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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
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Franklin Street Paving and Car Track.
% the Editor of The Gate City:
Inc properly owners on Franklin
street, active in the present contro-
versy, wish to disclaim any rights in
me location of the car line on this
SIDE OF the city. That is a matter
entirely between the council, the rail-
way corporation and that portion of
,he public served by this particular
nne, and we are not Sitting in If
they wish 10 change 1t we do not OBJ
lect and II they wish 1t to remain
neither do we object. Our objection
is to being forced at this time to put
IN very expensive Improvement
: which we cannot believe the condition
OF the street and the requirements of
the traffic on it justify.
fhis petition for brick Tor some
other paving) came to the council be-
tore the present one nearly two years
sso. 1t was signed by about twenty
nVe people of whom nearly one-half
were not property owners. and all
out five or six of those owning prop
erty have since asked that their
names be withdrawn. The former
council tabled 1t as being an unjusti-
hsoie Improvement. Why 1t was talk
en- up 10y. the presnet council no one
seems toNknow, but when it was TAX
en- up the property owners immediate
y protested against such form of inn
provement and asked that the street
De repaired and charged against them.
Inc council insisted on carrying it
through and the property owners Oh.
sected SO strongly that 1t was de-
lerred When it was brought up
again this spring the property owners
again objected and asked the council
% act on their petition to put the
street in repair at their expense. The
council got bullheaded and swore the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
ALBERT JENKINS
IS GIVEN HONOR
Twelve Most Prominent Men in
State University Of
Iowa.
GENERAL WORK WINS
Besides Scholarship Requireme nts,
jenkins Has Made Good In
Athletics and Social
Activities.

IOWA CITY, Iowa, May THE hon
or of being chosen one Of the twelve
most prominent members of the junior
class of the State university came to
Albert Jenkins OF keokuk Thursday
night when he was elected to A. F. l..
the honorary senior society. Selec.
tions were made by a process of eli.
mination. To be elected to this So
ctety is one Of the highest honors
that can come to junior in the uni
versity.
While scholarship was given con-
siderable stress in making these Sc
lections, the real basis upon which the
men We're chosen was their activity in
extra-curricular activities. 1t vas
found that those men who were inter
ested in things outside the class room,
almost uniformly, had among the
highest grades in the class. All COL
leges of the university are represent
ed In the list Of men chosen, which
means that Mr.. jenkins was chosen
from a field of several hundred stu.
dents.
The things in addition to scholarship
which brought the honor to Mr.. Jen-
kins were brilliant work on the grid
iron, track and basketball floor. presi-
dency Of the junior class, membership
in Sigma Chi fraternity, and general
popularity
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
HAMILTON man
PASSES AWAY
David Allen Robinson Answered Call
at Family Home Early This Morn
ins-ln Failing Health
All Winter.
WAS PAST 81 YEARS OLD
Retired From, Farm In wythe Town
ship Ten Years Ago and Had
Been Living in HamiI-
ton Since.
Especial to The Gate City. ]

Especial to The Gate City.1
HAMILTON, Ill, May david AL
len Robinson, one OF lIamilton's mos,
highly esteemed residents, died a.
the family home here this morning
at o'clock, at the age Of ninety-one
years, one month and five days
He had been in failing health durins
last winter and had spent severa
weeks at st. Joseph's hospital In
Keokuk. Death was due to infirm
tiles incident to advanced age.
Mr.. Robinson was born at Chand
lersville. Ohio, and came to Hancock
county at an early date. His mar
riage to Miss Laura Chandler oc
Cured January s, 1856. Mrs. Robin
son died two years ago. After farm
ing in Wythe township for number
of years, Mr.. Robinson retired and
had been living in Hamilton the last
ten years.
OF seven children born to Mr. and
Mrs. Robinson. the following six sur
vive: Miss Mira and Miss Florence,
who live at home; Mrs. w. e. Albers,
Warsaw: Mrs. w. E. McPheeters,
Olivet, Michigan; Chandler Robinson.
Winnebago, Minnesota; and D.A.
Robinson, Jr.. Wythe township. One
brother. A. W. Robinson, lives at
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Mr.. Robinson was staunch mem
Der of the Presbyterian church. The
funeral arrangements have not been
made.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
Receiver Appointed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May State
Insurance Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil was appointed receiver today
for the Pittsburgh Life and Trust Co.,
whose surplus was wiped out and
other finances badly impaired by the
operations Of a group of New York
promoters. Commissioner O'NeiI an
nounced that as receiver he would
bend every energy to rehabilitation
of the concern. The court left open
the question of possible dissolution
Oh the Pittsburgh Life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
TWO MORE RAIDS
MADE BY POLICE
:;
Wet Goods Added to Collection at the
Station Through Saturdays
and Sundays
Seizures.
HAULs WERE LARGE
Four Sacks and Barrel Containing 2o8
Pints, Found in the Home of
Owen ReaI-Joe Tigue
Ralded.

Booze raids made by the Keokui
police department Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon added consid
cradle wet goods to the big collec
ton at the police station. The two
hauls netted 234 pint bottles of beer
a keg of beer and quarts Of whis
key.
Sunday afternoon about 1:3(
o'clock, officers visited barn in the
rear of 3l2 Exchange street, arrested
Joseph Tigue and seized suit case
containing twenty-six bottles Of Dick
Bros. beer. a Quincy brand. A few
cold bottles were taken from an ice
box in the place. Several men were
in the barn when the swoop was
made by the authorities.
By far the largest haul was made
when Assistant Chief Pearson and
officer Brennan entered the home OF
Owen Real, 1922 South Fifth street
about 6 o'clock Saturday night and
seized four gunny sacks and barrel
full Of bottled beer, an S-gallon key
of beer and eight quart bottles OF
whiskey.
Real was arrested and brough UP
couple of hours later when he put
up 5000 bond. Tigue passed the
night in Jail. 1t is said that there
were several persons in Reals resi-
dence when the raid was made.
Almost every available inch of
place at the police station is filled
with confiscated booze, the result of
six recent seizures. Cases, barrels,
sacks, cartoons and kegs full of beer
and whiskey are piled up in the Jail
waiting for disposition.
nary examination in Judge Nc
Namara's court this morning and
each was released under 5000 bond.
The property seized by the police
vas condemned and May 81 at 2
o'clock in the afternoon set for the
hearing.
1t is said that part of the prop
erty taken in the raid on Real was
found in a bed between two mat
tresses. Assistant Chief Pearson and
officer Wilson made the seizure at
Tigue's.
Ed Young, Harry Beard and John
Collins, all plains, were fined in the
superior court this morning for in
toxication. Young and Beard paid
50 and costs and Collins, SIS toi in
clude costs.
Percy Harris, colored, pleaded
guilty to the larceny of suit of
clothes from Arthur Fox and was
sentenced to .nirty days in the
county Jail.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
for appendicitis, returned to her home

for appendicitis, returned to her home
here Saturday evening.
Miss Beulah Wolfe of Davenport, is
visiting here with her aunt, Mrs. ]. G.
Cummings and other relatives in this
vicinity.
John Saar, of Cantril, was Bona
parte business visitor Saturday.
Mrs. A. V. Blackford and son Ken
meth, will go to Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuesday evening for a short visit
A travelling photographer took pic.
lures of our people as he saw them on
the street, several days last week, and
the same were shown at the picture
show in the opera house last Thurs
day and Saturday evenings.
D. w. Griffith's famous film play,
"The Birth of Nation" will be shown
at Whitley opera house here on Fri.
day, May Is. These are the same tilms
that have been shown in all the large
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07

street should be paved with brick
the property owners got bullheaded
and swore it should not-and there
you are.
If there is any Solomon capable of
suggesting a solution whereby both
sides can get together on an equitable
basis I am sure it will be welcomed;
at least it will by the property own
ers, for they do not like their present
situation although they believe they
are in the right. But I cannot see
how the vacating of the street by the
railway company offers it. as one of
the objects in paving with brick was
to get suitable foundation for the car
track, at least we have been SO In.
formed by one of the city officials.
J. N. COLLIER.
Keokuk, Iowa, May 7, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
BONAPARTE BOYS
JOIN ARMY
Three Took Examination and Two
Passed and Have Gone to Train
ing Station at
st. Louis

BONAPARTE, Iowa. May Mrs.
Harry jenkins Of Valley Junction, is
visiting here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Emil Noske.
Sam Smutz and wife of Stockport,
visited last Thursday at the D. Derr
home.
4 Mrs. Nellie Johnson returned last
week from a several days visit in Os.
kaloosa, where she was called by the
illness OF relatives.
Ray Kerr, Andree Johnson and Har-
~ Noske went to Ottumwa~ last Wed
nesday morning where they took the
examination for enlistment Johnson
and Kerr passed successfully and were
sent to the training station at St.
Louis, the same evening. Noske fail
ed to pass the examination on account
| of defective hearing and he returned
home on the evening train.
Mrs. Geo. F. Smith Of Keosauqua
was a visitor here last Thursday with
her daughter. Mrs. Dr. Boyle and fami
| ly.
| Wayne Cox of Mt. Zion, visited here
from Friday until Sunday evening
with his grandmother, Mrs. S. Cox
! Mrs. Leonard Harris of Keokuk. has
been visiting here with her mother,
Mrs. Francis Chase, for the past week.
| Ed Carnahan, who has been living
| in Ohio, where he has been engaged
! in the automobile business for the
past several years, came last week for
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
| T. B. Carnahan, who reside a short
distance northwest Of here
Frank jenkins, whose home is In
Massachusetts, came last Thursday
evening for visit with his aunt, Mrs.
Kate finish He formerly lived here
for several years and went from here
to the west and then to Chicago, from
which city he moved to Massachusetts
several years ago.
Miss Hazel Meek, who has been in
la hospital at Keokuk for couple of
weeks whore ahe was oDerated upon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
Suggested a Boycott.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, May 7-Labor's ma.
tional peace council attempted to
have organized labor boycott all
American banking institutions par
ticipating in the Anglo-French war
loans, according to the testimony OF
Charles H. Canode, Of Chicago, today
in the German plot trial here.
Canode is one Of the chief govern
ment witnesses against Captain Franz
Won Rintelen, Of the German navy,
former Congressman Frank Buchan
an, Of Illinois, and other Americans
accused Of conspiring to stop muni-
ton shipments to the allies by TO-
menting strikes.
Canode, a printer, said he attended
council meeting in Chicago at which
the scheme was discussed. He also
declared Buchanan resigned as pres
ident Of the council because he be
lieved 1t was going too far"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
Hoover Gives Statistics.

Hoover Gives Statistics.
WASHINGTON, May Herbert
C. Hoover, chairman OF the food com
mittee of the council of national de-
tense and the administrations con
sulting expert on world food condi-
tons appeared unexpected before
the house agricultural committee to-
day to urge immediate action on the
administration food control legisla
ton.
SO important were Hoover's reve-
lations as to the present world food
supply, the conference was behind
closed doors and 1t was said his re-
marks will be subject to careful ex-
pergation before being made public.
The committee is making overtime
to dispose Of food legislation which
confers great powers to regulate pro
duction, consumption and speculation
and prevent waste. 1t will be pre-
sented to the house, it is expected.
early in the week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07

with your Compound for the dement, OF
other mothers. - - MADAME EUGENE
BEDARD, 55S Main Street. Springfield,
Mass.
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is SO successful in overcoming
woman's ills because it contains the
tonic, strengthening properties Of good
old fashioned roots and herbs, which act
on the female organism. Women from
all parts of the country are continually
testifying to its strengthening, curative
influence.
If you want special advice write
lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi-
dential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read, and answered BY
women onlv.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07

cities and it will be a fine chance for
our people to see this wonderful play.
! Several Of our people were in Keo,
kuk Friday evening in attendance at
the Robinson Crusoe, Jr, musical
comedy show. Keokuk always gets all
the biggest and best shows on the road
iand our people are quick to take advau-
tage Of an opportunity to see big city
show so close to home
Several pupils from other schools in
this vicinity took the eighth Grade ex-
animation here couple of days last
week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
MOTHER OF nine
CHILDREN
Able to do Homework by
taking lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Springfield, Mass. AFTER the birth
of my ninth baby / was in a weak, run

down cOndltlOn, had
pains in my left side,
so / would faint Of
ten. My doctor adj
vised me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
We g e ia Bile Com
pound. I did SO,
q nd ed in
strength 80 I can
now do all my own
house work and /
hope you may pub
|lish my experience
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07

plunged from height of more than
two thousand feet. Eye witnesses
disagree on the cause OF the accident,
some declaring the gasoline tank ex-
ploded, others that the steering gear
iammed
Merritt was resident Of Roosevelt,
n. Y, and Stendorf of Tonawanda.
They are the first volunteers for the
new aviation corps to lose their lives
in training for war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
SPREADING MET
FOR SPECTATORS
Continued from Page ~

bit the prices have gone beyond all
reason"
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Killed bY lntnrurhan

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May T.
Carrying a basket of eggs to sick
boy, Mrs. Cynthia Stanhope, aged
seventy-three, was run down and in
stantly killed by a Waterloo interur-
ban car at Center Point today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
Aviation Volunteers Killed

limited Press Leased Wire Servicel
HEMPSTEAD, N. Y, May Peter
Merritt and John Stendorf, privates
in the army reserve corps, undergo.
ing training as aviators, were instant
ly killed today when their machine
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-07
Sunk by Submarine.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, May THE Uru.
guayan steamer Gorilla, aboard
which were five Americans, was
sunk by a German submarine April
30, according to consular report to
tho srata danartmnnt TODAY
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
Madame Huard Will
Not Appear in City
To Lecture Tonight

Madame Huard, who was to appear
at the High School Auditorium, this
evening. giving an illustrated lecture
on her actual experiences in France,
through the delay on the ship on
which she took trans Atlantic passage
will be unable to appear in Bridgeport
tonight.
The vessel which was scheduled to
arrive in New York week ago, is
reported overdue and Is not expected
to make port until tomorrow or We'd
nesday, according to officials of the
French steamship line.
THE Little Sisters the local char
liable society under whose auspices
the lecture was to be held, will an
nounce the postponed date of the ap-
pearance of La Baronne Huard this
week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
Prisoner Dies Upon
Removal to Hospital

II
Maud Disesa. prisoner at the coun-
ty Jail, died this morning at st. Vim
cents hospital shortly after her adj
mittance there of kidney trouble. Mrs.
Disesa had been at the Jail for sew
eral weeks under a sentence from the
city court on charges Of being i'm
moral, and had not been we'll since
coming to the Jail. Today her condi-
ton became worse and DR.. E. B. Ives
ordered her taken to the hospital. She
died almost Immediately after arriv-
ing there.
Mrs. Disesa had a troublous life and
had frequently figured in police rec
ords. Her husband is serving sen
tence in Wethersfeld on white slave
charges, and Flori Garlic, is now al
the Jail on similar charged in which
he is alleged to have lived upon the
earnings of Mrs. Disesa. She gave
her age at the Jail as 20 years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
LIQUOR SELLERS
and DEALERS in
TOBACCO WARNED
Must Obtain Blanks and File
Inventory With Revenue
Officials.

Preliminary inventories Of the
stocks of all dealers in tobacco and
liquors are being taken by internal
revenue agents sent to Bridgeport
from Baltimore to assist in the work
in this district. Every dealer in to-
bacco in any form. cigars, cigarettes,
or packages, is required to return this
inventory to the internal revenue Of
flee In the Federal building, and
warning L. given by officials In
charge to apply for the proper blanks.
While agents are making a canvass
that fact will not excuse the dealer Ii
the proper inventory is not return
ed.
Later a more detailed inventory
will be required, for which blanks
VIII be furnished by the government.
There Ia q severe penalty for failure
to comply with this provision.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
AGNES c. PHILLIPS.

Agnes Phillips, wife of Louis H.
Phillips, died at the family residence,
1860 Main street, Stratford, Sunday
morning, following a brief illness.
Mrs. Phillips was AZ years of age. Her
death has already occasioned wide
spread grief and other numerous rela-
tives and friends. She was very
widely known both in Stratford and
Bridgeport. She was affiliated with
the Stratford Suffrage association
and the Missionary society. Besides
her husband, she is survived by three
daughters. Miss Marcia Phillips, a
we'll known soprano singer, Miss
Helen Phillips and Mrs. Frank Rack
life, Jr., of New Britain; her mother
Mrs. A. T. Derby. and three brothers
Alonzo T. Joseph and. Arthur Derby
and one sister, Mrs. Heber Durham
Of New York city. Funeral services
will be held Tuesday afternoon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
MAJOR DREYFUS CENTRAL,
FIGURE IN GREATEST
MILITARY SCANDAY

Major Alfred Dreyfus, who figured
IN the greatest military scandal of
modern times, will be So years old
tomorrow. The celebrated Hebrew
officer OF the French army. when last
heard of. was serving his country in
a fortress near Paris. His young son
has been fighting at the front since
the beginning Of the way. and has
won honorable mention for gallantry.
Major Dreyfus is still broken in
health as a result of the terrible or
deal through which he passed, and is
not strong enough for active service
at the front He was born on Oct, 8,
1858, In Alsace,, and entered the Poly
technic School In Paris In 1878. Four
years later he was made lieutenant
OF artillery ana In 1899 he was pro-
NOTED to the rank of captain.
Five years afterward, in 1894, he
was arrested on the charge of selling
military secrets to Germany and Italy.
At that time he held a high position
on the general stair. and was recog-
nized as one of the ablest of French
artillery officers. The chief evidence
against him was a compromising doc
ument said to have been found in the
waste basket of the German embassy
in Paris
The trial which followed was one
of the sensations of the age. The
highest military officers of the nation
were called upon to testify In the pro-
ceedings. Finally Dreyfus was con-
victed and publicly degraded from his
rank In the army and sentenced to
life imprisonment on Devils Island.
or the coast IL French Guiana
1t was Emil Zola, the great novelist.
to whom Dreyfus Ia indebted for the
fact that he did not remain for life
in the penal settlement. Convinced
that Dreyfus was innocent, and VIC
tim of anti-Jewish bigotry. Zola wrote
the famous "Jaccuse'. letter and agi-
tated until the unfortunate officer was
given another trial Dreyfus was
again found guilty. but the trial was
so manifestly a, farce that the presi-
dent pardoned him. 1t was not unit
1905 that Major Dreyfus was COM
pItely 'vindtcated and restored to his
former rank in the army.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
Hear Lumber Firms
$4,000 Suit Against
Carolinian Tomorrow

The $1,000 suit brought by the Park
City Lumber Co. Of this city against
Walter 8. Cash of New Bern, N. G., is
one of those assigned for trial before
Judge Curtin in the superior court to-
morrow. 1t is alleged that the COM
pany advanced some money to Cash,
which he failed to repay. It is also
claimed that Cash agreed to pay $4,213
which T. M. Pierce owed the COM
pany for lumber delivered. Pierce
is said to have conveyed four build
ing lots on Howard avenue to Cash
in consideration that Cash would pay
the bill. but the company says the bill
has not been paid,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
Coroner Phelan Views
Machine Blamed For
Death of Workman

Coroner Phe1an started. today to in
vestigate the death of William VAN
ser, who died Oct. as a result of in
juries received while working at the
Metropolitan Auto & Carriage Co. at
434 Grand street. The coroner wa
informed that Wamser's body was
caught in a machine and he decided
to inspect the plant to see if there
was. any defect in the machine or
neglect on the part of the company
to properly safeguard the lives of its
employees. A finding probably will be
made tomorrow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
Fail to Obtain Copy
Of Bachelor Tax Law

Copies OF the new revenue law
which imposes an income tax upon
all single men earning 81 900 a year
or more. and upon married men corn
Ing $4,000 or more, have not yet been
received at the Internal Revenue Office
In Bridgeport, and consequently none
Of the attaches there are familiar with
the methods of collecting it. The tax
on the above incomes will be at the
rate of per cent
Figured by the week the single men
earning $3.50 or more will be subject
TO the tax, and must make declara-
ton ON the proper formsNwhen they
are received. This tax will not be-
come effective, however. until Jan 1
next Each person must make sworn
return to the ONCE, and these returns
will be certified by government officers
assigned to that duty,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-08
County Commissioners
Ready For Hearings

With the list of license towns in the
county decreased by one, because of
Stratfords switch to the dry column,
the county commissioners started to-
day on their annual tour for the pur-
pose of hearing applications for Ii
censes. They had session in Nor
walk today where a number of liquor
dealers appeared to ask for renew
ais.
The dealers are worried at present
by the gains of the prohibition ele-
ment and the threats of remonstrances