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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
LEvEE BREAK
FOUND IN TIME
Farmer Discovered Il and Empted a
Load Of Hay in Break to
Save Land.

MEYER, III. Feb. 21.-Prompt ac
ton on the part of farmer in the Ii
ma levee drainage district prevented
what might easily have been very
serious loss in this district from a
break in the cross levee, one-half
mile from the river. A hole in the
levee about the size of barrel was
discovered, water pouring through
the levee from Quincy slough
The hole started about ten feet
above the pipes at the outside and
came out between the two pipes at
the inside The man who discovered
the break took one of his men and a
load of hay and placed the hay in the
gap, thus preventing further de"truc-
ton. The water is also going through
one of the pipes at the same place.
1t is very necessary that man
should be here on the ground all the
time to watch out for any damage
that might occur from muskrat holes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Those Who Are Opposed to Commits
sion Form of Government VIII
Be Carried to The
Polls.
WILL BE BIG BATTLE
Peoria Campaign is Lively One and
Ward Politicians Are Just
AS Busy as
Bees.

PEORIA, III Feb. 21.T The fight for
and against the commission form OF
government which will be decided al
an election in Peoria on February 2S.
has resolved itself into battle be-
tween the ward politicians, backed by
the breweries and distillery interests.
The forces working for the adop-
ton of the new plan of city control,
made application to the livery con-
Germs for the entire output of rigs to
be used on election day. The commit
tee was informed that every rig had
been engaged for that day
The taxi-cab stations We're then ap-
pealed to. but the opponents of the
commission form had hired all of the
taXicabs.
Both sides seem to have an unlimit-
ed amount of money and are pushing
their campaigns vigorously.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Was SURELY
WELL ARMED
Man owned $3.50 Rifle Years Ago
and Traded 1t For 12o Acres of
500 Per Acre
Land.
GAVE GUN FOR A COLT
Traded Colt for Land and Kept OF
Trading Until Now He Has
Valuable Farm in
Illinois.

CHRISMAN. ILL.,, Feb. 21.--Back in
the days before the war;, Adolphus
Keefer. of Seymour township bought
a rife in Tesre Hsute for st.50. TO-
day Keefer IS the owner of a farm Of
120 acres, worth 500 per acre, which
according to his story, he received in
trade, indirectly for the old rife.
After he had purchased the weap-
on a half century ago he equipped
it with new stock which he whit
tied out of walnut rail. He then
traded the old rifle to a neighbor for
sucking colt, which he allowed to
roam about the woods pasture until
it was three years old. Then he
traded the colt for forty acres of land
on which his farm house now stands.
This was heavily timbered land. Asher
Morton, we'll known saw mill opera
tor. owned forty acres adjoining that
of Mr. Keefer and having cut all the
heavy timber off the land and convert
ed it into lumber, wanted more timber.
Accordingly he proposed to trade his
forty acres for the timber on Mr..
Keefers forty, The latter accepted the
proposition and now had eighty acres
for his old gun. But in cutting the
timber Mr.. Morton removed only
such as was large enough to make
saw logs. There was quite quantity
of smaller timber left standing. An
other neighbor who had cleared forty
acres adjoining, and was working his
smaller timber into railroad ties and
4 cord wood, offered his cleared for
| ty' for the remaining timber on Mr.
Keefer's eighty, which was accepted
/ and the latter now had 100 acres OF
cleared timber land without the la
i bor or expense OF clearing it.
Mr.. Keefer is now 80 years old and
I still owns the 120-acre farm that cost
4 him an old rife for which he paid
only s15o.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
DOUBLE BARRELLED
NATURE FAKE
Fireworks and Tomcats as Part Ct the
Equipment Used to Hunt
Possums.

ABILENE, Texas, Feb. 21.--Pos. um
hunters in the Abilene country have
adopted unusual methods to capture
the little animal that goes SO well
with sweet potatoes.
Whenever : possum hikes to his
favorite persimnon tree aid blinks
at the pursuing dogs the hunters
shoot at him with roman candles. The
fireworks usually frighten the animal
into tumbling ON his roost, but
should this method fail, maltese cats
which are taken along for emergen-
cie- are sent up the tree.
The cats box the possums ears until
he is forced to leap to eyade the on
slaught. When the quarry lands in
the midst of the pack of dogs there
is either spirited fight or the pos
sum feigns that he is dead and is cap
tured.
Guns are useless in possum hunting
which is done on dark nights.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21

WORK OF LAYMEN
He Says They Can Accomplish Much
Good and Predicts the Pulpit
as End of Teddy
and Bryan.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-- Speaker
to-be Champ Clark. during an address
at the Calvary Baptist church of this
city. alluded to the Jeffries-Johnson
fight as that fake prize-fghting affair
of July last
None of us think prize fighting
very agreeable pastime or nice thing
to be fostered by an enlightened peo-
pie, he said yet twenty-five years
ago prize fighting could be carried
on in evey state of the union. Today
it is against the law in nearly every
state. Nevada was the last to get IN
line, and it is a pity that she did not
enact prohibitive laws against the
brutal sport before that great and
scandalcus fake was pulled off in
Reno last July
Mr.. Clark declared that the recent
activity of laymen in religious at
fairs had done much good and that
more good was to be expected from
this cooperation of the laity with the
clergy. He declared that President
Taft, Col Roosevelt and William Jen-
nings Bryan were qualified to go into
the pulpit and preach sermons. He
would not be surprised he SAID, II
! Col. Roosevelt or Mr.. Bryan ended as
preachers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
THIRTY YEAR
old MAIL Bag
Packet With $500 In the Doz-
en- Letters Hidden
Within.
WAS NOT ROBBERY
Rev. Charles Burdette indicated of
Loss Which Was Laid at
His Door in
1881.

PEORIA, ILL.,, Feb. 21.-Rev. Charles
Edwin Burdette, brother of Bob"
Burdette, the humorist, has been vim
dicated after thirty years, of any
blame in connection with the disap-
pearance of $4,000 from a registered
letter package sent out by the Peoria
postoffice of which he was registry
clerk.
The $500 disappeared in 1881, af~
ter it was put in twelve registered let
ters by the late John Comstock. The
evidence was against young Burdette,
and after the first investigation, Com
stock demanded that Gen. ID. Magee,
postmaster at Peoria, who died last
year, Immediately discharge the regis
| try clerk.
Comstock carried the matter to
Washington and an inspector came
from Chicago. He recommended that
Burdette be discharged, but the post
master refused to do SO, and Burdette
held his position. Burdette was work
ing to get money to study for the min
istry.
A few years after the Comstock
money was missed, Burdette left the
postoffice and went to Brown Uni
versity, and then to Newton Academy.
When he was ordained minister, he
was assigned as Missionary in AS
sam, India. He now has pastorate at
i springfield. Mass.
Into the repair shop at San Fran
. cisco a few days ago a battered mai
!, sack was sent to be patched. 1t was q
, veteran. and to repair it meant prac
, tically to make a new sack. The first
man to inspect the pouch decided il
/ needed new bottom, and with a
knife he ripped the leather. Above il
he saw big manila envelope. caught
by the corners. which served practical
| Ily as a false bottom. He opened the
envelope and found it to contain the
twelve Comstock letters and the miss
, ing $500 which had been wandering
: about the country for thirty years.
: When the finding OF the money
was reported to the Peoria postoffce
friends telegraphed to Mr.. Burdette
that the cloud hanging over him sc
long had been dispelled.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
PRESS BUTTON
TO OPEN FAIR
President Taft Will Communicate
With Honolulu o Wednesday
Night.

WASHINGTON Feb. 21.-President
will press button at the white house
TAT midnight Wednesday, and formally
open tile Elk's Carnival at Honolulu.
The Postal Telegraph-C Cable Company
will cooperate with the Commercial
Pacific Gable Company in making up
the circuit that will carry the electric
signal. A direct wire will run from
the white house to San Francisco.
where connection will be made with
the ocean cable.
When the president presses the
key the spark will l.sht UP clock at
Honolulu. This will be the signal for
the. opening Of the carnival at p. m.
February 81, which corresponds with
1880 a. M, Washington time, Febru
airy %
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
SAWS HIDDEN
in SAUSAGE
Link of Bologna Concealed Pair of
Fine steel Blades to Help the
Prisoner Break
Out.
TURNKEY WAS WISE
Little Johnny and Dos-Faced Charlie
Are Still Locked up For
Gary Election
Frauds

GROWN POINT, Ind. Feb. q An
other chapter in the history of the
Gary election fraud cases was writ
ten here in an effort to effect a jail
delivery OF John Boskovich better
known as Little Johnny, and his
companion. Dog Face Charley, for
mer Gary policemen, who are await
ing trial on charges growing out OF
the recent election riots.
Shortly after noon Jean Davidson,
colored, called at the Jail with a
package Of food which he SAID
Little Johnnys wife had prepared
for him. Davidson was released from
jail last Sunday, after serving a 30
day sentence, and was well known tc
the turnkey.
Opening the package he noticed q
ring of bologna sausage, and i'm
mediately broke it in two, DISCLOSING
two fine steel saws, each about II
inches long. Davidson was locked vi
in cell and an investigation is be
ing made
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Wife and Baby Sold for 25 Cents and
All Parties Appear to be Sat
sfied With The
Deal.
BORROWED THE MONEY
Purchaser Had to 90 Out and Make a
Touch Before He Could
Close The
Trade.

OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 21-Dick Wat
son of Omaha sold his wife and 49,
months-old baby girl to Chas. Roose-
welt for 25 cents.
Roosevelt borrowed the quarter
with which to purchase the couple,
took them home with him, and all
parties seem satisfied. Watson and
his wife, married three years ago,
have not lived happily. Last Monday,
after row, at on, in a spirit OF
bravado, said:
I'D sell you for quarter if any ore
would buy"
Roosevelt heard the remark and
said il he could borrow the money he
would take the bargain.
Roosevelt got the money, paid the
price and took his property. Fe rent
ed house and has been housekeeping
several days. Watson agrees to ash
for a divorce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Iowa Man is Slated to Take horton's
Job as Right Hand Man
TO the PresI-
dent.
SALARY IS IN DOUBT
Dawson is Not in the Lame Duck
Class and Although Young,
Has Had Much
Experience.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81. The latest
gossip states Representative A. F..
Dawson of Iowa to succeed Charles d.
Norton Of Chicago as secretary to the
president. Mr.. Norton, as announced
some weeks ago, soon will go to New
York to take high official position
with one of the big financial institu-
tions of the metropolis. The certain
ty that the salary of the presidents
secretary will not be increased to
$4,000 per year has removed the pos
sibility of Assistant Secretary of the
! 'easury Charles D. Hilles being ap-
Ninted to succeed Mr.. Norton, as he
has business opening which would
not permit him to make the sacrifice
involved at the present remuneration.
No formal offer OF the place will be
rendered until congress finally dis
! pttes OF the salary question. The sal-
ary still may be raised to $500. Mr..
Dawson has been picked by the gos-
sips, however. as the most available
man of the requisite ability in sight,
and it is understood that informally
al. offer has been made to him by the
president In other words it is be-
lieved Mr.. Dawson can have the place
ii he wants it.
Mr.. Dawson g not in the lame duck
! class, because he refused to be can
didate for denomination. Had he run
again he could probably have been re
elected He has had wide experience
for a young man. He was secretary
| to Senator Allison and gained dear
insight into politics and the ways oil
transacting business about the capital
Then, he was elected to the house and
has been one OF the active and hust
ling members of that body.
Mr.. Dawson is not classed s a pro
gressive, though as a regular he has
been less hidebound than many of the
regular element in congress. Will
the next political campaign comins
on, the administration needs in tht
position Of private secretary mar
who is at once competent to advise OIL
political matters and who is on goot
relations with both the old guard a
me capital and the progressives. Mr.
Dawson's personal relations with thu
republican members of the house AM
senate without respect to faction ar
good
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
OLD BASKET
AS DEATH TRAP
Prong Of Willow Punctured Baby's
Neck and Resulted in its
Death.

ALTON, ILL.,. Feb. 21- William, the
2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lewis, living east of Alton, was fatal
ly injured Sunday by willow prong
projecting from an old clothes basket.
The prong penetrated the back of his
neck and pierced his windpipe
The child was playing in a big
clothes basket, with another basket
close by The child tipped his clothes
basket boat over. and in falling
struck the projecting prong of the
other basket. A surgeon extracted the
long piece of willow, but the boy died
yesterday morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
First Showing of the New Millinery
Includes the New Sumner
the London Bobby
Helmet.
LIKE SCENIC RAILWAY
Nothing Goes This Year Unless it
Has Trail of Flowers or
Butterflies
Around it.

CHICAGO. Feb. 21. Stand back,
ladies and gentlemen, here comes the
new spring hat. Don't crowd the new
hat there, mister. Step down in the
gutter, will you please.
Why. Oh! All. What's that? Lady
policeman?
No, monsieur, eet ees nam selle
with her new London bobby" hat
No brim, m'seur-eet ees a helmet,
you observe. That ees the new spring
style.
Breathe again. gentlemen The Ma
tional Association Of Retail Milliners,
by decree, has tied the can Of old
style to the wide buzz saw brim on
the summer hat and humanity may
once more pass unmolested along the
public way without fear.
The association is to hold its f;ftieth
annual convention in the green room
of the Congress Hotel next Friday and
Saturday. According to Nine. Maerie,
the president, the great and stunning
HIT Of the season is to be the brimless
London bobby" helmet
The London bobby will be varied
in trifiing details and one of the
nearest kin to it will be the Roman
war" bonnet. The latter will bear
close resemblance to the helmets
wcrn by the legions of julius Caesar.
Besides being close copies OF the
! shape and style. these helmets viii
carry as ornaments. the gladiator's
! short sword thrust through wide
/ bow on the side
4 Another new style to be exhibited
/ will be the empire" bonnet, also
/ brimless. The empire is designed rs
an ayiator's headpiece. 1t is revers-
/ ible-for street style the visor faces
4 downward and for air flight is turned
/ backward.
( The coed hat VIII introduce a
new rimless sryle in the straw hat
| family. It's general appearance is
similar to the elevation plan of a
/ scenic railway. 1t is made of rice
| straw and has band of plain black
velvet with lilac and forget-me-nots
and lilies of the valley There is an
4 immense butterfly on the side.
No hat will be in style this spring
urIess it has trailing around on prem
4 ises a dollhouse display of flowers and
! butterflies
Even the wedding hats and the ac
ccmpanying bridesmaids hats, which
| have been genere ,ly exempted from
/ the wide brim ban, must have the
flowers and the butterfl es. An outfit
/ of this kind that is being prepared 70,
a certain occasion is made with 6
4 trimming of ribbon roses over s
4 drapery of renaissance lace. The
brides hat has an immense butterfly
of silver cloth.
One hat-not of the straw variety
I that will be seen somewhat this sum
mer. according to the prognosticatior
of the heads of the milliners' associa
ton, will be the Rembrandt"
|. bears resemblance to the Chimes,
mandarin's headpiece and is notice
able for the fine lace spread that il
draped over it, like the lamp mat from
the library table.
There will be at the exhibition
display of the whole hat family-fr
the great-grandmother hat to the bab.
! hat for the go-cart population. Blu
the wide brim straw hat is tabooe,
for one and all
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Seven kenyonites Desert Him and
Deemer tlas Grand Total of
Fifty Votes.
Today.
VETO BY GOVERNOR
Carroll Turns Down the Oregon Pri-
mary Law Which Was Passed
Few Days
Ago.

DES MONIES, Feb. 2l.- Coy. Car
roll appeared before the joint session
OF the legislature this noon today and
read his veto OF the Oregon primary
law passed by the democrats. He
said that he vetoed it because it
might result in democrat being elect
ed to the United States senate.
An effort will be made to pass the
bill over the veto of the governor.
The twenty-seventh joint ballot for
U. S. senator today resulted as fol
lows:
Deemer, so
Kenyon, 40.
Porter. AZ.
Seven Kenyon men went to Deem
er, giving him the highest vote he has
received so far.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Weather Conditions.

There has been light snow from the
Upper Mississippi to the eastern
coast, following the Lake depression,
which has passed cut on the north
eastern coast
The western field of high pressure
has pushed southwark and eastward
its crest remaining in Montana, caus-
ing colder weather over the entire
territory east of the Rockies, and the
temperature has ranged from zero to
twenty below over the Northern Noun
tain and Plateau Regions.
Conditions indicate fair weather for
this section tonight and Wednesday,
and somewhat colder tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
GAS HOUSE
HAD EXPLOSION
One Man Was Blown Out of Window
and Into the Snow
Bank

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21 Eight persons
were injured, two seriously when the
meter department and laboratory OF
the LaClede Gas Co. was wrecked by
an explosion rly this morning.
Thomas Turner was blown through
a second story window and landed in
a snow drift He will recover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
DUKE OF ABRUZZI
rs COMING OVER
Has Leave Of Absence From Navy
and Will Woo Miss EIkins
Auain.

LONDON. Feb 21.-The Duke of
Abruzzi has obtained a leave of alb
sence from his naval command and
will come TO America, it is said, by
the Rome correspondent of London
newspaper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
BATTLESHIP
IN GREAT DANGER
F'rc Close to Magazine Room Where
Powder Was Stored on
Board.

BOSTON, Feb. 21. That the bat
sleship New Jersey was in grave
uanger last night when fire was dis
eovered in the dynamo room next to
we forward magazine room was ad.
united today. 1t is believed the fire
was caused BY short circuit. For
!. & time It was feared the flames
would communicate with the maya
sine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
BANDITS LOOT
IN MANCHURIA
Serious Trouble in China Who're Dis
ease and Crime go Arm in
Arm

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 21.-Ser-
ious disturbances prevail in the plague
districts in Manchuria today as a re-
suit of the closing Of all industries.
Many men have turned bandits and
looting is general
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Strike Breakers Used.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 21.-The
first effort on the part of the New
York Central to break the strike OF
the boiler makers, was made when
strike breakers We're brought from
Chicago and placed In the shops.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Fruit Growers Win.

WASHINGTON Feb. 21.-Free use
of refrigerator cars was awarded the
Western Fruit Groves by the inter
state commerce commission in de-
cision today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Reno Romance.

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.A romance
which began in the divorce colony in
Reno eliminated today in the marri-
age of Richard Stoddard and Alice
Regal Johnston, wealthy New York
er. Stoddard met Miss Johnston while
she was in Reno prosecuting di-
yorce case. The couple will go to
Paris on honeymoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
YEGGMEN ROB
SOUTHERN BANK
Got Away With $1,000 While the citi-
zens Were Putting on
Clothes.

ANTE CITY, La, Feb. 21.-Two
yeggmen robbed the Amite City bank
and trust company early today and
escaped with $4,000. Citizens were
aroused by the explosion but by the
time they arrived on the scene the
men had escaped.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
THE WEATHER.

Until p. m. Wednesday.
For Keokuk and Vicinity Fair to-
night and Wednesday. Colder to-
night
For Illinois Fair tonight and We'd
nesday. Colder tonight.
For Iowa Fair tonight: colder in
east portion. Wednesday fair. Rising
temperature in northwest portion.
For Missouri-Fair tonigh, and
Wednesday, Continued cold
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Golden Bill Passed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.--The house
today passed the Golden bill granting
permission fer the erection of a
statue on one of the islands in the New
York river.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Roosevelt in chicaoo.

CHICAGO, Feb. IL Elaborate
preparations are being made to greet
Col. Roosevelt who will arrive here
this afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
For A Greater Keokuk
Citizens Selected to Act as Directors
of the keokuk Industrial Asso-
ciation--Worthy and Well
Qualified.

A. D. AYREs.
G. R. JOY.
THEo. A. CRAIG.
THOs. H. JOYCE.
JAMES CAaERON, JR.
A. E. TOMBSTONE.
]. A. DUNLAP.
FRANK LEBRON.
J. F. ELDER.
JOHN NAGEL.
L. A. HAMILI4.
G. NJ. RICH.
JAMES HUIsKAMP.
WELLS M. IRWIN.
IRA w. WILLS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Fire in Wichita.

WICHITA, Kan, Feb. 81 . Fire gut
ted three large buildings in the heart
Of the city today, causing loss of
$4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
Daily River Bulletin.
stage. Height. Change. Wealth.
River Forecast.

The river will cease 10 rise during
the next "a hours, beginning to fall
by Thursday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-21
LocaI observations.

Mean temperature, Feb. q, %
Highest temperature. %.
Lowest temperature, 16
Lowest temperature last night, 1t
FRED d. GOSEWIScH.
Observer.