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part of Nebraska there is a large
tract of land known as the rain belt
1t never rains there"
Politics BoiIs In Scots.

Britt Tribune: 1t is better than a
circus to watch Dad Beard and Pat
Malloy argue politics. Dad can talk
the loudest but Pat continues longer
on the wing. Dad has perfect as.
surance. Pat has excessive conf
dence. Dad is perfectly sure, while
Pat is extremely certain. Both talk
with both hands at once and en-
phasize comprehensively by pitch and
infection. We have never heard
them In argument but have watched
them at distance and by their ges.
lures know just what they are saying,
We think that both are right to quite
an extent in their contention.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04
swINpLINe AT COUNTY FAIRS

SWlNOCiNS CODNiG FAIRS.
President Hyde Of Bowdoin Col
lege. Brunswick, Me, in notable ad-
dress to the student body severely
arraigned the laws of Maine for per-
hitting the organization Of corpora
lions which allow fraud and stealing
and denounced the shoddy vices and
swindles which flourish at many Of
the county fairs Said Hyde: THE
worst vice of the American people is
the desire to get something for moth
ing. Maine has the disease as badly
as Oklahoma or Nevada, This state
receives thousands of dollars year
from all over the country for organ
ling corporations under laws that
were drafted in the interest of thieves
to make wholesale stealing easy" He
then referred to the local county fair
at which numerous low and swindling
side shows We're run, and compared
4 1t with the country fairs in Switzer
land. He asked: "Why do the Maine
4 farmers allow themselves and theil
families to be insulted by the pres
ence of these low takers at their agri
cultural fairs?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The long-held assumption that many
forms OF disease are the result of
specific germs, or bacilli which are
invariable in character, is now chal-
lenged by DR.. H. Edwin Lewis of New
York in an important article for
American Medicine. He questions the
whole germ theory as being in any
sense exact science, and quotes ap-
provingly Professor Lehman, the
famous German bacteriologist, who
believes that there are no fixed va.
riettes of bacteria, but that one va
riety shades off into or can be convert
I ed into others-as, for instance. the
| typhus and diphtheria germ are con
vertible the one into the other. DR.
4 Lewis says that mico-organisms rep
+ resent many distinct species, anC
4 that each family is divided into man,
varieties subject to evolutional tend
encies. That is, there is not on,
fixed consumption germ, but man.
germs of the same family, any one o
which may cause the disease, bu
each differing from the other. Thi
raises the old query: Does the germ
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The League for the Civic Education
of Women. incorporated some Tune
ago by Mrs. Richard Watson Glloei
and others, has been incorporated as
national body and will have branch-
es in all parts of the country. Inc
object is to study politics from an
anti-suffrage point of view. The presl-
dent is Mrs Nicholas Murray buliei
of Columbia University. Mrs Andrew
Carnegie and Mrs. Grover CieVeiahu
are honorary vice presidents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

Plans for the compete electriication
OF the Pennsylvania railroad termin-
ais in New York City have been an
nounced with the signing of 5,ooo,-
600 contract for the work. While the
initial amount of apparatus will ag-
gregate this sum. it is said that it by
no means represents the full amount
The engines to be used will be entire
ly of a new type. and the most pow
erful in existence. They will re
semble closely the steam locomotives
now in use.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

Senator Dolliver of this state go'
off SO SO good one in the southwest
that the papers down there are quot
irg it with glee. He said in MS
speech:
Democratic leaders know nothing
about the tariff. The Denver platform
demands that five specific articles De
nut on the free list, all of which are
there now, and have been for many
wears. The tariff ought to be revised
if not by its friends, at least by It's
acquaintance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The Massachusetts Association of
Boards of Health of the various cities
of the state will send out circular
in the spring entitled Beware of the
Flies" The object of the pamphlet
is to teach the danger of the disease
breeding insect. All sorts of exped-
tents for getting rid of the trouble
some insects are given, among them
the dip net and molasses bottle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

man named Dote ran for the legis-
lature in Indiana on the Democratic
ticket, but the Republicans gave him
the proper anti-Dote treatment and he
has fully recovered from his delusion
that he was intended for a legislator.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

A woman speaker in st. Louis says
that foreign born girl becomes a
thorough American the instant she
puts on one of those big fashionable
hats. Even so, it is a big price for
the people of this country to pay.
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THE GATE CITY is on sale at the FOL
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

A mechanical corn husker is com
ing into use in the corn belt. 1t is
claimed that the machine will do the
work of several men and leave less
corn in the field than when the grain
was picked by hand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

1t will have to be admitted that
Bryan carried one state this year that
he didn't carry in 1896 or 1900. Okla
homa, of course.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

1t has again been demonstrated that
the solid, sober Sense of the Ameri-
can people can be trusted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

A Chicago professor says that spo t
Is a disease. Baseball fever is. of
course, one of its manifestations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

A political boomerang has been
aptly defined as roorback on the re
turn trip
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The next thing is to find some
thing equally good" for the ex-candi-
dates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

1t is more agreeable 70 crow thar
to eat crow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04
Practical.

st. Louis GlcbeDemocraf Out
west there is very little interest mani
tested In the farmers uplift move
ment. The kind of lift the farmers
want is somebody to help shuc's corn.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

1t was the old story over again.
The crowds cheered Bryan and voted
for Taft
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The Taft smile was winner all
over the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

Cardinal Gibbons says that church
men are not in politics. Neither, as
a rule, are politicians In churches.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

Exit Mr. Compensate II Is goo5
riddancei
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

Now for the Keokuk and Hamilton
water power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04
The Daily Gate City

and other features of the work is pro-
crossing much better than 1t was
thought possible few weeks ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04
WHAT AMERICA is WORTH.

In all well-regulated commercial eS-
adjustments there are periodical
stock-takings, and balance sheets are
struck In the preparation of the lat
ter a list of the firms or company's
assets is one of the most important
items. If, for any purpose, the peo-
pie OF the UnitCo States should wish
to make out return of their present
possessions, what would be the value
of them? In a word. How much is
the country worth? An answer to
this question is contributed by Mr..
L. G. Powers Of the Bureau of Census,
Washington, to the American Journal
Sociology for September. AS intro
ductory to table of values Mr.. Pow
ers gives the following interesting
and instructive explanation of the ma
ture of the possessions of which our
wealth consists. He says:
They are the lands utilized for
various purposes. but not the deeds
mortgages, and other paper evidences
of their ownership. They are rail
roads, factories, mines, stores, stocks
: vi SOOUSt liNS SlOCh- ilOI lllS otOShI
and bonds which measure the equitie:
of their holders in the properties men
toned. They are the products of ag
riculture, manufactures, mines, for
ests, and fisheries, held as raw ma
terial for manufacture, or as food
clothing, and ornament, or as nipple
ments and machinery, but not th'
warehouse receipts issued to thei
owners"
The staisticians of the Unite
+ States census and many others hav
made appraisals of the nationa
wealth, and their statements thereo
are the exhibits of assets which woul
be used in balance-sheet prepare
for business house. These apprais
ais for the year 1904 are as follows:
Forms of Wealth. 1904.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The people do rule.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The Illinois State Journal says that
the man who is always paying compli
ments to women may be liar but
he doesn't need any affidavits in that
business.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

Women who insist upon kissing
presidential candidates take them at a
serious disadvantage. No candidate
wishes to use violence upon even
that kind of woman.
A Connecticut man sends out a
report of squirrels eating the larger
part of ten sticks of dynamite. "All
liars are not engaged in politics" re-
marks the Clinton Herald.
Somebody has invented Bryan
cocktail AS it is a little too late for
this campaign the Philadelphia Press
suggests that the inventor may be
preparing for four years hence.
The annual report of the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
shows decline of $1,72S,S77 in the
years revenues and an increase OF
$1,515,925 in the operating expenses
! Someone is worrying about the eff
/ feet of the bridge mania on the gam
/ ing tendencies of the next generation
/ But the Fort Worth Record points out
! that bridge maniacs are not contribut
ing to the next generation.
i The Young Women's Christian AS
sociation of st. Louis has felt thu
hard times as much as any other in
stitution. One department store lie
go during the summer 200 girls. AM
i. in other stores the lack of employ
ment made changes necessary. But
decided change for the better ha
: come with the fall, and the restauran
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

The Des Moines Capital notes that
President Roosevelt is fifty years old,
but writes like "sixty."
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

An insanity plea, observes the st.
Louis Times, often turns out to be a
sane proceeding.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04
s55,51o,247,564

Real property and i'm
provements taxed $50, 510,247 ,564 !
Real property and i'm
provements exempt 6,831, 244,570 I
Railroads and their
equipment $500. 11,244,752, 900
Street railways 49,. 2,219,966,00o /
Telegraph systems -. 227400,000 |
Telephone systems $780, 900 /
cars ........... $4,000. 900
Shipping and canals. S46,4S9,S04
Privately owned water
works ............ 275,ooo,ooo
Privately owned cen
trail electric light
light and power sta
lions ...... 5s2,S51, 1o5
Live stock ......... 4,073,T91,736
Farm implements and
machinery .... S44,sse,s63
Agricultural products S99,379,652
Manufacturing machin-
| cry tools and i'm
/ plements .. 3,297,754180
Manufactured products I,409 ,291,668
/ Imported merchandise. 495.543,6S5
Mining products .... 0S,066,7S7
/ Gold and silver coin
/ and bullion ........ 1893, 6O3,303
Clothing and personal
adornment ...... 2,5oo,oOO,ooo
/ Furniture, carriages
and kindred property 5,7oo,O00,O00
Total SLOT .1o4, 211, GIT
In 1850 the national wealth was
estimated as s7,135, 7So,22S; in 1860,
as s16159.616,0 68; In 1870 OBSTINATE
made on a currency basis of the time
when reduced to a gold basis, S24,-
o54. 8l4.806: in 1880 ION the same
basis). s43,642, 900 600; in 1890, $685.
OF .O91, 1877; in 1900, SSS,517 306,775;
and in 1904, as shown in the table
given above, S107, 104, ,917. These
annual additions to our lationa,
Z wealth reflect three very important
factors: "a the creation of new
, forms of wealth as the result of hu
man labor; (2) the appreciation II
value of all property as the result o
the worldwide influence OF the in
: creased md increasing supply of golt
2 and silver which began to be felt i'm
+ mediately after the discovery of gol,
:. in Australia and California just prio
! to 1850; and CD the appreciation o
d property in cities and towns due t
y the growth of population.
/ It. will be seen, on referring to tn
. table, that the most important tier
Y in the list of assets is real propert.
If Some idea Of the labor involved in oil
it tanning the figures for this one asse
IS NAV he gathered from the fact tina
n as Mr.. Powers informs US, the Cei
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-11-04

And Missouri, TOO.
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keokuk, Iowa. N0v-mber 5, 1858

told you So"
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New-York tribune., 1908-05-08
CAUGHT BY F. A. HEINZE
CH4RGE OF EXTORTION,
Copper Man Says Larger De
mnndfd SfO,OOO for Immunity.

f Augustus Heinze has caught man who. he
says is trying to extort $4,000 from him The
prisoner is Edward F. Brennan. a. young lawyer
haiIing from Butte. who belongs to a well known
Indiana polls family
The copper man says Brennan accused MN
Of violating the law OF Montana and threatened
to start prosecution unless he paid for silence.
The young man arraigned before Magistrate
Moss in the Tombs police court yesterday and
held on a short affidavit for forty-eight hours
Detective Beery, of the District Attorneys
office who made the arrest, says Brennan came
to New York several days ago after being in
communications with Mr. Heinze for some time.
The alleged attack by Brennan involved some
of Mr. Heinze's copper transactions. According
TO the latter, Brennan after making threats by
letter and getting satisfaction, visited Mr..
Heinse's Broadway office
Detective Beerv was assigned to the case and
on Wednesday told Mr.. Heinze to make an
appointment with Brennan for yesterday.
Heinze did this, and before the appointed hour
the detective concealed himself in 4 closet,
where he could see and hear all that was said.
After conversation Mr.. Heinze. the detective
saws made out three demand notes for Brennan
one for $4,000 and two for s125O0 each.
After these had been passed over to the Butte
man Detective Beery placed him under arrest.
Edward Lauterbach, counsel for Mr.. Heinze,
says the latter was a year ago president OF the
-45tna Bank and Trust Company of Butte A
man named Clements cashier. At that time
accusati tions were made that the bank statement
showing the amount of cash on hand in the
bank and made to the state authorities was
false Mr. IIeinze had signed this statement
and Clements had prepared it.
Clements was arrested and charged with max
ing a false report. There one girl.
stenographer in the bank on whom the prosecu-
tion were depending A strong witness for
their side. But before the case came to trial
Clements married this girl, and according TO
the laws of Montana, she could not be made to
testify against her husband. The case fell
through
Brennan was counsel for Clements, and, it Is
charged, thus learned the inside history of the
case, and obtained from Clements and his wife
an affidavit that the bank statement had been
correct.
Then according to the story, Brennan came
TO New York last March and offered give
up the affidavits to Heinze that he could
have them in of any future prosecution.
Besides this, it is charged. Brennan threatened
that If 900 not given him he. knowing
the inside of the case, would start prosecution.
Mr.. Henze informed the District Attorneys
Office them but later refused to prosecute
Then, a few days ago, it is said. Brennan Of
fered to give up the sffidavits for $4,000 and
renewed his threats. Then Mr. Heinze acted
Brennan is a Of DR. John E J. Brennan,
Of Indianapolis. A few years ago he inherited,
it is said. about $4,000 the death of two of
his aunts. while his father got 100000 He is
a Spanish veteran He and his wife were
divorced in San Francisco. after which he moved
to Butte.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-08
TAFT GETS KENTUCKY.
Delegates Instructed for Him after
Lrelu Contest.

Louisville. Ky. May After having con-
r-olled the Organization and seated their dele
gates in all save few of the contested counties
81 an all-night session OF the committee on Gre
dentiais the Taft men were apparently about 20
put their state of delegates-at-large through
without a hitch at to-day's session Of the Ken
771ckv Republican Convention. when their pro-
F-arnre was endangered and al slate at one
time apparently broken
Instead of winding up the business Of select
inE delegates-at-large TO the Republican Ma
tlgnaI Convention in an hour or two. there was
session lasting from 10 g until $50 o'clock.
when after hours Of disorder. wire pulling and
suspense, the Taft men finally won, and elected
lie following delegates-at-large, instructed for
the Secretary OF War. 10 the Chicago conven-
ton:
Governor Z A Wilson, Louisville: Judge A.
z. BUrnam Richmond: ". Marshall Bullitt.
Louisville. and f. L. Lane "a negro), Louis
tl.z.
Senator-elect Bradley, the leader Of the Fair
banks forces, made a plea for party harmony
VhiCh aroused great enthusiasm He was noTni-
rated for delegate-at-Iarge, but was defeated
r. 1s3 votes.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-08
angry BOY KILLS CHUM.
In Quarrel OUer DiIisiOn of Pennies
Lad Is Pushed Into RiCcr.

If n-year-od Joe Dekeupie. of No. I'll East 6lst
street. had been in the right place at the right
time on the afternoon of April Il his brother
Charlie who is two years younger. might not
have been locked up in the of the children's
society last night the charge Of having killed
his chuln, George Kralik, who lived in the same
house. Joe happened TO be the other side Of
the building, Madison avenue and 59th street
from the other youngsters. when q man came along
and offered them five cents apiece for the bundles
of WOOD they collecting Joe ''peeved'
when he heard OF bargain his brother and
that kid George Kralik." had struck. and finally
Charlie had to give him Two Of the five pennies
he received for his bundle.
George Kralik however, who only seven,
refused to ANTE up fact which pleased neither
of the Dekeupies- Joe, however, had his bundle
Of wood and went home with II, but the other
boys Iotered along TO the pier at East sst street.
Charlie Dekeupie who still resentful of Kra-
lk's conduct in holding TO his five pennies,
watched his chance and when George wasn't
Meeting anything showed him off the stringpiece
into the river.
When the two Dekeupies were taken down to
Police HEADQUARTERS last night Joe broke down and
told on Charlie. The latter informed Joe OF how
he had fixed George" the night he pushed him
into the river. Joe told his mother. who merely
slapped Charles face Since that time the kra-
lils had been trying to get news OF George. Yes
terdsy q sister OF the dead boy was told by the
Younger of the Dekeupies that street cleaner
had come along while they were sitting on the
strinSpiece and kicked the missing boy into the
river He stuck TO his story when interrogated
by the detectives and only when Joe broke down
los. night at Headquar arters would he admit his
guilt Charlie was held the charge OF homicide
ond Joe Was detained a witness.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-08
{. ". MORSE UINS AGAIN.
G6ts Possession Of ASSETS Of the
Mercedes Import Com PAM.

Charles ". Morse, who recently made set
tlement with Charles A. Hanna. receiver of the
National Bank of North America, another
point yesterday in his fight to rehabtate his
depleted fortune when he obtained control of
the assets of the bankrupt Mercedes Import
Company. Mr.. Morse the hacker of this
company. which failed two months ago, with
liabilities of than $4,000.
When Mr.. Morse settled with Mr.. Hanna he
took over a number of notes made by his
friends and discounted at the National Bank of
North America, and also claims over $4,000
which the bank held against the Mercedes
pany. For the last two months the affairs of
the Mercedes company have been administered
by John S. Davenport receiver.
A keen fight for the election of the trustee in
bankruptcy waged between Mr.. Daven-
port and his counsel and Mr. Morse and his
friends. who controlled more than 90 per cent
of the claims against the company. The meet
ing of creditors a stormy one. but the
Morse candidate for trustee was finally elected.
The trustee will now take the assets from
the receiver and wind UP the affairs of the
company.