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THE PAPER THAT
BOOSTS KEOKUK
ALL THE TIME
VOL. 111. NO. 33.
11 SURVEY OF
THE DES MOINES
Everything Look« Promising for the
Work to be Taken up Looking
Toward the Improvement
of the Stream. ,'
THIRTY-THREE BRIDGES
tfoat Route is Blocked But the Bridges
Could be Reconstructed ip,
Case River Was Made
Navigable.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—Indi
cations are that the obstacles to a
survey of the Des Moines river from
the city of Des Moines to Keokuk have
been cleared away.
Representative Hull appeared before
the board of engineers of the war de
partment, which has a review author
ity over the river and harbor projects.
He spoke in support of Major Riche's
inspectoion report, which was to the
effect that the Des Moines river ought
to b© made navigable.
Representative Hull went over in
considerable detail the reasons why
the Des Moines river if improved
would be patronized by a large com
merce. He dwelt on the richness of
the tributary territory, of its vast re
sources in the way of freight to be
carried, and gave exhaustive* data for
the enlightenment of the board.
In the afternoon the board went
over Major Riche's report, reached its
conclusions, and forwarded the report,
to the chief of engineers, General
Marshall. That officer will pass on the
matter.
Officially, nothing is disclosed as to
what the board has found, but unoffi
cially it is stated that the report of
the board is favorable to the survey.
General Marshall undoubtedly will
approve the report of the board if it
is favorable.
Representative HuTl said that he
had no doubt that the report of the
board of engineers was favorable to
a surrey of, th4 Des M6ines river. He
is well satisfied with the showing
which he was able to make before the
board.
One of the difficulties in the im
provement of the Des Moines river is
that there are. thirty-three bridges
.without draws in them between Des
Moines and Keokuk. This will in
crease the expense of improvement of
the river for navigation purposes. At
the same time if there are sufficient
reasons why the river should be im
proved, the bridges will not he permit
ted to stand in the. way.
DAUGHTER OF
THE SUGAR KING
Wedding Today of Miss Havemeyer
and James Watson Webb in
St. Bartholomew's Church.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Miss Electra
Havemever, daughter of the late H.
O. Havemeyer, the "sugar king," and
James Watson Webb will be married
today in St. Bartholomew's church.
Miss Havemeyer will have her cousin,
Miss Louise Jackson, for her maid of
honor, and her sister, Mrs. Peter H.
B. Frelinghupsen, as her matron of
honor. The bridesmaids will include
Miss Margaret Dix, Miss Anita Pea-! tors hanging on the gallows.
body, Miss Ethel Cowdln and Miss
Katharine S. Atterbury. W. Seward
Webb.i Jr., will net as his brother's
best man, and among the ushers will
be Vanderbilt Webb, Robert L. Bacon.
Joseph W. Burden, George Whitney,
James J. Higginson, Jr., Gordon Ab
bott. Howard Roome and Ernest Tra-
PICTURES in
DURING WM
Law Suit Over the $150,000 Collection
of Wet Plate Negatives Has
Come to a Close in
Washington.
IOWA IS INTERESTED
Dr. McClur of Davenport Got His
Home Paper Into Expensive Law
Suit by Talking About
Them.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Fe?j. 8.—The
law suit over the $.'.50,000 collection
of original negati.ee taken during the
Civil war, by Mathew Brady and
Alexander Gardner, under the author
ity of the Government and the pro
tection o? the Secret Service, came
to an abrupt end today.
The suit, which has been severs',
years in progress, has involved several
hundred witnesses, including the
statements of prominent army offi
cials, affidavits of old soldiers, and
war department records its facts date
back in 1861.
Allan Pinkerton, founder of the
Pinkerton Detective Agency, and first
chief of the Secret Service, and known
throughout the Civil War under the
alias of "Major Allan," authorized
Brady and Gardner, two of the first
operators in outside wet plate photo
graphy, to enter the lines of the Union
Army and take photographic nega
tives of fortifications, encampments,
and army movement. Proofs were de
posited with the Government, while
original negatives remained the prop
erty of the photographers, who stored
them in warehouses.
Four years ago, Edward B. Baton, a
prominent antiquarian of Hartford,
Conn., came to Washington with a
bill of sale transferring the title of
7,000 of these valuable negatives to
lis ownership, tfie' property, wW8h
was stored in the warehouse at 920
E: street, N. W., was delivered into his
possession and the historic negatives
were removed to Hartford and placed
in a vault.
The recovery of the negatives creat
ed wide interest throughout the Grand
Army of the Republic and during the
discussion Dr. H. C. McClurg of Dav
enport, Iowa, denounced the authenti
city of the negatives, stating emphati
cally that wet plate photography was
not sufficiently developed during 1861
65 to take these remarable negatives.
The Davenport Democrat and Lead
er published this statement, which re
sulted in a suit being brought against
that newspaper for $50,000 libel and
damages by Mr. Eaton, attorneys
Clark and Hutchinson of Des Moines
representing the plaintiff, and Lane
and Waterman of Davenport the de
fendants.
The evidence that developed proved
a revelation. Negatives were produc
ed showing President Lincoln on the
battlefield of Antietam with A. Pink
erton, in the tent with General McClei
lan, and in conference with officers
of the army. It was a decided sensa
tion in grand army circles when nega
tives were produced showing the in
teror of Andersonville prison and the
hanging of Wirtz, the prison keeper,
at Washington, including negatives of
Mrs. Surrat and the Lincoln conspiru-
Records in the war department
were introduced to prove their authen
ticity, together with a congressional
enactment in which it was shown that
Brady was paid $27,800 for taking tjie
negative?.
Record was shown in which Presi
dent Garfield once spoke of the nega
cy. The ceremony will be perform- tives as worth $150,000 and In which
ed by the Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, General Grant considered them in
assisted by the Rev. Dr. Endicott Pea
body, of GrotOn, Mass. The reception
which follows at the home of the I
id O a
meyer, in East CGth street, will he
very small, on account of the death of
Hamilton McK. Twombly.
*StOle $60,000 Mex.
EL PASO, Tex., Feb. S.—Pablo
Yordi, a Swiss arrested here in 1908
and held for extradition, was today re
turned to Mexico to answer a charge
of swindling the bank of Jalisco at
Guadalajara, Mexico out of $60,000
Mexican. While employed in the bank
of Sonora Yordl is alleged to have
written to the bank of Jalisco notify
ing it that a customer would call with
a letter of credit and asking that It
be honored. Yordi is accused of pre
sentlng the letter himself, securing
$60,000 and fleeing to El Paso.
$5,000 Fire at Iowa City.
IOWA CITY, Feb. 8.—Two fires
urday and Sunday night caused $5,000
damages In the Albany liotel. The
contents of the second and third floors
were nearly destroyed. Tte cau§e of
th« fires Is unknown,
1
valuable as historical witnesses of the
great war.
Sb-?
OLDEST SETTLER
CANNOT REMEMBER
Remains of Prehistoric Villcge Found]
by Man While Digging a.
Ditch.
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 8.—A prehis
toric village was discovered fourteen]
miles from Cochise, Ariz., according to I
news received here today. Frank C.
Erwin was digging an irrigation canal
when he uncovered a wall twenty feet
long, covered with hieroglyphics.
He stopped work and notified the
Smithsonian institute of his find.
\',k Lanoford to Fight.
LOS ANGELES Cal., Feb. S—.
"Sam" Langford will meet "Jim"
Flynn in ten round bout before the
Pacific Coast Athletic club of Los
Los Angelos tonight. In December..
1908, -Langford knocked Flynn out in
a round at San Francisco which nrob-!
ably means that Flynn will be au
easy mark in tonight's encounter
GIKL PLUNGES
OVER THE FALLS
Committed Suicide at Niagara and
Went to Her Death With a
Smile Upon Her Face
as She Sank.,
LEFT NOTE ON THE BANK
Without" a Moments Hesitation, Walk­
ed Into Deep Water and Was
Swept to Death Over
the Cataract.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Feb. 8.-
A you woman, thought to be Miss That three negroes have been killed
Beatrice R. Snyder of Buffalo, com-j and the danger of rioting is at an end,
mitted suicide by wading out Into the is the latest news from Hales bar,
river just above Prospect Point and where apparently helpless whites were
going over the American falls. As her besieged in the government dam con
body swept over the brink of the cata- struction camp by negroes armed with
ract, she turned her face toward her, rifles.
would-be rescuers and smiled a fare
well to them.
A park policeman paid scant atten
tion to the woman when she first ap
peared on the path leading to the river
Without a moment's hesitation, she
waded into the stream. She turned
once and smiled toward the men who
wore calling to her to stop, and con
tinued to move rapidly into deep
water. In an instant she was whisked
from her feet and carried rapidly
toward the brink of the falls.
On the bank was found a handbag
and in it this note:
Mamma and Papa—May you both
forgive me for bringing this awful dis
There was a card in the purse bear
ing the name of Beatrice R. Snyder.
With the lower river jammed with
SWEDEN'S KING
HAD AN OPERATION
.'
Look
ice and -the jam increasing hourly, i^im on a ten-mile hike, with an occa
there is little hepe that the body will
ever be recovered.
Reported to be Getting Along Fairly
Well, But fhe People Are
Very Much Worried
..
Jack Johnson.
Subscription, $3.00 Per Year
KEOKUK, IOWA, TUESDAY, FEB. 8, 1910.
RACE RIOT IS NEGROES FAT
SOON SUPPRESSED
Three Negroes Killed and the Trouble
is Over at the Government
Dam Construction Camp
"-v.\ „•••.
in Tennessee.
EARLY IN THE MORNII
Police Sent to the Scene and H«fs*
Trouble in Putting an End jo
an Apparently Serious f-ff.
Situation, .1 jS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 8.—
Capt. William Burke, who left the
scene early today, is reported to have
telephoned the following message to
local police headquarters:
___ "Three negroes dead. Trouble all
bank. Then", *as she began to run over Start back in two hours after
toward the river, it was too late to
intercept her.
we get breakfast."
tor all your kindness and tender about as much as a man-can^
good-bye. Lovingly.
BEATRICE.
PRESIDENT TAFT 7
IS STRENUOUS
Takes Honors from Roosevelt and the
Secret Service Men Would
Like the Old Cays.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—"Most
f"lk have the impression that Theo
dore Roosevelt was the most strenuous
president who ever occupied the white
grace upon you in these years of your' house," said a member of the cabinet
life. Also may our Heavenly Father tody, who was also a member of the
forgive all my sins. But I have been
very good, thank God. You will find
a slip for the money under your dress
er scarf. With, my heart full of love muCjj noise, but h]
Roosevelt administrate
"He was not in it wi.
ard Taft. The president
#ls
William How
is not inak
o#.-:the move
If
you want any verification of this state
ment, ask the two secret service men.
"When Roosevelt was boss of this
land they thought they were up against
it. because he kept them trailing after
sion plunge through a streami in Rock
Creek park. In those days, however,
Mr- Secret Service Man got througn
work about 5 or 6 o'clock in the after
noon. Mr. Roosevelt liked to spend
his evenings in tfce white house. Now,
the secret service men are sighing for
the good, old days.
STOCKHOLM, Feb.* 8—News of the
sudden illness of King Gustave, which
made a midnight operation necessary,
has thrown the people into consterna
tion and despite the assurances of t'ne house than any president I ever heard
physicians, services are being held in
many of the churches to pray for his
safety.
The palace is deluged with inquiries
as to his condition. The king has
slept several hours since the opera
tion, ... ,,
NEW YORK. Feb. 8.—Jack Johnson,
heavyweight champion, will not be
brought to trial for some time, on
charge of assaulting Norman Pinder. economic question," said Newlands,
When the case was called today be- "it deals entirely with corporations
fore Justice Golf, Assistant District doing business between states. The
Attorney Moss declared he had not I bill should be considered by the com
had time to investigate the case. The! mittee which handles questions per
case was marked off the calendar for taining to trade." The senate, how
this term. ever, did not see it that way.
a
"They do not plunge through any
streams, but they get a lot more walk
ing than during the reign of Rooser
velt. and their work is not done when
they return to the white lipyse. The
president spends less time in the. white
about."
Incorporation Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The presi
dent's incorporation bill was today
referred to the judiciary committee
by an overwhelming vote. Senator
Clark, republican, Wyoming, had mov
ed its reference to that committee
and Senator Newlands, democrat,
Nevada, to the committee on inter
state commerce. "This is a purely.
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3$
FOR THEIR CRIME
Pair of Them Convicted of Assault
Upon White Woman Were
Hanged This Morning in
Kansas City.
THE 400 WITNESSED IT
Both Men Issued Statements Last
Night in Which They Denied
Charge of Being
'/•Guilty.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 8.—John
Williams and George Reynolds, n»
groes convicted of assaulting a white
woman, were hanged here this morn
ing.
During the night both men issued
statements denying their guilt. About
400 persons witnessed the execution.
On the night of December 23, Mrs.
W. H. Jackson was seized by the ne
groes while on her way home. She
was dragged to a vacant house and
kept at the mercy of the negroes for
more than an hour.
STATE SENATOR
ALLD ON CARPET
Investigation Being Made of
Charges That He is Guilty
.v.:?. of Bribery.
the
ALBANY,-N. Y., Feb. 8.—Solons of
the upper house of the New York leg
islature today began their investiga
tion into the charges by Senator Benn
Conger that his colleagues in cne Sen
ate, Majority Leader Jotham P. Allds,
had accepted money to influence legis
lation.
Rules governing the investigation
provide that it shall be conducted by
the senate, sitting as a committee of
tho- whole, with the senate rule* .bo
amended as to permit rollcalls on
motion, to vest It with power to limit
debate, to enforce the attendance of
its members, to issue subpoenas, and
compel the production of books an'l
papers. The rules of evidence recog
nized by courts of record will govern
the admission of evidence.
Both Senator Conger and Senator
Allds, if they so request, will be
heard. After the testimony is all in
and arguments of counsel on both
sides have been heard, the committee
of th© whole will take a vote on the
question of whether, in its opinion,
the charges have been sustained, and
then again resolve itself into the full
senate to receive tho Teport of the
committee of the whole and pass upon
it.
After the investigation has besun
the senate will meet at. 10 o'clock in
the morning, instead of at 11 o'clock,
and after devoting an hour to its reg
ular business will take up the investi
gation of the Allds charges from 11
to 1 and from 2 to 5 in the afternoon.
Mexican Election.
vices received here several persons
have been injured among them the
municipal president. The riot grew
out of a duel between Supplico Mar
tinez and Juan Augustuin, rival can
didates for office. Seventy men are
under arrest.
4,
THE DAILY GATE CITY,
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C. F. SKIRVIN, Publisher
PEARY HONORED
THIS EVENING
North Pole Disco'.crer to re Ho oied
Guest at Banquet and Will be
Given a Purse of
$10,000.
HE WILL TELL HIS STORY
Civic Forum Will Give National Testi-
monlal to the Man Who Really
Reached the Top of
the Earth.
NEW YORK, Feb. S.—A "national
testimonial" to Commander Robert E
Peary will be held at the Metropoli
tan opera house this evening, with
Gov. Hughes presiding and a number
of other distinguished men in attend
ance. A feature will be the present
ation of a $10,000 purse to the dis
coverer of the north pole. The affair
Is under the auspices of the Civic
Forum.
The commander will tell a com
plete illustrated story of his tr'p to
th© pole and show some pictures of
the far north which have never been
publicly displayed. All the principal
companions of Peary in the journey
have been invited to be present.
The expenses of the affair are guar
anteed by the committee in charge
and if there is a surplus above the
Peary purse it will go to reduce the
debt of the Civic Forum.
The admirers of Commander Peary
behind the movement feel that New
York, from which his vessel, the
Roosevelt, sailed on the succesL/ul
expedition, should be the first to '-told
a great public meeting at which hon
or befitting the high character of the
deed he. accomplished should be paid
him.
Commander Robert E. Peary and
Jacob H. Schlff, the banker, had a
long conference in the pole discover
reys-snttlfc *)6^ .tk ^HflfcW-Imfoerlal. |u.
Schiff's name being closely associat
ed with finance as Peary's is with ex
ploration, those who saw them togeth
er immediately jumped to this con
clusion: "Mr. Schlff is going to put
up money for Peary to make a dash
for the south pole."
Maybe so maybe not. Commander
Peary, when asked about the confer
ence said: "It was a personal talk
and I cannot say anything about it
for publication. No, I will not say
whether Or not it dealt with explora
tion." Mr. Schiff made reply to the
same effect.
FAIRBANKS AND
THE POPE OF ROME
Ex-Vice President was Promised an
Audience and was Then
Denied the Visit.
OAXACA, Mex., Feb. 8.—Troops among members of the American colo-
have been sent to the town of Petaoi^y
on the Vera Cruz and Oaxa'ca border I Mr Fairbanks had expressed a wish
to quell an election riot which is rag-! to pay his respects to the pope and
ing there today. According to ad
had been announced that an audi
ence would be, granted the distin
guislied American. Subsequently it
was learned that he had promised to
address tlie local society of the Amert-1
a is E is a a
following the receipt of this informa-,
to keep his engagement with the Meth-j
THE WEATHER:
Generally Fair—Colder To
morrow.
EIGHT PAGES.
CENTRAL AMERICAN
VOLCANO BELCHING
I
Worst in the History of the Mountain
and the People are Fleeing in
Terror From the
•'I.:.v Neighborhood.
THE LAVA IS FLOWING
Great Masses of Rock Have Been
Thrown Two Miles and Con-,
siderable Damage Has
Been Done. -v.vV
PORT LIMON, Costa Rico, Feb. 8.—
Residents in the neighborhood of the
volcano Poas are in flight following ara
eruption reported to be the worst in
the history of the mountains.
Streams of lava are flowing through
the fertile valleys at the foot of tha
mountain and villages, towns and plan
tations are being destroyed. Rocks
weighing 200 pounds have been hurled
two miles from the crater and have
crushed through roofs of houses with
great damage.
Considerable destruction from this
source occurred at Lalecheria- The
villages and towns in the oleano zona
almost as far as San Jose, the captial,
have been deserted- In Cabadrella th»
streets ar© filled with ashes, almost
tc the roofs of the houses. It is re
ported that there has been some loss
of Hfe th plantationa neap thd
volcano, but no definite news I'.as yet
been received.
A party of scientists has set out
from San Jose to visit the volcano and
make observations,
1
ROOSEVELT STARTS
FOR ANOTHER CAMP
Route is 108 Miles Long, Through
Savage Lands and will Tax
the Party* Strength.
NIMULE, Uganda Protectorate, Feb.
8.—The ten days' march to Gondokoro
was begun by the Smithsonian African
scientific expedition- The first camp
will be at the Assa river, twelve miles
north of this place, if the plans of tho
party do not miscarry.
ROME, Feb. 8.—The unhappy ihci
dent which marred the visit here ofi1!eved by the police to be a mem er
fo. uier Vice President Charles W.
jodists.
Protestants generally warmly con-j Weather Conditions
jgratulated the former vice president fh| northern area of low pressure
ion what they termed his dignified at-
titude in the matter- The Catholics
should be given rise to a cause for.
The location of the camp sit* is
good and well adapted to the conven*
ience of the explorers, but the path,
lies through an unpeopled district and
the porters were well burdened witht
food supplies. •.
The distance from Nimule to Gon
dokoro is. roughly speaking, 108 miles,
and this stage of the expedition will
be as severe a test of physical endur-|.
ance as the party has had-
Another Black Hand Case.
CHICAGO, HI., Feb. 8.—Joseph Le*
va:de, a well to do Italian, was shot
in the back and killed by a mysterous
assassin. The murderer is be-
of the
Fairbanks has been the subject of ered Antonio Ciennl, a rich merchau
animated discussion, particularly! because he refused to be black mailed
ou*
I /t
hag
I ing assumed an irreconcilable atti-! states and scattered now flurries
tude. The Catholics place the responsl- fr0m the central mountain region
billty for the unpleasantness upon|the upper Mississippi valley, with
what they describe, as the offensive
Methodist propaganda being conducted:
In Rome.
Underpaid Professors.
IOWA CITY, Feb. 8.—A group
same gang that recently murd-
ot
$5,000. ___
THE WEATHER.
Weather Forecast. '1
For Keokuk and vicinity: Generally^
fair tonight and Wednesday colder•„
Wednesday-
For Iowa: Generally fair tonight
and Wednesday: colder tonight and
east
portion Wednesday.
tion at the vatican it was announced I por Illinois: Partly cloudy
that Mr. Fairbanks would not be re-|coider tonight Wednesday fair
ceived by the pontiff unless his pur-|c0jder
pose to address the church society was por Missouri: Partly cloudy and
abandoned- Mr. Fairbanks elected
coidei.
and-'
and
tonight Wednesday fair, with
colder east
portion.
centered in a marked depression
near ]jake
!on the other hand, expressed deep re-,)cnc]S thence southwesterly to another
gret that what was intended to be in depression in western Texas, the east".'
the nature of a homage to the pontiff.
warmer
5
of!
Triplets Celebrate Birthday.
CLINTON, Feb. 8.—Iowa's oldest
triplets, Clinton Burllngame, of Ful
11 ton. 111., Mrs. Ada Hartsen and Mrs.
11 Ida Golden of Clinton, celebrated their
52d birthday anniversary In Clinton.
underpaid professors at the State Unl- this section tonight and \y,e!tlnesday,
versity have formed a $50,000 farming becoming colder tonight.
concern and will manage a big farm
in Alberta, Canada, this coming sea
son to increase their Income.
superior, and a trough ex-
ern 0f
middle
high pressure covering th®
eastern states.
friction. I There has been rain in some por
Each party accuses the other of hav-
tions 0f the
gulf and southeastern
in tlie eastern half of tha
country.
In the northwest the temperature is
falling with a field of high pressure,
over Montana.
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Conditions indicate fair weather for
t. Local Observations.
KEOKUK, Feb. 8.—
Bar. Ther. Wind- Weathetv1
7, 7 p. tn...30.18 37 3 Cloudy
8 7 a. m...30-08 31 Ji Clear
Feb. 7.—Mean temperature. 30 de
grees maximum, 41: minimum, 19.
FRED Z. GOSEWISCH.
Observer.