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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27
MRS. ROSS GAVE AN
INTERESTING LECTURE
Talked at the First Christian Church
Last Night on Work in Negro
Institute in South.


The illustrated lecture given at the
First Christian church last night by
Mrs. Elizabeth Ross of Eureka, H.,
was one of the most interesting and
instructing of it's kind given here for
some time Mrs. Ross talked on the
work in the negro institute of the
Christian church in Alabama.
Mrs. Ross and her husband have
been extremely interested in this work
and believe great good has been &C
complished. Their only son is in
Liberia, having gone there to take UP
the work of a colored graduate of the
Alabama institute who established a
similar school on the African contin.
emit
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

Keokuk Is to- have band concerts
next summer. This was assured this
morning when word was received from
tile government authorities at Wash
ington by Postmaster Moorehead that
the use Of the fine lawn at the post
Office would be given over for that
purpose. The securing of place
near the center OF the city where
concerts could be held has been a
stumbling block to those who have
tried at various times to work out a
plan whereby they could be held
Recently the matter was brought
before the committee on parks anu
backgrounds of the Industrial Asso-
citation by Professor p. C. Hayden, a
member of the committee, and the
plan, met with favor. Immediately a
petition to the. government through
Postmaster Moorehead was sent to
the government authirities. A II
cense to use the grounds is given, re-
y vocable at any time, however.
The plan is to have the Keokuk Citi-
zcns' band which was reorganized
last summer give the concerts once
week. at night, probably in the mid
die of the week The expenses of the
concerts will have to be met by pub.
l.c Subscription but as. there has been
quite demand for band concerts,
there is no doubt but that this will
not prove an obstacle.
The concerts will be good ones. New
members are expected to be added to
the band and regular practice held
with all members present. Only good
music will be played. Much interest
has been manifested by the members
q the local band during the past sum
mer and the organization is enthus
lastic for the new plan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27
BENJAMIN ALTMAN s.
LEFT MANY MILLIONS
Gave s15,ooo,ooo Worth of Paintings
and Art Objects to the
public,

NEW. YORK. Oct. 27-The slightly
built, lame man who used to walk
down Fifth Avenue every morning and
at Thirty-fourth street turn into the
side entrance of B. Altman G. Com
pany unobtrusively seeking out his
office on the third floor. was never
picked out by strangers as the proprie-
tor of one of the greatest and most ex-
elusive stores In the world.
That man was Benjamin Altman,
multi-millionaire merchant prince,
who died and by his will left $4,000
900 worth of paintings and art objects
to the public without string on it,
He not only gave his magnificent col.
lection to the public, but willed $780,
600 ito the curators of the Metropolitan
museum to install the pictures and
sculpture and maintain the exhibit in
good condition.
Altman's business was his most
cherished possession. A bachelor, he
layished on his big store and employees
the love that might otherwise have
gone elsewhere. So, what to do with
his business after he was gone, was
the greatest problem he faced when he
made his will. He solved the problem
byMcreating a trust company. This
company will continue the business OF
B.tAltman's $20,0O0.OOO department
store, following, as nearly as possible
the policies of It's founder. The will
besides disposing of the $15,O00,000 ari
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

states west of the Missouri. It was
the generation of the civil war and
almost the only communication of the
time from Iowa was over the Mormon
trail across the Missouri river This
made of the Mormon trail the last and
the great highway in Iowa before the
interstate commerce by rail began.
and the Importance and interest it
had to business and history although
largely obscured to us by the great
and tragic civil war ana excitement
of railroad following is implied from
the writings of James Mcclure and
others in the papers of that day.
To note by stone and tablet some
thing of the Importance of that route
to retrieve information ID that trail
is well worth serious purpose Of this
group of patriotic women aud our
state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

THE TOUCH OF DRAPERY ON GROWN-UP
GOWNS MARKS JUNIOR MODES AS WELL

AS long as materials are SO supple
and clinging, their very. touch sugges-
tive of folds and drapings, draped
gowns and wraps will continue modish
For the woman whose dress allow
ance is somewhat limited it is wise to
choose dark, soft silk for the lunch
con or afternoon tea frock. 1t may be
worn much oftener than a light shade
and will be found generally more sat
isfactory. Moire, silk poplin, one of
the soft taffetas OF charmeuse are all
suitable, and many of the soft drapey
wool stuffs make UP most attractively.
a crow blue taffetas with self fig
ure was used to develop 1879. The
wide girdle of lighter blue affords an
effective contrast, and the gathered
guimpe of figured tulle is practical as
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

cd hands directed as they claimed,
by divine providence, drove resistless
bargains for their skill and labor with
the Iowa settlers. and as a result the
spring of 1916 In the Des Moines val
ley above Pennington saw the re-
placement Of greater portion of cab
In shanties with two story dwellings
than has occurred, perhaps, in any
like era in any western state. The
same minds and hands that later in
fittings built tabernacle and its ia
nous organ, wrought for Seth Rich
ards at Bentonsport and Ebert on In
dian Prairie. The first months for
the 10000 served to stretch their
line across from the Mississippi to
the Indian country But once beyond
Ing grass and warmth, sense Of com
fort and security succeeded. and while
head men were contemplating final
plans the rank and file at Garden
Grove and Mt. Pisga planted corn
amongst the roots of deadened trees
ana sat down to walt.
In the time they were occupied,
the elections were being held in the
settlements on the admission of the
state. The question carried and about
the time the principle portion of the
10000 reached the Missouri river at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, as full fledged
state added her star to the azure field
of the American flag.
The 10000 reached the winter camp
in scattered groups and by various
ways. But thousands of their con
yerts in the eastern states and
Europe, headed for Nauvoo, followed
by different crossings of the Missis-
isippi, and finding corn and camp sites
Of the pioneers, replenished them
selves, and followed on AS result
the fall of '46 and the spring and sum
mer of AZ found an almost constant
stream of wagons, carts and people
from Charlton on to Council Bluffs.
The stream was strengthened in Cass
county by the junction of the trail
from Davenport. Iowa City and Fl.
Des Moines and elsewhere BY less i'm
portant trails.
Now in this latter year 1877, the
Indians having just returned from
Kansas the surveyor came and pre-
pared the ground for valid titles. He
began his work at Knoxville and work
| ing westward checked up the country
into sections and quarters, noting
streams and mounds and paths and
cabs. naming them. And so it is,
treading on the Mormons' heels, the
first surveyors and map markers
found way to Council Bluffs and
noted it as the Mormon trail This
is 1917
1t was a generation until a railroad
tied the Mississippi and Missouri riv-
/ ers. 1t was the generation for move
ment to the Pacific coast by gold seek
/ ers, and the tremendous trains OF
stock and merchandise that followed
II was the generation that people the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

TX "a -
collection bequeathed about $4,000
to relatives, and the rest of the vast
fortune is left intact, to be handled by
the trust company, made up of men
who were tried and trusted associates
of the lonely merchant.
In all OF his seventy-three years,
Benjamin Altman was never a man of
many intimate acquaintances or close
friends, though he was by no means
what one might call distant" He iiy-
ed alone, except for two secretaries
and his servants, in Fifth Avenue, in
a big house, because nothing short OF
veritable palace would accommodate
his almost endless and priceless col
lection of art objects and curios, from
every part of the world
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

When the Black Hawk war ended,
the Sac and Fox nation found itself
Obliged to stay away from the Mis-.
sissippi river They had agreed to
come no closer than Keosauqua and
Fairfield. The ground between here
end there was called the Black Hawk
Purchase. 1t was given up by a
treaty signed by Winfield Scott and
John Reynolds at Rock Island, sep.
TENDER 81, 1882, eighty-one years ago
Settlements soon began, and lands
were surveyed in about five years, OF
in 1887. IN this latter year the In
dams coded their right to a million
and a quarter acres more on their
eastern boundary, the middle part OF
the tract being where Johnson county
now is, and about as wide as that
county, then running to point near
the southeast corner of Davis county
and on the north near the southwest
corner of Fayette county
There at Old Agency in Wapello
county on October II, 1912, Keokuk
at the head Of the Sacs and Pow-a
Shick at the head of the Foxes, touch.
cd the goose quill to treaty by which
they gave up all the remainder of their
lands in Iowa. They further agreed
that they would move out of their
camps about Ottumwa and go west OF
Knoxville by May |, 1884, then on out
of the state little later, which they
did in 1916 and 1876
When the Indians removed beyond
Knoxville, Or the Red Rocks, settle
Inents and surveys We're made very
promptly, and the entire region rap
idly took on the appearance OF or
eanizzed life. This last cession was
bearded far and near The Rec
/ Rock line separated it into THE New
Purchase where whites might set
tie and The indian Country on the
west. Fort Des Moines at Raccoou
Forks was garrisoned for the protec
ltion Of the Indians from the whites
III their part
Now the surveys were completed tt
the Red Rock line or the meridian o.
Knoxville in 1876, and the notes ant
maps in their rough form on file al
/ Washington and Des Moines are the
best evidence new Of the location il
earlier than 1915, CT many a settler
whose name never received othel
note within our state. These notes
and maps indicate the courses ant
size and often names of all tn,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

'Train 47s-Leaves keokuk. TAO an
'Train 741-Leaves keokuk. $3.50 pm
'Train 472--Arrives keokuk 1885 pm
Train 470--Arrives Keokuk. I:05 IN
x*Train S6-Arrives Keokuk 10:45 am
xLocal Freight Trains.
x*Train s5-Leave Keokuk. 1905 pm
'Daily excep. Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27

it is simple matter to replace it when
soiled.
+ There is just touch of drapery on
each side. of the skirt, and the blouse
is peasant design closing in the back.
This model may be copied in size So
with 51a yards of IS inch taffetas and
" yard of tulle.
The ''dress-up" frock of the little
miss has it's bit of drapery, too, as may
be seen in 1896. An albatross or bright
silk with q touch of colored embroid-
cry at the belt and on the cuffs could
be used with this design with excellent
results. For size 10 it requires 2h
yards of IS inch material
No. 7979-sizes "a to AZ.
No 79s6-sizes to ~.
Each pattern is & cents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-27
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
. . = = . : : = = - . = .


Clara geeks and Oscar Beeks of
Los Angeles to w. N. Sage II It
west side lot II; 46 feet east side lot
10; feet by 80 CT N. w. side lot 10;
% feet by 80 feet N. e. side lot 8
block 100 city Of Keokuk.
M. r. P. Co.. to Keokuh Country
Realty Co., 20 acre tract in n. w. y
OF S. IS in twp. 65 y. in R w. of
fifth principal meridian.
Matilda Swan and F. w. Swan t.
Frank e. Citing lot l block % in
Kilbourne's addition.
A. Homer Hathaway of Boston t.
NJ. R. P. Co., lots !. 2, and IL
block 80 in MontroEe
G. o. Simpson to f. s. L nhar'
front GO feet lot III and w. fset O
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rear so feet lot II all in block 2o4
city of Keckuk. Consideration $4,000
Virginia w. WINS to Agner S.
Reeves front 80 feet in block so.
Virginia S. WINS to Agnes s
Reeves rear so feet of lot IL and OF
lot II and rear 80 feet S. E. II feet
of lot 10 all in block so.
Lucy S. Bane to A. J. Dimond and
H. C. Dimond east 80 feet of lot 8
and w. 80 feet of lot 10 block 1856
City Of Keokuk.
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c., 3. q q. RAILWAY 90.


Trains leave from the Union depot
Berths and tickets, Fifth and Johnson
streets.
soUTHBoUND.
xNo. 8, st. Louis west and
south, leaves .......... 12:45am
EMO. 40, X. & w. to Sedan, G.,
B. & X. G. to Carrollton
leaves s:20am
xNo. 4, st. Louis, west and
south. leaveS ............. 1:32pm
sNo. 10. Quincy, Hannibal,
Kansas City. st. Louis.
leaves .................. s:s5pm
NORTHBOUND.
xNo. Z, st. Paul and points
| west, leaves ........5.....,. 2:35am
xNo. 10. Burlington. Chicago
and points west. leaves. 7:4opm
'No. 8, Burlington, Chicago
and east, leaves ....... 1:40pm
xNo. 1. Burlington and Chi
cago, leaves .............. 7:3oam
EMO. 81. Mt. Pleasant branch
leaves Observation-Disclosures. s:sopm
No. 5, K. & W., Sundays only.
leaves OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 7:37pm
mo. 3. K. & W.. leaves. 1880. 9:10pm
mo 4, from K & W., arrives 1:15pm
mo 30, from Mt. Pleasan.
H branch. arrives .......... .11.45am
'No. 2, from X. & w, arrives 9:1opm
No. 6, from x. & W., Sundays
II only, arrives ............1 II Siam
xDaily. : Daily except Sunday.
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Trains leave from the Union depot
Berths and tickets, Fifth and Johnson
streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
c. J. GREGSON is HELD
FOR EMBEZZLEMEN
American Subscription Agency of
Atlanta Claims He Kept Advance
Fees Paid Here

Word was received from the offices
of the American Subscription agency
In Atlanta that C. j. Gregson, arrested
by Detectives Gray and Nation Tues
day night on charges of embeszlement
was fraudulent subscription agent.
This telegram verified the suspicious
of the detectives
According to Detective Nation. C. j.
Gregson came to Birmingham and,
placing an advertisement in the news
papers, secured several young women
TO solicit subscriptions for m2gazines
1t seems that Gregson was recog-
nized agent of the American Subscrip-
ton agency of Atlanta, but that office
charges that since his arrival in Bir-
mingham Gregson has kept all the
advance fees he received and Gregson's
arrest was ordered. The young women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
NEGRO INTRUDER
FRIGHTENED AWAY
Mrs. Sparks Shoots at
Negro Who Is Later
Captured

Following an exciting near" duel
between Mrs. George Sparks with a
pistol and Council Lyle, a negro with
a shotgun, yesterday afternoon Mt 1890
o'clock, the negro was captured in the
woods beyond Boyles about o'clock
by Officers Morrow and Strong and
placed in the city jail charged with
burglary and grand larceny and as
sault with intent to murder The
shooting occurred in the Sparks resi-
dence on Thirty fifth avenue and Thir-
ty-sixth street North Birmins ham.
According to the account of the af-
fair given to the police by Mrs. George
Sparks, Lyle climbed on her front
porch yesterday at noon and seeing
window open, vaulted into the room
Mrs. Sparks recited the incident graph
fcally of how she heard the negro's
footsteps and how suddenly the negro
came on her in the living room.
Mrs. Sparks backed away from the
negro, according to her statement, and
felt for a pistol on the mantelpiece.
The negro, seeing the action of Mrs.
Sparks, moved to a corner where rest
ed shotgun. When Mrs. Sparks found
the pistol the negro hurriedly reached
for the shotgun and pulled the trigger.
There was no report as the gun missed
fire. Before the negro could fire with
the other barrel Mrs. Sparks began
firing the pistol at the negro who es-
capped from the room and the house
without any of the bullet strik ms
him.
The police were Immediately notified
and on their arrival found Mrs. Sparks
perfectly cool and collected She mi
nutely described the negro and the
general direction he had taken. After
pursuit of about two miles The ne
gro was located and captured. At police
headquarters Council Lyle, as he gave
his name, confessed to entering the
home of Mrs. Sparks.
The record of Council Lyle is being
looked into by the detectives who
say that Lyle resembles very much
the description the police have of a
negro wanted in Decatur for murder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
CHIEF IS VIGOROUS
AGAINST SPEEDERS
Arrests Two Young Men,
Who, He Claims, Were
Especially Reckless

Chief of Police George II. Bodeker per-
err and reckless automobile driver last
night when he had placed in the city jail
Claud Norris and James Woods and re-
fused them bond. Chief Bodeker was
highly indignant.
1T is time an example was made of
these speeders and reckless drivers" said
Chief Bodeker, 'and these young men
were parties to an especially aggravated
case.
"Claud Norris was arrested at 8 o'clock
by Detective Christian on the complaint
of a gentleman who passing by the Hill
man hotel in company with a lady alleged
that Norris used bad language. In a
few minutes Woods, the friend of Norris,
had him out on bond and both young
men climbed on board their automobile
II was standing In the alley and l heard
Norris and Woods debating over who
should steer the automobile and warned
them that If they did not get out they
would be rearrested and placed in JAIL
At this they started their machine at rae
ing speed with their muffler wide open
and shot north on Nineteenth street at
great speed 1mmeulately started atter
them In the police departments automo-
bile and followed the young men to the
Terminal station where they were arrest
ed. There will be no bond allowed for
them and they can tell their story to
Judge Douglass in the morning.
Il can safely say that l never saw such
reckless driving as Norris and Woods
showed in their wild dash from the police
station. Their automobile veered from
side to side of the street and even to the
sidewalk at times to the great danger
of human life. 1T is in fact surprising
that no one was injured as they tore down
Fifth avenue to the Terminal station"
Many friends of Norris, who is real
estate man. appeared at police headquar-
ters to make bond but Chief Bodeker
proved Obdurate to all appeals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
game and insectivorous birds. nromnl

game and insectivorous birds. promul-
gated by the department of agriculture
in conformity with the act of Congress
passed March last The regulations,
which became effective Immediately, di-
vide the United States into two zones,
north and south of 40 degrees and the
Ohio river.
The seasons have been considerably
modified for most of the southern states
and on the Pacific coast they have been
made uniform for the states of Califor-
MIA. Arizona, oregon and Washington.
Protection is to be extended to insectiV-
orous birds throughout the year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
WHO WILL ASSUME
UNDERWOOD PLACE
AS HOUSE LEADER?
Alabamian VIII Either be i'm
Senate or Private Life
March 4, 1915
RANKING MEMBERS
IN PRESENT HOUSE
Henry, Palmer and Kitchen Seem at
Present to Constitute the List
From Which Leader Will
Be Chosen
Rr c. E. STEWART

Washington. October Especial Who
sgoing to be the leader of the House of
Representatives after Oscar Underwood
makes his final bow to that body and
for the last time will say: Mr. Speaker,
l move the House do now adjourn sine
die which will happen at noon on the
fourth of March, 1915? On that date Os-
car Underwood will either walk across
junior senator from Alabama. or he will
retire from public life.
The fact, which has at last been driven
home to his colleagues in the House. that
the democratic leader is going to become
a candidate for the United States Senate
in Alabama, and no matter what the re-
sultof that campaign may be, win no
longer be a member of the lower body
after March, 1915, las aroused much spec
ulation as to his probable successor.
Whoever that person is he will, if the
democrats stay in the majority in the
House become the chairman of the pow
erful ways and means committee; if the
republicans carry the next House he will
become the leader of the minority, and in
any event Wills occupy a very important
place DefOre the country, ana a position
especially trying because of the record
made by his predecessor.
How the Members Rank
Francis Burton Harrison of New York,
woh was the ranking democrat after Mr.
Underwood on the way sand means COM
mittee would have been a strong factor in
the race for leadership. but for his ap-
pointment as governor general of the
Philippines. Next to him on the commit
tee comes Representative Claud Kitchen
of North Carolina, noted as one of the
most effective debaters in the House.
Personally, Mr.. Kitchen is an attractive
and genial man. and has many qualities
for leadership. Henry T. Rainey of Illi-
nos, an ardent Bryan man, is the next
ranking member. Mr.. Rainey is not
good mixer and hasn't as large a per-
sonal following in the House as some of
the other possibilities. Nevertheless, ne
has impressed himself upon the House
and is recognized as an able legislator
Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, another rep
resentative from the middle west comes
next on the committee. Mr.. Dixon also
belongs to the Bryan school of policies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02

canal after him." said Senator Bankhead.
Senator Morgan was the strongest man
who ever sat in the Senate and we should
delight to do him this honor"
Senator Bankhead has made his appeal
direct to those in authority, and believes
that the request will be granted. He has
the support of the woman's auxiliary of
the Southern Commercial congress, of
which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Is honorary
president-general
The President nominated Sterling p.
Rainer today to be postmaster at Union
Springs, in place of Thomas u. Baskins,
removed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
ARION CLUB REHEARSAL
Rienzie Thomas Begins Work Tonight
as Clubs New Director

The Aion club, composed of a largo
number of male voices, viii hold its first
meeting of the season at the Cable hall
on Second avenue tonight at O'clock
Secretary j. d. McGill says that this
is going to be the best season the Arion
has ever had. The new home of the Glib
with the Cable company is exceptionally
we'll equipped. The recital hal is one
of the most beautiful in Tho south. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
BY GERALD STANLEY LEE

who worked for Gregson and secured
In all a total of 500 subscriptions also
wanted Gregson arrested as they have
not been paid their wages.
The arrest of Gregson marks the.
second one within a few weeks of sub
scription agents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-02
WILSON APPROVES
PROTECTION OF BIRDS

Washington, October president Will
son today approved the new federal reg
ulations for the protection of migratory