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The San Francisco call., 1910-09-08
Orders to Police

Chief Martin, in issuing his orders
to company commanders for the elee-
trfcal parade and carnival on Saturday
evening drew attention to the ord
nance which prohibits mixed confetti
from being sold, or any person picking
up confetti from the streets and throw
ing 1t in peoples faces or on their
clothes.
The order reads as follows:
During the coming Admission day
festival Ordinance No. 1141, in relation
to the sale of confetti. etc. will be
rigidly enforced. and any person vio-
lating the provisions of said ordinance
must be arrested and vigorously prose
cuted. You will also see that no row
dyism is permitted, such as the use OF
branches or brushes, so that the people
may enjoy themselves without inter
ference or molestation.
The officers are expected and re-
quired to be uniformly courteous and
polite to strangers and extend to them
every attention in assisting them in
finding the location of hotels, steam
boat landings. railroad depots. etc. AS
the success of matter of this kind
depends largely on the actions of the
police, l expect every member of the
department to act in manner which
will reflect credit on the departme ent
and maintain for it the highest stand
ing.
Members of the detective bureau
must be vigilant in protecting the. pub
lie from pickpockets, bunkomen and
thieves of all kinds and wherever a
known professional criminal is seen he
must be arrested"
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-08
ROBBERY

ROBBERY CASE D1sMIssED-Ths case or
oris 3 Peterson saloon keeper Montgonn-
or and Pacidc streets charged with roooing
louis j. Junge OF T5 Third street Or 800 as
FRIDAY night was dismissed Dy Fouee jugs
Shorfan Yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-08
FEET AND HANDS auaNEn-Anrnst rnra..

FEET AND HANDS aBUHNED-August Purge
son. 1919 Twenty second street structural
iron worker. while at work n building at
Bush and Powell streets yesterday afternoon
was badly burned the hands and feet by a
live wire coming in contact with the iron on
which he was standing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26

PLENTY
Two Hundred Shocks in Four Days
and Entire Mountain Has
Seen Lev
cled.

TOXIC, July 26. - Tremendous
earthquakes and a volcanic eruption
worked havoc on Usu Bay on the
southern part of the Island Hoskobo.
The loss of life will be heavy.
The earthquakes commenced on July
%, and already 200 shocks have been
felt. Subteranean rumblings were
hear and 100 fisures appeared on the
side of Mount Usu and a violent erup-
tion followed, while quantities of boil
ing sand and red hot mud were thrown
up. The mount began to crumble and
collapse on all sides.
Today the mount is almost leveled
For four days there has been panic
and 5000 have fed for their lives. The
surrounding country has been laid
waste.
During the most violent earthquake
there was terrific upheaval of the
bottom of Usu Bay. The harbor and
all the shipping was destroyed.
Several warships were loaded with
supplies today and will be rushed
rorthward at all possible speed. The
military authorities have taken charge
of the situation.
No word has been received fro
the largest city On the island with
so 600 population, and it may have
been destroyed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
PINK PAJAMAS
BY THE SCORE
Pauline Chase Has over One Hun.
dred of Them to Wear on
the Stage.

NEW YORK, July 26.-Miss Paul
inc Chase will arrive in New York to-
day from Europe to prepare for her
appearance in the leading role OF
"Our Miss Gibbs She has made the
request that she be allowed to be :.
pink pajama" girl, just as she was
in THE Liberty Bell,'' the play in
which she so suddenly attained fame.
So the musical comedy has been al
tered so that she can appear in her
famous sleeping habiliments, and she
will also have a pink pajama song.
She has a good deal of sentiment in
appearing once more in the costume
that lifted her from chorus gir! TO
prima donna, and she has been col
lecting every sort of pink psjama
that she could find in London and
Paris. AS a result she has ordered oy
er a hundred pairs, and expects to
wear different pair each night
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
HAS COOL TRIP
THIS SUMMER
Captain Bernier viii Try and Navi-
gate the Northwest Passage in
His Boat.

OTTAWA, Ont, July 26.-Captain
Bernier, the Canadian polar naviga-
tor. is now enroute to Canadian arctic
waters with the governments per-
mission to attempt northwest as
sage and bring his vessel around to
Victoria, B. c., feat which was un-
successfully tried by Peary, Ross,
Franklin and other navigators curing
the last century.
Enroute Bernier will assert the
British and Canadian sovereignty all
over all islands in the north, many
of which have not been visited except
by the early explorers. He also viii
investigate rumors of mineral deposits
at various points in the north
The last time the northwest pas.
sage was made was in 1854, by Nc
Clure. He, however, did not bring his
vessel through but walked across the
ice to Melville Island. Captain
Amundsen's voyage of four years ago
was via the southern passage, south
of Victoria Island.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
AIRsHIP TO CARRY
35 PASSENGERS
Patents Issued to Western inventors
for Sky Train Which is Claim
ed to be a Daisy.

SPOKANE, Wash, July 26.--Unit-
ed States patents have been granted
to w. E. S. Coyne and George Fos-
ter, pioneer residents of Spokane, on
an airship designed to carry 35 pas
sengers The inventors claim the
machine, which has lifting power of
$4,000 pounds, will rise directly from
the ground and travel at speed of
rs miles an hour. Describing the
craft DR.. Coyne said it is purely
helicopter type of airship. 1t has two
vertical hollow masts, the outer %
feet and the inner 35 feet. The inner
mast carries two cross-arms 50 feet
in length. To the part rising above
the outer mast are attached plane
surfaces eight feet in length by five
feet in width, set at an angle of one
foot in FIVE The outer mast carries
similar planes set in an opposite di-
rection. Beval cogged gear will give
forward thrust equal to $4,000 feet
minute. The body of the car re-
sembles two big saucers placed face
to face. The craft carries five motors,
each of 100 horse power, run indie
pendently and has horizontal and yer
! tical rudders the same as used on
1 other modern airships.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
TERRIFIC Wind
ON SIZZLING DAY
End Of IntolerabIe Heat Was Fifty
Four Miles an Hour Gale Which
Did Much
Damage.
AERoPLANEs WRECKED
Aviators Suffer $4,000 Loss by the
stomn Which Wrecked Tent
Containing the
Airships.

ST. LOUIS, July 26.-While ST.
Louis was sweltering in yesterdays
intolerable heat, which registered
maximum of 94.4 degrees at 4:l5 p.
M, thunderstorm struck the city
with a fifty-four-mile an hour gale OF
wind from the northwest at 6:4o p. M,
lasting twenty-three minutes, sending
the mercury down from 81 degrees 10
66 degrees and causing minor damage
in the city and suburbs.
Not a single death from heat was
reported in st. Louis. although twelve
deaths were registered in New York
City. During the twenty-three- minute
thunderstorm, countless window panes
were broken, shutters were blown OH,
trees were felled, frazier buildings
rocked, and much minor damage done
in and around the city
Hot as it was in st. Louis yesterday,
only five cases of heat prostration
were reported.
The thermometer began to rise at
6 a. m. from II degrees until it scared
u jill utSltSS dJ 4 IL ~. liz eAAO NV
test day of the year to date. The heat
was oppressive, almost suffocating.
The first harbinger of the storm
made itself known at 6:45, when a
thunderous peal rent the air. In eight
minutes the wind accumulated a velo-
city Of sffttyfour miles an hour, accom-
panied by slight rise in the baro-
meter and 2-10th of an inch of rain.
This velocity practically kept UP until
7:16. when 1t dropped to a stiff breeze.
Seven aeroplanes stored in a tent
at East st. Louis were demolished.
The Farman biplane, owned by j. w.
Curzon, hawthorne, ILL.,, is tota'
wreck. Other machines belonging to
local amateurs were destroyed. The
total loss is $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
Firemen on the Jump.

CLINTON. July 2s.-Fire burst out
almost simultaneously in half dozen
sections of the city Sunday, establish
ing a record In point of number and
loss of property. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, partially covered by insur-
ance. Between the hours of 8 in the
morning and in the evening the
twenty-three Clinton ffremen put forth
their utmost efforts to save the build
ings threatened. The most serious
fire was that at the Clinton high
bridge, which burned the platforms for
a distance of about 200 feet. This fire
was probably caused by a spark from
an engine. The fire occurred soon af-
ter Kenz and his company with two
of Clinton's feetest teams had left
for Red Oak to attend the firemen's
tournament.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
DANGER MARK WORSE
THAN DECAMERON
Chambers Books are Not Allowed on
the Shelves of the Minneapolis
Library.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. July 26.--
They have barred some of Robert w.
Chambers books of Apollo heroes
and Venus heroines from the Minnea-
polls public library also Together" by
Robert Herrick, which a Minneapolis
club woman said she would rather
have written than any book she had
read for years.
'The Danger Mark" by Chambers,
has been excluded as being of no in
terest to the serious and perniciously
suggestive to the immature and friv-
olous.
'"The History of Mr.. Polly "Tono
Bunga," and Ann Veronica" by H.
g. Wells, We're barred as dealing
with sordid themes.
Yet the "Decameron, ''Rabelais
and other similar classics remain on
the shelves in unexpurgated editions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
Body Found With Four Fingers Cut
Off and Broken Telephone Wire
Laying Across the
Corpse.
FOUND BY HER HUSBAND
Supposed to Have Met Death at 8
O'Clock in the Evening and
Lay on the Ground Till
Next Morning.

HANNIBAL, Mo, July 26.-That
Mrs. Sarah Harding, wife of William
Harding, cement worker residing
at e55 Palmyra avenue, whose life
less form was found be her husband
at Z o'clock in the morning, lying
across the path leading to her home,
was electrocuted, is the verdict of the
coroner's jury.
The coroner's jury made no effort
to fix the blame and rendered a
simple verdict, as follows:
I'VE, the jury find that Mrs. Sarah
Harding came to her death by COM
ing in contact with a live wire"
When Harding made the CHASTITY
discovery of his wife's body and mott
fled M. S. Nea', a grocer, whose store
is just across the street, they at once
pronounced it murder But upon
further investigation, they found that
four fingers of the left hand had been
severed and that they were badly
burned; also that her body and cloth
ing were burned A telephone wire
lay across the body, and it was readi-
ly seen that. she must have been cleo
trocuted.
Mrs. Harding, it is supposed, was
electrocuted at o'clock at night.
She left her home at that time and
told her husband that she was going
down the street to visit a sick friend
That was the last seen of her alive
The husband supposed that she had
decided to stay all night at hel
/ friends home and did not make any
search for until the morning, wher
he became alarmed at her not return
ing in time to prepare his breakfast
! At o'clock Mr.. Harding started on
in search of his wife and as he walk
! ed through the path which lead
! through thick bunch of willows, h
J stumbled onto the body.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
CRIPPEN SAID
TO Be PRISONER
Latest Report is That the Much
Wanted Doctor is Locked up
And Guarded on the
ship.
DEW IS AFTER HIM
Scotland Yard inspector Figures on
Arriving at MontraeI Same Day
as Does Doctor
crippen.

LONDON, July 26.-That Doctor
Crippen and Ethel Leneve are aboard
the Canadian Pacific steamer, Mont
rose, now on the high seas bound for
Montreal is the firm conviction held
by Scotland Yard. Inspector Dew Is
now aboard the Laurentic, due to
Montreal July 80. This is the date
also of the arrival of the Montrose.
Dew knows both fugitives personally.
According to one dispatch received
here from Montreal, the Canadian
Pacific police were in receipt of a
wireless message from the Montrose
stating the Leneve woman had been
found and confessed.
The Montrose sailed from Antwerp
July 20. The suspected pair were
booked as John Robinson and John
Robinson, Jr. The elder gave the ages
of fifty and seventeen.
The London Express published a
circumstantial story Of their arrival
aboard the Montrose on Friday The
couple were overheard discussing their
escape, according to the paper, and,
Scotland Yard was communicated
with. Crippen was searched and de-
lpriyed of a revolver and cartridges
and pen-knife
He demanded to know the offense
he was charged with, and was ia
formed he had contrayened the law
/ by giving an assumed name and trav'
cling with a woman in the guise OF a
boy. AS he was unable to produce
proof that his name was Robinson OF
that the woman was his wife. he and
the girl were placed under arrest, in
separate cabins, and watched day and
night.
| LONDON, July 6.-Scotland Yard
officials are today out of wireless
reach of the boat on which DR.. Cripper
and Miss Leneve are believed to be
and therefore doubt the authenticity Of
the story printed here that the couple
Were arrested in mid-ocean by the
captain and that Miss Leneve had con
fessed, The paper did not tell how il
secured its information.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26

ccoI Headed Work by the SaiIors
Prevented What Might Have
Been Very Grave
Accident.

NEW YORK, July 26.-There was
a near panic in the vicinity of the
Brooklyn navy yards today when i
lighter loaded with 1900 eight inch
blank shells, caught fire.
The lighter was cut loose and
bumped into the Hancock which was
in danger for time. A steam launch
was hastily dropped and the burning
vessel was towed to an unoccupied
dock where the fire was extinguishes
by the fire department
For a few minutes there was real
peril and disaster was only averted
by cool headwork by the men on duty
Only one man, Edward Mcdonald was
burned He will recover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
Caught by the Sheriff After Holding
up Woman and Relieving
Her of over $3.50 in
Cash.
TRIED TO HANG SELF
One Little Boy Tied His Belt to His
Neck but Was Rescued
by His Companion In
jail.

LEWISToWN, ILL.,. July 2e.-RollaI
Spalding, the 13-year-old boy, who is
said to have helped hold up Mrs. John
Barclay on a country road near here
attempted to commit suicide IN the
Fulton county jail here.
He hanged himself to the top OF
his cell by means of his belt, but
another prisoner discovered him and
gave an alarm. The lad was taken
down before much injury came to-.
him.
Young Spaulding If from Peoria
and with Herman Weber, also OF
Peoria, stole horse and started out
as bandits. They compelled Mrs,
Phoebe Barclay, wife OF a prosper
Gus farmer south of the city TO re-
linquish $3.50 in bills, $S in currency.
note for SIS and two gold watches.
| at the point of a revolver.
| The robbery was one of the most
daring and adventurous in the an
nails of Illinois. Mrs. Barclay was
confronted by the youthful highway
men at point two miles southeast
OF here while she was enroute to
this city to bank the money the bold
pair secured
Mrs. Barclay rushed to this city
and informed Sheriff w. H. Basil.
who with his deputies Immediately
commenced chase. The sheriff and
his aides had not driven long when
/ they came upon the horse of the
bandits, which had been abandoned
at the edge of thicket about seven
miles southeast of the city. The pair
was traiIed through the thicket and
finally overtaken on trestle outside
of Havana. They made. no fight
and the stolen property was found
on their persons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26

MILITIA ORDERED OUT
Mayor Wlthdraws Police Protection
But Governor Gets Busy and
Notifies His
Soldiers.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 26.-Riot-
ing bv Grand Trunk strike sympathiz-
ers was resumed at $3.50 last night,
when crowd of from 1900 to 1000
men and boys, mostly employees of the
factories, attempted to burn a refriger-
ator car which had been switched on
to crossing west of divers Station.
After the car had been burning for
twenty minutes the fire department ex-
tinguished the flames.
1t was evident that trouble was
brewing at Z o'clock, for at that hour
the mob began to congregate at the
junction of the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern railroad and the Grand
Trunk. AS the crowd increased in size
it moved west from divers Station,
and when freight train of seven cars
and caboose appeared upon the
scene An hour later, it was greeted
with a shower of stones, spikes and
coupling pins AS soon as the train
was stopped at the west end of the
yards the engine crew was attacked by
several foreigners, but the arrival Of
Assistant Chief of Police Chappell and
a squad of policemen routed the riot
ers for the time being.
During the early evening 1t develop
ed that Mayor Charles l.. Goetz of
South Bend and Sheriff Millard F.
Kerr of st. Joseph county had instruct.
ed D. Cromibie Of Montreal,
4 first assistant to the Grand
Trunk chief OF transportation,
who has been in the city, that all local
police protection will be withdrawn
from the railroad yards unless every
Pinkerton detective was removed from
the city. The private detectives were
Withdrawn and the local officials are
now in charge of the situation.
Anticipating the possibility of trou
Bile in the Grand Trunk yardsl asst night
Gov Marshall took time by the fore.
lock and ordered the four companies
Of the First Battalion, Third Infantry
Indiana National Guard, located al
South Bend, Plymouth, Warsaw ant
Elkhart, under command of Mai. Geo
w. F'reymuth of South Bend, to be pre-
pared to move on to South Bend a,
thirty minutes notice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
OPEN SCRAMBLE
FOR THE OFFICE
Ohio Candidate For Governor is Not
Settled BY the Con-
ference.

COLUMBUS, o., July 26.-Following
the breaking up of conference Of
every organization opposed to the
gubernatorial nomination. of Garfield.
early his morning, Senator Burton is
sued a statement that no agreement
was reached and 1t was announced
that the contest was now wide open
scramble.
The issue with the federal crowd is
the endorsement of President Taft,
and Garfield's friends assert that he
will not stand for this.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
Lyons Has Serious Fire.

LYONS, July 26.--Lyons was visited
Sunday by the most disastrous fire
in sixteen years. The fire started in
the barn of Charles Finch and spread
to the residence of Mrs E. Ziegler
and also burned the residence, barn
and tool shed of Joe Wright. With
two streams of water and little force
three large barns, six residences and
several other smaller buildings were
destroyed. The flying cinders set fire
to buildings three blocks away. The
loss is estimated at $4,000 and is but
partially covered by insurance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
In Nebrarka.

LINCOLN, Neb., July 26.-Insurgen-
cy vs.. standpattism is to be the only
bone Of contention of the republican
state convention which assemblies here
at 3 O'Clock this afternoon.
The resolutions will depend upon the
fight for craftsmanship as the chair
man will appoint the committee. If
Senator Brown is victorious, Taft and
the tariff will be endorsed. If Norris
is chairman, they will be ignored
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
Weather Conditions.

The movement of the northwestern
field of high pressure to the Dakotas
has caused slightly cooler weather
from the Dakotas to the northern
lakes while a large field of low pres
sure, covering the entire mountain
region, is attended by generally fair.
warm weather in the western dis
tricts, and there have been light local
thunder showers in portions of the
Missouri and Mississippi valleys.
The lake depression has passed
out through New England with the
southeastern depression remaining
stationery, which is causing high
temperature in the eastern portion OF
the country, and there have been
showers from the gulf coast to Ten
nessee.
Conditions indicate generally fair,
warm weather for this section tonight
and Wednesday, except that locs'
thunder showers are probable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
RAISE Maine
BY Man POWER
Contractor Has Brilliant Scheme
Whereby 1000 Men Could
Haul Vessel Up Out OF
the Mud.
THEN BE REPAIRED
Believes He Has the Scheme Which
Would Work and Enable the
Boat to be Used
Again.
THEN BE REPAIRED

WASHINGTON July 26.-John F.
O'Rourke, New York contractor,
laid before the officers of the war
department a plan for raising the
wreck of the battle ship Maine from
HAVANA harbor. He had a confer
ence with Robert Shaw Oliver, act
ing secretary of war, and Brig. Gen
William H. Bixbv, chief of engineers,
to whom he explained the details of
his method for raising the wreck
O'Rourke's plan contemplates the
construction of wharf around the
wreck, from which the actual work
of raising the hull Of the vessel could
be accomplished He intends to place
chains under the hull Of the Maine
and gradually raise it by jackscrews.
After making such temporary repairs
to keep the hull afoat, he proposes to
tow her back to the United States.
Many other plans for raising the
Maine have been suggested to the
army engineers, to whom the work
was intrusted by congress No action
will be taken upon them pending an
opinion by Attorney General Wick
ersham as to the construction Of the
recent act of congress appropriating
100000 for raising the wreck.
While the ship is suspended above
water, O,Rourke declares she can be
repaired as readily as if she were in
dry dock, and, after being relaunched
from the. cable cradle, can leave Ha-
vana harbor under her own steam
This is said to be the first plan
vet proposed which would present the
ship to a naval board in precisely lne
same condition as she sunk the nignl
with pontoons, construction experts
say, would mean to work upon her
hull under water, and to float her with
compressed air would disturb conol-
tions between decks.
First wharf of piles would be
built on either side of the wreck.
Then between the wharves and the
hull twelve pneumatic caissons would
be sunk-six on each side. Practical
tunnel building operations would be
employed thereafter and hundred
little tunnels woull be driven through
the mud under the Names keel, be-
tween the opposite caissons. Through
each tunnel powerful steel cable
would be run and each end would be
run UP to outside of the caisson to the
wharf above
Consequently there would be a steel
cable under the hull every feet and
the aggregate of all would be calcu.
lated to be capable of raising four
times the weight of the wreck, which
is about 1000 tons. Each cable end
would then be attached to system
OF steel screw rods and the screw
jack principle would be employed.
The War Department would be ask
ed for LOCO men to operate the hand
screws and every man turning 9
lever at a given signal, it is planned
to pull the hulk up in the cradle oi
cables
Once swung above the water line
the gap between the wharves woult
be bridged and the engineers would
work under and around the null
When repaired the Maine would bt
let down into the water by reversa
OF the process by which she was rails
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
THE WEATHER.
(Until Z p. m. Wednesday,

IUntlI Z p. m. Wednesday)
For Keokuk and vicinity; Gener-
ally fair weather except possibly
thunder showers tonight or Wednes-
day.
For Illinois: Partly cloudy with
local thunder storms tonight or We'd
nesday. Warmer south portion to-
night. Cooler extreme northeast por-
tion Wednesday.
For Iowa; Generally fair weather
except possibly thunder showers east
portion tonight or Wednesday.
For Missouri: Partly cloudy with
local thunder storms tonight or We'd
nesday. Warmer east and cooler
northwest portion tonight