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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-19

OUTSIDE NEWS FRO
Portland, Me.-Mrs. Clarence H.
Mackay of New York has leased
home of ex-Mayor Adam P. Leighton
in this city and is expected here in
day or two.
Observation-Disclosures of media
ton board appointed by Pres. Wilson
under the Newlands act will hold first
meeting in Washington and then visit
cities where trainmen and railroad
officials have headquarters.
Mexico City.-Pathetic appeals for
help received by courier from Du-
range. Bandit gangs terrOTizing
country. Archbishop of Durango
and many rich MeHcans and for
eigners held for ransom.
Houston.-Engineer A. Tyler and
Fireman E. Montamat killed when
passenger locomotive on Texas &
New Orleans Road exploded.
St. LoUis.-Edmund J. Piper, pres
ident and treasurer of BOIman Piano
Co., killed himself by drinking car
boic acid.
Omaha, Neb.-Bankers Of reserve
cities of middle west say Secretary
Bryan worked out Wilson-GIass cur
rency bill and call him dangerous
power"
Portland, ore.-Sheriff has order
ed arrest of every member of l. W.
w. who attempts to speak in public.
Washington. - Secretary Bryan
will begin regular scheduled course
Of Chautauqua lectures at WinOna,
Ind, Sunday afternoon, continuing
them until he returns here to meet
Ambassador Henry l. Wilson from
Mexico.
Niagara Falls, N. THURMAN
Chapman, %, Hamilton, Ont, res
cued from brink of American falls
last night by four men who formed
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-19

M WIRE AND CABLE
of jeweIry of Ethel Newcomb, failed
to agree after being out 80 hours.
Discharged. New trial set for Sept
2, with cash bail at $4,000. Mrs.
Rena B. Morrow of Chicago, who
financed defense, in courtroom.
St. Louis.-Chas. G. ReVeIIe, state
superintendent of insurance, declar-
ed today that MissoUri's fire risk war
had been ended by compromise.
Baltimore, Md.-CardinaI Gibbons,
70 Wednesday, says he does not eX-
peCt to live much longer. ....
New York.-LiIlian Lorraine, act
ress, asks annUlment of marriage to
F. M. Greisheimer because he false
ly and fraudulently represented to the
plaintiff that he was a respectable,
honest, law-abiding and honorable
man, and concealed from the plaintiff
his true character"
New York.-RaiIroad managers
last night made concessions that may
yet prevent strike on eastern roads.
Neutrality-suspicious. Democrats
succeeded in choking off Republicans
who tried to stir up the Diggs-Cam-
inetti scandal again.
Portland, Ore.-MedfII Mccormick
of Chicago arrived here. Says he's
going to study political conditions.
London.-QUeen EIeanore Of Bull
garia telegraphed Queen Elizabeth
Carmen SYLVIA of Roumania ask
ing that invasion of Bulgaria by
ROumania be stopped. Elizabeth re-
piled that Roumanian soldiers would
continue to advance, but would use
every consideration.
Atchison, Kan.-Twenty thousand
visitors, mostly children, attended
birthday party of B. P. Waggener, 81
years old, wealthy resident of Atchi-
son. Children were from all over
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
Wife AIDS IN FIGHT
With MEXICAN band
Employees Attack Mine 0wner-Five
Killed.

Aguas Calientes, Mexico, May 10.
John Walker, a British mine own
er and his wife, fighting shoulder to
shoulder, recently killed five and
wounded three men out of a band
of eleven employees at the mine near
Villa Garcia, Zacatecas. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker arrived here yesterday
under escort of troops.
The employees attacked Mr.. Walk
err in the Office of the mine because
of his inability to raise money with
which to pay their wages. The at
tackers used knives and clubs, and
Mr.. Walker had been seriously cut
and beaten when he opened fire up
on them with an automatic revolver.
Mrs. Walker reinforced her husband
with a rife.
After the battle Mr. and Mrs.
Walker made their escape from the
building. They were befriended by
a Spanish priest, who hid them un-
til ne could procure the aid Of the
American consular agent here.
When the latter was informed OF the
trouble he obtained squad of
troops to escort Mr.. and Mrs. Walker
here
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
CAR STRIKE IS
AT A STANDST|LL
Street Car officials and Employees
Confer at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, May 19.-Conferences
of street car officials and represen-
tatives of the employees union,
which it is believed will result in
the ending of the street car strike in
this city, were held until a late
hour last night without any definite
conclusion having been reached.
Walter knight, president of the
Federated Association of Municipal
Organizations acted as intern ediary.
Though no definite statement was
given out it appears that only minor
differences remain to be adjusted
and that a speedy resumption of
traffic will take place. 1t is not
known whether the street car COM
pany has yielded to the demand for
recognition of the union but it is be-
lieved that it is willing to arbitrate
this point.
No attempt was made to run cars
yesterday. The appeal for troops for
the company made by Mayor Hunt
yesterday is scheduled to come up
today.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

all of Independence, were over Sun
day guests at the G. w. Roberts
home. Mrs. German and Mrs. Luth-
er will remain for few days visit.
Mrs. James O'Neill OF Clinton,
this state, is guest at the home Of
her sister, Mrs. ]. G. Sullivan and
family.
Mrs. F. E. Whitley left today
for Cedar Rapids to be present at
the biennial meeting Of Iowa Fed
Grated Women's clubs now in session
there. Mrs. Whitley is a member OF
the Wednesday club and also goes as
a member of the board of directors
from this, the tenth district.
Miss Jessie Hummell, who at
tends Drake university at Des
Moines, was home for an over Sun
day visit at the home Of her par
ents.
Mrs. e. C. Mcmillan Of Hudson.
Illinois. sundayed at the A. s. Bur-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

nell home here. Also Mr.. Burnell,
who is now located in Milwaukee,
was home for the day.
Mrs. J. l.. Haddox was Fort
Dodge visitor yesterday, going over
to spend the day with her daughters.
w. G. Burris of Des Moines was
an over Sunday guest at the home
Of his sister, Mrs. E. U. Butcher and
husband.
Mrs. ID. J. Welch and daughter,
Mrs. Earl l.. Cotton, returned to
their homes in Eagle Grove today
following an over Sunday visit at
the Claude Keyes home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Neel re-
turned this morning from visit
with relatives in Des Moines and
Randall.
Miss Matte Hof of Lnverne Wis
tied with DIR. and Mrs. Ward Han
nah between trains today on her way
home from Cedar Falls.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
RECOVER Fifteen
BODIES FROM MINE
Rescue Party Brings Dead to the
Surface.

Belle Valley, O., May 1.-THE
bodies of fifteen men had been re
covered last night from the Imperial
mine, where two explosions early
Saturday night resulted in the death
of fourteen miners and one rescuer.
A rescue party descended early
yesterday and brought the dead to
the surface.
Among the dead are: Henry
Fairhurst, a rescuer; Robert Alton,
night boss, and Henry Dudley, as
sistant superintendent.
The fourteen miners are said to
have been killed almost instantly by
the explosion. Fairhurst was killed
BY gas. go.
The bodies were found a mile and
quarter from the mouth of the
mine They were badly burned.
An investigation into the cause Of
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
Personal Briefs
(From Mondays Daily.

Mrs. Claude Smith and Mrs. Joe
Jones Sundayed at the Roy Martin
home in harrisburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Miller and
baby left Saturday for Alden for a
brief visit at the Frank Akers home.
MFR. and Mrs. H. E. Pringle
went to Boone this morning for a
few days stay.
Mrs. Amy-Loring-Hayse and
baby of Sioux City, who have been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
\. ]. Loring here for some time,
spent Sunday with friends in Jewell.
&C. E. Buell. went to Colfax Sat-
urday for a few days visit with his
wife, who is there taking treatment.
Miss Ethel Myers went to Wool
stock Saturday for an over Sunday
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. w. Myers.
j. C. Robson returned Saturday
from a couple of weeks visit with
friends in Minneapolis.
Mrs. E. D. Curtis of the Curtis
Floral company spent Sunday in
Hampton. -.... ...
Mrs. w. c. Burleson left this
morning for Cedar Rapids where she
goes to attend the biennial meeting
of the Iowa Federation Of Women's
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
Many Farmers Burned.

Shanghai, May 19.-Sixty-seven
farmers of Shen Chow Ting, in west
ern Honan, who had resisted at
tempts of the soldiers to destroy
their crops of opium, were burned to
death yesterday in building where
they were holding a meeting, ac-
cording to dispatch received here
by the North China Daily News. The
dispatch adds that the soldiers
started the fire.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
RoWdyism is Less Marked.

London, May 19.-While scenes of
rowdyism in Hyde Park were not as
marked yesterday as on recent Sun
days when the suffragettes attempt
ed to hold meetings, the orators who
espoused the cause of the women
found it impossible to make them
selves heard on account of in terrup-
tons by the crowd and finally had
to accept the services of the police
in obtaining safe escort from the
mark
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

the explosion will be begun today by
officials of the state mining depart
ment.
Roy Yeager was brought out by
the rescuers and may recover. He
was thrown distance of 800 feet
by the explosion and was the only
man to escape from the section of
the mine where the explosion oc-
CURED.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
THE JAPANESE
PUBLIC DECRY
ALL WAR TALK
Jingoism Denounced as Ridiculous
and Likely to Embarrass
in Toxic.
MERE RACE PREJUDICE,
Count Okuma Says California Will
See Folly as Did
Nippon.

Toxic. May 19.--Faith in the
American people to see that justice
Is done the japanese is the dominat-
ing note in the discussion of the
California alien land ownership leg
islation.
War talk is denounced as ridicu-
lous and only circulated to embar-
rass the two governments which are
laboring for peaceful settlement
by diplomacy.
1t is conceded, however, that fail
ure on the part of the Americans
to respond to the japanese appeal
for discontinuance of the alleged
discrimination would be liable to
lead to some estrangement of the
peoples. The Japanese public gener-
ally is convinced that the land bill
is a radical and not an economic
measure, and hence blow to ma
tional pride, and the people feel that
the world must be taught the neces-
sity of equal treatment for the
whites and nonwhites.
The Toxic newspapers are loud in
their praise of President Wilson's
zeal in his endeavors to preserve the
traditional. friendship, and they rec
ognize the difficulties which confront
the president of the United States in
the confusing conflict between state
and federal rights.
The Nichi Nichi is of the opinion
that the question as to whether the
Washington government can procure
for the Japanese equal rights de-
ponds upon the strength of japanese
diplomacy, and urges the govern
ment to take firm attitude.
A joint celebration of the Japan
csc and American peace societies
yesterday was attended by 1000
japanese. Speeches were made by
Count Okuma, former minister of
foreign affairs; Baron Yoshiro Saka
tani, mayor of Toxic, and TsunejirO
Miyaoka, who was counsellor of the
Japanese embassy at Washington in
1906. All the speakers endeavored
to clarity the situation and decried
jingoism.
Count Okuma was loudly applaud d.
ed when he compared the attitude Of
the California legislators with the
anti-foreign movement in Japan half
a century ago, which he looked up
on as an abased race prejudice.
I'VE despised the foreigners" he
said, because they looked different;
we did not consider them human be-
ings. Japan finally saw the falsity
of its position and became an admir-
er of everything western. The same
causes underlie the California ques-
ton, but, like the japanese, the CAL
ifornians will see the folly of their
position and truth and justice will
triumph.
"At some future day the Califor-
mans will laugh at their fathers and
grandfathers for driving off the Jap
enese, just as we laugh now at the
anti-foreign absurdities of the Sam
urai."
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

clubs which is in session there this
week and also to visit with relatives.
From Cedar Rapids she will go to
Boone for a visit with relatives be-
fore returning home. Mrs. Burleson
represents the Home club and also
goes as a member of the state con-
|servation committee.
Mrs. Arthur Hawkes. and two
little girls were over Sunday visi-
tors in Williams.
Miss Ruby Swift and little
niece, Miss Helen Holbert, of Des
Moines, were in the city Saturday,
the guests of Prof. L. r. Meyer.
Mrs. G. Y. Boyd and daughter,
Miss Frances, were over from Dun"
combe Saturday visiting at the home
of Mrs. Boyd's daughter, Mrs. F. w.
Mccartney and family.
Mrs Fred Austin spent Sunday
with friends in Mason City.
Don Miles OF Newton was an ov-
er Sunday guest at the w. J. litter
ell home.
Mrs. L. A. McMurray and
daughter, Miss Jessie, left this morn
ing for Cedar Rapids to attend the
meeting of the Iowa Federation of
Women's clubs, Mrs. McMurray 60
ing as a member Of the state art
committee and representative of
the Wednesday club, and Miss Jessie
as a represen tative from the Seven
O'Clock club.
Mrs. W. c. Halliday returned to
her home in Clinton this morning
following visit with Mrs. n. ].
Wagner in Duncombe. Mrs. Wagner
was in town this morning to see her
friend off.
A. r. Jensen of Albert Lea,
Minnesota, Sundayed at the home of
his sister, Mrs. w. L. R. Perry and
family.
Miss Ruth and Frank Mag
were over Sunday visitors at the
J. H. Sterling home in Eagle Grove.
Miss Mae Waitman returned to
her school duties near Randall this
morning following an over Sunday
stay at the home of her mother, Mrs. |
Mary Waitman.
Mrs. L. A. Bowen of Madrid, |
Iowa, and Mrs. A. Stevens of Con-
nersville, Indiana, who have been
visiting at the Thomas w. Crawford
home, having been here to attend
the golden wedding anniversary of
this couple last Wednesday, return
ed to their homes this morning.
Mrs. L. ]. Mott went to Water
loo yesterday for a short visit with |
her nephew.
Miss Irene Thompson returned
to her teaching duties near Kamrar
this morning after an over Sunday |
stay at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. D. Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Sterling, Jr.,
and family of Des Moines are guests
at the F. w. Mag home and with
other relatives here. Mr.. Sterling
returned to his home today but Mrs.
S. will remain for longer visit.
MIR. and Mrs. c. M. Roberts and
two daughters and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. J. German, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Luther and daughter. Miss Elizabeth,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
TRAIN Wins
RACE With
A TW|STER
Burst Of Speed Distances Cloud
That 0verturns
Houses.
REPORTS FROM THE WEST
Much Track to be Rebuilt as Re-
suit of Recent Wash

Mason City, May 19.-Passengers
on Northwestern train southbound
Saturday evening enjoyed a thrill
ling squirt of speed for few miles
to avoid a cyclone that could be seen
plainly from the train, moving to-
ward it with terrific rapidity.
The train then was near the state
line between Minnesota and Iowa.
Engineer Frank Fitch won the
race by his prompt act at the throt-
tie. The storm unroofed barns and
overturned houses, but no one has
been reported killed or seriously in
jured.
In the vicinity of Bricelyn hail
accompanied the wind and the dam
age was heavy.
c. W. Paschul of Belle PLANE,
who was a passenger on the train,
said the passengers were frightened
for time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

Council Bluffs, May 19.-The Mil
waukee Railroad company has had
to rebuild about 100 miles of it's
single track line across Iowa, includ-
ing a number of bridges washed
away by floods within the last four
days. Not a train has arrived in
Council Bluffs over the Milwaukee,
own lines since Wednesday. @7.
Wholesale damage was done in
the vicinity of Panama, Manning,
Portsmouth and Earring. In some
places the roadbed acted as bar
rier for the water, and at Panama
presented a streak through a vast
lake forty rods wide. Between Pam
ANA and Portsmouth there were
more than a score of places where
he track was washed out.
Citizens of some of the flooded
places had peculiar experiences. At
Manning Mrs. Sherman Farrell was
III Ucu Will Quay -OAO pooS "ACA
the food came and was soon waist
deep in the house. Rescuers lifted
mother and babe up on the mattress
and in this manner carried them to
safety.
Henry Stamp did not discover the
approaching water until it was sew
eral feet deep in the house. He tore
hole through the ceiling and as
sisted his wife and baby into the
loft where they remained until res
cued. At Manning the Northwestern
had 1000 feet of track and one
bridge taken out.
The Great Western had similar ex-
periences, but managed to get its
line clear earlier as not so much Of
it's trackage was in the storm dis
trict. Hundreds of bridges were
taken out in Carroll, Shelby, Audu-
bon and Guthrie counties. At Earl
ing and other places live stock was
reported drifting with the swift
current.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20
Showers Will Continue.

Washington, D. c., May ia
continuance of showers in the Pa
cifc states and the plateau region
sion into the plains states and the
Missouri valley may be expected &C
cording to the weather bureaus
weekly bulletin. BY the end of the
week another disturbance will ap-
pear over the Canadian northwest.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

Try the Little Wonder Cafe for
best of meals, short orders, candles,
ice cream, cigars, tobaccoes, etc, on
Seneca street. You can't miss 1t.
S. Fontana. proprietor. 4-23d-f-tmo
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-05-20

Paint for anything In any quanti-
ty, at Teed's. d-f-tf
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

underground reservoirs and convert
them into overground lakes. One OF
the inducements will be to exempt
from taxation every acre of ground
converted into lake"
The above is taken from the Kan
sas City Journal and is doubtless true.
Down here in Old Virginia we do not
have to look for water to furnish
drink for good crops in any such way
a s that We look to the clouds above
US and to the Giver OF every good and
perfect gift, and In due seasons the
water comes all right. Queer people.
those who persist in living in Kansas
when Virginia with its cheap farming
lands is still on the map
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

nave what they strangely call "sora
horse strongly resembling peach
basket in size and shape made of
strips OF iron. though in other DAYS
they were made of clay The horse"
is mounted on a pole which is stuck
IN the marsh or placed upright in a
foot boat. A fire is then kndled in
the horse. The light attracts these
sora and they fly around it In large
numbers, while the Indians knock them
down with long paddles. This method
is, or course. used only at night. The
white hunters. however, use the slower
put moro sportsmanlike method OF
shooting them on tho wing One OF
these clay "sora horses" above referred
TO, may be found in tne National Mu-
scum as part of a collection made in
pehalf of the Smithsonian Institution
Inc offices of the Chesapeake Pulp
and Paper Company are about com
the residence of NJ. T. Nichols. over
looking the Pamunkey River The fac
tory is going up rapidly.
The real estate market is active and
the selling OF property is steadily going
on IN this section. Prospectors come
by every boat and train. Men in the
town and the neighborhood are buying
river front lots at Euclid Heights, and
at once begin improving them The
real estate agents here keep busy TAX
Ing out men who are looking for prop
erty. They take them in launches and
automobiles
The dredging machine that has been
cleaning out the harbor around the
dock here for two months or more has
at last finished its work
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
A Word About primipe..

For the week ending August Goth
there was sold in the Winston Salem
market l36.4i0 pounds of primings
of the 1913 tobacco crop, averaging
sl1.60 per hundred pounds. In Dam
vile the average for this grade OF to-
bacco has been even larger, and the
South Boston market has done as we'll
as Danville. Only a few years ago the
tobacco growers of Virginian and
North Carolina did not save their
priminGs but threw them away as they
were pulled from the stalk. Strange
to say there are many old timey far
mers in Virginia who still continue to
do things just like their granddadies
did and cast the priminGs away. They
are worth good money, thanks to some
of the new kinks put into the tobacco
trade by the despised trusts.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
WEST POINT IS ON
VER|TABLE BOOM
Many New People Coming In
Houses for Working People
in Demand.

Yves, Point. Va, September 6.-The
contractors building the Mattaponi
have been greatly handicapped by not
being able TO get steel. which seems
so far TO be almost Impossible. and the
people are very impatient about the
completion OF the bridge. There are
more than $4,000 people who reach the
outside world by railroad only through
West Point. A fact which many do
not realize is that the West Point post
on Ice handle the mail for over 10000
people, and most of this mail Will
come across this bridge.
Plans are already being perfected to
build another great bridge at West
Point. 1t Will cross the Pamunkey
River connecting with Plum Point in
New Kent County The bridge will
bring West Point in close touch with
very rich and thrifty portion OF the
williamsburg Peninsular. Contractor
Neal. engaged in building the Gresham
Bridge across the Mattaponi, was in
terv!ewed few days ago and ad-
mtted that he had been asked to sub
nit bid for construction OF a bridge
across the Pamunkey at the foot of
Fourteenth Street He said the distance
over water would not be quite so
great as that spanned by the Mattapo-
nj bridge. but that the Pamunkey
RIVER Is deeper, ana the approa ch
across the marsh, on the New Kent
side. would be longer than the King
and queen approach TO the Mattaponi
bridge. Mr.. Neal would give no in
formation as to who were interested
financially in the project: said he did
not know. but that 1t had the right
ear marks. and he believed work
would be started early next year.
Every day new residents are coming
into town. and the influx of people
cause scarcity Of houses for rent. One
prominent employer OF labor states
that he has need now for ten houses
or tenements OF from four to six rooms
1t is estimated that for some time past
the population has increased at the
rate OF to 5 per cent per month.
With September came the mysterious
sora. Some few sneaked around the
last week in August. but the laws are
very stringent about killing the birds
until September. A few have been on
sale in West Point in the last day or
two at $3.50 per dozen. Hunters from
the North aim to get in these marshes
the second week in September or by
the time the east winds set In. The
white hunters generally employ the In
dams on tho Reservation, about half
way between here and Richmond. to
best places to hunt this toothsome bird.
The Indian mode among themselves OF
securing tho sora is interesting. They