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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-06-23
His Hobby Explosives.

DR.. Dumas, in printed interviews,
has been quoted as saying that he
knows nothing of the ways of "yegg-
men, and that as far as explosives
were concerned he had no inside in
formation, except what he would
naturally learn in school work.
The state fire marshal's Office
claims that no less than a dozen wit
nesses will be produced who will
testify that one of the doctors hob
bies has been a boosted knowledge
OF high explosives and how to safe
ly handle them, an dthe habits and
methods of the work of yeggmen.
Dumas Friends Faithful,
The wonderful lack of nervousness
and admirable self-control of DR..
Dumas, in the face of charges which
it proven true will land him in the
penitentiary is such that many of
his fell townsmen at Cass Lake ex-
press doubt as to the truth of the
claims made by the state fire mar
shaPs Office. The doctor continues
pleasant and unruffled and asserting
his innocence and absolute confidence
that when he springs what he calls
his trump cards" he will have no
trouble in proving that he is inno-
cent.
While no admission is made by
the detective it is known that some
convincing statements have been Sc
cured within the past five hours,
and that these will be given ont
soon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
NEXT MEETING OF
MEDICAL SOCIETY
Tri-state Organization VIII Meet al
Fort Madison on September
26 and 81.

FORT MADISON, Ia. Aug. 23.-The
Tri-State Medical society will meet in
Fort Madison, September 26 and a..
Large crowds are expected to attend;
also, many prominent physicians.
Through the efforts of the local
physicians the annual melting Of the
Tri-State Medical society will be held
in Fort Madison. This is the first time
that the society has met in town
the size of Fort Madison, as they
have always held their meetings in
Kansas City, st. Louis and Chic~.so.
Large crowds are expected to at
tend from various points and also
many Of the most prominent physi-
clans will be present at the meeting,
The dates of the meeting have been
set for September 26 and 81.
The Committee on Arrangements
met last night and the arrangements
for the meeting are completed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Visited Converts.

BERLIN, Aug. 23.-During the last
few weeks, various monasteries, con-
vents and other religious houses of
Bavaria have been visited by a benev-
client looking old gentleman in clerical
garb and his companion. craving a
nights lodging and hospitality. The
two travellers, who announced them
selves as the Bishop of Nazareth
and his secretary" were always warm
~ received by the brotherhoods, who
wined and dined them and accommo-
dated them with the guest chamber
of the monastery. This hospitality
the bishop Of Nazareth generally re
paid by officiating at early mass be-
fore his departure on the following
morning, while his secretary collect
ed offerings from the warmhearted
brothers The bishop displayed a
marked "penchant" for the hospitality
of converts, where the nuns were al
ways charmed by his benign and gra
cious manner. Finally, however, the
abbott Of certain Capucine monas
tary became suspicious of his rever
end brother, and had him arrested
The bishop of Nazareth now turns
out to be Jewish cattle dealer
while his secretary is a cattle driver
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Fisher and Poet.

BERLIN, Aug. 23.-Johann Aaffson
Turf, fisher and poet, is the first Lap
lander to write a book Turf is also
an artist and has portrayed the life
and costums of his people in pictures
and sketches, which, though some
what primitive in their technic, bear
the stamp of being true to life. To-
day, there are only seven thousand
Laplanders left, who, nomad like,
year In and year out, follow their
herds Of reindeer from their summer
pastures to their winter grazing
grounds. When the first snow flakes
of the long Lapland winter begin to
fall, Turf dons his snowshoes and
disappears. The whole long winter
through he spends in hunting his
quarry over the frozen SHOWS, sleep
ing happily in his sleeping bag, and
firmly convinced that the world can
offer no finer life than that of his
own frost-bound, snow-covered wilds.
The book which Turf has written is
the only trustworthy description of
| the life and habits of the most north
erly people of Europe. For many
years Turf refused to publish his
writings, but he has finally been pre-
vailed upon to entrust his book to a
Danish friend named Emelie Demant
who hunts regularly in the far north
and who has undertaken to translate
| the Lap writer's book into Danish
I time onapiney tic contents tn tho civ
! ilized world
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Old Resident Of keokuk and Bust
ness Man Of This City for Fiji
ty Years Died
Today.
HAD SUDDEN ATTACK
Mr. Weess Had Been III for Past Sew
eral Months But Death Comes
as Surprise to
Many.

Frank j. Weess is dead. One of
keokuk's oldest retired business men
and citizen we'll known, passed away
Following sudden heart attack, at
his residence, 222 Morgan street this
morning shortly after seven O'Clock
MI. Weess had arisen at his usual
hour and was returning from the bath
room to his own apartment when he
fell. He was carried to his room
and placed in bed, expiring a few mo.
ments later.
During the past week Mr.. Weess
mad been confined to his bed with
pleurisy and pneumonia symptoms
were present in his system, but these
were broken and the patient was an
parently getting along nicely after
an illness extending over sixty days.
Mr.. Weess had been up and about
his home until the past week, how
ever, and some surprise and univer-
sal regret has been caused by his
sudden demise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
PASSING OF
The HICKORY
Prof. A. D. Adrain Speaks at kahoka
chautauqua, Telling How to
Bring up Children
Properly.
NOT CAREFUL ENOUGH
Call Boy Bad and Keep 1t UP and
He VIII Live up to the Repu-
tation and Become
One.

KAHoKA. Mo-. Aug. 2a.-The
chautauqua continues to draw
fair sized crowds and many were in
from the country Tuesday to hear
Prof. A. D. Adrian, of Santa Barbara,
California. deliver his lecture, THE
Passing of the Hickory" The inter
est of his audience was evinced from
the opening sentences and was held
throughout. Prof. Adrian's lecture
was chuck full of meat, and the follow
ing EQUATIONS are but few OF the
many good things he said, taken at
random from his lecture:
I'VE know that to procure a per-
feet flower we must have the best of
seed"
I'VE see to the pedigree of our
cattle, but do not look to the quality
of the child-any kind of father, any
kind of mother will do
100000 babies have died since
was with you last year, more than 80
per cent unnecessarily. Had the milk
of these little babies been properly
cooked and clearly, few of these lives
would have been lost. Organize a
dispensary and care for the babies.
Your doctor will show you how to
prepare baby's food Your nurse will
show you how to dress the baby. The
mighty problem God has given us is
to raise that boy or girl right"
Call boy bad, and keep 1t up
and he will live up to the reputation
! Call him good and he will soon live
UP to that"
Let the great wrongs of the world
be:
Il. Taking something that does
not belong to them.
"2. To bring hurt or pain to some
one else.
"3. To bring hurt or pain to ones
self"
"As the boy thinketh SO will he be
Every school yard in the country
should have a clean, well kept play
ground The school of tomorrow vii
be suited to the inclinations of eac1
child Get only the best Of teachers
Do not take any cheap or secopt
grade. The best is none too good TO
your boy or your girl
Professor Adrian made good.
The preludes of the day were b.
the Young Concert Company, which
were very pleasing. They gave de
lightful evenings program.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

Burlington and Cedar Rapids were
the principal competitors. In 1875 Ce-
dar Rapids got it and held it until
1879, during which period elaborate
plans were made and in 1879 notice
was given through Its city papers
that it had the fair spiked down for
,all time. The total receipts of the fair
that year was S17,S18 or sS72 less
than for the preceding year. The pre-
miunis paid were $4,S10, or 1858 less
than the preceding year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Joys Of a Tlahtwad.

Smithland Sun: We saw an old
dried UP sardine of an individual
laughing at a group of boys the other
day who were earnestly talking base
ball This same old tightwad can't
talk baseball because he is too all
fired stingy to spend quarter to see
a game He cant find anyone to ar
que politics with because he is too
narrow minded. So instead he just
spends his time slandering his neigh
bors. He seems to get as much en-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
personal

Miss Rose Lowitz of Chicago, H.,
is visiting in the city. the guest OF
her brothers, Will and Nathan Lowitz.
Mrs. w. NJ. Trone and daughter,
Vernice, Of Astoria, ILL.,, are visiting
at the home of the formers sister,
Mrs. R. NJ Downing.
Rev. Jacob Nuesch of St Paul's
German Evangelical church, has gone
to Petosky, Mich, for visit. Mrs.
Nuesch, his wife, is visiting In Burl.
lngton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Geiger and son
Merrill have returned home from
Denver, Colo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Was a HoIIander.

Frank ]. Weess was born in Hol-
land, January Sth, 1871. When a lit
tie boy, eight years old, he came to
this country and Keokuk, arriving
here in May, 1S49. Since that early
day. Mr.. Weess had made Keokuk his
home.
Mr. Weess was self-made man.
His educational possibilities were lin
tied, and when lad of only nine
or ten, he assisted his father, the
late John Christian Weess, in the
butcher business on South Fourth
street, where market was conducted
for over fifty years by Frank ]. Weess
in one of the row of one story build
ings which formerly stood where the
feed and market grounds are now 10
Gated.
For many years Mr.. Weess conduct
ed his butcher business, and honesty
and hard work won for him the com
forts which one who has encountered
the rough as we'll as the smoother
places of life, richly deserved. He
was a quiet man, member Of the
| United Presbyterian church, but be
longed to no lodge or secret organi
cations.
The marriage of Frank j. Wees
and Louisa p Lorentzen was celebra
ted on February IA, 1862. Mrs. Weess
who survives her husband, was the
daughter of Rev Lorentzen the frs
pastor of the old German church
which stands today between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth on Exchange
street.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Weess, five child
rem were born, all of whom survive
! They are: Mrs George e. Flower o.
! Niles, Mich, Mrs. George F. Collier o
i this city. Mrs Jas. A. Hanna of Quin
| cy, and Messrs. Arnot S., of Keoliuk
and John C. Weess of Oklahoma City
Okla.
The deceased Mr. Weess was thu
last surviving member of large fam
ilv of his fathers. When funeral ser
vices will be held has not yet heeI
decided, but announcement Of the da.
and hour will be made later
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
GETS
PLAYER JANSEN
Second Baseman Sold to indianapolis
is in Turn Sold to Major
League Club.

Announcement is made today in the
morning papers that Pittsburg has
purchased from indianapolis, Player
Jansen now with Keokuk. The deal
appears to be a peculiar one. Pitts
burg and Indianapolis both appeared
to be after the youngster. The major
league club dropped out Of the bidding
and Indianapolis took the youngster
for $500. Now Indianapolis disposes
of him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

Mrs. Geo. Crowell leaves Friday af-
ternoon for Elkhart. Ind, where she
will join her husband to make their
future home in that city Mr.. Crowell
formerly foreman of the Schouten
bakery, here, has accepted the fore
manship of the Riverside bakery at
Elkhart.
Miss Angeline Smith of Boise, Idaho
is spending few days with her aunt
Mrs. C. E. King, at Col High street
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Launch Recovered.

Shortly after sending out notifica-
tons regarding the stolen launch,
Chief Henry Schevers received word
from the marshal at Canton, saying
that the boat had been found tied to
the dyke about a mile north of the
city. 1t evidently had been abandon
ed during the night
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

"My child was burned terribly about
the face, neck and chest. l applied
DR.. Thomas Eclectic Oil. The pain
ceased and the child sank into rest
full sleep."--Mrs. Nancy NJ. Hanson,
Hamburg, N. Y.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Real Estate Man as Interpreter.
Launch Was Stolen.

A sixteen-foot launch belonging to
Joe Leufek was stolen from the loot
of Johnson street. where it was tied,
early last evening. The theft has been
reported to the police and today a
number of city authorities along the
river were notified by kilograms. The
boat is painted in dark red and has a
21s horse power Thomas engine in it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

W. o. w.-Gate City Camp No. 81.
Woodman of World, meets second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month
at Hawkes. hall, corner Eighth and
Main streets. Visiting soverigns cor
daily invited. L. f. Severn, consul
commander, f. C. Hawkes.. clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
B. P. O. MlKs.

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
Keokuk Aere. No. 6S3-Meets first
and third Wednesday of each month at
Eagles hall, 523 Main. Visiting broth
ers cordially invited. Geo. j. D. Salzer,
w. President; c. A Noakes, secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Hicks'CAPUDINE

is the best remedy to take. It's
liquid ~ effects immediate pleas
amt to take. 10c, 25c and Soc at
drug stores.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
!, You Can Understand and Talk tho
nBohunk' Language, City VIII
Make you Police
Magistrate.
THERE IS NEED FOR ONE
Even Justice LeIndecker Who Knows
English, German and French
Can't Make Thorn
Out.

WANTED-A police magistrate or
Justice of the peace who can under
stand the "bohunk" language.
This is the Cheap column adver-
tisement which the city Of Keokuk
will soon insert in local papers unless
Justice John Leindecker, Justice Jas.
S. Burrows or Judge w. L..
Mcnamara of ths superior
court, go into dutiful train
ing and learn the language of these
foreigners who are now flocking the
police courts almost daily with vari-
Gus charges against them. The prob
lem has come to be a serious one, as
evidenced by case before Justice
Leindecker this morning.
Charges of vagrancy were filed
against one Juan Pablo Guerrero and
one Juan Defiance today by A. D. Dun
lap, former deputy United States
marshal who now is in charge of
these men for the water power com
pany According to the story these
two men were too lazy to work and
Dunlap desired to get them off of the
grounds.
Before Justice Leindecker the mat
ter of an explanation was hopeless.
After considerable delay 1t was
found the men had been working for
few days and charge of vagnucy
would not stand. Therefore it was
changed to one of trespassing. An eff.
fort will be made to send them out OF
the city.
Real Estate Man as Interpreter
George Maxwell, real estate and in.
surance agent, came to the rescue OF
Justice Leindecker later In the day
The two laborers. who proved to be
Mexicans, were taken to Mr.. Max
wells Office where court was hello
with him as interpreter. Mr. Max
well can speak Spanish and SO coulG
+ the foreigners. Justice LeindeckeI
found them guilty of trespassing ant
sentenced them to thirty days, which
was suspended pending their absence
from the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Head aches
Impair Mental Faculties

and should not be allowed to be-
come chronic. Whether caused by
heat or cold, stomach disorders or
nervousness
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-19
ExperIenoe to Remember.

A woman and her four-year-old child were rescued early the other morning on a Welsh mountain after a terrible ordeal. They visited some relatives and started back across the Deri mountain. The woman, however, took the wrong road, and as night fell found she was lost. In the darkness, both she and the child fell into a brook They managed to extricate themselves, but as they ran to and fro, vet through and bitterly cold, the child left its mothers side. The woman wan dered about screaming for help, until a workman heard her. Search parties were at once sent out, and the child was discovered in a plantation, almost dead from exposure, with bad wound in the head caused by falling over |, rock. It had been without food, or the frozen mountain side. for sixteen hours.
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-19
HOW DISPUTE FINALLY EHDED
Government Agent Settles squabble Between Landlord and Tenant by
 Claiming Meteorlte.

Miss Dorothea Klumpke, a lady as- Eonomer, speaks of the difficulties and intricacies that astronomy pre- sents to the lay mind.
 For instance" she said, smiling, there is the well-known case of the meteorite that fell on Vermont farm in 1890. It was a valuable meteorite, and the landlord at once stepped up and claimed it.
 "'All minerals and metals on the land belong to me- he said. That's in the lease
 The tenant demurred.
 This meteorite,' he said, wasn't on the farm, you must remember, when the lease was drawn up
 The landlord perceived the justice of that claim. He thought moment. Then he said decisively. T claim her as flying game
 But the tenant was ready for him.
 !" It's got neither wings nor feath- ers,' he said Therefore, as ground game, it's mine
 They continued their argument, and in the heat of it a revenue officer arriving with truck, proceeded to put the meteorite aboard.
 "1 claim her for the government he said, as an article introduced into the country without payment of dutyl'"
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-19

wreaths and offered prayers for the men who were swept to death on that dreadful February night.
 There are conflicting reports as to the condition of the hull. A Spanish board of investigation officially report cd to the Spanish government that the bow is in one place, while a Cuban board located 1t in another. A United States investigation agreed with neith- CT. The water depth Is from 30 to 37 feet The vessel is tor was) about 33 feet in height-that is, to the top of her decks. The deck is now 19 feet below the surface of the water. The mainmast and the fighting top are ex- posed-also a part of the house, turned upside down.
 After their long neglect the bodies of the unfortunate seamen, who went to their death on that February night IS years ago, will find a resting place In the Arlington National cemetery under the stump of the fighting mast which now thrusts It's top above the waters of Havana bay. The decencies will thus be satisfied. But it is not sentiment alone which is directing the activities of the government engi- neers. If it were only that their prob lem would be immensely simplified. The cause of the explosion remains unknown; in the wreck itself the en- gineers hope to find. evidence which will explain the mystery. All their plans, accordingly, were laid with a view to leaving such evidence as might exist undisturbed
 Briefly and non-technically, the plan being used to raise the vessel is as follows: A series of cylinders-20 in number-forming a cofferdam, are be- ing sunk in the water, silt and mud around the wreck. These cylinders, when completed, will form an egg shaped dam encircling the wreck This dam will be made watertight and the water inside pumped out Hydraulic pumps will suck out the mud and the
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-19
Half MournIna.
In by head.

Miss Lee of Virginia had a negro maid who was always asking her mis- tress for her clothes long before she was through with them. One day Diana's husband died and she went Into mourning. In a very short time, however, she asked her mistress for a certain hat, which was trimmed with bright red roses. Much surprised and amused, Miss Lee remarked:
 Why, Diana, you cannot wear that hat, you are in deep mourning for Toby and 1t would look outrageous"
 Law, Miss" returned Diana, quite cheerfully. 'I'se thinking of going out of mourning from the waist up."- Woman's Home Companion
The Holbrook news., 1911-05-19

v T is impossible for loyal Ameri-
 can to stand anywhere in or
 about Havana harbor and look
 out on the tower of the Maine and
 the twisted steel that once formed her hull and not feel a sense of indig- nation and a conviction that what fol lowed was a just retribution for so nastardly an act, if the Spaniards ac- tually committed the deed.
 One feels a kind of personal inter est in the vessel that carried the flag for years, that figured in the national drama so tragically. that must forever appear in the annals of our country. Whether or not the Spaniards were guilty of the vessels destruction is ex- pected to be developed when the hulk Is uncovered.
 The battleship Maine was sunk in Havana harbor IS years ago. The blown up and thus disposed of at @ cost of $2O,OO0. The Cuban govern ment wanted to do that in order to clear the harbor. But Uncle Sam would not have it, and so for years a mass of twisted iron, sentineled by a lone turret, has grinned, skulllike, at the passing world. Congress, aroused finally to action by public sentiment, appropriated $3OO,OOO to be expended In raising the Maine.
 The Maine at the time of the explo- sion was swinging with her nose to- ward the Havana shore, and the wreck lies in a line almost west and east, bow and stern The buoy to which she was moored was about three-eighths of mile from the west shore of the bay. The wreck lies in about the cen ter of the harbor.
 On the 18th of February each year the Americans in Havana have visit cd the wreck and decorated 1t with