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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
UNDERTAKEN LOST
HIS FEE THERE
Woman Was Not Dead and Was TAX
en- TO Hospital Where She May
Recover.

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PORTLAND. Oregon, July 10
Called to care for body, w. n. Jones.
OF the undertaking arm Of ]. P. Finley
4 Sons, discovered spark of life In
Mrs Anna Woods, go, and by prompt
restorative methods probably saved
the woman's life.
A neighbor knowing that Mrs.
Woods was alone and failing to see
her around her little home. looked
through window to find her lying on
the floor apparently dead. The under
taker was Immediately summoned.
Jones went directly to the house
and noticed slight CULVER Of the so
mans chin. BY working over her for
some time he finally succeeded in re
storing consciousness and normal res
piration. City Physician Siegler pro
nounced It q stroke Of apoplexy.
Mrs. Woods was taken TO hospital
and may recover.
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The open shop.

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STOCKTON. Calf. July 1S.-Stock-
toms fight over the open shop was
still developing today slowly but
steadily.
Each day sees more idle union work
men. The unionists did not strike At
the mere announcement that their
She ps were open The moment
non unionist is employed however. or
they are asked to handle non-union
material. they walk ont. About 1000
men had quit up to today. They are
receiving strike benefits and have been
given promises OF unlimited support
from outside cities. 1t is predicted on
both sides that sooner or later the
tie up would be practically complete
and the apprehension is general that
trouble may ensue.
Employers say they are having lit
tie trouble finding men to I'LL vacan-
cies, but many admitted 1t is almost
impossible to find competent men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
AMALGAMATION or
MINERS UNIONS
United and Western May Join Foress
and Form One Big Organ
ixatIon.

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DENVER, Colo, July l8.-Amalga,
nation Of United Mine Workers Of
America and the Western Federation
OF Miners. making one OF the most
powerful labor organizations In the
werld is one Of the important ques-
lions to come up at the convention
of the Western Federation OF Miners
which begins Monday.
Amalgamation has been under con
sfderation for more than year, and
the number of strikes in which both
unions have been involved may hasten
the amalgamation.
The canvass Tor officers - 70 De
made during the convention. II IL
said Charles n. Meyer. president;
Ernest Mills secretary and Chas. r.
Mahoney. vico president have been
reelected by the referendum ballot
The votes OF the 5000 Butte miners,
were destroyed in the riots OF a few
weeks ago and VIII not figure In the
total. Internal troubles OF Butte To-
calls and the Michigan strike are to
take up much time of the convention
which will last for two weeks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
CALLS MRS. CARMAN
COLD FLOODED
District Attorney Smith Says She Is
Jealous and Dog In
Manager.

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NEW YORK, July 1S.-Branding Mrs.
Florence Carman as cold blooded,
calculating" woman, District Attor-
ney Lewis J. Smith tonight in an inter-
view gave out his plans for the sec
ond Indictment in the Mrs. Louise
Bailey murder case. This time he
said he expects the indictment to be
for first degree murder. Mrs. Carman
was indicted with first degree man
slaughter in connection with the muir
der Jealousy Is the motive Of the
crime, said Smith. II do not believe
Mrs Carman cares a snap of her fin
ger for DR.. Carman. She did not wish
any. other woman to come into his
life. 1t is evidently a case of dog in
the manger."
Smith made these statements just
before he and Sheriff Petit left on an
auto trip which they expect to last
ten days. He said when he returns he
will again plunge into the Bailey case
with a view of having another grand
jury investigate at once. Mrs.
Carman and husband planned to stea
away to New Jersey late tonight tc
rest for several weeks. Before she
went however, Mrs. Carman gave ou
an interview, bitterly scoring Detec
tive VIM. ]. Burns for the part he
played in her indictment and ehe
took several shots at Attorney Smith
Il think the Burns people framed m,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Pro.peri.x in Northwest.


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ST. PAUL, MINI, July 18.-Bumper
crops in the northwest are drawing
thousands Of farm hands to this part
Of the country and all railways enter
ing this district are tonight MOBILIZE
ing long lines of cars to care for the
grain. First oats were cut In North
Dakota today and harvest OF other
grains will begin next week. From
towns throughout the Dakotas and
Minnesota. merchants are sending in
enthusiastic reports Of improvement
to business. Travelling statesmen re-
port every line OF business increased
from % to 35 percent on sales. Mer-
chants are grabbing at orders which
they turned down this time last year.
Every county in Minnesota has report
ed gigantic crops to the bureau Grain
now is in perfect condition and will
grade higher than the crop In years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Does 4 Whale snore7

United Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, July Isl pas
sengers on the Stephano heard
whale snore as their veracious cap
tain averred in New York today, they
heard something entirely new to
science. said national museum omeials
tonight. What they really heard. OF
ficials said. was probably the grunt OF
a pcrpeise which they explained might
be mistaken for q snore. or the bleat
II q dySpeptic goat.
The bureau Of fisheries was some
what puzzled over the story OF the
snoring whale and the best It could
do was to advance the theory that
the whale had a cold. All whale
clogists" however asked that they be
not quoted because they didn't want
to risk their scientific regulations on
a statement about something they ad-
mitted perplexed them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
NO. to be Gosh waIIoped.

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SEATTLE, Washn.. July 18.-"Tm
not crazy over this sort Of thing but
I'm teetotally gosh-walloped II any
dad-burned San Francisco mayor Is
going to have anything on me. I'm
going up now IL break my other
arm"
Such was the declaration OF Mayor
Hiram c. Gill at 1880 o'clock this
morning just before taking beauti-
full 1000 feet high flight in the aero
yacht of Aviator Silas Christofferson.
The flight lasted twenty minutes and
when Mayor Gill descended he was
full of enthusiasm He declared the
opposition of his family was the only
thing that prevented him from order
ing a flying machine for his own use.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. July -
Search for the body Of pretty yodns
woman believed to have been shut TO
&. ath In q row boat or accidea'y
drowned. will be renewed Monday by
Sheriff Franz in the hope OF clearing
up the double tragedy On lake Micns-
San last Sunday. A cofoner's 1I'y
tccay found Olaf johnson, whose bodT
was washed up by waves. met death
accidentally. The inquest was perfume
tory. No attempt was made 70 *
e ain the disappearance Of the rirl
who entered the row boat with 70 'ls
johnson. the finding OF the overtu.ntd
boat with bullet holes In the bott,-i
or the presence Of . revolver in Joai-
sons pocket. DR.. Edward H. Msvcr
of South Bend, Ind. told the potce
tonight that last Sunday morn: 8.
" lille fishing near the spot where the
overturned boat was found, he lear':
two shots. The so,lnd came from far
cut in the lake. he said.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
FRENCH
LADY ON TRIAL
(Continued from page ID

ing. she was the calmest person In the
building, Witnesses marveling at her
GOODNESS.
10.-That, after the shooting, she
remarked; Since there Is not more
justice In France" ending the
phrase with a gesture indicating she
had to do justice herself.
The defense will deny but one OF
these charges. the one relating to the
visit to the bank. And this denial
will be merely question OF time, the
prosecution claiming the visit late In
the afternoon, the defense that It was
earlier. The others will be met mere
ly by different Interpretation OF the
facts as they stand. 3
1.-Mme. Caillaux wished to fore
stall her husband with Calmette hop
ing to obtain private letters. the pub
LEGATION OF which they feared, thus
averting a tragedy.
2-That the italian embassy dinner
engagement was cancelled because
the events OF the day had unneryed
her. She did not cancel her husbands
engagement with her own a. she
would have done had she contemplat-
ed killing Calmette.
3.-She bought the automatic TO
brighten Calmette with H he PROVED
obdurate about the letters.
4.-The shooting ct the silhouette 1t
the gunsmith's was in keeping with
the custom of this gunsmith.
5.-After visiting the bank she re-
turned home and did not go direct to
the Figaro" as stated.
6.-That she wrote to her husband
to acquaint him with her plight Ia
the event she was arrested, az might
happen If forced to use her weapon
to friehten Calmette.
7.-She prepared her gun simply
for emergency.
s.-The reason she did not stop to
argue with Calmette or ask him for
the letters was that she saw before
her, her mortal enemy, the man who
had done 80 much that was bad against
her and hers" and completely lost
her head.
s.-she was outward1y calm per-
haps: that was her nature. Inwardly
she was tortured, desperate. distract
ed.
10.-Her remark about justice re-
ferred to her conversation with Judge
Monier who told her that the law
offered her no redress against Cal
n1ette.
The prosecution will also try to
prove that Calmette had no intention
OF printing the Caillaux private lat
ters and that the woman's act had no
justification whatever. Labori will
urge, as against this, that dozen
witnesses understood that private let
tiers were to have been printed and,
that even II Calmette had no such In
tention. so far as Nine. Cailiaux was
concerned, he did have, and, caught
in a terrible nerve crisis, frightened,
desperate, like a hunted animal, she.
an a moment OF folly" turned and
struck back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Tn. city seautIfu,.

AMARILLO, Texas, July 1s-The
best citizens OF Amarillo long since
discarded the six shooter and disap-
proved of the>playful habit OF shooting
UP the village In which the cow punch
ers from the Pan Handle ranges fire.
quently INDUCED long ago. Now these
same citizens have fallen for the mp
time music under the ban here.
Rag time must go, they say. This
tangoing set Is In mourning, Is rag
time on syncopated music Is essential
to the latest steps. But there will be
nothing doing In the syncopated
music line here In the future.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
ksdI.h VIII Testify.

TINTED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, JIy 1S.-Hiram Kadfsh.
government expert accounfaHy Will
90 before the federal grand jury Men
day when the taking Of testimony In
the probe into the failure OF the La
Sale Street Trust and Savings bank
begins, the jurors having completed
a preliminary examination of the
banks books. After he has testified
before the federal body Kadish will
appear before the Cook county grand
jury Investigating affairs OF the de-
funct Lorimer bank.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19

De partmsnt Of Agriculture SAYS Beef
IL Always Scarce In the
Summer.

| limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON. July 1S.-The de
! pertinent OF agriculture had words OF
encouragement for beef eaters tonight
che bureau Of statistics produced fig-
ures to show this isn't the frst time
July indications pointed to : critical
scarcity of beef and tnat fall cftel
sf owed the fears unfouudsd. It wcat
SO far as to predict cattle wouldn't
b.. nearly as scarce a. feared next all.
The movement of cattle In the big
markets naturally tends TO fall on ut
this time of year, the bureau 3aya.
p..ring June the receipts OF beef eat
tie at Chicago totaled 10000 haa !.
Last year the total for June was 49,
0r0, but in 1912 it was only 167 900.
AT that time the scarcity predicted
didn't equal the fears. BY October.
1912. the receipts had jumped 10
923 900. The figures also show that
June and July beef prices have A.
ways been the highest OF the year.
There is no getting around the fac.
however, that the placing of beef on
the free list has not helped the 'raat
situation materially in spite of 70
ic. easing shipments from Argentina,
the department says. The department
viii open its nationwide campaign to
encourage raising beef just as 5000
as the committee which has been prob
ing the hign cost of meats makes its
report. 1t believes It can show farm,
ers of eastern states and planters ~
southern states that It would ,e
p, ofitable for them to enter into TIC
production of beef. It Is believed t'.at
Louisiana promises to be the best
cattle raising district In the United
Stetes because sugar growing is no
longer such a source OF profit since t
was placed on thu free list.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
THE DAILY GATE CITY

Anderson. assistant to the president
OF the st. Louis Terminal Railway as
sociation at his Office In union station
today. All six denied they knew the
man who fred the shot or any plot to
kill either Anderson or President Nc
Chesney. The examination tonight
proved Andersons wound not to be
serious. The bullet entered the lung
lodging near the lower part OF the
spinal column. The would be assassin
ran out of the ONCE and disappeared
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Snow In July.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
DENVER. Colo, July 1s.-'Wanted: :
Six men to shovel snow from In front
OF the Post building. Apply at six
o'clock and bring your own shovels.
This startling advertisement ap'
peared in the Post tonight and was
not a mere joke. ~
During the Efks reunion just closed
the Denver newspaper brought In
several train loads Of snow from the
top of the Rocky mountains and
piled it in the down town streets for
the use of visiting Elks In snow ball
ing. Tonight huge banks OF snow
still stood In two places down town
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Held for Board Bill.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, July 1s.-
John Caneld wants to know II his
landlady has right to hold his wood
en- leg for room rent. Chief of Police
White received . letter from him to-
day raising the question. When he
was sent TO the state hospital
docino some time ago, the woman
would not let him take the leg with
him because he owed her money. He
is about to be discharged from the
hospital and needs 1t To help him earn
a living.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Hot Political Meeting,

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GREENvILLE, S. c.. July ia
political meeting almost ended in a
riot here today when Governor Cole
Blease made a very personal retort
to q question asked by J. w. Norwood.
prominent local banker. Norwood
rushed at Blease but q number of
friends of the governor seized the
banker and elected him from the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
Too Hot for Armstrong.

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NEW YORK. July 1S.-Declaring II
was getting too hot for him in Mes
York and that weather wasn't the
reason. John r. Armstrong, q wealthy
Cleveland promoter and his wifc to.
cey departed for home. after brisf
stor at the Waldorf Astoria hote!
Armstrong had been notified that q
breach of promise suit for $4,000 had
been MED against him by Miss Naomi
Shaw, q pretty young divorcee. Miss
Shaw says Armstrong promised 6
year ago to wed her. She says she
had never heard he had wife. She
firrt became aware Of Tat when she
called up the hotel for him. ME-
armstrong answered the phone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
DETROIT, Mich, July 1S.-Because
President Underwood Of the Erie rail-
way is said to have blamed autoTo-
biles along with motion pictures for
the present hard times, the Abbot
Motor Car company sent out notice
to its traffic department today to do
all its shipping on other roads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
A Real sherlock Holmes.

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, July 1s.-"Quit your
kidding" said a police sergeant wien
E. man who said his name was She-.
.ock Holmes, telephoned he would re
"a. ound in few minutes with CO Ip'e
of prisoners. Presently. Sherlock
IIclmes, guard on the l. railroad, ar-
rived. He brought along two mr.l
he charged with raising disturbance
en his car.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, July flight union
mattresses, three non-union mattresses
a union cook and . bystander who
told the police to mind their own
business, were arrested in q near hair
pulling disturbance in front Of Knab's
restaurant tonight. The non-union
mattresses were employed by knab
tn march behind union Mattresses
picketing his restaurant.
They FLASHED.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19

up" she said. They viii frame any
body up. Look what they did in At
Ianta Look at what Burns did when
he came here. He came to me In nay
home, held his face close TO mine,
and said I've come to get somebody.
YOU What do you think of any man
that would do like that to woman?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
: DIED Ina Saloon.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July 1s.-A
man believed to be John M. Shelley
a structural iron worker Of Lincoln,
Neb., staggered into saloon tonight
and fell dead from injuries received
from the lists of an unknown assail-
ant in a street fight. The murderer
Il at large.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
L w. wa. su.nented.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, July 1s.-Police
raided /. w. w. headquarters late to-
night and arrested six suspects in
connection with the shooting of Felix
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
THAT GREAT PATRIOT
COMING TO AMERICA
Continued from page

/ "Why did you leave the countrS
when you can still serve lit" was the
next question Huerta put to himself
MY departure from national terri
tory mas no other object than to leave
ample field OF action to the new gov
iernment; my permanency here would
give rise to conjectures which would
result In prejudice TO the proceedings
of new government. / declare to the
world that line Of conduct which
have followed has no other object than
my heartiest desire for the pacifica-
ton OF the country"
General Huerta will be accompan-
led on the Dresden by General Blan-
auet. Only the families OF the two
former leaders will be with them on
the cruiser. Forty other members OF
the party will leave here tonight on
the steamer City of Mexico for Texas
City. They will sail by way OF Vera
Cruz. An unsuccessful effort was
made to charter the ship but the par
ty, mostly women, will sail aboard as
ordinary passengers.
The departure OF General Huerta
was delayed pending the arrival OF
another train bearing friends OF the
old Indian here. II is not believed
the Dresden will sail before tomorrow
At all events Huerta is in no hurry
to leave and says SO. The entire pop
ulation of the city gathered on the
water front this afternoon when
Huerta and General banquet went
m the call
OF Captain Koebler. Many "viyas
for the deposed dictator were heard
ON the streets which were patroued
nv the famous Tweaty.ninth regiments
and presidential guards. There was
no disorder.
Overlooked Ten Pesos.
MEXICO CITY, July 18.-Pasqual
Orozco and the famous Francisco
cardenas, anticipating the accession OF
General Carranza, have started an
other revolution in the states OF
Asuas Calientes and Michoacan.
Thev have 1000 followers under
arms
II the southern rebels have received
orders from Carranza to ctase Hoslih
ties pending further instructions, they
have disregarded them as they are at
lacking villages not far from the capi'
tai. With this information reaching
here today ~ to revolutionary acttv-
ity. there was little assurance that
the fighting in Mexico is at an emo.
| Among the leaders operating near
the capital is said to be General Fer.
nando Gonzales. He 10 thought by
some to be son Of former President
Gonzales and former governor OF the
state of Mexico. his name and sur
name being the same Orozco and
Cardenas have little mercy to expect
from the constitutionalists. They de-
serted the.federal army recently when
ordered to,fall back. Orozco was also
traitor.
It was declared today that General
Huerta left just ten pesos in the ma
tional treasury. Despite the fact that
the salaries OF government employees
were not due until Monday, however,
President Carbajal obtained funds
and began to pay them today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
SPICER
Makes your watch
keep time
9O2 Main

stand. A little later Blease attempt
ed to strike Rion McKissick, former
editor OF Richmond newspaper but
was restrained by friends.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-19
No More Executions.

MEXICO CITY, July 1S.-President
Carbajal today wired orders to every
federal army commander and to the
governors OF every state controlled
by government forces to stop the exc
cution OF prisoners Of war and politi-
cal suspects. His orders were that
henceforth no one was to be executed.
Carbajals expressed intentions to
conduct his administration along
strictly humanitarian lines Is now be-
+. ing given credence by everyone in the
capital. Orders that the statue Of
General Washington which was over
thrown by a mob here last April be
replaced on its pedestal at once, also
were given by the new president
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-15
PUT OUT OF BUSINESS.

The parcel post system has put the
United States Express company out of
business, the directors having unanl.
mously voted to Hquidate the affairs of
the concern at the earliest possible mo-
ment. Earnings Of the company have
been steadily declining for some months
and the recent order Of the interstate
commerce commission reducing express
charges by sixteen por cent put the fn-
ishing touches on well nigh intoler-
able situation The decision to liuui.
date followed as matter Of course
Those familiar with the affairs of
the company are confident that the
shares will bring from $50 to s1oo each
and that the liquidation will be &C.
complished without jarring the financial
world to any considerable extent.
The members of the Platt family,
who were so long in active con-
troll Of the company and whose man
agement gave rise to the most bitter
criticism, seem to have disposed Of most
Of their holdings, the estate Of the late
2. 81. Hartman being the chief stock
holder at the present time.
The parcel post is working hardships
in another direction, the star route mail
carriers claiming they are being driven
into bankruptcy because Of being re-
CURED to handle go many bulky pack
ages without any increase in their COM
pensation. These men would be justified
In giving up their contracts unless the
postofftce department should act quick
ly In the matter. Burleson has been a
criminally slow coach In righting
WrOuGS