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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
ODD ELBOWS
IRE in SESSION.
sow.sn Grand Lodge Meets In
Southern City With Large At
tendance Of the
Members.
THE ANNUAL REPORT
Total Membership is Close to Two
Million Counting Those
Who Belong to Rebekah
Lodge.

ATLANTA, Ca. Sept. 20.-The
eighty-sixth annual meeting Of the
Sovereign Grand lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows was
called to order in the hall of repre-
sentatives at the state capitol. 1t Is
expected 10000 to $4,000 visitors will
be In Atlanta for the weeks conven-
tion
w. L. Kuykendal, grand sire and
commander-in-chief of the Sovereign
Grand lodge, in his annual report, said
at the end of December last, the total
membership, including subordinate
lodge members and sisters only Of the
Rebekah lodges, was 1,952,421. The
total revenue for 1909, Mr.. Kuykendal
reported, was in round numbers, s16,-
$4,000; total relief, $5,S26000, and
total invested funds S49,551 900.
During the year the grand sire re
quested Secretary Of State Knox to
bring to the attention of the emperor
or proper officials of Austria the de
sire of the Odd Fellows order for per
mission to enter Austria. Mr.. Kuy
kendall reported the state department
replied it had no authority to fulfill
this request.
The grand sire reported against the
proposed introduction of the order in
to Great Britain, saying Odd Fellows
would have to change their name il
order to be registered in that country
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WOMAN CANDIDATE
FOR TRUSTEESHIP
Contrary to Recommendation Of the
Alumni Association of the
University.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 20.-Con-
trary to the recommendation of the
alumni association of the University
of Illinois, and to the general under
standing, a woman will be placed in
nomination for election to the board
of trustees of the university at the
state convention Friday.
Some time ago the alumni associa-
tion at a meeting, recommended that
only men be chosen on the board 1t
was the general understanding that
the desire would be adhered to, but
now it is conceded that woman will
be chosen. Mrs. Mary Busy of ur-
bana is one of the three retiring mem
bers, and she will be candidate for
denomination.
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AT The MERCY
OF The Wind
Big Balloon viii be Cut Loose and
Sent Across the Ocean in the
September
Breeze.
DECORATED WITH FLAGS,
Result of the Experiment If Success
full, VIII Probably Result in
Some One Trying to
Ride.

PITTsFTELD, Mass. 2o-with the
expectation that the September winds
Will carry it clear across the Atlantic
ocean Leo Stevens Of New York is ar
ranging 5000 cubic foot capacity BAL
loon here which will be released next
Saturday on its long sail.
It's only appendage will be rope
ladder which will be decorated with
flags and pennants.
The war department has detailed ex-
perts from Fort Meyer to initiate the
balloon. 1t is estimated that 1t will
travel 100 miles an hour and will
easily cross the ocean. All of the
steamship companies have been asked
to watch for 1t.
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TROUSERS COST
$24 AND UNPAID
When chanier Wooed the Diva, He
Was Absolutely Reckless About
Expenses.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s.-whatever
else he may have been, the friends Of
Robert W. Chanler, are satisfied that
he was not piker in his wooing of
the business like enchantress Lima
Cavelieria For proof they point to
the bills of various creditors who are
now suing Sheriff Bob" There is one
bill for little lunch at Martins for
sS.25, including everything from cock
tails to raw apples. Everyone on
Broadway thinks s24 ought to buy
dream Of pair Of trousers, this being
one of the bills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
CRIPPEN AUCTION
BRINGS BIG PRICES
People Buy Trash From His Home
and Pay Fancy
Prices,

LONDON, Sept. 20--London's NOR,
bid curiosity in the Dr. Crippen case,
resulted in scramble to buy the
doctors furniture and effects which
were auctioned today at west end
sale Old catalogues and papers of
absolutely no intrinsic value, were
sold for as high as So. Odds and
ends Of the most trifling value were
rarely sold for less than 81. A num-
ber of fashionably dressed women
crowded the auction room.
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Miles Given Hurt.

CRESTON. Sept. 20.-Miles Given,
an aged man employed by the Burling-
ton railroad here, fen from a car in
the yards while attempting to jump
from the rear while the car was
standing on the track. His foot caught
in piece of gas pipe, throwing him
head first from the car. 1t was
thought his neck was broken when he
was picked up, but examination prov
ed this to be mistake
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Auto seares Team.

WATERLOO, Iowa, Sept. 20-The
team driven by Jesse York became
frightened at an automobile three
miles from Mount Aub' IN. The ami
mails turned slightly around, breaking
the tongue of the buggy and throwing
Mr.. and Mrs. York and child into
a wire fence. Mr. York was severely
hurt. His head was badly cut and 1t
required twenty-one stitches to close
the wound
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
CONVENTION HELD
IN NOVEMBER
Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway
Association Meeting Fer st.
Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2o.-The Lakes
to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Associa-
tion is determined to find out just why
the Mississippi river has not been i'm
proved and why the lakes-to-the-gulf
project has not been started. Each
year this association has adopted
strong resolutions and presented them
to congress, apparently all to no pur-
pose. Even where surveys or other
preliminary work has been ordered.
it is claimed, tardy and Indifferent
compliance has been the rule
The association has Just sent out
the official announcement of the fifth
annual convention in St Louis Novem-
ber 25 and 26. This convention will
be made up Of delegates and the an
nouncement is an invitation for gov
ernors, mayors, commercial as
sociations and river improve
ment organizations to appoint
delegates to the convention.
In addition the governors. mayors, the
president and members of the Sixty
second congress are made ex-officio
members,
More than half of the people of the
United States live In the valley of the
Mississippi, reads the circular, and
their interests are those of the entire
country The convention is held to
combine these common interests in
the light of common knowledge" The
circular also recites the work accomp-
lished by the association up to the
present in the way of creating inter
est in deep waterway.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
COOPERATIVE STORE
FOR THE 400
Evanston Aristocrats Have Plan to
Defeat the High Cost of
Living.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2O.-one hundred
and seventy of the 400 aristocrats of
Evanston, have declared war against
the increased cost of living by start
ing cooperative store, the stock
holders of which will be given re-
bate on the cost of groceries. The
date set for the grand opening is
October 2. 1t is believed it will be
possible to return to stockholders
from 10 to so per cent on their gro
ceries.
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Lumber Rates Hiuh.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Freight
rates On lumber, established by west
ern railroads in 1908 are the subject
of complaint filed with the inter
state commerce commission today by
the Ingham Lumber Co., of Kansas
City. 1t is charged that the rates
assessed from Arkansas and Okla
homa to Iowa points are excessive.
The commission is asked to order a
reduction
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POLICE HEAD
TO LOSE HEAD
Commissioner Baker viii be Dis
charged Within Few
Days.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-As result
of the recent expose of gambling and
wide open conditions in New York's
tenderloin, Commissioner w. F. Bak-
er head of the police department, is
to be removed as soon as Mayor Gay,
nor returns to the city hall.
Announcement to this effect was
made today by Acting Mayor Mitchell
following conference last night with
Mayor Gaynor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20

ST, LOUIS, Sept. 2o.-Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt will pass strenuous
day here on October II If he at
tempts to fill all the engagements
mapped out for him. He will arrive at
7:45 a. m. and leave that night late.
The Traffic Club AID Business Mems
League will have charge of most of
the coloners entertainment. Numerous
other organizations will be required
to content themselves with having
Roosevelt mingle with them on the
aviation field. He will make one ad-
dress at the Coliseum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
yowan Attempts Suicide.

BLOOMFIELD, Sept. 2o.-samuel
Rawley, aged 80 former Davis
county man, attempted suicide by
shooting himself while in Mt. Sterl-
ing Kan. He was brought here in
serious condition.
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Drowned at EddwiIIe.

EDDYVILLE, Iowa, Sept. 20.-Guy
E. Kissick, aged 81, of Chicago, trav-
cling auditor for the Northwestern
railway, was drowned while bathing
in the Des Moines river.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
Weather conditIona.

With exception of local showers in
portions of the Ohio valley, Ten
nessee and New England the wealth
er has been generally fair in all sec
tions.
Areas of moderately low pressure
are in the st. Lawrence valley and in
Arizona and the high area from Mon
tana is moving into the plateau reg
ion with decreasing pressure.
Cooler weather prevails over the
northern portion of the country, from
the Mississippi valley eastward, while
high day temperatures have continued
on the eastern slope of the Rockies.
Conditions Indicate generally fair
weather for this section tonight and
Wednesday
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Davis county Fair Prosperous.

BLOOMFIELD, Sept. 2o-Secretary
H. G. Leach of the Davis County Fair
association reports the receipts OF
the fair which closed Friday as $4,000
above all former fairs held in Davis
county.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
Barometer Was Very Low Today in
Rooseveit's Office and Cor
respondents Got no
Welcome.
TAFT is CONGRATULATED
Even VIM. J. Bryan is Heard From
For he Has Accepted an
Invitation to
Speak.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-The bar
ometer was very low in the Office of
the contributing editor of The Out
look today and there was no well
come" on the. mat for the score of
correspondents who sought OF Roose-
welt the opinion of him as to the con-
ference with President Taft yester-
day.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 20.-On
board President Tafts train-From
all over the country today President
Taft is receiving congratulatory mes
sages over his encounter with the big
stick yesterday at New Haven. His
friends say that he has earned the
right to leadership in the party by
his action in refusing to acquiesce to
certain plans by Roosevelt.
TRENTON, N. j., Sept .20.-When
the republican state convention was
called to order at the Taylor opera
house today it was conceded that
Taylor would be chosen on the first
ballot as the candidate for governor.
PUEBLO, Colo, Sept 20.-Oratori-
cal pyrotechnicss that will greatly in
terest Roosevelt are promised when
Bryan delivers an address before
the National Irrigation congress
which meets here next Monday The
Nebraskan has accepted an invitation
to speak. The Commoner has declin-
ed to state what his subject will be
but it is thought that he will discuss
new nationalism.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2o.-"Presi-
dent Taft is unchanged in his attl-
tude toward Secretary Ballinger and
is, believe, as determined as ever
to support him until the Investigation
committee has finished with the
case" said E. c. Finney, who acted
as Ballingers private secretary dur
ing his entire western trip, in an in
terview today. Finney had just return
ed from the west.
CHICAGO. Sept. 20.-Inquiries in
to the methods by which Senator VIM
Lorimer obtained his seat in the U.
S. senate, was commenced today. All
the members of the sub committee OF
the senate are here with the excep'
ton of Frazier of Tennessee who
wired that he was on his way AND
Burkitt of Connecticut who will moi
be here until later.
Chairman Burrows said that confer
ences would be held today to deter
mine the method of procedure anc
! the scope Of the inquiry.
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THE WEATHER.

(Until Z p. M Wednesday,
For Keokuk and vicinity: General
ly fair tonight and Wednesday.
For Illinois, Iowa and Missouri:
Generally fair tonight and Wednesday.
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The Buckeye Lands.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-The Buck.
eye, one of the three hitherto unre-
ported balloons landed in Virginia
Monday morning according to tele-
gram received today The telegram
was sent from Christiansburg, Va,
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Daily River Bulletin.

Mean temperature, Sept. 20, 72.
Maximum temperature, so.
Minimum temperature, 65.
River Forecast.
The river will remain nearly sta,
tionary tonight and Wednesday.
FRED z. GOSEWISCH,
Observer
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Continued on page 81
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Gettlna ANXIOUS.

NEW YORK, Sept 2o-officials of
the Aero club of America are alarmed
over two missing balloons of the 1S
that set sail from Indianapolis last
Saturday. Had the balloons landed
anywhere in the east. 1t is considered
almost certain that they would have
been reported before this even had
they crossed into Canada.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20

INDIANA, Pa, Sept. Balloon
No 6, the Centennial. carrying Pilot
HONEYWELL and Lambert, landed near
Heshbon According to the pilots
the trip was made without incident,
The air craft was shipped to Tndianap-
oils
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into the First Yukon Bank. All this and more was
known and told, though and all were agreed
that Daylight while the cause had been the innocent
cause of her untimely end.
And the worst of 1t was that Daylight knew II was
true Always would be remember that last night he
had her. He had thought nothing Of it at the
time. but looking back he haunted by every little
thing that had happened In the light of the tragic
event he could understand everythng-her quietness,
her calm gertrude If all vexng questions of living
had been smoothed out and were gone and that GER
tain ethereal sweetness about all that she had. said
and done that had been almost maternal. He remem-
bered the way she had looked at him. how she had
laughed when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mistake In
stalking the fraction on SkOokum Gulch. Her laugh
ter had been lightly joyous, while at the time 1t
had lacked its old time robustness Not that she had
been grave subdued. On the contrary she had
been patiently content. so filed with peace She
had fooled him, fool that he was. he had even
and he had taken delight In the thought and caught
visions Of the satisfying future friendship that would
be theirs with this perturbng love out of the way
And then, when he stood at the door cap In hand
and said good night 1t had struck him at the time as
funny and embarrassing thing her bending over his
hand and kissing It, He had felt like a fool but he
shivered when he looked back on 1t and felt again
the touch OF her lips on his hand. She was saying
goodby. eternal goodby and he had never guessed
At that very moment and for all the moments OF the
evening, cooy and deliberately. as he well knew her
known it! Untouched by the contagious maady him
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making bawds suicides out of virtuous women and
scoundrels and murderers out OF who had always
been clean and square.
For the first time in his life Daylight lost his nerva
He was badly and ayowedly frightened. Women
were terrible creatures and the love germ was es-
pecialy plentiful In their neighborhood. And they
were so reckless. devoid OF fear. They were not
frightened by what had happened to the Virgin They
held out their arms to him more seductively than
ever Even without his fortune reckoned as o mere
man just past thirty magnhcenty strong and equally
good looking and good natured he prize for most
normal women. But when 10 his natural excellences
were added the romance that linked with his name
and the enormous wealth that was his practically
every free woman he encountered measured him with
an appraisng and delighted eye, to say nothing OF
more than one woman that was not free. Other men
might have been spoiled by this and led TO lose their
heads but the only effect on him was TO increase his
fright. AS a result be refused most invitations to
houses where women might be met and frequented
bachelor boards and the Moosehorn saloon which had
no dance hall attached
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He off his "coodby youn he called ooodby youa!

self, nevertheless he would have married her if he
had had the slightest inkng Of what she contem-
plated And yet he knew, furthermore that hers was
certain stiffkneed pride that would not have per-
mitted her to accept marriage an act of philan.
thropy There had really been saving her after all
The love disease had fastened upon her and she had
been doomed from the first to perish Of it.
Her one possible chance had been that he too
should have caught it. And he had failed to catch it
Most likely if he had it would have been in connec
ton with Freda or some other woman There was
Dartworthy, the college who had staked the rich
fraction on Bonanza, above Discovery Everybody
knew that old Dooitte's daughter Bertha was madly
In love with him. Yet when he contracted the disease
OF all women it had been with the wife of Colonel
Walthstone the great Hammersmith mining expert
Result, three lunacy cases-Dartworthy selling out
bis mine for Onetenth its value the poor woman sac
rhcng her responsibility and sheltered nook in So
cety 10 fee with him in open boat down the Yukon
and Colonel Wathstone, breathing murder and de-
sruetpn, taking out after them in another open boat
The whole impending tragedy had moved on down
the muddy Yukon, passing Forty Mile and Circle and
losing Itself in the wilderness beyond But there it
was love disorganzing mems and womens lives drv-
ing toward destruction and death, turning topsy-
turYy everything that sensible and considerable
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of vast devastation. The hills to their tops had been
shorn Of trees and their naked sides showed signs Of
Sorlng and perforatng that even the mantle of snow
could not hide. Beneath him in every direction were
the cabins of men. But not many men were visible
blanket Of smoke filed the valleys and turned the
gray day to melancholy twilight. Smoke arose from
a thousand holes in the snow, where deep down on
bedrock in the frozen muck and gravel men crept and
scratched and dug and built more fires to break
the grip of the frost Here and there where new
shafts were starting these fires famed redly Figures
of men crawled out Of the holes or disappeared into
them, or on raised platforms of hand hewn timber
wndlasSed the thawed gravel to the Gurface, where
1t Immediately frOze. The wreckage of the spring
washing appeared everywhere-piles Of sluice boxes
sections of elevated fumes huge water wheels, all
the debris of an army of gold mad men.
"It-alIs plain gophering" Daylight muttered aloud
He looked at the naked hills and realized the enor-
nous wastage Of wood that had taken place From
this bird's-eye view he realized the mOnsrous con-
fusion of their excited workings. 1t was a gigantic
inadequaHy. Each worked for himself and the result
was chaos. In this richest of diggings it cost one
dollar to mine two dollars and for every dollar taken
out by their feversh unthinking methods another
dollar was left hopelessly In the earth Given an
other year and most OF the claims would be worked
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~ URNING DAYLIGHT - Elan Har-
nish-is introduced to the reader as
he enters Circle City dance hail.
saloon and. gambling house like the whirlwind
that he is. All the others in the place are
'pikers" alongside this vast figure of man,
who dares everything to win his own way.
Possessed of tidy fortune and sure of max
ing vast one, Burning Daylight proceeds to
stir up the life of the gambling house. The
men and women all admire him, for he is Of the
type that dominates, and he, conscious that in
everything, physical and mental be isAthe SUI
perior of the assemblage, undertakes TO arouse
enthusiasm.
Essentially a mans man, Burning Daylight
resents, or rather fears, the wiles of the women
who frequent the dance hall. He is sought by
all of them, persistently by one. But he is
afraid to be even civil to a woman, because he
breads the idea Of being mastered by anybody
or anything, and TO surrender to a woman
meant, in his mind, that he was conquered.
Drink leads to Boosting, and in the turmoil
that follows Burning Daylight shows his amaz-
ing muscular strength. He wins all the tests
and downs all the giants that come before him.
Then comes poker game-the greatest ever
played in the Klondike. Burning Daylight's
luck deserts him at the end, and he rises from
the table penniless-worse than broke.
Then the indomitable courage Of this master
among shows itself. He declares himself
in readiness to accomplish an impossible task
to the mail to Dyea and back with deg
team.
II swore in 80 I'd never go out till I'd made
my stake" he exclaims, land swear once more,
by the mill tails of hell and the head of John
the Baptist, III never hit for the outside till 7
make my pile, and tell you-an, here and now,
it's got to be an almighty big pile"
And so Burning Daylight goes forth, over the
frozen, trackless wastes, while behind him bets
are made and taken on the chances of his
turning inside Of sixty days. For they all know
he will return He is Burning Daylight the
man who never turns back
As the indomitable man goes on his way the
difficulties that come to him seem too vast TO be
overcome, and one by one his hardy Indian COM
panions and his dogs succumb to the terrific
hardships of the Alaskan winter. But Burning
Daylight compels the weakening men and dogs
TO keep on the trail, and Dyea is reached. The
return trip is even more terrible but Burning
Daylight wins and the old crowd is in the
Tivon TO greet him after his sixty days Of mag
nincent accomplishment
That night there is a dance, and the mar
vellous man outdances the men-and the women,
too. In the morning the men he has chosen for
newest gold strike
Dominating them in all things, Burning Day
light puts heart in the weak leads the way into
the lIlimitable future-and fortune.
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CHAPTER NH.

q TX thousand passed the winter of 1897 ia
Dawson, work on the creeks went on apace
while beyond the passes it was reported that
- i one hundred thousand more were waiting for
the spring. Late one brief afternoon Daylight
on the benches between French Hill and Skookum
Ill., caught wider vision Of things Beneath him lay
;he richest part Of Eldorado Greek, while up and
down Bonanza he could see for miles It was a scene