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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

lr was ascertained at Atlanta. the
other day. that the auto might at
tam speed of a mile in 81 seconds,
II the chauffeur cared nothing for re-
sultS-love for heaven or fear of hell.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

TIE hospitals in Philadelphia are
crowded More than thousand pa
tlents have been cared for within the
past Is days. This number has been
lately augmented by the strike.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

Louis JAMES, the veteran actor,
died IN Helena, Mont. on the even
ing OF the 9th inst. just as the cur
tam fell in performance of Henry
VIII. The body was sent to Kansas
City for interment
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

In is claimed that Hi Gill. Repub-
lican, has been elected Mayor of Sc
attic by about 5000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

SroKANEis still threatened 10y riot
of Labor Unionists.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

Seattle is again placed on wide
open gauge by the election of Hi
Gill and his confrcres.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

tirely free from sins of omission in
not trying to make conditions better
for yourself and loved ones? In our
complex system of government, it
behOOves you to act your part. II
you fail to do so you have no just
cause for complaint; must share the
responsibility be it ever so small.
Drops of water hollow out rocks"
One of our leading business men
does not have good opinion of our
laws relating to the collection Of
debts. He recovered a Judgment
against an ins0lvent man in 1891,
In the Superior Court. and failed
to have his judgment revived,
once every six years as the law
provided at that time and I'M
til the Legislature changed it in
1897, which provides that any
judgment shall lapse after six years,
and that there can be no revival in such
instances. This act, the courts held,
did not apply to judgments wherein
the causes of action on which they
were founded accrued prior to 1897
when the later law went into effect;
but that they could legally be kept
alive by revivor proceedings under
the old law; otherwise they had
lapsed beyond redemption.
Jeanette, the 14-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill. OF
Shelton, died at the hospital, Mon.
day evening. after an illness of about
four months. Typhoid fever was the
immediate cause of her death. but as
her sister Margaret had died only
, ten months before, and as it was sup.
posed that tuberculosis might have
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-03-11

Eaton, administrator of the estate of
"Old Squatty," also an abOrigine.
who died some time ago, possessed of
considerable means. They claim
that he was almost helpless few
months prior to his death. and that
it took almost their whole time for
2l0 days to care for him. Their
claims aggregate q little over $500.
Frank LeMoine was committed
Monday to the Hospital for the In
sane at SteilacOom. He has been
working in a tie-camp near Yelm,
an6 he has for some time past been
seeing bugs and insects which cause
him worry and physical pain. and
he has not had sound sleep for
weeks. There may possibly be 9TH
ers similarly afflicted who have not
yet been officially adjudged to be in.
sane.
Judge Yakey, Of Kitsap county
will occupy the bench to try the
damage case of Mrs. Ellis, who is SUI
ing as guardian nd Item, of her son
William Ellis, to collect $40, 900 from
Mills Brothers, for allowing danger
Gus explosives to lie around. Young
Ellis had finger blown off by dy
Mantle cap left on the grounds of the
Governor mansion a year or more
ago. A jury has been secured ant
the case is now on.
Leopold +. Schmidt, Of this city
has bought the Byron hotel at Bel
bingham for consideration Of 500,
900 which he proposes to CONVEX
into a fine four-story building, if the
local option contest allows the salt
o. beer. 1t is made contingent upor
this result, from the fact that the
contemplated Improvement will no
pay if the saloons are voted out
The new building, or improvement
under consideration will cost fron
$40, 900 to $75, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
ROOSEVELT IS
At KAAR1OUM
viii be Met in tho City on the Nile
Late This Afternoon by His
Wife and Daush-
WEARS HUNTING SUIT
Has Resurrected an Old slouch Hat
Some Place and Made
triumphant Entry
Today.

KHARTouM, March a. = Col
Theodore Roosevelt, dressed in his
now famous khaki hunting suit made
a triumphant entry into Khartodm at
4:3O this afternson. At his own re-
quest there was no official public dis
play but thousands gathered at the
river front and cheered the steamer
Dahl and it's noted passenger as the
vessel flying the stars and stripes and
the British flag, steamed almost to
the very steps of sirdar Wingate's $
palace where the party disembarked.
The colonel looked the typical hunt
er. In addition to the hunting suit,
he wore leggings and had recently
changed his hunting helmet for the
old slouch hat He was entertained
by the sirdar and his son and VIII
meet Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter,
who come to meet him, late this at
! teruoon,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
BOY DIED AFTER
DESPERATE STRUGGLE
Trsnsfuoion of Blood and Third opcr-
alton Was Followed by Col
lapse Of Patient.

WASHINGTON. March l4.-Al-
though the father hurried to this city
on special train from Baltimore and
submitted to an operation for the trans
fusion Of his blood into the veins OF
his son, who was lying near death S
door with meningitis. Francis Hop
kins, Z years old, son of Lewis Hop
kins. grandnephew of Johns Hopkins,
founder of the university that bears
his name, died.
The boy had lain in Providence hos
pital seven weeks, and after submit
ting to two operations, the physicians
decided that a third. with the trans
fusion of blood probably would save
his life. After the operation the boy
rallied but died from exhaustion from
his long illness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
Thief Cuts Valuable Canvas Out Of
Frame and Walks Away With
it in Broad Day
light
IT WAS WORTH $4,000
Art Exhibit Contained Priced Paint.
ina Which Some One Stole
While People Were
AdmirinG.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March IA
Carefully cut from its frame while
s score Of persons wandered about the
other works of art the famous paint
ing, "The Shepherd and Flock" by
Jean Francois Millet, was stolen from
the Art Museum in Golden Gate Park.
No one saw the thief remove the can
yass and the police are without the
slightest clew. The painting is valued
at $4,000
The painting is the property of Miss
Sarah NJ Spooner OF this city, who is
now travelling in Europe. 1t was pur-
chased by her from T. D. Trimon OF
tho Rue Lafayette, Paris. The can
vass is q feet in length and II feet
high.
The other two paintings of equ-
value were loaned to the Art Museum
by Miss Spooner when "The Shepherd
and Flock" was hung. They are Du
pre,s twilight and landscape b,
Charles Francis Daubigny.
Alexander Lawson, the curator o
the museum, says that shortly befor'
the theft was discovered he saw
poorly dressed man Juggling a bundl
from the institution, but crowd wa
visiting the hall at the time and h
attached no Importance to the inc
8dent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
supreme Court Decisions.

Special TO he Gate City.l
DES MONIES, March 14.-Irish
against Story, appellant, POLK district,
affirmed.
Citizens National bank, appellant
against Gardner washington district,
affirmed.
Chapman, appellant, against Newell,
Louisa district, affirmed.
Rake and Son against Century Fire
Insurance company, appellant, Whine.
bago district affirmed.
Sims, appellant, against City of Des
Moines. polk district, affirmed.
Dermedy against Jackson Judge,
Muscatine district, affirmed.
Kelson against Schmidt, appellant
Floyd district, affirmed on condition
Phelan against Boone Gas compan.
appellant, Boone district, affirmed.
National Surety company against
walker, APPELLANT, obrien district, re
! yersed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
MURDERED son
IN THE CLOSET
Retired Real Estate Man Lost His
Mind and Took Three Lives,
His Own and His Two
Sons
ALSO FIRED THE HOUSE
One Boy Sick With rheumatism
Tried to Escape in Closet, But
the Mad Man Got
Him.

NEW YORK, March 14.-Herman H.
Moritz. retired real estate man, shot
and killed his two young sons last
night, set fire to his home in the Bronx
and then committed suicide. He had
been in melancholy tate of mind
for some time
Mrs Moritz called on friends in the
afternoon, leaving Moritz with his two
sons, George, aged IL, and Walter,
aged IA. George was Atudent in
Bordentown Military academy. He
had been suffering from rheumatism
and was at his home undergoing
treatment Walter was a pupil in the
public schools.
The first intimation of trouble came
when the father, disheveled and ex,
cited to the point of madness, ran out
of the front door. He met Policeman
E. G. Lake and told him that his house
was afire. Lake turned to send in
an alarm, and Moritz ran back into
| the house and slammed the door A
moment later Lake, returning to the
house on the run from the alarm box,
heard shot.
Lake got help and the door was
broken down. inside, stretching cross
/ wise of the hallway, was the body OF
Moritz The man was dead, with
d great. wound unde- his chin. where
4 he had poked the revolver into tht
\ flesh, pointed it upward and fired
The revolver, with four shells empty
lay on the floor beside him
| Smoke was trickling up through ths
f1oring Of the hallway Under the
stairway was found small heap o
rubbish and shavings. burning briskly
It took but few minute to stamp the
fire out. Then one of the men saw
something lying to one side a lev
feet away in the shadow The some
! thing was found to be tie body OF th'
! younger son, Walter He had bcei
shot through the heart.
! Firemen and neighbors were in th'
! house by this time One OF the nelgh
bors told the policeman that the fathe
was thooght to have been trifie de
mented an dthat there ought to b.
j another son around somewhere. 4
search of the house began.
4 They found the body of the olde
boy in closet on the second f1oo1
From the position of the body, it ar
peared that the boy had taken refug
i in the closet. off his sleeping compari
ment, and that the door had Eeel
opened and the body had been sho
there. his back to the wall and escap
shut off by the narrow confines Q
: the clothes press. The hoy, in fallln'
: had dislodged the clothing hanging i
: the closet and this had fallen upol
his body.
Two bullets had struck the olde
}. son. One of them had pierced TIL
= heart and other had entered the ten
e pie. All about the room from whicl
II the closet opened there were signs Q
It a struggle. Furniture had been ovel
turned and rugs swept into heaps. Tn
T. door was SCARED where the man an
q the boy had fought against the boy
u effort to get inside
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
Penitentiary Was on Fire But Con-
victs Were Kept From Panic
by Services Being
Continued
FLAMES THREATENING
When the Smoke Poured into the
Chapel, Songs Were Sung and
Stampede Was
Averted.

PITTSBURG, March 14.-In the face
of fire peril which would have strick-
en- an ordinary crowd with panic, 600
convicts at the Western penitentiary
Sunday sat quietly through their Sun
day afternoon services with hardly
more than ripple of fear. There was
good cause for alarm in stubborn
fire in the hosiery factory of the pris-
on, not fifty feet away from the chap
lei. Smoke enveloped the windows so
thickly that electric lights were turned
on while Chaplain G. M. Miller con-
tinued the exercises.
| Warden Francies himself was in the
chapel when the fire broke out He
| selected a half dozen TRUSTEES" to
| help the prison and city fire depart
ments fight the blaze, and then re-
turned to quiet his charges. Fully half
of the 800 had jumped to their feet
as if to stampede, but at word from
Chaplain Miller they recovered COM
posure, reseated themselves and lis
tened attentively to the sermon. AS
the flames grew more threatening, a
second ripple Of excitement started
but the Methodist church choir stayed
it by singing many of the favorite
hymns in which the convlcts joined
4 The fire was fought for more thar
an hour, many of the TRUSTEES" doins
!, 1.-THE most valiant work, some ciinlbins
to the roof OF the burning structure
and others braving smoke and f1r'
until black in the face. Several were
, overcome by smoke. The cotton ma
, terial in the hosiery factory made
/ ready fuel, and it took tons of watel
to confine the blaze to the hosiery de
, partment.
i, After the fire Warden Francies pai'
many compliments to his charges TO
the self-restraint they had shown.
mo body of the United State
troops." he said, could have acquitted
themselves better under such tryin
, circumstances"
The loss by the fire will not excee'
r $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
While BRYANS
BACK is TURNED
His Former Admirers and Supporters
are Getting Ready to Freeze
Him Out Of the
Party
AND ALSO HIS FRIENDS
Next Democratic National Convention
Hall viii Not Ring With
oratory From His Sill
yer Tongue.

NEW YORK, March 14-When VIM.
j. Bryan returns to this country early
next month he will find in existence
plan whereby neither he nor his
friends will be visitors at the next
democratic convention.
Chas. w. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall. reached Hot Spring, Ark,
Saturday. During the next few days he
expects to meet there Roger Sullivan,
democratic national committeeman
from Illinois; Norman E. Mack, chair
man of the national committee: Col.
Johnston, national committeeman
from Texas; Thos. N. Taggart, ma.
tional committeeman from Indiana,
and emmissaries from all anti-Bryan
elements in the democratic national
committee.
1t was stated by close friends OF
Murphy here that within a
week Bryan will be nearly sfvhen out
in SO far as the democratic organiza
ton is concerned His recent de
c!aration for county local option ir
Nebraska declaration that admit
ediy has split the democrats OF Ne
braska and imperiled their chances al
next falls elections, has caused The
leaders to join in the movement II
nullify his influence in the party.
At the conference Murphy will
sours sthe praises of Mayor VIM j
Gaynor of this city. Sullivan ant
/ Mack have caused it to be made pub
1 lie that they are favorable to th
nomination of Senator Culberson o
4 Texas. but it is well known that he i
only stalking horse a:iN tnat bot
1 men are really very friendly to tn
nomination of Governor Judson Hal
/ mon Of Ohio. Taggart is for anypod
satisfactory to the east except tina
/ he will oppose any mention of Thoma
Marshall, governor o. Indiana. Nal
shall and Taggart are no ionge
friends, and it is an open secret tha
Marshall is trwing TO down Taggar
y as national committeeman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
SUGAR Trust Case.

WASHINGTON, D c., March IA
Attorneys for Charles r. Heike, for
mer checker of the sugar trust, won
a decisive victory in the supreme
court today, when that tribunal denied
the motion made by the government to
set aside the order of Justice Lurton,
putting the case before the highest
court, and granted permission to
Heikes counsel to file petition for a
writ of mandamus directed at Judge
Martin of the New York court. Heike
was recently indicted in connection
with the customs weighing frauds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
The House Of Lords.

LONDON, March 14.-1n accordance
with notification by nim three weeks
ago, Lord Roseberry will move In
the house OF lords tonight that the
house of lords resolve itself into
committee to consider the best means
Of reforming it's existing organization.
If the resolution is carried. Lord
Roseberry will move resolutions ac-
cordingly. It is understood the propo-
sition will be for a reduction in mem
hership Of the lords from about 900
Fl $50
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
iowa Man Appointed.

WAsHINGl ON, March Ia. William
s. Kenyon of Fort Dodge, was today
made assistant to the attorney gen
cral of the United States by President
Taft. He takes the place OF Wade
Ellfx 81 Ohio. who has resigned,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
To Live in San Francisco.

NEW YORK, March l4.-Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr,, is to take UP his resi-
dence in San Francisco Immediately
after his marriage to Miss Eleanor
Butler Alexander, which will probably
take place in June. George Perkins.
treasurer of tht Hartford Carpet cor
poration, al the mills Of which young
Roosevelt has been working for more
than year announced today that the
young man will be given responsible
position in the San Francisco branch
after his marriage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
saus Not Until 1916.

DENVER, Colo. March 14.-Predict-
ing that Roosevelt viii refuse the
presidential nomination in 1912, but
will be candidate in 1916, John NJ.
Thurston, former United States senar
tor from Nebraska, in an interview to-
day reviewed the national political sit
uation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to-
night and Tuesday. Not much change
in temperature.
For Illinois. Iowa and Missouri
Fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much
change in temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
Taft Not SmiIinn.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March IA
The famous Taft smile was missing
when the president climbed out of his
sptcial car ON his arrival today from
Pittsburg. The trip to and from the
smoky city, incident to the funeral of
a suicide brother-in-law, proved very
depressing to the president. He was
impatient to get to the white house
and anxious to see Mrs. Taft Mrs.
Taft is slowly recovering today. after
period of weakness that succeeded
the shock of the suicide. President
Taft will cancel his engagement to
speak In New York tomorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
Weather Conditions.

There has been snow in the Ohio
valley, lake region and northeastern
states, accompanying the storm cen
ter, which has moved UP the Atlantic
coast to New England. and there are
rains on the Pacific slope, with an
area of low pressure in Arizona.
Fair moderately cool weather pre-
walls in all other districts with field
of high pressure advancing on the
eastern slope of the Rockies, and
very high pressure over the northern
plateau region.
Conditions Indicate fair, moderately
cool weather for this section tonight
and Tuesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
River Stages.

Galland, "A, rise OF
St. Louis, 1874, rise 1.2. As hours.
The river will rise slowly south OF
Keokuk for several days.
FRED q. GoSEWISCH.
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
President Taft Returned From Pitts
burg and His Smile Was
Missing When He
Arrived
THE RAILROAD BILL
Trust Busting Case Was Argued this
Afternoon and Verdict VIII
be Most Import
ant.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. March IL
The governments biggest trust-bust-
ing suit, against the Standard Oil
Company OF New Jersey, was argued
this afternoon, before the supreme
court. Upon the verdict depends the
life or death of the Sherman antitrust
law, as we'll as the life or death I
the Rockefeller combination and ON
er similar alleged monopolies. The
present litigation involves thirty-seven
distinct corporations. There was a
large crowd in the court room when
the case commenced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
The Railroad Bill

WASHINGTON, d. c., Lark a.
II the plans of Senator Ell ms and
several of the progressive senator's
work out. the debate in the senate this
week over the administrators rail,
road bill will be merely the beginning
of big row. 1t is believed the bill
submitted to both houses by Attorney
General Wickersham can lie saved
only through the greatest possible
pressure from the white house. The
progressives' purpose is to let Senator
Aldrich and his friends pass their bill
and to have the conferees accept the
bill that Representative Mann is work
ing at in the house,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
Local Observations.

March. Bar.Ther. Wind. Weather
13 7 pm. 1921 AZ NV Clear
IA Z am. :. 800 81 NV Clear
River above low water Of 1864,
feet tenths.
Change in "a hours rise tenths.
Mean temperature, 80.
Maximum temperature, IS.
Minimum temperature, A..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14

Shadow and Substance.
Radishes and lettuce bear the same
relation TO food that PIatonic love
does to love Atchison Globe.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-03-23
Location Of the Suwanee Valley Farms

Look at this map. Study it carefully. 1t
s seews y sTW she fxse' lS %AnIEI z '' FLORIDA
FARMS.
This section of Florida is now being
thrown open to settlers for the first time.
Here are virgin acres of marvelously fertile
Soil awaiting the pillow.
the SuWANEE VALLEY FARMS are locat-
ed on the main line of the seaboard AT
Line Railway-one of the greatest railroaa
es right through the townsite Of ELBA, and
we are going to allot the first 400 farms i'm
mediately adjoining the townsite and on
Only twelve miles south Of the
VALLEY FARMS is beautiful Cedar Keys.
one of the Oldest and most famous WINTER
resorts in America. Here is one OF the pest
deep water harbors on the west coast OF
from Which het the are finest sae oysters sssaa are secured
and shipped by fast freight to all parts or
the country. Here are the great sponge fsho
cries, supplying a large proportion OF the
sponges of the world. Cedar Keys Is a not
ed spot where anglers from all over the
country come to indulge in their favorite
pastime. Here in the Gulf of Mexico is
found all manner of game FISH. rms is IN
reality the f~sherman's paradise. NV . Npp
Twenty miles north of the SUWANEE
VALLEY FARMS lies Bronson, the county
seat of Levy County, and as miles away on
the Seaboard Air Line, lies Gainesville, one
of the greatest vegetable distributing cen
tiers of Florida: : e,.
hours from Jacksonville. the metropolis OF
Florida.
The location of the NAl.LEf
FARMS is ideal from the standpoint OF the
farmer, truck grower and shipper. rms
question of transportation is of paramount
Importance. The grower of garden truck
and fruits must have easy access 10 me
markets.. Jacksonville is the great FLORIDA
distributing point to all the markets of the
world. Remember-that VAL
LEY FARMS are but five hours from jack
The SUWANEE VALLEY FARMS lie in
the beautiful valley of the Suwanee River.
famed for 100 years through that Immortal
Riyer.'