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Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

properly, when the yield is increas- ed 150 per cent-as it will be-the average for the state will ri sefr7S average for the state will rise from thirteen bushels tO thirtytwO and one-half bushels an acre. Where there is one loaf of bread today there will be two and one-half loaves then
 Professor Ten Eyck founded his faith. finally, in Kharof wheat. which the agricultural college inn ported from the province of that name in Russia The legislature appropriated sl00.0OO for the pur- pose It sent an agent to Russia and Turkey to study the varieties
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

of wheat. And now for three years Professor Ten Eyck has been carry ing on experiments with Kharof wheat to increase its. yield and quail ity. His method is called the head row. test. The finest heads. are selected and, the thirty grains from each are kept separate. That is. thirty grains from one head are planted in one row. thirty from an other head in another, and so on. All the rows receive the same soil and care. When the wheat ripens it is found that some of the rows have yielded three and a half times as much as some other rows. In one experiment the best row pro-
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18
, cRiMP IN HILLS PROPHECY
Kansas Farmers Unwilling to Have tine World Go SupperIess
 to Bed

Tn twenty years said James J. Hill. "aI the present rate of wheat production the world will go sup perless to bed"
 One hundred and fifty farmers in Kansas are trying to do their part to prevent this calamity. They have planted one million acres of a new variety of college-bred seed grown from a Russian importation. II each of these million acres in
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18
ADVICE FOR WALKING.

IF you walk Tor sn appetite do 1t just
 before eating. 1T you walk to promote V digestion. wait for an hour after cat- ing and then take brisk walk. Do not saunter along. his vii! give no relief. The head should be held erect. shoulders thrown back: deep. long brcaths should be inhaled. and the limbs should be given full play, so as to take an easy stride. swinging the limb straight from the hip. Wear short skirts that are not heavy. and easy walking shoes having common sense heels.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18
MILLINERY NOTES.

- HE all-white hat is a necessity for the summer girl. and many of them
 are of lace-trimmed, white straw.
 One of the best hats this season Is the natural leghorn. in a deeper yellow than other straws.
 The black hat is not mourning. except in some cases, where too dull ribbons or too black a straw are selected.
 Among the latest Paris hats the crowns are so low that they suggest a placque.
 The most stylish hats nave very daring turDups.
 Large black hats are trimmed with huge bows. requiring from 10 to T. yards of crisp. glossy ribbon.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

facial beauty.
 There Is hardly any part of the body which needs the care Of the eye. They are sometimes allowed to go without treatment and yet remain in good cOndi- ton: but these cases are exceptional. and the eye must have some kind of treatment to keep IL healthy. When the eyes be gin to smart and burn they should have instant treatment or serious results may follow.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18
STRIPED LINEN.

~ RIPPED linen suitings have made .
 bid for popularity. Many one piece ~frocks of this material are eoatiessL tucked net collar and tiny yoke or cream color. with three-inch undersleeV~s 10 match. is one of the nest seasioIs costumes of the stTip.d hueaA
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

ercise for the body, as well as for the arms and shoulders, as In the case of basketball. The new game has been named rGoalo.' and many of the wo mems schools have taken 1t up.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18
In the Nursery

~ HE little one in the nursery should be provided with its own towel. - sponge, hair and tooth brush. sni should be taught to use them Hair brushes should be kept perfectly clean and frequently washed In soda water. sponges should be treated in the same way. and wnen they become greasy they should be cleansed by placing them in boiling water in which sOda-abOut two ounces to each quart of water-has been dissolved. They should be left for 2+ hours 10 soak
 If the nursery window Is not protected by outside screens or bars. hammer large screw or nail into the groove of the lower sash. 50 that the window can not be raised more than six inches. If the top sash is drawn down. this Is quite enough for ventilation. and Do matter how ingenious or how venturesnme the little ones may be, they cannot wiggi- through the small lower opening.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

New bread or cakes can be cut with out jagged edges if the blade of the knife Is used for Il second iu q clear
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

99U lrH the production of Chan
 tecler" the barnynrd play. in
 Paris. come many ideas from the French capital for all sorts
 of women's wearing apparel The rooster has been named by fashion aTbiters The King of Styles. and thi~ season he promises 10 be most spectacu lar. or all the freaks of fashion Chan tecer is the most extreme. and they make one gasp with wonderment at the limit to which even crazes 20.
 For months the makers of gowns and hats have been spending much time In the rural sections getting materials and ideas for creations for milady. They have been taking good. long looks at the barnyard fowl and even his strut has been initiated The idea they carry home from their trips will be exempined In this seasons gowns and hats. according To their plans.
 Everything is of the Chantecler variety. Chantecler hats Cbantec!er stockings. Chantecler coats. Chanteeler shoes and. iu
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

so that now more than millia acres of il k to be harvested th summer And that's what KsnSs and the l50 hopeful farmers an. Q do to put a criInp in NIT. J Hill's doleful prediction about ti world going supperless to bed -- Golfers Weekly.
 There is no cough medicine sO popt lar as Foley's Honey and Tar IL nev, fails to cure coughs. colds. crOup aI bronchitis. Sold by Elvey S Huleti.
 .Klass to ourselves New airdOm-.
 KlaSs 10 ourselves New airdons.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

Klass to ourselves New airdoms.
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

.Klass to ourselves, New airdOme
Arizona republican., 1910-04-18

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
FIGURES FOR
OPENING, MAY )
Not as Many Fans Present at Games
on This Day As on May q, 1909
-GaIesburs Causes
Slump.
SHOWS DECREASE OF 735
kewanee Suffered Slump, But Bul
Iington and ottumwa Showed
Increase-Umpire o'Brien
Under Fire.

According to the figures made pub
lie by President M. E. Justice, 735
more fans saw the opening games on
May 4. 1909, than on May 5, 1910. The
figures from the cities in which the
openings were held on May IL, have
not yet been received, and complete
comparison cannot be given.
The league was carried into the
slump by Galesburg, Waterloos sue
cessor, not in the point of time, but
as to the opening. The new member
of the league drew only 1858 bugs,
while the Champs in 1909 attracted
1927 to the ball park in the first
game.
Kewanee suffered slump of about
400, but Burlington made this up and
added about 200, which Ottnmwa adj
ded a few hundred to. Following are
the figures:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
Police Officers Smashed ThIrty-three
Half Pints of Whiskey this Aft.
ernoon by Order Of the
Court.
COOK rs ASSESSED $50
Found Guilty Of Violating the Mulct
Law BY Keeping Unlicensed
Liquors For
Sale.

Had some of the strawberry-nosed
individuals in Keokuk's population
sauntered around Lucas avenue this
afternoon they would have seen a
sight that would surely have turned
them heart sick. There is the rock
yard of the city bastile, were several
OF the officers in blue, bravely break.
ing up whiskey bottles, each full to
the brim with the tempting yellow
fire water.
This morning in the superior court
Judge McNamaar fined John Cook
found guilty of selling and keeping for
sale, liquor in his boarding house at
$40 Main street, $50 and costs.
After the payment of the fine. an
order was made out by the court for
Chief Henry Schevers to destroy the
thirty-three half pints of whiskey
borught to the station week ago last
night.
And thus this afternoon, armed with
the order and wit ha brick bat to
smash the bottles and with the LIQUID
running over the ash pile, the order
was carried out to the letter without
anyone getting heart sick.
How 1t Came About.
A week ago Saturday night man
by the name of Myers, woh had been
boarding at the Cook rooming house
between Ninth and Tenth on Main
street, told the officers of Cooks
selling liquor at his rooms and keep
ing it for sale.
On going to the rooms with a search
warrant, the officers found a basket
OF half pints in mold gasoline oven
and more of them hidden in basket
in another part of the room.
fraction over two gallons of whis-
key was destroyed this afternoon by
order of the court, not enough to cause
a flood in the streets such as some
similar occurrences have done, but a
warming to all would-be miscreants
and violators of the mulct law that the
police department of Keokuk is "up
to snuff" and always on the Job.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
HYDE SENTENCE
rs LIFE IN PRISON
Continued from page ~

Attorney Conkling made this state
ment: We only say that to a just
court and brave and conscientious
jury, the great state of Missouri free
ly acknowledges that just and grave
duty has been performed. Any other
verdict would have been plot
DR.. Hyde said: Il can hardly real
ize it. Then he took his wife by the
hand and said: Dorothy, we will
beat it in the supreme court
The marshal took the prisoner to
Jail The judge said that Hyde would
be treated the same as any other con
victed man.
Mrs. Swope refused to be inter-
viewed when the news was brought
to her, but she is trying to form rec.
onciliation with the doctors wife.
DR.. Hyde has been en- trial since
April II. The specific charges were
that of numbering Col Thomas H.
Swope, his wffe's millionaire uncle.
Ten charges were made against him.
All the evidence introduced was cir
cumstantial. The case was bitterly
fought from beginning to end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
SWAT THE FLY
is THE CRY
Continued from page ~

days for the maturity of the first gen
Grafton OF females, DR.. F. G. Richards
asserts that in the ninth generation
there will be 1,953,125 female flies
ana probably an equal number of
males produced in one season.
The favorite breeding place is in
morse barn manure and in all kinds of
decaying vegetable matter. Flies
breed in filth and come from filth to
contaminate our food DR.. L. O.
Howard found 1900 house flies in one
pound of stable manure.
How to swat the fly Destroy their
breeding places. Allow no filth or re.
fuse to remain where flies have ac-
cess to it.
Shut the flies out of garbage boxes
and closets.
Shut out the flies with screens.
Every door and window should be
screened In sucn way IS to shut out
all insect pests
Keep food and drink away from the
flies. Should a fly fall into food throw
the food away.
10 destroy large number of flies
In a room close it tightly and burn
pyrethrum which will give off dense
white smoke, fatal to the flies but
harmless to man.
Let everybody cooperate in remov.
ing the breeding places of these pests
SO dangerous in carrying diseases.
Let everyone swat the fly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
PERSONALS.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Connable will
return home this evening after an
absence of eight months, during which
time they have been around the
world
Mrs. ]. Walcott Mills. who has
been visiting at the home of Mrs. P.
f. Mills for the past week, has re-
turned to her home in Denver, Colo.
Mrs. c. H. McLaury of Burlington is
visiting at the home of her son. Rob.
ert H. McLaury.
Mrs. Fowler of Sandusky was in the
city on business.
Ed. Griffith, formerly of this city,
is at present travelling for the Shen.
nandoah Knitting Co, and was calling
on local merchants today
D. w. McDevitt of Chicago is in
the city.
Mary Belle Nichson leaves today for
Mt. Pleasant. Mrs Nichson came in
today on the X. e w. and goes with
her daughter to the new home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
MADE SPEECH
IN ENGLISH
Philippine Commissioners Studied Hard
for His Debut In
Congress.

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-An appeal
for freedom for the Philippines was
made in the house today by Manuel l..
Cruzeon, one of the two resident Phil
ippine commissioners. When he ar
rived last December he could only
speak few words in English, but he
determined that he would study night
and day until he could speak in CON
gress in English.
He criticised the present form of
government on account of high taxes,
big salaries paid Americans, and said
that the natives were not as well treat
ed as were the people of Porto Rico.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
DEDICATED THEIR
FINE NEW HALL
Volunteers of America Opened Their
Newly Refinished HON. on
South Third Street.

Saturday night the rejuvenated Vol
unteers of Americas Third Street mis-
sion was dedicated with appropriate
| services. The mission, which is locat.
ed between Main and Johnson streets
on Third, has undergone extensive re-
pairs and the services Saturday even
ing We're in the nature of a rechris-
tening. Reverend Williams made the
opening address. Reverends IilIey.
Sanders. Connoran and Barnes then
ofrered few remarks on the uses and
the value OF missions in the work in
Keokuk. During the services solos
We're rendered by Mrs. Collins of
Sandusky, R. c. Hufstader. general
secretary of the Y. M. C. A, and A
Rockefeller
The mission is under the direct
charge of Mrs. Carpenter, who has
had extensive experience in the mis-.
sion field. A board of directors is con-
templated. to consist of one member
of each of the churches, to have gen
eral oversight of the work, and will
probably be selected in the near flu.
ture. The mission has control of the
upper floors of their building and have
Installed a number of cots therein
while more are to be put in as soon as
needed. This will give needy persons
chance to get lodging for a very
small fee that would otherwise have
to be obtained at the police sta
ton. In all probabilities cheap lunch
room will be established in connection
with the lodgings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
AND WE HAD
FORGOTTEN HER
Kidnapping Case of Roberta De Janon
Comes to Close by Failure
to Indict

PHILADELPHIA, May 1G-The last
echo OF sensational escapade was
heard here when the grand jury ig-
nored bill of Indictment charging
Ferdinand Cohen. the hotel waiter,
with kidnapping and running away
with Roberta B. De Janon. IS years
old. The couple, after being missing
a week, We're found in Chicago
1t is understood the action of the
grand jury was agreeable to counsel
for Robert Buist, the millionaire
grandfather of Miss De Janon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
CITY NEWS.
Read the Daily Gate City.


IS. B. Harrington of the Harring.
ton-Chamberlain Co., was in the city
today looking over the Grand opera
house, a property owned by his com
pany 1t is apparent to Mr.. Harring.
ton that some repairs are necessary
in the property. Just who will man
age the house, now that Mr.. Hughes
has retired, is not definitely knows.
Tomorrow evening at the African
NJ. E. church, musical program will
be given by number of the members
of the Christie Endeavor society.
The entertainment will commence at
eight o'clock The following will
take part: Miss Mills, accompanist,
on piano; Mrs. Mills, violin; Miss
Daisy Ware, solo; Miss Letha John
son, Miss Frances Reader, Mrs. Otis
Fields, Miss Elba Robbins. Miss Mag
gle Holbe.t, Mr.. and Mrs. Marc John
son.
The Keokuk Schools Athletic
championship contest will be held
next Saturday afternoon at the Ath-
letic park at which time all of the
grade schools will try to wrest the
large loving cup from the Terrence
school, the winners of last years
meet. The entries which were due
last night, are all in and the list prom
ises to give the judges plenty to do in
picking the winners. The girls of the
upper grades of each school will give
a May pole drill that will be more
elaborate, If possible, than the first
one given at the time of the inaugu-
ration of the schools athletic cham
pionship IN May, 1908. An innovation
is promised this year by the pupils
of the grammar school. They are
planning to give an historical process
sion that will represent the various
historical stages of this section CT the
country. In the process on will be the
Indians, the early Spanish explorers,
the early French explorers, the Cour-
eurs des Bots, the early settlers and
pioneers, and the various club, social,
and industrial enterprises of Keokuk
of today The pupils are very much
interested in their various parts end
have been studying the local history
and will be able to make each stage
appear very realistic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
HID SEVEN YEARS
FOR NOTHING
Man Thought He Had Killed Another
and Kept Under cover
Ever Since.

PlTTSBURG Pa, May 16.-For sew
en- years Oliver Mckinley, formerly
OF Pittsburg, has imagined himself a
murderer, say the police, but he is
not. The st. Louis police have him
under arrest and reported here that
he has confessed to p woman there
OF killing man in Pittsburg sa-
loon on August 81, 1908. On the
date named Mckinley stabbed a
man in a saloon here, according TO
police records, and fed. leaving the
man for dead. The victim, George
Geltzheizer, fellow employee with
Mckinley at a local packing house.
pulled through, however, and has
lived peacefully most of the seven
years that Mckinley has probably
imagined him dead Mckinley has
roamed the country, but the police
had never got definite track of him
and had long ago given up the
search.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
GIANTS SKELETON
FOUND OUT WEST
Bones Discovered by Bursting Water
Pipe, Which Dug Hole in
the Ground.

ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., May 10
That Carbon county, Wyo., was inhab-
tied by race of men, or at least one
man in the prehistoric age, has been
proved by the discovery of a human
skeleton which indicates that the man
in life was nine feet, three inches in
height. The bones were disclosed by
the bursting of large water pipe on
the Tennan ranch, the escaping water
washing out great hole in the hill
side. The bones were in good state
OF preservation, being in fossilifer-
GUS condition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
ANOTHER CASE
OF BASE BALL
Fan is Taken to the Insane ASYLUM
Because He Talked Entirely
Too Much.

NEW YORK. May 16.-Because he
talked too much baseball Arthur La
gazette, wealthy Cuban, who resides
in this city, has been committed to
the Bellevue hospital for examination
as to his sanity.
The committal was made at the re,
quest of his daughter, who became
alarmed over her fathers condition.
after he remarked in the lobby of an
uptown hotel that he was confident he
could beat any ball player in the Ma
tional league"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
o Watch o,Brlen Work

To Watch O'Brien Work.
President Justice will attend the
game between Ottumwa and Keokuk
this afternoon for the purpose of see
ing O'Brien, the umpire. in action
There was considerable criticism
about his work during the opening
series in Burlington, but the execu.
tive wants to see for himself how the
Indicator man performs
The Keokuk team goes to Burling.
ton tomorrow morning for three
games. The players depart at 1885
and will thus be in for good night S
rest tonight. Ottumwa is the second
series on the trip. Catcher Sweeley
will join the team there, coming
from his home in Mason City to where
he went Saturday night. 1t is expect
ed that his hand will be in such shape
that he can catch by that time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
Let Us Help You to make
a Good Real Estate Catch


II you want to catch home; if
you want to catch good investment,
we can help you.
3-room, Z lots, w. 5000
Groom brick, water, N. s.. So, 600
Groom brick, water, N. s.. $4,000
broom frame cottage, N. s....s1,5oo
Groom brick, modern, N. s.. SO, 500
Broom modern, good, N. S.. $4,000
1o-room, two lots, S. $4,000
9-room frame, fine lot, S. s.. $4,000
S-room frame, fine lot, S. s.. .s2,1Oo
S-room, Z lots, S. w. k. 5000
And many others on North Side,
South Side and West Keokuk Come
and see.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
CITY NEWS.

~ John Ham, commonly known 90
nrog-eye' by his associates ~ ,a a.
five ava was hned the regular two-eighty.
sum ana costs this morning in the
pe peeior court for disturbing the
cum me ne body Of the late j. R. Hol.
nm nm was sent this morning 10 sMan,
nus Mo, where it will he intarraa
Inc ~ deceased passed away last even
abon a. 'ne St Joseph's no pitsl after
t apout seven months illness do at'e -
tho n sulosis' II. Holcum also had
nr e misfortune to break a hin inst
s VIII, to his going to the hosnita,
leayas .iaae ,s MIN decline in health He
a wife and four children
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
LATE AFTERNOON
BULLETINS
by Unite l Press l

lNS".I
: MiNNEAPOLIS. Mimi. May 49,
aoN. A. o. Eberhardt, upon receiving
, n of the peril of the city of
Ds,,iid1l from the forest fires which
ea.iy Sunday, and appeals for help
o soh the citizens, today authorized
o - Forestry Commissioner Andrews
y. st. Paul to direct the Minnesota
NATIONAL guards in the north to do
WA mna' .ney could to save the city. Col
s ~, richie of Duluth was telegraphed
~, ~ and company was put on board a
s. this morning. Militia companies
ton.. erookston and other northern
soa, nave also been ordered to the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
THE DOCTORS WERE
GOOD TO HIM
A Patient At The Neal Institute
Omaha, Tells Of How He
Was Treated.

IN a personal letter to State Senator
Bruce, while speaking of the Neal
Cure, recently cured patient said:
I can truthfully say that was new
| er better treated in my lift than | was
at the Neal Institute, Omaha The
doctors, nurses and attendants are all
fine gentlemen. You may rest assured
That anyone whom can induce TO take
the cure shall. The Neal is just what
one needs who cannot quit drinking IT
cured me right in three days. without
hypodermic injections
(Signed) "
The Neal Is an internal treatment
without hypodermic injections that
cures the worst case of drink habit
at the institute or In the home in
three days.
No Cure, No Pay
It Is the moral duty which every
person addicted to the drink habit owes
TO his family, relatives, friends. socie,
ty and the public, also everyone who
is interested in or knows of one who
is addicted to the drink habit, to call
upon, write or phone the Neal Cure
today for free copies of their guaran-
teed Bond and Contract, booklet, ties.
timonla's, endorsements and bank
references, which will be cheerfully
furnished. Address
The Neal Cure
Institute, K. c. SOP 9th Street Des
Molnes Iowa; also Davenport, Sioux
City, Iowa, and Omaha. Neb.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
O.. . HAT 8

Do not throw them away. Have
your old hats made new. Hat
ter, Osburn's barber shop, sos
Main street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16

Train 473-Leaves Keokuk. .7:4o am
Train 741-Leaves Keokuk. 1855 pm
Train 472-Arriyes Keokuk. .S:15 pm
TRAIN 470-Arrives Keokuk. 1905 pm
Local Freight Trains.
Train S6-Arrives Keokuk. $50 pm
'Train S5-Leaves Keokuk. 900 am
xDaily except Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
CITY NEWS.

The Cosmopolitan Carnival Com
PAWS band of fifteen musicians. fur.
nished music during the morning and
afternoon on Main street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-16
AsX95,1,YI'''!(!!IE|x>G ~
Marriage Announcement.

announcement has ben made of the
coming marriage of Miss Bertha Smith
ana William Settler, both well known
young people of this city.