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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
KING EDWARD
ADMTRER OF IOWA
EngIand's Late Monarch Was Partial
to This State and Its Stock
of Fine Cattle.

Robert Ogilvile, the great horse Judge
told the following anecdote recently
regarding an Iowa man and the late
King Edward:
"Over in England people take great
err interest in the live stock exhibits
than we do here. This is due chiefly
to the fact tat the shows are patron
lied by the royal family, King Ed
ward is a BREEDER himself and knew
great deal about cattle. He goes to
the shows not only because he knows
his patronage encourages a great in
dustry, but because he likes cattle. He
always attends the royal show, and
have seen him at county fairs looking
over the exhibits. If tire head of our
government took the same intelligent
interest in the live stock industry as
the English monarch does. you would
see how quickly the public interest
! would be quickened. OF course the
attendance at our national shows has
always been large. and, in fact, has In
creased steadily year after year, but
I there is not in this country that same
great general public interest that is
displayed in England and Scotland
"The last time / was at the royal
show it was held in Lincoln. Professor
/ Kennedy. of Ames Agricultural col
/ lege was with our party, but in going
to the box from which we expected to
view the royal party, Professor Kenne-
! dy was separated from us Finding
that he could not get through the
crowd to where we were the professor
] decided to look over the sheep exhi-
bit. He had scarcely got into the
place when the superintendent of the
kings stock farm at Sandringham
whom he knew told him he was just
in time. that the royal party was just
coming in to see the sheep. A little
later the king arrived and Kennedy
was taken over and presented to him
The king showed great interested IL
, tire American cattle industry, ant
/ asked how his own entries at th'
! Chicago show had been received there
He was told that the American stool
raisers thought very highly of them
(" will it have any effect on tn
, sales of English stock in America?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
GOING TO FAIR
IN AUTOMOBILE.
State Fair of Iowa Will Attract an
Enormous Crowd This
Year.


I'VE are coming to the fair in our
autos. reserve camping ground for our
party That is the word received by
President Chas Cameron from score
of parties who will come across coun-
try from Iowa farms to the State Fair.
Word was brought from Keokuk
county by Thomas Legoe, director
that a party Oh a dozen automobiles
would come from there with the inten.
ton of camping through the fair
Five or six parties of farmers from
northern Iowa counties have sent fol
camp reservations. The tent people
say they never before saw such ar
early demand for tents. There are
perhaps five hundred tents in the
camp grounds of the State Fair at this
time.
In fact the automobile way has sud
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
TITLES TO
Be ATTRACTED
Force Will Start to Work on Mon
day Getting Chain Of Titles to
Many Pieces Of Property for
Water Power Co.
WILL TAKE SIX WEEKS
Task is an Ard1ous One and Will
Cost $5,ooo-optIons viii be
Taken Up Before Date
Of Expiration.

The titles to two hundred and TWEEN
ty-fiye pieces of property on which
options, expiring December 81, are
held by the Keokuk and Hamilton
Water Power company, ill be alb
stracted within the next six weeks.
Work will commence on Monday and
will cost the company about $4,000.
This announcement, coming from the
office OF the company in this city.
strengthens the belief. that all of the
options now held will be taken up
before the date of expiration, by which
time MANY details. dealing both with
the financial organization and the
physical work, shall have been worked
out and the construction can be push
ed forward to an early completion of
the project.
In round figures the two hundred
and twenty-five pieces of property.
lying both on the Iowa and Illinois
sides of the river, will cost the water
power company. s375000. This land
has frontage of nineteen miles on
each side of the river, seventy per
cent of which is under option on the
Iowa side and ninety-nine per cent
on the Illinois side. 1t is difficult to
estimate the acreage comprised by this
land, because for the most part 1t is
narrow strips extended but short
distance from the. river.
The work of completing the chain
of property is an ardorus task and will
be performed by local abstractors
and abstractors in Illinois. Horace
Anthony. engineer for the water power
company, has arrived home from the
west and will lend the abstractors
some assistance in this work. Having
surveyed and been over the territory
from sKeokuk to above Fort Madison
he is perfectly familiar with It and
will be invaluable in distinguishing
the various boundary lines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
3ensitiveness Of Earth.

The invention of the seismograph
for the study of earthquakes has led
to the discovery of the surprising sen
sitiveness of the crust of the globe to
forces that might have been thought
too insignificant to cause distortion.
Among these forces is the alteration
in the pressure of the atmosphere dur
Ing the passage of storms, causing a
perceptible fitting of large areas of
ground. Prof. Amori OF Japan declares
that storm which passed over the
sea east of Tokyo recently caused the
bordering land to tilt downward, not
withstanding the fact that the sea
rises with release of atmospheric pres
sure, and the accumulation of water
more than sufficed to counterbalance
tho decrease in weight of the air.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28

the present high prices paint material an
load consumers and jobbers of this article we
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28

y mixed paint can give the satisfaction that De
voc PAINT to give the best results perfect
~ Tor five years Ask your painter guarantee Job
OF lead and oil for five years he will tell you that
he doesn't guarantee anything. The manufacturers of
Devoe Paint guarantee it and guarantee it SO you
are doubly assured that the paint must be right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
asked the king

asked IHe KIHg.
81 am over here buying cattle as
direct result of your exhibit at the
Chicago show, replied Kennedy.
THE king talked for some time
along this line, and Professor Kennedy
was astonished at the intimacy of his
knowledge of the stock breeding bust
ness. He wound up the interview by
asking if it wasn't true that the heavy
mutton sheep of England were not
becoming unpopular with American
flock-masters, because in our dry elm
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
MAKE a Friend a Day.

One of the busiest men in busy
city says: Il try to make at least one
friend Gay" That seems more than
most of us can manage, and yet the
wayside spring on the country road
makes a friend of every passerby
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
All Weather Good !,

Sunshine is delicious, rain Is refresh.
ing. wind braces up, snow is exhila.
rating; there is really no such thins
as bad weather, only different kinds OF
good weather John Ruskin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28

in Nauvoo and vicinity are pleased
In the turn in her condition.
The tomato crop is large one in
and about Nauvoo and the potato and
cabbage crop is also good.
The Oriental hotel has number of
tourists this summer, more than for
several years. When the water power
dam is built Nauvoo will be the
finest summer resort in the United
States.
Nauvoo city dads are talking of
building new calaboose, not yet but
soon. People who are dealing in ma
terial for the building of such safety
keeping houses are sending many let
tiers here asking for privilege to bid
for construction. 1t will not be built
during this administration of Nau-
voo's council.
1t seems queer that Nauvoo people
will buy coffee, teas, spices. etc., from
foreign companies when they can pur-
chase just as good and better right
from their home merchants. A foreign
tea and coffee firm sends to Nauvoo
about 5000 worth of this kind of goods
almost every month, and our people
buy because they receive some small
premium by purchasing certain por-
ton of these goods. Trade away from
home and kill your town is a good
motto.
There will be a big meeting in
Nauvoo Sept. "a and %. The Utah
Mormons will meet in their once
stronghold in convention and over
eighty elders will be in attendance
| and splendid and instructive time is
expected.
/ Just think of Nauvoo having two
! piano houses and population of
/ about 1900. Towns much larger can
/ not support one
The grape crop in Nauvoo will be a
meager one this year. There will not
be ten car loads of this splendid
fruit shipped out of Nauvoo this
year. Most of the crop what is left
will be converted into wine.
Several more of our farmers are
1 talking of vacating their farms and
moving to Nauvoo, the city beautiful
Farm Whitcomb, candidate for sher.
1 iff of Carthage. was in Nauvoo last
Friday looking after his prospects
which are considered very good.
Alva Fuller and wife of near Chi
cago are visiting Mr.. and Mrs Geo
1 Jibben in this city for few days.
There will be hardly any walnuts
1 and hickory nuts in the timbers about
j Nauvoo but the hazelnut crop will be
large. Some are gathering the latter
| at this early season.
Nauvoo viii, pass another winter
without a trolley line and our people
will receive mail, express and freight
in the same old way. Perhaps 1911
may bring us something in the shape
of trolley line. At any rate we
live in hopes.
The Nauvoo city council will meet
in regular session Monday evening
Sept. 5, If Labor Day does not inter
fere. There will be nothing of great
in portance transacted at this meet
ing.
A family in Nauvoo manufacturers
one of the finest salves ever used or
4 the human body for sores, burns
4 boils, etc. and not one case of BLOOD
poisoning has ever resulted from its
use, but has arrested it in nearly
every case where j, has been used
This family does not make it FOL
profit. but only for the benefit of oul
people who may wish to use it ant
there are many here. If some one
with capital would place it on the
market fortune could be made on
4 of it, There are some Keokuk PEG
pie who can testify to that fact.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28

ate they have tendency to lose their
fleeces, thing that is true, but that
very few American sheep men are
aware of.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
PREFERRED DEATH
TO THE WEDDING
Girl Wanted to be Lawyers Wife anc
Not the Spouse of
Doctor,

GAINSVILLE, Ga, March 2l.-Be-
cause her parents tried to force her
to wed a man she did not love, MISS
jeanette McGee, student at Brenau
college and daughter of a wealthy
Way Cross family, made two attempts
to kill herself in the chapter house OF
Kappa Alpha Pi Sorority.
The girl drank potash solution first
but it failed to kill, and then took car
bolic acid Quick work by physicians
saved her.
Miss Nc Ghee loved a Way Cross
lawyer, but her parents insisted upon
| her marrying Dr. Payne, also Of Way
Cross. She finally consented to marry
PAYNE and ordered costly trousseau
The wedding was to occur in Gains
vile and her classmates were to be
/ bridesmai s.
Before taking the poison she wrote
a note. saying: Il prefer death tt
marrying a man do not love"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
TRAY Of DIAMONDS
MISSED FROM DECK
-Four Fusher Needed It to Fill and
the Police Are Trying to
Make Him Show
Down
VALUED AT OVER $1,000
Jewellery Store Misses Valuable Lot
Of Rings From Show Case
During a Busy
Day.

ST. LOUIS, March 21.-The police
of the Central district are puzzled
over the theft of a tray of diamond
rings said to be valued at 81, los from
show case In the salesroom of Lofts
Bros & Co., in the Carleton building.
The theft was discovered by one of the
persons in charge of the establish
ment. Saturday. At the supposed time
of the theft. c. w. Eudaley and Joseph
S. Lofts of Chicago, auditor OF the
company; two local managers, sales
man, bookkeeper and a stenographer
We're in the room, but none saw any
one near the case. The police say that
the case opens from the back and that
II an outsider stole the diamonds he
must have walked behind the case,
and that he ran big risk of being de
| tected
! 1t is said that just before the theft
was discovered a stranger, who d
been in the room for some time, and
who said he had been waiting for a
friend. departed. The tray was NOT
removed from the case and the police
say that 1t would have been nearly
| impossible for him to have gotten pos
session of it without being detected.
They believe that if he did get it he
had the assistance of some one famil-
t. with the manner in which tho
case opens.
Mr. Lofts and his assistants spent
nearly all day Sunday checking up
& their stock. They said that they did
not suspect particular person of
taking the gems All they knew was
that the diamonds had been stolen
J In one statement they said that tho
amount of the theft would not total
s1,105, but later said that they did not
know how many gems had cen stolen.
Employees of the building entertain
: the theory that some outside person
took the gems. They say that Satur-
day is busy day. end that a person
might remain in the store long time
without becoming conspicuous. Meth.
er the persons in charge of the store
nor the employees of the building are
4 inclined to discuss the robbery.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
MISSOURI BANQUET
HAS BEEN ABANDONED
Misconstruction of Invitation Sent to
Mayor Gaynor is Direct
Cause of 1t.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, March 2l.-
The committee having in oaar5e the
arrangements for the Jefferson day
democratic banquet, April l3 have de-
cided that the big feast Will not De
held This decision OF the committee
is announced as final.
The committees action was due to
several causes, but was influenced
largely by the misconstruction OF the
invitation sent Mayor Gaynor OF New
York The democratic love feast
was To celebrate the birthday OF tne
founder of American democracy. me
committee felt that such a meeting
would he OF considerable advantage
to the interests OF the party III MIS-
souri, and no thought of committing
the party in this section to the candl'
dacy Of any man for TIE presidency
was ever entertained by the members
of the committee.
"The misapprehension is chargeapie
to senatorial newspaper scrlbes ane
oyer-zealous friends of some MISSOURI
ans who regard their own presldentia
prospects little too seriously sait
a member of the invitation commit
tee
eI'm glad this feed has been calle'
off,, remarked an oldline democrat
I'VE couldn't have got a corporal
guard out to it anyhow
For two weeks Gov Emmett New
toms mail has been weighed with lei
ters from democrats all over the cour
try. declining invitations.
To add to the troubles OF the con
mitteo, Harry Hughes Went TO NeN
York. and after he had checked nj
luggage at hotel, looked up Harr
Walker, who has been holding a pol
tical position there for the past ~
teen years through his ability to star
presidential booms for dead 'uns,
and they filed columns OF the Ne
York Herald with slush about tn
whole southwest being solid for Ga.
nor for the presidency
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
TWO HORSE THIEVES
BREAK JAIL
Turnkey's Head Cracked with Iron
Bar and Keys and Revolver
Are Secured.

ELYIRA, Ohio. March 21.-Robert
Green, sentenced for being horse
thief and George Wolf, jailed ON the
same charge, escaped from the county
iail here this morning. Green attacked
the turkney with an iron bar. He
then took the keys and revolver, liber-
ating Wolf, and both left the jail. The
turnkev's skull was crushed and ne
was probably fatally injured. Green
was formerly a banker
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
Prof. Vauehns Corpse Not Allowed to
Remain Quiet and Content
in its Dark Narrow
House
rs EXHUMED SECRETLY
Tongue and Part of Spinal Column
Removed During the Night
and Taken to ST.
Louis.

PARIS, Mo-, March 21--The body OF
Prof. j. I Vaughn, former instructor
in the state normal at Kirksville, was
exhumed for the second time at Mon
roe City before daylight Sunday morn
ing. Attorneys for the state were tax
en- completely by surprise and were
not aware of what had happened until
the body was once more in the grave.
The exhumation was done at the re-
Mrs. Vaughn's brothers. Attorneys
who represent her decline to state
what portions of the anatomy were
removed, but it can be stated on good
authority that the tongue and spinal
column We're removed. The work was
done by DR.. George Still of Kirksville
and a young professional man OF St.
Louis. assistant to one of the patholo-
gists in the employ of the defense
The day and hour for the exhuma-
tion had been so well guarded that not
even the sexton of the cemetery knew
slumbers just before midnight. A
1 gang of assistants were quickly gath
cred, and by O'Clock the grewsome
work had been begun. An hour later
the great steel vault inclosing the cas-
ket was being hauled to the surface
with block and tackle.
Those in charge of the work evident
ly hoped to complete it before day
light but were baked and delayed by
the refractory locks which hold the
metal lid to the lower part of the
vault. Two hours of hard work were
required to remove it. This vault
supposed to be alright, watertigh
and burglar proof, was filed with wa
ter in which the heavy oaken caske
was engulfed. Once the steel vaul
: was opened the work of removing tht
body was a matter of only few min
utes. 1t was placed on stretche
and hastily carried to vacant build
ing on the cemetery grounds. DI
George Still then lost no time In pei
forming the operations necessary 10
: the removal of the parts desired b.
3 the defense for pathological examine
tions.
The body was in fine state of pre-
servation. TIE delay caused by tn
, obstinate vault locks made it imposs
Bile to get the body back III the gray
before o'clock, by which time
= crowd of people from the neighbo
hood, attracted by curiosity, had gatl
cred in the cemetery. DR.. Still and tn
st. Louis gentleman departed on tn
i first train.
t The parts removed from the dea
e educators body are now In st. Loui
n in possession of the same exper
:, who are analyzing the viscera secure
+ by Mrs. yaughn's attorneys on a WI
of replevin at Columbia last Monda
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
NATIONAL COMPANY
TO BE INDICTED
Grand Jury is After Packing Concern
and will Likely Find
True Bill.

CHICAGO, March 21.-Indictments
against the National Packing COM
pany, and concerns subsidiary here,
will likely be rendered by the speclal
grand jury before many days me
jury finished the taking OF testimony
Just before noon today, when Wallace
Krews, general counsel for the Ma.
tional. was examined. He was asked
for detailed information regarding the
organization and also for information
of relations said to exist between
the National Packing company, the
Hammond Packing company, Anglo
American company, Western Packin!
company and others.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
Woman. Aued 1902, cremated.

DE WITT, March 21.-Mrs. Frances
Work. aged 1O2, was burned to death
at the home of her son, Alex Work,
south of this city. She had replenish-
ed the fire which in some way ignited
her clothing. Her daughter-in-law
smelling smoke came to her assistance
but found her dead in her chair. She
had lived here for the past fifty years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
.AYDRAY uANG
FOUND GUILTY
each of Montrose and Robinson of
Harrington Are Among the
List to be Sent
enced
DEFENDANTS NOT SAD
Fourteen Men Were Found Guilty OF
the Charge Of illeaai Use Of
the United States
Mails.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, March I'll
:, ,udge Mcpherson in the federal court
entenced j. G. Maybray, the leader Of
is gang to two years in the Leaven-
worth prison and to pay fine OF
10000; some of the gang got off with
lighter sentences.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March
Ill. c. Maybray and thirteen of
lis associates who, for ten days, have
been on trial in the United States
district court charged with illegal use
of the mails in connection with an eX-
tensive swindle, were found guilty
by the jury, which returned a verdict
at IL o'clock Sunday. Robert e. l..
Goddard OF San Antonio, the fifteenth
defendant, secured disagreement.
Those found guilty are:
JOHN C. MAYBRAY.
LEON LOSER.
TOM S. ROBINSON (Farmington)
WILLARD POWELL.
CLARENCE CLASS.
EDWARD LEACH (Montrose).
EDWARD X. MORRIS (colored).
| CLARENCE FORBES.
HARRY FORBES.
ED MCCOY.
WINFORD S. HARRIS.
BERT R. SHORES.
WILLIAM (OLE) MARSH.
The latter three entered plea OF
nolle contendre, when the trial open
ed, that, in effect, being plea o.
| guilty.
Judge Mcpherson announced thai
the prisoners would be sentenced Mon
day morning at 10 O'Clock.
i The defendants accepted the yer
dict generally without show of feel
i ing. and Maybray shook hands will
several of the iurymen after they
were discharged.
| Mrs. Maybray broke down when the
verdict was read, and her husband at
tempted to console her. She sool
left the room, however, still weeping
Two years Imprisonment and fin
of $4,000 is the maximum penalt.
, that may be inflicted by the court.
Robert Goddard is under indictmen
in the Nebraska district of the fedora
court and will be tried again whel
other defendants are brought into tha
5 court.
All the defendants were locked u
5 Saturday afternoon Immediately afte
4 the jury received its instruction:
Y Twelve of them had been out on bon
y until that time.
/. Col Temple, the district attorne.
!. stated that he would probable NOV
e for the dismissal of Louis R. Stow
the Minneapolis man, charged wit
e being a member of the conspiracy.
o With the conviction of these d.
PENDANTS the government believes
has broken up the most monument;
swindling combination which ha
i, ever operated. Statistics have bee
gathered which show the receipts (
the combination since its organizatio
n about ten years ago, to have excee
ed s5,0o0,oo0.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
Philadelphia Carmen Vote to t2 to
Reject the Proposition Made by
the Transit Company to
Settle the Trouble
THE CHICAGO SITUATION
Federal Mediators Having Hard Job
and it Looks as Though Their
Work Was Not Sue
cessful.

CHICAGO, March 21.-The Chicago
Federation of Labor today stands on
record for nation wide boycott on
banks which originated in Philadel-
phia, as a means of forcing the tinan-
cial powers of the country to inter-
cede and stop the Philadelphia strike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
Union Refuses Proposition.

PHILADELPHIA, March 21.-By a
vote of to IL, the executive COM
mittee of the local Garments union,
after an all night session, rejected the
proposition of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Co., looking to settlement
of the trolley strike today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
PITTSBURG GRAFTERS
HAVE CONFESSED
six of them in Open Court Told ot
their Misdeeds While Serving
the City.

PITTSBURG, March 21.-Five form
er city councilmen and one present
member today confessed to Judge
Frazen in open court of having been
connected with councilmanic grating,
The men will be indicted this after
noon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-21
Taft at Yale.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 21.-
In his capacity as a member of the
Yale corporation, President Taft spent
several hours in considering affairs OF
the university.