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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
Report is Current in Baseball Circles
That Veteran Leader is Dl-
rector's Choice for Man.
agerlaI Berth.
MEET THIS AFTERNOON
Directors viii Gati1er at EIks Hall to
Elect Officers and Select
Leader for Coming
Season.

Frank Belt, chicken fancier and
veteran baseball manager, is slated
for the managerial reins of the In
dians, according to the most authort
tative dope that could be CLEANED
from local baseball headquarters to-
day. A meeting of the baseball di-
rectors is to be held at the Elks club
this afternoon at 80 o'clock, and
the all-important move is to be made.
1t leaked out this morning that
Belt. who has been manager here for
three years past, is certain to land
the position. 1t is understood that
the division among the directors
which has existed to small degree,
has disappeared, and harmony pre-
walls among them on the managerial
score. 1t is not thought that Belt has
as yet been given the assurance that
the position is to go to him, for the
directors have discussed the matter
but little, keeping themselves in the
background in order to get the opin
| ion that Keokuk fans hold
| Another matter which the directors
will dispose of is the election of of
/ ficers. AT present the officers are:
e. p. McManus, president; A. D
Ayres, vice president and Louis
Sterne, secretary-treasurer Nc
change in the officers is looked for.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
n.he Y. M. c. a. News.

Y Nj. C A basket ball viii soon be
on in earnest. An effort will be made
to start practice this week and the
association expects to be represented
by strong team. A captain is to be
elected at meeting to be held in
few days.
Indoor baseball is being talked and
a league will shortly be organized.
Physical Director linn believes that
a commercial league would carry with
II more advantages than church
league and will advocate the adoption
of this new organization.
The present week is one of prayer in
associations of the county. In keo-
kuk three noon meetings Will be held
The one today was conducted by VIM.
Aldrich. Tomorrow will be adult
Bible class day under P. C. Hayden
and Thursday will be social service
day in charge of r. L. Reid. Wednes-
day will be local extension day and
the pastors will take up the topic In
their evening prayer meetings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
5000 at Sunday Meeting.

Saturday night there were various
group meetings. Luncheens were
held and an hour spent in the discus
sion of various phases of the associa-
ton work On Saturday evening an
athletic meet was held in the armory
consisting of various gymnastic
events. The boy scouts o, Toronto
gave drill exhibition, which was
feature
The Sunday meeting was big af
fair 1t was led by Fred B. Smith
who is we'll known to association
members in Keokuk. The doors of the
auditorium were thrown ope1 at $3.50
o'clock and ten minutes later 5000
men were inside, with 1000 barred
for lack of room On the csnle day
there We're three hundred conversions
| resulting from the open air and in
side meetings A quartet which has
been in existence for twelve years
and is composed of Y. M. c. A. men,
rendered special music. and Fred
| Butler. the great basso sang a solo,
| On Sunday night the foreign work
was taken up, the subject being,
sWorld Wide Expansion of the AS
| ISOLATION Movement"
This discussion was led by John R.
Mott and f. T. Cotton, both of New
York and F. S. Brockman of China.
Mr.. Brown touched upon number
of other features Of t e convention
and declared that it was the best
ever held. The music of the meet
ing was furnished by w. H. Carter,
| soloist.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
GOLFERS NEEDLESS
OF THE COLD
With Blue Noses and Numb Thumbs
They Continue Game Despite
Weather Conditions.

The approaching winter has been
no enemy of the Keokuk golfers thus
far. With hands numbed by the cold
and their noses blue, a number of
enthusiasts have INDUCED in the
game during the past week, and will
not likely discontinue until snow
makes further play impossible. The
club house has that deserted look, but
on nearly every afternoon two or
three or more players may be seen
plodding around the links in the
hone of going their record just one
better, or perhops getting DOGGY
40 Temporary greens are now being
used. This change shortens the
course somewhat, but makes the
short game more difficult. Last
year play continued until the first
week in December and it is believed
that golfers this season have several
weeks vet ahead of them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
Delegate to International Convention
at Toronto Had story to Tell
at Y. M. c. A. Mems
Meeting.
FEW SALIENT FEATURES
5000 Men Were Housed In Auditor.
ium to Hcar Fred 8. Smith
at Toronto During Sun
day Meeting.

II. G. Brown a delegate of the local
association to the International Y NJ
c. A. convention in Toronto, Canada,
held recently, was the speaker at the
mems meeting Sunday afternoon in
the association auditorium and had
the convention for his subject, bring
ing out many of the salient features
of the great gathering of Y. M. G. A.
men from North America and other
parts Of the world.
The convention was attended by
LAPS delegates and opened on Friday
morning, October 2S, with a consecra-
ton meeting led by Fred S. Goodwin,
of the international committee. On
Saturday it was shown by association
workers that the present day oh.
jective of the Y. Nj. c.. A. is the relig-
ious department. During the past
ten years there has been percent
age gain of 765 per cent, as compar-
ed with 200 per cent gains In build
ings, memberships and err.oyed Of
ficers, Next to the home department
the largest gain was made in the for
eign work. This discussion was UNI
der the leadership of G. r. Joy OF
Keolluk. 1t was also shown that the
greatest advance in foreign work had
been made in China.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
ELMER LEAKE IN
ATHLETIC WORK
keokuk's Star Gymnast Has Gone to
Baltimore to Enter Chosen
Calling.

Elmer Lcake left Keobuk Saturday
morning for Baltimore where he will
take up work as director in the Balti-
more Athletic League with which or
ganization his brother Ralph has
been associated for the past year.
The former is regarded as Keoluk's
best gymnast, for in apparatus work
of all kinds he excells. Leake is we'll
qualified for position as director of
athletics for he has had wide ex-
perience in the local Y. NJ. c. A.
work
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14

TO CURE A COLD IN org DAY.
rake LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if 1t
fails to cure. e. w. GROVES sigma
tire on each box 25c.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
The Latest Structure Spanning the
Father Of Waters Was Formally
Dedicated This
Week.
is AT ST. LOUIS, MO.
New Bridge is by Far the Most Elk
pensive Single Engineering IN
dertakins Built by Inter
urban Co.

The new Mckinley bridge at st.
Louis. the largest bridge spanning
the Mississippi river, was formally
dedicated last week with imposing
ceremonies, Governor Hadley of Mis-
souri, and Governor Deneen of Illino,s
being the central figures, in the ex-
ercises.
The new bridge was constructed
at cost of s3,OO0,OOO by the Nc
Kinley traction interests, controlling
large interurban lines throughout
that section. The structure commands
attention not only because of the en-
ormous outlay required to bridge the
Mississippi river, but because it is al
SO of great Importance from the traf-
| fic standpoint.
| Trade and travel between st. Louis
and the great Industrial districts on
the other side of the river have been
handicapped for many years by the
so-called bridge monopoly. In 1906
the people voted almost unanimously
In favor of an issue of $3,500,000 bonds
to erect municipal bridge The de
signs were made and accepted by the
committee in charge. but Congress
man w. B. Mckinley and his asso-
ciates of the Illinois Traction COM
pany anticipated the city officials
and broke the monopoly by construct
ing the great bridge which had its
formal opening last week
The franchise by which the Illinois
Traction company was permitted to
build the bridge and its double track
entrance into the heart of the St
Louis district, thus making possible
through interurban service and cleo
/ trio freight and express service, does
not permit any ARBITRARY charge for
bridge traffic. The direct revenue
from the bridge, therefore, must
come from the five-cent fares OF the
local street car service and the in
terurban fares based on two cents
a mile. Some additional revenue, OF
course, will be received from the tolls
charged foot passengers and team
traffic moving over the roadways al
either slae of the electric tracks.
The new bridge is by far the most
important and expensive single engi
neering undertaking of its kind built
by an internrban electric railway
company. The structure is one mile
long and the largest on the Mississip
pi river, having a carrying capacity
of 5000 pounds to the foot, while
that of it's neighbor, the Merchant
bridge which is used by a number OF
steam railway companies, is 3,S0J
pounds to the foot. There is a double
railway track, and a double Wagon
driveway on each side. 1t stands be
tween the two old bridges, three
quarters of mile south OF the Mer
chants bridge.
The bridge proper consists of three
500-foot spans, seventy-five feet above
: high water, and the supports are
) eighty-two feet above the floor. The
: piers rest upon bedrock seventy fee
: below the water.
; The bridge was designed by RALPH
Modjeska, who Superintendent it.
, construction, beating all records
; Modjeska is the son of the famou!
: Polish actress, and designed the grea
t bridge over the st. Lawrence at Que
} bee which will cost S15,000,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
Coal Haulers of the City Have Petit
toned the City Commission
ers to Discontinue the
sprinkling There.
HARD ON THE TEAMS
List of Names of Majority of Coal
Transfers Attached to Paper
Prepared BY
Them.

A list bearing the names of seven
teen coal haulers of the city has
been presented to the city commits
sioners requesting that the council
men order at once the discontinuance
of the sprinkling of Main street hill.
In q brief statement, proceeding the
list Of names, the drivers of the
coal wagon teams set forth in their
petition that it is with difficulty that
their animals can mount the steep
grade from the levee to Second, on
Main when the street has been wet
by the sprinkling apparatus.
For number of years it has been
customary for the city to order the
wetting of the HILL which is used
by almost all of the coal companies
of Keokuk in going to and from the
warehouses and business places on
the levee. This however, is the first
time that the men driving teams have
taken action in the matter
The commissioners said this morn
ing that the request of the transfers
would De granted, anu IAe contractor
in charge of the street sprinkling de-
partment will discontinue treating
Main street hill with water each day.
The order will be beneficial to many
other teams, too aside from the coal
haulers', as Illinois wagons and those
of other wholesale and business
houses, heavily laden use that Hill
many times during a day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
Up 7o-Date Sporting Gossip
Sporting Views
By the Editor
Quincy High lost to Jacksonville.
Saturday, 10 to 5.

Quincy High lost to Jacksonville
Saturday, 10 to 5.
The annual meeting of the Kewa.
nee Base Ball association will be
held on Tuesday evening of next
week. 1t is said that the association
there is out of debt. Ted Price is
slated for next seasons managemnte
Price came to the rescue near the
close of last season and his work in
bolstering UP the weakened Boiler
Makers was feature of the last
month Of play
The baseball situation in Burlington
is an unsettled one Geier wants to
be continued in the management, but
the association there has made no de-
clsion in the matter and as yet the
club is without leader. The past
season cost Burlington $4,000 in
cash.
The Keokuk High school football
team will put in a busy week round
ing into shape for the Burlington
game Saturday, which will be played
in the up-river town Coach Rock
Will spend the week instilling into
his men little more life than has
characterized their past work. Thus
far the team has failed to display a
repertory of plays that will be neces.
sary against Burlington, and the week
must bring changes in the teams
work if a victory is hoped for.
Of the meeting of minor leagues in
! Chicago Tuesday the Burlington
/ Hawk-Eye says:
What interest there is around the
Central association base ball circuit
in the affair of Quincy is now cen
tered in the action probable by the
National association to meet in Chi
cago Tuesday. That the question OF
| Quincy's release from the Central cir
cult will be hard pressed by President
Hofer of the Central association there
is no doubt, and the Central associa
| ton which to man is not willing
to let Quincy go without some kline
of financial recompnse. preferably the
| legal draft price of $500, will be
strongly represented. There is nc
thought that the National association
will take the dangerous step of form
| ing a precedent which will render
every other base ball league in the
country defenseless in the hands o
the city which may suddenly desire t,
desert the circuit, or if some othe
| league which may desire to persuade
any city to desert without costing /
the draft price. Should the Nationa
body decide to reserve the Contra
associations verdict regarding Quin
cy, it would virtually say to ever.
city in any base ball circuit "Yol
are welcome to jump your circuit an,
time you please. All you need to d,
is to work up sentiment for sucl
/ g move through your newspapers, an,
when that is sufficient come to thi
body and we will let you go free.
Such situation would render tn
integrity of base ball circuits through
out the country unstable. The pres
ent strict law was established t
cover just such cases as that present
ed by Quincys attempt to force til
Central directors to release her FIRE
of cost from the circuit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14

ANNABEL: 49,. ...-
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14

"Doan's Ointment cured me Of
eczema that had annoyed me long
time. The cure was permanent. =
Hon. S. w. Matthews, Commissioner
Labor Statistics, Augusta, Me.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
Hood; :
Sars aparilla

Cures all blood humors, al
eruptions, clears the complex
ion, creates an appetite. aids
digestion, relieves that tlrec
feeling, gives vigor and vim.
Get it today in usual LIQUID form or
chocoiated tablets called Sar3atabS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14

The baseball situation in Burlington
Is an unsettled one. Geier wants to
be continued in the management, but
the association there has made no de-
clsion in the matter and as yet the
club is without a leader. The past
season cost Burlington $4,000 in
cash.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14

Read The Daily Gate City,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-14
Loosen Tight Coughs.
Homemade Cough Syrup.

Here is the cheapest and most
powerfully effective cough cure
known to medical science. Buy of
your druggist. Tor have him order
it from the wholesaler) two and
one-half ounces of essence mentho-
laXepe. In the package is full d.
rections for making splendid
laxative, curative cough syrup
This amount makes fun pint at
a saving of from 81 to SO as COM
; pared with ordinary labeled cough
syrups, and 1t is really better to
. cure because it rids the system of
! the cold and cough by its laxative
!. action.
. 1t is no trouble to make, Just
buy the mentho-laxene and make
!. syrup according 10 directions
. accompanying. This is the formu-
: Granulated sugar syrup. 1877 ozs
!. Directions tell how to prepare the
!. syrup at home. 1t is certainly a
!. blessing for old people and loosens
: the tightest cough In an hour
Z while children like to take it, and
!. it prevents pneumonia, fever and
!. other complications by its tonic
!. and laxative action; fine for any
= throat or lung trouble, and YOU
!. can actually feel Ii working and
|. penetrating the tissues OF throat
|. and lungs with its curative proper
|. ties.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26

an alteration. In this case the ac-
cused was acquitted on plea II
self-defence.
The Court appointed as counsel
for the defendant Messrs. Alfred
Wallace. Jr., and r. e. Carwile.
Upon his arraignment the accused
said his name was Minus Hightowef,
and. refusing to plead, was credited
with a plea of not guilty. His coun-
sci retired with him for consultH-
ton, and, returning announced hey
would waive their thrceday contin-
nance and would proceed to trial al
II NJ.
When the jury had been e!npan-
elled and pOllod, Mr.. Carw-ilr. o.
counsel for the accused. moved thu
the Court room be cleared He said
that his first witness would he the
prGsccutriX herself. The Judge or
dered the COur. room cleared, lca'-
| ing present only the jurors. the
/ Judge, tho sheriff and one bailiff,
Chief Catnrart Of the Columbia Do-
| lice force: the husband and fe-
male relative Of the prnsocutriX. The
Court stcnogra phcr. the clerk cGi:r-
sci for the State and the defence
the accused himself and one or .w7
others who were deemed necessary
Into the presence of these was led
the prosecutri1 She was placed
upon the stand and there told hcl
story to the jury. The telling tooh
| about half an hour.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
WOULD BLOW UP THINGS.
The Trunk of n Black Hand Filled
With Explosives.

Explosives enough to blow the
city hall into fragments were found
in a trunk in the police clerks ONCE
at Cincinnati Wednesday afternoon.
The trunk has been kicked from cor
ner TO corner for the last two months
with no regard to delicate handling
The trunk was found by local detec-
t,yes last September while searching
the room for several men who were
suspected Of being members of the
black hand. Wednesday afternoon
when it was decided to store the
trunk, it was cleaned ont thorough
" and in tie bottom were found two
packages Of explosives marked "thir-
ty per. cent. nitro glycerine.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
FOUR PEOPLE DROWNED.
Three Others Are Rescued From
Overloaded Boat.

Four persons were drownded near
Sault Ste Marie, Mich, early Sun
day, when a rowboat capsized In the
St. Mary's River. They were: Fred
Parker, Cecile Brown and Reginald
Levi, ali prominent young men Of
Sault Ste Marie, Ont, and John
Sherward, night ferryman, who used
the rowboat after the steam ferry
had ceased for the day. Three pas
sengers aboard the boat were rescued
when the little craft capsized. The
boat was overloaded.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
WHAT CAUSED DEATH?
WAS WALKER WINN,. OF HAAiP-
TON COUNTY, POISONED?
The Coroner's Jury Unsatisfied
Whether or not Young Man Was
Poisoned with "Doctored" Whiskcy

Was young Walker Winn poison
ed to his death when he took a
drink of whiskey one Friday after
noon about two months ago? This
is the question that is perplexing the
residents of the Fechtilg commun-
ity, where young Winn lived in
Hampton county, and the members
Of the coroner's jury.
1T is generally talked and was
brough out in the testimony before
the coroner's jury that Winn was
not on good terms with his young
wife: Lillian, nor with her father,
Mr.. j. w. Lee, that their relations
were estranged and that threats on
the life of young Winn were made.
Walker Winn, on Friday, Septen-
ber16, at Fechtig, was taken sudden
Iy Ill. It is stated that he had just
taken a drink with his fatheT-in-law.
He had convulsions, was paralyzed
and blinded, and, although given
medical aid, died within twenty
four. hours to the minute after ne
was stricken. His skin turned
black, and he died in conclusions.
By request an inquest was held,
and the testimony adduced at the
first meeting Of the coroner's jury
was such as to warrant the sending
off for chemical analysis of the col-
tents of the stomach of the deceas-
ed. 1t appears that no other par 3
of the alimenary canal were sent
At subsequent meetings OF the jury
of inquest, letters from Chemists
were read in which it was stated
whether or not any traces Of poison
were found.
AT the instance OF the jury and
the coroner, Judge Memminger at
the recent term of Court passed an
order requiring the body of the de-
ceased to be disinterred and other
parts of the alimentary canal to be
sent for chemical analysis.
The coroner's jury or Inquest held
its fourth meeting ueTsdav, and in
their presence the body was inferred
and DR.. C. A. Rush took out the in
testines and sent them off as re-
quired by order of the Court. Fur
ther testimony was offered.
G. G. Owens testified that on Fri
day, September 16, Mrs. Lillian
Winn, wife of deceased, who at that
time was not living with her hus-
band, asked witness if he had seen
her father with Walker Winn that
day. When witness answered in the
Affirmative, she then said that Wal
ker would be dead within three
days, and that it was a wonder her
father did not kill him that day.
It is understood that Mrs. Winn
will appear before the jury of in
quest at Hampton next week.
DR.. T. B. Whatley is reported to
have testified that if the deceased
had been given poison, it was posi-
BILE for it to have passed out OF the
stomach. 1t is stated that this di-
rect question was asked of DR.. What
ley.
The results Of the chemical analy-
sis will probably put an end to the
work of the jury of inquest, who
will have met six times on the case.
The report of the Columbia chemists
Is awaited with much interest by
people there.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-26
Town Burned Down.

Fire which originated in the Sec
ond story Of the Rose hotel Friday
practically destroyed the town of
ST. Stephens. about 40 miles from
Charleston. Ten stores and residences
were wiped out. the merchants los
ing practically all their stock in adj
dition to the buildings. The loss will
aggregate about $4,000, while the
insurance will among to about S10.-
| 0U0.