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Arizona republican., 1909-03-08
A GUARDIAN OF PRESIDENTS

A GUARDIAN OF PRESIDENTS.
 The New York Journal having giv- en itself full credit for the success of the administration of President Roosevelt, is now turning itself to the duty of informing President Taft how he may avoid the rocks and shoals of failure. The Journal professes great friendship for and confidence in MT. Taft as can be entertained toward what it regards as an experiment and it will maintain that attitude until the new president commits some overt act.
 All this will no adoubt be comfort ing and encouraging to MT. Taft, but it may be guessed that in the hurry and hustle of the moment. he will not have time to peruse the Journal every morning for pointers as to his line of conduct for that day.
 The chances are that within the next four years MT. Taft will do many things which will result in his forfeiture of the full approval of the Journal It is equally probable that he will forfeit more of Mir. Hearst's approval by neglecting to do many things.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-08

It is understood that all strings will be removed from the segregation bill this afternoon.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-08
THE HARQUA-HA[A MINING CO.

Ironwood Mich, March 1, 1909. To the Stockholders of the Harqua- Hala Mining Company:
Arizona republican., 1909-03-08

Frank w Skinner, who writes of "Foundations of Lofty Buildings" for the March Century, for many years after his graduation from Cornell made a speciality of bridge engineer ing in mill. shop, field and office. Since 1889 he has been nonresident lecturer in field-engineering at Cor nell University, McGill University, Yale, Harvard. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and other institutes. besides contributing extensively to magazines and technical publications.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-08
Uncle Joe and His Voting Machines

In many states of the union, says A F. Thomas in Success Magazine, the voting machine has been subjected to various elaborate tests. In some states it has passed these tests and in others it has proven a failure, and has been
Arizona republican., 1909-03-08

Beginning today the twenty fifth legislature of Arizona may be said to be republican. At any rate it will be kept within bounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Commander Of Government Troops
One Section is Reported to be
Read to Join the
Party.
NEW ELECTION PERHAP|
Madriz, the New President Of Nlear
qua May be Forced to Call
New Election For
Ruler.

SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Dec. so.-
is reported here today that the cor
mander of the government troops l
Acoyapa, has decided to join the rel
clutionist's cause and that instead
opposing the Estrada forces as plai
ned by Madriz. he will aid them.
II this report is true, and 1t is q
cepted here as correct. Estrada wi
have no difficulty III advancing
Managua.
1t is believed that it will mean thl
Acting President Madriz will yield
the terms Estrada has demanded al
that general election Will be CALI
at once
Anibal Chezez, who refused to cs
/ ry out Zelaya's ordeis frr the exec
ton of the Americans Cannon al
Croce, and who was degraded and Ii
prisoned for this act, left Corinto I
Panama, from which place he will s,
for New York.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
WOoDPECK.ERs
WORK FOR HIM
Main Hermit Has the Birds Make
Fancy Wood for Him While
Feeding.

BANGOR, Me-, Dec. 30--After
spending more than 60 years and
more than $4,000 in hunting bears
and studying the ways of wild crea-
lures. Greenleaf Davis, of Mt. Katah-
din, has begun to raise tame wood
peckers with the purpose of using
them to convert ordinary rock naples
into the rare and costly wood known
as bird's-eye maple Mr.. Davis is
more than so years old.
1t has been Mr.. Davis belief that
no creature should be kept in cap
tivity more than a month. He has
two crows, one more than 80 years
old, which have stayed by him and
never sought the society of their
kind. Two robins lived with him
for three years. His great success,
however, has been won with wood
peckers. of which he now has near
ly 100 Most of them are the red
headed suckers. which pick round
holes in the bark of trees.
BY mixing ants with a paste
| formed from elm bark boiled down to
thick batter he can smear the trunks
of thrifty NAPLES with such food as
the woodpeckers require, and while
they are getting meal from the
bark their bills are boring new holes
in the trees and Transforming ordinary
maple worth no more than $12 a
thousand feet into bird's-eye maple
that sells anywhere from $50 to s6t
g. thousand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
HAS BECOME
HABIT WITH HIM
Captain Brown Has Been Operated
Upon Twenty-Three Times and
Is Still Alive.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3o.-For the
twenty-third time in five years Capt.
Edward G. Brown, a patient in the
Kings county hospital, went under the
knife.
Captain Brown was taken to the
county hospital several months ago.
Since then every month he has under.
gone an operation for some physical
deformity. Among other operations
he has lost a kidney and an eye.
why, I have become SO accustom.
ed to operations" he said, that they
have become second nature. Neither
either, the operating table nor the sur.
geons knife have any terrors for me
don't mind 1t BIT
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Noted Actor Murdered Because he
Deserted a Certain Tong and
Became Member Of An
other Organization.
POLICE ARE VERY ACTIVE
Scores Of OFFICERS Have Been Station
ed In New York's Chinatown to
Try and Bring Peace
to People.

NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 30.-The
war of tie Chinese Tongs has been
renewed with increased vigor and the
police fear grave results today from
the murder shortly after midnight of
All Hoon, noted Chinese actor, for
merly a member of the Four Brothers,
which however, he deserted for the On
Leonz Tong. He was killed it is said,
in retaliation for the murder last Mon
day night of Low Fung, treasurer of
the Four Brothers and Low Jung, an
other member who was assassinated
by members of the On Leonz Tong.
Commissioner Baker has thrown
scores of police into Chinatown today.
The On Leonz Tong and the Four
Brothers have been deadly enemies
since the murder of Elsie Sigel, by a
member of the Leonz Tong
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Motion for New Trial Was Denied
and he Seems Destined to
Serve Fifteen Year
Sentence.
TWO DAYS OF GRACE
Has Been Given Until Friday in
Which to Prepare to Apply
for Writ OF
Error.

; NEW YORK, Dec. 3o.-There is lit
tie left in sight to keep Charles W.
Morse from going to Atlanta to begin
serving his fifteen-year sentence.
Judge Hough of the United States
Circuit Court denied Morse's motion
for a new trial, advanced on the |
ground that the Jury which convicted
him was taxly guarded and was allow
ed to drink excessive quantities Of in
toxicating liquors in the course Of the
trial and it's deliberations.
Martin w. Littleton, counsel for the
banker, made immediate efforts to put
some block in the way of sending Mr.
Morse to prison. Judge I4acomb gave
Mr.. Littleton permission to apply for a
writ of error on Friday before him
alone, or on Monday before the whole
bench Of the Circuit Court of APP
peals.
United States District Attorney Wise
is of the opinion that the denial ends
the case. The language in which
Judge Hough's memorandum is pfras-
| ed, he believes, leaves no legal loop
| hole.
But Mr.. Wise disclaimed any desire
to railroad the banker to prison, and
for that reason he did not object to a
hearing on the application for writ
| Or error. A two days stay Is allowed
| by the government, which would not
| make it necessary, with the case TAX
ing its regular course, to carry out the
sentence before Friday.
In his memorandum Of the decision
Judge Hough did not assume that he
had jurisdiction in the matter, but,
granting for the sake of argument on
ly that ne did have jurisdiction. he de-
MED the motion on It's merits. The
memorandum deals with each point
on which the application for new
trial was based. 1t was argued on
Morse's behalf by his lawyer on De
cember 81.
Mr.. Littleton was apparently dis
heartened at the decision. He said
that the application for writ of error
would be based on certain technicali
ties in the memorandum He did no'
go to the Tombs to see his client i'm
mediately after the decision became
known, but he saw to 1t that Mr.
Morse was informed at once.
Mrs. Morse, who has remained con
stantly loyal to her husband through
, out his fight for freedom, is greatly
upset by the turn of affairs. If he
must serve his sentence, it is said tina
she probably will accompany hin
south. Morse took the news coolly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
MEN ENTOMBED
IN THE MINE
Two are Lost since the Explosion and
Both are Thought to be
Dead.

McALESTER, Okla, Dec. 30-Two
men are now entombed in the Bolen-
Darnel mine near here, in which an
explosion occurred, and it is feared
both are dead.
The rescue party Of fifty men, which
has worked without interruption since
the explosion, has been unable to find
Angelo Ascinar, the shot firer, and
John Brown, general superintendent
of the mine.
Supt. Brown, accompanied by Thorn
as Weatherington, the pit boss. went
into the mine to learn what damage
had been done. After the two men
had been in the mine some time their
friends on the surface and men went
into the mine to search for them.
Weatherington was found uncon-
scious. Ascinar was entombed last
night Brown lives in Hartford,
Ark, and is a prominent mining ex-
pert
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
The President and TWO Children Went
to New York to Take in the
Tsft-snowden Nuptials
This Afternoon.
MRS. TATE is TOO SICK
Presidents Niece Will be Married
This Afternoon and the Rela-
tives viii Attend the
Ceremony.

WASHINGTON Dec. President
Taft, Miss Helen Taft and Robert Taft,
left Washington this morning for New
York, to attend the marriage Of Miss
Louise Taft, this afternoon, to George
Hogg Snowden at the home of Henry
w Taft, brother of the president and
fa ther Of tie bride.
Mrs. Taft's ill health prevented her
from joining in the trip. Only the
immediate families of the couple will
be presen Mt An elaborate ceremony
was dispensed with owing to the re
cent death of Mrs. Horace Duttor
Taft. cunt of the bride.
The bridegroom is the son of Chas
L. Snowden of Seattle, Washington
and is engaged in the lumber bust
ness.
After several months travel il
Europe the couple will reside II
Seattle. The president will return t.
Washington tomorrow morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Boom In Zinc.

DUBUQUE, Dec. 30.--New York and
Chicago capitalists have purchased
the Avenue Top zinc mine, valued at
100000 These capitalists are also
interested in the Joplin and Wiscon-
sin zinc districts. They have options
on other mining properties here and
big merger of the Dubuque mines is
contemplated. The Avenue Top is
Dubuque's biggest mine, located II
the most desirable residence district
The placing of a duty on zinc by the
new tariff bill will boom the mining
industry here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
British Government Employe Died In
Partisan Hotel and Rumors
Say That Duel Was the
Direct Cause.
OFFICIALS DENY THIS
Was the Son Of the Seventh Duke
OF, North Cumberland and Was
Man of Very Many
Talents.

PARIS, Dec. 3o.--George Percy,
under secretary of state for England,
died today in hotel here. 1t was
given out that his death was due to
pleuresy, suffering the attack while
in Paris for the holiday fetes.
Another version of his death is that
it resulted from wounds received in
duel with another man last Mon
cay. The authorities emphatically
d-ny the story Of the duel which is
said to have been fought just outside
of Paris.
He was the Oldest son and heir OF
the seventh Duke of Northumber
land and was 3S years old. He was
man of marked attainments and had
Travelled extensively.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Reported That One of These Prehis-
toric Brutes Is Hiding in the
swamps in the Heart Of
Africa.
HAGENBECK BELIEVES IT
Great Animal Man Reports That Testi-
mony is Strong That One Of
Them Is Still in
Existanee.

LONDON, Dec. 30.-Although the
sea serpent and his tribe are distinct
ly out of season at this time of year.
a "Rhodesian dinosaur" has this week
made his bow to the public. Herr
Carl Hagenbeck, the zoologist, acted
as his advance agent In his recent
book, "Beasts and Men" Herein Herr
Hagenbeck mentions reports made to
him of an immense and wholly un-
known animal said to inhabit the in
terror of Rhodesia He quotes native
stories of "a huge monster, half ele-
phant, half dragon" dwelling in the
depths of the great swamps, and sug-
gests that it may be some kind OF
dinosaur seemingly akin to the prom
tesaurus.
Scientists in South Africa received
the news coldly. The biologists OF
the Rhodesia museum treated the re-
ports with derision, declaring tnat
nothing of the alleged dinosaur could
be gathered from the natives. This
was on November 20.
On December IA the dinosaur re
asserted himself in the columns of the
Bulawayo Chronicle. a correspond
ent of that paper declares that he has
investigated the matter himself and
has met two natives who affirm II
the most positive manner that they
have actually seen the dinosaur. Nei
ther of these natives knew the other
4 md l,ffL mnro shown senarafe1y
4 number of sketches, some wholly i'm
aginary and others constructed from
illustrations of prehistoric reptiles.
/ Both natives Immediately picked tht
same sketch as closely resembling thu
monster they had seen. Each, how
ever, called the attention of th'
1 sketcher to the omission In his pic
ture Of what from their description
would appear to be something in tn
nature of propulsory fippers.
The creature is supposed to inhabi
a lake between the rivers Lunga an
Kafoe Judging from the description
given by the two natives to the Bula
wayo Chronicles correspondent,
the neck of python, and the body of
would seem the horns Of rhinoceros
hippapotamus with, of course. the ae
dition of propulsory fiippers. Thus on
specimen would in itself form a yer
fair mixed bag of big game and whe
he has finished with Uganda Colone
Roosevelt might well turn his after
tion to it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
PEARY INVITED
TO MAKE SPEECH
Belgium Geographical Society Asks
Him to Come and Tell About
the Pole.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.--An invi-
tation to address the Royal Geographi-
cal Society of Antwerp, Belgium, was
received by Commander r. z. Peary.
The invitation is to speak upon
Pearys discovery OF the North Pole,
and is signed by President e. Jansen
and Secretary Maurice De Cocky OF
the society.
Commander Peary has received
resolutions adopted at the meeting of
the Tri-city Press Club at Rock Is'and
and Moline, ILL.,, and Davenport, Ia, of
which the explorer is an honorary
member, and rendering the clubs
hearty congratulations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Sailors of the RattIeships Had ! Hs)
Time Battling With the Ice
in the New York
Stream.
THREE LAUNCHES SIN
Ice Ground the Boats and Said
Were Plunged Into the River
But Were all
Rescued.

NEW YORK. Dec. eo.-Thr{
launches belonging to battleships
the North Atlantic battleship fie{
anchored in the North river, wet
sunk today while attempting to ploua
their way through the Ice at the rivo
bank, where they sought to take d
board 200 sailors who had bed
unable all night to get on their ship1
1t was only by bringing up powd
full steel tug from the navy yard that
hole large enough for the launch(
to pass, was broken through the ic]
The wind jammed the ice against tn
shore Through this the launchd
ploughed all night.
The first of the steel launches 4
sink was Launch No. /, of the battll
ship wisconsin which tried to bred
through the ice at 96th street. A hal
submerged ice foe pounded a hole
her bow and the water rushing il
caused her boiler to explode. He
five sailors were thrown into the i'd
water but the tug managed to smas
her way through the ice and pulle
them out with boat hooks.
Launch No. of the Minnesota q
mixed up in the ice foes of OF
street, lost her propeller and wande
ed aimlessly about in the ice until hs
bottom was torn out and she san1
Boats from the Wisconsin and Col
necticut picked up her crew.
In Launch No. 8 of the Kansas,
hole was punched. She did not &
down, being supported by the ice. bl
her water soaked crew had to lea
from ice berg to ice berg to reach II
shore and they too, had to go to
hospital.
Officers and men were forced to |
to one of the docks down town al
get boat to take them UP the cha
mel to the feet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
there Will BE
NO STRIKE NOW
Big Four Photographers and the Com,
pany Have Come to an Agree
meet and all VIII be
Peace.
ANNOUNCED AT NOON
Details Of the Agreement are to b.
Completed at Conference to
he Held This Altar
noon.
ANNOUNCED AT NOON

CINCINNATI. Ohio, Dec. 3Q.-It was
announced at noon by the conference
committee of the Big Four telegraph
ers and officials of the road that terms
of agreement had been reached by
them.
There will be no strike.
First Vice President J. j. Dermody
Of the telegraphers. and General Man
ager Van Wrinkle of the railway, met
ct 2:30 o'clock this afternoon to COM
Ilete the details of The agreement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Mercury Dropped to Six Below Zero
In Chicago, Dealing Death to
Some Of the Citizens Of
That Place.
THE SAD CASE OF A BOY
Henry jolly, Aged Twelve Became
Exhausted While Looking for
Work and Was Found
Frozen.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-When shiver-
ering Chicago looked at it's ther-
mometer today, the mercury showed
6 below zero and the police reported
that four persons had frozen to death
during the night.
Scant consolation was found in the
forecaster's promise of mot quite SO
cold' today.
The dead reported are:
HENRY JOLLY, aged 12, exhausted
while looking for work and froze to
death.
JACOB KOTZ, fell on icy pavement.
fracturing skull, found almost frozen
and dying.
CHARLES A. JOHNSON, fell in
1FUnt of his home, frozen when found
Well dressed unidentified man found
ca sidewalk.
indianapolis reports Indiana having
the coldest weather since 1905. At
O'clock today it was s degrees below
Few reports of suffering among the
poor, however.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
TAX ON WEALTH
FROM FOREIGN LANDS
New York Judge Wants the State to
Also Put Tax on Foreign
Marriages.

NEW YORK, Dec. so.-Justice
James w. Gerard of the New York SUI
preme court declares that the state Of
New York should impose tax on for
eign marriages and on all fortunes that
are inherited by aliens within the
state. In an article in Golfers. he ex-
planned that only in this way can the
state collect "a percentage of the
nobleman's earnings" and he declares
he will try and have bill introduced
at the coming session the state legisla-
ture to carry out his plans.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
ataI Hiccoughs.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-Charles Wit
ter, fifty-four years old, switchman
for the Terminal Railroad Association,
whose right arm was burned a week
ago when fire destroyed a shanty in
which he was working, died yesterday
at st. Mary's Infirmary. The burned
nerves of the arm caused Witter to
suffer from spasmodic hiccoughs,
which lasted until his death. This is
believed by physicians to have hasten
ed his death.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
His siaht Restored.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. 30
While at work at the Reilands pack
ing plant some time ago a piece of
steel pierced the .eyeball of Karl
Page and nearly destroyed the
sight. When at a roller rink on Christ
mas night he fell and struck his head
violently on the floor and his sight
was restored. A growth had been
forming over the eyeball that was
broken by the jar and brought the
sight back to him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Triple WeddIna.

CLARION, Dec. 3O.-A triple we'd
ding was celebrated before church
full of invited guests here. The con-
tracing parties were May Humpley
and Edward Lincey. Eva Michaelson
and Harland Hill and Bertha Stephen
son and Albert Thompson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Uncle Allen.

I'm looking back over the mistakes
you've made, young man." counseled
Uncle Allen Sparks. don't regret
them. They have made you feel
ashamed of yourself, and you can't
take a more wholesome mental exer-
else than that"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Cold In Michiaan.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec 3O.-Records
for cold weather were set in many
places in Michigan for the last 25 or
80 years today, when the mercury
dropped below zero for several hours
Traffic is impeded and many wires
have snapped.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Woman Burned.

NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. so
With her clothes ablaze and screami
madly for aid, Mrs. Robert Little. ag
%, ran for a block through strs
before she fell dead, after every We
ige of clothing had been burned fir,
her body. Her garments caught I
while she was standing in front of
open CRATE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Traveller pies on Train.

MASON CITY, Dec. 30.-Dr. E. G.
Storm of Traverse City, Mich, died
on west bound Milwaukee train near
here, from heart failure. He was
brought here but no inquest will be
held. He travelled for st. Louis
drug house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Burned to Death.

& AVALON, Mo-, Dec. 30.-Cyrus
Eastman, aged go, postmaster, was
burned to death in a fire that destroy
ed his home. He had escaped but re-
entered the building to save valuable
papers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
euiltv Of Criminal Operation

ANAMoSA, Dec. 3O.--Dr. J. E. Gill
more of Monticello was found guilty
of performing a criminal operation
which caused the death of Miss Ger
trude Jackson. The case has been on
trial for two weeks and has been
bitterly fought.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
COAL FAMINE
rs THREATENED
Lack of Cars May Cause the North.
west to Burn up the
Furniture.

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 30.--A great
coal famine in the northwest, owing
to shortage in cars is feared
Practically the entire coal supply
for the northwest, Minnesota and the
Dakotas comes from Milwaukee and
the Milwaukee dealers are now nearly
5000 car loads behind on orders.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
Quarter Of Million Dollars Damage
Already Done and Fear That
the Blaze Will
Spread.
COTTON IS IN DANGER
Warehouses Near the Galveston Docks
Are Filled With Bales and
Fire is Creeping Toward
Them.

t;Ai WESTON, Dee. 30 Fire is rag
Ing On the wharf he.e Great Quaat-
iries OF cotton are store, in the ware-
houses and it is feard that the fire
will spread and that the warehouses
will be destroyed
The loss so far is estimated at one
quarter of million.