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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
NEW CLEWS IN
MURDER CASE
Negro Suspect Was on Same
Street Car With Girl
Whose Head Was
Crushed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
AURORA, Ill.,, Feb. 1S.-With sew
eral new clues reported to have been
unearthed. Chief of Police Frank
Michels today started search for
Walter Hickman, a negro, wanted in
connection with the brutal murder Of
Theresa Hollander here Monday night.
Her head crushed with ~sSave prop"
the girls body was found by her faith
Ier lying on a grave in st. Nicholas
cemetery.
Although the police refuse to give
out any information before the corr
orners inquest reconvenes at 2 p. m.
today, it was authoritatively stated
that evidence which will establish the
innocense of Athony Petros, the Aus
trian held, has been discovered The
report made to Chief Michaels by FL.
j. Atkins, independent investigator,
| 1t was said, developed that the foot
prints believed to be those of the MUIR
derer, could not have been made by
Petros. 1t seemed improbable also
the authorities stated, that so slight
a man as the one under arrest could
have inflicted the injuries which caus-
ed the girls DEATH Atkins is said to
have told Chief Michaeis that 1t
would have been impossible for Pet
ros even If running swiftly to step the
length Of strides the murderer took
! From the distance between foot prints
! Atkins estimated that the murderer is
at least six feet tall and Petros is but
little more than five feet in height
| Hickman was released by the police
yesterday after confessing he saw
Petros and the murdered girl ridins
home together on street car, thai
Petros got off block later than Miss
Hollander did and started in the di
rection she took Petros said thu
negro left the car when he did. A,
Petros started toward his home, h,
lsaid that he saw Hickman start in th
a direction the girl took. Hick man IVA
s Ireleased by the chief and could not b
i found early today.
i The finding early today of a knife
( said by Chief of Police Michaels t
D bsar the name of an intimate frient
!, of the murdered young wcnan cause,
+ the chief to make hurried trip t
t Chicago today and the inquest wa
postponed, until Thursday. The OWL
n er of the knife is said by the polio
+ to be, a Chicagoan and authorities be
n lieve he was either near the scene O
j. the night Of the murder or that th
knife was in the girls possession an
. dropped from her hand bag during tn
e struggle. Chief Michaels said th
h Chicago suspect is known to hav
n been in Aurora yesterday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
POISONED HER HUSBAND IN
ORDER TO MARRY FARM HAND

poets of the taking Of testimony start
ing soon.
AS it appeared certain the jury
would be completed before court is
adjourned today. Mrs Buffum was ask
ed what she thought of the jurors so
far selected.
"I love them ALL she replied, gaily
The court room here was entirely
inadequate for the great crowd of VIII
layers and farmers who thtonged the
court house anxious to see every de-
velopment of the case of the woman
who is charged with having poisoned
her husband that she might marry
her farm hand lover.
The Buffum jury was completed
shortly after noon by the selection OF
Moses e. Marsh. of Elliottsyille, as
the twelfth juror.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Unsettled
weather with probably snow tonight
and Thursday Cold,sr Thursday
Brisk northerly winds.
For Illinois: Snow or rain north anG
rain south portion tonight and Thurs
day Somewhat colder Thursday.
Brisk shifting winds.
For Iowa: Unsettled tonight and
Thursday with probably snow Cold
er west portion tonight. Brisk north
erly winds.
For Missouri: Snow north and rain
or snow south portion tonight ana
Thursday. Colder tonight and east
and south portion Thursday. Bris.
northerly winds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
FOUND GUILTY
OF BIG FRAUD
Picturesque Trial Of Officials
of Western Fuel Company
Ends With a Verdict
Against Defendants

[United Press Leased Wire service.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Isl. B.
Smith, vice president and genera.
manager; F. G. Mills, superintendent,
and E. H. Mayer, chief wefgher OF the
Western Fuel company early today
we're found guilty of d'efrauding the
United States government by obtain
ing Illegal tariff rebates through falss
weights. F. l.. Smith, a checker, the
other defendant, was acquitted.
More than 100000 was spent by
prosecution and defense in the West
ern Fuel company conspiracy trial. OF
this, the indicted men put up abor-
$15O,0O0 in lawyers fees, pay for e&-
perts and clerical and other work.
From the government, Prosecutor
Theo. j. Roche was handsomely com
pensated.
The question at issue was whether
the Western Fuel men eonspired to
d9fraud the government out of import
duties ON coal and by over ,ighins
! fuel sold to army transports. The
sum involved was about 100000 al
| though IL the alleged frauds invovins
others than the government were
/ taken into account. the figure woulc
/ have been much larger
Not in years has there been so Ions
drawn out case in the local fedora
courts The trial commlmced before
Judge NJ. T. Dooling December ant
with the exception of three weeks
holiday vacation, has steadily pro
gressed ever since. The record wa:
enormous. the court stenogTapher'
4 having filled close to 5000 pages o
manuscript. The stenographers' fee
alone represent small fortune.
4 The trial has been full Of pictures
que features. 1t started with eigh
defendants. After the prosecution
had closed. President John T. Howar
Of the fuel company, one Of the nun
1 her. collapsed and died twenty-fou
! hoRrs later: Two days later Will
!. His funeral was being held jads
Dooling dismissed the cases agains
him and Directors Sidney Y. Snitl
: Joseph il. ,Scllmitt and Robert Bruce
on the grounds that the governmen
had failed to make out a case agains
them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
DENVER ELECTION
AGAINST COMPANY
Union Water Company Turned Down
on Both Propositions on
the Ballot.

United Press Dsased Wire Service.
DENVER, Colo. Feb. 1S.-Complete
returns today from yesterdays special
election, show the people have denied
to the Denver Union Water company,
a franchise or contract to operate
in the streets during the next twenty
years. The proposal appeared twice
on the ballot--once as a franchise and
once as an Amendment to tho city
charter. 1t was defeated in both cases,
the franchise by 6,40S plurality anc
the charter amendment by 1895. BY
plurality Of 5.976 the people votsd
$3,000000 bonds to build tunnel for
the Moffatt road through the Ro kies
to shorten the distance from Denver
to Salt Lake. The railroad will ada
81 100000 to this and will pay the
city hack the s3,oo0,0oO with interest.
A number OF other propositions car
ried.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
ALLEGED SUGAR TRUST HAS
STRONG ALIBI TO PRESENT

for the government; J. w. Goodwin,
m i, Crawford and s. E. Richardson,
for the sugar company
John w. McMahon, buyer for the
Reid-Murdoch company of Chicago
the first witness, said he had done
practically all the buying for ms nrm
for FIVE years and that but y per cen.
of the firms business went to the al
legged "trust.' c. II, Rome. whole
sale merchant, testified tnat but q
small percentage Of his business was
with the American Sugar Refining
company.
Testimony taken this morning
hronght out that more than four mil
lion tons OF sugar were consumed IN
the United States during 1912. q Or
this 500 900 tons was beet sugar. wit
nesses said the beet sugar ihuus''s
wss growing rapidly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
CASTILLO CAUGHT
ON THIS SIDE
Mexican Bandit p : Six of His
Gang, Car ed by
Unite = ,tates
iers.
WILL BE EXECUTED
lif Men Are Turned over to Villa Who
Once Claimed to Have Them,
He Will Kill
Them.
WILL BE EXECUTED

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
Ell PASO, Texas, Feb. 1S.-Captain
White and Lieutenant Rothwell in
command of detachment Of United
States cavalry early today reached
Hachita, N. M, with Maxine Castillo
and six other Mexican bandits as
prisoners. They will be held there un-
til General Scott, commanding at
Ft. Bliss, decides whether to bring
them here.
It is believed the United States gov
ernment will decide to turn the pris-
oners over to General Francisco Villa,
rebel commander at Juarez. If this
| is done, Villa has said he will public
lily execute them as an example to 9th
er bandits who attempt depredations
| in northern Mexico. Castillo is the
bandit whose followers wrecked the
Cumbre tunnel near Pearson, Mexico
and then set fire to 1t. The same day
they allowed Mexican Northwestern
passenger train to plunge into the
burning wreckage, causing the death
iof fifty-one passengers and train men
General Villas troops have beer
fsearching for them for two weeks, de
4 Itermined to avenge this crime, but i
was not until yesterday that definit.
trace of Castillo was found. Captain
White commanding the U. S. borde
lpatrols thirty-eight miles south 9
Hachita, learned Castillo was nea
land advised General Scott who il
Fstructed him to capture the bandit
This was accomplished yesterday al
ternoon and Castillo was taken t
J Hachita.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
BLooDHOUNDs LOOK
FOR EXPRESS ROBBER
Package Containing $4,000 Taken
From the Agent by
Bandit.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
PEORIA, ILL.,, r eb. 1S.-Sheriff Roy,
of Fulton county, with dozen depu.
ties, were securing the country in the
vicinity of Pennington today for a
bandit who held UP and robbed G. l..
Brown of $4,000. Brown is agent for
the American Express Company. He
mad just got the package from the A.
c. Steenburg bank and had taken it
into the express office for shipment
to the National Bank of the Republic
in Chicago, when the bandit entered
sandbagged and bound him and fled.
Brown was revived with a pulmotor
but lapsed into unconsciousness
Two blood hounds from Cuba, ILL.,,
were put on the trail early today and
two more dogs were ordered from
Springfield
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
Gill is vindicated d.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. Is. Hiram
c. Gill, who was recalled rs mayor OF
Seattle three years ago, today claim
ed a yindication as, the result of pri-
maries in which he led the list Of
candidates seeking nomination for
mayor. AT the election in few
weeks Gill will probably run against
j. ID. Trenholme, business candidate
for mayor. Gill ran far ahead of 9TH
ers in the primaries
Returns from 264 out of 2s1 pre-
cincts in the city give Gill 21,S0S;
Trenholme, 11.153; Richard Winsor,
socialist, 1878 A. E. Griffiths, min.
isterial association candidate, ran a
aoor fourth. The other candidates
aolled only about 5000 votes com,
bined.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
is an Elephant on Hands.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.LJust what
the United States government will do
with Maxine Castillo, the Mexican
bandit responsible for the Cumbre
tunnel horror, now that 1t has him in
custody. was worrying state depart
ment officials today. Counsellor John
Bassett Moore is seeking precedents
and preparing an opinion for Secre-
tary Bryan.
Castillo was captured on American
soil, the American authorities regard
him as a murderer but there can be
mo formal charges of this nature pre-
ferred against him, as his crimes
have been committed on Mexican soil.
Castillo cannot be turned over to the
federal forces in Mexico without re-
iversing the administrators non-rec-
lognition order against the Huertastas.
Because the United States has not
recognized even the belligerency of
the constitutionalists the bandit can
hardly be formally turned over to
1 General Villa.
4 Moreover Villa has issued orders to
his men to shoot Castillo on sight, and
the American government could not
turn him loose with any constitution
alists around without laying itself
1open to charges Of inhumanity. His
detention in the United States may
prove embarrassing Demands fol
Castillo's surrender are expected. from
both federals and rebels. The state
department was expected to announce
it's position within week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
Merchants State That Small
Per Cent Of Their Supply
Came From There.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NHlCAGO. Feb. 1S.-The taking OF
esiuence by which attorneys hope to
prove that the American Sugar Refin-
R company is not corporation in
g, ses'raint of trade in violation Of the
cnernan law, opened today before
: commissioner George J. Chambers, OF
,seW York, at the Hotel LaSalle here.
salnes r Knapp, special assistant
onlted States attorney general, acted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
New kina of Albania.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Feb. 18.-Ths prince OF
Wied. chosen by the powers to be the
first king OF autonomous Albania, ar
rived here today from Berlin and had
an audience with King George al
Buckingham Palace. Later he called
at the foreign office and had an in
terview with Sir Edward Grey, secre
tary of state for foreign affairs. The
prince tonight will depart for Paris
where he will consult President Poin
care and his cabinet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
This is Charge Against Mrs.
Buffum, Whose Trial
Has Started.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LITTLE VALLEY, N. Y, Feb. 1s.-
Nodding approval to her attorney as
C. C. Telmes, farmer, took his
place in the box as the eleventh mem
Der of the jury which will hear her
trial for murder, Mrs. Cynthia Buff
FUN smiled brightly today at the pros.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
6nal Arguments by Attorneys
Were Vitriolic Attacks
Upon Many
People.
|uA1M BIG CONSPIRACY
|ttorney says Those Back Of the Plot
Would Gladly Pay Big
sum for Con-
vlction.

Inv a United Press staff correspon-
dent]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb. Is.
mrs. Minnie e. Bonds $4,000 dam
., suit against United States Senator
Thomas P. Gore for alleged assault
kill 20 to the jury late today. SIX
bours Of argument remained to be
heard when court convened at .
bclock this morning. The attorneys
who argued the cass yesterday for six
hours were not only vitriolic in their
attacks on the blind senator and Mrs.
Bond was also upon those whom the
defense alleged plotted to ruin the
senator. Attorney Pruiett went even
Iturther charging that Al Jennings,
Irormer convict and democratic candi-
date for governor and ]. F. McMur-
ray, Indian attorney by contract, were
parties in the plot with Jacobs, Rob
ertson and Fitzpatrick to ruin the
senator
Attorneys for both sides announced
that the case would be given to the
Jury at 4::30 or 5 O'Clock this after
noon
Robert L. Rogers of Little Rock,
lorner attorney general of Arkansas
took up the cudgel for Senator Gore
In his argument today. He was fol
lowed BY WI. NJ. Strait Of a Morrilltcn
AK, Tor the plaintiff Judge g. D
Stuart Of oklahoma City, and Morton
Rutherford Of Muskogee, wers the
others scheduled for the defense anc
plaintiff respectively.
The Winston hotel rom affair Rog
ers compared to a bull fight
They had the ring and the anima
there, then they led in the matadol
in the person Of this blind senator
Those other two horned bulls waitet
in the other room for the opportun
ity to gore him. They wanted to 'ge
even with him.
Rogers declared those behind Mrs
Bond would give $4,000 for a ver
dict Of one cent damages; $4,000 TO
hung jury and $4,000 for signs
verdict. In Oklahoma, civil cases
nine jurors may return verdict, bu
each of the nine must sign the vel
dict Individually.
Oklahoma is on trial In this CASE
The name and integrity of yUar stat
are In ISSUE" he said.
Senator Gore received telegram
today expressing confidence, fror
democratic clubs and friends in Ka1
sss City and st. Louis.
Rogers was violent in his danunci,
Ton Of the alleged conspirators, TO
mer National Committeeman Jas. l
jacobs. Kirby Fitzpatrick and That
Gus E. Robertson.
"A snake crawling in it's slime
said, is giraffe compared with Ro'
ertson.
Oklahoma has felt his claws sal
tne attorney, Of ]. F. McMurray, Il
alan lobbyist, arch-enemy Of Cor
oklahoma has watched his recor
hnd never will forget his acts
Senator Cores constant opposite
70 McMurray's sought for contrac
win Oklahoma Indians are charge
Dy the defense to be behind the co
spiracy against Gore.
w. N. Strait was the third lawy,
10 plead Mrs. Bonds cause.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18

MEMBERS IN WRANGLE
Those in Calumet District Agree on
Truce to Prevent Having Trou-
BILE Similar to Last
Night.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.f
TRINIDAD, Colo. Fvsb. 1S.--Gondi-
tions in the southern Colorado Goa.
fields were personally inquired into
today by the congressional sub-com-
mittee Investigating the cause OF the
coal strike in this state. Accompan-
led by representatives Of miners,
operators and the militiamen, the
committee left at $3.50 IL automobiles
for an all day trip through the canons
and coal camps. The first place yis-
tied was Forbes where the congress
m5n went over the ground where tho
battle of Forbes" one OF the first en-
gagements between strikers and niue
guards, was fought last fall. The
Ludlow colony. where hundreds OF
strikers and their families have been
sheltered in tents since the strike be-
1 gan, was next inspected. John Law
son, union leader, was requested to-
explain to the probers how the two
battles OF Ludlow were fought.
Thereafter the COMMITTEES visited
Tabasco. Berwind, Hastings and De.
lagua, in the canons. No testimony
was taken. The trip will delay d-
cision on the request of Attorney q
'tP. Costigan, for the miners, thai
Mother Mary jones. aged strike
leader, be subpoenals9 as q witness.
ts ;;ast "a Yissssfs rassttssls N .~y atrT
pont of starkville, testified that two
militiamen on February insuited her
and her sister. John r. Abrahams,
s superintendent of tls Colorado and
Southern railway, declared he had
once been compelled to hold a passen-
ger train here becauss he had been
warned by telephone 1t would be un-
safe for 1t to pass the Ludlow tent
colony.
Ii[By N. c. Parke, Staff Correspondent
i Of the United Press.l
HANCOCK, Mich, Feb. 1S.-That
the democratic and republican mem
tee, probing the Calumet strike, have
agreed upon truce to prevent a repi-
, tition of yesterdays row was given
out when the probers resumed their
session today
After adjournment last night, Rep
J resentative Switzer, of Ohio, who was
publicly charged by Chairman Taylor
. with attempting to discredit the In
vestigation, accompanied by his re-
], publican colleague, Representative
/, Howell, of Utah, conferred with Tay-
lor and Representative Casey, OF
! Pennsylvania the other democratic
member. 1t was understood today
that the republican congressman on
the subcommittee should merely en-
ter their objections in the record
when they disapprove of the admis
sion OF certain evidence to avert an
other wrangle like the one that oc
I CURED last night.
f Representative S. M Taylor, of Ar
e kansas, who left Washington at the
: urgent request of Chairman Taylor
d was expected to arrive here today
t giving the democrats majority o.
d the committe. Two Houghton coun
l. ty deputy sheriffs who arrested Ser
3 geant at Arms Short of the sub-com
e mittee, made profound apologies to
$, day. Short took two Italians int
Continued on page 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
Weather Conditions.

The weather is uns sttled, with rain
in portions from Texas to the lowei,
Mississippi valley with a depression
in the southern plains states, and the
pressure remaining high in t!Ds souta
eastern states caused high tempera-
ture from the plains to the centras
valleys, wh=re the highest tempera-
ture was above 40 degrees yesterday
anG' above GO at many of the south
ern stations.
There is a marked depression, at
tended by rain in California this
morning, while the northern area o:
high pressure is moving eastward
along the northern boundary, causing
somewhat colder weather in the Da-
kotas, where the lowest temperature
is 10 above zero.
Conditions indicate unsettled wealth
er, and probably snow for this section
tonight and Thursday, and somewhat
colder Thursday.
Local observations.
Feb. Bar. Their. Wind W'th'I
IL p. m. .----Z3.96 ~ n Clear
18 I a. m.2996 % NELt.Rain
Rainfall for the past "a hours
trace.
River above low water of 1864, IL
Change in 224 hours, rise a.
Mean temperature 18th, "a.
Lowest temperature, 10.
Highest temperature. As.
Lowest temperature last night, %.
FRED O. GOsEWISIH,
Observer.
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Continued on page 81
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
AUTOMOBILE SHOWS
ARE STILL NEEDED

1t was an expert of some consequence
in the automobile industry, who several
years ago assumed the role of a prophet
and announced that in a few seasons
there would be no need for automobiles
shows All motor cars, according to this
expert, would become so much alike that
there would be nothing to draw the peo-
pie to the exhibitions; people would take
no more interest in motor cars than they
would take in the mechanism of trolley
car
Gle was basing his prophecy on ten
tency" said Bradley Saunders of the
Saunders Motor company, "then very ap-
parent toward unificaton of design. 1t
really appeared as If automobile construc-
tion was being reduced to an exact science
and shortly the engineers would decide
on type and style of engine, a clutch,
transmission dfferential. method of lu-
brication. cooling and control that could
be specified as pre-emnently the best
for a motor car design to carry a given
load 1T a certain maximum speed over the
average road.
fled predictions on a subject possessing
such vitality and mutability as the motor
car industry is proved by the eXamlna-
tion of the cars that are being displayed
at the national and local shows. OF the
800 and over makers in this country today
there are no two whose product resemble
each other except that they all have
motors. generating power, some means
of conveying that power to the rear
wheels, method of controlling the motor
and means of carrying passengers. They
differ in every essential detail as much
as they did a few years ago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-01
BATTERY CONDITIONS IN
THE ELECTRIC COUPES

According to Mrs. J. E. Frazier of the
Frazier Electric company, the battery
location on electric vehicles has had
much to do in the past In creating dis
satisfaction with these cars. However
in the standard coupe, Mrs. Frazier
states that battery troubles have been
alleviated. She said:
In a correctly designed electric We
hicle, the mileages of 10000 to 10000
are quite common, and frequently this
figure will run as high as 10000 miles,
whereas a few years ago one frequent
ly heard the complaint that no more
than 1000 miles could be gotten out of
a battery. This remarkable improve
ment has been accomplished too with
out any great Improvement in the quail
ity of the battery.
Although the vehicle and battery
manufacturers have done much to i'm
prove conditions, there still remains
much more to be done. Strange as 1t
may seem, in this educational CAM
paign. large majority of the vehicle
manufacturers have overlooked one of
the most vital points in the care of
batteries, j. g., they have designed their
cars in such manner as to make a
great many cells, and in some cases
all the cells inaccessible.
1T is the rule rather than the ex-