The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-02
Tom Green or Burlington Gazette
Stays Out all Night and Then
Pens Few Lines on ouin-
cy Publication.
THREE O'CLOCK EDITION
Contains Movement of Advance Guard
and Preparations That Are
Being Made In Hofcrtown
to Leave c. A.

Tom Green in the Burlington Ga
zette has something real spicy re-
garding the press notices emanatlng
from Quincy. This is the way he tells
It:
The Blink Eye, representative
publication of Quincy, Ill.,, devoted to
sporting persiflage, is issuing hourly
editions melting the imprisoned
Quincy fans to insurrec,ion against
the Central association. Some of the
excerpts from this journal will no
doubt be of interest to the followers OF
base ball around the circuit. Says the
three o'clock in the tomorrow morn
ing edition of the Blink Eye:
''The detained in the Central asso-
citation penitentiary made desperate
attempt to escape last might. 1t is said
that some friends from the outside
slipped Chief Hofer q newspaper file
and that he had succeeded in going
through several bars when discovered
by Warden Justice and placed in the
against the injustice of .s-scice. He is
being Guarded closely by two specia,
bartenders.
cat the meeting of the fKotofel
Salad skat club last evening, agree.
n,ent was entered into and solemnly
PLEDGED in the mystic sign of the
crooked elbow that if the Central as
ISOLATION prison doors are not opened
to Herr Hofer and his fellow natriots,
an order to be drawn unon the t"cos-
urv for such amount as will be rec ir-
ed TO purchase sufficient rome to en-
able the club members to make a suit
ah'e exit from this mundane sphere.
Joe Freihurg seconded the motion
Col. Harry Wood has shown him
self to he a real patriot in this great
crieis He saws that if NJ Hofer and
his followers are not granted their
his hosiery to all visitors from Burl-
inpton. Hannibal. Ottumwa. Ga1eshurg
Monmouth. Kewanee md Keokuks
Three cheers for Col. Wood. He also
offers to raise volunteer comnany
to 20 10 the front comrosed of his
he'll hops to fight the battle OF liberia
ton
I'VE get it from a reliable source
that the Naval Reserves are sleeping
on their arms nightly in order 10 be
ready al minutes notice to go to the
relief of Patriot Hofer. and storm
ing of the citadel of --oRuk is ex-
pected any minute.
The ENJOYS extraordinary of our
capture, Messrs. Justice, Davidson and
Sterne. are expected any day. They
will be met by 2 grievance committee
OF 1.500 citizens, including the 375
who have moved in since the census
of decade ago
I'VE are pleased to publish exclu-
sively the latest and generally recog-
nized as the most mastery contribu-
tion of Mr.. Perry Ellis, our poet laur-
cate and dilletante. AS tabloid lit
erary effusion and fitting to the occa.
sion it ranks along with some of the
masterpieces of the late Mr. Poe 1t is
as follows:
Give US our release We pray,
Allow us to go our way.
We've had enough of the old class
Cd"
We know We can easily reach higt
&C.
Deliver to us our release,
Please allow us TO go I'll peace,
We know we can make good else
where,
This poadage is too hard to bear
he straw ballot now being cas-
by the citizens of the commonwealth
has reached a stage that amounts t
almost frenzy. There is some dis
pute as to whether the ballot shout
be baled or merely stacked when j
is completed.