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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
OF
LINCOLN DAY
= opera House viii be Scene
i Appropriate Exercises To-
morrow Evening, Feb
ruary IL.
|rHE EVENING PROGRAM
lincoln Club viii Hold Exercises at
Masonic Hall and There viii
be One at Eighth
Street Hall.
|rHE EVENING PROGRAM

tomorrow evening there will be
hoo nublic celebrations of the birth
d.y anniversary of Lincoln in Keo-
snL The official exercises will be
ah at the Grand opera house, be-
ssinning at s o'clock, to which the pub
H. is invited and for which there will
/ be no charge.
The Lincoln club will have exercis-
ss in the evening at the colored Ma
sonic hall on Fifth street.
Another celebration will be held at
me Eighth street hall by the colored
citizens.
The programs for these three, have
heen arranged as follows:
At the Opera House.
Miller-Rutledge orchestra.
Call for order, Chairman d. w. Nc
Elroy presiding
Mayor Strimback, president of even
Address-Mayor Strimback.
Rows chorus-"Old Glory"
Under direction of Philip C. Hay
den.
Invocation-Rev. George c. Will
liams, d. D.
Drums and Fife-C. Lock and as
sistants.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address-Mrs.
". Frank Brown.
BOYS Chorus Lincoln, Oh Lin
coin"
Address-Senator e. p. McManus.
Solo-Star Spangled Banner-Mrs.
Minnie E. Bence.
Address-Rev. E. B. Newcomb, D. D.
Drums and Fife-C. Lock and as
sstants.
America-Led by Boys chorus.
Orchestra.
Piano accompanists-Mrs. Hazen I.
Sawyer, Miss Hazel Salzer.
Decorations by Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Ushers of the eyening-Sons of vet
Grams.
For the stage-E. E. Hawkes., e. S.
Lotion.
For the audience-John E. Craig
and assistants.
BY the Lincoln Club.
Patriotic selection-Orchest
Called to orderly Chairman d. w
Anderson
Hymn, Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning"
Invocation-Rev. L. A. Joplin.
Selection Orchestra.
Address-Hon. H. N. Brent, Quincy
n.
Girls chorus" Star Spangled Ban.
ner" under the direction Of w. w
Fields.
Lincoln's Proclamation--Mr +. D
Bland
Selection, "Quartette, johnson and
Fox Brothers
Address Rev w. A. Searcy.
Paper-Miss Della Bland.
Selection, "Quartette"-Johnson and
Fov Brothers.
Address-Chas. e. Johnson.
Selection-O Orchestra.
Address-Alonzo w. Draine.
America led by girls chorus.
Refreshments will be served by the
committee.
At Eighth Street Hall.
Review of old soldiers with theil
rnuskets.
Music.
lnvocation-Rev G. d. Saunders.
Address-B. l.. Anderson.
Patriotic Songs. M. T. Juveniles
under the management of Mrs, j. r
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
Bank Receives News.

The Gem City of last evening re-
ports the finding of the body as fol-
lows:
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Henry Mansheim who
left his home in Washington township
Monday, February 1. has been practic-
ally cleared away by the finding of
his body at Springfield Mo.
The following telegram was received
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
Game at St. Mary's.

At st Mary's alleys last evening
the All Stars defeated st. Mary's
bowling club by 80 pins. The con-
test was close one but was marked
by less than average bowling on the
part of members of botn teams.
Wisemann carried off all honors,
having high average of 161 and high
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
.Iow's Thls7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, o.
]. Cheney for the last Is years and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transe Ions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by his
firm
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimon-
ials sent free. Price 70 cents per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

So well was the audience pleased
with the last bout that all will return
this evening and the Grand should be
packed to the doors.
The wrestlers will be put to the Sc
yerest test, as each would like 20 meet
Turner in the above proposition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
TO THROW BUSCH
TWICE in HOUR
Or John Voss, Whichever Wins the
Wrestling Match This Even
ing at Grand Opera
House.
FROM GEORGE TURNER
Will WrestIe For Side Bet and the
Long End Of the Purse-Big
Match is on This
Evening.
FROM GEORGE TURNER

George Turner of Turner, Iowa, has
hurled challenge to the winner of
the Busch-Voss match this evening
and agrees to throw the winner twice
in an hour Who Turner is. or what
he can do, is impossible to say, but
he is undertaking a hard task when
he agrees to handle man of Busch's
ability in that easy fashion His let
ter is as follows
Editor Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa
Dear Sir: | would like to challenge
the winner of the Busch-Voss match.
the 18th, to throw the winner twice
in an hour for a side bet and the Win
ner take the long end of tho purse.
I am a heavyweight and can show as
good a record as most of them.
Hoping | can get chance and fair
play, / am,
Respectfully yours.
GEORGE TURNER,
Turner, Iowa.
Match This Evening.
Everything is in readiness for the
big match this evening between Voss
and Busch Both men claim to be in
excellent condition for the go and the
| struggle for supremacy will doubtless
ly be 4 good one.
! JOHN VoSs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

Philadelphia Has Tornado.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10-A storm
assuming the proportions of tornado
struck West Philadelphia this after
noon. Manv houses were blown down
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Read The Daily Gate CITY.
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Timbale Of
Faust Spaghetti

Add butter and grated cheese
to small pieces of well-boiled
Spaghetti (one-fourth pound).
Work into this two eggs. But
ter and bread crumb plain
mold, and when the Spaghetti
is nearly cold fill the mold
with it, pressing it down and
leaving hollow in the center
into which places well-Aavored
mince of meat, poultry or
game then fill the mold with
more Spaghetti pressed well
down, bake in moderate oven
20 minutes, turn outand serve.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
All Sta

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

Cook What there that Will please every
bodv and at the same time noushng and enghenng lou
will never be in such quanay with Faust Spaghetti in the house.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
Washington Women Are Auction Mad

their retiring than there are ministers
to retire. But who's going to keep
tab? Diplomatic debris Is always 1t
a premium. Discards from legations
whether genuine or apocryphal. are
gobbled gluttonously. Most congros-
sional wives go back home laden with
sacred relics from auction houses,
more or less authenticated.
One of these ardent ladies picked up
recently, at rare bargain, in prirse
condition apparently, an oriental re,
warranted to have been highly pri,ed
by prominent diplomat, who parted
with it reluctantly upon his recall to
his own country. The rug, which had
never known foreign football, wore
beautifully for a month or two, then
fell all to pieces at one fell swoop,
like the wonderful one-horse shay"
The fabric, which was literally worn
in holes, had been strengthened and
renewed by preparation of glue on
the back, the threadbare spots filed
up to firm consistency by the use
of red egg dye paint. The olsen
chanted lady had only a shoddy rug
to show for her SIS expenditure. Still
the thrall of the auction room never
diminiSheS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
Congress Pages Need Supervision

member has sent home a boy who
fell into bad ways and could aot be
brought under discipline. There is
not such a large proportion of the dis
trict boys in the house as in the SEN
ate. They come from many states.
but some of the more distant states
are not represented.
It is doubtless fact that the boys
in both houses of congress are under
closer supervision than was the case
at one time. A few examples opened
the eyes of the authorities to what
dangers might confront boys far from
home without the refining influences
that are inseparable from mothers
love and care While the restraint
least wholesome and for the entire
good of the youths who may very
likely grow up to be themselves max
ers of laws and rulers of the land.
Without doubt it has been great
trial to most of the youngsters to be
deprived of their vacations for such
long time. The call of the woods
and fields is strangely insistent to
youth. Every normal, healthy, man
ly boy yearns to get out in the open
to swim, ride, shoot, sail or disport
himself in the water. To be confined
within even marble walls cannot COM
pensate for the freedom of the fields,
and so the page boys are happy at
last in the prospect of unlimited en-
joyment for a time and rest from
the cares which sit but ill at best on
young shoulders.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03

= HE presidential people never cease
i to be objects of the most poignant
interest. They never pail on the pub
lie curiosity, even here in Washing
ton, where presidents are human ma
lures daily food.
Shortly before Mrs. Taft's departure
for her summering she attended a
concert at fashionable theater. Her
discarded program dropped to the
floor as she got up to leave. Instant
" those near by who were watching
every motion Of the notable lady made
a stampede for the worthless piece of
paper, each anxious to secure it as
a relic.
On one of her latest shopping ex-
and economical buyer, deliberated
for a considerable while over the
choice of a piece of lace at the lace
counter. After she had finally made
her selection and departed, fellow
customer of the shop, much more
SLOWLY and handsomely dressed than
the presidents wife, who, from lit
tie distance had been watching the
proceedings like a hawk, bounced
down upon the saleswomaQ that Mrs.
Taft had just released, who was busy
folding up her stock. Which piece
did Mrs. Taft buy?" asked the eager
onlooker with avidity. She was
shown. 'I'll take all the rest of that
piece of lace" the woman fever:shly
declared. The Taftiau touch and the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
ANOTHER MURDER OCCURS.
Oscar Larson Is Murdered While Saw.
ing a Friend From Robbers
Bullet.

Minneapolis. - Oscar A. Larson,
while attempting to save his friend
from injury, was shot in the temple
and instantly killed by one of pair
of highwaymen who attempted to rob
the saloon of Charles Anderson, at
1870 in the evening.
Five men besides Larson were in
the saloon just before the closing hour
when two men, the lower part Of
handkerchief, entered at the back
door on Eighth street. The shorter
man rushed quickly through the sa-
loon to the front door, and after lock-
ing it, turned toward Anderson.
Hold up your hands," he demand
ed.
Turnquist and the other men in the
saloon threw up their arms, but An
derson refused, at the same time
reaching for a stool to throw at the
desperado's head. The revolver was
Immediately turned upon him and the
robber was about to fire when Lar
son, who was standing at the bar,
grabbed the hand holding the weapon.
A struggle lasting several seconds fol-
lowed and the robber, finding himself
overpowered, called to his friend.
Shoot the beast" he cried. Shoot
quick!"
The taller man rose from his
crouching position in the rear of the
room at the call and shot. His aim
was true for the bullet struck Larson
in the right temple and he dropped
dead without a struggle. The bullet
passed through the head. Immediate
ly the men rushed through the door
by which they had entered, followed
by all the men. Anderson, carrying
the raised stool in his hand, hurled it
at the murderer. He missed and they
disappeared. No trace of them has
been found.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
FARMER KILLS TWO
FIRES HIS FARM HOUSE, THEN
CLOSES THE INCIDENT BY
HANGING HIMSELF.
REST OF THE FAMILY Is ABSENT
Redwood Farmer Beats Out the Brains
Of Own Daughter and House.
keepers Child.-Went Sud-
denly Insane.

Redwood Falls.-William Tibbitts,
farmer who lived near Delhi in this
county, killed two young girls, one his
own daughter Then, after making an
unsuccessful attempt to burn his farm
house and cremate their bodies, he
hurried to his barn, and hanged him.
self.
The victims of the supposed maniac
were his 10-year-old daughter and Ce-
cile Norton, about Is years OF age,
daughter of his housekeeper, Mrs.
Rose Norton. More lives might have
been sacrificed, but for the fact that
Mrs. Norton who has been employed
by Tibbitts since the death of his
wife two months ago, was visiting at
her former home at st. Paul Park,
Mimi. With her were the two young
est daughters of Tibbitts.
The helpless victims of the farmer
were slain with heavy piece of iron,
either an iron stake or a long tooth
from some farm machine. No one, so
far as known, saw the killing. The
girls could have had no chance at
all for their lives. Everything indi-
Gates that their slayer struck them
from behind and crushed their skulls
at the first blow. Many blows from
the deadly weapon then followed, their
heads and upper portions of their bod
les being cut and bruised in horrible
manner.
The girls were killed either in the
house or just outside the door. Their
bodies were found under some hay in
the house. Tibbitts had taken hay
from the barn and covered the corpses
then setting fire to it. His little boy
saw the smoke rushing from the build
ing and summoned the neighbors, who
arrived just in time to save the build
ing and preserve the bodies of the
dead girls from cremation.
1t was when the neighbors were
bending their energies to extinguish
the flames that Tibbitts ran to the
barn and completed the days TRACE
dies.
Tibbitts was about 70 years of age
and was we'll thought of in this COM
munity. The sheriff and county at
torney have started a thorough in
vestigation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
National Capital Is a Clean City

cleaning department, it was discov-
cred that there is about ten times
as much street area in the district to
be cared for as in New Orleans; but
the visiting official told the local
heads that the streets of Washington
are cleaner than those in New Or
leans.
The New Orleans official went care
fully into all the details of the sys-
tenn of street cleaning in the national
capital, and declared that he found
many new ideas which could be used
in the southern city.
One of the advanced steps taken in
New Orleans looking to cleanliness,
Superintendent Gleason explained,
was along the line of making the.
street railway companies sprinkle
their teacks. While the old lines Of
the city cannot be made to carry out
that cousse, the new lines are given
charters containing compulsory
clause. The results are excellent, it
was reported, and the system is to
be extended in the future Nothing
like this has been tried in the dis
trict
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
LAND SUITS KNOCKED OUT.
Demurrers in Oklahoma Title Cases
Started Are Sustained.

Muskogee, Okla. - Judge Ralph
Campbell has sustained the demur-
rers in the suits brought by the
United States to set aside various
deeds and leases made by citizen allot-
tees in the five civilized tribes in
eastern Oklahoma, and thus settled a
legal controversy that had been the
cause of considerable concern in that
part Of the state.
The court reviewed the relation of
the United States to the five tribes
since they became a nation, and found
that no vestige of title to the lands
allotted them now remains in the
United States. The demurrers in
volved the question Of the citizenship
of these Indians and the court de-
clared them to be citizens of the
United States with all the rights, priv
ileges and immunities of citizenship.
1t is held that the United States can
not maintain these suits on the prjn-
ciple that it sustains to the individual
Indian a trust relation, such guardian
ship being Incompatible with citizen
ship, national and state.
Finally the bills were held bad
becaue numerous defendants are
Joined in each bill who were con-
nected with many distinct transac-
tons regarding as many distinct
tracts of land.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
FARMER IS
AssAss|NATED
JACOB SCHWAB Is SHOT DOWN
AT DOOR OF HIS HOME
NEAR ANOkA.
STRANGE MAN CALLS AT NIGHT
Mystery Surrounds Murder and Sher
iff Seeks Clue in vain.-Robbery
Believed to Be the Motive for
Commission of Crime.

Anoka. Jacob Schwap, age r.,
formerly living between Anoka and
Coon Creek, lies cold in death at
his little farm home, the victim Of
an unknown assassin. Schwab was
shot down at his doorstep about 2
o'clock in the morning after he had
been summoned from his bed by Paul
Serignert, hired man, who told Mr..
Schwab a stranger was at the door
and wished to see him. Three shots
were fired by the stranger and Mr..
Schwab turned back to his room NOR
tally wounded, the victim dying short
ly after o'clock after the attending
physician had made every effort to
save the old Germans life.
Robbery appears to have been the
motive for the commission of the MUIR
der, and the theory that it was a case
of mistaken identity-that the slayer
sought the life of the hired man, Sc
rignert, as part of a secret society
plots not taken seriously by the po-
lice. According to Henry Schwab, a
son of the victim, Mr.. Schwab recent
ly received $500 as part payment for
some land, and as this money cannot
be found, it is believed that it was
for this 5000 that the murder was
committed.
There were two men at the door of
the Schwab home at the time of the
shooting, Mr.. Schwab himself max
ing that fact known before he died.
The hired man also says he saw a
second man running away from the
house. The man who shot Schwab
was described by his victim as being
tall and slender, dark complexioned
and wore dark clothes. He said he
never saw the man before in his life.
Schwab had lost the power of
speech when his son, Henry, Informed
the authorities that his father had re-
Gently got 5000 on the sale Of land, so
the whereabouts of this could not be
learned through the elder Schwab and
a search failed to develop anything.
Serignert, who is a Frenchman and
does not talk English, has given the
authorities very little information that
would lead to unraveling the mystery.
All he will say is that he was awak-
ened in the night by the strangers
who asked for Schwab, and that short
ly after his employer had gone to the
door he heard the shots. The hired
man says he was upstairs at the time
and when he heard the fire he looked
out of the window and saw two men
running away from the house.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
CANNOT SWITCH FUNDS.
Injunction in Red Lake County Halts
Movement For New Courthouse.

Thief River Falls.-Former Attorney
General Young of st. Paul and City
Attorney Halvorsen of this city inter-
vened on behalf of the taxpayers of
Red Lake county in suit brought
last week by citizens of Red Lake
Falls.
This suit sought to confirm the
county commissioners in their recent
action whereby they transferred $685.
900 from the ditch fund, which was
established by the sale of county ditch
bonds at recent date, to the court
house building fund.
An injunction was issued prohibiting
the commissioners from making such
use of the ditch funds.
AS some of these funds have been
used in the county, it is probable that
further suits will be instituted to dis
cover their whereabouts.
An election will be held to divide
the county at the next general election
and until that is settled it is probable
the courts will prohibit any attempt
to construct a new courthouse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03

WASHINGTON.-Being much larger
w than the senate, with many more
members to look out for and more
ground to cover, the house is allowed
a page boys, and in age they are the
seniors of the senate pages. while
their pay Is just the same. House
pages must be between the ages of
fourteen and IS years. They go on
duty at nine o'clock each day and
stay until the house adjourns. They
place the copies of the Record on the
desks of members, keep the desks In
order and are at the beck and cali of
members whenever wanted. They are
under the immediate supervision OF a
chief page on each side of the house.
Some of them are assigned to duty as
telegraph pages and others as tele-
phone pages, but most of them are on
duty on the floor.
The house pages are appointed on
the recommendation of members by
the head doorkeeper, who has general
supervision of the boys. Generally,
the member who has secured the
boys appointment will look after his
physical and moral welfare while he
Is here. and it has happened that q
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03

III Ugh tribute to the cleanliness OF
III the streets of the national capital
was paid recently by Joseph A. Glea-
son, general superintendent of the de-
partment of public works of New Or
leans.
He called at the district building
to find out how it was done, and
chatted with Commissioner West and
Superintendent James M. Wood Of the
STRENGTHENING department.
Washington is the cleanest and
the best city l have been in" he told
Commissioner West, after relating
experiences in visiting many of the
leading cities of the eastern and Gen.
trail states. Il want to find out how
you do IT"
During his conference with SUI
perintendent Wood of the street
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03

THE loyal legion of congress wom-
en-, who hung on in Washington
during the dog days. encouraging
their husbands, found surcease for
sultry solitude in auctions. The Wash
ington female is auction mad. There's
a greater glamour here over the sale
of other peoples old rubbish than any
where else in the country. Power Is
always changing hands. Nobody
stays put in his high estate, and when
the dignitaries get their walking pa
pers they sell out all their household
goods, as a rule. Hence the avid fem
mime scramble for foreign and bis
toric relics. The smartest society is
always to be found in the fashionable
auction rooms in Washington.
1.-The retiring foreign minister"
dodge is worked to a fine financial
finish by foxy auctioneers. There are
usually more auctions to celebrate
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03
ShreWd Act Of Ducheas


The famous Sarah, duchess of MARI
borough, was the shEewdest of women.
and hardly any one ever got the better
of her. The fashionable dressmaker
OF the day was Mrs. Buda, and the
duchess sent her some costly material
to be made up into 4 court dress
When the gown came home her grace
noticed that the amount of material
used did not correspond with the
quantityssent, and resolved to punish
the fraud. Mrs. Buda was wearing
beautiful diamond ring which the
duchess pretended to greatly admire
and she asked the flattered dress.
maker to lend it her in order that Che
might have a similar ring made. In
few days Mrs. Buda received q ,et-
ter from the duchess saying that she
held the ring as pledge for the wards
OF brocade that had been taken from
the piece sent for her gown. Needless
to say, the brocade was speedily re-
turned and the ring was placed ON
MIS-. Buda's finger, the sarcastic dpcb.
ess improving the occasion with cans.
tics remarks on the offense.