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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Chief Of the Beef Nobility is Said to
be Willing to 90 on Trial With
out Seeking Any
Delay.
NOTHING NEW TO-DAY
Continuance In the Case Until We'd
nesday Was the Only Legal
Step Which Was
Made.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2o-A continuance
now under charges of conspiracy to
interfere with commerce, until
Wednesday was the only legal step
here today in the governments eight
year campaign to bring the packing
house barons to the bar Of justice.
Judge Carpenter of the federal dis
trict court ordered the continuance
Immediately after his court convened
today. All OF the counsel for both
sides were present except Levy Mayer
for the defense.
There was no argument In connec-
ton with Judge Carpenters postpone
ment of the trial, the judge himself
ordering the continuance without a
motion.
Pending the start of the trial the
court ordered that the defendants be
held in the usual bail-s30.00O apiece.
Attorney John S. Miller for the beet
magnates refused to discuss the flu.
ture steps which might be taken IN
the interest Of his clients. However
the government attorneys are pre-
pared for almost anything.
1t was stated today that j. Ogden
Armour, the packing house king, and
chief of the beef nobility who face
trial, would not attempt to follow the
course of his nine colleagues undei
indictment It is said that Armour
Iswill stand trial Immediately,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Dam GOES OJT
DUR|NB FLOOD
Seattle is in Darkness on Account of
Thirteen Foot Rush of Water
Down the Can.
yon.
NO DEATHS REPORTED
River Rises and Spreads All Over
the Suburbs Of the City and
Has Done Great
Damage.

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 20-Thous-
ands of dollars worth OF damage has
been done in the suburbs of Seattle
by the flooded river and the city is In
darkness on account of the breaking
of the municipal dam which furnished
water power for the electric plant.
The flood also swept away the
bridge supporting the conduit supply
ing Seattle with water, thus cutting
the city off from its water supply.
Reservoirs just outside the city, hold
ing hundred million gallons will
supply Seattle until the broken con.
duits are repaired.
The lightning plant was put out of
commission when water from the
mountains carried away the dam and
then rushed down the canyon in a
thirteen foot walls
Considerable damage has been done
to railroads In eastern Washington
by floods and landslides. No fatalities
have been reported SO far.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
FOREIGN Massacre Realns.


/. LONDON, Nov. 20.-Confirmation
of rumored massacre of foreigners
at Hsien Flu, China, was received here
today in messages from Tien Tsien.
The number of victims is not stat
ed in the dispatch. 1t is only known
that most of the foreigners in Hsien
Flu were English and Scandinavian
Baptist missionaries.
The rebels seemed to have been re-
sponsible for the slaughter, since
they recently captured the city from
the imperialists.
Reports of a massacre of French
missionaries at Lolas territory still
lacks confirmation but the gravest
fears are entertained.
The actual outbreak of anti for
eign violence in China is causing the
gravest anxiety in government circles
here. Not only is it feared that this
outrage will be followed by murder
of foreigners all over China but it is
evident that foreign intervention can
not longer be delayed and the danger
of friction between the powers is be
coming imminent.
ifs olff ) u pan ana fsusstan tina
England is most suspicious. Ths
English believe that the czar and mi
kadol have long had compact fol
partitioning China to the exclusion O
other powers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Weather Conditions.

An area of low pressure has passed
through the Upper Mississippi Valley
to the Lake Region, which has been
attended by warmer weather, and
snow in that region, while the wealth
er has been generally fair in other
sections.
A field of high pressure covers the
eastern slope of the Rockies, and the
pressure is also high on the gulf,
somewhat cooler weather prevailing
in each Of these Areas
On the Pacific slope the pressure
has decreased rapidly, and there is
rain in the extreme northwest.
Conditions Indicate generally fair
weather for this section tonight and
Tuesday and somewhat cooler tonight
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
REPORTERS CANNOT
WATCH EXECUTION
Newspapers Of virginia Not Allowed
to Publish Details Of an
Execution.

RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 20 supt.
Wood of the state penitentiary an
nounced that reporters would not be
admitted to the death chamber Fri
day when Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, is
eioctrocuted for the murder Of his
wife.
Under state law Virginia newsra-
pers are not permitted 20 publish de-
tails of an electrocutlon Reference
to the Beattie murder WAS made by
ministers in their sermons Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
LOW COST OF
LIVING FOUND
Young Women Manage to Get Along
on 12 Cents Per Day or Even
as Low as
cents.
A WEEKS EXPERIMENT
Days Menu Reads All Right Except
Ing tho Peanuts as tho Main
pIsh for MONDAY
Meal.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 20.-For
the week ending Sunday at noon sew
eral young women, pupils of the SEN
ior class of the Cincinnati KindergaN
ten Training school, conducted an ex-
pertinent in dieting. the results Of
which indicate 1t is quite possible for
the working girl with knowledge OF
food preparation to get good food at
an average of IL cents a day.
If she can't afford this she can get
along nicely on as little as cents
day, which is what the young women
accomplished in their trial.
To carry out the test thoroughly
the girls were given model flat, At.
ted UP by the school board. They did
their own marketing aand housekeep-
ing, and prepared their meals, besides
doing their regular class and special
work. Here Is the "7-cent menu"
omy:
BREAKFAST
| Corn meal mush and milk, brown
bread or toast, coffee or COCOA
LUNCHEON
Peanut sandwiches, bread and jelly
4 squares.
Split pea soup, cream goldfish on
toast. apple dumplings with sauce, tea
The average cost OF this days no,fr
ishment for each member of the class
was about 1A cents a meal.
"And we were satisfied and well
nourished." one Of the girls said to-
day.
we have done all our work in sci
entific fashion, weighing every parti.
Gle Of food used, and determined just
what element Of nourishment it would
afford. We found that much can be
done with dried vegetables and fruits,
which only require to have the neces-
sary water added to them and season
ing
1t Is expected the results of the ex-
pertinent will be applied when mod
ell working girls flat is established in
connection with the Schmidlapp mod
ell homes.
There is meaning in all this eff
/ fort to reduce the cost of living" one
of the girls said "If a working girl
! can be helped to living better on her
, modest wages, it means she is just
that far safeguarded from dangers Of
many kinds.
The result Of the model school for
training the girls for the duties OF a
!. wife has been successful, and it is
!. very probable the school board will
: fit up another In the near future.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
SWALLOWED Up
INSIDE CAVERN
Girl Drowned When skiff Of Expor.
Ing Party Was Overturned In
River Inside of
Cave.
DROWNED IN DARKNESS
Washington University Students Sci.
entific Expedition Comes to
sorrowful End Under
the Earth.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20. Drowned
while on a scientific expedition, the
body of Miss Lucille Cook, Is years
old, of 2031 Adelaide avenue, stud
ent at Washington university, float
ed on the surface of an underground
river in Onondaga Cave, near Leas-
burg, Crawford county, Mo-, for five
minutes Saturday while her fellow
students and professors searched for
her. The ghostly Ticker of two Ian
terms in another boat alighted on the
upturned face of the girl, and after
frantic rowing on the underground
river for half an hour, the body was
brought to light and to the shores
Of the Meramec river.
Five other students with Miss Cook
in boat which overturned, thereby
causing her death, escaped only by
their dexterity in climbing on stalag-
mites on the floor of the cave where
they were rescued by others of the
party. Meantime, the body of Miss
Cook had floated down several yards
and was almost lost in the darkness
of the cave. Misses Marie Bacon,
Beatrice Jennings, Julia Groves and
Helen Buyers and Richard Starks
were the others in the boat with Miss
4 Cook They were rescued from the
I five feet OF cold spring water that
formed the underground river
The six were members of a party
III ii :za n III
university, under tlle direction OF
Prot. Walter =. McC Court, professor
OF geology at the university The
overturned boat was the first in the
little parade of skiffs that went into
the cavern with torches at each end.
The party had started out early in
the morning and at noon, when the
accident occurred, they were far in
side the cave.
At times the skiffs were lost tc
view from one another in the turns
and bends of the cave, and that was
the case when the accident occurred
The six in the boat had leaned to
one side to avoid striking the sloping
roof of the cave and the boat be
came overbalanced and capsized.
Miss Cook was the only one not
rescued by boats which came along
in few moments. The five were
picked up and inquiries made for her
Then the frantic search Of the cave
began The cries from the party
scattered in different boats through
out the cave, echoed many times from
wall to wall of the cavern.
After the long row to the mouth O
the cave, which was retarded by thu
numerous turns, dry land was reach
ed on the shores of the Meramec ane
there efforts to resuscitate the cir
were tried. These, however, were
without avail, and DR.. ]. ]. O'Malley
who arrived an hour and half aftel
the accident declared Miss Cook dead
DIR. j. j. Walker of Steelville, Mo.
coroner of Crawford county, held al
inquest over the body.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
President Taft Is Wrestling With a
Tough One as Are About Half
Of the Popula-
tIon.
WAS REPORTED
Chicago Newsboys Did Flourlshlns
Business by Announcing That
the President Was
Dead.

WASHINGTON Nov. 2o.-President
Taft Is suffering from severe cold.
which confip d him to the white house
today his condition, although not
at all alarming, is such that his ply
sician has ordered him to take care of
himself. AS result, the president
cancelled his engagement for Rich
mond, Va, where he was to have ad-
dressed the National Good Roads con-
gress.
The president contracted cold
shortly after his return from his trip
through the country. Against the adj
vice of his physician, Major Dulaney.
he filed an engagement at Frederick,
Md.
In view Of his condition Mr.. Dulaney
gave imperative orders that Mr. Taft
must remain indoors for the time be-
ing.
The president has not left the
white house for forty-eight hours, but
he has attended to pressing business.
There were rumors that Mr.. Taft
was threatened with pneumonia, but
these were emphatically denied at the
white house. "a bad cold and nothing
more" was the way the report was
disposed Of.
Charles d. Hilles, secretary to the
president, is also a victim of Sc
we're cold. He was confined to his
bed today, but his physician believe,
he will be able to take up his dutie!
in tho executive offices temorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Jobless Actors to Eat.

NEW YORK, Nov. 90. -Eighty-five
high grade actors, every one of them
out of a Job, will sit down to frug-
al banquet at the Lambs club and
tell each other how they happened to
lose their jobs. No actor having a
position will be permitted to attend
These are said to be five thousand
out of the fifteen thousand players
in this country unemployed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
RAILROAD Isl
HELD RESPONSIBLE
Lehlgh Valley Accused OF Knowing
That It's Tracka We're In Bad
Shape

WAsIINGTON, NOV. 2o.-The Le-
-sish. Valley X ac;npaay was
held responsible for the wreck at
Manchester, N. Y, August 25, in re-
port submitted to theFinterstate COM
merce commission today by Hiram w.
Belknap, chief inspector of safety ap-
piances He reported that:
"i'he company was cognizant of the
fact that there were defective rails
IN the service"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
v IA. 6. a. Debt wned Out.

KEWANEE, H., Nov. 20.-With the
unexpected announcement of 2 $500
check from the National Tube com
pany for the Kewanee Y. M. G. A., a
successful end comes to the move
ment started one year ago to wipe
out the $500 indebtedness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
F,oht Before Breakfast.

Ell PAsO. Texas, Nov. 2o.-There
was considerable rifle firing outside
of Juarez across the Rio Grande from
Fl Paso before daylight this morning,
1t is reported that the Reyes rebels
have made their way into house on
the outskirts of Juarez and had open
ed fire. The city is defended by a
large force of men who are loyal to
President Madero.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: Generally
fair tonight and Tuesday Colder to-
night
For Illinois fair tonight
and Tuesday. Slightly colder tonight.
For Iowa: Generally fair tonight
and Tuesday. Colder in the extreme
southeast portion tonight.
For Missouri: Fair tonight and
Tuesday Slightly colder in the east
portion tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Twenty.six story BuMdlnk

NEW YORK, Nov, 20.-Officials ai
the Western Union Telegraph CON
pany announced plans for sS,0oo,t5e
twenty-six story building at Broadway
and Dey streets, the site of Its pl ss-
ent home offices.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Robber Leaders, Wound Fatal

GALEsBURG, H.. Nov. 20-Peter
Willis, % years old, confessed mem,
ber of band of robbers that for
months terrorized merchants Of Gales
burg and vicinity. died last night from
a bullet wound inflicted month ago
by Deputy Sheriff Hooker The Khot
was fired while Willis was attempt
ing to escape arrest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Kaiser Recovers From Cold.

BERLIN, Nes. 2O.-Emperor Will
liam, who few days ago Cancelled
his hunting trip because of a bad
cold, is completely restored to health
He started for Baden Baden last
night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Kills Youno Son and Himself.

READING, Pa. Nov. 2o.-Charles
H. Melcher, suddenly becoming in
sane severed the head Of his 10-year
oldlson with razor. attempted to kill
his wife and then ended his own life
by cutting his throat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
shoe Salesman round Lifeless.

QUINCY. H., Nov. 2o.-Arthur
Dyked, aged 81 years. for many years
salesman in wholesale shoe houses
in Quincy and st Joseph, Mo-, was
found dead In his room.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
BEGIN KILLING
: FOREIGN DEVILS s.
Chinese Outbreak, So Long Feared,
is Now on and Foreigners In
the Country Are Being
Massacred.
U. S. MARINES LANDED
Company Of American Sailors is Put
on Shore at Chez Foo Where
Japan Landed
Troops.

TOXIC, Nov. 2o.-Unconfirmed re-
ports here today say that a company
of American marines has been land
ed at Chez Foo where there was a
Japanese landing on Saturday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Newsboys, FAKE Causes Alarm.

CHICAGO, Nov 2o.--Newsboys.
with Sunday afternoon papers, crying
that President Taft was dead, caus-
ed alarm in the outlying districts of
the city yesterday. The "newsies,' to
promote their sales, shouted, "All
about the death of Taft" For a short
time they did a thriving business.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Daily River Bulletin.
Rlvor Forecast.

The river will fall slowly from Day.
cnport to Keokuk during the next
few days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Eiahtinu IN hankow.

TIEN TSIEN, Nov pa desperate
battle is in progress at Hankow to-
day. The imperialists are reported
to be losing heavily
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

10 p m. .29S7 "A sW PIT CPdy
20 Z a. M. 1901 81 NV Crdy
Rainfall for past "a hours, A.
Mean temperature, 3S.
Highest emperature, At.
Lowest temperature, 20.
Lowest temperature last night. 81.
FRED 2. GOSEWIsCH.
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Local Observations.

Bar. Their. Wind WITH
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-20
THE TUBE WORKED WELL.

The Germans have carried their submarine boats, as they have their dirigible balloons, to a high state of perfection and efficiency, and re- cent mishap by which the ''U3' sub marine lost only three men, and those because of broken ventilator, proved the value of the torpedo tube as a successful means of escape. With AS hours tank supply of air dictating the speed of the rescue work the subma- rine was raised from sixty feet be- low the surface within eight hours after her misdirected plunge All the while, by a clever telephone contri- vance communication was maintained between the rescuers and the impris- oned men. The provision for escape through a torpedo tube when such craft is submerged worked admirably. The twenty-seven men of the crew bobbed to the surface and were picked up. That, after such a demonstration of efficiency, the rupture of so trivial a part as 8 ventilator, permitting an thrush of water when saIving was all but completed, should have caused the death of the three officers, demon strates how dangerous seemingly trivial injury may become.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Another Place for It's Activities.

MT. Editor: The good sense-sllall we say, good taste--of a board of water commissioners which proposes to compel a long suffering public to drink de- odorized faeces rather than to remove the sources of contamination, because. forsooth the former course is cheap err compels our mingled wonder and disgust.
 A body which is chained te the char tot wheels of determination to have a million dollar plant or nothing, balks at the expenditure of a few hundred dollars for the construction of a half dozen water tight cement vaults and cesspools.
 The proposition to treat the wa ter of g trout brook which. if experts are to be believed, can be made en- tirly pure at slight expense, resolves itself to tinis-render water, hypothet- icaily and only under extreme circum- stances harmful, absolutely and at once noisome and undrinkable by the injection of chemicals.
 If not fit to be drunk in either case, why monkey with it? The judicious use of a car load of Portland cement with sand and gravel to be found in situ will doubtless remove any dan- gerous contamination and leave the water pure and potable, for the time of its probable temporary use If ab- solutely necessary to employ that chemical laboratory, with it's attend ant corps of professors and assistants, the writer hnumbly submits that it's activities might profitably be exercised of which obviously require heroic treatment
 sANITAS.
 Norwich. Jan. IS. 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-20

they are now with grape fruit, which in 1888 was less known than the mango is today
 Many of the best varieties of the mango have been introduced into this country by Barbour Lathrop of Chi cago, who, in company with Mir. Fair child. made expeditions in search of this fruit to India and Ceylon, Java and the east coast of Africa, the Phil ;ppines and the Pacific islands. Nearly if not all of these finest kinds of the mango are now seen growing in the cultivated mango groves of Porto Ri- co. These trees as they thus stand are beautiful beyond description. The new shoots are of many delicate tints, pale red, orange lemon -eolored, etc. In a few days they become bright green and so remain.
 Mangos range in size from small peach to the largest grape fruit. A few days since one was presented to the governor of Porto Rico which weighed more than two pounds. Some of them are of dull green coloH but others are of delicate hues, as beauti- ful as the finest peaches. It is said that there is but one fruit in the world more deIicously favored than the mango, and that is the mango steen. which does not flourish outside of India. JOHN o. BARROWS.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-20
The Cultivation in America of the
 India Mango.

MT Editor: The delicious India mango is a fruit almost unknown in this country. Although the mango tree is native of the West India is- lands and the Central American states it's fruit is, for the most part. very poor and unfit for the market. New and superior varieties are now being introduced, The United States de- partment of agriculture is leading in this effort and rendering assistance in every possible way. Large sums of money have been thus expended already. More than twenty of the best-known varieties in India and Ceylon have been brought to America. and are being cultivated through the kind of grating known as marching. Respecting this effort of introduction, the Hon. David Fairchild, who is in charge of foreign explorations, United States department of agriculture, says: "Of all the new fruits which are winning for themselves places on our tables. the most promising is the tropical mango. This might be called the peach of the torrid zone, and there are as many varieties of mangos as there are of peaches. They seem to combine the rich flavors of the ap- ricots and the pineapples. The profit able cultivation of this fruit is at tracing the attention of the Florida and Porto Rico fruit growers, and the time is not far distant when the hotels of our big cities will be reg ularly supplied with the mango as
Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-20

T do, your honor point with pride to my record If you or any of your friends want your furniture re- aaesd ssn to for kinalins at at ans fs tins oia stand. strive to \. please. By industry I thrive. I lead Others follow. You see, judge; the furniture was won at different times by my wife. The various pieces were offered as premiums to women who bought Seminole Chief baking powder. In each can of the baking powder there was a coupon and when woman saved up 10000 of those coupons she was entitled to a Louis XIV. chair or a ChippendaIe desk or something like that.
 My wife got to be regular bak : ing powder fan. She bought more of the blamed stuff than a sanitarium could use, and then sine became a kIeptomaniac She put in all her time stealing coupons that were being saved up by other women. She footed sev- eral residences in our neighborhood and she was so successful that she sent in 10000 coupons every few months and filled the house with the ding -dongedest furniture you ever saw. No two pieces matched in the whole shanty. We had old oak tables and colonial clothes horses and Marie Antoinette folding beds and 'mahog- any whatnots and a red elm piano. and heaven alone knows what else. am man of culture and. refinement, and I always felt as though I had the jimjams when I entered my own home and looked around on that delirious furniture.
 ssThe immediate cause of my upris- ing was the fact that my wife re- gently has been writing poetry, and when I went home last evening and found her seated at the basswood Ia orindtnQ OnIf ode to a. chrysantl1emum, with no sign of supper and with that parrot urging me to cheer up, began to see red, and I have no apologies to make for what followed
 You. are discharged with the ap- proval and sympathy of the court, " said the judge.-Chicago News.