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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-28
PERSONALS.

Letter Carrier W. w. Fields and
wife have returned home. after a
weeks visit in Quincy, III
Simon Minardi has returned to
Abba after pleasant visit in this
city with his sister. Miss Florence.
G. NJ. Mcmillan and Charles Lawson
left Saturday evening for ST. Paul
from which place they will take the
Canadian Pacific west They will
visit the exposition and return via
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-28
NOTICE.
Secretary

In accordance to the .oclamati3 IN
heretofore issued by the mayor, that
a special election would be held on
the first day of July, 1909, at the
usual places OF election in all the
wards of the city Of Keokuk, Iowa,
this is to notify all Of the electors of
the first ward that the voting place in
said ward is changed from No. 1913
Main street to No. IL North Fourth
street. All the rest Of the wards viii!
hold their polling places as stated in
the proclamation.
CHARLES OFF, Mayor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-28
DOGS.

Notice is hereby given to all owners
of dogs in the City Of Keokuk. Iowa,
that after the date Of this notice that
they must pay license on their dogs
as the ordinance concerning same
will be enforced.
HENRY KESSELRING.
Marshal of the City of Keokuk.
June 9Th. 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-28
CITY NEWS

ALI OF the various boats running
through here report good passenger
business. This is about the season Of
the year when there is more breeze
on the river than anywhere else, and
many people take advantage of this.
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Death Yesterday Morning Of John 6.
Waterman, Was the Passing Of
One Of keokuk's Old
est Residents.
WAS "A PROMINENT MAN
In Business, Church, Lodge and Social
Circles, He Was at One Time,
One Of the Foremost
Men Of the City.

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p'onoel - anuAacturers OF heoKuk ana
E man wen known Dy the older citi-
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lng az MS nome, NO. 2lO North
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az was taken SICK some tlme ago and
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20 engage IN any work. Early yes
'e,uay morning ne passed away.
ears ago ne conducted 9 wagon
naAlns factory IN heoKuk and mad
,alse ano prosperous business. me
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-28
Lincoln Club Meeting.

There will be special meeting of
the Lincoln club Tuesday evening at
the hall, corner Of Thirteenth and
Main streets to discuss the commits
sion plan OF government. All club
members are requested to attend, also
all citizens especially colored men.
GEORGE MOTT,
President.
CHAs. JOHNSON,
Secretary.
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a colorcd Citizen.

Read the want column.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
WILL PARCEL OUT S8,OOO,OOO
HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEES BE.
GINS SESSIONS AT COLUMBUS.
Each Of the States Institutions De-
mands Liberal Appropriation
of Money.

Columbus, O.-Many members Of
the house finance committee reached
here on Monday night from their
visits to the various state institutions.
The committee will go to work to-day
on the appropriations bill, which will
parcel out something like sS,000,000 Of
the states money.
Difficulties always beset the finance
committee in the preparation of its ap-
preparation bills. State institutions
have an insatiate hunger for money.
Many of the buildings are old and
sadly in need of repair. Then some
of the new buildings are not COM
pleted. For instance, at the hospital
for the insane at Athens it was dis
covered, after a new building was
erected, that the water from the reser-
voir would not run to the second floor
This will have to be remedied, either
by the introduction of force pump
or the overhauling of the water sys-
tenn of the institution. Some institu-
tions that have been hauling coal for
20 years say they need switching
facilities so the coal can be delivered
In car lots to the front door of the
furnaces.
The board of trustees of the Lima
state hospital for the criminal and
violent insane, now under construc-
ton, met with Gov. Harmon Monday.
The board asks for $25O,000 to COM
plete three cottages, to lay founda-
tions for three more and complete
them to the second story, and to be-
gin work on the administration build
ing, dining room and other buildings.
1t is hoped to have the work COM
pleted by 1911, with accommodations
for 600 persons.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
WATCHMAN Is MURDERED.
Employe of Firm at Columbus, O., Is
Beaten and Robbed.

Columbus, O.-James Wolf, aged
55, night watchman sat the plant
of the Capital Lock Nut & Washer Co.,
died at Mercy hospital Sunday, six
hours after he had been found uncon-
scious in the company's office near the
southern corporate limits of Colum-
bus, He had been beaten with blunt
instrument until the skull was
fractured in several places, and robbed
of $25, together with watch and re-
volver.
Bloodhounds brought from Circle
vile, after being confined in the office
took a scent and proceeded short
distance to the house of farmer, Ben
jamin Powers. There the police ar
rested boarder, Jesse Hazlett, aged
20, an employe of the washer company,
who admitted he had been at the plant
at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. He
said he then came into the city and
went to his home and later returned to
the factory. Fellow employees say he
appeared at the plant before o'clock
Sunday morning, although he was not
due until o'clock
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
An Abandoned Villain.

An actor in small company was
unable one night to get accommoda.
tion at the only hotel, 1t is said, be.
cause it's proprietor, remarkably
slow-going person for such country,
recognized him as the villain in the
melodrama who had stolen cash
box, set fire to a house. killed de.
tective, damaged race horse and be.
trayed the hero's sister.
But something like this really did
happen to George Scott, manager OF
the Alhambra, in London. In his
younger days Mr.. Scott was a stage
villain of the deepest dye, and one OF
his favorite parts was that OF the
wicked Levison in East Lynne"
After playing the character a few
nights in Blackpool, he had occasion
for wishing to change his lodgings
and, knocking at the door of house
in the next street, was greeted by the
good lady who opened 1t with a shriel
and the subsequent exclamation:
What! It's Levison, the dirty vii
lain. Ye can't ave rooms in my
'ouse! Get out, or I'll call the per
lice!"-Magazine About People.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
PERSONAL.

When John Mitchell former presi-
dent of tne United Mine Workers Of
America, appeared before the annual
convention of that organization in In
dianapolis, the 1900 delegates cheered
till they were hoarse, and many OF
them were affected TO tears.
John G. Robinson, millionaire oil
operator of Smithfield. w. Va, was ar
rested on charge of forging his
wife's name to a bail bond.
]. Pierpont Morgan bought the
sword Washington wore when he re-
signed as commander-in.chief of the
army.
Rear Admiral Sperry arrived at
Villefranche and was received with
salutes and entertained by officials.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD
IN CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT WORLD
Information Gathered from All Quar-.
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of
the Busy Man.
ln. Hdltor and PubIIsher.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

BY the decisive vote of 1O3 to AZ
the house refused to increase the pen
sion of Julia b. Coghlan, widow of the
late Rear Admiral Coghlan, U. S. NJ,
from $50 q month, as recommended
by the committee on pensions to $lOO'
The house passed the naval appro'
priation bill, adopting the program
for the fiscal year 1910 just as 1t was
reported by the committee.
DR.. P. Ritter, the Swiss minister to
Japan, has been named to succeed
Leo Vogel, at present minister OF
Switzerland at Washington.
The house of representatives de-
clared vacant the seat of George l..
Lilley, now governor of Connecticut.
Gov. Patterson of Tennessee vetoed
the statewide prohibition bill passed
by the legislature.
II was semi-offi cially announced that
Robert Bacon will succeed Elihu Root
as secretary of state and he In turn
will be succeeded as assistant secre-
tary by John C. O'Laughlin.
The senate did its part toward rails
ing the salary Of the president OF the
United States to 100000 and those OF
the vice-president and speaker OF the
house to $4,000 year each.
President Roosevelt sent to the gov
ernor of California a telegram and
letter urging the California legislature
not to pass anti-Japanese measures
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
THE MINERS CONVENTION
More Pay for Workers in Anthracite
Mines Will be Asked.

Indianapolis, Ind. - The conven-
tion of the United Mine Workers of
America in session in this city is in
the attitude of waiting, though rest
lessly, for an outbreak of internal
strife rather than a contest with en-
ployers. Only one wage scale of con-
sequence is to be negotiated, that of
the miners of the three anthracite
districts of Pennsylvania, which will
probably be taken up between the
operators and a committee from the
miners composed of the national presi-
dent and the three district presidents.
The subject upon which the miners
organization is intent is the dispute
within its own ranks between the
present national administration and
its opponents, headed by John Walker
of Illinois, who is Mr.. Lewis rival for
the presidency. The ballots cast last
December are now being counted.
The factional controversy is bitter
one, and charges of improper influence
in the election have emanated from
supporters of both parties.
The anthracite miners of Pennsyl-
vania, it is said, are not well organ
lied and it is charged that in many
local unions the election was held in
irregular fashion, in some instances
to the advantage of the Lewis faction
and in others to the advantage of the
Walker party.
The committee that Is formulating
the demands of the anthracite miners
preparatory to the conference to be
held with the operators for the pur-
pose of agreeing on new contract to
go into effect April /, has under con-
sideration a proposition that the
United Mine Workers of America shall
be given complete recognition by the
operators, that the working day shall
be eight hours, with no reduction of
wages; that coal mined shall be paid
for by the ton of 1000 pounds; that
employees receiving less than $1.50 a
day shall have 10 per cent advance
and that employees receiving more than
$3.50 but less than So day shall have
5 per cent advance, and finally that
the contract shall be made for cne
year.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
lnedible Chicken.

1T doesn't pay to raise chickens in a
small way" said suburbanite. "for
the reason that you can only eat the
eggs, never the chickens themselves
But why can't you eat the chick
ens?" inquired the mans partner.
Could you eat your canary or your
dog? No. And for much the same rea
son you can't eat your chickens. Fol
they are pets, as dogs or canaries are
You have raised them, they have
learned to know you, they have name.
that they answer to, they follow yor
about the yard-in word, they like
you, and you like them.
He Ghuddered.
Il remember when we killed ant
stewed old Mary Jane. She had stop
ped laying; she was long past tina
stage; so we murdered her and trieC
to eat her. But We failed. We fel
like cannibals, like ghouls, when Mar,
James mangled remains were Sc
smoking before us. Eat? Why, tn,
very memory half sickens me now"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
CREWS QUICK WORK,
Can Lower Boat and Leave Ship In
TWO Minutes.

Aboard the Romantic the other day
several officers were talking about the
length of time required to launch and
man one of the large lifeboats that
swing from davits on the upper deck,
a distance of perhaps 60 feet above the
sea. 1t was agreed that boat can
be lowered with its crew and get away
from the ship in two minutes in any
thing like decent weather.
An instance was related where a
man had fallen from the Romantic
while she was speeding IA knots. The
alarm was sounded, boat lowered
and the swimmer rescued after a con.
siderable row back over the course
to where he was floundering about
The crew had the rescued individual
back to the ship with the boat In its
chocks in just II minutes, which is
regarded most creditable perform.
ance. There was no ice on the rope
falls to hamper the work and every.
thing worked smoothly or the boat
would have been much longer on it's
mission.
A steamship of 10000 tons when go.
ing at full speed has momentum suffi,
cient to carry her at least two miles
after the engines are stopped, provid.
ing the sea is fairly quiet. Crews OF
lifeboats frequently have hard work
cut out for them while going to q
rescue before the headway of the
vessel has been stopped.-Boston Her.
aid
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
AN EXPOSE OF HUGE FRAUDS
IS PROMISED BY GOVERNMENT
AGENTS IN OKLAHOMA.
Federal Grand Jury In Session at
Muskogee is Expected to
Take Action.

Muskogee, Okla.-Government Of
ficials now in Muskogee assert
that no fraud in town lots ever in
vestigated will equal the stupendous
proportions of that now being made in
the government cases here.
Witnesses from dozen states began
to arrive Monday to testify before the
federal grand jury that meets to-day.
The government officials say there is
nothing in the records to show who
these persons are, but 1t is announced
that large corps of secret service
men have worked for months to locate
them.
These secret service men have, 1t is
stated, secured from the witnesses af-
fidavits to the effect that they were
used as dummies" in scheduling the
lots; and that they knew nothing of
the use of their names until asked
within the past three years to sign
quit claim deeds to the lots. About
half this number are reported to have
signed the deeds while the other half,
suspecting something irregular, de-
clined to affix their signatures.
The discovery was made Monday
that one of the men summoned to
serve upon the grand Jury is the SON
in-law of one of the men accused and
a brother-in-law of another. These
men will be rejected as jurors and
other prospective jurors will be ex-
amined particularly with view of
eliminating any relative of the men
involved.
Government officials learned Monday
that two of the men accused of fraud
died recently and that third is dying
of tuberculosis.
1t was discovered Monday that the
various lists of names of dummies who
claim possessory rights to town lots
are missing from the records Of the
town site commission which had
charge of the appraisement, apportion-
ment and scheduling of the lots. This
commission completed its work six
years ago.
The governments attorneys say the
disappearance of these lists will have
little effect upon the investigations.
The sessions of the grand jury will be
held in the federal Jail, with secret SER
vice men on guard as precautionary
measure.
Gov. c. N. Haskell and Adit Gen.
F. NJ. Canton arrived here Monday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Prize Offered Inventors.

The Ligue Rationale Aerienne re
Gently received from Commandant Dol.
fuss the offer of prize of $4,000 for
the first kite of French construction
capable of lifting man to the height
of 200 meters, and of maintaining him
in the air for period of at least one
hour. 1t is interesting to see that at
tention is thus again directed to the
use of kites, which would appear te
have been somewhat neglected owing
to the success of the apparatus of the
aeroplane type
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29

grew stronger, and within three months
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Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
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Ifyou want special advice write
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
GENERAL NEWS.

The liner Republic, rammed by the
Italian steamer Florida in fog of
Nantucket lies under As fathoms of
sea off No Mans Land near Martha's
Vineyard island, off the Massachusetts
coast. The Republics captain and
crew were taken off at the last min
ute before the great ship went down
by the revenue cutter Gresham. The
hundreds of passengers, first taken on
board the Florida following the col
lision and later transferred TO the
liner Baltic, were landed at New
York. They owed their safety TO the
wireless, which called vessels to the
aid of the cripple steamers. Two of
the Atlantic's passengers and four OF
the Florida's crew were killed in the
collision.
Gov. Magoon reported on the excel
lent results of the American occupa-
tion of Cuba and denounced the leav-
ing of the wreck of the Maine in Ha-
vana harbor as disgrace to the
United States.
President-elect Taft and party sailed
from Charleston for Panama on the
cruiser North Cafollna.
Severe earthquake shocks recorded
on European seismographic instru-
ments were believed to have occurred
in Russian Turkestan.
That benZoate of soda used as a
food preservative is not injurious to
health is the judgment of the referee
board of consulting experts, of which
DR.. Ira Remsen, president of Johns
Hopkins university, is chairman. This
conclusion, which has been approved
by Secretary Wilson, reverses the
findings of DIR. Fl. w. Wiley, chief of
the bureau of chemistry.
A fortune from one of the most val
liable estates In Germany and the title
of dowager countess of Marbroeck con-
stitute the reward which will fall to
Mrs. j. III. Voelker of Wallace, Idaho,
as result of a five-year legal battle
In the courts of Germany.
Three persons were killed and two
fatally injured by snowslide at the
Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Col.
The business portion of McCraclten,
Kan, including the Jesse hotel, was
destroyed by fire.
A plot to assassinate Detective Ga
briel Longobardi of Chicago because
OF his activity against the Black
Hand, was exposed by an Italian
woman.
Over the veto of Gov. Patterson
both houses Of the Tennessee legisla'
ture passed the senate bill which pro
bibits the sale OF intoxicating liquors
within four miles of schoolhouse in
Tennessee and is in effect statewide
prohibition act. 1t Is effective July l,
1909.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Killed His wife and suicided.

Painesville, o. = Driven to des-
peration by financial losses. R. l..
Hillborn, well-to-do farmer of Lake
county, killed his wife and then him
self, Sunday night. The Hillborn farm
is near Peck's Corners, three miles
north of Chardon. Hillborn has been
one of the most successful agricultur-
lists in Lake county. 1t is reported In
Willoughby that Hillborn indorsed
paper to the amount of $39, 900 and had
to pay
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Traction conferoes Disagree.

Cleveland, GA crisis was reached
In the local traction negotiations on
Monday afternoon, when the confer
ence that had been in session for
nearly four hours at the city hall
broke up and to Attorney John G.
White, representing the Cleveland
Railway Co., and Attorney d. G. Wes-
tenhaver, standing for the city admin
lstration and the Municipal Traction
Co., was referred the task of reconcil-
Ing the differences that had arisen be-
.ween the two factions represented at
be conference.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Removes Two Members Of Board.

Columbus, On order that Jacob
F. Beidler of Lake county, a Re-
publican. and Jesse F. Cross of Fay
cite county, a Democrat, might partic-
ipate in the reorganization of the
state board of agriculture scheduled
for to-day, Gov Harmon on Monday
night removed two members of the
board, l.. P. Bailey of Belmont county
and H. NJ. Brown of Highland county,
both Republicans. and made the ap-
pointments of Messrs. Beidler and
Cross, made last week to take effect
February 1, effective at once.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Bad Error in New Election Law.

Columbus, o. : Somewhat of
sensation was created at the state
house Monday by the announcement
that there is no provision in the new
primary election law for the holding
of special elections and therefore an
election of a successor to Congress
man Burton at Cleveland cannot be
held as the new law is believed to re-
peal, by implication, the provision of
the old general law for such elections.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Naughty Posters Are eIotted Out.

Akron, O.-Bill posters on Mon
day, following complaint of Ave
members of the newly organized
womens council, pasted sheets of
white paper over every advertisement
of Salome show that is to appear
Saturday night at the Colonial theatre
here. The ire of the women had been
aroused by the Objectionable character
of the posters.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Congress.

Washington.-On the 25th the SEN
ate discussed the postal savings bank
and the omnibus claims bills, but made
no progress with either one. The
urgent deficiency bill was passed. The
house passed the day in consideration
of legislation affecting the District of
Columbia.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Carrie Nation Gets Hostile Reception

London, Eng. = Mrs. Carrie Ma
tion, who is attempting to deliver
lectures here, met with a very hostile
reception at the Canterbury music hall
Monday night, She was pelted with
eggs, one of them striking her in the
face.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-29
Secretary Root ResIans.

Washington, d. C.-Secretary of
State Root has rendered to President
Roosevelt his resignation. effective up
on qualification of his successor Rob
ert BEcon.