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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
INDIANA MEN
TALKING POLITICS
State Republican Committee Meets
Tomorrow to Arrange for
Convention.

limited Press Leased Wire service. ]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Dec. 81
There is unusual interest in the meet
ing Of the Indiana republican state
committee here tomorrow because OF
the Taft and anti-Taft fight now rag
ing in Indiana. The recent statement
OF State Chairman Edwin NJ Lee, that
President Taft could not carry In
diana. coupled with his announcement
today that he did not believe the
president would allow his name to be
presented to the coming national con
yention as e presidential candidate,
has divided the state committee into
two distinct camps. Today was
scheduled to bring the first test OF
strength between the two factions
when a vote was taken en- the date
for the reorganization of the com
mittee
Anti-Taft men fought for delay in
the reorganization OF the committee
The Taft forces attempted to force the
reorganization OF the committee early
in January, Both sides expressed
themselves as confident o. winning
and there were indications that the
vote might stand six to six witt
State Chairman Lee, anti-Taft leader
holding the balance OF power.
The vote on the reorganization wai
scheduled to come late this afternoon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
DRMER HOTEL KEOKUK
MANAGER DEAD
William Il. Shattuck Passed Away in
Hospital at Rochester, Mimi,
Last Saturday.

Word has but recently been receiv-
ed here of the death of VIM Fl. Shat.
tuck. two years ago, manager of the
Hotel Keokuk Mr.. Shattuck was TAX.
en- to Rochester, Mimi. three weeks
ago for operation by the Mayos but ar
Der arriving at that institution, it
was found that surgery would not be
OF benefit. Mr.. Shattuck remained in
Rochester hospital until his death
He WAS accompanied to Minnesota by
his wife who remained with him dur.
ing the last hours.
Mr. Shattuck was a man about So
years old, pleasant and with large
number Of friends in this city. For
more than a year and half he was
manager Of the Hotel Keokuk. He
had been connected with the hotel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
MAKE COMPLAINT
REGARDING RATES
Des Moines Shippers Pay Too Much
for Shipments TO the
Mormons.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. |
WASHINGTON, Dec 81 The
Greater Des Moines committee asked
the interstate commerce commission
today for an order compelling reduc-
lions, in some cases amounting to 33
per cent, in the class freight now be-
ing maintained between Des Names
and points in Utah by the Union Pa
cific, the Missouri Pacific, Burlington
and Santa Fe, and several other roads,
The committee complained that the
rates to Utah from Missouri river
points, longer haul than from Des
Moines to Utah, are from six to seven
ty cents per hundred pounds less than
the rates from Des Moines
The Des Moines committee asks for
new rates averaging twenty-eight
cents per hundred pounds lower than
the Missouri river rates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
EsAwirss9
To the Jury Today.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Whether
Isaac Harris and Max Blanck. owners
of the Triangle Shirtwaist company
are to be punished for the death OF
i42 persons in the fire that DESTROYED
their plant, will be known late this
afternoon When their trial for man
slaughter was resumed today, Assist
ant District Attorney Bostwick began
the initial summing up for the people
He was followed by Max D. Steuer for
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
HIGH SCHOOL BOY
HAS DISAPPEARED
Father Thinks He is Kidnapped But
Police Think He is With
Woman.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 27-Letters
and kilograms were sent out by the
Denver police department today, ask
ing the police of all the large cities
of the country to look for Ralph
Crabb, the II year old high school
boy who has been mysteriously miss
ing since Dec. 4. The parents OF the
lad believed he was simply a victim
of wanderlust until strange woman,
clad in black and heavily yelled sud-
denly appeared at the Crabb home and
asked for Ralph's clothes. The boys
mother denied the request but per,
mitted the woman to get away without
questioning her.
Ralph's father, Prof. |. N. Crabb,
instructor in mathematics in East
Denver high school, is firm In his be-
lief that his son has been kidnapped
by gang of men and is being held
for ransom. The police do not incline
to this theory, believing Ralph has
been lured away by woman. They
point to mysterious letter Prof
Crabb received few days ago, urging
him to insert in the want columns OF
the newspapers the name Ethel and
promising that, If he did SO he would
hear some news of his son. The pro
lessor did so but heard nothing
The police here have run down a
dozon clewc that hnva coma In the
past few days, hut without result
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
Candidates for Mayor.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Dec 27.-Wm.
J. Carey, representative in congress
from the fourth Wisconsin district, to-
day announced his candidacy for may
or of Milwaukee in the coming spring
elections. He is undecided whether
to make the race on republican or
non BIPARTISAN ticket. He will open
campaign headquarters within thirty
days. Other mayoralty candidates al
ready announced are Dr. G. A. Bading,
non-partisan, and Emil Seidel, social
list incumbent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
NJ IL ms

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From the time our baby was bonn until
she was SIX months old, she did not gain
as she should have. She did not sleep
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the whole six months with colo. We
tried many different foods. but nothing
seemed to agree with her. Then we de-
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10 this she has gained rapidly. sleeps well
and is a healthy. rosy-cheeked baby girl.
We owe her good health to Mellm's Food
and we certainly take pleasure IN recon-
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Atchison. Kansas.
Send for FREQ sample to try.
MELLIN's FOOD co. BOSTON, MASS,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
KEOKUK Is DAM TOWN:
HENCE DAMSBURE'
But the Students Of Columbia, State
University of Missouri, Weren't
Wise.
Where is Damsburg, Iowa.

Where is Damsburg, Iowa?
The name is correlative with Keo.
kuk but none OF the 1000 students
of the University of Missouri knew
where Damsburg was until a. Keokuk
youth Strengthened them out and
pointed with pride to the fact that the
largest engineering works In the
world, damming river for the pur-
pose of obtaining electrical energy
from the latent power in the bubbles,
was located here.
The story which Is altogether a
pretty good joke, was told by Keo-
kuk attorney this morning who wrote
a business letter to one Of the deans
of the Missouri university at Column
bia. the other day and in writing his
date line inserted the word Dams
burg" with the state following, in
stead of the usual three X" name of
this historical town
When the professor of things that
give students brain-storms some
times. read Damsburg, he accosted
his class with the question: Where
is Damsburg, lowa?"
There was much searching through
Biographies, all over maps of the
Hawk-Eye state gazeteers were haul
ed out and perused and no one could
| find such name.
! One member of the class whose
home is in or near Keokuk, yolun-
teered an answer after much hubbub,
saying:
That must be Keokuk'' ITO the
head of your class" said the "profix"
and Damsburg was thoroughly es-
tablished among the other isms of the
students gray matters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
ADJUSTMENTS

Santa Claus Pictures Tomorrow NIGHT.
The picture, "a Reformed Santa
Claus will be shown at Dodges' TO-
morrow evening. The story on the
curtain will be one for both young and
old and will be the really big feature
of the week at the reliable picture
house. Tonight change of program
will be given and some especially good
pictures are promised.
Miss Ethel Moore, the young lady
from Burlington, whose strong, sweet
voice is one of attractlveness, appear
ed initially last evening at Dodges
Miss Moore has sung in the larger
theatres of the west and the manage
ment of the local picture house is for.
tunate in securing her Tor an engage
ment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
LOOKING FOR
WITNESS HERE
sheriff Goo Of Henry County Came
70 keokuk Christmas Night
on Rape
Case.
HAS MOVED TO CHICAGO
Officer Unable to Find the Party Who
Knows Something About Winfield
Crime Of Week
Ago.

N'hSl III 1oc VI MOullL ficdSdnl,
Henry county, was In Keokuk Monday
evening looking for witness who is
wanted as an important testlfler IN
the Winfield rape case which occur
red more than week ago, Miss Lucy
Bowman OF that place being attacked
by three men, blindfolded and driven
away in buggy before the outrage
was committed.
The Henry county official was un-
able to find the witness he was look
Ing for, he having moved to CHICAGO
with his family short time ago.
Keokuk people read Of the occurrence
at Winfield short while ago.
A Mount Pleasant paper tells Of
Sheriff Goes visit here to find wit
ness and other brief details Of the
crime:
The reports to the effect that the
three men, who perpetrated the out
rage upon Miss Lucy Bowman at Win
field week ago, had been captured,
unfortunately were not true and they
are still at large. The officers are
still working on the case, Sheriff Goe
going to Keokuk yesterday afternoon,
working on a clue given him by par.
ties in Davenport. He expected to
return in time to meet No. in Bur.
lington this morning, as another de-
tective one of the leading ones of Chi.
cage, was expected on that train. In
that case they would go on to Winfield
together and prosecute the man-hunt
with renewed vigor.
Several parties are under suspicion
and are being watched with more OF
less vigilance by the officers but sc
FAR not enough evidence has been
procured to warrant an arrest.
Miss Bowman describes them as be
ting rather under the influence Of
liquor at the time, one of them she
Says, was large man one middle
size and one rather small. AT leas
4 me OF them. perhaps the large one hat
heavy mustache. but being blind
ded so quickly, she had little time
DbBerve them.
he was seized at the alley half s
X west of the Commercial hote
she thinks the buggy turned soutl
fly and then to the east again anc
south, but of this she Is no
nor is she certain of where she
taken. A buggy track was followed
next morning on a part Of this
p, but SO many tracks had beer
that it could not be followed
itely. Everything is being done
can be done to uncover the vic
affair and developments are hoped
any day now.
a meeting Of the board of super
prs today it was voted that the
nty Offer reward of $500 for the
ture and conviction of the mer
b committed the terrible outrage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
pante,s Inferno Tonight.

"Dante's Inferno the worlds great
est motion pictures. were shown to
large crowds ct the Colonial theatre
last night, and the management has
decided to show these marvellous
pictures again tonight. Remember
this is your last chance tonight of see
ing ''Dante's Inferno. shown in Keo
kuk,s SO avail yourselves OF the oppor
tunity. Only two shows tonight at
7:45 and 300. Go early if you want
to get in. No advance in admission
price.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
A Texas Protest.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 27-The Beau
mont, Texas, chairman of commerce
petitioned the interstate commerce
commission today complaining of
freight rate discrimination by the NJ.
X. & 7. and other Texas railroads in
favor of the town of Lake Charles, La.
Beaumont and Lake Charles are but
sixty miles apart and yet the propor-
Tomato rate makes potatoes cost $40 a
carload more in Beaumont than in
Lake Charles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
THE WORLDS MARKETS

'.25; stoekers and feeders. s3.25m
5.2o; Texas steers, ss.75d6.75. cows
ana heifers. sS.7515.oo; calves Gear
lots, s4.5o@T.5o.
Hog receipts 1o,500: market steady.
aloc higher. Mixed and butchers.
s6.Oo06.io; good TO heavy, $4,000
e,4o, good to heavy, S6.3066. Az.
rough. s5.so@6.1o; light, s5.S5@6.25:
bulk, sS.so@6.o5 pigs. s5.oo@5.75.
Sheep receipts $500: market
steady: sheep and mutton. s3.25@ 100.
lambs, s4.25d625.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, Dec. 27-Cattle receipts
$500; market steady: steers SIS 40
500; cows and heifers a5a5.15;
stockers and feeders $40 a 500:
calves s.5on7. so; bulls and stays
25@5,25.
] Hog receipts $500; market steady
to &c lower
Sheep receipts Zoo; market steady:
yearlings .f0@4.75; wethers 3 .75n
40; lambs 5, 50@6 90; ewes 400
375.
! Kansas City Live Stock.
/ KANSAS CITY, Dec 27.--Cattle re-
ceipts 5000; market steady. steers
5.ooGS.75: cows and heifers 2.75 a
- 90; stockers and feeders LOO a
s. 90; calves O067 90.
Hog receipts $1,000 market steadyr
bulk 6.oO@6.s5; heavy 6 $500. 40;
medium e,15@6.35; light 5.S0@6 25.,
Sheep receipts 1000; market 1oc
lower; lambs 4.50@6.25 ewes 2. 500
S.75; wethers 25@5. %.
!. Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-Butter-extra
ssc; frsts csc; dairy extras s1cy
dairy firsts csc.
Eggs firsts 26@27c.
Cheese-Twins 16M @16hc; Young.
America 161a@16Ac.
Potatoes, s0@S2c.
Live Poultry-fowls 1914 n11cs
, ducks, 1Sh@14c; geese 11@1L.Ac:i
spring chickens 1oh@12c turksyar
5 146141ac.
New York Produce.
5 NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-F1our mar.
ket inactive.
Pork market quiet Mess s17,25@
5 1875; middle west spot, $9.25@s.35.
2 Sugar, raw, market quiet Centrifu.
gal test, $4.61; Muscavado SO test.
SAIL.
. Sugar. refined, market dull; cut loaf
2 $3.50; crushed. s6.45; powdered, $5.s5;
J. graduated. $3.50.
:, Coffee Rio No on spot 141ac
Tallow market quiet. City, SIC:
!; country SIS @83sc.
4 Hay market firm Prime $3.50; No. I
& 95@s1O5.
Dressed Poultry market firm; tur
A keys 12@2Sc; chickens, 6622c; fowii
6@16c; ducks, 12@1ec.
Live Poultry market firmer Geese
.s 11@12c; ducks, 12@13c: fowls, 1917 q
d 1870; turkeys, Ice: ROSTERS Slac.
Y. Cheese market dull State milk com
s; mon to special 1914 @16Ac; skins
common to specials 6@14c; full skins
1T S@5c.
ID Butter market dull; receipts 1884:
d. creamery extras, 39c; dairy tubs, 246
); 36c imitation creamery f1rsts, 24c.
Egg market weaker Receipts 14,103
k. nearby white fancy 43@45c, nearby
@ mixed fancy, 31@33c; fresh 2s@35c.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2T.-Money OF
It. call 3h: six months 4: bar silver il
y. London Is Lied; bar silver in Ney
RS York 54ss; demand sterling 4s6.o5@
q 4ss1o
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27

here previous to that time, also, in the
capacity Of manager During an illness
two years ago, Mr.. Shattuck spent
several months in Oklahoma and Cali.
fornia.
Later he became manager of the
Elliot Hotel Cafe in Des Moines and
had been there until his Illness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
Declined Office.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON Dec 27.-Tewfik Pasha.
Turkish ambassador TO London, today
was offered the grand vizership, but
declined the post.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
Eirea THROUGH Window.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
DANvILLE, Ill.,, Dec. ai.-Posses
accompanied by bloodhounds are today
securing the country about Covington,
Ind. is miles east Of here for the as
sailants of Thos. Brodine, wealthy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27

grain dealer OF that place. Three
shots were fred from a heavy calibre
rife at long range through window
of the Brodine home late last night
while the family were entertaining a.
score of friends No one was injured
The would-be assassins. 1t is believed,
escaped In boats on the wabash riyer.i
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
Tho Grain Market.

UNITED Press Leased Wire ServiceA
CHICAGO, Dec. 81 Bulish cable
news regarding the Argentine crop
caused marked activity in the entire
grain list today. The early rise in
prices which took May wheat close to
SO, was temporarily checked bv ad-
vices of larger yield in the north
west than year ago. Before noon,
however, the upward movement was
resumed and during the late hours or
trading higher prices We're registered
Gables state that black rust has ap-
peared in the Argentine crop, and ex-
perts fear a spread of this blight
which will greatly reduce the yield in
southern provinces.
/ A corn scare, that served to send
! prices up. developed today based on
4 an important shortage for the current
months, with very little corn coming
I from the elevators to meet the sales.
The shorts in December contracts
were principaMy affected by this con
diticn.
Oats we're somewhat frmer than
yesterday with trading active. Pit
buyers placed heavy orders because of
the rise in the price Of wheat, and
some heavy offerings by private wire
concerns were quickly snapped up.
Provisions were steady with trading
light. Many holders Of the January
product changed their lines over tc
May.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27

A specific for pain-Dr. Thomas
Electric OIL. strongest, cheapest lini.
men ever devised. A household RENE.
dy in America for 25 years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
Chicago Cash Grain.

CHICAGO, Dec. Wheat-No. .
red 96@97; No. 8 red 1896. No 2
hard 97@1.0 No. 3 hard 9569s; No
spring, old. 95@1. 90; No. 3 spring,
new 1.00@1.. 05.
Corn - No. yellow, old, 72077S;
No. 8 61A @611s: No. 8 yellow 611z
@62; No. 4 5s@59: No. white 5S1s
@59; No. yellow 5S@59la
Oats-No. 3 white ASK @47A: No.. A
white 44@46a; standard 47@47A.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, Dec 27.-Hog receipts
10000: market strong: mixed and
butchers, s5.9O@6.4O; good heavy,
sC.00@640; rough heavy. s6.oO@6.15;
light, s5.30@6.25; pigs, s4.SO@5.So.
Cattle receipts 1880; market
steady. Beeves, s4S5@S.so; COWS and
heifers. $2.00@61O; stockers and feed.
ers, $3.25@5.75; Texans, s420@5.T5;
calves. $4.75@7.25.
Sheep receipts $4,000; market weak
Native. s2.50@4.25: lambs, s4.25G
6.35; western, $400@6.30.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27

the prisoners, and the closing argu-
ments We're made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27

stafford" returned the man. SIN
managin' the Two Diamond. over on
the Ute"
What you wautin' ME to shoots"
"Rustler."
Ferguson smiled "why don't you
put him out OF business yourself?" he
inquired.
Il aiu't takin' any chances on this
man." returned Stafford: hes too
slick with gun. An mono of the
boys Is wiliin' to rifle him. That's
why ! come over to Dry Bottom 10
get man
You've got one" said Ferguson.
Stafford drew out roll OF bills
and pressed them into the others
hand. I'm goin back to the Two
Diamond now" he said You'd bet.
ter wait day or two. SOS no one will
get wise. Come right to me. like you
was wantin' job"
TN be there day after tomorrow
stated Ferguson. He turned and
strobe into the saloon. while Stafford
mounted his pony and roda rapidly
up Three Mile Slope.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
e. o,,is i've stock

ST. Louis Live Stock.
EAST ST. LOUIS, III. Dec. 27.-Cat-
tie receipts $500; market steady
Texas receipts 400; native beef steers
$450@925; COWS and heifers, $3.50
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-27
New YORK Money Market.

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 Money on
call 31s six months 4 bar silver in
London Is Lied bar silver in New
York 54ss; demand sterling 4s6.o5@
4Ss1o.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-07
DEMOCRATIC CONTROL BIG
ISSUE IN NEW YORK VOTE.

NEW YORK. Nov. IA million and
a half of ballots that began to rain into
the boxes and click through the voting
machines today will demonstrate to-
night whether the Empire State has
remained true to its Democratic pref
erences expressed a year ago or has
gone back to the party of President
Taft. A possible change of political
sentiment IS the only broad interest
attached to the contest, and the only
State officers to be elected are mem
bers of the lower House of the Legisla-
ture. To maintain their supremacy In
the Assembly the Democrats will have
to r~e-elect members in IS of the 15O
districts. New York city elects a new
Board of Aldermen and Supreme Court
justices in the First and Second judi
! cial districts. Thirty-four upstate
cities choose new mayors and other
municipal officers. County ofhcers are
elected generally throughout the State
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-07

A Republican Legislature is a repudia-
ton of them and a sign from the vot-
ers in the State that they are through
with the things he stands for. In al
most every campaign speech he asked
the voters to send to Trenton the men
that are willing to play the open
game" the men that are acquainted
with the new rules"
For this reason the Republicans are
putting up a strong fight, in order to
demonstrate to the Governor hat the
voters of the State have not lost con-
fidence in their party. In Morris county
they are especially hopeful of reducing
the plurality that Wilson received last
year. All the Republican forces there
have been out. and former Governor
Stokes spoke In favor of the Republican
candidates.
One congressman is to be elected from
the State. This will be in the First
district Camden. Gloucester and Salem
counties). to fill the vacancy caused by
Henry C. Loudenslager. The eandi-
dates are william J.. Browning, Re-
publican, and Thomas M. Farrell,
Democrat. Eight State senator's and
sixty assemblymen are to be elected
today. Sheriffs will be. elected In seven
teen counties, ~surrogates in t hree
counties, an auditor In one, a collector
In another, a county clerk in another,
and also a register.
Every State senator that is elected
today will have a vote for the United
States Senator to succeed Senator
Frank o. Briggs, whose term expires
in 1918. This is looked upon as one of
the important things in the campaign,
and both the parties are anxious to
send in men of their own persuasion.
Former Governor Stokes referred to
this in his speech in Morris county
and said that if a Democratic Senate is
elected then 1t is almost certain that
another free trader will sit in the
United States Senate. Governor VIII
son, on the other hand, wishes the
Senate to be Democratic.
One Of the big fights for mayor Is
in Atlantic City, where Harry Bacha-
rach, postmaster of the city, is head
ing the Republican ticket against
Danield S. White, a hotel owner, who
is the fusion candidate on the Demo-
cratic-Independent Republican ticket.