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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
BUDGET MEASURE
BEFORE HOUSE
Legislature, Executive and judicial
Appropriation Bill Was Re.
ported Today by Com
mittee In Charge.
COMMERCE COURT OUT
Presidents Salary Remains at $4,000
Per Year With $4,000 for Who
ever Acts AS His Private
Secretary.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The bud
get" or legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, one of the
biggest of the supply measures, was
reported to the house today by the
appropriations committee. The meas
ure carries $34,S97, ,1o5 about one mil
lion dollars less than the secretary of
the treasury recommended be appro-
priated.
The presidents salary remains $75,.
600 in the bill. The salary Of the sec
retary to the president which house
leaders last session unsuccessfully
attempted to reduce, was scheduled
at the original figure Of $4,000.
Although the budget" measure as
reported by the subcommittee recon.
mended that all ex-presidents in the
future act as Observation-Disclosures
at an annual salary of s17,500, the
bill as approved by the full commit
tee did not contain this feature. The
bill makes no appropriation for the
commerce court, or for the mint al
Carson, New, or the assay Offices al
Boise. Idaho; Charlotte, N. c.; Sal
Lake City, Utah, and Helena, Mon
tana
A curb on what has formerly beer
a time-honored perauisite of represen
tatives is also included in the BIT
Fsome Of the members Of the hous'
have been paid an allowance Of s12
monthly for private secretaries. I
was often whispered that many mem
bers did not hire secretaries ant
pocteted this extra allowance. Th,
bill today requires that the secretar
les be paid by the clerk of the house
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
President Taft In Address Before Ma
tIonal Rivers and Harbors Con-
sress, Favors Protection
Of River.
NEEDS FIFTY MILLIONS
Hundreds Of Lives In Danger in the
South Every Tlme the Father .
Of Waters Goes on
a Tear.

& WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Calling
upon the delegates to tho national
rivers and harbors congress to look
upon the building Of levees on the Mis-
sissippi river as national question,
President Taft went on record as IA
voring an appropriation OF s5o,0oO,00
by congress to undertake the work
which, he said, when completed
would mean the saving OF lives of hun
dreds OF persons and thousands of dol
lars worth of property.
The president reproved the dele
gates for selfish interest in local wat
erways and admonished them that
they should disregard local aims and
concentrate upon projects OF national
Importance, particularly, he said, the
Mississippi river property banked up.
Il would like to see the Ohio river
made more navigable." said the pres
ident, "but would rather see the Mis-
sissippi so arranged that hundreds of
lives would not be in danger every
time the water is high"
The president took a fling at con-
gress when he said:
1--WE are here to go over the same
old questions. 1t Is little like water
wearing away stone but In the end
we will get there.
.'The national government should
make itself responsible for these i'm
provements, but the states along the
river should help continued Taft
i@The Mississippi is a great source oil
wealth but when It reaches It's height
value does not present itself.
"The minute you appropriate s40,-
100000 or s5o,Oo0,oo0 for this work
there will be scramble for a perfect
system of improvements which the
government will be asked to build
But If the national government at
tempts to build levees and other
works, the states along the way should
turn all local machinery over to the
government and let the war depart
ment and the engineering corps dc
the work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
NEEDS BO0KKEEPER
TO WATCH AFFAIRS
Man Who Has Three Wives
and Many Children to Di-
vide His Wages.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DEDHAM, Mass, Dec. 4.-Three
marriages and two divorces in the
life of Arthur Gordon Weld, of Ded-
ham, formerly conductor for the
Arion Society of Milwaukee, Wis, and
a well known director of New York
light operas, caused Weld to ask the
supreme court to create trust fund
whereby he may provide for wives
number / and 2; and his children by
those marriages.
Weld welded Kate DeRossel Wood
bury in 1883. Soon after the birth OF
a second child he was divorced. In
1893 Weld married Miss Hedwig
Wahl. daughter Of wealthy Milwau-
kee brewer. Two years later the sec
ond Mrs. Weld obtained divorce
Several years later Weld married
Jane Peyton, an actress. Miss Pey.
ton was the divorced wife Of DR.. Rob,
ert Curtis Brown, Milwaukee physi
cian
Weld wants to dissolve an alleged
Illegal contract whereby he was to
receive one-third and his second wife
two-thirds Of his income.
He wants the courts to decide how
he can pay wives number one and two
and the children of each equal
amounts, and retain enough to sup
port hia present wife.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
.UNSOLvEO CRIMES
AGAINST BOYS
Self Confessed Slayer Of TWO Youths
Is Questioned About a Num-
ber Of Other Child
Murders.
ONLY ADMITS THE TWO
]. Frank Hickey VIII Not Confess
That He Knows Anything About
Any But the
Pair.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.1
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 4.-Daniel
V. Murphy, counsel for j. Frank
Hickey, self-confessed slayer of little
Joseph Josephs, nf Lackawanna, and
Michael Kruck, newsboy OF New
York city, is going over with his eli
ent today, the great mass OF detailed
information received by the local au-
thorities from the police of other
cities concerning unsolyed crimes
similar to the Staying of the Josephs
and Kruck boys Hickey has denied
any knowledge OF most of the crimes.
The following are some of the
crimes regarding which Hickey was
questioned today:
The disappearance in August, 1911
of the eighteen year old son o. Gideon
X. McMillen, of Concord, Mass.
The murder of one boy and the
kidnapping of another in Reading
Pa, April 1895.
The disappearance on April 16
1910, of Edward adams, is years old
son OI CHdrlCs AudMs u l1ahone
near Bradford. Pa.
The murder Of William Mather
LACED 12, on February 20, 1912, In
North Providence, R. l.
The death Of Freddie McKenna,
years Cd, whose body was found in ;
garbage pile liz Detroit on March IA
1907.
4 The murder OF Eddie Gardner, VII
mington, Del, boy.
The murder of James Lawrence
Freei. aged IA, whose body wa.
found on December 13, 1909, in va
cant house in Pittsburgh.
The strangling on October 6. 1907
of Phillip Mastrioni, 9 years old
Bridgeport, Conn.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
THERE IS ALWAYS DANGER
OF FINANCIAL PANIC

tirely free commercial, financial or
Industrial action the secretary as
serted.
MacVeagh laid stress OF how the
present currency plan tightens money
during crop moving time. Taking
large sums Of actual money out OF the
ordinary financial use and locking It
up as a dead mass" in the vaults of
the treasury, according to the secre-
tary. is unscientific and unreasonable.
He advocated such change in the
system as will provide trustworthy
bank reserves A new system he said,
must include provisions for never
failing reserves and neyer-failing cur
rency. and for the perfect elasticity
and flexibility of both and for the
permanent organization and co-opera-
tion of banks, which according to the
secretary. are now suffering and caus-
ing the nation to suffer by reason of
their unorganized state; for a central
agency. to represent and act for the
organized and cooperative banks, so
independent that no one bank can be
owned or controlled in any degree, d.
rectly or indirectly, by any other
bank.
The secretary urges congress to
rive serious attention to the opium
situation in America. He declared
that smuggling of the drug into this
country reaches an enormous figure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
GOSS|P'S TONGUE
MAS S|LENCED
Bride of One Day Killed Neishbor
Who Said She Was Ugly and Old
and Would be
Untrue.
JURY WILL FREE HER
States Attorney Knows II Would be
Useless to Bring Murder
Charge Against
Woman.
JURY WILL FREE HER

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Dec. "A
woman's gossip was today blamed for
the death OF Mrs. Mary Copple, moth ,r
of two little children, who was shot by
Mrs. Elizabeth Lang, a bride OF TWEEN
ty-four hours.
Following Mrs. Lang's confession to
the police that she killed her neigh
Dor for fear Mrs. Copples gossip
would ALLEVIATE the affections of her
husband, States Attorney Michael
Fansier said that he would press a
charge of manslaughter rather than
murder. The jury could not be found
here, he said. that would send the
young bride to the scaffold.
Lang visited his wife in her cell to-
day. Joe, this is said honeymoon
for us, isn't it?" she said, throwing
her arms around his neck. II intend
to ask mercy of the Judge. Do you
think will have to spend all my life
in prison?"
What Mrs. Copple said Of her was
told the young bride by Miss Carrie
Zimmerman, mutual friend.
Il don't see where did anything
wrong" said the gossip ANY wo.
man would have done the same thing.
If had not told Elizabeth, some one
else would have done so"
The prisoner told the police: II
killed her because she said no man
ought to marry me AMI that he would
repent marrying me. She said was
ugly and old and would not be true to
my husband"
,drs. Lang was held, but no charge
was registered against her up to late
this afternoon. She was to be brought
into court this afternoon 1t was said.
She refused to discuss her case furth-
Ter. The Copple family also declined
to state what action they would take
against Mrs. Lang.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Secretary Of Treasury Wants
Change in Our Banking and
Currency System.

limited Press Leased Wire Servlce.l
WASHINGTON Dec. 4.-Declarins
that as long as the banking and cur
Irency system OF this country remains
as it is today, the disaster OF panic
rs always present, Secretary OF the
Treasury MacVeagh in his annual re-
por. to congress today urged adop-
ton of a new system which woulo
afford greater protection.
THE system under which we are
living not only will not prevent a
Panic, but after a certain point in the
general run Of panic conditions IS
reached. will make 1t inevitable" ne
declared
The secretary charged that the
present system es. s.ablished under fed
eral laws not only promotes and de-
Eyelops panics, but at all times the
country is carrying a needless ana
aeavy burden of an unfit and wholly
Insufficient banking and currency sys'
sem. This system never permits en-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Berger Says Country Would
be Paradise if Such a
Thing Gould Happen.

tUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-Depreciat-
ing the fact that the socialist party
will no. be represented in the next
congress, Representative Victor l..
Berger, of Wisconsin, defeated candi-
date for reelection, issued state
ment today reviewing socialist. gains
in the past election and predicting a
gain of 100000 votes in the next.
"The socialists cannot claim any
district until they have an absolute
majority of all the votes there.'' said
Berger. "A simple plurality will not
do us because the old parties forget
their differences and join hands as
soon as they find the working class
wants to give expression to its inter
ests in the political field.
THE presence of fifty socialists In
congress would have wonderfully
beneficial effect upon the old parties
r would put ginger into them and
compel them to accomplish Legislation
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Asked to be Shot.

GUnited Press Leased Wire Service.I
PARIS, Dec. 4.-That Nine. Beg
uery, whose husband shot her at her
own request was only pronounced
hypochondriac, and was not suffering
from any incurable disease, was the
opinion made public today of medical
experts appointed to examine the
woman's body. They said it was nor
NAL and that apparently she was the
victim Of nervousness. Nine. Beguery
thought she had an incurable disease
and her husband, head of an insur-
ance company, killed her because che
asked it and then surrendered to the
authorities. he is held for the mar-
der
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
JAPANESE SHERLOCK
COMES TO AMERICA
Disguised Himself So Many
Times That He Fell Over
a Clew.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.l
DENVER, Colo. Dec .4-Tarro Yo-
gata, called the Sherlock Holmes Of
Japan" has come all the way from
his native land to Denver to free
Genkyo Mitsunaga, a countryman, of
the charge of numbering Mrs. Rather
inc Wilson here two years ago.
The supreme court will be asked
this afternoon to grant Mitsunaga a
new trial, on the ground that Yogata
has discovered evidence during the
last six months that will convince y
jury Of Mitsunaga's innocence. Nit
sunaga is now serving the second
year Of life sentence.
Yogata was granted special dis.
pensation from the Mikado to go on
the case.
Using various DISCUSSES, Yogata has
run down scores of clues, finally es-
tablishing a strong chain of evidence
that will, he says, gain the recall of
the life sentence of Mitsunaga.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Stalled Train Was Crashed Into From
the Rear When Flasman Was
Too Slow With
Signal.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN
Mrs. Emerson Was Found With Her
Head damned Through Win
dow and Little Ones Dead
Beside Her.

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
ZANESVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 4.--With
the death early today CT Wilbur Lud-
wig, Jacob Burgy and Mrs. Nellie
Taylor, the toll Of the wreck last
night between a c. A. & G. and G. &
NJ. v. passenger train near Dresden,
was increased to eleven
James Bryant, forty-fiye, of Lancas-
j Ter, engineer on the Q. & M. ", train
is dying in the hospital here.
The killed:
MRS. B. A. EMERSON, 80, zanes-
vile, her two year old son and daugh-
ter.
MAX HARRIS, travelling salesman,
Lodi.
HENRY BARTLES, 80, Akron.
HENRY BALBIAN, Cleveland. man
ager Dresden branch of the Cleveland
Woolen Mills.
l.. H. BLANEY. GAINESVILLE, c. and
NJ v. brakeman.
HENRY ]. HASKELL, 5S, Zanes-
vile, salesman for the American Agri-
cultural Chemical company.
WILLIAM LUDWIG. 40, GAINESVILLE,
bridge carpenter.
JACOB BURGY, 81, GAINESVILLE.
MRS. NELLIE TAYLOR, GAINESVILLE.
The breaking OF an air ripe ON he
Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
train was responsible for the collision,
The Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley
train was following the G. A. & C,
division on the seventeen miles OF
single track between Trinway and
Zanesville.
When the air pipe broke, a fagman
was sent back to stop the G. & M. W
train, but he arrived too late and the
last coach on the stalled train was
split wide open.
Mrs Emerson was found with he1
head jammed through window and
both her children dead beside her
Henry Balbian was on top of the en-
gine tender.
Just before he died in the hospital
Max Harris asked attendants to no
tify Julia Rodman, of Paola, Kansas
whom he was engaged to marry.
Harris and Bartles who died ir
the same hospital room, were mem
bers of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Among the injured are Frank Saup
80. of Lancaster, express messenger
cut and bruised; Guy Altrock, 80. o
Bremen, both hands scalded; George
| Einsel, 35, Kilbuck, railway mail clerk
face cut. Others we're badly shaker
| up and bruised.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
ALL IMMIGRANTS
LANDED i'm SOUTH
BY Making Them Work Their
Way up Into Country
Good Would Result


CHICAGO. Dec. 4.-Ellis Island
should be closed up for five years,
Galveston, Texas, and other southern
ports should receive all immigrants.
On those two statements the Rev.
Charles Stelzle, of New York. super
intendent Of the Board of Home Mis-
sions of the Presbyterian church,
based an interview on social service
today. He is chairman of the social
service bureau Of the federal council
of the churches Of Christ in America,
in session here.
with Ellis Island closed. the I'M
migrants could work up through the
south. Large cities would thus be
avoided at the outset. There would
be a redistribution OF the foreign
class
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
FIFTY SOCIALISTS IN
CONGRESS AS REMEDY

OF which they do not even dream to-
day."
The defeat OF the republican candl-
date and the fact that Wilson polled
a million less votes as democratic can
didate for president than did Bryan
four years ago, Berger declared.
shows that the voters of the United
States not only repudiated the re-
publican party, but showed lack OF
faith in the democrats.
The democratic party cannot help
being reactionary because 1t is CON
trolled by coalition of the south and
Tammany,' Berger continued. IF the
democrats fail to cut down the high
cost of living and carry out their
platform promises for abolition of the
trusts, an industrial panic is due with
in the next two or four years. That
will mean democratic hard times
and soup kitchens. This time the
panic will also strike the south:
break up the solid south and give
cause to riots and disturbances
Berger predicted a re-alignment OF
the two old parties and success for
the progressives. declaring the demo-
cratic party unable to meet demand
ed progressive reforms.
"As for my own person. con. n.inued
Berger. Il will gay that liked my
work in the house and shall enjoy 1T
| to the last moment"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
CHRISTMAS TREE
SHIP WENT down
Seventeen People on Board the Three
Mas.ed Schooner Rouse Sim
mon Which Sank In
the Lake.
ONE WOMAN ON DECK
Hardly Any Doubt Now But That the
Boat Was Pounded to Pieces
More Than Week
Ago.
ONE WOMAN ON DECK

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CHICAGO, Dec. 4-The Rouse SIM
mon, three-masted schooner, with
Captain Herman Schuleman in COM
mand, Captain Christian Nelson and
his wife as his guests and a crew OF
fourteen men, were believed today to
have gone down in Lake Michigan.
The boat was two weeks overdue
from Monistique, Mich, with its an
nual cargo of Christmas trees.
According to messages received by
the Chicago harbor master ana the
life saving officers, the Rouse Sim
mon was sighted off Pentwater, Mich.
more than a week ago flying distress
signals and making a weak effort to
keep her course during a severe gale.
The captain Of the Pentwater life
saving crew attempted to reach her
in motorboat. The high sea and the
wind hindered him and he lost sight
of the schooner.
Acting on the suggestion of the
Pentwater captain, the officer In
charge of the station at Two Rivers,
Wis, and his men started a search in
i the neighborhood Were the freight
boat was last seen. The found
small pieces OF wreckage and scores
LOT Christmas trees floating ON the
water, but could find no trace of the
missing ship. Believing that the
| Christmas boat captain had thrown
1 the trees overheard to Tighten his
ship. the life saving crew continued
| the search. Today they reported
that they beiieved the boat had gone
down with all on board.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: Unset
tied weather with probably rain to-
night or Thursday. Warmer tonight
and colder Thursday
For Illinois: Unsettled weather with
rain tonight or Thursday. Warmer
tonight and colder north portion
Thursday afternoon.
For Iowa: Unsettled weather with
probably rain tonight or Thursday.
Warmer east portion and colder north
west portion tonight. Colder Thurs
day.
Local Observations.
Dec. Bar. Their. Wind WITH r
8 Z p. m.29.91 80 SW Cl'dy
4 r a. m.2992 sc s Foggy
Rainfall for the past "a hours, 27
hundredths.
Mean temperature Sd, 33.
Lowest temperature, "a.
Highest temperature, AZ.
Lowest temperature last night, 36.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Twelve Round Bout.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
AKRON, o., Dec. 4.-Jack Denning,
New York middleweight, was shaded
by Tommy Gavigan, a Cleveland box
er, in their 12-round bout here last
night. Gavigan was the aggressor
throughout and in the breaks, without
moving a step, forced Denning to re-
treat. Both boys showed signs Of
fatigue after the fight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
KENNEDY
INTRpoyCES
Y kE OKUK
: BRIDGE BILL

UNITED Press Leased wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. A..
Representative Kennedy Of
Iowa this afternoon introduced
a bill in the house authorizing
the Inter city Bridge Company
to construct a railway bridge
across the Mississippi river
from Keokuk, Iowa, to Hamil-
ton, Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Dead on Sidewalk.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
BLOOMINGTON, H.. Dec. 4.-Fred
osthoss, aged about As, was found
Head today on the sidewalk in Allan
Ia, H., near here. He was a travel
Ing salesman for st. Louis paint
company Heart disease was believed
TO have caused his death.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Cooperative Packing plant.

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. A CO
operative packing plant, In which
farmers throughout this state and
southern Minnesota will be stock
holders, is the latest plan to combat
the high cost Of living advanced by
the American Society of Equity, now
holding it's tenth annual convention
here.
Delegates to the convention In
spected several Milwaukee. packing
plans and a committee to superintend
the erection of the new plant, will be
appointed before the convention ad-
journs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
White Slave Case.

DANvILLE, ILL.,, Dec. 4.-John Balm
bridge of Harrisburg, H., was held
to the grand jury here today on
charge of violating the Mann white
slave law. 1t was alleged he took his
sep daughter, May Dunning, to Barb
we'll KY, for immoral purposes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-04
Gaffney Is President.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
BOSTON, Dec. 4.--James E. Gafr-
ney today began his second term as
president Of the Boston National
League baseball club. He was cleo
ted at yesterdays annual meeting. It
was announced today that Manager
George stallings holds fat block of
sock.