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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
If California Passes the Allen Land
Bill There Will be Something
Doing in
Japan.
CHINESE ARE INCLUDED
President Wilson and Secretary Of
State Bryan Are Ready to
Meet the
Issue.

United Press Leased Wire Service. j
WASHINGTON, April 16.-The sit
uation growing out of the pending anti
alien land owning legislation in Cali
fornia, today became one demanding
active attention from both the presi-
dent and Secretary of State Bryan.
The Japanese government has renew
ed it's protest against the measure as
amended in the California senate and
has frankly told the administration
that, while an attempt to disguise has
been made, the measure was chiefly
directed against the Japanese. 1t is
expected that formal protest bearing
the sanction of the Toxic govern.
ment will be made to the president
through the state department, as soon
as 1t is certain that the measure will
pass.
The president himself does not be
| lieve that he can take any official
action to prevent the passage of the
California sentiment of all parties is
| favorable to the proposed law, but he
has also been assured that if the leg
{ Iislature should abandon it, the peo
pie themselves would force its enact
ment by the initiative right.
Secretary Of State Bryan arrived al
the executive offices almost stimuli
taneously with President Wilson to
day. They conferred at length on thu
! japanese attitude as expressed by thu
Japanese ambassador during his con
4 ference with the president yesterday
afternoon. 1t was decided that the
situation should be carefully watched
and that if necessary a representative
of the state department would pro
tceed to Sacramento, so that first hant
! information would be available to tnt
president and Secretary Bryan at al
times.
1t was learned that the presiden
and his chief advisor hold the right o
the state to enact legislation Is para
mount and that the federal govern
ment has no right to interfere 81
long as such legislation is not Of thu
class variety. The objection origin
ally raised to the bill now pending il
Sacramento that it was directed sole
lily against the japanese and Chinese
has been met by amending it to in
clude all aliens.
1t was understood here that al
ready in Japan plans are under wa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
WIPlNG OUT OF
GREAT FORTUNES
Vice President Marshall in Fa.
vor Of Giving Them to
State After Death.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, April 16.-"If the
men of power and wealth consult
their conscience in business they will
not have to worry much about the
law" emphatically asserted Vice
President Thomas r. Marshall today
The vice president has been deluged
with flood of criticism from rich
men and women following his speech
in New York last Saturday night
when he warned millionaires that If
they are not careful they will find a
proposition raised and carried that
all great fortunes shall escheat to the
state Marshall, however, stuck to
his guns today and declared that the
idea was not original with him, that
it had been endorsed by the attorneys
of the country generally, and that
some such plan will eventually be
adopted in this country.
when I said in New York that
Carl Marx and hunger and a longing
for happiness were abroad in the
land, said the vice president, q
was expressing not alone my own
opinion, but the opinion of others
From men Of all classes have heard
expressions of disgust with present
economic politics
Men are asking that the opportuni
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
TO WEAR
TAX TAGS, LIKE Dogs

he completes the draft of the bill.
They will suggest that:
Journalists those possessing
walking sticks shall be decorated
with cardinal stripes. worn across the
shirt front.
Newspaper men"-those who mere
ly work on newspapers and have no
authorship bugs shall wear the skull
and cross-bones on the right coat
sleeve.
Cub reporters" shall wear bright,
neatly polished badges on their hat
bands.
Journalists, newspapermen and
cub reporters will protest against
that provision of the O'Hara bill that
would fine an unlicensed reporter
from $40 to 500 a day They shook
their heads and inquired IL anyone
ever had that much money all at
once
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
SILK DRESSES
MADE OF JUNK
One Secret Of the Silk Mill is
Revealed by the Strike
of the Workers.

United Press Leased Wire Service. i
PATERSON, n. j., April 16.-Not
from the cocoon of the silk worm, but
from the rusty horse shoes, scrap
iron and empty tomato cans on the
city dumps comes the silk that makes
milady's clinging gown and the bright
hued necktie of her escort, according
to the men who labor in the silk mills
of Paterson.
Rendered desperate by the two
months old struggle to obtain their
demands, the $4,000 silk strikers to-
day began systematic exposure of
the secrets Of their trade Led by
VIM. d. Haywood, group of skilled
silk mill operators today made public
the secrat of the "tin dres"
"The silk dress that the average
woman takes such lride in" declared
Haywood as spokesman for the group,
'is not really silk dress at all, but
tin dress 1t is composed of about
one part silk fibre to six parts tin,
iron. lead or zinc. The metal comes
from the scrap heaps back OF the fac.
tory 1t is dumped INFO vats and
treated chemically to make solution.
The raw silk is dipped In the solution
and when taken out and dried the
fibres have absorbed from four to
/
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
Unclaimed penosits

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, April 16-That banks
should be given all unclaimed depos.
its in return for their trouble in
carrying the accounts, was the state.
ment made by F. R. Elliot, treasurer
of the Harris Trust and Savings bank
who testified before the state senate
investigating committee.
III a creditor does not put In his
claim inside Of five years, in regular
business, his account is outlawed, =
said Mr.. Elliot, 80 why should banks
be treated differently?"
Elliot testified that his bank car,
ried $50 accounts representing s1,10o
which had not been touched In the
past seven years. He favored allow.
ing the banks to retain this money
after a period of years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
Mob Were After Mrs. Stroud
and Her Affinity But They
Had Been Moved.

lunlted Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SHREVEPORT, La, April 16.-That
double lynching at Vivian, eleven
miles from here, was narrowly avoid.
80 last night was learned today when
telephone message stated that a
hop searched the oil city jail in
search of young Mrs. Della Stroud,
VINO killed her husband in the pres.
snce OF Edward Beeler, an admirer
me mob was bent upon lynching the
woman and Bee.er However, she
nau been brought here for safe-keep.
ing' and Beeler, whom she had shot
~ The leg accidentally. while shoot
,ng at her husband, had been brought
70 local hospital.
ofcers here have been told that
'ne woman recently insured her hus.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
Ushers Testify to Prove That He Did
Not Remain at Home With
the House
Maid.
Girl Who susht Charges Against
sey Superintendent Mas
s Hard Case to
2 Prove.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
PITTSBURGH. Pa. April 10
Ushers of the East Liberty Presbyter.
ian church testified today in the
third day of the trial of Superintend-
ent of Schools S. l.. Heeter, that
Heeter always accompanied his wife
to church on Sunday morning, the
defense attempting to prove that the
superintendent did not remain at his
home with Miss Ethel Fisher, the
housemaid, as she alleged in making
the serious charges against him.
Testimony of Mrs. Heeter that she
was with him in the evenings, after
she and Miss Fisher had put the chill
dren to bed, and the assertions of
office employees that Miss Fisher did
not at any time visit Heeter in his
office, constitute the rest of the de
tense evidence in refutation of the
girls story
Physicians gave expert testimony
today on questions broughA into the
case because of the alleged illegal op-
Grafton
Eight prominent residents of St
Paul. where Heeter was superinten.
| dent of schools before taking up SINH.
lar duties here, were introduced as
character witnesses this afternoon by
the defense.
Attempts during the afternoon tx
introduce evidence concerning Miss
Fishers past life Were blocked by OBJ
jections by the prosecution
1t is likely that the case will be CIV
en- to the jury late today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16

Keep:ne Posted
Wasted Opportunities!

w dSleu OppOI luulIlSS.
How many things we have
proposed to do, how many
planned yet how We loiter in
our noblest purposes! You may
be always successful if you do
but set out well and let your
thoughts and practices proceed
upon right method
You have often made up your
mind to buy something for the
person or the home, but have
put off doing SO from time to
time. Then one day you pick
UP a week-old paper and dis
cover some especially worth
while offer of the very thing
you needed.
This emphasizes the import
ance of keeping posted on when
and how to buy by advantage.
Grasp your opportunities by
reading the advertisements in
THE GATE CITY carefully
every day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
SLAYER Of D|ETz
HAS CONFESSED
So Rumor Says, But Police Would
Neither Confirm Nor Deny
the Story of Con-
fession.
SUSPECT rs ARRESTED
For Nearly Year the Tailor Had
Been Marked Man and in
Fear Of His
Life.

lUnlted Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, April TO- George Ring
ler, Jr, fiance of Edna May Freder-
ickson, whose death the police are
attempting to link with the myster
ious murder of George Di-ta, wealthy
tailor and patron of art, was arrested
early today as he stepped from the
steamer Carolina from Milwaukee.
Ringler was taken to detective
headquarters and closeted with men
working on the case. He protested
that he did not know Dietz, never
heard the Frederickson girl speak of
him and that he first heard of the
murder yesterday morning when a
steward on the Carolina told him of 1T.
! Ringler's arrest tended to disprove
the report that a man arrested last
night by private detectives confessed
early today that he was the murderer
OF Dietz. The police today refused to
either deny or confirm the story that
the murderer of the tailor was under
arrest and had confessed They de.
MED specifically that any suspect in
the Dietz murder was held at the
Shakespeare avenue station, where
the man arrested by the private de-
tective was taken last night. 1t is be-
lieved that the prisoner was spirited
away to an outlying station to escape
newspapermen.
The story that the murderer had
been arrested and had confessed was
4 told by George Hafs, a private detec
tive, who was employed by Dietz q
year ago to trace the author of sew
eral anonymous letters threatening
the tailors life. On information he
obtained during the previous investi
cation Hafs last night placed under
arrest a Swede about fifty years old
4 whose name was not made public.
The prisoner was taken to the
Shakespeare avenue station where he
was questioned until 2:3O this morn.
ling by Assistant Chief of Police Schu.
ettler and Coroner Hoffman. Hafs
told newspapermen that the Swede
had confessed and that dictagraph
/ placed in the room where he was ques
toned, was used to witness the con.
fession
Neither Schuettler nor Coroner Hoff.
man would confirm the report of the
confession. They took from the
i Swede's pocket several cards, said to
4 be Dietz's business cards and sub
! jected number Of papers found in
the prisoners pockets to close
scrutiny.
At the conclusion of the examina
ton, Schuettler, Hoffman and the
prisoner were placed in an automo
bile and whisked away.
From Hafs and from persons living
near the Dietz apartments, the po
lice learned today that Dietz had been
a marked man for nearly year He
frequently received anonymous let
ters threatening his life. Strange
men hung about his house and fol
lowed him from his tailoring estab.
ment. On the evening of April 10
while party of friends were playing
cards at the Dietz home, a face ap.
Ipeared at the rear window and then
vanished Dietz was plainly nervous
4 and drew the curtains.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
s15o,ooo Damages.

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16-Charg
ing libel through a telegram sent to
a London bank regarding his credit
VIM. Hammond Hall has sued John
Hays Hammond, the multi-millionaire
mining man, for $150000 damages
The action was filed in the U. s
district court. Hall is civil engi
neer and prominent clubman here. The
details of the telegram are not given
hut Hall alleges it materially damag
ed his credit,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
Illinois Nav Have State Board
of Examiners to Pass Upon
and Label Them.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, April 16.-Gathered in
the press room at the city hall and
court house building today score of
reporters from, Chicago dailies SOL
emnly discussed the proposal of Lien
tenant Governor Barratt O'Hara to
have state board of examiners ap-
pointed to pass upon the qualifications
of a newspaperman and label him
properly.
A delegation of reporters will visit
O'Hara and offer suggestions before
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
Ten TO ONE ON
GUILTY VERDICT
Pfanschmidt's Fate. Will Soon b..
With Jury and Interest is at
Fever Heat
Today.
FOR LOVE OF A GIRL
Sweetheart for Whom He is CHARGED
With Numbering His Parents,
Still Faithful to
Him.

limited Press Leased Wire Service |
QUINCY, ILL.,, April 1e.-With the
evidence completed and with the argu.
ments OF counsel in progress, interest
IN the Ray Pfanschmidt quadruple
murder trial was at fever heat today,
and sporting circles posted bets on
the life OF the young contractor.
In the poolroom where he testified
he was playing at the time the four
murders are believed to have been
committed, the following odds were
current:
to / he will not hang.
3 to / he gets life sentence.
10 to he is not found innocent.
to 2 on hung jury.
With the popular belief SO strong
that the jury will not find Ray limo
cent, Esther Reeder, believed to be
the motive Of the murders if they
We're the work of the prisoner, main.
tanned her composure today, and stat
ed confidently that her lover was in.
nocent
If the states theory is the righ.
one, 1t was for the love of Esther that
Ray killed his father, mother, sister
and Miss Emma Kaempen.. He did it
if he did 1t at all, because he mus,
hive money to marry Esther, and
knew that following the wholesale
slaughter he would be the only he'll
to his fathers estate of $4,000.
Esther has emerged from the tria
| in a determined and satisfied frame
of mind. When damaging evidence
had been presented she has remained
l.unmoved with eyes fastened on the
witnesses. Her feeling at such times
was expressed by her today:
II have got used to herring things
about Ray that were not true. have
talked with him only once since the
/ trial started. We are still engaged
and when he is freed We will marry
"Yes, he is innocent"
1 "Yes, he is innocent, am sure
but whether the jury will find him SC
4 Is QueSllou. LSy w SldAy luihts
some times.
Il heard the story that he had con
/ fessed to me, and that if they hung
him he would leave his property tt
me. It's lie. They told those stories
to injure him. We only talked shor
time when he sent for me.
mo, won't tell what we talked
about she said, blushing.
All evidence was in last night. The
Istate occupied the afternoon with re
Ibuttal testimony, consisting principal
lily of confirmation of witnesses o
statements made to them by Plan
schmidt, which he has denied on the
stand The evidence further demon
strated that the relations between Ra,
and his family and other relatives
we're not as pleasant as relatives OF
1 the stand had said.
The case of the state is purely cir
cumstantial and rests principally OF
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
ROME, April 16.-Though greatly
weakened by the relapse of last night,
Pope Plus x slept well for several
hours. After the first thorough ex.
animation today, Professor March
iafava and DR.. Amici issued the follow
ing bulletin:
The pope slept TRANQUILITY for sew
eral hours and his temperature this
morning is 101.S. His heart condition
Is good.
tSigned) "Marchiafaya, Amici."
Throughout the night an anxious
crowd kept careful watch on the
vatican, for Notwithstanding the as.
surances Of Professor Marchiafava
there was doubt that the satisfactory
general condition" of the pontiff is
born out by the facts.
In the early night the pope's condi
tion first became really alarming
His temperature rose to almost 109
and remained there for hours. His
iF1i''N vas fClS NCdh iIN up SdSilCI
with the greatest difficulty The
bronchitis condition returned, notice
ably more acute than before, and his
holiness was unable to cough satisfac
fcrily. Sounds in the bronchial tubes
indicated the spread of the infection
to his lungs and the physicians con
templated giving him an emetic il
order to clear the windpipe
The bronchial natures presented
new and grave symptoms. The par,
OF the left chest. already affected
grew perceptibly, with large area o.
possible congestion, an Indication o.
pneumonia.
The archaeological examination o.
the pontiff's sputum confirmed The
Tears of the physicians, that the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
Democrats in Caucus Discuss the
Wool Schedule and Downward
Revision of Cotton and
Flax.
-~ Through m mA. .aMsM @ay
FACTORIES MAKE KICK EVENINGS WITH WIFE CHI
Ask That New Tariff Be Not Effec-
tive Until January 1, to
Give Them One More
Good Gouse.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, April 16.-"Cheap-
er clothing was the slogan today of
the house democrats in their tariff
caucus. The downward revision
fight centered today on the cotton,
flax and wool schedules, with the most
bitter factional struggle set over the
proposal of the Underwood bill to put
raw wool on the free list.
Assaults of cotton "protectionists'
uniformly failed. Today's principal
debate, however, centered on free
wool" The middle and far western
democrats from wool growing states
were led by Representative Ashbrool1
of Ohio. They demanded duty OF
| fifteen percent on raw WOOL although
they had little hope of success.
Other tariff battles impending to-
day were over reduced duties on
ready-made woolen clothing, carpets
and dress goods.
| The house ways and means commit
tee today considered an appeal from
manufacturers associations asking that
the new tariff be not in effect until
January / next, to give merchants
and manufacturers an Opportunity to
adjust themselves to the new rates
4 The party leaders, however, making
the bill effective Immediately upon It's
passage and signature by the presi
dent.
/ Passed in Present Form.
WASHINGTON, April 16--"The
1 Wilson Underwood tariff bill will be
4 passed by the house in practically it's
present form, said Representative
Underwood, chairman of the house
ways and means committee, to Presi
dent Wilson today. The house leader
called to explain that the bill was
now over the hill'' so far as the
house caucus was concerned; that the
clauses on which the hardest fights
were experienced had found the ma
| jority "standpatting'' with the presi
dent and that it would be easy run
ming henceforth. The president ex
| pressed the belief tnat when the bill
finally reached the senate it would
have as easy a time of it as in the
house.
Underwood told the president thai
the bill would not be held up yer.
long in passage. After the caucus gets
through, he said, there will be few
days of general debate and then the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
RELAPSE LAST NIGHT
gloomy Rumors Sped Through Rome
But Doctors, Give Out Rath-
er Encouraging
Bulletins.
~ > ~> = : . : % . : . =

= [By Henry Wood, United Press =
y correspondent. Z
. ROME, April 16.-Pope Plus X =
= is dying and the end is but .
y question of a few hours, accord Z
y ing to the belief of the aged Z
= pontiff's brother, sisters and the 4
. church dignitaries now at the 4
. bedside. This information was Z
= given me this evening by vati-
can attache in a position to know =
. the facts. .
= DR.. Marchiafava has not yet =
= admitted abandoning hope When =
= asked if he believed the holy =
father had chance of rallying,
DR.. Amici only shook his head
and declined to make any COM
ment. q
Throughout the city hope has
been abandoned and preparations
= are going on everywhere in a
fashion to confirm the general
= belief that his holiness will not .
= survive the night. Z
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-16
American Who Disappeared In Lon
don Two Weeks Ago Has Not
Turned Up
Yet.
BROTHER ACTS QUEER
For Some Unknown Reason He
Changed His Mind Suddenly
About Joining the
Search.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service !
LONDON, April 1e.-The Martin
mystery was considerably complicat-
ed today when it was learned that N.
Hill Martin, brother Of Joseph VIII
berforce Martin, the missing Mem
ph1s cotton broker, cancelled his pass
age to London at the eleventh hour.
The brothers assertion in New
York that Martin concluded a s6.000,-
600 land deal with Anderson & Co. on
the day of his disappearance. April s,
was taken lightly by j. Lockhart An
derson, who declared that he had no
land dealings with Martin The miss
Ing broker shared fiat with Ander-
son, who left him just before going
to the Royal Automobile club, from
which he disappeared.
Scotland Yard and w. J. Burns to-
day reiterated their assertions Of yes
terday, that they knew nothing of
Martin being found in Lambeth
lodging house, but they professed to
believe that the broker is yet alive
and we'll.
Anderson asserted that he did not
write the telegram received by the
/ Evening News and signed Anderson"
1t was sent from the postoffice in
! Westminster Bridge road and the
original was in handwriting resemb-
ling a woman's. 1t said that Martin
was alive and we'll. The message
was believed to be hoax.
Brother Stays Here.
NEW YORK, April 16.--Just as he
was about to sail for London on the
steamer Campania early today, N.
Hill Martin, brother of the American
cotton broker whose mysterious dis
appearance in London has been a two
weeks sensation, received a telegram
from Memphis that caused him to
change his mind. Martin had his
| luggage hastily removed from the
! steamer and returned to the Waldorf
where he said he would take the
earliest possible train back to Mem
! phis. He refused to diyulge the nature
OF the telegram that brought about
4 The sudden change in his plans.
The younger brother of the missing
millionaire had come to New York
with nephew H. Martin Dunscomb,
intending to go to London to aid In
4 the search.
Why He Disappeared.
i MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 16.-Finan-
cial embarrassment and deals which
might supply motive for temporary
disappearance on the part of Joseph
i W. Martin in London have come to
4 light here with the investigation by
the receiver of the defunct Martin
Phillips Cotton company, of which
Martin was president, and which went
into bankruptcy Monday. The com
tpany owes local bank $65,000, sup
posed to be secured by warehouse re-
ceipts of 1900 bales Of cotton, when
as a matter of fact only ninety-three
actual bales have been found in stor-
age to the credit of the company.
Other deals are being investigated.
In the meantime, it is seated that
Martins family is prepared to pay up
any possible discrepancies.
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