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the paper that boosts keo KUK ALL THE TIME. of Dally City are Served the full Leased Wire Service of the United Prsss Association. VOL. 118, NO. 40.

Ifilind Statesman Takes Witness Stand in Own Behalf in $50,000 Damage Suit. HIS SIDE OF THE STORY Never Gave Mrs. Bond the Slightest Encouragement or Caressed Her Hand. a United Press staff OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. J.

Jennings, ex-bandit and democratic candidate for governor of Oklahoma, vied with United States Senator Gore as principal drawing card at today's session of the Minne E. Bond damage for IGO.OOO against Gore. Both were held in readiness to testify. The case will go to the jury Tuesday night. Gore took stand at 9:30 m.

Senator Gore was led to the stand by D. M. Frawley income tax collector for Oklahoma, and examined by Judge C. B. Stuart, of his counsel.

He took the oath sitting down. He remembered- meeting Mrs. Bond nl the Skirvin hotel, Oklahoma City, in January, 1913, but not who introduced them. He told her that he was committed to an applicant for collector of internal revenue and could not 1 give his endorsement to her husband. "Was it ever suggested that she bring her endorsements, to Washington?" asked Judge Stuart.

"11 -was not." "I did not." ocfafageiBent that her husband would thing had been get your support?" t. ington first about ten days after the inauguration in 1913 and renewed her efforts for her "Tell this court whathe at that time you held Mrs. Bond's hand." I did not." "Did you put yopr Jttand on her foot?" "I did not." "Did you make any advances or take any liberties with Mm. Bond?" "I did no't." "When did Mrs. Bond leave your office?" "When I told her I cduid hold forth nd encouragement to her iiusband." A week later Mrs.

Bond asked him to come to the hotel, the senator, and insisted though he offered to see her if she would cone to his office. He finally consented to drop by on the way from his office, home. He had never been in the Winston hotel before, and knew nothing its architecture. "About the time we entered the lobby," said Senator "Mrs. Bond came up and saluted me, saying 'I'll take charge of the senator "Did she then become your guide?" "She did." "You may state what occurred." "After she took charge of me, I asked lier where she was going.

She said she was going to take me to the rarlor. When we left the elevator she went into a door which closed after her, came out in a moment and Bald that she was going to take me to her room. "There she seated me in a rocking She sat on the bed. the chair being right close to the bed." "What was your first conversation with Mrs. Bond?" "She discussed her husband's appllcation and said that despite his ill I success, she entertained no ill feeling for me.

Then she mentioned her Mississippi kin folk." Children Had Been Locked in Room at Home While Mother was Away. nited Press Leased Wire Servlce.l SIOUX CITY, Iowa. Feb. Cousins, three, and hU sister, Virginia Mack, five, were suffocated "Just about the time she mentioned the Mississippi connection, I suggested that she would miss her train from Washington at 6:46. She said, she had decided not to go, but would go on the Southern railroad at 10:00 o'clock at night." 7- I "What did you do?" "1 resumed my seat ana next she suggested that she might run Slide and Tumble Down Icy Paths Jf commissioner charities and correc- tions in Oklahoma.

She suggested that I was going to have bitter opposition in my race for re-election and we discussed that tor a while. Then somebody rapped and told her that she had a telephone call. She returned after a protracted conversation and sat on the bed." "How long did you talk with her then?" "Only a few minutes. I told her I would have to go. I rose to start and extended my hand.

"She took hold of my hand a.nd kind of seemed to go down on the bed. I asked "what does this 'She gave some answer which did not understand and then 1 heard some one come in and said that he was T. E. Robertson of Oklahoma. "We exchanged salutations.

About that time Airs. Bond began to make ah outcry and take on. "Robertson told her to stop that squalling. "He and she passed some remarks which I did not hear. 'I told Robertson to get my hat.

out of the hillside. He did so and then I told him 1 wanted to see Mrs. Bond. I said to her: 'What have you got to say to this, Mrs. Here must explain that my relations with Robertson were not pleasant.

"Mrs. Bond said 'I don't want Bond to know that you were in my I put the same question to Robertson and he said he had nothing to say." "Neither made any suggestion of any My intention was Senator Gore's story now jumped to the day following the hotel Incident Mrs. Band visited his office in Wash- when i)r. J. H.

Earp, of Oklahoma City, called at his office and mentioned that he had heard charges of improper conduct on the senator's part. "If they make charges of that sort it's an infamous lie," was his declara tion to Earp, Senator said. "Dr. Earp said he thought so, too," continued the senator. "I told him I'd see those people In hell before I'd make any terms.

"Did you authorize Dr. Earp to make a settlement with Mrs. Bond for you?" "I did 4 "Did you ask 'l)r. her out of town for God's "I did not there was no such Dr. Earp returned to Gore's office the following day, the senator said, and told him that Mrs.

Bond was going home. "I said that was where she ought to be. I told him I could not understand the man who would send his wife on a mission of that kind. I said an adjoining room Three days after the incidents occurred, he heard Jacobs was and that Fitzpatrick. was an eye witness.

The senator said Earp and Jacobs had asked for appointment of marshal for western and, fastern Oklahoma respectively. The senator's direct examination closed at 10 o'clock and Attorney Glddiugs, for Mrs. Bond, began cross examination. It was Gldding's first crosB examination. "How much do you weigh?" he asked Senator Gore.

"Two hundred "How tall?" "Five feet nine." "How long had you known Julian (Continued on page 2.) HIDDEN SACK OF PEANUTS CAUSED LITTLE ONES DEATH In their home this morning while the mother, Mrs. William Mack, was in police court where her husband, a negro, was being arraigned on a charge of gambling. The woman found the house filled with smoke when she returned. The boy was dead and the girl dying. It is supposed they secured matches after the mother had locked them ln the room and tried to find a sack of peanuts in the closet.

Burned matches were found In the cloBet near the sack, of Mai HEARING HMi Tramp Through the Snow for Miles to Attend Probe by Congressional Committee. END OF STRIKE the Hills, After Walking Four to Ten Through the severest weather the upper peninsula has experienced this winter, roughly dressed Finns, Croatlans, Italians and Cornishmen trudge into Hancock early every morning from mining towns from four to ten miles northeast. An hour before the committee met today, the snow capped hills overlooking the town were fairly alive with miners sliding and half tumbling down icy paths beaten have not materially added to the at the time I talked with Dr. Earp he called as a witness before the conBald he did not know Kirby or Fitz-, gressional Colorado strike probe icoan-1 C. Parke, staff correspondent all around Mexico City and that the of the United HANCOCK, that in some way they do not congressional investigation of the Calumet copper strike will bring an end to all their troubles, is bringing nearly 1,000 miners daily to the hall where the probers are holding their sessions.

They do not comprehend and it is! tlcally complete now and Villa expects almost impossible to make them un- derstand, that the committee did not come here for the primary object of ending the seven months strike, said Attorney Kerr, of the federation ti miners, today. "They only know that the federal government is more powerful than a state and that the men who fought them when the strike started, fought the lQTOrtlgation. Neither the attorneys -ner ih? expoot any Immediate effect upon the strike situation as a result of the probe." No grand opera audience ever displayed the keen interest that the hubub usual to a crowded court a room. Though zero weather has prevailed I dally. in the copper country for more than a Only thirty-five trust companies week with occasional drops far below have signified a desire to Join though the zero mark, lower temperatures there are more than 2,500 of them in burd-j Federation of Miners and the strikers themselves.

Enough clothing has been shipped into Calumet, Houghton and Hancock to provide for the immediate needs, they said and there is no urgent demand for fuel. Patrick, alleged conspirator's, were In mitteo if for the miners have'day. Somewhat higher temperature ens of the strikers' families, accord-1 'biajnkf applying is also very small but, ing to representatives of the Western this is because in several states the state law forbids such action. i' Mother Jones May Testify. TRINIDAD, Feb.

becoming southerly. Mary Jones, the aged leader of the United' Miners now hsld a military prisoner at Sen Rafael hospital wilt. she to tell why she was arrested fry the'ture TuesdSay. Moderate jwinds becoming variable. troops.

The Trinidad part of the strike In quiry wi'll require ten days, It Is believed. Chairman Foster told the miners ths committee would hear all their vital witnessas but that they must eliminate unnecessary testimony. The miners had prepared to prodJuce from 400 to BOO It is said. HOUGHTON, Feb. James Cocper, Arthur Davis and Wm.

Grotf, Wadell-Mahon mlna guards, convicted of shooting Steve Putricha, Feb. striker, were today sentenced to 15 7 p. mmlnlmum term of seven years in Mar- 16 7 a. m. quette, prison toy Judigi? Flannagan.

The judge addressed the men, declaring that he had found no mitigating circumstances in all the evidence submitted. Judg'e Flannagan gave the maximum sentence of twelve years to Edward Plokinghorne, deputy sheriff, who it is alleged was involved in' the shooting. KEOKUK, IOWA. MONDAY, FEB. 16, 1914 REBEL BUNCH IS CAPTURED Zapitastas Brought Into I Mexico City and Thirty are Left Lying on the Ground.

a United Press staff correspon MEXICO CITY, Eeb. excitement was occasioned early. miles from Una capital, where Huerta's troops killod' thirty Zapatistas in a short encounter. The rebels were surprised by the federals, during a Sunday celebration. Huarta's government has waked up to the fact that the Zapata rebels are utmost vigilance must be maintained night and day to prevent an outbreak.

It is now the government's policy to smite the Zapatistas wherever they are found without waiting for a hostile act on their part. Villa Has Not Moved. EL PASO, Texas. Feb. further movements have been majde by the Mexican rebels at Juarez andl Chihuahua looking to the opening oE an attack on Torreon.

General Francisco Villa, rebel chieftain, is still at Juarez awaiting the arrival oit ammunition. He may start tonght for Escalon to takg personal command on the constitutionalists but says there is no hurry. The investment of Torreon is prac- quick surrender. General Inez Salazar, on, Huertas generals held prisoner at: quest. He fears assassination if ha' Is left in the open wire enclosure that has been prepared by the United troops.

1 jsre. to be heard from, a substantial percentage have already indicated unoffi- the country The percentage of state 'v is IS I today by tlia bringing of fifty Zapi-j, N. taista prisoners to Mexico City. Theyij were brought to the capital (by federals from the.Ajusco mountains, ten 'Fifteen Springs Keep One Spring Al-! THE WEATHER. north portion tonight.

Moderate north-j erly winds becoming variable. For Iowa: Fair tonight and Tues-j he subpoenaed Tuesday. Somewhat higher tempera-' Weather Conditions. A depression which is central ln the lower lake region thi3 morning, ed through the Mississippi valley terday, attanded by snow In the upper, Mississippi valley, the lake reglonl jflremen witnesses! and Ohio valley, which was followed The investigators' program is Under the influence of high pres-jj hear the miners side first and then' surj in the gulf, it is warmer in the' the operators after which they -will'plains states, where the visit the various camps of the south- rose to B4 at North Platte and 66 at ern Colorado coal fields and inspect the ground where the various battles between and mine guards while the temperature fell to zero Dodge City yesterday, and the lowest last night was at Havre 22 above while the temperature fell to zero' or lower in the upper Mississippi took place. or lower in the upper Mississippi val-! CASPER.

Feb. ment before leaving Cleveland Satur-1 fae wU1 later clofle a dea, ln New york wlth repre8entatives Ftort Bliss, will probably be placed Westinghouse Electric Co. for the Amthe guard house today at his own re- Press Wire Serviced "inVeiitions of the age, has characterized this picturesque av nositivelv rte- complicated mass of mechanism six-1 country of an armed American force, semblage of men of so many differen iteen springs are hidden, fifteen of The action of Great Britain in lanur tongues. Chairman Taylor's gavel to come in. wi tte tw yet 1 has sounded but once or twice to the call for order and the committeemen can ior oraer ana me committeemen from the power of the others.

The in- frank approval of this government commented today upon the absence atvolicationa are MI Little Machine Will Run Parts Wear Out Without Requiring Attentipn. PERPETUAf ways Wound Up and Ready to Do the Work. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. motive power for steam ships and lo- patent and negotlated a deal which milllonaire gTXJDIO fr'rerTien their way. Attorney E.

P. tonight and east portion Tuesday. chief attorney for the strikers, indi-j Moderate variable winds 'becoming! cated before today's session of the! southerly. I investigation began that probalblyi For Missouri: Fair tonight aaiaj tilted Press Leased Wire personnel of the federal reserve would request that ear'-v 1 practically will make him according to his state- claims at an initial cost of about For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to-1 The motor according to the claims of, United States. The president alsot night and Tuesday.

Somewhat warm-! those interested will cease to run only denied that thera is any similarity er Tuesday. Moderate variable windsiiwhen 1116 out. 1 For Illinois: Fair tonight and Tues-' day. Rising t3mperature Tuesday, and a and was saved A acore of artists had 1 iey. for a vigorous campaign all over Mine Guards Sentenced.

1 Conditions indicate fair, somewihai Wyoming to capture not only state Press Ltaased Wire wanner weather for this section to-'hut county offices were today at night and Tuesday. 1 Clear Rainfall for the past 24 hours, River water of Change in 24 hours, rise .4. Mean temparature 16th, 18. Lowest temperature, 6. Highest temperature, 30.

Lowest temperature last night, 0. FR.KD Z. I by colder weather. living rooms In the Gibson building brothers" anti-trust bills centers on( and most of these are known to have! th3 measure creating the interstate! was may liave lilt BiJn The working model of Ruten's in- (maklng what was plainly termed ai vention waB today guarded and locked -bad break" at a time whian the opeiup in the Williamson building here. It was announced the inventor alone has means of opening a room where the newly discovered power goes forth constantly to an electric dynamo illuminating twenty electric globes.

Rutzen today was supposed to be in Washington, D. proouring additional patents. According to(his announce- of the rights. W. H.

George, mechanical engineer associated with the inventor declared today the Westinghoase company has already advanced a large Bum. of money to bind the deal. Rutzen motor, of vthe I WASHiTNlGTON Feb 7,493 declared George. "Its possibilities can So far as Mexioo is concerned, the national banks eligible to participate hardly in the federal reserve system, The engineer himself knows little laratlon that there is at present no ftrmitorf -rm. mftmW.M tliB discovery more that within a occasion for the sending into that ventor to GeorBe" ment.

to refute the report tihat this iSoutn A motor such as the model now per- American governments were alarmed fected would furnish electric power over this government's policy. Instead) for homes indefinitely the Inventor! he said that all govern- Tw in the flre whlch Flames 0 mates who Might be Hidden. tTappR(l a meeting of all progressives of the!" state which was called order here matters to be discussed will be the establishment of a permanent publicity bureau. jMorflan Man Is Dead. PARTS, Feb.

16. Arrangements were being made today for the funeral gt John H. Sarjes, 85. throughout Press Leased Wire number in ev3ry industrial center. comotlves to the future assurance of from the newspapers and that they windless watches not to mention indl- have not 'ben verified.

vidual electric power plants in the There was little question tout that homes of ninety-five per cent of the the -presKtent was decidedly disturbed people at Bmall cost and a hundred PRESIDENT IS AN OPTIMIST Does Not Believe There is Depression With Thousands of Men Out of Work. John E. Nevin, staff correspondent of the United WASHINGTON, Feb. Wilson made It very plain to those iNAVIGATION with wfhom he talked today that he doe3 not accept as a fact newspaper reports of general business depras-! the country. dentally, he indicated' toy lvls manner that he had an idea Frank P.

head of the federal industrial trads commission, did not speak with authority when he said there were 350,000 out of work in New York City I alone, and an enormous additional The president was quoted aa saying he believed WalBlh got his figures over other things, were said today to be mjnt. While he fld not discuss It definite possibilities of the Rutzen length, persons closely associated spring power motor, the discovery of wnjj the administration, did. It Is which has just been announced here known that Walsh came In for severe by A. C. Rutzen an inventor.

ccnsure in administration circles for atlon of the tariff (Mil and thj Income tax attachment are under a very severe fire from republicans and certain progressiva leaders, notably Geo. W. Perkins. 4 The president, however, contented! himself with an emphatic statement that alj of the communications received by executive offices dealing with the trade situation indicated that business conditions were improving. This is the usual time of the year toi' the out-of-works, he stated, and' naturally there are a grsat many ln the cities as there r.re no out-of-doors enterprises can be carried on just now.

The president bellsves that with the advent of warm weather, husinessi throughout will receive al realized at the present time, president stands by his original dec- which constantly give out power while ing to guard its legation at always a sixteenth is being rewound Mexico City was with the full anoi The one constantly for months. protected lt by er working model has been running not believe this country will have to land marines and he feels that the en- Rutzen quietly exhibited his discov-1 tire Mexican problem will eventually ery two days ago after he had fully I work out without Americans or any foreigners toeing in any especial uau lu carefully guards his secret, ac- Permission was asked' and granted inijln handling the early morning crowdb. the usual way. But the president does, The president took occasion today ments there are solidly behind the mechanism becomes worn the Peruvian situation and that in Mexico. Before this govern hment recognized the provisional govj-arnment established at Lima, it invea tigated and! found it had first been approved by the Peruv.an supremei court and congress.

And reports that Searching for Bodies of In- the approval of congress was seouredl 16' FhemerL: only througfh a show of arms was saldj toy the president to (be unfounded. The president is still working out banks and hopes YORK, Feb. banks and hopes to announce thTi northerly1 today were searching the ruins members not later than the first ot of the Gibson stuidio building, 142' the month. He said however, East Thirty-third strtjet, where it was that he does not intend to name Secfeared' some may have lost their lives retary of Agricultura Houston as destroyed the strac-: member If his present plans bold burst.from the heart or The president was quoted" as saying) series of explo- that he does not want to break up that present caWnet team, adjoining pi-operty. flhe president admitted today that studios and! he 'believes the fight on his "five on Uia Raids.

clad only in their night! trade commission. The first is when he appeared in special ses- feared, however, thatjed into two schools, he told sions here today on the charge of run- TXT Local Observations. by H. N. Gottlieb, state otiairman ofj Bar.

Ther. Wind Wth'r the party. Every county in the state IVU at 1UUUUI 38.12 18 dear is represented. One of the principal MOUnt Hteriing Man Diea irom sterling, Illinois, died at the St THE WEATHER. Fair Warmer tomorrow.

Local temp. 7 p. m. 18 7 a. m.

1 the breadth of the Walsh state- EIGHT PAGES Drifts Already Filled New York City Streets When More Snow Sets In. IS TEDIOUS Means of Transportation Is by Means of Sleighs and Cars In the Press Leased Wire NEW YORK, Feb. York faced one of the most serious situations in years today when a steady fall of snow set ln. Drifts choked the city streets as a result of the storm of Friday and Saturday. A milk famine already gripped the city and coal and food shortage appeared imminent.

AlthougH men with teams and wagons have been toiling constantly since Saturday, they had scarcely made an Impression on the great drifts which have blocked traffic and demoralized business. Half of greater New York's surface transportation system was still out of commission. Heavy hauling was impossible. Automobile trucks were unable to make any progress through the heavy snow and horses floundered and fell in attempts to pull the lightest loads. Delivery of milk yesterday was possible only In sleighs.

Dairy companies put big boxes on runners and made part of their rounds. Three more deaths were reported as a result of the storm today. Jacob Vreeland, of Boonton, N. fainted from his exertion in struggling through the snow and -was suffocated in a drift. ssr(3 In thef' "OF tan, traffic was still completely suspended today.

Only sleighs were seen on the streets. Paths for pedestrians were cut through drifts four and five feet deep. The temperature' stood at seven-, teen above zero at 8 o'clock this morning. The subway was put to one of the greatest tests ln its history The renewed fall of snow made travel on the elevated lines uncertain and with the surface cars completely tied up, the rush to the subway was terrlfic- Owing to the complete abandonment of all heavy hauling, apartment houses and business buildings. were unable to obtain coal today.

Although no actual shortage was reported, the great amount of fuel consumed and their limited storage capacity, made conditions would soon prevail should the storm continue. Grocers also complained at the delay in obtaining fresh foodstuffs and predicted an actual shortage unless conditions were aleviated. SLUItlKe certa)n that serlous ,1 TTAfimrr Injuries Received in Jumping from Train. Shipping was badly hampered In the bay today. Vessels which have been waiting outside Sandy Hook, were again unable to proceed to their piers, owing to the blinding snow.

Wireless messages have been received from many of a score of ships now several days over-due here, reporting their positions. Vessels reaching port yesterday were scarred and crippled by the fierce storms which they encountered. Ail were coated with ice and many passengers had been injured when the ships were tossed by mountainous waves. Tom Sharkey Sentenced. Press Leased Wire NW YORK, Feb.

days in the 'pen and $500 fine was the sentence given Tom Sliarkay, prize fight- (Continued on page 2.) with his Fourteenth street saloon. a disorderly house in connection A 4 ti DJEJ) IN HOSPITAL WHILE AWAITING TRIAL FOR FORGERY once French Press Leased Wire from criminal proceedings, was at representative of the Morgan firm, 1 GALESBURG, Feb. bedside when ho died, "the body will who died at the Grasse late yesterday, (as B. Cox, ex-treasurer of Brown be taken to Mount Sterling for burial. county, who was irrested here last week on a charge of having forged notes in the sum of $1,700 at Mount Mary's hospital Sunday evening from injuries received when he jumped from a train in the local Burlington railroad yards.

An inquest will be jheld today. His wife, who promised to spend a liegacy of $3,500 to save her husband si MM Mi z'iM few 3, Sfi isi ft I JW1.