The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-09
CITY NEWS

The board of supervisors were max
/ ing the official canvass of the ballots
thls afternoon at Fort Madison.
Saturday evening for sale ad ap-
peared in The Gate City advertising a
bull pup for sale. The party that had
the dog for sale CHANGED to tell some
one OF the fact that the pup was being
| advertised for sale in these columns
! and the person not wishing to run the
FISK of having too many ahead of him
to purchase the pup closed a deal for
The dog Immediately before the paper
mad gone to press. This party. know
ing the effectiveness of The Gate City
want column, did not want to risk
losing out.
Reports of the street cars running
again after supper at the present are
being heard but representative of
the electric company stated today that
the cars would not be run after sup
per until the new engine arrived from
the east and has been installed. There
would be too much of a load on the
engine that is used at present to at
tempt to run the cars now as the
days are getting shorter and more
incandescents are being used, and the
electric company is taking every pre-.
caution to prevent another accident
by putting too much of load on the
one engine and are wisely waiting un-
til the new one arrives.
La Grange. Mo-. was not without a
freak election bet, which was paid in
fun night before last, when the Bry-
an man, in the presence of the entire
population nearly the scene being bril-
liantly Illuminated by a huge bonfire,
waded into the Mississippi river up
to his ears, the town band playing,
"A Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night and the spectators cheering
themselves hoarse. To make sure
that no accident would mar the settle.
ment of the queer wager, long rope
was tied around the losers waist and
to this chung fifty or sixty shouting
friends. AS soon as he returned to
the bank the loser rushed through the
crowd and got next to aw arm fire.
Before entering the water the loser
addressed the crowd, saying that
martyrs had suffered for preaching
what they knew to be right and now
he would pay the penalty for believ-
ing In the principles of democracy,
which would yet prevail<.
The following from the Des Moines
Register and Leader will be of inter.
est to Keokuk friends of Mr.. Davis:
James G. Davis of 1928 Grand Avenue.
general attorney for Iowa for the
Chicago & Northwestern railway, has
closed negotiations with Jansen Hams
for residence site on Thirty-Seventh
street, south of Grand avenue. The
property secured by Mr.. Davis is 200
by $50 feet and is directly opposite
that on which Gardner Cowles, pub
Usher of the Register and Leader, is
building his residence. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Davis will commence
building in the spring and his home
will add another handsome residence
to the numerous ones that have gone
UP and are now in process of construc-
ton in this section of Des Moines. At
the corner Of Grand avenue and Thirty
seventh street are the H. Fl. Polk and
the E. l.. Bowen residences, the new
homes that have gone up along Thirty
seventh street south of these resi-
dences in the past few months or are
now going up are those Of DR.. E. v.
Shore and Gardner Cowles on the
east side of the street, where Nate
Frankel has also purchased property.
and c. S. Denman, N. 7. Guernsey,
Pleas Mills, Mrs. Frankel, M. Rosen.
field and J. c. Davis on the east side
of the Thirty seventh street.