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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
CHICAGO BANDITS
HAVE A PICNIC
Police Seem Poweriess to Put Stop to
Wholesale Rohherles Going
On,

/ Hunted Press Leased Wire Service
1 CHICAGO. Jan. Embellishments
/ the arrest OF two men and their posi-
tive identification as the automobile
bandits who committed the daring
robbery OF iewelsy store and wound
| ed two policemen FRIDAY night. the
usual number OF robberses and hold
ups were reported to the police %
day.
The two men under arrest are Al
bert Cbarest. -, and James Mitchell.
&C. They say they are from Detroit.
Policeman Fred Sticken. whom the
bandits shot aud threw out of their
automobile after he had arrested
them for speeding. identified them as
his assai,ants.
Hubert cattiith. thought to be an
other OF the gang, was also arrested.
but got away By Slipping ont Of the
hands of policeman
In he room occupied by Charest
and Mitchell. detectives found revoi-
lvers. loaded clubs. skeleton keys and
a burglars outfit
While the suspects were being
examined st Tstectt-e headquarters
ten other robhsr.ss were being commit
ted IN other paris q the city. Two
armed negroes held up George David
son. station agent on he elevated road
and stole $50 from the cash drawer.
Acting under orders from Mayor
Harrison % round up the automobile
bandits. police brought In another
score Of suspects &nd resumed .heir
hunt FOR ~Trlhy Thompson. the es-
caced convict from Joliet. who is
thought TO he the ROBBERS leader
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
VALUABLES FOUND
III THE SAND
Beach corbers Gl0ays Reap HtSn
Harvest After There -ss
Been Storm

United Press Leased Wirs gerVfcs.I
NEW YORK, Jan, s--song ~
lands obeach-combsrs@ are happily
counting today the rich harvest reap
ed from the gale-bIovu sands OF Par
Rockaway coney rsiand. Manhattan
and other beach resorts where the
summer crowds are wort 70 disDort
themselves
Every time there IS big storm
i the winds blow the top on these
beaches and uncover 10 the Eager ere
Of hundreds Of gearchers thousands
of dollars worth of valuable articles
lost by The summer bathers.
The finds at coney and Rockar2y
alone were estimated At value q
$4,000. No one appears on these oc-
casions to put in claim for any part
Of the treasures and finders never al,
yertise their luck.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
AIDE Can w.,L

toh.eu Press Lease Wire Service. j
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. George
: Ade IS able TO walk outdoors today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
MEXICO eettina Better.

{ United Press Leased Wire Service-l
srAaEHNGTOS, Jan. 6. Condi.
s3ons aloag the Mexican border are
greatly improved, according TO ad-
vices received By the state
Department The only alarming
re1erss csGe from Manager Hayes OF
ghe gabicorra Development Co, own
81 ~ William z. Heargt, situated
aear Madonna. state Of chihuahua,
w7o wired the american consul az
C1saaaf5u& That q force OF rebels are
approaching the conDany's property
band ~ rebels has captured indie
go5d mining camp in Durango.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
Hermann to be Elected

tUnite'' Press Leased Wire Service. !,
CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 6.-The re,
election OF August Hermann as chair
man OF the national baseball commits.
sion, and John Bruce, as secretary.
was regarded certain before the com,
mission met today for the transaction
OF routine business Hermann has
ueen chairman ten years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
PERSONALS.

E. 3. Watson OF Ottumwa was in
the city yesterday.
Truman Piantz, Jr.. of Warsaw was
Keokuk Sunday visitor.
G. r. Baker Of Centerville was q
visitor in the city yesterday.
j. P. Laffy and T. j. Laffy Of vii
mington. Del, are visiting in the city
Geo. Hubbard, the pop corn man
lef.. today for Norfolk, Va, to buy q
car Of peanuts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06

although he was still suffering slight
ly from the effects of bad fall on
the icy sidewalks yesterday. 1t was
first thought that the author and play.
wright had been internally Injured
but thorough examination today eS.
ploded this belief.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06

Montelle WaIsa, convicted IN 1911 at
Newark Of melting the mob that
lynched Carl Etherington. Ethering-
ton was gathering evidence against
liquor sellers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06

Harsh physics react, weaken tsa
bowels. cause chronic constipation
Doan's Regulets operate easilv tona
the stomach, cure constipation sso
Ask your druggist for them a 4oS
tisement. g.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-06
Deserves a Monument.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. e.--F'red San
ders, who Introduced to the world the
ice cream soda, is dead today at his
palatial residence here. He was the
largest retail candy merchant in De.
troit Sanders also had the distinc-
ton Of bringing the first automobile
to this city.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

feet Ia second they will fling them
selves upon the surprised battleship.
They will approach bows on display
ing to the enemy's gunners a black
wedge twenty-five feet wide at it's top,
and travelling so rapidly toward the
gun that accurate hitting will be near
.ly impa ssible ever if the searchlight
could effectively give sufficient illum-
ination.S At the distance. of two miles
it will fire four torpedoes, each at a
battleship of the enemy. Each tor
pedo carries a wal head charge of
g%un-cotton of $50 lbs, and its speed
will be twe nty-seven knots. 1t will
run ten feet below the surface and il
1T hits the underwater plating will
cause damage sufficient to either sink
or totally disable the battleship.
The accuracy of the modern torpedo
is almost tbeyond comprehension, tor
pedo after torpedo have been fired at a
target, a small flag over a mile and a
half away from the d~estroYers, steam
ing at thirty knots. and a miss OF
more. than a few yards seldom occurs.
The torpedo is a very expensive
weapon, each costing from five to
seven thousand dollars: 1t may be
seen that a navy could hardly afford
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

and giving to the torpedo a high
speed.
After all the adjustments have been
made, which are many and each is
vital to the success of the run, the
torpedo is loaded into the tub and
the tube closed upon it. Then a
powder charge is inserted in a recep-
tacle and the firing mechanism cooked
ready for ejeeting the torpedo from
the tube into the. water. The tube
now is trained in the true direction to
tire, the torpedo CUR pointer using a
director with a telescope mounted
upon it. The director is a mcdaniel
solution of the speed of torpedo, speed
of target and course of enemy which
will give the direction in which the
torpedo must start to hit a. moving
target. When h target is station
airy all these factors become zero and
the. torpedo dives directly for the
target. -
The torpedo is ready for its run
the pointer I'M his seat on top of the
tube is eager to train on the target
when it becomes visible. The de-
stroyer at full speed steams directly
to the attack. AT three. or maybe
! four thousand yards the destroyer
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

to expend in such wholesale name
a vast number of torpedoes for the
purpose of drilling the men who will
fire them in battle. That the men
must be trained and the torpedo run is
quite necessary and to do this without
loss is an every day occurrence on
board a destroyer. Instead of the
war mead containing high explosives, a
practice head similar in weight and
size is fitted; secured within a cavity
in this head is a calcium phosphate
torch. Now we can fire the torpedo
exactly as would he lone in war, and
the torpedo after expanding all it's air
will rise to the surface of the water
and there float, giving off smoke in
the day time and a bright calcium
flame at night to show the destroyer
where 1t is located.
The process of getting a torpedo
ready for firing is to torpedo men an
every day occurrence. They think
nothing Of it. The torpedo air flask
is charged with air at $3.50 pounds
pressure. This air leads through a
stop valve to the engine of the tor
pedo. This engine is capable of max
ing a great number of revolutions pei
! minute, driving two propeller shaft:
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

The advantage of d~estroyers is two,
fold. first to guard the big vessels a.
night against hostile raids of thes
night riders and, second, to serd
them out on similar raids against tn
enemy's battleships. If q battle flee
is plentifully supplied with thcs,
small vessels one-half car he kept on
guard while the others by attacking
the enemy make it imperative for hin
to hold his own destroyers with hin
Who has not gazed with pride on tn
huge gray hull of Il battleship. w
have wondered at it's mighty size, Tho
destructive power of its guns, we ave
told. Is more serious than an earth
| Quake and car leave ruin in its PAT
worse han the swiftest cyclone; am
these at distances where the dread
naught" appears only a speck on tn
horizon. That anything could daunt
this i~mpregnahle floating fortress
could cause it to stop even for breath
in it's juggernaut way, seems absurd
yet the destroyer spells to this noun
tain of strength n terror which is too
important to overlook, too strong to
refuse to consider. The destroyer ter
ror. like the n~oxious vapor from a poi
snnous sWamp. is ever in the night air.
As the sun drops into the sea. ana
while the moon is yet beneath the
horizon, the battleships lose their air
Of unronquerahie majesty and wish
to shrink unseen into the gloom: to be
lost from all eyes until the night has
vanished and h sun again rears its
head. or until the moon comes to dis
pei the shadows in which the de-
stroyer is hiding, ever ready to issue
forth, unseen, unheralded n unwcl-
come. and rush down upon it's blind
prey.
The destroyer in time Of peace has
q hare time to maintain its military
se~lf-respect. Being of high speed it is
a very convenient vessel to do all
manner of odd missions for the bat
tleships: from CARRYING marketing t.
playing messenger boy" That thesu
duties are not legitimate every on
knows, but in time of peace the bat Cd
tleships do not need guarding and the
destroyer is always in the way
Some work must be made for her
However, when war comes and thu
first night shuts down it win h.
please walk in front, sir" to the pitt
fully few d~estroyers so far commits
stoned to protect our great battleship
fleet.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

turns sharply through ninety degrees
bringing it's b%roadside toward the tar
get. The gun pointer, using his rain
ing wheel, quickly aims, and when his
cross wires are on pushes his KEY.
The powder impulse charge explodes,
a pressure of about 80 lbs. per square
inch is put upon the rear end of the
torpedo, which forces 1t through the
open end of the tube. at a rate OF
about thirty-five feet per second. As
it leaves the tube the starting valve
is opened and the engine begins to
turn over, When the torpedo takes
to the water in a long flat dive the
throttle automatically opens wide and
at from 81 to 35 knots speed the tor
pedo starts truly in the direction fired.
To maintain the direction straight a
gyroscopic steering gear is installed
which prevents the deviation from the
straight path.
No sooner has the torpedo cleared
the tube h a the destroyer turns to-
ward the target and at high speed
races the torpedo it has fired. When
the torpedo has ended it's run a thin
curl of white smoke can be seen on
the water, the destroyer stops neal
and lowers a boat which pulls for the
torpedo so easily disrerned by the
smoke of the p%hosphide of calcium
which produces the parodoxical phe-
nomenon of burning on water. The
boat secures its lines to the torpedo
and pulls back to the ship where the
! torpedo crews receive 1t, hosting it
aboard to get it ready for another
shot. As d~estroyers Will do their fir
ing of ~torpedoes at night in war time.
much practice is one at night. 1t is
II weird sensation to see q destroyer
far out, indistinctly visible on the
horizon. its lights dimly burning; if
all lights We're out nothing could be
seen. You are sitting in a small boat
near a target upon which n calcium
torch has been set burning. You
watch as the seconds tick away until
you have counted four minutes Their
you see a white streak Of bubbles
heading for the small flag md pass
within a few feet Of the speck O
light, Five hundred fee beyond {
flame suddenly appears on the water
and h destroyer at terrific speed
suddenly approaches out of the night
tearing down upon you; you see II
stop n back it's engines, and a boat
shoots down from its davits and pull!
quickly over to the flame on the wa,
tiers. 1t is the torpedo lighted by tn
calcium torch. Lines are made fas
and the boat pulls back to the ship
The torpedo has been hoisted on boar,
and the destroyer dissolveS into tn,
night to fire again at the target. Yo,
marvel and pity the battIeship if thi
Is to be it's enemy.
One may well commisserate will
the battleship, for at night against
flotilla of attacking destroyers it i
doomed. The battle fleet that has al
inadequate number of d~estroyers mus
be forever handicapped.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

could be used in all weathers on the
open sea, whereas the smaller type
was restricted to operating near
shore,
The destroyer spelt the doom of
the tOrpedO-boat. AS soon as this
type became fixed in the favor of the
obsolete In no new ones were built.
The larger vessels had taken over the
torpedo boats duties with their own.
When h torpedo first came to no.
tice as a weapon useful in war, the
effective range was only 500 yards
n his small range did not increase
rapidly rs the years went on. There
was quite an interval of time before
the thousand-yard torpedo became IN
established fact. Then the useful
limit of the searchlight, the w%arship's
main stay in it's protection against the
torpedo, was scarcely more than this
distance The searchlight was quickly
improved and no M had it reached
out to two thousand yards in efficient
ly illuminating an attacking torpedo
boat OF destroyer than the torpedo in
creased its radius of action to wv
thousand five hundred yards. For a
IAhio ~ ioohSu as IL tAc ScdiSiiA6Al
might hold its own; hen suddenly
through the invention of the super
heater, by which the air in the tor
pedo is heated in its passage to the
engine, the range of the Twenty-Five
hundred-yard torpedo became five
thousand years and the searchlight
gasped and sputtered, but could not
penetrate the night further than four
Thousand yards, which means that a
destroyer carrying the latest torpedo
can, on a dark night with all it's lights
d~arkened, remain beyond the range Of
visibility of the. best searchlight and
fire it's torpedoes with accuracy and
even without danger to itself.
The destroyer of the present day is a
vessel of about 700 tons displacement;
at the present writing the new designs
call for one thousand tons capable of
steaming at a speed of over 80 knots.
1t has a radius Of action of over foul
thousand miles at a speed Of about
ten knots and can steam n thousand
miles at a speed of twenty-five. knots
an hour, thus covering the distance
in forty hours. Destroyers are used
tactically in groups to attack the
enemy's battleships at night. In war
time they will seek the. enemy at a
speed of twenty-five knots and after
they ave located their quarry will
attack at their highest speed. Tearing
through the water at the rate of fifty
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

Few outside of that class of men
whose occupation it is to be prepared
"to let loose the dogs of war" know
the meaning of the name destroyer"
as appli I'd to a type of warship. Those
who know in a vague way that it is a
long black vessel with many smoke
stacks and of high speed stop there
in their understanding. Wherein it
will he useful in war; the value of it's
great speed: with what destructive
weapons it is armed, and like knowl-
edge few of our land brothers seem to
have grappled. .
The term destroyer is only an abb
breviation from the original name
given to this type-Torpedo-Boa
Destroyer.
Many years back when the auto
mobile torpedo rose above ar expert
mental fad, a speedy vessel was need
ed to be able at night to steal in on
an u%nfriendly ship of war and before
discovery fire a torpedo from a tor
pedo tube. The range of the torpedo
at this time was scarcely a quarter
of a mile and while the torpedo-boat
was steaming into this close distance
the warships could pour upon it's UNI
protected hull a rain Of shells; the
warship's searchlights meanwhile il
Illuminating distinctly the dark hull in
order that the unners could see their
target. The torpedo-boat's chief aim
was to surprise it's antagonist and get
to torpedo range before the dreaded
guns could be gotten ready to shoot.
+ There soon became a feverish haste
by all nations to build these terrify-
ing little vessels; and after each great
power had acquired a fleet of them,
then naval experts saw h necessity
of a new type of warship-a vessel
fast enough to overhaul and destroy
these delicate. structures of steel, and
thus rid the big ships of their nightly
terrors of being sunk by a torpedo.
At first it was the intention of arm
ing this new type of ship, the tor
pedO- boat destroyer" with guns only
in order to sink the torpedo-boat by
gun fire; then it became evident that
by giving them torpedoes in addition
to their guns they could be used also
to attack the enemy's battleships at
night. Although much larger than the
torpedo-boa it was found by expri-
ment that on a dark night the. de-
stroyer could win it's way to dangerous
torpedo range before the battleshiI
could discover II: and being of greater
tonnage, the new torpedo vessel was in
consequence more seaWorthy and
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27
POETRY DOESN'T PAY.

New york. April 26.-Wil Carleton,
the poet who died recently, left less
than nothing, it became Known todaN
through the official appraisal OF his
estate. The gross assets, %including
poets library and the copyright on
his books fell SIS short of the amount
the appraiser found necessarz
to square his accounts.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-11
Bethel Notes .
Still warm and dry.

Still warm and dry.
Mrs. Birmingham returned
home Sunday, after spending two
weeks with her daughter Mrs.
Marion Hughs.
Mrs. j. A. Hanson and children
of Meade, Kansas, is visiting her
sister, Mrs, Ella Terrell, this week
Rev. Hinkle preached at Bethel
Sunday afternoon.
Don Grimwood and Gertrude
Jones called on Joseph Hinkle aud
sister Sunday evening,
zula Jones is visiting with her
aunt, Mrs, Marion Hughs this
week.
j. F. Lofland and wife visited
with Mrs. Terrell Saturday night
and Sunday.
Bertha Pruett and Hazel Glover
we're calling on friends in the
Union district Monday evening.
J. T. Jones and wife and Mrs,
Birmingham called at j 5
Wheeless' Sunday evening.
Several of the farmers in this
vicinity attended a farmers asso-
citation meeting at Forgan Monday
night.
Mrs. j. T. Jones and daughter
Gertrude, called on Mrs, TerreI
Monday evening,
Mrs. Thos. Laudreth is recover.
ing from an attack of hay fever;
Mrs. Birmingham spent Mon
day night with Mrs, ". T. Pot
ter.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-11

He has managed Chautauquas, been
identified as bureau manager, book;
Ing agent and all around Chautauqua
expert.
His THAT Printer of Udells" is re.
garded as among one Of the greatest
masterpieces of Interpretation ever
presented to a Chautauqua audience,
He has genius, talent, gift, training
personality, confidence, understanding
of his audience and everything that is
needed for success in his work, He
has been booked on some of the larg
est Lyceum and Chautauqua platforms
In the country and is known almost
wherever he goes Last summer he
went over the entire seven-day circuit
of the Redpath.IIorner Chautauquas
and was the big success in entertain
ment In each one,
His Sunday programs are a big
feature,
You will want to hear Kemp this
GUNNER. He has other selections
which will be announced the day he
arrives Just what he will use here
has not been announced. But 1t will
be something you will want to hear.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-11
Eureka Items.

We are still having hot. dry
weather in these parts.
Mesdames G. H. and G. E.
Morehouse were in Liberal Thurs
day.
Miss Della Adair of Liberal,
spent a few days with relatives
last week, returning home Satur
day.
A good many of the Eureka
people attended the picnic at
Wardenbee's grove on the 4th.
DIR. Carry Elliott of New Mex
leo. and his father, G. w. Elliott
of Liberal, visited with the form
ers brother, Walter Elliott and
family, Thursday.
Mr.. Hillbarn, who used to live
in this neighborhood, is reported
as being quite i'll and not expect
ed to live, at his home near Tyrone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Young spent Sun
day ut the Hillbarn home.
MIR. and Mrs. Bookless and Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. King attended
the speaking at Independence on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Morehouse
and daughter, Lavaca, spent the
day at their daughters home,
Mrs. w. T. Capps.
Ed Hudkins took a trip up into
Kansas last week.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-11


Chautauqua work since that time and
that work and her success in the Ly
ceum have put her at the head OF a
company of her own, GRACE LEWIS
AND COMPANY.
Her work is of such an exceptional
character that today she is looked
upon by the best critics in the Lyceum
as the most promising of the younger
Lyceum readers.
Grace Lewis has pleasing way OF
stepping out on to the platform and IN
almost a minute the identity of the
artist is lost; it is her work-her char.
acters alone that stand out. 1t is this
success she has made everywhere-in
every effort-and the fine understand
ing she has of Chautauqua demands
and the keenness in meeting them
that have put her at the very head OF
the list of younger readers.
GRETCHEN SCHEIDT, contralto
and pianist, is a Chattanooga (Tenn.)
girl. of fine temperament and excep'
tional musical ability, with touch OF
sympathy in her work that, somehow
strikes Just right. AS a contralto, her
voice is beautifully low, and yet so
high that it possesses the mezzo so
prano quality to a marked extent. So
that, in her singing, she has an I'M
usual range.
She was graduated under August
r. t. 81 ma ~
lean teacher of the Jean DeReske
method of singing, and he sent her out
as one OF mis- most brilliant" pupils,
WILLIAM ROLLER is the assistant
professor Of violin in the American
Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He
has appeared in concert work in some
Of the largest musical halls of the
cities of this country and received
praise from the best critics.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-11
CHAUTAUQUA TO
HAVE A MAGICIAN
CheVaIIsr viii Be Here In an Eve.
ming Of New Mysteries,

From the beginning Of Chautauquas
a feature OF their programs has been q
magician.
And of course the Chautauqua that
is to be here this summer will have q
magician Aud not one OF the com
mon kind, either.
Chevalier, the imperial German fan
tastic magician of the Chautauqua, Is
bringing from Germany some para
phernalia that represents ap outlay Of
hundreds of dollars. And 1t is all new
He is assisted in all his work by
his son, Karl, a very gifted lad, who
has worked with his father in the arr
of magic since he was mere youth
The mysteries Of magic appeal Ia
everybody, providing of course the ma
gician has something new and a full
mastery of his art,
Magicians have been sent over the
Chautauqua circuit so often 1t would
be worth little to send one out who
was not thoroughly capable of present
ing magic in new way and Offering
many new surprises.
Chevalier comes direct from the
east and has never been seen west ot
the Mississippi. And something Of ar
exceptional character Is promised In
his coming,