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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
BACK TO RICE
FOR ADMIRAL
Togo's Stomach Objects to the High
Life Which He Has Been
Given.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10.-Admir-
al Togo has fallen victim to Amer
lean high living and said he may be
compelled to return to rice diet.
He complained of illness on his arriv-
al here at o'clock last evening and
retired soon after. He consented to
pose a few moments for a dozen
photographers at his hotel, but was
too i'll to grant any interview owing
to the excessive entertainment and
heat he has undergone In the last few
days.
Baltimore and Philadelphia We'd with
one another in giving the admiral an
enthusiastic welcome. He spent five
hours at public receptions and made
tours through steel works and found.
ries, cruise on Chesapeake Bay and
Marathon automobile trip through
Baltimore.
Thousands of people crowded the
station and many more lined Broad
street as the admiral and his suite in
two automobiles were escorted by a
squad of galloping police to the hotel
Today he will see some OF Phila
delphia's Industries, visiting the shir
yards and plants along the river front
He will also inspect the navy yard.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
BUFFALO BILL
FINDS HIS CRADLE
Old Crib In Which He Spent Baby
hood Was Made by the
Scouts Father.

DES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 10-Col-
onel w. F, Cody, former scout and
plainsman, yesterday located, through
Des Moines man, the cradle in
which he and his sisters and elder
brother were rocked to sleep in their
infancy.
Colonel Cody had long been look
ing for this cradle, and from time to
time had heard vague rumors that 1t
was somewhere in Iowa. The relic Is
In the possession Of Walter u.
Olney, former resident of Scott
county, whore Cody lived before his
parents took him to Kansas.
The cradle was among the articles
of furniture left behind with neigh
bors when the Cody family started on
their long overland journey to Kan.
sas in prairie schooner. Olney OBJ
tanned the cradle from David Lower OF
Scott county, upon the latter's death
several years ago. Cody's father made
the piece of furniture himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
GENERAL GORDON
is NO MORE
Commander In Chief Of United Con-
federate Veterans Has An
swercd Taps.

MEMPHIS, Aug. 10.-General Geo.
w. Gordon, commander in chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, and
representative in congress from the
Tenth Tennessee district, died here at
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
General Gordon was veteran Of
the confederate army, in which he
rose to the rank of brigadier general,
and had been a practicing attorney Of
Memphis, an official in the interior
department Of the federal government
superintendent of schools Of his home
city, and had entered on his third
term in congress. At the 1910 encamp.
ment of the United Confederate Vet
Grams he was elected commander In
chief. He was one Of the most promi-
nent and popular men of the south.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
HUNTING FOR
BURIED TREASURE
Indians Left Mark on Tree But Can.
not Find the Old Tree
Now.

EXETER, Mo-, Aug. 1o.--After
spending several weeks hunting for
a treasure which he says he helped to
hide more than eighty years ago, Big
Keyes, Chickasaw Indian, has re-
turned to his home in Oklahoma.
Keyes who says he is more than a
hundred years old, declares the treas
buried in cave on the White river
in southwestern Missouri by his
tribe.
According to the old Indian, his
tribe had been driven out of Georgia
and went to northern Arkansas and
southern Missouri Along the White
river they discovered a rich silver
mine. and for years the Indians mined
the metal and melted it into bars.
Then, fearing an attack of the
white settlers, the silver was placed
in cave, rock was rolled into the
mouth and the earth piled over it.
Keyes says he marked the trail which
led to the cave. The Indians went to
Oklahoma after they had buried their
silver.
Old landmarks made on rocks
Keyes says, he has found, but the
mark which designated the entrance
to the cave was made on a huge elm
tree This tree he cannot find. The
mark is the picture, carved in the
tree, of an Indian preparing to shoot
an arrow from a bow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Everybody VIII Walk.

LONDON, Aug. 10.-That all Lon
don will have to walk unless the
great transportation strike Is settled
in 4S hours Is predicted today and q
food famine is inevitable. The strike
today spread to the carriers. A con-
servative estimate places the number
of strikers at 100000 but there are
constant increases. Affiliated unions
are walking out in sympathy or TAX
ing advantage of the opportunity to
cause trouble.
By tomorrow all motor bus service
will be completely at a standstill,
Thousands of tons of food supplies
are rotting in the ships in the Thames,
which are unable to dock
Numerous large markets failed to
open today, their stock being exhaust
ed Mail wagons escorted by police
were the center of disorder today and
there were many rlotous scenes
The temper OF the workingmen be
came uglier as the day progressed
Home Secretary Churchill has issued
an appeal that large force Of sol
diers be called out to aid the police
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Government Figures, Just Issued, Do
Not Compare FavorabIy With
the Figures OF Former
Reports.
CORN SHOWS A LOSS
Present Condition is Below Normal
But Good Yield ts Expected and
There Is no Cause
For Alarm.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.-The Aug
ust crop report of the, United States
department OF agriculture crop report
ing board shows the condition on Aug
ust l, and the yield per acre. as In
dioated by the condition on that date.
OF the principal farm crops, with the
preliminary estimate OF the total yield
Of winter wheat and rye as follows:
Corn-Condition, 69.6 per cent Of
normal, compared with 80.1 per cent
on July /, 1913 per cent on August 1,
1910, and S1.2 per cent, the average
for the past ten years on that date;
indicated yield per acre 22.6 bushels,
compared with 27.4 bushels. the 1910
final YIELD and 27.1 bushels, the aver
age for the last five years.
Winter Wheat-Preliminary re-
turns indicate total winter wheat
yield of about 455, 100000 bushels, as
compared with AGA ,044, 900 bushels f1n-
ally estimated last year and 450,130,-
600 bushels, the average annual pro-
duction, in the past five years. The
yield per acre Is about 14.5 bushels,
compared with 1853 bushels in 1910
and 1875 bushels, the average for the
past five years. The quality is 92.6 per
cent, against 90 per cent last year.
Spring Wheat-Condition 59S per
cent of normal, compared with 73.s
4 per cent on July !, 61.o per cent II
4 1919 and 1928 per cent, the ten-yeal
average. Indicated yield per acre, 10.l
bushels, compared with Ill bushels
in 1910 and 1876 bushels the average
i for the last five years
4 All Wheat-Indicated yield per acre
! 12S bushels, comcared with AL bush
els in 1910 and 14.7 bushels, the five
year average.
| Oats-Condition 65.7 per cent of ,
normal, compared with 6S.8 per cen
on July 1, S1.5 per cent in 1910 ant
1922 per cent, the ten year average
Indicated yield per acre, 23.2 bushels
compared with 31.9 bushels in 1911
and 2S.4 bushels, the five year aver
age.
: The amount of oats remaining OF
: farms on August / is estimated at Ga
, $4,000 bushels, compared with 63
! 249, 900 bushels on August /, 1916
: and 52,663, 900 bushels, the averag
amount on farms August /, for th
/ past five years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
FALLING STARS
+. THIS EVENING
Shower Of Meteors ls Scheduled TO
Appear Tonight Between 10
O'clock and Mid
night.
What Is Expected Tonight Is Thought
to be Pieces Of the Comet Which
Exploded Back in
1862.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10--1f the sky Is
clear between 10 and IL o'clock to-
night, one may look with certainty
for the spectacular meteoric shower
that has been on view every August
10, since 1852, when comet No. 8 dis
appeared from view.
Astronomers say this display is due
to comet No 8 being shattered In
1862. The fragments Of the dissipa-
ted orb were scattered in the form OF
meteors, over its entire orbit in the
constellation of Perseus, the illumina-
ted meteors never fail to make their
appearance on the appointed date.
They are called Perseids
Two similar meteoric showers are
witnessed usually In the fall. The
Leonides, by far the largest meteoric
group, represent the remains of
Temples comet, and are due to ap.
pear November 12. The Andromedes,
which is the smallest group, repre-
senting the remains of Biehle's comet,
are due to appear November 27.
Perseids, though second in size and
Importance, Is the most reliable OF
the three groups Of meteors in keeping
Its dates. It never fails to put In Its
appearance. Only cloudy weather
prevents them being seen. A few
meteors frequently are seen between
the same hours, August IL.
Father Martin s.. Brennan, an as
tronomer, last night said st. Louis
star-gazers could look forward will
confidence to spectacular show to
night, as the Perseids are always or
the Job.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Iowa Has Storm.

DES MONIES, Aug. 1o-Ah electri-
cal storm, almost cyclone in some
places, passed over the east central
portion of Iowa.
Reports received here indicate that
considerable crop damage has been
done by the high winds which accom-
panied the storm. Davenport, Musca.
tine, Oskaloosa. Marshalltown, Water,
loo and Cedar Rapids were in its path.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Weather Conditions.

The field of high pressure on the
northern boundary Is extending east
ward to Lake Superior, attended with
little change OF temperature as yet,
and the southwestern depression has
remained nearly stationary.
1t is warmer in the eastern states,
and day temperatures have been high
from Kansas to the Ohio valley
There have been scattered local
showers from Montana to the Upper
Mississippi valley and portions of
the Western Lake Region, and light
showers in portions Of the southwest.
Conditions indicate unsettled wealth
er, with showers and thunderstorms
tonight or Friday for this section.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
THE WEATHER.

Until p. M. Friday.
For Keokuk and vicinity: Unset
tied weather with showers and thun-
derstorms tonight or Friday
For Illinois: Unsettled weather
with showers and thunderstorms in
north and central portions tonight or
Friday. Cooler in north portion.
For Iowa: Unsettled weather with
showers and thunderstorms tonight or
Friday. Cooler in west portion to-
night.
For Missouri: Generally fair tonight
and Friday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Celebrate settlement.

ASTORIA. Ore, Aug. 10.-The one
hundredth anniversary Of the settle
ment of the Pacific northwest was OBJ
served by celebration which opened
here today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
D1ENEEN Is
SAVING MONEY
Some Of the State Officials Are
Threatened With Saving
Plan.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Aug. 1O.-That
Governor Deneen is backing a policy
of retrenchment which threatens
some of the state officials, was made
known today by officials high in the
councils of the administration.
The plan contemplates the combin-
ing of several offices and the abolition
of number of minor offices.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
CHAUFFEUR
WEDS Hf1RESS
Elopenent Of Livery Stable Keepers
Son and Girl Who
Has NIL
lions.
Mother Of the Boy Does Not Like
the Idea Of Having a So
olety Girl In the
Family.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10--Miss Estella
Julia French. daughter Of Amos Tuck
French, and favorite niece of Mrs. Ell
sic French Vanderbilt, who was for
merly Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, elop-
ed from Newport with Jack Greaghty,
chauffeur, and became his bride ear
ly today. The affair has caused a sen.
sation in Newport society
Miss French, who is only Is years
old and one Of the richest prospective
heiresses, left Newport yesterday af-
ternoon, as did the young chauffeur.
So cleyerly was the elopement plan.
ned that the girls father did not dis
cover that she had left till several
hours later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
$500, 900 In Directory.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1o.-It was stated
today that the new city directory of
Chicago, which will be issued August
81, will show that more than 100000
persons made this city their home.
This Is an estimate in advance of the
actual counting of the names in the
bulletin book. 1t has proved close re
the facts in previous years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
His Mother is Disappointed.

NEWPORT. R. l., Aug. 1o.---'I don't
see why my boy married that society
girl. He is a good clean boy, with no
bad habits and a hard worker cried
Mrs John G. Greaghty, wife Of the
village livery stable proprietor and
mother of the handsome chauffeur
who eloped yesterday, asked toudy IL
any news had been received.
I'VE wanted our boy to marry girl
of his own kind. the mother continu-
ed. Love is a funny thing, they say.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Ar. Arrested Agaln.

FULTON, Mo-, Aug. 10.--Lee Boyd
and his wife and JEFF Woods were ar
rested today at Concord, charged with
making an attempt on the life of Ed
ward McPhetehs' family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
WILL TRY FLIGHT
FROM ST. LOUIS
Atwood VIII Leave Sunday In At
tempt to Reach New
York.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 1O.-Harry N.
Atwood will start from st, Louis Sun
day for New York by way of Chicago.
for a $4,000 prize in an aeroplane
flight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
FOUND DEAD
IN BATHROOM
Was Once Candidate For
Mayor.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1o.-James Ban
hermann, aged SO, retired leather man.
ufacturer and once candidate for may
or was found dead in the bathroom
Of family hotel this morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Six Million People viii Have to Hoof
It II tho Great Strike ls
Not Ended IN Two
Days.
Thousands Of Tons Of Food Supplies,
Rotting In the Ships Which
Arc Unable to
Dock.

LIVERPOOL Aug. 1o.-Four hun
dred soldiers were called out today
to cope with the strike OF railroad
freight men. The police have been
routed and cannot control the rioters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Almost Beyond control.

: 1NF'rfOSs 0Sy UIFU OSFIk' Uf' .
LONDON, Aug. 10.The strike sit
uation is almost beyond control of
the police. At the army camp at
Aldershot, thousands of troops are
ready and trains are on the sidings
ready to take the troops to London.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Cedar RapIds In path.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Aug. 10-A wind
and electrical storm passed over Ce-
dar Rapids causing considerable dam
age. Over an inch Of rain fell during
the storm. No one is reported injur
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Local Observations.

Mean temperature, Aug. 9th, SO.
Highest temeprature, sS.
Lowest temperature, 70.
Lowest temperature last night, II.
FRED 2. GOSEWIsCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10
Daily River Bulletin.
stage.Height. Change. y
River Forecast.

River Forecast.
The river will remain nearly sta
tionary during the next forty-eight
hours.
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Continued on page 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-16
LIGHT ON CHINA
Bishop Partridge Delights Audience at
Banquet.

The rat eating proclivities are CON
fined to two southern provinces said
/ the Right Rev. Sidney c. Partridge,
bishop Of Kansas City, and former bish-
| op OF TOKYO, Japan, in speaking Fri
day night before the members of the
Grace Cathedral club. Others prefer
the bow-wow and the mew-mew."
Bishop Partridge is a delightful speak
er and pictured in realistic fashion,
The Social Conditions in the Orient -
A $50 dinner was served by the Ia
dies of the church guild to So men.
Vocal selections were given by Mrs. w.
w y k1dal and Herman L. Springer.
z. W. Thompson made hit with
his rench-dialect readings. H B.
Kib5ee presided over the meeting, and
when he got up to make his little speech
he said: Gentlemen of the Topeka
club here there was a vigorous
outburst OF laughteri Deep regret was
expressed that the Right Rev
Frank R. Millspaugh could not be pres
ent at the meeting. The speaker was
introduced hy Bishop Francis K. Breeks
of Oklahoma.
You are stepping really from one
world to another, said Bishop Part
ridge, when you go into central China.
You might as well be on the planet
Mars. as things are topsy-turvy, in
many ways. I found however, that a
great many of the oriental ways of
doing things are great deal more nat
ural than those we have adoped in the
western world
You have got to fix your standard
when you do business in a dry goods
store or a bank. woman takes along
her yard stick when she goes to a dry
goods store and compares it with that
of the merchant. The Chinese people
take pleasure in haggling over the
length of a rule.
Time is nothing. for everybody has
plenty Of time. Everybody buys his
coffin at 45 on account of being afraid
of being cheated after dead. They don't
want a fixed price. They don't under
scales of a man who does the selling
at the market. The people carry their
own scales.
The Chinese who come to America
come from two of the 16- provinces of
that country only. They are the Can
tonese- They are the people who estab-
lish laundries in this country and are
known as Hop Sing, Sam Lee and Hop
Wing. These are not the real names
of these persons. Their real names
are never known. The empire of China
has never allowed a man to put his
name upon a sign. They believe that
business is business. family is family
and that the two should never be
mixed.
THE first laundry established in an
American city has the sign Sam Lee
Sam is the Chinese word for life or
living. Lee is the word for profits, and
the Conformation Sam Lee means living
dry will put sign Charley Lee. Char
ley is the Chinese word for additional.
and Charley Lee means additional pro-
fits.
The speaker said that the mission
aries had wrought great transforma-
ton in certain provinces. ana he con-
sidered the outlook for the empire as
being bright
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-16

cent addresses at the Second Presby-
terrain church tomorrow morning at
II o'clock DR.. Gordon of the First
Baptist church says that Mr.. Dean is
the man who inspired him to enter the
ministry and who still rules me with
a rod of IRON The chorus choir Will
render special music and David Bowie
will sing a solo.
Miss Evona IIeigert of St. Marys has
returned home after a visit with her
sister. Mrs. A. f. Fluke, 1926 North
Monroe street.
Shawnee council No. l. F. A. A.. is
growing At the regular meeting held
Wednesday evening ten applications
for beneficiary membership We're read.
After council closed a musical and lit
erary entertainment was given by the
entertainment committee.
The services Sunday al the Church
of the Good Shepherd Will be at the
usual hours. IL a. m and s p m. Sun
day school at 10 a. m.
On Tuesday evening. December 19.
the annual parish meeting of the
Church of the Good Shepherd will be
held at 80 Quincy street All COM
municants of the church are urged to
be present at this melting as business
of importance will be transacted a
verstrv for the coming church year
elected and other important matters
discussed. A cordial invitation is also
extended to those interested in the
welfare of the church to attend the
meeting At the close of the business
of the evening a social hour will fol-
low
North Topeka Baptist church. w. I.
Cole. pastor. $50 Sunday school. C.
G. Nch olson, uperintendent: II a. m.
preaching. A most important matter
will be brought before the church at
this hour: all members urgently re-
ouested to be present. $50 interme-
date and Senior B. Y. P u: 1880
preaching. 1.-The other Fellow" There
viii be red hot time in the old
church. Come and hear splendid mu-
sic under the leadership of w NJ Van
Ness. and a good semon and have a
good time.
Rev. David Lyon 2 t the Central Ave-
nue. Christian church will talk in the
on ''The Ability, of Greatness
to Cure and Endure"
A NJ Pefrn dr.11 ererirt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-16

kicked on the great white way when it
was proposed are ashamed of themselves.
today well. I should say so-and sew
eral times over"
At sale in a certain Kansas avenue
store 1t was necessary to lock the doors
on account of the crowds. The head of
the store states that 1t was the largest
one days business ever done by a retail
business house in Kansas.
The city officials. in token of their ap-
probation OF her services. presented Miss
Hattie Holman with q gift in the office
of Mayor Billiard this noon. Miss Hol-
man has resigned deputy city clerk
and leaves Topeka for St. Louis soon.
The eight-day Men and Religious cam
paign will come to a close tomorrow. In
each local church Monday evening, how
ever, a meeting will be held and this VIII
be the theme for discussion: An En-
larged Program of Work Among Men
and Boys in the Church
Topeka man drove down town in his
motor car this morning and after he had
stopped i'll front of his place of business
he covered carefully the hood of the
chine with a blanket. A half hour later
horse, stopped, and the animal stood for
an hour without a blanket sheet any
other covering.
The Kansas agricultural exhibit which
was recently on exhibit at the Chicago
Land show held recently is in cold stOr-
age in Kansas City at the present time
At the meeting of the Kansas Associat ton
of Real Estate Agents which will be held
in Topeka. January 9-10. it will be pro-
posed to exhibit the products later at the
Kansas City Land show.
Topeka Cpuncil No. 534. knights of Co
lumbus. elected the following officers at
their meeting December IA, 1911: Grand
knight f. w. Durein: deputy grand
knight, Theodore T. zercher; chancellor,
Harry C. Wall; recording secretary r.
NJ. Ryan: financial secretary. Alex T.
Gfbler; treasurer, Paul Huycke; advocate,
Z. L. Mooney. jr.; Warden, Galen 7.
Crook: inside guard. August Johns; out
side guard, Thos. P. Flynn: board of trus-
tess, VIM Supple, James Murphy and B.
J. Long; chaplain, Rev. F. NJ. Hayden
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-16
ARRESTED HIS DOG
Ferguson Brothers Pet Smoked Pipe
on Way to Jail.

Did North, the dog which belongs
to Ed and Albert Ferguson, violate the
Sunday labor laws of Texas by smok-
ing a pipe? Doesn't make any diff
ference whether he did or not he was
arrested by the "coppers'' along with
ter company, stage hands and opera
house employees in Fort Worth, Tex,
last Sunday
No matter whether North violated
the laws of Texas or not, he insisted
on continuing his smoke and wouldn't
the police station with the company
and walked along the street, making
his pipe fog as though he was receiv-
ing the protection of the law instead
of being prosecuted
The Ferguson brothers and their dog
were formerly members of the North
Stock company, which played at the
Majestic theater, but the boys left here
and played on the Crawford circuit,
but have recently organized a stock
company. While playing in Fort
Worth, and not coming on Sunday, the
members of the company and en-
ployees of the theater assembled on
the stage in the theater- While Willing
away the hours North was put through
some of his usual stunts when the
house was pinched and the people
therein taken to the police station for
violating the Sunday ordinances.
North, the dog was smoking his pipe
when the '-coppers" made the pinch
and insisted on smoking it while walk
ing to the police station and even after
being thrown in. The following is the
comment of the Fort W nth Press on
the pinch and alleged violation:
Is North, the dog which plays po-
liceman in Brother Against Brother"
at the Princess, violating the Sunday
law when ne works on the Sabbath
This is the question the police asked
themselves Sunday afternoon when
they took the actors, actresses, ticket.