The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-31
CITY NEWS.

| MAKE your Ieet glad. Have your
shoes half soled at Karle's. S14 Main.
Sheriff Crimmins and Ed Woolley
returned last evening from below War
saw, where they chaperoned a party
of fishermen. They brought back q
ton Of fish, 254 in number.
Protect your horse from hys with
a fly net from Sherwood's.
Keokuk Camp M. w. A. No. 62z
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall. ALI members are
requested to be present.
George Gillespie OF Bentonsport
killed four foot rattlesnake In his
yard yesterday afternoon. The snake
had nine rattles and a button adorn-
ing the tip Of its tail.
Frank johnson, colored, who WAS
arrested Monday morning, charged
with assaulting Ed Owens, another
negro. on the steamer Dubuque,
waived a preliminary hearing in gu
perior court today and was remanded
to Jail In default Of $500 bond.
III. F. Thompson, superintendent
l.
charge of the track work during the
improvements here, will leave to-
morrow morning for Chicago for, q
few days. He will return to Keokuk
next Tuesday.
When Everett Holmes awoke this
morning and went to his barn, he
found himself richer by one horse
than he was when he went to bed
last night. Mr.. Holmes, who lives at
3l6 North Twelfth street, left his barn
door open last night and sometime
during the night black horse stray
ed in and made itself at home The
owner of the horse had not been To-
Gated at noon today.
Elks Camp II which has been an
annual event for the past eight years
will close for the season next Mon
day. During the remainder OF the
camp life the committee will try to
make 1t interesting and pleasant for
members. This evening a chicken
supper will be served and tomorrow
the ladies will be entertained. All
Elks are urged to make the camp a
visit.
Regular meeting of Hermann
Lodge No. 116, /. o. o. F. tonight,
o'clock. Visiting brothers cordially In
vited.
The articles of incorporation for
the Grand Opera House company have
been filed for record with Deputy
Vaughn. The incorporators and board
of directors are Myrtle F. Baker, pres
ident; E. Ross Baker vice president,
and Jesse E. Baker, secretary-treasurer
The capital stock Is given at 100000,
divided into two hundred shares with
par value Of 500 each. The dura-
ton Of the corporation is twenty
years.
Fort Madison Gem City: Dis
patches from Beatrice, Neb, announce
the capture OF Norman Bonner, escap-
ed convict from the prison here, who
has the somewhat unusual record of
escaping for a second time from Of
ficers of the law who thought they had
him and could return him to prison.
Bonner, it will be remembered. is the
man who was granted special parole
by the governor to be taken to Joplin,
Mo-, last winter to see HIS mother.
who was seriously i'll. When the man
was permitted by the guard who ac-
companied him to go unattended into
his mothers sick room, he did not
spend much time receiving her bless
ing, but made break for liberty
through rear window and got free.
| Sherwood sells buggies and har-
ness a. 703 Main.
| Tubes and castings vulcanized by
steam method. Tri-State Garage.
| Attorney General Cosson has adj
dressed a letter to county attorneys
and others in the state calling atten-
ton to the fact that the county attor-
neys are the legal advisors of all coun-
ty officials, and that only when mat
tiers are Of statewide importance
should they be taken up with the office
of the attorney general. He
suggests also that when an
opinion is desired from the
nttoiuoS Sehefdl ou d IHdtteT aDOul
which the county attorney has doubt
the latter should submit his views
with authorities relied on. This Is a
suggestion to relieve the office OF the
1 attorney OF much unnecessary work;
as that Office has become over-burden.
ed with duties and with the force al
lowed by law cannot answer all ques
lions.