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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-23
CITY NEWS

The river continues to fall slowly.
Smoke Moeller's Silver Ash cigar.
Masquerade at Gate City rink to-
night. Admission, 10c; skates, 15c.
John G. Erhardt had an unfortu-
nate fall about oclock at Huiskamp's
Shoe Factory Monday evening which
resulted in the dislocation of his left
shoulder and not only caused him con-
siderable pain but will lay him up for
some time. He was standing on the
top of one of the stairways when he
stepped from the top without noticing
it and fell heavily down.
The Ellen, pleasure craft. pass
ed through the draw yesterday after
noon on its way up the river, having
passed down on the previous day. The
boat is q large one for its kind and
seems to be brand new. 1t carried
quite q crowd.
1T seems that the Quincy street
car service is as bad as the Keokuk
services at some times. Yesterday the
excurs1onists of the Trinity M E..
church arrived at Quincy at 11:45 but
there were no street cars in waiting
and they were forced to roam about
the levee waiting on the car service.
About a hundred climbed the steep
Hampshire street hill and were pref
|,ty well tired out upon reaching the
business district
Fort Madison Democrat: The
members of the Trades and Labor
Assembly held meeting Monday
night at the hall to discuss the ques.
ton of celebrating Labor Day, which
/ falls this year on Monday, September
6. In 1907 Burlington, Fort Madison
and Keolsuk celebrated the day to
gether at Burlington, and in 1908 al
4 keokuk. AS it has become a tri-city
affair the celebration falls on Fort
4 Madison this year and 1t is due time
to commence thinking It over. Fol
This purpose the meeting Of the
i Trades and Labor Assembly was call
ed. The matter was thoroughly dis
cussed and it was finally decided t.
4 appoint a committee CT five to confe
I with the Commercial club and Thu
i Merchants Credit Association as t,
Z what course to pursue and the nature
: Of the celebration to be held wheth
er it be one-day celebration o
: whether three or four days celebra
ton should be held The committe
appointed to confer with the bushes
, mems organizations is as follows
) Thos. Estebrook, Ed. w. Simmons
/ Fred Buchholz, Frank Schultz an
George Rieffenach.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-23
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Notice is hereby given to all owners
OF dogs in the City Of Keokuk. Iowa,
that after the date of this notice that
they must pay license on their dogs
as the ordinance concerning same
will be enforced
HENRY KESSELRING.
Marshal of tae City Of Keokuk.
June 5th, 1909.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
CHINESE CLUB CLAIMS
CASH FOR POLICE RAID
Sergeant Matheson Sued for
Damages and Malice Charged

Police Sergeant Matheson was made
the defendant in a suit for y25, 900
damages filed yesterday by the Mum
Buck Hong club. an organization said
to exist for social and educational pur-
poses, at 16O Waverley place but which
the police believe is a gambling Joint
Matheson. who is in charge with the
Chinatown squad, is accused of having
violated a temporary restraining order
issued by Judge Cabaniss December "a
prohibiting the chief of police and
members of the department from inter-
fering with the club.
The complaint says that Matheson.
in defiance of the order, caused two
doors to be hammered down, December
q. entered the premises and destroyed
furniture worth 5000. Oppression,
fraud and malice" with the Intention
to injure the members of the club be-
cause they were Chinese rather than
Americans, are alleged. The club sues
Matheson for 5000 actual and $25, 900
exemplary damages.
Judge Cabaniss heard argument yes
terday on the application of F. Ukiah
for a writ OF mandate prohibiting Po-
lice Judge Deasy from forfeiting 500
deposited as bail for five Chinese
charged with gambling in a gaming
house. Deasy ordered the money for
feited because he was satisfied the de-
PENDANTS were trying to substitute
strange Chinese for those charged
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
COUSIN OF WRITER
PROMISES TO WE'D
Mrs. Caroline Van Worst AM
nOunces Engagement of Her
Daughter and c. NJ. Redfern

Mrs. Caroline Van Worst of Vallejo
street has sent out dainty cards an
nOuncing the engagement of her daugh-
ter. Miss Adelia Van Worst, and Curtis
Mitchell Redfern. The cards are not
altogether a surprise to the friends of
TIE young society girl and her iance,
but the formal announcement was not
expected so soon.
Miss Van Worst is an accomplished
girl who has received much Of her edu-
cation abroad. but numbers her friends
in San Francisco by the score. She is
a finished pianist and has a talent for
painting that might be envied by those
In the profession, while her sketches
have made her distinguished among
her friends for cleverness.
Miss Van Worst recently returned
from Europe with her mother and her
younger sister, Lillian. Their home in
Vallejo street is a center of hospitality
and the young bride TO be has been
hostess at any number of informal par
ties since her return from abroad. She
is cousin Of Marie Van Worst the
well known writer, and has many liter
ary friends on her own account.
Redfern comes of a well known Vir-
ginia family and is related to the
Merrys Of that state. His home is in
Los Angeles, but he has been in San
Francisco for eight years and is con-
nected with the Southern Pacific COM
pany. The couple will make their
home in this city. No date has been
announced for the wedding.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
TAKES GOOD FLING
AT REPUBLICANS
John Sharp Williams Regrets
Invitation to the Taft
Banquet

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. SIN refusing
to accept an invitation to the Taft
banquet to be given in Atlanta Friday
night, January Is, John Sharp Williams.
former democrat leader in the house,
could not resist the temptation to take
a good natured fling at the republican
party.
Much as Mr.. Williams likes possum.
'simmon beer and other such luxuries,
he could not find the time to make the
trip and declined in the following q
letter:
Il have just received your invitation
to attend the banquet given in honor
OF Mr.. Taft in the Auditorium in At
lanta on January ID. 1 wish l could
come. know I would enjoy 1t. If
the country has to submit to the mis-
fortune of republican presidency, a
sort OF relic of barbarism, [ would
rather the misfortune should come with
Mr.. Taft at the head Of it than any
other republican in the United States.
have very high regard for him, per-
sonally. Expressing my regrets and
thanking you for the invitation, I am
very truly yours,
JOHN S. WILLIAMS"
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
HAMMERSTEIN CLASHES
WITH QUAKER SOCIETY
Choice Epithets Exchanged and
Show May Be Abandoned
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

lSPectdt DiSpdtch 10 ne Call
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. e. Oscar
Hammerstein and Philadelphia society
came into violent collision today in
the matter of financing the formers
grand opera enterprise, and late to-
night, after various choice epithets
such as Dutch fool" brain storms u
"spongers, "ingrates," ETC., had been
banded about, 1t was not possible to
ascertain which party suffered the most
damage.
Out OF the mass of statements these
facts finally crystallized:
Hammerstein, failing to get the $780,
900 mortgage he wants on his opera
house by Saturday, will on that date
definitely abandon his enterprise and
rent the. property to K1aw & ErlanEer
as a vaudeville house within two weeks
after his notices go out Saturday
G. Helde Norris, society leader, first
his legal adviser in the enterprise. is
either incontinently fired" or else has
Indignantly resigned Hammerstein be-
ing authority for the first statement
and Norris for the latter.
The box committee. composed of the
most elect Alexander Van Rensselaer,.
Andrew Wheeler G. Hartman Kuhn
Francis e. Bond and Norris-also either
have been sent down the sliding board
by Oscar or have resigned; the same
authorities for the same statements.
'calumnies" upon Philadelphia the com
munity will refuse to grant him his
S400, 600. The community had refused
to grant him the money up to 9 O'Clock
tonight, despite three ardent sessions
of Hammerstein with financiers.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
CUTICURA SOON CURED
HIS FEARFUL ECZEMA

About q year ago an itching huunor
began to appear around the back Of nv
hand 1t started in to spread, and
pretty soon it covered both my hands
and got up over my wrists and even
up to the elbows. The itching and
burning were terrible. My hands rot
all scaly and when scratched, as
was doing good part Of the time. the
surface would be covered with blisters
and then get raw. The eczema got so
bad in around the pit Of my thumbs
that could not move the thumbs
without deep cracks appearing. went
TO my doctor, but his medicine could
only stop the itching and did not seem
TO heal my hands up at all. At night
L suffered so fearfully that I could not
sleep, often lying awake until well toward
morning, then waking up still tired.
am chef and steward by trade and
L had TO give up my place, as my hands
were so terrible to look at that thew
did not like to have me around about
the food. / could not bear TO touch
them with water. but when positively
had to get my hands clean would rub
them with oil.
This sort Of business went on for
three months and I kept trying zinc
and tar ointments and such remedies
with no particular benefit. / did not
know what to do, for / was fairly worn
out. For a long time several friends
kept asking me why / didn't use C1lti-
cura and at last / thought / would.
First / got the Cuticura SoaD. then
Cuticura Ointment and at last Cuticura
Resolvent. / put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on at night, covering my hands
with light cotton gloves. In the morn
ing the inside Of the gloves would be
lined with scales, sometimes half "a
long as your finger. leaving nice healed
places where the scales had been. In
month was cured and have kept so
now for nine months. Nv hands and
arms are perfectly clear OF all traces of
eczema and think am well rid Of it
Walter II. Cox, 10 Somerset St, Bos-
ton, Mass. Sept. %, 1905"
CutlcTsa Remedies a-e SOLD thTocShout the worle
fotter Drug q C1em Co-c- Sole PrOuS 3oSf,r,'
Mass Mailed Free. CGrtcg-a Book on skin Disessea
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
EXPECT CAPTURE
|. OF BOMB THROWER
Police Believe Dynamiter Who
Wrecked Car CabOOSe Will
Soon Be Jailed
Letters Dropped in Mail Boxes
Threaten Property
Destruction
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

STOCKTON, Jan. 6.-That the capture
of the dynamite thrower whose bomb
made havoc recently with a Santa Fe
caboose in which were sleeping Con-
ductor P. G. Deyo and Brakeman L. E.
Archer, both of Fresno, is but mat
ter of hours is the belief of the local
santa Fe officials and the peace officers
OF this city. The letters which were
turned over to the police by the post
master are believed to have been writ
ten by the perpetrator of the deed.
The second letter, which was dropped
In postal box, contained a threat OF
destruction to much Santa Fe property,
in addition to destruction of property
of the Western Pacific and Southern
Pacific Ia the upper left hand of the
letter found in the postal box were
these sentences:
Il am member of three orders of
the city"
We are willing to act if necessary"
The word Death" also appeared, near
bones and a poor likeness of a dyna-
mite bomb and fuse.
Inc letter was dated December Is,
TWO days before the murderous ex-
ploslon and was taken out OF the
postal box on the night of the dyna-
mlt1ng The other letter was addressed
10 whom 1T may concern: Santa Fe
depot, stockton" This letter was
turned over to the Santa Fe detectives
and by them to theslocaI authorities.
III Is believed to be communication to
confuse the authorities. The first letter
was as follows:
Take warning, we have enough dvna-
mite to destroy the town of Stockton
oi .e nahd and can put our hands on more
II necessary. All we ask is for the
CITY OF stockton and the W. p. and
5. P. and Santa Fe to get rid of the
foreign element which they have in
thelr employ and give the work to the
are starving and out of work. If you
don give us chance by the first OF
the year you will regret it. We have
everything planned and the time set
TO bed the dynamite and apply the
match. We estimate 100000 in dam
ages the first rattle out of the box; we
shau not stand it any longer. We
have been robbed starved and gone
hungry long enough. There be only 81
one of us and all have families in the
CITY of Stockton from 80 to 80 years
So take warning. This is the only way
TO get revenge.
You may think the party that is
writing this has just escaped from the
asialm. You may think so; wait until
the dynamite gets in action, then see
The second letter is in part as fol-
lows:
To whom it may concern, Santa Fe
depot, Stockton.
1 don't want to be Mrs. wilmington
or any one else but Mrs. Cooper so you
had just as well tend in your own af-
fairs / would not have any of the
railroad trash TO save your life
from HI.
/ will see you so far in HI that the
devil won't find you. / should think
after YOU broke one home you be salts
fed. | should think you have revenge
enough.
Any time you think you will get me
to do anything by making signs you
are mistaken.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
Anticipates Presidents Message

WASHINGTON, Jan 6.-An adverse
report OF the senate on Fulton's bill to
prohibit railroads from increasing
freight and passenger rates without due
notice was made today by Chairman
Elkins of the committee on Interstate
commerce. The action anticipated
message from President Roosevelt call
ing attention to the need for further
legislation on railroad rates. as indi-
Gated by the recent decision of the
supreme court of the United States in
the case of E. II. Hartman against the
interstate commence commission. The
report by Senator Elkins was made
after two votes had been taken on the
Fulton bill at a meeting of the COM
mittee earlier in the day. Several
members OF the committee were absent
The senator's opposing the bill OBJ
tained authority to make the adverse
report after having procured the vote
of Foraker, one of the absentees. 1t is
expected that the presidents message
will be used as an argument in favor
of taking up the Fulton bill regardless
of the report against 1t. and Fulton has
given notice that he will try to do So
At the committee meeting there were
Senator'S Elkins Aldrich, Kean, Dolli-
yer. Crane, Tillman. Foster Newlands
and Taylor. Aldrich moved that the
bill be reported adversely and New
reported favorably with an amendment
that would leave to the discretion of
the Interstate commerce commission
whether a protest against a proposed
increase of rates should operate as a
stay until the reasonableness of such
increase had been determined
On Mr.. Newlands' motion to report
the bill favorably the ayes were Dol
liver. Tillman. Newlands and Taylor,
and the noes Elkins, Aldrich. Kean and
Crane, with Foster not voting
A vote was taken on Aldrich's motion
to report the bill adversely and the
chairman voted Cullom by proxy in
favor OF the motion AS Foster voted
no" a second tie resulted. Elkins said
Foraker was opposed to the measure,
and he was authorized to obtain the
latters vote.
The presidents message recommended
that "the commission be explicitly en-
powered to postpone the application of
any increase of rates by any railroad
pending examination by the said COM
mission into said increase to see
whether or not it is justified The
regulations of the railroad should be
as completely as possible in the hands
Of the commission, for 1t can only be
rendered effective by being put com
pletely under the control of some
branch of the national executive, the
action of this branch to take effect i'm
mediately."
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
MAN LIVES WITH HIS
JUGULAR VEIN SEVERED
Victim of Runaway Accident
Has Miraculous Escape

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6.--With his ex-
ternal jugnlar vein entirely severed
and internal vein slashed and bulging
out through the cash in his neck.
Thomas L. Mccain, an employe of the
Southern Mountain water company, has
lived since Sunday and will recover, saw
the physicians. Mccain was thrown
so feet into the air in runaway. land
ing on barbed wire fence, which sew
cred the jugular vein, tagging the In
ternal veins and almost seyering his
head from his body. When picked IN
he had lost large quantities of blood and
the wound In the neck was filed with
grass and dirt. He was carried 15 miles
TO a physician. Unless blood poisoning
develops the doctors say he will recover
in opposition. to all theories and prece-
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
ATTORNEYS SHOW PEOPLE
HOW TO BREAK THE LAWS
Police Commissioner Tells of
Difficulty of Convictions

NEW YORK. Jan. 6.-General TheO-
dore A. Bingham, police commissioner
of New York, reporting yesterday on
the difficulty of convicting local offend
ers, assigned the following as reasons:
Too many lawyers live by showing
people how to break the law safely.
How else are prize fights and gam
bling so difficult to suppress?
How else do these law breakers dare
fortify themselves behind iron doors?
Why else does the liquor dealer
cheerfully produce bail. confident that a
chemical analysis will be required OF
his whisky?
How else in Sunday theaters is a
dance not a dance, nor a costume not
costume, nor a play not a play?
How else is IL that a racing bet is
not a bet2
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
ASPHALT REFINERY WILL
BE MOVED TO NEW SITE
Plant Will Be Constructed and
in Operation in Six Months

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 6-The
California liquid asphalt company de-
cided to move its refinery plant from
Summerland, Ventura county, to Edna,
few miles south of this city, this
afternoon, when the board Of super
visors granted the company the right
of way to put spurs In from the South
ern Pacific and Pacific Coast railroads.
Edwin F. Smith, the general man
board In special train to view the site
for the new refinery. There is an
abundance of heavy oil in this section
and $4,000 plant will be constructed
and in operation by next June.
Most of the product will be shipped
to the New York market. The new
plant will have a capacity of $500
tons per month
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
The California Promotion Committee

THE State Central Organization Organized II,
1OOz-An association Tor the commercial ami
Industrial development OF California;
PROMOTION: The act cf promotion sdva,o.
ment. encouragement. Century Dictionarv
The committee has for its object the pRO
NOTING OF Callfornia'S interests. Il has notb
ing to sell. lt fosters all things tending 10 IN.
ity all matters relating 10 California In FN
COURAGES the establishment Of new inftsf~fe.
and fosters those already established It fnvifa-
desirable immigration. II presents the oonr.-
tunities and needs Of all fields of business an ;
professional activity. It IS supported by popular
service rendered IL has affiliated with n soa
commercial organisations Of the state, with :
Meetings OF representatives OF these orranI-~
tions held semi2nnuallv in different nss-f~ ~
the state where matters Ot California interase
are discussed Headquarters o. the comnnif+se
are maintained IN California building Fnic.
vITED.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
JUDGE CABANISS SHOWS
SPEED IN CRIMINAL CASE
Burglar Tried and Convicted in
Less Than an Hour

Judge Cabaniss tried his first crimi-
nal case as a judge of the superior
court yesterday and showed that it. is
possible to put through trials with ex-
pedition. John Radovich. charged with
burglary, was tried and convicted In
rather less than an hour. The proceed
ings included the impanelment of a
jury and the taking of testimony. Rad
ovich stole $50 or $50 worth of carpen-
ter's tools. The Judge put the case
over for the imposition Of sentence.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
FALLoN MUST HANG

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 6.-Governor Gill
lett announced this afternoon that he
would not interfere in the case OF
Thomas Fallon, who is to be hanged
at San Quentin Friday for the murder
of his WIFE Friends Of the condemned
man made the plea that he is insane.
Governor Giliett stated that he had
looked into the case fully and found
nothing to warrant clemency.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
NEW DAMAGE TRIAL
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

NAPA, Jan. "a decision has just
been handed down by the appellate
court granting a new trial in the case
of NJ. Pre- VS.. the Standard portland
cement company of Napa Junction In
the trial held in the superior court in
this city two years ago the jury award
ed Pre-, an employe of the cement com
pany, $1,150 damag ges. Pre- was ter
ribly burned by bank of hot clinkers
falling In upon him, and the jury took
the view that the company had not
properly looked after the safety of Pre-
while he was at work.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
.HAWLFY TESTIf|fS
ON RATE POOLING
Tells of Former Arrangement
Between Southern and
Union Pacific Roads
Senate Committee Makes Ad-
verse Report of FuIton's
Bill at Presidents Request


NEW YORK. Jan. 6.--Edwin Hawley
of this city, president of the Iowa
Central railway company and of the
Minneapolis and st. Louis railway com
pany and a director in several other
roads, including the Western Pacific,
was the first witness called by the
government today in the hearing of
the action to dissolve the merger OF
the Hartman railroads Hawley said
he had been in the railroad business
Tor 40 years, becoming connected with
the Southern Pacific in 1888.
Hawley was questioned concerning
transcontinental business of the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific at the
time of the alleged merger. He said
that he was general eastern agent OF
the Southern Pacific at first and that
he had Jurisdiction over the Morgan
line OF steamers, which was used as a
part of the Sunset route. Competition
among the rival railroad companies
before the formation of the merger, he
said, was general. He said that he
always opposed the consolidation of the
commercial agencies of the Union Pa
On cross examination counsel for the
railroads asked Hawley if it were not
absolutely necessary for the Union Pa
clfic to use the Southern Pacific line
in transcontinental trade. Hawley re-
Piled that the Union Pacific did it, The
witness said that it was quite possible
that If the Union Pacific attempted to
force an issue with the Southern Pa
clhc the latter road could divert its
traffic at Ogden to the Denver and
Rio Grande. In it's southern traffic, he
said, the Union Pacific had always been
Obliged to use the Atchison, Southern
racine or the Texas Pacific.
In reply TO questions as to whether
the Southern Pacific was not domi-
nant factor in transcontinentaI traffic
and practically had controlled the rates,
Hawley said that the Southern Pacific
was an important factor and that even
freight shipped directly by way of the
Iexas Pacific and Union Pacific had to
be turned over to the Southern Pa
clfic at the terminals.
Hawley said that the Southern Pa
clfic. Union Pacific and Oregon Short
Line were included in an agreement or
pool that existed for transcontinental
rates few years ago
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
VIOLATE MILK LAW

The Guadalupe dairy company was
convicted by Police Judge Conlan yes
terday of selling milk below the stand
ard and a fine Of S25 was imposed
John Alves a dairyman OF San Mateo
was convicted by Judge Deasy and was
fpad s15
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
BANK FOR Ell CERRITO
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The comp
troller of the currency today approved
the application of F. B. Fuller, Ell
Centro; c. F. Hayden, w T. Bill, Ira
Aten and T. B. Blanchard to organize
the FL Centre national bank of Ell Cen
tro, Cal, with a capital OF $50, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
RuRGIARs VISIT REsIDENCE

The residence of Joseph Jeanette.
60 Washington avenue, was entered by
burglars on Tuesday night during the
absence of the family and about 5000
worth OF jewelry and clothing stolen
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
HANDS CRACKED
RAW AND SCALY

ltched and Burned TerribIy-Arms
Affected, Too-Could Not Move
Thumbs Without Flesh Cracking
Sleep and Work Often Impos-
sible-Was Fairly Worn Out.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07

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