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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
THREE CREMATED
IN THE BLAZE
Pool Room and Rooming House In
Mining Town Was Mass of
Flames.

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CALIFORNIA, Penn, Dec. 20
Three men were burned to death early
today in a pool room and rooming
house at Daisytown, mining hamlet
near here. Six others escaped from
the burning building by jumping from
the windows of the second floor.
The dead are:
WESLEY MCCOY, %, Brownsville,
Penn.
JOHN LowTHER, %, smock,
Penn
]. MINTYRE, 23, shuster, w. Va.
The flames started in the pool room
from an unknown cause.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Atlas. Not Ajax.

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COLUMBIA, Mo-, Dec. 30 Students
OF mythology are kidding the editors
of the University Missourian today be-
cause the last number of the publica-
tion of the School of Journalism as
serted that "Old Man Football is the
Ajax who carries the world of athletics
on his shoulders" The myth" stu
dents draw attention to the fact that
Mr.. Atlas, not Mr. Ajax, had the job
of holding up the globe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
DECIDES THAT
SHE WAS MURDERED
coroner's Verdict Has Been Given
Out in the Or. knabe
Case.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 2s,-Dr.
Helene Knabe, ne woman physician
and pathologist, found dead in her
fiat here on October 21 with her
throat cut from ear to ear, was muir
dered, according to the verdict re-
turned today by Coroner Durham.
The coroner makes no attempt to
specify what causes may have led to
the murder of the woman, who was
formerly state official He asserts,
however, that there had been many
happenings and complications that
may have led to misunderstanding
and thereby prompted a motive for
murder
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Weather Conditions.

The pressure remains high from the
lakes southwark, and the weather is
generally fair, and moderately cold,
over the eastern portion of the coun-
try, with light frost as far south as
northern Florida.
High winds attend depression on
the northeastern cosat
A moderate depression in eastern
Nebraska has been accompanied by a
decided rise of temperature in the
lower Missouri and upper Mississippi
valleys, while a field of very high pres
sure in North Dakota Is attended by
severe cold in Montana and the Da-
kotas, and snow from the northern
mountain region to the northern lakes.
Conditions indicate snow and much
colder weather for this section to-
night and Saturday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
HANDS LEMON
TO RAILROADS
Rate on Lemons From California
Must be Cut
Down.
WAS MADE PREVIOUSLY
Order Of Commission Begins a New
Line of Attack Upon the
Commerce Court
Decisions.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 90 The in
terstate commerce commission today
handed down new order in the Cali
fornia lemon rate cases for the second
time prescribing rate of one dollar
a hundred pounds on lemons shipped
from southern California to points
east of the Rocky mountains, and or
dered the railways to cease charging
the $1.15 rate for two years after
February Is, 1912.
The commissions order today is
precisely the same as the one enjoin
ed by the commerce court in October
The commission also granted south
ern California lemon growers repara
tion Of all freight charges paid ex
ceeding one dollar per hundred pounds
the amounts to be determined later.
The commissions order begins
new line of attack in the war agains
the commerce court.
The court held that the commission
had exceeded its authority in redue
ing the rates. The decision again tc
day by the commission, will, it is e,
pected, put the question of the res
sonableness of the rates up to tn
commerce court-which feature wa
not considered by the higher tribuns
in the first decision
Most of the commerce court deci
ions against which the commissio
complains were appealed to the 81
preme court and come up for hearin
on January s.
The new order is based on the fact
that the railroads in the past have @
: occasions maintained lower rates G
: lemons than on oranges; that I'll
average haul of lemons is 800 mile
. less than for oranges, and that mo-
. oranges than lemons move under r
frigeration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Chicago Man Elected as Head Of the
Distributors Of Learning
In the State Of
illinois.
BIBLE IN TUE SCHOOL
Association Decides to Not Bring
New Test Case on the Right to
Read the Holy
Book.

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 29.--The
Illinois State Teachers Association
closed its annual meeting here at noon
today by electing the following Off
GERS:
President, ]. D. Shoop Chicago;
first vice president, H. E. Brown,
Chicago: second vice president, Anna
Parnalee. Normal; third vice presi-
dent, F. D. McKittrick, Geneva; Sec
retary, Caroline Grote, Macomb; rail
way secretary, w. ]. Harrows, Chi
cago; treasurer, w. H. Herbert, Pom
tiac; executive committee member for
two years, G.. T. Smith, Peoria; for
three years, G. P. Randle, Mattoon;
board of directors, Grace Reid. Chi.
cago: S. e. Ranes, Freeport; Mrs
Constance Barlow Smith, Champaign;
Miss Anna Morse, Charleston; T. 9
Clendenin, Cairo; W. N. Campbell
Chicago.
The selection of the place of meet
ing next year was left to the exc
cutive committee.
The association refused to appro
pirate 500 for the committee named
yesterday to bring new test case IL
the supreme court on the right to rea'
the bible in the schools.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
ShusteJs Successor.

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LONDON, Dec. 29-Both Russia
and Great Britain are supporting M.
Mornand, the Belgian who was form
erlv director of customs IN Persia, as
successor to W. Morgan Shuster, as
treasurer, according to a dispatch
from Teheran today. The Persians
favor the selection of F. E. Cairns, the
American who was Shuster's chief
assistant, but the government is ex.
pected to yield to the desires of Rus
sia and England.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Says England 10 Jealous and susplc,.
Gus Of Germany az World
Power and Liable to
Cause Trouble.
AND WAR MAY RESULT
New Light Is Thrown Upon Subject
Which j. Ensro:;slng ali Europe
at the Present
Time.

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BERLIN, Dec. 29.-Denouncing Eng
lands Jealousy and suspicion of
Germany as a world power" and Wig
orously defending the fatherland's
peaceful settlement of the Moroccan
trouble, Prof. Hans G. l.. Delbruck,
Germany's foremost historian and po-
litical writer and editor Of the 1Prus.
sian Yearbooks," today gave out a
statement to the United Press in
which he throws new light upon a
subject that is engrossing all Europe.
He said:
by Prof. Hans. G. L. Deibruck.]
England's jealousy and suspicion Of
Germany as a world power Is the
cause of the present Anglo-German
difficulty. If England continues to
step in Germany's way at every op-
portunity, if she persists in looking
upon every German move with sus-
picion, war may result.
History will record the peaceable
settlement of the Morocco difficulty
without war, and Germany's modera.
ton under the affronts Of Great Brit.
ain, is one of the greatest moral and
diplomatic victories the world has
known.
The result was made possible only
by the strength Of the German gov.
ernment; by thu strength Of German
diplomacy and the strength and wis
dom OF the men directing 1t.
One cannot expect the public tl
view International relations ant
world affairs in the proper light Pub
lie opinion is driven by instinct, no
by discernment. In America We aTt
often misrepresente as an imperial
site nation ever seeking a conques
by force of arms. When We decline
| to go to war for something that doe
not justify such course, and reacl
an agreement, peacefully, that not on
| ly. brings great benefits to ourselve
and the French nation. but to Moroo
co itself. We are pictured as defeat
ed. humiliated, afraid"
There Is no denying the fact tha
great bitterness exists between Eng
land and Germany. No one can teI
what may be in the future. 1t is absur
/ to say that war between these grea
countries is unavoidable" Such
conflict would be terrible-a almost
crime against civilization. Still it |
! by no means out of the question
Much depends upon England's polio
towards Germany
The danger from France is past Sh
has but little more than half as man
inhabitants as Germany. We woul
we'll afford to let France have Morrot
CO and wish her the best luck wit
the possession. But there Is such
\ thing as the English peril" We hav
no desire to see the entire worl
anglocized. We want to see tn
French civilization grow and flourish
We want the German civilization t
keep its place, The world is bi
enough for all of us. But England see
in our growth a danger to her inte
ests-a rival in commerce and trad
That is the situation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Steamer in the Mud.

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PROVIDENCE, R. l., Dec. 29.-The
JOY line steamer Georgia went ashore
on the mud flats in upper Narragansett
bay this morning, in a terrific off
shore gale that made the tide the low
est in years Up to ten O'Clock the
passengers had not been taken off, it
being considered they were not in any
danger The captain is waiting an in
coming tide to float the ship.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
General Sha!er Dead.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 29,-General
Alexander Shaler, one of the best
known members of the state national
guard, founder of the National Rifle
association; former commodore of the
Loyal Legion. ex-president of the
American Geographical Society and
for years prominent in New York
politics, died at his home here aged
S5
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Was Forced to It.

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NEW YORK, Dec. Colonel
Roosevelt announced at his office to-
day that hereafter he will refuse to
disclose the names of any callers, or
what their business with him is about.
He took this action because of the
embarrassment caused certain recent
visitors by stories published regarding
their motives in calling on him at his
editorial office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Snow to-
night and Saturday. Colder tonight
with cold wave.
For Illinois: Increasing cloudiness
with snow in the northern, and rain
or snow in the southern portion late
tonight and Saturday Colder in the
northwest portion tonight.
For Iowa: Snow tonight and Sat
urday. Colder tonight, with cold
wave in the west and central portions
Colder in the east portion Saturday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
More Dynamite Found.

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CAIRO, ILL.,, Dec. 29.-Local police
admitted today that they had been
working for five days in vain effort
to discover who placed package con-
tanning fourteen large sticks of dyna-
mite under the bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at Thebes, III. The package,
which had cap and fuse attached,
was discovered by farmer near the
bridge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Or. Mayo,s Condition.

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NEW YORK, Dec 29.-The physi-
clans and friends of DR.. Chas. Mayo,
the Minnesota surgeon, were much en-
couraged by his condition last night
and today. He was stronger than al
any time since his second operation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
twenty Years for Murder.

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PARIS, H., Dec 29.--John Rusk-
man and Frank Menke, charged with
the murder OF Richard Brown April 5
of this year, today we're found guilty
by jury here. The punishment Of
each was fixed at twenty years in the
penitentiary,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Cheap Cost of Voting.

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LOS ANGELES. Cal, Dec. 29.-The
Southern California Political Equity
league announced that 1t cost the
women OF California 1853 cents vote
to win their suffrage fight at the re-
cent election.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Local Observations.
Bar. Their. Wind Weather.

Dec Bar.Ther. Wind. W Gather.
2s Z pm. :. 80. 80 % Sc Clear
30 I am ]. 1919 20 Sc PIT Cldy
Mean temperature, Dec. %, Is.
Highest temperature, 81.
Lowest temperature, 6.
Lowest temperature last night, "a.
FRED. 2. GOsEWIsCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-29
Daily River Bulletin.
Stage. Height. Cha
River Forecast.

Owing to ice formation the river will
fall at Keokuk during the next forty
eight hours.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
HAWAIpS PACIFIC COAST FRIEND.

Representatives of the Alaska canneries coming to these
islands to pirate the labor from industries have found
practically united community and certainly one that ready
to tiQht when its prosperity is threatened.
is to be hoped that they have had enough. If they have
not and the labor must continue, there is plan for de-
veopng SaunCh commercial friends that should not be
ignored.
The Alaska CannereS have their headquarters in Pacific
Coast cities that do large business with and through Homo
lulu II these communities propose to take the good money
of trade with hand and turn around and Coune-
the robbery of our labor with the other it is high time
that business of the islands began to more seriously
consider the advances made by other cities of the Pacific
Coast to secure the business of Hawaii.
Los Angeles has shown itself ready and anxious to do
everything in to build up trade with the islands. That
commercial center has all the advantages Of water and rail
connections and could do for Hawaii all that done by
San Francisco Seattle from which cities the labor pr
ateS appear to be operating.
1t would cost money of course to transfer Hawa's bust
ness to another trade center but not much would to
do business with communities that are harborng labor pr
atnU expeditions.
II San Francisco and Seattle prefer labor pirates of Alas
ka to the trade of Hawaii they ought to be given an oppor
tLInity to choose
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
PASS THE SCHOOL BILL

No legitimate excuse be given by any member of the
House OF Representatives for further delay in final action
on the Public School bill.
The only possible for delay is to the
for trading purposes, political log rolling, to force through
other bill that does not have the hold upon public
favor and that has not merited the unanimous sup
port from all elements in the Territory
Under the present conditions the only possible purpose
of holding up the School bill is to threaten to kill it in event
an element behind certain features of the tax bill does not
do as another element wants. Either side Of the Conro
verSy apparently stands ready to knife the school bill its
ideas on the tax bill are not carried cut and then is
peCed that the public will be satisfied to sit Idly by and listen
to the who put the knife into the School bill argue over
who was responsible for it.
doubt of the absolute good faith of the members who claim
to be friendly to the but who day after day
lodging straight CearCu vote that will put them on
ord
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
HAWAII COUNTY
TALKS LIGHTING

Especial Bulletin CcrrcspondcnCr)
IIILO. Apr. The county Of llu-
wall Is beginning to think seriously Of
going into the street lighting business
on It's own hook and to generate the
lights for its own public buildings us
well The proposition was brought up
at the meeting of the supervisors yes
tcrduy, when Austin introduced the
following resolution, which carried:
Whereas, The county of Hawaii Is
now cXpcnding money in the ncighbor-
hood of four thousand dollars per an
mum for electric lights in the public
streets and the various public build
ings of HllO: and
"Whcreas. This amount represents
an income on capitalization of forty
thousand dollars, reckoning on "a basis
of 10 pCr cent. per annum: ana
whereas, 1t may prove more prof
table to the county Of Hawaii To in
stall its own lighting and power plant
in IlilO; be II therefore
Resolved by the Board Of Supcrvls-
org In and for the county of Hawaii,
That the county clerk be and he II
hereby directed to communicate with
different firms relative to the installing
and cquipping OF plant to generate
electricity, and to ascertain from them
the amount of power which may be
furnished by plant costing in the
neighborhood of forty thousand dollars
and also to obtain figures relative Ia
the cost OF operating such plant"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
SENATOR ON Way
TO SEATTLE,
IS STORY
Continued from Page y
Human Beinus Not Freiuht.

The local customs authorities refuse
to recognize human beings or COnsid-
g. them rs packages pr parcels Of
freight. Following the departure of
the Senator from the llaCkrcld wharf
to the open sea, Il request was made
by the collector of Captain Miller, ask
ing for the number Of persons who
were transported 10y his schooner Con
cord To the Senator. The shipper Of
the Concord Is reported to have dc
clarcd that his vessel carried no pas
scngcrs Pressed for an answer, he
stated that h" carried cargo only.
Two men from the customs stait
then visited the Senator as she Cruis"d
outside the harbOr limits, and upon
boarding the vessel checked up the
"puckugcs of freight" Their count tai
lied one hundred and twenty-five per
sons. Since the tally and prior to the
disappearance of the steamer from
these shores, three or four persons
were brought ashore. 1t Is therefore
believed that the steamer got away
with one hundred and twenty passcn-
gers However, there Is no list of these
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
Makes
HIS FIRST VETO

Governor FrCar took his pen in
hand this morning and exercised his
gubernutorial right of vetoing u leg
islative measure. The unluciiy meas
ure is House Bill 81, introduced by
KeliinOi, relating to the militia. and
provides schedule of pay for mem
bers of the National Guard when on
active duty.
II was the first veto of the session,
but although it excited lot of inter
est around the legislative halls when
SCCrCteIy MedCali marched down
with tie documents and the high hat,
the veto Is not serious one. The
Governor discovered that the hill Is
not properly drawn, as II ldds to the
present law several sections num-
bered with numbers already in Lse.
The Governor smOothes over the
veto b." saying:
Mistakes of this character will
naturally occur once I'm while
through irudvCntenCe, but | feel that
the Legislature would prefer not TO
have them appear upon the statute
books and thus detract from the cred
II which ii deserves for the good form
in which bills usually are passed
KeliinOi, the intrOducer OF the bill,
viii rectily the mistake. and Il new
bill will be drawn. Pending the in
PRODUCTION of this, the Governors first
veto of the session was lad on the
table and will, it Is presumed, be sus-
tanned without any great amount of
ranCOr anywhere. -.,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
SATURDAY SADNESS

Five plain and undecorated drunks
were placed in cold storage by the
police department during Saturday
night. Upon arrangement this morn
ing one who had Letter secured bail
failed to show up and the sum of SO
was therefore forfeited. Each mem
Der of the quartet offered some fifty
seven varieties of excuses but wound
up by pleading guilty to the soft i'm
parchment
John Johnson, apparently had
played to many return engagements.
lie claimed to be IA sailor from the
distressed vessel James Johnson now
lying at the port. Judge Lymer as
sessed the seaman twelve dollars and
the costs while the others escaped
with the regulation three dollars and
the trimmings.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
CONTINUANCE Is GRANTED
TO RECRUITERS BY
COOPER

a continuance until Thursday was
granted by Circuit Judge Cooper this
morning in the case of the Territory
against Frank y. Craig and his two
recruiting lieutenants, Alvarado and
Baltazar.
Attorney Z. N. Watson for the de-
PENDANTS asked for further time to file
demurrcrs to the indictments and no
objection to the continuance was made
by City and County Attorney Cath
cart.
1t Is reported that there has been
n suggestion Of compromise in the
cases now pending and that this Is
one of the reasons for the continu-
anco being granted.
Tho habCas corpus proceedings
brought by a Portuguese woman
whose boy was detained on the Sen
ator have been discontinued.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
BLAMING THE SCHOOL CHILDREN

1.-The increase has become necessary on account Of the
popular demand for more liberal educational policy"
This sentence in the Finance Committee minority report
on the tax bill dSCoSes the ngger in the wood pile" that
has been HOLDING UP THE SCHOOL BILL. All the added
expense Of the government is to be Sadded off onto the
nothing more or less than plan that will prevent the chill
dren of Hawaii from becoming hoodlms instead of useful
citizens The Territory for the first time in its existence is
preparing to do its full duty by the little children of Hawaii.
And little children have to bear the blame of increased tax
alton.
Admitting that the popular demand" has forced the
school bill through thus far why do you further delay it?
Why do you continue to barter and eopardze the future of
little children in the alleged effort to save few cold heart
less dollars?
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10

several conferences with the Federal
officials. While he was non -Committal
regarding the plans FOR the dispatch of
the steamer, 1t could he plainly read
between the lines that the Senator had
already tarrlcd over and above the
stipulated lay days" az provided i'm
her charter with the A. Z. 4.
There Is every reason to believe,
from what could be gained on board
that vessel last Saturday. that the
steamer upon leaving here would not
proceed to San Francisco. In the light
of a possible dissatisfaction among re-
cruitcd laborers arriving ut the Cali
fornia port by the Korea, the packers
representative was apprchcnsivc of
taking chances with landing moro men
at san FRANCISCO. 1t would cost no
more under the existing charter to pro-
coed to the fisheries direct.
viii Alameda Come Next7
An officer on board the Senator. who
was fortunate in gaining the shore
during the brief stay of the vessel
at Honolulu, IL authority for the dec
lnration that the old reliable steam
ship Alameda. now the property of the
Alaska Packers Association and its
various branches. would next be dis
patched to the Islands to gather up
those who desired to take M work with
tho canncrics and fisheries.
The contention was raised that the
Alameda of many pleasant memories,
has always been looked upon as n fa-
voritC with Island people, and there
fore her reception here, with some Of
her old officers aboard, would not he
as cold and cherries as that accorded
the little Senator. The Alameda has
been on passenger run between Sc
attic and Alaska ports, but II Is said
the slack season Is approaching and
this vessel could be better spared by
the packers than to again enter an
expensive charter with vessel which
they do not own or control. The legal
representatives. decline to discuss the
nvattcr Of sending down the Alameda
at this time.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult
to each oher?-George Eliot