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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
GOVERNMENT LOST
IN FIRST ROUND
Alaska Coal Land Cases at Seattle
Will Probably Be Drop
ed Now

SEATTLE, Wash, April 4-The
government lost It's first battle in the
effort to punish the alleged fraudulent
locators of Alaska coal lands. Judge
Cornelius Fl. X Hanford, in the
United States district court although
he overruled the motion to instruct
the jury to aequit Charles F. Munday,
e. e. Siegley and Archie Shiels, yet
he sustained all the vital points con
tended for by the defendants.
The ground on which the court re-
fused to grant the motion to acquit
was not raised by counsel for either
side in the suit, but by the Judge
himself. IT leaves the government SC
little room to stand on that 1t is sale
to be virtually assured that the prose
cution will be dropped
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
STILL TALKING
ABOUT MEXICAN PEACE
Madero Cannot Come Into United
States For Fear of Being
Arrested.

Ell PASO, April If peace is to
come in Mexico it will probably re
suit from conference soon to be
held in Ell Paso. Although the Nader
os have no authority to decide peace,
their efforts are being considered by
Diaz, who is eager to discuss peace
informally. 1t was learned today that
the elder Madero has secured pledges
from Limantour.
Francisco Madero, provisional pres
ident. cannot come to El Paso for a
peace conference because of warrant
issued for his arrest by the United
States on charge of attempting te
violate the neutrality iaws. If this
warrant can be held in abeyance, the
conference could be held and United
States army officers have been asket
to withhold the warrant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
INCREASE POWER
BOARD OF HEALTH
Legislature Gives State Board of
Health Power to Summon Wit
nesses-Salary Increases.

DES MONIES, Iowa, April 1.-The
Iowa house of representatives Mon
day passed the Smith of Decatur bill
giving the state board of health pow
er to summon witnesses and compel
the production of books at hearings
before it. Also bill providing that
druggists need not label bottles
containing prescriptions in which
morphine and other poisons are used
in such way as to show they are
prescribed
The house of representatives also
passed the bill increasing the salary
of the attorney general from $4,000
to $4,000, and that of the assistant
and special counsel to $4,000. The
house also passed the bill making
the salary of court reporters $1,000
per year.
The senate defeated the Balluff bill
permitting savings banks to invest ii
real estate in other states. The vote
was % to q.
A bill giving cities and towns il
Iowa the right to acquire possession
of heating plants, water works ant
power plants by condemnation pro
1 ceedings was introduced in the hous'
/ Saturday by Representative Baumal
OF Van Buren, The measure makes !
majority vote of the voters of
municipality necessary to authoriz
such acquisition
The senate Saturday afternoon b
an Overwhelming vote, killed tn
Hamill bill providing for the abolish
/. ment of the offices Of state printer an
state binder The vote was 23 to /
against the bill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
NOTED PRISONER
OF THIS STATE
Death of Judge VIM. G. Thompson At
the Ripe Old Age of Eighty
One Years.

CEDAR RAPIDS, April William
G. Thompson, a noted Iowa pioneer,
died at his home in Kenwood park,
aged 81 years. Judge Thompson was
a member of the Iowa senate prior
to the civil war He was major in
the Twentieth Iowa infantry and was
wounded in the service.
In 1864 he was republican presi-
dental elector and later served seven
wears as district attorney President
| Hayes appointed him as chief justice
OF Idaho in 1878, which position he
held for one year. In 1879 he vas
elected to congress and served two
wears. and in 1885 he was again re
/ turned to the Iowa legislature.
Judge Thompson was elected judge
OF the district comprising Linn, Jones
and Cedar counties in 1885 and served
/ for eight years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Woman Retains Her Position In the
Treasury Department Because of
Old Letter Signed by
President.
MONEY
EXPERT
Miss Dueger's Name Was Not strick-
en- From List Although She
Has Been Sick for
Year.

WASHINGTON. April 4.-Forty-sev-
ell years ago. April Is, 1864, Abraham
Lincoln paused in the cares of civil
war for one of those kind and homely
acts which have lived after him. 1t
was to pen a personal letter to the
postmaster general asking that Off
cial to employ Miss Susan Dugger, a
young belle of Carlinville, H.. who
was the sole support of her brother,
Union soldier crippled at Shiloh.
Miss Dugger got a position and pre-
served the letter. Secretary MacVeagh
read the same letter today-though
the paper has yellowed with age and
the ink is dim ordered that Miss
Dugger's name be not dropped from
the treasury's list of employees,
though she has been i'll for more than
year. When an employe has been
absent without pay that length OF
time it is customary to strike the
name from the rolls.
Senator Cullom brought the letter
to Secretary MacVeagh, who has
promised that Miss Dugger shall have
/ her old position if she is ever able tt
work again. Sne is now 70 years old
Miss Dugger was transferred from
the postoffice to the treasury soon af
ter President Lncolns letter got he
/ employment, and became an expert il
detecting counterfeit money. She ha
handled billions Of dollars, some goo
and many bad, In forty.five years
service for the government
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
BURIED MONEY
RECORD BROK EN-
Location of Hidden Wealth Was on
Photograph Record Which Fell
and Was Smashed Into
Pieces.
HOPES WERE WRECKED
Clumsy Lawyer Fell Over Footstool
Just When the Machine Was
Ready to Squeak Out the
Secret.

BUCHANAN, Mich, April 4.-Short-
ly before the death Of Hud-
son, Burton, which occurred five
years ago, he talked into the horn of
phonograph and had the record pre-
served, 1t was placed in the hands
of his lawyer, with the request that
1t be concealed in his safe.
When Burton died, in his will was
found with other information the
statement that he had buried large
sum of gold, and that its exact loca-
tion was recorded on a Photographic
record, which was not to be read un.
til after he had been dead five years
His wish was complied with, and
not until yesterday did the heirs gath
er at the home of his son, Luke Bur-
ton, to hear what the phonograph had
to say.
| When they had all seated Them
selves in the parlor, the arrival of the
lawyer with the record was announced
He entered the house and unwrapped
the precious article in the kitchen
Each one in the parlor craned his
neck, held his breath and gazed at
mental pictures of motor cars, man
sions and aeroplanes.
Just as the lawyer stepped through
the door into the room where they
were he tripped over a footstool, fell
and broke the record into many piec-
es, rendering it useless.
The heirs, to express It mildly, are
indignant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Largest Vote Ever PolIed In Mayor
atty Election is Expected to be
Cast by the Voters
Today.
BOTH CLAIM VICTORY
Charles E. Merriam is Republican
and Carter n. Harrison is
Democratic Candidate for
Mayor OF City.

CHICAGO, April 4,-Chicagos
greatest mayoralty contest rushes to
it's climax today with both contending
camps proclaiming victory. Ten hours
of combat at the polls, and the battle
of the ballots will be over. the sphinx
of politics, the independent voter, will
have unsealed his lips, the verdict
will be known.
The largest vote ever polled in a
mayoraIty election is expected to
show the intense interest manifested
by the electors in the campaign. En-
perts agree that at least S75,000 vot-
ers will go TO the polls. Favorable
weather may push the vote above the
! 3SOO00 mark, which would mean 80
per cent of the registered voters.
The revision Of the poll books left
| 423.551 names on the registry-the
heaviest for mayoralty election
in all Chicago's history. The same in
terest that led to the tremendous vote
at the primaries and to the record
breaking new registration is expected
| to set new total vote mark.
No matter how close the race, the
man who wins today will poll the
greatest vote ever accorded a candi
date for mayor of Chicago. On the
basis of total vote of $4,000 which
Is considered a minimum, and assum
ing that the socialists and prohibition
lists will gather in $4,000 votes, a tota
; of 350,000 votes is left for division be
tween Charles E. Merriam and Carte
H. Harrison. This means that tn
winner must poll something over 175
600 votes. What this means in tn
way of record-breaking may be see
from the fact that the highest vot
! heretofore received by a candidate wa
for Mayor Busse in 1907. 1t was 1864
702. The next highest was polled b
Edward r. Dunno in 1895. 1t wa
0 163,1S9. All indications are that tn
: winner today must receive at leas
e 10000 votes more than ever went t
= a mayoralty candidate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
HAND and FOOT
IN CIGAR BOX
Boys Make Strange Find and Police
Are Trying to Figure Out if
Murder Was Com
mitted
RING ON ONE FINGER
Parts of Letter in the Box But Pieces
Put Together Do Not Throw
Any Light on the
Mystery.

NEW YORK, April 4.-Four boys
playing on East One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street found cigar box
containing a mans right hand. with a
gold signet ring on it marked "a, F., :
and also a mans left foot Coroner
holtzhauser, who examined them lat
er, said in his opinion the find indi-
Gated murder, and said that the
members seemed to nave been torn
or hacked from the body, and not cut
off as a surgeon would cut.
They were wrapped loosely in a
part of German newspaper from
which the date line had been torn off
On the third finger of the hand was
the ring. The box had contained
cigars from a factor in Rutherford
N. J. Coroner Holtzhauser had tht
hand and foot sent to the morgue.
In the bottom of the box were
found bits of a torn letter The let
ter was written partly in German ant
4 partly in Engnsh, and in a goot
hand, apparently that of a woman
although of this the detectives ans
the coroner were not sure.
1t had been torn into very small
bits. A few of these which wer,
found together were pieced out t.
spell curse of drink One of th
bits contained the letters "Su,' bu
in the first attempt to get sense ou
:. OF the letter puzzle the rest of tn
word could not be found
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Weather Conditions.

The advancing western depression
is central in Arkansas this morning.
and there has been rain from the
Rockies to the Atlantic coast, chang
ing to snow in the northern noun
tain and plateau regions, and the
temperature change has been small
east of the Rockies.
The pressure remains high, decreas-
ing slowly in the northeastern states.
On the Pacific slope there have been
light rains, with a moderate depres-
sion in the north, and a high area in
California.
Conditions indicate the rain con,
tinuing tonight and probably Wednes-
day, for this section,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
ROUTED FooTPAD
WITH HAT PINS
Girl Drew Pair of Dassers and Would
be Thief Promptly Beat

NEW YORK. April A.. When Miss
Hanna Krothyille, % and pretty, was
held up at the point of a revolver
here today the footpad took flight
when she drew two 20-inch hat pins
She tried to pursue and capture the
thief but her hobble skirt interferred.
Police captured the man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Dynamite Was Used.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 4 a
bold attempt was made early today to
destroy the million dollar tower of the
new group of municipal buildings, a
charge of dynamite was discharged,
shaking the city for several blocks.
The actual damage was small
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04

NEW YORK, April The author
tiles have given permission for the
parade tomorrow of union labor, the
greatest parade in the history of the
city. 1t will form in two sections and
finally join and march past the build
ing where the shirt waist workers lost
their lives
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
TO USE AEROPANE
IN POLAR TRIP
Or. Mawson Figures on Flying After
His Legs Get Too Cold
to Walk.

LONDON, April 4.-Dr. Douglas
Mawson, the Australian who is plan
ming trip to the antarctic, has de-
cided to take an aeroplane with him
as part of his outfit.
He has been examining various
types of machines and inclines to the
two-seated Bleriot monoplane. which
has record for $50 miles of continu-
GUS fight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
THE WEATHER.

(Until Z p. m. Wednesday,
For Keokuk and vicinity: Rain to-
night and probably Wednesday.
For Illinois and Missouri. Rain
tonight and probably Wednesday.
For Iowa Unsettled weather with
rain or snow tonight or Wednesday,
Colder west portion Wednesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Supreme Court Decisions.
lsnanial to The Gate City.


DIES MONIES, April 4. Sidwell vs..
ECONOMY Coal Co, appellant, Polk
district, affirmed.
Anderson VS.. Anderson, appellant
Harrison district, affirmed.
Keane vs.. Century Fire Insurance
Co., appellant, Winneshiek district
affirmed.
Tukey VS.. Reinholdt, appellant, Haf
rison district affirmed.
Migliaccio VS.. Smith Fuel Co, ap
pellant, Polk district, affirmed.
Morrill, VS.. Bentley appellant, BlacE
hawk district, affirmed on plaintiff''
appeal, reversed on defendants ap
peal. .,,n
Kierulff VS.. Harlan, appellant
clarke district, modified, affirmed an'
remanded
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Eor the peopIc.

WASHINGTON, April 4.-LaNyers
say there is an intimation that the
supreme court will decide the great
Standard Oil and tobacco trust cases
in favor of the ultimate consumer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Daily River Bulletin.
stage. Height. Change .Wea 'hr.
River E oreeast.

The river will rise slowly during
the next IS hours
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
local Observations.

Mean temperature, April 9,
Highest temperature, 20,
Lowest temperature, So
Lowest temperature last night, 81.
FnED Y. GOSEWISEIf.
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04

CONTINUED on page 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-04
Senate.

New Democrats ................ u
New Republicans ....... b
.
Tctal number of new members =. II
Total number of Republicans. so
ETotal number of Democrats ..... Al
Republican majority .......
Vacancy Colorado will be filed by
9 Democrat making the Republican
majority S.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
sCHENK Jury DIsAeREEs
Fails to Reach Verdict After 80 Hours
Of Deliberation and Jury
10 Discharged.

Wheeling, West Virginia.-AThe jury
in the trial of Mrs. Laura Farms
worth Schenk, charged with attempt.
ingto poison her millionaire husband.
John o. Schenk, was discharged by
Judge Jordan, after making a second
report that its members were hope
lessly divided. The jury had been
out 80 hours.
1t was stated that the last ballot
was IL to / for acquittal, the FIRST
having been eight to four for acQa..'
tai. Mrs. Schenk was taken back
to Jail.
When the Jury was passing on the
guilt or innocence Of Mrs. Laura
Farnsworth Schcnk for the attempt
to poison her millionaire husband.
John o. ScheRk, entered the court
room, Judge Jordan was on the
bench. One of the Jurors inquired II
he might ask a question I'm open
Court concerning some Of the evi.
dence. He was told to put it in writ
ing and the court would consider 1t.
All the time the jury was out, Dan
Phillips, the clerk who swore tha'
Mrs. Schenk took him automobiline
and lavished presents on him, wal
about the court waiting to hear tht
verdict.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
INDIANA AUTHOR IS DEAL
cavid Graham Phillips suecumbs to
Revolver Shot Wounds inflicted
by Socialist Goldsborough.

New York City.--David Graham
Phillips, the novelist. who was shot
six times on Monday afternoon, by
Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, IN
Gramercy park, died at Bellevue o
pital. Mr.. Phillips had been vomiting
Llood all during the day. This symp-
tom told the physicians the perfora-
ton in the lung, caused by q bullet
which had entered the right chest and
had passed out Of the body near the
left shoulder blade, was not healing.
Goldsborough always had been q
warm admirer Of Phillips and his writ
ings, until he read Joshua Craig"
Then he imagined that Joshua Craig,
the eccentric hero Of the novel, was
intended as q picture Of himself. and
that the heroine, Margaret Severance
was his sister. He further believed
Margaret's grandmother, Nine. Bow
kor, was his own grandmother.
The name David Graham Phillips
appears in q 1911 diary OF Goldsbor
ough's. Beneath Mr.. Phillips name
Goldsborough had written these sen
fences: HE is my enemy" He I
an enemy to society"
A sister Of Goldsborough arrives
from Washington to take her broth
er's body to that city.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
PAPERS SEIZED IN oPtuM-DEN
RAID SHOW COLLISION WITH
CHINESE CRIMINALS.
sHAKE-uP is PROMISED
Large Sums Of Money Paid to De-
partments Of Many Cities by the
Tonqs-May Find Murderer
Of Anxerican Girl.

New York City.-Leon Ling, the
Christianized Chinese who killed Ell
sic Sigel in a room Over a restaurant
In New York Chinatown. escaped cap
ture through the collusion of Chinese
secret societies with the police de-
partments of many cities.
This was brought to light through
the seizure Of papers in a raid on an
opium-den here last week. Federal
officers confirm in every detail the
truth of the statement that the papers
put them in possession OF
tary evidence of collision between
Chinese criminals and the police.
Among the papers, all of which have
not yet been translated, are said 10
be letters showing how Ling made his
escape, and records bearing on other
murder mysteries and which estab-
fishes beyond question the existence
of corrupt relations between a syndl-
cate OF Chinese criminals and police
officials in this and other cities.
These revelations have started an
investigation. which federal, county
and city authorities agree will be one
of the most fa%r-reaching and search
ing in the history of New York.
The seized documents are looked
upon as so important by Henry A
Wise, United States district attorney
that he will not turf them over tC
the New York police until the treas
ury department in Washington de
cides upon this course. The New
York police are anxions to get at the
records which show how the muir
derer of Elsie Sigel escaped and the
sums of money they have been paie
by Chinese criminals to police offl
Gals in this city and elsewhere.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
INSANE MAN KILLS TWO
Wealthy Farmer Calls Couple to the
Door and Shoots Them Down
S%urrenders INTERESTINGLY.

Kansas City, Mo.-Harvey Wad-
leigh, a wealthy farmer living near
here, went insane suddenly and MUIR
dered his neighbors, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bales, also farmers.
Wadleigh went into the Bales yard
and calling them to the door shot
them down without saying a word.
A boy who was chopping wood in
the yard saved his life by running
and gave the alarm.
Wsdleigh was taken to Mankota
Jail, where he raves in an incoherent
of fancied wrongs. He sur
rendered without resistance.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
COMMITTEES, REPORTING HOUSE
BILL, ADDS 100000 FOR
6-FooT IMPROVEMENT.
CANAL is INCLUDED
Senate Committee Adds More Than
100000 to House Measure-FL
nal Report Awaits Legislation
on Part Of illinois.

Washington, D. C.-The rivers and
harbors bill, carrying $36,5S3,9S1
In appropriations and authorizations
Of continuing contracts was report
ed to the senate by Senator Frye,
chairman of the committee on com
MERGE to-day. More than $4,000, 900
was added to the aggregate a%ppropriar
lions by the senate committee, which
completed, which completed its
amendment Of the a as it
passed the house.
The Missouri river aud the Texas
canal, two items passed up to the full
committee by the subcommittee
which prepared the report, are includ-
ed in the bill. There will be no seri-
Gus difficult, it is thought, In the pass
age of the measure, although. no
doubt, Senator Burton of Ohio will op-
pose the Missouri and the Mississippi
and the Texas items. His opposition
is deep seated and apparently can
never be overcome, Notwithstanding
the changing conditions which mako
the utilization Of the great waterways
Of the middle west feasible.
The Missouri Has &1,2oo,o0o Fund.
Until the next congress can further
provide it, there will be available 81
zoe, 900 for the Missouri river improve
nent betweene Kansas City and the
mouth of the river. Under the an-
thorization of 81, 900, 900 carried in the
last rivers and harbors bill, contracts
to the extent Of 100000 have been
made, SO that there is remaining $780,.
600 available up to the beginning OF
the fiscal year, 1912. Maj. James B.
Cavanaugh of the engineer corps, q
member Of the Missouri river commits
sion, stated that the surplus Of 5000,
600 would carry the work through tt
the date mentioned, but that in orde,
to provide for any hiatus an authorize
tion should be made. When asked
what this should be he specified
about $500. 000." Accordingly. the bill
as it was reported to the senate Ia
day carries that amount.
This is an authorization for . con
tinuing contract to establish q 6-foo
permanent channel in the Missouri
river from Kansas City to its mouth
above st. Louis.
That there is NO provision for tn
lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway IL b<
cause the final report has not bee
!, submitted and that further legislatio
, is necessary On the part of the stat
Of Illinois.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
JAILED TO STOP WEDDING
Indian and Chicago Heiress Wish to
Marry-Girl is ordered OF Res
ervation by Government.

Chicago.-Following two attempts
to elope. Intervention of federal au'
thorities prevented the marriage OF
Miss Madeline Sullivan, a former pu-
pil Of the Lakeview high school and
an heiress, to an Indian on Wyoming
reservation.
Plenty Hawk, the prospective In
dian bridegroom, was arrested by
United States government agents and
locked up in the Grow agency jail
near Cheyenne, Wyo. The young Chi
cago woman was ordered from the
reservation and sent back to relatives
at Sheridan.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
BOARD BILL is IN
Measure as Advocated by Presiden
Taft Is Reported by House
Committee.

Washington, D. C.-Contrary to
all expectations. the house committee
on Ways and means reported a tariff
commission bill substantially the
same as the measure framed by Rep
resentative Longworth, with the ad-
vice OF President Taft.
1t provides for a tariff board" Of
Ave members. appointed by the presi-
dent, for terms of six years. The sal
airy of the chairman Of the board is
fixed at $500 and that of the mem
bers at $1,000.
Almost plenary powers in investiga'
lions are given the board by the bill,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-02-03
BUCKS STOVE CASE ENDS
United States Supreme Court Refuses
to Proceed Further-Contempt
Charges Go On.

Washington, d. C.-The boycott
case" of the Bucks Stove and Range
company of ST. Louis against the
American Federation Of Labor came
to a dramatic close when the supreme
court of the United States decided 1t
was a question it would not hear.
The refusal of the court to proceed
further with the boycott case will
not affect the contempt charges
against Samuel Gompers, John Mitch
ell and Frank Morrison.