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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
WORRY AND FAT TAKE
WING AND TAFT SMILES

ago, but seems longer" the Ya.e
pedagogue said proudly. Dieting is
the thing. / never eat butter, po.a-
toes. or anything starchy"
That don't leave much of diet"
suggested friend
"Oh yes 1t does,'' retorted Taft.
beaming his broadest Taftian smile.
Il eat couple of boiled eggs, some
toast. an orange and cup of coffee
mind you. without sugar or cream
for breakfast Then for luncheon
have piece OF steak, some beans
and spinach and similar menu for
dinner. Don't drink too much water.
either. That's the diet that has TRIM
med me down thirty pounds already
The ex-president was tanned and
looked hard as nails"
ut was ten days after | left here
before / realized what terrible strain
I had been under--the work and the
responsibility, said Taft
"One day looked at a morning
paper. Then it struck me all at once.
Thought 10 H1ySell. OH, nuutS-
sticks; don't have to take care or
worry what the papers say about me.
II threw the paper away. I've felt
better ever since"
Taft and President Wilson fan
ned" over golf 1t was topic where
they met on common ground. Taft
also tried to convert Secretary Tum-
ulty to the game.
You ought to take 1t up, Tumulty,"
said Tar. ~ :. will keep chat stomach
OF yours from growing" he said
laughing and giving Tumulty a vigor-
Gus thump in the chest. Tumulty
says the spot aches yet.
Taft took look at the presidents
private Office and tried to sit down in
President Wilson's chair but 1t was
too snug fit
This afternoon the professor braved
showers to play golf at Chevy Chase
with Justice Pitney OF the supreme
court and w ). Boardman, his host.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
SHE IS DYING
FOR HER FOLLY
suffrasette Who Threw the Kings
Horse and Jockey at EPSON
Downs Derby Cannot
Survive.
HER HEART Is FAILING
Was Operated Upon After Being In
jured and Death Is Now But
Question Of Few
| Hours.
HER HEART IS FAILING

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LONDON, June Relatives Z Of Miss
Emily Wilding Dawson we're by her
hospital bedside throughout tonight
and this afternoon fearing the nom
entary death OF the Northumberland
suffragette who spectacularly threw
King Georges horse and rider in the
EPSON Downs derby.
Physicians warned the family early
in the day that the end might come
at any minute and they were by Miss
Davison's side Immediately. The
woman is sinking rapidly and the
physicians have said she has no
chance for recovery. Miss Dawson
has been unconscious almost all the
time since she was operated on yes
terday and her heart is failing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
TWO WIDOWS
OF SAME MAN
orcgon's New Law Providing for De-
pendent Mothers Has Run up
Against PuzzIins
Gaze.
WAS CHINESE BIGAMIsT
One Wife Has One Child While Other
Has TWO and All Are In
Need Of Re-
lief.

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PORTLAND, Oregan, June THE
juvenile authorities were confronted
today with the perplexing problem of
whether two widows of the same man
can be allowed pensions under the
law recently passed by the state legis-
lature providing funds for the assist
ance OF dependent mothers.
The question was raised when two
Chinese women applied for pensions,
each saying she was the widow of the
same Chinaman who died recently. 1t
was alleged by countryman who ac-
companied them that under Chinese
law a man can have more than one
wife and this custom was followed by
the deceased in this country. The
older woman has one child while the
younger has two.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
WHY THE JURY
ACQUITTED WOOD
Juryman shuman Said He
Was Offered $500 and Life
Job to Vote Right

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BOSTON, June 7.-Investigation in
open court of an alleged attempt at
jury fixing viii follow close on the
heels of the verdict in the trial Of
VIM. Wood, president of the Ameri-
can Woolen Co., who was today ac-
Quilted of the charge of conspiracy to
plant dynamite at Lawrence to dis
credit the strikers during the great
strike there in January, 1912.
Frederick E. Atteaux, wealthy man.
ufacturer, tried jointly with Wood
was released on a renewed bond of
$4,000 when the jury reported a dis.
agreement as to his guilt or innocence.
Dennis Collins, dog fancier, who turn.
ed states evidence, was convicted but
was released on his own recognizance
and probably never will be sentenced.
1t is doubtful whether Atteaux will be
tried again.
The bribery charge resulted from
the statement made by Juror Morris
Sherman, who said a man visited him
last night and offered him $500 and d
life job in one of the silk mills If he
would vote right Shuman said the
man, whose name he did not learn,
asserted that he represented Henry
+. Hurlburt special counsel for Wood.
Shuman informed the court yesterday
that he could make up his mind with
out regard to the alleged attempt at
bribery and was allowed to continue
in the case. 1t is understood that he
stood out all last night for the CON
viction of Wood against the other
eleven jurors and did not give in until
five o'clock this morning.
Attorney Hurlburt and other de-
tense counsel charged tonight that the
alleged bribery was frame-up de-
signed to discredit the defense. At
torney Hurlburt demanded an open in
vestigation. District Attorney Pelle-
tier announced he had no faith in the
charges against Hurlburt, but the lat
ter was SO insistent that he and Judge
Crosby finally consented to public air
ing of the whole matter in open court
next Wednesday. In the meantime,
the grand jury will make an investi-
cation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Anti Mortem Statement.

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CHICAGO, June Michael Yani>
han, 16 year old bandit, dying at a
hospital tonight as the result of a
pistol fight with policemen, made an
'anti-mortem statement to the police
declaring that Homer Scott, 26. who
is under arrest, induced him to hold
up the saloon OF Theo. Lenioni late
today Il had Just gotten out of the
st. Charles reformatory, said the dy'
ing boy. Scott asked me II I did moi
want to earn some easy money and
he handed me gum
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
MCPHERSON
GIVES SEVEN YEARS
Man Convicted Of Violation of White
Slave Law Gets Stiff
Sentence.

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DIES MONIES. June 7.-Seven years
in the federal prison was the sentence
handed out by Federal Judge McPher-
son today to Grover Babcock, conyict-
ed by jury late this afternoon of the
violation of the Mann white slave
law.
He took Miss Lenah Chance, II, a
telephone operator, to Kansas City
and placed her in a resort,
Both he and the girl claimed there
was no crime because they were mar
ried under the common law but the
Jury disagreed with them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
SHE BOUGHT 400
DOGS EVERY YEAR
How Miss Ogden Got Her Evi-
dence Against Cruel Col
lege Vivisectionists

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PHILADELPHIA, June 7.-Society
women interested in the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and many prominent physicians
thronged the courtroom of Magistrate
Hagerty late today when Dr.. Joshua
E. Sweet. assistant professor of sur.
gical research at the University of
Pennsylvania, was arraigned and held
in $400 bail for unnecessary cruelty
in vivisection operations upon dogs
at the university laboratories.
Many gruesome exhibits, includin,.
the leg of dog alleged to have come
from an animal after being operated
upon, In which one OF the larger bones
was broken, and an ingenious machine
alleged to be In use at the univer-
sity for the purpose of breaking the
backs of some dogs before operation
and much startling testimony, kep.
interest in the proceedings at fever
heat.
The charges against DR.. Sweet
were brought by Miss Henrietta Og
den and Miss Bertha Ogden of the
society. John r. X. Scott, attorney
for the society. and the Misses Og-
den stated that the prosecution had
been brought on grounds of alleged
cruelty TO animals before and aft -
operation and not on vivisection
charges.
Miss Henrietta Ogden admitted
that she had bought dogs from a for
mer kennel keeper at the university
for period of more than two years
at the rate of about 400 dogs a year,
for which she paid 81 apiece withou,
the knowledge Of the university. Miss
Ogden testified that she had gained
entrance to the university grounds
and kennels during the incumbency
of this keeper without the knowledge.
of the college by crawling through a
hole in the fence. She said the con.
dition of many of the dogs, improp-
erly cared for after operations, was
fearful to behold"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
WOMAN AS EQUAL
OF MAN W!|BkER.
She Deserves Equs 5 y II She Per
forms the Say : fork and in
=. 4etory
inner.
EFFICIENCY AS A TEST
Working Woman Had Her Inning Be-
fore the Illinois Senate
Vice Commission
Meeting.

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CHICAGO, H., June 1.-THE woman
who works had her inning before the
Illinois senate vice commission today
and tonight Mrs. Ella Flag Young,
superintendent of Chicago public
schools added her opinion to those OF
a prominent financier and univer-
sity president that in all lines Of hu.
man endeavor save those in which
muscle and strength is the criterion
a woman is equally as efficient as a
man-and therefore deserves equal
pay.
MY experience In handling women
has proven that woman, whether in
the teaching profession or In the of.
fee is the equal of man in point OF
efficiency" said Mrs. Young.
Personally, prefer women to
men," asserted William T. Abbott
vice president of the Central Trust
Co.
They are Infinitely superior to mer
in work that requires careful atten
tion to detail. In all work requiring
power of concentrative detail womer
workers surpass the men in eff
cheney"
A woman can look after mas.
Of detail under circumstances tha
| would craze the average man" sail
President Harris of Northwestern uni
yersity. It's wrong to give womel
| inferior wages when they do the worl
of men. Give them equal pay ant
they will develope into the equals o
men in other particulars"
/ Brokers, big bankers and business
men appeared before the probers to
day.
Banker Abbott had suggestion ii
make to the committee: 81 believe
that man who cannot earn a livins
should not marry and bring children
into the world to perpetuate his con
dition"
Abbott first declared himself oppos
ed to the whole problem of minimum
wage legislation as "demoralizing" ant
tending to cripple individual inia
tive" Later, after he had heard the
testimony of President Harris he
asked permission to change his views
and said he thought minimum wage
law for women and girl workers might
protect them against employers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Local Observations.
poolan Files Suit.

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PITTSBURGH, June Mike Doo~
an, philadelphia shortstop, here for
the series with the Pirates, today had
filed in common pleas court suit for
$4,000 damages against Monte Cross,
former National and American league
infielder, and George Moreland, form
er president of the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania league. The suit grows out of
Doolan's brief, disastrous career as
magnate. He alleged he was de-
frauded out of $4,000 by Cross AMI
Moreland.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Pageant Given Showing How
the Workers Are Given
the Worst of 1t.

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NEW YORK, June 7-One of the
greatest crowds that was ever packer
into Madison Square Garden witness.
ed the pageant of the l. w w, to.
night It was mixed crowd of mem,
bers of the labor organization ana
just plain citizens attracted by the
appeal being made by the -trikers.
The entire performance moved
along quietly but it was noticeable
that the city had taken extraordinary
precautions A policeman was sta
toned every twenty feet about the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
cauoht the Scorchers.

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TRENTON, N. j., June THE
Trenton police stationing men at In
tervals along Brunswick avenue, laid
careful plans for catching autoists
who exceeded the speed limit and the
first one to fall into their clutches
was Reginald Vanderbilt of New
York. Vanderbilt was released with
eight other victims under $50 bail for
a hearing Monday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Ever Since Walkers Death
Tablets Are Being Taken
by Mistake.

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COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 7,-"What
y the use of kicking. If you have to
we You can't help yourself. ! always
ssaio ,' J was ready for death when my
time came"
s. with this declaration Rruce Wilson
70 years old, who three days ago
.Maliowed two bichloride OF mercury
auiets ny mistake, yesterday turned
.ser on his hospital cot and went off
sieep Physicians said his chances
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Going 1t Blind"

We Americans are given cred
1t for doing great many things
In haste: and our mothers and
grandmothers used to tell us
constantly. among the other
good, oldfashioned admonitions,
that haste makes waste"
Is not this peculiarly true OF
most of us when we do our shop.
ping? Do We not fail to give
the subject of our year-in, year
out purchases all the intelligent
thought and consideration due
so important a matter?
And do we not, as a result of
this habit, buy many things un-
wisely, things which aren't just
right and which might have
given far greater satisfaction If
they had been decided upon
with thrifty forethought?
1t is on this account that we
urge upon our readers the i'm
pcrtance and economy of being
well posted on the daily offer
ings of our advertisers.
One can not only plan ones
expenditures with greater econ
omy but can also make better
and more satisfactory selections
than when going it blind"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
NOTHING Went Nowhere.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June T.
Here goes nothing; going nowhere,
cried an elderly man as he climbed
the railing of the steel arch bridge and
plunged head first into the Mississip-
pi The body has not been recovered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Federal Indictment Against
President White and Other
Members Of United Mine
Workers.
TRUST LAW VIOLATED
Charged With Collusion Be
tween Operators and Off
cials to Control Produc-
tion Of Coal

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CHARLESTON, w Va. June T.
President John G. White and seven
teen Of the United Mine Workers of
America were indicted in federal
court late today on the charge of hav-
ing violated the Sherman antitrust
law. The indictment charges the
mine leaders with conspiring with
the United Mine Workers of America
and with coal operators OF western
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Him
oils to raise the wages in the West
Virginia fields SO as to prevent this
state from competing with other coal
fields in the western markets.
That collusion between operators
and mine workers officials enabled the
operators to control production and
movement OF coal as well as wage
scales is charged in the indictments
which are the result Of several weeks
work on the part OF federal officials
who have trailed the principals In
4'hO Sloo III Ahnuy bLueSS, 6dtHtIlus
evidence Of conspiracy. Indictments
which charged peonage we're also
found The grand Jury which has
been at work several days made It's
final report Vice President Frank
]. Hayes and seventeen other officials
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea are included with President White
as defendants. Indicted with the
president and vice president of the
miners organization which contains
more than 100000 miners, are num-
Der of MEMBERS of the international
executive boards including Thos. Hag-
gerty who has practically been in
charge of the labor movement in the
West Virginia fields and number of
local officials of that organization.
The indicted men are: John P. White.
Frank ]. Hayes, Thos. Haggerty. Jo-
seph Vasey, James Cantrell Charles
Battiey, Marco Romaf, George R. Ed
monds, Benz. F. Morris, Thos. Cairns,
Clare c. Griffith, James M. Craigo
James Diana, John Neuter, Rome
Mitchell, w. S. Reece, F. D. Stanley,
". s. Cantley and A. d. Lavender.
The indictment charges that the
above persons did in the county of
kanawaha and within the jurisdic-
ton of the federal district court en-
gage in a combination and conspiracy
In restraint of trade and commerce
among the several states.
United mine leaders and socialists
have been active in West Virginia for
several months, both during the re
cent strike war and since Governor
Hatfield effected a settlement, at
tempting to unionize the Paint and
Cabin Creek and New River fields
and effect wage advances. At present
J the labor cost of producing coal is
many percent lower in West Virginia
than in the coal fields Of any other
state despite the fact that this is
Practically the only Large field in
which the United Mine Workers are
not recognized by operators and
were mine officials do not conduct
the wage bargaining between employ
ers and employees. The West Vir
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Preacher Under Fire.

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SAN JOSE. Calf, June Accused
of misconduct with pretty young
member of his congregation, DR..
Claud Kelly, pastor Of the Baptist
church, declared he will have no star
chamber investigation. Sunday he
will discourse from his pulpit "The
Minister Under Fire." Kelly says
the story against him Is false.
He said tonight: II will see II
through to a finish"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Another eichlorlde Victim.

PHILADELPHIA, June THAT
bichloride is about to claim victim
in the person of DR.. John F. Moffit, a
widely known physician, became
known tonight. DR.. Moffit was rem,
dered unconscious last Wednesday by
some drug and it has never been ex-
planned what he took. His brother,
also physician, is certain IT was
bichIoride OF mercury.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
THE WEATHER.

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WASHINGTON, June Weather
forecast:
Missouri: Fair in north, cloudy and
cooler in south portion Sunday; Mon
day fair with rising temperature.
Illinois: Fair and cooler in north
and central portions, cloudy and cool
er Sunday; Monday fair with rising
temperature.
Iowa: Probably fair Sunday and
Monday; rising temperature.
Local Observations.
June. Bar Ther Wind Weather.
Z Z am. :. 30.13 4S N 1t Rain
Z 4 pm 80 27 So NE Pt Cldy
Rainfall for the past "a hours, 65
River above low water of 1864 8
feet, 3 tenths.
Mean temperature, June I, 40.
Highest temperature, 50.
Lowest temperature, 46.
Lowest temperature last night, 46.
FRED 2. GOsEWIsCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Newspaper Writer In Jail.

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LONDON, June Cecil Chester
ton. newspaper writer, tonight was
in jail pending his payment of $500
fine assessed against MIN in court
when he was found guilty of libelling
Godfrey Isaacs, brother of Attorney
General Sir Rufus Isaacs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
The World In CHICAGO.

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CHICAGO. June IA chorus of 49,
900 voices tonight closed the World
in Chicago the big missionary spec
tacle presented by churches of Chi
cago for five. weeks at the Coliseum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
Final Desperate Effort.

WASHINGTON June IA final
desperate effort of the West Virginia
coal operators facing investigation by
the senate was the way Secretary
Morrison put 1t tonight.
sThe operators are making their
last stand. They are driven to the
wall" said Morrison. with the Kern
Investigation imminent they are re-
sorting to desperate measures y
Assistant Attorney Fowler declared
that he was In total ignorance of the
federal action in West Virginia. $50
far as / know the department and the
attorney general never heard that
such action was contemplated said
Fowler. "If it was brought to of.
ficials here it went through other
hands than mine and / usually handle
all such cases as this
No other department of the govern
ment who could be reached tonight
had any knowledge OF the suit. Sec
retary Morrison emphatlcally denied
that the union leaders conspired. g
am positive the miners are merely try
ing to get fair wages and an eight
hour day." said Morrison, They are
trying to get decent living wages. The
Sherman law never was intended to
apply to labor unions but has been SO
construed
The West Virginia miners have
been receiving fifty-eight cents a ton
against seventy-nine cents received by
workers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, In
diana and Illinois, Morrison stated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
NINE LEADERS CHARGED
WITH BEING CONSP|RATORS|

ginia fields are not tied up by strikes,
operators here are able to compete
with products Of other states and
meet or cut under any other prices
quoted by Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana operators. This has led to
the frequent assertion that tho opera
tors are interested in forcing the
unionization Of the West Virginia
fields.
The case is unique and has caused
much discussion as to just what bear
Ing 1t will have on the probe into
West Virginia mine conditions by a
committee of senators appointed un-
der the Kern resolution which be-
gins work next week.
Mine leaders here tonight were
again discussing call OF a strike con-
vention in the New River field where
a; concession granted miners during
the past week stopped several minor
strikes before they were we'll under
way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
BREAD ON WATERS

Chicago, April 11-Dr. E. s. Higley OF
the suburb of Glen Ellyn, who had no
particular idea that he was casting bread
upon the waters in the early SOS lent
Charles Froelich 500 to assist him through
t.. ~ the university of Nebraska.
Eight years ago F'roelich, who had grown
wealthy in Australia, visited his former
benefactor and repaid the loan with IN
terest compounded. Froclich died recent
~ without heirs and today Dr. Hieiey
learned that the fortune aprroximatine.
81. 100000 had been left to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
COSTLY SILVER

London, April 11.--Sir Stewart Montague
Samuel radical member of parliament
from London, and a leading tanker must
vacate his seat in parliament because his
firm last year became purchaser oi
silver for the Indian government. The
judicial committee today decided that he
must give up his seat basing its iudg-
ment on an old act of parliament under
which a member of the house may not
be Interested in any government con-
tracts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
JACKSON USES OIL

jackson. Miss, April 11.-tSpecial )-The
city commissioners have entered into con-
tract with the Texas Oil company for ~
car loads of refined oil at 5h cents per
gallon, the company to furnish sprinklins
wagons free of charge. jackson has sew
eral short and cross streets oiled year
or more ago that have proven very salts
factory, dust and mud niusances being
reduced to minimum by one or TWO ap-
plications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
By HOP

go to two faithful employees, the Misses
Kate and Anna NJ. Aume, sisters.
Their reward will amount to approxi-
mately $4,000. while the remainder of the
$4,000 estate lis left in trust for his son
and only child Frank McGowan. who is
"a member OF the United states Marine
corps. until he Is 35 years ofsHge and then
only upon the condition that he leaves
illthe naval services. -.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
FAITHFUL WORKERS
INHERIT BUSINESS

Patrick F. McGowan, former president Of
the board Of aldermen who died last
week. the entire assets of his business
Of manufacturing 'women's apparel '