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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
|..J,son, Mo, Has Big Blaze Which
w,oe, out one-Third Of Business
Section Of The
Town.
IosroFFICE DESTROYED NEWS BY WIRELESS
DIsc.rs Have IncendIsries Spotted
and VIII Make Arrests When
Evidence is
Secured.

+. LEWISTOWN. Mo-, Jan. 27--Fire
\ incendiary origin and starting In
|he rear of the Rice pool room total
IN destroyed six business houses, in
ISuding the postoffice, entailing loss
|nuservatiyely estimated at $1u,D00.
|methird of the business section of
|As city was consumed by the flames,
'md for time many buildings in ad-
|bIning blocks seemed doomed For
I'M and a half hours the flames rag
"a, licking up the big frame buildings
Is tinder and casting glare OF light
|ger several miles. Efficient work by
lie volunteer fire department did
auch toward keeping the fire within
lie confines of the block which was
hsyroyed.
b0ffcers are keeping close suryeil-
bace upon several men who are sus-
xcted of starting the fire. They have
aDt yet completed the chain of evi-
dence against them. but they are GER
lain they are OIL the right trails and
'sil act with haste il any attempt to
escape from the city Is made. No
|csuse is known for their infamous
|sct, but they were almost caught
With the goods" and will be prosecut-
| ed to the fullest extent Of the law.
The six buildings which were
Eburned we're located on the north
side. Of Main street, between the no.
lel and The park, They are: The post
cfics. on tic corner, the Rice poe,
room the Dance pool room, Citizens
Telephone Exchange, Rubb-B Bragg
gocery and a vacant building owned
hy H. G. Stath.
When the fire was discovered the
Interior of the Rice pool room was a
psring furnace. The whole city was
housed and the men responded hear
fy to stop the progress of the flames.
he postoffice building, adjoining
gre's on the west, was the first to
kse fire and it was soon doomed.
Aough the mail was saved Then the
eze began progress to the east and
turn came the buildings owned by
X Foley, the telephone company
hbb-Bragg's and n, G. Stath. The
3'e was uncontrolled for about two
Hd a half hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
TRUST COMPANY,
FAMILY AFFAIR
Hettie Green's Millions to Be Handled
BY Financial
Concern.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-A trust com
nanv to take care Of the business OF a
single family is soon to be formed.
The family is that OF Hetfie Green.
with the formation of the COMPANY
Mrs Green will retire from the active
management of her s75,ooo,ooo es-
tate Mrs. Green is now convinced
that her only son, living in 'Fexas, y
qualified ~ tale eAarea s< tAs estate
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
SCHENK JURY
COULD NOT AGREE
Final Vote Stood II to for AcauittaI
and Jury Was Then Dis
charged.

WHEELING, w. Va, Jan. 27.--After
struggling for more than twenty-four
hours with the mass of testimony,
the jurors in the case Of Mrs. Laura
Farnsworth Schenk, charged with
poisoning her husband, John O..
Schenk, announced that they were
hopelessly deadlocked and could not
reach an agreement. Judge l.. S
Jordan urged them to further efforts,
but later discharged them. Today
Mrs. SchenlS again is in jail despite
her hopes that she would be freed by
the verdict of the jury.
The final vote stood eleven for &C.
quittal and one for conviction. On
the first ballot, taken within five min
utes after the jury retired Wednes-
day evening. eight voted for acauit-
tai, three for conviction and one re-
fused to vote.
On the second ballot there We're
nine votes for acquittal and three for
conviction.
Thence on the number standing by
an acauittal verdict was gradually
worked UP to eleven.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
Mitchell is cornered.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 27.-lf a reso-
luton is adopted before the United
Mine Workers convention. it will
force Mitchell to leave either the
Mine Workers or Civic Federation,
the latter being said to be dominated
by J. Pierpont Morgan and John ?.
Rockefeller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
Coast Liner Went on the Reef and
Part Of the Passengers Have Not
Yet Been Account
cd For.
Assistance Has Been Sent to the
Scene Where the Ship is Dis
abled On The
Rocks.

SEATTLE, Jan. PA boat load of
passengers are missing from the coast
liner, Cottage City, which went on a
reef near Cape Mud yesterday, 200
miles north of here.
News of the wreck was received
here today in wireless, which states
the other passengers reached shore
safely.
Revenue cutters have been sent to
the scene.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and yicinity-Cloudy
with cold wave tonight. Generally fair
and colder.
For threatening and much
colder tonight with rain turning to
snow furries Saturday fair and cold
er
For Iowa Cloudy with cold wave
tonight Saturday generally fair with
colder in east portion.
For Missiuri- Threatening and much
colder tonight with cold wave in ex-
treme north portion. Saturday gem
orally fair with colder in east and
south portions.
Weather Conditions.
Yesterdays depression moving to
the Lower Lake Region. while the
pressure remained high in the South
eastern States, caused high tempera-
ture from the Mississippi Valley east
ward to the Coast, and there have
tion of this territory.
IN the northwest the pressure has
increased, with low temperature. the
crest of the high pressure being in
North Dakota, and there has been
light snow from the Northern Noun
tain Region to the Dakotas.
Conditions indicate cloudy weather.
with cold wave for this section to-
night, and generally fair and colder
Saturday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
Railway Mail Clerks.

OMAHA. Jan. 27.-one hundred
railway lrail clerks held meeting be
hind closed doors today and sent
kilograms to Nebraska and Iowa con
gressmen protesting against the long
hours and threatening to strike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
canada seems PLEASED.

@ TQRQ MTG sasss 22TT4-sThe tsfihe,
says today: 'The proposed agree
ment will be popular in the dominion:
and if the cry of the American peo-
pie for a better source of food supply
was an honest one, it should be popu-
lar there
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
conuressmen Rewildered.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-The vide
spread effect of the reciprocity agree
ment with Canada, more or less be-
wilders the members of congress to-
day. 1t was declared today that there
would be SO much oratory in the eff
forts to approve the measure. as to
force an extra session. The leaders
were considerably worried today over
the prospects Of a blockade.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
EVIL COMPANIONS
SHOT AT MOTHER
Great Topic For Temperance Lecture
in Peculiar Incident at
Chicago.

CHICAGO, Ian. 27--While attempt
ing to rescue her son from crowd
of Youths who were trying to make
him drink. Mrs Mary Mitchell was
shot by ore OF the boys and seriously
injured No arrests were made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
Eishermen Are Sad

GLoUSTER, Mass, Jan. 27.-The
flags on the fishing fleets are flying
at half mast with the union down as
a protest against the Canadian reci-
procity treaty and the fishermen are
preparing to make a big fight against
II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
The Newspaper Men.

DANNILLE, H., Jan. 2IThe
grand jury subpoenaed all of the out
of town newspaper men today. 1t is
rumored that 100 indictments will be
returned tomorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
YOUNG AGAINST
that TREATY
Scheme by the international
Harvester Com
pany.
HE WILL FIGHT II SEE FARM PRODUCTS
Fishermen Are Against it Hut the
Canadians Believe 1t Will
Prove Good
Thing.

DES MONIES, Jan. 2T.-U. S. SEN
ator Lafe Young, in long editorial
today denounces the treaty between
the United States and Canada as a
scheme of the International Harvester
Co. He says he will fight the treaty
in the senate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
The Next Trial.

WHEELING. w. Va. Jan. 20
Prosecutor Handlan says the second
trial of Mrs Schenk will take place in
Brooke county.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-27
Local Observations.

Mean temperature, Ian. 2s, ~.
Highest temperature. 60.
Lowest temperature, A.
Lowest te~neretnre last night ~.
FRED. Z. GOSEvHScH,
Observer.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03
LEAD POISONING WREAKS HAVOC
INTHIRTY DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES

to investigate. Though unlikely, II is
possible the gallstones are being con-
verted into medicine by the Japanese
buyer. The explosive theory is based
on the fact that there is a small
amount of nitrogen in gallstones.
Chemists and scientists are agreed
that it is not beyond a possibility to
produce gallstones for the market.
Stockmen are getting interested In the
production of gailstones, and unless the
laws prohibit II there is a big chance
of cattle being forced to produce this
new source of income. 1t is believed
that foreign matter injected into the
cattle will develop into gallstones.
Sharks on chemistry state that a
calculus body infected into the bladder
or hillary passage of cattle would grow
into gallstones. Each animal is capable
of producing a half pound of calculus
formations. Where cattle now sell for
the beef and hide, the additional price
for gaIIstones could easily be de-
manded.
With the price at 800 a pound. a
steer could be made $50 more valuable
by unnatural or artificial methods of
producing gallstones
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03
WIRELESS STATION At FORT MYER~
TO BE ONE OF WORLDS LAR GEST

Next to this will be the record room,
where the station log will be kept and
the clerical work of the station con-
Quoted. Records are to be kept of all
messages received and sent, atmospheric
conditions, and the daily condition Of
instruments. A room has also been de-
signed for experimental purposes. A din
ing-room. kitchen, and living-room for
the personnel of the station will also
be located on the first floor. On the
second floor will be a large reading room
and the dormitories. Between twelve and
twenty men will be required to operate
the station. There will be six or eight
operators, a chief electrician, a number
Of assistants, and probably a few wire
less students. The station will be used
to some extent as training school for
wireless operators of the navy.
Arthur Cowsill, of this city, who has
the contract for erecting the buildings
says the work will be completed in about
eight months. The Navy Department
expects to open the station on the LIST
of next July. Excavations have already
Eeen made and the foundations are
being laid. The work Is being carried
on under the direction OF Rear Admiral
H. I. Cone and Commander Robinson, in
charge Of the wireless work OF the Navy
Department.
The contract for supplying the instru-
ments has been awarded to Prof. Fessen-
den, one of the pioneers Of wireless
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03

Japanese agents in the United States
are exciting the curiosity OF many
Americans by purchasing gallstones
from the various packing plants.
What use the gallstones are being put
all. save themselves.
The mystery surrounding the buying
of this odd merchandise Is deepened
by the silence of the meat packers.
While admitting the sale of the gall
stones, the meat company officials win
not divulge the name OF the buyer.
SO heavy is the demand for gallstones
that the price has been forced up from
IS q pound to 800.
when dapper- little Jap requested
one Of the larger packing companies
to save gallstones for him. the on
cials were surprised. At his request
the gaIlstones were collected and
turned over to him. Never having
sold any before, the company was at
a loss as to what price to ask for them.
Paid % q Pound.
Finally, IS was named as the figure
at which the company would turn over
the queer order Tho jap wrote q
check for the amount. It was q month
later. several yeers ago. that the com
pany received . 1efter from the Jan
agent, asking that al OF the gall
stones gathered n the slaughter
house be saved fer. him. II was not
known how the Jap was diSpoaing Of
his purchase
The honorahle ealistones have
proved to b quite me, and have
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03

confronted the school officials; a condi-
tion due to the lethargy and oversight
of Congress in providing for her charge,
the. District of Columbia. Now. however.
the board of education, in more or less
stormy collaboration with the municipal
architect, Snowden Ashford, is doing its
best. to make up for lost time, and the
number and the character of school build
ings in course of construction BODIES well
for the future of the system.
Chief among the new projects is the
splendid new normal school which will be
located at the intersection of Eleventh
and Harvard streets northwest. This
structure which is designed in the Tudor
scholastic style, will cost more than a
quarter OF a million dollars, and will be
one of the leading buildings OF its kind
in the Eastern States. 1t will do credit
to the city in every way. Ground has
barely been broken for its erection, and
II will not be ready for occupancy for
more than twelve months at the earliest.
The new eight-room school building on
Farragut street, which will be available
for use later in the season, will cost $65,-
900. and will be a modern structure in
ing school on Wisconsin avenue and
Thirty-third street, OF which T. J. D.
Fuller IS the architect, will be an excel
lent structure for suburban use, costing
S42,0 900. It may be ready for the opening
OF the school season.
One Of the largest of the new schools
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03

be no light or uncertain one. Further
more, he is not an opportunist, or-in the
popular phrase-a trimmer"
He is now finding and feeling his
way into the labyrinth OF District school
affairs, studying their history, testing
the forces which will vitality affect his
career here. Until he makes a personal
investigation of the various problems
confronting him-including the 'frater-
nifty question"-he will not attempt to
solve them.
he is a short, stocky man, muscular
and positive in all his actions with a
personality which radiates good fellow
ship. He is in the prime of middle age
and in the glow of perfect health. There
is no question that the board of educa-
tion made a wise choice in bringing him
10 Washington. That fact is daily re-
ceiving further confirmation.
Elective System Tested.
Agitating some minds is the elective
system in the high schools, the ancient
feud between the science and the clas-
steal courses, and the exact line to be
drawn between the judicious and the
haphazard choice of studies by pupil and
parent. DR.. Davidson says:
II believe in Z elective system under
certain restrictions and under wise guild
ance and supervision
There he stops for the present II
is fair to infer, however, that on this
question he is a conservative, and that
he will oppose any campaign to enlarge
further the high school electives"
Such campaign is being waged in
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03
WORLDS OLDEST JOKE
STILL DOING SERVICE

What is the oldest joke in the world ?
According to T. P.s Weekly, it is the
which is related in one Of
the Berlin papyri of the sixth Egyptian
dynasty (about 1900 B. c., and 1t
should not be overlooked that in the
days when the world was young a tale
enjoyed centuries OF verbal currency
before II was inscribed in permanent
form.
According to the papyrine, q certain
scribe who worked for the Temple Of
Thoth occupied apartments where his
neighbors on either side were cop
persmith and a carpenter, respectively.
These honest artisans were exemplary
specimens of industry, and kept up
such a row all day and most of the
night that the poor scribe was almost
driven mad At last by stroke OF
craftiness he buttonholed each neigh
Dor separately and bribed them to
change their lodgings, which they did
with one another.
This tale has keptthe world amused
for 5000 years-we often meet with
II now-And 1t never seems to have
occurred to anybody to wonder why
the scribe did not change his own
but perhaps his rent was In
such arrears, as sometimes happens to
other literary gentlemen, that 1t was
cheaper to bribe the two workmen.
Another perennial that runs the
above hard for first place in point Of
age is that of the man who goes to
buy some weighty article and carries
II on his shoulder to save firing the
horse he Is riding.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03

teIegrapby. There were several bidders.
but Prof. Fessenden's terms were most
reasonable. He guarantees the set to
work 5000 miles, regardless of time, sea-
son. or atmospheric conditions. The in
struments were tested last summer be-
tween the Fessenden experimental station
at Brant Rock, Mass, and the United
States vessels Birmingham and Salem.
Messages were transmitted and received
at a distance of 600 miles. This was con-
sidered entirely satisfactory, as the wire
less most at Brant Rock is only 40 feet
high. and the sets on the ships are not
of high power. With the much higher
antenna at Arlington, 1t is thought that
communication at 1900 miles can be held
without difficulty.
Station mt Pearl HarbOr.
The erection of the Arlington station
is only one of the many wireless tele-
graph projects which the government has
planned. Plans are now under considera-
ton for the establishment of regular
wireless service between the navy yard
at Mare Island, Cal. and Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. A new set is to be installed
at Mare Island, and a finely equipped
station is to be erected at the navy yard
which is soon to be established at Pearl
Harbor. Engineers fear that the noun
tains Of Hawaii, lying in the air line be-
tween Pearl Harbor and Mare Island,
will cast a shadow in the electro-mag-
netic waves. and thus interfere with in
accommodation, but Pearl Harbor is
the only practicable site, as more suit
able locations have no military protec-
tioIi Still, communication between the
two stations is considered possible, as
atmospheric conditions are much better
for wireless transmission IN the Pacihc
than In the Atlantic At present there
is a small station at Honolulu, Hawaii,
but its range is very short.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03

Washington as in other cities. He does
not believe in the unchecked and unre-
strained selection Of studies by the
students. The veriest tyro in high
school affairs knows how frequently these
studies are chosen with deliberate aim
to take those which are easier" and
present the least difficulty to the pupil
in his path to a sheepskin.
DR.. Davidson has not yet declared HIM
self on the question of fraternities. He
has been approached by both the pros
and the "antis'' for an expression of
opinion, but without result. He is keep
ing his own counsel. knowing how many
interests are involved and how easily
an offhand expression might arouse en-
nifty TO him at the opening of his ca
reer in Washington.
The Fraternity Question.
However, the entire school-teaching
guild of the Middle West, with few ex-
ceptions, have taken a strong stand
against the fraternity system, and. while
DR.. Davidsons final attitude will be die
tated by local conditions, It is only fair
to expect that he will be lined up with
the opposition to the Greek letter so
cieies, which have in more than one in
stance hampered the administration OF
the high schools in the Capital.
The increasing capacity of the public
schools this season, through the erec-
The Washington herald., 1911-09-03
Workmen Contract Deadly Disease in Plants
Without Scientific Appliances.

doing the same kind Of work. There are
two white lead factories controlled by
the same company; one Is dtlapidated,
dirty, ill-ventilated, looking as II little
Improvement had been made since 1S43,
when II was built. The work Is done
largely by hand, the product is handled
most carelessly, and there is an apparent
Indifference toward the workmen on the
part of the management. The other Is
modern, clean, well-ventilated, furnished
with machinery, wherever II Is possible.
There are good sanitary provisions for
the men, and their welfare is matter
of real interest to the management. Al
two lead-smelting places, operated by tho
same company. This means that the
care of the men depends upon the good
will of the executive in charge.
Scotch Hearths Abolished.
The general tendency in the lead trades
is toward Improvement in working con-
ditions, not on humanitarian, but on eco
nomic grounds. The Scotch hearths with
theJ- r~risonous fumes are being replaced
by ar safer smelling processes, employ
ing fewer men. The whitehead and dry
color houses are using more machinery
and saving their dust. There is also in
creased use of machinery in the lead-pipe
and sheet-lead trades. The litho-transfer
work is being done by dustless methods
and not by hand. The painters and the
storage-battery workers, however, have
not so far been helped by improvements
in their trades
The improvements are on surer basis
when they come in response to the de-
mand for economic management and
from a recognition Of the value OF "ex-
perianced unskiIled labor" which makes
EMPLOYERS anxious TO keep a steady force
of workmen, than l. they were made IN
answer to the demands of philanthropy.
The regular medical inspection of the
men is very rare. though required by
Iauy In most countries abroad.