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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
DOLLAR PER DAY
PENSION BILL
Democrats Trying to Dodge Voting on
it Monday In the
House.
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WASHINGTON, June 17.-Unable
to muster a sufficient number of dem
ocrats to adjourn the house over
Monday, the democratic leaders to-
night we're forced to face the issue
of the "dollar a day. pension bill
which they have consistently dodsed
since the beginning of the session.
ONLY an adjournment Immediately
after the house meets on Monday can
save the democrats from vote on the
pension bill which would add s45,-
600 600 to the governments annual
expenditures. Under orders from
Floor Leader Underwood the demo
cratic whips kept the wires hot to-
night to get enough democrats into
the house by noon Monday to vote an
Immediate adjournment, and thus side
track the bill. If the democrats are
forced to a vote they will be confront
ed by their first serious split of the
session. All but the southern demo
Gratis will be practically forced to
vote for it to save their political
lives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Are Glad Out West.

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LOS ANGELES, Calf, June H.
This finding by the grand jury Will
give the people of the nation line
on the methods employed by Detective
Burns and his associates
This was the statement made this
evening by Attorney Lecompte Davis
of counsel for the Mcnamara brothers,
when shown the United Press dis
patch telling of the Indictment of De-
tective Burns at Indianapolis on a
charge of kidnapping in connection
with the removal of John P. McNam-
ara to Los Angeles for alleged COM
plicity in the destruction Of the Times
building.
Burns action" he continued, could
well be likened to a mob that storms
a Jail, takes out prisoner and strings
him up to tree without giving him a
chance to defend himself
Attorney Job Hartman was iubilant
over the indictment That's splen'
did," he said, but nothing more than
we expected. There is no doubt that
McNamara's removal from lndianapo'
lis was in violation OF all rules OF JUS
tice."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
GREAT PETITION
GOES FROM IOWA
Fifty-Five Thousand People ASH Par
don For Woman WHO is Con-
demned to Death.

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DES MONIES, June 17,-ln box
three feet each way. monster Pc
ton bearing the signatures OF 5o,ooo
lowans, $4,000 of wlom are women,
Will be expressed from here Monday
to the governor general of Canada al
Ottawa, asking him to pardon Angel
no Napolitano, under sentence OF
death for Staying her husband VINO
abused her and tried to drive her into
a life Of shame.
The petition was secured by the ef
forts of the Des Moines News, which
is receiving petitions bearing an av'
erage of 10000 names a day and from
now on monster petition will be
forwarded each night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
President Of Mormon Church Finds
Number of Excuses to Keep
Him From Going on to
Washington.
MAY SEND AN OFFICER
Sugar Trust Investigating Committee
Is Determined That Smith Shall
Testify Before

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, June 17.--Despite
earnest protestations of illness and
important business, Joseph F. Smith,
president of the Mormon church, was
tonight ordered by the Hardwick sug-
ar trust investigating committee OF
the house, to appear on June % to
Mormon church to the sugar industry.
President Smith in telegram to
the Hardwick committee, asked to be
excused and offered John Henry
Smith, one of the leading lights of the
Mormon church. as substitute wit
ness Chairman Hardwick shot back
the following message: Committee
determines to have your testimony
Sole remaining question Is will you
come on the twenty-second, without
subpoena, or shall we send an officer
to serve you? Answer at once
The message to Hardwick which
called for this reply was received this
afternoon and in it Smith said
THE sugar industry in Utah ano
Idaho is one of the greatest blessings
to the country. The men in charge
are capable, honest men, any one o
whom can give you all the informa
ton that can and more.
II am always willing to give ev1
/ dence as to any business in which
am connected but my obligations her
make 1t extremely difficult, if not In
possible, to reach Washington by tn
j twenty-second. John Henry Smitf
one of the presidency of the church
director and member of the utaf
Idaho Sugar Co, is now in the eas
and could without expense to tn
/ government meet your committee an
answer any question. Besides a
this, am suffering with sciatic rhel
matism and am in no health to go t
Washington.
At late hour tonight Hardwic
had received no reply to his final me-
sage to President Smith
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Gallant Battleship Maine =
Wrecked While Its Guns We
At Rest and Not Ready
to Fire.
EXPLOSION
TERRIFIC
Almost Miracle That Any One Es-
capped With Their Lives On the
Night Of February is,
1898.
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HAVANA, June 1.-THE Spanish
that the battleship Maine
was cleared for action as she lay in
the local harbor just prior to the ex-
plosion' of February Is, 1898, was
proven false today.
AS the giant pumps cleared the
water from the coffer-dam and reveal
ed the twisted, torn, masses of rust
ed steel that was once powerful
fighting machine, they showed the
rusted guns in the port turret aft,
ranged to the rear and at rest, with
the muzzlecaps in their place.
Gazing at the shattered wreckage
covered with mud and slime, members
of the American board wondered to-
night how any person on board escap-
ed with their life. All forward of the
engines was shattered and destroyed.
Aft, however. the old sea dog is solid
and it is believed could be made
watertight should it be decided to 4o
so later on.
The explosion seems to have been
forward on the starboard side, but the
experts refuse to hazard a guess
whether the magazine exploded after
the initial detonation.
1t was expected some of the bodie:
known to be in the hull would be un
/ covered by today's pumping but nom
! were seen. 1t is possible some o
them are covered with the clever
years accumulation Of mud and sill
and the workers are proceeding slow
i ly and deliberately.
] There Is a general feeling of pro
! test among Americans here over tn
program of the government to brin'
the bodies of the heroes home on tn
| eonidas. They assert that the leas
the government should do for the hor
ored dead is to send a battleship TO
them and it is understood a sugges
ton to Washington will be sent
many bodies are found
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Scorns Wheel Chair at Eighty Years
Of Age When She Arrives to
Help viii cele-
brate.
ANNIVERSARY MONDAY
Great Silver Shower is Pouring Into
the White House for the
President and His
Wife.
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WASHINGTON. June 17-It was not
President Taft who sat in the library
of the white house with all the kith
and kin of the Taft's around him. 1t
was Brother WILL" and Nephew
Will" and Dad"
Tonight the chief executive held
the first family reunion he has en-
joyed for many year. 1t was a sort
of domestic preliminary for the sump-
tuous celebration on Monday Of his
silver wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Taft was there. There was
Robert and Charley, Aunt Della Mr.
and Mrs. Henry W., Horace, Miss Ma.
ria Herren, of Cincinnati and Mrs
Charles Anderson. Every immediate
member of the Taft family was pres
ent, except Charles P. Taft, who is IN
London. and Miss Helen Taft, who is
expected tomorrow.
Aunt Della arrived today with hel
grand nephew, Robert Taft In spite
of her 80 years. she scorned whee
chair at the station. She told the re
porters that she had come to hell
will" celebrate, and expected to hav'
mice time"
Mrs. Taft's health is much improved
The invitation list reached the 81
1 thousand mark today when all the II
ing members of the skull and bone
fraternity of which the president IS
member were invited Invitation
have been issued to all the surviyin
members of the presidents class 9
Yale rs.
Silver gifts are pouring in from a
parts of the country Army and nav
4 officers who are prohibited by tn
regulations from making gifts to Isl
4 perior officers" are sending present
to Mrs Taft
/ If it rains, it is feared 1t Will .
impossible for thousands of the
vited guests to put q foot inside tn
white house. The secret service o
eratives expect the biggest crowd thi
has been cared for in the white nous
grounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Topeka Is Gasplng With Astonlshment
Over the Breaking of Engagement
While the Man Goes to
Hospital.
ACTRESS MARRIEs AGAIN
st. Louis Girl Who Got 100000
When Fiance Was Murdered
Will Wed Chicago
Man.
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TOPEKA, Kansas, June 17.-Joab
Mulvane, II, Topeka's only million
aire, has broken off his engagement
to marry Mrs. George c. Lytle. As,
society leader and all Topeka and
Central Kansas is grasping with as
tonishment
No reasons are given except the op-
position of Mulvane's children who
have constantly opposed the marriage
since the engagement was announced
three months ago. They are 5. w.
Mulvane, national republican commit
teeman for Kansas, and Mesdames
Harrison Morgan and Speed Hughes,
society leaders.
Mrs. Lytle is the widow of George
c.. Lytle, the founder of Topeka's
fashionable suburb, West Lawn addi-
ton. The wedding was scheduled for
! this month and society i,as been look
forfard to it for some time. The an
nouncement of the broken engage.
ment came today when Mulvane went
! to a hospital for treatment.
Christie Marries Again.
/ NEW YORK, June 17-With sur
prise to her friends in the shape oi
an announcement of her marriage to
H. L. Gillespie, Pittsburg steel man
4 Miss Christie Macdonald, star OF the
Spring Maid,'' sailed on her honey
4 moon today aboard the Red Star Lin
er Lapland. This is Miss MacDon
!, AIDS second matrimonial venture, she
having divorced Thomas Jefferson
eldest son of the late Joseph Jeffcr
: son. few years ago.
Will Marry Club Man.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June 17-An
nouncement that Miss Cornelia f
, Brookmire, of St. Louis, who receive'
, s1OO, 900 from the estate of her Fl
: ance. Edward l.. Wentz, Phliadel
: phia millionaire. when he was mys
, teriously slain eight years ago, vii
marry Howard Gillette, of Chicago
4 came as distinct surprise to all Du
g her closest friends. Gillette Is
4 wealthy Chicago club man. Mis-
: Brookmire is spending the summer a
t Biddeford, Me. Wentz, was activel
in charge of his families extensiv
land holdings in the mountains
Virginia. He disappeared October l.
1908. His riderless horse was foun
: later. The Virginia Coal and Iro
IL company, a Wentz property, had in
e posed restrictions on the mountain
@ GERS and it was suspected he ha
been murdered. The family offere
Is $50, 900 for his RETURN alive and $500
is for his body, if dead. The corpse We
$, found eight months later, but whet
s. er Wentz was killed or committe
e. suicide was never known.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Fifty Thousand suffragettes March
Through London In Greatest
Parade They Have
Ever Held.
AN AMERICAN DIVISION
Joan Of Arc on White Horse Led
the Parade But Mother
Goose Was Not
Present.
[Gate City Leased Wire Service.

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LONDON, June 1.-THE British
capital, used as it is to spectacular
pageants, was jolted out of indiffer-
ence this afternoon and tonight by
the wonderful showing made by the
women of England in connection with
the coronation suffrage demonstra-
ton
More than $4,000 women represent
ing every walk of life, trudged through
the streets of the capital, keeping
spectacle stirred the city to it's depths
and as Indicative of the progress al
ready made, for the first time in the
history of the movement there was no
attempt to interfere with the march
ers.
division participated in by American,
Colonial, Russian, German, French and
Italian suffragettes. At the head on
magnificent white charger rode Miss
j. Anna Bryce, a niece of the British
ambassador at Washington. She was
naked blade of steel In her hand.
Behind Miss Bryce, garbed in the
most sumptuous manner, marched 100
women, chosen especially for their
4 beauty of face and figure. Their cos
i tunes were chosen with an eye tc
the picturesque and proved wonder
8 fully effective. Young girls represent
ing Boadicea on large white horse
and Queen Elizabeth in robes of state
headed this division and we're cheered
all along the route.
! The American division attracted
much attention There were fort.
women in it and the hand painted
banner, magnificent work of art
was carried proudly by 1nez Milholl
and of New York City Mrs. G. w
Mitchell of Massachusetts and Mis-
May Winter of indianapolis acted a
marshals of the division. In the rank
t We're representative actresses auth
ors, doctors, and musicians.
The division of women who hav
served iail sentences for "the cause
was headed by a woman's band c
: Scotch bagpipers. Their picturesqu
plaid uniforms and fine playing a
!, tracted attention all along the line
march,
The parade ended at Albert Hal
where a suffrage demonstration wa
addressed by orators representa-
every civilized nation on the globe.
u Mrs. Parkhurst, leader of the mil
: tant suffragettes, in her speech in A
bert Hall declared that suffrage woul
: win in England within a year. H'
= daughter, Christobal, was not so sa
y guine. She warned the women th'
- - Premier Asquith's promises cannot
:, too fully depended on"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
some Good Shooting.

TGate City Leased Wire Seryice.l
CHICAGO. June 17.-Shooting con-
sistently, w. F. Riley, of Chicago this
afternoon won the second annual
grand Chicago handicap, breaking SO
out of 100 targets. Charley Emery, of
Chicago, was second with 80. Robert
Wisters, Chicago, and G. A. Gal
braith, of Bay City. tied for third
George Maxwell, the one armed shoot
er from Hastings, Neb., led the pro
fessionals with SO out Of 100.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Fore-
cast.-Missouri Unsettled Sunday,
local showers and somewhat cooler
in east and south portions; Monday
fai.
Iowa-Generally fair Sunday and
Monday; warmer Monday in east por-
ton.
Illinois showers Sunday, some
what cooler in extreme south por-
ton; Monday fair.
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Killed BY Automobile.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 17--John
Stott was instantly killed and his
two women companions injured when
his automobile skidded and then turn
ed over twice into the ditch on the
freshly oiled road nine miles south of
here late today Miss Genevieve
Pierce, %, was seriously injured and
Miss Minnie Collins was cut about the
face and arms. Stott's chauffeur
whose name is unknown, has disap-
peared.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
ST. LOUIS FIREBUG
rs STILL BUSY
Third Big Night Blaze In Succession
In the Same Nigh
borhood.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 17.-Fire to-
night destroyed the Jack Daniel Dis
tilling Co. here, causing loss of $780,
900.
The theory held by the police that
the fires are of incendiary origin Is
strengthened by the fact that to-
nights fire is the third in three sue
cessive nights. All were within SIX
blocks Of each other
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Harem Skirt Fatality.

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BUCHAREST, June 17.-Maddened
at the defiance of his fiance in wear
ing harem skirt against his wishes,
Ignal Jovanesco shot and killed the
girl today. She was Vassilex Monroi,
one Of the prettiest girls of the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Castro Not on Board.

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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, June
17-Search of the steamer Consul
Grostuck ordered by the government,
failed to reveal Cipriano Castro, who
was reported to be in hiding aboard.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
raft,s Safe and Sane Fourth.

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.l
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June IA
county fair" program was arranged
for President Taft upon his visit here
July 4. At the fair grounds he will
witness a head-on collision between
two locomotives, horse and motor
cycle races. balloon ascensions and
parachute leaps A IS plate banquet
will be given in the evening
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Elective Burns Indicted Of kidnapp
nu Mcnamara and Mcnamara
Indicted Of Another Dyna-
mIte Job.
Tor THROUGH WORK YET
.dIanapolIs Grand Jury Unearths
Leads Which Will Be Followed
Up at Next Months
Session.

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 1.-THE
rand jury having returned indict-
hents today charging Detective Will
liam ]. Burns with kidnapping and i'm
|icating John ]. Mcnamara in anoth-
4 alleged dynamiting plot, County
Prosecutor Frank Baker announced to-
hight that he will resume his probe
nto every phase of the Mcnamara
ase with the empanelling of the July
rand jury.
Baker intimated that both trials
would be deferred until after the Nc
Namera brothers and Ortie McMani-
kal are tried on the charge of dyna-
hitting the Los Angeles Times.
The July grand jury will follow
1 eads unearthed by the present jury
end will investigate any new charges,
le said.
This announcement had led labor
eaders to hope for indictment against
Walter Drew, attorney for the Erect
|ors Association; ]. A. G. Baderf, his
assistant, and possibly District Attorn-
led Ford, of Los Angeles, in connection
with the alleged kidnapping of Nc
|Namara. Together with Frank Fox,
|who drove the automobile which
carried Mcnamara from the state,
these men will probably be released
|from jail as result of the present
grand jury's action.
IN the eight indictments returned by
the grand jury today. 1T is authofa
lively stated but three persons are
involved. Detective Burns is charged
with kidnapping John Mcnamara.
Mcnamara is charged with conspir
acy in dynamiting property OF the re
! oria and Pekin Railway at Peoria
! Ill.,, in 1910. 1t is also said two OF th'
indictments charge Mcnamara Will
having unIawfully stored explosives II
Indiana. 1t is stated that the thlr'
berson involved in the indictments l
Iames Hossick, deputy sheriff OF Lo
angeles, who is Jointly charged Wit
burns with kidnapping.
Gov. Marshall tonight expresse
himself as highly pleased with tn
grand jury's report, which exonerate
him of any unlawful act In honorln
the requisition for McNamara's arres
and extradit;on.
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At $40 per Head.

MEXICALI, Mex, June 17.-Ten dol
lars cash paid to each member of the
liberal garrison at Mexicali this after
noon nut an end to the revolution In
Lower California as far as the rebels
now in the field are concerned. The
money. in United States coin, was
handed to the seventy odd soldiers
composing the garrison by emissarles
of Francisco !. Madero in return for
q written agreement that they would
not again take UP arms against Mex
ice. The men SURRENDERED all but
their side arms and crossed the line
in a body to CaleXico, California. VI
ficers of the United states army warn
ed them to move on as quickly as pos
sible.
Within two hours after the men
had been paid off, Mexicali began
to assume the conditions prevailing be-
fore the war. The Maderoists at once
! began the work of re-establishing the
! city government. A iefe politico was ap-
pointed and the work OF organizing
the police force will be taken up short
| ly.
The Cudahy ranch and other large
interests near Mexicali will resume op.
erations within few days
The Madero envoys will proceed to
morrow to Tia Juana and Tecarte
where other rebel bands are located
and will attempt to settle with then
on similar basis. 1t is said they
have already received the assurance
of the garnsons there that they viii
, quit when they receive the money.
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LEGAL observations.

June. Bar. Their. Wind Weather
II 7 am. 20 81 73 PIT Cldy
II Z pm 29.77 II N Cldy
Rainfall for past "a hours, trace.
River above low water Of 1864 4
feet tenths.
Change in "a hours rise 1 tenth,
Mean temperature, 80.
Highest temperature, SO.
Lowest temperature, 6S.
Lowest temperature last night, 68
FRED 2. GosEWISCH,
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-18
Most Subtle Plot Against Madero Will
Work Against Him Both Now
and After He ia
Elected.
SIXTEEN MILLION PEoNs
Labor Question Is Another PerpIex.
Ing One and All in All the MexI-
can Presidency Is Tough
Proposition.
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MEXICO CITY. June 1.-THE most
subtle plot Of the anti-Madero faction
in Mexico, discovered tonight. will
probably prove the most dangerous the
young leader will have to contend with
when he becomes president, as he
undoubtedly will in the national cleo
tions the first week in October
Enemies of Madero have scattered
broadcast throughout the republic an
nouncement that as soon as he be-
comes president, Madero will seize the
estates Of feudal land owners and d.
vide the land among the poems. Eighty
five per cent of the Mexicans can
neither read nor write and the an
nouncment, scattered by men supposed
to be friendly to Madero, has been
received with wild acclaim.
When Madero becomes president
and 100000 poems of Mexico discov-
er he cannot divide the great estates.
| free, among the poems, Maderos
friends fear there will follow an upris-
| ing that will unseat Madero. The
land question figured prominently in
the fall of Diaz.
The Maderoists have begun CAM
paign of education in hopes of show
1 ing the poems that Madero cannot di-
4 vide the estate free among them. The
4 present defacto government, under De
4 la Barra, is showing great good will
toward Madero in regard to land mat
ters and is investigating all the land
holdings In the country. Many land
owners have squatted on great tracts
of land and rented them. This land will
be seized by the government and sold
to the poems, but this will be the
closest Madero will be towards giving
free land to the people.
Madero has already begun his eff
forts to solve the labor question by
, appointing Pima SuareA his trusted
5 friend as governor of Yucatan, where
! workmen are represented as slaves.
: Suarez declared he would break up
this slavery If he had to use troops to
e raid the great plantations.
. Another grave problem that faces
{ Madero is that of the petty courts un-
e der the Mexican law, a land owner
t. may devise laws under Whlch mis- en-
f ployes must live and these laws, when
sanctioned by the petty courts. be
|. come binding even to the point of life
8 and death. Madero has promised tc
g break up this system.
Madero declares one of the gray
l. est problems he has to face is that Q
l. general education. His father as sooI
d as the election is over, will announc'
,r a gift of s1,ooo,ooo for public school,
4 and other rich Mexicans are expected
Vt to make large gifts.
'e T will fight trusts that tend towarf
monopolies," said Madero tonight
"one of my chief duties is to end tn
hundreds Of monopolies that have
I, arisen in Mexico