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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-02
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Switched to Taft .

ST LOUIS, Feb. 2-The republi-
can city central committee here did
not mean it when Roosevelt was In
dorsed for president. The Taft fac
tion took hold last night and the
committee rescinded its action of
two weeks ago.
Don't Deserve Wife.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, Feb o.
You belong to bygone days and
don't deserve to have wife," Judge
Powell told Lafayette Choat in grant
ing his wife a divorce. Choat ack-
nowledge having driven his wife to
a harrow with team of mules.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-02
CITY NEWS.


Auto blankets at Sherwoods'.
The Elks initiated number OF
candidates last evening, the exercises
being followed with a social session
ATTEND Ludwig's special shoe sale
tomorrow for bargains.
Company l. OF the Fifty-fourth
will be inspected here on April 5.
Adjutant General Guy Z. Logan has
announced the date.
Choice dressed chickens at Jos.
Haubert's, 709 Main Street.
Have your two door automobile
turned into modern four door auto
mobile at Wustrow Carriage and
Wagon Works.
Save money buy shoes at Lud-
wigs.
Puckechetuck lodge, No. 43 meets
every Friday night at o'clock. Frank
vollers, N. e.. Geo. Immegart, Sec
rotary. All members requested to be
present Work in second degree.
Fine roasts Of beef. veal. pork and
mutton at Jos. Haubert's, 709 Main.
Both phones.
The members of the Trinity
Methodist church are anticipating a
day of special profit and pleasure
next Sunday when Dr. T. Cooke,
|of Burlington. district president
of the Epworth League will de-
liver two addresses, speaking especial
ly to the Trinity Young Mems club at
the morning services and to the con-
gregation in general at the evening
meeting.
Go to Sherwood's for harness. !.
The men OF st. Johns church
have been invited to meet Tuesday
evening in the parish house for the
purpose OF organizing mems club.
A committee recently appointed has
declared a constitution and the same
will be presented for adoption at this
meetings. The club to be formed
will be of an entirely social charac-
ter, and will have smokers and 9TH
err entertainments, which will bring
the men of st. Johns together in So
cial fellowship. The committee have
recommended the name of Fellow
ship Club which fully explains It's
character. At the first meeting on
Tuesday evening refreshments will be
served, and Dexter Cooper will de-
liver an Illustrated lecture on the wa
ter power.
Go to Sherwoods' for lap robes.
Sunday afternoon at at the
Methodist Protestant church will be
held a meeting for men only under the
auspices of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement that will be adj
dressed by Rev. r. W. Lilley, Mr.. c..
R. Joy and Professor Aldrich of the
city schools. The meeting is intend
ed for all men who may desire to at
tend, though its particular message
is to the men of that church, the pas
tor having asked that the officers of
the movement arrange the service
Special music will be provided. and
the attendance Of men who desire to
serve the community they live in is
earnestly asked.
| Read The Daily cais City. 100
per week.
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addition to these scientific men, there
Will be forty good huskies to get out the
coal and transport it to the coast.
The region into which these men go is
laid of desolation. 1t is but a part of
that vast waste of Alaska which goes to
make up an expanse two and a half times
as big as Texas. 1t is in the crook Of the
elbow of Alaska, and it's latent resources
have drawn to 1t many adventurous spir-
its. Separating the two fields is the Cop
per river region into which the Guggen-
helm interests have pushed railroad
and which is yielding copper of untold
value. The coal resources of the region
have been known for a dozen years and
here have focked thousands of prospect
ors expecting to patent claims, pool their
interests and make fortunes from the
coal mines.
With the coming of these prospectors
Bering river and Resurrection bay and
Cooks inlet took an air of great ac-
tivity. Towns sprang up here and there.
and prospect camps dotted the hills for
miles around.
Chief of these towns for the whole re-
gion was katalla. Here were congre-
gated 1000 hearty spirits, who made up
a community of seething activity. Here
were built business houses and resi-
dences without number. Here was es-
tabhshed a bank. through which it is es-
timated that the Guggenheims alone
spent SO, 100000.
But Katallas lights have gone out. The
town which once accommodated 1000
souls now boasts but seventy-five inhab-
itants. These are mostly stranded dere-
licts without the means of moving on to
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national unrest and craving for excite
ment.
Every woman must be concerned in
this universal upheaval called the fem
iniste movement. We may not feel sym
pathetic toward suffrage and all that
means. We may even feel hostile toward
the advocates of equal rights, but this
does not change the imperative right for
every woman to strive that her sex in
every part of the world may realize the
best that is in them. l cannot adequately
express my admiration of the serious,
almost academic, way in which the wom-
en- of Sweden take up their life work.
Their education in every meaning of the
word is complete. The system by which
they are taught is one which has been
perfected during years of patient en-
deavor TO attain the best 1t Is never ex-
perimental. and one set of officials is not
permitted to undo the labors of another
nor to introduce dangerous innovations.
with the intellectual training, every
mother teaches her children all that they
know in the preparation OF their life
work Boys are given over to technical
teachers or to such as may develop their
natural bent. Girls are taught all
that makes for a comfortable home,
no matter what their station in life may
be- They are taught to make bread, sew.
manage a home methodcally and after
the latest scientific methods. Above all
they are taught the value of time and
how to employ 1t profitably. They are
trained in all that brightens and refines
life, and are most accomplished musicians
and proficient In that division which we
know as drawing room accomplishments.
I find that nearly every European mother
is solicitous about training her daughters,
just as solicitous as about marrying them.
But when these women permit their
daughters to marry they are In every
way prepared to make a home what it
should be. 1 have been SO impressed by
this example that / also shall rear my
little girl to be self-supporting should she
ever be thrown on her own resources l
shall teach Der how to make a home
comfortable In the material sense. which
is so essential. no matter how concerned
we may be in the uplifting of the moral
and ethical standards.
i often wish that our American women
could see the serious way in which the
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KArALLA The EDEsERTEDVlILAeE

site for mining operations and in laying
out the camp.
This was not the first wiliwaw to
cause trouble for government expedi-
tion into the Controller bay region.
When Secretary Fisher examined this
region two years ago williwaw
caught his party at this same point.
and came near being its finish. The
members of the expedition had just
taken passage on very clumsy gaso-
line launch which was to convey them
to Katalla. They had just rounded a
point some fifteen miles from that
town and started up the bay. when the
WilliWaW struck them square in the
face. The journey aboard was made
impossible, and the boat was threatened
with destruction. Under the circum-
stances there was but one thing to do
which was to put ashore and land the
members of the party on a barren
peninsula with fourteen miles of muddy
fiat sepa rating it from food and shelter
This feat was successfully accom-
pllshed. and one of President Taft's
cabinet officers and Il party of fifteen
COMPANIONS walked through the mud
and rain of an Alaskan night until -
o'clock before arriving at the desert ed
village and securing. with difficulty. a
place to eat and sleep.
While the present expedition is to op-
crate in both the Berng river region and
the Matanuska field. it's first attention
was given to the former. The tale of this
region reads like romance of uncovered
wealth, such as is ordinarily dealt with
on'y in fiction. The surface outcroppfnes
in this far northern land surpass anything
that Pennsylvania ever boasted in the
early days of her exploitation Outside
of Pennsylvania this is practically the
only anthracite field of any Importance to
promise relief in the face of the threat
ened exhaustion of the eastern field.
The deposits lie along Controller bay
which is located about half way I'D the
Pacific coast of Alaska. and is land
locked harhor always free from ice. Seat
tie Is 1.25o miles to the southwest and
Sitka is 400 miles in the same direction.
Juneau is near neighbor as Alaskan
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now considering about granting their
wish for full political vote for par
hament | think that when the great
mass of American women take a serious
view of their duties and obligations that
our national problems will be solved The
opposition which Is being encountered in
many states where the women want the
suffrage is perhaps only the masculine
reply that such rights and privileges as
women already have they are not accept
ing in the higher sense. / should like to
see our women more Thoughtful and that
In every walk of life. Take the middle
class woman of every country except our
own. When man marries his wife
becomes his partner. If he has a little
business. she is the bookkeeper as we'll
as the home keeper the cashier She
economies until fortune smiles and then
she may take her ease, along with the
good man and the children. if there are
any. Such a procedure is far from the
standard set in this country. This con-
trast md most valuable in making
my conclusions, and it shows the reason
why our nation is unrestful and why
the woman movement must appeal to US
ALL"
Nine. Ekengren has enjoyed the unique
experience OF having lived in Washing
ton ever since she married. After the
marriage. which occurred in the wake of
thS SUI III WHICH brought IN FfeSluRnI
Iafts inauguration, NJ Ekengren and his
bride made a pleasant tour of the Ber-
mudas, and returned to Washington in
May. Two summers ago NJ. Ekengren
took his wife for her first visit to Swe-
den. It was, however. during the vaca-
tion days. and there were no court func-
ton nor even any of the high officials
OF state in the Swedish capital. She made
visit to her husbands father. who lived
in Stockholm on the Strandvugen, and
had delightful tour of the country.
She will on her next visit. probably next
spring, have the honor of being presented
to their Swedish majesties.
The Swedish legation has been tenn
porarily at the home of Nine. Ekengrens
mother, Mrs. John P. Jackson, on that
section of Connecticut avenue which
might be called the foreign quarter"
The British embassy is adjoining, and op-
posite is the home of the dual empire.
the Austria Hungarian. This home has
been adequate during M. Ekengren's term
as secretary or charge d'affaires, but
with the added Importance and many
duties incumbent on him as minister, he
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MADAME EKENCREN WIFE RECENTLY APPOINTED

never promoted a secretary serving in the
same legation left vacant. He is in
yariably transferred to another post be-
fore going up higher.
NJ. Ekengren has been here for more
than six years. He came first as secre-
tary of the legation. and then was ap-
pointed charge d'affaires. which position
he filed until he presented his credentials
as envoy extraordinaire in April of this
year. He had, however, given hostages
to fortune by marrying Miss Laura VOL
colt Jackson of this city March g, 1909.
Nine. Ekengren. the youngest in point
of service of the American chatelanes,
has in reality a longer experience of
Washington life than many of the 9TH
ers. The daughter of that brilliant law
yer, John p. Jackson of Newark, y. j.,
she had every advantage of travel. for
eign and at home. She was educated in
Paris and Dresden. and when she reached
the age to be presented to society her
mother then widow, established home
in Washington. The jackson family has
for several generations been affiliated
with the faculties of Princeton and is
eminent in the state annals OF New Jer-
sey Mrs. Jackson was a Miss Gregory
also an iilustrious family of New Jersey,
although she was reared in New York
city. Mime. Ekengren comes of an IL
lustrious American family on both sides
of her house. Her great-great-great grand
father was Maj Gen. Roger Wolcott. first
colonial Governor of Connecticut She
is akin to the Huntingtons. Schuylers,
Brinckerhoffs and many other eminent
old families, whose members have held
important positions and shed luster on
the chronicles of their country.
Il can imagine no more certain way
to broaden ones views" remarked Nine.
Ekengren a few days ago, than to be
born an American and then to have the
advantages Of coming close to the ma
tional development and ideals of other
peoples. Every American must glow
with pride in considering the stupendous
industrial and commercial growth of his
country. But with all that we have ac-
complished and all we hope to accom-
plish, think it wise sometimes to realize
that We have not absorbed all the wis
dom and progressiveness of the universe.
Indeed. fear sometimes that what we
call progress and a desire to change es-
tabhshed conditions is only part OF our
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ing Tor some years to appropriate unto
themselves. For the coal is to be taken
from the Bering river field and from the
Matanuska field. those two great coal de-
posts of Alaska, either Of which rivals
Pennsylvania in richness.
The Bering river field lies just around
the corner from Controller bay, also a
star performer in the land-grabbing ex-
travaganza of the far north. Some of the
coal in this field may be thrown from its
native ledges into the Pacific ocean All
OF II hes within twenty-five miles of tide
wafer. This means that body of coal
known to amount to six thousand million
tons is lying here ready to be shoyeled
ABOARD ship and used wherever upon the
Pacific coast such fuel is in demand The
Matanuska field $50 miles away. adds
Tour thousand million tons to this supply.
Portions of both these beds Of coal are to
pc mined by the present expedition and
burned by the navy
The superintendent of Uncle Sans
hrst Goa! mine will be r. Y. Williams.
formerly an engineer in the government
bureau Of mines, but now in the employ
or the Navy Department. Sumner S.
smith, mining inspector for Alaska, viii
De his active assistant. The executive Of
ficer, paymaster and medical officer COM
bined will be DIR. John o. Downey of the
Navy Department. Two geologists who
as federal employees, have already made
surveys of the mineral wealth of this
section, are members of the party. In
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Spain and Belgium have appointed as
representatives men who have married
Americans. The titular minister from
Greece. VI. Coromilas, married the daugh-
ter of the venerable Francis Marion Cock
rell of Missouri. NJ. Coromilas is at pres
ent acting as minister of foreign affairs
at Athens and a charge d'affaires is in
Washington.
The latest TO join this imposing list is
the ancient monarchy of Sweden, the first
European government TO recognize the
United States in her struggle for inde-
pendence. The last minister Count AL
bert Ehrensvard, was recently appointed
minister OF foreign affairs of the Swedish
cabinet at Stockholm To the deep salts
faction of the State Department and the
Joy of his friends. the acting charge daft
faires. NJ. Ekengren. was appointed min
lister. an unprecedented promotion In
Swedish diplomacy. and one which
showed most clearly his eminent qualifi-
cations. Like all the conservative gov
ernments Of the old world, Sweden has
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has been compelled to get a more COM
modious residence He has secured the
home of the late Mrs. Hobson, sister of
Levi p. Morton. Some alterations were
necessary. but Nine. Ekengren hopes to
be comfortably settled in her new home
by the middle of December.
Sweden, though so long represented
in the diplomatic corps, has not followed
the example long set by England of own
ing legation home in Washington The
separation of the two countries. Sweden
and Norway SO long jointly represented
here by M. Grip, delayed his action. The
first Norwegian minister, NJ Hauge, who
married Mrs. Frederick Joy of Louisville,
was building splendid home on Massa-
chusetts avenue which he intended to
present to his government as perman-
ent dOmicile. But after his tragic death,
his widow made other plans. The Nor
wegians are therefore, like the Swedes,
without legation, though the rumor Is
that both countries are looking over the
situation with a view of getting suit
able dwelling.
Nine. Ekengren has the pleasure of
being the near neighbor of her brother.
Huntington Wolcott Jackson. who mar
ried a few years ago Miss Shelby Con-
verse, daughter Of Admiral and Mrs.
Converse. Her sister. who married some
years ago, when Mrs. Jackson was re-
siding in Rome, is now Mrs. Deming
Jarves and resides in France. John
Brinckerhoff Jackson, who is now minis
ter to the Balkan countries. is Nine.
Ekengren's cousin. Another brother Is
Lieut.. John p Jackson. L. S. n.
There is one little daughter, Elsie Helen
Augusta Ekengren. Nearly all the OFF,
cial homes OF Washington have young
Sters either the children or grandchil-
dren. and the pretty custom OF children's
parties Is as much the vogue now as
when the last White House youngsters.
Quentin Archibald and Ethel Roosevelt
gave their annual Cinderella dance. The
Swedish minister and Nine. Ekengren
spent the summer in Bar Harbor, and
returned to Washington about the mid
die Of October. The increasing number
of Americans in the diplomatic corps
gives an impetus to a distinct alignment
which soon will be as numerous and as
potent in social affairs the Latin
American contingent. The American set
has three representatives in the amhassa-
dorial ladies-Mme. Jusserand, wife OF
the dean. NJ, Jules Jusserand. French
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hoTEL FACILITIES
ON COPPER RIVER

feet and there one Of thirty. The out
groupings seemed to show that the en-
tire country was underlaid with coal. 1t
is found to the very edge Of the eternal
glacier. which effectually shuts or fur
ther prospecting.
On Clear creek were found outcrop-
pings of eighteen feet forty-seven feet,
thirty-one feet. eleven feet, all of which
could be seen from the canyon ard with
out difficulty. Monument mountain, with
an elevation of $50 feet, showed out
groupings that indicated that it's forma
tion might be similar to that of Carbon
mountain.
The Berir,g river field IS only thirty
eight miles long, skirting the coast back
to the glacier There are about $50 square
miles Of it. Out of this. according to
square miles of anthracite. 2O.2 square
miles Of semi-bituminous and 21.6 square
miles of improved territory where the
surface indications signify coal. 1t Is.
however the most obvious coal field in
the world. The black diamonds stick out
Of the ground everywhere. There has
never been anything to compare with it
in the state.
If an airline were drawn for seventy
five miles northwest Of the Bering coal
field it would strike Valdez. that town
we'll known in the gold excitement days
of Alaska. Were the line continued an
other seyenty-five miles 1t would intercept
the Matanuska river in a region which
almost rivals the Bering field in coal val
ues. This would be some forty miles up
the river from Cook inlet The stream is
swift and shallow. and furnishes little fa-
cility for transportation. So abundant is
the COAL. however. so easy is it to mine,
and so excellent is its quality, that it is
regarded as one of the most valuable
properties belonging to the ninety mil
lion, it being still the public domain.
81
After the navy expedition has gotten
out something like a thousand tons of
coal in the Bering river district 1t will
proceed to the Mata nuska field and there
take out similar amount. The mining
of this coal is by no means serious
undertaking, but getting it to tidewater
will be tedious task. 1t will doubtless
be transported during the winter upon
sleds While dogs are the accepted draft
animals of the region, 1t Will, VIII out
doubt. be necessary to establish hare" or
mule teams for hauling these heays ioads.
While In Alaska in 1911 Secretary FISH
er investigated both these fields. Upon
his return he recommended that the led
eral government build a road in the Mata-
nuska field and establish a government
mine at that point. The present mining
operations may prove to be the forerun-
ner of this further development.
OF the coal in each of these fields about
half is anthracite This hard coal SD
in al probability prove to be the most
valuable fuel in the region. 1t is not tis.
anthracite, however. that the Navy De-
partment is after. 1t wants to develop
a supply of ordinary steaming coal of
good quality. The navy uses only the
best quality of coal. It's object is to Sc
cure coal that will get the greatest possi-
BILE result in the given amount of space
occupied.
Space is "a very valuable considera-
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neighbors go. Inland from the bay there
is a stretch of marsh lands rising to hills
and twenty-five miles away the eternal
frosts of Berng glacier pushing its way
down from the Chugach mountains.
On the marshes and lowlands vegeta-
ton grows in tropical prOfusion, for there
is rainfall of 2GO inches each year.
There is the long night and the eternal
rainfall, but what do coal miners care
for these. Bering came here in early
days, and Puget and Vancouver and all
the men who have left their names in the
region, but none Of them dreamed of the
wealth of coal. Traders pitched their
tents, sea otter were speared and traded
by the natives. and salmon canneries
thrived for a time; but all later gave
place to the coal miner who rushed into
what he dreamed was his peculiar El
Dorado, but which proved a disappoint-
NIT of any exploitation. Bering river a
roaring torrent of only twelve miles in
length, offers itself as an Indifferent
means of transportation.
Carbon mountain is the center of the
anthracite coal region. 1t covers a sur
face that is equal to twenty-five square
miles. 1t is a mountain OF this rare,
hard coal, untouched and inexhaustibIe
On its sides there are three outcrop-
pms tis't iiiis br Ioiio"cu
around the mountain These are at diff
ferent heights, and the veins are Of diff
ferent thicknesses at different points
They range from three feet to thirty, and
average ten feet III thickness, covering
this twenty-five square miles of country
They require no shafts. no tunnels. The
miner has merely to climb up the noun
tain side and begin shoveling coal into
the chute that theoretically will convey
it two and one-half miles to the bay
This outcroppiEg is typical of the whole
country. Canyon creek is in the vicinity
of Carbon mountain. Here in this creek
there shows a seam six feet in width.
there one of fifteen, here another of eight
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commercial concerns, dry goods, groceries,
everything salable. and some ~ the hest
hotels, founded ana conducted ny women
and they are making vast fortunes in
their enterprises. There are women fol-
lowing the various professions with emf
nent success and women filling govern
ment. positions satisfactorily to them
selves and the Swedish people. Naturally
when such women suggest that they
should like to possess municipal vote
there was no hesitancy in granting the
full ballot. The Swedish parliament is
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women of the old world take up their
duties. The Swedish women have been
granted the municipal ballot almost with
out their asking it because they had al
ready proven themselves worthy of
the privilege. They are in many cases
superbly endowed with intellect and occu-
sent grant only to men. In Stockholm
you find women in many banks holding
important and most responsible positions.
There are women attending to every de-
tail in the banks and with dignity, ease
and grace which give one a new idea of
the woman movement. There are great