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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
LOTS OF RED TAPE
ON TOBACCO TAX
Dealers Are Expected to Take inven.
tory Day That President Signs
Bill, Collector Murphy
Says.
THEN COMPUTE COST
Inspector VIII Give Establishment
Once Over Later, and Check
Up on the
Lists.

The pending war revenue bill i'm
poses a tax additional to that paid
by the manufacturer on all manu-
featured tobacco and snuff in excess
of 100 pounds, on all cigars in ex.
cess of 500 and on all cigarets in
excess of 1000 in the hands Of the
dealers, retail or wholesale-on the
date the act becomes effective, which
will be the day the president signs
the BILL. says a circular issued by
Collector Murphy of Dubuque.
At the present writing dealers are
paving a revenue tax of SO a thou
sand for cigars; s cents a pound for
tobacco, and IS cents thousand for
cigarets The war tax will increase
their revenue What this increase
will be cannot even be Appropriated
further information is given, for
the information of the general public
and particularly those Interested In
the tobacco business, that on the day
the act becomes effective, without
further notice from the government,
all manufacturers and dealers must
make inventory of their stock, which
may be made on any kind Of paper
The manufacturers and dealers must
retain this inventory.
The cigars should be inventoried
according to the retail price-so
many cigars retailing at from to
I cents inclusive, to 10 cents in.
elusive, Is to 20 cents inclusive and
over 20 cents. This data, as stated
before, must be made without further
notice from the government, on the
very day the act becomes a law
Dealers must watch the daily papers
for this later information.
A day or two following the pass.
Ing of the bill, or as soon, as 1t Is
possible to do so, the local revenue
Office will issue to every manufac-
turer and dealer Monograph inven-
tory form together with letter Of
instructions regarding the manner Of
making the inventory. This is to be
merely temporary form on which
Is to be transcribed the inventory as
the dealer compiled 1t.
The dealer will retain possession Of
the Monograph or temporary inven-
tory forn-the purpose being one to
safeguard inspection when inspectors
appear. Later printed inventory
will be sent the dealer. He will then
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
CELEBRATES
87TH BIRTHDAY
Children Surprise William Fowler, ri.
oneer Resident Of Lee County
Settled In This Ter
rltory in 1852.
Especial to The Gate City.l

Special 10 Inc JdLe S1Ly.J
MONTROSE, Iowa, Sept. 17-Wil-
liam Fowler, who lives near this place
celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday
anniversary last Friday. In honor Of
this occasion his children surprised
him, gathering at the old homestead
for the day with well filled baskets.
Mr.. Fowler Is a pioneer resident of
this community. He was born in
England in 1880 and came to this
country when he was twenty-one years
old, landing at New Orleans. Coming
mp the river in 1852, he settled on a
farm near Montrose and has been liv-
ing in this vicinity since. He has
been a successful farmer and stock
raiser.
OF family OF ten children, seven
are living and there are also two grand
children and nine great-grandchildre
Mrs. Henry Showers, a daughter,
lives In Keokuk, and the rest Of the
children live in the vicinity Of Mont
rose.
Hr. Fowler is hale and hearty and
active despite his eighty-seven years,
and does not appear to be over seventy
five years old. He has been reader
OF The Gate City for years
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
GIANTS TO CLOSE
WITHOUT HERzOG
New York Team Begins Last West
ern Trip Of Season While
Captain Goes Home
to Rest.
MAY PLAY IN SERIES
Practically no Chance for Giants to
be Beaten Even With Herzog
Out-Nhite Sox Need
Seven More Games
lRY q. c. EAMILToNl

limited Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. l7.-With
Charley Herzog out OF the game
perhaps for all tfme-the Giants to-
day begin their last western trip OF
he season AT his home in Mary
and. Herzog declared that unless he
i'm proves grea-I- in health, he will
not return TO 1Isa game, even for the
worlds series. He said he hoped,
however, to get into the big games.
Finishing up on their pennant fight
should not be hard for the leaders Of
the National league despite the loss
of Herzog. Seven more victories viii
see the rag cinched for them They
have sixteen more games TO play
The PhiIlies would have to win nine
teen straight to even tie them should
the Giants win only six Of their re-
naming games.
Jimmy Smith is filing in at second
base while Herzog is out, and is
doing an excelIen job at ii. Labeled
an athlete unable TO hit. Jim has
been knocking 'em far and wide
since Herzog turned over the job TO
him. His blows have been timely.
Herzog's absense is hurting the team
only in that his pep is missed. Smith
is fielding fully as well as the Giant
captain and in the few games he has
taken part in, has hit better than
the Maryland star.
Bidding the home folks goodbye
The Write Sox again are on the road
needing seven games toe claim the
pennant as their own. They have
twelve pastimes left on their
schedule.
The Red Sox have eighteen left
and must win all 70 tie the White
Sox, il the latter win only six OF
their scheduled games.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
SPORTS
. o = Q o>>>>> 90 -
SPEAKER EARNS
S125, 600 CASH IN
NINE CAMPAIGNS

. Iris Speaker is receiving
= salary Of $4,000 year from =
. the Cleveland club. He signed q =
. three years contract with Presi- =
. dent Dunn in April, 1916. 1t was
. two years earlier that Speaker, ?
. by using Federal league offer =
. as a club, compelled Joseph j.
. Lannin, then owner OF the Red
. Sox, TO agree 10 contract call
. ing for salary of s17,5o0 per
. season. The Red Sox won the =
. worlds championship in 1915 =
. and Speakers share of the mon
Z ey was about $500. Speaker =
. Joined the Red Sox IN 1908, but .
. it was not until 1912 that he be- =
. gan to draw big money. He y
. shared in the worlds series =
= spoils that year and was said to =
. have received q total of 100000 .
. I'D to 1915 His earnings, In .
D Guiding this years pay, are esu- .
= mated al s125,O00 for nine con-
{ secutive campaigns. Speaker .
3 will be thirty years old next
; April
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Typewriter as Evidence.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, Sept. ia typewriter
will be used In establishing the
legality of the alleged second will of
James c. King, Chicago millionaire,
which bequeathed practically all of
his large estate to his widow, Mrs.
Maude A. King.
Miss Pansy We'll, stenograher, de-
clares that last June CASTOR B.
Means, business adviser of Mrs.
King, dictated the King will to her,
dated October 9, 1905. which has
been pronounced forgery.
Michael F. Sullivan, assistant
states attorney, today forwarded
Miss Wells typewriter to New York,
where the original manuscript of. the
disputed will was found in Means
effects. He said a typewriter expert
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Means viii Testify,
limited Press Leased Wire 81

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-Afton
Means, brother of CASTOR Means, will
testify before the grand jury in the
New York investigation into the
death of Mrs. Maude A. King, and
what appears to be a forged will
A typewriter belonging to Miss
Pansy Well a Chicago stenographer
is on It's way to New York 1t is be-
lieved this machine is the one on
which the will was written and
which Attorney Swami believes to be
a forgery.
1t is now believed here that Means
intended to file the will in Pasadena
where King had about 100000 in
property. Illinois law, it was de
clared, would not permit fling of a
will 80 old, and Means is believed to
have been advised to file it elsewhere
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
| Oh Q WA n SAW
D ::GATE::;yCIT r.

mobiles We're parked in every direc-
ton, all the side streets being full as
well as several blocks on Main street
The band marched from Fourth
street to the band stand on Main be
tween Fifth and Sixth streets, to graft
fy universal desire on the part OF
our country cousins to show them how
the soldier boys looked in their
khaki uniforms. The band concerts
are here to stay, are part of Warsaw
and Warsaw's future, and Warsow
will be dull and quiet indeed, the
coming Saturday evening until the
concert season beginning Junb 1918,
will open. aince these concerts were
first given, Warsaw has secured
and forty miles distant which never
came here before.
The ladies Of the local Red Cross
have been very busy of late, many
hours each day, working for the boys
at the front, going to the front and
going to the training camps.
Watermelons and canteloupes keep
up in price barring them from the
tables of many of our citizens. Grapes
are plentiful and cheap, the Concord
variety. Tomatoes are rfpening slow
ly and will soon be caught by the
frost. The canning factory cannot
get all it wants.
Coal, especially anthracite, is
scarce. and the price problematical,
most every one holding off thinking
the government will control the situa-
ton and the price may be lower.
John Egbers has sold his eighty
acre farm in Rocky Run township
for 5000 per acre.
Not a house Is being erected in
Warsaw at the present time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Tesnsters Now on Strike.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sept. 17-With
the yard swichmen's gtrike settled
and most Of the men back today, Kan
gsg City faces other strfkes. Police
reported that employers have asked
them 70 watch several plants in the
manufacturing district where the men
we're expected 10 walk out today.
The sTitchnen walked out in sym
pathy with freight handlers who have
been on strike for week John Bran
non. ri 81. Louis, vice president OF the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen,
zd.usted their strike yesterday.
Union teansters went out today In
EYE patny with the freight handlers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
War Department Expecting to Estao-
Iish Third Officers Training
School Some
Time.
EQUAL CHANCE FOR ALL
1t is Probable That instruction VIII
Not be Given Until Training
Season Is Nearly
Over.

Iowa men conscripted for the
Eighty-eighth division of the national
army at Camp Dodge, are to be Civ
en- an opportunity to attend third
and probably a fourth officers train
ing school at Fort Smelling, MINI.
This was made known today through
information received by officers at
division headquarters, to the effect
that the war department is considering
a third series Of training camps for
officers, says the Capital.
Preference at these camps will be
given to soldiers of the national army,
who may be selected for special train
ing to fit them for commissions. 1t is
considered probable, in fact, that
students of this class will entirely fill
the next camp, leaving no room for
the attendance of any civilian.
The same general method, it was
said, probably would apply to all ma
tional guard units. Future promo
tons within the national army, the In
formation states, will be from the low.
er grades so far as is practicable. Fol-
the national guard army the same
rule OF promotion will apply.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept IL
Twenty thousand persons saw the
white Autos Class A champions Of
Cleveland take the deciding gam es
of the second round Of the eIimina-
ton series from the Toledo Rail
Lights here yesterday. The first
game went TO the Clevelanders. 3 TO
2, IN ten innings, while the second
was easy, with Il 70 score.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

fJnited Press Leaaa6 VIE Se-vtce.I
CINCINEATz, Colo, 5eDt- IL
Officials 0. the A[ne-5cz1 bowling
congress meeting here E-1tzy, de-
cided % hold tre ~ l. z. E. tour
ney IL Las first regiment z-mory
here, starting February L. Eighteen
alleys viii 5e pss5o. II bad been
thought copdiJaO-s csEset by ne war
might prevent ne -ov1-ey.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
When the Skin Seems Ablaze
With Itching and Burning

not find a blood remedy that ap.
proaches S. S. S. for real efficiency.
1t has been on the market for fifty
years, during which time it has been
giving uniform sstisfaction for all
manner of blood disorders. II you
want prompt and lasting relief, you
can rely upon S. s. S For expert
advice as to the treatment of your
own individual case, write to-day to
Shief M edical Adviser, Swift Specific
To-. Dept. { Atlanta, Ga.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Toronto Wins psnnsnt

Tunttsd Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK. Sept. Hilary La
joie is 2 pennart winner. The cIose
Of the International Jezgue season
found 1be rto-uae- American league
stars Toronto club zaezd By Z small
margin
Prcx3dence Sn1sa@1 second. Bzlti,
more third and Newark fourth Esch
Of tbs four c1u:ys bsg6 II aTerage bet
Ter thai ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Wins With Handicap.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
: NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-Mrg. W.
A. Gavin, women's Metropolitan golf
champion, was seeking new fields to
conquer today.
Given nine strokes yesterday at
By Jerome Travers, she
defeated the famous player, four up
in 10 holes. Without the handicap
TraverE would have won the match,
FIVE up and four to play.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Semi-Pro Games.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
CINCINNATI, Ohio. Sept. IL
After the Pratt City team of Birm-
ingham, Ala, had taken Saturdays
game IL to 0, the Norwoods, world
semi-pro champions. came back Sun
day and eliminated the southerners
from the semf-pro championship
series by winning two games, to 3
and 4 to 3. Craeger pitched both
games for Norwood Sunday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

fill this out, computing tax he must
pay on the stock on hand in excess
of the exemptions allowed on the
date the act became effective and he
will further send the printed matter
filled out-together with the addi-
tional tax due from him to the Du-
buque office.
It will later be the duty Of the
division dpeuty TO personally check
up these inventories.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
American League.
TODEYS SCHEDULE.
National LEAGUE.
Tennis Match Results.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Sept. 17.-Miss Browne
had two sets to her credit today in
the Mary-Molla series. She defeated
the champion 81, 60. in the closing
matches for the ambulance fund here
yesterday.
In special match, John R Stra-
chm Of San Francisco defeated Wal.
ter Hayes OF Chicago, 6-2, 3-s, 60.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Denied EttIno Man.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LONuON. August 23.-(by maiI)-
Il never bit any one" was the az
grieved protest OF Miss Sylvia Pank-
hurst, sunragette and demonstration,
during a police court hearing A man
mixed up in a demonstration at one
of her peace" meetings insisted the
lady's teeth lacerated him.
The chivalrous magistrate said he
believed Miss Pankhurst.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

CHICAGO, Sept. I7.-Siz children.
to-+y-one great grandchildren and
tveDty-@tgnt great great grandchil-
drsn heIped Grg. Frederick MIME
Eook celebrate her hundredth birth
6zT anniversary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Every Man Has Chance.

With the establishment of the fore
going plan every Iowa drafted man
stands chance of being selected for
course at one of the government
training camps for officers. Upon his
aptitude for the work and his zeal in
mastering preliminary instructions to
be given at the cantonment At Camp
Dodge viii depend his chances for be-
ing selected.
This plan is in line with the war
departments announced intention OF
obtaining young men to officer the
national army in France. 1t is prob
able the men who viii be selected
will be those who show the greatest
degree of maturity and a natural apt
ness for leading men.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

limited Press Leased Wire Ee-T1ce. ]
CHICAGO, 5eyI- IT, Charter
White. WHO ne2g1y TAX L5le cpgut IA
his Last meeting. viii s.set Johnny
y'5llrnan u Z ten round bort 3r New
York Thursday 1Ggt1., r-aEe Lew1s,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
There's just one thing to do.

There's just one thing to do.
If your skin seems ablaze with the
hery burning and itching OF Eczema,
real and lasting relief can only
rome from treatment that goes below
the surface-that reaches down to
The very source Of the trouble So
rallied skin-diseases come from a dis
ordered condition of the blood, and
the proper treatment is through the
blood.
Search far and near. and you cam
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
Killed In Practice Fight.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Sept. 17.-David x. Bill
Iings, former Chicago newspaper man,
was killed during q practice fight at
Birmingham, England, where he was
serving as a member Of the British
royal flying corps. according TO word
received here today by his father
Rev. Percy Billings.
Billings enlisted April 1S and under
went two months training in Toronto.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
No Date as Vet

No information has been received
relative to when the selection of men
will be made, but it is considered prob
able that no action will be taken I'M
til after the full quota of 45.165 drafted
men have arrived and the organiza-
ton of various units at the canton
ment entirely completed
This probably will place the time
near the conclusion of the training
camps now under way at various gov
eminent posts. BY that time the
drafted men will have been well
worked into the routine and the prob
lem of selecting those best fitted for
commissions reduced to minimum
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

could determine whether the original
manuscript was typed on Miss Wells
machine, as she alleges.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
The Horrible Example,

Lincoln Journal: Some very con-
servative Americans, thinking Of
Mayor Thompson of Chicago, show
symptoms OF conversion to belief in
the recall.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

Over in Chicago milk producers and
distributors held a social confab, and
Immediately after word slipped around
that price lift was due in October.
They're all doing 1t and charging 1t
70 the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17
American League.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

YEsTERDAYs RESULTS.
National League.
st. Louis G: Chicago Q.
Cincinnati 4; Pittsburgh 2. Second
game-Cincinnati 3; Pittsburgh e.
No other games scheduled.
American League.
. Chicago, 4 ST. Louis tten innings)
Cleveland, s; Detroit 4.
No other games cheduled.
TODAYS SCHEDULE.
National League.
New York at Chicago.
Philadelphia al Cincinnati.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
Open date for St Louis and Brook
Iyn-
American League.
Boston at New York.
Open date for other clubs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-17

IDeTOfe winter
Sets In.
Don't you need some
vacation?
Your health and work
demand it.
No matter how short
it is-get a taste of the
West-and real vaca-
'tion JOY.
It's just "a few hours
Ito the Rockies to Den
yer, Colorado Springs,
the Pixies Peak Region
or Estes-Rocky Noun
tain National Park
via the Burlington
the fall season is per.
|fectly delightful.
Camp, fis h, climb,
motor-take the family
along.
[ know some dandy
short trips. I'll fit 'em
to your time and purse
if you'll come in.
C. +. CONRADT
City Ticket Agent,
The pleasant way to travel.
5th. johnson ST., Phone 976
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Welfare Tours Increased
Committee Shows Work Of
Mitchell Administration

The Public Welfare Committee addeo
another snap shot tour" yesterday 10
It's already heavy schedule OF three
tours a day to the various city insu-
tutions, for the purpose OF showing
citizens who wish to so the accom-
plishments of the Mitchell administra-
zion in the institutions. The tour
added Yesterday was for the express
benefit of men and women who are
unable TO get away on any other, day oil
the week, and will be continued every
Saturday afternoon, from the head
charters Of the Public Welfare Com
mit.ec. 20 East Forty-second Street.
during the rest Of the campaign.
AT the outset, the committee planned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Navy to Oppose Spending
$4,000 on Rice Gun

WASHINGTON, Sept 22.-Navy ord
nance officers will refuse 20 indorse the
proposed bill to appropriate $4,000 for
the purpose Of developing the Rice
gun. This became known to-day, when
II was learned that preliminary tests Of
this weapon were mot at all promising
or satisfactory"
The Rice gun throws a spherical pro-
jectile by centrifugal force. An i'm
portant feature Of it is that it has no
recoil or "back kick" The special
board on naval ordnance of the Navy
Department, Of which Rear Admiral
Ingersoll is chairman, reports that it
would not be warranted in expanding
its fund in the attempt to develop the
Rice gun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

the pageant, and will call upon the
audience 60 follow into the high court
where the Allied nations will plead
their cause before the courts OF Truth
Liberty and Justice. Each nation IN
vovcd will present its own case. 80,
The second part Of the pageant will
be a dramatic narrative Of the entire
war, reaching It's climax with the en-
trance OF America. Well known stage
artists will enact the roles OF Herald,
Justice, Liberty, Serbia. Belgium, Eng
land, France, Russia, New Russia, ia
pan, Armenia, Italy, Poland, Rumania
and America.
The general committee includes Mrs.
Robert Bacon. Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss,
jr., Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. william
X. Draper, Ethan Allen, Cornelius n.
Bliss, jr., Paul d. Cravath, Harry P.
Dawson, Evan Evans, William fayer-
sham, Daniel Frohman, David Names,
Major Wallace McCutcheon, Paul Meyer
and T.. II. Sothern.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
New York Draft Men
Reach Camp Safely
40 Per Cent Quota Arrives at
Aver, Mass, in Exuber-
ant Spirits

AVER, Mass, Sept. 22.-Troop trains
bearing chalked inscriptions Bound for
Berlin to get Kaiser Bill' rolled down
from the Berkshire Hills 90 Camp Dey-
ems to-day with Northern New Yorks
40 per cent OF the draft. In all, 2,343
members Of the new National Army
from the northern section Of the En-
pire State reached the cantonment
without mishsp and in the best OF
spirits.
Connecticut's 40 per cent was com
plete when a lone soldier reached the
cantonment. He started from home yes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Germany Ready to Trade
Belgium for Colonies

LONDON, Sept 22.--The Berlin cor
respondents Of the Hamburg "Fremden-
blatt" and the Cologne Gazette" in
almost identical language indicate that
Germany is prepared to surrender Bel
GUM in return for her colonies. The
correspondent of the "Fremdenblatt,"
heretofore an annexationist, is quoted
as saying:
"If our opponents are prepared 70
abandon their detectives of territorial
and economic conquest and. further,
10 surrender the conquests made from