davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

NOT "A SQUARE DEAL
Has Been Made Democratic Whip Of
the Senate and Wants to
be Treated More
Dlgnlfled.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON June flames
Hamilton Lewis, United States sena-
tor from Illinois, Is tired Of being
identified by his whiskers and the
kind of clothes that he wears. j. Ham
announced this fact today, his blue
eyes yelled with actual pain. He said
he didn't care If the newspaper boys
occasionally had fun with him, but
that he didn't think he was getting a
square deal.
The boys have seen me fighting
along here for good many years try
Ing to make good,' he said 81 believe
/ have just little something in me
besides-shall we say my eccentrici
ties-aild these eccentricities get ali
the attention. I'd like to be treated in
a dignified manner once in while"
Lewis outburst was occasioned by
a timid question as to the truth OF
the report that he was going to shave
off his whiskers. Senator Lewis los,
his usual calm when the query was
propounded. Lewis has been sena
tor only few months, but in that
] time has taken a place at the head O.
the democratic council tables and ha,
been made whip" OF the senate;
! Job that invests him with the duty o
keeping all wavering democrats ii
line during the tariff bill fights.
j Ul
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
PROFESSORS BODY
I'm The RIVER
Had Been Missing for Ten
Days and it is Thought He
Was Murdered.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK. June Am autopsy
will be held today In an effort to de-
termine whether Professor Benjamin
Chatham Gibson, student at the
teachers college of Columbia Uni
versity, was murdered and robbed and
his body thrown into the Harlem riv-
err, where 1t was discovered after Glib
son had been missing ten days. The
fact that gold watch, diamond stick
pin and other valuables known to
have been on Gibson's person were
missing from the body has led some
Of his friends to believe that he may
have been slain. There were marks
OF violence on the body, however
and more thorough investigation will
be made to determine the exact
cause of his death.
Professor Gibson's home was in
Owensboro, Ky. He was graduate
of the University of Kentucky and
had been principal of public schools
and instructor in the state normal
college of his home state.
He was seeking bachelor OF
science degree at Columbia. Despite
the theory of possible murder ad
vanced, a majority of those who knew
him believe he broke down under the
nervous strain in taking the examin
atoms, wandered away and either fell
OF threw himself into the river.
Professor Gibson did not know the
result of the examination when he
disappeared, but as a matter of fact
he passed the examinations credit
ably.
Mrs. Gibson collapsed soon after
her husbands disappearance, and die
not recognize en- intimate friend who
came here to take her to Owensboro
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
NVlSTOOk HUSBAND
FOR A BURGLAR
When He Tried to Get Into the
House Third Time She
Shot Him Dead

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO June 4.-Mrs. Louise
Van Keuren, 43, shot and instantly
killed her husband, John B. Van
Keuren, early today when he attempt
ed to force his way into her apart
ment at SIT East Sixty-frst street.
After the shooting che surrendered TO
the police and declared that she mis-
took her husband for a burglar.
Van Keuren is hardware
dealer He and his wife quar-
relied and have been separated for six
months. Shortly after midnight Mrs.
Van Keuren heard noise at her door,
she told the police. She called but
there was no response and the man
went away. An hour later he return.
ed, again fumbled at the door knob
and when she called he again retreat
ed. Mrs. Van Keuren secured reyol-
yer and waited. Just before daylight
she heard the man at the door again.
He poked his arm through the glass
Of the door, she said, and attempted
to unfasten the latch. She fred one
shot. The bullet entered his heart
and he fell in the hall way. Too
frightened to open the door Mrs. Van
Keuren telephoned the police. When
they arrived she learned that the
man killed was her husband. She is
being detained.
An element of mystery developed
when H. E. Van Keuren, brother OF
the slain merchant. visited the police
station and CHARGED that his broth
er was shot by another man who was
in the apartment at the time. He de
clared the other man, whose name he
gave to the police, was trailed to the
apartment by the dead hardware mar
-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Want to be Represented by Counsel
When Senate Committee InvestI-
gates West Virginia
Coal Mines.
DAsTARDLY MINE THUGS
Hundreds Of Thousands of Acres Of
Land Owned by Great Cor
poratIons Who Are
Heartless.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, June 4.-Recommenda-
tion that the socialist party be rep
resented by counsel when the senate
committee begins its actual investiga-
tion in the West Virginia coal mining
districts in made in the reports OF
the committee appointed by the ma
tional executive committee to visit
West Virginia was made public today.
The committee, composed of Victor
L. Berger, e. v. Debs and Adolph A.
Gemer spent more than week in
West Virginia interviewing miners,
social workers and state officials.
Their report partially exonerates Gov
ernor Hatfield; that any acts COM
planned of by the miners were com
mitted under the administration Of
former Governor Glasscoch.
The report reads in part:
"The reports of the outrages perpe-
trated upon the defenseless miners
and their families during the Glass
cock administration were not exag-
gerated Houses and tents were shot
up indiscriminately from an armed
posse, and insults were made by das
tardly mine thugs. All these atrocious
crimes against the striking miners
and their families will be brought
fully to light. Every effort will bs
made by the miners and their friends
to have the whole of these facts il
all their grewsome details placed up
on the stand Henceforward there
will be decided change in the stu
alton in West Virginia The great
| trouble with West Virginia as Cover
nor Hatfield explains 1t, is that hun
dreds of thousands of acres Of Goa
lands are owned by great corporations
aliens for the most part, such as Gug
/ genheim for instance, who care moth
/ ing about the miners and nothing
about West Virginia. Vast areas arc
their own private reserves, where Ii
fact the feudalism of the middle ages
still prevails, where the most crue
conditions have existed and the mos
outrageous crimes committed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
UNDERTAKEN WAS
BIG BLACKMA|LE
So Defense Charges In the Case
Against President Wood Of the
American Wooden
Company.
ARGUMENTS COMMENCED
Attorney Says Hreen 10 the Mos.
collosaI Liar He Has Ever
Heard Tell a
Story.
t[By John Edwin Nevin, United Press
STAIR corresnondent

[By John Edwin Nevin, United Press
Staff correspondent
BOSTON. June IA colossal sys-
tenn of blackmail' with John ]. Breen,
the Lawrence undertaken as the CEN
tral figure. was responsible for the ar
rest of VIM. M. Wood, president Of
1.-THE American Woolen Co., and Fred
erick e. Atteaux, according to the
opening statements Of Attorney Coake-
Ily for Atteaux, when the defense in
the dynamite planting trial was be-
gun today
Coakely called Breen the most
colossal liar he had ever listened to; !;
| said his motive in testifying as he did
was revenge because Atteaux refused
/ to be bled" by Breen; and declared
that Atteaux would himself refute
every material declaration by Breen,
and show that perfectly innocent
transactions had been maliciously mis-
represented and distorted
Atteaux and Former Chief OF Po-
lice Watts of Boston are the chief re-
lance Of the defense. They will tell
of the various meetings between
Breen, Pittman and Atteaux and
through them the defense expects to
prove that Breen tried to blackmail
| Atteaux and through him Wood.
The defense opened its case with
an attack on the testimony of Chauf
ifenr Pira who has sworn that he
drove man resembling Atteaux te
the rendezvous with Breen. A mum
Der of witnesses testified that Pira
/ told them he had no recollections OF
the trip until after he reached the dis
trict attorneys Office and conferred
with the officials there. They told
him what sort of fare he had and
then, he told them he remembered
something like that" Pira's story
was also attacked by the witnesses
who claimed that his record card in
dicated that the trip in question was
from the Wood residence to the Bos.
ton Athletic club and not to Wash
]ington and Franklin streets, as testi
fed to by Pira.
Witnesses were also called who
/ told over again OF Breen's activities
in discovering the dynamite and OF
their belief that his original story was
both true and convincing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
SAN FRANCISCO IN DANGER
OF A WATER FAMINE

in the Yosemite national park reser.
walton. So grave is the emergency,
as presented by the city's officials,
that Senator Chamberlain waived the
formality of requiring the introduc-
tion of the bill in the upper house be-
fore hearings. Senator Perkins win
introduce 1t tomorrow.
A general drought in California has
lowered the water in the reserve
basin, supplying San Francisco, to
point which the water company own
ing them considers extremely danger
Gus. 1t has withdrawn for the first
time in many years its opposing pro-
gress of plans for construction of a
municipal plant based on a supply
from the Hetch-Hetchey valley in the
Yosemite reserve.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
The Conservation
of Energy.

Shopping to some women, and
to some men, too, means work
real hard drudgery.
With knitted brow and deter
mined look they go about their
shopping with no more liking for
1t than small boy who goes
to have his hair cut.
Do you wonder that the re-
suits under these conditions are
costly and unsatisfactory, to say
nothing Of the distressing men
tai strain occasioned by such un-
scientific methods?
Shopping drudgery is so need
less, SO unnecessary. 1t is your
fault and my fault if we go at
1t blindly, and worry ourselves
to Obstruction when, by the
simple method Of reading intel
ligent, helpful advertising in
good newspapers like The Gate
City we may shorten our steps,
settle perplexing questions, and.
incidentally, If we read careful
ly, keep many a dollar within
our purses that might otherwise
go astray.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
POOP D9GyMs
HAVE FRIENDS
:
University Professor Who Has Been
Cutting Them up is Arrested
for Cruelty to
Animals.
WOMEN ARE WORKED UP
vlMsectlon on Dumb Animals Has
Aroused the Ire of the Penn
sylvanla Society Of
Ladies'.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PHILADELPHIA. June 4.-Dr. E.
] Sweet, head of the vivisection de-
partment at University of Penn
sylvania Medical school and widely
known surgeon, today entered bail
following his arrest on charge of
cruelty to dogs, sworn out by the
Womens Pennsylvania Society for
the prevention Of cruelty to animals.
That this arrest is only one of sew
eral which are to follow later in the
week was the declaration today of
the counsel for the society. Several
prominent women who have devoted
their time and financial aid to the in
vestigation, are determined that not
only the head of the vivisection de-
partment of the university, but all
surgeons concerning whom the so
ciety has evidence Of cruelty in spe.
cific cases, shall be prosecuted.
| DR.. Sweet denied emphatically that
he or any of his associates were guilty
of unnecessary cruelty to dogs or to
| any other animals. He admitted that
the dogs were fed garbage from the
hospital cans; that they were herded
three and four together and that they
1slept on asphalt floors, but said this
was perfectly natural for dogs. HI
likewise admitted that dogs were
sometimes operated on second tim,
before they recovered from the frs
Operation, and asserted that this wal
loften done in the case of human be
lings. The animals are always com
4 pletely anethetized, he said, before
operations.
Specific instances of cruelty by uni
versity surgeons will probably not be
1 come known until after the other ar
rests, or until DR. Sweet is arraigned
which will be some time this week
The society absolutely refuses te
show its hand until all arrests in the
case have been made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
s2oo,coo Fire.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, June 4.-Fire early to-
day totally destroyed the plant of the
Lake Tanning Company, at a loss of
S200,o00. A watchman is missing and
his body is being sought in the
ruins. The origin of the blaze is not
known. When fire companies arriv-
ed the main building of the plant
stretching along an entire block was
in flames and doomed. Near the plant
is the largest gas plant in the city
and fear of an explosion hampered
the work of t1re fighters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
EIectrocuted While Praying.

Tunited Press Leased Wire Service.
AUBURN, N. Y, June 4.-Michael
Goslinski, %, of Buffalo, was electro
cuted In Auburn prison early today
On entering the death chamber he
glanced at the witnesses about the
room and then began to pray. He con
tinued his prayers after taking his
place In the chair until the current
snuffed out his life. Three contacts
were required. He killed Patrollman
McClause OF Buffalo in a street fight
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Liquor Bills Discussed by Illinois
Legislature With Vigorous
Debates on Both
Sides.
PUBLIC UTILITIES BILL
Committee Having Measure In Hand
Adjourned In Condition Border
Ing on General
Dispute.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 4.-The
wet and "dry" fight, postponed from
two weeks ago, was taken up in the
house at IL o'clock today. The liquor
bills were on special order, The
"drys" led by Wilson of Quincy, be-
gan the fight on the residence district
bill. The "wets" led by Thomas Cur
ran claimed victory, but this claim
was disputed by the anti-saloon lead.
ers, who expected to pass few of
their bills.
The public utilities bill drafted by
subcommittee as a compromise for
the various bills pending, received Sc,
we're treatment at meeting Of the
house public utilities commission to-
day. The committee finally adjourn
ed In condition bordering on gen
eral dispute, after a motion by Rep
resentative German, Peoria, destroy
ing the home rule feature of the
measure, had been carried. The COM
mittee was to meet again late this
afternoon, and an effort was to be
made to restore this feature.
The bill also was amended to pro.
vide for a minority representation on
the state utilities commission, com
/ posed of five members. An effort tc
cut the commissions salaries from
$4,000 to $500 a year failed. Tht
bill also will be amended so as no
to apply to such portions of interur
bans as are in city limits.
AS the measure now stands, 1t pro
! vides for control Of all public utilities
4 by central state commissions and does
away with the railroad and ware
house commission.
The house elections committee viii
tomorrow send out two reports on the
Hennebry-Boardman contest, involving
Will and Dupage counties. The ma
iority will recommend the seating OF
4 Boardman, progressive and dry and
/ the unseating of Hennebry, democrat
wet"
The report by the democratic min
ority will favor Hennebry. Hennebry
voted today on the liquor bills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Four Men Drowned.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June A.
Four laborers employed by contrac-
tors building the extension of the
Crank Trunk-Paciic railway In the
Rocky mountains, were drowned in
the Grand Canyon In the Tete Jaune
Cache district The accident was
caused by the breaking up Of scow
filed with supplies, prectpitating the
men into the rapidly flowing current.
The dead are:
ST. JOHN DUTCH.
AIBERT NIXON.
WIN. KENNEDY.
ROBERT BARBOUR.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
TWELVE HOUR BATTLE
ON MEXICAN BORDER

The United States consulate was In
the direct line of the fire during a
greater part of the fighting but Consul
]. H. Johnson and staff who remain
ed in the building, escaped uninjured-
During the battle bullets whizzed
across the Rio Grande and Private
Davis of the United States cavalry
was injured by stray shot.
Major Estaban Ramos, federal com
mander, was wounded early in the
fight and is today in Brownsville
hospital in critical condition. One
hundred and twelve federal soldiers
who crossed the border are today held
prisoners by the United States mill
tary authorities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
The Modern Dance.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June Mrs.
julius S. Walsh, Jr.. st. Louis horse
woman who has won many honors in
New York. Chicago and st. Louis
.horseshows, is today suffering from
a broken collar bone sustained when
she fell in the midst of group ri
walters at the Century Boat club
Several of Mrs. Walsh's friends say
she and Mr.. Walsh were attempting
some additional fancy steps in the
dance but Mr.. Walsh declares they
were merely walking across the floor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
UNDER THE HO0FS
OF KINGS HORSE
Woman, Supposed to Have Been MiIl-
tant suffrasette Ran Out on
the Derby Race
Course.
JOCKEY WAS INJURED
She Was Caught Beneath the Horse
and Seriously Injured by
tho Animals
Feet.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
EPSON, England, June Am un-
identified woman, supposedly mill
tant suffragette. was injured this aft
ernoon at the EPSON Downs derby
when she ran out on the course at
Tattenham Corner and grasped An
mer, King Georges entry, by the
bride. The animal reared and then
horse and rider, Jockey Jones, fell
The woman was caught beneath the
falling horse and badly crushed.
Jones was severely hurt and was
rushed in an ambulance to hospital
where 1t was said his condition was
serious. The kings horse was not
injured to any extent.
The woman whom no one at the
track appeared to know, was thrown
under the hoofs of the terrified horse
and his sharp shoes mutilated her al.
most beyond Identification before she
was rescued.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Treaty Exnlred Today.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, June 4-Uncle
Sans arbitration treaty with Great
Britain, which has been in force since
1908, and under which such ques-
tions as the Newfoundland fisheries
dispute and the Alaskan seal contro-
yersy were settled, expired today. A
new treaty will probably be consider
ed Immediately by the diplomats OF
England and America. If one is
made to take the place Of the old
one, it will be the first during w. j
Bryan's term as secretary of state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
one Was Sitting Right in the Room
and Senator Pointed a Wicked
Looking Finger at
Him.
UNCLE IKE STEPHENSON
WIscosin croesus Gave Dreamy Reel
tai Of Life on the Old Farm
Instead OF Paying
Attention.

limited Press Leased Wire Service, !,
WASHINGTON, June 4.--The SEN
ate lobby investigators let their
search for the elusive lobbyist go by
the board for couple of hours today
while they helped Senator Uncle
Ike Stephenson, the forgetfufl Croe-
sus from Wisconsin, enumerate his
various property holdings.
Not that Uncle Ike" was secretive
at all. The aged multi-millionaire
chewed tobacco feryently and rampled
off into by-paths Of remembrance. He
modest'y talked about all his farms
discussing the milk-giying ability OF
Pauline Wayne. late cow-in-ordinary
to the white house, and other things,
He would be in the midst OF a
dreamy recital of the days when he
was a lumber cook, when a commit
teeman would remind him of copper
or iron mine, or some paper mills,
with few million dollars investment
that he'd forgotten all about.
The COMMITTEES didn't get much In
formation about lobbyists from Steph.
enson. 1t did, however, get a few
more names from several other sena.
tors, but no positive information as
to existence of paid lobby here. Sub.
poenaes for fifteen alleged lobbyists
were Issued. The senators who testi
fed were: Lane, CT Oregon; MARITIME
New Jersey; Stephenson, wisconsin;
0Gornian, New York; Owen, Okla
homa; Newlands, Nevada.
The witnesses summoned were.
Aaron Gave, Denver, Colo; DR.. S. w
Mcclure, secretary Of the Wool Grow.
ers' Association; Edward r. Dickin'
son and Jules Gotchaux Of Louisiana;
Sydney Ballew, representing Hawaiin
sugar interests In Washington; E. e
Paxton and H. D. Mead, manufactur
ers agents of Washington; w. G.
Smith and J. +. Hamburg, New York;
H. T. Alexander, manufacturer oi
Trenton. NJ j., and Frank German ant
John Carroll of Washington.
The lobby hunt today took on 6
significant aspect when it became
known that several men mentioned
who have been sitting in the hearing
room were there because of sub
poenas from the committee. Among
these were Henry T. Oxnard, bee
sugar manufacturer with interests II
many states; Frank G. Lowry of New
York, who has been leading the free
sugar agitation; Bufford Lynch, who's,
activities have centered about paten
medicines and Frank German and AL
Ian Irvine manufacturers agents.
In ali Chairman Overman, said fft.
subpoenas had been issued by thu
committee Most of these will b.
served today. Overman said he die
not believe hearing Of senator's woult
be completed before tomorrow, afte
which the committee will call no
only the men already subpoenaed, bu
manufacturers who have been mos
active In conducting campaign
against proposed tariff schedules.
Senator Lane. of Oregon was tn
first witness today He pointed on
3 W. Mcclure, secretary of the Woo
Growers Association, as one of 9TH
lobbyists" who had called on Kim
Fha's one of them" he declared
when the stock question was aske
whether he knew of any lobbyists
What is your name, anyhow" he dc
manded of Mcclure pointing at hin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
She's a suffraaette.

EPSON, England, June 4.-when
Miss Elizabeth Davidson, s5 years
old, London suffragette, rushed out
on Epson Downs course this after
non and seized Anmer by the bride:
as King Georges entry in the historic
derby. was rounding Tattenhan Co.'s
ner, horse and rider, Jockey Jones,
fell on her and she was so badly
trampled that those who picked her
up thought her dead. For minutes
the woman gave no sign of life and
the word spread through the throni.
that she had been killed. When doc
tors had worked over her many MIN
utes. Miss Davidson showed signs Of
life and was rushed to hospital
where it was said she was seriously
and probably fatally injured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Was Well Fixed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
JACKSON, Mich, June 4.-Prepar-
ing for suicide, Rose Mollen, IL, gath
cred about her butcher knife, loaded
shotgun and rifle, some paris green
and carbolic acid. She swallowed
the acid but may live.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Today's suffrasette Fire.

LONDON, June "A loss of $4,000
was caused today by the incendiary
burning of Westwood Manor. an un-
occupied country house near Trow-
bridge. Militant suffragettes were
suspected of setting the blaze be-
cause votes for women" cards and
suffragette literature were found scat
tered about the grounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
Congress Appealed to for Site
for New Reservoir in
National Park.

limited Press Leased Wire service.[
WASHINGTON, June A great
city threatened with intense suffering
during the present summer from the
failure of its water supply was the
situation described to the senate pub
lie lands committee today by Chief
Clerk Dunnigan of the San Francisco
board Of supervisors, pleading for the
grant to that city of reservoir site
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
$500 In Stamps.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servlce.1
SIBLEY. Illinois, June 3.-Yeggmen
early today blew the postoffice safe
here and escaped with $500 in stamps.
This is tn second time the Sibley
office has been robbed within six
months.