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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
COHEN PROTECTED
BY THE GIRL
She Does Not Want Her Waiter Lover
Prosecuted for Eloping With
Her.

CHICAGO. Jan. 12.-The wealthy
father ard grandfather of Roberta De-
Jano, the II year old heiress who
eloped with Frederick Cohen, the
waiter, will have to agree not to
prosecute Cohen or the girl will make
trouble.
Roberta made this announcement
today in giving newspaper men the
only terms on which she would sur
render to the wishes of her relatives.
The girl will not be taken back to
Philadelphia until tomorrow. accord
ing to the latest police announcement.
The local police secured the extra
dition waiver of both Roberta and
Cohen and were prepared to turn the
couple over to the Philadelphia de-
tectives when the latter announced
that they would wait another day.
They said Ferdinand DeJanon, Rob
erta's father, wished them to make a
thorough investigation of the Chi
cago end of the case before starting
east.
The little heiress today expressed
her determination to stand by Cohen
to the last, in no uncertain terms.
~ will not stand their putting Fred
in jail,s she said stamping her foot
in anger. "That is final If my grand
father wants to keep me from pub
licity he must agree first not to pros
ecute Fred. He did not abduct me
or induce me to run away
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
WILBUR WRIGHT
MAKES A SPEECH
Talks at Ohio Society Banquet on the
Subject of People Who Are
"From Missouri

NEW YORK, Jan. 12,-At the an
nual dinner of the Ohio Society pre-
sided over by the president, Henry II.
Taft. after speeches had been made
by Vice President Sherman and
others, Wilbur Wright was called
mpon.
The aviator said that when he and
his brother emerged from obscurity
nearly everybody they met was from
Missouri, but the Missourians got
scarcer and scarcer, and those that
remained all went over to DR.. Cook.
He believes that there will be two
Ohio men running for president In
1912. and that the old state is sure to
have man in the White House no
matter which party wins. He gave
this recipe for success in life:
Choose a good father and mother,
and be sure that you are born in
Ohio"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
While Sentencing TWO Youths to the
Penitentiary, the Judge Could
Not Control His Emo
tion.
THE BOYS STOLE MONEY
"a Have to Send Young Men to the
Penitentiary' he Said, as he
imposed the Sentence
on Them.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.-His voice
shaking with emotion and with tears
in his eyes, United States District
Judge David P. ("Pat'D Dyer, terror
to hardened criminals who have to
face him, sentenced William A. Gray
and George F. Smith, Jr., both boys
and former bank clerks, to five years
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan
"If the law permitted me to impose
a lighter sentence, would do so,'
Judge Dyer declared. II hate to send
young men to the penitentiary." Five
years is the minimum term allowed IN
this case by the statute.
Appeals for pardons for them have
been made to the department of JUS
tice at Washing .on and co President
Taft. Judge Dyer and former United
States District Attorney Henry w.
Blodgett have both signed these pc
titions, and it is believed the boys will
be pardoned.
Judge Dyer stated that he would
STAY execution of the sentence until
March i, to give llme lor lie dutnoi =
ties at Washington to act on the Pc
! titions.
Neither Of the boys is over twenty
one years of age. Gray pleaded guilty
last May to embezzling $685. from let
tiers while employed as a mail clerk
at the National Bank Of Commerce
4 Smith acknowledged embezzllne
! $1,000 while employed at the Third
National bank
Federal Judge Dyer hrst achieved
national fame as the prosecutor OF the
so-called whisky ring, when Dyer was
the United States district attorney
for the eastern district OF Missouri.
/ General U. S. Grant. who was at tha'
time president of the United States
uttered a famous admonition in re
gard to that prosecution by Distric
Attorney Dyer:
LET no guilty man escape"
Judge Dyer comes from a hard
shell" Baptist family, and is nativ'
of Pike county. Mo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Fitzgerald Was Elected by Small
Majority over storrow, but
Other TWO Got Few
Votes.
PRESENT MAYOR DoWNED
Another Candidate for Mayor Received
only e2s Votes Out of the
es,124 Which Had Been
Cast.

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 12.-Boston,
in the first partyless election held
under new charter, elected former
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald to fill the
mayors chair again, this time for
four-year term, giving him 46,968 vot-
es, a plurality of 1928 over his 'near-
est opponent, James ]. Storrow, bank
er, former president of the Chamber
of Commerce and former chairman of
the School Board.
The most remarkable feature of the
election to many was the small vote
of 1873 given to the present mayor,
George A. Hibbard, who received
$4,000 votes two years ago, being
elected on reform ticket over Fitz-
gerald. The fourth mayoralty aspir-
ant, Nathaniel H. Taylor, found only
629 supporters.
The campaign, noteworthy in many
| ways, easily was Boston's greatest. A
record total of 95,, ,,125 votes, more than
"a percent Of the total registration,
was cast.
Mr.. Fitzgerald won his victory in
spiteo OF thu act that none of the daily
newspapers OF the city advocated his
election. He based his campaign on
a plea for yindication, his previous
term in Office having been conspicuous
1 for the exposure by the Finance Com
mittee Of graft among a number O
! his. subordinbtes in the City Hall.
Like Mr.. Storrow, he is Democra
In national politics and has been
Democrat heretofore in local politics
Under the provisions of the new
charater the ballots bore no party de
signation. Only the candidates name!
and street addresses appeared.
| Mr.. Storlyw, who resigned the pre-
sidency of the Chamber Of Commerce
ito enter the campaign, made deter
mined fight to gain the chief execu
tiveship of the city, promising the citi
zens progressive business admins
4 tration.
The campaign was the costliest eve
the newspapers was bought for signet
advertisements, lauding the variou:
/ candidates. The city was plasteret
with posters, Scores of halls wer
hired for rallies and expensive head
quarters were maintained in each o
the twenty-five wards by the leadin
candidates.
Celebration by Fitzgerald adherent
were held in many sections of tn
city and the headquarters on Schoc
street, next door to City Hall, wa
center Of rejoicing in the street ur
til late hour
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
JOHN HALL AFTER
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Ice Man Wants Official Removed Be-
cause of Non-Performance of
His Duties.

CRESTON, jan 12-John Hall, Of
this city, and notorious over the state
for his law suits with the Burlington
railroad company, has drawn up petit
tion, signed by five voters, to present
to Governor Carroll, asking for the
removal of County Attorney Armit-
age, alleging non-performance of Off
cial duty and, based on the Cosson
law, which provides that a petition
signed by FIVE voters is sufficient for
the record of any official to be brought
before the governor, for examination.
Should that executive deem the cause
sufficient he has the power to remove
the defendant official from Office
Halls petition grows out of the lit
igation between him and the railroad
company, Mr.. Hall alleging whole
sale perjury on the part of witnesses
who have appeared in hearings, in
the district and the state supreme
courts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Several Store Buildings Destroyed and
Total Loss in the Town Will
Likely Reach
$1,000.
! STARTED IN DRUG STORE ?
Explosion Awakened the People and
Building Was Then in a Mass
of Flames and Soon -
Destroyed. s.

GOOD HOPE y Jan. 12.-Good
Hope was vis> by another disas'
trous fire early Monday morning,
which badly damaged five business
houses, Doctors office and two
lodges, entailing loss of about
$4,000, but fortunately, it was nearly
all covered by insurance.
The fire was discovered about 8
o'clock in the rear of j. e. James
drug store. 1t was first seen by Ce-
phas Herring, who owned the restaur-
ant just south of it. He was awak.
ened by loud report and thought
someone was blowing open the bank
safe. He looked out and saw the drug
store was then mass of flames. He
at once gave the alarm and the citi-
zens responded promptly. and by their
efforts the fire was kept in the one
building, although the a~jacent build
ings were damaged by the heat and
water
It is impossible to give an accurats
account Of the losses, but the amounts
estimated and the insurance are as
follows:
J. E. James, drug store and build
| ing, $4,000; insurance in full.
| Cephas Herring, restaurant adjoin
ing, damaged by water and falling
plaster. loss $500; fully insured. Build
ing is owned by Mrs. Regina Heath
damage 5000; fully insured.
l. N. Jones, dry goods store, dam
1 age to stock s100; insured. BUILDING
owned by Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs
Emma Sutton. damages 5000; fully in
sured.
Bank of Good Hope, damage tt
building $3.50; insured
Odd Fellows rooms over the drut
store, loss $500; fully insured.
Daughters of Rebekah, same build
ing, loss $500; no insurance. Thei
/ piano was saved, it being out of tht
building at the time of the fire.
/ DR.. Huston, office building north o
the drug store, loss $500; fully in
sured
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Pair Of colored Babies Found Dead in
the Bed by Mother After
Father Had Gone to
Work.
CORONER INVESTIGATING
It is Supposed That the Youngsters
Were smothcred to Death by
Being Too HEAVILY
Covered.

MONMOUTH, Ill, Jan. 12.-Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Catlin, among the we'll
known colored residents of the Maple
City, are grief stricken in the loss of
their twin children, Clarence Bird
Catlin and Cleo Birdie Catlin, who
were found dead in bed by their moth
er.
The calamity is doubly sad one,
for the children were unusually bright
and seemed to be in the best of health
when they were put to bed with their
parents. Mr.. Catlin, who is employed
as barber in one of the uptown
shops, got up at the usual time and
came up town to work and did not
notice that anything WAS out of the
way with the children, but a little
later Mrs. Catlin discovered that
they were both dead.
There is somewhat of a mystery
connected with the affair, for 1t is not
known In what manner they came to
their death, although the supposition
is that they were suffocated. In all
probability the children were covered
up too snugly to keep off the cold and
were smothered. They had both
seemed to be in the best Of health, al
though they were troubled to a slight
extent with colds. They were about
. three months old, having been borr
on the twenty-third Of last September
Owing to the fact that there is
more or less mystery concerning ths
affair, Coroner Hiett Of Little Yorl
has been notified to come to the cit.
to make thorough investigation. The
mother, who discovered the death o
the two children, is unable to accoun
for the accident save that the cause
was suffocation, and this seems th'
; most plausible explanation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Mobs Formed to go After Negroes,
Were FoiIed Because They
Could Not Get Train
to go on.
RURAL CARRIER KILLED
Death Of Postman Who Was Assaulted
Reused the Ire Of Citizens Who
Were Bent on Re-
vense.

VIENNA, ILL.,. Jan. 12.-Mobs that
formed at Eldorado and Harrisburg
last night to lynch the negroes here,
charged with numbering Allen White,
a rural carrier, We're frustrated when
they could not get train to bring
them here.
On instruction from the sheriff,
Big Four officials refused to permit
freight trains to continue hither from
danger points. None will be run un-
til this morning at s o'clock. BY then
four companies of militia, ordered
here by the governor. will have ar
rived The Jail is heavily guarded and
the sheriff has sworn in three hundred
deputies, nearly every available man
in the village, to protect the prison
ers.
Clark, who was assaulted by three
negroes, Saturday night, died at
o'clock last evening. The report OF
his death aroused popular sentiment
against his slayers to frenzy particu-
larly at Harrisburg, his home.
Mobs of between 800 and 500 per
sons each, formed there and at Edo
rado and were awaiting means oi
transportation here, when Sheriff
Mathis took prompt precaution tc
protect the prisoners, appealing to the
governor for troops.
With force of special deputies ant
four companies of militia guarding
the JAIL there is today no fear o
mob violence which last night threat
ened to follow the arrest OF three ne
groes charged with the murder O
Allen Clark, white mail carrier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Supreme Court Decisions.

Especial to The Gate City.]
DES MONIES, Jan. 12.-Luck appel
liant. against Sovereign Camp, Wood
men of World, Dubuque; affirmed.
White against c. & N. w. r. r. Co.,
appellant, Jones; affirmed.
In the matter of the estate OF w. Q.
Story, deceased. Linn; affirmed.
Scrimgeour, appellant, against
Chase, Tama affirmed.
Pieper. appellant, against Pieper,
Linn; affirmed.
Iowa Loan Co. against Wilson, ap
pellant. superiour court, Cedar Rap
Ids; reversed.
Doolittle & Co. against Porter ap
pellant. superior court, Cedar Rapids;
reversed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Conditions at ST. Louis Are Worse
Now Than Veteran River Man
Ever Saw, So Capt.
Thorwegen Says.
ICE GORGE THREATENING
Boat Owners are at a Loss as to What
to Do When the Ice Finally
Breaks and Starts
Moving.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.-''The condi-
tion of the river here now is the worst
/ have ever SEEM said Capt. William
H .Thorwegen, owner of the City OF
Providence and a veteran river man,
yesterday. That the lower river gorge
at Chester formed so early and is
holding such vast amount of water
damned up has created an alarming
situation. AS the situation now stands,
there will be much danger, no mat
ter whether the gorge above or the
lower gorge breaks first, although OF
course, the breaking of the lower
gorge first will mean the least dan
ger
Capt. Thorwegen's opinion of the
condition is shared by other river
men, although there is some difference
of opinion as to the best way to pre-
pare for emegencies. Some river men
hold that because of the big false rise
occasioned by the lower gorge, the
method adopted by most owners OF
wharfboats of showing far out is best.
| They site that there was only about
4 feet OF water on the gauge here
when the lower gorge formed and that
the gauge yesterday registered 2l.e
feet. All this water is pent up by the
gorge and will rush out with 1t when
il breaks, they say, and if the boats
are not lying well out they will be
left stranded.
j The others maintain, however, thai
i by showing the boats out they are
exposed to greater danger should
the upper river ice come down first
1t would then be able to get in be
tween the boats and the levee and
would wreck all the stages, provided
4 it did not sweep the boats down the
river with it. They advocate lying
4 in fairly close to the bank and pre-
pairing to shove out quickly when the
water begins to fall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
HELMAN PROBABLY
KILLED HIMSELF
Man Who Accused Girl of Giving Him
Poison, Tried the Or.
Cook Game.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12-That
William Helman, of Terre Haute, Ind,
who died from poisoning Monday and
while dying charged Effie Salisberry,
now under arrest here. with murder
ing him, in reality committed suicide
is the belief of local officials. They
are in receipt of a remarkable letter
from Helman, asking the arrest of the
girl. The letter intimated that she
was white slave agent. The authori-
ties declare that the letter shows that
Helman killed himself and planned to
place the blame on the girl because
she did not return his love.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
ATTORNEY ARRESTED.

DAVENPORT, Jan. 12.-M. v Gan
non, a prominent attorney, mas been
arrested here charged with the EN-
bezzlement of $500 from the estate
of the late James Quinn. He was at
torney for the estate and the informa-
tion against him was sworn to by
ouinn's brother. He gave bonas pend
ing the hearing. ~. sl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Snow or
rain tonight and Thursday. Colderj
Thursday.
For Illinois: Rain tonight anG
Thursday except possibly snow ex-
treme north portion. Warmer south
portion tonight.
For Iowa: Snow or rain tonight
and Thursday. Colder Thursday and
northwest portion tonight
For Missouri: Rain tonight. Rain
or snow Thursday. Colder in west
portion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
American Protectorate.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. Especial
Minister Lewis Anderson, Of Costa
Rica, and Special Minister Belisario
Pollos, of Panama, after long con.
fidential conference here are on their
way to Washington to confer with
Secretary of State Knox. They were
summoned by Knox. They admit they
are to discuss a plan of settlement OF
Central American difficulties and say
an American protectorate may be the
outcome of the visit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
lowan Buried in Landslide.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Jan. IA cable
dispatch from Alaska says that the
body OF Harry Elliott of Marion who
was buried under a snowslide, Janu-
ary I. has been recovered. Elliott was
engaged In mining in Alaska.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Elonement in PeIla..

DEs MONIES, Jan. 12.--The police
are looking for Louis LIE Coco and
Miss Nina Koltwaike, aged Is, of
Pella, who are thought to have
eloped. 4
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Tan will; Die.

BARCELONA, Jan. 12.-Ten resi-
dents of Horta, a small town near here.
We're today sentenced to death by
court martial for participation in the
recent. revolutionary plot.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
said "zats Nozxlng' Thereby lntImat-
ing That He viii Go After
AeropIane Records and
Beat curtiss.
CALIFORNIA MEETING
Marquise de kersauson de Rennedress
shrugs Her Shoulders and
Declares the French Wo-
men are Bravo.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.-Jealousy,
which provoked Louis Paulhan to
using two words of English, has en-
livened the aviation meet Paulhan
menopolized the attention of the pub.
lie with his first spectacular fight
over the heads of the spectators. But
Curtiss avenged his honor yesterday
by breaking the records for speed with
a passenger. also for quick start and
distance consumed in arising. 1t was
Paulhans turn to feel piqued and
when he was informed of Curtiss
feat, the startled exclamation Fats
Nozzing," burst from his lips.
A promise to his wife that he
would not use Bleriot monoplane,
which she believes to be dangerous,
it was learned today, was the real
cause for Paulhan's failure to at.
tempt a new height record yester-
day. He ascended in monoplane
but only rose about 400 feet and re-
manned in the air only 13 seconds.
Mrs. Paulhan objected to his making
the ascent at all but gave way when
her friend, Marquis de Kersausen de
Rennedress shrugged her shoulders
and shouted: Let him fly. Show
those Americans how brave We French
women are
To-day is San Diego day at the
meet A fifteen coach special train
arrived from San Diego. Paulhan
Curtiss, willard, Misceral are expect
ed to attempt to break the speed rec
ord this afternoon. Paulhan is ex
pected to attack all of the records
established by Curtiss yesterday
Summary Of Contests.
Glenn H. Curtiss. in Curtiss bi
plane. established worlds record for
speed with passenger-ff -ffty-five miles
an hour.
Glenn r. Curtiss, in Curtiss ma
chine, broke the worlds record fol
time consumed in getting into the ali
six and two-fifths seconds.
Glenn H. Curtiss, in a Curtiss ma
chine. broke the worlds record fol
short distance covered in run before
leaving ground'--9S feet.
Louis Paulhan, in Bleriot mono
plane. failed in an attempt at thu
worlds height record, making but 40t
feet.
Louis Paulhan, in Bleriot mono
plane, carried passenger twic'
around the field, distance of thre
and quarter miless.
Edgar S. Smith, aviator, was strucl
on the head by the propeller of hi
Langley machine and seriously njul
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-12
Weather Conditions.

The temperature has risen fror, the
Rockies eastward to the Atlantic in
the front of the advancing southwest
ern depression. which has reached
western Kansas, and there has been
rain from western Texas to the upper
Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the
western lake region.
The pressure continues high on the
Virginia coast, and another field of
high pressure extends from Montana
to Lake Superior.
Conditions indicate rain, probably
turning to snow for this section to-
night and Thursday, becoming colder
Thursday.
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Local Observations.

Local Observations.
Jan. Bar. Their. Wind Weather.
II 7 pm. !. 3o.44 3s Sc Cldy
12 I am. !. 80. SO So S 1T Rain
Rainfall for past "a hours, 80 hun
dredths.
River, frozen.
Mean temperature, 40
Maximum temperature, &c.
Minimum temperature. 34
FRED q. GOSEWIsCH,
Observer.
Arizona republican., 1910-08-23

nothing It is only when the Vote is segregated by assembly and senatorial districts, and account is taken of this vote, that the member of the legis- if a republican be elected from a given district to the California legislature, and that district at the republican primary election registered a majority for John D. Works, MT. Spaulding republican opponent the member from that district is morally obligated to vote for Works. So that while Spald- ing apparently is the winner. the real result of the senatorial contest will not be known until after the state election and it has been ascertained what senatorial and assembly dis tricts have elected republicans. It may easily develop that while ISpald- ing secured a majority of the total republican vote in the state, that vote when, segregated into legislative districts may make him lose to Works because Spalding got his ma iorities in democratic districts. The plan is too complicated to be com mendable. This is rne law of Cali fornia on the subject:
 Party candidates for the office of United States Senator shall have their names placed on the primary election ballots of their respective parties m the manner herein provided for State officers; provided, however. that the vote for candidates for United States Senator shall be an advisory vote for ;HHy purpose of ascertaining the senu- ment of the voters in the respective Senatorial and Assembly districts Tn the respective parties; provided fur ther, that the members of the Legis- lature shall be at liberty to vote either for the choice of their respect i've districts expressed at said prl- mary election, or for the candidate for United States Senator who shall have received the indorSement or their party at such primary election in the greatest number of districts electing members of such party to the Legislature.
 The simpler and better systcH Is the Kansas plan, which makes the winner in the aggregate vote of his party the senatorial candidate of his party before the legislature.