The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-13
CITY NEWS.

The newest ideas in fall millinery
you'll see at Miss Kings tomorrow.
1872 Main street.
All of the gambling parapherna-
liza and wet goods that have been
secured by the police in raids dhring
the past year, were destroyed last
evening at the police station. The |
prisoners who are working on the
rock pile were pressed into service
and poker and crap tables, roulette
wheels and slot machines were
smashed up. Several cases and bar
rells OF beer were also destroyed be-
fore the thirst of the law for destruc-
ton of property was quenched.
Thomas II. Brennan. city clerk OF
Muscatine. accompanied by party OF
five friends will be here next Sunday
as the guests of Commissioner
Thomas P. Gray Mr.. Gray will show
them over the dam in the afternoon.
The Keokuk friends OF w. X.
Kavanaugh, president of the Lakes-to-
the-Gulf Deep Waterways Associa-
ton. who was operated on for appen-
dicitis in st. Luke's hospital, st.
Louis, Tuesday afternoon. will be
pleased to learn that he Is much
improved and was resting comfortably
last night, according to hospital at
tendant. kavanaugh was stricken at
the Congress hotel in Chicago Tues
day. He returned to st. Louis unac-
companied and went direct to ST.
Luke's hospital.
in new fall millinery you'll see it
| all at the Emporium tomorrow, 724
Main street.
Miss Elizabeth Humphrey, daugh-
ter Of DR.. G. g. Humphrey, of Car
thage, was seriously hurt Wednesday
at Wild Cat Springs, near Hamilton,
/ by falling over cliff. 1t is reported
that the bones in both OF Miss Pun
lphrey's wrists were fractured and that
she was badly bruised and cut by the
fall. Miss Humphrey was with par
lily of class mates from Carthage col
lege and In some way slipped and
4 went over the cliff, falling distance
of about twenty-five feet Her father
was Immediately telephoned to and he
went to the Springs and took her
home.
The appeal of the c., B. & O.
railway, against the Water Power
Co, Samuel, Elizabeth, George. Ada
and Charles West. has been docketed
In the district court. The appeal Is
: the result of condemnation proceed
: ings against strip Of land In section
10, Jackson township, The railway
: company refused to accept the decis
ion of the appraisers named In the
condemnation proceedings.
The docket in the district cour
for the September term is the longest
: it is thought in the history Of thu
local district court. Yesterday wa
e the final day for filing suits and th'
;. force in Clerk Lakes Office has beel
y worked to full capacity to registe
G the suits. The number of divorc
suits, said the clerk today, is UMPIRE
cedented. Also, the clerk and other
matrimonial problems, was unable t
y offer an explanation of the increas
Z in the divorce market.
t A couple with matrimonial inter
$ tons called at the Office of the count
}, clerk yesterday, but they did not g
away happy, as real lovers usually dc
k They went away sad. They forgot t
h bring a witness along with them VIII
n could make affidavit to their ages, an
d the would-be bride did not look to b
l. the regulation eighteen years of age
l. They went away after explaining tina
S they would be hack with the neces
r sary witness, but they failed to me-
d terialize.
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