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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Don't Know Her.

LONDON, June 4-N1ilitants at the
Womens' Social and Political union
headquarters tonight asserted that
they knew nothing about the suppos-
ed suffragette who was killed when
she interfered with King Georges
horse at the derby this afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Bullets Whizzed Across Rio
Grande and One Man Hit
by Stray Shot.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
BROWNSVILLE. Texas. June 4. =.
Nohstitutionalists are today practic-
any IN control of Matamoros follow
ing twelve hours battle with .he
.eueral garrison here. A heavy loss
q life is reported.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Died of Heart Disease

LONDON, June 4. Sir Henry Cur
It's Bennett, metropolitan police mag
istrate who has presided at women
suffragette trials in Bow street police
court, died of heart disease at the
mansion house meeting. He was 65
years old.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Ice Cream Champion.

CHICAGO, June 4.-Claude Taylor
twenty-one, ate two quarts of ice
cream to prove he was the champion
ice cream consumer of Chicago. He
will die.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Ride In InvalId's Chair.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June A.
James flourish arrived here In his
invalid chair, which he wheeled from
Philadelphia with his hands. 1t took
him three days to make the trip.
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
MOTHER! LOOK At
CH|LD'S TONGUE
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give."CaIifornia Syrup
of FIGS"

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour
Look at the tongue. motheri If coat
ed, or your child is listless, cross, few
erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat
heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
or any other children's ailment. give
teaspoonful of California Syrup of
Figs then don't worry, because it is
perfectly harmless, and in few hours
all this constipation poison, sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels. and you have
a well, playful child again. A thor
ough inside cleansing" is oftimes all
that is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of
California Syrup of Figs which has
full directions for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
HALE BREAKS WITH REBELS
Negotiations Broken Off Because of
Carranxa's Refusal to Answer
Questions.

Nogales, Sonora, Mexico-Confer-
ences between William Bayard Hale,
personal representative of President
Wilson, and the Mexican constitution
alist chiefs were terminated abruptly
because General CarranZa refused to
answer certain questions propounded
by President Wilson and not as a re-
suit of the Mexicans' demand that Mr..
Hale present his formal credentials.
This real truth of the negotiations
became known when it also was made
clear that the constitutionalists had
attempted a diplomatic coup which
ended in collapse.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
HOW PRICES HAVE JUMPED
Governments Says Foods Have Made
Unusual Advances in Last
Few Years

ashingtcn.-Kansas City and two
score other industrial centers have ex-
perienced unusual advances in the
retail prices of foods. according to
figures given cut by the Department
OF Labor Comparing prices on
August Is, 1918, with the same period
of 1912, show that out of fifteen ar
ticles, twelve advanced and but three
declined. Included in the advance
were. Potatoes, 20 per cent; bacon
1S-S per cent: smoked ham, 14-6 per
cent; eggs, 12.6 per cent; round steak,
lis per cent; sirloin, 1o-2 per cent;
pork chops. e.3 per cent; hens, ST per
cent; lard, 81 per cent; rib roast, -
per cent; butter, 81 per cent, and
milk, 2.7s per cent.
Sugar declined 10 per cent, wheat
flour declined SO per cent and corn
meal 81 per cent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
JUAREzIS CAPTURED
MEXICAN BORDER CITY CHANGES
GOVERNMENT SIX TIMES IN
THREE YEARS.
PRISONERS PUT TO DEATH
Rebel General Villa Oders Execution
of All Captured Federal
Officers-Garrison Was
Surprised.

FL Paso, Tex.-Execution of federal
officers captured by Pancho Villa s
rebel troops at Juarez continued all
day Villas purpose, it is announced,
is to put to death all federal officers
captured. At brief intervals firing
squads took out men and shot them.
Among those executed were Colonel
Enrique Portillo, commander of fed
eral volunteer troops; Enrique Ziega,
customs officer; Captain Lopez and
Commander Buenevides of the Fiscal
guards.
Colonel PortilIo was executed at
noon by firing squad commanded by
Major Cornu PortilIe was brought
before Villa and sentenced to death,
after which he was taken to the rear
of the barracks where he was shot to
death.
All officers of the federal army
will be put to death, Major Cornu of
Villas staff announced. The soldiers,
he said, would be pardoned and given
an opportunity to join the rebel army
Fox the sixth time in the last three
years Ciudad Juarez changed govern
ments when 1000 rebels, led by Gen
eral Pancho Villa, attacked and cap
tured the town. Taken completely
by surprise, the federal garrison OF
about 400 men put up a weak resist
a1ce.
So unprepared for battle were the
federal defenders that Villas troops
actually reached the center of town
before a single shot was fired.
The rebels took 125 federal pris-
oners, $4,000 rounds of ammunition,
two field pieces and two machine
guns-au in addition to an important
border port of entry and a military
strategic point
General Francisco Castro, com
mander of the Juarez garrison, is
among the missing. 1t is the general
opinion he escaped No trace of him
or his body has been found. HIS
scabbard, sword and epaulets were
found in his residence on Juarez ave
nue. and General Villa has them for
souvenirs
FL Paso police thought they had
captured General Castro in Ell Paso,
but the prisoner proved to be a
colonel from the Juarez garrison He
was sent TO Fort Bliss a prisoner
Bullets fell thick in Ell Paso during
the attack and Chester l. Burnett, a
hand while walking the streets in the
early hours. Almost all the downtown
business structures were hit by bull
lets. All Ell Paso was aroused by the
firing and the streets were soon filled
with people Miraculously no others
were struck
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
DOCTOR TEMPLE GETS S., 500
Suit of maniac's Victim Against Rail-
road Was Settled Out of
Court.

Kansas City.-When the personal
damage suit of DR.. H H Temple
against the Union Pacific railway and
Pullman Company was called for its
fourth trial in the federal court the
attorneys announced a compromise.
Doctor Temple settled for $500 The
suit was for $4,000.
Doctor Temple was on a Union Pa
eific train near Ellis, Kas., August %,
1910, when a fellow passenger became
crazed and began to shoot. Temple
was wounded. He sued in the federal
court. Three trials resulted in dis
agreement of juries- The agreement
takes the case from the court docket.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
CHILD ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
While Playing a Three-Year-oId Kan
sas City Tot Bumped Into
Brothers Rifle.

Kansas City.-Mildred Nagel, 5
years old, and her father, August
Nagel, were romping in the parlor of
the Nagel home, 1907 Forest avenue.
when the little girl ran into the DIN
ing room, and, it is presumed, bumped
her head against the muzzle of a small
rifle belonging to her 14-year-old
brother, which was lying on the dining
room table. The gun was discharged
and the bullet entered her head, just
above the right ear, and lodged near
the base OF the skull. The baby fell
to the floor unconscious and died
within two hours. She never regained
consciousness.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
TAFT CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE
Former Executive Calls Upon Presi-
dent Wilson to Pay His Respects
Had Short Chat.

Washing ton, Nov 15=Ex-President
Taft visited the White House offices
the other day. He came to town to
lecture before the National Geo
graphic Society. Il just came to pay
my respects he said to Assistant
Secretary Forester please take my
card to the President and tell him So
l know he is busy man and l don't
want to trouble him."
President Wilson, however, directed
that his predecessor be ushered in
Immediately. The two men chatted
for a few minutes, greeting each 9th
er heartily.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06

LIE Bresil Economique of Rio de ia
metro, intoxicating the necessity OF
bathing, not merely as a means OF
cleanliness, but for health and
strength, recalls the baths of Greece
and Rome: "One knows" says this
p1eader, ''the story of Phryne, the
beautiful model of the Cnidian Venus
for Craxiteles. Menaced with Danish
ment, she waited her judges at the
bath to defend herself. When they
saw her half out of the water, wiring
ing the water from her marvellous
locks, they decided with the people OF
Athens they could not Danish such
perfect beauty-and SO well bathed
In summer baths are more necessary
than in winter. Happily our rivers
may replace the public bathing houses
If we were consulted we should say
that without distinction, men, womer
and children = everybody - should
battle, and we enjoin the clergy of the
parishes to conduct In person the en-
tire population to the bath once E
week
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
ENT0MBED IN A NINE
AT LEAST 4s PERSONS TRAPPED
EY AN EXPLOSION AT
ACTON, ALA.
FIVE MEN TAKEN OUT ALIVE
Nine Bodies Already Recovered, and
the Number Still in Workings
Not Definitely
Known.

Acton, AIa.-Nine miners are known
to have been killed and at least a
dozen others were missing as the re
suit of an explosion in the Alabama
Fuel and iron Company's mine No. ?.
near here
Five men had been taken out of the
mine alive By rescue crews up to 1850
O'Clock at night. At that hour mine
officials expressed the belief that the
death toll would not exceed fourteen,
although estimates of the number of
missing varied at from twelve to
thirty 1t is said that forty-three men
entered the workings early in the day,
but there was no means of ascertain
ing the number who had left before
the explosion occurred.
Experienced miners expressed the
belief that many of those still en-
tombed had been killed by the force
of the explosion. The explosion RS
believed TO have been caused by fgni-
ton of dust set off by a miners shot
Rescue work was undertaken in sys-
tematic manner. The federal automo-
bile ambulance made a quick run of
thirty-four miles from birmingham,
arriving here simultaneously with the
Tennessee Coal and IRON Company's
rescue car dispatched by special train
The mine fan, which was not dam
aged, was set in motion at once so
as to restore the air and enable the
rescuers to work freely.
Those in charge of the rescue work
hope to penetrate the mass of rock
and coal Jared loose by the explosion
before morning. The mine was com
parativeIy new and was said by off
cials to have been provided with mod
ern equipment.
The first rescue parties who entered
the mine searching for any who might
be alive reported they had passed sew
eral bodies lying beside the tramway
of the sloping entrance shaft These
mad not been brought out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06

Ladies cricket matches were not
uncommon in the eighteenth century,
and were apparently highly popular
In 1T47 game between the Maids
of Charlton and the Maids of Single
ton in the artillery ground, London,
attracted the greatest number of
spectators ever seen at any publick
diversion" In fact, the finish OF the
game had to be postponed owing to
breaking in of the company" where
by some of the players were very
much frightened" In 176s. too, at
upham. In Wits. IL married men play
ed IL single women for a plum cake
and a barrel of ale. The cake and ale
went to those who lacked husbands.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
BOOTH BROTHERS WILL MEET
Heads of Salvation Army and VoIun-
teers to Make Up After
II Yaars

Chicago, In.-Gen- Bramwen Booth,
commander in chief of the Salvation
Army. and Gen BaIlington Booth
head Of the Volunteers of America.
will meet in New York. it was an
nounced here by Bramwell Booth. The
two have net met since Ballington
Booth separated seventeen years ago
from his father. Gen William Booth.
fesnder of the Salvation Army, and
organized the Volunteers of America
! will see my brother in New York
and take his hand. said Gen Bran
well Bccth. But this does not mean
there will be any move toward con-
solidaticn Of our forces The visit
VIII be a family affair
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
A JEALOUS DOCTOR KILLS
A Sensational Murder in Kansas City
Hotel by St. Joseph
Physician.

Kansas City.-With no one present
save himself and his victim. Dr. w
T. EIam, prominent physician and
surgeon of ST. Joseph, Mo-, crazed
over the alleged attentions of the man
to Mrs. Elan. shot and killed William
P. Cramer of $500 Lave avenue, Chi
cago, in Cramer's room at the Hotel
Baltimore shortly after 3 o'clock in
the afternoon.
Cramer was a travelling representa-
was shot while sitting in chair. the
bullet from an automatic pistol pass
ing through Cramer's heart, and
through the back-of the chair. The
body was sent to the Carrou-Davidso
undertaking rooms and will be sent to
Cramer's home in Chicago, where he
is survived by his wife and two chill
dren. Coroner Harry Czarlinsky will
arrange an inquest at once.
The shooting followed a private in
terview between Dr.. Elan and Cramer
regarding the alleged attention of
Cramer 20 Mrs. Elan What took
place in the room no one knows but
DR.. Elan.
St. Joseph, Mo.-Dr. w. t. Elan is
IS years old, and his parents live at
2S11 Felix street. The doctor lives at
Twenty-sixth and Felix streets. in
Montrose Place. He was for num-
Der of years city physician. Doctor
and Mrs. Elam were married thirteen
years ago at the home of her parents
In Detroit, Mich. She had been en-
rloyed by Elam as his office girl.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
Felt at Home.

He had been around from church to
church trying to find a congenial con-
gregation, and finally he stepped in
little church just as the congregation
read with the minister:
I'VE have left undone those things
which we ought to have done, and we
have done those things which we ought
not to have done.
The man dropped into pew with
sigh of relief
Thank goodness" he said. I've
found my crowd at Iast."-Ladies'
Home Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06

Professor Langdon of Jesus college
Oxford university. who is spending
some time at the University of Penn
sylvania, has discovered that one OF
the famous Nippur tablets reveals
some of the oldest school books which
are known to exist They show that
the children of the ancients learned
much that the boys and girls of today
study, and his deciphering has led to
the discovery of some important edu-
cational relics They show that the
children of 1900 years ago were
taught phonetic spelling They were
taught to make syllables. and their
provincial was dependent entirely
upon the teachings they received in
the college at Nippur. Some of the
tablets show that the pupils in that in
stitution studied geography, history.
geology and theology. Their gram
mars and histories show that the
Sumeriens were a highly developed
people. and that they paid great at
tention to the education of their chill
dren.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
INDIANS WON'T SURRENDER
Navajos Encamped on New Mexico
Mountain Prepare to Fight
Soldiers.

Harrington, N M-".We will not
surrender. we will fight said Be Sho,
the leader OF the recalcitrant Nayajos
encamped on Beautiful Mountain 10
peace ENJOYS from w. T. Shelton,
superintendent of the Shiprock
agency. Even the news that troops
are on the way to the agency failed
to weaken the stand of the Navajos,
who are defending the renegades
sought by the government for larceny,
bigamy and assault
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
FAMILY OF FIVE
All Drank Coffee From Infancy.

1t is a common thing In this country
to see whole families growing up with
nervous systems weakened by coffee
drinking.
That is because many parents do
not realize that coffee contains a drug
-caffeine-which causes the trouble.
(The same drug is found in teal
There are five children in my fam
fly writes an Iowa mother, all OF
whom drank coffee 'com infancy up
to two years ago.
MY husband Ia 1 had heart trouble
and were advised to quit coffee. We
did so and began to use Postum We
now are doing without medicine ard
are entirely relieved of heart trouble
caffeine causes heart trouble when
continually used as in coffee drink
ing)
Our eleven-year-oId boy had weak
digestion from birth, and yet always
craved and was given coffee. When
we changed tc Postum he liked it and
we gave him all he wanted He has
been restored to health by Postum and
still likes it.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
book, 1.-THE Road to MELVILLE"
Postum comes IN two forms:
Regular Postun-must be boiled.
instant Postum is a soluble powder.
A teaspocnfnI dissolves quickly in a
cup of hot water and, with cream and
sugar. makes delicious beverage
Instantly. Grocers sell 10th kinds.
There's reason" for Postum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
TELEeRAPHIc BRIEFS

Thomas E. Wilson, who entered the
employ of Morris & Co. of Chicago
at a salary of 81 week has been
elected president of that company.
succeeding the late Edward Morris.
AS William Srnitherton fired at a
flock of ducks near Meiner, Ark, Dr..
Dixie Collins of Harrisburg, his COM
panion raised from an underbrush and
the charge of shot blew off Collins
head.
Three hundred members of the Rock
Island Women's Club recently
marched On the city hall and de-
manded an immediate elimination of
vice conditions by the mayor and
commissioners
With the loss of hundreds of lives
and with great destruction of property
in what Gen. Pablo Gonzales, rebel
commander, describes as the blood
lest battle OF the revolution Victoria.
capital of the Mexican state of Tamau-
Hras, has been captured by the con-
stitutionalists
Between three and four thousand
operatives were thrown cut OF work
when the strike Of firemen in the tex
tile mills at Lawrence, Mass, caused
the stoppage of some of the machinery
because of lack of power
What doubt remained regarding Gen
eral Huerta's intentions with respect
to compliance with the American de-
mands for his own elimination was re
moved from the minds Of most Mex
cans and foreign residents by his per
emptory dismissal of Manuel Cara
Aldape. the minister Of the interior,
who was looked upon as the head o.
Huersa's cabinet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
TnE 1neArlNe HABIT.

A step in advance in the regulation
of the saloons of Boston has been
scored by the licensing board in its
attitude toward the practice. so prev
alent in these places. of treating their
customers The order is tactfully
phrased. Proprieters are requested
to forbid their bartenders to serve
any kind of drinks without receiving
payment therefor. 1t is doubtless I'm
dergtood that If this request is not
complied with the consequences will
those ignoring it 1t follows the ban
upon giving presents" of bottled
goods and other favors to patrons at
Christmas time or on other special
occasions, says the Boston Transcript
The bait of treating has doubtless
convinced the board, as it has the
public. that it is a demoralizing Gus
proprietors not only generally permit
It, but are themselves as often the
principal offenders by setting the ex-
ample. The undeclared meaning Of 1t
is that that it implies an obligation
upon the person or persons treated
to continue and perhaps increase their
patronage, otherwise they are not
good fellows" So, for that matter,
is the entire treating habit 1t Is that
which has made what is called lush
ing a form of excessive Indulgence
that is very rare in the countries OF
the old world
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
A Lot Of Racket

Howard Elliott, the new president of
the New Haven & Hartford railroad.
was talking at a luncheon in New
York, about a millionaire who had
been boasting overmuch-boasting
about his Raphaels, his Louis Seize
furniture, his Gobelins and his Aubus-
sons.
"Of course, he's a self-made man"
said Mr.. Elliott. I'm very fond of
self-made men. The only objection to
them is that sometimes they've failed
to put themselves together so as to
work noiselessiy."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
A NIHILIsT SCHEME FOILED
life of czarevitch Placed in Danger
While Out for Airing in
Motor Car.

ST. ersburg.-Nihliists are be-
Heyed to have made an attempt 10 kill
the young Czarevitch Alexis when a
high powered motor car collided with
the royal car in which the prince Yves
riding. The invalid czarevitch was
thrown to the street ana struck on
his head A court bulletin was issued,
and, as usual in such cases. ninimized
the danger and said the injuries to
the Russian heir were slight
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
ROB PULLMAN PASSENGERS
Bandits Hold Up a Southern Pacific
Train Across the Bay From
San Francisco.

San Francisco, Nov. 1.-Two high
waymen held up Southern Pacific pas
senger train No from Chicago near
Richmond, across the bay from San
Francisco, and relieved men and
women in one of the Fullmans Of their
Jewelry and about $1,000.
Five passengers, the Pullman con-
ductor and porter in the last car OF
the train and a brakeman were
robbed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06

Families of three are more numer-
Gus than any others in England. ac-
cording to blue book recently issued.
Such families constitute 10 per cent
OF the total number: those of four, is
per cent: of five, II per cent, and
those of six, 10 per cent In London
the women living alone outnumber The
lonely men to the extent OF $500 to
S7.13o.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
Their Mission.

A large crowd had gathered at the
station to receive the famous states
man. The reporter indicated a group
in the foreground. They are personal
friends. gathered to see him about
speaking here he explained.
rs it necessary to use persuasion to
induce him to speak?"
Not at all; they are going to try to
prevent him. Judge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
Boy of 10 a Suicide in Fear.

Omaha.-Belieying he was going to
be sent TIC prison for apPropriating 81
that did not belong to him, Charles
Feel. Is years old. hanged himself
from a tree in South Omaha. A
strand of rope was tied around his
neck and wrapped around the limb
about ten feet from the ground.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
= Sterilization Law Inva.id.

Trenton, N 1.-The Supreme Court
of New Jersey has set aside the act
OF 1911 providing fer the sterilization
Of epiIepttcs, the feeble E-iRded,
criminals and other detectives A
ties. case was Instituted in the court
before the law was carried into effect.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-12-06
Bandits Killed Street Car Passenger.

Lincoln, Neb.-In an attempt TO hold
up passengers OF suburban street
car here two highwaymen shot and
killed enc OF the passengers, robbed
the conductor of a small amount and
escaped