
rate attractions will be presented and
seventeen entertainment features
never before seen in Keokuk are TO
be assembled on the mammoth mid.
way. One of the principal features
il the Patterson trained Wild animal
arena and one ring circus, marvel
ously trained elephants, horses.
ponies, dogs, monkeys, etc, making
the most pretentious single attraction
ever presented on 4 midway unit
Watch future announcemeut.-A
vertisement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
BURY LITTLE
NEAR LYNCHING
Funeral Of I. w. w.. Leader to be at
Butte, Called Fighting
Ground Of Or
ganlzation.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 4.-"Bury
Frank Little on the fighting ground"
This message, received from VIM.
Haywood, national l. w. W., secre-
tary, caused a change today from the
original plan to send the body OF
Frank Little. murdered l. w. w. ex-
ecutive to Yale. Oklahoma, for burial.
Haywood. who is In charge of the fun
eral arrangements, advised that Lit
ties brother had authorized burial in
Butte
A general invitation to organized Ia
Dor to participate in the demonstra-
ton, which will feature the funeral
was issued today by the local I. w. W.
union. I'VE deem 1t the duty Of or
anized labor to attend the funeral OF
our murdered fellow worker" said
the invitation.
No hearse will be used. Twenty
men will pear the casket upon their
shoulders, marching at the head of
the silent parade of thousands Of min
ers who viii participate.
Federal and state officials here were
swamped with kilograms of protest
over the lynching today Almost ev-
cry I. W. W. local in the country has
sent a message OF condemnation a
particularly bitter protest was sent by
the Portland. Ore, union. Little was
arrested there about year ago as the
result Of HIS activity in a free speech
campaign.
A death mask" and photographs of
Little's body were made yesterday by
his friends and will be distributed
broadcast over the country In an eff
fort to crystalize sentiment for the
nationwide strike which VIM. Hay
wood warned President Wilson would
result il deportations and similar out
RACES committed against mem bers OF
the l. w W. continued.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
No Federal 1roons.

BUTTE, Mont. Aug. 4.-No federal
troops will be sent to Montana until
they are requested by the state, the
war department has advised the Mon
tana congressional delegation. Mes
sages were received here from Sen
ators Myers and walsh to this effect
today.
y am not surprised at the lynching
of Little" declared Senator Myers. II
was the logical result of his incendiary
and seditious sSeeches. spoken with
out interference in Butte. II Little
had been arrested and locked UP when
lie started his talks, he would be liy-
ing now Those who threaten the gov.
eminent should be handled promptly
by the law This is ~ 4 time to tenn
porize with treason. All who are not
for the United States now, are against
it,
Senator Walsh added this comment:
Blind men cannot fail to see that
these widespread strikes at this crit
ical time must be melted by enemies
OF the country. But the lynching of
Little viii serve their ends better than
the hsrangues OF agitators."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
A Brutal SUGGESTION.
census

Perry Chief: The same census
that reduces the quota of soldiers
from the democratic southern states
can be used when their representa-
ION in the electoral college is fixed.
Then listen for the howl.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Advice 10 Mr. Hearst.

UNITED Press Leased Wire SerTiceI
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE Wash
ington Times. owned by Arthur BIS
bane, today editorially advises Nj.
Hearst most earnestly" not to aocep.
the mayorality nomination accorueu
him by New York independents.
Brisbane still maintains his coz
nection with the Hearst newspaper
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
EorEsr a Hell.

GENEVA, Aug 4-The semf-olcisl
German press f. warning that the
FLANDERS battle has only begun and
that grave losses are 10 De- faced
The German troops have lived in a
fortnight OF he'll, says the Gfunisn
|Nuse.e Nachrixhten, dispatches here
today asserted
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
husband No. & Turns Up.

limited Press Leased Wire SerTcel
NEW YORK, Aug. As Marion
Ruth Ransom, p. was being tsAen
to Bedford reformatory today "
serve sentence for bigamy. poHT.
discovered Husband No. Four. ~.
said he courted the girl in cst'
and proposed in road house
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

Kermit Roosevelt has been assigned to the
British forces in Mesopotania, which hope
some day to reach the site Of the old city of
Byzantium. 1t is not announced that he has
orders from Oyster Bay to send home as SOU
venir one of those Byzantine logothetes that
were so famous about year ago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

The housewives will do their duty. 1t is up
to the government TO see that the waste of
foodstuffs by transportation companies is re-
duced to the minimum. There is more danger
in demurrage than in the garbage can.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
The Remedy,

Webster City Freeman-Tribune:
The president ought to have the
white house suffragist pickets taken
out behind the barn and spanked.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
LAME FAULTY.

There seems to be no limit to the faulty of
the United States senate. The greatest crisis
of all time is on in the world, the greatest war
in history has found our nation totally UMPIRE
pared. Never before was there so much to be
done and so little time in which to do it. Never
before was there such imperious need of unity,
of patriotic accord on the matters of superla-
tive importance, of sinking partisanship and of
postponing indefinitely all questions that are
not vital to the welfare of the nation. Yet
senate conferees on the food bill held the
measure up by interminable disputings; and
the senate wasted hundreds of precious hours
wrangling over nationwide prohibition to take
effect, if it ever does, six years from now when
the proposed amendment has been ratified by
three-fourths of the states! This condition of
things has been the rule ever since our nation
was forced into the war, until ardent patriots
are beginning to understand why our European
allies in their deadly peril were forced to cen
trsaize all their powers in few strong hands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

Not long since there was disposition to re-
gard the medical profession as overcrowded;
now it is a problem for the government to get
the physicians and surgeons needed to COM
pletely safeguard the welfare of our troops.
The medical department of our army and navy
has set a fine standard of efficiency, as wit
messed by the professional men who have been
called from Keokuk and Lee county. The de-
partment measures the worth of work not so
much by care of disabled men as by the freedom
from disability of all the men. The physician
in the army is prime factor in the fighting
strength of the troops. War surgery with its
wonders naturally receives the greater amount
of publicity, but the quiet, persistent routine
of watchfulness and care which keeps the men
fit and feeling fit is of great Importance. 1t is
estimated that the military and naval services
will call for two out of every nine physicians in
the country This is heavy call to make on
any profession, but it is easily understood and
it should be quickly needed No more honor
has been earned by any profession than ac-
crues to the medical staff Of the modern army
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
NEGRO MINERS
ARE TRAPPED
Gas Explosion May Have Been Fatal
to Many Of the Men at
Work at the
Time,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
CLAY. KY, Aug. 4.-Following
gas explosion in mine of the West
ern Kentucky Coal company, 1t was
rumored. many miners were en-.
tombed.
Most Of the miners are negroes. II
is feared many will perish as the
mine seems to be on IRE. One report
said two hundred were entombed.
Soldiers on strike duty have the
situation in charge. About thirty
negroes have been rescued ALI are
badly burned and three may die.
More mine rescuers are on the way
from Evansville. Indiana
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

hope shall always possess fir1nness and
virtue enough to maintain what [ consider
the most enviable of all titles, the character
of an honest man.-W ashington.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04
Four Bodies Recovered.

CLAY. KY, Aug. %.-Bodies OF -four
miners had been recovered up %
noon today from the wreck Of mine
No. Z, OF the West Kentucky Coal
company destroyed by an explosion
today.
Thirty Of $50 men entombed have
been rescued, most Of them bafy
burned or crushed
The victims are non-union miners
The union men are out on strike,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-04

Now is the time to can all you can.