The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-16
CITY NEWS.

tised during their annual shoe sale.
Read Gate City wants Every day
wants placed in this paper secure re
suits for the patrons Don't fail tc
read the wants tonight.
The Iowa State Plumbers Assn
citation met tits week in Dubuque
Frank Vollers was elected as one oil
the nine members of the board of di
rectors.
Senator Dolliver has accepted the
invitation of the Iowa Society of New
York City to be the principal speak
er at its annual dinner March / He
also will be one t the speakers at the
Lincoln centennial at Springfield
February 10.
Lancaster Republican, Monday
in the early part of the night the
Mount Zion school house caught fire
and burned to the ground The origin
of the fire is net known, Nut it IS
thought TO have been from an incen-
diary origin. The building and con
tents were insured for 5000. Daniel
Jones was teaching the school at that
place
John Bonicamp. who formerly
conducted horse collar factory in
Keokuk but who has been farming III
Oklahoma for the past few years,
wants to come back to Iowa and re-
engage in business. He has made a
proposition to Fort Madison to start
factory there if given building and
the citizens are Ii, Ny to accept the
offer, Bonicamp agrees to start with
twenty hands if gwen a building and a
committee has been appointed to see
if the building can be bought and pre-
scented to him.
Last night at $50 O'Clock Consta-
bic Leindecker went out into the coun-
try three miles in the vicinity of the
powder works and arrested Joseph
knight on a charge of assault and bat
terry, complaint having been lodged
against him that he had threatened
to kill his wife. The patrol wagon
was used and Officers Park and Field
accompanied the constable. The man
was said to be bad man, but the Of
ficer had no trouble whatever with
him and he was brought into town and
placed in the calaboose.
Rev NJ j. Nicoson. of Memphis.
Mo, formerly pastor of the First Chris
tan church of this city, in renting
for another years subscription to The
Gate City, reports that his church
work in Memphis is progressing nicely
and that preparations are being made
for big missionary rally to be held
January % when A. Mclean, of the
American Missionary Society. DR..
Buchart of China and ". H. Hanna of
the Philippine Islands will be present
The purpose IS to make it a great
rally da and many minis
tiers from points in Iowa, Illinois and
Missouri will be sent.
Kahok. Gazette-F aid: P. A.
Townsend brought back with him from
Montana, silver tips and one Gin
namon bear skin. several deer skins.
a Bob Cat" and a lynx. These spec
linens at the Office OF is father. ]. T.
Townsend, are attracting considerable
attention. These are skins of animals
all killed by himself and brother
Claude R. While most of them will oe
kept as relics others are for sale He
also has curio in the form of buff
falo spear which he picked up on the
plains of Montana. This was for use
with long handle and when picked
u the ferule was still over the stem
OF the two edged blade, which is about
eight inches in length and an ugly
lowing .weepin.
The position tsken By President
Roosevelt with respect to water pow
ers, in his special message 10 congress.
an account OF which appeared in last
evenings Gate City only adds 10 the
growing conviction that the local wa
fer power grant is one OF the most
important in the United states. and
the presidents veto OF the James
river proposition is additional eyt-
dence that the men VINO now own the
Keokuk franchise should and viii get
busy on the local dam before the ex-
piration Of the government franchise.
which runs into February of 1910. The
assertion Of the president that cleo
tricity Is the coming power and that
its development from water power
grants viii in coming wears be OF i'm
mense value is easily discernable 10
those who forecast the future. and the
stupendous value OF the Keokuk gran
to the Mississippi valley can resdily
/ be contemplated All signs poiat 70
+ a successful consummation Of the Keo-
kuk enterprise and that during the
+ present year.
Fort -Iadison Democrat Fred
Stimscn of $685. Front street suffer
ed a badly burned left eye and LEFT
hand, caused by the explosion Of q
4 cigarette 1t IS not an uncommon
f occurrence to encounter loaded cigars
4 that are often handed out By though.
less friends. but loaGed cigarettes are
not SO common. In this case the vic
til rpetrated the erious joke or
himself, but evidently quite uninten
tionally Mr. Stimson has dog tina
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