The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-21
CITY NEWS
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Register tomorrow.
]. NJ. Sterling, special agent for the
Iowa State Insurance Co., with head
quarters in Cedar Rapids was in the
city yesterday.
A railroad man speaking recently
OF rival concerns said that the great
est rivals were the first ones to help
each other out in the case OF an
emergency.
Take advantage of Miss John
stones cut rates for ten days In mas
sage and manicuring. 80 North Fifth
street
More home made goods you buy
more people get employment You can
build up your city by building up the
homemade enterprises.
William e. Thompson, a Chicago
travelling man who won one of the
first claims in the Rosebud drawing
was in Keokuk on Monday and heard
the good news while here.
The Sixth street hose reel made a
run last evening to the Park resi-
dence at Fifteenth and Reid street in
West Keokuk, where some leaves in
the spout on the roof of that place
had caught fire. No damage resulted
however and the engine at Rolla No.
/ made a run for nothing.
Word from ST. Joseph's hospital
this morning was to the effect that
John Mccormick, who was injured
while stopping a runaway horse yes
terday afternoon, was feeling rather
good. He regained consciousness and
an examination shows that his skull
was not fractured and he is not sup
posed to be seriously injured.
The large interurban car was
stalled at the foot of the Warsaw hill
just off the main line when the pow
er shut down on Monday night Two
cars on the Park line were dead at
the Fifth and Franklin street switch,
the West K car at the Fifth street
bridge, and the depot car was at the
depot to meet the south bound S:37
train of Monday evening but was un-
able to proceed on account Of having
no power.
Nauvoo Rustler: Everybody in
keokuk has the water power fever.
The people down there look upon it
as almost certainty during the next
year. People awaken at night from
pleasant dreams of the metropolitan
keokuk with its many factories and
railroads. 1t is even claimed that one
fellow was caught by the police run
ming about in his night clothes look
ing for car to come to Nauvoo. y;e
was somnambulist and was dream
ing of the water power and the inter.
urban to Nauvoo. He evidently want
ed to get away from temptation md
come to paradise, where men can he
seen with wings sprouting and with
smiles of contentment. Speed the
day in order to save Keokuk,s male
population.
President NJ. E. Justice of the Cen
tral Association has received from
President Sexton of the Three-Eye
league copy of the salary limit
adopted at the recent Three-Eye meet
ing in Chicago. The salary limit
clause is good one and contains
many redeemable rules. The salary
limit for the year is set at $1,000
which provides that no club shall pay
In salaries to players, ex-
ceptin the salary of the man
ager, an amount in excess
of $1,000. Also that no player. ex-
cepting the manager, shall receive
more than $1,000 from the league or
otherwise during the league season.
The Wabash has installed an cleo
trio power plant at Moberly to run
the foundry, washout plant, turntable,
coal evelator and pumping plant all
OF which are located some distar:.c
from the main shops, and to furnish
light for the shops, the freight and
passenger depots and the division
offices. At a reservoir more than a
mile from the shops an electric pump
with capacity of 100000 gallons per
day has been installed with an auto
matte starting and stopping arrange
ment connected with the tank at the
shops. When the tank is full the
pump is stopped by mechanism
which again starts when 1t reaches a
certain level. Another attachment to
the pump prevents freezing. This de-
vice switches on an electric heater
which operates while the pump Is
stopped and automatically shuts it off
when the pump starts.