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Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
CONDENSED RECORD or: TIE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN g 3, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

With nearly 1000 delegates in at
tendance, the Vocational Guidance con-
ference opened in Grand Rapids. Mich.
A slight earthquake, apparently
travelling from west to east, ratified
windows at San Francisco. No dam
age was reported. lSf
The ministers of Montana, In con.
ference at Butte. organized the Law
Enforcement and Public Welfare
League of Montana" to combat vice
in the state
The body Of Adolphus Busch, the
millionaire brewer and philantropist,
arrived in New York and was taken
to st. Louis, his late home. where the
funeral was held.
San Francisco eclipsed all her for
mer records for crowds, festal spirit
and illumination with an electrical pa
geant OF floats depicting the evolution
of the dreadnaught.
A woman for chief Of police Of Chi
cago is being seriously considered by
Mayor Harrison. Mrs. Gertrude Howe
Britton looms large in the mayors
canvass of the field.
Jews and Christians of different de-
nominations assembled in San Fran
cisco in mass meeting to protest
against the trial at Kiev, Russia, of
Mendel Beillis, a Jew, for the alleged
ritual murder OF a Christian boy.
AS a move in their fight for more
rational dress for women, Wisconsin
o1uh xu0roon u convention Of Shahov.
gan, adopted q resolution petitioning
dealers and pattern makers to extend
their stocks to include wider gowns.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago's ac-
knowledged social leader, escaped rob-
berry and perhaps death by margin
Of hours, according to story told in
the Wheaton jail by Henry Spencer, the
"hammer murderer" Of Mildred ALI
son Rexroat.
Two helmet men, among those who
labored without sleep for thirty-siS
hours in an effort to bring from mine
No. at Dawson, N. NJ, the bodies
buried there by the explosion gave up
their lives. bringing the total number
of dead to 26S.
ate luncheon in two baggage cars at
Gary, Ind. They were officers Of the
subsidiary companies of the United
States Steel Corporation who went to
the Indiana city to inspect the corpor-
atoms plant there.
Registration booths at North Platte,
Valentine and Broken Bow land Of
fices were closed for the drawing OF
government lands in the North Platte
forest reserve and Fort Niobrara mill.
tary reservation. About $4,000 have
registered for GOO claims.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
FOREIGN.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt left Rio de-
Janeiro for Sac Paulo.
Troops OF all the warning Balkan
states committed gross atrocities, ac-
cording to the, evidence gathered by
the International Carnegie commission
in its searching inquiry just ended at
Paris.
At the close of the elections Sunday
the Indications were that not suffic-
lent votes had been cast to constitute
a legal choice for the presidency to
succeed Gen. Vctoriano Huerta of
Mexico. - IL,
Forty sailors and passengers on
board the Finnish steamer Westkus-
ten were drowned when the vessel
struck reef near Vasa, In the gulf of
Bothnia and went down. None was
rescued.
General elections were held through
out Italy Sunday. Disorders were not
as grave as expected, although one
person was killed and many wounded.
Numerous arrests were made in vari-
Gus quarters. -
An earthquake shock lasting about
fifteen seconds occurred at Colon.
Houses rocked and clocks stopped,
but no serious damage was re-
ported. The tremor had been ex-
ceeded in intensity by only one other
recent shock.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
263 ENToMBED.
ATDAWSON,
COAL DUST .ExpLoDEs IN MINE
NUMBER TWO, TRAPPING
THE DAY SHIFT.
RESCUE TWENTY
REscuERs WORK FRANTicALLY
n.% TO SAVE MINERS; BLACK
DAMP Is CAUSE.


western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
MINE DISASTER AT a GLANCE,

Two hundred and sixty-three dead.
Twenty-three rescued alive.
buried behind tons of fallen. rock,
!, four Thousand feet from human aid.
Fire from old entry slowly eat
Disaster brings offer of aid from
mine strikers and operators alike. y
- Mine company promises every pos
sible financial assistance to fami-
Federal mine expert declares
himself unable to in any way ac-
count for the accident.
Expected to be week at least
before full extent Of disaster can be
known.
National Red Cross places $1,000
fund at disposal of mine officials
to aid families Of victims.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30

Trinidad, Colo, Oct. N.-Two hun
dred and sixty.three miners are
entombed and may be dead as the re-
suit of a terrific explosion at o'clock
last Wednesday afternoon in No.
mine Of the Stag Cafion Coal Company
ct Dawson. New Mexico. Sc miles
south of here The mouth of the main
stope is caved completely in and early
Thursday rescuers had been able
to penetrate but 100 feet into the
wrecked mine.
According to telephone messages
received here from Dawson there
were 302 miners working in the mine
at the time OF the explosion. Other
estimates based on the number of
men usually at work places the num-
ber imprisoned at 230. 81
The cause Of the explosion Is at
tributed to black damp.
Flames Add to Tragedy.
Dawson, N. NJ, Oct. 24.-Thirty-
eight known dead, twenty-three res
cued and 223 miners entombed at
least 1000 feet from human aid, be-
hind tons Of fallen debris, which
block all known passages, is the toll
in tragedy and death taken by the ex-
plosiqn in Stag Canon mine No. 2 of
the Stag Canon Fuel Company. so far
as known up to late hour last night.
To add to the horror of this great
est of Western mine disasters, fire
from old entry No. is eating its way
through the ruins. & ...s =.
Heroes Die in Dawson Pit.
DAWSON, New MeUs Oct. 25.-The
harvest in death gathered by the ex-
plosion of the Stag Canon mine. the
worst disaster in the history of West
ern mining, is 263. OF these 261 lives
were snuffed out by the first force OF
The catastrophe Wednesday afternoon,
two were sacrificed yesterday when,
daring the mines hidden dangers. two
helmet men gave up their lives.
That all hope for those entombed
must be given over became known last
night when government and mine
crews reached the explosions center.
The helmet men whose lives were
claimed were James Lurdi and Will
liam Poisa, killed by after-damp in
room 18 Of the High Line" entry.
In frenzy Of terror at fall Of
dust and coal which threatened to en-
uelop them, they stripped off their
safety equipment, started to run, and
died instantly.
Walter Keri and Roy Simpleton,
who followed them closely into room
18 and who also stripped their he'll
NETS from their heads, were rescued
with difficulty.
Five of the entombed miners have
been reached and taken out alive.
They had suffered much from the gas
which resulted from the explosion.
The list Of identified dead now
numbers fifty-seven. in addition six
bodies too badly mangled and charred
to permit of recognition have been
recovered.
Only Twenty-Three Survivors.
Twenty-three men-all but six OF
whom were in distant portion of the
mine when the explosion uttered its
death-calI-are all who survive to tell
its horror.
The center OF the explosion has
been definitely fixed at room 1S of the
SHigh Line. entry. 1t was there that
four of the seven bodies were found
Friday night.
First Funerals Held.
The first of the burials took place
Friday afternoon when, with services
for Protestants by the Rev. H. M.
Shields, camp chaplain. and for Cath
olics by the Rev. Fathers A. and Louis
Cellier Of st. Joseph's church at
Springer, N. M. thirty of the thirty.
six bodies at the morgue we're in.
tered in the camp cemetery.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
Militant

DO; you ;,believe in woman's
club?". -;
Yes, if'she knows how to use it on
her. husbands head"
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30

Be happy. Use Red Gross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30

Ars.Wnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces intiamma.
ton, ,allays pain, cures wind collie ,2Sc bottlek<v
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
Tact.

Willie-Paw, what is tact?
Paw-Tact is the art Of making
other people think they know more
than you do, my son.-Cincinnati En-
Quirer.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30

Philadelphia now has 2ss.000 chill.
dren Of school age.
Cheyenne record., 1913-10-30
Sounds That WAY

SouHus 7 HdI way.
"The 'aerobus' Is a new air vehicle"
What it suggests to me is kiss in
an aeroplane."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
PEPPER D|EO
IN HOSPITAL
Denocratic Congressman From
Second District Of Iowa Was
yictim Of Typhoid
Fever.
AFTER A LONG ILLNESS
Was Farmer Boy and Did Not Com
pIete Law Studies Until
After He Was
Elected.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CLINTON, Iowa, Dec 22-Con-
eressman l. S. Pepper. died in local
hospital at 4:5o this morning after a
long siege of typhoid fever. Ccmpli-
cations set in during the last week OF
HIS Illness which hastened the end.
Congressman Pepper was serving his
second term as representative from
the second district of Iowa.
Mr. Pepper Wis born at Drakesvil les
Davis county, Iowa, June 10, 1876,
He was one Of family of nins chill
dren and during the early days of his
childhood attended school and
worked on his fathers farm. After
graduation from normal school he be
came a teacher and later principal O!
school district.
He was the democratic choice fol-
county superintendenH Of schools In
1898, when he got his first taste ol
politics. He got his Office and served
for several years. He moved to Mus
catine in 1901 and in 1902 entere.
the SUNNI sr course of the law depart
ment at Drake university. Not unti
be was elected to congress did hs
complete his law studies; that was IL
1905.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
FIND SUBSTITUTE
FOR RADIUM
New Substance Has Same Curative
Action on Cancer ana Is
Easier Made.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. "a
substitute for radium- -mesothorium
which has the same curative action on
cancer, will be manufactured here
during 1914 Like radium, 1t is the
discovery of Nine. Curie, but has
never been produced extensively.
Such was the substance Of state
ment by DR.. Harlan s. Miner, analy-
tical chemist for large manufacture
ing concern, today. Mesothorium is
so much quicker and easier to manu-
facture that it is estimated the worlds
supply of the cancer cure will be
doubled within twelve months. The
substance is derived from thorium
and the company owns large mines con
tanning this mineral in North and
South Carolina.
The only radium deposits in the
United States are in Colorado.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
Weather Conditions.

The weather is fair and cool from
the upper Mississippi to the eastern
states with high pressure in the lake
region.
depression in the western gulf is
attended by light rain in that region
and is causing unsettled weather in
the lower Mississippi valley and
southern plains, with snow at Dodge
City, Kan, this morning.
Rain attends marked disturbance
on the northwestern coast, and under
its influence the temperature has
risen slightly in the northern noun
tain region.
Conditions indicate unsettled wealth
er, and possibly snow flurres for this
section tonight and Tuesday, with lit
tie c4ange in temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
WILL WORK ON
TRUST MESSAGE
AoW President Wilson Will Spend
His Spare Moments During
His Vacation.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.-While
President Wilson will spend most OF
his time resting at Pass Christian, he
will map out part of his antitrust
message during odd moments 1t be-
came known today that the executive
Office employees are compiling data on
trust decisions for his use and that
the presidents stenographer will make
the trip with him.
The president hopes to read his
recommendations for strengthening
the Sherman law to congress shortly
after it reconvenes In January.
A private telegraph line will con
acct the president with the white
Nouse while he is absent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
ROBBED ONLY
THE DENTISTS
Man Arrested in Illinois Might
be the Fellow Who Re
Gently Turned Trick
in = = uk. /"
UNITED Pr, : leased wire service.l

UNITED Pr : leased Wire Service
ROCKY = Ill, Dac. 22.--on 4
tip furn' o by Beludere dentist,
the pol = oday arrested man they
believe ~ know something OF num-
erous robberies of dentists ofiices
throughout the middle west. He gave
his name as Edmund b. Waller, OK.
pert accountant, living at 1923 Rice
street, Chicago, and said he was en-
rcte to Freeport to audit the books
of the Freeport Milling company.
Freeport police reported there is no
such concern there. A set of burglar
tools and a medal issued by the Ohio
Dental college to Walter Meek sr In
1897 were found on the prisoner the
police say.
A Belvidere dentist identified the
prison ar as man who called, at his
Office two years ago. The Office was
robbed on the night of the man.
visit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
REPRIMAND
IS ISSUED
President Decides to Tell Cara
bao Club Members That
They Did Not Act
Nicely.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-President
Wilson this afternoon issued a gen
eral reprimand to officers of the army
and navy responsible for the program
at the recent Carabao dinner.
The president made his comment in
letter to Secretarys Garrison and
Daniels in part as follows:
The officers who were responsible
for the program of the evening are
certainly deserving of a very serious
reprimand, which hereby request to
be administered; and cannot rid
myself of feeling of great disap-
pointment that the general body of Of
ficers assembled at the dinner should
have greeted the carrying out of such
La program with apparent Indifference
to the fact that it violated some of the
dignified and sacred traditions of the
service
Il am told that the songs and other
amusements of the evening were re-
garded as fun What are we to
think of officers of the army and navy
| of the United States who think it is
fun to bring their official superior
1 into ridicule and the policies OF the
/ government which they are sworn to
serve with unquestionable loyalty, in
Il to contempt? If this is their idea OF
/ fun, what's their idea of duty? II
they do not hold their loyalty above
lall silly effervecienes of childhood
what idea about their profession dc
/ they hold?
My purpose therefore in admins
tering this reprimand is to recall the
men who are responsible for this
4 lowering of standard to their ideals
10 remind them of the high conscience
with which they ought to put dut.
above personal Indulgence and t.
think of themselves as responsible
men and trusted soldiers, even Will
they are amusing themselves as dir
ers out. s.s !,
THE officers who will be formal
reprimanded by Secretary Garrisol
and Daniels as result Of the pres
dents direction, include the entir
banquet committee, according to tn
view of officials this afternoon. TIL.
committee had as members many Q
) the highest army and navy officer
here including Rear Admiral Thos. I
!. Howard, Major General w. P. Biddl'
until recently commandant of th
marine corps; Brigadier Geners
Frank Mcintyre, chief of the insula
!. bureau. and Colonel H. O. Heistant
edjutant general of the army.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
SUMMON AMBULANCE
BY WIRELESS
New Use Put to Equipment on Lack
awanna Trains While Speeding
Through Country.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 22.-New use
for the wireless equipment of Lack
awanna trains has been found today.
An ambulance was waiting at the sta
ton when the flyer from New York
pulled in here, a wireless sent from
the speeding train, having informed
the hospital authorities of the illness
of passenger.
The wireless, now used for the
transmission Of train orders and re-
ceiying United Press dispatches, also
serves for the transmission of priv
ate messages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
THE WEATHER.

For Kookuk and vicinity: Unset
tied weather tonight and Tuesday.
with possible snow flurries. Some
what higher temperature. Light to
moderate variable winds.
For Illinois: Unsettled weather to-
night and Tuesday with possible snow
flurries. Somewhat higher tempera-
ture tonight and north portion Tues
day.
For Iowa: Unsettled weather to-
night and Tuesday with possible snow
flurries, south and east portion.
Somewhat higher temperature. Light
to moderate variable winds becoming
southerly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
BEHIND THE
CLOSED DOOR
Secret Suite of Rooms at Rear
of Lawer's Office Found
When He
Died.
WOMAN WAS INMATE
Said She Had Lived There For Ftf.
teen Years But Had Not
Killed the At
torney.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
MONTICELLO, N. Y, Dec. 22.-
While his stricken widow and the
coroner and sheriff stood by sofa
on which Melvin H. Couch, former as
sociate OF Alton B. Parker and once
district attorney, was found dead in
his Office here today, mysterious
woman and a complete housekeeping
suite were discovered adjoining the
Office.
AS Mrs. Couch tainted away, the
woman said she was Josephine M.
Brance and that she had occupied the
secret rooms for fifteen years. The
coroner and the sheriff, life friends Of
Couch, had never heard of her and
knew nothing of the rooms. She was
locked up as suspicious person.
Mrs. Couch, summoned to the OF
| flee when her husband was found
dead, told the officers Of the locked
I door at the back of the Office which
! she said the lawyer never allowed her
to enter. The sheriff peered over
the transom and saw dishevelled
/ fearful woman crouching in the cor
ner
do not hurt me, I'll come out
did not do it. she shrieked, and un
locked the door. She was not youns
land was poorly dressed. She sait
4 she had Occupied the rooms daily ant
nightly but nobody ever saw her en-
ter or leave the building.
/ The woman talked incoherently ant
refused to answer many questions
She said she found Couch dead In tn,
outer Office when she came in t.
awaken him in the early morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
PARADE OF WILD ANIMALS
FOLLOWED TRAIN TO TOWN

"We took the first train into Texas
Creek" he said, "and broke way
through the snow. AS we proceeded a
dozen wild animals which had been
snow bound fell in behind. They came
co close the crew tossed wisps of al
falfa to them. AS we proceeded the
herd increased rapidly. Emboldened,
thev ran up to the baggage car and
seized hay and feed from the baggage
car When we stopped at the Texai
city station there were 200 deer an
antelones right behind US.
thousands of wild animals In Color,
ado are starving. Their feeding
grounds have been covered WIN SNOW
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
How to Prevent War.

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Dee. 22.-stop chew
ing gum, quit fighting John Barley
corn and use the money thus saved
in building battleships, was the ad-
vice given by Hudson Maxim at a
Sunday peace service" held in the
New York theatre.
Americans spend sS00oo,Oo0 year
ly for chewing gum and s2ooO,o0o 600
for intoxicants." declared Maxim
"This Is enough to build over 200
battleships. And the only way to
prevent war is to be ready for it"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
President Wilson Awaiting its
Adoption With His Pen
Jabbed in the Ink
Bottle.
BEEN KEPT INFORMED
Immediate Recess of Congress Until
January 12 or 10 to Fol-
low Attaching Of
Signature.

United Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Dec. President
Wilson discovered today he would
have to name comptroller OF cur
rency before he could go ahead with
the organization of forces under the
new currency BILL Thomas p Kane
is now acting comptroller. and because
the president is desirious of putting
the new currency bill into effect at
once it was stated that he might ask
the senate to confirm comptroller
before the holiday recess.
The president told callers today he
would sign the currency bill the mo-
ment he receives it. He has been
kept informed of all changes made by
iconferees and approves of their COM
promise measure. He was understood
| to have expressed particular satis-
faction at the inclusion in the meas
ure of Organization commission"
plan This will give him time in
which to consider the best men for
the federal reserve board without de-
laying the operation of the law. The
president anticipates he will sign the
bill tomorrow and indicates he will
issue statement at that time out.
i lining what he expects the measure 10
accomplish.
Z, The currency bill will be finally
. ratified by congress today and prob
ably signed at once, permitting an i'm
mediate recess of congress until Jan.
: uary IL or 19, according to indications
early today when the conferees met to
put the final touches on their report.
The compromise measure framed by
the committee is not expected to
arouse opposition in the house. In the
senate, bitter fight may develop on
the committees action eliminating the
upper houses provision for guaran-
: tee of bank deposits The principal
compromises agreed upon by the con-
ferees include In addition to the
elimination OF guarantee plank:
Rejection of the provision permit
ting use of new federal reserve notes
as reserves by member banks, at
, tackled in the house as likely to cause
initiation
A new section for retirement OF
q outstanding government two per cent
e bonds.
y Secretary OF agriculture removed
from federal reserve board.
p Senate provision for mot less than
h eight or more than twelve reserve
4 banks, approved.
r Minimum capital stock of regional
l. reserve banks made $4000000
l. Federal reserve board members to
e be chosen according to financial as
d well as geographical divisions.
Gold reserve behind new currency
a notes to be 40 per cent.
II Members Of federal reserve board
G prohibited from becoming officers Of
. member banks for more than two
'e years after retirement from the board
70 Republican members Of the confer
ence committee wsre called into to
days meeting-the first they have
been permitted to participate In the
framing OF the conference bill Mos'
- :, of them were angry. Its the firsi
= time in eighteen years that the mi
- - nority party members Of conferences
committee have been barred on anI
= other than party questions" dae'aret
= Senator Nelson. 81 hope TO live unit
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
VISITING Her Husband.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Dec. 22-Mrs. VIM.
Ellis Corey who was MaIbelle Gilman,
the actress, is in New York today to
spend the holiday season with her
husband former head of thu steel
trust Mrs. Corey arrived here from
the Chateau de villignes at Chaumont
She had nothing to say as to the ros
slpility of her appearing in grand
opera and is believed to have aban
doned the plan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
PEOPLE SHOPPED EARLY AND
MAILED PACKAGES PROMPTLY

the month, asking people to send
their packages early with markings
not to be opened until christn.as,'
Although htere is no congestion
in the handling of mail here so faF,"
he said today, more packages than
ever before are being sent by mail.
due to the parcel POST, and fewsr
post cIrds than in past years.
-Four hundred extra men are en-
pioyed here to handle the Christmas
mail Clerks are working overtime
and win from now until the holidays
are over, but this year they are being
paid for overtime work, another In
ovation in the department.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-22
Many Cancer Patients.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. $50
great is the demand for treatment of
cancers by radium that the the sup
ply in the Onotogic hospital In West
Philadelphia is in constant use every
hour Of the day and night One hun
dred patients are being treated there
it was stated at the institution today
This hospital has the third larg est
supply in the country.