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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-31
RaIsinu the Bonds.

News OF the arrests was telephoned
to Job Hartman and he started out
to raise the $4,000 cash bail demanded
for each man. The required amount
was not forthcoming until late this
afternoon when Hartman appeared he
fore Assistant District Attorney Re-
gan with fifteen one thousand dollar
bills. This money, Hartman stated.
was put UP by Attorney Lecompte
Davis, Mrs. Job Hartman and John
Murray, a retired business man. I'M
mediately after the arrest, the accus-
ed men went to the office of Harri-
man where they held conference
with Clarence Darrow. Lecompte
Davis and Hartman This gave rise
to the rumor that practically the same
array OF legal talent that acted for the
McNanaras would represent the Pa
cific coast labor leaders. When asked
tonight II he had been requested to
represent the indicted men, Darrow
said:
Nothing is certain yet If the boys
need me may have to help them out"
Davis said.
II the boys want me, am willing
to serve. All they have to do is to
let me know that | can be of some
help"
Asked tonight if he had any state
ment to make, Tveitmoe said:
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Calls Il Peculiar Move.


This action is surprise to me as
am guilty Of no crime nor conspir.
acy have no message to send to my
fellow laboring men at this time. La
Dor will understand that this is one
OF the peculiar moves in this prose
cntion- For any statements concern
ing me and my defense. you will have
TO see my attorney"
Johannsen said: Il have no other
statement to make other than am
innocent of this charge. came all
che way across the country when
heard was wanted in the case to face
this grand Jury My only offense was
knowing Jim Mcnamara"
Munsey was bitter in his denuncfa-
ton OF the grand jury. Special As
sistant Attorney General Lawler, who
directed the probe into the alleged
dynamite conspiracy, only waited at
the federal building long enough to-
day to see that the indictments were
returned and the arrests made Then
he boarded q train for Indianapolis
where he Is to assist the grand jury
In It's probe there. LawIer was ac,
companied by District Attorney John
d Fredericks who carried with him
the original confession OF ortie Nc
Manigal.
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association
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES STATE
MENT EMPHATlCALLY DENY
ING THE STORY.
WAS ONLY PREPARING
WANTED CONGRESS TO TAKE
CHARGE OF SITUATION WITH
PREPARATIONS MADE.

hington-President Taft moved
swiftly to squelch the latest Japanese
war scare story Incidentally num-
ber of the Senate Committee on for
eign relations revealed some OF the
reasons which the President has CIV
en- that committee and the House
committee on foreign affairs for the
mobilization of troops on the Texas
border.
Through Senator Burton of Ohio,
the President made an emphatic de-
nial of the report from Mexico City
that proposed treaty between Japan
and Mexico caused the movement of
troops to Texas.
''The President authorized me-"
said Senator Burton, Ito deny in most
emphatic terms the story from Mex
leo City about secret treaty between
Mexico and Japan. There is not one
word of truth in it,
Senator Bacon of Georgia, ranking
minority member of the foreign re-
latiOnS committee, after talk with
the President, declared that Mr.. Taft
was surprised and indignant at the re-
ports duplicating Japan and Mexico.
''You can put the whole story down
as absurd" said Senator Bacon. "The
President has talked to me and to
other members of the committee and
explained the reasons for sending the
troops south. There was danger of
widespread revolution and perhaps
anarchy in Mexico. The President
acted quickly and decisively. He be-
lieved that the army should be on the
border ready for any contingency
when Congress met
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
legislative Plan Made Known.

Washington.-Leg plans of
the Democratic majority of the House,
made known from a reliable source, in
dicate that the Senate will be given
speedily important measures for ac-
ton.
The definite outline, subject to
surther ratification, lists as follows
the order of legislation to be pushed:
Popular election of United States
senator's
Publicity before elections of cam
paign contributions.
Statehood for Arizona and New Mex
leo.
Canadian reciprocity.
Revision of schedule K, the wool
schedule of the Payne-Aldrich bill.
Leading Democrats, when asked
what they would do if the Senate i'm
mediately passed the Canadian reci-
procity bill and then indicated its
readiness to adjourn, said the House
would not adjourn.
1t also practically has been decided
that the Canadian reciprocity bill to
be brought forward by Chairman Un.
derwood will be almost an exact dupll'
cate of the Mccall bill.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
SPORT.

Gus Schoenlein (Americus) of Balti
more defeated DR.. Roller of Seattle in
a wrestling bout in Boston.
Jim Barry, the Chicago heavyweight
knocked out Jack Heinan of Chicago
in the fourth round of their fight in
Tulsa, Okla
Frank A. Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler, defeated Jesse Westergard
of Des Moines, Iowa, in two straight
falls in Los Angeles.
The Motor Racing Drivers Associa
ton of America was formed in New
York, with George Robertson, winner
of the 1908 Vanderbilt cup race, presi
dent
Edward A. Steininger, a contractor
and warm friend of the late M Stan
ley Robinson and administrator 10
cally of the baseball magnate's es
tate, was elected president of the ST.
Louis League Baseball Club.
Stanislaus Zbyszko. the Polish
wrestler, defeated DR.. Roller of Seattle
in two straight falls at Wichita, Kan.
but he was given a hard tussle in
the first fall This fall lasted one
hour, seven minutes and thirty sec
onds The Pole fairly wore Roller
down and won the second fall in eley
en- and one-half minutes with a head
chancery hold.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
WASHINGTON.

Senator La Toilette introduced a
resolution providing for another in
vestigation of the Senator Lorimer
case.
The one-millionth United States
patent will be issued some time this
summer, 121 years after the first in
July, 1890.
Senator Martin of Virginia, at the
Democratic Senate caucus was Sc
lected permanent caucus chairman and
minority leader.
Two young society women of Wash
ington, Miss Laura Merriam and Miss
Dorothy Williams, enjoyed the dis
tinction of being the first two women
in the United States to make flight
in an aeroplane at the same time.
Keen disappointment prevailed at
the Supreme Court of the United
States when that tribunal finished its
weekly task without touching on the
dissolution suits against the Standard
Oil and the Tobacco Corporations.
The Democratic Ways and Means
committee has decided to submit the
problem of what is to be done with the
Canadian reciprocity agreemnt by the
majority in the House to a caucus of
Democrats to be held in the near fu-
ture.
In an effort to save the life of an
enlisted man lying at deaths door on
board the United States steamship
Vicksburg, the Navy Department and
State Department huriredly abandoned
all plans made out for this vessel and
ordered her to steam 800 miles under
forced draft from Corinto, Nicaragua.
to Panama.
American gunners have once more
demonstrated their efficiency in hand
ling the guns of the big battleships.
The first reports of the battle practice
held week ago by the Atlantic, Pa
cific and Asiatic fleets have been re-
ceived by the navy department, and
the results. indicate a remarkable i'm
provement in skill
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
FROM TELEGRAPHlC REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST iMPO RTANT
CURRNET TOPICS.
WESTERN

Mrs. Ella Wilson has been elected
mayor of HONEYWELL, Kans.
Fire in Gore City, Kans., burned
several business buildings, causing
loss estimated at $4,000.
The value of the stocks and bonds
stolen recently from Mrs. S. B. Ar
mour in Kansas City was $150,000 in
stead of $105,000, asoriginally reported.
George w. Mcmillan, one Of the best
known football players on the Pacific
coast, was run over and almost in
stantly killed by a freight train in
front of his grain warehouse in Port
land, Ore.
A war of determination that will
turn Mexico into vast burial ground
is believed imminent following the
positive statement by Madero, provi-
sional president of Mexico, that the in
surgents will never lay down their
arms until their demands are granted.
Three million persons are starving
in northern .Enhwei and northern
Kiangsu, China, according to a letter
written by John G.. Ferguson, chair,
man of the Central China Relief Fund
executive committee, to the Shanghai
Mercury in Seattle, under date OF
March 5th
Announcement was made by the
school land department that 1,535,862
acres of school land would be sold in
Oklahoma beginning June 23rd. Pur
chasers may buy as many sections as
they can pay for. Heretofore not
more than quarter section has been
sold to one man.
That the Mexican government has
the revolution we'll in hand is the be.
lief of Major r. L. Hirst, formerly
chief of staff of the Department OF
Colorado, who returned to Denver
from the frontier, where he has been
stationed for several months with the
United States troops.
Driven temporarily insane by mar
tial troubles and suffering from an in
jury due to fall with his horse early
In the winter, Cliff Roots, a cowboy
and freighter residing about forty
miles north of here, ran amuck with
a rope and six shooter and after kill
ing his young bride of a few weeks,
her brother, Andy Rehder, his own
stepson, James Bridges and his wife's
sister, Mrs. w. S. Thompson, com
mitted suicide.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
Fighting Man.

1t Is mans nature to fight 1t is his
merit to fight for what he believes to
be right. Courage and bravery are
not achieved by hiring a lawyer. A
man who IS not willing to fight to the
death for the right or for his own is
not as good or complete man as one
who is is willing. But opinions about
this are not SO important as the fact
that it is mans nature to fight, and
that neither resolr nor legislation
nor provision to get over all kinds Of
trouble in any other way than fighting
will avail.-Ellwood Hendricks, in At
lantic.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
FOREIGN.

The government troops after stub
born fighting, have defeated the Arab
rebels near Sanaa, in Yemen, killing
more than 100.
In the House of Commons in London
it became known that the British gov.
ernment contemplates asking the
United States to grant to Great Brit.
ain the same concessions contained in
the Canadian reciprocity agreement.
The boring of the $15,O0O,OOO tunnel
through the Alps under the Lotsch.
berg, in the Swiss canton of Oberland
finished recently, is work which
will shorten the railway journey from
Italy to London from two to three
hours.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
118 BURIED IN ONE; 73 IN OTHER
-RESCUE WORK is
SLOW.
WERE MOSTLY NEGROES
TERRIBLE GAS PREVENTS MEN
FROM ENTERING MINES TO
REMOVE DEAD.

Littleton, Ala-One hundred and
eighteen men are entombed in the
Banner coal mine, near here, follow
ing terrific explosion.
Three bodies have been recovered.
Scranton, PA revised list of
dead shows that seventy-three men
and boys met their deaths in the fire
in the Pancoast colliery at Throop,
near here.
A canvass of the victims families
shows fifteen widows and 1877 or
phans.
Littleton, Ala.-The fatal after damp
which followed the explosion has so
far kept the rescuers from penetrating
the mine, although they have been far
enough into the interior to see a grue-
some pile of human bodies huddled to-
gether near the shaft.
1t is estimated that about twenty
corpses are in this pile. Officials of
the Pratt Consolidated Coal Com
pany, which owns the mine, have
abandoned hope of bringing out alive
any of those below the surface.
At first the entombed men could be
heard knocking on the pipes below,
but there is an ominous stiffness now
which indicates that the after damp
has done it's deadly work.
Practically all of the men are negro
convicts.
The rescue work cannot proceed
safely until the mine can be bratticed
so that fresh air can be forced in to
drive out the after damp. This work
Is going on, but it probably will be
several days before all of the bodies
are recovered.
A special train is bringing the gov
ernment rescue car from Chattanooga
!. This explosion differs from others in
that there are practically no mourn
ers at the openings.
The men at Banner were convicts
without friends here, and whose rela
tives are scattered throughout the
counties of Alabama
While no official statement has been
made, it is believed the explosion was
caused by safety powder ignited by a
lamp and followed by dust.
When the night crew left the mines
shortly before the explosion happened
the night fire boss, Sparks, reported
the condition of the mine as good and
the day shift was sent to work. There
were 10 men in all, only five of whom
were free laborers. The others were
convicts, mostly negroes.
Immediately following the explosion
several of the convicts with mining ex
perience discovered that black damp
was forming. They spread the alarm
and many started race with death to
the entrance.
Fortv-five of the miners either
reached the outside in safety or got
within hailing distance of the shaft
and were taken out by rescuers.
Scores of volunteers were on hand
brought by the alarm and made hero
lc efforts to bring out the victims
This work proved effective until the
deadly gases reached the main shaft
into which the men were headed.
State Mine Inspector James Hill
house and Assistant Dickerson togeth
er with several other experts and Off
cials of the Pratt company, hurried
to the mine when news of the disas
ter reached Birmingham.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
GEN ERAL.

The latest thing in ST. Louis is a
suffragette shining studio.
Commander Edward B. Latch, u. s.
N, retired, died at his home in
Merton, Pa.
Orson W. Hayward, 1O1 years. 1s
days, Waterbury. Conn.,, oldest resi-
dent, is dead.
A large part of the business Sec
tion of Dalton, Ca, was swept by fire.
The loss is estimated at $275,000.
The Republican ticket was elected
by a safe majority in Michigan, but
it is difficult to estimate the ma
jority.
Chicago is to have a new trust
combination of the theater ticket
scalpers, who have stations in all the
hotels.
A shortage of $500 has been re-.
ported in the wholesale stamped en-
velope department of the Chicago
postoffice. @
AS the result of two recent mine ex-
rlosions, one near Scranton, Pa, and
the other near Birmingham, Ala, 191
men are dead.
By the explosion of kerosene stove
six children and their mother, Mrs.
Luddie Pototil, were fatally burned in
a suburb of Chicago.
The total surplus freight cars in the
| country March 10Th was 196,217, a de-
crease of 1870 since March 18th, ac-
cording to the Railway Association.
AS a result of a suicide pact, S.
L. Dania, Spaniard, 81 years old, and
Eva Bovee, his young adopted daugh-
ter, lie at the county hospital in Los
Angeles, in a critical condition.
Ellis Wainwright, millionaire st.
Louis brewer, who was indicted in
| 1902 in the Doodle crusade of Governor
Folk and since then has remained in
exile in Paris, has appeared in court
and surrendered at st. Louis.
An Iron Mountain passenger train
was boarded within the city limits of
st. Louis by an armed and masked
| robber, who held up the white steward
| on the dining car, four negro walters
and negro chef. The robber did not
get more than $40.
Inspector P. D. O'Brien announced
he had discovered plot to kill every
| leader of the United Association of
| Steamfitters and Plumbers in Chicago,
in war that already had been marked
| by several pistol battles and two MUIR
ders
One of the most serious mine disas-
| ters which has ever visited that Sec
tion of the mining country occurred at
the little village of Throop, short
distance from Scranton, Pa, when be-
tween fifty and sixty men and boys
lost their lives.
The government won it's first case
in it's fight to drive out of Chicago a
ring of Italian blackmailers known as
members of the Black Hand and said
by the police to be responsible for
nearly fifty dynamite outrages and
many murders.
In driving the last interlocking steel
piles of the last of the twenty caissons
forming the inclosing wall of the huge
cofferdam, surrounding the wreck of
the battleship Maine, at Havana, the
first stage in the work of removing the
shattered remains of the warship has
been concluded.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
Honeymoon Trip in Prairie Schooner

Los Angeles.-After parading the
downtown streets in a camp wagon
built on the lines of prairie schoon-
er and labeled on the dashboard
Honeymoon Special Unlimited"
Harry L. Eckman and his wife, newly
welded, have started on a wedding
trip to Yellowstone park. The bride
was Miss Sadie Ireson of Denver. The
same wagon was used for a similar
trip in 1908 by another bride and
groom.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
Tom L. Johnson Dead.

Cleveland.-Tom L. Johnson, twice
congressman from the Twenty-first
Ohio district, four times mayor of
street railway fare and leading advo-
cate of the single-tax theory of the
late Henry George, died after long
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
More to the Purpose.

Are you in favor of a ten-hour
day."
II don't care anything about the
days." replied young Rounderley, but
it would be jolly good thing If we
could have 24-hour nights"
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
Important Decisions Withheld.

Washington.-By reason of the fail
ure of the Supreme Court to an
nounce it's decisions in either the
Standard Oil or the tobacco "dissolu-
tion suits another week must pass
before the outcome of these cases will
be known. Neither was any case de-
cided which touched on the big cor
poratiOn cases.
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15

illness. He was fifty-seven. Mr.. John
son had been i'll for more than a year
but his condition was not thought Sc
riOus until he suffered a relapse
March 18th. He has been gaining
strength ever since he came home af-
ter spending the summer on Nan
tucket island
The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
Steel Business Increasing

New York.-The United States
Steel Corporation announced that the
untitled tonnage on it's books March
31st was 3,447,301 tons.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-10
INSANE PERISH.
Fire In an Asylum Is Attended
With Awful Results.

Fire broke out in one OF the main
buildings of the insane asylum at
Hamilton, Ont. There were in the
building at the time the fire was dis
covered, and 1t was only an excellent
trained fire. fighting force and superb
GOODNESS and bravery among nurses
and attendants under DR. English that
averted more frightfu1 loss OF life
than eight fatalities.
Women were easily moved. but the
men we're In perilous position. The
fire broke out on the fourth floor in
section D, where the violent insane are
kept Most of the men, guarded by
attendants. moved down three flights
of stairs and out of the fire zone In an
orderly procession. but score, that
we're driven into frenzy by sitting
smoke and the excitement OF fire al
midnight, fought of their rescuers In
desperate fury Three of them, after
being carried down to the second
floor, broke away and fed book to the
blazinff corridors. One patient had
10 be knocked sedseleas and was then
dropped into life net.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-10
The sanders Baton Rbuae taIly.

Mansfield Enterprise: On Saturday
last, after long preparations, cheap
excursion rates, free dinner, and
many free drinks. the grand Sanders
rally was pulled off at Baton Rouge
All the game wardens and sinecure
Office holders that the Governor
could pull out of his hip pocket were
there and thereabout. Bob Ewing
through my evening newspaper
SAYS there were 10000 present, per-
haps half as many were in the city
lThe Governor undertook to defend
his administration, but he did moi
fairly and squarely meet a single IS
sue now before the people. He STUN
bled, hemmed and paved over his
broken election promises, and tine
saloons of the capital did a splendid
business. as it took heap OF spirits
| TO keep the spirits of the crowd NJ
| 10 the standard OF shouting wher
the sign was given. His harangut
was long-drawn-out string O
statements, not backed up by any
thing stronger or more substantial
than was his prediction campaign
promises, "the vapid evasions OF
deluded mind" Even his friends, TIN
game wardens, seem to feel sick q
heart, and the time was wasted ina
had been devoted TO the stage-set
ting of this grand display. The Gov
Iernor is surely the appendix in TN
body polite of Louisiana, and shoul'
he cut out, now and forever.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-10
Your Veil.

Important indeed Is the veil when
one "a journeying goes" 1t has so
much to do with warding OF dirt and
dust, keeping ones hat and couture
trim, and adds SO to ones genefal ap
pearance, that It should be chosen
wisely and with care.
For the close fitting, small hats the
fine, small meshed wells are prefer
able. Select one that is becoming. yet
mesh that will not obstruct the eyes
or hurt the sight More than one head
ache on a journey has been traced to a
veil that hurt its wearer's eyes and
naturally gave her headache.
For motor trips or boat Journeys
there is nothing, of course, to take the
place of the chiffon veil, which will
hold the hat and hair In place despite
the strongest gale. These may be
bought already made up or purchased
by the yard In any desired length
And there are all the wanted and fash
| ionable colors as well as no end Of
staple blues and grays and browns
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-10
Judicial Sale.

No. i5.i40-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
Mrs. Gecile Laenger and Hus-
band vs.. Minors of Gas Laenger.
BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias
to me directed from the Honorable
First Judicial District Court of Cad
do Parish, La, in the above num-
bered and entitled cause, | have
seized and will offer for sale at pub
lie auction for cash and according
10 law, at the principal front door OF
the court house of Caddo Parish
La, during legal hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1911.
One lot hand tools, one cornice
brake. one set rollers, one lot rail
road iron, one lot framing tools, one
lot rings, one lot patterns, and -four
trunks. Said property seized as be-
longing to the above named defend
ants. and to be sold for cash and ac-
cording to law to pay and satisfy the
debt as specified in said writ, say IL
the sum of three hundred and sew
enty-three and i5-i00 dollars, to.
gether with five per cent per annun
interest thereon from the 9th day o.
July 1911 until paid, and all costs o.
suit. j. p. FLOUHNOf,
Sheriff, ex-Officio Auctioneer
Caucasian, August 6, 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-10
Rnal,er Wasilinnioll.

Austin, Texas, Aug. 9.--Booker L.
Washington, the negro educator, OF
Tuskegee. Ala, will not be allowed
to speak in the representatives hall
Of The State capitol during his pro-
posed visit to Austin in September
or October.
The resolution seeking to accord
him this privilege was introduced IN
the House this morning, but was
erie ddown without second read
ing. The volume of "noes" which
greeted the reading OF the resolu-
ton putting further consideration
OF the measure out of the question
il was laid aside without formal ac-
| ton.