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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Expecting That His Condition win
Never be Any Better, He Has
Decided to Give up
Preaching.
Trustees Did Not Wish to Have Him
Quit But Finally Agreed to
Let Him Have His
Own Way.

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 21.-The trus-
tees Of the Temple Baptist church ac-
cepted the resignation of Rev. Robert
]. Burdette. the preacher, humorist,
and journalist. When the question OF
his resignation came up, there was
strong opposition to 1t. many OF the
trustees preferring to give their pastor
an unlimited vacation in the hope that
his health would recover sufficiently
to permit him to rturn to the pulpit.
But letter from the pastor put an
end to the discussion. 1t is known
among his friends that DR.. Burdette
will never recover from his prc.ent i'll
ness. He probably will live many
years. but his health is permanently
broken. He is resting at his summer
home at the beach and has to wear a
heavy plaster cast to support his back,
which was injured last winter in a
fall
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
THE BALLOON
RACE AWARDS
The Peoria is the Winner Of tho En-
durance Race Which Started on
Thursday Afternoon.

PEORIA, ILL.,, Aug. 21.-According to
official reports received by President
Eugene Brown of the Peoria Aircraft
club here the balloon Peoria, H. q.
Honeywell, st. Louis, pilot, and
George e. Smith of Peoria, aide, is the
winner of the balloon endurance race
in which three balloons started from
this city late Thursday afternoon.
The Peoria landed seven miles
south of Dixon, Pulaski county, Mo-,
1876 miles southwest of st. Louis
The Missouri, with Albert b. Lam
tsrt as pilot, and B. w. Bemis aide
b,th of ST. Louis, landed at Marrissa
H., about forty miles southeast of St
Louis.
The Illinois, the third starter, land.
ed, making only seven miles The
official figures of the race have not
been given out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Claim is Presented IN Davenport Court
That the New Liquor Law
Will Not Apply to
keokuk.
OF CONSIDERABLE NOTE
Allegations If They Are Proven Would
Make a Great Change in the
Saloons in Several
Cities.

DAVENPORT, Aug. 21.-The point
that the Moon law does not apply to
special charter cities in Iowa was rails
ed In the district court Wien Attorneys
Ficke and Ficke of Davenport filed q
brief on behalf of Ernest Wenzel, a
leading Davenport saloon keeper, who
is being prosecuted by the civic fed
Grafton.
The attorneys call the attention Of
the court to the fact that the Moon
law is not by title or otherwise an
amendment of the so-called Iowa mulct
law but is law by itself, and that
no provision was made by the legis
lature for it's application to Iowa spec
ial charter cities Davenport Dubuque
Glenwood, Keokuk, Muscatine and
Wapello.
If the courts sustain the contest
the Moon law regulating 1owa's sa
looms will not apply in those cities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
MARINA is A
POOR GENERAL
Reported to Have Lost Six Hundred
Men In Battle Besides Lot
BY Mutlny.

LISBON, Aug 21.-It is reported
that six hundred Spaniards were Kill
ed in the campaign started WedneS'
day by Marina against the Riff tribes
men. Unconfirmed messages from
Melilla state that several of Marina s
batallions have mutinied, either join
ing the Moors or fleeing toward
French possessions in Morocco. Mar
ina was defeated in his last campaign
and compelled to retire to the city
and await reinforcements.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Wife Was strangled to Death and
the Store Was Looted During
the Early Evening
Hours.
WAS FOUND AT MIDNIGHT
JeweIer In Colorado Went Home From
the Meeting and Found That
His Wife Had Not
Returned.

TRINIDAD, Colo, Aug. 21.-Strangl.
ed to death with handkerchief. the
body Of Mrs. d. Goldman, the wife of a
ieweler was found in her husbands
store early today and the store looted
by robbers who evidently had commit
ted the crime. One suspect has been
arrested. Goldman went to lodge last
night leaving his wife in charge of the
store and instructing her to c'ose up
carly and return home. Goldman re-
turned home after midnight and his
wife was not there Then he went to
the store and found her dead.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Morgan Buys Road.

ST. PAUL. Aug. 21.-The Chicago,
Great Western was sold for twelve
million today at foreclosure sale to
Fred H. Gardner and George v. Ste
vens, representing Morgan.
Although Morgan is now in control
of the road the reorganization will
not take effect until the first of Sep
tember. An unconfirmed report says
that Chas. Allen Goodnow, formerly
general manager of the Chicago and
Alton, will take similar position with
the Great Western.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
HARRIMAN'S son
MAY Be LOST
Was With Surveying Party in the
District Which is Being Swept
by Raging Forest
Fires.
s iIIion Dollars Worth Of Timber
So Destroyed and Fire Fight.
ers Are Having Poor
Success.

SPOKANE, Aug. 21.-Scores of
campers, woodsmen and surveyors, in
cluding Everel Hartman, son of the
railway magnate are missing and be-
lieved in serious danger of death from
forest fires which have been sweeping
the Couer Dalene Indian reservation
for the past thirty-six hours. Eight
square miles of timber valued at mil
lion are destroyed. Hundreds are
fighting the fire with little success.
Searching parties sent out by the Har-
riman roads were unable to locate the
surveying party of which young Harri-
man is member.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
A Traoedy TODAY,

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 21-The body of a
woman aged tairty-five and baby
girl aged two were found on the
beach at Horse Shoe lake, a fishing re-
sort near East ST. Louis both shot IN
the head and the bodies warm. Soon
aftersard the body of a man was found
in the water. He had been dead for
an hour. The police think he was a
party in the same tragedy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Officers Elected.

DENVER. Aug. 21.-Thc Trans
Mississippi congress today elected: I.
T. Pryor, of Texas, president
A. c. Trombo, of Oregon, vice presi.
dent.
Arthur Francis Of Missouri, secre-
tary..
Resolutions were adopted praising
Secretary Wilson's efforts on behalf OF
the farmer and stockmen They also
urged tne policy of permitting private
capital to develop water power pro-
ject sand urge an annual appropria-
tion of not less than fifty millions for
harkers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
One Town in Kansas Which Is very
Much Worked up Over the
Way Its People Leave
the Place.
/ LEAVES EVERY WEEK
a Preacher Was the First to go, Leav-
ing Wife and Three Chill.
dren Who Are Des.
titute.

WILLIAMSBURG, Kas.. Aug. 90
This town is greatly wrought up be.
cause of the mysterious disappearance
of five of its citizens within the last
five weeks.
The Rev. Wallace NJ. Stuckey, pas.
tor of the Christian church and well
known as an evangelist in Kansas.
Oklahoma, and Texas, was the first to
go. He left wife and three children,
who are destitute.
The four others who disappeared
are: Lorena Sutherland, 1s years old +:
Harry G. Thomas, "a years old; VII.
bur Fogel, % years cid: Maggie
Timmons. 15 years old
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Weather Conditions.

There is a trough of low pressure
from Arizona to North Dakota the dis
tubance from Montana moving slowly
eastward, and central In North Dako-
ia.
Day temperatures have been high In
the Upper Mississippi Valley. and
there have been scattered light show
ers in Western Texas. New Mexico.
Utah and Montana. The pressure is
Increasing in the high area on the
Northern Pacific Coast, and the baro.
meter is high in the eastern portion OF
the country, with the area of highest
pressure in the Lower Lake Region.
Showers in the eastern and south.
eastern states have been followed by
clearing weather.
Conditions indicate fair weather for
this section tonight and Sunday, be-
coming warmer tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Incubator Baby Kidnapped.

TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 2-1.-Two men
and woman today Kidnapped Marion
Roberta Bleakley, the famous 'incubat-
az baby" of tie ST Louis worlds fair
from the home OF her mother here.
The kidnap,rs arncared at the Bleak
10y home in a buggy seized the child
and drove off after an exchange Of
shors. Tlia rohce were noxificd and
posse formed Tor the pursuit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
STRETCHED WIRE
ACROSS STREET
American Consul In Russia Ran Into
a Trap Which Had Been Set
For Others

LONDON, Aug. 2l.-Tne Globes
St Petersburg correspondent wires
that American Consul Regsdale and
wife were slightly injured when their
automobile ran into wire stretched
across the Rue Kaemenstroff. The
correspondent declares the wire was
stretched by terrorists who expected
Premier Stolypin to pass. Several
people We're arrested.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
TIGHTEST LID
EVER PLACED
Alabama Law Is Expected to Make the
State as Dry as Last
Years Joke.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. Ill
The Fuller bill passed the senate. The
measure forbids possession even Of liq.
uor except IL private residences. max.
ing the accused party prove his own
innocence before any evidence against
him is introduced, makes the use OF
the word saloon as :. crime, bars ad-
vertisements of liquor from the bill
boards and signs and holds that posses
sion of feedral liquor license is abso-
lutte proof OF guilt in selling intoxicat-
ing liquors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Louis w. Hill of the Great Northern
Had Touch Of the Simple
Life While on an
Auto Trip.
FOUND BY sEARoHERs
Settler Gave Him a Drink From the
Pump and Allowed Him to
Make Bed in the
Hay Stack.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Aug. 21.-

GREAT FALLS. Mont, Aug. 21.-
Louis w. Hill, president of the Great
Northern spent last night in a hay
stack. He started from Helena for
Great Falls in an automobile and got
stuck in the mud near Ft. Scaw. He
asked a settler for bed and supper
and was told he could sleep in the hay
stack and have to drink from the
pump. A searching party worried
over the failure to arrive, found Hill
with his chauffeur asleep in the hay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
A MYSTERY
over THE Death
Secretary to Mayor Of Buffalo Died
and There Are Several Stories
as to the Cause Of His
Death.
AUTOPSY is PROBABLE
Rumors That Jealous Husband Kill
ed Him, Also That He Com
mitted Suicide and Sew
eraI Others.

BUFFALO, Aug. 21.-The death OF
Victor Speer, secretary to Mayor Ad.
ans and prominent citizen, is being
investigated and there will probably
be an autopsy. There are rumors that
he was killed in fight with Jealous
husband, that he suicided, that he was
accidentally poisoned and that he
died a natural death. Each story is
different.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Morqan BUYS Road.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills. Aug. 21.-J.
Pierpont Morgan paid the secretary
OF the state his check for $96,047, for
the articles of incorporation for the
Chicago Great Western Railroad,
which he will buy at receivers sales
The capital stock Of the reorganized
company is ninty-six millions. The
incorporators and board of directors
arc members of the Morgan law firm
Of Chicago an dummies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Big Expansion Along All Lines and
the Volume Of Business is
Reaching Maximum Pro-
i.e4i portions.
THE BANK cLEAR1NGs
oun's Review For the Week Shows
That Railroads and Bushes.
Of Country Are Show
Ing Prosperity.

NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-Dun's Re-
view says:
reports from the principal cities
unite in confirming the revival OF
trade. The prospect is that the VOL
ume of business will before long reach
such proportions that the maximum
capacity will be reached and labor
Will be at premium. In the iron
and steel trade this seems to be al
ready in sight. and that the wonder
ful expansion is no mere mushroom
growth is evidenced by advance or
ders for 1910.
The railroads are enjoying such In
crease in earnings, and such assur-
ances of good crops, that they are
buying freely OF steel rails and other
supplies. In the dry goods markets,
the jobbing houses report much better
business than Q year. ago, and in
some instances the figures are rum
ming ahead of the volume Of trade In
the corresponding period of 1908.
Orders for iron and steel are In
creasing SO rapidly that the mills and
! furnaces experience difficulty in MAX
ing deliveries, and in somo instances
premiums are being paid for prompt
shipment.
The less favorable crop and weath-
er news caused an advance in the
prices of the leading farm staples.
Bradotreet's.
\ Bradstreet's says:
i Bank failures for the week were
1888, as against 23G in the like week
in 1908.
/, Wheat, including -four. exports, q
379,61S bushels, as against 3,907,779
this week last year.
Corn exports, 1GS,3S5 bushels, az
against 34.376 in 1908.
Bank cicarings.
The total bank clearings, compiled
by Bradstreet's, for the principal ci-
ties of the United States, the past
week were $3,255. 5,000, as against
$2,334, ,37s,00O in the corresponding
week last .ear.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
The Pope Has a Litter Of Six Baby
Cubs In His Garden Which
He Intends to Give to
Rulers.
FROM KING MENEL1K
The King Gave the Pope Lioness
Who Has Just Had Six Bounc-
ing Babies In the vati-
can Yard.

ROME. Aug. 21.-Tsft,. the Kaiser
and Emperor Franz-Josef will each
receive pair Of Ion cubs from Pope
Plus, from new litter of six lions
in the vatican garden, rnothered by a
ioness sent to the Pope by King
Menelik. The Pope decided to pre-
sent them tn the three rulers men,
toned. The American shipment will
be made at an carly date.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
FOREST FIRES
ARE ALARMING
canadion Woods Are Blazing and the
People Are Having Some Mar
row Escapes to Save
Skins.
ONE TOWN DESTROYED
Roseberry Was Wiped Out and the In.
habltants Narrowly Escaped
When the Town Burn
ed up.
ONE TOWN DESTROYED

WINNIPEG, Aug. 21.-Sweeping
the shore of Lake slocum, forest
fires are devastating the country sur
rounding Land Forks, B. c. The town
of Roseberry was destroyed yesterday
and the Inhabitants narrowly escaped.
The fire is now sweeping through the
valley towards Hutton and the pao,
pie are fleeing from the forest ranges
and recruiting fire fighters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
STREET CAR
STRIKE QUESTION
President Mahon is on the Ground to
Take Charge Of the Present
Controversy.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Tnternational
PRESIDENT Mahon arrived today to
lake charge of the street carmens
controversy over the wage scale. He
immediately conferred with officials
OF the local unions. Officials declare
tnat 1t will be definitely settled wheth-
er there will be peace or war within
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
ARE LAYING
FOR The CAR
Assassins Have Gone to italy to
Watch For a Chance Of Blow
Ing up the Russian
Ruler.
MAY ABANDON TRIP
Secret Police VIII Try and Capture the
Plotters Before They Have
Chance to
Strike.

MOSCOW, Aug. 21.--1t is learned
that assasins have gone to Italy in
anticipation of the Cars contemplate
ed visit. The secret police expect sew
eral arrests and unless the plotters
are captured tae trip will be abandon
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
kidnanpinu Feared.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-The police are
hunting for Clifford Lamaster aged
seven and his brother Clarence aged
nine, wno disappeared yesterday
after being seen with strange man.
Kidnapping is feared.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Motor Boat Man Drowned.

PEORIA, Ill. Aug. 21.-George Hoff-
man, aged 30 of Chicago, was drowned
at the Henry. ILL.,, dam. He was en-
gineer of the motor boat Wonder Of
Chicago which had contended in the
Peoria races and was on his way
back to Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
WOMEN AND
HAND GRENADES
Two New Methods Of Warfare Have
Been Adopted In the Spanish
Moor Fight.

MADRID, Aug. 81. Moorish women
are aiding the tribesmen to fight the
Spaniards at Melilla. according to
today's dispatches. 1t is learned to-
day that hand grenade company
had been organized by the Spaniards.
Men with slings have done great dam.
age by hurling grenades among the
Mocrs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-21
Bank clearinas,
THE WEATHER.
indications For Iowa, Illinois and Mls-
souri,, Wired From chic-go.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: Fair to-
night and Sunday. Warmer tonight.
For Illinois: Generally fair tonight
and Sunday Warmer.
For Iowa: Fair and warmer to.
night. Sunday partly cloudy with war
mer east portion.
For Missouri: Fair tonight and Sun
day. Warmer tonight and west por-
ton Sunday.
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Daily River Bulletin.
Local observations.

Local Observations.
August. Bar r.Ther Wind, Weather
20 4 p. m. 81. 1000 SO N Clear
81 d a. m 1925 81 E Clear
River above low water Of 1854 4
feet 8 tenths.
Mean temperature ~, maximum
Temperature 81. Minimum temperr
Sture S.
River Forecast.
This river will fall slowly.
FRED q. GOSEWlSCH.
Observer.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-31
NEWS AND NOTES.

A Toxic newspaper recently offered
J prizes for the six best poems, the sub
! 1ects to be chosen by the authors
There were six hundred competitors
but the six which received the prizes
were Christian poems, and many of the
others offered were full of Christian
sentiment. This is a sidlight upon the
way in which Christian teaching has
permeated the empire.
The famous Labrador missionary.
DR.. Wflfred F. Grenfell, has not only
the leading American universities, but
he has also become engaged to Miss
Anna MacLanahan of Lake Forest, III.
The temperance societies of men in
the Catholic churches are arranging
for a great celebration on Father Mat
thew's birthday, on or about Octo-
Der 10.
The Sunday baseball question has
been Interestingly met by the church
men of Schuylkill county, Pa, who
have organized Brotherhood and Sun
day school teams among the young
miners. One of the qualifications is
that in order to be eligible to play on
the team each player must attend a
Sunday school or a Brotherhood meet
ing two Sundays each month. and
must not play ball with anybody on
Sunday In Mahonoy City there are
nine such teams in the league.
The chapel car st. Anthony, belong
ing to the Paulist Fathers, is now
touring and conducting missions
throughout the northwest with Rev
DR.. A. P. Doyle of the Apostolic Mis-
sion House, Washington, and the Rev
Alva Doran in charge.
Two of the numerous Lutheran
bodies in the United States have
agreed to consolidate-the synod of
Missouri and the German Lutheran
synod, which covers both Canada and
the United States. The rule of the
German synod against the use of the
English language has been rescinded.
There are something more than six
hundred thousand church members
involved in the union.
A Philadelphia Methodist preacher,
who was not welcomed to the church
to which the bishop had appointed
him, had to face a "waIkout' on the
part of the choir and a number of the
officials. To overcome the lack of
large photograph, and sacred hymns
are rendered by grand opera singers.
retreat" for Catholic laymen has
been inaugurated at Fordham college,
New York, by the fathers in charge.
The vatican has eSta bliShed an in
stitute for biblical studies at Rome,
which is intended primarily AS a post
graduate school for divinity students
from all parts Of the world. Examina-
lions will be held before the biblical
commission, which is composed of the
leading Catholic scholars in Rome.
Centenaries are unusually common
this year, but in England a millenary
has been celebrated. Wells cathedral
was a thousand years old this year.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, the
archbishop of Canterbury and other
notabIes assisted in the occasion.
A Brotherhood conference was held
at Sycamore Beach, Mass, July 1918.
Lin~oln Steffens. Warren H. Wilson,
William r. Woodbury. and Harry w
Arnold were among the speakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-31

temptations we have, and sometimes
they stumbled just as we do" For
this peerless history depicts, with rare
fidelity the infant church against a
sombre background OF ertvironing
heathendom.
The Book of Acts is incomplete. 1t
is a "continued-in-our-n next story.
The author purports only to tell OF
beginnings and continuingS, but not
of endings. All the significant aspects
of early Christian history which Luke
touches, he leaves unfinished. The
end is not yet. The Book of Acts is
still in the writing. We know soma
of the later chapterS--the persecution
of the early church, the dispersion
over the known world, the great gOs-
pei triumphs, the gradual corruption
of ecclesiasticism, the reformation,
and the new missionary era. Does ii
not all, like q thrilling story, mako
one eager to learn the end? That end
we can only reach when we come to
know fully" In the meantime, We
are permitted to help make the his
tory which this unfinished volume is
yet to record.
The world is keen to hear man
talk who has been a part of his own
story. That is why adventures and
explorers are such popular lectur-
ers. Now Luke figured in the ever is
into the we of participant. Like
Caesar, he could say, "Of which
things 1 also was q part" This book
is journalistic in that it is so largely
the story of an eyewitness.
Life is best learned by living with
the best people. Whose keeps corn
pany with the characters in the Book
of Acts is not likely to descend to ig-
noble and cowardly conduct.
The art of letter-writing is disap-
pearing from our times. Even close
friends are sending dictated, type
written letters to one another. These
are mere bulletins of news. The full,
heart-reYealing, historic-recording
chronicles of older days have passed
with the leisure of our grandfathers.
We do not often nowadays entitle BIZ
ographieS Life and Letters for the
modern man is not writing letters.
Yet this great Book of Acts v as real
ly designed only as a letter to a
friend. 1t belongs to the epistoIary
writings which form the bulk of the
New Testament. DR.. Luke had All
eager, inquiring friend. For the lat
ter's information he set down, leIs-
urely and I'm order the history of
Christ's risen work up to date. Little
did Luke know that the same Spirit
whose mysterious moVings he record
ed was guiding his pen to the nara
ton of a document which saould be
for the instruction and inspiration Of
the church through all ages. But
then, we never do know which of our
acts God is going to use most greatly
for his glory