The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-22
CITY NEWS.


First chapters of THE Redfelds'
In tomorrow evenings paper.
s2.95 buys pair of those toppy
nigh cut $500 bootes at Bode-La
annual s. e sale.
An eight pound boy was born tc
Nlr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kayser yester,
day, at $50 Ridge street.
This evening in the armory at
Fort Madison. the Keokuk high school
basket bali team will play Fort .,adi-
son high.
Ladies genuine pat. colt welt
sewed blucher shoes guaranteed reg
ular $500 shoes at s195 at Bode-Lar-
sons sale.
Tomorrow evening the first chap
tiers Of The Redfelds" will appear in
/ this paper. The story will rui. for a
/ few weeks. Be sure and read 1t.
The slight rain on the river this
morning caused mist to rise over the
river and for miles down stream the
heavy steam could be seen rising
from the ice.
IL,
who is to speak to men Sunday at the
Y. M. c. A. On Seven Young Men,
will be preceded by musical program
by the Hamiltoc quartette.
The levee is in frightful conii-
ton to walk about as the mud IN
some places is over ones shoe tops.
A force of men have been busy since
the thaw cleaning off the crossings
along Main street.
Within eight weeks the steam
boats will be running sgain Keokuk
will have fine line of local packets
this year and all boats are now under
going extensive repairs and will be in
shape to run with the going out of he
ice in the spring.
e j. Hall of Hamilton. who did a
real estate business In Keokuk, died
yesterday morning. a ed about 70
years. Some days ago he accidentally
fell and injured himself but death
was due to stroke of apoplexy. He
was well known in Keokuk
Readers of The Gate City will be
given slight diversion for a few
weeks, this paper running in connec-
ton with its other departments a
serial story by Lillian W. Hale, THE
Redfields.' The first chapters will ap-
pear tomorrow evening Be sure and
get the first issue end you will wish
all other issues.
Rev. Waggoner of Hamilton, pas.
tor of the Christian church, will be
the speaker at the mems meeting Sun
day afternoon at the Young Mems
Christian Association. He is force
full speaker and one that should be
heard by Keokuk men at this oppor-
tunity Special music will be rem.
dered by local talent
A relentless man hunt is going on
in northern Missouri for the slayer OF
Marshal H B. Hickey. of Clarence
Rewards aggregating $1,000 now await
the officers who locate the fugitive.
One of the men is in the Macon jail
according to the view of the people at
Clarence though the prisoner insists
he had nothing to do with the shoot.
ing. The man gives the name of John
Gilbert. and he is supposed to be the
red-headed one described IN the re
ward offered Nearly every day del
egation of Clarence people go to Ma
con to see him Gilbert stands up and
faces them with a frank countenance
He says he is native OF Missouri
but declines to state his town. When
arrested he had big revolver. In the
lining of his coat, neatly sewed up
were six 500 bills. Two parties a
Clarence claim to have seen Gilbert
buy a telescope at general store, ant
the party who sold the article sale
the one found at the place OF the
shooting was the one he sold.
A Washington dispatch says: The
house rivers and harbors sub-commit
tee has decided to include survey Of
harbors bill to + recomme- I'D te
the house The survey as proposed BY
Captain Hull include an estimate By
the government engineers of the cos'
of making a sixfoot channel In the riy
er bed or constructing a canal along
it,, banks wherever ecessary for nav
igation to the Mississippi. With sucf
a survey and estimate completed
Captain Hull will be in position II
another session to ask big appropria
ton for the Des Moines river to ale
the chealer transportation of crops
coal and manufacturing products O.
the Des Moines valley. Representa-
tive Birdsall. member of the rivers
and harbors committee, aide great,
in getting the Des Moines river pro
ject included in the subcommittee
recommendation. He also presented
to the committee a letter which Cap
tain Hull received f., Secretary VIII
son of the Greater Des Dimes commit
tee setting forth the commercial i'm
portance of the Des Moines river in
mos. for If I manner.