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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
HAULING DYNAMITE
ON The RAILROADS
High Explosives, While in Transit on
the Roads Must be Closely Guard
ed to Prevent
Accident.
FIVE THOUSAND CARS
An Average Of One Car for Every
Fifty Miles Of Line in
tho United
States.
FIVE THOUSAND CARS
5bstfi s9s -----T-,

I l.J1sd ssgs tjesssa A.
/ FIVE thousand cars containing ex-
splosives are continually in transit on
the railroads of the United States-zan
average of one car Of explosives to
every SO miles of line.
The strict regulations enforced oy
the railroad companies have made the
movement of this class Of traffic re-
markedly free from accident This
is due to the action of the American
Railway Association, which includes
in it's membership all the important
roads in the country, In organizing
the Bureau of Explosives. The bureau
before prescribing rules, made thor
ough study OF conditions surrounding
the shipment of explosives.
AS five hundred million pounds Of
explosives are manufactured in the
United States every year, and most Of
this quantity is transported on the
railroads, the work Of regulating it's
transportation is vastly important to
both the travelling public and the
shippers
Legislation designed to govern the
transportation of explosives proved to
be impractical, and if the railroads
had confined themselves to obeying
the statute the list of accidents could
not have been kept down Congress
passed law requiring that the dan
gerous materials should be packed in
metal boxes covered with plaster OF
paris or some other substance
which will not explode when saturat-
ed with nitro-glycerine.' No other
such substance has yet been discov-
cred. incidentally, plaster of paris
itself makes an excellent explosive
when saturated with nitro-glycerine.
Moreover, metal boxes, if carelessly
loaded SO that they might knock
against each other, invite fatal ex-
| plosions.f h
When the American Railway Asso
Citations got its Investigations under
way, it was found that the chief
source of danger was the careless
/ packing by manufacturers. Cans of
black powder often burst open and
left powder scattered on the car floor.
/ Sparks flying in through crack
| would make wreck of the entire
car. and probably of many more cars.
/ Dynamite was loaded by manufac.
/ turers into cars containing heavy
4 iron castings. The castings and the
dynamite, coming into violent contact
would cause disastrous explosion.
A corps of inspectors was sent out
/ by the Bureau Of Explosives to edu-
cate manufacturers and railway EN-.
4 ployes. Practical lessons were given
/ The inspectors would come upon
some railroad yard where there was
a car of explosives and examine it.
| If there was anything wrong the rail.
1 road men at the yard were told about
1 it and instructed how to correct the
| condition.
The various railroads spread print
ed directions among their employees
| Here are some of the rules-which
are typical-put into effect by one
large company:
| Only cars of 10000 pounds capac-
! ity, in good order, may be used for
carrying explosives The cars must
be equipped with air brakes and
hand brakes in good condition. They
must be labelled, on both sides and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

! am now enjoying" = Mrs. SARAIr
/ ILsoUsIGNoNr, Aid s. Livingston Street,
Brookfeld, Mo.
The Change Of Life is the most criti
cal period OF a woman's existence, and
neglect Of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
Women everywhere should remem-
per that there Is no other remedy
known to medicine. that will SO sue
cessfully carry women through this
Trying period as Lydia q. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from ma
i've roots and herbs.
For 30 years it has been curing wo.
men from the worst forms of female
Discrimination, liberation, dis.
placements, fbroid tumors, irregulari-
lsles, periodic pains, backache, end
nervous prostration.
Lf you would like special ADVICE
ABOUT your case write a confidens
4al letter to Mrs. Pinlxham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
p"H nFv0vs p,~l,,fIIl.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
A WEAK WOMAN
and Her STORY
In Floral, Ark, Lives a Lady Who
Feels That Her Strength Was
Restored by Cardui.

Floral, Ark.-T must speak a good
word for Cardui," writes Mrs. Viola
Baker, of this place.
"About a month ago was in very bad
health. was SO weak and nervous that
! was not able to do my housework.
"My husband bought me one bottle Of
Cardui, the woman's tonic took il ac-
cording to directions and now am in
good health.
~ think Cardui is a fine tonic for weak
women"
And you are not the only lady who
thinks so, Mrs. Baker.
Thousands, like you, have written to
tell of the wonderful benefit Cardui has
been to them.
Cardui contains no minerals, or other
powerful drugs. ltcontains no glycerin
or other Misunderstanding ingredients.
1t is just a pure, natural extract, of
natural vegetable herbs, that have been
found to regulate the womanly functions
and strengthen the female system.
All druggists sell Cardui.
See yours about it.
N.R-Write to. Ladies' Advisory Dept, chatta-
nooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga Tenn, for Special
Instructions and 64-page book. Home Treatfnen.
for Women. sent In plain wrapper, on request
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
MANY ATTEND MISS
EBNER,S FUNERAL.
Scores Of mourning friends at St. Ma,
rvs Church to Pay Fond Tribute
to Beloved Young Woman.

Sunday afternoon, at two O'Clock,
the last sad rites for Miss Maria Mar
garet Elmer were held in st, Mary's
Catholic church, with many of the
friends of the beloved young woman
and family present to pay their re-
spects to tie beautiful memory of the
deceased. Rev. James Dunnion in
charge of the beauteous service Of
the Catholic church, eulogized the life
and the splendid unselfish character
and sweet young womanhood of the
deceased. Amassed on the bier were
myriads of beautiful floral tributes, the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Seized Her Wrist.

Mrs, Shamper started back with the
rifle and had just reached the gate at
her home when suddenly a man
sprang up from the side and seized
her by the wrist. Mrs. Shamper had
her finger on the trigger of the gun
in such a manner that when the
cowardly sneak grabbed her, the
weapon was discharged. The man let
go of her and the woman started on
run to the house, calling to her
husband who came out with his Win
chester. The prowler pursued Mrs.
Shamper up the walk and just as she
reached the porch the woman some
what frightened, turned back and
shouted to the man who gave her
chase that the o.dcers had been no.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Big Shipment Of Bullion,

Here was rare opportunity for an
ocean hold up" Bullion OF the total
value Of s1o,313,10o for the Bank Of
England was shipped in the liner
Kronprinzessin Cecilie. which sailed
from New York recently. The freight
consisted Of 200 kegs. each contain.
Ing $4,000 in gold, and sos bars of
silver. each worth $500. The treasure
was stored in steel-lined room, eight
by ten feet, and was in the care Of a
special guard night and day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

final remembrance bestowed on Miss
Elmer in her passing, which has
caused sorrowing throughout the en-.
tire community
The gentlemen who acted as body
bearers were the following, interment
being made in the Catholic cemetery
at Oakland: William Reimbold, Jr
Clement Ewers, Charles Schenls, Ed.
ward Ewers, Thomas Coaroy and Da.
vid Hemmy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

Stops ea-acha in two minutes;
tocthache or pain OF burn or sea d in
five minutes: hoarseness, one hour;
muscleache, two hours; sore throat,
twelve hours-Dr. Thomas Electric
OIL, monarc, over pain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

n
dates back to the
time that wo me n
may expect nature
Ito bring on them
the Change of Life.
II got q bottle of
Lydia g. Pinkham's
|Vege table Com
Ipound and 1t made
me feel much better.
land I. have contir-
|ued its use. / an
| very grateful to you
Ifor fhc mad bonlfb
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

President Justice has ordered the
two games in which Akers pitched,
thrown out. No decision has been
made in the Keokuk- Galesburg forfeit
ed. game. His decision in the first
matter takes away two victories OF
Galesburg, one over Monmouth and
the other over Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Searched Woods.

Besides going through the barn,
outhouses and corn field, the police
secured around in the woods near the
house and after that drove on four
miles to the road near the powder
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Think Them Chicken Thieves.

Deputy Crimmins and the police of
ficers are Of the opinion that the four
characters who showed up so strange
ly at the Shamper place Sunday
morning, before little after midnight,
were chicken thieves, But why four
of them should return and risk their
lives when they knew Shamper was
armed cannot be accounted for and it
looks very like the fellows meant
mischief.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

"Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oh is the
best remedy for that often fatal dis
ease-croup. Has been used with
success in our family for eight years.
Mrs. L. Whiteacre Buffalo, N. Y.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
WOMEN
OF MIDDLE
AGE
Need Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Brookfield, Mo. 1.-Two years ago I
was unable to do any kind Of work and
only weighed 118 pounds. NV trouble
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

tilted of his and his companions pres
ence on their place and were on the
way. The fellow skunk away into the
darkness and nothing more of the
four was seen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15

works but could find no trace of the
disturbers. 1t was after two o'clock
when the officers returned to the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
NIGHT PROVIDERS
BOTHERED WOMAN
Man Sliced Mrs. Mike shamper as
She was About to Enter Gate
on johnson Street Road
Saturday Night.
HUSBAND SHOT RIFLE
One Man Appeared sneaking Around
House and Four Men Returned
a Little Later, sneakins
suspiciously.
HUSBAND SHOT RIFLE
ss . 49,

At one o'clock Sunday morning
deputy Sheriff John Crimmins, Chief
OF Police Schevers and Officer William
Shepherd took a livery rig and drove
to the home of Mike Shamper. two
and half miles out on the johnson
street road. Shortly before that hour
the police received word from Shamp-
er that Jour malicious looking and
strange acting men were at his home
and assistance was needed, as it was
thought the men intended harm -
the property or lives of the family.
When the police officers arrived at
the Shamper place, the surrounding
outhouses, the corn field and every
place where the supposed sneak
thieves might have been hiding. were
searched but not trace of the men
was found. Even the dirt road was
searched for tracks of the quartet but
none were seen and the officers are
puzzled to know who thes molesters
were.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-15
Saw Man Hiding.


when Mrs. Shamper went into the
yard at the side of the house to secure
an article that had been left out
doors. Crossing the yard to one of
the structures and just about to re-
turn, she saw man standing straight
up against the corner of the barn as
IL In fear of detection. Mrs. Shamper
made no move as if she had seen the
fellow and calmly entered the house.
Then she told her husband what she
had seen, and Shamper secured
Winchester rifle and went out to the
barn. When he went out of the door.
he noticed the man his wife had seen,
enter the door of the barn. Not
wishing to take any chances in the
dark recesses OF the barn even though
he was armed, Shamper returned to
the house and sat down in the kitchen
window to watch. The man presently
came swiftly from the barn and made
for the cornfield a short distance
away 35
Shot at the Man.
Shamper jumped to his feet and go
ing to the kitchen door, shot several
times into the cornfield in the hopes
OF hitting the fleeing fellow. Then he
returned to the house. A short time
later in looking out the window of
their home, the Shampers saw four
men come up to the barn quietly and
enter the corn field. Then it was
that the police were telephoned.
That was about eleven o'clock or
little after. Mrs Shamper, when
phoning to the officers was cautioned
not to tell person that she had ask
cd their assistance SO that the sheriff
and the police department men could
slip up on the four whoever they were
and make an arrest. Mrs. Shamper
| telephoned to her neighbors, the Bird
family, who live about half block
distant, after the police officers were
called. Having no weapons the
neighbors refused to come and Mrs.
Shamper having an extra gun decid-
ed to take it to them. She went to
the Bird place but the members of
that family we're SO intimidated over
| the affair and the presence of the
men that they refused absolutely to
return with Mrs Shamper, who brave
ly and with courage not often seen in
woman, walked past the very place
where the four men were in hiding.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
BRUTAL MURDERERS

Helsingfors.-A particularly brutal
murder of a Finnish peasant by Rus
sian soldiery and the neglect of the
authorities to punish the murderers
have provoked the greatest indigna-
ton in the country.
According to the accounts publish
ed here, the victim was stabbed with
5ayonets by two drunken soldiers. At
the police inquiry this was fully sub
Stimulated, and it was further shown
that MUIR, the dead man, was a very
respectable and quiet fellow. A court
martial was promised by the military
authorities, but has never been held.
1t is stated that an untrue report of
the affair was presented to the en-
peror, who ordered the soldiers re-
lease without trial.
So great is the scandal that the
prosecutor general of the senate has
addressed a public complaint to the
governor general demanding some
guarantee that military offenders
shall be punished.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20
HO[DSAN MAKES
READY FOR FOURTH
PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY
FOR BIG CELEBRATION
DIR. Bleakney Will Deliver Oration-
All Kinds of Sports Arranged
Crops Look Good-Short News
Notes.
Especial Correspondence J

Holdman, Ore, June 20.-Prepara-
tons are being rapidly completed for
the Fourth. swings have been erect
ed, the flagpole, creased pole and the
other arrangements necessary for the
sports being complete.
Miss Lizzie Thorne of Weston is
here for a few days visiting with her
children.
Mrs. Hattie Holdman made trip
to Adams Saturday, returning sun
day morning.
An automobile in charge of Walter
McCormmach passed through here
Friday en- route to the wheat fields
north of here.
1t is reported that j. 7. Thorne has
purchased gasoline threshing outfit.
Haying is in almost full blast here
and all reports indicate that the
wheat that is being cut is making al
most double the amount to the same
amount Of ground cut last year.
DR.. Bleakney of Pendleton Will de-
liver the Fourth of July Grafton. Peo-
pie here consider themselves fortu-
nate in securing him as it is under
stood that several places wanted him
but Holdman as usual landed the
plum.
Harvey McCrea has been sick sew
eral days with the measles, but is at
work again.
w. L. Gerrant is clerking for +. l..
McCrea and both he and the boss
have been kept busy as people are
getting ready for this summers rush.
Newton Miller, our blacksmith, is
50 rushed with work that it has been
necessary for him to have an assist
ant for a few days.
Mrs. Robert Patchen and Mrs. Mil
Ter have returned from Portland,
where they attended the rose carni-
val and visited with friends and rel
atives. They report a good time, but
glad to get sight once more of Hold
man.
George Stangier of Pendleton was
a Sunday visitor here, accompanied by
his chum who clerks in the Peoples
Warehouse.
The rain of last week was welcome
here and will insure fair spring
crop If no hot winds arrive for a
while.
John Gentry took his year old baby
in to see the elephant Friday and says
that he had a good time. Quite
number from here attended the show
and all were pleased with the attrac-
ton. :.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20
Mems oxfords cheap at A. Eklund.

Halley's comet has gone on another
swing around the circle.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20

season, the greatest bargain sale of
Panamas ever held is in prospect, and
Uncle Sam will be the auctioneer.
Secretary MacVeagh of the treas
ury department Collector Loeb and
United States District Attorney Wise
talked over the recent seizure of
Panama hats today and decided that
proceedings should be taken in the
federal courts for their forfeiture and
condemnation. The hats, invoiced at
$65,O0O were said by the government
to be worth $4,000, and, with the
duty added, would be s160,OOO.
Goods siezed in this way by the
government are sold at auction.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20

well at night. believe there is moth
ing like the Pinkham remedies" -
NIrs. CLARA FRANKS, r. f. D., No. 3,
Knoxville, Iowa.
The success of Lydia L. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. 1t may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, inflam-
nation, liberation, fibroid tumors, ir-
regularities, periodic pains. backache,
bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
tion.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine trial
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of Others, and why should it
not cure youp
IfyOu want special advice write
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, NJ ass, for it.
Lt is free and always helpful.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20
TAX HEAVY ON TOBACCO.
Travellers Entering France at Cher
bourg Allowed Few Cigars.

Paris.-American travellers with
favorite brands of tobacco in their
grips had better avoid Cherbourg as a
landing place in Europe this year.
For the new regulations in France
are hard on smokers.
Nominally, 10 cigars, 90 cigarettes.
or one and a half ounces of tobacco
are allowed free, which is less than
half the former allowances. But Gus
toms officers on the French side are
goinng further than that and declare
they can levy cents on any single
cigar imported.
The changes affect Frenchmen, too.
for the government tobacco monop-
oily has put up the price of all but
the commonest classes of the weed
from 10 to so per cent. a national
league for the protection of smokers
is raising protests all over the coun-
try and even if France Minister
Cochery had intended to put the ad-
ditional money into his own pocket
he could not be more virulently
abused.
But as a matter of fact the new
imposition is not having the desired
effect. The minister hoped to collect
10000 a day more for the national
exchequer, but since the new scale
of charges came into force on May
- the consumption of superior ci-
gars, tobacco, and cigarettes has
dropped 10 a remarkably low level.
while the common caporal tobacco
has trebeled It's sale.
So VI. Cochery is in the horns of
a dilemma. He hopes the public will
return to the better brands. but IL
they don't he threatens to raise the
price Of the cheap varieties. II he
does that he will rouse the proleta-
riat. for the workmen are the chief
consumers Of "vaporal ordnaire"
and the minister who touches their
pipe will suffer as soon as the polls
provide a weapon.
But there is a funny side to. the
New and cheap brands Of
cigars and cigarettes are being put
on the market arrayed In wondrous
bands Of brilliant hue. They bear
such names as Favoritas. Aromaticas,
Panetelas, Brevas. Trabucos, Plea
duros, Londrecitos. Damitas Flor.
and so forth. One Spanish word thus
used means "a big musket" and an
other "a large, black, unripe fig"
They are not so very Inappropriate.
Men with a sensitive palate are dis
Vusted with them. But the men in
the workmen's blue blouse smoke
them in the boulevards with the air
OF pampered exquisites
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-20
ANOTHER ENGINEER
DOES HEROIC ACT
FORMER o. r. & y. ENIPLOYE
PREVENTS WRECK on ID. r.. G
ID. F. Carpenter Stops Runaway Train,
Averting a Terrible Disaster-Pre-
vents Collision by Quickly Revers-
ing Engine.

Engineer Carpenter, who former
" ran an engine through this city on
the o. R. & N, and who is a brother
of Engineer Carpenter of the motor
car now in service between Pendleton
and Umatilla, has just won laurels
Tor himself by preventing a disas-
4rous wreck on the Denver & Rio
Grande. the road for which he is now
working. The following details of the
sensational performance in which
Carpenter performed are taken from
a Denver paper;
The quick action Of D. E. Carpen-
Ter, one Of the best known engineers
on the Rio Grande, prevented what
might have been a terrible wreck,
probably costing scores Of lives, when
he stopped a runaway train Friday
morning about s o'clock. four miles
east Of Helper
Carpenter was going west on No
and was nearing the end of his
run The passenger train, consisting
If ten cars, was ripping along at a
hign rate Of speed, when suddenly
Mr Carpenters eye caught sight Of
a string OF cars lurching around a
curve about a half mile ahead of his
speeding train. He realized at once
that it was a string Of runaways
Eleven cars. heavily loaded with bull
lion ana ore. had In some manner
broken away from the yards at Help
or.
Carpenter saw that only the quick
est of action would save his train from
a frghtful collision with the roaring
perl which was rushing toward him.
de slammed on the airbrakes, bring
1ng mis- train to a standstill with
grinding Of brake shoes and a bump
ing Of the heavy cars. Like lightning
ne reversed the engine and opened
wide the throttle, starting his train
backwards with the runaway cars
within q hundred yards of the pas
lsenger train
The passenger gained headway rap
1dly and when the freight cars col
iided with L, the passenger was maxi
ing fairly good speed and the shock
was not great and did not damage.
NJ Carpenter started the train
back toward Helper. pushing the run
aways ahead Of him and before he
had gone very far he met the switch
engine from Helper, bearing a badly
frightened crew They were pale
faced and had not yet recovered from
the fright Of what they felt absolute
~ sure would result in a terrible
wreck. When they heard of the mi
raculous way in which the train had