The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-24
CITY NEWS.

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Ewers-N Nice arthy Co. lead Keokuk
lin Suits, Hats and Haberdashery.
y. A. milestone has conveyed
to Grace E. milestone the east u OF
4 teenth.
Have harness repaired at Sher-
woods,
Charles L. Bartlett has conveyed
/ to c. Edwin futile and Joe e. Raw
son, $40 acres of land in Charleston
township.
The boy scouts OF Muscatine are
/ making plans for a long hike to Keo-
lruk this summer to see the work on
the dam.
Elder Chas. Fry of Burlington, Ia.
1 will hold services at the Saints Chap
! Ell, corner of Thirteenth and Bank,
| Monday evening, April 24th, at 1880
p. m. Showing steroptican views of
the Book of Mormon and other special
illustrations. You are welcome.
In coming from the baseball park
after the game yesterday afternoon
one of the street cars, crowded with
passengers, was derailed at the turn
near the front gate of Rand park. A
delay of ten minutes in bringing the
/ people down town YVES oocasioned.
! The Steamer KeolSuk Is expected
to arrive here some time next week
to start In the daily trade from this
city to Quincy. according to adyices
received from the local offices of the
White Collar line. Just as soon as
| the weather will permit Sunday trips.
both the Keokuk and Black Hawk will
take out excursions OF "the seventh
day"
The first car of strawberries to-
reach Keokuk, was sent here by extra
i freight during the night, billed to one
| OF the local wholesale fruit houses.
! Although the price of the red fruit is
| higher now that 1t will be next sum
mer, those who can afford short cake
and strawberries with cream are dip
ping into warm weather pleasures
! thus early in the season.
A Fort Madison automobile party
at Sixth and Main was surrounded by
/ a crowd OF twenty-five or thirty per-
! sons last night when the lights of the
/ touring machine refused to work and
a garage man had to be called to-
remedy the glim defects. Persons
walking along Main street thought
that some one had been killed, no
doubt, from the throng which stood
around watching the futile attempts
! to make the lamps burn.
Willie Cutwright, son Of Richard
/ or "Acey" Cutwright, the dog catcher,
I is probably dying or dead, according
/ to an Oskaloosa telegraphic dispatch
which states that man oy the name
of William Cutwright of Keokuk"
! was struck by freight train at that
place Saturday, and received possibly
fatal injuries. The father of William
/ Cutwright. the colored lad who has
lived in Keokuk, has received no word
OF his sons being injured, but says
that the boy is out Of the city at pres
ent. The Oskaloosa dispatch says:
William Cutwright Of Keokuk, put off
an Iowa Central passenger train for
drunkenness, crawled back upon the
{ track, laid down and went to sleep.
The police patrol sent after the man
was within half block of the tracks
when he was hit by freight train.
causing injuries which will probably
result in his death. He is in local
hospital
Former Senator e. G. Moon, of
Ottumwa, author Of the famous Moon
law regulating the number Of saloons
according to population, was in ,Burl-
ington Saturday. and gave out the fol-
lowing interview regarding the recent
supreme court decision: 1T means
in a nutshell, that any saloons that
went into business after April Is, 1909,
have no right to existence Mr.. Moon
II stated There was some question as
to whether the law did not go into eff
feet on July of that year 1t appears,
but the court has decided not 1t will
make some difference in number
of cities where there was rush to
obtain licenses in that year before
July l.. Mr. Moon said he was i'm
PEELED to draw up the measure from
his observations as to the conditions
where a large numDeI oI SdlooHs Weto
In operation. Even where the license
was fairly high. he stated, there were
more saloons starting up, and the reg
ulation was not Of the beet. He
thought that with fewer saloons the
right to operate would be worth some
thing and would tend to make the
saloon men strictly observe the law.