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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Signing of Charles SAKE Completes
the Big Four" Which Promises
to Put Boilermakers Up
In Race.
SAKE A YouNGsTER
Joined Team Last Season In Time to
Launch a Winning Streak Which
Pulled Team to
Fifth.

KEwANEE, Ill. Feb. 20. Ike
wanee's big four $40 per cent pitch
ing staff is now complete. Charles
SAKE who has been suffering from a
case of holdoutitis is now out of dan
ger and notified President Hill that
he will return for the season any time
he is ordered to report
SAKE WAS not altogether satisfied
with the salary stipulation in his con
tract and believed he was worth more
money than he was offered. So he
sent his contract back unsigned and
gave the impression that he did not
intend to return.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
K. Of p.

K. OF p.
Morning Star lodge No. 5. meets
at Fifth and Blondeau, K. OF P. build.
ing, Tuesday at 7:3o. John P. Johnson
chancellor commander; Robert Ulrich
X. of R. and 8. Visiting knights
fraternally invited.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Keokuk Lodge No. 704 meetr every
Wednesday night ut p. IN. in Hawkes.
hall. corner of Eighth and Main. Vlsll'
ing brothers cordially invited. I'd =
Vaughan, Dictator. Roy NJ. Maft'l
secretarv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

Hardin Lodge No. %, holds its regu-
lar monthly meeting the second Mon.
day evening Of each month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Mandot-Moore Bout Tonlaht.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 20--Fans to-
day predict fast bout tonight be-
tween Joe Mandot and Pal Moore of
New York. The match is scheduled TO
go ten rounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Arrange MaIone-Johnson Bout.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
DENVER, Col, Feb. 20-Final ar
rangements for 2 fifteen round bout
between Mike Malone of Denver and
Eddie Johnson of Pueblo to take
place at Walsenburg, Col, February
90, We're completed today when the
articles were signed by the Denver
boxer and returned to Promoter
Charles Countryman. The weight is
1888 pounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
F arm at Auction
Near MILTON. IOWA
Friday, February %, 1912,
AT IL O'Clock, on the Farm

The famous Bups containing 526
Milton will be sold at auction:
following stock 80 eng steers yearlng
coming
averaging This farm rolling black land
Unusual improvements consisting
twosto Broom tenant
holding breeding barn with Is box stalls cattle
machine house
tight holding 5000 bushels shed
loading chute etc. ETC.
Creek having springs neverfang water
feed lot with unusual mile from good
neghbohood buildings nicely located
handling divides place nicely into
either
farms $4,000 be splendid
sacrifice Anyone
would do well to look this
bid Sale at - O'Clock February %
the
TERMS OF sALBs1ooo
Bros, Aucioneers, wapeIo Iowa.
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FRATERNAL CARDS.
MASONIC.

= Meet in X. Of P. Building, cor
~ ner of Fifth and Blondeau.
/VN Eagle Lodge No. IL holds its
regular meeting the first Mon
day evening Of each month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

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, c. B.
Lake, v. c.; A. Pollord, clerk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

ORDER OF ODD
FELLOWS.
Hall Seventh and Main street.
Keokuk lodge No. Is, meets regu.
larly Monday evening at 1880 o'clock.
Alfred Lundberg, N. g.; E. L. Bond,
recording secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Moran satistied Win Showing.
Italy Against Greece.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servlce.]
CHICAGO. Feb. 20. When Hugo
Kelly and George tKnockouD Brown
meet in their ten round bout for the
middleweight honors at Kenosha to-
morrow night, it will be real race
war and upwards of 1000 Chicago
fight fans viii be on hand to witness
the struggle. 1t will be Italy pitted
against Greece and the countrymen
of the two fighters are standing be-
hind their favorites to the last punch.
Both men are In excellent condition
and each will carry into the ring a
hatred for the other, that the fans be-
lieve will make the battle one of the
most desperate encounters in years.
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Decides to Sign.

The situation was thoroughly ex-
plotted to Charles and he began to
see things in different light. He
reconsidered his determination not
to sign and has asked that contract
be sent him at once. He added that
he would sign one as soon as he ar
rived in kewanee If that was just as
satisfactory This makes the pitching
staff at present Drohan, Pressy, Ash
ley, and SAKE the followers and House
the Kansas State league youngster
who is to be given tryout. The first
four pitchers mentioned made fine
total average during their term OF
service with the Boilermakers last
year, having a percentage of $50.
SAKE in his letter also recommended
q second baseman whom he believed
would fill Berhammers place in good
style.
Wins First Game.
SAKE is husky young man with {
good pitching arm. He came to Ke
vance with Outfielder Block last sum
mer when the league he was in hi
the rocks ard went to pieces. HI
worked in the first game at Muscatins
the same day he Joined the team ant
started out with a win. That was th'
beginning of the celebrated winning
streak which put the Boilermaker
within reach of fifth place. 1t is be
lieved SAKE Will have better yea
this year than last and if so he vii
probably be elevated to faster con
pany Many queries have been mad
as to whether SAKE was to come bac
and his promise to come will be We
received hv all the fans
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runner Gives Redmond sleep puncl,.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. T
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Feb. 20.-Charlie
Turner the mysterious unknown" is
neither mysterious nor unknown to-
day following his bout with Jack Red
mond. Redmond put him to sleep in
the second round.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Burns Matched With Goodman.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK. Feb 2O.-A lively
fight is expected tonight when Kid
Burns and Jack Goodman come to-
gether before the Fairmont Athletic
Club. Burns recently stayed for ten
rounds with Packey Mcfarland, while
Goodman was put away in five rounds
by the stock yards boy. Argument ov-
er their respective showings. develop
ed Ill feeling between Burns and
Goodman and they decided to settle
their dispute in the ring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
FATHER DOYLE,
 PAULIST, DEAD
Founder of Apostolic Mis- sion Dies Soon After
 Reaching San Francisco

New York, Aug. 10.-Word reached the Paulist Fathers at Fifty ninth street and Columbus avenue last night that Father Alexander P. Doyle. c. s. F., died yesterday in St Mary's Hos pital, San Francisco. Father Doyle was 55 years old. He had been in poor health recently and had left New York two weeks ago for San Fran cisco, his home town, in hope that the change would be beneficial. But the journey exhausted him and he was removed to the hospital shortly after he reached his destination His sister, who is a nun assigned to St. Mary's s Hospital, was with him when he died.
 The Rev. Alexander P. Doyle was widely known. He was the founder and rector of the Apostolic Mission House at the Catholic University in Washington and for some years was the editor of the Catholic World. He was identified with temperance move ments and for ten years was manag- ing secretary of the Catholic Total Ab- stinence Union of America.
 Born in San Francisco, he was a graduate of St. Mary's College there, and in 1880 was ordained to the priest hood in New York city as member of the Congregation of St Paul-the Paulist Fathers In 1892 the Paulist Fathers put him in charge of the Catholic Book Exchange and the Cath olic World.
 One of the activities of the Paulist Fathers is giving lectures on Roman Catholic doctrines to non-Catholics, and Father Doyle was particularly ac- tive in that work He raised about S250,O0O for the building and endow- ment of the Apostolic Mission House, and took the position of rector of the new college.
 Not long age he came to New York, telling the fathers here that he was then thoroughly worn out and needed a rest. "I am seriously sick" he said to Father John J. Hughes, head of the Paulists here. My eyes have failed and my nerves are shattered. don't believe I'm going to live much longer"
 Father Hughes strongly advised a trip to the Pacific coast, while physi- clans said that such a journey might help him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
THE SMITH-MURRAY co.
ohia ana the Ruokaxa.

The name Buckeye, though of ear Her origin, became indelibly affixed to Ohio in the fire eating campaign of 1S4O. when General William Henry Harrison started out as the Whig can didate for the presidency and shortly became the Hog cabin and hard ci- der'' candidate. He was pictured sit ting in rough cabin, barrel of cider handy to his elbow and strings of buckeyes upon the wall at his back. Cabins of buckeye poles were erected upon wagons and carried in Whig pa rades. One of the songs of the cam paign ran:
 Wen wheel it to the capital and place it
 there elate
 For a token and a sign of the bonny
 Buckeye State
 The predecessors of the modern but ton men were credit to the trade. In the Harrison campaign they sold Ohio buckeyes throughout the country, canes from the buckeye tree and woven em. blems in the shape of the buckeye leaf Thenceforth Ohio was the Buckeye State.
 The unassertive tree, with it's worth less nut and fetid bark, is not, 1t is true, anything to take a vast pride in But there's no escaping the sobriquet That is established-possibly for af long as Ohio is a state.-Toledo Blade
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Test In courteav.

.sIn banking, as in personal finance, , remarked a suburban banker the other day, .'the old adage, Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves holds good. Just tC illustrate. I've been banker for thir. ty years. Courtesy made my success largely. A couple of years ago wo man whose brothers were depositors with us dropped in to see me and said she wanted to open an account. I ar ranged everything and then asked how much her initial deposit would be When she said $5 never quavered. took 1t. Two days later she deposited $15, GOO That account has never av eraged less than $5,0O0 from that day See what she was up to? She wanted to know how courteouslys small depos itors were treated. ."-New York Trib nnQ
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UNUSUAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT AT BOSTON
 IN WHICH FOUR WERE KILLED CAUSED THE
 DEATH OF SPECTATOR OF CATASTROPHE

Boston, Aug. 10.-Responsibility for the accident on the New York. New
 Haven and Hartford at Dorchester has not been fixed. Two trainmen and two passengers were killed, and spec tator of the accident was stricken with heart disease and dropped dead. Several other passengers were hurt,
 and when the condition of the cars after the, wreck is considered it seems amazing that there were not many more killed. The train, made up of a locomotive, three passenger coaches and a baggage car, was running at 8 miles an hour through Dorchester and had reached a sharp curve. opposite the Crescent avenue station when the
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locomotive jumped the rails. Two of the passenger cars followed the en- zine off the track and bumped Qver the sleepers for a hundred feet or more. The locomotive then plunged
 off into the marsh land and half bur-
 jed itself. The momentum of the train carried two of the passenger cars over the engine, the projections of which
 ripped open the sides of the cars and road officials decline to express any opinion as to the cause of the acci- dent, saying that an investigation is being made. One theory advanced was that the track had settled over the marshy land, and another was that a spike or other obstruction had been placed on the rail.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
A Asibsri.rEwsrd.r.

The scientists have for years been perplexed over the wonderful frozen well at Yakutsk, Siberia. As long ago as 1928 it was announced that the ground was frozen to an abnormal depth at the place referred to. In the summer of 1899 Russian merchant set gang of men to the task of ascer- taining the depth of the frozen stratum
 They gave up the job after digging some thirty feet in soiidIy frozen ground. The Russian Academy of Sci ences took the matter in hand and be- tween 1888 and 1S44 dug to a depth of 8S2 feet and then abandoned the shaft because the earth was still frozen as hard as rock. Natural cold could never penetrate to such a depth, and the phenomenon is still unexplained.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
The Amper.sand.

Brewer says the sign 6 is caIIeo "anders. ampers or amprus." If Is sometimes called short and" In old en times it was known as ampersand, but that word long ago fell into dis use. It is simply a contracted and rapidly made form of the Latin ct The name ampersand is derived from sand, per see and"-that is, single symbol which in itseI6 Is and. Ampersand, meaning &, is used in chapter 21 of --Adam Bede'' (1S59); also in a poem in Punch of April n, 1869. The first stanza in the poem alluded to is as follows:
 Of all the types in printers hand
 Commend me to the ampersand, For he's the gentleman, seems to me,
 Of the typographical compania.
 Oh, my nice little ampersand, My graceful, gwanlike ampernandt Nothing that Cadmus ever planned Equals my elegant ampersand.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
crsenland.s clseisra.

The iceberg has its birth in the rocky fiords of western Greenland. Under the ever present and irresistible pres sure of ''Greenland's icy mountains, ? the great ice cap, the remnant of that which once extended down over the northern part of the present United States, countless glaciers move toward the sea from an elevation of 5000 feet This sheet of ice covers an area esti- mated to be from 3OoO00 to 100000 square miles or from six to eight times that of New York state. It is believed that it's depth in some parts Is more than 6,00O feet. The ice grad ually moves down the f1ords to the sea level, having greater or less speed according to the season of the year some of the glaciers travelling in the summer time as much as fifty or sixty feet day.-Exchange.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
DEATH TOLL GOES ON.

Boston, Aug. 10.-Victims of the wreck on the Plymouth division of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad, in which 69 passengers three cars left the rails just outside of Boston, Thursday, today totalled eight with probability that the figures will reach 13 before nightfall. Phy- sicians treating the injured say five of the injured cannot live through the day. Two died yesterday and one died shortly after midnight this morning.
 Investigators. of the cause were to- day as far from a solution as when they started. It is probable the real cause never will be known.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
The Indns an.nead


 Tn the famous trial of the dean of St. Asaph, MT. Erskine, the great English lawyer, put a question to the jury rel ative to the meaning of their verdict MT. Justice Butler objected to its pro- priety. The counsel reiterated his ques- ton and demanded an answer. The judge again interposed his authority In these emphatic worlds. T z f:.
 s.'Sit down, MT. Erskine. Know your duty or shall be obliged to make you know it."
 MT. Erskine, with equal warmth, re- piled: 'I know my duty as well as your lordship knows your duty stand here as the advocate of fellow citi- zen, and will not sit down"
 The judge was silent, and the advO- cate persisted in his questions.
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One on the Court.

When John Barton Payne was on the bench he was considered purist and showed impatience If lawyer slipped cog and committed grammatical CT. ror On one occasion he "called" coun- sel for an assault upon the kings Eng fish with intent to maim and took ur the examination of the witness him self. Later in the trial the attorney had considerable difficulty in bringing out the location of certain ash box and Judge Payne turned to the witness to say sharply:
 "You knew this ash box. didn't you P
 'tNo, your honor," answered the wit. ness, "but knew of 1t.
 "One on the court" observed Judge Payne Proceed with the case" ."-Chi- cago Post.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
ovarrasehe, kIir..If.

The wives of two British army of- fcers who had been stationed for long time in India met recently in Lon don and went to a restaurant Co take luncheon together. As their talk was of personal and somewhat private nature, they fell to conversing in Hin dustanee. This aroused the curiosity of the waiter attending them to burst ing point. He presently came forward and said gravely: Excuse me. ma dame, but I think it only right to fn- form you that I understand French"
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crxinn Rahx Always.

After we solve the nebular hypothe- sis and get a reasonably sure line on the fourth dimension we shall devote a few hundred years to determining why a woman with a baby comes to lecture at all. Then we shsA try to determine why she always sits in the front seat.-Buffalo News.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
Ali. peathbed Jest.

When Charles Mathews the elder was lying upon his deathbed a friend, intending to give him dose of medi- cine, handed him by accident some ink from a small vial. On discovering when too late the mischief he said, Good heavens, Mathews, have given you a dose of inkr'
 "Never-never mind, my boy" was the faint reply. 'sIll swallow a bit of plotting paper"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
In An EnoIish Church.

When visiting Stockton church a short time ago observed the follow ing notice respecting dogs displayed in a conspicuous position: "It is not wrong to have mans best companion in place of worship. ."-London Notes and Queries.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
Readv Aruum.nt

''Sir, am soliciting advertisements. ''Young man, my time is valuable"
 Advertise with us and you will be so rushed with trade that your time will be twice as valuable" Courier-Journal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
1orx 0o M

Never suffer your courage to expen1 itself in -derceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning nor your patience in sullenness and despair
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
Haa,.x nn tha anaIaa.

"Phwat's thot noise, Mrs RefEy1~ "Sure an Norah's phracticin' the ecalesr'
 "Begorry, she must weigh a tonr'- Musical Events.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

A. s. Jones, of the Lee Pharmacy, Chico, Cal, who has handled Foley & Co.'S medicines for many years, says: 'I consider that Foley's Honey and Tar Compound has no equal, and is the one cough medicine I can recom- mend as containing no narcotics or other harmful properties The gen. uine in a yellow package. F. l.. Cur tiS *135
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
OVERTURNING OF LAMP
 MAKES 5000 DESTITUTE.

Constantinople, Aug. 10.-The fire started at Tchorlu. on the Adrianople line, by the overturning of a lamp during yesterdays earthquake burned itself out today after half the town was destroyed. Five thousand peo- pie are destitute and shelterless
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
Just Rebuks.

~Ma!'-
 ''What is it now?"
 ''I wanna mother pieca cakeg' ''No, Tommy, you've had enough" "Aw, ma! Yer always teIlin' me I don't eat properly, am nen you don't never gimme no chance to practiceF'- Cleveland Leader
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

New Haven-Instead of being dis missed from the city engineering de- partment for cause Assistant En- gineer w. H. Fulton has been allow ed to resign.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

sJ Plans are being preparedt for a three story frame building at Strat- ford avenue and Freeman street for Jeremiah Harrington. The ground
 moor will be arranged.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

New Haven-Miss Annie Mersick, 43, a waitress who fell from a trolley car Wednesday, died last night from hemorrhages of the brain.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

New London-Private Frank c. Kaffe, 136th U. S. Artillery Corps was struck and killed by train here last night.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Plans have been completed for a ahandsorne colonial manor house to be located at Lordship in ,Stratford for ! "A " Burritt, the lumberman.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Plans are being drawn for a. six lrocm bungalow to be erected in lBfswster street for Adam Papst.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Ground will be broken soon for a 1.-two family house on Mill Hill avenue IIcr Peter Kehoe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

The contract has been let for a two family house in East Main street flor M. l.. Farrell.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
UNIQUE CONTEST
 AT MASON'S BAKE
Contestants Will Garry Hod of 100 Bricks Tn Race
 s. Up Ladders

The local union of the Bricklayers, , Whsons and Plasterers will hold a -hiR outing tomorrow at Motil Grove, Strafford Every member of the or ganizations will be present and enjoy one of the most elaborate clambakes ever prepared in this city. Athletic
 games for the members of the union will commence at 10 o'clock. One of the features of the games will be a ladder climbing contest between James Metuccio. and Angelo Delarcia of the building labors. Forty foot ladders will be used and each man will carry a bod containing 100 bricks. N F. Byrnes will be referee.
 Paterson, N. J.--Because his left arm has grown two inches longer than his right, since an injury re- ceiyed while in the employ of the
 David Henry Company. Frank Mum ley is suing for damages.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Work will be commenced soon up- ,on the construction of a brick and steel addition to the Housatonic ave- nnes plant of the Bridgeport Brass leo It will cover an area S6Ox6O fMaf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Hartford-For driving an automo- bile while under the influence of li- quor, John J. Clemens has been fined $1o0 and costs in City CQurt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Building permits with an aggregate sxalue of S36, TIT were issued during sthe past week as follows: | Secotin Julian, cement block barn, north side of Frank street. Bridgeport Brass Co.,, three story and basement fire proof tool vault building. south side of Crescent ave lnue.
 Thomas Arnold. brick shed, west leside of Housatonic avenue.
 Michael Boon, one story frame laddition to store, north side of Still krnan street.
 James Byrnes, one story frame ketore, west side of Hollister avenue. lwest side of aMin street. !, Catherine Quinn, frame cottage. northeast corner. Main and Hunting Ietreets.
 Michael Gala, six family frame Tenement, north side of Pearl street s. Freedberg, store and one-family khouse, east side Madison avenue. wilson Marshall, frame open shed swest side Asylum street. E D. Hayes, one-family frame bungalow, east side Wayne street. l. Joseph valpko. three-room addi- .tion. s70 Wordin avenue.
 Henry L. Bishop, private dwelling last side Mill Hill avenue. s71ouse, south side Harmony street.
 Frank Murray, two-family frame house, west side Laurel avenue.
 The c. Drouve Co.,, One-story ce- ,znent block office building, west side Water street.
 -AF. L. Bradbury, frame private gar, tage, south side Stiliman street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10
STATE BRIEFS.

Derby-The body of Daniel Swee- ney, 26, fully clothed was found in the canal here. It is probably case of accidental drowning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-10

Waterbury-Now that Bernard C.. Murray has confessed to setting fire to the City Hall and the Chelsea apartment house, the police would like to know who set the other eleven fires on April 19.