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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 'LFR DEATH LAST NIGHT OFIS. piv Old Railroad Man Answers Call Home Here Following An Illness of Over a .U'IS51ir'^e,r' at Bom JF P?NNSyi.yANIA 'came to fceokuk When a Young Man —Was Yard Master for the Burlington, Thirty eight Years. James Russell Roberts, Sr., former yard master for the C. B. & Q. railroad :jnd lately engaged In the real estate business here, died at his home, 1029 Franklin street at 11:30 o'clock last 'night after an Illness of over a year. Death was the result of asthma, Bright's disease and complications. Mr. Roberts came to Keokuk when a young man and had been living here for over forty years. He was well known throughout the city and highly eiteemed by a wide body of friendB. Mr. Roberts was born at Beach Creek, Pennsylvania on September 21, 1854, being in the sixty-third year of bis life. He was married shortly af ter coming to Keokuk to Miss Julia Culbertson on October 18, 1877. He forked as yard master for the Chicago tinrlineton A Qulncy railroad for ibiriy-eight years, retiring a few years ago. Since that time he had been en gaged in the real estate business until inness confined him to his home. The survivors are his wife, and three sons, H. L. Roberts, J. R. Rob erts, .Jr., and fedgar Roberts, all of this city. Mr. Roberts was a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternal so ciety, Masonic order and Order of Railway Conductors. TWO CONTESTS OVER LAWS Roads and Insurance Sure to Stir up Things for Coming General Assembly. Two big contests which will he staged during the coming legislature will be on the road question and on Insurance laws. It appears to be taken for granted that the prohibitory con stitutional amendment will go. through with little, if any opposition. Tem perance leaders claim that even some of the members whose natural incli nations are vet will vote for it an they see no hope for any opposition In the legislature. The fight wll! be made against it in the election before the people if there appears to be much of a chance. And In case It wins, the opposition will devote Its attention to proving that prohibition Is a failure. The repeal of the primary law or amendments to it Is also another fa vorite theme of discussion on the part of legislators. Thus far but few de fenders of the primary law as it Is now, have come to the surface. If the taw has any friends they are not sav ing anything. 4s to road legislation, such leaders as Governor Clarke do not believe Ihsre will he any reactionary road leg islation. It is believed the highway commission will be sustained and the law1 which created it will not be weakened. The real trouble as regards the high way commission appears to be in the fr'.cton wheh exsts between boards of supervisors and the commission in carrying out the provisions of the law. The average supervisor resents having a state commission or a county engin eer given authority to dictate what the bridges shall be or not be or hav ing any powers over and above those given to the supervisor* themselves. It is claimed that, county engineers have not always been diplomatic nor have the members of the highway com mission and hence the opposition to the commission has thereby been In creased. But that the law is funda mentally right appears to he the ver dict of many of the leaders who de clare they will not permit, if they can help it, any crippling of the highway Hard-to-Cure Skin Troubles May Find in Cuiicura Soap and Ointment Speedy, Grateful and Permanent Relief. Besides, anyone anywhere may try them before he buys them. Free Sample Each With 32-page Skin Book by return maO to any sufferer from skin troubles or scalp troubles with loss of hair, who has failed to obtain per manent relief from other remedies. Foe Ttm Samplaa addr* -Ortlmn, Ml fa enenr to-u and vWsro In S. •'**. WOMAN WEARS SHOES 18 YEARS COST $2.75 STILL IN GOOD SHAPE ATLANTIC, Dec. 27.—Frank Nebe purchased a pair of shoes from Mrs. Agnes Gllmore of Marne, something unusual for a shoe dealer. The shoes had been sold to the customer in the first year that the Nebes went into 4 business in this city in the build ing now occupied by the Unique theatre, eighteen years ago next March, a ad are an old model. They are still in good condition and Mrs. ilmore stated that she had worn them continuously for all that time. She bought them for $2.75 and now sold them to Nebe for $2. Mr. Nebe intends to send them to the Boot and Shoe Recorder of Boston in the near future, as curiosities. For Iowa: Fair tonight and prob ably Thursday not much change in temperature. For Missouri: Fair tonight and probably Thursday colder south and east central portions tonight. For Illinois: Fair tonight and probably Thursday except unsettled extreme south portion colder tonight. Weather Conditions. The temperature is mild in the cen tral valleys, the southern and Atlantic states, with rain in the Ohio valley and the eastern states, and the rain fall has been heavy at St. Louis and Cincinnati. From the Mississippi valley to the Rocky mountains the weather is fair and colder, the temperature ranging from near zero to 28 below in the northern portion. Local Observations. Dec. Bar.Ther.Wind.Weat.her. 26 7 p. m. ., 29.72 46 SE Foggy 27 7 a. m. .. 30.08 16 NW Clear Precipitation, 6 hundredths. Stage of river, 7 a. m., 8 tenths be low low water. Change in past 24 hours, fall 1 tenth. Mean temperature, Dec. 26, 36. Highest, 49. Ixwe8t, 24. Lowest last night, 16. FRED Z. GOSBWISCH, Observer. DRANK POISON IN HOTEL ROOM Young Man From East, Left Letters Before Committing Suicide. In Denver. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] DENVER, Colo., Dec. 27.—Two let ters addressed to two young women, one in Portland, Maine, the other a Denver girl, may conceal the mystery in the suicide of J. Bdmond Mosley, twenty-two, who swallowed cyanide of potasslm in a local hotel here last evening, dying soon afterwards. He had been in Denver only a few months, coming from Portland. He is said to have been a student of medicine at the unievrsity of Maine. His father is Beecher Mosley, of Chandler and Farqubar, Boston. According to associates, Mosley landed In Denver penniless and went to work as driver of a laundry wag on. His employer, W. S. Huffman, yesterday asked him to go to head quarters to go over his accounts. Mosley did not appear at the appoint ed time. Huffman sought him at the hotel last night, finding the young man in bed Just after he swallowed the poison, stiU holding a glass in his hand. The glass was found to contain a cyanide solution. On a table were four letters, one addressed to 'Miss Hazel V. Homans, Portland one to his brother, William Mosley one to Omar Wish, postmast er Portland, and the fourth to Miss Edith A. Hoar, Denver. Miss Hoar refused to talk about Mosley's affairs or to venture any explanation of his suicide. _____ commission. The present Are rating law will have some staunch defenders also. That it will be vigorously attacked is now certain. Friends of the law say they will be able to show that it has been and now is- strongly opposed by the Are insurance companies, that it was written by a man whom the fire insurance companies recognize as a real champion of the people's interests and that, while it has probably increas ed rates to the big insurer who was getting favoritism. It has equalized rates and made them lower small property owner. to the Billy 8Unday Corporation. New York Evening Post: A cer tified copy of Incorporation papers has been filed In the county clerks office here by the New York William A. Sunday Evangelistic association, Inc. The objects of the association, as given in the papers, are to Promote evangelical and religious work in the city of New York and vicinity. Among the incorporators are John D. Rocke feller, Jr.. George Gordon Battle. Wil liam S. Bennet, William Fellows Mor gan. William J. Stltt, W. Jay Schleffle- lin. and Stephen Baker. The objects of the association are, _j set forth in the certificate, in the following words: "To promote evan gelistic and religions work in the city of New York and vicinity, and for that purpose to hold a series of evangelistic and religious meetings in "W city. to rent and acquire real and property, and to erect or provide a building, rooms, furniture, equipment, and articles for such purpose, and to do whatever is usual. nece**^:hc™~ yen lent, or proper In connection there provided that the association shall have principal offices in Man hattan and that there shall be thirty directors. LAWS FAME Promoters of Soaps, Suits, Cold Creams and Petticoats- Want to Use Her Name In Ads. FINDS FAME IS NO PUN O THE WEATHER [U. S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau.] For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to night and probably Thursday not much change in temperature. Bird Woman, Who Broke All Records, Is Besieged by Advertising Men Right Now. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Ruth Law has discovered that being famous isn't ail fun. She can't get any rest from people who want to make her more famous. The woman who broke the Amer ican non-stop cross-country record in her flight from Chicago to New York has two telephones in her suite at the Hotel McAlpin and they ring all day and part of the night,, bringing offers of wealth and fame if she will only do what tne persons at the other ends of the wires want her to do. The offers she has received run from a contract with fk theatrical firm that wanted her to ride upside down on a motorcycle to an invita tion to lecture In girls'- schools. In between these offers are invitations to allow her name to advertise pet ticoats and raincoats, perfume, soap, and the ''kind- of cold cream Ruth Law uses." After reviewing all her ofTers Miss Law said that she was looking most kindly upon a contract by which she would get $25,000 for a ten weeks' lecture tour of the large cities of the United States, taking along her little biplane in which she made her flight. In fact, MISB Law seemed almost committed to an ac ceptance c. this contract. She said she would not accept any of the of fers from theatrical managers who wanted her to do "stunts," because she was a very serious-minded young woman. Unless she changes her mind, she will not attempt a non-stop Might from Chicago to New York this year. The lecture tour, which wiii probably begin at once, will take her into February. She has promised Want Use of Name. An offer whicfi came to Miss Law recently was from a professor in a well known eastern college, who wanted her to fly from college to college and give lectures this winter. She said she prlted a letter of con gratulation she received from the women employes of the Guaranty Trust company. It was a very determined woman who gained Miss Law's ear the other day. She represented the manufac turers of a new kind of waterproor, wlndproof, coldproof cloth, and of fered Miss Law five suits and $100 in cash If she would pose In her little aeroplane for a trademark picture for the new fabric. Another concern which manufac- tures aviators' clothes wants to put on jtry the market the "Ruth Law suit," withian an offer to Miss Law of three com- t„ the It was a man who wrote Miss Law that he wanted her to manage a new Aeroplane factory. "I will give you $500 a week," he wrote, "and you don't even have to be here.' Miss Taw suspected that her name might be used to further the s"hle of stock and paid no attention to the offer. Miss Law told of the proposal of the theatrical manager who wanted to pay her $35,000 a year for riding a mo torcycle on an Inverted track. She didn't see that that would help tho cause of aviation, to which she says she Is absolutely devoted. "It all shows what advertising 'will do" said Miss law. "Nine-tenths of the people who make me these offers do not want any real service I can live them. They are merely after the use of my name. I dont' want any such business. I don't mind taking money for flying or for aiding flying, but that is the only^buslness I Intend to engage." -%T9j,.yv -,?A THK DA1L.Y (JATK ni'lT AMUSEMENTS. Large Crowds at Orpheum. The Ambler Players Stock Co., are drawing ever increasing crowds at the Orpheum. The class of plays that they are putting on are' far above the average and are filled with a "good streak of comedy clear through the entire performance, that keeps the audience in an uproar during the en tire evening. The vaudeville special ties between the acts are well worth the price of admission. Owing to the fact that so many people come early to the show, there will be shown each day between 7 p. m. and 8:15, four reels of pictures in order to furnish entertainment for the early patrons. This will give you the most complete show to be seen in the city, a complete evening's entertain ment that is well worth $1.50, all for the small sum of 20c for Fhe main floor and 10c for the balcony. There will be a complete change of pictures and a new show for Thursday, with another complete change on Sunday.— Advertisement. Frank Keenan in "The Thoroughbred." With the vivacious Fay Tincher in a new two-act Keystone called "The French Milliner," as a variation on the Triangle program, the Grand to night offers Frank Keenan in the fea ture photoplay, "The Thoroughbred." The Thoroughbred" acquires its ti tle not from Keenan's characteriza tion, but from a horse about which the plot of the story revolves. It tells the tale of a fine old southern gentleman and his daughter, whom "Miss Minta, the thoroughbred," has helped to maintain in dignified com fort by her earnings on the track. It concerns, too, the efforts of a young minister who is instrumental in causing the abolishment of racing in the state, and thereby ruins his chance of Winning the girl. The cli max ,of the story finds expression through the clergyman's subsequent repentance for his anti racing activi ties and his efforts to make good the damage they l.ave done. Keenan is seen in the role of Ma jor Ainslee, and a more sympathetic Interpretation has never been seen on the screen. He is depicted now as the gentle, forgfving war-veteran, then aB the hot-tempered warrior fighting for his own and his daugh ter's existence. His acting at times, it is declared, is intense to the burst ing point. Tomorrow the favorite Mae Marsh and Robert Harron come to the Grand in their new Triangle play, "The Little Liar," in which the little star makes fun and drama as a de lightful young fibber. On the same program, Mac Swain will cavort through tvtf comical Keystone reels, called "Vampire Ambrose." her services from June 1 to Novem-|cal comedy which the Orand brings jage ber 1 at $1,000 a day for not fewer jto Keokuk Friday night- as a special than five flights a week, she said. holiday attraction. 1 hey are selling There are plenty of seats left for jage8 She would not go into the details rapidly, howevef, and a big audience however, is -,o mixed up with the re of this arrangement She intimated will be present to support Manager j{gj0U8 beliefs of the native that Jt that she would most probably attempt Dodge's policy of giving Keokuk only the Chicago to New York flight next May. However, she made It plain that she might change her mind and try the flight within the next week or so, "if things shaped up." If she could get the proper machine and tni proper offer if something to fly for. Miss Law would attempt the flight at once. the best. "Katinka" gives forth music of most unusual charm and swing, the company carrying their own complete orchestra to properly Interpret the pretty songs and choruses with which the piece is filled. Only an additional violinist is asked of the management of the grand for the orchestra, "Ka-1 tinka" supplying the remainder of an|Ther0 wa8 act. knees, In which "The guest is always right." This motto, in Bulbstance. was the rule which governed the relations of the late George C. Boldt, famous New York hotel man, in dealing with his guests. Service and unvarying cour tesy sent his patrons away pleased, and thif* proved a big asset in the success achieved. Mr. BoJdt rose from humble station to first place among hotel proprietors of the world- —Advertise in The Gate City. *JR MME. DE THEBES PASSES AWAY World's Most ftamoiis Seeress of Mod- 1 ern Times Did Not Always Hit the Mark. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] PARIS, Dec. 27.—The world's most famous modern day seeress, Madame DeThebes, is dead. She had not been as successful in foretelling the future during the last two years, at least her prophecies of future world events did not come as near to the mark in I 1915 and 1916 as they did in years gone by. Mme. DeThebes always! claimed to have foretold the famous Cailleux trial and the assassination• of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sara jevo, which started the European war. She cited h»r statements to prove she also foretold this world conflict. In 1913 Mme. DeThebes correctly I foretold an automobile accident to Aristlde Briand, death and scandalj surrounding Armand De Pardussen's quarrels between the kaiser and the crown prince, and made these strange comments which were taken by her admirers today as showing she sensed the coming European conflict: "Austria will be deceived. "Open hostility between slavs and Germans is approaching. "Who thinks he will reign will not reign and a young man who was rfot to have reigned will reign (this con cerns the Archduke Ferdinand, later assassinated, June 2S). "England must watch for her enemy inside more than outside." In 1914, the seeress however, made the wrong prediction of "a happy year for France." This was before the European war began in August. She did, however, foretell a new pope and "bad days" for England. In 1915 she failed on what was ap parently a prediction for peace on Frowns on Snake Dance. Tucson Citizen: That the United States government frowns upon the annual Hopi Indian snake dance which is held every year by the sav age remnant or the Moqui tribe in the northern part of Arizona, is the statement made by Leo Crane, super intendent of the Moqul Indian reser vation where the dances take place. According to Mr. Crane these dances are the last relics of barbar ism exhibited by the savage race in the country aud are the only surviv ing dances which still hold sway Katinka among the native tribes. At the dan^e recently at the vll- 0j "Katinka, the merry, tuneful ™UBi- Priests" of the Hotevllle vil- eight-piece organization. natives in the reservation "KatinRa" possesses beautiful set-' which is bounded on all sides by tings for three acts, a large company that of the Navajos and they live in who can dance and sing, and a separate groups or communities. Each chorus of girls who are really pretty. village administers to its own affairs, "Rickety Coo," "I Want to Marry having nothius iu common with the a Male Quartette," and numerous I other settlements. Any disputes oc other song nits swing through the curring are settled by each band rapid action of the piece and leave separately, eve.i when the question you whistling or humming after the final curtain. Manager Dodge will give special attention to out of town mail or phone orders from auto par ties and others.—Adv. Swapping Horses. plete outfits If she will agree to the!furtiVe of vision and inclined to shy cational purposes among the Hopis bargain. at fishtails, still It would he risky to and much of this is wasted through Miss Law said that a very wealthy swap for a thoroughly dependable, the counter teachings of the Snake New York woman had come to her to stout hearted, sound beast. No such Priests who control the religious sav that she was interested in thejtimidity is shown in the warring coun-j belief of the people. manufacture of a new aeroplane en-1 tries. Strange to say, every one of Government Rations arPbecom Kine that had been designed, but not them has swapped horses while ford-, ing stricter eve Ztri Miss Law to agree ing war's torrents. Both in the mil-, the witnessing of the dance, and it built, a rhiraffo to-Nev York itary and in the civil branch of nation- is the hope of Mr. Crane to exclude they ... ch«.„d I. ,h. public .1= non-stop flight in a machine equipped with her engine. Miss Uw said she replied that inasmuch as she wished to make the flight within the next year she could not agree to wait for the development of a new engine. midstream. Germany. France, Russia, Great Britain and Italy have had the bolder view of their national safety and national purposes. They have had the courage of conviction and of objective. But they also have had a policy and have demanded a horse to match it- at Duluth News-Tribune: During the: the course of the next few years to last presidential campaign there was I stamp out th-? dance entirely as it much said about "swapping horses has the effect of undoing to a large when crossing a stream." The coun-, extent the beneficial effects of the Orabi and Hotevllle, the were au ten(jent arrested by Superin- Craae In an endeavor to gtamp out the practice. The dance, Is almost impossible to make any headway In preventing the ceremony. About two hundred white people witnessed the dances this year which were participated in by about six hun(jred natives. There will be two more of the ceremonles with a gelatine backbone, 1 borhood of $200,000 annually for edu- ef', at other vil- lages thla tall. A curious re|ard t0 the no centrai fact in Hopis is that they have organization in their tribe, are about twenty-five hundred issue has to do with the white man. At the recent dance at Orabi a small child was bitten by an enor mous rattler, and although ill for a few hours, soon recovered. Mr. Crane says that he hopes in -warned of the danger of such schooling given the young Indians, Even if the horse was weak I The government spends in the neigh- (t of the white mar. seems to act as an incentive to the Indian in the pen formance of the barbaric custom. New York World: Between civil war, ultimatums and blockades. Greece as a neutral Is enjoying all the Blessings of peace. 'i" V1' 11 -SS31'- mP- A4 The bridesmaids -Katinka" in -A- .1 _1U SAVE YOUR Show vour emplovor von appreciate vonr bonus by putting it in a SAVINGS CERTIFICATE y\ contract where it will bring von /O You can start a contract any day, any month and make payments weekly, semi-monthly or monthly. Call and let us tell you about it. Keokuk Trust Company "The Place for Safe Investments" 611 Blondeau St. Phone 257 Population Guessing. New York Suri: Perhaps "guess ing" is scarcely a good enough word for the careful estimates now mak ing in Washington of the population of this country by the close of this year of 1916. Until an actual census is taken such estiamtes are the best information obtainable, and tbey are elaborate and so well composed as to bo very acceptable. I According to a Washington des patch, the staticians of the census bureau find that the population of continental United states on Janu-1 ary 1, 1917, will be 102,2Sf.,:$09, and with outlying possessions, included the population will number 113,309, 286. These figures are based upon I the increase shown by the federal dismemberment of Germany death or censuses of laoo and 1910. Statis-i disappearance of the kaiser a bril liant future for Belgium religious war in England: and hit the mark on Italy's war entrance Sert)ia's re newal of fighting strength financial and labor troubles In the United States. ticians in the treasury department, working along another system of com putatlon, reckon that the population of continental United States on the first day of tills month of November was 103,002,000. Whichever figure be nearer right.— and they are not far apart—it Is clear enough that the check to European Immigration to this country caused by the war has not been strong enough to' stay the rapid increase in our pop ulation. The treasury department figures of our iopu]atlon for Janu ary 1, 1914, gave the United States 98,200,000 if we already count up 103,000,000, as noted above, the tide is resistless, with 5 per cent in two years of what we have called "stag nation." Burning Up Wealth. Dayton Journal: People generally do not appreciate the seriousness of the paper shortage of the present time and it would appear to be a practical Impossibility to fix realiza tion of the fact that a real crisis is Impending. From every quarter of the country comes complaint and large users of paper, especially the newspapers, are eloquently preaching the gospel of saving. Of New York it is said that five tons of newspaper prints are' datly thrown away in the cars or stations of the lnterboro Rapid Transit Subway every day. It is fair to presume that nearly all this waste is ultimately reclaimed by the cleaners, and returned to the papor mills for remanufacture, but In other directions uncounted tons are wasted every day by careless people. Vast quantities are cast Into the trash heaps and burned. That is simply wanton destruction of actual money for this wa3te paper is worth money to the person who will save It and send word to the paper dealers when a sufficient quantity has been accu mulated. There are such dealers in every neighborhood and they will re spond to a telephone call at any time. It is notorious that an ample for tune awaits the man who will con duct a reclamation business of this character along right lines. In fait the head of one of the great marine companies of Now York City has sa:J a man speedily could become a mil lionaire if he could get the papo" waste of New York City alone. Con sider tho possibilities for the country at large. Many paper mills are lying idle at this moment bccause of lack of ma terial with which to operate. TS" moment has arrived when it is really a public duty to prevent the needless waste of paper. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of the federal court of Chicago con- Mnues dispensing Justice with th" »iark on. In a bankruptcy case now under way five witnesses who trie! to deceive ihe court as to the wh"ie abouts of missing assets were bound over to the grand jury for perjury under bonds of $10,000 each. As a rule frame-up testimony doesn't go very iar in th it court without getting the framer into trouble. mmm the musical comedy at the Grand opera house Friday even.ng, PAGE FTVB BONUS Don't Stop 1 THOi ade to Run. watch was designed and ia» manufactured expressly tor A FOdell onor of His oldest and named in honor 1 son "Atholl t. We claim this to be the most beautiful watch on the market and to be the equal. or a better fimekeepf than any watch made-regardless of price.. We guarantee this watch to not vary more than five seconds a wteK, Come in and wt fhgyy it I *35. J£WELER If you aren't going to uae your car this winter leave the battery in our care—and avoid "freeze-ups" and the deteriora tion, that neglect will cause. 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