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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Anna and Isabelle Dorsey of Carthage
Drowned This Morning While
Skating on Pond In the
Johnson Pasture.
RECOVER THE BoDT &
Skating Party Of Eight Had Let, the
City Early In the Forenoon for
Pleasure Party on
tho Ice.
TSpecial to The Gate CITY. I


CARTHAGE, H., &c. Anna and
Isabella Dorsey, aged IA and years
respectively, daughters Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Dorsey, drowned this
morning while skating with a party of
other children. The skating party
was composed of young school chill
dren ranging In ages from eight to
fourteen years and left Carthage
about nine O'clock this morning to go
to pond in the j hn johnson pas
ture, about mile east of the Moss
Ridge cemetery. While skating the
ice broke and precipItated the young
people Into the water, all of them
escaping except the Dorsey children,
who got under the ice and were unable
to free themselves. The bodies were
recovered and BROUGHT into the city
and prepared .or burial. Two young
boys very narrowly escaped. There
are four children in the Dorse,
family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
italian Charge Against Turks and
Arabs Reveals Savage Barbara
ties Practiced on
Soldiers
SOME WERE cRUc1F1ED
Buried Alive In the Ground With
Heads Sticking Out and Eye
Lids Sewn To-
gether.

WASHINGTON Dec. 1.-Stories o,
alleged barbarities practiced by Arabs
and Turks are contained in dispatches
received at the Italian embassy here
In dispatch received from Rome
the Italian minister of foreign affairs
describes alleged atrocities prac-
ticed On the Italian wounded. which in.
clude crucifxion and burial alive
Women, it is said, take part in the
preparation of these cruelties.
The dispatch, which is signed by
signor San Guiliano, minister of for
eign affairs, is in part as follows.
Near the Mosque of Hani, where
the medical post OF the Twenty-sev,
enth battalion of Bersaglieri had been
located, and in it's vicinitY. twonty.
eight bodies of our soldiers were
found.
They were horribly mmtilated, cru
Gifted with their throats cut open,
impaled, torn to pieces, and dismem-
bered. Among them there was the
body of surgeon lieutenant.
I'm the Arab cemetery, near the
place where the fourth company of
Bersaglieri was located, seven bodies
were discovered. They had been in
TERED alive, with the heads out OF
the earth. The body of pie of these
shows that he had been terribly tor
tured
THE eyes had been pulled out and
i threaded and the eyelids sewn III the
brows"
The dispatch also confirms the with.
drawal of the Italian troops from
Henni. This, it is said, was neces.
sary because the Turks had polluted
| the wells.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Millionaire Who Was Shot In the Leg
Had stenographer Write His
Love Letters for
Him.
THREATENED TO SUICIDE
Girl Said She Would Take Poison on
One Occasion When Stokes
Had Refused Her
Money.

NEW YIRK, Dec. In spite of the
fact that w. p. D. Stokes is suffering
from acute Indigestion as the result
of over indulgence of the Thanksgiv-
ing dinner, the trial of Lillian Graham
aDd Ethel Conrad the two show girls
accused Of shooting him in the leg
vas resumed today. Stokes, it was
said. will take the stand again as
soon as he is able to be present in
court.
Miss Marian Brothy, Stokes steno-
grapher was shown the clothes Stokes
if she thought Stoke could disguise
himself in them.
"Why he wore those clothes often"
she declared
Although she said Stokes dictated
most of his letters to Miss Graham,
the stenographer was unable to identi-
fy some of the letters shown her
Miss Agnes Haade, floor clerk of the
Hotel Ansonia said that she warned
Miss Graham from the hotel after
Stokes had been married. She asked
Miss Graham what she was doing
there after she knew Stokes was mar
iried. telling her that. she might cause
trouble with his wife.
Miss Graham sid: What do care
for his-Denver red headed wife
Miss Haade described scene in
which the Graham girl threatened te
take poison if Stokes did not give heI
money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
MRS. PATTERSON
WILL LEAVE DENVEs>
Goes Back to Girlhood Home Tonight,
Never to Return to the
West.

DENVER, Dec. 1-Overwhelmed by
the storm of criticism which has been
raised since her acquittal on Wednes
day, Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson
announced at noon that she would
leave Denver tonight never to return.
With her parents and sister she will
go to sandoval, H.. the home of her
girlhood 20 remain for several months.
When the wide spread denunciation
of the verdict was first brought to her
Mrs. Patterson declared she
would not run away from it but re-
main here. Her parents influenced
her to leave
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Every Day Seems to Bring Forth
Some New Thing to Talk
About In Mcnamara
Trial.
RUMoRs OF BRIBERY
Defense Fund for Man OF Trial Is
Said to be Taken to Get Frank
lin Out on
Ball.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. An addi-
tional air of mystery was thrown
around the Mcnamara case today
when District Attorney Fredericks
was granted continuance until this
afternoon. He declared it was vitally
necessary but declined to explain
further.
Rumors were Immediately spread
that further important arrests would
be made in connection with the brib-
cry charges but they could not be
confirmed.
Because of an allegation that
money contributed to the Nc
Namara defense fund was be-
ing diverted for bail for Bert H.
Franklin, accus I'd of trying to bribe
a prospective Mcnamara Juror, the at
torneys interested are today consid-
ering issuing formal statement con
cerning the matter.
Attorney Darrow declares there is
no truth in the report that the cash
bail put up for Franklin and the large
fee paid to former Governor Gage
came from money selt to him by the
American Federation o. Labor.
The district attorneys office is
working hard on the Franklin case
which comes up Monday. samue
Browne who arrested Franklin, de
ciared he would show that an attea)pt
was made to bribe not only Lock
wood but other men who we're pros
pective Jurors.
The twelfth v.-ire in the McNar.ars
case reported tosiav.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
WHO HAS CONTROL
OF THE RIVERS
Government Has No Control Over
Water Power Rights in Any
Stream Whatever

WASHINGTON, Dec Rome c.
Brown of Minneapolis, counsel for wa
ter power interests in Minnesota, Hi
nois and elsewhere, teld the Inland
Waterway commission that the pow
ers. of the federal government with re
gard to streams is restricted only tc
control over navigable streams.
All the other power, he declared
had passed to the states, which, in
turn, in some cases, had passed these
powers to riparian owners The fea
eral government, he said, had no con
troll over water power rights in nav
igable and non-navigable streams.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Thanksgiving Day Feast Had Jus,
Been Completed When the Ex-
pIosion Scattered
Destruction.
TWO KILLED OUTRIGHT
All Others in the House Were Intut.
cd When Acetylene Gas GEN.
orator Went to
Pieces.

MATTOON, H., Dec. 1.-The beau
tiful country home of J. NJ Hinton,
one of the wealthiest farmers in the
Mattoon section OF Illinois, was
wrecked and every one in the house
killed or injured yesterday afternoon
by the explosion of an acetylene gas
generator which furnished illuminat-
ing gas for the residence and buildings
on the Hinton farm.
The dead are:
MRS. RACHEL GEARHART, 10
years old. Hinton's aunt.
EVELYN HINTON, his year old
daughter.
The injured are:
Mrs. j. M. Hinton, probably fatally
injured; Bernardine Hinton, 1S; Cecil
Hinton, a. and Genevieve Hinton, 10,
all bruised and burned.
Miss Bernardine Hinton's left knee
was fractured In addition to her other
injuriey
The accident occurred shortly after
the family had finished their Thanks
giving dinner, and Hinton had taken
his gun and gone into the woods to
hunt. He heard the explosion, and
hastened back to find his home a
wreck and his family buried in the
ruins, which had taken fire.
Neighbors responded from great
distance when they heard the explos
ion, and extinguished the flames
which did NOT gain mach headway
They also removed the dead and In
jured from the ruins.
The Hinton home is eight miles
northwest Of Mattoon, and Drs. Ed
ward Summers, Albert Summers, w
~ Carter and O. W. Ferguson hurried
out In two ambulances In response
to telephone call. After temporary
treatment had been given the suf
ferers were brought to Mattoon ant
placed in Memorial hospital. Mrs
Hinton is 80 seriously injured the
physicians do not expect her to sur
vive.
The explosion is explained by thu
fact that the top of the gas generate
had been left off and the gas escapes
through the house in large quantitie
and probably was ignited by the fir
in the furnace
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
PRESIDENT is
WOOL GATHERING
Believed to be Writing Special Mes
sage on That Section of
Tariff Law.

WASHINGTON. Dec. Following
report of split in the tariff board
on the wool section, President Taft
today summoned to the white house
Henry G. Emery and Alvin H. San
ders, two members of the board and
postponed the capital meeting to con-
fer with them 1t IS believed the
president asked for what information
they had on hand and that from this
he would begin the preparation of ms
special wool message without waiting
fo- the board to report 1t is pre-
dicted Taft will urge big reduction
in the wool tariff.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
STAvE USED
ON MINISTER
After Good old-Fashioned Boyhood
Days Spanking Bucket Of
Tar Was Spilled
8 Over Him.
HE HAD AN AFFINITY
Sunday School Teacher and Church
organist Was Friendly With
the Married
Preacher.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Dec. l.
New Mexico has been stirred by the
alleged administering of sound
whipping followed by a liberal appli-
cation of tar, to the Rev. Henry s.
Wannamaker, founder of the town of
Amisted, Union county, and promoter
OF two railroads in the new state.
The reported chastisement of the
minister, citizen and promoter occurr-
ed a few nights ago. Wannamaker
was accused of being friendly with
Mrs. Mary Fulton, music teacher,
Sunday school teacher and church
lorganist.
1t is said the attack on Wannamak-
Ier followed the discovery recently
made by his wife, who told prominent
men Of the community and asked
aid in putting a stop to the intrigue,
Immediately vigilance COMMITTEES
was formed, the home of the widow
was carefully watched and on last
Sunday night Wannamaker was seen
to enter it about midnight. The Wig
ilantes broke into the house.
Wannamaker, it is said, was sub
dued at the point of a revolver, haul
ed out of the house, spanked with
a Barrel stave and bucket of tai
poured over him. The widow was
not molested, but it is said that un
less she leaves the community al
once the women of Amisted will con
duct tarring narty on their own nc
count The entire community is II
sympathy with Wannamaker's wife
who is cultured woman of the east
and mother of several children. The
authorities have taken no action.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
CHINESE DECKER
ON PEACE QUESTION
Three Day Truce Granted In order
to Talk the Matter
Over.

PEKIN, Dec. Premier Yuan Shi
Kai has granted three days truce
to discuss proposed plans of peace
with the rebels. If at the end of, three
days no definite agreement has been
reached and there is still reasonable
possibility of a settlement, the truce
will be extended fifteen days.
The Manchus appear more lenient
in their plans since the capture OF
Purple Hill at Nankin by the rebel
forces.
Gen. LII in command of the rebel
forces has not yet accepted the terms
of the armistice. If he does the
leaders will meet at Shanghai to
consider the settlement outlined by
the premier
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
LITTLE BOYS
KILLED BY AUTO
Were Helping Father With Wheel
barrow Full of Wood for
Thanksgiving Fireplace.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec 1.-W Walk
ing beside his father and helping him
trundle barrow loaded with wood
for Thanksgiving fireplace, Harrs
Rouff aged j. and his brother, John,
z, were struck and killed by an auto
mobile on the Charles river esplanade.
The father, John Rouff. was injured.
The driver of the truck is held in
$1,000 bail on a charge of manslaugh-
ter. The esplanade was dimly light
ed and the accident is said to have
been due to that fact.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Minister'S Brother Was Assasslnass
In Front Of His Home BY Four
Bullets From
Gun.
STREETS ARE CROWDED
Antl-Russian Demonstration Over the
shuster Case May Lead
to Serious Com
plications.

BERLIN, Dec. 1.--Ala Ed Dowleh,
brother of the former Persian min
lister to Berlin, was assassinated to-
day in front OF his residence in Teher-
an, according to news dispatch re-
ceived here. 1t is believed the muir
dered man was mistaken for his
brother
Five shots were fired at him, four
of which took effect. The assassin
escaped
The Shuster Case.
TEHERAN, Dec. 1.-The streets OF
this city today were the scene of a
bitter anti-Russian demonstration fol-
lowing the action of parliament in
refusing to agree to Russia's ultima
tnn -egarding the expulsion of Shus-
ter, the American treasurer-general OF
Persia.
The rejection of the ultimatum is
believed to be the fore-runner of ser
ious diplomatic complications.
Repeated attempts have been made
to assassinate Shuster upon whom it
is said the Russian government has
placed price on his head. Shuster
is constantly under heavy guard.
Russia Sends Troops.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. / = Russia
has ordered troops to Teheran to en-
force her demand that W. Morgan
Shuster, the energetic American
treasurer Of Persia. be sdeposed Unless
Persia acquieses at once, she must
fight the cars army and in the latter
event run a grave chance of being
gobbled up completely by Russia and
England.
The decision to move troops to the
Persian capital was reached today fol
lowing the rejection by the Persian
parliament from England that Persia
acceed to Russia.
For several weeks Russia has been
mobilizing cossacks and infantry $50
miles northwest of Teheran. Prac.
tically all the troops there were order
ed to the Persian capital.
Russia has long looked with covet.
Gus eyes upon strip of Persia. There
is no doubt expressed here that Eng
land and Russia have reached an un.
derstanding regarding the partition OF
Persia if Shuster is not expelled at
once.
The Russian bureaucracy has been
sorely peeved at Shuster's administra
tion of Persian finances. Had the
American not done his work so well
the czar and his advisors would have
been better satisfied. The fact thai
Shuster has bolstered up his adopted
country's finances has spoiled the
hopes that the country would neet
Russian financial support.
Russian officialdom is wondering
what course Shuster will pursue. Al
the war Office today all information
concerning the orders of the troops
We're refused, indicating there woult
be no formal declaration of war
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
President Tsft Gives to the World HIS
Views In an Authorized In
terview for Eastern
Magazine.
UP TO THE PEOPLE
IT They Do Not Desire Him as PresI-
dent for Another Term, Says 40
Can Retire and Re
Happy.

NEW YORK, Dec. President Taft
has given to the world his own view
OF MS administration, 1t is presented
through an authorized interview by
FRANCIS E. Lupp. former commissions
er of Indian affairs and will be pub
ished in The outlook December 9.
Briefly summarized, the president
admits that, with his present lsnowl-
edge, he would not again proclaim the
Payne tariff act the best ever pass
ed" as he did in his celebrated Vino
ma speech. AT the same time he de-
Iclares that the act still contains less
to be criticised than its predecessors.
maintaining that, on the whole, 1t did
revise the existing schedule down
ward.
In defending his vetoes at the last
session the president characterizes the
legislation sent him as so crude and
/ lill-digested that its authors must have
known he could not approve it.
The presidents chief objection to
a needlessly high tariff is that it nour-
ishes monopoly He defends the make
up of his tariff board. which he says
lis doing most useful work, elabor-
ates upon the ;Imittedly good points
In the existing tariff argues for an in
come tax, stoutly defends his judicial
appointments and take the public into
his confidence regarding the "unfin-
ished business for the rest of his
term.
The insurgents, MIR. Taft recounts,
had altered his railroad bill seriousls
and would have nothing to do with the
thirty-day rate agreement permit
which Mr. Roosevelt had frequently
recommended The president accept
ed a half loaf as better than no broad.
The postal savings bill got past the
senate insurgents by close shave,
and the conservation bill was enacted.
The president gives history of the
corporation tax of which he says he
is proud He dwells upon the import
ant measures before congress and, in
conclusion, explains how 1t came about
that troops were sent to the Mexican
border during the recent rebellion.
Here are some utterances by Taft
in the Interview
"Mr. President, II you could begin
your administration again would you
repeat your Winona speech tomor-
] row." the interviewer asked
I'm phraseology, no; in effect yes"
0 Il had no fault to find with either
democrats or insurgents for trying to
reduce any duties they choose; what |
e object to Is disturbing the business Of
:. the country today, when there is moth
! ing better than guesswork to proceed
e upon and then disturbing it afresh six
A months later, when the best available
1 information Is before US
t Il fully realize, and ! wish our peo-
pie would, that the present prosperity
4 of the treasury is due in no small
. measure to the existing tariff which,
9 Notwithstanding all its faults, is rev
( enue-producer"
9 My happiness is not dependent on
. holding any office, and shall go back
/ to private life with no hcartbnrnings
if the people, after an unprecedented
e review OF my administration, conclude
r that some one else can serve them TO
4 their greater advantage
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Shot Six Women But No Rabbit.

McLoUTH, Kan. Lee. 1.-While
hunting rabbits on his farm, John
GLENN accidentally shot in the legs
six young women standing on the front
porch of his home A rabbit ran
around the house and GLENN fired at
It with a shotgun. He missed the rab.
bit. but the shot struck the women.
All will recover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Weather Conditions.

The crest of the field of high pres
sure, which covers the territory west
of the Mississippi valley, has moved
to the gulf, causing decidedly cold
weather in the southern states, and
killing frosts as far south as northern
Florida, while it is warmer from the
Rockies to the Mississippi valley.
A depression passing north of the
upper lakes is attended by cloudy
weather and brisk winds in the lake
region, but no precipitation.
Conditions indicate fair weather,
with little change in temperature, for
this section tonight and Saturday.
Daily River Bulletin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast.

Keokuk and vicinity Generally fair
tonight and Saturday. Not much
change in temperature.
cis-Generally fair tonight and
Saturday, except unsettled weather in
the north portion tonight Not much
change in temperature.
Iowa Generally fair tonight and
Saturday Somewhat colder in the
north and central portions tonight
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Post is a Rainmaker.

CHICAGO. Dec. CHARLES w Post,
of Battle Creek, Mich, says he has
demonstrated repeatedly on his a.,
GOO acre farm in Texas that rain can
be produced by explosions of dyna-
mite. Proceeding on the theory
that after. battle it rains" said
n. Post, I'VE made battle last
spring to benefit suffering crops, and
brought rain almost at once"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Chicago Beer Goes Higher.

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 1.-For the sec
ond time within sixty days the price
of beer has been raised. Beer that Oct.
sold for $4 a barrel, sells for $3.50.
All grades of the malt product are
similarly affected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
CITY NEWS.

1t is probable that the case of the
city against George G. Leighton, a
resident Of South Sixteenth street, for
harboring a female dog without pay
license and the same being a nuisance,
will be dismissed. The owner of the
animal found it dead in his yard yes
terday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Garner for Congress.

QUINCY, H., Dec. 1.-The republi-
cans are urging John Frank Garner,
ton as congressman from the Fif-
teenth Illinois district.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
oca, Observations.

Nov. 30, Z p. M, 33 degrees, clear
Dec. i. Z a. m, "a degrees, cloudy.
Mean temperature, Nov 30, % de-
erees, highest 3s. lowest II, lowest
last night SO.
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
STAGE Height Change. Wea'he
River Forecast.

The river will fall slowly from Day.
export southwark for the next forty
eight hours.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-12-14

To make your home happy, see that
you make your wife feel that your af-
lection and tenderness for her are In
no, degree diminished from the day
you first sought her. Do not let
her. when you can avoid II. TO sit a.
lone and 20 out walking alone. You
would not have done so "once upon
a time" DO not reserve all your
blandness and fragrance for strang-
ers OF casual acquaintances. There
are some men. judging from whose
out-of-door manners II would seem
that nothing was left TO be desired.
who are. nevertheless. of the urso-
major tribe at home; men who keep
smiles and cheerful words for com
pany. and who can only be silent or
peevish and exacting with their wives
Have such men any just reason to
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-12-14
NEW DEPOT NEEDED
Old Factory Building No
Longer Adequate.

With the c. NJ. q G.. sporting a ne,
depot. the |. c. and the new inter
Urban companies both figuring on
ooming into Hickman and putting IN
up io-date buildings. 1t is about time
The n. c. a St l.. was celebrating
the completion OF their new belt
line by abandoning the old box fac.
tory building and putting up a de-
pot In keeping with the progress Of
Hickman.
There was a time when the old
factory building answered the pur.
pose OF a depot for Hickman but
We have outgrown that The pres
ont arrangement Is inconyenient and
not adapted TO the use to which II
Ia put The negro waiting room has
no ticket window In II and these pa
irons must buy their tickets out-of
doors. besides number OF other
drawbacks.
Let's get new depot
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-12-14
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Granted In Oblon County,
Since Our Last Issue.

Sam Rogers and Della Burrus.
c. ID. Roe and Myrtle Ayers.
]. l.. Crawsen and Josit Newell.
j. X. Johnson and Nellie Yates.
II. c. Terry and Oracle Lawson.
Myles Burrus and Maude Nichols.
l.. A. Wilkerson and Susie Exum.
Sam Woody and Clara Dell Luker
r. L. Bransford and Lucille Morris.
w. C. Nixon and Hattie Hammonds
Dave McGaugh and Mary Bludwortl
Warix.
Ernest Banks and Holmes Mary
Smith.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-12-14
BROTHER DEAD.

D. a Hammond received a message
Friday n.ght announcing the death
o aa brother. Oscar Hammonds. at
bradford Tenn. Mr. Hammond at
tended lc funeral Saturday.
Nr Hammond has our sympathy.
Or. a.,k before last his father. ].
Q Hammond. died at Dyersburg
To Jose a father and brother both
e..a.l o. month IA severe blow.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-12-14
WORK WILL SOON START

after you take DR.. Kings New Life
Pills, and you'll quickly enjoy their
fine results. Constipation and indi-
gestion vanish and fine appetite re-
turns. They regulate stomach, liver
and bowels and impart new strength
and energy 20 the whole system. Try
them. Only 25c at Helm & Ellison.