The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-17
CITY NEWS.

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IL. II. s. VS.. carthage at ~" gym
Friday night.
kline train No. 10 from the north
was over an hour late in arriving this
morning.
Car Inspector o. c. Mars of Peoria
was in the city this morning visiting
the local %" offices and transacting
business affairs.
There was an exciting race up
Main street last evening between two
cutters. The two sleighs started at
Sixth and Main and raced out to
Twelfth.
Mrs. NJ. Corse- dancing school
opens Feb. 18th. O-l-ing every
Thursday evening, to 70 O'Clock,
Hawkes. hall, gentlemen Soc. ladies
loc. Music furnished by Mrs. Marder
A crowd of youngsters were busy
wearing in Eleventh street hill with
Sob-sleds and hand-sleds last night.
The night was an ideal oxe for coast
ing and many were out enjoying the
first good snow of the winter.
Many sleighing parties were out
last evening enjoying the snow. The
night was comparatively warm to what
it has been for the past few days and
every one who had a sleigh or piece
of one was out last evening enjoying
themselves.
Max WEIGH was up in the SUI
perior. court this morning and waived
iaraignment on the charge of threaten
ing to kill his brother. His case was
sent over to the District court and in
default of $500 bond, he was taken to
the county JAIL
The railroad yards, both uptown
and down in the lower yards, have
been cleared of snow where it is nee
essary for the switchmen and other to
walk. Men were busy all day yester-
day with brooms and shovels in clear
/ ing away the drifts.
Coal thieving had somewhat
ceased and there have been no big fuel
hauls made lately, reported by local
coal dealers. In one Iowa city where
much coal was missed by dealers, the
officers laid for the thieves ana finally
caught them and brought them to JUS
| tice.
A piano in the home mas often
| proven a positive power for good. Well
tell you how to easily get first-class
one also of our modern system OF piano
selling which saves you money if you
will wrie, or better still, call on US.
W. w. Kimball Co.. in with Duncan
Schell, 307 Main street.
-Thirty-one cars of rock from this
city have been unloaded at Alexandria
the last six of them being unloaded
| this morning by the section men. The
rock will be used for ballast on the
new bridge which is to be put in be.
tween this city and Alexandria. A
large force of workmen will arrive
from the south on the work train to-
day and start work on the structure
at once.
The Fort Madison Canning compa-
ny. which conducts plants at that city
and at West Point, expects to sell out
and the property has been looked over
by the Keokuk Canning company
which may purchase the two plants
and add them to their equipment, thus
greatly enlarging the business and in
lcreasing the business. A Fort Madison
paper says that William Ballinger, w
u. Fulton and H. A. Heaslip were in
that city yesterday looking over the
plant with view of purchasing it.
A Lawrence, Kan, dispatch to the
Register and Leader says: Basket
ball in the eastern cities differs con-
siderably from the game we play out
here. and in general our game is a
better one from the point of view of
the spectator" said Dr. James Nal
smith, the inventor Of the game "They
are accustomed to playing on the
small court, and every style of game
has been Influenced largely by the
professional rules. The result is that
, the players hold each other at every
, opportunity, and the game looks slow
to the westerner. who has been watch
ing the game under the collegiate
rules c. the large courts that We have
here The officials are the cause of
the difference, think, and the ignor-
ing of the rules on holding and the
like ar, responsible for the alteration
in the game"