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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: Unsettled
and Saturday with probably
temperature. Moderate variable winds.
snow tonight; not much change in
For Illinois: Unsettled with snow
tonight and probably Saturday. Cold
er extreme south portion. Moderate
to brisk northerly winds.
For Iowa: Unsettled weather to-
night and Saturday with probably
snow east portion. No important
change in temperature. Moderate
variable winds.
For Missouri: Unsettled weather
with probably snow extreme east
portion tonight. Saturday generally
fair. Colder southeast portion to-
night.
Weather Conditions.
The changes iii temperature have
been slight in the northern sections
east Of the Rockies where the lowest
temperature ranges from slightly be-
low to ten above zero this morning,
and conditions indicate unsettled
weather tonight and Saturday for this
section, with snow probably continu
ing tonight, and slight change in TEN
perature.
Local Observations.
Feb. Bar Their. Wind With
~ z p. M. 3e47 12 NE Snow
l13 Z a. m.. .30.25 9 N Snow
Rainfall for the past "a hours 10.
River above low water of 1864, Z.
Change in "a hours, rise 8.
Mean temperature, 10.
| Highest temperature, 1S.
Lowest temperature, T.
| Lowest temperature last night, 7.
FRED q. GOSEWlSCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
CUMMINS
BOOM STARTS
Iowa Senator Made Chief Ad-
dress at Banquet of Den
yer Republicans in Lin
coins Honor.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
DENVER, Colo, Feb. 1s.-Reprbli-
can leaders here today declined to
comment on the presidential boom or
United States Senator A. B. Cunmins,
LAUNCHED during the Lincoln republf-
can banquet here last night.
C.. C. Dawson Of Colorado Springs,
in speech following that by Cum
minis, suggested the Iowa senator as
the republican most hksly to harmon
ize the republican and progressive
factions.
In his address Cummins said the
"cae-o-nine-tails had replaced the big
stick in the white house"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Killed by Fall.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CLINTON, Iowa, Feb. 13.-J. r..
Ayre, aged 33, an engineer from Saw
anah, Ga, who has been employed at
the Iowa Cold Storage Warehouse in
this city since January /, was killed
in an accidental fall of twenty-four
feet from balcony at the plant
while his wife and little child were
enroute from Savannah to join him
here. They have not as yet been 10
Gated enroute.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
WARDEN BROKE HUNGER STRIKE
BY SERVING FAT POSSUM

TODAY as the result Of an unsuccessful
attamnt Of 1875 negro convicts to carry
on n hunger strike because they We're
segregated from the white prisoners.
Tha incident has aroused great race
feeling among the inmates
warden Johnston segregated the
ra ces TO prevent trouble. The negroes
started a hunger strike in protest, re-
sus,ng n eat for two days. Last night
however. they surrendered anu >
sumed eating.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
The Roques Gallery.

| United Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-To prevent
repeating" at the spring primaries
women supporters OF Miss Marion
Drake, who is opposing Bath House
John Coughlin for nomination for
democratic alder,nanic candidate in
the first ward, today started photo
graphing inmates Of the first ware
lodging houses. A gallery of the
bouquet" pictures will be placed in
the hands of Miss brakes challengers
election day and floaters who at
tempt to vote will be recognized from
their pictures and challenged.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
President In Bed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The thir-
teenth OF the month may be President
Wilson's lucky day, but when that
sinister numeral gets connected with
Friday-it's a hoodoo. AT least the
president found it SO today when Dr..
tGrayson ordered that he nurse hrs
cold In bed for another day. The
cabinet mseting and other engage
ments we're cancelled. 1t was stated,
however, that the president would be
allowed to sit mp for short time
late today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
GORE SCANDAL
As FRAME UP.
lone Witness at Trial Admits
That He Told Postmaster
That it Was
Such.
PLAINTIFF rs THROUGH
Mr,. Bond Has Presented All Of Her
Evidence Against
the Blind Soma
tor.
PLAINTIFF rs THROUGH
lBy a United Press staff correspond

rBy United Press staff correspond
ent.l
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 13.-Thad-
deus E. Robertson, Oklahoma City at
torney and an eye witness to the al
legged assault upon Mrs. Minnie e.
Bond by Senator Gore. who testified
that he had planned to "get the blind
senator double-crossed,' = resumed the
stand under cross examination when
court convened in the Gore assault
case today.
II was Robertson who first broke
into the room in which the assault
was alleged to have occurred. He
conducted the senator to the elevator
in the Winston hotel. Just before he
separated from the senator, Gore ask
ed him If his clothes were all right,
Robertson testified.
Robertson said he told Gore his
clothing was unfastened.
]. Graves Leeper. Oklahoma City
lumberman, was recalled this morning
to testify under cross examination that
Mrs. Bond attended the Skirvin hotel
banquet in January, 1911, when Bonds
appointment was preached to Senator
Gore, but Bond himself did not ap-
| pear.
Deputy Sherfff 4. A. Ezell, Of Okla,
home county, testified that he had
dificulty procuring service on Senator
Gore when the Bond suit was filed In
October, 1913. He was unable to
gain access to the inner, room Of the
Gore suite at the Skirvin from $50 te
900 p. m then he secured the as
sistance OF Sheriff M. G. Binion ane
both reached the senator with the
summons
E. g. Ballinger, Mrs Bonds father
testified that his daughter had beer
in prostrated condition since March
1918.
Howard NJ Kay, Mrs. Cores broth
er and senate messenger at Washing
ton, refused to tell what Senate
Gore said of the Winston hotel occur
renee, according to his deposition
read into the record by Attorney Ros
n. Lillard for the plaintiff.
Kay said he turned Senator Cor
over to Mrs. Bond at the winston an
conducted him away later after 7. /
Robertson brought him down in tth
elevator.
"A trifie unusual was the wa
Kay characterized Senator Gore
actions when leaving the hotel.
Mrs. Ballinger, the plaintiffs wi
ness in its main case. said Mrs. Bon
her daughter, had been extreme
nervous" and "awfully mortified sint
the hotel incident
Mrs Bonds lawyers announced th'
the plaintiff rested at 9:45
Surprised at the unexpected clo'
OF the plaintiffs case in Mrs MINI
T. Bonds 100000 damage suit again
Senator 7. p. Gore, the defense {
torneys held a conference this for
noon to plan their case. Norm,
Fruit, chief counsel for Senat
Gore. announced that several of t
Plaintiffs witnesses would be reca
ed to lay the predicate to impea
them.
Smith Chambers, editor Of t
ionkawa Chieftain, Pruitt said, wor
De the first witness In the defens'
main case.
Dr. ]. H. Darp. president of t
Jacksonian club, was first recall,
ne was the man who testified to
lorts at Senator Cores instance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
NINE DEAD
FROM COLD
Zero Weather Hangs on In
New York and There Will
Be No Let Up in it I'm
til Sunday.

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW York., Feb. 13.-With nine
dead and scores overcome as q result
of the cold wave, New York today
was gripped in near zero temperature
while charitable organizations were
swamped for calls for aid by the
city's poor. Snow and slightly warmer
was today's weather forecast.
The municipal lodging house was
filled to overflowing last night and
over 1000 homeless, hungry, shiver-
Ing men were cared for on the piers
along East river. They left early to-
day, shivering and unkempt but hope
fully facing the city. with the ready
question "got a job open" framed on
their blue lips. Forty-five women got
free beds and hot coffee at the munic-
ipal lodging house. Hospitals and
free clinics were rushed to care for
frozen fingers and ears and frostibit.
ten toes.
No let-up in the extreme cold is
promised by the weather bureau be
fore Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Eioht Sailors Lost.

LONDON, Feb. 13. Eight men
were lost today by the sinking of the
freight steamship Myown which went
down In the channel off Shoreham.
The captain alone was saved. Life
savers hurrying to the laundering
vessel found the captain clinglng to
the rigging and took him off. They
could find no trace of the rest of the
crew.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Thirteen Have Smallpox.

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 49,. Thirteen
psople in Lincoln are afraid to step
outside their doors today, Friday the
thirteenth. The city health officer
told them to stay in. They are SUI
fering from small pox.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13

IS LUCKY FOR OTHERS
Man Kicked Diamond Necklace Out
Of tho Snow and Got Flf-
ty Dollars az
Reward.

Tunited Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Feb. 13-"No use huna>
ing for work on Friday, the thir-
teeneth," said Mrs. Nels Swanson,l as
Nels, painter, today started to loois
for work. Nels kicked out Of the
snow a $400 diamond necklace ana
Mrs. o. S. Coh.sm, who had lost 1t,
gave him fifty dollars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Western Federation of Miners
Would Welcome Probe in
to Their Private
Affairs.
ASKS FOR INFORMATION
Copper strike and Colorado Coal
Strike Arc Being Looked
Into by Congress
men.
rBy N. c. Paudse, staff correspondent
OF th,a United Press

:
Of the United Prees.]
HANCOCK, Mich, Feb. 1s.-Thats
the Western Federation OF Miners
will welcome an investigation Of thetN
affairs and their officers by the con%
gressional committee here probing
the copper strike, was the Hta&emenA
here today by Attorney Hilton.
.sWe welcome such an investtgaS
tion," said Hilton, 'Fbut at the sanns
time we ask that the committee I'M
quire into the financial operations oN
the Calumet and Hecla company in
accordance with the terms for an I'M
vsstigation. y
eve further ask that the comE.t-
tee investigate the so-called citizens
alliance to determine who Its officers
and what It's purposes are. We wans
an investigation into sums OF money
paid Truth, the organization OF the
Citizens Alliance, and editor OF Edi-
tor and the amount paid the Gazette
The committee withheld ruling on
request.
1--WE have not determined how far
we shall go into these matters said
! Chairman Taylor. We do not care
4 to simply fam a fame here. For in,
stance IL we accede to the request on
the companies as to an inquiry into
!, the miners federation, counsel for the
companies would hardly ask us to 60
into the Governor SteuenIberg3sa, MUIR
8 der in Idaho
Representative Robert NJ. Switzer
of Ohio, joined the probers today.
Representative Hanlin of Missouri.
the fifth member, is expected early
next week.
4 Chairman Taylor announced today
that he has wired for copies OF the
national industrial commission report.
made public 1T Washington Wednes-
. day, regarding the operations Of tho
Western Federation OF Miners. This
report, together with thu report on
Investigators Densmore, Palmer and
Moffitt. of the federal department OF
labor and the report of Judge Alberr
j. Murphy of Detroit, representing
! Governor Ferris OF Michigan will be
+ inserted in the committees record
], Hunted Press Leased Wire Service.I
> DENVER, Colo. Feb. 13.-tReiterat-
: ing his determination not to deal
I with the United Mine Workers OF
America, John c. Osgood, president
! of the Victor-American Fuel Co., and
, one Of the leaders of the Colorado
;. coal operators today resumed the
! stand before the congressional COM
4 mittee, probing the Colorado coal
strike. With the appearance of Os-
= good, the first testimony for the en-
:, poyers side of the controversy was
produced He agreed to take full re-
sponsibflity for the Importation into
:. Colorado of eight rapid fire guns by
operators, He declared they were
:. bought for defense, not attack. He
denounced the union mine workers as
: an irresponsible organization.
: "At present. he said, we have all
the miners that we can use and are
mining more coal than is demanded
y As far as we are concerned, the
Y strike is over
IL Chairman Foster announced that
y his committee would visit all the Goa
- camps of southern Colorado.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Reuan Work IodaY.

INDIANAPOGI Feb 13.In order
to pass hoodoo to the Indianapolis
club, Jas McGill today set carpenters
to work on his grand stand. Though
thsre was blinding snow storm, Mc7
Gill was determined to begin on Fri
day the 18th.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Saw Her With New Love and
Took His Life After At
tending Theatre.

limited Press Leased Wire service,l
DUBUQUE, iowa, Feb. When
Charles Geesland, %, of Milwaukee,
saw his wife with her lover for whom
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Pioneer Enaineer Dead.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
SHARON. Pa, Feb 13.-Ira T.
Fleming. who drove Chicago's first
engine, is dead at his home in Far
rell near here, today. He was born
in Rochester, n. Y, and was 50 years
old.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
J Their Lucky pay.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb 13.-Five
hundred motormen and conductors
employed by the Columbus RailIigllt
company welcomed Friday, the thir-
teenth They received an increase
OF ten percent In pay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
CANNOT ESCAPE
THE INCOME TAX
Rockefeller will Have to Pay That
Even II He Dodges the
Other.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 13.-IWhether
John d. Rockefeller elects to pay
.e.er 81, ,o00, 900 ip personal property
taxes in Cleveland or not, the oil
king cannot escape a s3,000,000 in
come tax assessed by the federal gov
ernment, acording to Federal Tax
Collector Wees for northern Ohio
hsre today. Wees announced he han
already forwarded income tax blanks
to the richest man and Rockefeller
may either pay s3,O00,0oO in the Ohio
or New York district Il have infor-
nation said Wees, THAT RocRsfel-
Ter earns in dividends about S45,00O,-
600. Everyone who earns over $780,
600 annually must pay six percent in
come tax If Rockefeller's lsgal resi-
dence is established in Cleveland I
will collect the tax If the residencs
is established in Tarrytcwn, the New
York revenue collector will get the
money. TIL ere is no question about
his having to pay"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
ABANDON Search for sodies.

Ell. .PASo, Texas, Feb. 13.-Helmet-
men who have been searching the
C,imbre tunnel, near Pearson. Mexico,
destroyed by Maxine Castillo's ban
dit band. will abandon the work to-
day, according to despatch from
Pearson. They regard as hopeless
tbs search for the bodies OF ffty-one
persons who were aboard the Mexi-
can Northwestern passenger tram
which plunged into the tunnel after
it had been wrecked and burned. The
corpses are all believed to have been
incinerated.
! General Francisco Villas constitu-
tionalists are still searching for Cas-
tillo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
ASSAULT ON
FOUR CITIES
Mexican Rebels Plan Simul-
taneous Attack Which Will
Keep Federals on the
Jump.
LBy United Press stan coEr sEpon-
dent.

[By United Press staff corraspon-
dent.]
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13.-Grave
alarm was felt by the Huerta officials
today because Of information that the
rebels are preparing to attack four
Mexican cities simultaneous. Their
defmse will occupy the entire s-tten-
tion of the federals and the downfall
OF one Of the cities would be disas-
trous to the government.
General Banquet, war minister
said today that the government pos
sessed information that the present
inactivity OF tho rebels was due to
their elaborate preparations to attacR
Monterey and Torreon in the NORTH
Tampfco on the east coast and Mazat-
Ian on the west coast at the same
hour.
Huerta's answer to Charge
OsShaughnessys protest against the
villification of President Wilson by
Mexican newspapers was note co'
the editor OF FL Inparcial. ordering
him to publish no more editorials at
tacking President Wilson.
The rebels again cut of the oil sup
ply from Tanpico and DESTROYED a
passenger train, killing the crsw ann
military escort and shooting several
passengers. The federals last week
succeeded in re-opening the railway
line to Tampico. The rebels dyna-
mited passenger train near Cardena'
burned the cars and tore up SEQ
ton OF the line. The passengers es-
capped into the brush, several OF them
i wounded.
Huerta today received latter from
Maxine Castillo. the bandit, who blew
up Cumbre tunnel, killing several
I Americans, offering his services to the
federals. The letter was dated Feb
ruary s, indicating that Castillo may
4 have been fighting for Hlerta whel
line destroyed the train.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Negro Convicts Refused to Eat
For Two Days But Finally
Gave in.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SAN QUENTIN, Calf. Feb. 49,,
rouble ID feared at the prison here
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Drafting New Law.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Feb. 13-Cuy-
ahoga county tax commissioners adj
mitted today they are drafting law
which would permit them to con-
flscate John d. Rockefeller's property
here in the event of his refusal to pay
taxes on his estimated nine hundred
millions The law if enacted would
go on the statute books before next
year and would not affect the oil king
this year in the fight to collect over
$4,000, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
Mrs John d. on Train.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13. The Lake
Shore train bearing Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller with four attendants from
Cleveland was four hours late today
and was expected to reach Tarrytown
about IL a. m.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13
six Below Zero.

CIkEV Hl<AND, OHIO, FeD. IS.--r H
day the thirteenth, brought the Sc
verest cold OF two years today with
the Thermometer at five degrees be-
low zero. Thirty fires in twenty-four
hours, a record number, gave firemen
no rest.
Charitable organizations today were
endeavoring to care for hundreds OF
poor and homeless.
One death and several prostrations
were reported due to the cold. Jere-
miah McGraw, fifty-two, fell uncon-
scious in the lobby Of Charity hospital
and died few moments later. Ser
iously Ill, Rebecca Shapiro, nineteen,
was carried from her blazing home by
police She may die from exposure.
4 Andrew jackson was found in an al.
.iley way overcome. He will die. Two
4 fremen were seriously injured by fall
ling walls in fire. The temperature
I at 8 a. m. had dropped to six below
zero
il The Worst Day Yet.
!, NEW YORK, Feb. 13. With the
mercury around zero for two days
! and a snow storm on the way, New
!. York's poor and homeless suffered
!. more severely today than at any
time this winter In the poverty
stricken districts Of the lower east
side, death and untold misery came
from the cold wave. Nine persons
4 fr
hospitals suffering from exposure
About 1900 men and women were
sheltered last night is the municipa
:. lodging house at the foot of East
. Twenty-third street and the adjacent
house boats, while several score o.
Il men slept in the morgue near by. Ir
all New York thousands of homeless
were cared for by charitable institu
: tions. The cold was SO intense tina
+ the hungry men could not stand in
v the bread lines. At the Bowery Mis-
I sion where 1000 or more men have
Y gathered daily for bread all winter
Y there were less than half that nun
d ber. Other bread lines were almos
d entirely deserted.
! The fire department responded t
g fifty fire alarms In nine hours. In al
r Orchard street blaze, two floors of
factory were gutted because the wa
I ter froze at the nozzles and could no
be thrown on the flames. Their
e were half dozen or more tenemen
}. fires, starting from over-heateu chin
n neys The firemen fought these fire
" with solid ice encasing them and su
n fered severely.
Wireless reports said terrif
storm was sweeping the north A
lantic. The White Stars liner ocean,
I due Yesterday was not expected t
n dock before tonight. Several linel
If solidly encrusted with ice were r.
,e ported battling with fierce winds an
ly high seas.
st Five Foot Drifts.
r- ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 13.-With IL
ground covered with foot of snow
n noon today, st. Louis was experiencir
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-13

Continued on page 2.)
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
ROSCOE LUKE NOT sure TO GET JOB
Support of Underwood i'm Presidential
Campaign May Prove Fatal to
Townsville Mans Chances.

WASHINGTON Roscoe Luke of
Thomasville will not be nominated
for district attorney in South Geor-
gia for a week, at least. Senator
West called on the president a sec
ond time today without being able
to hurry matters in the least. He
declined to comment after the confer
ence.
Pre-convention utterances are be-
lieved to be the trouble, now that Mr..
Luke has passed the discriminating
censorship of the attorney general.
Mr.. Luke was a strong supporter of
Oscar Underwood for the democratic
residential nomination, and it is be-
lieved that echoes of the fight he
made for his choice have reached the
white house. The pros and cons will
be sifted for few days before de-
cision is reached.
1t is being freely stated here that
the attorney general regards all the
selections of Senator West as corn
field" lawyers, and that while he re-
garded Mr.. Luke as the least objec-
tionable among them he refused to
o. K. him until pressure was brought
to bear on all sides. In fact, he fat
ly rejected him along with all the
rect b,,t raoOucidorad whom ha fouOd
that Mr.. Luke was satisfactory to
Senator Smith and that even Mr..
Luke's enemies could bring nothing
against him that would debar him,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04
ALLY, JAPAN, SAID TO BE
READY TO FIGHT WHEN CALLED UPON
Former Foes, Russia and Japan May Find Themselves
Fighting on Same Side of Conflict About to Begin

ing drawn into any war that might
involve Great Britain with Germany
or Austria, or Italy, is believed here
to hinge entirely upon naval develop
ments in the Far East. In those
waters are many vessels of European
powers engaged in looking after the
interests of their citizen residents in
China, Korea and Japan.
May Clash in China Sea.
Just as the first blow in the naval
war between the United States and
Spain in 1898 was unexpectedly
struck in the far away Philippines
it is suggested the first clash between
European powers might occur in the
China sea. And in case the British
fleet there should find itself engaged
in hostilities with the German and
Austrian and Italian vessels many
believe Japan would be called upon
to aid her ally.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-08-04

WASHINGTON.-The possibility
that Japan might become involved
in a general war should her ally,
England, be drawn into the threaten
ed vortex in Europe, was discussed
today in diplomatic circles here. The
treaty of alliance between Great Brit
ain and Japan, signed in 1905, and
renewed in 1911, provides that the
two countries shall support each 9TH
er in the event of an attack or ag-
gressive action against either in East
ern Asia or India by another power.
There have been rumors of secret
clauses, greatly extending the scope
of the convention, and making it ap-
ply to hostilities conducted outside
of the Far East, but the existence Of
any such extra provision is unknown
to the state department of the Japa-
nese embassy here.
Therefore, the policy of Japan be-