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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
Illicit Still in Missouri.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, May l7-Leav,
Ing the railroad and civilization at
1Doniphan, in Ripley county, twenty
five miles from the hills In which are
supposed to lie in hiding number
of men who are in charge of an illicit
still which has been operated for
years in southern Missouri and north,
ern Arkansas. the posse of govern.
ment officials who left Springfield
Wednesday morning bent on capturing
the moonshiners. yesterday morning
quietly departed in pairs for the
hannts of the outlaw whiskey makers.
A message stating that the raiders had
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
Enough Of Giants.

Little Frank had had a parental
meeting with his six-foot-two papa
about filing the tooth-powder bottle
with water. After the meeting adj
Journed, he went in and asked his
mother to promise him one thing
Without knowing the nature OF the
request she promised, and then ask.
ed him what 1t was. He told her:
Mamma, when papa dies, wants you
to promise me not to bring any more
giant mems to this house to live with
us!p-Lippincatt's.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
Struck by lnterurban.

United Press Leased Wire Service.1
DALLAS, Tex. May IT,. Mrs
James Kincannon and Ed. Barrew
were instantly killed in the city lin
its at . o'clock tonight when their
buggy was struck by an interurban
car from Fort Worth. The victims
were thrown sixty feet from the
tracks by the force Of the impact and
the car ran 900 feet before it was
stopped.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
Nebraska Won.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
MINNEAPOLIs. MINI, May IT,
Reed, the Nebraska % year old coacn.
and his troupe of speed merchants
handad Dick Grants squad decisive
defeat this afternoon at Northrup
field The final score was 70 to SO.
The Cornhuskers took eleven firsts
and both places in four events. willis
the Gophers succeeded in capturing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
left Doniphan which was the last
word that has been received from the
marty
Plenty of Evidence

Il wonder said slithers. stopping
bis car at the roadside and addressing
an old man working in the fields, 'if
l can get any gasoline around here?"
Il reckon We kin, replied the old man,
strengthening UP and leaning on his
hoe "Ye kin get it in yer system.
anyhow. Them cars ahead O. We
seems to have left few ton of 1t be-
hind EN-, jedgin' by the condition of
the atmosphere. Judge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
His Kindly Heart.

Really began the collector. II can
not understand why a man OF your re-
sources will refuse to pay his honest
debts" Then I'll tell you,' said the
wellto-do citizen, confidentially, III
paid up I'd throw you and several
others out OF work, and haven't the
heart to do it.'-Satire.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18

the trial. He married the daughter
Of Frederick Aver, patent medicln.
millionaire, and the Aver cash helped
to place him in control If the great
American Woclen company,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
EVERYBODY TALKING
PIGEON ENGLISH
tContinu 90 from page II

lowing its passags by both houses Of
! the legislature.
The new law makes it impossible
for aliens of any color to hold land
unless they have declared their inten
| ton OF becoming citizens. Non-citizens
now holding land will be compelled
to dispose of it within five years
Mining claims or property necessary
to the upkeep of mines alone are ex.
empted.
Referendum VIII Follow.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-THE
moment the information is given to
the public that Governor Johnson has
signed the anti-alien land bill passed
by the legislature which has just adj
journed. petitions for a referendum
law will be sent to the printer. We
do not intend that the hands Of the
national administration shall be tied
by a measure of this sort, which In
vades the proper sphere of federal ac-
ton, and which, worse still, does not
meet the wishes of the people OF Cali
fornia, and which will not exclude
from the soil of the state single I'M
desirable alien"
This was the declaration to the
United Press here tonight OF Theo-
dore a. Bell, democratic leader and
former congressman, who was closely
IN the councils of President Wilson in
Washington during the period before
Secretary of State Bryan's visit to
Sacramento to block. if possible, the
administration measure there, exclu-
sion of the Japanese.
Il am in favor of the absolute ex-
clusion of Asiatics from California
and always have BEEN said Bell.
My course in the matter has been
constant. favored their exclusion
and spoke to that effect in congress
ten years ago. But am not in favor
OF the state acting to that end unless
the federal government, whose PROV
ince the negotiation is, shall fail to
give relief.
There is at present before con-
gress a measure introduced by Con-
gresham Raker which would greatly
alter the present immigration regula-
tions. These alterations, believe,
would cover CALIFORNIA; desire to ex-
lclude Japanese land owners. be-
tlieve that measure will pass con-
gress and I think California should
await this action
But said Bell forcibly, IF con-
gress does fail to provide the relief
we need shall be in favor of sub
hitting to the people before the eext
Legislature meets an initiative law
which will definitely and positively
exclude the Asiatic land holder and
the Asiatic land leaser from the
state
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
Modern lmprovcments

Bacon-I see by lining telephoas
Sooth with tin . German inventor
claims to have made 1t sound proof.
Egbert-Why don't you try that
scheme on your daughters piano3
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
Official Washington Gets no Reply From Five Others
 As To Mexico
OUTLINING POLICY
President Wilson May Be Consider ing old Question of An
 Armistice

Washington, Oct. 29.-The days developments in the Mexican situa- tion were:
 First-The United States made an appeal to the eight powers repre- sented at Mexico City "in order to anticipate any action by the powers in Mexico"
 Second-Three of the powers re- piled that they would wait and made no other comment on the situation, and have not announced that they are not in accord with the attitude of the United States in Mexico.
 Third-President Wilson has in preparation a statement to the powers as to the further policy of the United States in Mexico.
 These statements are made on highest possible diplomatic authori- ty in Washington and disposed ef- fectually of the statement made with in the past two days that there have been announced from the foreign powers that they were in accord with the policy of the President of the United States with reference to Mexico.
 Whether or not the foreign powers will agree to the new policy, is not known, according to Secretary of State Bryan himself. The answer to the Presidents request that the powers delay action has come only from three of the eight represented in Mexico City and their answer con tains no indication of what they had intended to do or what they intend to do after the receipt of the Pres ident's plan.
 President Wilson and Secretary Bryan were in conference this morn ing over the proposed plan of the United States. Neither the President nor Secretary Bryan will indicate what it will be or whether the Unit ed States will wait for further ack- knowledgment of it's request from the five powers who have not yet answered the plea for delay.
 Various suggestions have been made from semi-official sources in- dicating that the President is con- sidering the old question of an armistice, the raising of the embargo on arms so that the Constitutional. ists will fight on equal terms with the federalists, the request to the powers that Huerta should not be recognized end the Presidents former policy of letting the com batants fight it out.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30

inten citizens. The secret police) that more arrests are to follow.
 Although it is dangerous to ex- pres sympathy for Diaz, much is indicated in private conversation by his former friends. It is not believ- ed that any formal protest will be made by the government against the action of Consul Canada and Special Envoy Lind in aiding Diaz to recover arrest at Vera Cruz, although they are severely criticized in government circles.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
KILLED TWO MEN,
 THEN SHOT HIMSELF
Joseph Peart Commits Insane Act
 Near Joliet, HI.

Joliet, Ill.,, Oct. 29.-Joseph Peart, miner, shot and killed w. J. Bell, a railroad man, seriously wound ed John Black, a youth, and then when surrounded by posse, commit ted suicide near Carbon Hill late to- day. Black will probably die, phy- sicians declared tonight. Peart went to the home of his divorced wife to- day and found Bell and Black there. Peart ordered the men out of the house, following them to the side walk, when, without warning he drew revolver and opened fire.
 When both men fell Peart fled. A posse was organized and a man hunt followed. Chased through fields, Peart was finally surrounded five mile from Carbon Hill. Realizing escape was cut off, he fired bullet through his head, dying instantly. William Bell, brother of the dead man, led the posse.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
ASSESSMENTS OF
 TAX COMMISSION
Total Assessments For Arkansas the Present Year Will Reach
 $90y0OO, 600.

Little ROCK, OCl. 1o-l Hc doco00- ments made by the Arkansas Tax Commission for the present year will amount to about $99,OOO,OOO, which will be in the neighborhod of p per cent of the total assessment of the state. The biggest single item IS that of railroads, which have been assess ed an aggregate of $S5.456,S12. which is complete except for three small companies last year assessed at &76,- 970. and this adde dto the assessment already made will make the assess ment of all railroads in the S5.533, TSP.
 The increase in the assessment of railroads in Arkansas has amounted to 60 per cent since 1908. when their as- sessment was taken over by the Tax Commission. In that year it amount ed to $51,359,533. In 1911 1t had been advanced to $77, ,7S6.SS4, and in the fol- lowing year it had been further in creased to total of $S1,680,146. Other assessments made by the Tax Commission this year are as fol- lows:
 Telephone companies $2,S05,072. Street railways. electric light plants water plants, and gas plants, $5.3S3.- 767.
 Toll ferries and bridges, $257 yS41, which includes an assessment ol $225.O0O on the Barring Cross Bridge h Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
MOBILE CONGRESS- COMES TO AN END Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida Is Re- Elected
 President WILL CONTROL FLOODS Resolutions Affecting the South and It's Many Industries Are
 Adopted.
WILL CONTROL FLOODS

Mobile, Oct. 29.-The annual meet ing of the Southern Commercial Con- gress came to a close tonight with the election of officers for the en. suing year.
 Houston and Oklahoma City bid for next years convention. The board of directors will meet in Washington in December and select the meeting place. The following of- ficers were elcted:
 Duncan U. Fletcher, Jacksonville Fla, president; Thomas S. South gate, Norfolk, Va., first vice pres ident; A. P. Bush, Jr., Mobile, Ala. second vice president; Clarence ]. Owen, Riverdale Park, Maryland, managing director; w. H. Saunders, Washington, D. C., treasurer. The following directors were elected for Arkansas: William G. Hutton, Little Rock, and C.. R. Breckinridge, Fort Smith.
 Resolutions were adopted urging the legislative officers to take inn mediate steps in launching con- vention for the increasing of foreign commerce; that the national govern ment be authorized to initiate and carry out plans for the adequate con- trol of the floods of the navigable rivers of the country and for the confinement of all rivers and water ways at all times within fixed and established channels; that all nation al and state organizations in the southern states having to do with better farming, better stock raising and better methods of marketing be asked to send delegates to the next congress; that all cotton states inaugurate a complete system ot bonded warehouses under state sup ervision and that they establish a bureau of intelligence to gather and disseminate information concerning the use, poAsibility and true commer. cial value of cotton and it's by-pro. ducts throughout the world; that for the promotion of the American mer- chant marine the adoption of sucf legislation Vas will permit sailing vessels trading between the states te enter and leave the ports of the South as they, do now in all other parts of the United States, on tho same basis as has been enjoyed by steamers for more than forty years
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30

them or where he went, nor does it say whether the family has been re- united yet or not.
 Story That Reads Like Fiction
 The letter continues quite at length in strain similar to the above and, declared Mrs. McIntire, reads like fic- tiOn.
 The subject of this strange narre- tive was for some time city editor of The Texarkanian here, was recOgniz- ed as a man of exceptional ability in his work. It is stated that since his departure from Texarkana quite a number of local merchants and at least one lodge have sought desperate ly to locate him, claiming he owes large sums hei c.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
AMENDING THE
 CURRENCY BILL Secretary of the Treasury is Removed From Head of Federal Reserve Board
TO AVOID POLITICS,
President Can Name Only One Mem. Der Each Year--TO Carry Big
 Salaries.

Washington, Oct. 29--Amendments to the Owen-Glass currency bill, agreed upon in the Senate committee today were:
 Elimination of the proposed organ ization committee and the transfer of duties imposed upon it to the fed- eral reserve board
 Secretary of Agriculture and Comp- troller of the Currency sticken from the proposed federal reserve board.
 Memberships of the federal reserve board to be increased from seven, as provided by the House bill, to nine.
 Terms of the federal reserve board members to be nine years.
 resolution Is pending to eliminate the Secretary of the Treasury from the federal reserve board and this probably will be agreed upon tomor- row.
 Should that official be retained as member of this board, the total
 membership will be reduced to eight and the tenure of office made eight year terms. Arguments before the committee today that the elimination
 of cabinet officers removes the danger
 of political influence, it is believed,
 will insure the removal of the head of
 the Treasury from this important board
 Fixing the membership of the fed- eral reserve board at nine with nine year tcs ms. one vacanyy occurring each each year, will prevent any one presi- dent from nominating more than 2
 minority representation, the Senate always having the final vote through the confirmation by that body requir- ed in the law.
 The House provides a salary of $10.- 900 year for members of the board in control of new system. Senate con- mitteemen do not believe this to be enough to attract men of such char acter and experience as ought to be in control of the banking and currency 7 system of the country. The salary in- crease has not been settled. but 1t is to be substantial.
 No attempt was made today to deter4 mine whether there should be gov. ernment owned central bank or the regional plan. Meanwhile certain prin- clples applicable to either system will be disposed of. Much of the discuss sion today ranged about the question how many regional banks there shall be If the regional system is accepted. Should there be central bank the subdivision would be branches 70 that a conclusion of this preliminary. mat ter Is not i'll timed.
 That there will be material re- duction from the twelve regional banks provided for in the House bill 1 is admitted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
Striking Miners In Colorado Continue to Attack the Mine Guards
FIRE ASSORTED TO
95.COO Union Men Will Walk Out In Sympathy With Striking
 Miners

Trinidad, Col, Oct. 29.-Despite the presence of HOO state troops in the Southern Colorado coal fields, striking miners today made attacks on the coal camps at Berwind and Tabasco, seventeen miles from the headquarters of the militia tonight. Governor Ammons ordered detach- ment of 125 soldiers into the Ber- wind canyon to keep peace.
 Militiamen at Walsenburg tonight arrested a dozen mine guards when the latter sought to intimidate a crowd of strikers gathered at the depot. They were marched to the camp of the soldiers and detained.
 That 25,OOO union men and women engaged in building and industrial trades in Colorado will walk out in sympathy with the 10000 striking coal miners with the prediction made by executive board members to the Colorado State Federation of Labor today.
 Fire, thought to have been set by strikers, today destroyed The Trippie' an office building of the Southwes' tern mine, and another scene ol strikers activity was the EmpiIte' mine, where battle ragged for thirty minutes during which several hun dred shots were fired. No one was killed or injured in this attack ol in those at Bredwind or Tobasco Arms and ammunition has disappear ed from the Ludlow tent colony and hundreds of the strikers have scat tered to neighboring tent colonies Adiutant General Chase has posted an order to the effect that all dis armament of the strikers and guards must be accomplished in "A hours.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
|i]IAz STILL ON
 THE LOUISIANA But Refugee is Under the strictest Restrictions and
 Mail Is Inspected
FEAR AN OUTBREAK
huoxican Authorities Believe That
 niaz Will Be Landed and Cause More Trouble.

Vera Cruz, Oct. 29.-Felix Diaz is nill aboard the United State war Ship Louisiana, but under the strict bst restrictions. Rear Admiral Fletcher has forbidden him to hold lengthy or secret conversations with kaybody. The captain inspects the Generals mail and has absolutely brohibited his having any political communication.
 Diaz has said that he has no~defi- hite idea of what his future actions will be. It is thought here that he will be transferred to the flagship which will take the place of the louisiana here next week.
 Even Governor Lind had to secure pecial permission from Admiral Fletcher before he could have con- ersation with Diaz this morning. Liad confirms the news that a strict vatch is being kept over Diaz.
 An interesting sidelight on the at ltude of the Mexican authorities in he present crisis is the order from lexican authorities that no more all games will be permitted between be American sailors and local hines. Rumors are persistent that coun- r revolution, headed by Felix Diaz, thing to be feared by the Mexi- hn authorities. The government ars that Diaz will land and reach be Oaxaca5 Serrenos, who are ai- eady up in arms. How this can be Accomplished since Diaz is on board be American batt1eship is not very |ell defined, but there seems to be idea that Diaz will be landed at pme point designated by him. It believed that he then would be ble to carry out his plans.
 Daniel and Evaristo Madero, bro ers of the dead president, who were rrested at Monterey, were brought
 Vera Cruz today and placed in e military prison. The military lthorities gave strict orders to the pmmandant of the prison to treat e prisoners with the utmost con- iteration. The wives of the prison PC accOmnaniod thono
 Newspapers Roast Lind.
 Mexico City, Oct. 29.-The local Pwspapers today teem with articles Fcoriating Felix Diaz and lauding esident Huerta and condemning |e policy of the Washington govern" ent for favoring the Carranzaists d refusing recognition to Huerta. Seven men who were taken pris- ers at Vera Cruiz on suspicion of Wing participated in a Diaz plot alnst the administration where ought here today for trial in the eral district court.
 lbout thirty friends of Diaz have sn arrested in the past two days
 held iacommunicato in. the jail
 charge of conspiracy against
 government. Several of the men Ter arrest are wealthy and prom
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
STRANGE STORY
 0F DISAPPEARANCE Arthur F. Gadmer Starts to Work One Morning and
 is Strangely Lost
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
Memory a Blank--RemOved to Hos. pital Where He Regained Mem-
 Ory Last Week.

Texarkana, Oct. 29.-Writing to her friend and neighbor, Mrs. E. r. Me- Intire, 320 Grand avenue, this city, in explanation of her husbands strange disappearance from Little Rock last May, Mrs. Arthur F. Cad mer relates wierd story, which ac- cording to Mrs. Mclntire, reads more like a piece of fiction than a story of actual occurance, and which is at tracting considerable interest in Texarkana Gadmer was formerly city editor of The Texarkanian here, and departed last April to accept posi- tion on the Arkansas Democrat at Little Rock, and shortly afterwards strangely disappeared from that city. according to the reports received here.
 When Arthur Gadmer departed from Texarkana to go to Little Rock he left his wife and several children here, telling them to join him in Little Rock later.
 Later, Gadmer sent his wife money to come to Little Rock and she had not been there long when her husband mysteriously disappeared one morn ing en route to his days work.
 Mrs. Gadmer Goes To New Orleans
 Mrs. Gadmer and her children re- mained there for several weeks, hop ing, she reported to friends here, to get line on herr missing husband. No word came from him, and finally Mrs. Gadman and children went to New Orleans, where it is stated the mother secured employment at a weekly salary of $9, on which paltry sum she supported herself and chill dren.
 In her letter to Mrs. McIntire, Mrs. Gadmer explains her husbands dis appearance by declaring he was the victim of "a strange attack in Little Rock, carried to a box car m the Iron Mountain yar.f and left for dead and was later discovered by the freight crew at Hoxie.
 Mrs. Gadmer writestshat her hus- band was en route to hS nrk as us- ual one morning last MerN when he stepped into saloon to s,E drink. Since that time she writes no word had been received from himN ny her until last week.
 She declares her husband was found unconscious in a box car at Hoxie by members of the freight train crew on an Iron Mountain train the last week in May, and was sent to a hos- pital in Springfield, Mo-, for treat ment, where it was found his skull had been fractured, three ribs and his nose broken, and he had apparently been left for dead He was also suf- fering from a complete lapse of mem-
 ory and did not know his own name, his relatives name nor where he came 1 from.
 According to the wife, Gadman re- mained in that condition until last week, when his memory returned to l him, and the first thing he thought of was his wife and children and, though weak and enfeebled, he left thf Springfield hospital and began a 1earch for lis family, suposing them still to be in Little Rock. The let l ter, however, does not state whether he went to Little Rock in search of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30

General B. H. Holmes. of Fordycej spent yesterday in the city. General Holmes was elected commander of the Second Arkansas Brigade, U. c. v.. at the recent convention held in Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
SCHOOL GIRL IS HELD
 ON A MURDER CHARGE

Shaw, Miss. ;, Oct. 29.-Mary Clark, a school girl, is held by the sheriff here on a charge of murdering Bill J. Alexander. She claims Alexan- der provoked her to strike him over the head with shovel breaking his skull. He died instantly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30
Was in Little Rock

Little Rock, Oct. 29.-This is the first news that has been received in Little Rock of the whereabouts of A. F. Gadmer, who failed to appear at the Arkansas Democrat office one morning in May, when he is known to have started to his work aS usual. He was employed on the Democrat as . reporter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-30

Joseph R. Curtis, representing the Commercial Appeal. spent yesterday in the city at the Chamber of Com merce. MT. Curtis is soliciting ad- vertising for a special edition of tho Commercial Appeal. and was unsuc- cessful in securing page lad" for Pine Bluff from the local organiza- tion.