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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Four Thousand Stockholders
at Present But Will be
Increased.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. Is
With 1000 people jammed into the
large new auditorium enthusiastically
spplauding the announcement OF
plans, the biggest cooperative depart
ment store in the world, manned,
owned and managed by organized Ia
Dor, was given its formal opening TO-
night That this store would be a
c9nmnaity ccntle for the uitioa lahsr
hfn and his family in thi city WAS
lhe assurance given by E. S. Philips
us manager. tonight
Other countries. such as England
and Germany, have larger cooperative
stores, operated by labor, said PM
ilps, but this is the first one operated
py organized labor, in which every
craft Is bound together.
she meeting tonight quickly de
NeloDed into booster for the stoch
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
DURING WEEK
OF EXECUTION
Becker's Second Trial to Take
Place While -Four Gun
men Sit in Electric
Chair.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-The second
trial Of Chas. Becker, former police
lieutenant, for the sensational MUIR
der Of Herman Rosenthal, gambler
will take place before Justice Vernon
NJ. Davis In the criminal branch of
the supreme court here on April Is,
according to reports today from ap-
parently we'll informed sources. Dis
trict Attorney Whitman would NOT
confirm the report but neither did .
deny it.
Becker, if the report provestlue
will be on trial during thea~eeA -
which Lefty Louie, Whi*y %
Dago Frank Crcfci ane Harry Haro-
witz, "Gyp the Blood, viii go to tne
chair. 1t is said by CT Wahle' thelr
counsel. however, that the quartette
who are in 5ae Sing Sing death house
for the a:tual killing of Rosenthal
will y,st escape execution. Wahle de-
clared today the public would not
stand or the execution Of these boys
while Becker still has chance Tor
life.
.If Becker is innocent he saiS
these alleged gunmen are innocent,
TOO. | predict that they will never
die in the chair.
While Becker. silent, awaited de
yelopments in his case in the Iomes
sre today, rllmors continued to fly
thick and fast about his case The
| latest was that Sam Schepps, one o
| the informers. against Becker hae
| vanished. Later, however, his lawyer
Bernard Sander, admitted he "mlsn
| find Sch spps If necessary" Distric
Attorney Whitman declared today N
was not Worrying about the cloud Q
4 rumors surrounding the, Becker case
] Before long everybody will be dis
4 appearing in this case, even mys Ut
said he, sarcastically. IN not worrs
Y ing. When Becker's case comes N "
'j'lsii :ha Sa tie sfa.i = Y ses 4 q
q hand"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
CLAIM TO HAVE CLEAN CITY
SINCE MIDNIGHT BELL RANG

order was issued there were 14S worl-
en- in the various houses, but the po-
lice were unable to state tonight how
MANY of these were still in the city.
The police believe that many OF the
women OF the underworld have de-
parted and that many others are pre-
pairing to leave the city.
Mayor Chamberlain. of East st.
Louis has declared his intention OF
preventing the women of the st. Louis
district moving to the valley IN
East ST. Louis.
In other cities where the segregat-
ed districts have been closed, the end
has been marked by a night OF scele-
bration" but police authorities an
nounced that no undue demonstration
would be permitted when the zone
passed from existence at midnight
/ The closing order Of the commission
; is the city's second real attempt to
solve the problem. Years ago law
was passed providing for the licensing
of prostitutes and for medical exam
inaticn and hosrital was provided
by the city for the latter purpose, The
law met with such protest. however
that after two years it was repealed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
ONE BLOT ON
STATE OF low
Said to Contribute t,re Wis
to Ranks Of Fad Wom-
en- THAI Any
Oter. {
| ).
THE R R.AsoN FOR $ rs
: s. .aore Small Towns Where the
J Narrow Monotony Drives
Girls to the
Cities.
THE RnAsoN FOR - rs

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DES MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 2S.-lowa
contributes more girls to the ranks OF
fallen women in the large cities tnan
anv state in the union. This start
ling fact was brought out at the con-
ference of the Y. w. G. A. workers
this afternoon by Miss Harriet Cum
ningham, office secretary of the north
central field. Miss Cunningham quot
ed one OF the national travellers aid
workers for the Y. w. G. A.
when she asked me to give reas-
on why this should be SO, why such a
fine and prosperous state shculo
1 have such a blot on it, told her
thought one reason is because lows
has more small country towns thar
! almost any other state
! Miss Cunningham then pointed OH
how the narrow monotony of thu
\ small town leads girls to seek tn
] cities
4 MANY motives impel them sh'
:, said. ambition, desire to amount t
something, and to be important, lov
,,tof pretty clothes, all contribute.
4 The Y. w. G. A. is now working
y! scheme to establish the associatio
'i.iwork in the small towns Of the stat
with the hope Of changing stle cond
I tons which the nass onal ) workers ~
asfa q sief s ia 5s q
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
WALK FROM TEXAS
TO WASHINGTON
Legislator Wishes to See the Country
at Close Range and Will
Hike.

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WAXAHACHIE, Texas, Feb. 2s.--,li
General j. 3. Coxey, marches 70
Washington on his birthday ne VIII 4
have nothing on Hon. w Cox, OF
this place, member Of the Texas leg
islature and candidate for re-eiec-
ton Cox is planning a march on the
nations capital in which be viii ne
the whole army. and asserted that ne
is making the trip for the pleasure on
It and that it has no political signiil-
cance. Il Just want TO take THIS
method Of seeing some OF the coun-
try ali close range, he said
He expects to start from Waxa-
hachie about March l6 and will go ug
way of Little Rock, Memphis ana
Nashville. He expects to cover most
of the distance on foot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Ellis Cringes in His Cell While
His Trial for Muir
der is Being
Held.
IN STATE OF COLLAPSE
Woman s Father Cried Out in
Court Room That He
Would Kill the
Assassin.

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CHICAGO, Feb. 2s.Cringing and
white faced in his cell tonight, Will I
liam Cheney Ellis, who, on trial for
the murder of his wife. confessed to-
day that he was damaged goods,
when he led her to the altar, was in
a state of collapse.
Two blocks away, Robert NJ Hosea,
seventy-two year old civil war vet
eran, and the father of Eleanor Hosea
Ellis, the murdered woman, paced his
\ hotel room and vowed vengeance on
! his son-in-law If he should escape the
death penalty His aged wife wept
bitterly.
II never believed what read In
the papers that Ellis was diseased un.
It'll | heard It from his own lips to-
day" said the white haired veteran.
sl"Oh, why didn't know 1t before he
married my little girl.
a When court reconvened this after
noon in the trial of the once wealthy
Cincinnati leather manufacturer
Hosea and his wife again occupied
! seats beside the witness railing
\ attaches feared another violen
iontbtrst similar to that which oc
I Icurred when Hosea leaped to his fee
: and shouted Damn him. I'll XII
; him!" while Ellis was on the stand
But Ellis was not recalled. Instead
r his attorney called to the stand thre
alienists who testified as to the effec
an incurable disease such as Ellis ad
= mitted he was afflicted with, woul
! have in causing temporary insanity
the basis of Ellis defense.
Attorney George Remus for Ellis
attempted to get from John 8. Hendel
son, Western Union employe,
statement that Mrs. Ellis had recei'
ed a telegram from Canadian ma
upon her arrival in Chicago fe'
DAYS prior to her murder. He coul
mot recall the alleged message an
was instructed by Judge Petit 7
search his files and return to court o
Monday. The defense sought to sho
Iby the testimony Of the alienists ths
Ellis mind was SO Weakenea '
Iparesis that the belief that his vii
was untrue to him might easily hay
caused mental arrangement. I'll
alien:sts variously described Ellis
a victim OF mental astigmattsm
- pycsic epilepic and a man who hadn
y, the proper sense Of right and wrong
80 Assistant States Attorney Mala
~ ~ who put Ellis through a grilling Gro
examination, announced tonight I'd
,t he will ask the death penalty
SIS Ellis killed his wife deliberate
in cold blood because he knew ne :"
ne suffering from an incurable disease
IN. said Malato.
or "He kissed his babies good bye
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Segregated District Closed and
St. Louis is Rid Of
Rotten Spot. /"

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ST. LOUIS. Mo. Feb. 2S.-Seeking
a remedy for the social evil, st Louis
at midnight tonight by order of the
board of police commissioner closed
the segregated district after a cam
paign OF gradual elimination carried
on for the last six months. Determin-
ed to rid the city Of its rotten spot
the commissioners, months ago began
TO restrict the liberties of the vice
zone and month ago announced that
1.-THE houses of i'll fame must close or
March /. Plenty of time was allowed
so that the inmates could either leave
the city CT go to work,
OF the ffty-two houses IN the dis
trict, eighteen are said to have close'
during the past month. When tn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
THE MAN WHO S[ASHED
| THE THROAT Of HIS WIFE

fore he left Cincinnati to come here to
slash her throat and then he invent
ed his story of her alleged faithless-
ness Even If this story were true.
there isn't a jury in the world that
would say woman must remain 10Y
al to husband who married her.
knowing his own affliction.'
Robert Hosea of Cincinnati. the rs
year-old father of Mrs. Eleanor Ellis,
arrived in Chicago today to testify in
William Cheney Ellis trial. Mr.. Ho-
sea was accompanied by his wife,
Mrs. Ellis mother
They were aroused to indignation
by reading newspaper accounts OF El-
lis testimony, in which he endeavor-
ed to prove that he was driven to
mania by his wife's infatuation for
another man Mr.. Hosea notified
Prosecutor Malato that he and his
wife would be in Chicago ready to
testify in defense of their daughters
reputation Malato requested them
| to be in readiness to take the stand
today
The railway trip and the ordeal Of
4 the witness stand may prove TO be
4 too much for Mr.. Hosea on account OF
his advanced age according to ms
physicians. but Mr.. Hosea declared to-
; day he would refute Ellis charges
gainst his daughter if it cost him his
: life.
Ellis tainted in the witness chair
under battery Of questions from the
prosecntor. He replied vaguely TO
: several questions about what happen
cd when the detectives found him
2 with the body Of his wife and Judge
|. Petit checked him and ordered that
y he respond clearly. Soon after Etlls
!. he respond clearly. Soon after Eiils
e chair.
Ellis had Just repeated his first
r statement, made on the day OF the
y killing that he and his wife had made
r, an agreement to die together
ID she agreed to die with me, Sh'
gslsaid we would both be better O
At, dead. Il he said. 4. n sss ~
C. Mrs. Ellis and went 10 our roor
ct together. she said that she knes
III she was doing wrong but she coui
d. not help 1t. though OF everytbin
d. good in my life going away from ms
ee saw my home, wife and childrel
ct vanish as If in a vision"
d. Here his voice grew faint and n
Id fell against the judges desk He wa
". revived with difficulty and answere
the remaining questions in cross-e'
= animation without raising his eyes
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
|T.MMANY HALL
AUCTINED OFF
Annual Amen Corner Dinner
Pulls Off'Many Stunts
. About Prominent
Citizens.

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NEW YORK. Feb. 2S.-Tammany
Hall was sold at auction here tonight. i
At least the chief fittings of the IA I
nous political palace were knocked
down under the hammer to the high
est bidder. A picture of Mona Lisa
Murphy went to James e. Gaffney for
$1,000 This was one of the stunts
of the annual amen corner dinner at
which numerous state and city offl-
cials and scores of men of national
prominence we're present. No one OF
prominence was spared in the fun
cooked up for the diner. Secretary OF
State Bryan was impersonated as
chautauqua lecturer whose only cor'
Germ was the amount of money he was
to receive
president Taft arrived ready to
uphold the constitution which Colon
4 el Roosevelt assured him he had
abolished at the last progressive con-
! vention.
In selling the furnishings OF Tam.
many Hall the auctioneer was Offered
i thirty cents by Judge Mccall Tor
Chief Murphy's statistical pencil with
which he figured McCals plurality
!. in the last mayoralty election at loo,
600. committee reported on the
state of the nation" and in re
sponse to question from the presi
lFdent, declared an income tax certifi
cate was a Certificate of membership
I in the Ananias club.
e There is no science In politics an.
. more it was declared.
What is there in it?"
g "A sick headache, subpoena ever.
o other day and from three months Y
g seven years with the warden"
The chautauqua stunt introduce
a the Bryan burlesquers.
= AS Bryan was making his spiel
g Ia the company, Colonel Roosevelt el
+ tered, dressed as an explorer Hs in
Y ii eiiasaivs giloutad tiaat sl1s'sis
i..get out with hfs Peoria giants.
II have a new and complete line
freaks and political wonders decla
, ed the colonel. Behold Theodore, tn
man has charming snakes >holdin
A. up snake). This marvellous monst'
captured and tanned exclusively b
me. breakfasts daily on the dove
ii peace and dimes sumptuously on +
le publican office holder. He has
j. nest under the party platforms an
OF brings forth his young alive, alive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
CAN PREDICT
EARTHQUAKES
Anybody Can Predict Them,
But his Man Can Hit the
Nail on the
Head.

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SANTA CLARA, Calf, Feb. rs
That every earthquake for months
past have been predicted for weeks
or months in advance by Dr. Albert
Porta. Father Ricard's associate at
Santa Clara university, was the news
which leaked out from the university
observatory today.
Among those which the doctor fore,
told, were shakes in southern Japan,
In New York, in Reno. in Canada and
those recorded at SIT. 1gnatius collegs
Cleveland, anh in st. Louis more re
Gently.
Forecasts we're now being made. il
was learned as far ahead as next d.
cember, but for something which was
not explained, 1t was said they woule
not be given out for the present Be
tween earthquakes and sun spots i
is the Santa Clara observers opinion
a direct connection exists. Acco-dint
! to thei1. theory, when the revolving
sun brings a spot within quadrilat
oral seventy degree square on th'
side OF the sun facing the earth, Their
| is a danger period which increase
as the sun nears the solar axis AM
whsn it crosses the axis there invaI
iably is an earthquake.
The quake's location, il DR.. Port
is correct. depends on the spots pos
ton on the sun.
In his weather forecast for Marcl
it was learned that Father Ricar
sees only four storm dates March
and .. Z, 10 and II and II. Ths d'
tailed report is to be published t.
morrow
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Union Labor Hospital.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2S.-The
McNutt hospital was leased for a per
iod of ten years here today by the
Union Labor Hospital and Training
School Association. 1t will take pos
session tomorrow. According to la
Dor officials here. this VIII give San
Francisco the first union labor hos.
pital in any large American city. II
will not be conducted entirely for la
Dor patients. however, being con
tinued as a general hospital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Benton S Body Will Not be
Examined Until Too Late to
Determine Cause
Of Death.
ENGLAND NOT AROUSED
Latest Flare Up Over Villas
Executions Will Soon be
a Forgotten
Incident.
8{By John 3. Nevin, Staff Correspond
M ent of the United Press.]


ent of the United Press.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. England
will not force the hand Of the Unit
ed States in Mexico. No matter what
the result Of the Benton investigation
may be. Great Britain will not In
sist on summary action. 1t was
learned tonight knowledge of this
fact, conveyed to him by Sir Cecil
Spring Rice, kept Secretary OF State
Bryan from cancelling his trip to
Richmond. Va, today. The situation,
SO far as northern Mexico is concern
ed. was admittedly clearing tonight.
Even though it sholl be established
that Villa himself killed Benton. Eng
land will withhold for the present at
least, any demand that the revolution
AIRY general be held personally ac-
countable. Later that demand may
be made, but not until after the gener-
Il al Mexican situation has been cleared
pn
gAdministration officials admitted
this tonight They asserted that the IN
esiiaatiqn tnns matter
Was being pushed with all nnasssie
diligence bit there was q disposition
in certain quarters to question this lat
fer statement All arrangements for
the trip to Chihuahua City to view
Benton's body have been completed.
The personnel of the surgeons to ac-
company the party is known to Score
tary Bryan and Secretary Garrison
and General Hugh Scott. They were
selected yesterday, as We're two civil
ians to accompany them. There was
every reason to believe that star
would have been made today but Il
was said it might be made tomorrow
/ No reason is assigned why the expedi
ton is held up. The result was I
growing belief here that If the tril
is made at all it will not be under
taken until after decomposition has 81
far advanced that it will be impos
sible to disprove Villas original story
1t developed tonight that Great Brit
ain and certain other powers hav
been told by Secretary of State Brya
that there will be no further "drur
head" trials of foreigners by constitl
tionalist officials The positiv
promise OF General Carranza the
hereafter when any American or otl
er non-citizen of Mexico gets into tro,
Bile in the territory held by the rev
lutionists, the nearest American col
sui will be notified has been conve
ed to the state department. To SC
that Villa makes this promise goo
George G. Carothers. special agent
the state department will be detaile
TO the generals headquarters to kee
this government informed of procee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Fireman Killed.

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ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Feb. 2S. Martin
Linch, captain Of a fire company, was
killed and six iiremen We're injured
tonight in blaze which destroyed the
building occupied BY the Day Rubber
company. The loss was $265,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
On Anti SURFACE Platform.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2s. first
aspirant for congressional honors on
strictly anti-suffrage platform ap-
peared today in John Basil Barnhih
at present secretary to Representative
O'Hair. He announced his. candidacy
for congressman at large in Illinois.
which state recently joined the equal
rights.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
1000 Rabbits Killed.

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BALLINGER, Texas, Feb. 2S. End
ing round up covering several miles
within the county. more than 1000
Jack rabbits were killed by hunters
today. The rabbits will be dressed
and packed in ice and shipped to New
York
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-Weather
forecast:
Illinois Fair Sunday and Monday,
much colder Sunday.
Iowa,-Fair Sunday, colder in south
east portion; Monday fair and warm
er.
Missouri and much colder
Sunday; Monday fair and continued
cold
Local observations.
Feb. Bar Their. Wind Weather.
2S I a. m. 29.s4 81 SW PIT Cl'dy
2S Z p m. 1882 80 NV Clear
Rainfall for past "a hours, trace
Mean temperature, sc.
| Highest temperature, As.
Lowest temperature. 80.
Lowest temperature triday night,
80
Maximum wind velocity for 8 min
utes period, up to $40 p. M, 40 miles
per hour from northwest at Clio p. m
FRED q. GOSEWISCH,
Observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
MEXICAN EXCITEMENT
IS SLOWLY DYING DOWN
ings Of future campaigns in northern

ings Of future campaigns in northern
Mexico.
The action Of General Huerta in al
leging that Bentons killing was due
entirely to the lifting Of the embargo
on arms by President Wilson was .ex-
pected to prove troublesome The
foreign representatives in Mexico
City cabled this claim to their home
governments. 1t is believed that this
matter furnished the chief topic OF a
long conference this afternoon be.
tween Acting Secretary of State
Moore and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. 1t
can be stated on the highest author
ity, however, that under no clrcum-
stances will president Wilson revoke
his order. Sir Lionel Garden, the
British minister to Mexico, who is ad-
mittedly Huerta partisan, will con-
fer with the president and Secretary
Of State Bryan next Tuesday or Wed
nesday and it was said tonight that
| this question would furnish one of the
chief topics Tor consideration. Btu
! the president has made it plain to all
! of his visitors that he raises the en-
barge only after careful consideration
of all of the probable consequences
and that he is still convinced that it
was wise move.
Charge O'Shaughnessy has notified
| the state department that JOS Lopez
Portillo Lojas, manager OF foreign af-
fairs, has promised the circum-
! stances surrounding the murder OF
i Clemente Vergera, wild be inyestigat
ed and those responsible punished. So
/ far O'Shaughnessy has not notlhed
/ the state department of the claim
made that Vergera was Mexican
! lsubiect and therefore the government
is not concerned in his death. Con-
sui Garret who investigated the mur-
4 der has furnished list Of the per-
sons Responsible and the list has been
transmitted to 'Shaughnessy
| Acting Secretary Moore refused TO-
might to say whether the reply Of the
Estate dspartment ID The demand Of
Il Il dd6verncE tina sse
Il told how far he couiu - IN. a az fssr stfng
Texas citizens, has been sent tc
I Austin. s
81 have nothing to say on that suo
Iiect whatever he said THE state De
s lpartment has received word IRON
General Carranza to Nogales throusl
consular representatives that he VII
, forward to- Washington all reports
. Il from General Villa, regarding the
!. Benton ana Bauch mysteries that ars
available to him The first chief Q
! the revolutjonists says In his mes
sages that no information so far re
i. ceived by him in any way contradlct
a the reports already received by tn
! United states from the consul repre-
). sentatiyes who have been probing th
: Benton death. Bauch having CON
!, p1etely disappeared Carranza vii
! try to find him, despite the apparen
: Ebopelessness OF the task.
e
!, Benton After Trouble.
m SANTA FE, N. M, Feb. 2S.--"l sa'
u Bsnton in the lobby OF the casa ~
= Norte the day before he died and
at said, I'm going to see Villa and te
H. = u f'x yNyI1 n
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
Benton After trouble.

SANTA FE, N. M, Feb. 2s.--"l saw
,Ranton in the lobby of the Casa Del
Norte the day before he died and ne
said. I'm going to see Villa and tell
him where to head in, that's what | M
going to do. Several men were stand
in, nsar me and they herd the re-
mark. When we heard what happen
ed to Benton we thought he had gone
t. villa to raise row and did not get
away with it.
So said F. W. Swanson, irrigation