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COURT OF HONOR.

COURT OF HONOR.
A. o. u. w. Hall, Eighth and Main
Meets the first and thi. Friday
nights of each month. Visiting mem
beers cordially invited. w. J. Kessler
Chap.
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q . q. ELKs.

Keokuk Lodge, No. 106-Meets first
and third Thursday nights at Elks
hall Gibbons opera house block, Sixth
and Main streets. Club rooms open
daily. Visiting brothers cordially In
vited. L. J. WOLF, E. r.; William REIN
bold, Secretary.
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Damascus Ccmmandery of Knights
Templar, No. Irregular conclave
third Tuesday of each month.
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Herman Lodge, No 11e (German).
meets regularly every Wednesday
evening at 8 O'clock. G. Loeffler, N.
G., Albert Keifer, Rec. Sec.
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w. r. C.-The Hawkes. Hall--Reg-
ular meeting of Terrence Relief Corps,
No. 100 the second and fourth Thurs
days of each month at 2:30 o'clock
p. M, SHARP. Mrs. Chas. M. COOK,
President; Mrs. Lena Van Fleet, sec
rotary.
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
John w. Young, Builder. Superin-
tendent and Contractor for all kinds OF
construction. Also general repair
work. Prompt and careful atteD-
ton given to plans and estimates
Your patronage solicited. Office But
Blondeau. Iowa phone. office. 214S;
residence, 3342.
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Puckechetuck Encampment, No. q !.
Meets first and third Tuesday evening
Of each month. Otto Anschutz, Scribe.
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Gate City Royal Area Chapter. NO
holds its regular meetings the sec
ond Friday IN each month.
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KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Hall over Savings Ban

Keokuk Lodge, No. 544 Meets reg
ularly on the second and fourth Fri
DAYS of each month. ]. w. Steiger,
director: q. Ioeffler, Reporter.
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Belknap Post, G. A. R., No. 51bA-
Schouten's Hall, Tenth and Main
streets Meets the first Wednesday
each month. L. A. Berryhill Com
mander.
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Hardin Lodge, No. 29.-Holds It's reg
ular monthly meetings the second
Monday evening of each month,
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X. Of p.

Morning Star Lodge, No. 5.-Meets
Fifth and Blondeau, x. of P. Building
Tuesday at 500 p. m. w. e. StrIm-
back. Chancellor Commander; Edward
f. Carter, K. of r. and S. Visiting
Knights fraternally invited.
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Puckechetucl Lodge, 10. 40, meets
every Friday evening at 8 o'clock, w.
y. Rokey, N. G.. Geo. w. Imme-
CART, Per Sec.
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INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD
FELLOWS.
Hall Seventh and Main Streets.
Keokulz Lodge, No. 10, meets regu-
larly Monday evening at 1880 O'CLOCK.
A. N. Matheny, N. g., A. G. Hershey
Recording Secretary.
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IOWA LEGION OF HONOR.
Hall over Savings Bank.

Lee Lodge, Is. So Meets the fourth
Monday in each month. S. S. Lowltz
President; Ira w. DeMoss. Recording
Secretary
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G. A. R.
The Hawkes. Hall.

II6 IIdW hSo IIuIl.
Terrence Post, No. 2, Department OF
Iowa. Regular meetings second Thurs
day evening of each month at 7:So
o'clock. B. f. Crow, Post Commander,
8. H. Johnston, AdjutaLt.
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PHYSICIANS.
DIR 9. n CLARK

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office-Y. NJ G. A. building.
Office hours .: 00.l0s30 a. m. 1880
to $50 and 700 and $500 p. m.
Phones Office, lowe. 305-R.; Hub.
157. Residence, Iowa, 5293; Hub. 2092.
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FRATERNAIl CARDS.
MASONIC.


a Hall, corner Fourth and Main
~ Eagle lodge, No, r. Holds It's
IN regular meeting the first Tues
day evenin., of each month
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01

glades crissCrossed in every direction taa.
morning by topi and other game, which soon
had my Somah shikari and myself puzz.,ng.
tor already the blood sign from the c111-a, NJ
wound had lessened, until We could no l0g--
find IT at all. At this JunCture up came one II
my NasaI, Habia, from the safari. Hs or
ing, then and thereafter for hours was mas
terlv. better than / have ever seen done hv
Indian OF cowboy.
Crouched and bent until he was CARVING his
nose close 20 the ground almost as Is hunting,
hound on cooling scent, at short stance
wholly hidden IN the tall grass he glIlrl out
the glade amid the network Of trails --...1g
seldom, for no more than tve minute let re he
Slgnaled me 70 a1m and plUCked and yei
q blade OF grass that showed a blood sol. .cr
scarcely bigger than a pInhead Then aa Town
the spoOr he started and along It held .c hill
and down, through tall grass. winding through
broad belts of Jungle on game trail, and .T
them, along the rocky bottoms Of DRY -.v,ues
INTO and through or up or down water never
al fault for an instant except where the bull
had taken water at pace that kept me- Blown.
almost 70 the point Of collapse for full four
hours.
Early 1t became evident that the huI had
e'eCted % play lone hand IN the game ri
losing us had cut away free of his mates. OFTEN
We heard HIM "a few yards away through the
bush, but only once again oiId sight HIM about
noon. at the top OF q long. steep ascent that
apparently had overtaNed even hrs energies.
where he stood with hanging head. his shoulder
wound plainly showing But before could
free myself OF the mesh of bush We were ,rty-
ing of again he trotted. and had q, content
myself with snapshot. which. hitting hiu IN the
hip, only served 10 hasten his pace
And right there I realized that the chase f1-
me was useless. There was no more than an
other TWO OF three miles 60 left IN mo- Be-
sides, while HabIa and Awala could Slip through
the bush silent as ghosts. DO nv best I was now
and then breaking dry twigS OF stumbling Oh
toe-entanglIng vines notwithstanding the -w.
hundred and SIX pounds handicap with which
had left NaIrObi was then reduced o. close O. d.
hundred and eighty.
Obviously the only chance was to leave mr..
Gland % them, N the hope that Hah,t might
stalk near enough 10 plant finishing poisoned
arrow, which, freshly prepared, can tr relied %
70 Kill IN twenty minutes. If 1t peDctratrS The
flesh at all. So on | sent them and back -lwar
the waiting SafarI YEARLY trampej until
met my SICe and mule which Outr4n hail
thoughtfully sent after me guided tv \S.na
IL was long after dark when nv two trailer
reached camp that nIght-emptv handle.
Twice they had sighted the bull bur approach
HIM they could not. IL was a heavy dIs-pooir.-
ment, for IN these DAYS II Is not ullv chances
q man has for such a superb Gland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
Long Chase for an Eland

A BOUT seven O'Clock that morning while
riding short distance ahead of the SafarI
sighted four Gland, two of them splendid
bulls magnificent great fellows which looked big
as beeveS- With no means of stopping the
NOISY advancing porterS without alarming, the
Gland, | had to chance a three-hun,lred-vard
shot at the biggest bull He staggered. bounded
INTO the AR: and hit the ground. going At a sharp
tr"t. like that fast gait in the elk which few
ponies can overtake until il Is broken INTO a
gallop after his speeding mates
MI were out ot sight almost in an instant
with no chance for a second shot but a snap AT
the Sec9nd bun, which unfortunately, hit HIM
IN the hind quarters and did not down bin,
Hurrylng To the turn of bush where they had
disappeared, took up their trail. plain as a
wagon road 10 follow for two miles through the
tripping grass. Great Splashes of blood on the
tall grass tops proved high shoulder shot IN
the big bull and distinguished his tracks from
the others
Then the Gland passed through a series of
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In Closed Territory
Continued tyo1 Page

they prize as cloaks, and the back sinews fur
nishing their best bOwStrings. In the next
three miles bOwled over several TO their great
delight
Before we parted from this fine lot of young
warriors. got some excellent pictures, the only
ones | have ever seen, of a group of Masa1 bow
men. The youngster IN front of the group Is
Akuna. our guide, a son OF kOydelOt, pOCk
marked but 1.-THE and graceful a panther,
who trail or elephant SpOOr tor twenty days
glided ahead Of me silent as a shadow, wise OF
every form of jungle lore but IN all else simple
as a little child, pleased with the skin and
sInewS of fresh Kill any woman with a new
Worth dress, going INTO eCStaSles over an empty
cigarette tin. On SpOor fierce eyed, intent. tire
less, relentless as a leopard, his hight cloak
wrapped tightly in a narrow roll about his
waist. his knobkerrie and short sword stuck IN
his girdle, his bow held perpendICularly 10 pro
tect the bOwstrlng from the wet grass the
leather qulver at his back carrying his mrs
sticks and heavy, poison tipped war arrows,
Akuna's SInewy figure was a model OF abo-
rginal militant worthy of the best sculptor.
Shortly before our noon camps we passed vet
another munyata the last below the eScarp-
ment, and throughout our incoming its party
colored tlOckS and herds, grazing hIther and
yon about us. appearing and disappearing
among the trees, were ever producing effects
like gigantic animated kaleidoscope.
During the afternoon bagged a fine pair OF
twenty-Seven-inCh Impala horns and twenty
two-inch Tommy.
The ascent of the eScarpment late IN the
afternoon while no more than one thousand
three hundred feet, was so much like Scram-
bling up boulder studded thorn clad Gothic
roof that it pumped all the wind out of even
the hardy Outram and took the last ounce OF
go out OF the loaded pOrterS.
The summit of Isuria found a lovely roll
ing country with wide areas Of tender. sweet
grass, shoulder high and thick patches of heavy
timber. where herds of beautiful topi often
stood within hundred yards, watching IN
wide eyed surprise
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
No Tricks in JAW Gould. Tr14s


~ tour OF his Texas railways N-. .C..
one day asked me To take l.w g. -.r
MeNicdn family then famous for tle,- remarks
ably artistic reproductions m WAY nj m --tr-
Indians and vaqueToS. individual figures .--
groups that were hteike repr1. uct,ea- =
immature OF al types of native Mexican .alr-
dcter. costume and occupation
We stood one hot Nav morning ~ 81 .,,-lv
and gratefully cool corner OF Ortcga a..nue-
walled workroon. cor perhaps ten minutes.
watching the nrmble fingered elder tas. rins
with tiny knives the figure of moUutr1 indian
attacked by leopard the leopard wit. -1rce
paws deep Clawed INTO the horse ruur and
flank and the fourth reaching for The ~ier
a remarkable realistic and spirited r..e OF
work.
Mr. Gould turned TO me and quietly re-
marked. " Wen. Mr. Bronson there ARE indeed
tricks IN all trades but ours
None in yours, Mr. GouIjs" ao,ase IN
queried
None he gravelv answered Iul t..u we
turned and passed out the master prg-,. .tgtta-
tor of ralwav 60a0re of HIS Jlv without TIE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
A Nlasai Camp Incident

E-NNLN the next morning our path .r- rs t.
the first munvata west of the as, 4rur-e--
-Ntter few words from Akuna the Nasal re-
celved us cordially and the women brought us
great gourds of milk
Beneath "a wide spreading thorn --e- .u--
without the gate of the village. The cl.r- .0,
dozen or more OF the elders sat about --- en-
herS OF a tire working overtime. harder .r -a-
than usual, for all seemed % be busy 80 o.-
lending advice toned IN soft NaS..l oh ~,.- q.
youth OF eighteen. who. by great orr .--. was
Contr1vIng % make one knife s-ro be a.H--
every rve minutes on "a slave Il woo- .- WAS
shaping for bow
Nj were skin clad. IN So far -iS they Ve-. .-i
al all. except The chief himself who ~r.--. ~
antlquated red and yellow laprotc u- g .--e--
have observed to be popular among Wa
kdmba, from whom IL was probably TIL or
looted, and an extraordinary bracelet nj laws
and teeth, flint and obSljIau whether .r--c
or an insignia of rank I could ONLY guess r.
and lean. bearded with regular ~--- sag
features complexion SEQ light -.- ...-
NlSal, that he was almost ~a,loW anil street,.
SIuTnbcrlng. speculative. iDtro>pe, ..->
ewes that occasionally lt up with .-r-- us -~.-
hgnIhed reserved. quiet the ch.e-
resemblance ~ the Jaw C. ,yr-
enteen wears ago and recalled au amusing .----
dent or our acquaintance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
In Camp in a Storm

our tents were up none too soon that even
ing, tor directly We were sheltered a heavy
thunderstorm broke And scarcely had the
last hoarse rumbles of the storm died on our
ears about midnight, than they were followed
by the deep bass grunts of a hon prowling near.
in fact, so very near that all the porterS who
were sleeping by fires well sheltered IN the
dense bush came hurryIng INTO the center of
the camp and there spent the night within the
ndrrOweSt circle OF fires we had 10 build at any
time that Safari. MI about US old Leo cir
cled So circled all night long, keen of hunger or
wonder. one OF the other. Often one could hear a
twIg break beneath his Stealthv tread but not
once dld he pass within the ring of our freight
Toward dawn he gave up As a bad probably
too fiery, Job and Stalked grumbling away.
And by the way, 1t was IN a ravine of this
eScarpment that Outram had a particularly
curious experience. Out after buck meat for
the porters beneath a slightly leaning thorn
tree he wrlthIng about the tall grass tops
what he took TO be the head and neck of a
python, and fired at 1t. Vt the shot, TO his
great surprise a blg leopard bounded Snarling
away INTO the bush
Advancing beneath the tree 10 see what the
leopard had been crouChed over, he was start
led TO tlnd nothing but narrow area of tram
pied grass and much absolutely fresh blood so
sprnkled about that evidently Il was not come
OF the wound he had given the leopard. Sud-
denly, while standing puZzling over what the
leOpardS Kill could have been that might be
made away with So completely. hide meat and
bone, he became conscious of steady drip
drip. drip on his coat sleeve. and upon lifting
his arm, discovered 4 stream of blood running
down it,
CHANGING aloft. his puzzle was solved There
IN high fork OF the tree at least eighteen feet
from the ground, We're ceverlv wedged heads
TO tails, their legs even artfullv intertwined %
steady them, the CarCaSSeS of two freshly killed
Young topi antelope. weighing forty L. fifty
pounds each Obviously the leopard. after a
strenuous morning winning and safely SLOWING
away his days repaSt had been resting himself
beneath the tree and tapping the dripping
blood an appetizer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe to Experiment With
Coca BOla Ties.
Will Lay New Wood on Stretch
of Kansas Track.
WILL LAST FOR YEARS
Average Life Is Estimated at a
Quarter of Century.
Other Items Of Interest in
Railway Circles.
WILL LAST FOR YEARS

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway is making arrangements for a
series of experiments with a new kind
of railroad ties which will be watched
with interest by all the railroads in
the United States.
This road recently purchased a large
shipment of cocaboIa and japanese oak
ties in Japan, through the efforts of
E o. Faulkner of the tie and timber
department who visited Japan. This
shipment has just been landed in Cali
fornia and is now being prepared for
use on the Santa F'e tracks. The first
experiments viii be MADE in Kansas,
on the western division of the Santa
Tre west of Great Bend.
This wood when delivered in Cali
fornia entails an expense of about $115
a tie. which is a little more than is
paid for American wood. The wood is
SO hard that it is said to be almost
impossible to drive a spike into it.
1t is expected to be capable of lasting
over a quarter of century.
No attempts will be made to drive
to be bored into the ties and screw
spikes put in to hold the rails. When
they are laid the entire expense of
each tie Will be in the neighborhood of
81 The shipment received contains in
the neighborhood of 10000 ties which
will cost about $4,000 when laid.
The tests which Will be made with
the new foreign wood ties will be a
complete one. The stretch of track that
viii be laid will be entirely new. The
roadbed will be regarded, new rails will
be laid and the track will be rebal-
lasted so that the test will be a prac-
teal one. The Santa Fe officials claim
that this stretch of track when COM
pleted will be the finest in the world
and doubtless it will be if the new ties
do all that is claimed for them.
The tie question is said to be one
of the most important of those now
facing the American railroads on &C
count Of the increasing scarcity and
higher price of the timber suitable for
ties. Many experiments have been
made and are being made with creosote
and zinc treating methods in the effort
TO increase the life of ties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16

Der of the leading western railroads,
which competitive conditions will make
applicable to all roads. 1t has been de-
cided to open to the general public the
rates of a fare and half for the rouno
trip from points west of the river
which were granted on account of the
merchants meetings at these cities
provided there is a minimum atteno-
ance at each meeting of 100 or more
persons holding certificates.
These merchants meetings, organ
lied for the purpose of promoting
general influx of buyers to the larger
Commercial centers to lay IN their
stock of merchandise for the IAN ana
winter. are held in series in each OF the
cities named during July, August ana 10
September. The series in each city IS
SO arranged that they afford Woe
range of dates. during which the fares
will be available.
THE opening of the rates to the pub
lie generally is ascribed to an opinion
rendered by the legal department OF
one of the roads that to confne the re-
duced fares to a specified class OF per-
sons constituted discrimination against
the general public in violation of the
r1Iings of the interstate commerce
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16
WANT BETTER SERVICE.
Sunday Train Demanded on SaIina-
Oakley Line.

Hill City, Kan, July 16.-HilI City is
trying to start a movement for better
train service on the Salina and Oakley
branch. The demand is for Sunday.
train and for discontinuance of the
franchise Of hauling live stock cars in
the morning passenger train. The Hill
City New Era says:
I'VE believe that if the people of
towns along the Salina-Oakley branch
will. ask for it that much better SER
vice will be given by the railroad COM
pany to its patrons.
IN the first place the practice Of
hauling live stock on the morning pas
senger should be discontinued. It adds
greatly to the danger of wreck and dis
aster and it compels the running of the
train at a slow rate of speed and we
are Informed that at least two hours
could be taken off the time of the east
bound passenger between Oakley and
Salina-
ssAnother needed addition to the ser
vice we now have is the adding of a
Sunday train. AS it is now our people
are compelled to drive to Wakeeney, or
to Edmund, to get a train on Sunday
YET another addition which would
be strictly in reason to ask would be
that a sleeper be placed on the passen-
ser trains on the branch. As it is now
one must ride in a day coach prac-
ticaIly all night in going east or west
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16
OLD ..swIMSnN' HOLE MUST GO.
It's waters Threaten Roadbed of Santa
Fe Railroad.

Garnett, Kan. July 16-The Santa
Fe has not only torn down its water
tank here, but destroyed its water
supply also. Lake Joy was named for
one of the promoters of the railroad;
THE small boy of Garnett has bathed
in its waters and skated on its ice since
1859, or Whereabouts. There was first
a big trestIe, and then a I'LL, which
made the lake. The Santa Fe has
MANY wears. but the big lakes at
WeIda and Seipio render it useless to
the company now.
In very high water 1t seemed hkeiy
as the roadbed there is on soapstone,
which the water softened and made
slippery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16
GOULD WESTERN PACIFIC.
ONLY Two Hundred Miles Are Lacking
in Completion.

salt Lake City. Utah, July 16.-An
officer of the Western Pacific railway,
the Gould line to the Pacific coast,
states that there remains only some
thing over 200 miles of track to be laid
to complete the road from SAT- Lake
Citv to Oakland. Cal, 924 miles. This
is expected to be finished by October 1.
Grading in Nevada is about finished,
and the only work of any magnitude Of
that kind remaining to be done IS in
the sierra Nevada mountains, where
progress has been slow on account Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16

the character of the work and the OBJ.
stacles encountered.
Track laying is now under way at
four different points, and is being
pushed vigorously except at one point
in the mountains, where there Will be
some DELAY on account of bridges to be
put in when the track reaches that
pOiut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16
over the branch.

over the branch.
IF the papers of the towns along the
branch will take this matter up and
agitate it, it will not, in our opinion,
be thirty days, until all these things
will have been done to add to the con-
venience of a long suffering people"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16
MERCHANTS RATES OPEN.
Western Lines Extend Concession to
General Public.

Chicago. July 16.-Reduced passenger
fares to Chicago. St. Louis, Kansas
City. Omaha and St. Joseph will be
available this summer from all states
west of the Missouri river, as the result
Of decision Just announced by num-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-16

Odd lots of Mems Shoes and
Oxfords, tans and blacks, were
So, So. so and $500, CO Ar
reduced to.........RZs43
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1909-07-17
Badly Hurt.

Manager Klinesmith Of the Petro-
lithic company, brought John A.Don-
ahue down to town last Friday even
ing, in an unconscious condition.
1t seems that Mr.. DOnahue was
working with the drilling machine
when IA temper screw was Jared
loose and fell, hitting him on the
head. The victim WAS rendered UNI
conscious and remained In that state
for several days. He was badly
cut and bruised about the head and
face. DIR. Hutton was called and at
tended the injured man, who is now
out Of danger and recovering as fast
as could be expected considering the
extent of his injuries.