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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
MRS. LIE MATTY'S
FUNERAL HELD TODAY
Former Pioneer Citizen Of Nauvoo, III
Who Died at Her Home
at Montrose.

Mrs. Adelaide LeMatty, whose death
occurred at her home at Montrose,
was laid to her last rest today. Mrs.
LIE Matty was pioneer citizen OF
Nauvoo ILL.,, and resided there for a
number of years. She was one of the
original members of the Nauvoo
Methodist church, in which faith she
continued faithfully and consistently
during her entire life. She had many
friends there who heard with sorrow
OF the death of this esteemed old
neighbor and friend. Mrs. LIE Matty
was seventy-eight years of age and
many of those years were pleasantly
spent at Nauvoo.
Later she removed across the Mis-
sissippi to Montrose, Iowa, where she
again made hosts of friends and
gained the esteem Of that community.
About noon today short services
were held at the home at Montrose,
conducted by Rev. Geo. H. Duty, after
which the remains we're taken to her
old home at Nauvoo where at
o'clock the burial took place from the
Methodist church at that place, where
a large assembly gathered to pay the
last sad tribute to her revered mem
DRY.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05

L Ask Half Million for Play Grounds.
CLEVELAND, May 5.-A big fight
Is on in Cleveland for half million
dollars to build Fairgrounds for idle
youngsters.
Mayor Newton D. Baker, city coun.
cilmen, the Chamber Of Commerce
and the city school board today were
on record to fight shoulder to shoulder
to swing $5Oo,ooo playground bond
Issue to be submitted to the voters
shortly after July 1. The city al
ready has thirty-four Fairgrounds,
twenty Of which are under supervis.
ion of the school board.
1--WE need hundred more and we
are going to fight for playground
within four blocks of every youngster
in Cleveland" School Play Director
Peterson announced today. Peter
son recently completed a school
ground survey. He reported the fol-
lowing conditions:
Over forty-one per cent OF Cleve-
land children are idle In their leisure
time. They have no place to play.
Fifty-one per cent Of those are forced
to play in the streets when they play
at all.
These conditions must not last,
declared Peterson. Advocates OF
more playground call themselves city
recreationists. They are an organ
lied society behind the movement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05

his friend what he had done and his
friend offered to let him have some
money to get away on. Williams said
he talked 1t over with this man and
then decided to come back to this
city as he wanted to get word to a
woman here. He rode back on his
wheel, and returned 1t to his friend.
Then he got messenger boy and
sent message to the woman.
He walked into store near the
corner of Johnson and Fifth streets
and called up Chief Kenney, telling
him he would be up to the station in
half an hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
FORMER OLD RESIDENT
VISITING IN THE CITY
Mrs. Virginia Limbaugh, Guest
Here Where She Will Visit
Until the First Of June.

Mrs. Virginia Limbaugh, q former
resident of Keokuk, whose husband
will be remembered as a pioneer jew
eler of Keokuk, who died here several
years ago, is in the city, guest OF
Mrs. Rogers at 1872 Blondeau street,
and will remain among her old Keo-
kuk friends until about the first of
June. She comes here from Boone,
Iowa, where she spent the winter with
her son. 1t has been the custom OF
Mrs. Limbaugh for the past eight
years to spend her summers In Cali
fornia and when she leaves here she
will go 20 Colorado, where she will en-
joy at least portion Of the summer.
She has hosts of old acquaintance
and friends in the city who will be
pleased to learn that she is again back
at her old Keokuk home and will
heartily extend warm hand of greet
ing and welcome.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
ALWAYS WAS
A GOOD FELLOW
Left $1,000 For His Friends to Enjoy
While Attending His Unique
Wake.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
SAN FRANCISCO. May 5.-William
s. Casey's life motto was "eat, drink
and be merry" Even when he died
he didn't want his friends to make
any departure from their daily round
| Of pleasure.
Casey, who was a bartender at Sa-
line, in the cattle country took his
own life. He had $1,000 in the bank.
He arranged that the entire sum be
expended in giving his friends good
time at hts funeral A special car
! brought Casey's body to this city
where it was cremated. With the
ashes in an urn, a score of Casey's
/ friends, following directions left by
| him went to a hotel. They sat down
! in the bar room and the urn was
placed behind the bar. They order
ed Casey's favorite drink and then
drank their toast: ITO Casey who is
still behind the bar" The party then
ate dinner and later went to the
theatre.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Youtha of Washington.

WASHINGTON May 5.-There are
a dozen or more young men of elite
Washington society circles. who, to-
day are considered the luckiest men
in the world, bar nobody. The young
men today were med-their identi-
ty is not made public-as the fortu-
nate ones on whom will be showered
the kisses of a group of "vestal vir-
gins" as portion of the program of
The Fire Regained," an outdoor
Greek pageant which is to be given
later this month under the auspices
of the Drama league. Between 700
and 800 will participate IN the pas-
cant, but only those young men named
will be permitted to receive the oscu-
latory offerings of the "vestal viz
gins"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Building Of keokuk Dam 10 Recorded
In Pleasing Fashion Through
Many Sounds
Alone.
AN UNUSUAL VOLUME
Noises Which Rasped the Ear During
the Construction Take on Diff
ferent Garb In This
Book.

Unknown to many people there is
in Keokuk word picture OF that
part OF the great construction work
Of the dam and the power house,
which is now only memory. Mrs.
James B. Diver has written booklet,
Sound Waves" which gives re-
markable picture of tbs construction
through the many sounds which ac-
companied the work. The idea IL
unique and nobody but Mrs. Diver
would have thought of correlating and
classifying and interpreting these
sounds.
First there was the pick and
shovel work, In clods of earth and
stone. Hammers on wooden ties, iron
rails, stone bed OF the river, followed
by steam engines, drills, derricks,
dippers, air compressers, travelling
cranes, air drills, hammers and rivet-
ers, channelers, steamboat throbs.
signal bells and full throated whistle, =
she writes. Cant you who lived here
during those noisy months close your
eyes and in memory hear 1t all?
One sound is pleasantly sugges-
tive OF the Wagner anvil chorus, an
other calls to mind the wonderful
b I'll bird heard in Jeypore, India, an
other sound recalls Edgar Allen Poe's
song of the bells. The completed dam
in it's appearance is but an echo OF
the Roman aqueducts. the saladins
at Cairo and some of the structures
in Greece and Constantinople.
with the construction finished, sill,
ence falls, except one sound. Now
and always, there will be that con-
slant undertone Of rushing water, a
protest against being harnessed. driv-
en- into submission. madts to work"
The book IS on tinted paper, printed
in blue ink and is beautiful from a
printers standpoint. For many years
the text will keep in pleasant mem
DRY some sounds which were nerve
racking when heard, and grow tune
full only through time and memory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
PUBLIC OPINION
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Nal. Collins Suggestion Good One.
To the Editor OF Tho Gate City:
The vacation time IL coming when
It win DO diflc0lt for the school boy
ana girl to occupy themselves IN some
practical and lucritive employment. l
suggest to keep out in the open air
and sunshine. You have been housed
all you ought to be, therefore get out
and raise cabbage, sweet corn.
pickles, tomatoes and other vege-
tables. What you cannot market from
house to house, take to the pickle and
canning factories In the city who win
be glad to purchase the surplus and
pay . good price therefor, thereby
you VIII have money to spend dur
ing the school days. Try It and see
how entertaining 1t will be.
w, B, COLLINS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
WILLIAMS BOUND OVER
TO THE GRAND JURY
coIored Man Who Escaped From jail
Yesterday Arranged In Court
This Morning.

Richard williams, the colored man
charged with larceny of goods from
The barn Of w. B. Ray and Son, was
arraigrcd In the superior court this
morning. Williams waived prelimin-
airy examination and was bound over
to the grand jury in default Of $500
bond. Williams was to have been
arraigned yesterday afternoon. He
escaped from the city Jail, however,
but returned and gave himself up at
$50 last night.
J. NJ. Zugg, proprietor Of Water
street restaurant, which was raided by
the police recently, today posted 5000
bond for his appearance before the
grand jury.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
TO start Australian Building.

TO start Australian Building.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
SAN FRANCISCO, May SC. J.
Oakshott, official architect for the
British colonies, is in San Francisco
to begin arrangements for the con-
struction Of the Australian building
on the grounds of the Panama-Paciflc
International Exposition.
Because Australia" said Oakshott,
"has ambitious plans for participation
it is possible that an application will
be made for larger building site
than that which has been allotted to
us, 1t is possible that a little delay
will occur in carrying out our plans.
In the end, however, 1t will give US a
chance to make a better showing"
Oakshott promised, however, to
have the building completed several
months before the scheduled opening
Of the exposition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Killed Himself.
UNITED Press Leased Wire S,

United Press Leased Wire Service.J
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 5.-Frsd
Couch, 81, from Otto, Iowa, was found
dead in stairway with bullet hole
in his head. 1t is supposed he COM
mitted suicide with a revolver found
by his side. He came here Saturday
to settle financial troubles but failed
and it is thought he was dependent.
He Is brother-in-law of John r..
Josephs, we'll known attorney for the
anti-saloon league. HIS wife and Tires
small children were visiting his
wife's father H. E. Joseph OF Lawton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
TIME IS the TEST
The Testimony q ksekuk People
Stands the Test.

Tho test Of time is what tells the
tale. The public soon nnds out when
Misrepresentation are made, and
merit alone will stand the test Of
time.
Keokuk people appreciate merit,
and many months ago local citizens
publicly endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills:
they do SO still. Would q citizen
make the statement which follows
unless convinced that the article was
Just as represented? Below IL test
mony such as the sufferer from kid
ney Ills 10 looking for.
Mrs. M. Belts. 1926 High street.
Keokuk, Iowa, says: II had severe It
tacks OF backache and was subject
to dizzy spells and pains in my head.
always felt nervous and languid ano
was unable to sleep wei. Doan's
kidney Pills. which l procured at
Wilkinson & Co.'s Drug Store. proved
their merit by entirely relieving me.
recommend Doan's Kidney Pills just
as highly today, as did some years
ago when publicly endorsed them"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo
New York. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-ano
take no other.-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
cinclnnattl Musical Festival on.

CINCINNATI, May with pro-
gram including the entire range of
music from Bach and Beethoven to
the modern, Vordig Mailer and
Strauss planned, the Cincinnati an
nual May music festival starts today.
Such noted soloists as Schumann-
Heink, Alma Gluck, Daniel Beddoe,
Margaret Keyes, Florence Hinkle,
Evan Williams, Pasquale Amato, Hon
ri Scott, and Douglas Powell will be
heard during the festival which will
continue through the coming Satur-
day. DR.. Ernest Kunwald is to be
the musical director, and he will lead
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
with the deca pitation Of fiv. mon,
Memorial Drawings In.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-Drawings
for the million dollar George Washing
ton Memorial to be erected In this
city are being considered today. The
winning architect will receive s1,5Oo.
The memorial will take the form OF a
four story building in either Georgian
or Italian Renaissance style. contain
ing great auditorium and suoorol.
nate meeting rooms. On the third
floor will be rooms for states which
will have contributed preference
being given to the thirteen original
states. Massachusetts, is expected
to contribute 100000 as state fund.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
MERCHANTS HOLD
CONFERENCE
First Annual Meeting VIII be Held
at Iowa City May II and IS
TO Interest Retailers.

IOWA CITY, Iowa, May b.-The ex-
tension division Of the University of
Iowa has announced the program for
the first annual merchants conference
to be held here, May IL and 10. It
will open on Tuesday, at II o'clock.
with an address by Miss Ruth A.
wardall, head of the department Of
home economics, on Buying for the
Household"
At 1880 in the afternoon w. ]. Pill
kington, editor OF the Merchants
Trade Journal in Des Moines. will
speak on "The Problems That Con-
front the Retailer" He will be fol-
lowed by Professor c. H. Weller.
president Of the Associated Advertis-
ing clubs Of Iowa, who will speak on
Advertising and It's Relation to the
Retailer" The final feature of the
afternoons program will be an expla-
nation by Karl d. Loos, assistant in
tbs department Of political economy
and sociology, on the subject, Where
Do the Profits Coz"
d. w. Norris, Jr., publisher OF the
Marshalltown Times-Republfcan, will
speak in the evening on Getting the
Business" while Thomas H. Macbr1de
president of the University of Iowa,
will have for the subject Of an illus
trated lecture, "The City Beautiful"
Wednesday morning there will be
three illustrated lectures. the first
being on Service to the Customer
by o. F. Kurtz, the second on Form
Letters" by H. M. Harwood and the
third on window Lighting" by Pro-
lessor A. H. Ford. head OF the depart
ment Of electrical engineering. At
2:3O on Wednesday afternoon Profess
sor Walter Dill Scott Of Northwestern
university, will speak on How May
the Iowa Retailer Increase His Eff
ciency?'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
.ERUPTI0Ns on
YOUR FACE OR BODY

Dry, moist. scaly letter, all forms
OF eczema or salt rheum. pimples
and other eruptions come from
humors. which may be either in
herited or acquired through defective
digestion and assimilation.
To treat these eruptions with dry
Ing medicines Is dangerous.
Ask your druggist for Hoods sar-
saparilla. It helps the system dis
charge the humors. and improves the
digestion and assimilation. 1t goeS
to the roots Of diseases. Get It too
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Trade unionists Grow.

LONDON May 5.-The trade union
movement is growing faster in the
United States than in any other coun-
try Of the world, according to the an
nual report Of the International Trade
Union Federation. There was a gain
in the aggregate membership OF
American trades unions last year Of
279, 377-more than half Of the entire
worlds increase-as against 217, 526
in Germany second on the list and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Nearly Snlothered.

Chandler. N. L..-Mrs. Augusta LO-
max, of this place, writes: Il had
smothering spells every day. 30 bad
that expected death at any time. !
could not sit up in bed I suffered
from womanly troubles. MY nerves
were unstrung. hid almost given up
all hope Of over being better. tried
Cardui, and it did me more good than
anything l had ever taken. am bet.
ter now than ever expected to be-"
Thousands of ladies' have written
similar letters. telling Of he merits
of Cardui. 1t relieved their headache.
backache and misery. just as it will
relieve yours. if you will let it. Try.
Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Mary Garden Fired.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, May because she re-
fused to sing away an alleged debt OF
81 ,S0O-one nights pay-paid to her
by mistake. Charles Dawes, treasurer
of the Chicago Opera company, says
Mary Garden has been fired"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05

3e,S5S in Belgium, third. Although
soma of the European countries show
a falling off owing to the disastrous
effects of the Balkan war, the total
gain in the nineteen nations repre-
scented in the federation is stated to
have been 493 466, the entire member
ship being 1884 ,461.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
We have one Of these Heaters on our
display floor come in and see it.
keokuk Electric Co.
ard and Main & Phone 80

the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
the festival chorus and a chorus Of
700 children from the public schools.
Adolph H. Stadermann is to be the
organist. The festival opens with
Berlioz's dramatic legend, The Dam
nation of Faust" all three organiza-
lions taking part in this production.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Sporting Views
By the Editor

Abbott has released three pitchers
and two catchers. They are Pitchers
Summers. Stewart, and 'Bennish, and
Catchers Smith and Hartman. Sum-
mers and Bennish have both been
seen in games by the fans. Summers
looks as II he might develop into a
good pitcher in time He has good
speed and curves but lacks knowledge
Of the game Bennish is good pitch
err but was unable to lit his right
gait during the training season here.
Hartman and Smith are good men
but have much to learn about the
game.
Tho Waterloo club 10 expected to
arrive here some time in the morn
ing. The tribe will have little edge
on them in the first game as the ride
from Cedar Rapids will not leave the
visitors in any too good condition.
The opening dates tomorrow are:
Waterloo at keokuk
MarshalItown at Burlington.
Cedar Rapids at Muscatine.
Clinton at ottumwa.
The Marshalltown club comes here
for four game series starting Sat
urday. A double header will be play
ed Sunday afternoon and the first
game will be called at 2:15. Follow
ing the game with Marshal1town Mon
day the tribe jumps to Waterloo
where they help the Jays open their
season. The tribs then goes to Mar
shalltown for four games. drops down
to Burlington for three. and then
opens another series here with Bur
lington, starting May 81.
Michael .. o'Harra, formerly a
catcher with the Blue Labels OF this
city, left yesterday for Kankakee
where he gets a try-out with the I'M
league club at that place. He has
many friends here who hope he makes
good on the jump.
With the decapitation Of five men,
Abb has the club in good shape to
enter the season. A few more heads
will have to be Topped off before
much longer, and that will come in
the pitching department. The boss
wants to cut his list down to about
sixteen men and run with that mum!
Der until June the first when all the
clubs will be compelled to prune
down to the regular number.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
DESCRIBES HIS ESCAPE
Tore Out the Barr at the Window
with He Hands-on Roof
For Fifteen
Minutes.

Jail shortly after noon yesterday, re-
turned to the station at $3.50 last
night and gave himself up after hav-
ing telephoned Chief Kenney that he
int ended to do so. During the time
Williams was out of jail he had gone
to Sandusky and back on bicycle.
At s o'clock last night Chief Ken
neys telephone rang. He answered
the call and the man at the other end
or the line said: This is Dick Will
Hams. I'll bs up to see you in hall
an hour Kenney said this morning
that he had no idea 1t really was
Williams.
Half an hour after he had received
the call. however, Williams walked
In the side door OF the chiefs Office.
Hs told the chief that he had return
ed to give himself up because he was
afraid that he would be caught and
given a much heavier sentence than
ne would otherwise get When asked
why he had escaped Williams said
that he had wanted TO send some
notes to some OF his friends but that
he had been unable to get anyone to
send messenger boy 70 him while
he was in jail.
Tells How He Escaped.
He described to Chief kenney how
b ) had broken out of the Jail, and
said that he had pulled out with his
hands the iron bars that covered the
window between his cell and the toilet
room. Williams must be remarkably
strong II he really did this as the
strongest men on thu police force
tested the remaing bars after Will
liams' escape yesterday and had been
unable TO move them in any way.
Williams said that when he got to
the top Of tn. stairs leading to the
women's dormitory the young colored
woman at the top of the stairs saw
him and said, You go away from
here. niger, and leave me alone"
Williams said he told her that he
was making his getaway and for
her to keep still. Hs climbed to the
tor OF the sky-light, kicked out one OF
the windows ana crawled outside.
Laid Flat on Roof.
He said he was puzzled about what
70 do there for the jailer and other
prisoners wers in the yard below and
were looking in his direction. He
said he could also see fireman on
the other side of the building. He
Law down nat on his face up against
the skylight, and remain ed there for
about fifteen minutes.
He said that after he had been
there for a few minutes his escape
was noticed. He could hear Chief
Kenney tell one of the men to bring
ladder to the room under the sky
light. He said he looked over the
edge Of the roof, saw that the jailer
was gone. jumped of the root and
walked over to Blondeau street, going
out through Sinton's barn. Once on
the street he ran up Biondeau TO
Ninth.
Borrowed a Bicycle.
There hs met young colored man
he knew who was riding bicycle. He
told this man that he was making his
getaway and asked him to let MIN
have his bicycle to ride up to san.
dusky, telling him that he wouio
leave the wheel there.
He rode the wheel to Sandusky ana
went around to the quarry wnere
friend OF his was working. He toto
The Washington herald., 1914-02-22
HUNTERS In AUTO
CAPTURE A MOOSE
Going After Big Game in Motorcars
Latest Diversion in North
Dakota.

Going after big game in a motorcar is
one of the newest methods employed by
huntsmen in the North Dakota woods.
The motorcar has SO many advantages
that II is being used not only as a means
of conveying the hunter to his destina-
ton, but alsosfor utility and sleeping pur-
poses. North Dakota woods, like those
OF Maine, are full of gasoline hunters"
as they are called. II. Z. Miller, of
Glendale, y. D., who recently secuted in
the north woods of that State, is much
yelated over the capture of a moose which
he attributes to his Mercer car. Mr..
Miller describes his experience as fol-
lows:
Recently farmer eight miles east of
Glendale phoned me that there was a
moose in his grove. -Four other men and
myself went out in my Mercer car. We
sent man on horseback into the grove
and he drove the moose out into the
prairie and took after her with my car
thr 'gh stubble fields and over the
prairie.
I'VE ran her about twelve miles. when
she took refuge in a small pond about $50
feet in diameter. The mud was deem in
the road, and we surrounded il. Then
we roped her, threw her, and, dragging
her to the bank, tied her. 1t is unlawful
TO shoot a moose in North Dakota at any
time. We have learned since her capture
that she had been run by men on horse
be- = in several different neighborhoods.
It took the old Mercer car to get her
goat however"