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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
CHANCE FOR
WOODEN MAN
Jess Willard is Having Hard Time
Finding Anyone on Whom
He Can Practice
SIugeing.
EBy H. C. Hamilton, United Press
Staff Correspondent

IBy H. C. Hamilton, United Press
Staff Correspondent
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 12.-Jess VIII
lard is suffering from drought OF
sparring partners.
The big champion is having the
time OF his life getting into condition
Dempsey merely because there are
no good heavy weights willing 10
pose as battering rams for Jess
punches and Jess draws the color
line in camp.
There are numerous glove w1elders
of dark shade, probably all of them
willing to stand up and swap wallops
with Jess for a compensation. Like
wise there are few good heavy
weights willing to do the same, but
Jess either bears them a personal
grudge or figures them not worth
the candle.
AS a result of this condition, Will
lard is not getting into the best of
condition, while Jack Dempsey, using
the two negroes, Bill Tate and ia
maica Kid is in the very best of
shape right now-ready to step into
the ring anu llSHI Tue liSul VI hlo Ill y
on a moments notice.
Dempsey did no sparring yester-
day, because of the bad slash he re-
ceived over his eye, but he went
around his open air ring at shadow
boxing with such speed as to draw
the favorable comment Of the specta.
tors. His eye really looks bad. Jim
my Deforrest is not making any
mistake by ordering him to rest. 1t
extends all the way along the brow
and was so deep it had to be stitch
ed together.
Willard boxed six rounds yester
day-three each with Walter Mona
han and Jack Hempel He started
to box with Soldier Stanton, the
youth he almost knocked out a short
time ago, and then changed his mind
To entertain the crowd which had
made the trip to his camp Jack
Dempsey sent in Tate and Jamaica
Kid to box a few rounds while he
devoted himself to bag-punching and
other stunts.
The challenger is in high spirits and
appears to be in the finest Of condi
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Disappointed over Shooting

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LOS ANGELES, Calf, June Il
Still expressing disappointment that
Joseph Batchelder, whom he is &C
cused of shooting did not die, Charles
|. Collins is in the county jail here
under formal charges of assault with
a deadly weapon. He is awaiting pre-.
Iiminary hearing.
Batchelder still is in a serious con
dition, but physicians say he Will re
cover.
Collins, it is charged, shot Bat
cllelder a short time after the two
had made an agreement whereby Bat
chelder was to support Collins wife
Mrs. Maud Collins.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12

came later, and the succession OF
European nations that have adopted
the eagle: Russia, Austria, Prussia.
France and others. But this first
eagle was bird Of autocracy. and
nothing could have been more oppo-
site to the governmental idea of an
cient Babylon than the American
declaration of independence. Free
and powerful, the eagle stands logic.
ally for liberty and strength, but
when it first became national SYM
boil, liberty, as the word is now un-
derstood, did not exist
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Our National Symbol.

Kansas City Star: The useful
schoolboy. whose knowledge is cas-
ually referred to whenever it Is de-
sired to imply general historical in
formation. doubtless knows about the
eagles of Rome, and more or less
connects them with the heraldic eagle
OF the United States, but Professor
James II. Breasted, OF Chicago. car
ried the lineage of the symbol much
farther back when he recently point
ed out that the American eagle rea-
sonably enough originated some 5000
years ago, in Babylonia. Then first
appeared the eagle with outstretched
wings symbolizing the state. Rome
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
$3.50 Evidence That They
sa ~ tbe Burglars Sought for
= the Battle in the
Alley.
u.pp WORK BEARS FRUIT
u. = Them is in Jail in Mount
* Sterling, Illinois, and the
other is in Jail
Here.

-, IN iajl at Mount Sterling,
u, moi fifty miles east o. Ne Ss,nn
.'a another in Jail here, after 0 s.H.s,
90 .. s a Memphis, Missouri, my
afls'', ,..st Of keokuk, may clear up
n''ss s..a.itv Of the burglars who snot
tns ,a Mcpherson last Sunday morn
r., +bree days and nights o.
",,o,,s work, the first arrests IN
'. .ss. we're made last evening at
". ".nohis and Mount Sterling.
rho man at Mount Sterling is w. 3.
,,oraford resident of these parts
~ l. now bound over as a boot
' wv 10 make sure he will stay there.
Ns Tha man arrested by the sheriff at
Men,nhIs on orders from Chief Henne-
Isu Is BERNARD Miller, whose home
r ms 10 be Mount Sterling, who picked
shickens in a poultry house atiMem-
mis- last fall and early winter and has
teen watched by the officers for some
tn,e as a suspected bootlegger.
They Are Apprehensive.
Tho two will be kept separated be-
yond any possibility of communication
With each other until both of them
are thoroughly worked out. The
stories they tell about their where
abouts that Saturday night, will be
checked up completely, and they will
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
CONF L|MENT TO
KEOkUK OFFICERS
Auditors from State Department Of
Public Accounts Report Books
of City Hall in Fine
Shape.
SAY CAN FIND NO FAULT
Nothing But Praise for Methods with
Which City Government is Be-
ing Conducted in All Its
Parts.

NJ. F. Cox. the state examiner of
municipal accounts, has submitted
his report to the state department
covering the examination of the Keo-
klk city accounts.
Attached to the report were the
following comments:
Inc council has made an effort to
lelrench on loan warrants for the
last year as compared with previous
years, and as result the amount
mas been reduced.
we nave examined all expenditures
and the same are legitimate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
How the Women Vote.

Toledo Blade: Married women
seem to vote practically the same as
their husbands. But this leaves the
unmarried ones unaccounted Tor.
Presumably they vote about as the
bachelors do.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12

kept and were free from errors en-.
tirely.
The balances shown by the treas
urer are correct.
M. h. Cox and e. H. Kooser were
the examiners from the statehouse
who worked several weeks here.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Tarred and Feathered.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
SPOKANE, Wash, June 12.-Accus-
ed Of being pro-German and OF beat
ing I'D a returned soldier, John HUFF
man. rancher, was stripped, marched
four miles into the woods and tarred
and feathered by twenty armed anu
masked men last night. His right
thumb was shot away when the tar.
ring party surrounded his CABIN ana
fired a fusilade at 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Women In Politics.

New York World: The indictment
of three women voters in connection
with alleged election frauds In Chi
cago marks the progress of the sex
toward masculine standards OF "prac-
teal" politics.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12

Women are to take part equally
with men in the conference of chair
men of republican state central COM
mittees and republican women's state
executives soon to be held in Washing
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
American League.
ToDAYs SCHEDULE.

National League.
Boston at ST. Louis.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
New York at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12

Cheyenne is to have a hospital to-
be built and mandolin memory of theA
wife of General Pershing. Mrs. Per-
slring was Wyoming woman, the
daughter of Francis Il. WARREN
United States senator from that state,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
This Settles II.

In answer to your letter, beg
to say that at the time Samuel j.
Kirkwood and Joshua G. Newbold
were elected governor and lieu
tenant governor, / was president
of the state senate.
When, the following year. Kirk
wood was elected to the United
States senate. Newbold became
governor, and by law Of success
sion / became lieutenant gov
ernor.
In company with Newbold, 1
took the oath before Clerk
Holmes, of the supreme court in
his private room. There were no
official duties to perform.
Governor Newbold and repre-
scented Iowa in an eastern confer
ence Of governors the year after
the Centennial, and l installed my
successor as lieutenant governor,
Frank T. Campbell
The letter closes with appreciation
}: Keokuk as Mr.. Rothert's forme,
nome and an expression of pride tina
1e is an old Keonuk resident ant
mayor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Accounts Well Kent.

All collections made by the city
YER. u' superior court, city scale Of
,icefs and police department have
oeeh verified and the different
amounts e, turned TO the city treasurer.
Inc accounts have been splendidly
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
An InsurmountabIe obstacIe.

Kansas City Times: II an ocean
could always be depended on to he
smooth and without fog, 1t would be
a fine place to fly over.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Life Not Worth Living.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
LOS ANGELES, Calf, June r.
Life is not worth living now that
the United States is going dry, July
l."
Leaving word in note. f. II:
Perry. druggist, today swallowed
poison in an effort to end his life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
nm MEN UNDER ARREST
FOR Shooting OFFICER

be investigated by the methods so
successful in the case Of the other
criminals caught here recently, all OF
whom finally cut themselves out OF
the web woven around them by con-
Tossing.
They are nervous, and as soon as
they were told that they were wanted
for the shooting of Policeman Nc
Pherson at Keokuk, they changed
their previous attitude.
Each showed marked nervousness
VIXEN told what he was wanted for and
that he was to be taken to Keokuk.
Sheriff ]. F. Chastine, of Scotland
county, Missouri, arrived here with
Miller at noon today. five minutes
after Chief Henneman arrived back
from Mount Sterling.
A Busy Day For Henneman.
The long distance telephone wires
were busy today between Keokuk and
both the towns where the prisoners
were.
Chief Henneman went to Mount
Sterling at o'clock this morning on
receipt Of word that they had Hors-
ford in custody there. A letter found
on the person of Horsford was from
Miller at Memphis and at once Chief
Benneman telephoned Sheriff Chas-
tine who gave some valuable informa-
ton. Later he was asked to arrest
Miller and bring him to keokuk at
noon today.
Evidence Is Strong.
In the meantime, Chief Henneman
saw Horsford in the Mount Sterling
jail and talked to him enough to
justify placing him under arrest, bur
the Mount Sterling officers had antici-
pated that by filing charge OF boot
legging against him. They also have
ar: old bootlegging case against Miller,
which will be useful, If the latter at
tempts to get loose from the Keokuk
police.
County Attorney McManus returns
this evening. and when the inyestiga-
ton of the two men is completed,
there will be plenty of evidence for
their conviction or they will have es-
tablished a solid and bomb proof alibf.
But this afternoon, the evidence
made it look very much like the right
pair are In Jail.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
CLUB STANDINGS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
National League.

Boston. 6; st. Louis, 4.
Cincinanti, q; New York, L
Pittsburgh, 3; Brooklyn, 2.
Chicago, 8; Philadelphia, 2.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12

American League.
st. Louis at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at Washington.
Detroit at New York.
Chicago at Boston.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12

supplant or even curtail the use or
wires for telephone and telegraph
operation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
Am.rican Ieaoue

American League.
st. Louis, A; Philadelphia, 8.
Washington, 6; Cleveland, 3.
Chicago, 8; Boston. 0.
New York, Z: Detroit, 0.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
When the Record wa. Wrong.

When The Gate City last week was
writing the activities here in Keokuk
OF Henry w. Rothert, recently re-
signed as superintendent of the school
fol the deaf at Council Bluffs, 1t ran
into one of those eddies with which
historians are very familiar.
A dozen of Roberts closest friends
here in Keokuk insisted that he was
once acknowledgement of Iowa
But look at the official register
Of Iowa showed that he was not.
The Gate City wrote Mr.. Rothert
asking him to solve the dilemma and
explain why the state register was
wrong, or all his keokuk chums mis-
taken. His reply is as follows, and
proved the Keokuk memory to be
better than the compiling ability OF
whoever is responsible for the Iowa
red book:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-12
How Henry w. Rothert succeeded to
Office Second In Rank In Com
monsveaith Of Iowa Long
STATE RECORD FAULTY
Official Red Book Of Iowa Does Not
List Him az President Of the
Senate in the Proper
Place.

The memory Of Keokuk men is bet
ter historical evidence than the publ
cations Of the state Of Iowa, In at
least one instance.
Henry w. Rothert was president OF
the senate and thereby lieutenant gov
'ernor of Iowa once upon = time, but
the official Iowa red book omits both
these facts.
The official register Of the state OF
Iowa on page 81. lists the former
lieutenant governors Of the state. 1t
has Joshua G.. Newbold, Of Henry
county, as lieutenant governor. elected
October IL, 1875. and becoming gov
ernor February /. 1877. This is true
enough. but it omits to mention his
successor When he succeeded Gov
ernor kirkwood who was elected
United States senator.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
NEW YORK COMPOSITIONS
 ARE TAKING VACATIONS"

New York. Oct. With more than 250 printing plants closed as the hesult of d lockout Instituted by. employir printers against pressmen not ahillat- ed with the international union. the situation was further complicated to- day when in order to avoid the tech nicality oL striking. i50 compositors in some ot the leading establishments here left their work to take Vaca- ticn." The action. was taken by each .compositor individually, the vacation ists" announced.
 The firms affected print The Review of Reviews, Hearst's. Good Houselleep ing, Leslie's, Judge and other nation ally known magazines. Four job print ing firms also are affected.
 Aside from the compositors' action, the situation as a whole remained un- changed.
 John Adams Thaycr, secretary of the Periodical Publishers association, who yesterday issued a list of publi- cations which had suspended tonight asserted the name of the Woman's World should not have appeared in the list
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
JEWISH WAR SUFFERERS ATE
 GRASS TO PROLONG LIFE

New York. Oct. Bringing story of a starving people reduced to eating nettle grass in desperate ecorts to prolon glife, Jacob Bashein of the joint distribution committee for the relief of Jewish war sufferers arrived home today from the devastated Nolinya district of Poland.
 Mrs. Bashein conducted a motor re- lief caravan of food supplies and med icines through, the Nolinya section, and encountered horrors which he said words failed to describe. He left there August 24, last and came direct to New York. His statement issued to- night, tells of five months of first hand touch with actual conditions.
 For six weeks prior to the arriv- al of our transport most of the peo- pie subsisted on a diet of grass, a sort of nettle. as one result of eating which the body becomes swollen and the flesh turns black" MT. Bashein's statement said
 From hunger and the grass diet the flesh becomes separated from the bones. I have seen many such cases, and removed the sufferers to cities where hospitals exist. One becomes horror stricken to see their condi- tiOn."
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
STEEL STRIKE LEADERS AND
 BROTHERHOOD MEN CONFER

Washington, Oct. 2. - A conference between leaders of the steel strike and representatives of three railroad brotherhoods was held here tonight. No statement was forthcoming after the meeting other than that further discussion swilI be held.
 Participants said that the question of cooperation by the brotherh pods by a sympathetic strike or refusing to carry CT steel products was not discussed in any manner although it might, they said. come up probably at a later meeting. Cases in which come involved in the strike were con- sidered, it was said. and the brother hood representatives agreed to take up the matter with it's membership.
 John Fitzpatrick. chairman of the organizing committee in the steel in dustry; William z. Foster, secretary; William Hannon, representative of the International Association of Machin- ists, and David Davis, assistant pres ident of the Ama1gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers were present for the steel men. The broth erhoods were represented by H. E. Wills of the Locomotive Engineers: P J. McNamara, vice president. Broth erhood of Bremen and Enginmen, ard w. N. Doak, vice president, Brother hood of Railway Trainmen.
 MT. Wills said the only way the tion would be for complaint to origin ate with locals, and then ba referred for vote. He said it was contrary to u c long established po-icv of the EI otherhoods to go out on sympathetic strikes.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
LEONOR F. LOREE DELEGATE
 TO LABOR CONFERENCE

Boston, Oct. 2.-The National Indus trial Conference board announced to- day that Leonor F. Loree of New York, president Q fthe Delaware and Hudson Railroad. had accepted the boards in Vitation to serve as delegate to the National Industrial Conference, called by President Wilson to assemble at Washington on October 6. This com -' pletes the group of five members of the conference appointed by the board at the presidents request. The others are: Frederick F. Fish, of Boston: John w. OLeary, of Chicago; E. Pemberton Hutchinson, of Philadelphia, and Ed win Farnham Greene. of Boston.
 Magnus w. Alexander, managing editor of the National Industrial Con ference Board. said: Our delegation is very broadly representative. The personal ability of these men, the spirit of public service which they have shown in accepting the boards appointment, and the. earnestness with which they are going into this confer ence add to my feeling of assurance that the conference can scarcely fau to result in something constructive and of very great and permanent value to American industry
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
DENY THERE HAS BEEN
 DISHONEST. SAlVAGiNG

: Vineyard Haven. Mass. Oct D. Residents of the island of Martha s Vineyard who gave testimony today
 before the congressional committee Investigating the wreck of the steam CT Port Hunter in Vineyard Sound in November of last year denied that there had been any dishonest salvag ing Of the cargo of army and navy supplies for overseas. Several Jes tified that there was TO local salvag- ing after the governm N took hand in the work and they ~-3rScd official negligence in the alleged failure of the government to protect the steam ship after the naval wreckers quit op- era1ions last fall. A number of the witnesses declared that conditions at that time were unusually favorable for salvsging the cargo.
 Ccngressmen MacGrego and Dono van of the committee both remarked that in their opinion criticism of the people of the island was unju.t and those who took goods from the vessel in good faith with the conviction that the ship had been abandoned by the government.
 Captain Joseph H. Whelton of Bos- ton one of the principal witnesses, in reply to a question, asserted that he believed the local wreckers had right to take the goods from the ship. as no lights were left on her. there was no one on board. nothing to guard her, and her anchors. chains and moorings were gone.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
ARGUMENT AGAINST THE
 SYSTEM OF SELLING STEEL

Washington. Oct. 2. = The charge that the existing practice of selling raw steel on a single basing point at Pittsburgh in a means of illegal price control is made in arguments on this vexed issue between steel producing g concerns on the one hand and fabri- cators and manufacturing industries on the other. made public today by the federal trade commission.
 Following a formal complaint last summer by the Western Association of Rolled Steel Consumers against the United States Steel Corporation and other producing companies, charging viola ton of the Clayton antitrust law and the Federal Trade Commis sion law and the request at the same time by Judge Ebert H. Gary and oth- CT representatives of steel mills that the commission assume jurisdiction opinion from all interested parties. Replies from seventy nine concerns which have Joined. in the proceedings were made public today.
 The commission is now considering placing the question on formal bas- is for trial, as requested by the par ties Judge Gary is reported to have said that should the commission as sume Jurisdiction. the case proba bly, would develop into "the greatest law suit in the history of the country"
 Under the existing system steel is sold throughout the United States at the prevailing price at Pittsburgh, plus charge equivalent to the freight rate from Pittsburgh to the point where the steel is delivered regardless of the location of the mill selling the shipment and regardless of the actual freight charge involved.
 This practice those favoring the a bolition of the singfe Pittsburgh base point argument means that purchasers of steel buying from other than Pitts hurgh mills are burdened with an arbi- trary added charge to cover the f1cti- tious freight rate from Pittsburgh The system. the proteStants say is arbitrary, artificial and uneconpmic and gives to the steel producers exces- sive profits for which there is tno service rendered.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03
SUPPLY OF SUGAR IN NEW
 ENGLAND 25 PER CENT. SHORT

Boston. Oct 2.-The available SUD- ply of sugar for New England is about 25 per cent. below requirements and consumers in this region will have to limit their use of the product for al least three months to three quar- ters of the amount generally con- sumed, Brigadier General John H. Snerburne. chairman of the state com mission on necessaries of life. said to- night He attributed the shortage to increased demand for sugarfor candy the deficiency in last years supply and increased general consumption.
 In an effort to meet conditions ere ated. by the shortage, General Sher- burne said committee had been or ganfzed in the sugar trade, the duty of which would be to eQualize aIlot- nenIs among wholesalers and supply men, He said sugar cards would not be used unless it became absolutely necessay.
 q The coal situation was not alarm ing the commission. General Sher- burne said, but it was certain that there would be no reduction in price before next spring. The commission advises everyone to place orders i'm mediately for the necessary winter supply so that dealers may know just what the needs will be.
 With respect to prices of general commodities, General Sherburne said the commission had found that since September g. when it's first fair price list was issued, pork products had dropped in price about 10 per cent, beef per cent, lamb per cent. and general ~rceries an average of five and three -tenths per cent. He ex- poets a further advance in the prices of butter and eggs. but in other com modities the commission looks for steady decline in prices.