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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
MUST VERY
ALUABLf Land
The Only Way Youth Could Hold it
Was to Become the Head Of
Family, SO He Got
Married.
HE ASKED 27 GIRLS
Finally Found One Who Would Have
Him and Now He Can Snap
His Fingers at
the Law.
HE ASKED 27 GIRLS

ABERDEEN, S. D., Feb. Jean
son County allowed his desire to OBJ
tain parcel of Uncle Sans free
land to get away with his respect for
the law. He.is only 19 years of age,
and according to the land office regu-
lations cannot hold title to a home.
stead until he is the head of a family
+ In his predicament the young man
consulted a lawyer, who advised him
to get married, become the head of a
family and thereby keep his claim
against the adverse claims of spcula-
tors who were endeavoring to wrest
the property from him. The young
man set out to locate some damsel
fair or not he cared not" who would
journey through life as his helpmate.
1t is said on his own authority that
| twenty-seven proposals were made in
two weeks, which finally eliminated
! in the wedding ceremony which saw
ed his property.
Miss Dorothy Devernon, daughter OF
neighbor, was the young woman in
volved and the couple now propose to
/ hold the claim despite all the on
4 slaughts of the spectators and land
men. Not an eligible woman for miles
around was omitted in the youths
frantic endeavor to obtain q wife.
The young woman whom he secured
is pretty, a great horsewoman and ha'
been brought up in the Sunshin,
State.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
No WEDDING
At MALTA
Testimony That King George Was
Not Party to Moreanatic Mar
rlase to Daughter Of Admiral
Seymour.
MYL1Us GOES TO JAIL
London Correspondent Of Anarchist,
! Newspaper Found Guilty Of Libel
to The British
1 Crown.
MYL1Us GOES TO JAIL


LONDON, Feb. Edward Mylius,
the London correspondent to the Lib
orator, an anarchistic paper of Paris,
was found guilty by special jury to-
day. Lord Chief Justice Alderton
presided. He was sentenced to one
year in prison. While theoretically
| the trial was public, onl. few were
admitted. Mylius had no attorney and
his requests that the king be sum-
moned as witness end that his pri-
vate papers be returned, were ignor-
ed.
The whole foundation Of the old
story of the morganatic marriage was
swept away by Admiral Seymour him
self. He testified that he was not in
Malta or was his family at the time
of the alleged marriage.
He said that his daughter saw the
| king who was then the Duke of York
only once and that was at garden
party.
The elder daughter of the admiral
also took the stand and added to the
/ testimony. She said that her sister
was never married but once and that
her marriage to the king was impos
sible.
The three sons of the admiral also
1 testified. They testified that the wed
/ ding never took place. The Malta mar
4 rage regiater vas produced and thu
4 only Seymour on the book was tha
/ OF a man.
Mylius refused to avail himself O
the opportunity to cross examine the
4 witnesses. He had no testimony Of
{. his own and his case collapsed.
"Wanton revel in such base libel
was the courts scathing remarks il
sentencing the defendant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
MADE FAILURE
OF HER DISGUISE
Pretty Italian Girl Tried to Imperson-
ate Negro Roustabout on
Steamboat.

LOUISVILLE. KY. Feb. BE
cause she fell bit short of playing
successfully the part of the negro
roustabout, Marietta D'Nerevu, an
Italian girl and pretty, was fined So
in the city court where she had been
taken on charge of disorderly con
duct.
Marietta gave her home as Peters
burg, KY. She was arrested at the
Third street wharf. where she tried
to board the steamer City of Cincin-
natl. She looked the typical roust-
about and imagined she could prove
her histrionic capabilities in that
manner.
Her accent was bad, and she could
not twist her Spanish to fit the negro
dialect. The result was she everyday
ed her part and the police were call
ed. The Jail matron said she wanted
to spank her, but decided not to, but
made her jump out of the trousers
quick.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
SMITH CONFIRMED
AS NEW JUDGE.
Bristow Was the Only Senator Who
Opposed the Presidents
Appointment.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1.-Rep-
resentative Walter I. Smith was con-
firmed by the senate as circuit judge
of the Eighth circuit to succeed Judge
Willis VanDevanter. recently appoint
ed to the supreme court.
Judge Smiths nomination had been
favorably acted upon by the senate
judiciary committee. 1t was brought
up in the senate and was opposed by
Senator Bristow of Kansas, but by
no other senator.
Senator La Toilette was absent or
he would doubtless have joined with
Senator Bristow.
All the commerce court judges We're
confirmed and these and a number OF
other judges that were before the
senate.
Senator Bristow asked for a separ-
ate vote on Judge Smith, and it was
granted him. When the vote was TAX.
en-, Senator Bristow alone voted
against confirmation
Judge Smith will defer qualifying
for Judge until after this congress
ends.
He will thus be enabled to serve
out his term. When his name was
first sent to the senate there was
talk of strong senatorial opposition
1t would undoubtedly have materializ
ed except for the fact that Sena
tor Cummins refused to enter into 9
4 fight against Smith
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
real GENIUS
Is DISCOVERED
Rich Man Was an Artist But Hid His
Light Under Bushei Basket
for Long
Time.
BASKET KICKED OVER
Edward Burgess, Great Artist, Turns
Out to Have Been E. q.
Butler, Business
Man.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Those long
standing delusions concerning the in
ability of man of business to appre-
ciate art and of an artist to make
good in business have been exploded
e. b. Butler, of Butler Brothers.
business man who has contributed to
the civic. betterment Of Chicago in
many ways, yesterday appeared as the
Edward Burgess whose three paintings
have aroused no end of interest at the
annual exhibition OF the work of Chi
cago artists that opened at the Art
Institute last night.
The judges who selected the work
OF the unknown Edward Burgess and
gave prominent places to three of his
paintings little thought that the pic
lures were those of one of the trustees
of the Art Institute. But this lack OF
information was just what Mr.. Butler
had planned. His chief desire was
to have them passed upon and reject
ed or accepted solely upon their mer-
| its.
And that is exactly what took place
When the pictures were viewed by
members of the various organizations
that purchase the work of Chicago
! artists "a letter was sent out to the
] fictitious address on Oak street, where
the artist was supposed to live, and
an offer was made for them. But, to
their surprise, the unknown and sup
4 posedly poor artist ignored the offer
of money
The pictures are of landscapes. One.
called "The Golden Hill, is OF a
wheat field, with the golden harvest in
shock. Another is of an autumn scene.
The third is Of a bit of sky on June
/ day, the feecy clouds scudding be-
fore a breeze.
The Municipal Art League pu-chas-
ed for the Municipal Art Gallery The
Road" by Wilson H. Irvine, aetna
president of the Chicago Society of
Artists. The Young Fortnightly prize
Of 500 went to Ethel L. Coe, painter
of "The Dead Forest Several other
j prizes will be announced today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
INDEPENDENTS
Up AGAINST It
Bell Telephone Competition Has Been
too Strong and Il May Swallow
Up Its Ri
walls.
SQUARE DEAL WANTED
Home Companies VIII Not Sell ou
Unless Assured That Rates
Will Not Be
Boosted.
SQUARE DEAL WANTED

NEW YORK. Feb. Whether
there is to be a consolidation of the
Bell end Independent teiephone com.
panies depends upon whether J. p.
Morgan guarantees the Independents
a square deal, it is announced A con-
ference between telephone officials is
being held in the city with the inde
pendents on the defensive The Bell
competition has been ruinous to them,
but they will not give in until prom
ised a square deal
The independents will remain in the
fight If necessary, depending upon
federal and state legislatures to main
tain equitable rates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
JACKSONVILLE
ADOPTS PLAN
Commission Form Carried by es4 Ma
jority at Special
Election

JACKSONVILLE, Ill., Feb. In
the special election held here, Jack
sonville adopted the commission form
of government by majority of 634
The vote was, for the commission
form, 1,411. against, SS7. A great deal
of interest was manifest. and a little
more than rs per cent of the vote
cast at the last city election was reg
istered. An organization of citizens
worked for the passage of the meas
ure, but there was no decided opposi
tion to the movement. The labor
vote was about equally divided.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
THREE SPEAKERS AT
BANKERS MEETING
Hugh L. coop-r Of This City Will be
One of Them to Address Money
Men at Burlington

BURLINGTON, Feb. 1.-Mr. E. a.
McClurkin, president of the Exchange
bank of Morning Sun and chairman
OF the Bankers Association Of the
First Iowa Congressional District,
known as Group u was in the city
yesterday looking after the prelimin-
inaries for meeting to be held in
Burlington, February %. The auditor
ium for the convention has not yet
been determined The arrangements
for the association are in the hands
of local committee. Messrs. T. w.
Kriechbaum, cashier of the German
American Savings Bank; George 9.
Swiler, cashier of the Burlington
i Savings bank, and H. j. Hungerford,
cashier of the Merchants National
bank.
The principal speakers of the con-
ference will be ]. III. Igwersen, presl-
dent Of the Peoples Trust and Savings
bank of Clinton. Hon. Q. A. Carpen-
+ ter. of Columbus Junction, and Hugh
T.. Cooper, chief engineer and super
lintendent Of the Keokuk & Hamilton
! dam now under construction. Mr.. Ing
/ wersen's theme is THE State We
/ Live In" That is suggestive of a i've
wire and promises to be especially in
/ teresting in view of the decrease OF
Iowa in population, and pendin., legis
/ lation at Des Moines on taxation. Mr
Cooper's address will relate 10 the
great water power at Keokuk. m en-
terprise Of vital interest to the people
of Burlington and vicinity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Cut all tn. Wires.

GALESBURG, H., Feb. 1.-The
bank at Swan Creek, Warren county,
was robbed at an early hour Tuesday,
the robbers using six charges of dyn-
amite and practically every inhabitant
in the village heard the explosion.
The money secured. the robbers con
fiscated two rigs from nearby farm
houses and made their escape, cutting
all the telephone and telegraph wires
in the vicinity. The bank is private
institution The assistant cashier
says there was about $4,000 in the
safe.
The sheriff forces of both Knox and
Warren counties were searching for
the robbers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Certainly Lucky.

MT. PLEASANT, Feb. 1.-two
thousand dollars in deposit notes sto-
len from Sanford Boyd, wealthy
farmer while in Chicago last week,
were returned to him by postal au-
thorities. 1t is thought the robbers
discovered the notes were useless and
dropped them in mail box.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
The Radium Business.

PARIS, Feb. 1.-The radium busi-
ness fourished in 1910 The Bank of
Radium sold s153,000 worth, or nearly
two grains s-1.91, to be exact. OF this.
$4,000 worth went for commercial
purposes, the rest. for medical The
entire radium output was produced
by single factory. at Nogent-oure-
Marne. Even bigger business is an
ticipated for 191f
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Murdered Out West.

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. Joseph
Hunter, pioneer of Iowa City, has
been found murdered in Idaho City,
Idaho. according to dispatch re-
ceiyed by his brothers, Lemuel and
George of this place. No details of
the crime are given.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
aim Of Merit.

ALBANY, N. Y. Feb. Edwin A..
Merritt Jr., offered a bill today MAX
ing 1t the duty Of all legislators to
report any efforts to influence their
vote on any measure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Iramns hx the Carload

MILWAUKEE, Feb. Hundreds
of tramps are arriving on every box
car to attend the convention of the
brotherhood Welfare Association.
Eight hundred tramps heard the ad
dress Of welcome by Mayor Seidell
James Eads Howe, the millionaire
tramp, is furnishing free meals to the
delegates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
BANK ROBBERS
WERE CAPTURED
Swan Creek Burglars Arrested at
Monmouth and Stolen Money
Recovered.

MONMOUTH, H., Feb. 1.-The
Swan Creek bank robbers were cap
had $500 in money and 500 in post
age stamps.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
PRESIDENT M'LEAN
HAS RESIGNED
Notice That He VIII
Quit.

IOWA CITY, Feb, President Nc
Lean, Of the State University has for
warded his resignation to the chair
man of the state board Of education.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
pes Moines Nurses strike.

DIES MONIES, Feb. 1.-Ten nurses
and two internes at the Les Moines
General hospital have gone on
strike because Of difficulties with the
general manager, /. W. d. Rummell.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
SPREADING GERMS
OVER MANCHURIA
Plague is Killing Hundreds Of Ma
tives Every Day According
to Report.

PEKIN. Feb. 1.-Reports from Har-
bin say that the plague is killing
from 500 to 1000 natives every day
and that the others are fleeing, carry
ing the germs all over Manchuria.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
SENATOR YOUNG
MAKES SMALL GAIN
Vote Today Gives Him 81 Votes in
the Deadlock Race at Des
Mones.

DIES MONIES, Feb. l. Senator
Young made gain today in the vote
for senator, but the deadlock remains
unbroken.
Today's vote resulted as follows:
Porter. democrat, 40.
Young, 81.
Kenyon, &C.
Garst, J..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
THE WEATHER.
(Until I p. m. Thursday.

IUnuI p. m. Thursday.l
For Keokuk and vicinity: Snow
fiurries tonight, followed by fair
Thursday with cold wave.
For Illinois: Rain tonight turning
to snow furries Thursday. Much
colder Thursday and northwest por-
tion tonight
For Iowa: Snow hurries tonight
followed by fair Thursday with cold
wave.
For Missouri: Unsettled weather
tonight and Thursday. Much colder
with cold wave west portion tonight
and east portion Thursday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Weather Conditions.

The western area of low pressure
has drifted slowly eastward, with the
greatest depression over South Da-
kota, Nebraska and !astern Kansas
This has been attended by rising
temperature from the western plains,
TO the Atlantic coast. and with the
exception Of light snow flurries in
portions of the lake region, the wealth
er has been generally fair over this
region.
An era Of high pressure has de-
veloped in Montana, where the tenn
perature has fallen to eight below
zero. and it is colder. with snow,
from the northern mountain region to
the Dakotas
Conditions indicate snow lurries
for this section tonight, followed by
generally fair weather. with a cold
wave Thursday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Local Observations.

Mean temperature, Jan. 81, AZ.
Highest temperature, 55.
Lowest temperature, 30.
Lowest teuoperature last night. 3s
FRED z. GoSEwIScH,
Observer
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-07
Making a New Empire

"Swampeast Missouri is rapidly
disappearing. For years the people
in this section were looked upon as
quinine-eaters. web-footed individ-
uals. Twelve years ago this country
was a swamp. Today it is one of the
richest farming sections of the
world.
The secret of this great stride in
Southeast Missouri is the draining of
this vast swamp area. Five counties
in this section were little more than
swamps. Now they are fertile fields,
dotted with well-built farm houses.
The early operations in dredging
We're performed with common dredge
ditches This method was slow and
costly. Under the best conditions a
dredger could not dig more than a
mile month. And then in addition
the timber had to be cut in front of
it and the stumps grubbed out before
o ditch could be dug. This was
slow, expensive work.
Thousands and thousands of fer
tile acres were lying unused be-
cause it cost too much money to
dredge them in ordinary way. How
was il to be done? The man to meet
tho situation uac Nov 7 Octpar nf
Charleston, Mo. He conceived the
idea of blasting bitches through the
swamps with dynamite. A powder
company was interested in the
scheme and it was tried out on Mr..
Cstner's farm. 1t worked, and today
several thousand acres of fine fields
are the results of the idea.
Dynamite was found to be as eff
fective for digging bitches as the
dredge. even when the land was COW
cred by foot or three feet of water.
A dynamited ditch is not so even and
regular when first dug as is one dug
by hand or dredge, but it soon
squares up when the water begins to
flow through it.
When a ditch is blasted there is
no delay and no outlay for expensive
equipment. The only machinery nee
essary is an iron bar pointed at one
end. In dry ground a sledge or a.
maui is necessary to make the holes
in which to drop the dynamite. When
bitches are dug by dynamite the ma
terial is thrown out over the land
and not heaped up along the sides of
the ditch, thus taking up valuable
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-07
MADE IN MISSOURI.

There are goods made in Ger
many" made in the United States,
made in Columbia" Peculiar, isn't
it.. that nobody ever conceived the
idea, made in Missouri"
Somebody in Iowa did conceive
just such an idea. AS result the
state legislature officially authorized
a trade mark to be placed on goods
manufactured in Iowa. This trade
mark was registered last week and
will soon be seen all over the world.
1t is in the form of a seal. The
design is hawks head within cog
wheel, bearing the words, made in
Iowa" So far as is known Iowa is
the first and only state to adopt an
official trade mark.
Missouri can't be first, but she can
be second, and she cannot afford to
be outdone in advertising by sis
ter state
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-07
Great Composers
Mozart.

So sunny and so cheerful is the
music of Mozart that the ordinary
concert goer, it is said, fails to ap-
preciate it. He is such a contrast to
such a pleasant, easy music, so free
from the sOrrOwful, that the average
layman does not grasp its real worth
In the last few years there has
been a Mozart revival in Germany
and Austria with headquarters at
Vienna, where the master spent the
greater part of his life.
Mozart was the son of a profess
siOnal musician. He was given all
the advantage of a thorough musi-
cal education. Born in provincial
town in Austria-Hungary in 1856, he
began to compose when but years
old. He was an accomplished pianist
at even an earlier age. The first
twenty-five years of his life We're
spent on professional tours of Eu-
rope, alternated with quiet periods
at his home at Salzburg where he
studied and composed.
For a while he was music-director
to the archbishop of Salzburg. Be-
coming dissatisfied, he resigned. The
last ten years of his life, 17S1-1791,
bt Snent in Vienna &C q teacher
pianist and composer. In 1882 he
married a light-hearted and frivO-
lUus woman. and from that time sank
deeper and deeper into debt and pow
erty.
Mozart was gay, pleasure loving,
simple and of affectiOnate nature
He was utterly improvident and de-
void of intellectual distinction out
side of music.
During the last decade of his life,
while overworked and burdened with
the anxiety of debt and poverty, he
wrote his three great operas, 'The
Marriage of Figaio," Don Giovanni"
and "The Magic Flute and his
greatest quartets, quintets. and 9TH
er chamber music. In one summer
he wrote his three great symphonies
in E-fiat. G-minor and C. Major.
Mozart died in 1871 just when his
fortune seemed to be on the upturn.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-07
SCHOOLS AS A PEACE MAKER.

Through the American public
schools, alien children. their mothers
and their relatives are brought to-
gether more or less under the ANAL
gamating influence As rule, in the
classroom, there is no Gentle. no
Jew. no German. no French. but all
students look upon one other as
members of this great human family.
They are certainly taught true de-
n.ocracy and brotherhood of man.
When they grow up, they will exert
great influence in bringing about
peace.
When the entire world denounces
war and praises peace, the American
public school must not be forgotten
as a factor in international concilli-
alton.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-07

land.
To dig a ditch with dynamite an
iron rod is used to punch the holes
along the line that one wishes the
ditch to run. The dynamite is then
placed in the holes and exploded with
an electric blasting cap. bitches as
long as 1900 feet, 16 to 90 feet wide
and to feet deep can be dug in
this mannar.
Dynamite works best in wet or
clayey soils, as the dirt will stick to-
gether better than will dry or sandy
soils. In digging bitches through
timbered land all that is necessary is
tn cut the trees down. The dynamite
will blow out the stumps.
Another method of using dyna-
mite in swampy ground is to blow
out holes in the bottom of the swamp
fer the water to drain through.
Where it is necessary to dig ditch
through mile or so OF dry land to
make an outlet for swamp. the
cheaper plan is to bore several holes
20 to 80 feet deep in the bottom of
the swamp to receive the dynamite.
This breaks up the hard pan in the
bottom of the lake or swamp and al
lows the water to drain away into the
lOOser sand at the bottom of the
holes.
A few years ago a farmer in Kan
sas had forty-acre swamp that had
bothered him ever since he owned
the farm. 1t was situated in a sort
OF a natural basin and had no outlet.
II would have cost several hundred
dollars to drain it in the ordinary
way. The farmer put several rows
OF dynamite across the bottom of the
swamp about 35 feet apart. In a
few weeks after the dynamite was ex-
ploded the swamp dried up and 1900
bushels of oats were raised on the
ground that it occupied. Since that
time four crops of alfalfa year
have been raised on the ground.
The possibilities of this method
OF digging bitches are just beginning
to be realized. bitches can be dug
quickly. more easily and through
places that it is next to impossible to
dig them by any other means. Mr..
Ostner found that it cost 500 to
dig a ditch with dynamite that would
have cost $500 to dig by any other
means.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-07
THE MCNAMARA CASE.

The confessions of the Mcnamara
brothers at Los Angeles have result
ed in the discontinue of several high
union officials. The officials referred
to had previously appeared in print
in strong declarations that the Nc
Namaras were innocent and had ia
ken part in raising a slush fund for
their defense.
No sensible person would attempt
TO argue that dynamiting and assas-
sination form a part of the program
OF the labor movement. The accusa-
ton against the McManaras was
not, therefore, an accusation
against union labor. 1t was not
tion against union labor. 1t was not
labor's battle until certain labor lead
ers endeavored to make it so.
he uleQ W no uldue uO IdSu dSStl =
tions of conspiracy against labor
have nothing to take back or explain
now. A great many members OF or
ganized labor declared from the start
that the issue was a personal one,
concerning only the guilt or inno-
cence of individuals. There is no
reason why a member of union la
Dor, accused of crime, should not face
the law on the same footing as any
other man. Certainly it is mis-
guided principle to apply the discard
ed doctrine of lesse majestic to union
labor.