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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

Miss Frances Pauline Lang celebrated
her eighteenth birthday last Thursday
by giving a dinner party followed by
a dance at the home OF her father.
Michael Lang. at 1884 Howard street
The house was decorated with white
and yellow dafOdils and the dining
tables were decked with lilies OF the
valley
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton is at Mount
Tan1alpais. and it is said is working
hard en- a book, the scenes OF which are
laid in Munich Mrs. Anterior was at
the st. Francis for few days after
her arrival from the east, but left town
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

Mrs. Maud Howard Bryan, widow of
Montgomery Bryan of this city. is
among the American women who have
consented to accept a title instead of
the ~'plain American" husband, recon-
mended by those of other inclination.
Mrs Bryan, who is in New York, is
soon to marry the Count Kalman L
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

The debutante has several dates Ia
aer book for this week. and Wednesday
1ext she VIII have TO attend two
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

A recent banquet enjoyed by Is
friends with toasts and speech making
had the following guests about the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
WILBUR WRIGHT
TAKES TUMBLE
Magnetic Refused to Work and He
Was Forced to Come to the
Ground During Exhbi-
ton Spin.
THE NEWS FROM PARIS
He Does Not Think Much of His Pu-
pill Taking Such Chances as
Lambert Did in
France.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Wilbur
Wright, the brother of Orville, takes a
decidedly different view of the Lam
bert fight. When his attention was
called today to the spectacular
achievement of Count de Lambert.
one of his pupils, he shook his head
and said: at was a very successful
fight, and l am naturally gratified
that it was done in one of our ma
chimes, but there is too much of an
element of danger in that kind of a
performance, not only to the aviator,
but TO others. Suppose something
had gone wrong with his motor. He
would had to descend, probably -
crowded street. The failure of
own magnetic during a fight in Col
lege Park few minutes later, which
caused him to ascend abruptly, led to
this criticism. If the same thing had
happened to Lambert, the chances are
his machine would have been wreck
Ell, himself killed and spectators in
iured. Wright was flying only about
% feet above the ground and landed
lightly without mishap."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
CHARGES TEDDY
WITH WRONG
Joaquin Miller Lays 1t up Against
Roosevelt for Our Speedy
Existence.

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Oct. 19.-That
former President Roosevelt and his
policy of the strenuous life are re-
sponsible for more evils and crime in
America than any other cause was the
assertion upon which Joaquin Miller
laid the burden of his talk to the con
victs assembled in the prison chapel.
Miller said I'm going to talk on
Tomorrow. We are all in too great
o hurry. We should put some things
off until tomorrow. Lying, for in
stance. | used to tell a few lies my
self, but found it did not pay. There
is too much competition. There is
something wrong with the way the
people in this country live. They are
too strenuous. too active, too Wig
orous. Roosevelt, as the head of this
great nation, rushed the people into
all sorts of crime. His strenuous
theory of life is criminal He has in.
fected us with sort of insane activ.
ity. The American madness is energy
1t is a mania peculiar to us, and
Roosevelt is responsible for much OF
it,"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
DOCTOR CHARGED
WITH MURDER
is Alleged to Have Lured Lunatic Out
Into the Woods and Killed
Him

JACKSON, La, Oct. 19.-Dr. e. G
McKowan, for twenty years leading
physician of this place, is in jail on
the charge of having murdered FL.
Judson of New Orleans. an inmate OF
the state asylum for the insane here.
Judson, it is alleged. was lured to
lonely spot near Wakefield La, and
strangled to death. The insane man
was allowed to leave the asylum IL
company with an assistant supervisor.
.Judson was seen with DR.. McKowan
at a O'Clock yesterday afternoon. DR..
McKowan is under federal indictment
on the charge of mailing obscene let
ters to the prominent men and women.
For the last five years the postal
authorities have been puzzled by re-
heated mailing of these letters, and 1t
was not until few months ago that
secret service men discovered evi-
dence that is said to have pointed to
DR.. McKowan No trace can be found
of the guard who left the asylum with
Judson. The authorities have not yet
established any connection between
DIR. McKowan's indictment for mailing
obscene matter and the murder accu.
sation against him. Judson was con.
sidered a harmless lunatic. While re-
/ siding in New Orleans, he sent MANY
letters to the newspapers criticising
men and matters. and one of the OBJ
/ iects of his attack was DR.. MckoWan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
COAL SCANDAL
AT SPRINGFIELD
Bids Tempered With and Mayor
Charges That One Company Of
fered Him Bribe.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Oct. 19.-Addi-
tional scandal in connection with the
bids for the city coal contract came
to light when Mayor John S. Scnnepp
carried before States Attorney Burke
a story to the effect that he had been
offered contribution of $1,000 for his
campaign fund before election If he
would promise the city coal contract
to the Capital Coal Company. Along
with this statement the mayor laid be-
fore the states attorney the envelope
which contained the bids for the coal
contract and which, it developed last
week, had been tampered with before
they were publicly opened. The may.
or's action followed the publication
of statement by Patrick F. Murphy,
manager of the Capital Coal Company,
charging the mayor with favoring a
rival concern in letting the contracts,
When the coal bids were opened last
week it was found that Murphy's COM
pany was low bidder by quarter of
a cent a ton on practically ever.
grade OF coal W ue luiAlSHeu. belofe t
the contract was awarded a cry was
raised that the bids had been tamper,
ed with Inspection of the envelopes
disclosed the crudest sort of manipula.
ton, the envelopes evidently having
been opened with a dull knife and in
great haste. Upon this showing the
/ finance committee of the city council
threw out all bids and directed Mayor
Schnepp to advertise for new PROPOSE
/ tons The mayor declines to stats
who the persons was who offered hin
| the $1,000 for the promise of the Goa
contract, but declares he will disclose
the mans identity if called before the
grand jury.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
VIII Visit With Brother Charlie For
Four Days and Do Just as He
Pieases During His
Visit.
THOUSANDS OF ACRES
The Taft Ranch is an Enormous Ono
and President Can Roam
Around to His Heart.
Content.

GREGORY, Tex, Oct. 19.--President
Taft arrived here last night shortly
after 9 O'Clock to spend four days on
the ranch of Charles p Taft, his
brother The reports as to the size
OF this ranch vary from 100000 to 200,-
900 acres. In citler event, it ap-
proaches the proportions of princi-
pality. and during the time here the
president will be secluded from local
committees, from the givers of ban
quets and from the onerous duties OF
constant speecrmaking. Asked what
he was gonig to do on the ranch, the
president replied that he was going for
once on the trip, to Go as he pleased.
This means tnat he will golf every
morning over the links laid out on the
rancl; that he will ride in the after
noon and that he may go duck shoot
ing although he does not claim to be
much of shot. The stay at the ranch
will be the first real rest the president
will have. for even the Yosemite val
4 ley, far from the beaten paths, had its
| ironclad schedule of stage rides and
early hours of rising. Mr.. Taft was
met at the Gregory station by his
brother and number of hands from
tae ranch which lies three miles east
of here. The ranch faces three bays
on the Gulf of Mexico. Tarpon fishing
is favorite sporl of this section, but
it is doubtful il Mr.. Taft will try his
hand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Festival at San Francisco Commend
rating the Discovery Of the
Bay Has Begun and
Lasts For Days.
vERITABLE DREAMLAND
One Hundred Thousand Dollars Has
Been Spent in the Decorations
of the Streets Of
the City.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19-The
opening of San Franciscos Portola
festival which lasts five days and com
memorates the discovery of San Fran
cisco bay by Don Gaspar de Portola
and the recovery of the city from the
earthquake and fire of three years
ago, began this morning. The
city was never before in such
gay dress. Nearly 100000 has
been spent in Transforming the
city into vertable dreamland.
After the arrival in replica of Don
Gaspar aboard the Duplicate of his
historic ship, he eviewed the Ameri-
can and foreign warships in the bay.
Portola then landed and rode at the
head of a great street pageant. The
events of the day and night will in
clude band concerts, receptions aboard
/ the warships, luncheon at the st.
Francis hotel, Examinations, amateur
boxing matches foot ball games, IL
Elimination OF yarships and fireworks
display.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
orvIIe Wright Says That Lambert's
Achievement Has Proven
Number Of Things About
Flying Machine.
FOR TIMES OF WAR
Says That Scouts Can Over the En-
emy's Camp or City and Take
Observations From the
sky.

PARIS, Oct. 19.-While all France Is
commencing Count de Lambert for his
sensational fight over Paris yester-
day, Orville Wright is enthusiastic
over the fact that the trip was mada
in Wright machine and was there.
fore a Wright triumph. Wright and
his sister are in Paris. He said that
I.ambert's Eiffel tower fight was one
of the greatest ever made in an aero
plane. But more important than that,
the fight shows the practibility of the
aeroplane in modern warfare. The
value of scout aeroplane able to
cruise over an enemy's city at n
heighth of several hundred feet can
not be overestimated. The value of
the aeroplane in attack is now as.
sured. l feel the fight proves be-
yond doubt that the construction of
/ All doubts on that score are now set
aside" said Wright. Lambert is the
hero of Paris today. Scores of din
ners and receptions have been ar
ranged. The French Aero club has
/ voted him gold medal and scientific
societies are planning to honor him
1t was announced today that JuvisN
aero meet scheduled to end on Thurs
day. will be continued three days ant
will culminate in grand tournament
on Sunday. Arrangements have beer
made by. the society for formal ban
quet OF honor to De Lambert Thurs
day evening at which he will be pre-
sented with the gold medal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
DELARA ARRESTED
IN CALIFORNIA
Mexican Attorney With Leaning To-
ward Anarchy Has Been
Put i'm Jail.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Oct. 19.-Guit-
errez De Lara, a Mexican attorney,
was arrested last night under order or
tae department of commerce and la
Dor. Lara is widely known as a man
who recently accompanied an Amer
ican magazine writer into Mexico
where he obtained information for a
series Of articles on alleged slavery
De Lara was arrested before Taft's
arrival, with other Mexicans, charged
with disturbing the peace. All were
discharged but De Lara. The
local immigration inspector said that
De Lara is accused of utterances
against the United States and all
governments, also of being undesir-
able. De Lara IS one of the socialist
organizers of the United States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Or. Cook Decides That He VIII 90
to Alaska and Repeat His
Expedition to Top of
Mckinley.
THE DATE NEXT SPRING
He Does Not Connect Polar Claim
With This But Wishes to S.
ence the Malicious
Attacks.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 19.-Dr.
Frederick A. Cook in an interview
with the United Press before leaving
the city said that he would again
leave the comforts of civilization for
the perils of the wilderness to climb
Mount Mckinley to recover his rec
ords and clear his name. He did not
state when he would start but said
that it would take two or three months
to get ready, the same time to get to
Alaska and return to America. The
journey will likely start in the spring.
Are you ready to stand or fall on
the polar controversy providing your
records are found or not on the top Of
Mt. McKinley?. he was asked. "Why
no. he replied. "My polar records
must stand for themselves. They are
absolute and conclusive. A malicious
attack has been made upon my verac-
ity. The journey to Mount Mckinley
will silence this attack forever. This
expedition is one of two things must
do. The instruments left at Etah, OF
course, must be procured. l have to
prepare an expedition to recover
them, another for Mount Mckinley
Fialla might have taken off my hands
the work OF preparing the expedition
| to the mountain and now I must at
tend to that myself since he has re-
fused to go. His refusal will not ston
the expedition On the contrary the
equipping will be done in as short 9
! time as. possible 1t will cost be
tween $4,000 and $4,000 to make tht
ascent. Hardships, yes He refused
to discuss even the mechanical fea
lures of his appearing before the com
mittee of the Explorers club las
evening. 1t is understood that the
hearing favored strongly of the thirt
degree 81 came away satisfied" wa:
his only comment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Terrorists in Lisbon Caught Inside
of the Building After the Ex-
pIoson and Are Sur
rounded.
BARRIcADE IS FORMED
Troops Are Keeping Any Help From
Arriving For the imprisoned
Men who Are in Am
buscade.

LISBON. Oct ia Gordon Of
troops has been drawn about the
square containing St Lorenz church,
which with the surrounding buildings
was damaged by a bomb thrown by
Terrorists. While nothing can be
learned what is progressing inside the
circle of troops, 1T is reported that a
party of Terrorists, caught inside of
the building, have barricaded them
selves and are standing off the troops
1t is believed that the Gordon is 10 pre-.
vent others from coming to the aid oil
the imprisoned Terrorists.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Parade Of Ten Thousand People
Through Vice Ridden Streets
Of Chicago Last
Evening.
NO ONE WAS AT HOME
Resorts Turned Down the Lights and
Everything Was Dark and
Gloomy Along the
Way.

CHICAGO, Ill.,. Oct. 19.-Ten thou
sand church workers, headed by Gipsy
Smith. the evangelist, who is engaged
in series of revival meetings being
held in the Seventh Regiment Armory,
marched into the streets of Chicago's
biggest tenderloin district last night.
Five bands accompanied the crusaders.
The streets were filed with the re'lg-
ious hosts, who sang hymns as the
bands of music played them. The par
ade led from the armory at the con-
clusion of the evenings service. There
was mile intervening between the
hall and the redlight district. Shortly
after $50 the line was formed and the
men and women, bands and police
started. For blocks the sidewalks
were lined with the curious. NO child
rem were permitted in the procession.
AS the head of that procession turned
from Twenty-second street into Ar
mour avenue, which for three blocks
is lined with disorderly resorts, only
the flickerin.. light of the street lamps
greeted the paraders. Every led light
was extinguished: every door was
darkened; there were no wondering
eyes to gaze at the marchers. 1t was
just as if the places were vacant. AS
far as could be seen there was no lie
no one living in any of the houses
that are usually at 10 o'clock the
scenes of gayety and music. On down
Armour avenue the procession led
over the cross streets and into Dear
born street. No one along the side
walks except an occasional policeman
who stopped TO listen and to look. AL
through the district rose the sound o
marchers' voices as they sang the Cos
pei songs, led by Gypsy Smith. All o
the crusaders who could enter filed in
to the Alhambra Theater, where Smitl
expected to speak TO the hundreds o
women of the district, who disappoint
ed him by not attending. The res
proceeded to the Emmanuel Baptis
church for an overflow meeting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
FOUR BURNED
TO DEATH
Feed Yard on Fire and the Men Were
Asleep in the Hay of the
Barn.

WICHITA, Kans., Oct. 19.-Four
men were burned to death and one
man was probably fatally burned in a
feed yard here.
The dead:
w. R. Pepplinger. Olustee, Ok.
Alonzo Verling, Wichita.
James Gilmore, Wichita.
An unidentified man.
Fred George of Wichita was probab-
ly fatally burned.
The men were asleep in the hay in
a barn which was destroyed, and per-
ished there. Thirty horses burned to
death, but the property loss was small
The fire is believed to have been of in
cendiary origin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
WILL OPERATE
FOR HIS MIND
Newspaper Man Found Wandering in
Streets and Surgery viii
be Tried.

ELGIN, H.. Oct ia surgical
operation for the restoration of lost
memory is to be attempted on A. G.
Moore, an Alabama newspaper man,
who was discovered wandering the
streets of Elgin in dazed condition
and unable to tell his name. 1t is
the theory of the doctors in charge
of the case that Moore's aphasia is
due to an injury and can be remov-
ed by surgery. He was identified by
papers in his pockets, and Mrs. j. A.
Moore of Oak Park, relative, was
notified. II do not know what is the
matter with him, nor what brought
him to Elgin,' said Mrs. Moore. HE
is nephew of my husband"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
v M. C. a. Week

7 DAVENPORT. la, Oct. 19.-Dedica-
tion week for Davenports new $780,
900 Y. NJ. c. A. building opened last
night with banquet, at which several
hundred members wers addressed by
ex- Governor Warren Garst of Iowa,
ana J. F. Oakes. former general secre-
tary of the central association in Chi
cago. Tuesday will be labor day with
addresses By the Rev, Fayette l..
Thompson of st. Louis and Charles
Steizel Young PEOPLES day, open
fouse day, CITY and county officials
day, and bows day fill the rest of the
week with appropriate exercises.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Peculiar Actions Of the Captain and
Crew OF a Strange Steamer
on the East Florida
Coast.
THE PIRATES THWARTED
Crew Of the Lionface Tried to Board
British Steamship Rowan Moore
But Were Pre-
vented

GALVESTON, Texas Oct. 19.-
What the officers and crew OF the
British steamship Rowan Moore, Capt.
]. Phelan, master, believe to have
been an attempt to board the steam
ship by piratical crew was reported
to Collector of Pert Lee, who has
wired the department at Washington,
urging the government to send armed
vessels to the Bahama Islands The
Rowan Moore, bound from Liverpool
to Galveston, encountered the strange
steamer about dusk, October 6, about
sixteen miles northeast of Cayo Shoal
light, to the east of Florida. The
schooner was flying the distress sig.
nal when the British vessel came
alongside. Four men on the deck OF
the ral1ish craft attempted to board
the vessel. Capt. Phelan stopped
them. The captain of the schooner
said they wante1 to leave their schoon-
err, which was disabled, but the cap
| tain Of the Rowan Moore could see
1 the schooner was in good condition
4 Other heads then appeared above the
cabin of the schooner. The schooner
swung around aft of the vessel and
/ three men from the strange craft
| whose name the leader said was the
Lionface. attempted to climb the an
chor chains to the steamship. The
crew of the vessel was summoned anc
Capt. Phelan and Officers, armed witt
guns, threatened to shoot the frs
! man that came close The command
er of the Lionface swore fiercely a
his own crew for their failure, and
the British vessel, as the schoone
ran to cover among the small isles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Fish Refused once.

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-Stuyeysant
Fish declared there was no truth in
the Shangai report that he would be-
come minister to China. 1T is true"
he said that the Chinese mission was
offered to me, but that happened last
spring while ] was in Europe. Need.
less to say, the offer was at once de-
clined. did not mention the fact
then and saould not do so now, were
it not for the persistence of the base
less rumors of my going there"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
SEVEN KILLED
BY EXPLOSION
Boiler Blew Up In Southern Saw Mil
Sending the Employees to
Death

ELDORADo, Ark, Oct Seven
employees We're killed AID three other
persons were injured, two probably
fatally, when boiler at the plant of
Griffin Saw Mill Company. near Ell
dorado, exploded. The steam register,
IL is declared, failed to indicate the
overpressure. The explosion, which
could be heard several miles, followed,
wrecking a large section of the plant.
Mrs. j Reed, wife of the superintend
ent OF the mill, was in her home some
distance away. when the explosion &C.
CURED, brick striking the wall and
lnjuring her severely
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Weather Conditions.

The movement of the area of high
est pressure from the Dakotas to the
western lakes has caused cooler
weather from the Missouri valley east
ward, and clearing weather is follow
ing rains in the lake region and Ohio
valley.
A depression, central in Utah, is
causing rising temperature in the
southern mountain region, and there
have been showers in western Kansas.
Conditions indicate generally fair
weather with rising temperature, for
this section tonight and Wednesday,
possibly followed by showers Wednes-
day night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-19
Wright AeropIane Which Has Also
circIed Liberty Statue, Adds
Another Record to
Itself.
SAILED OVER PARIS
Count Lambert Made a Spectacular
Flight When He Gave the Pa
risans Something to

PARIS, Oct. 19.-Count de Lambert,
the French aeroplanist, just before
dark last night accomplished one of
the most remarkable and daring feats
yet credited to heavier-than-air ma
chimes. Starting from the aerodrome
at Juvisy in a Wright biplane, he flew
to Paris, a distance of about thirteen
miles, and, after maneuvering over
the city at an average height of 400
feet, he ascended in gradually dimin-
ishing circles ,aad passed several hun
dred feetsa e Eiffel tower. He
then - oN'sto Juvisy. Thousands
= y from the streets of Paris
o. barely credit their eyes when
they saw the aerop'ane, a tiny OBJ.
ject, gliding swiftly above the tower,
and the sensation created here by this
performance was more profound than
when Santos Dumont circled the strus,-
ture in his dirigible balloon in 1900.
Count de Lambert was given a tre-
mendous ovation on his return to
Juvisy. Orville Wright, who was
there with his sister, rushed forward
and wrung the hands of the aviator
as he alighted, pale but radiant. He
was led to the pavilion, where his
health was drunk, the crowd mean
time cheering Justify and crying,
4 Long live Count de Lambert!" Long
| live Russia.'' De Lambert being OF
Russian extraction. The count held
i up his hand and shouted, "Cry lone
live the United States, for it is te
her that | owe this success" Th5
aviator said that throughout the trr
he had entire control of the machine
The only Inconvenience he suffered
was from the throbbing of the en-
gines and from difficulty in seeing to
ward the end in the gloom. The OF
fetal time of the flight was forty-nine
minutes and thirty-nine seconds. The
distance was roughly estimated at 8
miles, and the height varied from SOl
J to 1900 feet.