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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
LOOKS FOR SALE
OF DEs MONIES CLUB
President Tip o'NeilI Receives op'
tiohs on Sites For New Park
In Iowa City.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 1a.-President
Tip" o'Neill of the Western League
announced yesterday that he expected
10 receive word OF the purchase OF
the Des Molnes franchise at any mo-
ment He has already received the
options on the two pieces of down.
town property which are being consid.
ered as the site for the ball park and
the other is situated near the viaduct.
President O'NeilI favors the latter, as
IT will be better adapted for the con-
struction Of the 25cent bleachers.
President O'Neill will introduce two
new umpires today. having secured
Knapp and Weaver from the defunc.
Central Kansas League. Knapp VIII
make his Western league debut at TO
peka and Weaver at st. Joseph.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
FOUR HUNDRED
BURNED UP
Forest Fires Near Toronto Took
Many Lives and Wiped Out Many
Villages and Little
Homes.
DROWNED
Fifteen Men Driven Into Water by
Smoke and Flames, Met Their
Death by Being
Drowned.

TORONTO, July 1s.--It is estimated
that from 800 to 400 lives were lost
in the Porcupine fires on Tuesday,
many have been injured and hundreds
are missing.
Fifteen men we're drowned at South
Porcupine when they were driven in
to the lake by the dense clouds OF
smoke and wave of fire. Two men
were burned to death at Eldorado
mine and another met similar fate
at the United Porcupine mines. Three
towns have been destroyed and hun
dreds of refugees are facing starva-
ton.
children was rushed out Of Cochrane
for the south, as the wall of flames
advanced toward the village. The
town OF $500 persons was soon mass
of fire, and is entirely Destroyer.
South Porcupine and Pittsville are
| charred ruins.
Golden City was surrounded by
| flames for hours, and still is in dan
ger, although only the suburbs have
burned Part of Tisdale has been de
stroyed, the fire only being controlled
by dynamiting dozen houses in the
center of the town.
Two special trains have been SEN
to bring the 1000 persons who are fac
4 ing starvation or death by fire in thu
Tinsdale district Communication
with the stricken districts is exceed
ingly difficult.
I The flames swept down on Souti
Porcupine and Pittsville almost with
out warning. Alarm came just in tim,
for the people to rush for the lake
but they were forced to abandon thei
belongings.
Gasoline boats, rowboats and ever
hastily improvised RATS were utilizet
to get the refugees, many Of whom
were women and children, across tn
lake to Golden City. There are only
few days provisions left in Golde
City.
The laborers employed on the Or
tario Governments new railroad lin
from Golden City west reached tn
city after desperate fight with th
flames, In which many were badl
burned. They lost everything but til
, clothes they wore. The town of Kels
was abandoned after a fight lastln
since Sunday.
The Toronto Board of Traeo sui
scribed $1,000, the City of Toronto S.
600 and individuals as much more t
assist the suffering people in the fir,
! swept area. There have been cal
), along the railroad lines for nurse
and doctors and many towns are r
spending nobly. Telephone and tel
!. graph communication with numero,
: points has failed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
DEATH COMES
TO MISS LOWREY
Passed Away at Her Home In Ferris,
ILL.,, at the Age Of Thirty
Years.

FERRIS, ILL.,, Julq 13.-Miss Linnie
Irene Lowery, daughter of John w.
and Annie A. Lowery, was born on
the old place near Ferris, Nov 26,
1880 Died at her home at Ferris at
1o::3o on the 10th day of July, 1911,
aged 80 years months and IA days.
She united with the M, P, churc+
when quite young and has been as.
sociated with the church ever since.
She was member Of the Rebekah
order at Ferris
She leaves to mourn her death
father and mother and two brothers
William and Roy. also one sister, Mrs
H. s. Bailey of Derby, Kan, and many
relatives and host Of friends both in
church and lodge and community.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
knickerbocker Company Of New York
Takes Advantage Of Hot Spell to
Get Rich Quick by
Hold Up.
POOR PEOPLE REBEL
Mayor Gaynor Takes Hand In tho
Matter and viii Try and Give
the People Their
Needs.

NEW YORK. July 13.-Ice riots
broke out on the east side among the
poor. Prices have risen from 200 to
300 per cent in the course of the hot
spell, and the increased demand has
been 80 heavy that the Knickerbock-
er Ice Company refuses to sell to any
but its own retail dealers. The inde-
pendent dealers sell. but only at adj
vanced rates.
One hundred men and women
stormed the office of the Foster-Scott
Company. yelling ice; give us ice"
Many had sick children dying FOR iac.,
OF ice.
Smash the windows" yelled the
crowd.
Buckets of water from the windows
greeted the leaders, but, the crowd
growing angrier, the manager decided
to quiet 1t by distributing tickets
which could be exchanged for ice at
the company's pier.
The district attorney said that a
delegation of dealers who can not get
ice from the Knickerbocker had ask
ed to wait On him.
Mayor Gaynor took a hand in the
ice famine" matter by ordering Police
Commissioner Waldo to investigate
complaints that the Knickerbocker
Company in refusing to sell to the So
called independent wagons. The may
or directed that policemen be sent out
to ascertain whether the company Is
restricting the amount of ice it brings
to the city daily in order to enhance
prices, and the number of independent
wagons which it is refusing to supply;
and adds, this information we can
4 lay before the district attorney
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
GRAND DADDY OF
ALL THE TRUSTS
Trunk Line Association is Father OF
Railroads Which Is tho
First Papa.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-"Have-
meyer said the tariff was the mother
of the trust and am prepared to
show the railroad is the father" as
serted Frank L. Neall of Philadelphia,
weight rate expert before the Hard
wick sugar trust committee.
IF you will go back far enongh.'
he said you will find the trunk line
association is the grand daddy"
Neall described how the present
freight rate on sugar was the same
to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington.
"In other words, when they don't
want to. the railroads don't consider
distance in making rate said
Neall
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
s5,ooo,ooo Properly Loss.

COBALT, Ont, July 13.-with lists
compiled today showing more than
500 dead and property damage of at
least five millions, the fire in the
Porcupine district of New Ontario is
still unchecked. The flames, having
destroyed the mines, are now rush
ing through thousands of acres Of
heavily timbered lands. The latest
estimate of dead in the Porcupine dis
trict is more than 200 Ten mines are
reported completely Or partially de-
stroyed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
ANOTHER BLOW
AT TOBACCO TRUST
Southern Cigarette Concern Awarded
Damages After Court
Hearing.

RALEIGH, N. c., July Another
blow at the American Tobacco Co., as
conspiracy in restraint of trade, "
was given here today when the jury
in the case of the Ware Kramer Gig
arctic Co., of Norfolk. Va, against
the trust. The jury found in favor
of the cigarette company, recommend
ing $4,000 damages. According to
"the trouble damage" section of the
Sherman law, the Norfolk company
can now recover 100000 from the
trust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Rio erande Changing Channel.

GALVESTON. Texas, July 13-The
destructive flood in the Rio Grande,
which is out of its banks for nearly a
mile in width in many places, Is cut
ting new river bed, which. accord
ing to the terms of the international
Boundary Commission, will give Tex
as more than 10000 acres of land
The river is cutting due south from a
bend extending into Mexico at the ex
treme western limits of Jeff Davis
county, into its original bed, about
thirty-five miles below this point, in
Presidio county. The report says the
current has secured a channel 20 feet
deep in many places in the new
course.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Fisher VIII Help.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Secretary
Fisher of the interior department to-
day told the house committee on ex-
penditures in the interior department
that he would cooperate with tho
in every way possible to secure infor-
nation regarding the alleged attempt
of the n-Guggenheim syndicate
to secure control of Controller Bay,
Alaska, thus controlling the outlet for
all Of the rich mining products of the
region.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Entire Family Burned up by Explo
sion OF the OIL Which Had
Been Used as an Ex-
Termination.
IN CRACKS OF FLooa
Little Children so Horribly crematee
That Nothing but Bones Could
be Found After.
wards.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo, July
30. J. Williams, pump man on the
Rio Grande and Western railroad, his
wife and three small daughters are
dead today, the result of a gasoline
explosion at Rubby, twenty-three miles
west of here.
Two of the children were so badly
burned that nothing was found ex-i
cept the skulls and leg bones.
The gasoline was poured in the
cracks of the floor of the house to
kill bugs. The cause of the ignition
is unknown
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Mystery Increases.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 13-The mys-
terry surrounding the suicide of James
Petit in Lake Michigan at Chicago,
president of the F. H. Peavey & Co,
grain dealers, was increased here
when F. r. Hesselfinger, now head of
the company, declared that Petit had
destroyed papers bearing on his stock
market losses. Hesselfnger was here
in connection with the investigation
of the alleged one million dollar short
age of the company.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
nat. for Haullna Coal.

SPRINGFIELD, H., July 13.--Twen,
ty Chicago coal operators today filed
a complaint with the state railroad
and warehouse commission protesting
against raise in the rate for hauling
coal The operators assert that the
roads have increased the switching
rates for coal in Chicago yards from 10
to 40 cents per ton. The commission
will meet in Chicago July "a to hear
the operators complaints and the
roads answers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Senator Hepburn Says That is the
Way the Canadian Reciprocity
Bill Came to
Congress.
FREE LIST AMENDMENT
sa''ey's Suggestion Is Defeated by
Such Decisive Vote That Roll
Call is Not Neces-
sary.

WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator
Beiley's free list amendment to the
Canadian reciprocity bill was defeat.
cd IN the senate by a large majority.
As 1t was evident there was a margin
against it, Senator Bailey did not ask
for a roll call Pursuing the policy of
Forcing the opponents of reciproc.
ity to proceed without delay, Senator
Penrose urged Senator. Bailey to in
troduce his wool tariff amendment at
once, The latter did so, and the SEN
ate adjourned with the amendment
pending. 1t is modification of the
wool tariff bill recently passed by the
house and places all duties on raw and
manufactured wool at a general aver
age of 80 per cent.
The consideration of the reciprocity
bill Is expected to move with rapidity
from now on. The wool amendment
will probably be disposed of today
and Senators LaFollette and Bristow
are ready with their amendments and
| their speeches against the BILL
I
crate and like terms were applied to
the republican senators supporting the
| bill by Senator Hepburn of Idaho in
! a speech against the measure. He
declared that when the vote on the
| lii Is taken all real republicans in the
senate will be opposed to it, while the
"semi-democrats'' will vote for it
/ along with the ''fee-simpie democrats.
How can we educate the leader o.
the party back to republican prin
/ ciples?" asked Senator Nelson of Min
nesota
who is the leader of the republi
can party?" asked Mr.. Hepburn.
Senator Bailey replied that the re
publicans were in a state of mutin,
i and did not know their leader.
j Mr.. Hepburn declared that the reci
Z prcc ty bill came to congress wrap
ped in the flag of the pirate
eve are told: Here's the bill: nov
you pass it without any change
said Mr.. Hepburn.
He declared that he opposed amend
renis to the bill as we'll as the bill
itself, because every amendment il
a splinter off the republican fiagstaf
of protective policy"
THAT can't be-" interjected Senate
Clapp; "the Flagstaff has been broker
and the fss pulled down.
: "Ill bet you 100000 republican
votes that is not true said Hepburn
He added that he believed the re
publicans would ultimately come to
gether again on protective principles
F, Asked by Senator Bailey as to hoy
he would classify the insurgents. Hey
burn said they were mavericks" wait
ing to be branded
"If they can be rounded up in tn
white house lot know how the
/, will be branded said Senator Bailey
!, Senator Hepburn characterize
e some of the progressiyes as "prt
: crossing like a crab; you can't te
which way they're going"
9 "This Is not the death bed of tn
republican party said Senator He'
d burn. referring to the split in the n
Z publican ranks, "but it Will be tn
e death bed of many of the men wh
are supporting this reciprocity bi
when the people realize that 1t mean
the pulling down of the protectiy
system
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
uo.her Dies In Hospital as Result Of
INJURIES Received In Runaway
With Babe In
Arms.
SKULL WAS FRACTURED
t,ttIe Tot Was Without Scratch and
Was Saved From Death by
Protecting Arm Of Its
Mother.

DpS MONIES, July 13.-Mrs. Ollie
Kelley. wife of a teamster living near
Fort Des Moines, died at Mercy hos
pital from injuries received in a run.
away early in the evening. Mrs. Kel
ley's young baby. which she held in
her arms, miraculously escaped injury
when It's mother was hurled from the
wagon she was riding on to the pave
ment Mrs. Kelley sustained a frac-
tured skull as well as internal injuries
She never recovered consciousness.
Mrs Kelly with her baby in her
arms. held the team hitched to her
husbands wagon while he went into
the Farr grocery, at South Ninth and
Elder Lane. The horses became
frightened at piece of newspaper
which was blown under their feet,
and started on mad gallop down
Ninth street.
Mrs Kelley was handicapped in
her efforts to stop the team by the
child in her arms.
In one hand the woman held the
reins over the plunging team, but
she would not risk a hair of the
baby's head and clutched the little
tot in her free arm. The wagon struck
stone in the street and the woman
and child we're flung high in the air
Mrs Kelley lit on the back of hel
head but held her baby high above
her to protect it from injury.
She. was picked up shortly after the
accident by her husband, who hat
run after the team. The baby, with
out scratch, was lying In its moth
ers arms, although she was uncon
scious and blood streamed from sast
in her head. She was rushed to Nero,
hospital, but in spite of the best medi
cal attention, died at II o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kelley were drivin,
into town Tuesday night to visit MI
Kelley's mother, Mrs. ]. NJ. Murray o
sos East Ninth street The funera
will be held from the Murray resi-
dence tomorrow afternoon at 2:S0
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
CONSTANTLY IN
DAILY PAPERS
Negro Who Is Doing somrthng is
Seldom Heard OF BY tho

WEST POINT, Miss, July 1S.-The
third days session OF the grand lodge
OF negro Pythians was spent In hear
Ing reports OF grand officers and gen.
eral routine business Grand ChanceE
lor John w. Harris denounced lynch
ing and urged the negro knights to do
all in their power to pur down idle
ness and loafiing among the young
negro men.
The most prominent negro In TINS
country" he said, the one who is con-
stantly in the daily papers, is the crap
shooting, crimieal negro, but the ne
srn who is doing something you hard
ly ever hear of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Cholera Spreads.

ROME, July 13.-Despite all denials
and efforts of the government to con-
ceal the real situation, the cholera is
spreading in Italy and the epidemic
is rapidly becoming more serious.
Numerous new cases are reported
from Venice and Naples.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast.

Until p. M. Friday.
For Keokuk and vicinity-Fair to-
night and Friday. Slightly cooler to-
night
For Illinois-Fair and Slightly cooler
tonight Friday fair with moderate
temperature
For Towa-Fair and somewhat cook
er tonight Friday fair.
For Missouri-Fair tonight with
slightly cooler in north portion FRI
day fair with moderate temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
O. The Ice Trust"

NEWARK, N. j., July 1S.--"D--
the ice trust, the milk trust and
everything else that is making hot
weather an excuse for boosting the
price of ice and milk writes the Rev.
l.. S. osborne in contributing to the
Ice fund today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
paadu To Tru AnaIn.

AKRON, Ohio, July 13.--Ray zorn.
who fell 100 feet on the trial fight OF
a homemade biplane announced to-
day that he would give himself
chance to fall much farther on the
next flight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Weather Conditions.

The northwestern field of high pres.
sure is extending eastward to the
western lakes and the Ohio Valley.
It's crest remaining In Montana. It's
influence is causing lower temperature
over the eastern half of the country,
and there have been scattered show
ers in portions OF the Lower Missouri
and Upper Mississippi Valleys. and
on the Gulf Coast,
There is a depression in Arizona, and
the pressure is diminishing on the Pas
cifc Slope with slowly rising temper
ature from the coast to the Mountain
Region.
Conditions indicate fair weather
for this section tonight and Friday
and somewhat cooler tonight
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Eva Booth Is Heat Victim.

NEW YORK, July 13.-Eva Booth
commander of the Salvation Army, is
i'll from heat prostration It was an
nounced at the army's headquarters
that she has had several fainting
spells and found 1t impossible to
keep an appointment to address the
Christian Endeavor convention in At
lantic City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
SEVEN MINUTES
UNDER WATER
Man Who DIved Got His Head Caught
Between Two Rocks on Bot
tom and Could Not
Rise.
RESCUED BY COMPANION
Was Nearly Dead When Finally
Yanked Out But is Living
to Tell the Expert
ence.

NEW YORK, July 1s-Gabriel Cross
dived into the river. His head got
caught in the bottom between two
stones.
After seven minutes companions sue
ceeded in freeing him. He was nearly
dead when taken out of the water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Seventeen Die In philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 13-Al-
though cooling showers gave some re-
lief here from the torrid weather,
seventeen deaths from prostration
were reported to the coroner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Keokuk's Big Dam

The following statement ap-
peared In recent issue of the
Los Angeles Record:
Do you know that in two years
more they will have completed
the second biggest dam In the
world at keokuk, Iowa?
It's power plant will make the
upper Mississippi valley one Of
the worlds greatest manufact-
Ing centers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Rain Ends Cole County Drought.

MAIN Ends CoIe County UTUuSHe'
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, July l3.-
Residents OF Centertown, in the west
ern part of Cole county, held JONI
fication meeting last night, when
rain fell. breaking the drought In tha'
section. The rain was general through
out Cole county. except In the vicinity
Jefferson City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Berlin In Grip Of Hot Wave.

BERLIN, July ia heat wave has
engulfed Berlin. The thermometers
in the downtown section registered a
maximum temperature of 102 de-
grees.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Twenty-Three New England Victims.

TWenty-Three New England Victims.
BOSTON, Mass, July 13.-Two
deaths from the heat in Boston and
twenty-one in other parts of Mass
achusetts and in Rhode Island were
reported up to noon. All the weather
signs indicate that within twenty-four
hours there will be decided drop
in the temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13

ATLANTA, Ca, July 13.-Governor
Hoke Smith was chosen United States
senator from Georgia on the first
joint ballot of the legislature,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
cnnInn Celebration.

A little girl in Sabetha, Kan. is to
be baptized next Sunday, and she is
proudly telling her friends that she
is to be advertised.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Local Observations.

Mean temperature, July 12, 70.
Highest temperature, IS.
Lowest temperature, 70.
Lowest temperature last night, SO.
GFED 2, GoSEwISCH,
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
Daily River Bulletin.
Stage. Height. Chang e W.
River Fore

River Forecast.
The river will remain nearly station
airy during the next As hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
ANOTHER VICTIM
OF THE WRECK,
Death of Injured Passenger Brings the
Total Now UP to the Four
team MARI

BRIDGEPURT, Conn.,, July 13.-Tha
death toll of the Federal express
wreck was raised to fourteen today
when another injured victim died. 1t
is now charged that partially opened
switch caused the wreck. The coroner
resumed the investigation today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-18
Record Season For River

From present indications, 1911
pearl fshings from the upper Missis-
sippi river will be fully as great or
greater than those of the past year
And in 1910 the big river gave up
more fresh water pearls than ever be-
fore said W. r. Ankeny of Bellevue,
Iowa The Iowa man is an authority
on pearls and travels extensively,
often to foreign lands, selling pearls.
Mr.. Ankeny attributes the 1910 in
crease in fshings to the low stage
of water in the Mississippi river dur
ing the entire season. Judging from
weather reports and forecasts. and
reports that northern tributaries are
not contributing the usual volume OF
water to the mother stream, the pearl
expert believes he has erred in pre-
dieting continued low water in the
season now opening
The past season. states Mr.. Ankeny,
brought to light much information
that will prove invaluable TO this
years clam fishers. Because Of the
shadows many rich clam beds that in
former years were not discovered be
cause of the great depth of the water.
were fshed out and yielded rich re-
turns IN pearls. While the river was
low, the fishers drafted
charts which located the unfished