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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
TEXAS LANDS FOR SALE.

CENTRAL WESTERN TEXAS
LANDS-Dan O'Connell will be at
Mike Burk's confectionery, 5O4 Main
street for two weeks. Will sell forty
acres fine Texas land and one town
lot in Sweetwater, Texas, for $40 cash
and $40 the first of each month, for thir.
teen months; $40. Eighty acres and
two lots, $40 cash and $40 per month
for thirteen months; $3.50. l20 acres
and three lots, $50 cash and $50 per
month for thirteen months; s420, 100
acres, full quarter section and four
lots, $40 cash and $40 per month for
thirteen months without Interest," $500
You have 90 counties to select from.
Sweetwater now has a population of
5000 people, with two trunk lines of
railways, and tle Santa Fe now build
ing. In five years Sweetwater will
have a population of $4,000 people.
1t is division point on the K. c.. M.
& o. This is positively the best prop
osition ever presented to an investing
or saving public For the young man,
business man Or laborer with an earn
ing and saving capacity this prop
erty should appeal. Agents wanted.
Dan O'Connell, general agent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
CITY NEWS.

Ralph Winger leaves for Havana
Cuba, where he will remain for quite
an extended stay.
Mrs. Fred Eillyer will be brought
home tomorrow from Graham hospi-
tai where she underwent an opera
ton. She is improving rapidly.
Many valentines were handled by
the local postal clerks and carriers to-
day and the postoffice force was kept
busy handling the greetings of Dan
Cupid.
Word has been received by friends
Of the death of Mrs. ]. G. Maple. wife
of Rev. j. c. Maple, former pastor of
the Baptist church in this city. She
was well known in keokuk.
The Lincoln stamps on sale at the
Keokuk postoffice today were pur-
chased very readily by Keokuk people.
Twenty-Five to one person was the
limit and many went the limit in their
purchase.
-Tinseled cards continue to arrive
at the postoffice in envelopes that are
unsealed and in some cases not even
in an envelope. Some fifty cards will
have to be sent to the dead letter of.
fee Monday morning on account of
these faults in mailing tinseled and
other cards bearing similar substances,
such as were cited in the newspapers
some time ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
AN ITCHING PALM
NO Cure for 1t. other Forms of Itch
ing Preferable.

There is no cure for an itching
palm-the money kind. Even poslam,
the new skin discovery. cannot help IL.
But when it comes to eczema, the
most annoying of itching skin trou.
bles, polsam will stop the itching at
once and cure the worst cases in a
few days. So with hives, rash, scabies,
split toes, piles, and scaly scalp, all of
which are different forms of eczema,
accompanied by severe itching and
caused by imperfect digestion ana
careless diet
Polsam comes in two-dollar Jars, but
fifty cents worth will answer in curing
any of the diseases mentioned. 1t can
be had of any druggist. Wilkinson &
Co. make a specially of 1T.
That results are immediate will he
amply demonstrated over night by the
use of the experimental sample which
the Emergency Laboratories. SO West
Twenty-Fifth Street. New York City.
will send free by mail, in plain wrap
per, to any one who will write for it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Grand Opera House viii be Filled to
Capacity by People Who Wish
to Hear the Public
Celebration.
Public Celebration of the One Hun
dredth Anniversary of the Birth
of President Abraham
Lincoln.

This evening at the Grand opera
house will be held the public exer-
cises in observance of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth OF
Lincoln
The exercises are public and are
Tree. everyone being invited to at.
tend. They will start at S o'clock.
The programs of the evening is pub
lished elsewhere in this issue.
feature of the evening will be the
martial music by the fife and drum
corps.
At 1880 o'clock this evening there
will be a parade on Main street when
the martial band will leave Tenth and
Main streets with the members of Bel
KNAPP post and will march down Main
street to Eighth street, where the mem
bers of Terrence post and Lincoln
voters will join in the procession and
the company will then march down
to the opera house.
Shortly after this, the Lincoln club
members will come marching dowr
Main street headed by the colore6
brass band so that Main street this
evening should be rather lively
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
POULTRY men
Held Meeting
IN the Superior Court Rooms Last
Evening and officers Were
Elected For Coming
Year.
MEMBERS ENTHUSIASTIC
Dates of the Poultry Show This Year
viii be Nov. 22-27 Inclusive
Judge Russell of ottumwa
to be Judge.

Last evening at 1870 in the Super.
Tor court rooms, meeting of the Tri.
State Poultry and Pet Stock associa-
ton was held at which time business
Of interest to all belonging to the as.
ISOLATION was held and officers for the
present year were elected, president,
vice president and secretary being
elected to succeed themselves in Office
fer another term.
II was after II o'clock when the
meeting adjourned and all business of
Importance had been discussed bv the
members. Next years poultry show
which it was decided to hold ltovem.
Der % to q inclusive. was discussed
at length and it is the intention of the
association to make the show this
year larger and better than ever and
enthusiasm for notable show ran
high among those who belong to the
association.
During the evening the members
decided by ballot to secure the serv-
Ice of Judge Russell of Ottumwa as
fudge for the show to be held next
November. providing the present dates
for the show were not changed 1t
was decided to amend the constitu-
ton so that five directors in place of
three should officiate as members of
that board. The membership fee was
Increased to 81 instead of so cents per
year.
Following are those who were elect.
ed officers for the coming year at last
evenings meeting:
President. M. Skinner. reelected.
Vice-President-F. B. Schlotter re.
elected.
Secretary Charles C. Lawson, re.
elected.
Treasurer-P Ayers.
superintendent-Fred Schlotter, re.
elected
The board of directors will be the
following: DR.. o. w. Rowe, T. I.
Robinson, G. H. Henneman, w. j,
Davies, F. II. Stripe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The "pure food law" is assigned by
the government. to protect tho public
from Injurious ingredients in foods
and drugs. 1t is beneficial both to
the public and to the conscientious
manufacturer. Ely's Cream Balm, a
successful remedy for cold in the
head and nasal catarrh, meets fully
the requirements of the new law, and
that fact is stated on eve-:y package.
1t contains none of the injurious
drugs required by the law to be men
toned on the label. Price SO cents.
If you preefr to use an atomizer.
as, for Liquid Cream Balm. 1t has
all the good qualities of the solid
form of this remedy and will rid you
of catarrh o. hay fever. No cocaine
to breed dreadful habit. No mer-
curry to dry out the secretion. Price
75c., with spraying tube. All drug
gists, or mailed by Ely Bros, Sc War
rem street, New York.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
DEATH news
RECEIVED TODAY
Mrs. stannus, Wife Of the Late John
stannus, sr, Passed Away
at Home in Deadwood,
South Dakota.
FORMERLY OF KEoKUK
Had Made This City Her Home For
Many Years and Will be Well
Remembered by Old
Time Residents.

Probably none of the old time res
idents of Keokuk who have not made
this city their home for a number of
years will be remembered as we'll as
Mrs. Stannus, wife of the late John
Stannus, ST., '. ord of whose death
was received in Keokuk this morning.
AT the age of eighty years Mrs.
Stannus passed away at Deadwood,
South Dakota, in which city she had
made her home for number of years.
The letter containing the news was
received today by l. S. Ackley from
Frank b. Stannus of Quincy, son of
Mrs. Stannus
Mrs. Stannus was former resident
of Keokuk and the family was quite
prominent. Mr.. Stannus died in 1897
in Deadwood, some time after leaving
Keokuk The body was brought to
this city and placed to rest in Oak.
land cemetery and now the body OF
Mrs. Stannus will be brought here to
be placed by its side.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
ANOTHER STORM COMING.
Weather Bureau Forecasts Snow and
Cold Wave.

WASHINGTON, d. G., Feb. 1.-THE
storm that now occupies the middle
Pacific coast. will move eastward, &C
cording to the weather bureau over
the plateau and Rocky Mountain re-
slon tomorrow, cross the plains states,
central valleys and lake region Sat
urday and Sunday, and reach the At
lantic coast Monday. It will be attend
ed throughout its course by snow, and
IN the middle and northern districts
OF the country will be followed by
what promises to be widespread cold
wave.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
LOWERING ATTACKS
HIS COLLEAGUE
Scores Rainey for His Utterances
About the Panama Canal but
Is Stopped

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Represen-
tative Lowering of Massachusetts, in
speech this afternoon charged Rep
resentative Rainey of Illinois with OBJ
tanning information upon which he
based his recent criticism of the Pan
anna canal deal from ex-convicts. He
became so personal in his attacks on
Rainey the house refused to allow him
to proceed in the absence of Rainey
from the chamber.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
RUSSIAN COMMITS
BRUTAL MURDER
Kills Ten Year Old Girl Because
Her Mother Refused to Elope
With Him.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. -
because her mother refused to elope
with him, Dmitri Dreschenko, Rus
sian, today shot and killed Dorothy
Mankanoff. 10 yes old, and then
fred bullet through his head and is
dying now. Many people witnessed
the tragedy seeing the Russian leap
from ambush and fire upon the girl as
she left home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air
passages, stops the irritation in the
.roat, soothes the inflammed mem.
branes, and the most obstinate cough
disappears. Sore and inflammed lungs
arc healed and strengthened, and the
cold is expelled from the system. Re
fuse any but tn = genuine in le yellow
package. Wilkinson & Co. and ]. r.
Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
ForecIosed on a Railroad.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE Girard
Trust company of Philadelphia yester-
day filed in the United States District
court a bill to foreclose on the Chi
cago Southern railway in default of
interest on $5,500,GO0 bonds issued in
1906. The assets of the road which
is in the hands of receiver, are said
to be s7,000,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

child urinatestoo often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet-
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diff
Guilty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to
habit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made ruiser-
able with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp Root is soon realized. 1t ssold
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that
may develop into pneumonia over
night are quickl.- cured by Foley's
Honey and Tar, and it oothes in
famed membranes, heals the lungs.
and expels the cold from the system.
Wilkinson & Co. and j. F. Kiedaisch &
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Reason En.hroned

Because meats are so tasty they are
consumed in great excess. This leads
70 stomach troubles, biliousness and
constipation. Revise your diet, let
reason and net pampered appetite
control, then take few doses Of
,oaamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
,ets and you will soon be well again.
Try II. For sale at Wilkinson & Co.'S
lsharmacy and ]. r. Kiedais III e Sons
afug store. Samples free.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Foley's Cr:no Laxative cures eonsti'
nation and live. trouble and lakes the
bowels hea ny and regular. Oriro is
superior to pills and tablets as 1t does
not grippe or nauseate. Why take any,
thing else9 Wilkinson & Co. and j. f.
Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
WANT COLUMN
WANTED.

WANTED-50v men to Iesrn barber
trade and take positions waiting
our graduates. Few weeks completes
Constant. practice furnished, scholar
ship include tools, Instructions,
demonstrations, examinations and d.
plomas. Write for catalogue. Moler
Barber College, ST. Louis. No. tt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
IOWA LEGISLATURE
HONORS LINCOLN
Col. Lafayette Young, Editor of the
Capital, Delivers an Address
to Large Audience.
[Gate city Special Eervice. ]

q
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Feb H.
There was no session in either house
this morning but this. afternoon a
joint session in memory of the one
hundredth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln. Col. Late Young. editor of
the Des Moines Capital, delivered the
address. There was large attend
ance
Both houses adjourned till Monday
afternoon when they meet in joint
session at the unveiling of a portrait
of Gen j. B. Weaver. The principal
address will be delivered by w, j.
BfNan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
For That Terrible ltchino.

Eczema, letter and salt rheum keep
their victims IN perpetual torment.
The application of Chamberlain S
Salve will instantly allay this itching,
and many cases have been cured by its
use. For sale by wilkinson & Co. S
pharmacy and j. F. Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
The Crime Of IdIeness,

Idleness means trouble for any one
It's the same with lazy liver. 1t
causes constipation, headache, jaun-
dice. sallow complexion, pimples and
blotches, los of appetite, nausea. but
D. Kings New Life Pills soon Danish
liver troubles and build up your health
Csc at Wilkinson & Co. and j. F. Kie-
daisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

swamp-Root
including many of the thousands of testi-
monial letters received from sufferers
who found Swamp-Root to be Just the
remedy needed. In writing DIR. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. ", be sure and
mention this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address,
Binghamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
TWO ENTOMBED
MINERS DEAD
'nree Others Rescued, Fire Being
sxtinguished After Ten
Thousand Damage.

WlLkESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 12.-Two
nseh entombed in the Red Ash vein
VI Tie Black Diamond colliery at Luz
~ 1uine We're found dead this morning.
~ rhree others entombed were rescued.
a ne ife was extinguished today after
a nv ten thousand dollars damage.
~, me IRE started in shanty in the
,..o OF the mine, the origin I'M
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Lonuworths at Grand Rapids.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. 70
Mrs. Longworth was the principal fig
ure at the laying of the corner stone
of the federal building here this after.
noon. Tonight she will attend Lin
coin banquet at which Congressman
Longworth speaks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Hardware Dealers, Convention.

LAPORTE. Ind, Feb 12.-M l..
Corey, of Argos, Indiana, secretary of
the National Retail Hardware Asso-
citation, today issued an official call
for a convention to be held at Mil
waukee. May 2oth-2Sth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Men at the First Locks are Building a
Launch Which Will be Flyer
When it is Completed and
in the Water.
TO COMPLETE DREDGE WILL BE NO CHARGE
Launch Now Under Construction Will
be Placed on Hennepin Canal
When She is Through
With the Builders.

AT the first lock, workmen have
started the construction of fast mo.
Tor boat. The boat when completed
Will be placed in government service
on the Hennepin canal and will be
one of the fastest government
launches in these parts and on the
Hennepin canal when completed.
Construction on the hull was start
ied this morning and the skeleton is
now under way. Major Meigs stated
TINS morning that the craft would be
sent immediately to the Hennepin
Plans for its construction were made
at the lower lock office and it was de-
clded to build the boat there on ac.
count of so much other boat construc.
ton work being under way at the sec
ond locks.
The boat will be % feet long, 4 feet
inches deep. feet inches wide and
VIII draw "a inches of water. A 10 to
Ii horsepower engine will be used in
the boat of the Fox motor type. The
boat will be capable of making from
twelve to fifteen miles an hour and
when completed will be fine one. A
name for the new craft has not vet
been decided upon but will be as soon
as it is competed. Employees at the
lower lock choose to call her THE
Flyer" which will be a good name for
her, as the boat will be fast one.
New Dredse.
4 The large new suction dredge at
/ the lower locks will be complete and
ready for service by the first OF
April if the work goes along as
smoothly as it has up to the present
time. The construction of the dredge
boat itself is complete and all heavy
machinery has been installed. but
there is much connecting UP to do and
minor parts to be looked after, and il
will be more than month yet before
the boat commences work.
At the Second Locks.
! Active work is going on at the sec
ond locks and much boat building is
going on in the shops at that place
The lock gates have been repaired
and everything is in first-class condi
/ ton. An Office boat, quarter boat
and eight power launches have been
built and several are now under con
struction
( The two guard locks are not so busy
/ as the middle lock, but with the open
ing of the boat season in a little over
a month there will be much doing on
the Des Moines rapids canal and the
boat season will be a busy enc in
these parts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Women as Well as Men arc Made Miserable
BY kidney and Bladder Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
dlscourages and lessons ambition: beauty

v1gor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncom-
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidueve 1f+La
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Pneumonia Follows La Grippe.

but never follows the use of Foleys
Honey and Tar. for la grippe coughs
and deep seated colds. Refuse any
but the genuine in the yellow package.
Wilkinson & Co. and j. F. Kiedaisch &
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The exercises at the opera house
this evening will be entirely free and
the public is invited to attend. No
charge whatever is to be made for the
celebration is a public one.
A. j. Matthias is i'll at his home,
60 Franklin street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Surviving Relatives.

Full particulars of the death of Mrs
Stannus have not been received here
and it is not yet known at what time
the body will arrive.
Mrs. Stannus is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Milton Breen and Mrs
Albert Clemens of Spearfish City
South Dakota, and four sons, John A
Fl. of Deadwood, William j., and AL
bert L., of Spearfish City, South Da.
kota and Frank e. Stannus of Quincy
also ten grandchildren.
Frank Stannus now living in Quincy
was resident of this city until a
few years ago.
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pardoned a Life Prisoner.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 12.-Gov.
Harmon celebrated the birthday of
Lincoln pardoning John Rose, fifty
years old, a negro serving a life SEN
tence for murder. Rose has served
since 1897.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Morse Refused Bail.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12-The United
States Circuit court today handed
down a decision denying the motion
of Martin W. I4ittleton, counsel for
Charles w. Morse, for the release of
Morse on bail.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
The Anti.Jap Bill.

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb. 12.-Sen-
ator Anthony's bill submitting the
question of Asiatic immigration to a
vote of the people was defeated Thurs
day, % to IL.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
sterIina Divorce Case.

EDINBURGH, Feb. 12.-Speeches OF
the opposing counsel today marked
the final struggle in the counter di,
vorce suit Of the Sterlings, Solicitor
General IRE rehearsed Mrs. Sterling S
case.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

BY druggists, in fifty
cent and one-dollar
size bottles. You may
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a
pamphlet telling all
about Swafnn-Rnot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
The Inward Effects OF humors ar

The inward EFFECTS OF HuWUrS are
worse than the outward. They endan.
ger the whole system. Hoods Sar.
saparilla eradiactes all humors, cures
all their inward and outward effects.
It is the great Alternative and tonic,
whose merit has been everywhere es.
tablished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Sherman at Pittsbura.

,si p,l.IIlsBURG, Feb. 11.-vice Pres
S ia1at sherman arrived here today. A
a es met him at the train head
su ny Mayor Guthree. At three o'clock
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

statesmen WANTED-To sell the
best generator invented. ROTARY
ACETYLENE CO., Quincy, III. 12-7t
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

the party will be the guests of Chan
cellor Samuel B. Mccormick of the
University of Pittsburg. Sherman will
be the principal speaker at the Cham
Der of Commerce banquet tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Dwelling with gas. bath
and barn. Also farm near Keokuk
Inquire 727 Morgan street tt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Hartman Leaves for the West.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12-E. H. Harri-
man left today for an extensive trip
to the west and southwest
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Miss Gertrude Weber will be host
ess to number of her little friends
at a Valentine party to be given at her
home on Saturday afternoon. Recep-
ton will be at $780,