The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-10-20
THE GATE CITY.
KEO U K:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 90.
Arrests Of Professor Jas. Dale owen.

Arrest Of Professor Jas. Dale OSv e n
The audacious, remarkable, scienti6
scouDdrel, Professor James Dale Owen
has sold his last set of Darwin's works
has aided the Sanitary Commission hi
last time-has picked bis last pocket
robbed his last hotel room-deluded his
last woman-vsited bis last fair-played
his last scientific game--eaten his last
dinner with " our best society" In
short he has been arrested.
1t seems that after he left Davenport
he jourueyed through Illinois, making
dupes and llonizing il in small towns, as
he aid here. One day last week he hap
pened to stumble into village 10 which
subscriber to the Dubuque Times re-
SIDES. He registered hlmself as g Pro
fessor Jan es Dale Owe, Smithsonian In
stltate, Washington ana introduced
himself to tue notice of the clergymen
end Doctors The result was, that, On
Sunday last, Sheriff Cummings received
the folJSing dispatch:
Ashley, H., Oct. 10.
Sheriff Cummings. Dubuque Pro
fessor james Dale Owen, the geologist, is
under arrest here for playing sharp tricks.
Hive you any claims upon the honorable
gentleman If so come for him. He
answers to the description in full, as
given in the Dubuque Times.
Signed Dr.. E. B. SMITH.
The Sheriff consulted with several of
the Professors victims in this city, and
Immediately replied as folows:
Dubuque, Oc'. IL.
Or. E. b Smith. Ashley, Ill. - Hold
the Professor. will start for your town
us soon as can oh ain a reqaisition.
&. j CUMMINGS.
= Dubuque Times.
The Chicago Tribune thu. face
tiou>ly describes the effect Of the arrest
Gil the distinguished professor:
On Sunday morning Professor James
Dale Owen was quite indisposed-
troubled with his old complaint "papita.
ton OF the heart" talked incoherently
Sal lie was arrested merely because his
grandfather was an intidei-refused to eat
anything lest he should he poisoned =
a - ~ tHC utSCuNcTGu
that he had failed to make his stomach
crazy-and he came to the conclusion
that he chad done all in his power for
the good of his country-had labored
faithfully for science, in and for the
Smithsonian Institute, and for charity
and humanity as agent for the Sanitary
Commission; now, after all he had done.
,i,nsa h.. k,1 /
in thel, designs upon him-if they still
were Determined to poison him, they
might do it-be was hungry and should
not starve himself for the sake of prevent
ing the accom- plishment Of their nefari-
Gus plot. After eating. his palpitation
seemed to have passed off. He talk d
freely about himself-exhibited bis "ere-
deutials" to the guard, whom he almost
convinced that they had arrested the
wrong man. He talked geology to them
till they were amazed with his under
ground intelligence. He said, a. to the
matter OF his arrest, that he didn't care
for that-it was a mere matter oil time, if
he had been arrested in Chicago where
he could have had prompt telegraphic
communication with the Smithsonian In-
stltute It Washington. or with his publish
ers in Philadelphia, he would have been
henoratly released in an hour. But he
didn't altogether ike the idea of being
arrested By little selt.important doctor,
away down in Egypt-.here was a stigma
attached TO the dark, lower region OF Il.
linpis. which he didn't like to be assoeia-
ted with. tie acknowledged having sto-
len the overcoH, but says he jokingly
told his Dubuque friend that he had lost
his. and should take that ia its place, and
be dil.
S. At last, this erratic geological pick
pocket, who has 50 successfully deceived
Governors Judges, Cergymen, Brigadier
Generals, biologists, hosts OF unmarried
la.iie9, ani scores OF the wise men of the
West hs- been picked up bv Dr. +. b.
Smith, of Colona--to whom be all honor
-whoshad hin arrested at Tamaros
Profess }r James Dale Owen will hereafter
be more willing to talk of the Walled
Like OF Iowa. than Of his present walled
cell at Nashville, the county seat where he
is probably boarding. We trustafter due
Investigation vi his case and accomp lish-
mems, he will be permitted to pursue his
favorite study OF geology at Joliet.
ADMIRAL fAHiGREN AND GEN. GIL
MORE The Washington Republican. of
Friday afternoon, thus authoritaliveiy de
MES the rumors OF reported disagree
mens between these two distinguished
off ers:
We are authorized and requested 10
state. in behalf of Gen. Gilmore and Al.
miral Dahlgren, what we have asserted
before unotfcially. that there is not now,
and never has been, any misunderstand-
ing whatever between those two officers
that the most pleasant relations have al.
ways existed between them. No action.
we are assured, has taken place before
Charleston, since they assumed their sew
raj commands. naval or military, upon sea
or lFud. that had not previously been mu-
tually agreed upon by them. Reports of
DIS shected newspaper correspondents that
the very opposite state of things existed
nave been extensively circulated. to the