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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
SEARCHING FOR
COOKS RECORDS
Expedition to Scale Mount Mcklnl
Upon Whose Top the Ex- :
piorer Claims to Have
Stood
WILL START IN APRIL
College Professors Will be in the
Party and They Will see If
Cook Has Told the
Truth.

SEATTLE. Wash, March s0.--An
expedition to scale Mount Mckinley
in Alaska and find the records which
DIR. Cook claims to have deposited on
the summit of the mountain will sail
from Seattle late in April.
Prof. Parker of Columbia University
will be one OF the party The per-
sonelle of the party has been decided
upon and arrangements for the start.
Prof. j. H. Kuntz of Stevens Insti-
tute will make the topographic obser-
yation.
Waldmere Grassi, a Columbia stu
dent and r. R. Tucker of Boston will
go.
1t is also possible that Edward Bar
ril, the Montana guide will be mem
Der of the party.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Church Convention.
Especial to The Gate City.

Special to The Gate City.
KAHOKA. Mo-, March 30-The
Hannibal district conference. Metho-
dist Episcopal church south, convened
here at $50 this morning. Bishop
Warren A. Chandler of ST. Louis,
presiding elder, l. T. Nash of Hanni-
bal with hundred pastors are in at
tendance The conference will close
at 10 a. m. Friday The program for
the three days includes addresse', by
some of the most prominent men of
the church.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
CAIRO THREATENED
WITH ANOTHER MOB
Umbrella Mender Arrested or Charge
Of Assaulting Five-Year-
Old Girl.

CAIRO, III, March 30.-This city,
which twice within the past year has
been the scene of riots, narrowly es-
capped repetition when James Solo
mon, forty-five years old, an umbrella
mender, was arrested on the charge of
attempted assault on five-year old
white girl, Leila Nation.
The child was not injured and Solo
mon was hurried to the county Jail
and is now under strong guard
The feeling is bitter and threats
are made, but there is no outbreak
thus far.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
THE WEATHER.
(Until Z p. m. Thursday.

IUntlI p. M. TnuTsday.J
For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to-l
night and Thursday. Colder Thurs
day,
For Illinois: Generally fair tonight
and Thursday except showers north
east portion tonight. Colder.
For Iowa: Fair tonight and Thurs
day. Colder tonight with frost west
portion. Colder east portion Thurs
day.
For Missouri: Fair tonight and
Thursday. Colder tonight and east
portion Thursday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
,am Is Headed Toward catania and
the People of the City are
in Panic With
Fear
A SHOWER OF ASHES
Vineyards and Vegetation Destroyed
by the Fall of Ashes From
the Top of Mount
Etna.

CATANIA, March 30.-A shower Of
ashes from Mount Etna, twenty miles
distant covers the streets of Catania
to depth of half foot today.
A stream of lava is moving slowly
toward the city and the people are
terror stricken. although 1T is said
the stream will be diverted and the
city saved.
There are So fissures in the noun
tain now The fall of ashes has caus-
ed considerable damage and has prac-
tically destroyed all vineyards and
vegetation between here and the
mountain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
ROOSEVELT SAILS
FOR NAPLES
Ex-President Left Egypt this Morning
and Arrives Saturday at Des-
tination.

CAIRO, March -Ex-President
Roosevelt and his family left Cairo at
9:45 this morning for Alexandria.
They will sail from there for Naples
where they are due to arrive Saturday.
The station was filled with friends
of the colonel, including Consul
Iddings, Ambassador Strauss, mem
bers of the hunting party. a personal
representative of the khedive and
state dignitaries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
PUTTING GINGER
into REVOLUTION
Estrada Agents Recruiting New
Forces in Desperate Effort to
Keep the Fire
Burning
BIG PAY IS OFFERED
Americans Have Been Sent to the
United States to Pick up
Few More Fighting
Men.

BLUEFIELDS, March 3o.-In the
desperate hope of keeping the Mica
raguan revolution alive it was learned
today that the revolutionary agents
acting in secret with Provisional Pres,
ident Estrada, had secured several
Americans to recruit forces with the
promise of big rewards
One of thc revolutionary agents is a
former prize fighter named Walter, or
Willie Lees. He arrived in New York
yesterday and a cipher message was
received from him today, the import
of which was not given out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Iowa situation Critical.

:. DES MONIES, March 30.-Upon
the decision Of the joint meeting of
Iowa coal operators and the miners
union today will depend the shutting
down of the coal mines in Iowa The
miners declared they would not work
after April 1, pending settlement of
the wage question. The operators
made vigorous effort to induce the
miners to continue at work and
agreed to lay the matter before the
joint convention.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
RUBE WADDELL
WILL TRY AGAIN
League VIII Be Taken Next
Week.

ST. LOUIS, March 3o.--George Ed
ward fRubel Waddell, the st. Louis
Browns southpaw, will sign UP April
= for another try in the matrimonial
league. Miss Marge Mcguire viii be
Waddell' new manager This is the
Pube's third venture his last re,Iese
feing given four months ago by tie
divorce corr.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
ANXIOUS TO
SHAKE HIS HAND
Ella Crush at the White House Today
and Several Women
tainted.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 30
Two thousand enthusiastic men, wo-
men and children stormed the white
house today in wild desire to shake
hands with President Taft.
At one time The crowd broke away
from the policemen and crowded
through the doors and windows. In
the crush several women tainted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Funeral of BREWER

WASHINGTON, March S0,--Offic-
ers of the supreme court today com
pleted arrangements for the burial Of
Justice Brewer. Simple funeral serv-
ices will be held tomorrow at the
Brewer home here. The body will be
placed on g special train and taken to
Leavenworth, arriving there satur-
day. The burial will be at Leaven-
worth Kansas, where Justice Brew
er first began the practice OF Law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
WOLTER INDICTED
BY GRAND JURY
Is Charged with Murder in the First
Degree in the Wheeler
Case.

NEW YORK, March 3o.-The grand
jnry returned an Indictment this af.
ternoon for murder in the first de-
gree against Albert Wolter, charging
him with killing Ruth Wheeler on
March "a, by strangulation.
Wolter will be arraigned at 10:30
tomorrow in the court of general ses
sion. Efforts will be made to force
speedy trial
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Turn out All Rioht.

DENVER, March 80. Although
railroad and Wire service is badly
crippled as result of the storm, the
damage to property is believed to be
more than offset by the financial bene.
TT to the farmers. who We're threat
ened by the dry weather of the past
few days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Mason Loses Election

WATERLOO, March 30.-The cleo
tion of John r. Rector for mayor was
reasonable close. The church people
supported him. He won by fifty-seven
votes over P. j Martin, well known
in Masonic circles. The ether city
officials were chosen regardless of
politics. Mr.. Rector is a progressive
republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Waste a. Runa.

WASHINGTON, March While
there has been a conservation of nat
ural resources at the presidential
spigot, there has been an enormous
waste at the bung," declared Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon, while adj
dressing the senate on conservation
matters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Body Horribly ManeIed.

OSKALOOSA, March 3o.-Ma U
Humes, aged about thirty-fve, miner
in the Cricket mines, southwest of
Mere, was struck by a train on the
Northwestern. His body was scattered
several miles between Cricket and
Buxton and was horribly mangled. He
was single
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
The Illinois situation.

EAST ST. LOUIS, March So.--
Mines which produce 50,000,000 tons
sof coal annually in Illinois will be
Sclosed down Thursday night Nego,
Nations toward the new contract VIII
Hbegin in Chicago next Monday. No
kshortage of coal will exist If the
mines do not reopen in two months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Bia Increase.

NEW YORK, March 3O.-At a spe-
ial meeting of the stockholders of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company the plan to increase the cap
ital from 500 to 500 million and en-
large the board of directors from Is
to 20 was approved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Western Roads Blocked.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., March S0.-The
Union Pacific railroad is snow bound
today in several places between Chey-
enne and Nebraska. All west-bound
trains are tied up East bound trains
are twenty-four hours late. The Bur-
lington is also blocked
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Miners are Expected to Strike April
ia Several Places But no
General Strike is
Expected
NO AGREEMENT REACHED
It is Estimated that About 100000
Men Will Quit Work at
the End Of this
Week.

CINCINNATI, o.. March S0.-No
general strike is to follow the failure
of the miners to reach a basis of
agreement on the question of wages
and improved working conditions
Strikes will appear however in indt-
yidual districts. 1t Is estimated that
from 100000 to 100000 men will lay
down their picks on April 1.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
PREPARING for Strike.

PITTSBURG, March 3o.-lndustrial
interests here expect coal strike
and are boarding up enough coal to
withstand at least months shut
down of the mines. John H. Jones,
OF the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal
company, admitted that he feared a
strike. Fifty thousand men are at
work in the coal m-nes in this dis
trict.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Mountain Fever Fatal.

BOONE, March 3o.-Bert Mccall,
aged twentyone, son of c. j. Mccall,
Boone county's wealthiest farmer.
while on visit to Montana, died from
mountain fever.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Rock Island Wreck Probe

MARSHALLTOWN, March 3o.-Of-
fetal inquiry into last weeks wreck
on the Rock Island near Green Noun
tain was begun by the Iowa railroad
commission yesterday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30

LOS ANGELES, March 30.-A
school for suffragettes, the purpose
being to prepare women, will be estab-
lished here according to Mrs. Mary j..
English
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
BRIBERY CHARGE
OVER ELECTION
How Percy Happened to Get to Be
the senator From Mississippi
Peeopfly

JACKSON, Miss. March 30.-It is
practically certain today that at least
one member of the state legislature
will lose his seat on a charge of
either bribery or slander.
State Senator Bilbo started the
ball rolling when he swore before
the grand jury that he accepted a
bribe of ,645 from a politician to vote
for Percy instead of yardaman. The
grand jury indicted the politician on
lv. A resolution to expel Bilho was
iiltrcd~ord
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Eruit cron in Dancer.

DES MONIES, March 3O.-Predict-
ions are that frost tonight will likely
kill the Iowa fruit crop, valued at five
million dollars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30

uFedths.
Mean temperature. 70
Maximum temperature, So.
Minimum temperature, 81.
River Forecast.
The river will remain nearly sta
tionary.
FRED Q. GosEwIsCH,
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-30
Daily River Bulletin.
Stage Height. Change. Wea'h'r.
Local Observations.

Rainfall for past "a hours Sc hum
dr1dtho
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

interests pay the people just return
for exploiting those resources, the ma
TONS income, thus derived, would
now pay most of the nations ex-
penses; those resources would have
been wisely used and not exhausted;
and our whole growth would have
been national and sound instead of I'M
balanced and defective. We would
have enjoyed all the benefits of our
natural resources and yet our children
would have inherited colossal national
Wealth and small national burdens in
stead of private interests enjoying all
Of the benefits of our natural resources
and their children inheriting colossal
private wealth and small private bur-
dens."
Senator Beveridge paid splendid
tribute to Clifford Pinchot as president
of the national conservation commits
sion, the man who, for years has fear
lessly fought, and ceaslessly toiled, to
save and protect for the people the
property of the people; and in that
nationwide battle has been the field
officer of the man who first made this
movement a permanent and practical
policy of American craftsmanship,
Theodore Roosevelt.
Continuing, the senator gave advice
to the younger generation to think and
act for the general welfare, saying:
"Only as the entire nation il prosper
Gus can any state be really prosper
GUS"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

semblage who cannot recaTT the day
when the virgin soil in his locality
did not produce from 80 to 100 per
cent larger crops than 1t does today.
when dense forests covered large
tracts now barren waste and when
the bosom of the earth contained un-
told millions of mineral wealth now
represented on the surface by huge
spoil banks and sunken surfaces. We
remember only too well when our fer
tile fields yielded thirty-five to forty
bushels of wheat to the acre and that
the same fields produced only about
twelve bushels five years ago.
During the past short period of five
years the average cereal yield of this
state has been increased more than
five bushels per acre, the corn belt
mas been extended northward more
than 300 miles to the Canadian
boundary by the production of hardy
and early maturing varieties of corn,
yielding the state last year over co.
100000 bushels, and placing Minneso-
ia among the dozen leading corn
states of the Union. It is estimated
that plant breeding and seed selection
alone last year added about $15,000,-
900 to our agricultural products. The
cereal production has also affected
clover, timothy and other tame
grasses, thus largely contributing to
the growth of the dairy industry,
which has been increased ten-fold in
twenty years, until it now yields the
state S5O,OO0,O0O annually. Similar
progress has been made in livestock,
fruit and truck gardening industries.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

Sical conservation programme which
should give those who are living today
the benefit of our natural resources
las well as those of later generations.
He warned the people against the in
'sidious activities of agents of the spe-
cial interests, who, as victory draws
nearer, are redDubling their efforts to
defeat the conservation movement He
added that it would be no small mis-
fortune if meeting such as this
should ever fall into the hands of the
open enemy or false friends of the
great movement which. it represents.
Mr.. Roosevelt strongly urged federal
control of water power sites and
pointed out that most of the "preda-
tory corporations" are interstate and
therefore out of reach OF effective
state control One of the prime OBJ
jects of these corporations that are
grasping and greedy, he said, is to
avoid any effective control, either by
state or nation, and they advocate at
this time state control simply because
they believe it to be the least effee-
tive.
He declared that unless the govern
ments of all the American republics,
including our own, enact in time such
laws as will both protect their nat
ural wealth and promote their legiti-
mate and reasonable development, flu
ture generations will owe their mis-
fortunes to us of today.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
MANY OPPORTUNITIES
FOR ADVANCEMENT

"But let us consider the opportuni-
ties for advancement that are still
open. The average yield OF Minneso-
ia wheat last season was seventeen
bushels per acre. At the agricultural
experiment stations the same wheat
yielded twenty-eight bushels per acre,
a difference in favor OF intelligent
farming approximating from So to So
an acre.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

states toward that end should be en-
couraged.
Special interests are attempting to
take refuge behind the doctrine OF
states rights, and there is much hard
fighting ahead.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
in which to work toward greater crop
production in this direction.

!. New lands are not to be had !
+ for the asking in the thirty !
!. inch rainfall districts of the :
]. country. If we are to prosper (.
!. as a people we must give close .
!. attention to our soils and con- .
!. serve their fertility by all the .
!. means in our power" .
:. .
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
WHY INTERESTS OBJECT TO
NEW ORDER OF THINGS

James r. Garfield, former secretary
of the interior, discussed THE Fed
eral Governments Relation to Con-
servation.' After defining the general
powers of the president and other ex-
ecutive officers Mr.. Garfield said:
"If the conservation problem had
simply to do with the distribution of
what remains Of the public domain the
solution of the problem would be freed
from many difficulties, but distribution
is only small part of the problem;
the most important duty is to provide
against such distribution as will result
in giving the big special interests mo-
nopolisfic control over the resources
of timber, water, fuel and phosphates.
Under our former system of dispo-
sition of public lands by both nation
and state we have permitted individ-
uals and corporations to acquire great
portions of our natural resources. We
have given away special privileges of
great value and made grants of ire
mendous industrial power The use of
those special privileges and the exer.
else Of those powers have given rise
to serious political and Industrial ques-
tons, which are now parts of the con-
servation problem.
Much has been said in recent years
about executive usurpation in admin
istering the land laws, but I have yet
to learn of specific case. The courts
are open to test such case, but none
has been brought.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

]. Assuming for the sake of
+ argument that the average
+ difference in the state would
!. not be more than Sd per acre
]. it would still increase the ag-
+ ricultural net earnings of the
]. state on the basis of the pres
+ ent acreage $1o0,Oo0,000 an
]. nually.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
HILL AN EXPONENT
or STATE SOVEREIGNTY.

James J Hill. chairman Of the
board of directors Of the Great North
ern road, speaking on practical Con-
servation," claimed the credit for first
pointing out TO Americans the danger
of soil spoilation and declared that
conservation itself must be conserved.
In an address four years ago l
fully stated the soil problem" he said,
"and the method of how to meet it..
The people Of this country were soon
interested. The need of the hour and
the end to which this congress should
devote itself Is to conserve conserVa-
ton It has come into that peril
which no great truth eseapes-the
danger that turks in the house of it's
friends.
cit has been used to forward the
serious error Of policy, the extension
of the power and activities Of the ma
tional government at the expense of
those of the states. The time is ripe
and this occasion is most fitting for
distinguishing between real and fanci-
ful conservation and for establishing
sound relation of means to an end.
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+++++++*++A+++*s

Toward the conservation of miner
al resources little can be done by fed
eral action. The output is determined
not by the mine owner, but by the
consumer. The withdrawal of vast
areas of supposed coal lands tends to
increase price by restricting the area
of possible supply. 1t is foolish to
talk of leasing coal lands in small
quantities to prevent monopoly. Min
ing must be carried on upon a large
enough scale to be commercially pos
sibIe
"The whole West protests against
the demand that federal lands form
ing water power sites should be with
drawn and leased for the profit and at
the pleasure of the federal govern
ment. The attempted federal control
of water powers is illegal because the
use of the waters within a state is the
property of the state and cannot be
taken away with it."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

+ 4
+ I'm its broadcast sense the :.
!. conservation movement is not /
J. limited merely to the consid- !
!. GRAFTON of natural resources. :.
X Every great convention called !
= to consider the problems In I
!. volved has widened the scope 1
! of the movement, so that to- /
4. day it includes the elimination !
= of wasteful methods in almost /
+ every field of human activity. I
].
my own state Of Minnesota, like
all other states, during the past fifty
years has been rather mining the fer
tility out of her soil than cultivating
It. There is perhaps not single rep
resentative in this distinguished as
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
PiNcHoT EXPoUNDS
CONSERVATION POLICY

Clifford Pinchot, former United
States chief forester and pioneer in
the conservation movement, spoke on
THE Conservation Programme" His
declaration of principles follows:
Conservation meets with opposition
when it interferes with some mans
private profit.
Opponents of the cause, while pre-
tending to approve its principles, fight
it BY condemning its methods and its
men.
Safety and sanity in conservation
means putting the public welfare
anead of corporate profits.
The natural resources belong to all
the people and should be developed
and protected for their benefit and not
for the benefit of the few.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20

+ }
4. He further declared that we !
+ have passed the time when !
X needless waste and destruction !
+ and arrogant monopoly are i
x any longer permissible. Hence ::
+ forth we must seek national eff i
X cheney by a new and better :.
i way, by the way of the orderly !
J. development and use eof our !
+ natural resources. !
4. o
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20
!. 'F+&# - 80 ;. + i.

Mr.. Roosevelt urged the establish
ment of a federal board of health and
in this connection said that the need
less loss to our people from premature
death and avoidable diseases each
year has been calculated at nearly
twice what it costs to run the fed
eral government
Mr.. Roosevelt said that the rail.
ways should be prohibited frem own
ing or carrying any interest in the
boat lines on our rivers unless under
the strictest regulation and control of
the interstate commerce commission.
In conclusion, the former president
said that the supreme political task
of our day. the indispensable condition
of national efficiency and national vel
fare, is to drive the special interests
out of our public life.