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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
MEXICAN NIASONS
FILE A PROTEST
Charge Ambassador Wilson
With Conspiring in Death
Of Madero.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON April 7.-Secretary
of State Bryan announced today that
he had received a protest filed against
Ambassador Wilson at Mexico City by
Louis Manuel Rojas, grand master OF
the Grand Lodge of Masons of the
Mexican capital The letter charges
alleged completely on the part of Am
bassador Wilson in the assassination
of President Madero and Vice Presi-
dent Suarez.
Bryan said that he had been hand
ed the papers, but declined TO com
ment on the attitude of the depart
ment. He said, however, that all per-
sons who cared to lay their grievances
or recommendations before the de-
partment will continue to be heard.
He said that until he was advised of
the usual form of diplomatic proce-
dure in handling such matters as the
Rojas protest he would retain from
comment
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
Wife Of Professor Who Killed Laun.
dry Wagon Driver Who Was Too
Intimate With His
Wife.
SHE TELLS HER STORY
Testified That Darling Had Repeated
ly Made Threats That He
Would XIII Her
Husband.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April Mrs. Os-
car Olson, wife OF the university pro-
fessor now being tried for the murder
of Clyde Darling, went upon the stand
today to continue her story OF the re-
lations between herself and the slain
man
The courtroom was jammed. An
hour before court opened the crowds
began to gather and it was necessary
to call police to preserve order. Wo-
men by the hundreds struggled to get
near the doors and several were led
fainting from he building.
Mrs. Olson had to pass through a
lane lined by hundreds OF curious
spectators as she entered the court
room. She was very pale, but it was
believed she would be able to go
through the ordeal. She was dressed
in brown, as she has been throughout
the trial. and was heavily yelled Oh
son preceded his wife into the court.
room. He was pale and showed signs
Of sleepless night. He seemed to
dread today's court ordeal as much as
did his wife.
Because of the disgraceful scenes
attending the opening Of court, when
men and women fought for admission
in order to revel in the sordid story
Mrs. Olson was telling, the judge
cleared the courtroom and ordered no
one admitted except court officials
and newspaper men.
Mrs Olson testified that last June
after her husband had warned Darl-
ing to stay away from his home, she
saw the laundry wagon driver on the
street.
He overlook me-" she Testified.
He got out of his wagon and said ):
You are not going to pass me up with
out speaking, are you? Get into my
rig l did. He turned and drove the
opposite way. He said you didn't tell
him everything, did you and replied,
no He said, I knew you didn't dare.
Well you have got to stop coming
answered If you don't, will tell my
husband
He said, TT you do, / will tell ev.
cry driver what you are. You are in
the game now and you will have to be
game"
When did you next see Darling?'
was asked.
Along in August at our house
about s or p. m. He came in the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
F|FTY-F0UR FEET
AND Still SAFE
q
Highest of River In the History
Of With the Levee Hold
- Ing and City Still
Dry.
MISSOURI Is DRENcHED
Water Covers the State for Thirty
five Miles Inland and People
Are Marooned at Many
Points.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CAIRO, ILL.,, April THE record of
ffty-four and seven-tenhts feet was
the mark held for the weekend by
the Ohio and as the highest stage in
the history Of Cairo, drew a crowd CT
sight-seers from Kentucky.
A United States liresavine crew
from Chicago is now assisting the
naval reserves in their search for
flood victims. Reserves yesterday
cruised nine miles into Missouri and
brought back reports that the water
covers the state for thirty-five miles
inland.
Reserves intend today to return to
Birds Mill, Missouri, to pick up TWEEN
ty-two persons marooned there on
sawdust pile. They were discovered
yesterday, but refused to be taken of
without their live sock The re-
serves then returned here for barge
Hard Fight Ahead.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April THE
Mississippi registered 44,s feet this
morning, with forty-six feet predicted
within three days. when the crest. now
at New Madrid, Missouri, reaches
here.
Memphis has hard fight ahead to
protect her water supply from con-
tan'ination, but engineers are hope
full. All pumps and levees protecting
the low area in the north part Of the
city are in good condition today. South
of the west bank Of the levee which
broke Saturday there are about TWEEN
ty blocks either totally submerged or
partially penetrated by the flood.
Hundreds of refugees came in this
morning from Arkansas. All levee
lines are claimed intact today from
New Madrid down.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
Stock Trains Crash.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
FAIRDALE, ILL.,, April Twenty
stockmen were injured in rear-end
crash of two stock trains on the main
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST. Paul here early today. An extra
freight filled with stock, plowed into
the rear of stock train bound for
Chicago. The caboose and coach Of
the stock train overturned, and took
fire, but the injured men escaped.
They were rushed to hospital at
Rockford, III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
PettIcoat King.

NEW YORK, April 7.-stories OF
swindles aggregating more than mil
lion dollars were ready for the hear
ing OF Judge Seabury here today when
Sal R. Jackson, known as the petit
coat king" was put on trial Arrest
ed last December in front of the
American consulate at Frontera, Mex
leo. Jackson is alleged to have, by
operations in silk, made victims of
many merchants.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
ROPE OF SHEETS
SAVED THE BABY
Thrilling Scenes at Apartment
House Fire in Early Hours
Of the Morning.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, Apri IA crowd Of
refugees who escaped in their night
clothing stood awe-stricken on Michi-
gan avenue early today and watched
a man, trapped by the flames in a
third story apartment, tie a rope made
OF sheets about his wifes waist and
slowly lower her through heavy
clouds Of smoke and flames toward
safety.
William Davis, the husband, braced
himself against the window sill and
let the sheet rope slip slowly through
his hands.
Firemen and anxious walters in the
street started faint cheer. Then
flames leaped from a second story
window and parted the rope. The
woman, Anna Davis, fell to the side
walk with her night clothing aflame.
Davis face blanched. Firemen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
ENOcH ARDEN
REFUSES TO PAY
Does Not Like the Ideal Of Receiving
Bill for Coffin Which He
Did Not FIJI.

UNITED Press Leased Wire service1
CHICAGO, April LEO Allen,
Chicago's latest "Enoch Arden" today
told an undertaken that he could go
plumb to hades before he would pay
for a casket he never used.
When Allen disappeared several
years ago, his wife mourned him as
dead. She identified body dragged
from the Lincoln park lagoon as that
of her husband and provided proper
burial.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
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est crowds in years besieged the cap
itol today for the opening of the new
congress. Galleries, corridors and even
the capitol steps we're swarmed two
hours before noon, the hour set for
falling Of the gavel declaring the
dawn OF the new democratic reign.
Bright, sunshiny, although chilly
weather was an invitation to the pub
lie, those with and without admission
cards. The parade of the suffragettes
to the capitol from their downtown
mass meeting added thousands OF
spectators.
Women in new spring togs were in
the majority among the throng. Their
brilliant costumes lent picturesque
touch OF color to the ordinarily SOM
bre scene.
With progressive democracy in full
control. the ranks OF the republicans
depleted and their old leaders gone,
the opening of President Wilson's
special session OF the sixty-third con-
gress today, was eloquent Of transition
from nineteenth to twentieth century
political government. New forces
We're In the ascendant; new phrases
passed easily from tongue to tongue.
New measures and new viewpoints
favored by the older men were in
harmony with the confident claims OF
the new men fresh from the people,
wha crowdod Tho bouca bopcboo opd
hlled in the senate picture.
Yet the ceremonial with which the
house began its sittings was as old as
Its tariff problem. The formal pro-
cedure that was in vogue when Henry
Clay was on the floor served by
mutual consent today. The crowds
that filed the galleries from early
morning to witness the show were
able to predict and nod recognition
at each step.
Clerk South Trimble stood at the
speakers desk at noon, and raped
for order. Chaplain Coudon offered
prayer Trimble directed the reading
OF the presidents proclamation call
ing the special session. Then the
roll was called.
The roll was answered in the or
der of the states, with the territories
and dependencies following. George
Y. Taylor of Alabama answered first,
and Manuel Earnshaw, commissioners
from the Philippines, was last. In the
long list were 294 democratic and 145
republican and progressive members,
besides the delegates and commits
sioners from Alaska, Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines. The demo
cratic majority was overwhelming, its
responsibility complete.
Absent from familiar stations were
Uncle Joe"' Cannon. long dictator of
the house. Nick" Longworth, son-in-
law OF Colonel Roosevelt, Victor Berg
er, pioneer socialist member, and
many another who figured largely In
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
A pron In Butter.

A Drop In Butter.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ELGIN, H., April 7.--Butter sold at
80 cents today, a decline OF three
cents under last weeks price.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
Party in Complete Control, for
First Time in Sixteen Years
and Thousands Of Spec
tators Attend.
in SPECIAL SESSION
President Wilson to Appear in
Person Tomorrow and De
liver His Message in
House and Senate.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
Message Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON. April 7.-Senate
and house leaders were anxiously ex-
amining precedents today They de-
sired to find out just how they are to
proceed when President Wilson, in
person, tomorrow, delivers his mes
sage to the special session of congress
as an address This resumption of a
practice dead for 112 years is design
ed, according to the president, to
bring about closer harmony between
the president and congress.
Had the president announced his in
tention Of resuming the practice,
abandoned after the administration of
John Adams, second president, he
would have been urged not to do SO.
But the matter was kept closely
guarded secret until communicated to
senate and house leaders last night
and then publicly announced.
According to Secretary Tumulty,
the president believes that he should
deliver his message in person at the
opening of each session of congress.
At other times he may decide to send
it by messenger but this has not been
fully decided.
The democratic leaders were well
satisfied with the plan.
Representative Underwood announc-
ed he would introduce resolution in
the house which would be passed, in
viting the president to deliver his
message in person and that similar
resolution would be passed in the
senate.
Both houses will then probably
adopt a reply to the presidents ad-
dress. but this was matter that was
still being SHAPED today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
NECESSITIES REDUCED
Included in Bill is Income Tax
Measure Which is Expected
to Take Care of the De-
creased Revenues.
The Tariff Bill at a Glance.
Free raw wool.
Free steel rails.

= Free sawed lumber. .
= Tax on incomes above $4,000. =
y Sugar duty slashed; to be =
= duty-free in three years. .
. Unqualified free trade with =
= the Philippines, =
= AID valorem rates, substituted .
= for specific duties. =
. Luxuries maintained at pres .
q ent duties, or slightly decreased. .
= Cotton rates cut to give cheap .
. er clothing, bagging and neces- .
. saries. =
= Market basket necessities .
. free or reduced to minimum. =
. House Of representatives grant .
. ed equal power with senate to =
= approve reciprocity treaties, and .
= requirements that only q major .
. ity vote of both houses be neces- {
10 sary to ratify them, a two-thirdS,s 4
. vote of the senate as at present. 4
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
Votes for Women.

WASHINGTON, April Women
renewed today their effort to impress
the administration with the justice Of
equal suffrage. Resplendent in the
springiest of spring furbelows, 531 en-
thusiastic suffragettes, young and old,
with two bands playing stirring music
to give them inspiration, marched
down Pennsylvania avenue TO the cap
itol They had plenty Of police pro-
lection today, the mistake of March 8
having been guarded against by the
local authorities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
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WASHINGTON, April 7.--More radi-
cally sweeping cuts than have been
attempted in Americai tariff revision
in a generation are contained in the
long expected democratic tariff bill
prepared by the house ways and
means committee and introduced to-
day.
Introducing the measure, It's fram-
ers said that the time has come when
the American manufacturer must
meet honest competition and develop
his business along the best and most
economical lines, where, when he
fights at home to control his market,
he is forging the way, In the economic
development of his business. to e3,
tend his trade to the markets of the
world"
The bill has the approval Of Presi-
dent Wilson as it stands and Is to be
made an administration measure. Its
hackers predict that 1t will pass the
house and will be hard to block in
the senate. 1t is even more drastic In
parts than had been anticipated. Rep
resentative Underwood. OF Alabama.
chairman Of the ways and means com
mittee, whose name the measure will
bear, asserts that 1t will materially
reduce the high cost of living.
1t gives free raw wool and tears to
pieces the notorious schedule K; cuts
the tariff on sugar and provides that
this product shall go on the free list
at the end of three years; revolution
ICES the cotton schedule by cuts that
are expected to reduce the price OF
that necessary product; puts steel rails
on the free list and slashes all exist
ing duties on iron and steel products,
and in the market basket necessities
of life: meats, flour, bread, etc, eth
er abolishes the duty, or reduces
them to an absolute minimum.
I'VE have kept in mind the distinc-
tion between the necessities and the
Injuries Of life declares the commit
tee in its statement, reducing the
tariff burden of the necessities to the
lowest possible points commensurate
with revenue requirements and max
ing the luxuries of life bear their
proper proportion of the tariff respon-
sibilities."
Chief interest in the bill, Of course,
centered In schedule K. Raw wool,
free in the bill, is followed by a re
duction in yarns from 1884 percent to
percent; blankets from 1859 to 25
percent; flannels from 96.29 to 25 and
So percent; dress goods from 99.7o to
25 percent; clothing from 1886 to 35
percent; weddings, etc. from 82.70 to
35 percent, and carpets from rates
ranging from 60 percent to rates
ranging from 20 to 80 percent
The committee, in order to simplify
the bill, practically abolished the spe
fcifc and compound rates of the Payne
Aldrich law and substituted the ad
valorem rate plan, doing away with
the present classification which de
pends upon various conditions, such
! as count OF threads, weight, value, etc
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-07
NEW CONGRESS OPENED
BY TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY.

congressional news OF the past two
years. On the new caneseated
benches half encircling the rostrum,
were the SUCCESSORS OF lit members
who failed to return, and thirty.fye
men chosen from additional districts
or from states at large. Only Ave Of
the 142 new members had ever sat In
congress before.
The clerk announced a quorum pres
ent, and stated that vacancies exist
ed In three districts-the thirteenth
Massachusetts, first South Carolina,
and tenth Texas. He announced the
next business to be the election Of a
speaker.
Champ Clark OF Missouri was placed
in nomination for a second term on
behalf Of the democratic caucus.
James r. Mann of Illinois was sim
ilarly presented by the republicans.
Victor Murdock of Kansas was named
by the progressives. The roll was
called in alphabetical order, and
Clark was declared elected. A COM
mittee Of the three parties was named
to escort him to the chair, amid ap-
plause that swept the galleries and
echoed through the chamber and the
corridors beyond.
Election Of the clerk, sergeant-at-
arms, chaplain and minor officials was
secured by resolution, offered on be-
half Of the majority caucus. The re-
publican minority submitted its list of
candidates as substitute, which was
promptly voted down. The officers
we're Immediately sworn in.
Resolutions of a routine nature,
such as always accompany the con-
vening OF new congress, then were
adopted and the senate sent in word
that it had named a committee to act
with house committee to notify the
president that all was ready for his
wishes.
Under time-honored precedent, the
lottery of seat-drawing was the next
scheduled procedure, But the rear
rangement Of the house chamber
whereby benches replaced the familiar
desks and swivel chairs, made a
change necessary. Leaders planned
to submit to the house the proposition
OF whether members take any seats
that suited them on all occasions or
have a place definitely assigned. In
former congresses, the drawing for
seats was one of the most picturesque
Incidents OF the cdnvenlng Of the
national legislature.
In the senate the procedure was
without other special formality than
the reading Of the presidents procla.
nation. Election Of officers and
swearing in Of new members had been
disposed of before the March ad-
iournment.
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Mohave County miner., 1913-04-05
Good Common Sense Some times Better than Good
 Engineering.

Discussing the heavy blast furnace construction at Great Falls, Mont, R. l.. Lloyd said that the low repair record of these furnaces was proof pos tive that it was worth while, though he thought at first it was too heavy and sald so to w. J. Evans, at this time superintendent of construction for the Amalgamated Copper company, and for many years associated with Mir. Klepetko in roasting and smelt- ing furnace design and construction. This remark Mr. Evans, says the En- gineering and Mining Journal. brought out rather curious answer, which was as follows: "Young man, if you will take my advice, when you build anything, build it strong enough; If you get it too strong, nobody will ever ii nd it out: if you do not get it strong enough, everybody will know all about it." Mir. Lloyd replied: MT Evans, that Is not good engineering, which elicited the further retort: "It may not be good engineering, but it's cer- tainly good sense," followed by d hearty laugh and then his serious ex- planation, which was that when one is dealing with furnace construction one is dealing with what he was pleased to call "red-hot mechanics" and that the usual factors of safety, as used in reg ular engineering practice, are not at all adequate for such work.
Mohave County miner., 1913-04-05
Notice of Forfeiture.

To H. l.. Thorp and c E. Blount
 You are hereby notified that we have expended during the year 1912, One Hundred Dollars in labor and improvements upon each of the fol- lowing named quartz mining claims, situate in the San Francisco Mining District, Mohave County. State of Arizona, to-wit: the Alto No. !" Alto No. 9" Alto No g." Alto No, A. Alto No B." Alto No G." Alto Extension" Beach, Maple, Mexican Sambo, Isabel and Gold Hill. The location certificate of which are found in the Mining Records of said Mohave County, said work being done in order to hold said claims under the provisions of Section 2324 of the Re- vised Statutes of the United States and the amendment thereto approved January 22 1880, concerning annual labor upon mining claims, being the amount required to hold said mining claims for the period ending Dec. 3l, 1912
 And if within ninety days from the personal service of this notice within ninety days after the publication thereof you fail or refuse to con- tribute your proportion of such expenditure as co-owner, which amounts to Two Hundred and Forty Dollars, each, your interest in the said claims will become the property of the sub scribers your co-owners who have made the re- quired expenditure by the terms of said section.
 P. NORMAN.
 ROSCOE TIDD. Kinpman, Arizona Feb. 27, 1913.
 First insrtion March l-3l May
Mohave County miner., 1913-04-05
Mine Warning Notice.

To whom It May concern:
 Notice is hereby given that the Silverhill group of claims, consisting of the Sonora. Valley View, and the Silver Bell Lode claims and Silver Bell Mill Site. situated in the Wal lapai mining district, Mohave County, State of Arizona. is being worked under q contract agreement, and that neither the said mining claims, mill site or the buildingsand improve ments thereon. nor the undersigned owners thereof, will be liable or resp, nsible for any labor or material fur lShed or debts contract ed, or injuries sustained by an employer or employees in working or improving said prop critics, and that no employer Ur employee is the agent Of the owners for any purpose, and that all operatives engaged in such service at their own risk, and that no debt or claim of debt is valid against said properties or their, owners
 THE SOUTHWESTERN MINING X RE
 DUCTION COMPANY.
 By GEORGE w. 1HEISS,
 Secretary.