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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
HARSH PUNISHMENT
IN REFORM SCHOOL.
Boys Are Laid Over Barrel and Given
Swapping on Bare
Backs


RED WING, Mimi, March 20
Some startling methods of punish
ment in the Minnesota state reform
schools were brought to light by the
visit of the legislative investigating
committee to the Red Wing instit,l-
ton. Two straps with which girls
had been punished, and handouts
galore were placed in evidence.
The committee discovered bows
have been laid with the back bare
across barrel and given fifty lashes.
The committee visited the guard
house and there found two bows
handcuffed in a standing position to
the bars of their cells. They said
they were locked that way from seven
in the morning until seven at night
and that three times day thev were
given bread and water. They had
been locked up since last Tuesday and
Supt. Whittier Of the school said
they would remain there five days
more. Former Senator Stephens
threatens to sue Whittier unless he
produces some spanking apparatus
which the committee found but which
later disappeared.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

W C. Duncan and Frank Smithson,
the authors OF Katie Did" can be
credited with having succeeded adj
mirably in showing the delightful pos
sibilities afforded by opportunity and
do it in such merry fashion that the
audience g1ides through the current
of the story with a joyous abandon
which is akin to pleasure OF fascina-
ting waltz.
The music composed by Karl Hose
ma is only what might be expected
from the musical creator Of Three
Twins, Bright Eyes The Girl of
My Dreams and Madam Sherry
tuneful, melodious. vivacious and snap
ny. nor does he dole out his musical
numbers with niggardly hand or
with unappealing monotony There is
bunch of them and they are as var
led, diversified and pleasing as a bo-
quet of wild flowers from the valley,
plain and mountain. In fact. Mr.. Jos.
NJ Gates, the producer Of Katie
Did" takes the playgoer on a two ana
one-haf hour trip, where beauty, botn
Of person and country. abounds, and
where happiness seems to be part Of
the daily life The play is a decided
novelty and is as near perfect as it
is possible to make It.
4 IN the case in The Interpretation
of Katie Did" will BE found May
Vokes, Violet Colby, JESSIE Intropidi,
Anna Wilkes, Florence May, Clarence
Harvey, Fred Nice, Bert Baker and
Adelaide, assisted by ]. j Hughes.
/ The engagement in this city is at
the Grand opera house on Friday eve
ming, March "a, and unquestionably
will be numbered among the most
pretentious theatrical events Of the
4 season.
Seat sale opens tomorrow morning at
10 O'Clock.
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Warming to Railroad Men.

Look out for severe and even dan.
gerous kidney and bladder troubles
resulting from years OF railroading.
Geo. e. Bell, $50 Third ST., Fort
Wayne. Ind, was many years a con-
ductor on the Nickle Plate. He says
Twenty years of railroading left my
kidneys in terrible condition. There
was continual pain across my back
and hips and my kidneys gave me
much distress, ard the action &C my
bladder was frequent and most pain
full. got supply of Foley Kidney
Pills and the first bottle made q won
derful improvement and four bottles
cured me completely Since being
cured have recommended Foley
Kidney Pills to many of my railroad
friends" Wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
Ian. Robertson as "The Pa.sers-By"-
A Biographical Sketch.

son of the late author and art
critic, j. Forbes Robertson, Ian Rob
ertson, parted professionally with his
patronymic On his first appearance on
the stage in 1879 at the Lyceum
Theatre, London, where decade Ia
ter he was destined to return and win
fresh laurels under the aegis of Sir
Henry Irving in Kin. .4ear,' Beck
ct. and The Merchant of Venice.
This change of name was doubtless
intended to avoid mistakes in iden-
tity with another brother already
known to fame as Johnston Forbes
Robertson, while the Ian Kranke of
1879 became better known to Amer
leans during the following ten years
as Ian Robertson with Modieska, Ed
win Booth. Lawrence Barrett, A. NJ.
Palmer, Daniel Frohman, Kyrle Bel
lew and Mrs. Potter, and Chas. Froh-
man. He was producer and stage
manager at the Boston Museum
Theatre, too, in these days.
On his return to England, Ian Rob-
ertson appeared in number of new
plays in London before Joining Sir
Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre
there in the early nineties, and when
his famous brother, Forbes Robert
son, went into management on his
own account in 1895, Ian Robertson
sacrificed his own immediate pros
poets as an actor to become stage
manager for his brother rendering
yeoman's service in the production OF
many famous plays and the rendering
of many prominent parts. He had
further experience Of mutually val
liable kind with Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell, Mr. Comyns Carr and Sir John
Hare, while his own work as a play
wright of no mean skill and craftman-
ship has been produced in It's turn
by his brother, J. Forbes-Robertson
George Alexander and the Kendals.
It is in THE Passing of the Third
Floor Back however, that Ian Rob-
ertson has reached the high water
mark of his achievements as an ac-
tor, and ii is in this most popular
Of all modern plays in which he him
self has appeared already about two
hundred times, that he will receive
hearty welcome in our nlidst shortly
at the head of a specially imported
and entire English company.
Seats now on sale.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
Complain They Are Unable TO Book
exhibition Games at Home
And Early Fan May be
Disappointed,
REASON ASSIGNED FOR IT
Clubs to the North Do Not Care to
Tour Iowa and Southern Illinois
With Certainty of Losing Big
Money.


Central Association clubs are en-
countering a new difficulty this sea
son All Of the managers without ex-
ception are having hard work in
booking exhibition games al home and
tho early fan may be disappointed in
not seeing some CLASSY play before
the first championship ball is tossed
on May 3
The reason for this condition of at
fairs can be traced to several causes.
In the first place clubs from the north
those from the Wisconsin-Illinois
and South Michigan leagues have
practically abandoned trips down into
this territory. They have undergone
almost financial ruin in years past and
will not consent 10 being drained OF
some hard earned money again this
year. These clubs come south to es-
cape the harsh weather of northern
Illinois and southern Wisconsin,
where conditions are ayerse to early
spring training.
1t is true that Central Association
wish to leave home. but many of the
managers prefer to pastime on their
own lots during the few weeks that
the attendance is a very uncertain
element.
Again it is said that the trouble
that has been brewing in the Three.
league and the fact that the I'm
circuit is intact has had something to
do with 1t.
Keokuk has been unfortunate so far
in booking games. Only three have
been carded and it is possible that
the one with Canton University will
be dropped. The manager of that ag-
gregation sent Belt an iron-clad con
tract that took all but the Keokuk
leaders breath To put it briefly the
contract will be returned unsigned.
Kewanee is having but little luck
Rock Island, Lombard College and
Aurora are the only games secured
but the Boiler Makers are fortunate
in having them all at home. Manager
Andrews says he could get game
every day on the road, but only those
where it appears that money can be
earned viii be accepted.
Probably one of the most interest
ing managers who will be seen in
uniform in the Central Association
during the coming season will be Jake
Beckley OF Hannibal Reckley has
been in organized ball for twenty-six
Years and says ne is going 10 hit $50
in the c. A.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
Walters at Museatine.

MUSCATINE, Iowa, March 20
Muscatine has welcomed Manager
Lou Walters, who arrived here last
Wednesday Walters has the nucleus
OF a team signed that ought to be in
good shape when the season opens.
Walters viii pursue the same meth
DDS that he did last year in building
up a team. He signed and tried out
over forty-f1ve men before he secured
his SQUAD of fourteen, but that squad
of fourteen won The pennant in the
Northern league and when the team
disbanded none of The players were
without berths, most OF them making
good in higher class and on faster
teams.
Walters has a catching staff which
ought to be good He has signed Tony
Vanderbilt, of Bartlesrille, Oklahoma.
in the Western association. This league
is in class C and according to Reach
es' guide Vanderbilt last year batted
800 for the season His fielding az
erage was 992. His second catcher
will probably be King Kelley, as he
has his signature. In the pitching
department he has signed Earnest At
well, who pitched here last season
and who displayed excellent form
throughout the entire season. He
has also signed Henry Neigarth. OF
ST. Louis, who is a promising young
pitcher He stands over GA and is
said to have world Of speed For
the other two positions he has six
men irving out and with others in
prospect. Among those signed is Ed
Els the old Burlington pitcher, who
will try 10 come back Walters viii
MAY first base himself and will have
the advantage of being able to run
the team from the field.
In the field he has signed two old
heads and one youngster. The infeld
is still 2 matter of conjecture, but ii
the candidates do not show form II
will be blue ticket shortly.
Muscatine does not expect TO win
the pennant and will he well natisfed
with fourth or fifth place. If the play
ers now signed do not make good
Muscatine has $1,000 cash in the
treasury and the the town certainly
ooes not propose to finish last if they
nave TO buy whole team to get ava,
from it.
Waters had a chance TO sign SOW
era. Western league PLAYERS ON a,
- q greement, but turned all Al,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
Timely Sport Paragraphs for the Fans

In general, the attitude that Waterloo
has committed breach of baseball
Law By appealing to national law is
being condemned Most of the wise
men of tho game realize that the at
tidue that the game OF baseball as
org anized is antagonistic TO the laws
OF other business enterprises in the
United States is bad thing for the
game. They also realize that the
future of the organization OF the game
is wrapped up in the decision of the
Waterloo case.
II Waterloo wins. there will be lit
tie for the baseball leagues of the
country to do but TO revise their laws
regarding franchises, so that their
sale and transfer will accord to the
laws for the sale of property. II Pres
ident Tearney and Kinsella win, moth
ing but war between dissatisfied club
owners can result. In the court of
last resort, the minds of the fans.
baseball as a game will be dead the
minute 1t is outlawed by opposition
to the laws of the United States.
Tearney and his cohorts are engaged
in attempting to enhance the value OF
their property rights at the expense
of the property rights of Waterloo:
Ghev are asking the national COM
mission. as the Anal court Of baseball
jurisdiction, to step in and take care
of their property interests, although
~ 10
property interests OF Waterloo.
The general impression is also
abroad that the claim that there is a
secret agreement among club owners
not to appeal to law for baseball
rights is bad thing for the game.
baseball lives by the common con-
sent of the people who are willing to
pay their money to see what they
consider is a test of skill between
two teams When it Is learned that
these teams are governed by an or
SANITATION, whose very existence de-
pends upon a number of secret agree
ments. the average fan is certain to
wonder If there may not be other
secret agreements, and If some OF the
things the players have been charging
against the system are not true.
From the legal standpoint, the gen.
eraI guess is that the Waterloo club
can keep the teams of the four Hi.
nois towns from taking in one dollar
at the gates. except in league sched-
ule in which Waterloo is allowed to
participate. II they cannot, no team
can be certain of its property rights.
ii other teams of the league happen
to get angry enough to fight and pull
out of the league.
The whole affair harks back to the
Chicago president and the folly OF
eiecting men without experience,
without knowledge of the towns of the
league and without interest in the
game except as a political power, to
the high positions. Practically every
league which has tried it has ended
on the rocks, as baseball Is an In
tensive game and the interest is III
the towns Of the league, no in the
work of some man in some far-off
city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

man who hasn't had a chance to
prove himself by branding him a
coward. To hold up ones end in
quarrel a fistic or fire arm combat, is.
really not bravery, it is Indifference
induced by impulsiyeness. The brave
man is the cool-headed man who faces
danger in the full appreciation of it's
possible result. This is nearly al
ways the outcome Of an unselfsh con-
ton. young novelist. is suffering from
a nervous breakdown. His friend, hav-
ing had the same experience, writes
advising him to try stay out west
on ranch, promising that the rough
outdoor life will surely do him a
world Of good; besides he might be
able to pick up material for a real
western story The suggestion APP
peals to Hilton and he leaves at once,
arriving at a western ranch that is in
need Of hands. His refined clean
cut appearance rather amuses the
foreman and he is engaged more in
the spirit of a joke than anything
else: but when introduced to the
ranchmans family he meets the pretty
daughter and it is a case of love at
first sight. This upsets the foreman,
who is sweet on the girl himself. and
he induces the boys to impose on the
tenderfoot, hoping to drive him away
or ridicule him before the girl. Hill
ton swallows all, for he is indeed
deeply infatuated with the artless lit
tie ranch girl. AS this has no eff
feet. the foreman tries another plan,
that of insulting him in the effort to
force him to fight, but personal COM
bat is not his idea of bravery. and
he refuses to fight, although the fore
man goes to the extreme in his pro-
ideas Is awfully disappointed in him,
and scorns him as coward This is
citation for the foreman However.
there Is the real kind of bravery and
Hilton possesses that. A poor In
dian is stricken with smallpox and the
gang would have thrown him into a
ditch to die, had not Hilton come up
and taken the poor fellow in his arms
and carried him to a deserted shack,
where he cares for him, he himself
denied the right to step beyond the
dead-line the gang has drawn and
guarded. The next day the father of
the girl is afflicted with the dread
disease. and the boys are just as
merciless with him as they were with
the Indian afraid to go near him
forcing him at the points of pitch
forks and revolyers across the dead
line, where he is picked UP and ten
DERBY cared for by Hilton, who is now
himself showing symptoms of the dis
ease. Hilton, with the assistance of
doctor who has come from the town,
nurses the victims back to perfect
health, but he has neglected himself
in the care of them and. although
cured, is marked for life. The boys
now realize what real bravery is and
Hilton is regarded as the hero of the
ranch. OF course, the girl has now no
thought Of scorn: she, despite his
marked face, regards him as her
hero This Biograph subject was
made on one of the largest and most
picturesque ranches in southern Cali
/ fornia
Three complete shows will be given
I tonight, at 7:GO, 500 and 900 o'clock.
! Try to get in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF SECUR-
ITY. KEOKUK COUNCIL. No. 1899.
Meets the first and third Monday of
each month, at A Q. q. w hall ct
8 o'clock. o. w Rowe, president;
Ernest Best, Financier; Wayne c.
Schenk Secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

offers down, preferring TO try at first
with young team and then, if not
successful, to purchase the players
needed outright before the opening OF
the season.
He will have plenty OF opportunity
TO test his men as he plays six games
with the Davenport and Rock Island
clubs early in April, and he will then
be able to get line on the players.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
eKeokuk- A'erie, No. 6S3-Meets first
and third Wednesday of each month at
Eagles hall, corner Eighth and Main.
Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Frank Moeller, w. President; G. A.
Noakes, secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
3, P. O. INKS.

Keokuk Lodge, No. 106-Meets first
and third Thursday nights at Elks
hall, Gibbons opera house block, Sixth
and Main streets. Club rooms open
daily. Visiting brethren cordially IN
vited. James Cameron. ST., e. r.;
William Reimbold, Secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
ORDER OF OWLS

Regular meeting of the order OF
Owls the first and third Tuesdays Of
each month at their hall in the Schlitz
building, corner Third and johnson
streets, third floor. Visiting Owls are
cordially invited. r. M Ballinger,
worthy president; Ed w. Kiser, secre.
tary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

MODERN WOoDMEN OF AMERICA
Gibbons Hall.
Keokuk Camp,No. 622-Meets every
Wednesday evening at 1880 p. m. Our
latch string Is out to neighbors. G. B.
Lake, V. C.; ]. A. Pollard. Clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
Cowboy NIGHT TONIGHT.

At Dodges theatre tonight vii! be
cowboy night, showing program
made up of cowboy and Indian pic
lures. Possibly the feature cowboy
picture to be shown tonight will be
picture called WAS He a Coward?"
1t often happens that we malign a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

craft The season for the chug-chug-
ging of the motors and the dip of
the oars is at hand and those who
enjoy river life from start to finish
are making use Of the good weather.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20

You can bet your money that am
going to be one, too says Manager
Frank Belt in speaking of his pros
poets. Il certainly will be right on
top If the other clubs remain within
the salary limit. think ! have one
of the best clubs OF youngsters in the
circuit.
Outfielder Moran. who played with
Frank Belt back in Jacksonville, is
wintering IN Atlanta, Georgia, where
ne will play again this season. Just
to show that he remembers the old
veteran he has recommended highly
touted third baseman. Belt Eili give
him trial if he pays transportation
to Keokuk, the money to be refunded
if he makes good.
Manager Bert Hough has already
signed the following men: Catchers,
Cronin. Sampson. Allworth, WEIGH:
pitchers, Nelson. Coates, MCGEE. Fan
ming. Noe, Patterson, Sterling, Hilge-
fort: first basenen. Brennan. Markley,
Broemeke: second baseman. Bowling,
shortstops. Sensebach. Scanlon: third
baseInen, Blausser, Fortnan; outfield-
ers, Eberts. Reeder. Mcfarland, Weis
enberger. From this bunch the team
which will represent GaIesburg in the
Central association will be chosen.
The following is short treatise on
Injustice to League Recruits" by
Lee c. Duke in Muscatine Journal
We all of rs have taken a slap at
the unfortunate recruit who is touted
as a world beaten by the war cores
pondent during the training season.
only to be marked N c. by the
manager when the season actually
opens. Caricaturists have depicted
him from every conceivable viewpoint
and he has been made the butt of
many jokes in the columns of the
press by facetious writer's But when
you really stop to think about it. is
1t fair to the young one that such i
condition exists? There is someone to
DldIe IOE ali Tie QlSdppOiululSul-
and that someone is not. at least in
the greater extent, the player himself.
The real fault lies with the scribe
who follows up the doings of the
youngster day by day and feeds the
fans with the news of the dazzling
playing of such aspirant. Followers of
baseball are only too prone to believe
the CHEEKY words of the correspond
ent and are optimistic until the Off
cial ak falls. Then the player is roast
ed for not living up to the reputation
that was made for him by the friendly
but misdirected writer. Were the
news gatherer to send in nothing but
facts the expectations of the fan
would not be so great and the disap-
pointment correspondence less.
Baseball men all over the country
are taking deep interest in the fight
Waterloo has waged for a place in the
Three-I league From practically ey-
ery corner of the. United States the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-20
K. OF p.

Morning Star Lodge. No meets
Fifth and Blondeau. K. Of P. building
Tuesday at 1880 p. m. G. g. Koepf,
Chancellor Commander; J. A. Bur
CESS K. of r. and s. Visiting knights
fraternally invited.
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Herman Lodge No. 116. (German),
meets regularly every Wednesday
evening at s o'clock. A.. H. LINEN.
burger. N. G.; Albert Kiefer. Rec.
Sec.
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Trains leavo from Union Depot.
Berths and tickets, Fifth and John.
son streets.
South Bound.
NO. 8, st. Louis and south,
leaves -. ............. -12:45 am
NO. 10. st. Louis and Kan
sas City and west, south,
leaves ). .......-......... $50 am
No. A, Quincy, Hannibal &
st. Louis, arrive i IL p. M.
leaves ......... ......... 1920 pm
NO. 10, Quincy and Hanni-
bal. arrives .............. 1925 pm
No. 10 leaves ........... 1875 pm
North Bound.
NO. Z, Chicago. st. Paul
and points west, leaves :. 2:35 an
NO. IS, Chicago. st. Paul
and points west, arrives -. 7:s5 pm
NO. 10, leaves ............ 1875 pm
sNo. 8, Burlington, Chicago
and east leaves ....... 1856 pm
No. !, Burlington, leaves 7:35 am
mo. 81, Donnellson. c., B. &
x. c.. and North Road
leaves .... $3.50 pm
EMO. 80, from Donnellson.
c., B. & K c.. & North
Road. arrives ........... 1880 am
mo /, K. & w. lest. leaves sos am
s'No. 5. Centerville, leaves !. 7.35 pm
mo. 4. from Centcrville and
points intermediate, arrives 1:15 pm
mo. 2. from Centerville and
west, arrives ............. $40 pm
'No. 3. Centerville, leaves $40 pm
''No 6. from Centerville. ar
rives ................. HISS am
daily.
'Daily except Sunday.
ssSundays only.
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eardle Eastman Up Stream.
Launches on the River.

Yesterday was an ideal day for
onwers Of pleasure boats, and the
river was dotted during the time the
sun was shining, with gasoline launch
es and number of row and sailing
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A. o. u. w.

A. O. U. W.
Keokuk Lodge, No. 256-Meets
every Thursday night at 1880 o'clock
at hall over Keokuk Savings bank,
corner Fifth and Main streets. Visit
ing brethren cordially invited. Thos.
w. Lester. NJ. W.; A. e. Moore. re-
corder.