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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
sleepless Baker, Reading His News
paper, Discovered Attempt to
Burn Down Apartment
House.
WOMAN FIRE BUG
Mrs. Rosa Hoffman Charged With the
Plan Which Might Have
Cost Many Human
Lives.

81
NEW YORK. March 6.-Charged
with plotting to burn an apartment in
which ten families resided, woman
and her two sons are on trial today
in Brooklyn.
The fact that Peter Ronns, a baker,
could not sleep and detected dripping
oil from above prevented the fire.
The woman is Mrs. Rosa Hoffman.
The Hoffmans were away from
home last night and Ronns was read
ing his newspaper in the room be-
low when he saw what he thought
was drop of water fall upon his pa
per. He went upstairs and found five
big bundles of rags, soaked in oil,
burning in the Hoffman room.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Hard Job Just Now to Pick Out Man
Who Will be Considered at
Head Of Tho
Body.
\ COMPLETE CHANGE
Prcaressives Hold Balance Of Power
But Each One of Them Con-
siders Himself a
Leader.

WASHINGTON, March 4.-lmmedi-
ate issue as to leadership in the new
senate is raised by the fact tkat an
extra session has been called As
there will be complete transforma-
ton in the republican membership,
marked by the rise of the progress
sives, selection will have to be
made from members who have had a
minor part in the technical part of at
fairs.
There Is, of course, no possibility
of another dictator, but it will be
necessary to have an organization
with leaders to get results. Warren
of Wyoming, it is generally believed.
will be made chairman Of the COM
mittee on appropriations and made
head man of the republican ranks Of
regulars. Gallinger of New Hampshire,
Smoot of Utah, Lodge and Crane Of
Massachusetts, will be the cabinet OF
the standpatters
They will not go far, 1t is believed,
without considering the progressives
who few years ago were regarded
by the Aldrich crowd as strong mind
ed rebels whose wishes were OF no
consequence. They will hold the bal
ance of power in the new senate and
no important action can be taken
without their consent As to the pro.
gressive legislation, they are expect
ed to get along well without coaching.
Bailey Of Texas had been tho
democratic leader of the house before
coming to the senate, and he is fa-
miliar with every turn in the maze OF
parliamentary procedure He is now
the floor leader of the democrats.
Bacon, of Georgia, who is the sen.
ior democrat, is an alert member and
will have much to do with the di-
rection Of party affairs even though
he is not made the titular leader
Culberson, of Texas, Stone of Mis-
souri,, John Sharp Williams, new
senator of Mississippi, Owen of Okla
homa Clarke of Arkansas and Over
man of North Carolina will have lead.
mig places in the organization. Shieve-
~ of Indiana would shine if it were
not that he is handicapped by Ill
health.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
keOkuk Broke All Records

Editorial from the Ds Mone Register and Leader The
Iowa spreading Ds Mones started off with its Greater Des MONIES
and promotion fund Then other eDavp Dubuque Sioux City,
Rapids Now the climax and
Keok has completed fund Of $4,000 in than merely
this $5OO0O broke all records Iowa single money raising
for BY getting together ST. III the first day Of the
dent keokuk city awake Its big project with wonderful
and commercial possibilities has stirred its business and mag
nation see the great possibilities thai lie ahead Of them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Revolution Breaks Out In That South
American Country Where Reb-
els Have Gotten
Busy.
ARGENTINE TAXES HAND
Gable Advices State That lara Gov
ernment VIII Likely Be over
thrown BY Tho In
surrection.

WASHINTON, March 6.-An insur-
rection has broken out against the
lara Governement in Northern and
Southeastern Paraguay Edwin ".
Morgan, American minister to that
country, advised the state department
by cable that the City of Conception
is in the hands Of the rebels.
The Argentine government has ta-
ken hand in the revolution by de-
manding the return Of the Mibano-
vich river boats, which were seized
February 25 last by Jara's orders. The
Argentine minister at Asuncion, who
has been on leave Of absence, Is re-
turning to his post on board gun
boat.
Mr.. Morgan also reported that the
insurrectionists are in control Of the
country half way from Conception to
Asuncion, and has taken possession
also of the south end of the railroad.
Three thousand government troops, he
added, have been sent to oppose the
revolutionists. Traffic has been sus-
pended on the railroad.
A revolutionary expedition, the min
lister added, has starteS north. It
consists of five vessels, including three
vessels under the Argentine flag,
which have been compelled to enter
the service of the insr--ectors. The
belief in Washington Is that the rev.
olution will be successful in over
throwing the Jara government.
Col Albert lara recently forced the
resignation of President Gondra. and
obtained his own election to the pres
idency
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
ELLIOTT HAS
NOT DECIDED
Does Not Know Whether to Accept
Railroad Presidency
Or Not

ST. LOUIS, March 6.-"Next to my
wedding day, this Is the most impor-
tant matter l have had to decide in
my life said Howard Elliott today
when asked ii he would accept the of
fer as president of the Missouri Pa
cifc railway to succeed George j
Gould. He said he would confer with
friends before making his decision.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
ALL RAILROADS
ARE SATISFIED
Eastern Roads Follow the Lead of
Westerns and Agree to Take
Medicine.

WASHINGTON, March e.-Follow-
ing the conference of railroad presi-
dents with the interstate commerce
commission the commission announc-
ed today that every railroad In the
west had agreed to cancel all con.
templated increases Later in the
day the eastern roads announced that
they would take similar action.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
ITALIAN ARMY
ALL WORKED UP
Paterno Murder is Followed BY Pois-
dining Case in War Depart
rnent.

ROME, March 6.-Three subordinate
officers at Sanito in the fortification
department have been arrested as sus-
poets in poisoning Col. Scoloral,
head of the department.
The Austrian secret service men
are involved. A search is being made
for missing documents.
This trouble, coupled with the Pat
erno murder, threatens to overthrow
the war office
scolorai said before he died that he
had been poisoned
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Ninety People, Mostly Women and
Children Were Burned or Tram
Piled to Death In
Fire.
FORTY WERE INJURED
Only Few of the Bodies Are Recos-
nizable After They Were
Recovered From The
Ruins.

ST, PETERSBURG, March s.-Nine-
ty persons, mostly children, were
burned and trampled to death in a
fire in a moving picture theatre at
Belogoe. Forty persons were injured.
The theatre caught fire from the pic
ture machine. The exits were soon
packed with people. The women and
children We're trampled down
Only few bodies were recogniz-
able.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Fate Follows Them.

NEW YORK, March 6.-Attention
was again directed today to the pc
culiar fate which seems to hover over
the men of the sugar trust when
word came from the hospital that Gus
tave Fissel is dying. Seven officials
have died since the sugar trust sec
rets leaked out, two of them being
suicides
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Aviator pyina.

BATON ROUGE, March 6.-Wm. C.
Harvs an aviator of Chicago. is be,
lieved to be dying in a sanitarium
here today. In an accident yesterday
yesterday he was impaled on a reed
of his biplane when it collided with
a fence
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Morn1ons In Enuland.

LONDON, March GA rigid inves-
tigation of the reported Mormon ac
vtivities in England is being made by
the government. There is no official
proof of the charge that English girls
are being imported to Utah. So Home
Secretary Churchill informed parlia-
ment today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
pUST BALLINGER
FROM OFFICE
r'ans OF Democrats Have This Mark
ed Down as Necessary
Action.

WASHINGTON, March 6.--Demo-
E.a'lc & leaders are making plans for
Ivy ~ extra session of congress. among
saem being the impeachment OF
ppecretary Ballinger. Representative
Iaines OF the Investigating committee
\ Il leading the movement to GUST Bal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
USED MAILS
TO DEFRAUD
Dry Goods Man Sold Stock in Con-
cern About to go to the
Wall.

KANAs CITY, Mo. March 6.-James
swafford a prominent dry goods mer-
chant was indicted today, charged
with using the mails to defraud. He
is charged with using the mails to
sell stock in his company when it
was on the verge Of bankruptcy.
Three millionaires went on his bond.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
THE WEATHER.

Until p. m. Tuesday.
For Keokul and Vicinity Cloudy
and probably threatening tonight and
Tuesday Moderate temperature.
For Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
Cloudy and probably threatening to-
night and Tuesday Moderate tenn
perature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Hiqh PrIce Of IiuInn.

- PASO, Texas, March 6.-The
\, P,eSican Y rebels continue the blockade
enihuahua. Coffee is selling at 81
g pound and sugar at 81 per pound.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

DES MONIES, March 6.-Represen-
tative Shankland of Polk county today
offered a bill in the house asking
the governor to appoint commission
of five to investigate the Panama ex-
position and make plans for the Iowa
exhibit and report at the next assem-
bly,.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
RESULT OF
THIRTY THIRD BALLOT
No Choice For Senator From Iowa Af-
ter the Vacation of
Week.

DEs MONIES. March 6.--After
weeks vacation the state legislature
met today and voted for senator
without result. The vote:
Kenyon, 80.
Deemer, S5. = = =
Porter, .34
The Oregon primary bill comes up
for passage Wednesday over the veto
of the governor. 1t may pass the
house but will be lost in the senate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

March BarTher Wind Weather,
6 Z am -. 1925 35 NE Clear
5 7 pm. -. 1898 AZ NE cldy
Mean temperature, March 5th, S8.
Highest temperature, As.
Lowest temperature So
Lowest temperature last night, 35,
FRED q. GOSEWISCH,
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Daily River Bulletin.
Stage. Height. Change. We
River Forecast.
Local Observations.

The river will continue to fall slow
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
MAKE WASTE PLACES BLOOM
Railway Station Garden 10 Latesf
Move Toward tho City
Beautiful.

During the last few years q new
kind OF garden has come into being in
the shape Of the railway station gar
den. It Is tended by members of the
staff, and Is usually a picture of neat
ness, and often of beauty as well. The
small, tidy beds, or long narrow bor-
ders edged with white stones, are
often glorious masses Of color, with
out n Earring note. At some country
stations the name Of the place Is
worked out in flowers or small shrubs,
and should the traveller by chance fall
into conversation with the presiding
genius of the garden he will find that
a remark on the nattiness and pretti-
ness of the scheme of decoration will
be much appreciated. In their season,
roses-usually red or white or yellow
Ramblers-bloom luxuriantly at many
a wayside stopping place and trans
form the station itself into a thing
of beauty."-London Globe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
SCIENCE OF CITY BUILDING
Many Cities Desert the Topsy Method
Of Expansion and Begin to
Reach Out.

There are certain cities, big an0
small, that are deserving the Topsy
method of Just growing. says Harper's
Weekly. They are being gently and
persistently pushed along toward
greatness. To use an invidious meta
phor, they are picking factories from
their less wakeful ~neighbors and
planting them In their own towns;
they are causing the transfer of hun
dreds Of millions Of dollars worth Of
business from the somnolent cities
and, in this time Of reforms, are
Boosting OF their remarkable progress
in population.
The way the thing Is done may be
aptly illustrated by the manner in
which Poughkeepsie obtained an auto,
mobile factory. The secretary read
In a newspaper that an Italian com.
pany was thinking Of locating a fac
tory In this country. Without waiting
for the owners to have a chance to
look the country owe and decide for
themselves. the secretary bounced
upon them and talked Poughkeepsie,
talked 1t hard and convincingly. He
invited them to come up and see the
place, and when he got them took
them all over the town and showed
them the schools and churches. the
parks and workingmen's houses. told
them about the railroad facilities and
rates. Then he took them to the very
spot that he had picked out in ad-
vance where they could build. He
pictured the factory to them, pointed
to the homes their men would live In,
told them how low the taxes were and
how healthful was the air. When
they went away the visitors had ev-
cry good point about Poughkeepsie
%throbbing In their heads in 100 differ
ent forms, and consequently they
straightway came back and built
their factory in Poughkeepsie.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
CONWCTS WILL MAKE CANE
Penitentiary Authorities VIII Go Into
Making Of Syrup as a Commercial
Proposition Next Season.

JacksOn.-Sergeant Mccoy OF the Ran
kan convict farm states that of the TWEEN
ty acres planted this year in ribbon cane
at the Rankin farm, it had been decided
to bank" eighteen acres of it for seed
for the next year in order to have enough
to carry out the extensive program laid
out by the board of trustees relative to
the making of molasses. 1t may be that
the other two acres will be saved for
seed instead OF grinding it, as the Ran
kin farm has Gj barrels of prime syrup
left from last year.
Some of this last years syrup is be-
ginning to sugar, and in the bottoms of
the barrels there is a considerable guam
tity of it. Sergeant Mccoy is thinking
OF emptying the syrup out and draining
the sugar and using it instead of buying
sugar for the farm.
The penitentiary management is 60
ing to devote a great deal of space next
year to the growing of sugar cane and
manufacturing molasses, the surplus to
be sold, and there is a splendid profit
in it. The Oakley and Rankin farms,
both of them badly boil weevil ridden,
have land especially suitable to sugar
cane and a large acreage will be planted
there.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10

am effort 10 secure action on his Tesolu-
ton providing for immediate adjourn
meut. but it went over for another day,
under the rules.
Most OF the time OF the senate was
spent in executive session. A number
OF recess appointments by Gov. Noel
was confirmed without opposition.
Senator Mcdonald introduced a bill ap-
propriating money to pay the expense
OF the state militia during the Illinois
Central railroad strike.
The house held a breezy session Thurs
day morning Representative Quinn Of
iered 4 resolution providing for imme-
date adjournment sine die, and this
brought about q lineup between the
administration and insurgent forces.
The administration forces won on the
test vote and the house refused TO adj
journ. A resolution was adopted di-
reeting the speaker to appoint two COM
mittecs to bring in bills OF the bond in
tcrest question.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
STATE FARMERS UNION.
Resolutions Adopted Win Be Pushed
Before legislature.

Resolutions Adopted VIII Be Pushed
Before Legislature.
Jackson.-With the spirited singing OF
the impressive closing ode of the order
and ~benediction by Chaplain r. A. n.
Wilson, the seventh annual convention
of the Farmers Union in Mississippi
stood adjourned Tuesday evening. Re
firing President Hightower stated after
adjournment that it had been one of the
best and most harmonious conventions
in the history of the organization,
without a note of pickering or discord
to mar what might be called perfect
score" This spirit was specially man
ifested in the election of officers, all OF
whom were chosen unanimously.
The most important and generally
interesting of the committee reports was
that of the committee on resolutions.
The report declares in favor of memo
rializing the legislature to reduce the
contract rate of interest from 10 to
s per cent.
I'VE reaffrm the resolution Of the
last state convention asking for the re-
peal of county attorney bill and other
unsatisfactory offices, and also ask for
the establishment of the office of county
commissioner of agriculture, onc-half
the salary Of said officer to be paid by
the state and one-half by each county
desiring establishment of said office.
"We also reaffrm the resolution Of
the last state convention in reference
to corporate land holding in Missi-
sippi. We ask our legislature for the
passage of a law prohibiting the hold
ing of land by any corporation for az
ricultural purposes in this state, also
that the individual holding of any one
person shall be not more than $1,000
900.
"We further reaffrm our resolution in
reference to economy and development,
the enforcement of law in reference to
education and the teaching Of agricul-
tural and domestic science in our COM
mon schools; in reference to undesira-
BILE immigration n to the purchase of
state bonds to run the expenses Of state
government"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
WEED OUT THE SHIFTLESS.
mo Place on Farm for Worthless Ne.
gro," Says Jewell.

Jackson.-"Remove the shiftles and
undesirable negroes from the farm, cut
down the acreage for the good ones, and
plant all that is left in oats, is my ad-
vice to the farmer of the South" says
j. r. Fewell, special agent of the U. S.
department of agriculture.
Mississippi farmers can make their
land produce fifty bushels of oats to the
acre worth fifty cents a bushel and equiv
aient to $25 an acre. 1t costs S. for
planting and harvesting. The profit
therefore is $40. Turn under this stub.
BILE and plant a good crop of cowpeas,
and it will yield at least ton and one
quarter to the acre. Peavine hay al.
ways sells for $12 a ton. 1t costs So an
acre to plant and harvest, and leave a
profit of $40 an acre. The two crops to-
gether net $50 by this process"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10

guilty as charged, but disagreed as to
the punishment, which, under the Mis-
sissippi law, mean life imprisonment.
Sheriff Weissinger then quietly slipped
the negro out of Jail, put him in the bag
gage cal on the Southern railway, and
when he reached Moorhead got on the
"blind".w with him and rode to Ruleville,
where the mob grew to such proportions
he was forced to leave the train at the
water tank and hide with the negro while
he sent for the deputy sheriff thC-e to
bring an automobile.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
THE HOTTEST ON RECORD.
Phenomenal Weather in State During
Current Year.

jackson. - Monthly meteorological
summary issued by the Mississippi de-
partment of the weather bureau shows
that the total rainfall in October was
only O.67 of an inch, as compared with
q 2s-year average for this month Of
1850 inches, a deficiency of 2.13 inches,
a. compared with the normal. The &C.
cumulated deficiency of rainfall since
January LIST is 7.O4 inches.
The average temperature for the
month was SO degrees, as compared with
an October normal of $50 degrees. The
accumulated excess Of temperature since
January 1st is 1853 degrees, or an av-
erage daily excess of 3.5 degrees. The
year 1911 thus far has unquestionably
been the hottest year ever known in
Mississippi, the accumulation of tenn
perature being well-nigh phenomenal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
Senate Agrees With Governor in Selec'
ton of Officials,

ZION VI OHlCldtS,
The senate, in executive session, cor.
frmed the following appointments by
Gov. Noel that were made since tho
last session of the legislature:
W C. Mclean of Grenada, justice
of the supreme court, Third district,
vice W. d. Anderson, of Lee county, re-
signed.
L. T.. Brown, of Natchcz, Judge of the
Sixth circuit.
II. X, Mshon, of Holly Springs, judge
of the Third circuit.
d. NJ. Kimbrough, of Oxford, chan
cellor of the Third district.
James F, McCool, of Kosciusko, chan
cellor of the Sixth district.
DR.. s. R. Curry, of Columbus, super
intendent Of the blind institute.
John Hart, trustee of the blind insti-
tuition.
DR.. S. II. Mclean, superintendent Of
the state charity hospital, vicksburg,
j. w. Thomas, A. G. Johnson, j. r.
Clark, trustees Kings Daughters Hos.
pital and Training School, Gulfport.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
South Americas Worst Rrlaands.


made many expeditions from Po-
tosi into the surrounding country,
writes w. Hilton-Simpson in the Wide
World. The Indians here are the no.
torious Aimara, likewise descendants
of the lncas, and the worst brigands
In South America. Their principal &C.
cupation is murder and theft, and I'M
til quite recently they sacrificed their
prisoners to the gods, and then par
took of their flesh. AS regards saw
agery, they easily excel all other
tribes. The sacrificial victim was not
merely butchered, as happens In most
similar cases; he was bound, and then
the flesh was torn of his living body
and eaten by rlen, women and chill
dren. If, In the process OF being tor
tured, as much as a moan escaped his
lips, the bones Of the victim were
thrown away; but II. on the contrary,
he was stole enough 10 be silent, the
bones we've collected an Eet9sa on d
pile of rocks to be ~worshiped. 1t Is
still within the memory Of living man
that human meat was sold among the
Aimara.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
Plant Street Trees.

Plant a tree. The expense is small.
The subsequent attention is not large.
Once started, the tree helps itself as
scarcely anything else Of moment to
us ever does. 1t grows while we sleep.
1t drinks the sunshine and compounds
Its own food out Of the refuse gases
of the air and the watery solutions Of
the soil. Out of these inert, inattrac-
tive, barely recognizable substances
by q miracle of transformation there
comes forth that thing Of life and beau
ty, which is also a thing Of tangible
money value-a tree.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
Farmers Day" November 10.

Hazlehurst. - The second Farmers
Day" will be held in Hazlehurst Satur-
day, November IS. The premium list
for horses, mules colts and hogs has
been prepared. A special day will be
named for cattle. Stockmen should be-
gin now to display something. The list
of premiums is an attractive one; but
aside from this everyone should coop
crate to make the display truly repre-
sentative of what the county is doing in
improving its stock and hogs.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-10
Corporation Tax in Copiah.

Hazlehurst.-The chancery clerk has
received from the secretary of the rail-
road commission a copy of the assess
ment of public service corporations in
Copiah county. The assessment of pub
lie service corporations is $9s4,414, with.
in a few dollars of the million dollar
mark. The total real and personal as
sessment of the county, outside the pub
lie service corporations, is a little over
five and one-half million dollars, bringing
the total assessment of the county up to
six and one.half million dollars.