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OF THE INTERIOR,
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I'll e f's& 5&f CaSS Lake. MinnesOta

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
BOMB IN STATION
FROM : SUFFRAGETTEs
Internal Machine Put Railway
Clerk Into a Hospital
Ward.

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DEVENPORT, England, March L.
Suffragettes tonight were suspected
Of sending a bomb that wrecked the
London and Southwestern railway
station here and probably fatally in
jured VIM. Gay, clerk.
The bomb exploded during the rush
hour tonight, in the package room of
the depot Of which Gray was IN
charge. No one else was In the room.
The internal machine broke all the
windows. wrecked a wall and damag-
ed the entire building. Gay was re-
moved to hospital, where 1t as said
he had small chance for recovery.
Fragments OF the bomb were found
by the police, and it was said that
they were similar in construction to
pieces of the bomb found in the
wrecked Iloyd-George home at Wal
ton-Heath. The police protested TO
believe that the outrage was the
work Of the militants.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
friedman Will Begin Squirt.
ing Germs Into All Corners
on Monday Morning.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryfce.]
NEW YORK, March 1.--Countless
millions of German germs were ger
mlnating in gelatine over an electric
heater in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
tonight in preparation for the
multitude of tuberculars which DR..
frederick Franz friedman, the
berlin scientist, expects to move upon
MS Fifth avenue laboratory Monday
morning.
Whlle carpenters were busy parti'
uoning off the building at Fifth ave
nue. and Thirty-third street that DR.
ffledmann has rented for temporary
quarters. the scientist was busy ex.
pialning his plans He will begin the
treatment of al white plague sufferers
applying to him on Monday morning II
ms oaccilli culture is sufficiently adj
sanced and for an indefinite period
VIII treat all comers.
NO money will be asked from ra
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
Governor Wilson Has Cast His Name
Out as One Of the Mem
ssr' us New
N COMING |BRA,ss1s ELIMINATED INTO THEIR POCKETS
Seven Places Are Filled While
Three Others Are Yet
to be Announced by
President.
While Paid Miners, a Small Part Of it But
Kept the Greater Share for
Their Selfish
Selves.

I United Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, March Late to-
night it was positively asserted by
those who know because of their as
sociations with President-elect Wilson
tha. Louis D. Brandeis, the Boston
lawyer, had been absolutely elimina-
ted from consideration in the incom-
ing cabinet. Why Brandeis, who was
even as late as five o'clock this after
noon considered a certain appointee,
has been shelved is not known here.
The fact, however, that he is out of
the running caused much comment in
political circles. Others who have
been eliminated in the last few hours
are Colonel .Goethals, prominently
mentioned foresecretary Of war; Gov
ernor Norris of Nevada Jerry Sulli-
van Of Iowa. former Governor Burke
of North Dakota and Governor James
H. Hawley of idaho; JOS M Teal of
| Oregon and Alva Adams of Colorado.
| Their names have been discarded by
Governor Wilson
| Positive selections have been made
| and acceptances received for seven
4 jobs. Wilson is believed to have de-
cided on the other three, the men who
| will fill the war, interior and agricul-
| ture portfolios, but no one here knows
who his selections are. 1t is stated
i emphatically. however, that they are
men not heretofore considered as like
j ~ to- be named. .9 -
4 The cabinet, as known here tonight
! is as follows:
/ Secretary of State. VIM. J. Bryan
| Nebraska.
1 Secretary of Treasury, VIM G. Nc
i Adoo, New York.
/ Secretary of War not known.
Encouragement, James G. Mercy
nolds, Tennessee.
4 Postmaster-general, Albert S. Burle
son, Texas.
4 Secretary Of Navy, Josephus Dan
4 iels, North Carolina.
/ Secretary of the Interior, no
known
! Secretary of Agriculture, no
i known.
/ Secretary of Commerce, Wm. G. Re
! field, Brooklyn.
4 Secretary of Labor (new position)
J. VIM B. Wilson, Pennsylvania
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
Continued on page 2.l
WHISPERS
AND POCKET BOOK ALSO

met in Los Angeles two weeks ago,
three men giving the names of Chas.
Webb, his father and Ed Davis. The
trio induced him to come to Denver
and worked the old wire tapping
game on him. They induced him to
draw on the Dexter National bank OF
Seattle for $4,000 to be wagered on
fixed horse race.
The Denver police had been asked
TO take care of Harder and yesterday
when he was drawing his money from
local bank, they tried to warn him
that he was in the hands of confidence
men Harder told them to mind
their own business which they did.
He turned the money over to one
of the gang to be wagered in fake
pool room to which they took him.
The men advised him he had won his
bet and would have to collect in Chi
cago. inducing him to let them shear
off his long whiskers in order to dis
guise'' himself, saying the police
might try to stop his collecting the
money
The men took Harder with them TO
train ostensibly bound for Chicago
but really bound for Colorado Springs.
When the train reached the latter
lefty Harder's friends had disappeared
with the coin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
DYNAMITE WRECK
TO UNCOVER BODIES
Hotel Ruins Have as Yet Civ
en- up But One
Corpse.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
/ OMAHA, Nebr, March 1.-State
Fire Commissioner Rigdell this after
noon began an investigation of The
cause Of the fire which Friday morn
| inc destroyed the Dewey hotel. 1t g
asserted by the police that the fire
may have been of tncendiary orisia.
| At six O'Clock tonight no bodies Tad
/ been recovered beyond that of Mrs.
Alice f. Bonnevieu, whose body was
discovered early this morning, and
/ late this afternoon positively identii-
ed by relatives.
Only small portion of the wreck
/ age remains to be cleared away and il
is believed that but few bodies, #
any, will be discovered. There is 9
portion Of the second floor REMAINING
4 intact and this may have to be dyna
/ nited before morning to complete tbs
tsearch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
CURING CONSJMPTIVEo
FOR TWO WEEKS FREE

t:ents--at first-and DR.. Friedmann's
ONLY stipulation is that all patients
present their applications In writing.
The physician explained that this was
to make sure that nobody is overlook
ed in the rush
He further explained that no, money
would be asked from applicants for
the first week or two, in which time
The would demonstrate, he said, the
efficacy of his cure. After that he
intimated that those who could pay
would be allowed to, but reiterated
that nobody would be turned away for
lack of money.
The building rented by DR.. Fried
mann is being divided by carpenters
Into consultation room. an operating
room and separate waiting rooms for
men and women.
"All want is to be let alone" DR..
Friedman said tonight II know that
n have cure for tuberculosis. | have
demonstrated it in Germany have
| no time now for controversy and shall
make no attempt to answer my crit
lies. They should be fair enough to
i give me time. Two weeks is all
| ask. At the end of that time ! will
have demonstrated beyond cavil that
my cnre is all that | have claimed for
! IL"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
HARD COAL men
REAPED HARVEST
Increase in Price Last Winter Melted
Them Several Millions of
Good Round
Dollars.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, March 1.-Enorm-
GUS profits of anthracite coal opera
tors in boosting prices last fall were
disclosed to congress today. A report
of the governments investigation of
the high price of coal" by the
bureau of mines was submitted to the
house by Secretary Nagel Of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
1t declared that the coal producers
took $13,500000 gross profits from tho
price increase for the six months
ending Dec. 81, 1912 OF this $4,000.
GOO was paid in higher wages to mri-
ers. The report infers that the pubic
paid the balance.
spread public outcry last fall ard
winter against increased retail cost
of coal The house ordered the de-
I partment to make the Investigation,
] passing the resolution Of Representa-
tive Diffenderfer of Pennsylvania.
/ Net profits of the operators are
not disclosed. The bureau report
/ says they are unascertainable, but
smaller than the figures of S1S,500,0D0
as given, because of enhanced cost ot
[ production, due in part to the SUI
4 preme courts decree ordering partial
dissolution of the anthracite Gear
II trust.
''The increase in wholesale prices
amounted to an average of about 2E
Il cents per ton the report states. Dis
]! counts of forty to fifty cents ton on
coal during April and May, 1912. We're
/ suspended AS a result, the c>erators
gained not only by selling coal with
the discounts suspended, but retailers
were forced to buy later when dis
counts were smaller
j ton were the reasons given by thf
4 operators, the report declares, for the
increase in price of the product.
"The mine workers We're benefited
not only by net increase in theii
wage rates averaging 5.6 percent tbs
report asserts, but by a concession
of certain working conditions of i'm
portance. The advance In wages rep
resents an increase of from eight tt
ten cents per ton in the cost of pro
ducing coal and on that basis amount
ed to $4o00,0oo from June to De
cember, 1912.
'eThe increase in prices has beel
more than sufficient to compensate
fully these companies whose cost o
production have been increased mos
rapidly. and greatly increased profit
of companies whose cost OF produc
tion have decreased or remained sta
tionary a number of ccmpanie'
; have found it possible to reduce pro
duction costs.
But an increase in cost of pro
duction is not conclusive to an er
, horbitant price. The results am
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
Wealthy Cattle King Was
Warned by Police That Con
fidence Men Had Him.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
DENVER, March Ito be trim
med of $4,000 and his long flowing
whiskers at one and the same time
was the sad and expensive experience
of Jacob Harder, a wealthy cattle
king of Ritzville, Washington, when
he entered into confidence game
with three swindlers who followed
him from his home half way across
the continent.
Harder, who admits he was swind-
led after Denver police had specific
ally warned him to be careful, to-
night offered reward of $4,000 for
the apprehension of the men who rob
bed him. The police here believe
lthey are members of the wire tap
Iping' gang that has recently swindlet
a number of persons along the Pacific
coast and as far east as Milwaukee.
!, Harder tonight declared that h,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
DEMOCRACY NOW
RE|GNs SUPREME
Take Charge Of National Capital
Three Days Ahead Of Time
and Nobody OBJ
iects.
INAUGURATION COMM
Nearly All Plans Are Complete for
the Seating of Wilson and
Marshall on Tues.
day.

United Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, March 1.-Democ-
racy reigned supreme in the national
capital tonight. Three days more
and the party will be actually in con-
troll CT the government. Three days
more and Woodrow Wilson will be
president. And tonight throng of
persons who have been stepping off
trains all day long packed Pennsyl-
vania avenue and made merry. The
inaugural crowd is almost here. It
will be a mobby Monday and Tuesday
the Inauguration day itself The
thousands of glittering electric lights
diffused their mellow glow upon deco
rated buildings tonight and grand
islands peeped up from every copceiv-
able spot. Pictures OF Wilson and
Marshall, looking like everything in
the world but the subjects, peered
down upon the jostling throngs that
made Pennsylvania avenue and the
adjacent thoroughfares sea of hui
manity.
Hawkers and venders threaded their
way through the maze, crying their
novelties. Indians in motley array
brushed shoulders with immaculately
clad men and women or lodged the
Isight seeing automobiles that snorteo
4 by.
:. Police from practically every biz
city in the country mingled with the
II pleasure seekers and 1,00o specia
plain clothes men paraded the thor
oughfares. For with the advance
guard of inauguration visitors The
leeches of crime came swarming in.
Every train and every hour brought
soldiers and visitors into the capital
Already the crack companies of mill
4 tia and cadets from the militar,
, schools who will form part of tn,
pageant have arrived and they addet
. an element of shifting interest to the
; crowds about the street. Sunda!
morning the New York first cavalr,
will sweep up Pennsylvania avenue
, followed by the Massachusetts coas
! artillery, altogether 200 strong. 9th
er state militia organizations will ar
rive late Sunday or Monday
Vice President-elect and Mrs. Mar
} shall, the only principals of the in
/ auguration who have arrived, spent ;
} busy day, beginning at a photograph
) er's and ending up with dinner Civ
3 en- by personal friends tonight. Thi
afternoon the governor and Mrs Mar
: shall spent a few minutes at th'
, white house in a formal call on Pres
5 ident and Mrs Taft.
+ Among arrivals in the capital to
t night were John Wilson of Franklin
! Pa, brother Of the president-elee'
: and other relatives of the incomin;
I executive. All are guests of Johl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
revelations to Senate Commit
tee Cause Members to Lean
Forward and Scratch
Their Heads.
At STARVATION WAGES
Woman Who Has Investigated
Gives Low Salaries as
Chief Cause of Girls
Downfall.

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CHICAGO, March Wealthy Chi
cagoans-of the Kind to which the
word exclusive attaches are the
patrons; girls from downtown stores
are the victims, and the white slave
traffic the sole beneficiary of score
Of fashionable apartments maintain
ed In Chicago links in the system of
trafficking in girls.
Into these 1uxuriously furnished
apartments slip men of means about
town. They meet madame" Ma
dame speaks over the phone and
presto, girl appears ready to barter
her soul.
The tawdriness of the '.red light
district is absent. There is nothing
about the furnishings to rasp. Prices
are SO high that the places take on an
{ air Of rare exclusiyeness. And here
\ ii sometimes happens, wealthy EN-
ployer meets Sc a week girl employe
This is but little Of the story told
the Illinois senate committee, headed
by Lieutenant Governor Barrett
oHarra, that is probing the white
slave traffic, at it's session in the
LaSalle hotel this afternoon.
ssF Miss Belle Buzelle, Massachusetts
woman, who came TO Chicago twelve
years ago, told it. She named one o
these apartments others she sait
might be located easily enough.
Four state senators leaned forward
and listened intently while Miss tIu
zelle poured into their ears stories O
young girls struggles to make !
! livelihood and live clean lives in thu
city. She told how she had shadowet
young girls who were learning thei
first lessons" on the street; how sf,
had made nightly rounds of dance
halls, how she had brought cadets in
to court only to have the CASE
thrown out on technical grounds, ant
finally how she had kept girls at he
own home, even had slept with them
in an effort to bring about their re
form.
Then she summed UP.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
Woodrow Wilson Prefers His
Own Little Home to the
White House as Place
of Residence.
CITIZENS PAY HONOR
Loving Cup Presented by the
People Of Princeton to
Their Distinguished
Townsman.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ] |
PRINCETON, NJ j., March 1.-Pres, |
ident-elect Woodrow Wilson has neverI
been in the white house and he looks
forward to his surroundings there az
much less comfortable and posses
sive' than his surroundings in the
little village of Princeton, at least so
he told these town folk when he said
goodbye to them this evening.
II have never been inside the white
house" he said, in reply to speech
of presentation in behalf of his neigh
bors, who had given him big silver
loving cup as All evidence Of their re-
gard, and | shall feel very strange
when | get inside of It, | shall think
of this little house behind me and re-
member how much more familiar IL
| Is to me than that is likely to be, and
/ how much more intimate sense of
| possession there must be III the one
! case than in the other
The president-elect said he believed
4 the traditions of patriotism We're To-
/ cal.'' that they consisted Of con,
sciousness of an intimate touch with
4 persons He said that if man $
i head was not connected by every
i thread of suggestion with the heads
OF people about him, he could moi
j think as they think"
/ Between 5000 and 1000 townspeo-
pie, practically all the inhabitants OF
Il ,{giI 10 hn mi vel fy
formed line on Nassau street and
marched the long half mile to the
Wilson cottage in the outskirts of
town through muddy streets. rain hass
ing fallen all day. They were head
ed by band and most Of them car
ried Japanese lanterns or red fire
torches. They clustered about the
little Wilson home and we're so num-
erous that most of them had to stand
in the mud in the street, but no one
was heard to complain
AS the band was heard in the dis
tance and the glow of the red lights
became visible. the windows of the
Wilson home were thrown open. Al
second story window, Mrs. Wilson
and her daughter, Miss Jessie, leaned
forward smiling happily their evening
gowns shimmering in the lantern
> glare. In other windows servants
heads appeared and both they and the
: mother and daughter showed the live
lest interest throughout the cere
monies
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
WOULD RATHER LIVE
BY HIS OWN F|RES|DE

thrust squarely against the porch.
President-elect Wilson appeared just
as the crowd pressed forward and
was greeted by cheers and applause.
A small space was cleared in front OF
the porch and plain, rough board
box was dragged into 1t. AS the pres
ident-tobe stepped onto it, cheering
broke out again and lasted several
minutes.
her at this point and she hurried
downstairs and came out on the porch
and stood behind her husband, her
face beaming with pleasure. Colonel
David Flynn, Princeton banker and
old personal friend of the Wilson's,
made the speech presenting the low
ing cup and the cup itself was handed
to the president-elect by A. S. Leigh.
one of the leading democrats of tho
town, and G. s. Robinson, postmaster.
and one of the leading republicans.
After citizen" Wilson responded,
the band played America in which
the crowd and the president-elect
| joined Then it swung into Aud
| Lang Syne' President-elect Wilson
| showed he was deeply moved. He
stood on the edge of his porch, his
/ hat in his hand and his head thrown
| slightly back as he sang in deep,
vibrating voice that was clearly dis
tinguished above the cheer chorus.
For an hour he then stood at the
steps and shook hands with his
neighbors, saying goodbye and ex-
changed greetings with those particu-
larly we'll known to him. Mrs. Will
son watched this ceremony from tho
doorway and frequently smiled and
bowed to friends, many OF whom
4 waved their hands to her and called
goodbye
!, President-elect Wilson'S speech in
full was as follows:
81 feel very deeply complimented
that you should have gathered here
tonight to say a goodbye to me, and
bid me good God.speed have fell
a very intimate Identification with
? this town. suppose that some oi
7 you think that there is a sort of dis
| connection between the university
: and the town, and perhaps some Of
you suppose that ii is only since | be
!. came governor of this state that !
! have been keenly aware of the Inn
pulses which have come out of the
ranks Of the citizens of this place to
touch me and inspire me. But that Is
: not true, think you will bear me
witness that have had many friends
In this town ever since came here
e and that one of the happiest exper-
+ fences ! have had day by day has
1 been the grasp OF the hand and the
3 familiar salutation which I have met
at every hand
8 One Forgetfui Man
e Il experienced only one mortifica.
/ tion in this town | went into shop
D one day after / became president -oi
d the University and purchased a
E small article and said: Won't you be
n kind enough to send that up9' ] hao
s purchased 1t OF a man with whose
e face | had been familiar for years
;. and he said what is your name, sir?
3 That was my single modification ant
that is the keenest of modification
because if there is one thing a mar
loves better than another it is beins
n known by his fellow citizens
e Now my friends, said the othe,
d day. and | said it most unaffectedly
|
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-02
Starvation Wages.

Starvation wages are at the bot
tom of it. am woman myself. !
want to tell you gentlemen that no
girl will patrol the streets for living
unless she is compelled to do SO by
necessity.
But no girl can live decently in a
Dig city and have proper amusements
on less than $40 or s12 per week.
Ihe average wage paid girls in shops
and stores of Chicago is from $4 to
81 Gentlemen, what are they goina
to do?.
The senators pondered and scratch