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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

I'll wager he doesn't intend to miss anything
like this"
Kitty sat down in secluded corner with
her father and talked busily with him.
"Wyeth is young ass-I've always said
sol" declared the elderly man with growing
indignation. II hope you will cut him abso-
lutely if he plays this sort of trick to-
night.
Kitty thought deeply and seemed to be
trying to create Mexican drawn-work
effect in her handkerchief.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

The more l see of you, the more firmly l
am convinced that you are an insufferable
snob, Billy Wyeth.
He laughed heartily again. you've
grown SO disagreeable since your military
success in the Massachusetts, maneuvers
that it's only by continually looking at you
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

you distinguished people have quite spoiled
me for dull company"
"Um," said the Major, almost discour-
teously, and began watching the naval
spectacle anew, with show of interest
Mrs. Tindale came out of the cabin and
shivered as she felt the fresh breeze on the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

'T what a celebration
really is, may be left
to the dictionary or
public opinion; but
after the Hudson
Fulton Celebration,
Miss Kitty Cowles
would have declared
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Farmers Demonstration Train.

Fort Collns.-Neyer has there been
more complete institute train sent
out in any part of the country to the
farmers than the one which will start
from the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege AMI carry to the farmers OF Colo
RADIO q liberal education, both by ex
hiblts, illustrations and lectures by ex.
perts OF the college. Over three rail.
road lines this train, with four cars OF
exhibits, and another carrying the lee
turers, this train will travel, and it will
be out for four weeks. Deep interest
is already being manifested in the trip
and every farmer in all sections Of the
state will eagerly await the coming o;
the train.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
WASHINGTON.

All the developments now favor
vote in the Senate on the Canadian
reciprocity agreement before adjourn.
ment, March 4th.
In the court room OF the United
States Court Of Customs Appeals, the
recently established Commerce Court
held its first public session.
The Senate committee on interstate
commerce, after spirited contest, de.
cided to give additional hearings on
the House bill to prevent speculation
IN cotton futures.
DR.. Edwin Powell, a noted surgeon
of the Civil War and who was in
charge of clinical surgery at Rush col.
lege in Chicago for several years, died
in Washington Of heart disease.
Representative Amos Lawrence AL.
len, who succeeded the late Speaker
Thomas B. Reed as congressman from
the First district in Maine, is criti.
oally i'll with pneumonia and is not
expected to live.
When the plans Of the two battle
ships to be appropriated for by this
session of Congress are submitted for
iinal approval. it will be recommend.
&c that the motive power be derived
f,om fuel oil exclusively.
President Taft's reciprocity agree.
ment with Canada was ratified in the
House through the support of an al.
most solid Democratic vote. The Nc.
Call bill, carrying the agreement into
effect, was passed, 221 to 80.
Postmaster General Hitchcock. In
asking Congress for an appropriation
of $l,0O0,OOO for the establishment of
500 additional postal savings banks.
declares the forty-eight banks already
established have proven entirely sue.
cessful.
Enmeshed in an apparently hopeless
tangle over the joint resolution provid-
ing for the election of United States
senators by direct vote. and in the
face of positive opposition from the
champions OF the measure, the Senate
has appealed to President Taft to as.
sist in getting a night session in the
interest of dispatch of business.
Secretary Dickinson has given no.
t'ce to the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company and the California g. Atlantic
Steamship Company of the termina-
ton of the existing arrangement
whereby those carriers are allowed 10
per cent of the total freight charge
On goods transported between New
York and San Francisco via the Pana.
ma railroad.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Whitford Decision Upheld.

Denver.-The State Supreme Court
denied the application for super.
sedeas made ON behalf of sixteen min.
crs from Boulder county serving sen.
tence for contempt Of court, imposed
by Judge Whltford Of the District
Court. Through this refusal the Ap-
pellate Court upholds the position
taken by Judge Whitford that he had
jurisdiction In the cases at issue.
This question Of jurisdiction was the
oily one before the higher court; the
supersedeas was sought on the re.
fusal Of Judge Whitford to transfer
the injunctive proceedings from this
district to the judicial district Of
which Boulder county Is part. The
finding Of the court was by four to
three Chief Justice Campbell. jus.
tees Gabbert, Garrigues and Bailey
against issuing the supersedeas. Jus.
tices Hill. White and Musser forming
the minority.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
SPORT.

Art Edenfield, wrestling champion
G. Kansas. threw Jack Brauman of
Denver twice within an hour at Wich.
ita.
Willie Gibbs of Philadelphia and
Tommy Dixon of Memphis, feather
weights. fought ten fast rounds to a
draw in Kansas City.
Shortly after midnight Frank COT.
fyn broke the worlds record for alti.
tude In a Wright biplane In Augusta
Ga. He rose 500 feet. The previous
night record was held by the late
Arch Hoxsey, with $50 feet.
At the end OF twenty rounds OF the
best fighting seen In Leadville, Colo.
in years, Referee Charles Boyne raised
the hand OF Peter Jenson, the "Bat.
tling Dane" Of Denver, into the air
thus signifying that he had defeated
kid" Ross Of New York.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
GEN ERAL.

Joseph D. Rockefeller, cousin of
John d. Rockefeller. died at his home
IN South Bend, Ind. at the age of 90.
The Tennessee Packing & Provision
Company, s2,0OO.0OO corporation of
Nashville, has been thrown into bank
ruptcy.
W. S. O'Brien, forty.two years old,
enc of the best known trainers of trot.
ting horses In the United States, died
al Waukegan, Ill.
Fire destroyed the Calumet ele.
vator, six-story structure, in Chica-
go, containing 100000 bushels Of
grain, causing loss of 100000.
Six nuns driven out of Portugal by
the Republican government which de.
throned King Manuel have arrived in
New York en- route to Baker City,
Ore.
Pressed by the Rockefeller and
kuhn.Loeb interests George j. Gould is
shortly to relinquish the presidency of
the Missouri Pacific Railway Compa.
ny, a position in which his father
placed him eighteen years ago.
Charles F. Morek, a professional,
though comparatively inexperienced,
aviator, was forced to dive into the
Hudson river with an aeroplane while
trying to fly from a point near the
New Jersey palisades to Central park
en- Manhattan island. He narrowly
escaped with his life.
Philadelphia.-The funeral of the
Right Rev. OH Whitaker, Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Pennsylvania. was held from the
Church OF Our Saviour. interment tax.
ing place in the graveyard of the
Church of st. James the Less, Falls
Of Schuylklll, this city.
Seven persons lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed the home OF j. D.
Hardin In Sutton, w. Va. Only Mr..
iiuiu SoNap'u' 'hV OLA IeIudluIHb
members Of his family and a little
girl who made her home with the Har.
dins perishing In the flames. Natural
gas caused fire.
Washington.-Representative Benne.
OF New York, one Of the Republicans
who voted against Canadian reciproc.
ity, has introduced In the House res.
olution requesting the President to en-.
ter into negotiations with the British
government looking to the annexation
OF Canada by the United States. The
resolution was referred to the commit.
tee on foreign affairs.
The high cost OF living received a
setback when eggs In the Kansas City
market declined two cents q dozen
ard hog prices went twenty cents a
hundred pounds lower. Eggs we're
fourteen to sixteen cents wholesale.
which Is sixteen cents lower than at
the beginning Of the year. Hogs are
selling s1.25 lower than last year; cat.
lie fifty cents to one dollar lower. and
sheep 81 lower.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
western Slope Heard From.

Grand Junction.-The Moffat tunnel
for which a bill has been introduced
IN the Legislature providing for a
bond issue of s5,OOO.OOO to have the
work constructed by the state, will
meet with the violent opposition of
every commercial organization on the
Western Slope If the projectors of the
measure do not definitely include in
The bill clause that will forever pre-
vent the tunnel from being used for
the purpose OF carrying Western Slope
waters to the Eastern Slope.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Big Project Commenced.

Grand Junction.-Followlng the or.
ders of Secretary Ballinger, local Off
GERS of the reclamation service have
begun establishment Of farm units for
the Grand Valley project. The total
iIrigable area Is $4,000 acres, Of which
1O,45O is public land withdrawn from
entry; 1880 acres land entered un.
Ger the reclamation act. making a
tctal Of 3OO7O acres subject to this
act. There Is 2O.720 acres Of private
lands, of which 1890 acres has been
subscribed to the project. The re-
naming 2.2lO acres consist of lands
entered. but not subject to the provi-
sions OF the reclamation law.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

A general rain has fallen in Nebras-
ka and western KaQsas. This was the
first rain OF consequence in five
months
The gasoline schooner Oshkosh was
wrecked on the south spit OF the Co.
lumbia river. Portland. Ore, and seven
lives were lost.
Overcome by an irresistible desire
to shoot something, John Cash, q
street vender from Denver, shot and
killed Frank Harris, at Los Angeles.
Declaring persons guilty of small
thefts are unknown to the authorities,
citizens of Fort Lupton, Colo..9 are
planning a vigilance committee to
drive thieves out of town.
The summer hotel at Moclips,
WASH, containing 1926 rooms, one-half
OF which was washed into the sea,
probably will have to be abandoned,
as large part Of the remaining wing
is hanging over the water and may
fall with high tide.
David Leahy, private secretary to
Gov. Stubbs. was summoned before
the bar of the state Senate of Kansas
to give his authority for statements
made in newspaper article written
by him that political crookedness is
rampant in the Legislature"
The United States Army transport
Buford. which will carry a cargo of
provisions for the relief Of the famine
victims in North China, will sail from
Seattle March 10th. according to an
announcement made by the relief
committee of the. Seattle Commercial
Club.
Using one Of his hydro-areoplanes,
Glen Curtis alighted on the water
alongside the armored cruiser Penn.
sylyania, at San Diego, Cal, and was
hoisted on board. Soon afterward the
aeroplane was dropped back into the
water and the aviator flew away to
his hangar on North Island.
Two hundred lawyers In all parts
ol the country acted as jury to de-
-termine tho proper fees to be allowed
attorneys in Kansas case. and one
firm which asked 100000 will get
s2,5O0. another firm that sought $780,.
900 will receive $500, and a third
who asked $4,000 will get what he
asked nv
That twenty-five million of the hum
dred million dollars rehabilitation
fund raised for the Gould lines would
be used to double track the Rio Grande
from Denver to Salt Lake was the
statement made at Salt Lake by a
high official OF the Gould system.
The work, he added, would be fin
ithed by 1915.
Twenty years after the crime was
committed, Gov. Cruce has honored
the requisition for James Bremen, a
wealthy farmer OF Kiowa county,
Oklahoma, to be returned to Woods
county, Kansas, to stand trial for the
murder of Sam Woods, the founder of
Woodsdale, Kan. and q pioneer OF
Stephens county.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Palisade Land High.

Grand Junction.-The high value of
falisade peach land may cause the
Grand Mesa Coal Company to close
Its mine. 1t is hemmed in because it
has no road into Palisade from the
mountains to the north., and the
orchard land owned by Walter Stokes
LES between their mine and the town.
This strip of land, forty rods long and
sixty feet wide, which the mine own.
crs want for a road. is held at $4,000.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Natural Gas at lift,

lliff.-I. A. Collard who recently
struck flow of artesian water on
lis farm adjoining Tiff at depth Of
AGO feet reports enough natural gas
tc heat and light his buildings. Mr..
Collard and otter property owners in
that locality are considering the or
ganization Of company to bore a
Geep well in Iliff and believe that
there are good prospects for oil here.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
FOREIGN.

The Morning Post Of London, says
there are isolated cases Of the bu.
homie plague at Glasgow and East
Anglea.
Strained to the breaking point are
relations between Russia and China,
and Russia has notified Great Britain,
France and Germany Of her intention
Of making a military display on the
Chinese frontier.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Would Pay $4,000.

Washington.-Senator Guggenheim
introduced a bill appropriating $780,
Goo to Paul Mulock OF Leadville, to
be full satisfaction and compensation
for use by the United States Of GER
tain inventions Of his used in rifling
for firearms.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Street Lights for Loveland.

Loveland.-A decorative and orna-
mental system of street lighting, simi-
lar to that of Denver, will soon be in
stalled here, and make Loveland one
of the best lighted towns north of
Denver.
The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
March 2-3-Colorado Stockgrowers AS.
sociation Convention. Denver.
\ Company Exonerated.

Trinidad.-The verdict of the coro-
ner's jury on the Cokedale explosion
has been made public and confirmed
the forecast made recently, exonerat-
ing the Carbon Coal and Coke Com.
rany.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
NOW IN LEAD
FOR BILLIARD HONORS
League Exists, Although Fen Are Aware
of H-Other Gossip of Timely Interest.

There are few followers OF the billiard
game in this city who are aware of the
fact that d National Billiard League eX-
lists, composed OF the following cities:
Brooklyn. New York. Chicago. Kansas
City. Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburg,
and Boston.
Some time last summer the story was
sent out from Chicago that Johnny
Killing, the famous Cub catcher, was
quietly laying plans for league to be
formed from four cities in the East and
four in the Middle West. At the time no
attention was paid to the rumor, as it
was thought on all sides to be merely an
idle dream on the part of the great ball
player and would never be given serious
thought by the men whom he was to ap-
prOach in the different cities in regard
to putting the league under way.
That King has gone through with the
project and il is meeting with success
can be testified to by the encouraging
reports from all the cities in the circuit.
Kling-who by the way. is president of
the league-predicts far greater sue
cess for the organization next season. in
aSmuch as the promoters in the differ
ent cities have passed through the eX-
perimental stage and are now prepared
to handle the second tournament with a
complete understanding of all the work.
ing details
The standing of the league to date fol-
lows
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
~ ~LEN' COLLINS.

Tho chances of ABE" Langtry accept
ing the secretaryship of the American
Bowling Congress, II the resolution to be
brought up by the St. Louis bowlers dur
ing the coming tournament convention
goes through. are very slim. This new
rule which the Mound City delegation
hopes to place in the constitution Of the
A b. c. requires that the national Sec
retary shall devote his entire time to the
duties Of the Office, and in consideration
for such services shall receive an annual
salary of $500. While the financial end
Of it looks very alluring, 1t Is not likely
that Langtry will give up his bowling
enterprise in Milwaukee which no doubt
brings him more in a financial way than
the secretaryship Of the parent body
would. ABE" is the sole owner OF one
o. the finest bowling alleys in the Mid
die West, and IT is rumored that he dis
likes the resolution which is to be ad
vanced One of St. Louis leading bowl
ers had the following to say in regard
to the new rule which they wish to see
go through:
I'VE have a big bowling organization.
but few members really know what is
GOING OH OutSiuc VI tHcu O"H eo"h- roa
that reason we want to have the secre-
tary give US more particulars as to what
is happening outside of our own circle.
There are something like eighteen medals
offered each year for high singles. dou-
bles. and teams. but I believe i am safe
in saying that not a single bowler in st.
Lotus knows what individual or teams
have rolled the best scores this season.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

David Gibson. writing in the Neighbor,
gives a picturesque description of the
early days of Jacob Schaefer, as follows:
A good many years ago, when the
writer was a very young boy in Indian
apolis. he used to stand in the alley door
of certain saloon and watch one of the
getic young fellow. who was constantly
playing billiards with himself
1t was typical German-American sa-
loon of twenty-five years ago. There
was a long walnut bar with the rail pol
ished by contact Of many elbows; there
was a lot of well-scrubbed ash tables COW
cred with chalk marks on top where
lot of bass drum-stomached old fellows
with Niagara Falls voices played pi-
nochle during the late hours Of the aft
ernoon. There was an old pointer dog
which lay behind the stove; a mocking
bird in a wire cage hung high up to the
ceiling where the cat couldn't get him;
there was a little wasp-like grandmother
with a coil of hair about as big as a
cloak button who puttered about and
kept the free lunch manger filled. The
remaining space was filled with four or
five billiard and pool tables and presided
over by this black-haired, black-eyed.
energetic young fellow. He was very
busy-cleaning out the place. carrying
beer and lunch to the patrons, setting
pool games, but every minute away
from his work he played billiards with
himself, practicing. He could beat any,
body in the neighborhood. and finally be-
gan handicapping himself by giving his
opponents fifty points.
Every minute away from his work he
played billiards with himself. practicing.
Than fv l,or M Then
he handicapped himself by playing one.
two. or three cushion carom to his op-
ponents' straight billiards. according to
their skill. In the meantime he was play
ing billiards with himself practicing.
Then he Handicapped himself still further
by playing match games with all the
local sharks; then by bringing in sharks
from afar. but he conquered all Of them.
Still every minute away from his work
he played billiards with himself, practic-
ing. Go by this saloon any hour Of the
night or on Sunday when the curtains
were up and you would hear the billiard
balls a-popping: look through the key
mole and you would see this black haired.
black-eyed. energetic young fellow play
ing billiards with himself. practicing.
We'll, one day he disappeared, and, like
Dan Webster when ne left Salisbury, N.
n, the people Of his town never heard Of
him afterward About twenty years aft
er this. IN Paris. France, one afternoon
the writer went to theater 70 zee
match billfard game between the AmeFi-
can fzchannpion and Maurice vignatx. .
Frt4e6ihans and then worlds champion.
T6e1e WRe nbout I'm people 0f al na-
ti6Ae ptse4nk The Hen nanl1a vignaux
c1t1se out 81 ~ staee and All tho
s2scansa AeIsasa lzss se. 4utekly
Il s hsee : e 80 =! :! 1rs.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01

fore in the little sGerman-American sa-
loon in Indianapolis. and his name was
Jacob Schaefer. He had gone all around
the world handicapping himself in meet
ing and conquering the champions of
every race and nation. That day he
handicapped himself by playing the
champion Of champions and-he won
Calvin DemareSt has returned to Chi
cago and says he will not come East
again unless he is tempted by offers
more alluring than any he has enter
tained this winter. Demarest says the
game I'm not paying the balk-liners as
well as the three-cushioners. 1t is
noticeable fact that Willie Hoppe man
ages to keep pretty busy. There is .
possibility of Demarest visiting France
later in the winter and playing in the
Paris academies.
Throughout the Middle West and in
some of the Eastern cities a change has
been suggested in the three-cushion
game. and from present reports it Is
meeting with favor by those who have
adopted the new style of play. The
change is merely that tire player take
his choice Of the white halls at the be-
ginning of each inning. 1t is said that
this eliminates the safety play. at which
nearly all OF the three-cushion cracks
are said to be expert The player chooses
his cue ball only at the beginning Of the
inning and he plays with It until he
misses.
AS ivory dries it shrinks, and expert
ence has taught the ivory billiard ball
turner that q tusk shrinks more in width
than in length. To meet this popularity
the best balls are made from tusks which
are a little thicker than the ball. The
tusks of COW elephants are best for bill
lard balls. They are not so curved as
bull tusks and the fine nerve passage is
not so plainly seen. The billiard ball is
turned in the rough and kept in a warm
room for two years. 1t is then. after
shrinking. turned again to true.-New
York Press.
The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
LANGTRY MAY RESIGN
OFFICE OF. SECRETARY
Chamber of Commerce to Bowl Van.
couper Board of Trade-Other GOSSIP.

That's because the A. B. c. does not
get out enough printed matter We want
the secretary to keep in closer touch with
the secretaries of the leagues and city
associations. so that he can keep the
bowlers 'wised up to what is going on"
From present indications the coming
tournament to be held under the auspices
OF the National Bowling Association
40 five-men teams. The reports which
are coming into the headquarters Of the
organization point to the fact that the
Buffalo meet will rival the one to be
held at st. Louis under the A. B. c. d.
rection. Nothing is being left undone by
the Buffalo officials to make this one of
the grandest and greatest Journeys ever
held in this country. They have closed
contract with the Bell Telephone Com
pany for the use Of twenty phones.
eighteen of which will be double phones,
to be used for scoring. Each man scor-
ing a book will have to call the number
Of pins down to the scorer on the bulle-
tin boards. thus necessitating thirty-six
scorers at one time.
The tournament company has let the
contract for the grand stand. the plans
calling for over 5000 seats. 1000 of which
will be reserved
Manager Fletcher. of the local branch
Of the Brunswick Bake Collender COM
pany, is nursing a dislocated arm. caused
through bad fall upon the icy pave
ment last week. While a very painful in
jury. 1t fails to keep him from being on
the job.
We are in receipt Of a letter from Mr..
Levers. the official scorer of the Sunday
School League. in which he puts us right
on the 275 game rolled by Page. 1t seems
that there are two Pages, brothers. one
who bowls in the Colonial and the other
in the Sunday School League. Not know
ing this We couldn't figure dope on how
a man rolled 30 and then was not given
credit for it in the averages. Mr.. Lew
ers writes that the brother who is
member Of one of the teams in the CO.
lonial was the one who posted the big
total
There are a bunch of bowlers in the
game who artistically sketch an um-
brella on the score sheet every time they
roll a wet Same.-St Louis Republic
Something seems to tell US. brother. that
quite a few artists will be seen in dear
old st. Louis during the coming tourna-
ment.
Managers Murphy and Utermahlen. OF
the Southwest Grand, report that they