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DRINK R||||NIl HABIT
 RELIABLE HOME TREATMENr

ORfNE treatment for the win abore confidence whisky beer or or ao ~ aants successfully and have fn a n lives O sobriety usefulness nbe given secretly
 No secret treatoont ,oudor absolutely tasteess secretly in food or ot N in pill form IS for those who
 fail to results from after trial your ooner m h refaded only per box Ask for free ttt i, m about s W
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ENDORSES RIGGS.
3 Whom ThIs May Coneern.

To Whom This May Concern.
 am just informed that J. A. Riggs is candidate for alderman from the First ward hssR known MT Riggs for the past twenty years : I have always found him honorable in all his dealings. and very reliable, and msa of true worth. All wool and yard wide. The people of the First ward will make no mistake by electing him. l am a property owner of Hot Springs and I would like to see them elect such aldermen as John A. Riggs Respectfully,
 1.l7.lt M. T. STANLEY. !
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ACTOR MARRIED.

Pueblo Colo, Jan. l6.-Robert Bruce Manten, the actor, was married here today to Miss Geneyieve Ham per of Detroit, member of his com pany. His efforts made to keep the marriage secret were unsuccessful.
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w. T. DAVIS DEAD.

w T. Davis, aged 65 years, died at the home of his son. Ernest Davis, 14O Palm street, at 11:30 a. m, January 16. after an illness of long duration of pellagra. Deceased was an old time resident of inc city and was well known. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:S0 and in- terment will be in Greenwood ceme- tery.
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John Dickersop. one of the big men in the harness horse world. and q regular visitor to Hot sprines, is reg istered at the Arlington on his aanual vacation. He stopped over in Mem. phis, where he has about % horses in preparation for the next season's har- ness horse competition.
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Sorrells Drug Company
NEW PISTOL RECORD .

Portland, Ore, Jan 16.-The worlds revolver record for five-man teams was raised from HAS to 1.147 by the Portland Revolver Club today in the shoot against the Golden Gate Revolver Club of San Francisco.
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Mrs Ellen E. Wilson, an expert enced caterer. has reopeaed tho Eddy Aotei dining room. She Will make 3 specially of catering to people who desire home-cooked meals and pas
 tries. Try meal at the Eddy dnlag room: prices reasonable. Entrance on Exchange street or through Eddy ho- tel. 1sI7-tf
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NOTICE

Canby Post, No. 5, G. A R.. will have campfire at Post hall Ianu- ary F, at 7.30 D. m All melnhers. visiting comrades, ladies of tue Mo. Kinley Circle and Ladies of the Re- lief Corps are invited to attend
 Nj. CAMPBELL. Commander.
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Mrs Ed Mccarthy has returned from Sterling, Okla. where she visited relatives for several weeks
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-17

Mrs. M. J. Geary of Chicago. who has been visiting Mrs. Ed Wyatt on Cedar street, has returned to her home.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-17

Allen notchkiss is in Little Rock on business connected with the dis trict organizers of the Masonic lodge.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-17

A marriage license was issued yes terday to Jchn H. Campbell and Miss Alice Covington.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
WOMAN SENTENCED
TO SHORT TERM
From Two to Twenty five
Years for Bride Who
Killed Gossiper.

[United Press Leased Wire Servicel
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Dec. s.--An
indeterminate sentence to the wo-
mems reformatory at Indianapolis, OF
from two to twenty-one years and
fine of s25 and costs, was the punish
ment handed out today to Mrs. Eliza
beth Lang, the young bride who kill
ed Mrs. Mary Copple, gossip, in de-
tense Of her good name.
Mrs. Lang cried Historically in hef
husbands arms, the young bride
groom holding back his own tears to
comfort her James Clark, the wo-
mans father, whose opposition to the
marriage was partly responsible for
the tragedy, broke down completely.
The sight OF the aged man weeping,
and the pathetic parting of the young
pair, affected every person in the
courtroom.
This scene followed another quite
as touching when Judge John Lacey
and Prosecutor Michael Fansler vain
ly tried to lead the five year old
daughter of the dead woman through
description of the shooting. The
frightened child did nothing but cry
on the witness stand.
Judge Lacey, after brief state
ment OF the case against Mrs. Lang
indicating that she was fortunate tc
rscape prosecution for first degree
murder, pronounced sentence which
vas the maximum for manslaughter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
JUMPED nine
FLOORS TO DEATH
Major Mallory, Sick for Long Time
Leaped Out Of Hotel Window
and Was Picked UP
: Dead.
M 2 TWO WOMEN
=
y Was Badly MansIed and |,
Was Some Time Before It
Could be ldenti-
fled.
MI . TWO WOMEN

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NEW YORK, Dec. 6.--Major John
G. Mallory, U. 8. A., retired, whose
home is believed to be in Aiken, S.
c., was instantly killed when he jump
ed from the ninth floor of the Man
haitian Hotel
1t soon developed that Major Nal
lory committed suicide. He had been
Ill for long time as the result Of
disease contracted in the army SER
vice and came here with his wife
about four weeks ago for treatment
by specialists.
Thousands OF commuters and 9TH
ers saw the suicide, the hotel being
at one of the densest traffic points in
the city. In his fall he just missed
two women. They tainted as did a
number of other women who were
overcome by the sight
Major Mallory crawled out on the
window ledge and remained there for
a minute or two. A maid rushing
down the hall tried to clutch him.
but he launched out into space with a
leap that carried him we'll out from
the side Of the big structure.
1 His body was badly mangled when
lit struck the stone sidewalk and II
4 was some time before it could be
identified. At first 1t was reported tt
the police that he was one Of thu
J. noted family of ship owners, but OF
I the arrival Of his brother-in-law, DR.
J. Turner Identification was made. Ma
] jor Mallory was appointed to Wes
, Point from Alabama.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
STOCK EXCHANGE
BEING SHELLED
House Money Trust Investigating
COMMITTEES Turns Its Batteries
Directly Upon In
stitutlon.
INFORMATION STRUGGLE FOR
INSIDE
Exchange Governors Are Summoned
to Appear and Tell What Thoy
Know About the Man
agement.

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WASHINGTON, Dec, 6-Batteries
of the house money trust investigat-
ing committee We're turned today di-
rectly upon the New York stock ex-
change. Several of the directors OF
the big money mart have been sub
poenaed to testify next week, when
the committee resumes Its inquiry.
The subpoenaes for the exchange
governors were generally regarded to-
day as most significant, following the
first information yesterday from
Chairman Pujo, of the committee, as
given by the United Press, that de-
NAL Of the mails and prosecution un-
der the antitrust laws was being con-
sidered as result of the committees
probe.
/ Inside information regarding the
organization and management of the
4 New York exchange is sought from
1.-THE governors it was stated authorita-
lively today They will be quizzed to
lexpose the alleged "close corpora
4 ton"
The money trust committee pro-
poses to show to the nation, 1t was
Learned today, just how much the ex-
4 change governors dominate the for
tunes OF exchange members, as well
as controlling listing" of securities.
Bearing upon the charge that stock
and some produce exchanges are
"conspiracies in restraint of trade
4 and as such subject to prosecution
under the Sherman law, as Chairman
Pujo believes, there will be drawr
from the governors evidence regarding
minute details Of their operation.
Representative Pujo said today he
expected to offer evidence to suppor
J the following contentious:
That seats" or memberships II
: the New York exchange are limited t
la select few, held at exhorbitan
!. tprices, thus barring hundreds of legit
s innate brokers from free and unre
i stricted commerce.
!. That the governors have almost un
! limited arbitrary power to cancel an,
membership.
q That it is impossible to secure
s scat without the tacit or actua
I consent OF great financial powers.
J. That arbitrary authority exists t
: admit Or bar stock of hundreds fror
h '1isting ng''-the privilege of being trat
ed in upon the floor.
That the curb exchange Is
medium OF commerce forced upo
brokers and bankers, often willingl
by the dominant "interests'' of th
n stock exchange.
4 These and other facts Pujo sail
will show the potential if not actu;
existence of the operations of a IRE;
money trust"
q Today the full banking committe
of the house met, Chairman Pujo r
porting the progress of the inquir
and announcing the prospective WI
nesses next week. Samuel Untermye
attorney for the committee, is e
|pected here Sunday in preparation Il
the taking OF testimony Monday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Popular Primaries.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Popular
primaries to determine the choice OF
collectors of internal revenue, post
masters, marshals and surveyors is
the latest plan of the democrats at
the December session of congress.
Democratic congressman who are
besieged with requests for such
appointments believe this plan will
save them from political obliteration at
the hands of disappointed ofiice seek
ers In subsequent elections.
The new scheme is advocated by
representatives Humphreys OF Mis-
sissippi and Beall OF Texas. There is
strenuous opposition and lively de
bate is already under way Repre-
sentative Robert l.. Henry Of Texas is
an opponent of the plan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT
THEN MAIL THE PACkAG

ro ohyiate this Christmas disap
pointment. Postmaster General Hitch
cock today issued an appeal to tn
nuhlic to cooperate with the dep2r
ment in making sure that all address
IN nackages are correct and that III
g enders name is put in the upper lef
hand corner.
Last year all records for missent
no cl,ages were broken--3T,3 300 gifts
going to the dead letter office.
The postmaster general has also
directed tnat all letters received at
any postofice addressed Santa
claus. shall be turned over to local
charitable institutions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Continued on page 2.)
WHICH SIDE OF THE BED
BELONGS TO THE WIFE

Called by an anxious voice over the
telephone he rushed Immediately to an
address In the eastern part of town.
Strain arrived to find couple in the
midst of lively debate. The nine
teen year old wife informed him that
her husband had in two short months
of married life been in the habit OF
going to bed first and appropriating
the choice side, to which she claimed
an equal right.
When Chief Strain and two deputies
lett the home. after spending an hour
in an attempt to settle the dispute,
the wife occupied the coveted place
ishe sought
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Astonishing Conditions In New York
Where Little Babies Even Arc
Put to Work In the
Tenements.
With the High Cost Of Living, Whole
Families Arc Barely Able 70
Make Enough to
Keep Up.

L UnlleQ fISSS l2eaSeu WlIS Sci NrSS'i
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Stirred as
never before by the astounding reve-
lations over the manner in which /
babies, hardly out of arms, are forced
to work in the tenements OF this and
other cities OF the state. members OF
the state factory investigation COM
mission were today considering RENE
dial legislation. II was admittedly
difficult task. Women workers who
had told of the evil, frankly declared
that in many instances the children
had to work or the entire family
would face starvation With the price
Of the necessities Of life higher than
ever before and with the earnings OF
the tenement dwellers SO low that
even with entire families working the
average was less than seven dollars
week, the commission agreed that
the incoming legislature would have
to frame its proposed laws so that
they would not impose even greater
bar1ships on the wage earners.
The stories related under oath to
the commission which win report to
the legislature in January have been
almost unbelievable in their recital of
hunger and misery. They dealt with
women working side by side with men
In iron foundries performing tasks
far beyond their strength and subject
/ to sudden changes In temperature
which resulted in many instances IN
i tuberculosis; of women working nine
to fourteen hours nightly in factories
and mills; OF mere children working
in canneries until long into the night
and the stories of the tenement work
ers.
Babies OF is months were being
trained to sort out artificial flower
petals according to the sworn state
ments now before the commission
Tender babies less than five were
being used to take advantage Of the
Christmas holiday season to dres.
i dolls, extract meat from the nuts usec
to produce many Of the nut candies
sold at low figures during the coming
festival days and to sew on clothing
neclsties and women's fancy knick
knacks that were later offered for sal,
, on the hundreds of push carts tina
line the shopping district
: When the commission resumed 1T
session today there were many wit
nesses waiting to be calledamon'
them some OF the child workers--t,
7 tell how they work in dingy tenement
3 for which they are forced to pay higl
rent.
/, 1t was also intended by Miss Elizs
1 beth c. Watson, investigator for tn
i childs labor bureau who has invest
gated the matter, to show that bt
e cause Of the congestion in the tent
; ments tubercular and other extrem.
Y ly contagious disease germs are fret
! 1y transmitted from the workers t
:, the ultimate purchasers of the good
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Cash Reaister Case.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 6.-With
oseph e. Warren, Of Boston, former
ssistant manager of the competition
apartment of the National Cash Reg
ter company, still on the stand, the
ial OF thirty officials OF the company
larged with antitrust law violation
s expected to proceed more rapidly
day than any time since 1t started
rren, who testified yesterday tha'
ssident Patterson, of the National
arled statesmen in methods OF de
mpetitors, was cross-examin
ed today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Lost In Shopping Crowd.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
! CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-search was
being made by the police this after
noon for Mrs. Hilda Long of Nash
vile, Tenn, and her two children Al
bert aged 5, and Catherine, aged 3.
The woman and her children disap
peared while on shopping trip in
the downtown district with Mrs. d.
E. Snyder Of this city, whom she was
visiting.
Mrs, Long had just collected $4,000
from the Northwestern railroad, as
part payment Of $4,000 Judgment
on account of the death of her hus.
band who was killed in wreck. 1t
was believed she had the cash with
her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Chief of Police Had to Settle
Debate Which Was Assum-
ing Proportions.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo, Dec. e.
Chief of Police Strain is peeved. He
doesn't mind being called out of bed
TO run down criminals. but does OBJ
iect to being asked to determine
whether husband or wife is entitled
to the right side of bed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Carried Down stairs.

limited Press Leased Wire SerHce.l
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-Charles w. MOI
ris. with a broken leg was carried
down two flights OF stairs today by his
family to escape fire that drove
twentv families from fiat building
electric wires started the blaze.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
CONTINUED on page 81
twenty-five Thousand Christ
mas Packages go Wrong
Every Year.

United Press Leased Wire Service J
WASHINGTON. Dec. s. - Ever
Christmas, $4,000 people fail to re
ceive gifts sent them through ths
mails-and all because the senders
don't exercise ordinary care In ad'
dressing parcels.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity. Fair to-
night and Saturday. Warmer Satur-
day.
For Illinois: Fair tonight and Sat
urday. Colder east portion and SLOW
ly rising temperature Saturday.
For Iowa. Fair tonight and Satur.
day. Rising temperature Saturday
and west portion tonight.
For Missouri Fair tonight and Sat
urday. Slowly rising temperature Sal
urday and extreme northwest portion
tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Swallowed a Rridne

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO. Dec. with bridge
and four teeth in his stomach, julius
stott will submit to an x-ray examin-
alton today He swallowed the teeth
while sleeping.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Boiler EXPLOSION.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. /
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Dec. g.
Five men are dead and one seriously
injured following the explosion of a
boiler in saw mill In Wilson Dale,
Wayne county, late last night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
CAPTAIN PARKINsoN.''
Anxiety 10 Felt.

CHICAGO, Dec. s.-With terrific
gale blowing on the lake, marine
circles are anxious here today for the
safety OF several ships now overdue
a. Lake Michigan ports. In addition
to the Rouse Simmons, the Christmas
tree-laden schooner that is now be-
lieyed almost certainly lost with fiji
teen persons on board, grave fears
are entertained for the crew Of the
schooner George Marsh, the lumber
barge Arizona, and The lumber schoon.
er Minerva, none of which have been
heard from
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06

Rainfall for the past % hours, trace.
Mean temperature 9Th, "A.
Lowest temperature, "a.
Highest temperature, 64
Lowest temperature last night, %.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
suffragettes OF London Are Charged
With Planning to Wreck Great
Building With Dynamite
Bomb.
LADIES MAKE DENIAL
Officials Arc Keeping an Eye on the
MilItants Who Admit That
They Would Use Strong
Means.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Dec. g.. Characterizing
as "frothy nonetities,'' and "glittering
generaiities' the stories that they
were plotting to blow up parliament
house with bombs, militant suffragette
leaders today professed the most pro-
found ignorance of any such schemes.
But some of them admitted that they
believed strong means to be justifl fable
to win the ballot.
Ofilcialdom, however, with the mem
|ory of paint-filled mail boxes and
acid-eaten letters, kept wary eye on
the known suffragette leaders, sus-
pecting that the bland denials of the
women were only an ingenious ruse,
the leaders fearing that premature
leakage of their plans might thwart
their execution.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, foremost
of the militants, who served a prison
term, declared that she knew nothing
of bomb plot. She said:
II know nothing about that absurd
story. In all my agitation to obtain
the ballot for women. have distinct
ly and have repeatedly laid down
the declaration that we should not use
methods that would endanger life.
But do not say that the most ex-
jtreme measures are not justifiable to
win votes for women.
( Like the Balkan states we are
lighting for liberty and the men ought
not to complain If they suffer from
1.-THE methods allowed to all bellige
rents, by the rules OF war
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06

RUMoRs OF LIVES LOST
Several vesseis caush< In the Storm.
In Vicinity Of the Graveyard Of
the Lakes, Dangerous
Spot.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l /
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 6.--Accord-
ing to reports early today the passen-
ger steamer Easton of the Booth line,
with fifth people on board, lies on the !
rocks OF Iroquois reef, thirty miles
west OF Port Arthur. exposed to the
fury Of one Of the worst billiards.
that has swept Lake Superior In
years A wireless message from Port
Arthur this morning says that two
tugs and lighter are beside the yes
sci and that passengers and crew are
being removed.
Rumors of heavy loss OF life on the
vessel are persistent but the local
manager of the line, Louis I. Hog
stad, says that so far as he has learn
ed all members of the crew and pas
senger list are safe.
The Easton is on at the same point
the steamer Iroquois was wrecked
some years ago, from which disaster
the reef takes its name. 1t is jag
ged point Of rocks running out from
| Victoria Island to the entrance to
| Thunder Bay.
The storm on Lake Superior en-
dangers more than score of ships up
and down bound. A big fleet OF coal
carriers, hurrying fuel to local docks
| to obyiate a threatened famine in the
fuel situation in the northwest, has
/ left the 500 up-bound within the last
i twenty-four hours and many have met
4 the blizzard in the vicinity OF Ke.
vance Point, long known as the grave
yard Of the lakes; none Of them was
picked up by the local wireless sta.
! tion up to daylight although persis-
/ tent calls we're sent out.
/ Most of the grain fleet remained in
/ the harbor.
Word From Steamer.
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 5.-The
weather is bad and the outlook is
, dark" where the last words heard
from the steamer Easton, Of the Booth
!, line which is hanging suspended from
the rocks at Thunder Bay, thirty-fiye
miles south of Port Arthur, Ont.
i Fifteen passengers and crew o.
twenty-five are aboard, according te
the last information from the scene
Of the accident
Private information here today de
clared that the Faston is in precar
ious position and that the waves arr
lashing her unprotected hulk.
r The following message from th'
+ steamer Easton, relayed via Dulutl
! by wireless, was received by oficial
S Of the Booth Navigation Compan,
t here at noon today:
J. Gail the passengers and crew ar
e safe. The Easton has eight feet 0
h water under her bow. Have alread
u sent for additional tug and heav
I scow. The Easton appears to be O.
{ a ridge between the aft and midshi
gangway. She Is about two feet OF
y her regular water line. Cannot est
s. mate damage. Weather Is in Oh
9 favor. Northwest wind. Port Arthu
has promised all help possible. E.
. pect to be off tonight.
(Signed)
CAPTAIN PARKINSON
Anxjefv In Felt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
suffraaettcs In jail.

LONDON, Dec. 6.-A dozen more
suffragetees were arrested for break
ing up meeting of university stud
ents gathered at Glasgow, to listen to
speech by Irish Secretary Birrell.
twenty-five women had slipped into
a gallery and the moment the secre-
tary began, burst into such chorus
of shrieks OF votes for women
that the speaker was completely
drowned out. Hundreds of students
made rush for the disturbers. Sew
eral of the women were very roughly
handled. A number of students suf-
fered badly scratched faces and
hands and hairpin stabs.
The police we're compelled to clear
the hall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06
Daily River Bulletin.

River Forecast.
The river will remain nearly sta
tionary from Davenport to Keokuk
for several days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-06

,..,,.crIbers of The Daily Gate City
8. served the full Leased Wire Ser
=, ',,ee q the United Press Association.
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