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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-10
Adjustable picture Frames,

did you ever see said shopper,
among ornamental picture frames
designed to stand on desk or table
one oblong in shape that could be
used either upright. as it would COM
monty be for portrait, or lengthwise,
as it would be for landscape pic
ture?
You know It isn't easy to find small
frames designed for landscapes,
frames that are longer than they are
tall, but this frame can be used Ell
Their way. Phe support on the back,
the foot that you spread out to make
the frame stand up, is mounted on a
disk In the back of the frame, a disk
that can be turned SO that this frame
can be as readily used one way as the
other. either upright or with its
greatest length horizontal"
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Supreme Court Decisions.

Especial to The Gate City.l
DIES MONIES. March TO- Stephen
son against Sheffield Brick and Tile
company, appellant Franklin district.
affirmed.
Hyot. appellant, against Starr, lack
son district, affirmed.
burst, appellant, against City Of
Des Moines, Polk district. affirmed.
Hines against City oil Nevada, APP
peIlant, Story district, affirmed.
Fitzpatrick. appellant against Both
eras, Story district, affirmed
Cody against Charles Hotel appel
liant. Cerro Gordo district, affirmed
Adix against Chicago and North
western Railway Co. appellant. Boone
district, reversed
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st. Louis Divorce Case Comes to an
End With Mrs Pickel AS Win
ncr on Every
Point.
cRYs "sHE IS GONE
Father Can See His Child Every 9th
err Sunday and Must Pay
500 Per Month
Alimony.

ST. LOUIS, March TO- Judge Hugo
Meunch yesterday afternoon cut short
the testimony in the Pickel case, an
nouncing he had heard sufficient OH
which to base his decision. The last
witness to testify was Mrs. Katherine
King, who denied that Mrs. Pickel
had been served five whisky sours in
her presence. Judge Muench said
Mrs. Pickel was entitled to support
herself and child He fixed the
amount at $500 month, provided she
would bring the son to ST. Louis,
within the jurisdiction of the court,
and allow the father an opportunity
to see the boy at least every second
Sunday.
Judge Muench, in rendering his de-
cision, scored Pickel and his wife,
for washing their discarded linen"
in court when. he said, they should
be taking proper care Of their child.
He said the testimony showed the
conduct of the husband to have justi-
| fed the wife in leaving him.
On the witness stand yesterday NOR
ming Pickel wept when he replied to
a question of his wife's counsel as TO
/ whether he thought she could be in
duced to come back to him. His re-
4 Spouse was that he did not think so.
s'She is gone, she is gone" he said.
AS tears coursed down his cheeks.
i At the suggestion of Judge Muencn
4 lawyers representing both sides will
meet today and reach an under
/ standing as to the payment of month
\ ly alimony and the return of the wife
/ and child to ST Louis to live. Monday
morning the formal order will be
| made.
Randolph Laughlin, representing
4 Mrs Ella M. Pickel. the wife, said
yesterday afternoon he had under
execution for his client against Pickel
$50 alimony for January, $50 for Feb
ruary and $40 for March. In addition
i he said Pickel would have about $685.
to pay, costs in his divorce suit insti
Ituted and withdrawn several weeks
4 ago.
When asked what she thought oil
the decision, Mrs. Pickel said Ger
tainly will come back to st Louis tt
A live ! was a bit surprised when ! re
turned to court from luncheon to fine
the case had practically been disposed
of. Judge Muench took it in his owl
hands and acted for the best of al
concerned ! have wanted to live il
ST. Louis. as my attorney stated il
court, but was unable to do so with
out money, and you know my HUSBAND
would not support me so | had to liv'
in Chicago with my mother"
Pickel was not in court when Judg'
Muench rendered his decision Hi
father refused to discuss the case.
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Shock Felt Tor MANY Miles.

Snock Felt Tor Many Miles,
Although Pleasant Prairie Is sixty
miles north of Chicago, the concus-
sion was heard and the vibrations felt
not only in all parts of this city, but
at Indiana Harbor and other points
80 miles south of Chicago. Two
shocks were felt, one extremely So
we're at 500 O'Clock, another ana
slighter one few minutes later. Peo-
pie In the Cook county building felt
the huge granite structure shake and
many of them ran to the street fear
ing either an earthquake or that the
building had been shaken by some
explosion. The suburbs of Chicago,
along the lake shore all felt the dam
age severely, and in Evanston, Win
netka, Glencoe, Wilmette and High
land Park many windows and store
fronts were shattered.
Direct communication with Pleasant
Prairie was cut off by the explosion
and not even available by wire. 1t
is known, however, that the town Is
almost demolished. There were alarm
| ing reports that the number of dead
was heavy, but later it was reported
from Kenosha that only II men were
at work in the plant and that 2 were
found safe.
Racine received intelligence that the
number of dead would run as high as
! 40, but this could not be determined
with accuracy. 1t is known here, that
! the number of injured is large, and
relief trains were at once sent from
Chicago and Kenosha
The vibrations were felt in Evan
] ston and Rogers park, at the extreme
4 north end Of the city and as far as
Hyde Park, is miles south. Austin
and Oak Park suburbs at the western
I end of the city also were shaken.
4 Pictures were thrown from walls.
/ glass shattered and there was a gem
eral exodus of frightened residents TO
the streets
In hotels of the down town dis
trict doors were blown open by the
/ shock and the audiences in many of
4 the theatres were terrified The tele-
| phone service was swanped with
1 queries as to the cause of the shock.
In all parts of the city there was a
general belief that two earthquake
shocks had been experienced
In suburbs twenty miles from the
city the shocks also were distinctly
A felt. In Downers Grove, twenty miles
from Chicago, a machinist working in
a basement shop fifteen feet below the
street surface. was thrown from his
feet and tools were shaken from the
walls. In Indiana Harbor and suburbs
near the Indiana state line the shocks
J also were felt.
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Keokuk Company Nay
Be Sent to Mexico
, $50 80 go ,

: a dispatch from Washington =
= says that preparations are being =
= made at the war department for .
= ordering out the Iowa National =
= Guards.
= Frank LeRron, captain Of Com =
= pany L Of the Fifty-Fourth regi- .
= mcnt Of this city, wired Adju- .
= tant General Logan Of Des =
= Moines, stating that Company L =
= was being held in readiness for .
= call at any time, and is prepar- =
= ed to go to the Mexican border. =
= He stated today that the com e
= pany could prepare for the trip =
= on ten hours notice. Z
At rifle practice last evening Z
= all members Of the company
= present were greatly enthused
= over the prospects, and are anxi- I
= Gus to receive the call. Z
- The officers Of Company L ex- Z
= pect to be invited to 90 and
= watch the maneuvers, and if the 4
= invitation is received Captain 4
= LeBron, First Lieutenant sher- 4
- lock and Second Lieutenant
= smales, will go with the Iowa 4
= officers.
- Captain LeBron received invita- 4
. ton to go and also orders to re-
= cruit Co. | and equip same to the
! 4. limit 4
! Z /
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Fire RACES in Douglass and Gale is
Tanning it Into An Uncon-
trolled Fury of
Flame.
MINERS ARE FIGHTING
Two Thousand Men Quit Work and
Turn Volunteer Firemen But
Work Against Heavy
Odds.

SEATTLE, March 10-Dispatches
early today from Juneau, Alaska, in
dictate that the town of Douglass
across the Gastineau channel on Doug
lass Island is doomed as the result OF
a fire which has been raging there
for twelve hours.
A gale is raging and the firemen
can do nothing The fire started il
barber shop on Front street.
Supt. Mckenzie of the Treadwel
gold mine, ordered out his 1000 min
ers who We're soon on the scene
endeavoring to quench the flames.
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OREGON Primary Bill.

DIES MONIES, March 1O-The Iowa
house of representatives sustained
Governor Carrolls veto of the Ore
gon primary plan bill. The vote was
81 in favor of sustaining the COVER
nor and So opposed 1t would have re-
CURED ~ or two-thirds vote to have
overruled the governor.
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WITNESSES ARE
FRIGHTENED AWAY
Afraid to Testify Against the Cam
Ora for Fear Of Being
Punished.

yITERBO. Italy. March 1o.--With
the stage all set for the trial tomor-
row of the Al members of the Camorra
the authorities admitted today that
they are in danger Of defeat through
the terrorization of some of the wit
nesses, some OF whom have disappear
ed. Between 400 and 500 witnesses
are to be heard and the police were
ordered today to keep them under
close surveillance.
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Earthquake Vibrations.

CLEVELAND, o. March 1O.-The
seismograph at ST. Ignatius college
observatory recorded earthquake vi
brations last night, beginning at S:45
p. m. and lasting for 25 minutes,
when they began decreasing. Father
odenbach observer says the records
show two distinct shocks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-10
Roosevelt in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 10
Theodore Roosevelt arrived here this
morning in his private car The col
onel was taken To the hotel by com
mittee headed by Governor Conner,
where breakfast was held. Roosevelt
said that in all OF his travels he a
come to the conclusion that outside of
Germany, America stood first as ma.
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Gas Well in Iowa,

MARSHALLTOWN, March 10
While drilling well near Soaring,
workmen struck a strong flow of gas.
Water was thrown from the hole and
when a match was lighted an explo.
sion followed, injuring several OF the
worllmen.
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Russian Avalanche.

TlFLIS, Transcaucasia Russia,
March 10.--An avalanche swept down
upon and crushed worllingmen's
tenement near here. Nineteen per-
sons We're killed outright while the
occupants were still asleep and six
teen others received injuries that
probably will prove fatal
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French Time Too East.

PARIS, March 1o.-Tonight at mid
night, French time will be set back 9
minutes and 81 seconds to make it
agree with standard time. Some time
ago all other nations agreed on the
time schedule but France was obsti-
nate and has just agreed to come in
and have the correct time.
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COURAGE q Mora, Trai..

When the crucial moment arrives
the steel of courage is as likely to be
found in the quivering nerves Of frail
women as in the stouter makeup of
men. Courage is moral trait that
enables the soul to possess itself un
Ter every yicissitude. In the common
spheres of civil and prosaic life may
be found Instances Of truest heroism.
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chicaoo ouivers.

The explosion that wrecked the
plant of the Ia1in-R Rand Powder com
pany in Pleasant Prairie, Wis, caus-
ed the loss of at least one life. de-
stroyed the town in which ii was sit
stated and created vibration that
was felt for radius Of fifty miles. The
property loss is s1.500,000.
Chicago was shaken from center to
circumference. The belief that an
earthquake had occurred was almost
universal for time. Windows were
shattered and houses shaken through
out the thirty miles of Chicago's
length.
Almost simultaneously building OF
the John NJ. Smith company at West
Madison and Union streets, was al
most DESTROYED by an explosion The
cause of this explosion had not beer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-10
The New Morality.

So, it's away with your old morality
and your prating about duty, self-re
straint, sin and its punishment
Science" or evolution, as the case
may be. has shown that to be strong is
TO be yirtuous, that to seize is the aim
of life and 20 let go ones hold the su
preme transgression.- Y. Evening
Post.
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THE WEATHER.
(Until 7 n. m. SATURDAY..

For Keokuk and vicinity: Increas.
ing cloudiness tonight and Saturday
Warmer tonight.
For Illinois: Fair tonight Satur-
day increasing cloudiness with warm
er north portion.
For Iowa: Increasing cloudiness to-
night and Saturday. Warmer east
portion tonight.
For Missouri: Unsettled weather
with probably rain tonight or Satur
day.
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Talking Woman Is Robust.

A man who figures has sent to the
national bureau Of statistics some
facts of speech. He estimates that a
woman talks eight times as much as
man; that she utters on an average
of $500 sentences a day, whereas
only 800 come from him. He asserts
that the woman who is great talker
is invariably robust and full chested.
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tLEvLN KILLED
BY SNOWSLlDE
Houses Were Crushed Like Paper
When Great Weight Came
Sliding Down the
Mountain.
KILLED WHILE ASLEEP
Ten Men and One Woman at Jordan
Lost Their Lives While They
Were Asleep in Their
Beds.

RENO, New, March 1O.-A snow
slide at Jordon caused the death of
ten men and one woman.
Their houses were crushed like pa
per, killing the victims while they
We're asleep.
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Today's Senatorial Vote,

DES MONIES, March 1O.-The thir-
ty-seventh joint ballot for U. S. sen
ator resulted as follows today,
Kenyon, 45.
Deemer, Sc.
Porter, 81.
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Whole 7oun Wrecked
BY PoUder Explosion
) So 80 -,

. kENoSHA-Every window in =
the city broken. .
= RAciNE-Whole city jolted. ser. =
= ious property damage.
= Observation-Disclosures rush In =
. to streets, fearing earthquake. =
y LAKE FOREST Fashionable .
= homes damaged by impact. =
= ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Street =
= car service halted. =
. CHICAGO-City rocks under inn =
= pact. Panic In theatres and ho- =
. tells. Z
= CARRYING shocks felt Thought .
an earthquake. =
. MISUNDERSTANDING Jared. Ter Z
= ror In the streets. Z
= ELGlN-Woman drops dead. 4
= Great damage to property, 4
y CLlNToN--Shock taken for al, 4
= earthquake. People scared.
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ouch.

! am sure that if fairy babe mc
choose between The sense of sight and
that of touch ] would not part with
the warm, endearing contact of human
hands or the wealth of form, the no
bility and fullness that press into my
palms.-Helen Keller in Country Mag
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Powder Plant in Wisconsin Blew up
Last Night and Left Only
Hole in The
Ground.
LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE
Chicago, $50 Miles Away is Ratified
and Swayed by the Culver
Of the Earth From the
Explosion.

KENOSHA, Wis. March 10.-Only
two people were killed when fifty tons
of dynamite exploded wrecking the
town of Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Loss
s1,50o,0o0. Five hundred houses were
wrecked. The shock was felt as far
west as Clinton, Iowa
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Local Observations.

March. Bar Ther. Wind Weather.
81 pm. %. 81 NV Clear
10 Z am. :. 3o.19 81 w Clear
Mean temperature, March 9, 81
Highest temperature, 6s.
Lowest temperature, 40.
Lowest temperature last night. 81.
FRED q. G0sEWISCH,
Observer
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raft Gives Out the Reasons For the
MoboIIzing Of the United States
Army Along the Mexi-
can Border.
TO END THE REVOLUTIONS
Uncle Sam Has Come to the concIu-
sion That the Mexican In
surrection Has Gone
Far Enough.

WASHINGTON, March 10.-That
| the administration has decided to dis
semble no longer its reasons for sud
| den and unprecedented movement Of
| troops to the Mexican border is indi.
Gated by the following dispatch re-
ceived last night from the staff cor
respondent who is accompanying
President Taft on his journey to At
lanta. The dispatch, dated Charlottes-
Vile, Va. through which place the
presidents train passed last night at
ITO o'clock, is as follows:
All doubt as to the purpose of the
government in sending 10000 troops
to the Mexican border has at last
been swept away. The United States
has determined that the revolution IN
the republic to the south must end.
The American troops have been sent
to form a solid military wall along
the Rio Grande to stop filibustering
and to see that there is no further
smuggling of arms and men across
the International boundary. 1t is be-
Iieved that with this source of contra
band supplies cut off the insurrection.
airy movement which has disturbed
conditions generally for nearly year
without accomplishing anything like
the formation Oh a responsible indie
pendent government. will speedily
come to close.
First OF all, the government feared
the formation of an insurrection gov
eminent in Lower California. With
the formation of such government
the United States would be compelled
to keep continual watch on the whole
! southern frontier.
Secondly, it was feared that Ameri
can property in Mexico, valued a,
hundreds Of millions, might be swept
away, and il was desired to protect
as well, the interest of foreigners
who, keeping in mind the Monroe doc
trine, might look naturally to the
United States for such protection.
Third, 1t was determined to stor
friends of the Mexican insurrectos
from carrying supplies that are con
uapanu vi war across the Rlo Granue
from Texas.
Last of all, it was believed that
"maneuvers" in Texas at this time
would show limoges" in congress ant
elsewhere that the army can be mob
olized in case of difficulty in remarl.
ably quick time.
The army is going tc Texas and i
is going to stay there until there i:
reason to believe that serious trouble
IN Mexico is no longer probable. /
VIII patrol the border line with a fine
tooth comb. and, if necessary, it vii
step in to prevent anarchy and revolu
uon that would endanger the lives
and property of Americans and for
eigners
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Wiped Of Of Mar.

CHICAGO, March 10.-The town of
Pleasant Prairie, Wis, village of
about $50 inhabitants, is said to have
been almost wiped off the map by
two terrific explosions at the Latin
Rand powder mills, about 8 o'clock
last night. Advices to the Western
Union from Salem, Wis. the nearest
town to the wrecked village. say that
calls have been received for assist
ance. All available physicians and
nurses were hurried to the town on
special train which was prepared in
Chicago.
The hamlet OF Pleasant Prairie,
Wis, fifty miles north of Chicago,
has been wiped off the map in the
most terrific explosion in the history
Of the powder industry In America.
The site of the great works of the
Laflin-Rand Powder company is
marked only by great hole in the
ground. The property loss is more
than $1,500,0O0.
Twice the earth heaved upward and
twice it receded under the concus.
sion. AS far west as Elgin the
force was such as to drive men and
women from their homes in fright
One woman fell dead from the shock
in Elgin. Others were historical and
slight injuries we're reported every.
where within a radius of 100 miles ot
the death-dealing disaster.
The fash of the blast was seen dis
tinctly as far south as Evanston. Il
1 was as If thousand cannons had
been rolled into one and fired with q
full charge of powder. The air was
| rent by an ear-splitting noise, the
! heavens were lighted for moment
! and then a great cloud of smoke roll
ed away over the lake.
After that all was darkness, MOI
only the little hamlet wiped out, bu
| the few survivors of the disaster were
cut off from communication from ths
1 outside. Telegraph and telephone
wires leading to Kenosha, six miles
away, were torn down and tangled
into state of uslessness.
All wire communication between
/ Pleasant Prairie and Salem has beef
! lost. The telegraph wires were pros
trated by the explosion, the onl,
means of communication left bejnl
4 one telephone wire. After the cal
for help had been sent over this wir
it also was lost and there was NJ
means of learning the extent of dam
age in Pleasant Prairie, save from TIN
first hysterical appeal for help.
The Western Union Telegraph CON
pany at once prepared to rush a corp
of telegraph operators and repairmer
to the scene.
Pleasant Prairie is six miles mort
of the Wisconsin-Illinois state lin
and about ten miles from Kenoshs
The officials Of the latter town pro
vided automobiles and other vehicle
at once to rush aid to the victims c
the explosion.
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Broken commandments.

Considering how many times the
ten commandments have been broken
it is almost wonder that there are
any of them Someryillc Journal.
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learned at late hour, but 1t was be.
lieved that it resulted from the other
explosion.
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Daily River Bulletin.
River Forecast.

The river will remain nearly sta
tionary for the next "a hours.
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partment as an opportunity to show
critics, both in and out of the coun-
try, that Interpretation was put upon
the movement.
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Movement is Significant.

Movement is Significant.
The extensiveness of the medical
accompaniment to the army and the
navy in the movement southwark
adds to the significance of the opera
tons
The hospital ship Solace will leave
fGrantanamo in day or two for New
York or Norfolk with eighty sick from
the battleship fleet now in the Cuban
ia medical supply ship, in addition to
lher use as hospital vessel and sent
/ to join the Atlantic division.
The medical staffs Of the Prairie
and Dixie have been increased. On
the Pacific, similar precaution for
medical assistance have been taken.
Preparations also are being made
lby Surgeon General Torney of the
army for field hospital service for
lany length of time for the 10000 sol
diers being rushed to the frontier.
Activity in connection with the
movement of troops to the Mexican
border has shifted now to the scene
4 of operations in Texas and official
/ Washington has become merely Z;
/ place for the receipt of reports show
ing the progress of the units toward
their places of rendezvous.
Before leaving for Atlanta President
4 Taft had protracted conference with
Senior De La Barra. the Mexican am
bassador, and assured President Diaz
lat Mexico City that the Mexican gov
the intentions Of the United States
in the military demonstrations. The
/ ambassador declared himself satisf-
ed with the presidents assurances.
1t was learned from official sources
that there has been discussion be
tween the state department and repre-
lsentatives from several European ma.
lions, as to internal conditions in
Mexico, but it was said that this dis
icussion had at no time taken on pro
portions of what the diplomats call
Representations.
American investments.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The
reason for Wall streets interest il
Mexican affairs is to be found il
4 the gigantic investments there b!
Americans which are more than a bill
lion dollars. The Morgan-Gugge
interests for instance controls the en-
tire copper output in Mexico. The
Waters-Pierce Oil Co, has complete
monopoly of the oil business. Tit
Hartman interests own or contro
three-fourths of the railroads. The
sugar trust also is deeply involved.
The First Rcveile.
SAN ANTONIO, March 10. -Th'
note of reveille stirred to early actor
the camp of the Seventh infantry thi
: ! tha tn