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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
At the New Colonial,

At the Colonial theater tonight Harry
Carey has added another clincher to
his right to be called Ace OF the Saddle
Riders Of Vengeance" which was
seen last night at the Colonial thea
ter, has surpassed in intense interest
and thrills any of the former sue,
cesses which has won this western
star his sobriquet. But mitigating the
lurid sensationalism Of gun-play
throughout the piece Is the spirit OF
fair play the hero shows toward his
bitterest enemies-the band Of muir
derous cow-punchers hired by rival
catleman to exterminate the Carston
family.
Harry Carey, in the part Of Cheyenne
Harry Carstcn, whose entire family
was assassinated on the steps Of the
little western church a moment after
he had emerged with his new bride on
his arm, has scored another success
in portraying the life in the west just
at the close of the civil war. Lawless,
ness, so called, as applied to condi.
lions in the cattle towns Of New Mex.
leo is a misnomer. There was a law
q deadly memorable law that was
dealt both in justice and injustice, the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
POLICE SEEK
PRISONER
Authorities In This Section Of Coun-
try Asked to Help Capture
Military Man Who
Escaped.

Police in this section of the coun-
try have been asked by the federal
authorities to unite in the search for
a 19-year-old military prisoner, Frank
Schellen, who made an escape from
Santa Fe train No. /, in or near Dallas
City, H.. last Sunday morning. The
manner in which the youth escaped
from his captors while being taken to
the military prison at Leavenworth,
Kansas, has not been learned.
The fugitive from justice is des-
cribed as weighing about 100 pounds
He had a rudy complexion and dark
hair. His escape was made while
the lad was wearing uniform with
oil-cloth leggins. The insignia of the
air service was carried on his left
Sleeve ~ 2-.iss
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
Must Be a Stopping Point.
tomorrow

Rolfe Arrow: Our idea is that the
railway men should be the last to
ask for increases under present con-
ditons, and certainly to get them.
Labor is large element in the cost
OF every product. To increase the
cost of labor means to increase the
cost of living. There must be stop
ping point. Sooner or later the issue
must be fought out, and now is az
good a time as any. If all labor was
on as high a scale as railway labor,
there would be no living. 1t is rank
injustice under present conditions to
advance railway labor without ad-
vancing other labor. The cost OF
living must be reduced, and to re-
duce it labor must take its proper
tionate share.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
MOVING PICTURES.
At the Hippodrome.

Norma Talmadge supported by
Eugene O'Brien in splendid society
drama, 1.-THE Moth" will be shown
for the last time this evening. This
wonderful photo drama more than
pleased yesterdays audience. Miss
Talmadge does some Of her cleverest
acting in THE Moth" which is the
story of a social moth wife who is
singed by the flame of society. Also
the latest Pathe News.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening,
Gladys Brockwell in her newest SEN
sational success, 1.-THE Sneak" a
romance of rags and riches. Like a
tigress she fights to free her name
from stain and win back her true
love. She battles to the death with
the foe who sought her ruin in insane
jealousy. One Of Miss Brockw ell s
greatest presentations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13

THOUSANDS TREATED
Over Eiehty-nine Thousand OF our
Soldiers Were Given Aid in
Army Hospital
Camps.

Some of the many dollars given by
Keokuk people were spent for nos
pital supplies. Hence local people
will be interested in knowing just
how far their money went in TINS
field. The extent Of the hispital ac-
tiyities of the American Red Cross
in France is set forth in report OF
the bureau of hospital administration
prepared for the war department IL
shows that during the conflict the
Red Cross furnished more than
100000 days of hospital care Tor
American soldiers admitted to its
hospitals, total of S9,539 patients,
$4,000 being admitted in the last
months of the war. When the fight
ing ceased, the organization was OPP
Grating twenty-five military hospitals,
with 1896 beds occupied.
disqualification was but one phase
of the work Of the Red Cross Tor
sick and wounded soldiers. 1t under.
took also the manufacture OF all
splints and the nitrous oxide gas
used as an anaesthetic by the army
the construction of emergency hos
pitfalls, supervision Of diet kitchens,
operation of thirteen dispensaries'
eight infirmaries and eleven conva.
descent homes throughout France, al
the same time meeting innumerable
emergency calls by the army for hos
pital supplies and equipment In ad.
dition to all this, the bureau extended
assistance of many kinds to 2,SOo
French hospitals.
In the last nine months of 1918
dn1iVarqO
the following surgical supplies fol
American wounded: 21,9SS,06O dress
ings, congresses, packings and pad
dings, absorbent pads and bandages'
1857, 426 sponges, 51S.304 bed pads
177,726 drains and 1.463.200 spllnts
and accessories. In one month, Au
gust, there was sent from the Paris
warehouse alone 12,163,115 surgical
dressings, T,101 surgical instru,
ments, 1890 pounds Of drugs and
$3.50 beds and cots. The range Of
miscellaneous equipment the bureau
was called upon to furnish may be
gained from the following list: 81
Bessoneau tents, tortoise tents. sc
marquis tents, 100 barracks, Z port
able laundries, ice-making ma.
chimes, disinfecting machines,
large and small laundries, 2 twenty
spray showers with delousing plant
2 forty-spray showers, Al eight-spray
showers, 4S sterilizers, 10 laboratory
outfits and X-ray, dental and cleo
trical outfits.
In organizing the hospital admin
istration the Red Cross formed a
staff of experts in various medical
and surgical lines. The need of this
was demonstrated when requests be
gan to come in from the field. Requi
sitions were often made under great
stress, the writer's sometimes having
nothing more than an envelope OF
cigaret paper to scribble them on
and no definite specifications could
be given. 1t was then the duty OF
the bureaus experts to determine the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
exact character and quantity Of sup
plies to send.
DIES MONIES
WALKS TODAY
Street Car Men Paralyze City by sud
den Strike Asking Back Pay
From March 1,
1919,

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 13.-Des
Moines' transportation system was
paralyzed today when six hundred en-
ployes Of the street railway company
went on strike The strike vote. tax
en- at two o'clock this morning, gave
the sleeping city no notice 1t would
have to walk to work this morning.
The car men, recently granted a wage
increase of so, 55 and 60 cents an
hour. struck because no provision was
made to give them back pay from
March /, under the new scale.
The back pay was approximately
500 900, or $50 man. The strike
had been threatened, apparently call
ed off and threatened again several
times in as many weeks, but last
night the city went to bed thinking
the differences of the men and the
company were being peacefully nego-
tiated.
Downtown business was consider
ably delayed this morning, owing to
inability of employees to get to work.
Milk wagons, automobiles and all
sorts Of other vehicles were pressed
into service and with streets sparseiy
populated, business as usual was
reported at nine o'clock.
Suburban travel was further ham,
pered by the strike at the Rock Island
shops. The company was unable TO
add extra shuttle trains and was oper-
ating regular ones" under difficulties,
officials said.
The street car company made no ef-
fort to operate cars following the
walkout.
Owners Of System.
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-Officials of
the Harris Trust and Savings bank
today refused to comment upon the
strike Of 700 employees Of the Des
Moines street railways. Emil G.
Schmidt, head of the traction com.
pany and an official OF the bank,
lives in Des Moines, it was pointed
out, and will make any announce
ment the bank authorizes.
Company Not to Move an Inch.
DIES MONIES. Ia, Aug. 13.-Fed-
eral action in the strike here today
of six hundred street railway em-
ployes was forecast when Postmaster
George Hoffman and other federal
authorities said contracts were being
| examined to see if the company
could be compelled to carry mail
The situation was apparently dead.
! locked when company officials said
| they would not move ian inch" to
| resume service unless compelled by
| city, federal or other authorities.
They declared they had no money to
| grant back pay demanded by the
| men but not provided under the re-
| cent wage increase to so, 55 and GO
cents an hour.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13

Successful experiments In growing
peanuts have been conducted in Mes-
opotamia by Englishmen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
MORE SPEED
ON TREATY
Hitchcock's Threat to Ratify Without
Committee Report, Causes
Stormy Session OF
Committee

|Hitchcock's Threat to Ratify Without
Committee Report, Causes
Stormy Session Of
Committee.
IBy l. G. Martin, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Aug. ia threat
by Senator Hitchcock. administra-
ton leader. that the peace treaty will
be taken ont of the foreign relations
committees hands and ratified un-
less the committee soon reports 1t.
today caused the committee to de-
eide to push the treaty with all pos
sible speed.
Hitchcock's warning was delivered
today at meeting OF the commit
tee and caused stormy session.
Following the meeting 1t was an
nounced the committee with begin
considering proposed amendments
tomorrow.
Hitchcock first demanded informa-
ton from the republican majority on
the committee as to when the treaty
Ia likely to be reported
II told them said Hitchcock,
that there Is great demand in the
senate and the country for action.
and asked when 1t might be expected
sdlu that unless bOLuS eIIOIt WAS
made to expedite matters in the CON-
mittee. an effort would be made to
bring about action on the senate floor.
Senator Lodge, the chairman, said
he was in favor OF the expediting as
much as possible and did not believe
there had been any artificial delay so
far.
II told the committee that they
could put on as many amendments as
they saw At in committee and We
would promptly beat them in the SEN
ate"
Hitchcock and Senator Fall had a
bitter debate. bordering at times on
the personal.
Fall. commenting on 1t, said that he
objected to Hitchcock's manner.
Il told him." said Fall, that not
only the actions but the motives of
some of us have been questioned by
advocates OF the treaty and the league,
and that 1 do not propose longer to
restrain myself in the face of such at
! tacks."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
TO
EDIT PAPER
Former Gate City Reporter viii Be
In Charge of the Audubon,
Iowa, Advocate, SEMI
Weekly.

Friends in Keokuk Of Walter E.
Williams, former reporter on The
Gate City, will be interested in know
ing that he will be in charge and will
edit the Audubon Advocate, a semi
weekly paper Of Audubon, Iowa. A
COPY of the paper has been received
here. Mr.. Williams is to assume the
management of the paper during the
illness of the present owner.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13

Chicago Daily News: Strangely
enough, intelligence has never been
properly applied to the human prob
lem as human problem. We com.
monty think in terms of race, nation
creed, sex, class, condition-not In
items of common humanity. u is
time for the human race to secure
proper recognition from it's own
membes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
RumanIans Refuse.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
PARIS, Aug. 13.-Allied military
representatives in Budapest reported
to the peace conference today that
the Rumanians had refused to carry
but the allied instructions with regard
TO evacuation of the Hungarian CAPT.
tai. The allied officers asked the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13

lutely safe and giving the best, clear
est pictures obtainable.
Wally Reid in "The Roaring Road
tomorrow
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
DONE Fool the Consumer.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: Antitrust
suits may duly terrify those against
whom they are directed, but they
hold no Illusion for those waiting for
the price of porter-house to fall.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
HOD FILLER, CAST OFF BY
 WHITE SOx, GETS REVENGE
Young Cincinnati Pitcher With Chicago But NaA Rejected Native of Illinois Where
 Started Diamond Career.
New York. Oct. - Horace O..

New York. Oct Horace O. 'sHod" Euer, the hero of the fifth game of the worlds series at Chicago yesterday, came to the Reds by the draft route from the Moline club Of the Three-I-League in the fall of 1916. However, yesterday was not the first time that he has performed at Comiskey Park.
 In 1915 Clarence Rowland, then manager of the White Sox, purchas- ed ElIer conditionally from the Mo line club. ElIer made the spring training trip with the White Sox the following year, but on April 30 Row land sent the following telegram to the Moline club:
 Filler not ready yet, but will give you $1,500 for him." The Conaact called for $2,50O, and the Moline club asked for a return of the player.
 Eller returned to Moline, but be- fore he reported to the club was call ed for duty on the Mexican border. At that time Eller was a member of the state militia at DanvilIe, III. On his return from Mexico yesterdays hero had some trouble with the Mo line club over his salary and quit the team.
 He then joined a seni-pro team called the Grays at Henry, III. For tunateIy for Garry Hermann, the Reds had two games scheduled with the Grays. But the officials of the Moline club notified Hermann that Eller had been suspended and that under the rules of organized baseball was not eligible to pitch against the Reds.
 The officials of the Moline club got into communication with the pitcher at the same time. It was finally set tied that EIler was to pitch the two games and then return to the Moline club.
 EI1er's work against the Reds was so impressive that Matty put in draft for the pitcher that year. He has been with the club ever since. Early this year Eller pitched a mo- hit, no-run game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
 Erer is 25 years old. He was born at Muncie. Ind. in 1894. His home | is at DanvilIe, III.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

Chicago, Oct. Another worlds series record has been broken in a series fraught with many new marks and sensational happenings. The Reds and the White SoX will divide the biggest pot in all the history of these post-season struggles for the so-call- ed championship of the world, $260,- 349.66.
 The players of the winning team, which certainly looks like Cincin- nati, will pocket $4,8S1.56 each, while the players of the losing team will get some balm in carrying off $3,- 254.37 each
 Far back in 1912. when the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Giants, the players Of the wtr ming team earn ed s4,022 each, which was the high year no provision was made for the players of any other clubs. as now obtains.
 It is the more remarkable then that this year new record is estab- ished, even though the contesting clubs must content themselves with 75 per cent. of the pool set apart for the players. With the close of the fifth game in Chicago yesterday the money interest for the players came to an end. Their shave of the first five games amounted to s26O,349.66.
 Of this amount, 75 per cent, or S195,262.25, will be divided between the players of the Reds and the White Sox on a basis of 60 per cent, s117,157.35, to the winners, and 40 per cent. or $7S,104.90, to thel osers.
 Both Chicago and Cincinnati have 24 men each eligible. so that the players of the winning team, as said before, will carry off s4,Ss1.56, and the players of the losing team S3,- 264.37 each.
 This year the players of the clubs which finish second. the New York Giants in the National League and the Cleveland Indians in the Ameri- nsa,a Lea ana- uilI djrri<7A K oAnt
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
CAPT. CALLAHAN BACK IN YALE
 LINEUP AGAIN

New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 7.---An al most incessant rain here since Sgtur- day made football practice in the Yale Bowl impossible yesterday afternoon, so Coach Sharpe took his charges in side the Yale armory, where they went through plays on the wood floor of the structure, which was built by Eli alumni for the purpose of training artillery officers in the R. o. T. C. There was no scrimmage, but after Sharpe had cautioned the team against certain parts of their play against Springfield the team ran through several plays lined up against the second eleven.
 Charlie COmerford not only watched the practice but took an active part in training the ends along with Jack Gates, the official wing candidate coach. Comerford will be remembered as the All-American end on Black S winning 1916 combination. He is to stay in New Haven for a number of days for the purpose of developing a couple of good ends for the team.
 Capt. Callahan was at the pivot po- sition for a few minutes, the first time in ten days that-4ke has been in the line because of his leg injury. Fred Graham, another convaIescent Eli, was in his togs but did not get into the lineup.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
SIX FAvORITES
 ARE BEATEN IN
 JAMAICA RACES

New York, Oct. Tor the second time the fall meeting of the Metropol- itan Jockey Club opened at Jamaica on Sept. 29. six favorites went down to defeat yesterday.
 Some of them perhaps were false faTorites; but in any case, the rank and file of handicappers are finding their figures misleading these fall days, or else horses are not running as they are expected to run.
 The condition of the track no doubt has had much to do with the general upsetting of the dope. It was not heavy yesterday in spite of the rain of the early morning, but it was dead and cuppy, and this no doubt had something to do with the disap- pointing races of Whimsy and Ten ons Bons in the second race, of Bally Bell in the third, of Pickwick in the fourth and Kilkenny in the fifth.
 Anyway, they failed dismally as did Thunderbird in the opening race and Chief in the last.
 Forty-two races have been run since the meeting opened and only ten favorites have caught the eyes of the judges in front, a percentage of only 23S-a mighty small percentage. The general average is nearly A per cent.
 Looking back over the days racing, it is hard to reconcile some of the happenings on a basis of what has gone before. Two or three days ago Albert A beat Whimsy a short head after a head-and-head struggle through the last seven furlongs of a mile and a sixteenth race. On that occasion Whimsy was giving Albert A. pounds; they met again yesterday at even weights, which on all handi- capping, gave Whimsy a ten pound call.
 But the six-year-old gelding, after making the pace for the greater part of the distance, began to hang and Albert A. came away to win easily from Tenons Bons with Whimsy beaten ten or fifteen lengths-and not even in the money. It was hard Q but was explained by the condition of the track.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
DE PALMA SAYS HE WILL QUIT
 MOTOR RAGING

New York, Oct. Ralph DePalma, who in the past ten years has been the sensation of the auto racing world, announced last night that this will be his last season in the game. The brilliant Italian-American driver has accumulated a snug fortune by racing and after this year will devote his time to his many business inter ests.
 DePaIma also will start in the ten mile special match race at Sheeps- head Bay. In this event the win ners of the various classics through out the season compete for the worlds sprint racing supremacy. Among the other starters expected are Gaston Chevrolet, who won the 1OO-miIe Derby at Sheepshead Bay at 54:17 1-2, setting a new worlds s record; Tommy Milton, who annex ed the Elgin race; Joe Boyer, who won the recent Union two classic and Louis Chevrolet, who finished first in the Fourth of July derby at Tacoma. Howdy Wilcox, winner of the In dianapoIis classic, may be a post en- try in this event.
 One of the features in the races are the many new machines that will be seen in competition. The boom of auto racing throughout the coun- try since the war ended has been an incentive for inventors of motors and some of the new creations can travel like streak of lightning. Louis Chevrolet promises to show some thing this time that will revolution ize the sport.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
NERvED HORSES
 MAY BE BARRED
 BY JOCKEY CLUB

New York, Oct. Tine appoint ment of expert veterinarians by va rious associations racing under the Jurisdiction of the Jockey Club has met with the unqualified approval of all those who believe that racing tests should be held only under conditions when the horses engaged are thor ou8hly trained and when their bodily condition is such that the danger of accident is reduced to minimum.
 It is essential for the best inter- ests of the sport that unsound ami nals, particularly those that have been nerved, should be under the strictest scrutiny, and if a law for bidding the participation of any nerv- ed horse in trials of speed should be formulated it would be favored by a vast majority of those who are in terested in breeding ana racing.
 The operation known as ''nerving'' destroys all feeling in the afflicted member, and it has been frequently resorted to in the past on some of our very best horses. Hanover, one of the greatest thoroughbreds of his day, was so treated when his usefulness on the track became impaired through chronic lameness which baffled vet erinary skill. He won many races af- terward for the Dwyer brothers, but his career in the stud was cut short as a result of the treatment, the dead foot becoming so diseased that Col oneI Milton Young of the McGrath- jana Farm, for whom the horse earned a fortune, was compelled to have him shot.
 Numerous other cases of a sirnf- lar nature might be cited; but that of Hanover, a horse which did more for the thoroughbred in America than any horse since the time of Diomed. will be sufficient His blood in the veins of our best present day thoroughbreds, and his daughter Rhoda B., taken to Ireland by Rich ard Croaker, when mated with Orme through the Derby winner Orby founded a family of great racehorses abroad. Without q doubt Hanover short from five to ten years, and the loss to the blood stock interests ot the United States is almost incalcu- able.
 With the reputable and competent veterinarian in the paddock-one whose sole interest in keeping the stewards thoroughly posted on con ditions and who has no outside prac- tice to influence or prejudice his vii sion-the character of the racing should take on an added tone. Many cripples whose usefulness in racing has passed and whose presence on the course is a menace to life and limb would be refused permission to start.