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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Society Girls OF Pasadena Refuse TO
Dance With Jap Naval Officers
at The Hotel
Ball.
Officers Feel lnsuIted and Bar the
School Children From Paying
Visit to Tho
Ship.

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 7.-Difficulty
between the United States and Jap
anese governments may arise because
Pasadena society girls have made it
known that they would not dance with
Japanese naval officers at a ball to
which the officers of Rear Admiral
Yazhiros fleet had been invited. Be
cause of the stand by the society
girls the manager of Hotel Maryland
who had arranged the ball, decided
to call off the affair.
1t was learned that the Japanese
admiral regarded the cancellation as
direct insult to his nation and his
reply was to cancel invitations to re-
turn dance which he proposed to give
on his ship. The admiral also refused
to permit Long Beach school chill.
dren to visit his ship.
Rear Admiral Yazhiro is in com.
mand of the feet which is visiting the
Pacific coast. 1t was in honor of the
Japanese training squadron now at
Los Angeles that the Hotel Maryland
manager planned to give the ball at
his hotel.
Rumors began to reach the hotel
managers ears that Pasadena society
girls had declared they would not
dance with the Japanese officers. He
found that the sentiment against the
oriental officers practically was un
animous. AS last resort the ball
was called off.
Notice that the affair had been can.
celed, when received by the Japanese
admiral, caused him to become high
ly incensed. 1t is believed he learned
of the circumstances which compelled
the cancelling of the dance.
His response was made curtly
Without hesitating a moment, he an
nounced that the dance he had plan
ned to hold aboard ship would be
called off also.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
BATH TUB TRUST
FROZEN UP
Indictment Found Against 80 Men
Who Control IS Percent of tho
Business in the United
States.
UNCLE SAM is BUSY
Sixteen Firms Are Said to Have the
Bath Room Supply Business
Under Their
Thumbs.

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. THE anti
trust campaign of Attorney General
Wickersham shifted to Detroit this
week, with the result that indictments
were returned by the federal grand
jury against sixteen firms and thirty
two individuals alleged to have se-
cured control OF S5 per cent of the
annual output of enamelware bath
tubs, sinks. lavatories and supplies
in the United States. The criminal
roceedings grow out of civil suit
to dissolve the alleged combination
begun by the government in The fed
eral court at Baltimore, hearings be.
ing held in Chicago, Pittsburg and
New York within the last forty days.
The evidence adduced was present
ed to the grand jury by Edwin p.
| Grosvenor, special assistant to the
attorney general; United States
District Attorney Frank II. Watson
Of Detroit and Joseph Darling, special
agent OF the department OF justice.
1t 1t charged that as the result of q
ten days meeting at Mount Clemens.
Mich, last April. fund of $1,000
was subscribed to set in motion
plan that resulted in giving the de-
PENDANTS control OF sixteen manufac-
turers and nearly 400 jobbers. repre-
senttng an output OF approximately
! a0.ono.00o 81 year. The civil s,,it
started at BaItimore. and the criminal
| procee dingsrbegun here have been in.
stituted under the Sherman antitrust
law.
The defendant firms in the crimi.
nal proceedings are the Standard San.
itary Manufacturing company, Pitts
burg. Pa: A. Weiskittel & Sons COM
pany, Baltimore; the Barns Manufac-
turing company. Mansfield, Ohio: the
cahill Iron Works. Chattanooga. Tenn.
Colwell Lead Company, New York
City; the Day-Ward company. War.
rem, Ohio; the Humphreys Manufact-
uring company. Mansfield Ohio: Ker.
ner Manufacturing company, Pitts
burg. Pa: the j. T.. Mott Iron Works.
New York City; Mcvey & Walker.
Braddock, Pa; McCrum- Howell com
many. New York City; the National
sanitarv Manufacturing company, sa-
lem, Ohio; Union Sanitary Manufac-
turing company, Noblesvilla, Ind; T..
Wolff Manufacturing company. Chi
cago; Wheeling Enameled Iron com
pany, Wheeling w Va: United
States Sanitary Manufacturing COM
pany, Pittsburg.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
FAIRY STORY
BY MRS. MOORE
Testimony Of Wife in the vincsnne
Murder Case, is SO Considered
by tho Prosecuting
Attorneys.
ARGUMENTS COMMENCE MEL
Case Will go to the Jury Tomorrow
Morning After Rather Sensa.
tlonaI and Interesting
Session.

VINCENNES, Ind. Dec. 7-Aftnr
PHYSICIANS for the state had given
their answer to the long hypothetical
question introduced by the defense.
both state and defense rested In the
Menlo Moore case
No limit has been set to the length
OF the arguments. which are to be
made by the six attorneys, but from
statements they have made 1t is be.
lleved the case will go to the jury
about 10 O'Clock Thursday morning.
Judge Orlando S. Cobb who has pra-
sided at the trial, said the reading of
The courts instructions will occupy
from thirty minutes to an hour.
Wagers are being made that the jnfy
VIII not be out more than an hour.
prosecutor d. Frank Culbertson, in
the opening argument for the state,
cited many cases in which the juries
had found defendants guilty when in
sanity was offered as defense, as ia
the present trial.
He alluded to Mrs. More's confsg-
sion to her husband of her alleged
relations with Charles e. Gibson us a
monstrous, overdrawn, fairy tale.
He said that Moore had plotted 10
Kill Gibson and had shot him in the
back at the first opportunity He ask
ed the jury to convict Moore on the
ground that no man has right TO
make law unto himself
For the defense Attorney James III.
House declared that the evidence
showed Mrs. Moores story of Gibson
pursuit of her could not be question
ed, and that it had been proven that
her confession had plunged her hus.
band into an emotional insanity, un-
der stress of which he had killed Gip-
son, and that he, therefore could no,
be held guilty of murder.
Mr.. House will be followed by Jas.
S. Pritchett for the state, and he in
turn by Clarence B. kessinger for the
defense. 1t is thought that these two
speeches will not be completed before
noon.
The chief local interest in the arg1-
ments is centered in the address Of
Eph. Inman of. indianapolis who viii
close for the defense. His address
here a number of years ago, when
Dick" Davies was being tried for the
wrecking of a Washington bank, is
still remembered. The final word in
behalf of the state will be delivered
by Judge George w. Shaw
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Selection of v. S. Senator Will not
BE the Only Important Matter Be-
fore Iowa Legis-
ature.
MEETS IN JANUARY
Long List of Important Legislation
Which viii be Considered When
Next Session is
Held.
Especial 10 The Gate city

lopeclai 10 The Gate City.1
DES MONIES, Dec. THE selec-
ton of United States senator to sue
ceed the late j. P. Dolliver is not the
only important topic for consideration
TO come up before the Iowa general
assembly which meets here next
month. There will probably be more
important legislation considered than
at any session for many years. Among
the more important topics to come up
are:
The establishment Of state board
of conservation
A law regulating qualifications OF
automobile chauffeurs.
A Workingman's compensation act,
providing for the payment for injuries.
The abandonment of the tax com
mission to settle the tax question.
A law providing for change in the
method of conducting tax sales.
The establishment of public util-
ity commission with powers similar
to those Of the present railroad com
mission governing all corporations
Amendments to the marriage and
divorce laws.
A law providing for the improve
ment of the public highways.
An act providing for instruction of
agriculture in high schools.
Some measure to compel cleanliness
! in bakeries and other factories max.
| ing food supplies.
A law to regulate private banks.
A law providing for placing state
employees under civil service.
A law providing for the appoint.
ment of the clerk and reporter of the
supreme court instead of having them
elected as at present
A joint resolution asking the con
stitutional amendment for election of
United States senator by direct vote
of the people
joint resolution providing for a
constitutional amendment for abso.
lutte prohibition.
A joint resolution providing for a
constitutional amendment for woman
suffrage.
A law reorganzing the state board
of health and describing its powers.
A law providing a state fire mar
shal
A law amending the state inheri-
tance tax.
A law providing for the establish
ment of state insurance department.
An old age pension law
A law regulating peddlers and vend-
ers of drugs.
A law making the state board of
parole permanent organization the
year around
A law providing school teachers
pension.
Amendment TO the present laws pro
viding punishment Tor criminals.
Amendment to the pure food law
especially providing that correct
weights be printed on the outside Of
every package.
Amendment to the Iowa school laws
An approprapriation to carry on
agricultural extension work in the
state
An appropriation to establish a
woman's reformatory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
WRESTLING MATCH
FOR THE EVENING
Hackenschmidt and Westergaard Will
Meet on the Mat in Grea.
Bout

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE first big
wrestling bout of the year will take
place tonight at the Coliseum when
George Hackenschmidt, the Russian
Lion, takes OH Jesse Westergaard,
who, at Des Moines, won over Dr.
Roller in two straight falls. Hacken-
schmidt came to this country for the
purpose of meeting Frank Gotca the
undefeated champion of the world.
but Gotch is out of the game for good,
the Iowan, who was in Chicago On
private business, refusing some nigh
ty tempting offers and declaring that
he was out for good. With Gotch OFT
of the way, Westergaard and Henry
Ordemann, the Minneapolis grappler
are considered the top-notchefs
among the American heavy weights,
and Hackenschmidt's next match will
be with the Minnesotan.
Hackenschmidt plans to make quick
work of Westergaard, but there are
many wrestling fans who are of the
opinion that the Des Moines man
will give the Russian hard battle.
..Gotch lauds Westergaard highly,
said Hack this afternoon, but | am
going TO pin him to the mat and hope
to do it so quickly that it will amaze
even the wonderful Gotch. | am go
ing TO try and put him down twice
in five minutes
Westergaard arrived in Chicaso TO-
day from Des Moines. He has wres.-
led two matches in three days but
saws he was never in better condition
and will make the Ru5sian strong
man extend himself TO the limit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
President Oiax Has One Of His cou7.
trymen Put in Jail in United
States For an Old
Charge.
FIFE AND DRUM CORPS ExTRADr1oN INTERNATIONAL ST
Juan Azcona Had to Leave Country
Six Months Ago and Does
Not Want to go
Back.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-The pro-
vlsional arrest of Juan Sanchez
Azcona, once member of the Mex
lean congress, journalist, and a mem.
Der OF one of the best known families
III Mexico, was procured here by di-
rection OF the department of justice
on representations made by the Mex
lean government declaring that war
rant. with, charge of obtaining mon
ey under false pretenses had been is
sued for him in Mexico, and that docu.
ments containing further details were
on their way to Washington.
No political significance, 1t was
said at the Mexican embassy. at.
taches to the arrest. but Gussavo A.
Madero, supported by other friends of
Azcona here, charges that the ''cir.
cumstances of the cases are trivial
and that behind it all is the venge-
full purpose of the Diaz administration
to get possession of Azcona, because
OF his acknowledged connection with
anti-Diaz newspaper attacks of the
last three years.
Azcona is son of the late Senior
Azcona, former Mexican minister to
Italy. Guatemala and the Argentine
Republic. He came to Washington,
November 21 from San Antonio, Tex
as, where his consultations with Fran.
cisco l. Madero, leader of the Mexi
can revolution. were an open secret
He has been associated here with
Gustavo A. Madero, brother of the
revolutionist leader.
Azcona said the incident in which
charges have been preferred against
him took place four years ago, and
that his part in the affair was mere
I ly as a witness. He asserted that
while manager of a newspaper in
Mexico City. many contributions were
received for the entertainment of the
poor of the Mexican capi,ei. = he
funds were insufficient and were turn
ed over to committee of women for
disbursement among the poor, An.
other newspaper, he said charged the
money had been diverted from the
original purpose Of the donors.
Azcona declared that after due
judicial investigation, in which he ap.
peared as a witness. the case was
dropped. Later, he said. he founded
Nuevo Mexico and began series OF
attacks on the Diaz administration,
which caused its suppression three
times and finally its confiscation six
months ago. and he, as its editor, was
compelled to leave the country. He
said he would fight extradition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
SMOKED HIS PIPE
FOR ALMOST CENTURY
Man Reached 1o5 Years and Never
Touched Liquor But Liked
Tobacco.

EBENSBURG. Pa. Dec. 7.-Press-
ed by friends for the reason of his
good health and long age, James Gal
laeher, who died here yesterday at
the age of 105 years was at loss
for an answer. He never touched IL
auor and clay pipe was his constant
companion Death was due to a stroke
of apoplexy. lie had never been sick
a day before,
Gallagher was born in Donegal Ire
land, February 2, 1905, came to this
country in 1910 and became one of
the pioneers of the little mountain
town in which he located. For many
years he was railroad cont act 'r
and acquired fortune in that busi-
ness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
FURNISHED FLAT
FOR ONLY S100
clothc Child at $500 Per Year, S,
Where is High Cost " Living
These Days?

NEW YORK, Dec. & One OF the
features of the annual child welfare
exhibit, which is given here each
year under the auspices of the city
government and a score of charita-
BILE organizations will be a reproduc-
tion of compile ely furnished city
iat showing how every necessity in
the way of furniture, etc, may be
provided for an average family at a
total expense of sico and yet provide
home artistic ard suitable. Ano her
exhibit will demonstrate how child
may be adequately clad for $500 a
year.
The exhibition of this wear will
cost its hackers nearly $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
DUBBED w. J. BRYAN
OF GREAT BRITAIN
Lord BaIfour Has Been Defeated
Three Times at the Polls Over
There.

LONDON. Dec. 7.-Lord Balfour,
the conservation leader, has been
dubbed, "the VIM. ]. Bryan of r;ng-
land" because of the third defeat OF
the leader by the liberals who wiil
have bigger majority in the new
parliament than the old. Many want
Balfour to resign the leadership of
the conservatives.
The latest returns show that the
liberals have elected 147: conserva-
tives 107; Irish nationalists, 26 lab or-
ties, 90 or total of 152 fcS coala-
ton, an increase of one for the Iiher-
ais.
The Irish nationalists lost a seat
to their enemies, the OBrienits
through the defeat in Cork of Wm.
Redmond and A. Roaclie by VIM.
O'Brien and Maurice Healy. Only
Roache however, will lose his seat
as Redmond was returned yesterday
unopposed from County Claire.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
STATUE UNVEILED
IN SNOW STORM
Thousands Of Germsn-American At.
tend the Ceremony in
Lafayette Park.

WASHINGTON. Dec. Undaunt-
ed by a heavy blanket of snow which
blocks traffic, thousands of German
Americans from many states gather
ed az Lafayette park today for the
unveiling of the statue to Baron Won
Steuben, by Miss Helen Taft, daugh-
ter of the president.
Several thousand sailors and sol
diers were in line. Addresses were
delivered By President Taft, Count
Won Bernstein, Representative Rich
ard Bartholdt, of Missouri Secretary
of War Dickinson presided.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Military Honors At the Funeral o,
Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt
Held at West
Point.
casket Was Draped in Flags and Pro-
cession soIemnIy Marched Across
The Snow Covered
Path.

WEST POINT, N. Y, Dec. Brig.
Gen. Wesley Merritt, United States
Army, retired. twenty-frst superin.
tendent of the United States military
academy, was buried here last night
by lamp light. with the military hon.
ors of his rank.
His body was laid beside that of
his wife in the Military Reservation
cemetery. There was no service in
the chapel of the academy, as had
been planned. The special car bring.
Ing the body from Washington was
delayed by the storm and the hour
was SO late 1t was deemed wise to
make the ceremonies brief. Officers
who have attended every military
funeral within the last thirty years
could recall no other held by lamp.
light
As the regulations provide, the fife
and drum corps. followed by the cadet
corps, fell in at the front on the an.
pearance of the casket. The fifers'
breath froze on their instruments as
they shrilled the slow measures of
the dead march. Behind them
clanked the escorting battery.
Then came the coffin, draped in
the colors the body it enclosed had
served for lifetime. followed by the
pall-bearers. mourners and attending
civilians AS the, long procession
moved through the darkness, the flash
OF the minute gun glared for an in.
stant across the shrouded fields and
the dull jar Of the report sounded
soiemnly against the mountains. Thir-
teen guns were fired.
Lanterns guided the procession to
the grave, and, there, while the mourn.
ers stood bareheaded in the snow, the
coffin was lowered into its resting
place, the words of the burial service
we're spoken. three crashing volleys
echoed across the river. the bugle
sounded TAPS" and again the minute
guns took up their count.
Wesley Merritt was born in New
York. June 16, 1886, and was appoint.
ed to the military academy from Illi-
rois in 1858. He was graduated with
the class of 1860 and almost immed-
lately plunged into the civil war. For
the next five years his record was one
continuous series of promotions.
Gen. Merritt was six times brevet.
ed In the volunteer service and the
regular army for meritorious conduct
on the field of battle He served in
the battle OF Gettysburg, Cold Harbor
Five Forks and countless others; rode
with Sheridan on his famous raid,
and was present at Appomattox court
house when Gen. Lee rendered his
sword to Gen. Grant.
He was mustered out in 1886 with
the rank of major general. and took
rank in the regular army as lieuten.
ant colonel. In 1876. as colonel he
saw service in the Indian campaigns
at Slim Butte, s. D., and at Indian
Creek, Wyo. From 1882 to 1887. he
was superintendent at West Point,
when he was promopted to be briga-
der general u. S. A.
Gen. Merritt was married twice and
widow survives him. Among those
who came from Washington. besides
Mrs. Merritt, were Thomas Merritt, n
brother: Mrs. Williams of Chicago. a
sister of the widow. and Maj. Swift.
The post chaplain, Edward st. Trav-
ers, offlciated at the funeral.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
cauaht in the Act.

BOONE, Dec Z. Following ser
les of local robberies which have
taken place here within the last "a
hours, Lewis Sapp. Is years of age,
and apparently of no occupation. was
arrested while in the act of robbing
the Shafer Bakery He confessed to
seven or eight of the recent robberies
and the police are satisfied that he
was implicated in all of them. al
though he denied any knowledge of
some of them. He duplicates no ac-
complice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Typhoid Patient In Jeopardy.

DIES MONIES, Dec Little Har-
old Traffley aged IL years. i'll with
typhoid fever, is likely to die be-
cause Of exposure during fire which
gutted the McNall Hat company at
C06 Grand avenue. Traffey was in a
room over the factory a-l could not
be moved because of hia condition.
George Owens endangered his life by
carrying can of gasoline through
the flames and thus preventing an ex-
plosion The loss is $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
ITALIAN CONSUL
LOSES HIS GARAGE
Dynamite Used to Blow up His Auto
House and Break His
Windows.

SEATTLE, Wash. Dec THE gar.
age In the rear OF the home of DR..
a. j Chiliong, the Italian consul, was
blown up with dynamite today and the
windows Of the home smashed. Sew
erai other buildings were damaged
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Gasoline Eyolosion Fatal.

WINTFRSFT Dec. Mrs. 7. j.
Alexander, well known resident. was
seriously and perhaps fatally burned,
when = gasoline stove exploded. GOV.
ering her with flames. It is thought
that she will die.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
SULTAN'S WEALTH
TO BE SECURED
Young Turks Expect to Get Hold Of
the Millions Of Abdul
Hamid.

BERLIN, Dec. THE supreme
court has ordered the bank to turn
over the FIVE millions deposited by
Abdul Hamid, the deposed sultan of
Turkey. The young Turks will likely
claim the money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
HEAVY RAINS
ALONG THE CANAL
Work Has to be Suspended at Pan
ANA on Account Of the
Weather

COLON, Dec. 7.-Heayy .eins on
both sides of the canal zone continue
and the rising of the Charges river
has halted work on the canal. caus-
Ing heavy loss to property. Railroad
traffic is abandoned
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Secretary Baliinscr is Exonerated by
Committee and Declared to be
Gentleman and All
Right.
HIGH PRICE OF BEEF
Bill is Presented Asking That Tariff
Be Removed From Cattle to
Reduce The
Price.

WASHINGTON Dec. 7-Represen-
tative Sterling of Illinois today intro
duced resolution to amend the con-
stitution 70 give congress the power
to curb the trusts. He says congress
does not now have enough control
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
BaIIinser is Gentleman.

WASHINGTON, Dec THE ma.
jority report of the Pinchot-Ballinger
investigating committee was reported
at noon. 1t exonerates Ballinger, and
says he is not an enemy to conserva-
ton. The report says the Cunning
ham claims were legal; that he re-
stored water power sites in good faith
and is not an enemy to judicious con-
servation.
The summary of the report says in
part:
THE report is voluminous. The
charges against Ballinger are chiefly
from two sources, CLAWS and Pinchot,
and appear to have their origin in an
imosity The accusers We're evident
ly disposed to take very unfavor-
able views of anyone opposed to their
views. They thus came to regard
Ballinger with suspicion and to re-
gard the most innocent act as furn-
pose. For weeks we listened to all
the petty squabbles and jealousy of
the forest service. The evidence has
wholly failed to make out case All
the facts togther do not prove any
thing but that Mr. Ballinger was a
gentleman, honestly and faithfully
doing his duties as q public officer"
The report states that Ballinger
was justified in all his acts That
his criticism of the reclamation g T.
vice was deserved and that he is a
friend OF conservation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Rebels in Control.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico. Dec. THE
insurgents have been victorious in
battles in several small towns and now
practically control the situation in the
western part of this state. A battle
Is expected at San Isabel