The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-19
State Board Of Health Unable to Lo-
cate the Origin Of the Typhoid
Fever Epidemic in
Fairfield.
100000 FOR WATER WORKS
Winterset Decided to Issue $4,000 For
Construction Of Plant, Vote
Being s7s For. ISL
Against.

The annual meeting of the North
western Iowa Teachers Association
will be held at Fort Dodge October Is.
JIG and II.
Ill only a week, Edward Fuhrmeist-
er. prominent young man from near
Newport, died in IN Iowa City hos
pital of typhoid fever.
Winterset, by a vote of S7S to ISL,
decided to issue bonds for the con.
struction of a 100000 water works.
Both men and women voted and the
ballot was a heavy one.
Daniel Richmond of Des Moines has
wife whom he says is so cruel to him
that he must have divorce or his life
will be endangered. They were mar
ried Christmas eve, 1904, at Indianola.
Fairfield may go out of the city
lighting and water works business. A
private company is studying the prop
osition with view to making an offer
to take the plant off his hands of the
city.
Chester Middlekauf is ing at his
home in Lake City in seriously
bruised condition as the result of a
runaway. His team scared at an au-
tomobile. The chances for recovery
are doubteful.
The sepcial tourist for the Rose
bud drawing in charge of Dr. G. L.
Pray and John Kennedy With thirty
six men on board left Lake City for
Dallas, S. D. The company took along
it's own cook and provisions for "a
week.
Lew Culver, who was placed in the
city jail at Lake City in an intoxi-
Gated condition, was found dead in the
cell late in the evening No marks in
dicating suicide were visible, and all
the indications point to death by
strangulation.
Though seven days have come and
gone since the large tallonn fell on
the Stuart Culver farm six miles
southeast of here, yet neither the own
er nor the occupants Of the balloon
nor marks of Identification have been
discovered
Hawley Sanford, pioneer Meth
odist minister of Iowa, and his wife,
have just celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary at their home in
Jesup. They were married at Easton,
Conn. The Rev. Mr.. Sanford is SO
years old and his wife is 81.
William Gregson, vice president OF
the Chicago board of trade, ana one OF
the most widely known packing men
in the country, visited the Dubuque
club for the purpose of discussing with
local parties the proposition of reviv.
ing the packing industry in that city
A young miner, Clarence Brady, a
native of Kentucky, was crushed tc
death at Scandia. He failed to prop
erly examine his room, which all
miners are supposed to do. A ire
mendous slide of cath and slate en-
quilted him. When picked up he was
dead.
A joint debate between picked teams
from the Bryan and Taft clubs in the
State university will probably be hel(
within few days. At rousing meet
ing the Democratic students selected
three TO form such a team chal
leage will probably be issued within
day or two.
After thorough investigation tn,
state board Of health has been unabl,
to locate the origin of the typhoid
fever epidemic that has been ragin,
in Fairfield, although a report jus
made to Mayor Jones declares tina
whatever the sources of contagion it il
not now operating.
The people of West Council Bluffs
who We're instrumental in having AT
torney General H. w. Byers com
there and attend a hearing on the mat
ter of a scent fare between Council
Bluffs and Omaha. do not take kindl'
to the attorney generals suggestion
for compromise.
Mrs. William Giesen of Keokuk, WIZ
had been married only six mont $
committed suicide at Hamilton, III.
by shooting herself in the right temple
with pistol. Her husband found hei
in bed, weltering in blood, with a re
volver clutched in her hand. Ill health
is the supposed cause, although rel
atives are unusually reticent about