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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
WANT TO GUST
STANDARD OIL
Suit for $4,000 Damages Filed
Claimed That Houses were
Damaged.

Martha Bunyan has fled q suit
against the Standard on company.
Thomas Tigue and Ed CanilI in the
district court asking that restrain.
Ing order be issued, restraining the
defendants from blasting rock in the
adjacent property on which they are
located and that they be restrained
from erecting thereon an oil tank and
explosives In larger Quantities than
one barrel and asking $4,000 damages.
She owns two houses on the corner
Of Cedar and Fourth streets adjoining
the new Standard OIL relocation and
AYERS that the blasting Of rocks by
the company has caused great dam
age to her houses and that her Dro',
erty Is In danger Of being DESTROYED.
She AYERS that the work is being done
contrary to the city ordinances.
She asks a permanent Injunction
against further building operations on
the property for the purpose Of stoi7
ing oil and other explosives and
against blasting rock at tina. point.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
MONTENEGRO rs
TOO BELLIGERANT
Powers May Employ Force to Make
Them Stop the Smelling
of Scutari.

UNITED Press Leased Wire SerYicel
VIENNA. March 2a.-The great
powers will employ force If necessary
TO compel Montenegro to lift the siege
of Scutari. it was oficially announced
tonight, II the Balkan state ignores
the demand of Austria-Hungary.
In communication that amounted
practically to an ultimatum, Austria
Hungary told Montenegro to cease fir
ing on Scutari and to allow non-com-
batants to leave the beleagured city.
An explanation of the alleged mis-
treatment of Catholics also was de-
manded.
Then came the fall OF Adrianople.
which practically sealed the doom of
Turkey, and the powers collectively
supplemented the Austria Hungary de-
mands Montenegro, up to today, APP
parently paid no heed to the commun-
ication of the powers, and the ambas-
sailors at London determined on more
strenuous measures. Austria Hungary
will make a naval demonstration off
the Montenegrin coast, and if that
has no effect, the powers will move
against the little kingdom.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
name. being the first to enlist from
this county
EnIIsts Full Company.

Within few hours he had procured
a full company OF hundred men. and
with them proceeded to Springfield,
where they mustered in as Company
a, Eleventh Illinois Volunteers. After
three months service he re-enlisted
and was made captain of the same
company in the same regiment
For gallant services at Fort Donel-
son he was made major of the Elev-
enth Regiment and went on the stan
of General Hubert. Ill health COM
PEELED him 10 leave the service for
two months. but under the call OF
1852 he enlisted again and was made
colonel Of the Ninety-second Illinois,
which he had helped recruit
While yet colonel Atkins was in
charge of a brigade of Kilpatrick's
cavalry in Sherman's march to the
sea. and for gallantry in engagements
about Savannah. Ga, was breveted
brigadier general by special order of
Lincoln. AT the close of the war.
when he mustered out, he was brew
eted major general.
Since the war Atkins had been in
the newspaper business in Freeport.
owning the Daily Journal, one of the
oldest papers in this part of the state.
He was appointed postmaster by
President Johnson and has held that
Office ever since. with the exception
of two Cleveland administrations. At
kins in 1865 married daughter Of
Ex-Governor Swain of North Carolina,
who passed away number of years
ago. He has two daughters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
The peonle,s President.

Quincy Herald tDem.). Although
he has not been In Office long enough
to make much Of demonstration. 1t
is becoming impressed upon the peo-
pie tina. Woodrow wilson is going TO
be our president And that means a
good deal when you anelyze It, We.
the people" are not often given the
recognition and rights that are our
due in the oyerburdening OF the
masses by the classes and the spec
L.ll...- La, =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
HOUSE NEAR MONTROsE
WAS ROBBED FRIDAY
Fl. Madison Police Notified but Find
No Clue to Burg
lars.

FIT. MADISON, Ia. March 2s.-The
home Of Miss Fannie Linn. mile and
half south of Montrose, was entered
Friday afternoon by robber or rob
bers and two ladies' gold watches
and about $40 in money stolen Both
the watches were hunting cases and
one had the name Fannie Linn en-
graved in it.
The burglary was committed while
Miss Linn was away and there is
said to be no clew to the robber. Local
police have been asked to keep a look
out for the stolen property.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
Mrs. elizabeth GENTILcoRE Buffalo N.Y.says:-

For so years Lydia f. Pinltham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for fe-
male ills. No one sick with woman's ailments
does Justice to herself if she does not try this f
NOUS medicine made from roots and herbs, it
has restored so many suffering women to health.
ssss@gSa. Write to LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE co.
@ssagS CONFIDENTIAL LYNN, MASS. for advice.
Your letter will be opened, read and answered
by woman and held in strict condolences.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30

allow the temptations of the noun
tains of mammon to obscure his Wis
ion SO that he does not see the wants
of tho cc,,,,,on roon,e
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30

Mrs i. =. BOWERS, Girard, Pa. SAYS:

informing Vegetable
Compound has done for me had sick spell last February and Tor
tired all the time had dull headaches not much appetite and also
feel
perfectly
benefit of othersMrs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30

the other things that ought to be dis
tributed but are generally concen-
trated And Woodrow Wilson prom
Uses to be our president-that is,
n-esident He will not
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
Knows How 10 Eorniv,

New York Tribune: In taking SEN
ator La Toilette to his heart Presi-
dent Wilson shows that he, too, can
fo-gi-.a md fr-~rt He r,as Gre NJ the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
Postmaster at Freeport, H., Civil
War Veteran and Pioneer In
Illinois Newspaper
Work.
WAS GALLANT SOLDIER
Taken III With Severe Cold About
Week Ago. Rallied. Bu.
Death Claimed
Him.

Many of the old civil war veterans
OF Keokuk and readers Of The Gate
City OF other localities and other
states will cali to mind The chivalr:e
deeds Of their gallant comrade. Gen.
Smith D. Atkins, at Fort Donelson,
on Shermans march to the sea ano
other hard-fought contests in the old
war days.
General Atkins died at his home at
Fresport. H., FRIDAY. From special
dispatch sent out from his home city
during his dangerous illness. but be
fore the hand Of death was laid upon
the honored and Iamented veteran.
the following interesting story OF his
eyentfui life is cleaned.
He was postmaster at Freeport. vet
Gran of the cfvfl war and pioneer in
the Illinois newspaper field. About
week or ten days ago he was taken
I'll with severe cold, be rallied and
until Wednesday was believed to be
on the way to recovery. Wednesday
morning his condition became serious
and Thursday night he lay uncon-
scious and never rallied again
.ssSzEsEl
Biographical.
General Atkins was born in Einlira
" Y. June 9. 1885. and when 10 years
OF age came to Illinois with his par
ents. locating near Freeport. He
learned the printers trade after leav-
ing the district school and later at
tended Mount Morris seminary at
Mount Morris. H., Shelby NJ CulIom
being classmate. He then took up
the study OF law and entered upon
practice in Freeport in 1856
Al the breaking out of the civil war
he was serving as states attorney in
Stephenson county, and il was while
he was trying an important case thai
Lincoln's first call for troops was is
sued Atkins Immediately placed the
half-fnished case in the hands of an,
other attorney and before leaving the
courtroom had drafted an enlistment
roll, which he headed with his own
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30

nf tho common roonle
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
English Cattle to
InIldbit Minnesota
DIR. M. A. Wood of Mankato Will
Make Purchases for Woodend
Farm at Mound

DR.. M. B. Wood Of Mankato, who
has gained notable reputation as an
expert on cattle, will leave next Fri
day, October 8, for England, where he
expects to purchase twelve or four
teen head of fine Guernsey cattle for
A. G. Loring, president Of the Wood
end Farm company of Mound, MINI.
Mr., Wood is the official purchasing
agent for the company. He is auth
orized by the company to pay as high
as $4,000 apiece for some of the cattle.
He sails from New York City, on Oct
ober II, on the White Star line steam
er, Majestic. He will visit the dairy
show, October 20 to 25, given by the
Royal Agricultural society of Eng
land.
Will Visit Isle Of Guernsey
Here, he may make come purchases
and will then visit the islands of
Guernsey and Aldernay, where he ex-
poets to complete his herd. DR.. Wood
will be gone about month. The cat
tie will be shipped to this country on
the Atlantic Transport line after be-
ing tested in England for tuberculosis
by American authorities. Upon ar
irving here, the stock will be quar-
antined for some time 1T Athena, N.
J., to make sure that none Of them
have the foot and mouth" disease.
This j. very virulent and contagious
disease which may Be spread II
healthy animal walks over the came
place diseased one walked over
many months before.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
THINKS THE IDEA
OF CONGRESS
is "A HUGE JOKE

Charlie" Howard of Pipestone is
not candidate for congress, has
never been a candidate and never ex-
poets to be candidate, so there now!
If you should misbelieve this state
ment just walk up to Charlie and ask
him. He'll laugh-and next to Char
lies handshake, his laugh is quite the
heartiest and wholesomest thing that
has come to Redwood Falls in many a
day.
Charles is quite emphatic in stating
that it would be impossible for any
ordinary man to beat Hammond next
time. It'll take two more years to
kill off the progressive bug, and then
we stand a chance" is the way he ex-
pressed this sentiment. Besides" he
continued we've got that man Els
worth on our hands. Now, the only
thing to do is to all work together to
bury him next time, and then we stand
a chance of getting man" Evident
ly "that man Ellsworth" doesn't APP
peal strongly to Mr.. Towards politi-
cal good sense-and when Charlie
thinks strongly he talks, loud and
long, right out in meeting.
Mrs. Howard accompanied her hus-
band, and they arrived unexpectedly
yesterday. Mr.. Towards friends may
not have learned that, since leaving
Redwood Falls, Mr.. Howard has be-
come slightly absent-minded. So very
much so that he made his entrance in
to town yesterday with hat not his
own, nor the least bit like his own.
Indeed he is so extremely distract at
times land this was one of the times)
that he got very much the worst of
the bargain. So, In order to sustain
Mrs. Towards high ideal Of respect
ability Charles sneaked up the alley
to the nearest clothiers before he con-
scented to give his proverbial glad
hand to his old confederates.
It's too bad Charlie isn't going to
get into this merry little Congression-
al chase. We'd Ike to vote for hin.
There are only tuo reasons why we
wouldn't
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
LOVER OF CLEAN SPORT MAKES A
STRONG PLEA AGAINST THE RING

The writer of this article has been a
close observer of athletics and athletes
for more than twenty years. He has
watched the base ball, basket ball and
foot ball teams of the local High
School for several years.
Last spring, just after having at
tended one of the basket ball games,
at which I observed that one or more
Tin my opinion as well as others)
good players were not playing and
poorer players were in the game. l
approached well-known, and probab-
ly the best athlete and judge of ath-
letes in the city, and asked him why,
in his opinion, certain individual
was not on the team. His answer to
me was that there was absolutely no
show for certain individuals to get on
the High School team or in any High
School athletics unless they had
"stand-in" with a certain bunch of
students who controlled the athletics,
and was member of the "ring."
Admitted Ring Existed
This looked peculiar to me, and one
evening shortly after, / met Prof.
Behler on the street and put it up
fairly and squarely to him, and he
openly and frankly admitted that a
ring existed, and that unless an ath-
lete was a member and stood in with
the bunch, he had no show to make
the team, and it is very evident from
the players who were on the base ball
team last spring, and to US, who saw
them play, that there were favorites
played, and far better men off the
team than on the team.
To go little further, the mother of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30

vidual mention. Mrs. Stella Sebastian
Ogden, formerly of the famous Dos.
tonians" and at present soloist of the
Sheridan Park Methodist church OF
Chicago, Is a soprano of recognized
worth in musical circles throughou..
the United States, and reader ami
actress OF more than usual ability.
For one season she was understudy
for Alice Nelson Of the Boston Opera
company. Miss Verae Ross Coburn
has been called the .Schumann-Heink
OF the Lyceum;;" q deep full contralto
voice, good reader and actress, AMI
wonderfully clever crayon artist,
formerly Of the Schuberts. Mr.. Claude
Hart Ogden, for number of years the
first tenor of the famous Oriental
Quartet Of Chicago. He il equally at
home in oratorio. opera, concerted NM
sic, or ballad; also fine actor. Mr..
Harry Allen Letter, basso cantante.
soloist Of Pilgrim Conversational
church Of Chicago, one of the bes.
bassos in the west. and also ! fine
comedian Mr.. Harrison w. Burch q
the accomplished pianist and accom-
PIANIST. A program Of unusual inter.
ct win be given. one that vim please
Ill lovers It good music.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
Valuable Horse Is
Killed in Runaway
DIR. G.. w. Golden Loses Electro Bell
In Sundays Accident; Team
Mate Not Hurt

Last week DR.. G. w. Golden became
the proud owner of Electro Bell, one
of the fine horses for which Jas. Nc
Gowan of Morton is noted for having
in his possession. Sunday the horse
was killed by rather unusual acct
dent.
With another of his fine driving
horses DR.. Golden had had Electro
Bell hitched and was just leaving the
Arnold livery stable when the team
became frightened, and dashed across
the street striking the curb with such
force that DR.. Golden was thrown
from the buggy.
The team then dashed through the
city park and made circuit of the
Methodist church and the library.
During this run they became detached
from the buggy and separated, Elec-
Wo Bell taking the pole of the buggy
with her.
Near the library building the pole
was thrust into the breast of the ami
NAL making deep wound. She then
ran across the lawn of Mrs. Wards
residence, struck her head against a
tree in front of DR.. Lyman's home and
dropped dead. The whole accident
happened in less than minute after
the Doctor had left the barn. The
L o,>~~
DR.. Golden had obtained this horse
at an auction sale last week for q hun
dred sixty-two dollars. Mr.. MCGOWAN
had formerly valued her at three
hundred dollars, but because she was
q bit unmanageable, had decided to
dispose of her. The same day DR..
Golden purchased her he refused two
hundred twenty-five dollars for her.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
SCENES FROM OPERAS
WILL Be PRESENTED.
BY the CHORDS When They Ap-
pear Here This Season.

When the Oxford Company of Chi
cago appears here this season, fina
program of opera and concert num-
bers will be given. These artists
know the needs of the Lyceum AMI
their program has been in rehearsal
a full year before presenting it to Ly-
ceum audiences. The program is ar
ranged to suit Lyceum tastes and win
Lyceum honors. They sing as only
artists who have been together for
years can sing.
They will present in costume, and
with all the acting of a grand opera
cast, some scenes from such operas
as 'The Mikado" and robin Hood, :
besides giving concert numbers in
quartet, duet, trio and solo. Mrs.
Ogden is a very capable reader and
Miss Coburn is clever cartoonist
and good story-teller.
The five artists are professionals,
tried and good, and worthy of indi-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
Bridge
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS
We are revising our mailing

We are revising our mailing
lists.
We find there have been some
mistakes caused through negli-
gence in the past.
We also find we occasionally
make mistakes in the present.
We rather expect that, ''be-
ing of the earth, earthly" we'll
make a few more in the future.
Do you ever make mistakes?
If you don't, kindly drop in the
next time you are in town, say
on Fair Days, and tell us how
you manage tive need just
that kind of helpful informa-
ton.
If you do make them, please
be patient with ours, and give
US chance to correct them be-
fore you condemn us utterly.
Above all, if you get a notice
you don't deserve, don't waste
time getting angry. Come in
and help us make it right-and
please bring your receipts.
The Gazette Company.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
Meeting Called to
Discuss Agent for
Redwood County
State Representative of Plan Will
Meet With Farmers Friday, Octo-
Der 3, at Twelve O'clock
TO MEET ON FAIR GROUNDS
Twelve Agents Wanted for Second
District-Redwood County Must
Act Promptly

A meeting has been arranged, for
Friday, October 3, calling together all
those interested in the procuring of
county agent for Redwood County.
This meeting will be held on the Coun-
ty Fair grounds at twelve o'clock. A
representative of the state movement
will be present to address the meet
ing, and it is hoped that concerted ac-
ton will be taken to secure an agent.
Redwood has been sadly unprogres-
sive in this matter and the need of a
decision is becoming very urgent.
Meeting at Mankato
At the gathering of the second Dis
trict bankers held at Mankato last
Thursday evening there were present
and addressed the meeting, Prof. A.
D. Wilson of the extension division of
the State Agricultural Department,
Prof. Dollman, of Morris, who has
charge of the County Agents of the
Northwest section of the state COM
prising some thirteen counties; Prof.
Palmer, the County Agent Of Fari-
bault County, which by the way is the
only County of the Second District as
yet that has a County Agent-and J.
F. Deets, the Secretary Of the South
ern Minnesota Development League.
Twelve for The Second
Prof. Wilson stated that there are
sufficient funds still on hand from the
state appropriation to fill the appoint
ment of two County Agents at once,
and ten more August LIST, 1914. When
these are filled it will not be possible
to get any aid from the State until
after the Legislature makes another
appropriation. 1t was the census of
those present to get these IL men for
the Second District, and it behooves
us to get busy if we want to have
part of this for Redwood County.
The state makes an appropriation
OF 100000 dollars per year, and the
last legislature passed bill authoriz-
ing the County Commissioners to
make like appropriation. 1t will be
necessary in addition to raise from
five hundred to one thousand dollars
through private subscriptions. This
ought to be done easily through SUBJ
scriptions of one dollar or more
throughout the county.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30

one boy told the writer, that her son,
who felt that he was entitled to
try-out on the team last spring, was
given no chance, given to understand
that he was not wanted on the team,
and it set so against this boy, that he
refused to further attend this school,
contrary to his mothers wishes, and
is now at work. Is it right? Is it
sportsmanlike? Is it honest, and why
is it not on the square? Some may
say that these persons did not MAIN
tain the marks in scholarship to per-
NIT them to play, and in some cases
it may be true, but in the last case
above cited, and in most of the others
it was not so.
What the Public Demands
The public pay for the best, and
they want the best, and above all, they
want the athletics of the school on a
fair, honest and impartial basis, where
if one is better athlete than another,
that he represent the school, whether
the ring likes him or not.
There is no criticism as to the High
School faculty, as they probably are
too busy to discern the trouble, but it
is true nevertheless, and if it is not
believed, ask judge of athletes who
is in no way partial.
Give US the best athletes you have,
and your games will be patronized,
and boosted, but we do not want any
favorites played, and we want the true
sport We want every one to have a
fair chance and that not few of the
High School athletes who constitute
this ring, control and run it, for it is
not sport, and you are not getting
what you pay for.-"Sportsman."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30
FREIGHT RATES
SEEM EXCESSIVE
TO C. M. BENDIXEN

The soft easterly winds whisper
that C. M. Bendixen, Hon. G. M. Ben
dixen, Bendixen Of Morgan, who is the
Representative of the noble Second in
the state government, is having his
own little troubles.
Not so very long ago there was a
bill introduced to the states law-mak-
ers by one Senator eastman. This
was a bill which dealt broadly with
distances and tariffs and a combina-
ton of the two.
To certain of Mr.. Bendixen's con-
stituency this bill didn't sound good.
1t sounded as though remote Redwood
Falls and Morgan and few other in
land towns were being handed bit on
"a platter. They advised Ben to this
effect. But Ben being wise, and dis
creet-and right on the ground with
Cashman-p igeon-holed this advice
for future reference and went blithe-
ly on.
ANOW DCL IdliiCI WISHES Ilc HAUL b.
The rates on grain and coal and other
bulky substances, have become excess
sive. So very excessive that Ben made
a trip to st. Paul last week, and made
a strong plea before the Board of
Warehouse and Grain Commissioners
asking for mercy or at least special
dispensation for his own well-beloved
district.
1t isn't on record that the commits
sion laughed nor that they made re-
marks about "having made your own
bed" but it is understood that they
gave Ben to understand that law is
a law-and it's the votes cast in the
House that make it so.
Ben came home!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-09-30

This company will be at the Nation
al Guard Armory, Thursday evening,
October 8. Get your season ticket be-
fore that time as that is the most
economical way to hear all the good
things this lecture course has to offer.
There could have been no better
number than this chosen with which
to open the course, and only by a
large attendance can we show the Ok
ford company that we appreciate their
having come to Redwood. Season
tickets end reserved seat tickets on
sale soon