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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
CONFIRMING ON STATUE
OF CHIEF KEOKUK
TWO Sketches Were Left by Chicago
Artist for Decision Of
the D. A. r.

Miss Nellie Walker. the Chicago
srtist' spent Monday in the city in
conference with committee of the d.
a. r. chapter, relative to placing a
statue OF Chief Keokuk on the pedes.
tai in Rand park. She displayed the
keeness interest in the work. having
given much time to study Of Chief
Keokuk, his history and personal pc.
culiarities as well as the particular
customs Of his tribe. She left with
the committee two sketches in wax
eight inches in height. Should she be
given the commission she recon-
mends that the upper part Of the ped
estal be removed and bronze statue
eight feet In height be erected.
The figure will be as historically
correct both as to the features of the
chief and to the style OF dress worn
by chiefs Of his tribes as 1t is possible
TO make 1t. The question as to wheth-
er he shall be represented as q war
rior or in the garb OF peace was con-
stdered. The final decision in the
matter will be left to the chapter to
which this committee will make It's
report.
A years time would be necessary to
complete such statue The women
who met Miss Walker were charmed
with her personality. and her modesty
Notwithstanding her very unusual
ability. She left this morning after
having spent the night with her uncle,
Mr.. John e. Mitchell and daughters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
GRAFTON'S FIRE
WAS A BIG ONE
Three Buildings Destroyed and Hotel
Guests Made a Hasty
Exit.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. IA heavy rain
that fell last night and the fact that
the wind was blowing in the direction
of the less thickly settled part OF
town probably saved the business sec
ton of Grafton. Ill, near here. from
destruction by fire early today.
Three buildings, hotel, bank and
mercantile house, were destroyed
with loss of more than 100000
The buildings were located in the
heart of the business section and GOV.
cred half block
Twenty-Five guests in the Ruebel
Hotel were routed from their beds,
many fleeing from the building halt
clad.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
REFUSED TO
PRODUCE DOCUMENTS
Harvester Trust VIII Not Show Rec
ords Which Government Wants
to Sec.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service,
CHICAGO, Dec. 17-Offcials of the
International Harvester Company
charged by the government with be.
ing combination in restraint OF
trade, in today's hearing again re.
fused to produce documents the gov.
eminent attorneys say will prove tho
extent of the company's monopoly.
Clarence S. Funk, general manager
of the company, refused to show the
contract which the government says
fixed the allotment of 100000, 900
working capital raised to effect the
combine. This is the contract which,
1t is alleged, w. H. Lane drew up as
a. dummy for the allied companies.
H. T. Utley, head Of the purchasing
department of the harvester company.
also failed to produce the contract
whereby the Keystone Harvester Co.,
of Sterling, ILL.,, was purchased. He
denied that Special Prosecutor Edwin
P. Grosvenor had asked him to bring
1t.
Danforth Geer. president OF the w.
A. Wood Reaping Machine Co., of
Hoosick Falls, N. Y. was put on the
stand by the defense to testify that
his company was in active competi.
ton with the international Harvester
Co. He was cross examined by the
prosecution In an effort to show that
his company had only small proper
ton of the harvesting machine bust
ness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
~ r ,
9, r. icy Appoints Executive Com.
mlttee for the Proposed ceIe.
bratlon Next Sum-
NOR.
TO ORGANIZE TONIGHT
Committee VIII Complete II. own Or
sanizatlon and Has Additional
AppoIntlve
Powers.

The executive committee for the
celebration of the completion of the
dam next summer has been announ
ced by G. R. Joy, who was designated
by the COMMITTEES to make the ap,
pointment. Adhering to hts former
resolution Mr.. Joy declined to serve
as chairman or as member of the
committee.
The members Of the committee are
Frank LeBron, jeweler; Jno. A. Dun.
lap, of the Keokuk National Bank;
Hazen ]. Sawyer, lawyer, and Rich.
ard Washburn Child Of the stone &
Webster Company Of this city, and
r. r. Wallace of Hamilton. 1t was
Mr., Wallace who framed the motion
that definitely committed the river
cities through their representatives
to support the project ito the limit"
The committee will meet tonight at
the Industrial Association rooms to or
ganize. r. R. Wallace, who had been
appraised of his appointment, at a
meeting last week asked the support
OF the citizens of Hamilton.
At It's initial meeting tonight the
committee may take some step to.
wards the outlining of definite plan
to be adopted and followed for the
celebration. The executive commit.
tee was given the power at the meet
ing held in this city to appoint such
subcommittee as they deemed
necessary. 1t was also directed tina.
the executive committee report naog
TO called meeting what action it
proposed SO that definite outline OF
the celebration might be decided up
on.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
DRUGGED In KEOKUK
BY HIS COMP ANI0Na
Local Police Say They Havs Heard
Nothing Of salots Young Man
Who was Victim.

The local police say that they have
heard nothing of the rumor from
Quincy regarding the alleged drug
ging of young man here last night
The following report published in the
Quincy Whig tells Of the young mans
troubles:
A young farmer from Sciota, H., a
small station about 40 miles east OF
Keokuk was the victim Of what the
police believe to be an attempted
drugging last night while in Keokuk,
The fellow, who gave his name as
Hodge. came to Quincy last night, ar
irving here at 10 O'clock and at once
reported his case to the police at the
depot. At the time he made the com
plant he was accompanied by the
two men whom he claims tried to do
the drugging.
Hodge left home yesterday morn.
ing, SO he claims, with about $50 In
money. He went to Keokuk, arriving
there shortly after noon Here he
met the two men and, as he was with
out a companion, they consented to
take few drinks with him. The few
extended into many and. after board
ing the train for Quincy, Hodge be-
came dead to the world.
He had revived slightly when he
arrived here and gave his remaining
stock Of cash to Officers Bangert and
Ernst at the depot for safekeepinf
The officers then took him to the
Wood hotel and tried to get him to
go to bed, but he later returned to
the depot and insisted on returning
to Keokuk on the Kline train at j
o'clock this morning, The officers
would not let him do this, however,
and made him return to the hotel and
walt until $40 this morning before
going home. In the meantime, the
officers kept charge of the $50 which
the fellow had given them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
TOOK HOLD OF WRONG
END OF THOSE DEALS

house prosecutors. As but two more
days remain ed for the completion OF
the testimony, argument over each
objection was brief.
Chief Counsel Worthington, for
Archibald, is seeking to establish the
proposition that instead Of being
forced into selling coal property to the
commerce court Judge at a sacrifice
the various railroad interests having
cases in his court we're actually max
ing sharp business deals with a delud-
ed bidder. The implication that Arch
bald was not competent to care for
himself in business transaction runs
through the defense, though that point
is not definitely claimed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17

City of Keokuk on or before noon Of
the 10th day of December, 1912. for
public inspection, and give notice of
the same being on file, as required
by law.
Roll call:
Elder-Aye.
Gray-Aye.
Hickey-4Aye.
], F, ELDER. Mayor.
Attest:
0. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
All objections to said plats and
schedules, or to the prior proceedings
on account of errors, Irregularities
or inequalities must be made In writ,
Ing and filed with the city clerk on
or before the Sth day OF January,
1913.
Dated this 18th day OF December.
1912.
0. W. sANDBERG, City Clerk
ADV
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17

members Of legislative committee
which will watch the coming session
OF the state legislature, explain the
railroad side of proposed bills and
protect the roads from unjust legis
lation.
In the past the attorneys of the
roads have performed this duty, as
sisted by a secret lobby, but the rail,
road heads say they think commit.
tee from the operating department
can perform the work better and
more conyincingly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
SUFFRAGETTES GETTING
ATTACK OF COLD FEET

would reach the executive mansion II
she went alone. General" Rosalie
Jones, repeated her declaration that
she--at would complete the
journey. The steady plodding along
cold country roads, is having a no
ticeable effect on the petitioners. AZ
ter using various cosmetics to save
their complexions from the biting
winds and adopting numerous make
shifts to protect their aching and
bruised feet, the walkers have practi-
eaily abandoned the effort to maintain
a pleasing personal appearance and
are devoting all their energies to the
desperate struggle to reach their
goal. They hope to make ossining to-
night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
Only Five Of the Party Are
Left Now to Plod on to the
State Capital.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
TARRYToWN, N. Y. Dec. H.
Three more of the valiant band OF
suffragettes dropped from the ranks
Just before the crusaders reached
here. leaving only five Of the original
twenty-seven marchera. who started
Yesterday from New York city to the
state capitol at Albany.
Still determined. however, that she
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
STILL CLEANING UP
THE CITY STREETS
Fire Department and Shovel BRIGADE
stlll Working on Main Street
Today.

There was no let up in the work OF
cleaning the streets today, several
gangs with shovels being employed to
load the dirt Into wagons and haul it
away. There still remains several
days work for these men.
The fire department began early this
morning and will continue washing
the street until It presents a much
more respectable appearance than it
has for many months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
Resolution No. 227.

WHEREAS. the city engineer OF
the City of Keokuk has presented for
the considera!i ion of the city council,
the plats and schedules prepared by
him and showing the pro rata assess
ments on the lots and parcels of land
abutting upon or adjacent to the fol
lowing described improvements, to-
wit: Paving Johnson street from
Ninth to Twelfth streets; macadamiz-
Ing Concert street from Fifteenth to
Sixteenth streets, and paving with
concrete Seymour street from Eley-
enth to Thirteenth streets, and
WHEREAS, the city council, hav-
ing viewed said lots and parcels OF
land as set out in said plass and
schedules and Nrbject to assessment
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17

James Ball, Ira w. De Moss. Eman.
uel Proctor, Ernest Best, H. g. Bode,
James Furlong, W. J. Howell, J. A..
Schowalter, Henry Wagner, r. B.
Smith, Louis Yaeger. J. j. Leu, b. w.
Klingbeil, L. w. Parsons, ]. f. Hawk
ms, ]. w. Devero, A. M. Hunter,
James A. Riley, Lloyd Benner, A. D.
Kerr, William Nye, Harry Chandler,
Frank J. Sehenk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
Starved to Death.

CHICAGO, Dec, Hilary West,
70 year old veteran of the civil war,
was found starved to death in little
room in lodging house. In his hands
was the bronze button Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic. He has been
too proud to ask for help.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
Iowa Railroad Lobby.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DIES MONIES, Iowa. Dec. IT
Headed by W. NJ. Whitendon of Des
Moines, general manager of the Rock
Island. transportation companies do
ing business in Iowa have named
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
Archibald Now Trying to Prove
That He Was Mixed up
in Bad Bargains.

limited Press Leased Wir., Service.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-Judge
Archbald's defense against the Inn
Detachment charges. as begun in the
senate with showing by experts that
his cnlm bargains were bad bargains.
was hurried forward today in spite of
Q persistent Ere OF objections by the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17

ior = single performance, Friday even
ing, December 90, IL graduate Of the
Drcxel Institute In Philadelphia,
where, among other things, she learn.
ed the extremely useful art of mil
linery. In fact, Miss Wellman is the
proud possessor OF q medal from the
Drexel Institute for efficiency in that
very useful calling.
Although st. Louis girl 1t was In
Philadelphia that Miss Wellman was
educated, and It was shortly after re-
ceiving her diploma from the Drexel
Institute that she became imbued with
the ambition to become an actress.
Miss Wellman intimated to her people
that her future plans involved stage
career. Objections were strenuous
but the young woman, with the en-
thusiasm that had made her course at
the institute such success, went to
New York and enrolled at the Amer
lean Academy Of Dramatic Arts. She
graduated at the academy with high
est honors and her first engagement,
at the completion OF her course was
with Cyril Scott in 1.-THE Prince Chap"
Her next was with Louis Mann and
she has remained with him ever since,
holding the record for young leading
woman for length Of service support
ing any one star. In all the Mann
triumphs Of the past few seasons she
has shared-and during all this time
she has made her own hats.-Ady.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
JURORS DRAWN FOR
SUPERIOR COURT
Men Are Selected for Jury Duty for
the Superior Court or New
Terms.

The following jurors have been
drawn for the superior court:
Emil Gable, w. S, Barley. Ed D.
Schulz, Charles Boyce, Charles Sam
uels Jr., J. G. Gibson, B. H. Dennis,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.
Notice is hereby given that ON the
18th day OF December, 1912, the city
council passed the following resolu-
ton, to-wit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
At the Hlppodrome.

Five old soldiers, three wearing the
Union blue and two clad in Confeder.
ate gray, are holding the rapt atten-
ton of Hippodrome audiences this
week. The veterans are members OF
Colonel Pattie's "Old Soldier Fiddlers''
and are bringing back scores of mem
cries of the songs and campfires of a
half century ago. The scene opens
with a view of the bloodiest battle
field of the civil war-Gettysburg-
when for three days the opposing
armies fought with the fury, born Of
desperation, and where many thous.
sands of lives were lost. The veter.
ans open their sketch with the old
war song, "Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground" before campfire, then at
ter an introduction by Colonel Pattie
violins, banjo, tamhos and e'boness
are used in many old time melodies
The act is q novel one and was warm.
~ appreciated by the audience. Kath,
crime Rooney 10 q coincidence that
sings and dances unusually we'll, spe.
cial scenery Is used for her act and
her costumes are gorgeous. Unlike
many single acts, she has no trouble
in holding her audience. Her song
Come Back to Erin' is a great bal
lad and is well rendered. She is well
worth hearing and seeing. Laypo
and BENJAMIN have really funny
acrobatic act, that has the spectators
wondering at all times how they man.
age to do the many falls without
danger to life and limbs Many diff
cult and novel feats are performed by
this team without apparent effort
Latest motion pictures complete the
bill.-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
ADJUSTMENTS

The Girl, the Man and the Game, !,
Billy Clifford, the comedian, who
comes to the Grand next Thursday
evening, December 10. opened this
season in Canada and played all the
cities on the cease and is now enroute
! to Chicago. He Gas a big company
with proper scenic effsGts to put on a
fine musical show. =
Everything is brand, sparkling new,
except the title. It is right up-to-the-
minute with the latest and best fun,
the most tunefu' and eatohiest songs,
and has left very favorable impress
sion wherever it has been seen. Billy
Clifford is an entertainer with unique
methods and IS seen this season in a
role that fits his comedy talents to
perfection, he is supported by an ex-
ceptionally clever company and a
beauty chorus composed of two dozen
pretty girls, who sing, dance and de-
light his audiences and as comedy
his play is unbeatable.--Adv.
You Cannot Afford to Miss This One.
Louis Mann, who appears at the
Grand opera house Friday evening, is
one of the great actors. He Is sup
ported by a superb company and
there is not a Keokuk or neighbor-
hood theatre patron OF the Grand
who can afford to miss seeing Mr..
Mann in "Elevating Husband"
Frank Moorehead Of Des Moines,
urges his Keokuk friends to see this
play which is to be given at the
Grand next Friday evening.
A Leading Woman Who Varies Acting
With Trimming Hats.
To play Nora in "a Dolls House" as
well as one can trim millinery crea-
ton and to play Lefty in "Eleyating
Husband" as nicely as one can deco
rate fascinating toque, is something
OF an accomplishment, but this Is pre-
cisely the two extremely different
gifts of which Littly Emily Ann Well
man is capable. Miss Wellman, who
has been Louis Mann's leading woman
for the past few seasons and who VII
share honors with him in "Elevating
a Husbandn at the Grand opera house,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-17
Santa Claus at the Grand.

A real live Santa Claus will be at
the Grand opera house Tuesday Dec.
oath and will make his first distribu-
tion of presents in Keokuk to the lit
tie folks at the matinee at 2:30. You
will see him enter through the Are
place and inspect the big Christmas
tree that is SO beautifully Illuminated
and decorated and loaded with pres
ents for the boys and girls. The San
ia Claus program will delight the
children and every child will be re-
membered by Santa Claus. A very
pleasing program will be presented
tonight. Tomorrow is regular Pathe
Weekly day and a dozen important
events will be reproduced. Space will
not permit of description of them.
but we can assure you something both
instructive and ntertaining.-
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
LIKE THE WOLF AND LAMB
Inoffensive Creatures Most UnjustIy
Charged With Sudden Attack
Of Bloodthirstiness.

A man who was caught in the act
OF skinning neighbor's sheep, COW
cred his embarrassment by declaring
that no sheep could bite him and
live. The logic OF this is equaled by
that of the Yankee soldier who once
had a narrow escape from an enraged
gander. The men OF a certain Maine
regiment, which was in the enemy's
country in 1862, considered the order
mo foraging' an additional and un.
called-for hardship. One afternoon
about dusk. soldier was seen beat
Ing rapid retreat from the rear OF a
farmhouse near by, closely pursued
by a gander with wings outspread,
whose feet seemed scarcely to touch
the ground. and from whose beak is
Eued a succession Of angry screams.
The fugitive was not reassured by the
cries of the gander's owner: Hold
on, man, hold on! He won't hurt
you'll" Call off your gander! Call
him off" shouted the fleeing soldier.
Neither man nor gander stopped un-
til inside the camplines, when the SOL
dier's friends relieved him OF his
fierce pursuer with the aid OF the butt
of a musket. did that gander think
he could chase me like that and
live!" the soldier exclaimed, as he
surveyed the outstretched bird; but
he said nothing of the baited hook.
with codline attached, which might
have thrown light on the unfortunate
gander's strange actions.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02
6ALUGN ZRA1ERS TRAILING ACROSS ZHE DESERT

lofty hills. the tops of which are buried beneath
hundreds OF feet OF sand. One OF the photographs
shows the southern edge Of this sandy waste and
was taken from a point which lies about. ten
miles from the Afghan frontier. In summer the
Registrar is deserted. as the grass, which springs
up In profusion in winter after the first shower or
rain, wlthers away. and the heat is intense
that even the Brahui, with his indifference to
heat, cannot bear the fiery temperature which
then reigns there supreme. AS the summer makes
itself felt the pastoraists slowly withdraw, part
moving north to the Helmand. where they await
the time when the season will allow them to re-
turn to their haunts. and part moving south and,
crossing the frontier, pitching their goat-hair
tents. or gedans, as they called on the edge
OF the sands which are depicted, and walt until
the hot weather passes Terrible stories are told
OF the fate which has overcome those who have
been SO rash as to attempt to cross the Registan
in summer: and that these stories are true is
shown by the fact that party OF Brahuis. escap-
ing from kandahar in 1900, took the Registrar
route In the hope Of avoiding pursuit. and out OF
some fifty people, all except two or three per.
fshed. The remains OF these unfortunates were
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02

schooners In New York harbor and
had capital OF $4,000 In his wife
his power for work was fully doubled.
She determined to help him and the
poorly accommodated travellers. so
they opened a hotel In Elizabeth, N.
j.. where his wife did her fun share
in running the hotel. Think of 1t.
The great-grandmother OF one of the
wealthiest families In the United
States kept a transient boarding house
in Elizabeth! But she needed TO save
only for few years before she wore
diamonds and other precious gems
worth $1.0O0.000.
boat was needed to accommodate
the people of Albany, and soon his
boats foated on the Hudson. the Del.
aware and Long Island Sound-then
he established steamboats, and other
connections between New York and
California. and by 1904 he was the
owner or controller of nearly the
whole water transportation In and
about New York.
But the people wanted to travel
faster. He saw his opportunity and
acted on it, In 1854 he withdrew his
capital from shipping and invested It
In railroads--flrst the Harlem road,
then the New Haven. then the Hud-
son River then the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern-he helped them
all, until in 1877 he controlled stocks
representing an aggregate capital Of
$150,o0o.Oo0, Of which he owed one
half. Everybody was beneflted-farm-
ers sent their produce to market
cheaper. merchants secured lower
rates. employees made larger wages
and stockholders got bigger dividends.
In 1851 he presented the $4,000
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-02

found when the return OF the cold weather per
mitted search to be made, on the spot where
they had fallen months before, some covered with
sand which had drifted over them and the rest
In circle huddled together just as they had
waited for the death which they knew was COM
Ing, and which, doubt a happy release
when 1t arrived. Weird sounds heard in these
sandy wastes Perhaps the commonest is what is
called by the Inhabitants "Sutans' drums" What
appears to be the drumdrumming of a native
tontom is heard in the distance. 1t may be ap-
preaching or 1t may be slowly going away.
search reveals nothing which account for the
sounds. Or it may be a man is picking his way
cautiously along a ridge of sand when he is sud
denly startled out OF his senses by what ap-
parently the bang OF drum struck by someone
only few yards away. Let him search never SO
carefully, he will find nothing there No salts
factory explanation of these sounds is forthcom-
ing; but there is little doubt that they have their
origin in the dryness OF the atmosphere and the
intense heat that prevails.
In religion the inhabitants are Mahomedans
but their prediction for shrines and for sacri.
icing sheep and goats at these latter on every