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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
WATER POWER
TRUST FEARED
Pinchot is Alarmed Over What
Might Happen if Inter-
ests Secure the
Monopoly.
+
HE WILL BE OUsTED
Organizer Of Conservation Congress b
to be overthrown as Lead
er Of the Con-
ventlon.
HE WILL BE oUsTED

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Charges
that the fifth conservation congress
had been packed by the water power
interests and the open admission oL
the anti-Pinchot faction that they ex-
pected to overthrow the former for-
ester and organizer of the convention
as leading spirit In It's deliberations
were elements promising battle royal
in today's session.
Answering Pinchot's charge that tha
water power interests had packed the
congress against him, his opponents all
legged packing by Pinchot in the nam
ing as delegates of many members OF
the forest service still loyal To their
old chief. The fighting hinges on &C,
ceptance or rejection of the water pow-
er committee report. Pinchot warned
congress that the General Electric
Co., and nine other great groups
control sixty-flve per cent OF the coun-
try's water power and declared thar
Immediate action must be taken lest
these interests get complete monopoly
control Of water power and with II
significant political power.
Urging a finish fight on the issue
Pinchot concluded: If the public
rights cannot be recognized without
conflict, then we shall have to fight
and If we have to fight, now Is tne
| time"
4 Majority and minority members o.
4 the committee agreed that franchises
to water power companies should pc
made with a time limit and that the
government should have fair return
for the grant. Urging the increase OF
/ forest patrolmen as means Of check
4 ing forest fires and condemning the
California eight burning method. the
forest fire committee reported an an
nual toll of seventy lives and s25,Ooo.
900 loss from forest fires.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
BULL MOOSERS
NOT ON LIST
Followers Of Theodore Are Not
Invited to White House
Wedding Which Takes
Place Next Week.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 1s.- When
Francis B. Sayre and his white house
bride settle down In their cozy cot
tage at Williamstown, Mass, they
will not be vexed with the problem
Of providing for housekeeping. Low
ing friends and admiring strangers
have attended to that by crop Of
gifts that stand out in sharp contrast
to the jewels and silver of Official
dom.
The latest batch OF practical"
presents include everything from
mops to pickles, from coal scuttlea
to sewing machines.
Among them are also a fifty pound
cheese, two rag carpets, tin pals,
brushes, washing powder, frying pans
and keg of pop corn CONNECTION.
Members OF house and senate are
In the deepest sort Of "peeve" to
day because they are overlooked In
the wedding invitations. Practically
the only invitations to the men or
the "hill' will be the leaders, suot
as Speaker Clark, Republican Leade,
Mann, Floor Leader Underwood, tn,
New Jersey delegations, Vice Presi
dent Marshall, Senator Kern, lead'e
of senate democrats, Senator Gallin
ger, leader OF the republicans, an
Senator Clark Of Arkansas, presiden
pro tenn. Bull moosers are entirel
missing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
MERRY LITTLE SOCIAL WAR
WILL MAKE SEASON UNIQUE

there were only a few score mem
bers of congress, the wives of the
recaived formal ca Is
from the ladies of the cabinet In re-
turn for their own calls. In the last
few years with four hundred or more
ladies in the congressional set, cabi-
net ladies have been rushed to death
In following the custom. Many of the
present set of cabinet hostesses de-
termined to end it, proposing merely
to Geive around to the hcmss of the
congressional hostesse5, leav ng
cards. instead of paying formal calls.
The Congressional Club, composed
of wives of members is expected to
take cognizance of the new depar.
ture ii the cabinet ladies actually
carry out their intentions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
REV. HANS SCHMIDT
PLACED ON TRIAL
Murderer Of Girl Says He is In no
Hurry to 90 to the
Electric Chair.

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NEW YORK. Nov. 49, Father Hans
Schmidt, confessed murderer of Anna
was placed on trial here
today on a charge of first degree
murder. When the case was formally
opened the former priest, who calm
ly told how he dismembered the body
of the servant girl and then threw 1t
piece by piece into the river, was not
in court. He refused to be hurried in
his preparations to appear. He said
he knew what the outcome of the trial
would be, but was ready to go to the
electric chair and could see no neces-
sity of hurrying Of the trial. Most OF
today was expected to be taken up
with the selection Of Jury and the
arguing of motions which were to be
made. Two hundred and fifts tales
men were on hand for examination
for service.
After listening to statement from
former Judge VIM. N. K. Olcott, re-
tanned as counsel for Father Hans
Schmidt, Judge Foster today adjourn
ed the trial Of the confessed mur-
derer of Anna Aumueller, until next
Tuesday SO that olcott may have time
to prepare his defense. Tomorrow
however, Olcott will present mo
tion to the court, asking that Schmidt
be examined as to his sanity before
jury of laymen to determine wheth
ier Schmidt should be tried.
4 Olcott declared that Drs. Jellies
and Gregory had told him thai
Schmidt was not only insane when he
murdered the Aumueller girl but he is
now insane Dr. Jellies told him 1
would be slaughter to try Schmidt
Olcott declared. Schmidt sent wore
he wanted to plead guilty and bt
electrocuted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
FIRE IN HOSPITAL WING
EXCITED SOME OF THE PATIENTS

from hot ashes and set fire to some
wood work. An employe who discov-
cred the fire telephoned to the ohlce
where an alarm was turned INTO 'he
city department. Another alarm was
communicated to the engineer of the
building and whistle aroused the
nurses and keepers. The pat ents In
wards Immediately over the fi:e were
hurried from the building. Some OF
them became very much excited END
II was necessary to carry tn m cut.
In the meantime other employees at
tackled the fire and had the naHes
we'll controlled when the firsmen ar,
rived The patients were return d to
the building little the worse for their
experience
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
charced with Murder.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Nov. 49,
Charge Of first degree murder was to.
day filed against DR.. w. T. ELAN of
st. Joseph, who shot and killed Put
man Cramer of Chicago in a room Of
the Baltimore hotel as result of a
quarrel over Cramer's alleged atten-
tion to Mrs Elan which revealed
that Mrs. Elam and her husbands
victim first met in st. Louis where
Cramer was salesman for the Barnes
Crosby Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
IMMIGRATION
WAS DEBATED.
American Federation Of Labor
Convention Asks Congress
to Amend the
Laws.
WANT LITERAcY TEST
No Objection to Coming In Of For
eisners Providing They Arc
Able to Read and
Write.
WANT L1TERAcY TEST

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 19.-Copies
of resolution adopted by the A. #. of
L. convention demanding the exclu.
sion from the United States of all
Asiatics and a literacy test of all i'm
migrants, were forwarded to Washing
ton today. The two hour debate which
preceded, showed the federation lead
ers oppose only the immigration Of
Europeans whose illiteracy would
make them easy victims for exploit.
ers''
The resolutions also demand more
adequate stations for the quartering
of immigrants especially on the Paci
fic coast where great increase In
immigration may be expected as the
result of the opening of the Panama
canal. However the federation went
on record as favoring checking unde-
sirable immigration at its source
by maintaining agents abroad to keep
foreigners informed Of conditions here
During the debate on the immigra,
ton resolution Duncan Mcdonald, of
the United Mine Workers, spoke In
favor Of the literacy test. He declared
the test would mot prevent immigra
tion but 1t would help to organize the
immigrants as fast as they arrive
THE king Of Italy," said he, "has al
ready made preparations. to establish
4 schools in the event congress passes
such bill, and it will be easier for us
j to orangize workers who read and write
Don. be misled into the belief that. the
foreign laborers whom mine owners
1 have imported to keep down wages
have been organized to be detrimen,
of labor. They have proved oul
| strongest allies. AS soon as they un
| derstand the benefits of unionizatior
and escape from the bondage of mine
bosses they start fight to finish.
In Colorado where Greeks were i'm
j ported to break the strike, the en-
1 ployers are now reaping whirlwind
4 When the governor asked the opera
4 tors what they wanted, one of the pro
visions of settlement they handed hin
was that the Greeks be not allowed t.
4 return to the mines. They shoot tos
straight"
Acting on the executive counsel
report, the federation denounced at
:, tempts of courts to apply the Sherman
port on the difficulty of the McNult
and Reid Murphy factions of electrica
workers is expected today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Freioht on Beer.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1s.- Beer
drinkers in East Dubuque, H.. must
continue to help pay FIVE cents PEI
hundred pounds freight on beer from
Dubuque, Iowa. the interstate com
merce commission ruled today. The
commission ruled that the pres mt
rates on beer bungs from st. Louis
and Milwaukee are excessive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Ellis is Indicted.

TUnited Press Leased Wire service.1
CHICAGO, Nov 19,-William @.
Ellis, wealthy Cincinnati merchant
who made dramatic confession at
the coroner's inquest that he shot
his wife and then slashed her throat
was today indicted for murder.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19

BELIEVE HER INNOCENT
Man Who Murdered Her Husband,
Was Kind to Her But Had
Strange Power over
Her.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. H.
Three hours from New York, the
richest city in the world and one
hour from one Of the greatest univer-
stiles in the country, live an Amer-
can born man and woman who can
neither read nor write and whose
lives have been one constant struggle
for bread. The man is Frank Web
ster, father Of Mrs. Bessie Wakefield,
sentenced to be hanged for the mur-
der OF her husband, VIM. Wakefield.
The woman is the girls mother.
The shack which is the Webster
home is tucked away against hill
at the north end of Lake Quassapaug,
near Middlebury, Conn. One room
serves as kitchen. dining room and
living room. The ceiling is low.
There is not picture of any kind on
the rough painted walls and four or
FIVE old chairs and a rough wooden
table constitute the furnishings. This
| is the type Of twentieth century civi-
lization Bessie Wakefield knew. The
down into this hovel from which she
/ sprung and Is about to strangle her
| to death under the law Of which she
never heard until brought into court
room with James Plew, who killed
her husband
The entire surroundings Of the
4 Webster home bespeak entire poverty
but out Of this terrible Condition
4 Clara Belle, Mrs. Wakefield's daugh
/ ter. stands as veritable flower. As
her grandmother today told Of the
! hardships Mrs. Wakefield had known
and OF her hopes that she might YET
be saved from the gallows, little
! Clara Belle climbed upon chair
y nearby and began to sing something
softly about My Baby, My Baby
This was too much for Mrs. Webster
] and tears sprang to her eyes and she
said, "just like her mother. just like
) her mother"
t "I will never believe that BESSIE
had hand in the killing of VIII
4 Wakefield even though he did abuse
), her and starve the children" said Mrs
4 webster. "She was too tender heart
: ed. She clung to Wakefield ever
when he was treating her the worst
Z because she loved these children 50
He often threatened to kill her bu
she remained with him for the chil
: dren's sake"
Webster then told of finding Wake
field near the road one day with
gun. He was practicing shooting a
telegraph pole. Webster said h
asked him what he was doing an
Wakefield said he was seeing hoy
good he was with gun as he Nigh
; want to use one.
I Mrs. Webster told how Bessie KEEP
house for Plew and, Wakefield ha
, his meals. Their sense of morals
not high.
: Plew was member of the motor
Gus Jewk family of degenerates an
criminals and was kind to her an
the children. Wakefield abused he
Toward the last Mrs. Webster sal
Bessie seemed to be absolutely VI
der the control of Plew. None of tn
Websters, or Bessie ever heard {
! hypnotic influence but Mrs. Webste
said she knew he exercised som
: strange power over her daughter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Cabinet Members Wives Will
Leave Cards at Door In
stead of Making Calls.

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WASHINGTON, Nov ia merry
little social war that is bound To
make the coming season an unique
one, has developed in Washington as
the result of the determ nation by
cabinet members wives tc break a
convention of nearly a hundred years
standing. In the early DAYS, wher
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
steel Rates Suspend ed.

Tunited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-Rate ad-
yances on steel from Chicago Peoria,
and other points east of the Missis-
sippi river to Des Moines, Sioux
CITY. Iowa, and Sioux Falls, S. D.,
and other points west of the Miss,s-
sippi river were suspended by the in
terstate commerce commission today
until May 30, 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
An OIL Protest.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1s.-Charges
that Muskogee, Okla. is shut out of
the Utah oil business by excessive
rates. favoring Kansas refining points
were filed with the interstate com
merce commission today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Had to be Carried Out on Their
Beds But Blaze Proved
Small Affair.

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ROCHESTER,. N. Y, Nov. 19.--
IRE IN the west wing of the main
ea'iaing Of the Rochester state hos
pitai this morning caused the hasty
,emoyal of 105 patients from the
building and for time threatened
serious results, The blaze started
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Hale and carranza.

N0GALES, Ariz., Nov. 19--W VIM.
Bayard Hale today refused to COM
ment upon the statement made by
Foreign Minister Escudero, OF the
Mexican rebel government that con
st.tutionalistas would not confer furth-
er with Hale until he had presented
his credentials. Hale was astonished
When first advised of this attitude
inasmuch as it involved official Amer.
lean recognition of Governor Car
rama. He declined to discuss it but
sent long dispatch to Washington
The general belief here is that the
constitutionalistas' attitude means
an end to negotiations between the
United States government and the
rebels. The changed attitude is re
ported to be due to General Villas
success in the Juarez campaign an6
the expectation that it will be dupli
Gated in other cities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
KEOKUK
From the Keokuk Industrial AS
sociation booklet.

FUEL AND CoAL-Every rail-
road line entering Keokuk is a
shipping medium for ccal. The
city is only one hundred and TWEEN
ty-six miles from the great Spring
field coal district CT central Illi-
nois, and the best of shipping
facilities are afforded for the car
riage of fuel. Keokuk does not
experience the least difficulty in
securing its fuel. Wood for domes-
tic use is brought into Keokuk
from all directions by rail and
water at minimum cost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Will Issue No Credentials.

WASHINGTON, Nov 19.-If furth-
er continuation of the negotiations
petween DR.. Bayard Hale and General
carranza aepend on the former re-
celving official credentials from the
president they must come to a sud
aen end This was made plain by
omcials here today. Hale will not BE-
accredited to the constitutionalists In
manner that would mean recogni-
uon Of that faction as bona file
sovernment. O'Shaughnessy, charge
N Mexico City was never accredited
70 Huerta. And Special Envoy John
Ina although admittedly the person
a. representative of President Wilson
mas the title of advisor to the EN-.
bassy
me state department while adm t.
lihg the receipt of messages from
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Bow Died a Hero.

JOLIET, H., Nov. 19.-In a futile
effort to save his younger broth er
Tony. 8, Albert Martinecia, IL, dove
off a bridge into the canal here last
night when the younger boy slippe1
through the railing. Both were
drowned. The bodies were recovered
today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
rodav,s News is Similar to
T,,,.t Of Yesterday and the
Ds. Before, Not Very
Exciting.
CONDITIONS UNCHANGED
v.w Mexican Congress viii Meet To.
morrow But the United
s,ates May Not Be
Spectator.

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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19.-Nelson
nsbaughnessy, the American charge
- affaires today said that he is not
coinr to Vera Cruz on any account
/. and adds that he anticipates no in
structions to leave the Mexican capl-
tal unless given his passports by Cen
eral Huerta.
The new congress is expected to
have it's formal opening session today
and invitations have been sent all
automatic corps, O'shaughnessy in
GUIDED. The charge did not say wheth-
or or not he would accept the invita-
lion. but Americans here think he
will not.
The international situation here to-
day was apparently unchanged. There
was nothing on the surface 0 indicate
that the United States is prepared to
take any radical action when congress
assemblies tomorrow General Huerta
is quoted by his friends as saying
that he contemplated making no move
but considered that the next step, IL
there be any, should come from the
United States.
Many women and children mad mar
row escapes last night when an incen
diary fire caused the. destruction os
five tank cars filled with fuel oil In
the railroad yards. A train tillea
with refugees bound for Vera Cruz
was blockaded close to the fire and
was saved from burning by the quici
work Of fremen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Generally
fair tonight and Thursday. Colder
tonight. Moderate westerly winds.
For Illinois: Unsettled weather to-
night and Thursday, possible showers
north portion tonight Cooler north.
west portion tonight and north and
central portion Thursday.
For Iowa: Generally fair tonight
and Thursday Cooler tonight Mod
crate westerly winds.
For Missouri; Generally fair to-
night and Thursday. Somewhat low
er temperature northwest portion to-
night. Moderate variable winds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Daily River Bulletin.
STAGE Heiaht Change. .W'th'r
River Forecast.

River Forecast.
The river will rise slightly from
Davenport to Keokuk during the next
forty-eight hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
ANOTHER
SHIP BURNS
Survivors Were Saved by New
British Battleship Which
Happened to be Within
a Few Miles.

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!. PORTSMOUTH, Eng, Nov. 10
The British super d,.eadnaught Iron
Duke, recently completed, arrived
here today with twenty-seven suryiy-
ors Of the Glasgow steamship Scots
dyke, which burned to the waters
edge in the English channel shortly
after midnight. The rescued included
passengers and crew 1t was believed
no lives were lost.
The Iron Duke on her trial trip had
several members of the admiIalty
aboard. While the new warship was
off vetnor, Isle of Wight, fire was
seen to burst from vessel on the
horizon and the Iron Duke went to
the rescue. The burning Scotsoyke
was overhauled ten miles south OF
Vetnor and boats sent to her. The
burned vessel was bound from the
Mediterranean for Glasgow with a
valuable cargo. She is believed to
have sunk.
Cunard is Rescue Line.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-For the thire
time in little over year a"steamel
of the Cunard line, "the rescNe line
brought passengers saved from deatf
at sea, when the Panneria, carrying
1Os passengers rescued from the burn
ing Spanish steamer Balmes came inte
port today.
Three weeks ago the Carmani;
brought part Of the survivors OF tn
Volturno disaster into New York ant
little over a year ago the Carpathi'
docked here with all that remained Q
the Titanic's great passenger list.
OF the 1O3 passengers brought her
today ninety-three are steerage pas
sengers and must remain at Ellis Is
land until they are sent on their wa
to Cadiz or Barcelona, the ports t
which the Balmes was bound when
caught fire near Cape Race.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19
Weather Conditions

Generally fair weather tonight and
Thursday, and cooler tonight is indi-
Gated for this section.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19

RalnfaII TOT the past n nOuIs,
trace.
Mean temperature 18th, 81
Lowest temperature, 81
Highest temperature, 72.
Lowest temperature last night. 62.
FRED 2. GOSEWISCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-19

Local Observations.
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Continued on page 81
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-05-09
Other Elections in the Gonniy.
John {. noolleJ at Westminster Ion.
day Night

On Monday night. May 1zIl. II 5
o'clock. # the Opera House. n Vest
minateF. there wlll be m address b.
John l. Noolley. orator. statesman
and apostle Of civic rlghleouHnsaH.
Admission is free and The public II
Invited
Mr. Noniiey as editor Of he New
Voice md Prohibition candidate for
president and lecturer haa H0n md
sustained \ reputation n one Of he
ElnEH Of he American platform \
4 master Of English be stands alone.
lie ezeelH equally In punKenl apIHfam.
stimulating call to duty aud snIfane-
Ing word painting.
Mr. Noollsy is making : tour Of
Maryland under the direction II The
Auti=salaon League. The YIHIt of IhIs
hilfefztongued advocate Of prohibition
ilta mo Iha league plans II Introduce
1 prohibition amcndElent tn inc II
the request Of the church bodies and
IN eass local option ID not naHHsd II
The coming session 10 drop i ID make
prohibition amendment t. imms-
dlate IaHus In Maryland. IL IL e.
plain tHa relation OF the Maryland
fight IN the Nation wide and world
vide movement He will be accom-
panied and introduced BY snperIntend=
ent Anderson Of the Ma, yland League.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-05-09
acIeepatrar In Moving Pictures.

Mr. : :. Beach. manager of the
Opera Houae. announces m attraction
Of extraordinary interest On Tuesday.
Nay I3th. the attraction being the
Helen Gardner Players IN thaIr mann
moth production OF Cleopatra IN
aix beautiful reels OF moving pictures,
with special music.
Il i aid that the scenic effects are
beautiful. The costumes gorgeous. and
the acting as a whole excellent. all
blending together into what ! prob
ably one Of the most stupendoua and
beautiful pictures ever produced.
Mis- GardneT'B impefaonaII0n Of
Cleopatra Is full OF varied moods. as
the character OF Cleopatra must have
been 1t one time the incarnation
Of Llgerlsh ferocity, at another I'm
bued With the seductive laneuor and
delightful eneryation of tropIe temper
ament. She Is artist enough % con-
eeal her art and merge mimIerY With
realism 30 delicately TINT she seems
unconscious of the fact thai she Is
acting. or has any other individuality
than that of Cleopatra herself