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The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29
Engine Through Bridge

A TRACTION engine belonging to
Walter and Charley Jenkins west
OF town went through wooden
bridge over Elm Branch, near
the Chopin farm Monday.
The accident was due to a de-
fective wooden stringer which
broke when the engine was in
the middle of the bridge.
The engine and tender fell
through and the drivers, Charley
and Waiter Jenkins were carried
with it.
Charley Jenkins wa severely
burned about the legs and thighs
by being thrown against the fire
box OF the engine.
Walter was pinioned between
the engine and tender and parts
of Nhe ,wrecktage had to be cut
away before he could be released.
He also received a number of
burns and N knee was severely
injured. IN
DR.. r. s. Tyler of Dunksburg
was called and dressed the in
iuries of the men. DR.. Tyler
stated to a representative of The
Houstonian this morning thai
while the injuries of the mer
were serious, they were getting
; along nicely and would recover
unless complications set in.-Hous'
tonianl
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29
SINGLE HARNESS

that looks well, fits well
and wears well is the kind
Of harness we make and
sell. Every item we use
in making our single har-
ness is carefully selected.
The leather, the buckles,
the snaps and even the
thread, are of superior
quality. Our harness is
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29
Gasoline Stove Fire

The fire department was called
out yesterday morning at 7.So to
H. w. Bears on South Lyon,
where a gasoline stove caused a
scare. In attempting to put it out
some comforts were burned.
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29
CECIL WILLIAM VAN BoovEN

died ait the home of his parents,
one mile southwest of Slater, We'd
nesday morning, July 81, 1910. He
was a som of Mr.. and Mrs. w. ii.
VanBooven, aged 10 years, 7month
and Q days. Funeral services ait st
Joseph Catholic church, Slater,
Thursday, July Gath, at $3.50 p. m,
conducted by Father T. j. Fortune
burial at City cemetery.
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29
Wheat Coming in Slowly.

Rea & Page Milling Co., inform-
ed us yesterday that wheat is
coming in rather slowly. The
grade is mostly No. 3. weighing IS
to 5s ,bs. to the bushel. They are
paying $1.OO per bushel.
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29

c. C. Barnds, manager of the La
Cross Lumber Co., is lonely this
week his family being at his wife's
mothers in Kansas City for sew
eral weeks stay.
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29

There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all
other diseases put together, and
until the last few years was sup
posed Ito be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced IL
a local disease and prescribed To-
cal remedies, and by constantly
failing TO cure with local treat4
ment pronounced it incurable,
Science has proven catarrh to be
a constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treat
ment. HALLS Catarrh Cure, MAN.
ufactured by f. j. Cheney & Go,
Toledo, Ohio, list he only constitu-
ttonal cure on the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from 10
drops ITO a teaspoonfull 1t acts
directly ON the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They of
fer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure Send for cir
cuaar and testimonials.
Address: f, j.. CHENEY & Go,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c-
! Take HALLS Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Marshall republican., 1910-07-29

Elmer jackson fell from his
bicycle near the south east corner
of the square Wednesday and bad
.ly sprained his wrist and shoulder
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
CHICAGO to New York.

[Cate City Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Oct. S.-The Chicago to
New York aeroplane fight will start
tomorrow between IL and IL o'clock,
but as a one man endurance fight.
and not as a race with three aviators
competing, as was originally intend
ed The three aviators scheduled to
make the fight insisted that it was
out of the question for all of them to
attempt the trip and the representa-
tives of the Chicago Post and New
York Times, the papers having Offer
ed $4,000 as purse for the race.
finally withdrew their objection to the
scheme and it was definitely decided
that Eugene Elv should drive Glenn
Curtiss Hudson FLYER in the long
flight
Charles Willard and j. A. D. Nc
Curdy will start with Ely, but will re
turn to the aviation field here, dis
mantle their machines and ship var
ious parts to points along the course
for use in case Ely has to land Will
lard and McCurdy will also follow
Ely as closely as possible by trair
and automobile to aid him in makint
any necessary repairs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
Across the Continent.

TGate City Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Oct S.-Through the
Chicago Examiner, w. r. Hearst, Sun
day. wlll announce the offer of a prize
of $4,000 for the first aeroplane fight
across the continent. This Is the
largest prize ever offered for fight
in a heavier than air machine and is
open to all aviators.
The fight must be made within one
year from October TO- 1910, and after
the start must be completed within
72O continuous hours or thirty days,
according to the conditions announc-
ed.
The start must be made either from
New York or Boston in the east or
San Francisco or Los Angeles in the
west. The aviator may fly from east
to west or from west to east. as he
chooses. The course to be followed
lis optional with the contestant, the
only requirement OF this nature being
stop be made in Chicago. The con
testing aeroplane may be repaired as
many times as necessary, broken
parts NAV be replaced, but the same
! machine must be used throughout
! The conditions place no limit on the
number of stops that may be made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
Mostly Foreigners.

Gate City Leased Wire Service.
TRINIDAD, Colo, Oct. Safest
reports from the scene of the coal
mine explosion at Starkville are that
between so and 100 miners mostly
foreigners. are entombed in the c. F.
and !. mine.
The mine which is one of the old
est in Colorado has been worked for
twenty-five years and has always
been considered safe. 1t is operated
through three horizontal tunnels To-
Gated three feet apart which penetrate
Ratons peak in some places being
three miles long. 1t is feared that. if
miners were working in the inner
most tunnels when the explosion oc-
Cured, there is little hope for them
1t is impossible - this hour to as
certain what caused the explosion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
EIGHTEENTH BODY
IS UNCOVERED
Memorial Service Today For Those
Who Lost Their Lives
In Fire.

IGate City Leased Wire Service
LOS ANGELES, Cal Oct. S.-Attor-
ney Earl Connors, in the employ of tee
Merchants and Manufacturers asso
citation, who arrived from San Fran
cisco today, accompanied by detectives
declared tonight that the detectives
are hot on the trail of the dynamiters
of the Los Angeles Times plant
The search in the Times ruins went
on this afternoon with the result thai
at 9 o'clock another body, the eight
eenth. was unearthed in the debris
in TIE northwest portion. The body
was fearfully charred and wholly un'
recognizable.
The services planned tomorrow in
the auditorium in memory of The
Times disaster will be most impressive
They will be conducted by Rev. Robert
i. Burdett, assisted by several minis
ters.
The bodies of the victims will be
inferred at Hollywood cemetery in
plots secured by the Times manage
lnent
/ General OTIS will attend the serv-
ices. The report made today By the
commission which investigated the
disaster that the explosion was
caused either by nitro-glycerine OF
some other high explosives, occasion
ed no surprise. The report was unan
imous.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
At THE end
OF THFz ROPE
Investigating Committee Has Ad-
journed and the Testimony is
Likely all Received
Now.
LoRIMER NOT CALLED
He Was Not Asked to Take the
Witness Stand and Tell How
He Becsame U. S.
Senator.
'[Gate City Leased Wire Service ]

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Oct. S.-The investiga
tion into the alleged bribery and cor
ruption in connection with the cleo
tion of U. S. Senator Lorimer, by the
subcommittee of the senate commit
tee on privileges and elections, closed
here today without Senator Lorimer
being called to testify in his own be-
half.
The committee adjourned subject
to recall by Chairman Burrows, in
case Representative Robert E. Will
son, named as one of the Jack pot
ters'' is found.
The general opinion is that the
taking of testimony is ended.
A period of thirty days was grant
ed counsel for the prosecution" and
defense to file briefs, rebuttals and
make general revisions and the evi-
dence and briefs will then be sub
mitted to the entire committee and
laid before the U. S. senate.
1t is considered probable that Lori
mer may be called upon to defend
himself before the senate before a
final report is made. The sub-com
mittee was desirous of obtaining all OF
the evidence possible but the reason
advanced for not calling Lorimer te
the stand was that to call the senator
would have been equivalent to declar
ing that a prime facie case had beer
made against him, conclusion the
subcommittee preferred to leave tt
the whole committee or to the senate
| itself. Edward D. Shurtleff, republi
can speaker of the house during the
last general assembly, testified toda!
and denied having any knowledge o
bribery in connection with Lorimer'
election.
Shurtleff was the leader Of the bi
partisan faction responsible for Lori
mer's election.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
THREE MAY DIE
AFTER THE RACE
None of the Spectators Were Injured
at the Meeting in Quaker

[Gate City Leased Wire Servicel
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. Sin
one of the closest auto races ever run
Len zengle. driving Chadwick car,
this afternoon, won the 2O2h mile
event of the Quaker City Motor club
by fraction less than six seconds.
More than 100000 persons packed the
S.17 mile course in Fairmount park,
but not a spectator was injured. Four
of the racing drivers and mechanic
ians. however, were critically hurt.
and ii is feared three OF them will
die. The injured are:
All Mitchell driver of Simplex car,
caught under wrecked automobile,
mangled.
Scott Malott. Mitchell's mechanic
ian, critically hurt
Ralph Beardsley, driver, seriously
injured.
Glenn Ethering, injured in same ac.
cident, may die.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
FLAMES ROAR
IN WOODS again
Canadian Forest Fires Break Out
With Renewed visor And Sweep
Across the Boun-
dairy.
TWO TOWNS DESTROYED
Death List Has Already Exceeded
Half Hundred and the Peo-
Pile are Abandoning
Homes.
LGate City Leased Wire Service.

lGate City Leased Wire Service.
RAINY RIVER, Ont, Oct. S.-Forest
flres which have been burning for sew
eral weeks past, last night famed to
renewed energy by strong gale from
the northwest and swept down on the
towns of Spooner and Beaudette, on
the American side, reducing them to
ashes in few hours. The fires now
raging have proved to be the most
disastrous in the history of north arn
Minnesota and new Ontario and al
ready it is said that the death list will
exceed fifty.
When the destruction of the two
towns was inevitable the Canadian
Northern railway hurried up a train
of fifty box cars and the residents
were huddled into these cars like
stock, no one being allowed to carry
any of their possessions on account of
the lack of room. The fires complete
ly surrounded the town and it was
necessary for every one to be on the
alert and give all assistance to the
men and women fighting the fires.
Time upon time various portions of
the town caught fire but the residents
fought for their lives, for If this town
goes there will be little chance OF
their escaping alive.
Refugees who reached here this
morning, report the railway track is
covered with corpses and che mar
says he alone counted eleven bodies.
A man named George Ramsey reac.i
| ed here from settlement in the
bush. He had run seven miles fol
safety and carried small child in his
arms. He arrived early today ant
says that he passed four parties OF ref
ugees making for this town through
the bush, but tonight they have No
reached here. and all hope for thei
safety has been given up.
George Walton, a lumber jack, al
4 rived here this afternoon, and say
i the death list will be fully 200.
j He explains that yesterday ther
1 were hundreds of people treking il
4 the direction of this town and only
few of them arrived.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09

them being shot for something they
did not do and had not anything to do
with. II the boy and myself had been
alright, you fellows would have had
to fight till hell froze over to get us :
well, you put up stiff fight and
I'm glad it is over said Madden.
Eyes, 1t would have been over hours
ago If the misses had not kept at us
to fight on. When was wounded the
misses said to me, go right ahead,
John. and Wen do the best we can.
Don't YOU worry about Helen and me.
So you see it was the misses that held
YOU fellows off, even II you We're 40 to
/ B,lt If YOU had hit one GS those
girls. YOU can bet I'd have killed a
dozen of you before you got me, Grip
pied as ] was.
at may be good law to go after
man with a hundred shots minute
when he has his women folks around,
hut YOU got me and I'm not going to
crv over it. He added, as he was
being led away.
The entire Dietz family were hur-
ried to Hayward tonight to avoid 1ur-
ther trouble in Winter. Deitz and Les
lie were first rushed out of Winter
in an automobile and placed in Jail,
4 hnt when a second machine arrived
with Mrs Deitz and the two children
an excited mob gathered about them.
Some one shouted thar It was mrs
Deitz who fired the shot that kiliea
Deputy Hart and the excitement be
came so great that threats OF lynch
ing We've heard.
Five deputies are stli' uhacoou,.'ea ~
for tonight. but It is believed 'heS
4 will be found unharmed-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
valIadares Sets up Little Kingdom
Of His Own on an Island
and Defies Three
Nations.
DEsPoT OF HONDURAS
Three Gunboats Have Been Sent to
Rout Him Out and Make Him
Act Like White
Man.
fGate civ leased Wire Seryice, ]

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Oct S.-Warships
of three nations were dispatched to
the aid Of the Honduran government
in it's effort to dislodge from office
General Kosemaria Valladares, COVER
nor of Amapala The American gun
boat Princeton left Acapulco, MeXi-
CO, and warships of the French and
English navy will arrive at Amapala
within the next two days.
Germany is the most heavily inter
ested country, and it is expected that
she will follow the attempt of the
other three powers.
The action of the government in or
dering the Princeton to Honduran
waters was taken it is said, at the
request of President Davila of Hon
duras, who is undersood to have
notified the powers of the threat of
Gov. Valladares to imprison foreign
residents and to blow UP any ship
that interfered with him if Davila at
tempted his removal.
The cSstoms houses at Amapala are
!
erous complaints have been made by
| foreign countries of mistreatment of
i travellers and extortion in customs in
cargoes. Amapala is upon an island
about twenty miles from the west
i coast of Honduras. There is only
one fort nplsu the island and at that
place only two guns of any size. val
ladares, it is said, has fortified him
self in this fort and awaits the ad
vance of the Honduras forces The
state department gives no credence
to the probability of general reyo
luton as a result Of the insurgenc.
of Valladares.
The case of Valladares has occu
. pied the attention of American diplo
mats and consuls OFF and on for three
years.
In 1907 at the close of the Hon
duras revolution which placed Presi
, dent Davila in the presidency, Valla
, dares seized control of Amapala ant
, 1.-The little string of neighboring is
lands. BY consistent policy of re
preston, Valladares bullied the is
landers into submission and secured
. from Davila confirmation of nj
: governorshi,. Since then, Valladare
! has lorded it over Amapala' in tn
/ most brutal manner.
: Complaints piled I'D against hin
r from the foreign co>>uls Gii Val.y
dares laughed at Davilas' attempt t
dislodge him from the island.
The foreign warships have n
> legal right to act except in protectio
u of foreign interests.
/ Trouble is Spreading.
IGate City Leased Wire Service.]
S GUATEMALA CITY, Honduras, DC
!. S.-Disorder bordering on anarch
q grips Honduras tonight The ant
foreign outbreak in Ampala early t
: day is rapidly extending over that
most disrupted republic and di
y patches received from Puerto Barrie
~ and Ampala declare that many fo
~ eigners have been subjected to ou
~ =. RACES at the hands of Honduran c
!, ficials in western coast towns. \
~ immediate change in the situation
reported, since the announceme
. that the United States gunboat Prime
70 ton is enroute from Acapulco, Mexio
~ To Ampala. Honduras.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
Hoxsey Makes the Flight From
Springfield to ST. Louis In an
AeropIane Without
Stop.
LOST IN THE SKY
Had to Como Down to Earth and
Ask Someone Which Was the
Right Direction to
Take.

lGate City Leased Wire Service.
ST. LOUIS, Oct S--After being
forced to descend at the Country Club,
three miles south of his scheduled
destination, to ask direction to the
kinloch aviation field, Archie Hoxsey,
who flew 81 miles in Wright bi-
plane from Springfield to st. Louis
this afternoon, descended at 1927 p. m.
His feat established new American
record for non stop, cross country
flights. He was in the air continuous
ly for two horurs and Is minutes and
covered the entire distance in hours
and 81 minutes.
Hoxseys landing was the chief
event on the opening day Of the st.
Louis aviation meet conducted by the
Aero Club of st. Louis. The meet con-
tinues until October is. !,
HoXsey flying more than 1000 feet
high, became lost in haze that hung
over ST. Louis in its environs and cir
cicled about aimlessly for 40 minutes
in an effort to locate the field
Hoxsey outrun the special Chicago
and Alton train which was to have
marked his path. He left the schedul-
ed route this side of Carlinville and
passed southeastward over Staunton
his birthplace. Then he pointed his
machine due west passed southern
4 Alton and Mitchellyille, where he
crossed the river into Missouri ant
circled about 1000 feet high tryins
to sight the fire, which Presiden
Lambert said would be smoking tt
guide him. Bombs were exploded OF
the field to attract him but Hoxse!
said tonight he did not hear the ex
/ plosions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
STANDARD OIL
IS UNDER FIRE
Suits for s1e2,soo Are Filed in Kan
sas for Violators of Anti
Trust Law.
[Gate City Leased Wire service.l

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
TOPEKA. Oct S.-Three suits ior
damages for violation Of the anti
trust laws of the state Of Kansas
were filed simultaneously against the
Standard Oil Co., in Montgomery,
Wilson and Saline counties, late to-
day by Attorney General F. S. Jack
son. republican nominee for congress
man in the third district.
The suits are for damages agsre-
eating siG2, 500 AMI interest there
on or S10o per day for the violations
of which are alleged to have extend
ed over a period of 5l4 days
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
Manuel Is Not Far From His Old
Kingdom and May Start
Counter Revo-
luton.
HAS AMPLE FUNDS
Licbon is Excited over Reports
That he Has U. s., England and
Germany as
Allies.
[Gate CITY Leased Wire seryice.l

lGate City Leased Wire Service.]
LISBON, Oct. S.-The whereabouts
of King Manuel is causing consider
able speculation and some worriment
on the part Of the leaders of the new
republic. Dispatches from Madrid late
tonight state that he had left Gibral-
ter for Lisbon for the purpose of start
Ing counter revolution in the hope
of restoring himself to the crown. The
dispatches declare that in this move
he Will have the support of both Eng
land Germany.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
WALLED in
TO Their FATE
Terrific Explosion in Coal Mine With
Probably Heavy Loss of Life
Among The
Men.
MOSTLY
FOREIGNERS
Late Reports Were That Between 80
and 1co Men Are Entombed
and Likely
Killed.
IGate City Leased Wire servlce.l

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
DENVER, Colo, Oct. S-A report
received here late tonight is that one
hundred miners had been entombed
in mine explosion in the c. F. and l..
coal mine at starkville, Colo.
The explosion occurred at 9:45 to-
night. Between 100 and 15O miners
are said to have been in the mine at
the time and reports are that only
about one-third of these had been ac-
counted for UP to eleven o'clock.
The c. F. and l. mine is five miles
from Trinidad
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
15o Men Were at Work.

lodlc SlLy ISdSGI NlIe SSlNlCS,J
TRINIDAD, Colo, Oct. S.--A ter
rife explosion occurred at 9:45 to-
night IN the big mine of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co, at Starkville, seven
miles southwest of here, according to
reports reaching here shortly before
midnight. The night shift of $50
men was at work at the time, causing
reports of great loss of life. At mid.
night 1t was impossible to verify es-
Inmates that between 20 and 100
miners were still in the mine, walled
in to an unknown fate.
The mine is the biggest of the G. F.
and /. mines in this county. Mes.
sages were sent Immediately after the
explosion to other G. f. and ]. mines
in this vicinity to rush all available
physicians, nurses and experienced
miners to the scene.
simultaneously a score of automo
biles carrying citizens of Trinidad
volunteering in the rescue work
should their services be necessary
lett here for Starkville.
The force of the explosion was SC
terrific that it was distinctly heart
here. Details were difficult to get al
the telegraph and telephone Offices a
| Starkville had closed for the night
before the explosion occurred. Com
munication was re-established later
however. The storekeeper of the min'
at Starkville was reached at midnigh
and declared that "the mine had blown
up" but that he could not say wha
was the loss of life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
te City Leased Wire Service.

TGate City Leased Wire Service
JERSEYVIILE. III Oct S-Six
teen persons were slightly injured
late tonight when Chicago and Al
ton passenger train jumped the track
two miles south of here. Spreading
rails. due 10 recent washouts are be
lieved to have caused the wreck. e
]. Hyke of St Louis was the mos'
seriously injured, sustaining a scalI
cut
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
pnIicnnan Murdered.

CHICAGO, Oct. S.-Extra detectives
were called out tonight to search for
a second story hustler" know as Mil
waukee Red following an attack
made on Francis Malone, known as
one OF Chicago's best policemen. Ma
lone was stabbed in the neck and
abdomen and will die.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09
DeIeuate Was Killed,

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Oct. S.-One
delegate to the Democratic state con-
vention. Thomas Callahan, of Ches-
shire was killed, one fatally hurt, and
two others badly hurt in an automo-
bile collision this afternoon near
Palmer, Mass
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-09

"That practical politician is out for
the stuff. isn't he9" Il should say he
was Why, If he has lawn made he
wants rakeoff for the dead leaves"
Baltimore American.