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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
THIRTEEN
WESTERN ELECTORS
Attorney General Says That the Taft
Men Cannot Go on the
Ticket.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2S.-That
the thirteen Taft electors nominated
by the bolting minority at the recent
republican state convention in Sacra-
mento cannot lebally go on the No
vember ballot as the regular republi-
can electors Snd that the thirteen
named by the Roosevelt-Johnson ma
iority of the convention are the only
electors who can legally go on as re-
publicans, Is the substance of an
opinion written here this afternoon
by Attorney General U. S. Webb.
The opinion was given to guide
Secretary of State Jordan in prepar'
ing the electoral feature of the state
ballot.
The Taft leaders have announced
that Monday they will seek writ oi
mandamus in the state supreme cour,
to force Secretary Jordan to designate
the Taft thirteen as the regular re
publicans and omit the Roosevelt
thirteen under that designation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
ALDERMEN HAVE
DONE NOTHING
Whitman Denies That He Put Any
Obstacles in the Way of the
Committee.

II United Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-District At
torney Whitman this afternoon, in
denying that he put any obstacle in
the way of the aldermanic police
graft probe, said that so far the al
dermen had succeeded only in getting
themselves laughed at
"The aldermanic committee has
made a pitiful spectacle of itself,
Whitman declared. THE committee
! bad a splendid opportunity to bring
results, but witnesses have laughed in
/ the face of the investigators. The
1 chance to do something was spoiled
Mr., Buckner is brilliant, but young
His associates are children
Whitman made his statement II
connection with denial that he hat
objected to the probers examining an.
witnesses connected with the Becker
case in the Rosenthal murder prose
cutions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
Continued on page Q
Indicted Men Are Arriving for
the Big Trial to be Held
in indianapolis.

United Press Leased Wire Servlce.I
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Sept. 2o.-
Nearly fifty labor leaders, charged by
The government with having consplr-
ed to fight their battles by means Oh
dynamite and nitroglycerine, are To-
night nearing Indianapolis where
Tuesday their cases will be called IN
the federal district court Five mem
bers 70 the international Association
Of Bridge and Structural Iron work
ers, besides those living here, VINO
We're indicted, have already arrived,
According to H. S. Hockin, secretary
treasurer OF the union, all VIII be
here by tomorrow afternoon.
Ortie McManigal, the government
star witness: frank j. Higgins, New
England organizer for the iron work
ers, living, at Springfield. Mass; r
Z Phillips and John Carroll, both OF
Syracuse, N. Y. and Patrick A. Cool
ey, of New Orleans, are already here
According to information received to
night by District Attorney Miller
who will be in charge of the prosecu
ton, Daniel Brophy, former membel
OF the executive board, is confined a
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, with
broken leg and will be the only maj
indicted. unable to appear because Q
Illness.
1t became known today that tn
government has assigned here a larg
number OF secret service agents VIII
will remain during the trial. Eve
faderal officials here will be kept 4
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
Terrific Forest Fire Threatens the
Towns and Mining Camps
Close to City of
Seattle.
POWER LINES IN PATH
No Immediate Danger But the Winds
Are Causing Much IN
easlness for the
Future.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
SEATTLE, Wash. Sept. 2s.-A
terrific forest fire In the eastern
part of King county tonight rs threat
ening the towns of Snoqualmie and
Fall City, the south camps of the
Pacific Lumber and Timber Company,
of Seattle, and the power lines of the
Puget Sound Traction, Light and
Power Company, which operates
street car lines in Seattle and Ia
coma and the interurban line con-
Meeting the two towns.
Early this evening falling cinders
set fire to private residence In
Snoqualmie and the blaze was extin
guished only after considerable dam
age to several houses. At Soutl
Camp, near Snoqualmie, a small
group of men fought off the flames
this afternoon, the fire having prac
tically surrounded the camp. Some
of the works are reported destroyed
1 1t is feared South Camp is doomed.
Considerable new timber belonging
/ to the Northwest Lumber COmpan.
has been burned, although the exac
| loss is not known Estimates place i
/ between five hundred thousand an
two million feet.
The fire is raging in the directio
of Snoqualmie and while there is n
immediate danger, the winds ar
causing unaasiness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
SAFE AND SANE
CHINESE BLOW OUT
First Anniversary of the New Repub-
lie is Celebrated by the Young
Chinks.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Is
Young China, represented in the local
colony, celebrated today the first an
niversary of the new Chinese repub-
lie, with much feasting, speech-mak,
ing and music by American bands,
but no fire works. The new genera
ton believes in the safe and sane
idea in recognizing their national In
dependence.
The celebration included a parade
and open air meeting, followed by an
elaborate tea party. The Official rails
ing of the new Chinese flag of red
yellow and black, with white back.
ground, was feature of the days
events.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
PRETTY MEN MUST
WEAR WHISPERS
Lily Langtry Tells Men to Wear Col
orees Clothes, Whiskers and
Feather in Hat.

/ United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-The man
beautiful and votes for women were
the two dominant ideas waited to
these shores today when Mrs Lily
Langtry, otherwise Lady De Battle,
and sometimes known as the Jersey
Lily landed from the liner Cedric.
"A suffragette? Oh, mercy, no,
she declared as soon as her dainty
feet touched the pier. Certainly, |
believe in equal suffrage, but not the
militant kind. | am a devotee OF
votes for women, but do not smash
windows or anything like that.
But why these sombre clothes?'
she demanded of the group of inter
viewers. Men are going to wear
co1ors, and cease to look like under
takers. They are already doing il
over on the other side. Why don't
you try 1t?
stick. feather in your hat. Wear
plum color, blue green or yellow, any
thing but black and gray and dull
brown.
"And the whiskers You should
see them on The Strand They hell
1 the color scheme, too I'm not strong
I for the whiskers, but they will hell
to bring back the Man Beautiful ane
4 the Beau Brummel of yesterday"
The Lady Langtry herself wore onl.
black and white, but it was not he
\ costume that held attention; it wa
her shining eyes and youthful fac
and complexion. There were thos
aboard the Cedric with gray hair. VIII
remembered Mrs. Langtry ia the day
of their youth, but they did not sa
so, fearing they could make nobod
believe she was that old.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
CONVENTION
TO BE HELD THIS WEEK

ignorance of their identity, unless
something should arise which will dis
close their identity. These men will
keep sharp lookout at the time a
Jury is being selected and while the
trial is in progress.
Since the grand jury investigation
which resulted in the Indictment Of
the fifty-four labor leaders on con-
spiracy charges, much valuable evi-
dence and books of the iron workers 8
union have been stored in huge
vault in District Attorney Miller's
office. Guards have watched this
night and day. In the past few days,
guards have been placed at the stair
ways leading to the floor on which
1.-THE district attorneys office is located
and at night heavy chains securely
! padlocked bar entrance to the Dss
bronze gates leading to the stairwaye
A conference Of the accused and
! their attorneys Is scheduled for to
morrow. Other conferences will be
4 held Monday.
Ortie McManigal is being housed II
room adjoining United States Mar
i shall Schmidt's office in the fedora
! building, but only government Off
4 cials are allowed to see bin. 1t II
expected he will make his appear
ance in the court room Tuesday.
United States Marshall Schmidt |
trying to figure out how to arrang
the courtroom so as to accommodate
/, the greatest number of persons
Three rows Of chairs have bee
placed just inside the rail and acros
i the entire width of the room, to b
used by the defendants, but how t
accommodate two score or more a
j torneys and like number of news
! paper men, is question Owing t
/, the sma1lness of the court room, nc
, more than $50 spectators will be abl
4 to gain admittance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
THE CHAR WITH
A TACK ON II.
Lorimer and lsmay squirmed in 1t
and Next viii Come Colonel
Roosevelt and J. p.
Morgan.
THIS WEEKS HEARING
Senate Committee investigation Of
Campaign Contributions VIII be
Resumed With Some
Star Witnesses.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-Lorimer,
Ismay, Roosevelt and Morgan.
The same witness stand that did
duty when the steamship man told
the tragic story of the sinking of the
Titanic and where the former sena-
tor from Illinois testified in losing
battle to retain his toga, will hold a
former president and New York's
money king, when the two appear be-
fore the Clapp committee Of the SEN
ate next week to tell their part in
the past decade of political financing.
The selection of the same chair for
the use of the colonel and Morgan as
| was used by Ismay and Lorimer is
quite accidental.
| Before the stars" testify, Cornelius
| N. Bliss, Jr, son of the treasurer In
| 1904 of the republican national COM
mittee, will take the stand, shortly
after 10 o'clock Monday morning.
Whether Bliss will be accompanied
| by counsel, is not known.
he VIII UtSiu Dy leillu6 luS SoLi'
/ mittee what books and papers lie has
relating to campaign gifts to his faith
er, as treasurer of the republican ma
j tional committee of 1904. He will be
4 allowed to make any preliminary o.
explanatory statement that he de
sires. Then will follow the quiz b.
q the senators.
i ormsby McHarg who ilianage'
Roosevelt's pre-convention campaign
will follow him. He will be sharpl.
( questioned as to his knowledge of tn
contests that were inaugnrated in thu
south last winter and spring, in be
4 half of Roosevelt delegates to the con
vention at Chicago.
| Charles A, Peabody was treasure
of the democratic national committe
in 1904. He will be questioned abou
! campaign gifts of that year to tn
t democratic national committee. Tege
thoff, the last witness of the da!
may produce some papers of the lat
, e. H. Hartman, bearing on the a
|, legged collection of s26o,000 by ths
9 financier for the republican presidel
d tial campaign.
v Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, one {
s the most skillful lawyers in the SCI
e ate, will conduct the cross-eXamin'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
Foreigners in Textile Mills
Will Have Big Strike
Monday.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
LAWRENCE, Mass, Sept. 2S.-Ten
thousand textile workers this after
noon gathered on the common and
unanimously voted for "a hour
strike, to begin at 6 a. M, Monday,
as a protest against the trial for mur-
der OF Ettor and Glovannitti, Indus
trial Workers of the World leaders
scheduled to be placed on trial for
their lives Monday in Salem.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Will
! liam Yates were the principal speak
4 ers, and their utterances were trans
4 lated into half a dozen languages
4 that all those at the mass meeting
4 might understand.
/ The leaders urged that there be nc
violence, and it was proposed tha
/ there be no picketing to prevent
workers disposed not to strike from
entering the mill yards. BY vote
however. it was decided to leave this
to the individual inclinations of tn,
strikers. Twenty-Five hundred Ital
!. ians favored picketing, and they prot
ably will picket the mills in whicl
they are employed.
4 It was expected that the "a hou
, strike would bring out more tha
10000 /. w W. members, and wor
was conveyed to the mass meetin
that similar Ettor and Giovanni
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
SNAP FINGER At
SUPREME COURT
Standard Oil Company Pays No At
tention to Laws or Verdlcts
Either in yttsr or
HAS DISSOLVED
Charges Are Sent to Department o
Justice That the Mandate of
Court Has Not Been
obeyed.
HAS DISSOLVED

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK Sept. 2S- Charges that
the Standard Oil company of New Jer-
sey had defied the mandate of the
United States supreme court and that
the edict of that body for dissolu-
ton had been ignored, both in letter
and spirit were forwarded to the de-
partment of justice by S. W. Fordyce,
Jr, counsel for the Waters-Pierce Oil
company.
The charges are based on testimony
brought out at the hearing resulting
from the attempted reorganization of
the Waters-Pierce company.
Fordyce asserts that the testimony
has proved that the standard Oil
Company of New Jersey is still a
holding company and owns and con
trolls many oil companies engaged IN
interstate and foreign commerce and
4 that it has used at least two com
i lpanies-the American Petroleum
and Deursche-Amerikani Petroleum
/ Gosellschaft-to assist in maintaining
4 the control of the Texas refineries
\ against which the United States OBJ
! itained decree
4 "As far as the testimony has beel
taken" said Fordyce, eve have showl
that every subsidiary company is abso
: lutely dominated and controlled b,
i the majority owners of the stock Q
J the Standard Oil company of NeN
Jersey
Fordyce charges that tie account
( lof the Magnolia company, throug
: which he says the Texas refinerie
Z are controlled, have been jugglet
THE action of the New York con
e pany,' the statement says, in lendin
!, money to Mr.. Archbold, president
4 the New Jersey company, and the fat
that Messsrs Archbold and Folge
: the presidents of the two most in
e portant and most potentially compel
t tive companies, are borrowing none
e from the New York company on 1oi1
t account, indicates a decided degre
t Of harmony in the management {
,, these companies
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
SLEEPING UNDER
A CRAZY Quilt.
President Taft Says the Bull Moose
VIII Wake up Some Day and
Find 1t Has Been
Dreaming.
ONE MAN PARTY
Movement Cannot Succeed Because
the Majority Of the People Are
Not Emotional and Non
thinking.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
BEVERLY. Mass, Sept. 2S.-Presi-
dent Taft this afternoon obviously
took a shot at Colonel Roosevelt,
when he declared to two thousand re-
publicans that the progressive party
was held together only by Its leader,
had a crazy quilt platform, and
would fall to piecess of its own weight
! should it's leader die.
This new party is not united on any
cohesive principle President Taft
ssaid, referring to the third party
leader without calling Roosevelt's
name, and it is only kept together by
the remarkable personality OF the
leader. Were he to die, the party
would go to pieces for the cause OF
which so many glibly speak, is entire
l lly incapable of definition, in view OF
the crazy quilt character OF the plat
form, but there Is running throug
the platform an entire willingness to
destroy every limitation of constltu'
tional representative government
"A third party has split off from the
party he said, not for any
one principle or indeed for any prin
s ciple at all, but merely to crafty per
: sonal ambition and vengeance, ever.
9 new fad and theory, some Of then
: good, some Of them utterly preposter
} GUS and impracticable, some of then
as socialistic as anything that ha
lbeen proposed in Europe. y
THE reason that the movemen
!, cannot succeed is that the great bu'l
y lof our people are not emotional, supel
e ficially minded, non-thinking or hero
9 worshipping. They have the virtue G
E. sober second thought and to see tn
l. danger of movement that must de
I Ipend for its success on holding fort
# impossible promises of millennium.
e Fortunately, there is not the sligh
Il est chance for the third party. TIL
"a republican party should be in the fror
.. affirming our right to represent tn
! people in authority in the governmeT
a because of what we have done or whs
i we shall continue to do in the futur
- that we shall preserve forever th
~ constitutions and the institutions
this country unimpaired.'
o- He emphasized the Importance
- maintaining protective tariff
: : safeguard industrial interests, pr
vent reduction Of wages and susta
the high standard of living of Amer
can workmen.
President Taft motored to Glouce
ter Mass, this afternoon and d
livered brief address to the veteral
= of the civil war.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
GOOSE THAT LAID
The GOLDEN EGGS
1t Was Routed Off of it's Nest ~
jackson When New Republic
of China Wished
a Stake.
SIX POWERS HUMBLED
While Great Financiers Plotted to
Buy Out China, Obscure Ameri-
can Turned Neat
Trick.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
PEKIN, Sept. Sunday Many
were the fat, bland smiles exchanged
in high Chinese official circles here
last night The high officials mirth
was not boisterous, indecorus. 1t
was merely chuckling, gurgling, gloat-
fu.
And with reason. Last night came
the news that the mighty six powers
syndicate was humbled
THE A. Wendell Jackson loan,'
said London dispatches, "closed heav-
/ lily over-subscribed.' Moreover there
/ came the further news that the six
powers syndicate was getting ready
to beg for the leavings.
1t sounds like a sordid story I the
money markets, but it isn't. 'Tis a
story of diplomatic intrigue, of orien-
| tai treason, Of fight for an empire.
4 of the great western nations, who
have imposed their will on the peace
/ loving Chinese by force of arms in
the past, overthrown in turn by sn-
4 perior Chinese headwork, nerve, pa
q
revolution. 1t came out of it repub-
:, liza republic that needed lot OF
money.
Forthwith the financiers organized
the six powers syndicate, first to fin
4 ance and then to gobble China. The
+ six powers syndicate consisted OF
these great houses.
America--The International Bank
ing Corporation, (J. Pierpont Nor
, gam.
, England The Hong Kong and
Shanghai banking corporation
2 France-The France Chinese bank
Germany The Germany-A
bank
Russia-The Russo-Asiatic bank.
: Japan The Yokohama Specie
+ bank.
q 1--WE will stick the Chinese said
t the leaders of the six powers syndi
a cate, with a $25o,oo0,Ooo or $300,00o,.
# 600 loan. They'll never get out from
e under it. In due season Wen fore.
close and China'll belong to u.s.
e Six percent was the interest rate
il suggested, which is pretty high for
t. so big national loan. Furthermore
e by the jugglery of international eN
S. change, this was to be tilted to twelve
e or fifteen percent And to make as
CONTINUED on page 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
CRuICH
| Of SOLID GOLD.
IL viii This Morning Allow His
5 10 be Cut OF in Order to
Save the Life Of .
Girl.
WILLING TO SUFFER
hama Newsboy and Girl Who Was
Burned by Motorcycle Are
Ready for the
Ordeal.

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GARY, Ind. Sept. 2S.-When VIII
m Rugh appears again at his news
per stand he will be supported by
Ia crutches instead of one.
When Miss Ethel Smith is able to
home from the Gary general hospi-
she will have an excellent chance
get we'll.
Roth of these conditions VIII be
bic result of the generous offer of the
year old newsboy to submit to an
bperation which will remove his left
eg that live skin may be obtained to
raft upon the body and legs Of Miss
Imith. The girl was burned while
Iding on motor cycle recently and
lie doctors said her life would be
hved tomorrow. The doctors will
Ike the leg offered by Rugh. and
lev will use the cuticle that is on II
save Miss Smith.
Tomorrow, some time after IL
clock, Rugh will be placed upon the
perating table. In an adjoining sur
ery doctors will have prepared Miss
bnith for the delicate process ol
rafting live skin upon the places
bat are burned.
Rugh happily went about his busi
ess of selling papers at Sixth Ave.
md Broadway tonight. He is Grip
led by the shortness of the lei
hich the surgeons are to take iron
I'M, and he uses one crutch In walk
BIZ about the news stand.
"oh, don't mind" he said, whel
sked if he did not dread the ordea
Ehich he will go through tomorrow
Tn get me another crutch and ge
Hong nearly as we'll"
But you'll be in the hospital som
lime after the operation and you'l
probably suffer lot" was suggeste
by one of his customers.
Yes smiled Rugh, "but I'll b
Saving a girls life and there's lo
bf satisfaction in knowing that"
Rugh has never met Miss Smitl
He read in one of the papers whic
he sells, about the accident in whic
she received the nearly fatal burn
and he read where DR.. A. J. Craig ha
said it would require large quantit
Of live skin for grating on Mis-
Smiths body if her life was saved. +
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
OSBORNE rs
FOR PROGRESSIVES
All Doubt Set at Rest In Letter He
Writes to Committee
Secretary.


UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LANSING, Mich, Sept 2S-Rumors
that Governor Osborne would not
support the leading candidates on the
third party ticket were set at rest
tonight by the governor himself in a
letter to G. G. DeCamp, secretary of
the state central committee of the
progressive party.
Governor Osborne stated in the
letter that he will vote for Colonel
Roosevelt for president and l.. Whit
ney Watkins progressive candidate
for governor of Michigan. He express
ed pleasure that the republican state
convention last week did not endorse
his administration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
Ship Yards on Fire.

lUnited Press Leased Wire Service.1
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 2S.-The
Wyandotte plant of the Detroit Ship
Building Company sutained damage
by fire tonight, estimated at 100000.
The fire broke out in the boiler rooms
and spread to the machine shops,
which were badly damaged The en-
tire plant was threatened and the
city of Detroit sent fire tug. which
probably prevented the destruction of
the plant, with enormous loss.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
Trial Opens Monday.

I rial opens Wonday.
SALEM, Mass, Sept. 2s.-Unless
some unforeseen situation arises Jo-
seph j. Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti
will 60 to trial Monday before Judges
Quinn and Hall, of the Massachusetts
supreme superior court, on charges
of being accessories to the murder
of Annie Loppizzo, the woman who
was killed last January during
clash between Lawrence mill strikers
and police.
will have been exactly seven months
to a day since they were jailed with
out bail in Lawrence. 1t was decided
late this afternoon that Attorney
Moore of California, who has repre-
sented the Industrial Workers of the
World and other labor organizations
on the Pacific coast, would be chief
counsel for the defense. He will be
assisted by John S. Mahoney, of Law
renee and George e. Roewer of Bos-
! ton, both of whom represented the
| hundreds of strikers who were arrest
ed during the frequent clashes be-
/ tween strikers and police in Law
renee last winter.
Arrangements We're completed to-
day by wire companies to handle news
of the trail from the courthouse di-
rect to thirty4five of the largest dali
les of the United States. Included in
the papers which will receive direct
news of the trial will be one in Ber
4 lin, and another in Rome, which have
engaged leased cable and wire ser
vice direct from those cities to tbs
court house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-29
six Bull Moosere.

fUnited Press Leased Wire Service1
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Sept rs
F. S. Pfeiffer today filed with the sec
retary of state his withdrawal as re-
publican elector from the second dis
trict. He is the sixth Roosevelt man
to quit the Taft ticket.