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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
TRANSPORTATION
is A PROBLEM
Jerusalem Has Seven Gates To It's
City and Traffic Rules and Reg1-
lations For Al of Them IS
Big Question

Jerusalem has seven gates and a
transportation problem handled at
present, as of old, along purely east
ern lines. There are donkeys, horses.
camels-even carriages and the ubi-
uuitos Ford. and all That traffic con-
centrates naturally at the gates, just
as, to increase its force, water used
to be made to flow through small
opening In the old fashioned tide mills
at home. AS for telephones, who that
can shout from roof to roof and down
the echoing street should trouble him
self to whisper into a. funnel?
my windows are well placed for q
can watch the crowd thronging in and
out of the Jaffa gates" writes William
d. McCrackan in Asia. "That is the
widest opening the city has, since
Wilhelm'H. of Prussia had it enlarged
to permit his spectacular entry-a
symbolical pageant that he staged to
represent his taking possession of the
holy city by agreement with the sui
tan in Constantinople. But wide is
the gate which leadeth unto destruc-
ton. The real Jaffa gate is narrow
one at the side of the wide passage
way; and THIS was the one used by
General AIlenby when he entered Je-
rusalem after its capture, modestly, on
foot, carrying the cane that the british
officer affects as his only scepter of
power. This gate is now closed with
heavy bars and will not be reopened
until the exact political status of Jeru-
salem has been determined"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
BRINGS SUIT
FOX $1O,O8O.5O
William Shepherd Files Petition i
District Court Against Daisy
Shepherd Tcr InEaid Prom
issory Notes.

A suit in which the plaintiff asks
judgment against the defendant Tor
s4U,t90.5V mas been 1iled in the dis
i.ict court by William Shepherd
against Daisy D. Shepherd, executrix
q the estate of the late Andrew A.
Shepherd.
Plaintiff is bringing suit against
Daisy Shepherd for some promissory
notes and mortgages which she and
her husband gave to William Shepherd
in 1918, and which according to plain
tiff's allegations, have not been paid.
The plaintiff also asks court to cor
rect and reform the description OF me
property on which plaintiff holds The
mortgage and further to decree that
defendant has no right to the title for
the property, and asks that receiver
be appointed for those premises.
The notes which the defendant and
the late Andrew A. Shepherd gave tc
William Shepherd are dated Novem
ber 1913, the first one for $4,000 and
the second one for $1O,500.
The late Andred A Shepherd left al
q his property to his wife. the de
fendant in this suit. and according to
Plaintiffs allegations in petition, she
has never made any payments on the
notes or mortgage
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
Commerce is Suspend

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
san DIEGO, Calf, Aug. 14.-All
sea commerce between this port and
Lower California was suspended today
as result of an order from Mexico
City to the local Mexican consul No
ships are allowed to clear for destina
tons in the northern district OF Low.
er California.
impending military operations there
against Governor Estaban Cantu GAS
given as the cause Of this suspension
OF commerce.
Ives G. Lelevier, local consul of the
DE La Huerta government received
dispatches today saying that three
thousand federal troops have landed
at Ell Barril, on the Lower California
Peninsula and will start immediatel!
on u two hundred mile march across
the Colorado desert to attack the
Cantu forces.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
EXPLOSION OF
LIGHTED LAMP
Two Men Burned Fatally, One Dying
After Putting Flaming Clothes
Out by Leapinc Into
Creek

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WEISER, Idaho. Aug. 14.-The ex-
iplosion of kerosene lamp while
being filed with the wick burning,
caused the death of two and the seri-
Gus injury of a third here last night.
The dead are:
JAMES BAKER, So years old.
IRA MARTIN, 35 years old.
Mrs. A. P Armstrong. neighbor.
visiting at the Martin home at the
time of the accident, was badly
burned. ne
Mr.. Baker, father-in-law of Mr.. Mar
| tin, had retired. Mrs. Martin was
working in the kitchen, when she
heard the explosion. Rushing into
an adjoining room she met her hus-
band, whose clothes were aflame.
mrs. Martin managed to get her chill
dren out of the house. The father
in.law, caught in the flames, jumped
from the second story of the building
and rushed to nearby creek, where
he died after extinguishing the flames
which had burned his night clothes.
Mr.. Martin died few hours later,
after making several trips to neigh,
boring ranches. Mrs. Armstrong is
expected to live.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
IT'S ALMOST A
REAL UTOPIA
You Can Buy Five Eggs For Penny
There or a Bushel of Wheat For
Fifteen Cents But
Then

How would you like to live in
land where FIVE eggs can be bought
for a penny; wheat at is to 20 cents
a bushel, and anthracite coal at so
cents a ton?
The Joy of living in such a land
where the bug-a-boo of the high cost
of living is a joke Is not all unalloyed
Joy, however, for it is only in central
China that these prices hold good
Transportation costs Is to 80 cents
a ton mile, more than twenty times
as much as it costs in the United
States These facts are set forth in
a review of the Chinese situation by
Commercial Attache Julean Arnold,
made public recently by the depart
ment of commerce.
GIVE China 100000 miles of rail
ways. 10000 miles of good roads, and
we shall open up vast empire com
posed of rich resources to settlement
and development, and the Chinese
| people will greatly prefer to exten
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
SULTAN WAS
NICE OLD MAN
Mohammed vi is Different From the
Proverb:al Type Of Turkish
RuIer-Looks Like Col
Ieqe Professor.

"The graphic pencil Of the cartoon
lists have agreed in presenting pic
ture of the sultan Of Turkey that it
would be hard to eradicate from the
western mind, picture that symbol
ICES deeds written in history and ex-
presses wildly in black and white
the characteristics that made the
Sultan Abdul Hamid justly called the
unspeakable Turk" says the Christian
IScience Monitor.
Yet Philip Marshall Brown, pro-
'fessor of international law at Prince
ton university, meeting Mohammed
vi in the palace of Yildiz, where ten
years ago he had met and talked with
Abdul Hamid, describes a sultan I'M
like Abdul Hamid and unlike the
Turk of the cartoonist.
Sultan Mohammed VI" says MI.
Brown, writing in Asia, "is man
with scholarly stoop to his shout
ders He wears a gray mustache
and a pair of gold trimmed eyeglasses,
which heighten the resemblance to
benevolent college professor" And IN
the palace, where previously reigned
dark suspicion, insane fear and hide
Gus cruelty, the visitor found an Eat
mosphere of kindness and serenity
The professor from America chatted
with the sultan Of Turkey who looks
like a professor, and the converse
ton was not easy, for the sultan
wanted to know what the western
world thought of Turkey, and the
visitor was compelled to tell him
that the Turks are regarded as out
laws entitled to very little considera-
tion. The sultan could not and did
not try to deny that the behavior If
Turkey had merited such an opinion,
and the visitor, evidently enough, was
impressed with the belief that had
| the typical sultan been more like
lMohammed VI. Turkey would have
made a different record. But Turkey
has done a thorough job in creating
! the cartoonists' typical Turk and it
is difficult to picture a sultan who
can inspire western respect.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
FORKED STICK
USED BY INDIANS
This Was Primitive Method Of Plow-
ing Before the Present Asricul-
turaI Machinery Was In
vented.
FARM LAND ADVANCED
Amount Of Cultivated Fields Grows
With the Advent Of Mechanical
Devices to Help
Out.

Pointing out the way wood has en-
tered into the manufacture OF farm
implements and how those inple-
ments have marked the path OF pro
gress, is told by the American Fores-
TRY magazine, OF Washington, D. C.
American history easily goes back
ITO time when no plows were used
in this country. The Indians were
iagriculturists as well as hunters.
| though that is not the common belief.
They grew corn, and garden and field
i vegetables, and stored them for win
] ter. All the Indians did not do so,
but those who did not, incurred the
! risk of starving to death during the
winter Indians near Chilocothe,
/ Ohio, for example, had hundreds of
iacres of corn in compact areas, and
other Indians had cornfie1ds in most
regions where they lived; yet they
had no plows. They stirred the
soil with sharpened sticks with which
they punched and gouged few inch
les deep. Their greatest progress in
the direction of farm tools consisted
/ in the substitution Of copper, shell,
bone, or stone hoes; but they had no
domestic animals stronger than dogs,
~
lpull plows and never did so.
| Up to one hundred years ago-in
fact as late as 1845-America with all
its fertile land, did not raise enough
wheat to feed its own people. The
cost of doing it was too high. Hand
labor prevailed almost exclusively,
and large number of farmers was
necessary to grow and care for the
Y ,r1 n
lportion of the people lived on farms
than at the present time, only four
| and a third bushels of wheat per cap
iita were produced in the United
States in 1916 Forty-fve years later,
with relatively fewer persons on the
farms, the production OF wheat was
ten bushels per capita
In 1890 the work of one man for
three hours was required to grow ana
harvest a hushel of wheat. Sixty
years later, a fraction OF that labor
ssufficed to produce the bushel. Again,
machinery must have the credit ana
the efficiency of such machinery IS SO
well understood that American far-
mers now spend one hundred million
dollars a year for machinery wages
are much higher than they were sew
4 enty-fve years ago, yet most farm pro
/ ducts are cheaper. It is because one
man wit, suitable machines can pro
duce more than a much larger NUMBER
of men, working in the old way, coulo
produce eight or ten decades ago. IL
liz claimed that one man with ma
icbines can raise as much rice IN Lou
lisiana as four hundred men with mana
tools can raise in India
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14

their developments and relieve their
congested populations by settling their
own territory than in securing oppor-
tunities abroad" Mr.. Arnold says.
Where railways have been developed
in China and where modern industrial
plants are now In operation the prices
of commodities and of labor have al
ready more than doubled during the
last decade. China today is in the
inception of modern industrialism.
""The greatest possible service that
Americans can perform in connection
with the relations with China, both
for the protection of American labor
and for assistance to the Chinese peo-
pie, is to render every possible assist
ance in Chinese modern industrial and
economic developments, for through
these developments wages in China
will rapidly rise and come to the
standard Of those of the west.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14

to ships at docks, the New York
Evening Post states.
The Thames river Is divided into
two postal districts, each under the
control of a river postman, who makes
his rounds In a craft resembling
fishing boat. In clear weather the
delivery round is accomplished In
four or Ave hours, but il there Is a
fog the work becomes difficult and
dangerous, as ships are hard to locate
land there is always the chance Of
being run down by steamer. The
river postmen have their own uni
form, as distinguished from that of
the mere land postmen.
The task Of delivering the river
letters has been more or less of
family monopoly for several hundred
years, son succeeding father as
matter Of course. In recognition of
a faithful service George III present
ed the family of Evans with the free
dom of all ports Of the kingdom and
Ia silver medal weighing sixteen
ounces. Needless to say, though
highly priced as an heirloom. the
medal is not worn by the Evans men
upon their watery rounds.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
Internationalism is Repuqnant.

San Francisco Chronicle: Inter
nationalism no matter what form it
takes is repugnant to American ideas.
The place the United States has cut
out for itself in the world can only be
maintained by preserving the national
spirit BY adherence to the national
resolve of raising the standard of liv-
ing for the masses we have moved to
the front in the rank of nations. We
cannot afford to sacrifice what we have
attained by yielding to the misguided
notion that we can lift up the whole
world That can best be accomplished
by other peoples initiating our exam
pie of intelligently developing nation
al resources and concurrently elevat-
ing the standard of living of those
who participate in the work of de-
velopment. 4
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
8A7TLEsH|P IOWA
FOR EXPE R|MENT
r.nous old Boat VIII be Used as
Moving Target for eunners on
the superdreadnaushts in
Atlantic Ocean.
WITT. BE UNNAMED
shin viii be Started AfIoat, With
smoke Screens Thrown Around
Her Much Like Conditions
in Real Warfare.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. H.
Tba once famous battleshlp Iowa,
which played no small part IN the
sas,rncfion OF Cevera's fleet at Santl-
sgo is being prepared at the Phiid-
Gambia navy yard for what naval
oficers say will be one OF the most
,,ninue target experiments ever al
tempted.
proceeding unnamed, but under
nor own steam and controlled by
radio. probably from seaplanes, the
lid seafighter will become the objec-
live Of the big guns of the Atlantic
aeet supcrdreadnough gifts in Chesa-
peake bay late this summer. This
viii be the first time that American
warships have used moving craft
for target except in actual war.
Two of the Iowa's coal burning
boilers are being converted to burn
oil so the ship may continue under
way with no one aboard once her
fires have been started burning and
her engines placed in motion.
II is expected that the unique prac-
flee will give the gunpointers of the
Atlantic fleet an opportunity to test
their ability under conditions as
nearly like those to be expected IN
battle as can be obtained. Smoke
screens will be thrown around the
Iowa during the runs and the course
will be changed at will through the
radio control system, necessitating a
change in range. on all the firing
ships. exactly as would occur in
action.
The Iowa has been stripped of some
of its guns and much valuable metal
and the practice will be continued
until the old vessel, a mass OF twisted
metal. sinks beneath the waves tc
join the old Texas, which, as the San
Marcos, was used as a stationary
target years ago.
The battleship Ohio has been turn
ed over 10 the bureau of steam engi
neering, for purposes of experiment n
radio control sand a staff of expert
technical officers has been placed or
board to arranges the Iowa practice
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
PAUL FOLKER
FOLLOWS MOTHER
Fourteen Year Old Boy D'es re"
Months After Death OF HIS
Mother in Van Buren,
County.

/ PENNINGTON, Iowa. Aug. 14--Paui
pdvara Folker, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Irwin Folker, was born in Van Buren,
county. Iowa, August 7, 1906, and
d;ad August s. 1920, age IA years aud
a,a dow His mother preceded him TO
the spirit world February - l9lv.
! He leaves to mourn ms untlnnely
death his father, three brothers aht
two sisters His brothers names ~.
cyrus Harold, Merl Claud, Delpert
Kenneth; the sisters are Doroihy
Louise and Kathlee Mildred. re a1so
leaves two grandparents, MI. ana Mrs'
"a II. Perry of FIT. Madison IOWA.
! Also many other relatives ana ciose
friends, that his friendly dlspos.tioli
won TO him. He was MEMBER Oh ing
Rantist Young Peoples society Oh tn ~,
psntist church in Pennington and VIII
bo Greatly missed by the members oi
the society oh.d;epf
.nd GOOD companion among ms MANY
friends and will be greatly missed py
all who knew him. ~,
r,par,l services were held at the
.c,sto church Tuesday at 2:30 p. III
eo.v;cas we're conducted by Rev. }. A
Cochran, pastor of the Baptlst cnNGh
Music was furnished by w. M. Mcln
tosb Ed Wiegner, Mrs. Flood ana Mrs
Ware. Interment in the Acasto GENE
terry. os Van.
sis City. Mo-, are visiting with MIS-
Gaffney's parents, Mr.. and MIS-. H.
jenkins. Mice GRACE
1lnfford left Tuesday for visit IN TT
Miss Marie jenkins left TuesuAV
for a few days visit with friends IL
Ft. Madison.
Mrs I'D There of Tribune, Kansas
come wednesday evening to WISH
relatives here.
Mrs Ezra Kelley and son SAMMY
returned Tuesday from a visit IN Den
yer, Colo. ,os,
/ Dwight Knapp and Frank Green 'e1'
THURSDAY on a trip to- Niagara rams
Mrs II. r. Folker and Mrs, II. u
Turner we're passengers to Ottum"s
Friday morning -,
Mrs. Miller and son of Danvilie. IL.
Who have been visiting at the +. I
IKnspn home left Thursday for mont
frose to visit her father Rev. Duty be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
sNgCB(Q@IlES'

900 Masonic building. Open every
dav except Sundays and legal holldays
| from to 5 p. m; Saturday s. 70
II p. m.
pilgrims Rest Baptist church, -Four
teenth and Exchange street.. ster-
ling Moore, pastor-9:3O a. M, sun
lday school, Geo w. Smith, superln-
Itendent; Mrs. Pearl Buckney in charge
/ of cradle department IL a. m. ana
IL p. m. the pastor will occupy the pull
| nit D. m. B. Y. P. u, Mrs. Birdie
Williams, president. Large chorus
choir. Mrs. verlin Galbriath, organ
list.
! First Christian church, Tenth and
/ Blondeau. Rev Huell Warren, pastor.
Regular services will be resumed.
The pastor has returned from his va
cation and will be in the pulpit sun
iday morning Church school orches-
/ ira 9:30; church school session 9:45,
l.. G. Mckinley, superintendent. Morn
| ing sermon 10:4 5. The evening ser
vices will be held at the Trinity Meth
odist church Mr. Warren will be the
preacher of the evening.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church,
corner of Main and Tenth streets
Rev. NJ. f. Nethercut, D. D., pastor
! Sunday school, $3.50 a. m. Preaching
service, 10:45 a. m. Sermon by the
pastor. Subject, Gods Call to Man. y
The union service will be held in this
church at p. m. Sermon by Dr.
Warren, of the Christian church
The remaining union services
of the summer will be as fol
lows: August %. at the Westminster
church. The minister who is supply
ing the pulpit for the summer will
preach. August 20, at ST Paul
church. NJ. E. Nethercut will preach
Bethel A. M. e. church, Seventh and
Morgan street.-Rev. c. r. Waters
misunderstanding service, 10:45 a
m. and s D. M Sabbath school, 30
a. m. A. w. Drain, superintendent
Mrs loretta Morton in charge of pri
mary and cradle department. Class
meeting 1890 p. m. Allen C.. b.
league Z r. m. Wednesday, p.
M, prayer meeting; Friday evening, {
p. M, general class and lovefeast
meeting. All christians are invited
Sunday, August % we will hold our
last quarterly communion service In
this conference year. Our P. E. Rev
Owens will be with us and preach
morning and evening.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14

fore returning to her home.
Forest White of FIT. MadisS came
Friday for a visit with friends and
relatives.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rockwell of
Galesburg, ILL.,, are visiting at the c.
L. Paisley home.
Mrs. George Gray left this week for
Washington, D. c., to visit her sisters,
Misses Stella and Tessie Lewis.
Miss Mamie Heading of Dies Moines
is visiting her father, Ira Heading this
week.
Bruce Boiler of Keokuk came Friday
evening to visit at the Jake Forgrayes
home.
! Miss Juanita Story of Nauvoo, ILL.,,
came Friday evening 70 visit ner
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Ross.
! Louie Lerche of Prairie City is VS.
iting friends here this week.
! Mrs. Hunt and baby of Logan, Ia,
are visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nv. J. kirkpatrick.
Grant Slice was passenger to keo
! kuk Friday morning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
,AH4n32anS8E KfES8M g

the Trinity Methodist church will be
entertained Thursday afternoon at
2:3O o'clock at the home of Mrs. B.
T. Larson, 11O6 Des Moines street.
The assisting hostesses will be Mrs.
Fred Roost and Mrs. Herman F1eis-
bach. The deyotionals will be con-
Quoted by Mrs. George Banks and
Mrs. M. e. Nethercut will give an out
line of the study book which will be
used for the coming year. Mrs. Frank
Pearson will play a piano solo.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
Labeled as German Spy.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
Ell. PASO, Texas, Aug. 14.-Reports
reaching here today stated that Pablo
iAltendorff, labeled German spy by
FL Universal, of Mexico City. was
being held there on a charge of con-
spring in the United States with Gen
eral Lucio Blanco to organize all e1-
patriated Mexicans in a counter revo
luton.
Altendorff, the reports said has
had several conferences with Blancc
regarding the organization of Mexi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-14
Ben Moody Arrested.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo, Aug. IA.
Ben Moody was being held here to-
day following the death of his ffance,
Miss Edna Ainsworth, II. Miss Aims,
worth died in agony few hours
after quarrel with Moody, it was
stated. She is believed to have drank
poison Before she died, it was said
she made statements duplicating her
fiancee. An autopsy was to be held
today.
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cans in this country to be used in
a revolt against the Mexican govern
ment
American and German consuls at
Mexico City were said to be IN COM
munication with Mexican officials
about the alleged conspiracy.
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The Church Societies
Trinity Methodist Church.
The Home Missionary society c

st. Mary's Catholic church, Key.
George Giglinger, pastor.-Masses az
Z and 8 o'clock.
st. Peters Catholic church, Rev.
j. w. Gillespie. pastor-Masses at
6:15, 1880, 9 and 1913 a. 10.
st. Francis de Sales, Fourth ana
High streets-Masses during the
summer months will be at Z ana .
o'clock. Sunday school at 3 p. m.
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran mis-
sion church, Fourteenth and Morgan
streets. E. Rundquist, pastor. Sun
day school at 9:45 a. m. No other SER
vices during the day.
st. Paul's Evangelical church,
Eleventh and Exchange street.-Sun-
day school, 9:15; first service, lo: 10
a. M; second service, IL a. m NO
evening service.
Second Presbyterian church, Reid
and G.. streets, J. E. Cummings, pas
tor. Sabbath school 9:45 a. m. Preach
ing II a. M, ''The Kind of a Revival
That is Needed" 7:45 p. M, Pardon
ed, Forgiven, Saved" 700 p. M, c.
E.
First Westminster Presbyterian
church. Seventh and Blondeau streets
Rev, e. B. Newcomb. D. D., pastor
Morning service at 1918. Rev. {. F.
Rauch of Rockwell City, Iowa, will
preach at the morning service. Bible
school at $3.50 a. m; Y. P. S. G. E 7:oO
p. M
st. Johns Episcopal church, corner
!, of Fourth and Concert streets.-Rev.
w. s. d. Lamont, rector. Eleventh
Sunday after Trinity, morning prayer
and sermon at o'clock. This ser,
vice is under the direction of the
Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
! First Lutheran church. corner
Twelfth and Concert streets.-Rev. T.
L. Rydbeck, pastor.-9:30 a. M, Sun
day school. Morning service at 10: 80
Evening service, 500 p. m. Rev
Sven Johan Sebelius, B. d. professor
at Augustana theological seminary
will have charge of both services.
! First church of Christ, Scientist, No
u GIG High street.-Services at 10:45 a
m. Subject, Soul" Sunday schoo
at 9:45 a. m. Wednesday evening
meeting at 7:45. Reading room No