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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17
Costs Less Than a Two-cenj
POStaue. Sfamn

An average of less than cent and
third pair is paid for the use OF all
our machines in making two-thirds OF
the shoes produced in the United
understanding that all our ma
chimes are used. The most that can
be paid for the use of all our ma
shines in making the highest-priced
shoes is less than 5% cents pair.
The average royalty on all kinds OF
shoes is less than 22-2 cents pair.
From this we get our sole return for
the manufacture and use of the ma
chimes, for setting them up in facto-
Ties and keeping them in order. You
pay two cents for postage stamp or
yeast-cake and five cents for car
fare and don't miss 1t. Where do you
get more for your money than In buy
ing a machinemade shoe?
Write us an6 VIC will tell you all
about it The United Shoe Machinery
Company. Boston, Mass.-Adv.
Not the Same.
They were strolling through the
woodland
Yes, the youthful professor was
saying it is a very simple matter to
tell the various kinds OF trees by the
barks"
She gazed at him soulfully
How wonderful" She exclaimed
and can you er-tel the various
kinds of dogs that way? "-Lippin
colts.
He Wasn't Sure.
A gentleman was sorely out of pa
thence by some blunder of his new
groom.
Look here" he cried. in his anger
81 won't have things done in this way.
DO you think I'm a fool
Sure. sorr, said the groom, "Oi
can't say. sorr oi only came here
yesterday"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17

SEEDs-AlfAlfat %; timothy, blue grass &
cane s2; sweet clovert9. Farms for sale & rent
on crop paym'ts. j. Mulhall, 500 City, la.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17

Mrs. winslow's Soothing syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind cole DC bottlells
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children. and see that it
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17
W0MAN'S ILLS
DISAPPEARED
Like Magicafter taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound

North Bangor, N. Y. As / have
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17
w ise.

-Dld the doctor diagnose your
caseg"
Yes"
How long did 1t take?"
Not long. wore my shabbiest
suit birmingham Age-Herald.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17
He Wasn't Sure.

Unavoidable
Jane Would YOU marry man who
was your inferior
Mary Ii marry at all
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-04-17
WHY INCUBATOR CHICKS DIE.

c without % ss We: y 81:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
viii Stir Workers Up.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO. Oct. 4.-Joseph Etter
of Lawrence strike fame and Ewald
koettgen, member of the executive
board of the /. w. w, who have been
attending the national convention In
session here left tonight for Massachu-
setts to organize a general strike of
textile workers in towns adjacent to
Webster, Mass, where 1000 employees
are now on strike. Upon their ar
rival they will call mass meetings In
towns around Webster and urge a
general walk out.
1. w. W. leaders announced tonight
that they plan to send Etter, Koett-
gen and other speakers into the south
ern textile mill towns after strikes
have been organized in Masachus etts
to start new revolts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
WILL CALL OUT
THEIR NAMES
Democratic Senators Who Do
Not Jump Promptly When
President Wilson
Cracks Whip

limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Oct President
Wilson tonight was credited with a
new plan to exert moral pressure on
senate democrats for speeding up"
on the currency bill Representative
Glass, chairman of the house banking
committee, let 1t be known that on
Monday he would issue caustic
statement naming the democratic SEN
ators responsible for delay.
1t was reported that this indirect
attack, to be followed by others in
speeches and statements is part of a
program, designed to force the insur
gent democrats into line, was con-
ceiyed by President Wils~a. A two
weeks time limit for hearings on the
currency measure was tentiyely fixed
by the senate banking committee this
afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
plot to Ruin Him Because He
Helped Unseat Lorimer
Will be Made
Public
SENSATIONAL STORIES
Politicians, High in Power,
May be Named Before the
Case Comes to an
End

Hunted Press Leased Wire Service.J
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-That politicians,
some Of them we'll known at Washing
|ton, will be named In the alleged plot
|to ruin Clarence s. Funk, former In
|ternational Harvester Company off1c-
Hal, because Of the part he played in
the unseating of VIM. Lorimer was the
|current rumor tonight, while Funk's
attorneys and States Attorney Hoyne
were completing preparations for the
thrills Monday of three persons under
Indictment
Sensational disclosures may be
made If the state is compelled to
show its whole hand, Hoyne limited,
but the prosecution hopes to obtain
the conviction Of the trio who go to
trial Monday without playing all its
cards. Then John c. Henning and his
wife, Josephine, who have confessed
the part they played in the alleged
conspiracy, will be taken before an
other grand jury that is expected to
vote indictments against higher-ups
who are reported to have furnished
the money. Hoyne would not say to-
night whether Charles 2. Palmer of
Canton, nj, down state democratic
| leader, who voted for Lefpner, while
g member Of the state legislature,
would be summNed as witness next
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
JURY TO PROBE
DYNAMITE CASE
Judge Appoints Men to Investigate
New Evidence Found in Davis
Confession.

/ United Press Leased Wire Service.l
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 4.-The
federal grand jury which will probe
the latest phase of the dynamite con-
spiracy revealed in the confession OF
Geo. E. Davis was drawn today on
the order of Judge A. B. Anderson.
The names were not made public,
The jury Will convene Nov. IL and
meanwhile a rigid Investigation of ell
matters related In the confession will
be made by District Attorney Chas-
w. Miller, assisted by Robt. j. Foster
a detective in the employ of the Ma
tional Erectors Association.
Three new bailiffs were appointed
today by Judge Anderson to guard
Davis. In personal characteristics
Davis resembles Ortie McManigal
whose confession helped to send the
Mcnamara brothers and thirty-three
other union leaders to the pen.
Davis is smiling perpetually, appar-
emily unmindful Of the responsibility
of answering for the dynamitings to
many open shop jobs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
POLITICS IN
MASSACHUSETTS,
cause He Was Turned Down
at Convention.

L y . E
limited Press Leased Wire Service.l l
BOSTON. Mass, Oct. Turned
down by the republican state conven-
ton here today when he sought to
amend its platform, Congressman Aug.
ustus Gardner declared he will run for
governor on platform of his own
David l. Walsll, present lieutenant
governor. the democratic nominee,
agrees with the democratic conven-
ton on the platform
The democratic convention was also
held today
On Monday the progressives are ex-
pected to meet. Governor Eugene Foss
denies that he may run rs an inde-
pendent with war on the New Haven
as his slogan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
BROKAW RELEASED
ON HIS ALIBIS
One Of His Strongest Claims was His
Face in Moving Picture
Film.

i
EUnited Press Leased Wire service.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Oct. A.
Fred Brokaw, arrested twelve days
ago on suspicion that he was impli
Gated in a series of murderous attacks
and robberies in various eastern
cities was released today on his own
reeognizance
His appearance tailed with tse de-
scriptions scattered broadcast by the
police in the east, but in each he was
able to produce a convincing alibi.
One of the clearest of them was the
discovery of his picture on movie
film taken the day of the Pittsburgh
assault and robbery which was the
specific crime charged against him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
LEFT HIS WEALTH
TO HIS EMPLOYEES
Thlrty-one Of Them Received 100000
In Stock Each, In the
Factory.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
BASTON, Penna., Oct 4.-Thirty-
one employees of the late Herman Sim
on, the largest individual silk mann-
facturer in the United States. each
received over $4,000 of stock in
the company, by provisions of Sim
on's will probated today. The estate
Is valued at s1o,Oo0,ooo. and sS.5oo,-
600 was left to employees Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Simon, the widow, received s10,-
600 cash. one-third OF the estate and
his life insurance with art treasures
and the home Simon provided that
the legatees incorporate company to
operate his plant. This company wss
to be formed with the remainder OF
the estate, divided into 1000 shares,
OF which the widow received 666.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
PRESIDENTS AUTO
STRUCK MESSENGER
Boy was Dodging Rocks and Turned
His Bicycle in Front of
Car.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-President
Wilson late today personally aided in
caring for a fifteen year old messen-
ger boy who was thrown from a BIZ
cycle and injured by his automobile.
The lad was not seriously hurt. The
president sent DR.. Grayson. his per-
sonal physician, with the boy to PROV
idence hospital in the secret service
car. Secretary Tumulty issued stats
ment at the white house stating that
the boy, an employe OF messenger
service, sweryed directly In front Of
the presidents car to avoid stones
thrown at him by other boys and that
the auto was going very slowly at the
time of the accident The president
directed DR.. Grayton to act with the
hospital physicians in caring for the
youngster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05

DEFAMAToRY REMARKS
Prioress Of Renedictlne Convent of
Mount Angel Was LibeIed
by the Story
Printed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
SALEM, Oregon, Oct An in
dictment for criminal libel was re-
turned today against ]. E. Mosmer,
editor of the Silverton Journal for
the publication of pamphlet contain
ing alleged defamatory and libelous
statements concerning the prioress of
the Benedictine convent Of Mount
Angel.
The pamphlet was entitled "The
Escaped Nun from Mount Angel Con-
vent, or the Last Stand OF Desperate
Despotism." 1t told story OF an al
legged confession of supposed nun,
giving the name of Miss Laseman,
who was said to have escaped" from
the convent and sought refuge of the
pastor of the Christian church in Sill
verton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
MISSIONARIES
IN SOUTH SEA
Thought to Have Either Per
ished in Tidal Wave Which
Swept Island or Etaen
by Cannibals

limited Press Leased 4 Service.l
OAKLAND. Calf, 4-Fearing
that her daughter am -in-law. Rev.
H. W. Savage, who tn their two
year old son, were to. the South
seas as missionary the Church of
Christ have peril = In the reported
submersion by dal wave Of the
island Of Agre-Agre Tue, Mrs. E. H.
Macauley, Of Oakland, appealed today
to the Malson Steamship Company to
locate her missing ones. Mrs Macaul-
ey last heard fro mher daughter May
16, when pathetic story of the ship.
wrecking Of the little family on Agre
Agre Tue during a storm was told.
Mrs. Savage was then Ill and she told
OF the presence OF cannibals on an is.
land only few miles away.
Rev. Savage and his wife are well
known in church work in Kansas City
st. Joseph, Mo-. and Battle Creek
Mich.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
chicaso,s Garbage.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Mayor Harri-
sons plan to dispose of Chicago's
garbage by dumping 1t into hole
was protested against tonight BY
three thousand people who gathered
at an Indignation meeting at a west
side hall-a thousand inside and
more than twice as many outside.
Health Commissioner Young, McKin-
ney, an attorney, and DR.. Sam1 Pet
ers were among the speakers. DR..
Peters said that the city could solve
it's garbage problem and save mil
lion dollars year by establishing an
incinerator He said that the failure
OF American citys to follow the example
of their European sisters in the hand
ling of the garbage question was a
municipal crime.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
public Denunclation.

limited Press Leased Wire SerYice.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Public de-
nunciations of American manufactur-
ers who attempt to withhold from
the ultimate consumer the benefits of
lower tariff rates" is the plan of the
Wilson administration according to of
ficials Of the department of commerce.
They pointed out they thought they
we're authorized by law to investigate
all business firms and to show their
exact profits. If these are discovered
to be greater under the new law and
because of it. than at present, the
fact will be published broadcast in
the hope that the consumer will di-
vert his patronage to other concerns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
Protest Against Mayor.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.There was but
enc discordant note in the indignation
meeting which 800 citizens of Des-
PLANES held tonight in protest against
the unwarlike sentiments of Mayor
w. M. Lawson, socialist. L. A. Rivon,
one of the speakers. concluded 4
laudation of war with the shout: And
will you tolerate a mayor who does
not favor war;
mo" and mo-" cried hundred
voices.
The meeting tonight was attended
chiefly by members of the G. A. r..
and w. R. c.. The fight on Mayor
Lawson began few days ago when he
announced his championship OF an
article in Desplain newspaper writ
ten by Jack London to discourage
young men from entering the army
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
PANAMA CANAL HAS
ANOTHER SHAKING UP

were moved about and in some in
stances, plaster, loosened by Wednes-
days quake, fell. The people, being
nervous as a result of the last quake
we're frightened and many ran into
the streets.
The only accident resulting from
the quake was in this city when
motorman, feeling the shock, jumped
off tram car on the terminal line,
abandoning the car. 1t crashed into
a coach, both being wrecked. No one
was injured.
The chief cause of apprehension is
in the fear that the isthmus is now
subject TO a series Of quakes. Soldiers
are guarding the canal locks night
and day and no one is permitted to
approach them at night. 1t is official,
ly stated that this precaution Is taken
because electric wires are being laid
to operate the locks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
Norman is Locked Up.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Oct. AID
mitting that he had improper rela>
tions with Miss Ida lockwood, charged
with murder OF her nine year old
daughter, but stoutly denying he ever
told the woman to murder her family
VIM. Norman, 2s, is under arrest to-
night awaiting arraignment Monday.
Norman gave himself UP this after
noon to Chief of Police Martinson.
Mrs. lockwood will not be given a
hearing until the result Of the exam
ination of Viola Leckwold' s stomach is
known which will not be for
several days. In the meantime she
is happier ad more contented since
her marriage ten years ago, according
to her own words. Club women are max,
ing collection for her benefit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
SUN SET CLEAR
IN TEXAS SKY
Flood Situation Improved Al
though There is Yet Con
siderable Water in
the State

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
DALLAS. Texas, Oct. 4.-With the
sun setting clear over north Texas this
evening the seriousness of the Texas
flood situation has begun to abate.
There will be many thousand dollars
damages to the railways and lumber
industry and until dry weather comes
a heavy loss to the cotton crop. AL
ready there has been tremendous dam
age to the cotton in the fields The
only hope is for clear weather and
late frost to make big top crop or
after growth.
The situation to the coast country
and southwest continues serious Re
ports are that the Sabine is again ris
ing and several streets at Orange are
once more under water. One Of the
saw mills is able to turn a wheel and
that is in the planning department. II
will be days before normal conditions
/ are resumed Reports from the rice
i fields are gloomy indeed and while
loss reports probably have been ex
aggerated the figures will be higt
enough
The Rio Grande Is rising at al
/ points within 200 miles of Browns
vile and it is out of its banks a
several places where fine cotton field
are under water with the staple dam
aged, If not destroyed.
Train service is seriously cripple
on all lines out of Houston and it |
almost an impossibility to max
schedules. Dispatchers are busy detoul
ing and patching and the time made
slow owing to soft tracks and hig
water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
CHARITY AWAKES
AFTER She DIED.
Woman Who Starved to Death
in the City Of Plenty, Had
Tasted no Food for
a Week
WEIGHED BUT 65 POUNDS
Had Been Driven Away From Garbage
Piles Where She Had Been
Picking Up
Food.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO. Oct 4.Too proud to
beg food and driven away from the
city dump where for several weeks
she had picked up enough cast OF
garbage to keep herself and three
children alive, Mrs. Mary Hcrach,
forty-five, died tonight OF starvation.
Physicians who attended the wom-
an when she was dying said she had
been without food for q week and
weighed only sixty-five pounds at her
death. Charity organizations upon
learning Of her death announced they
would begin an investigation. They
may be in time to save her body from
the potter's field.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
ago. Turkeys for the Thanksgiving
trade are expected to be brought in
by the mayor.
OFFICE SEEKER
TICKLED TUMULTY
Guide on Rubberneck Wagon had
Novel Plan for Getting Good
Recommendation

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-Secretary
Tumulty took jaunt through the city
today on sight seeing trip. Passing
the white house in an auto the lee
turer announced: There are the
executive offices and also those of the
president His secretary Is a genial
man Of good looks and rare ability"
Tumulty blushed and wondered what
job the lecturer was trying to get.
Then he was tickled, on questioning
him to discover that the guide did
not know he had the secretary as
his passenger.
p. s. Tonight Tumulty discovered
that the guide did know him and
wants a job as white house police
man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
BEAUTIFUL, ESTATE SOLD
WHEN HEIRESS is LOST

made his fortune. The estate is one
of the most beautiful In California.
Three years after the purchase OF
the chateau, Amelia, his daughter,
married Thaddeaus Stevens, son OF a
rich eastern widow. against Duvalls
wishes.
q have no daughter" was all Du-
vail would ever say, after the mar
riage.
Two years ago Portuguese Joe, 4
former servant at the chateau called
ON him and told him that Amelia 8
husband had left her and tHat she
was alone and destitute. Il have no
daughter" answered Duvall, by that
time an eccentric recluse. Two months
after this visit his wife died and ten
davs later Duvall followed Ier. He
left no will. His daughter has been
sought everywhere in vain. 1t Is be-
lieved she ls dead
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05
Gave Jones a Farewell.

UNITED Press Leased Wiro service.l
WINNIPEG, Man, Oct. 4-The res
idents of this city today rendered a
public luncheon to U. S. Consul Cen
eral ]. E. Jones who left tonight FOR
his new post at Genoa, Italy. He
was presented with solid silver desk
set. The presentation was made by
Sir Redmond Robin, premier of Man
itoba.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05

SPENCER BEING HELD
Suspect in Tango Teacher Murder
Claims He VIII Be Able
to Set up an
AIihi.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-Two puffs of
reddish brown, woman's hair, found In
trunk in the room of Edward G..
Spencer, solicitor. and correspond
Ing In color with the hair of the MUIR
dered woman, caused the police to re-
double their efforts tonight to con-
meet Spencer, who is held as a sus-
pect with the death of Mrs. Mildred
Allison-Rexro pretty tango instruc-
tor, who was shot and then thrown
under a freight train in lonely RAJ
iyne near. Wayne, ILL.,, one week ago.
Assistant Chief OF Police Schuttler
who took personal charge of the case
after Spencer was taken in custody,
put the prisoner through severe
sweating this afternoon and repeated
the ordeal tonight. SchuttIer emerg-
ed from the second ordeal convinced
| by no means that the detectives have
the right man. Spencer answers the
! description In every way of the man
who accompanied the dancing teacher
| into the ravine, he declared, but the
| fact that he is a six footer, whereas
all the witnesses, but one, have de-
4 scribed the murderer as man about
five feet six inches tall, nearly upsets
the dope. In the suspects trunk were
found sheaf Of love letters from
women, but apparently none Of them
q We're from Mrs. Allison Rexroat.
! The puff Of hair was taken to de-
! tectiVe headquarters and found to be
the same color as the switch identi-
fed as the one worn by the murder
ed woman on the night of the trag-
edy and found two days later in
Chicago railroad yard, thirty miles
from the scene OF the crime Spencer
admitted according to the police, that
he is tango devotee, and that he had
danced at the academy where Mrs.
Acknowledgement was an instructor. He
admitted that he was familiar with
the locality where the murder was
committed. AT one time he was a
brakeman on the Joliet and Eastern
railroad and later a motorman on the
Aurora and Elgin electric lines.
The mangled body of the dancing
teacher was found within few rods
of the intersection Of the two lines,
near Wayne, Spencer however de-
MED knowing the murder victim. Ho
declared that since he quit railroading
he had been employed soliciting ads
ror theatre curtains and that he would
. be able to establish an alibi If allowed
to communicate with his friends.
Professor Frank Oleson, proprietor
|. Of the dancing academy in which Mrs.
, Allison -Rexroat taught, will be asked
;. 10 look at Spencer upon his return
), from Springfield H., tomorrow and
! see whether he can identify him as
tho man WHO frequented the dancing
school and cabaret shows with the
tango instructor. Oleson was at the
state capitol looking over the list OF
licenses of chauffeurs in the theory
that the murderer may have been a
chauffeur
Another Suspect Arrested.
e DAVENPORT, Iowa. Oct. Ray
: Faye, alias Quinn, charged with being