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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-18
EULOGY OF CLEVELAND.
Taft Pays Remarkable Tribute to
Memory of the Dead Executive.

New York March 1S.-In his address
at the Cleveland Memorial exercises to-
day President Taft paid glowing trib-
ute to the dead presidents service to
his country during his second term.
He said:
The limit of legislative restriction up
on executive action is a difficult line to
define. Any one who attempts to do
more than. to pass on single instances
as they arise may find himself in great
difficulty, but as such instances are
considered and decided, the limits are
gradually being defined. We owe to
Mr.. Cleveland and his courage in deal
ing with the senate of the United States
the establishment of some useful pre-
cedents.
In Mr. Cleveland's second term there
was a large majority of his party in
the house and a working majority in
the senate so that the whole RESPONSE
bility of government fell upon the De-
mocracy with Mr.. Cleveland at it's head.
The significance of his second admin
istration centerS about three issues. The
first was the tariff, the second free sill
yer and the third the suppression of
iawlessness directed against federal
authority by use of the process of fed
eral courts and by federal troops.
The same influences in his own party
which had sought to defeat him for
nirnination in his third canvass he
found entrenched in the senate so
strongly as to be able to defeat the de-
clared policy of his party in favor of
tariff for revenue and he refused to
sign the German Wilson bill, but allow
ed it to become law after. denouncing
it as the result of perfdy and dishon-
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-18
How to Make a Hardwood Floor.

How to Make Hardwood Floor.
There will be a Chi-Namel Demon
stration at our store on March p. DO
not miss the opportunity TO learn how
to secure a new hard wood floor for
$3.50, and how to have a Mission
finish dining room, den or sitting room
without the expense of removing old
paint or varnish.
Any old floor, oil cloth or linoleum
made to look like new hard wood. any
style of grain. Lessons free by special
instructor.
c. NJ. HILL. s13 Kansas ave.
Erervhodv reads the state Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-18

Everybody reads the statc JOurnaI.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
LYNCHING WOULD
Be TOO MERCIFUL
Six Negroes in jail Charged With Hsv.
Ing Burned Woman After
Wrapping her In a &
Feather Bed. :.
HAD TORTURED SEVERAL
Mob Formed and Starting Toward
Arkansas Town to Get the
Accused Men and String
Them to Trees

OSCEOLA, Ark, Dec. 15.-The
sheriff and large force of deputies
are today guarding the Jail here in
an effort to repel the attack Of a mob
coming from Shawnee with the avow-
ed intention of hanging six negroes,
held on the charge of robbing and tor
turing Mrs. Cummings and others in
the community.
The mob is said to have been organ
lied by relative Of the dead woman,
who purchased 100 feet of rope in
Memphis. Tenn, then crossed the Mis-
sissippi where he was joined by others
now marching toward Osceola.
It is expected the mob will reach
here some time today. The negroes are
accused of brutal crimes. Mrs. Cum
mings it is declared, was wrapped in
feather bed after being tortured
and the bed then set on fire. One
man, a victim of the gang, was dipped
in the Mississippi when the water was
icy cold and then thrown into boiling
water.
The sheriff and his deputies ere re
solved that the negroes shall not be
lynched.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
Confession of Farm Hand Leads to
the Discovery of the Body
Which had Been Buried
on the Farm.
KILLED WITH AN AXE
Self Confessed Murderer Tells Of tho
Crime as Though he Was
Telling an Ordinary Every
day Story.

LARNED, Kan, Dec. 15.--A muir
der, committed here September IA, has
been brought to light by the confess
sion of Clyde Charles of Dalhart.
Texas. who says he killed George B.
Neptune and buried the body on the
farm. Guided by Charles, officers
found the body. Neptune, widely
known farmer, had decided to sell his
farm and property and leave the coun-
try, his wife having applied for a
| divorce early in August. Charles
says he is not yet is years old.
September IA. Neptune came to
| Larned and arranged with local
newspaper to advertise public sale
OF his farm implements and stock for
September 2s. Neptune was accom-
panied by Charles. who had worked
4 for him as hired hand since harvest
time last summer. This was the last
time Neptune was seen alive.
The first evidence that Neptune
had been killed was the finding Of
traces of blood on boards and on the
floor of the loft of the barn. Further
search revealed an old quilt With
traces of blood and the charred re-
mains of coat were found. Word
was sent to the sheriff ?. Dalhart,
; Texas, who questioned Charles at the
home OF his mother. At first Charles
denied ever having known Neptune.
but when confronted with the bill OF
sale which he had presented when he
sold Neptune's horses he contradicted
! his first story and declared Neptune
had sold the horses to him.
On the strength of his conflicting
stories and the other evidence he was
arrested Charles agreed to return
without requisition papers. After
long questioning he confessed to the
killing.
As calmly as though he were relat-
ing an every day occurrence, he told
: how he had tried for some time to
, get Neptune to let him take the horses
to Dalhart under the plea that he
! could sell them there better than at
the sale here, and how, after quarrel
!. over wages, he finally determined to
kill him After returning from Larn-
= ed September IA the two men went
to sleep in the barn, Charles says
: he lay awake and waited until about
! . o'clock and then arose and secured
an ak and returned to Neptunes side
: as he lay in the loft on pile Of
4 quilts and struck him twice on the
head.
e Bundling the body up in the quilts
e he says he rolled and carried it to
e the loft door and tumbled it to the
(, ground He then secured a wheelbor-
G row. he says, and loaded the body and
Z the bloody bedelothes into it and
trundled the load to point in the
sand hills about half a mile south OF
the house. where he buried it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
MEN ON SHIP
LIVE ON CAKE
Nothing for the Crew to Eat Except
ing Big Christmas Cake
Several Days Old.

PORT BURWELL, Ont, Dec. 15.--
The thirty men manning the car fer
ry Ashtabula, which is stranded on
a sand bar off here, continue to stand
by the ship today in desperate ef-
fort to save her They have nothing
to eat excepting the remains of a
huge Christmas cake which was bak-
ed in the form of the model of the
ship by the cook several days ago.
Everything aboard the ship is water
soaked and this. with the intense cold,
makes their suffering severe.
The Port Stanley life saving crew
brought here on a special train yes
terday, stand ready on the shore to
launch into the breakers If the ferry
gives further evidence of breaking UP.
The life savers are not attempting to
carry food or send life line to the
ship, until the sea subsidies somewhat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
WANTS TO RACE
ON TYPEWRITER
Marathon Operator is Ready to Back
Himself Against All
Corners.
[Gate City Special Service ]

[Gate City Special Service.l
SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 10 Modest
ly laying claims to the premier honors
as a marathoner on typewriter ma
chine, H. B. Press, who is transcrib-
ing the evidence in the Cunningham
case at the Alaska coal land inquiry
in Spokane, has issued challenge to
operators to contest of speed. accur-
acy and endurance for anywhere from
$50 to $4,000 side, open to the world.
He stipulates, however, that at no
time for any one minute during the
trial shall the speed be less than SO
words a minute and this must con-
tinue until one of the competitors is
exhausted. Since coming to Sopkane,
10 days ago, Press has worked full
eight hours daily, transcribing from
graphophone, stopping only long
enough to change cylinders and place
fresh paper in the writing machine.
He writes at a speed ranging from
65 to SO words minute and frequently
makes bursts of 100 words, which
he maintains for pages of matter. He
believes he can outdistance any opera
tor in the world in a marathon and
will go anywhere to back up his
claims.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
HOW FARMER
WAS BUNCOED
sharpers Got $4,000 Out Of Him i
Chicago During Two Separate
Occasions.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 15.-Thomas
Foulkes, a stock raiser of Danberry
Iowa, recovered Judgment OF $4,000
against DR.. Francis M. Steward.
Foulkes testified that in 1901 he was
met by men here who deceived him
into believing he was going blind and
took him to Steward. Steward charg-
ed s1,500 for treatment. Upon charg-
ing steward with fraud, Foulkes was
told that If he brought certain letters
back here the money would be return
ed. Foulkes said he came and, while
with Steward, he was seized by man
representing himself as health Of
ficer, who told Foulkes he had small
pox and kept him prioner for five
days, releasing him only on the pay
ment OF $500.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
AEROPLANING
over The SNOW
With Weather Conditions Most I'm.
favorable new Aeronaut Makes
Three Flights Which Were
Successful.
THE WIND WAS BLOWING
Rather Than Disappolnt the Three
Thousand Spectators, the Avia-
tor Made the Flights
Without Accident.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Dec. 15.--ln the
face of a gale blowing intermittently
and in gusts at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, Charles x. Hamilton
made three flights in Curtiss areo-
plane at Lake Contrary. The tirst
ascent was made within quarter
stretch at the driving park and the
others on the frozen surface of the
lake. The fights on the lake lasted
about one and half minutes each,
during which the aviator was not
more than 10 feet from the ground,
except during short spurts, when the
machine arose to height of about
90 feet.
The weather conditions were most
unfavorable. A wind blowing at the
rate of sixteen miles an hour Is con-
sidered extremely dangerous for aero
plane work, but rather than disappoint
| the crowd Of 3,J00 persons who had
stood for three hours in the cold,
Hamilton ordered the machine taken
from the shed and the flights began.
On account of the high wind the ma
chine was maneuvered at the 20 foot
height only in a strr sht line. A turn
was effected during the second and
third flights, with the machine less
than feet from The ground. Hamil
ton was afraid to attempt turn with
the machine high in the air, as there
was great danger of being upset b,
IA gust Of the gale
The first fight was made in the
driving park, in which the machine
was driven in straight line acros:
the fields. When directly in front o
the grand stand the birdlike structure
arose from the ground to height o
about feet and floated distance o
$50 yards. The machine settled a
the edge of the field and was i'm
mediately turned around by hand
return trip was made over the sam,
course, but, as the machine was goinl
with the wind, the aviator did not al
tempt to rise more than few inche
from the ground. The machine skim
med over the snow, touching tn
ground every few feet Hamilton :.
not consider this flight.
The flights on the surface Of TIL
lake were more spectacular. The FRS
fight began near the Casino and e,
tended in northwest direction in tn
face of the wind, turning opposite III
Lotus club and then flying back t
. the south end of the lake. The di:
: tance covered was something NOR
than mile. The second fight on tn
lake extended from the south end
the Lotus club and back, covering th
distance of mile and a half in mil
ute and half.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
Davis Has Employed an Attorney and
VIII Try and Keep His Office
After Being Removed
by Governor.
HE WILL TEST THE LAW
TWO New Situations Have Presented
Themselves In the Case Arising
From the Recent
Lynchins.

CAIRO, ILL.,, Dec. 15.-Two new stu
shrievalty matter here. One was that
Frank E. Davis had employed counsel
to start suit to test the constitutional
ity of the law which deposes a sher-
iff when a prisoner is taken from him
and lynched. The other was that Gov.
Charles S. Deneen sent to the Coun-
ty Board official notice of his action
in declining to reinstate Mr.. Davis to
the Office of sheriff.
In the case of the suit to recover
the office. it Is probable that quo war
ranto proceedings will be begun in the
Alexander Circuit Court with the hope
of getting the matter to the Illinois
Supreme Court at its February term.
Attorneys are now looking into the
| 'aw, but have not fully decided upon
! this action.
With suit pending to test the law,
it is regarded as improbable that any
one will want to take the appointment
| for the balance of Mr.. Davis term
which expires on the first Monday OF
December, 1910.
The grand jury examined the edi
tors of the two daily newspapers ol
Cairo with view of securing informa
tion of graft in the Police Department
which has been charged with gambl
ing, jury fixing and other offenses.
Another witness before the gran,
4 jury was lite sister Of Arthu
Alexander, the negro. held as an ac
complice in the assault and murder o
Miss Pelley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
BADLY BURNED
BY HOT METAL
Foundry Employee Was spa.tered
From Waist UP But
Escaped Death.


QUINCY, ILL.,, Dec 15.-Henry Mohr.
aged twenty-five, an apprentice at the
Comstock-Castle upper foundry, was
frightfully burned from his waist to
the top of his head about q o'clock
yesterday afternoon. after he had slip
ped and spilled ladel of molten met
al on the wet floor as the molders
were pouring off a heat. The. hot iron
spattered in every direction and the
unfortunate young man was envelop-
ed in the shower of metal, the tenn
perature of which was at white heat.
Last night young Mohr was resting
easy, although 1t was admitted he was
In a serious condition. 1t was not
thought, however. that his injuries
would result fatally.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
MANY LIVES
LOST AT SEA
Recent Storms in Oriental Waters
Were Disastrous to Life
and Shipping.

VICTORIA, B. c., Dec. 15.-News of
several steamship disasters Involving
much loss of life was brought by the
Monteagle. which arrived from the
Orient.
Bodies of nineteen men and three
women were washed ashore from the
Kisakata Maru, which TO, ndered off
Ainoshima with all herds
The steamer Jinsen Maru went
down off Ryuganpo near Dalny, and
all on board were lost.
Twenty vessels are wrecked OF
missing. Tidal waves caused loss OF
life near Shimonosek
News was also brought by the
Monteagle of the capsizing Of a large
Chinese passenger boat ca the
Yangtse, near Kuhu, on November a
forty persons beiT Z drowned. Tbs
steamers Vat Shi, nd Loonan saw
ed forty-seven passengers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
STARTED FIRE
TO HAVE FUN
Youth Confessed That He Deliberately
Started Blaze Which Cost
100000.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15.-'To have a
little fun and see it burn" is the ex-
PLANTATION given in confession made
by George Heberle last night to the
police of East st. Louis as to why
he set fire to the Corno Mills ware
house Monday and caused a loss of
over 100000.
Heberle is 20 years old. He is the
son of William Heberle of 2606 Baugh
avenue, East St Louis. Besides the
fire of Monday he confesses to setting
fire three times last May to the Nell
son Morris packing house on the East
side. None of these fires amounted to
much The first was started in the
hair room of the fertilizing plant,
where the boy was employed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
Life Imprisonment.

MOUNT VERNON. Mo. Dec. 1p.--
The case Of Charles Health charged
with killing Clarence Moiser, a school
teacher, February %, 1907, at Sara
toga, Mcdonald County, Mo-, and
brought to Lawrence County on a
change of venue, closed last might.
The jury found him guilty of murder
in the first degree and fixed his pun.
isbment at life Imprisonment Mos.
Ter in discipling Health's daughter In
the shoolroom, slapped her before
her classmates. Returning home she
told her father Of the incident and he
sought out Mosier and killed him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
FOR THE
OPEN SALOON
Largest Dry Town IN the World De-
cldes "a Have Saloons instead
Of Dives.

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. Is
That no license has proved failure
in Worcester, the largest no-license
city in the world, was proven when
the license party won by a sweeping
majority of s3740, as compared with
the no-license majority of 209 last
year. The landslide for the open sa-
loon was great enough to cause even
the most rabid liquor men of the coun-
try to wonder how it happened, and
during the day all kinds of predic-
tions were made, but no one even
seemed to dream that license would
win by any such majority as it did.
It is evident that spellbinders for
and against license and the open sa-
loon had nothing to do with the ma
jority that was piled up, and it seems
apparent that the people of Worces-
ter have solved the problem for them
selves and regarded the dive as some
thing that was much worse than the
open saloon. Mayor James Logan,
Republican candidate for reelection,
and one of the strongest no-license
advocates, won over his opponent by
majority of 1882. and in a statement
given out last night said:
| .sI indeed regret to see this city go
for license and the open saloon, but |
promise you the license law will be
1 lived up to and enforced to the letter.
and when man gets license to do
q wholesale business he will have to
do it and not retail one, as they
have in the past / will grant all the
4 licenses allowed by law, but the hold
ers will keep the law or lose them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
CELEBRATION OF
THE EMANCIPATION
semi-centenniaI of the Big Event is
Proposed for the Year 1913.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-By joint
resolution introduced in congres; q
commission of seven persons to inves-
tigate sthe prospects for semi-cen-
tennial celebration of the emancipa-
tion proclamation in 1913 is provided.
Congressman 2. L. Taylor, Jr., of
Ohio, and William A. Rodenberg of
Illinois, chairman of the committee on
Industrial Arts and Expositions, are
the authors of the resolution.
Five thousand dollars is appropriate
ed for the expense of the commission,
which will serve without pay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: General
ly fair tonight and THURSDAY. Not
much colder in temperature
For Illinois: Partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday Not much change in
temperature.
For Iowa and Missouri: General
ly fair tonight and Thursday. Not
much change in temperature.
Weather Conditions.
A field of high pressure over the
Mountain Region has caused some
what lower temperature from the
Rockies to the Central Valleys with
light snow, which is followed by clear
ing weather west of the Mississippi.
There has been snow in the Lake
Region. and the temperature is high-
er on the Atlantic Coast, with the
area of low temperature covering the
Lower Lake Region and Northeastern
States. and there have been rains on
the Western Gulf
Conditions indicate generally fair
weather, and moderately cold, for this
section tonight and Thursday, with
the advance of the western field OF
high pressure.
Local Observations.
Date Bar. Their Wind Wth'r
147 p. m. &. 5000 27 w Crdy
| Is 7 a. m. 30o9 % w Crdy
River above low water o. 1864
feet / tenth, fall of tenths.
/ Mean temperature, 14th, 27 maxi
mum temperature, 80; minimum tenn
perature. "a.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
ELEVEN MINES
ORDERED CLOSED
Mule Stables Under the Ground are
Not Allowed in the Oklahoma
Shafts.

McALESTER, Ok, Dec. 15.-Eleven
mines owned and operated by four DIFF
ferent companies are closed ct Coal
Gate, and about 5000 miners are tenn
porarily out of employment.
Pete Hanraty, chief mine inspector,
had notified the companies that they
must not maintain mule stables in the
mines. Continuing this, the inspector
ordered all operations at the rinese
to cease until his order has been com
piled with.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
TWO WEEKS OF
THE STRIKE
Railroads Claim to be Making Pro
gress and there is no Coal
Shortage.

CHICAGO, Dec 15.-The general
managers association gave out the
following last night:
Sat the close of the fourteenth day
of the switchmens' strike, the rail-
roads have made greater progress at
moving traffic than any previous day
since the strike began
The general manager of the Great
Northern telegraphed a statement
showing the increasing extent of the
coal traffic, and added: There is alb
solutely no coal shortage"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
Has offered to Resign and Wants Mad
rIz to Take His Place as
President Of Nicara.
qua.
NOT POPULAR PERSON
Madriz 10 Thought to be in League
With zeIaya and People do not
Want Him Ap-
pointed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Follow-
ing the rioting in Manague, President
Zelaya has made public statement.
promising to resign in favor of Jose
Madriz, the Nicaraguan representa-
tive to the Central American peace
court. according to dispatch receiv-
ed today by the state department
The dispatch also contains the as-
sertion that Madriz is not the choice
Of the people
President Zelaya's attempt to escape
the gathering storm by the proposition
OF naming Madriz as his successor,
has met the opposition Of the revolu-
tionary party and will not meet with
the favor of the United States Al
though Madriz has been opposed to
Zelaya, his recent activities show
that he is in league with Zelaya and
is not likely to gain the presidency.
The gunboat Princeton, en- route
from San Francisco, has arrived at
Acapulco and will likely join the
vicksburg and yorktown at Corinto.
The Tacoma, ordered to B'uef1elds.
has arrived there and is anchored
near the Des Moines. There are no
indications received at Washington
that battle has beer fought at Rama.
zeIaya is Rich.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Six mil
lion dollars is the sum which Presi
dent Zelaya has succeeded in saving
up out OF the profits OF the Illegal
monopolies which he controls in Mic
aragua, according to semi-officfal re
ports received here today.
Zelaya controls the stock in II
monopolies on the Pacific coast, cover
ing practically the entire field of man
ufacturing and the exploitation OF ma
tional resources. Some of these have
paid as high as 200 per cent per an
mum and all have paid big dividend
In addition, he has a half interest In
concern exercising similar control
on the Atlantic coast. He owns hall
interest in the Bluffs wharf conces
sion, which collects toll amounting te
ST at least from every passenger ar
irving or departing at the Bluffs. HI
has half interest in a fake gold
mine. This stock, the president un
loads on any unsuspecting foreignel
who seeks the presidential approva
for commercial undertaking. 1t is nee
essary to buy stock to secure hear
ing. Not satisfied with the abnorma
profits from these monopolies, Zelay'
was also granted numerous exclusiv
concessions to individuals with a viey
to their capitalization in foreign cour
tries. Most of these have failed t
receive financial support from foreign
ers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
Washinnton,s Tomb.

WASHINGTON, Dec 15.-On the
10th anniversary of the death of Geo.
Washington, the Alexandria Washing
ton Lodge of Masons, in accordance
with it's annual custom, placed a me-
mortal wreath on the tomb at Mount
Vernon, Va. The members of Wash
ington's old lodge were joined by re.
representatives. of the Fredericksburg
(Va.) lodge, which also placed a
wreath on the tomb
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-15
Murderer Cauuht.

TOLEDO, Dec. 15.-Antonio Man
gino, who has been missing since the
murder of his wife and two step
children at Cleveland, Dec. II, was
arrested here According to the po-
lice he confessed to killing the wom-
an and children and expressed sur
prise that he had not killed his in
fant step-son, who survived, though
found with a knife wound in the alb
domen.