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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
BODIES FOUND
IN old WELL
Tecumseh Murder Mystery Begins to
be unfolded When the corpses
Of TWO Women are
Found.
During the Summer He Sent Post.
cards to Friends and Signed
Dead Daughters
Name.

TECUMSEH, Neb., Aug. 16.-Fol-
lowing the investigation started yes
terday at the Hesse property where
bits of human flesh We're found in an
old we'll. the bodies of Mrs. Hesse
and daughter were taken from the
well last night. A coroners jury is
investigating the case.
Funeral services over the bodies
will be held in the Presbyterian
church. No clue has been discovered
of Hesse. During the summer he
sent postcards to friends signed with
his daughters name to friends here.
Hesse formerly lived in Tecumseh
and was foreman of bridges for the
Burlington railroad. He and his wife
frequently quarreled, 1t is said.
In July, 1910, Mrs. Hesse and her
daughter disappeared and Mr.. Hesse
announced they had gone to Lincoln
where Mrs Hesse would enter san
itarium. Three days later the Hesse
residence burned down The next da,
Hesse had the we'll filed to the brin
with rock and dirt. Some days latel
he announced his wife had decided tt
go to Colorado and would not return
to Tecumseh, as the house had burned
Hesse also said he had secured ;
transfer to the mountain branch ant
] left Tecumseh.
! Recently, rumors have spread tha
! Mrs Hesse and the girl were murderet
and the bodies thrown into the well
A drill was started and at a dept
of 26 feet three pieces of a dress AM
shreds OF flesh were brought up. Die
gers were put to work and the bodie
[ were found and identified
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Near-Panlc In Field.

He fell just in front of the center
of the grand stands and thousands of
spectators were within few hundred
yards. Hundreds leaped the fence.
fought past the line of police, and
rushed into the depression where the
wrecked biplane lay There was a
neanpanic in the field and numerous
heads were thumped with police clubs
AS soon as Badger was on the Wy to
the hospital, attention and interest re
verted to the men still flying, any OF
whom offered possibilities Of similar
thrills and possible fatalities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
ONE IN JAIL
FOR I,YNCHING
Townspeople of coatcsvi!le Are Look
Ing Forward to Some Ex-
citement.

COATESvILLE, Pa. Aug. 16.-With
one man in Jail and warrants for nine
others enroute here from Westchest-
er, the townspeople are apprehensive
of trouble in the effort to punish those
guilty for the lynching of the negro
several days ago.
1t had been planned not to make any
arrests until after the funeral of the
murdered policeman but the court
ordered the arrest of lineman be-
cause 1t was learned that he was
about to leave the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Probably
showers and thunderstorms this after
noon. Generally fair tonight and
Thursday Cooler tonight.
For Illinois: Unsettled weather
with showers and thunderstorms in
north portion tonight or Thursday.
Cooler in north and central portions.
For Iowa: Probably showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon Gen.
orally fair tonight and Thursday. Cool
er tonight.
For Missouri: Generally fair to
night and Thursday. Cooler Thurs
day and in north portion tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16

HEssE HAS GONE WEST DR..
FROM HOME
Husband Chased Her Out When He
Learned That Her For
tune Would go to
Children.


WASHINGTON, Pa, Aug. 16,--Sen-
sational charges, including one of po-
lygamy, are made in a divorce suit
filed here by Mrs. Ada Thompson
Keefer, young and wealthy, against
her husband, David Il. Keefer, a Union
township farmer, 70 years old.
The Keefers have been married but
one month Two weeks later the
young wife, who was previously a
widow with two children, alleges that
she discovered her husband had three
other wives from none of whom he had
been divorced One wife, she asserts,
lived at Clarion. suburb of Pitts
burg; another in Clarion county, this
state, and third, she thinks, in
Ohio.
Mrs. Keefer in. her bill AYERS that
kind neighbors" reported to her first,
two weeks after her marriage, that
her husband had another wife in
Charlton. A visit to that town, she
says, confirmed the report, woman
whose former name was Elizabeth
Schnapp, informing her that she had
been supposedly married in legal
way to Keefer. Mrs. Keefer's investi
cation continued, she says, and Keef
er's former matrimonial record was
revealed.
To cap the climax of her unhap
piness she claims that about this time
when she informed Keefer that the
/ fortune of 100000 from her former
husband had been left in trust fol
/ her two children, he drove her out O
the house in her night clothing, afte
barbarously abusing her,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
MISS FORCE is
RATHER NERVOUS
Future Mrs. John Jacob Astor VIII
Have to Sit Very
Quietly.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16-1nsisting that
the indisposition of Miss Madeline
Force, the 10 year old girl who is to
marry John Jacob Astor, is not SER
ious. members of the family refuse to
make any statement regarding her
health. She is suffering from bad
attack of nerves on account OF the at
tack upon her coming marriage.
When she returned to her home yes
terday she was extremely nervous ana
the doctor has prescribed complete
rest for several days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
NEW PREVENTION
FOR CONSUMPTION
In lection OF Germs Of Right Kind VIII
Make the Patient
Immune.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo, Aug,
1s-Dr Webb, before the state medi-
cal association gave out his discovery
and treatment for the prevention OF
tuberculosis by the injection OF tu'
berculosis germs from carefully test
cd cases, thus making the patient I'M
mune from the disease.
He predicted that in the future the
treatment for the disease would be
revolutionized and that eventually con
sumntion would become durable
and prevented disease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
MOOSE MEMBER
HELD BY POLICE
Saws 1t is Trick of Rivals to Keep
Him From Attending Con-
ventlon.

DENVER, Aug. 1e.-Harry G. Mills
paugh, organizer for the Loyal Order
of Moose, and a member of the San
Francisco delegation to the conven-
ton at Detroit, is being held by the
police. He declares his detention s
nothing but ruse of the Los Angeles
faction to keep him from the conven.
ton and place their own candidate at
the head Of the order for next year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Practiced With "Budv Mars.

Badger owned his areoplane. He re-
ceived his first flying lessons at Min
cola, N. Y On June Is, he made a
successful flight and won a pilots Ii
cense. He practiced with J. G. (Bud)
Mars, and decided to enter the meet
here with Mars.
His entry was distinct from the en-
tries controlled by Capt. Thomas I
baldwin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
No More Bread.

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 16.-The flour
mill owners and bakers have served
notice that they can no longer sup
ply bread to the people. The supply
OF grain and coal is exhausted. Two
thousand American tourists are at the
hotels at the expense of the steam
ship companies who are unable to get
their vessels started for America.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
After Her Railroads,

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Mrs. 2. H.
Hartman. widow of the late railway
magnate, is facing an organized at
tack from Wall street to deprive her
of her holdings. When Hartman was
dying he called ]. P. Morgan, who
promised to prevent a raid on his
stock at that time, but this peace pact
has ended now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
About 1900 Feet In Air.

He was flying about 1900 feet In
the air. said Robinson, and came
down in a beautiful glide to about 500
feet, The engine seemed to explode
and the machine plunged down, carry
the water all the upper part seemed
to disintegrate from the impact and
the ligher pieces floated away.
"Johnstone seemed to be coming
down under the engine and could not
get clear. Thirty seconds after the
first signs of trouble, both Johnstone
and his engine were under water"
Like Badger, tombstone flew as an
amateur. His father. a practicing
physician here, however, refused to
buy him an aeroplane. Johnstone, who
Is 26 years old, started to build one.
He went to France, where he entered
the Drexel school Of aviation. He
then went to the Bleriot school and
learned to fly.
A letter written by the father to. his
! son almost a year ago. Seemed TO fore.
tell the fatal accident. 1t said:
my conscience will not permit me
1
to contribute to your certain death by
4 providing you with flying machine
can't buy one st. CroiX.'
After learning to fly in France,
Johnstone went to Havana, where he
was the first to fly over the city. He
was the first to fly around the wreck
of the battleship Maine. He returned
to the United States late in the
spring and was Immediately engaged,
by Alfred Moisant, and has since been
with the group of French aviators.
After his return from Havana,
Johnstone established an American
record during an exhibition at Mineola
n. Y. He remained in the air four
hours, one minute and fifty-nine sec
onds.
Johnstone has been one OF the
spectacular fliers during the four
days of the present meet. Although he
had won no races, he had become a
favorite with the crowds. He made
several startling descents from the
clouds yesterday and the appearance
: of his machine always was the signal
for special attention frora the grand
stands.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Compromise Wanted.

Washington Aug. 16.-The house
committee on territories today named
committee of Ave to confer with the
senate committee with a view to writ
ing q compromise measure in the
statehood bill which will be acceptable
to President Taft.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
u.oken.ebnldt Arrives.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.--J 2. MOI
gan, Admiral Beresford OF the Eng
lish navy and Hackenschmidt. the
wrestler who is to meet Gotch in Chi
oaeo ON Labor day arrived on the
steamer olympic from England TO-DAY.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
DemocratIc Caucus.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.-The
democratic senators are holding
caucus today to decide what action to
take on the cotton tariff bill and Fl
the date of ending of congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Early MornIna Start.

Atwood left here at s o'clock this
morning. He calculated to make his
first stop at Toledo. Before he
scared away he declared his biplane
to be in perfect working condition
and that he expected to reach Toledo
at 1880. At 1888 he was over Millers-
burg.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
First Public Appearance.

The meet here, which began last
Saturday, was Badgers first public
appearance The big mechanical sign
board recorded that he had flown in
all up to today, just two hours. 13
minutes and 19 seconds. The flight
that ended his life had earned him
possibly an hour more when he fell
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Wiley on the Stand.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Dr. VIII
lev the government chemist, appear
ad before the investigating committee
TODAY and told OF his work for pure
food and how Solicitor McCabe al
ways voted against him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
TRACTION ENGINE
KILLED OPERATOR
1t Exploded on the Farm and Five
Were Injured and Ono
Killed.

SPRINGFIELD. III, Aug. 16.-w. G.
Miller, aged 10 was instantly killed
and five others seriously hurt when
traction engine running corn shelter
exploded on the S. P. Campbell farm
near Loami, H., at Z o'clock today.
Miller was running the engine and
his body was horribly mutilated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Too Hot to Vote.

LINCOLNN, Neb., Aug. 16.-Exces-
sive heat is causing light vote at the
state wide primaries today, the light
est in the history OF the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
River Forecast.

The river will continue to rise slow
ly during the next "a hours at ISeo-
kuk, becoming stationary during
Thursday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Badger Breaks Neck In Fall and john
stone is Drowned When He
Fell In tho
Lake.
MACHINES IMPERFECT
Neither Fatality Was Caused From
carclessness But Through
Some Faulty Mech
anism.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-Wiliiam R.
Badger Of Pittsburg, and st. Croix
tombstone, of Chicago, young aviators,
lost their lives at the international
aviation meet. In dying, both revealed
the frailty of the craft which score
or more of aviators were curving and
gliding about the air, with scarcely a
pause, after the deaths of their con
temporaries
Death in both cases was due to un-
explained accidents, probably the re-
suits of unsuspected defects in the
mechanism OF the machines, and was
in no way caused by carelessness OF
lack of responsibility on the part OF
the drivers.
Badger, wealthy youth, careened
to his death in a sunken lawn in the
aviation field. There had been flaw
in one Of the wings of the propeller
of the Baldwin machine he drove
Centrifugal force broke the propeller
! and Badger dashed downward 100 feet
! the wings of the biplane folding up
ward and crushing together above
him when he was so feet from tbs
ground. His neck was broken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Local Observations.

Mean temperature. Aug. is, 50.
Highest temperature. 90.
Lowest temperature, 73.
Lowest temperature last night, 73.
FRED z. GOSEwIsCH.
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Badger Not Instantly Killed.

Badger lived three-quarters of an
hour after he had been extricated
from the remains of his machine. He
did not recover consciousness. His
death was the first fatality of the
meet, although thirty-five flyers have
dipped and glided and risen mile
and half for three days
Badger flew as he formerly drove
racing automobiles, purely as an anna
teur. He was the stepson of John
Goettman, Of Pittsburg, and was 2S
years old. He possessed an indepen
dent fortune and gratified we'll de
veloped speed mania. In the early
days of automobiles, he was among
the first to make amateur records a
Datona and Palm Beach. He was al
intimate friend of Louis Strang, thu
automobile race driver, who died be
meath the engine of an automobile IL
/ Wisconsin month ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16

OUT OF INDIANA TODAY
Landed at Elkhart last Evening and
Left Today for Ohio to
Spend The
Night.

ELKHART, Ind, Aug. 16.-Skim-
ming over the southwest corner of
Lake Michigan and then over the
sand hills and plains of northern In
diana, Harry N Atwood OF Boston,
in his aeroplane, few 101 miles from
Chicago in 2 hours and 16 minutes
without stop, thus completing 37S
miles OF his 1,460 mile fight from St.
Louis to New York and Boston.
Atwood made the 101 miles from
Chicago In just 81 minutes more time
than the fastest train in the United
States, which covers the distance
between Chicago and Elkhart with
out stop in one hour and 55 min
utes.
The Boston aviator, arising at 1929
o'clock in his Wright BIZ
plane in Grant Park, Chicago, circled
over the scores Of thousands gather
ed there at the aviation meet and
amid cheers at 3:31 shot out on his
journey eastward. He arrived here
at SAT p. M, calmly settling down
In bayfield,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Johnstone Fell Under Engine.

Johnstone fell 500 feet under his
engine and was drowned nearly a
mile from shore as the result of an
equally unsuspected defect.
Caught under the heavy engine in
the Moisant monoplane he was car
ried deep into Lake Michigan, and his
body was not brought to the surface
until an hour later.
A hydroplane went to his assistance,
but the aviator did not come to the
surface after the plunge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
nEEE \ II Daring Brdmen Meet Their
DLA L<A Death During Exhibition
Tom Baldwin Wlthdraws Entries.

ION 0diuWiU WltnotaWS ERtFleS.
Capt. Baldwin, after the accident,
however, withdrew all his machines
from the meet
Johnstone's accident was due, ae-
cording to expert aviators, to an un-
suspected weakness to the mechanism
of the aeroplane. Just what it was
probably will never be known, as the
machine is deep in the lake, and the
wood and canvas OF the plane were
broken and scattered by the tremen-
dous impact of the water.
Johnstone's Wlfe Witness.
Johnstone's fall was witnessed by
his young wife, although 1t was not!
until half an hour later that she waai
informed of his death. His father, Dr.,
Stuart Johnstone. and his mother left
the field only 20 minutes before the
accident occurred.
Hugh A. Robinson, driving the Cur
tiss hydro-aeroplane was not more
than 100 yards from Johnstone when
his monoplane gave signs OF being In
trouble. Robinson, flying high, went to
Johnstone's assistance, but before
the distance could be covered, John
stone and his machine were under wa
ter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
IN, ,,Iohes. Ali3tu !, i 600.

reached over South Bend, Indiana,
but generally he kept low in order to
follow the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad tracks, which fixed
his course.
1t was while he was out over Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, viewed by
thousand OF people lined UP along
the Shore and some times hailed by
the whistles of distant tug boats,
that Atwood made his most spectac-
ular appearance
Once away from Chicago, he made
high speed against head of wind and
cut across the corner OF the lake to
save a few extra miles which he
would have had to make had he re-
NAMED over land all the way As
he sped on, the white wings of his
machine shimmering in the late af-
ternoon sun, the air craft was every
where visible from shore and from
boats away In the distance. Several
times sail boats in his course veered
around and attempted to keep up a
race with the man in the air, but
they we're soon lost in the rear.
High links Over Lake.
For half an hour Atwood sailed
over the lake, keeping not more than
900 feet high. At times. he said to
test the variations Of the air currents
he swooped low enough almost te
be able to scoop up the water. Once
over land again near Pine, Ind, q
miles from Chicago, he headed di
rectiy eastward.
Enthusiastic shouts Of the inhabi
tants along the way were heard al
he journed eastward. Railroad
and telephone wires we're kept bus!
with reports OF his whereabouts. "At
wood at Rolling Prairie, 6G miles
from Chicago at SOL p. m.,'' came
from one operator. This was follow
ed by another with, atwood a
South Bend. 5:2s p. M, sailing higl
at about so miles an hour"
All messages were transmitted an
handed out to crowds, as IL record
Ing the progress of aeroplanes ha'
become an established business.
Landed In Hay Field.
At Elkhart, where Atwood pre-
pared to remain over night, all face
We're turned toward the west, Tn
aviator was unable to find tn
grounds arranged for his reception
SO he landed in hay field, but late
rose again and alighted in the drivin
park
After his performance, Atwood
confident that his fight begun by hi
2S6 mile trip from St Louis to Ch
cago, on Monday, will be ended
Boston easily within the ten days fixe
by him as the maximum time. He wi
resume his fight this morning, goin
to Toledo, which he hopes to reac
by 2 p. M, and to Sandusky, OH
Where he expects to land for the nigh
Could Make Better Time.
Il could make much better tin
were It not that my arrangemen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-16
Daily River Bulletin.

Stage. Height. Chang
Yellowstone monitor., 1911-05-25
CITY BREVlTIES.
FARM LOANS,
Montana Loan and
Tile COMPANY.

For refreshing bath, try
Houck's barber shop. 2tf
Albert Larson was in from Bloom
field toward the close Of the week.
Ice-cream cones Sc at the Princell
Drug Co. lift
W. H. Frank returned Tuesday from
a trip to the Twin Cities.
FOR RENT. .-Eight-room house,
$25 per month. Phone No. IT'S. 1t14
If you want to sell your house see
Miller & Jordan. Aft
Carl Emmel Of st. Cloud, Mimi. is
visiting his brother John.
Miller & Jordan are agents for
the new Beasley Block stores. Aft
Miss Sorenson of Billings is the
guest of Mrs. B. P. johnson.
j. D. Walsh and party Of friends
visited Wibaux Sunday, going by auto.
When in Stipek stop at the Herbert
Hotel. 52t6
D. G. Finch came in Fl ON Marsh on
Friday.
DR.. Ashley Of Wibaux was cityite
on Friday and Saturday.
We want yeur plumbing ane heating
work, we will guarantee satisfaction.
4tf Cran1hs z Peet Co.
Yellowstone monitor., 1911-05-25

could be wished for. Mr.. Blumsun
will assuredly conduct place that
will be thoroughly up-to-date.
The BARRIERS and the bartenders Of
the city have finally ageed to get=to
gether in baseball game, which will
De played at the old Fair Grounds,
next Sunday morning at 9 o clock, and
promises to be most interesting
event. The game will be for a $50
purse and refreshments.
Prof Hunt, principal of the high
school, suffered another injury to his
broken knee cap a few days ago, and
on Friday last left for Rochester,
Mimi. for treatment. Prof. Hunt nee
essarily will be unable to be present at
the commencement exercises this year,
and will not return to Glendive until
the seglnning of next school year.
The second annual convention of the
Montana Good Roads Congress will oc-
cur at Missoula on June q and %.
Many plans are in contemplation for
the improvement of the public high
ways Of the Treasure State Delegates
are appointed as follows: five by the
governor from each county; five by the
commissioners Of each county; five by
the mayor of each incorporated city
and town in the state.
Yellowstone monitor., 1911-05-25

to E. 2. Mark, a bunch Of some 80
head of horses.
When In need Of : plumber phone
111-C.
4tf eramhs 2 peet 60
| Dr.. ]. NJ. Hagan OF New Richmond.
WIS, is here attending to various
real estate matters.
Remember that Houck's barber
shop is the best one in the CITY.
Everything new. 52tf
The Glendive Orchestra will give
another Of it's popular dances in Krug
Hall next Tuesday evening, May so.
Farm for rent within few miles Of
town. Good buildings and improve
n1ents. Inquire 1t Mentor Office.
Remember the appearance Of Fred
erick Warde in Julius Caesar at the
Opera House on Saturday evening.
Write, phone Or call on us for esti-
mate OF heating and plumbing.
4tf cranbs 9 Peet CO.
Bob Barfknecht of Bismarck was in
the city last Thursday and Friday on
business.
E. 2. Mark, the horse buyer, will
be at the Hotel Jordan until May 20 and
is prepared to buy horses in any lots.
Miss Lydia Cannon arrived from
Missoula on Monday for a visit with
friends.
FOR SALE. Two houses and lots |
conveniently located in Glendive. |
Inquire at Monitor Office. 27tf |
Miss Tena Hackney returned Tues |
day from a short visit at various Da-
kota points.
Mrs. Harvey Bennett returned yes
terday from an extended visit in Bel
field.
Miss Bertha Todd came home Sat |
urday evening from the Brainerd |
training school for a visit with rela-
tives and friends.