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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
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The Williams family are enroute
west, when the are overtaken by the
'Danites' and all are killed but Nancy
Williams and her little brother,
George. They eventually are picked
up by another emigrant train and al
lowed to go on with them.
The "Danites" return to their chief,
where they report all but two are
killed and receive orders to pick UP
their trail and never leave it until
they too, are killed. They proceed on
their quest and incidentally join the
emigrant train of which Nancy and
George are members.
Stopping for the night, the .Danites'
Hickman and Carter, recognize little
George, and seeing their chance, kill
him and ride away. Nancy gets her
gun and starts after them
Nancy, being unable to find the muir.
derers, returns to the camp and finds
it deserted, except for the grave Of lit
tie George. From the top of hill
she sees hunters cabin, and an idea
comes to her and she makes her way
to it. Entering, she cuts her hair and
takes a suit of the hunters sons
clothes and, changing, is always known
as Billy Piper. Etc.
See 1t at the Colonial tonight only
Three shows at 4, s and 9.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
The STRANGE MAN;
HIS OTHER ACTS
was seen About Other Premises Act.
Ing In ! Mysterious Manner,
Causing Precautions To
be- Taken.
GUILTY OF NO OVERT ACT.
on. Stranger Visits Keokuk Home
and Demands Fifty Gents
From the Lady Of the
House.

Sunday morning The Gate City told
A. incident OF the strange doings OF a
mysterious man out on Fulton street
lust after 10 o'clock Saturday night.
Il seems that he or another myster-
,ous stranger was performing SINH
lar acts earlier in the day in the vicin-
itv of Ninth and Franklin streets
where some OF the women Of the
neiehborhood became so much alarmed
Al the actions of mysterious strang-
err that as a precautionary measure
thew locked the doors OF their resi-
dences and If the door bell was rung
bv a neighbor or legitimate caller
the door was opened very cautiously
and lust wide enough to peer out to
see who was ringing the bell. The
stranger committed no overt act but
would walk up and down in front Of
residence, scanning the premises, for
what purpose is not known.
In the early morning Of Saturday a
strange man appeared at the back
door of residence in the vicinity Of
Tenth and Fulton streets, not far
away from where the other acts OF the
mysterious stranger occurred and
asked for his breakfast The lady of
the house left him standing Just on the
outside on the steps and prepared him
lunch and gave it to him. saying he
could eat it there or carry 1t away !.
He chose the latter and went out
Tenth street toward the bluff He is
described as peculiar looking man
with rolling. restless eyes which
seemed partly closed. He appeared to
be foreigner and mumbled his words
as he talked SO he could scarcely be
understood
Another story is told of stranger
who was more daring and defiant
than is described In the other cases
aud could scarce be connected with
the other mysterious stranger or
strangers mentioned before. This
incident happened several days ago.
This man appeared at a house on the
north side with fish to sell This was
IN the morning. A good housewife pur-
chased some fish from him and had
to go up stairs to get the money to
pay him The man left. In the after
noon he appeared at the same resi-
dence. but this time he evidently had
no fish to sell. He boldly entered the
house and going up stairs entered the
room where the lady was preparing
for a nap and demanded fifty cents
from her. saying he needed the money.
and that vas all Succeeding in the
purpose of his visit he left as quickly
as he came and that is the last seen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
CIGARETTES AT
ST. KATHERINE'S
A Dozen Girls Called to Account at
Fashionable Davenport
School,

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DAVENPORT. Iowa, May 13.- A
whiff of cigarette smoke in the dormi-
tory of the fashionable and exclusive
st. Katherines' home here resulted
In an Investigation by the sister super
ior In charge and dozen girl pupils
in the strict Episcopal school were
brought before the authorities and
may be suspended or expelled. The
girls are Of prominent families in the
middle west but their names are with
held. They range In age from IA to
16. Some of the girls admit smoking
cigarettes and assert that the older
girls, particularly those who have
graduated and entered society, smoke
regularly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
NOTICE 70 CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that the
city clerk of the city of Keokuk will
up to six o'clock p. m, Of the 22nd
day of May, 1912, receive sealed pro.
posals for the following sections Of
public improvement heretofore order
ed. to-wit:
Section 1. Construct an eight-inch
sanitary sewer through the alleys In
Blocks 81 and 8, in Reeves, Perry &
Williams Addition. to connect with
the main sewer in Block z, in said
addition.
Section 2. Reconstruct Main street,
by resurfacing, furnishing new sand
cushion, re-laying the brick and apply
ing standard asphalt filler, from the
of Fourteenth street, including inter-
sections; also Third street, from
Johnson street to Main street
Sec. g. Grade, macadamize and fin
ish with standard asphalt binder,
for thirty feet between cutters, Four
teenth street, from the north line OF
Blondeau to the south line of Orleans
street.
Said work to be constructed In ac-
cordance with the plans and specifica-
tions now on file in the office of the
city clerk and made a part hereof by
reference.
Separate bids will be received for
each section of work as above set out
and each bid shall be accompanied. In
a separate envelope, by certified
check on any bank in the city of Keo-
kuk, for the following amounts: In
case of macadam work, 500 per
block; for sewers, $50 per block, and
for reconstruction work 500 per
block.
Said work to be commenced within
ten days after the bids for same have
been accepted and contracts entered
into and to be completed within nine
ty days thereafter.
Payment for said work is to be by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
Mrs. John Drew Better.

McLeansboro, Ill.-"About five years
ago." says Mrs. John L. Drew, of this
place, II was afflicted with pains and
irregularity every month. suffered
continually, was weak and respondent,
and unable to do my homework. I
took Cardui, and In one month, felt
like new woman and worked hard
all summer I am now In perfect
health, and recommend Cardui to all
suffering women" Every day, during
the past so years, Cardui has been
steadily forging ahead as result OF
It's proven value In fema1e troubles.
It relieves headache. backache, won.
anly misery and puts fresh strength
into weary bodies. Try It.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
This Time Keokuk Enters the contro-
versy and Two Of It's lnhablt-
ants VIII Appear In
Court.
THE NORTH POLE CLUB
William Burke and John Rafferty, Are
Charged With Running the
North Pole Club" Near
Cereal Works.

II Doc Cook and Bob Peary had not
dropped into the absolute zero occu-
patton of pole hunting and pole dis.
putting, two Keokuk men would prob
ably have evaded a clash with Tie
county officials on charge of main
tanning a. North Pole club" William
Burke and John Raftery are the two
fellows whose interest in the scien-
tific location OF the top of the world,
the subsequent hegira of Doc Cook,
and the later Mobilization of Bob
Peary in the hearts Of his fellow
countrymen, resulted in their indict-
ment by Lee county grand jury on a
charge of violating the state law in
running club room.
Suppressed indictments were return
ed last week against the Keokuk men
named above, and both of them furn-
ished bond for their appearance when
their cases are called. The place
they are charged with maintaining is
said to be in building near the
Cereal works.
The North Pole club according to
the reports which reached the ears of
the grand jury, had it's inception
shortly after the north pole contro-
versy was started, in which Cook
claimed he had reached the top of the
world, and Peary, another explorer,
claimed he had not and that he him.
self was the only man to plant ban
ner at the point farther-most north.
The subsequent quarrel is said to have
been the direct cause of the birth of
the Keokuk club, where members or
those who attended it's functions, were
supposed to air their views on the
merits and dement's of the scrap, and
there is gentle suspicion that the
members polished up their views with
copious splashes OF joy soup.
There is a state law against main
/ tanning club room such as the two
Keokuk men are charged with running
and there is a penalty attached for sc
! doing. when the allegation is proven
| The law provides for a fine of not less
than 500 for each offense. and not
more than $500. The minimum jail
sentence is thirty days, the maximum
| six months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
ACUTE INDIGESTION
CAUSES MANS DEATH
Charles M. Fifer Dies Suddenly Be-
fore Medical Aid Could be
Summoned.

Charles NJ, Fifer, living at 219 Elk
change street, died suddenly at his
room this morning about four o'clock,
of heart failure, induced by acute In
digestion. He was about sixty years
old and had been in Keokuk for sew
eral months. He formerly lived in
Muscatine.
Fifer had been employed by the
Carter Lumber company as saw
filler but was to go to work for the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

of him. The lady going up stairs to get
the money to pay him for the fish,
gave him clew as to where she kept
her money, but the strange thing of
the matter is that he demanded only
fifty cents when he might have just
as easily obtained dollar or more
by his dastardly ruse.
With such characters roaming about
the city it is well for the people to be
on their guard.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

assessment certificates against the
abutting or adjacent property. accord
ing to the benefits received, except
such portion thereof as is payable by
the city of Keokuk, which portion will
be paid for by city warrants.
All bids to be opened and acted
upon by the city council of the city of
Keokuk on the 2Srd day of May, 1912,
and the contracts awarded to the low
est responsible bidders. the city
council, however. reserving the right
to reject any or all bids.
Dated May 10, 1912
o. w. sANDBERG.
City Clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

and kept their positions for this rea-
son.
Don't be one OF the old-looking ones
begin using HAYS HAIR HEALTH
today-it will keep you among the
young ones.
McGrath Bros sells it for SOC and
$1.oO, or from Philo Hay Spec. Co.,
Newark, N. j.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

The splendid work of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets Is daily
coming to light. No such grand RENE
dy for liver and bowel troubles was
ever known before. Thousands bless
them for curing constipation, sick
headache. biliousness, jaundice and In
digestion.
Sold by Wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy,
and j. F. Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
Knew TItephIst.

Titephist-Whilei In Paris paid ont
50 for tips alone. Waiter (assisting
him with coaD-You must have lived
there good many years. sir.-Boston
Transcript.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

There isn't the slightest need to
wake up any morning with brown
mouth" Ugh! No need to describe
Il.
DR.. Edwards has made drown
mouth" a thing of the past for thou
sands Of homes with his little Olive
Tablets, the substitute for calomel.
Anyone who takes DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets the moment he sus-
poets his liver and bowels, never has
"a dark brown TASTE a bad breath,
pimply face, constipation or any
other form OF bowel or liver disorder
Take one Just the moment you sus-
tpect you are constipated or that your
liver is out OF order.
Thousands take one at bed time
every night Just to keep the bowels
regular, the liver in order, the mouth
clean and the breath pure and sweet
Olive Tablets are made Of pure
vegetable compounds mixed with
olive oil,
DR.. Edwards spent IL years in prac
tice and In laboratory experiments
before he perfected Olive Tablets. !.
Why don't you try them instead Of
the severe kind OF laxatives that
grippe and only effect temporary re
lief!
Every little Olive Tablet has q
movement all its own"
10c and 25c per box.
| The Olive Tablet Company, Colum
bus,,O. DR.. F. NJ. Edwards, President
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

Hundreds write
US every year
that by using
H A Y 8 HAIR
HEALTH they
have restored
their halr to It's
natural color
kept themselves
young looking,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
ADJUSTMENTS.
At the Colonial.

Special attraction at the Colonial
theatre tonight only, THE Danites,
in two reels, a thrilling portrayal OF
border life in pioneer days. Startling
and sensational from start to finish
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
Are you going to be in the
running this year?


the fedyor fediglt antique
method doesn't
the
kind should Whatever don't
other and boost while the good styles in printing and
how
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900 q year. According to its provi-
sions she was to refrain from engag-
ing in any theatrical ventures or to
engage in any othar occupation that
would add to the already great motor.
iety of her husband.
Then according to the story Of the
chorus girl-wife's friends, being told
today, three checks for $4,000 each
We're given to Evelyn One was signed
by Thaw and the other two by rela-
tives of Thaw. On these checks, 1t
is said, payment was stopped, and the
mother of the twenty-one months old
baby now, has them.
1t is now the hope Of Evelyn Thaw
to have these checks honored. With
the $4,000 thus secured she says she
will cut loose forever from the Thaw
family. With the fifteen thousand in
checks held up, and the original al
legged agreement to pay her $4,000 a
year reduced to $4,000, she is said to
feel that there is no reason for ner
looking to the Thaws for her future,
She has already disappeared from
her apartment on Broadway and it is
said that her present plan is not to be
witness at the habeas corpus case
of Thaw before Judge Keogh in White
Plains. Her friends say that she has
told them that to make certain of no,
appearing she would leave the juris
diction of the court.
Denies There Is Child.
4 PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 13.-"The
report that Evelyn Thaw is the moth
er OF 81 months old baby is moi
true said Roger O'Mara, the detect
i've, today.
O'Mara for years has assisted the
Thaw family in the fight for the free
dom of Harry Kendall Thaw, the slay
Ter of Stanford White, now battling fol
his release from Matteawan insan,
asylum in New York.
I ONlara today was emphatic in hi
denial of the report that Evelyl
.Thaw was mother
There's not word of truth in tn,
report" he said Il never heard o
the report until today and l don
think anybody else did. It's pur.
fabrication cut out Of the whole cloth.
The people who started that stor,
will have to take it back concluded
the detective brusquely as he hung vi
the telephone receiver.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13
Almost Lost Their Positions
Young Looking, Up.to-date Men Ar
Wanted.

Gray-haired men look too old. They
are pushed aside-often discharged
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-13

There isn't the slightest need to
wake up any morning with a brown
mouth" Ugh! No need to describe
=
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
GOING TO SALIVA.
City Commissioners VIII Attend Mu-
nfcipal League LLeeting.

Mayor Billiard, Commissioner Tandy.
Commissioner Bone, Commissioner Mil
ler and C. E. Burge, city clerk, ex-
pect to attend the fourth annual con-
vention of the League of Kansas NUM-
cipalities to be held in Salina October
8 and 10.
A program relative to the business
to be transacted has been received at
the city hall. On Wednesday, follow
ing the reception and registration of
delegates, meetings will be held. roll
call and reports made. Speeches are
to be made on Legislation of Weights
and Measures, Licensing Transient
Merchants and Peddlers, Municipal Ad-
vertising, and the Kansas Public Utility
Law.
Another meeting, with more addresses
and five minute reports, will be held
on Thursday. The delegates are to be
given an automobile ride over the city
at D. m. and festivities close with
a banquet rendered the visiting OIL
Gals by the city of Salina, at $50
o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
GOOD POLICE MONTH,
Fines Collected in September Broke
Records of Two Years

A greater per cent. of the fines in
police court during the month of Sep
TENDER, was collected than at any time
in the last two years. More than one
half of the amount imposed, excepting
the cases that have been appealed to
the district court, was collected and
the usual collections average about
one-third of the amount imposed.
The total fines amounted to $1,130.
The sum of $500 was imposed on per-
sons who were convicted of maintain
ing liquor nLisances and their cases
court. This leaves a balance of $3.50
in current fines and the total collec-
ton amounted to $502.25. Fines and
forfeitures Of cash bond are consid-
lowed to forfeit cash bond when ar
rested for being drunk or disorderly
or for other petty offenses.
The police expect to collect a small
never will be paid. In the unpaid
fines are the fines of persons who did
not have money to pay and worked
it out on the city rock pile at the
rate of one dollar a day A large
number have been forced to resort to
this method of paying their fines dur
ing the last month.
There are habitual drunkards and
Migrants who spend at least one-half
of their time in the city or county
frequently fer drunkenness and after
being fined are released. The police
realize that to make them work on
the rock pile is an expense to the city
from which no benefit can be derived.
The Migrants are consid cred among
this number. These characters never
work and never will but beg for living
and usually commit petty crimes. such
as stealing small articles for which
they cannot be prosecuted except on
petty larceny charges.
The police were fortunate in max
ing arrests last month in which the
defendants were able to pay their
fines or put up cash bonds and forfeit
them. Among these were Mary Ches-
ney and number of girls who were
arrested in her house just before the
beginning of the fair. This woman, the
police say, induced a number of wom-
en- to come to Topeka for fair week
and enter her disorderly house but
the police arrested the crowd The
Chesney woman put up cash bond OF
$50 and five persons who were found
in her place, put up SO EACH All
forfeited their bonds and 800 re-
verted to the city treasurer A Mexi-
can was arrested and forfeited a cash
bond of $40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
DOLLEY WILL ACT.
State Chairman VIII Ask Stanley to
Submit Taft Electors.

Chairman ]. n. Dolley of the Re-
publican state central committee de-
cIared today he will ask National
Committeeman Fred A. Stanley to
confer with the Taft forces and rec
ommend the names of eight men to
be placed on the Republican ticket
filing the vacancies caused by the
resignation of Roosevelt electors. 1t
IS believed likely that action Will be
taken early next week and that the
names of new electors to fill the
ticket will be certified the last of next
week to Secretary of State Charles s.
Sessions.
immediately after the names of
proposed electors are submitted,
Chairman Dolley says he will call the
executive committee together for the
purpose of certifying the names to
the secretary of state. The selection
is up to the Taft supporters in Kan
sas.
The formal resignation of seven
electors who favored Colonel Roose-
Welt, fled late yesterday afternoon, is
as follows:
You are hereby notified that I de-
sire to and do hereby resign as Re-
publican presidential eLector for
which position 1 was nominated at
the August. 1912, primary, and 1
hereby request that my name be
withdrawn from such nomination.
The Withdrawals are addressed to
Secretary of State Charles Sessions
Unless Dorsey Green. whose re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05
Aviation Corps Head Trains in
America for War.
Fleet of BipIanes to Figure in
Balkan Trouble.
Greek Colonies Flock to Call OF
the Trumpets.
Men Working on Railroads
Drop Their Tools.

San Francisco, October 5.-Captain
George Captains, head of the aviation
corps of the Greek army, passed
, through San Francisco today on his
way to join the colors. He has been
in San Diego, Calf, receiving instruc-
tions in the handling of biplanes. "Our
fleet of biplanes should figure promt-
nently in the war with Turkey" he
said.
Richard De Fontana, Greek consul
general here, received the Greek gov.
ernment's call to the colors yesterday
and announced that probably 5000
Greeks would go from San Francisco
to fight the Turks. Twenty thousand,
Seattle, Wash, Oct 5.-Jerry NJ.
Mastoras, head of the local Greek col
ony, received a telegram from the
Greek legation at Washington for
consul at Tacoma, calling for lao, 900
men to return to Greece for service
in the army and 10000 men for the
navy. The call includes 10000 of
between 1896 and 1899 and 100000
of those who served between 1900 and
1909.
Mr.. Mastoras said there are 5000
Greeks in Washington of whom 1000
are in Seattle. All the Greeks who
have been sent out by employment
agents to work on the railroads will
be recalled and it is probable that con
struction work will be hampered for
a time. Plans are being made for a
mass meeting of Greeks here next
Sunday.
Vancouver, B. c., Oct 5.-A dis
patch from Dawson, Alaska, states
that the closing of navigation on the
Upper Yukon is close at hand ana
only four more White Pass steamers
are scheduled to sail this season for
White Horse.
The dispatch also states that there
is stampede in progress to the Crue-
ger concession. on Dominion creek,
which has just recently been opened
by the government.
Vancouver, 3. c., October 5.-That
nearly one thousand Greeks in Van
couver were prepared to leave for
home if war becomes a certainty was
the statement today of Themistocles
He declared there would be an exodus
of 1900 Greeks from British Colum bia
and probably 10000 from Canada as
whole.
Salt Lake City, Oct. Sin response
to the call to arms by the Grecian gov
eminent of all its subjects in Amari-
ca, many Greeks are leaving Utah for
the east. According to estimates there
are about $500 Greeks in this state
subject to army service. OF this num-
Der nearly a thousand were among
the copper miners who struck for
higher wages at Bingham recently.
OF those who are still at Bingham
nearly all have declared their inten-
ton of joining the Grecian army.
Many have already left. a score de-
parting yesterday for New York. The
strikers say that their cause will not
be hurt by the exodus.