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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28
VALUE OF OUR RIVERS.

Maior Charles Richie. chief engineer
l., oh.r.a ~ i,,,nrovament ~ the I'm
~ 'nai 81 - - p, Z, ~. s,,hr,;t.
per Miosio'ipp, s1s :
tea ms annual iepois ~ .ne y
engineers OF the United states ARMY
In addition to telling OF the work that
has been done, Major Richie tells why
T. was done and presents cogent.;eas-
ons To- inc more of It. The au8ur
a.o,t s,a,+ az best veal
u .i.e ~ 10, ,.., 49, ana
or ms me ~ iiSoi
is as tnorougnly siouiiueu =, 'ie pm
osophy OF 1T as In the technlcal ue'
tails. In the course of his report Ma
ior Richie saws.
..E-ron information furnished by
i, ,,barn,en and raft hoat owners it is
1e e.s that tbe rate per ton mile on
1oys and humber f,oated down the riy-
~ r. var ;ous roinfs ran from one-half
Iii 80 / ~ mills the average rate be-
ina a,,o,,t mill 1sO 001).
ssTbe lowest rate by rail for
1,nher in carload lots between uppe,
ss;ssicsinri river noints ascertained
f,.or, aet,,al sbinmenfs nv this Office
srono e. pauI FL Fountain CITY Rock
leland and Keol,,1k Is 6 mills per ton
mile This Indicates a saving in
freight nv river of s mills per ton
Mic or $3.50 215 ON the logs and lum.
ha,.7 ,noved during 1908
"a Standardization ~ tho freieht car
r;ad nv rteamboats In 1908 was found
i,o INN but on the least favor
ab1a showing in above table the saw
INC was 60 az ner 10f, mounds TO-. sOl
Mas or so loa33 nor ton mile which
arnonnte IN round numbers ia sse RIO
r. ie "a he remembered that benefl,
also accr,es to the nublic in the re
dm ,u due to the river. Of rates on
era;.sht oarriad Nv rail tho amo,,rt n
which freight although not definitely
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28
COMPLEX WRITING.

Henry James, the novelist, is a
master hand at the production OF
long, complex and obscure sentences,
which may be full of meaning or en-
tirely devoid of sane thought for all
the average reader can make out OF
them. Following is an example from
his latest story now running in one
of the leading magazines:
THAT indeed-he did her perfect
justicewas Of the very essence of
the newness and freshness and beau
Itiful, brave social irresponsibility by
which she had originally dazzled him;
just exactly that circumstance of her
having no instinct for any old quality
or identity, a single historic or social
value, as he might say, OF the New
York of his already almost legendary
past and that additional one of his,
on his side, having, so far as this went
cultivated Darkness. cultivated posi-
tive prudence, as to her own personal
background THE yagueness, at the
best, with which all honest gentlefolls,
the New Workers. OF HIS approved
stock and conservative generation,
were content. as for the most part
they were individually wise. to SUR
round the origins and antecedents
and queer unimaginable early influ.
ences Of persons swimming into their
| ken from those parts OF the country
| that quite necessarily and naturally
figured in their view as god forsals-
en- and generally impossible.
| There is at least room for doubt II
I Mr.. James himself knew what he was
trying to say when he penned the
| foregoing. Happily there is no law
compelling any one to read what he
writes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28
COUNTRY TOWNS AND CULTURE.

COUNTRY TOWNS AND CULTURE.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter Of Sec.
rotary Wilson, sang selections from
grand opera in Muscatine the other
evening and her audience consisted Of
only thirteen persons. The newspa-
pers there are humiliated by this lack
of appreciation, but do not attempt to
account for it. In this emergency the
Washington Democrat comes forward
with the explanation that Muscatine
is too much like a country town to APP
preciate grand opera. The Democrat
thus states the situation:
Now If it had been Uncle Toms
Cabin or Married In Haste or How
to Be Happy Though Married, the
opera house would have been packed
But when 1t comes to real swell mu-
sic, Muscatine, like Washington.
Irenigs. We, in this town, haven't got
beyond the Uncle Toms Cabin style
OF theatre-going ye4, and neither have
they in Muscatine--and that is moth
ing against Muscatine--o only we like
to rub 1t in and laugh just little on
the side when MuscatiDe swells up
and tries to imagine itself city.
| Hurrah for the country own, but II
prefers Uncle Toms Cabin to the
! 'Sextette from Lucia, or Faust ?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28


Last Wednesday was the forty-sixth
anniversary of the battle of Lookout
Mountain and Thursday was the forty
sixth anniversary of the battle of Mis-
sion Ridge. The reference to the bat.
tie OF Lookout Mountain recalls a
story of that famous engagement.
A Confederate soldier who vas cap
tured in the battle Is represented. to
have said: YOU'D never got US il
there hadn't been so many OF you
Yanks. Whv you'all were comm up
that oil hill like a swawm of bees
| "Oh you are mistaken said an
| Illinois soldier. There wasn't SC
darned many Of u.s."
"They wasn't! why there was morn
million of you fellaas- Didn't
| heah you general give his commando
What did he say?'
Say! Why he says: Attention,
World! BY Nations. righ- wheel
march; by States. Fret"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Among the causes for thankfulness
enumerated by Des Moines ministers
on Thanksgiving day were the place
of government among nations; the
awakening of civic consciousness;
civic equality for rich and poor; the
development OF Christian conscious
ness: the progress of Christian fra
ternity; deeper religious convictions;
the altruism and beneyolences Of
humanity. and the curtailment of the
liquor traffic. The list might be ex-
tended almost indefinitely without ex-
hausting the subject. The causes
named are distinctive blessings, but
they are only few of many
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Robert ]. Wynne says that the ac-
ton of the suffragettes In England re-
Gently has deferred the prospect OF
votes for women at least year. The
cause was progressively fairly well
when the belligerents came upon the
scene. and seem to have undone all
the good work Of tie last generation.
Mrs. Philip Snowden Is of tho same
opinion, and is much opposed :, the
militant sufiragists, otherwise KnY~n
as suffragettes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

A lraternal insurance case involv-
ing the duty Of policyholder in the
Iowa Legion of Honor, as decided by
the state supreme court, makes sug
gestion which will be an eyeopener to
many who are in the fraternals. The
case arose from the fact that a mem
Der refused to continue paying a
greater increased assessment and
sued to recover what he had pale.
The court sustains him and goes
further in declaring that If he had
continued paying the increased rate
to the time of his death it is a ques-
ton whether his heirs would have had
any right to the benefits. The com
pany had not only raised the rate
very much, but had scaled down the
policy without his consent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28
forge ahead Of the one that does not
WOMEN AND WAGES.

The American Federation Of Labor
went on record for woman suffrage
by a substantially unanimous vote,
but declined to take a stand against
the saloon. The Dubuque Times
Journal, discussing the subject, sug-
gests that this is easily understood
The thing from which the federation
wishes to deliver us is not temptation
but the competitive regulation of
wages. The Times-Journal goes on
to say:
The understanding is that women
prefer arbitrary regulation whereby
they are to have the same pay as
men for the same work Their en-
lfranchisement in Wyoming, Idaho,
Colorado and Utah has not affected
/ the situation in this particular, but in
certain quarters far removed from
leach other the impression persists
that If woman had the ballot she
would go hungry rather than work
for less wages than men, that she
would favor a law compelling one
standard Ir all, law that would put
| the masses of women out of the COM
petition. The theory is not very com
-uuoM 10 soueSHIsluI sql o. IIsluemUd
en- and their PERCEPTION of the con-
ditions which govern wages and en-
iployment. But their conduct in the
four western states in which they
have the ballot has shown that they
are not as impractical as some friends
of enfranchisement imagine
In other words, we are to under
stand that women are less imprac-
teal In practice than In theory.
This cannot be regarded as very
convincing argument in favor Of wom-
an suffrage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28
LONG ABOUT THANKSGIVING.

LONG ABOUT THANKSGIVING.
Contented like, the stubble fields are
stretching In the sun,
Resting up and thinking of the work
that they have done,
And each rustling shock of fodder
reaches out q freckled hand,
To touch the robes Of Plenty as she
dances through the land.
The corn that fills the stomachs of the
stuffed and grooming cribs
Is spilling out their mouths and drip
ping through their ribs,
And the hay crammed in the barn
lofts seems to raise the very
roofs
Along about Thanksgiving in old
Iowa.
The squashes in the cellar give a
grunt of honest pride,
If you stoop and roll them or just
punch them In the side,
And the press from which the nectar
OF thousand apples drips
In an ecstacy of pleasure smacks its
cider-moistened lips,
While the cabbages that bangle from
the rafters overhead
Keep a-nodding How dy' do, sir?" to
the pumpkins blushing red,
And the turnips and potatoes over
flow their bullying bins
Along about Thanksgiving in old
Iowa.
The tunes the brooks are singing is q
melody that's sweet,
A song Of mills a-grinding the endless
flow of wheat,
And the -four from the hoppers {
snowy river makes
That flows into an ocean OF breat
and pies and cakes.
While the honey that was gathered b.
million hives Of bees
Lends It's rich and subtle fragrance t.
the hating, hungry breeze,
And the glossy turkeys gobb1e to tn,
chickens lazy cluck,
Along about Thanksgiving in oil
Iowa.
Edgar We1ton Cooley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Missouri is offering prize OF ST.
900 for a state song, but 1t is under.
stood in advance that any offering
without the words show me" In 1t
will not be considered The best sug-
gestion on the subject to date is that
volunteered by the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat, to-wit: that the winning
contribution must be sung in the heart
before it is put into words.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

In case involving large amount
of paving in Des Moines the supreme
court has just held that the fact that
the contractor did not strictly comply
with the specifications and, in fact,
used rotten stone when hard stone
was needed, relieved property own
ers from paying. The ruling affords
a valuable precedent for like cases
elsewhere.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

well worth taking into account in all
discussions and considerations of In
ternal waterways Improvement. The
rivers are potent factors in keeping
down freight rates by rail and any
failure to keep them navigable would
speedily be followed by an increase.
His statement of the case is alike
clear and conclusive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

1t is reported from Washington that
Colonel Hepburn has refused tae post
of commissioner of pensions. The
reason assigned is that he has too
much to do in other lines and is earn
ing too much money to acc, 1T the
position.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

The new Missouri law authorizing
iuries to give life sentences to con-
victed murderers is resulting in the
punishment of men who might other
wise go unpublished. Undsr the old
law there we're many acquittals be-
cause OF objections to infliction Of the
death penalty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

A st. Louis parrot has been
attracting considerable attention
by its ability to swear in thee
languages. If 1t had been Chicago
parrot it would have been able to
swear in six at least.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

1t is nip and tuck between the
Standard Oil and the sugar trust in
the great unpopularity contest now
on. Neither can claim any advantage
over the other in the attention it is
receiving from Uncle Sam.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Mr.. Wellman has endorsed Lieuten.
ant Peary as the only man who ever
reached the pole. Mr.. Wellman will
be recalled as the gentleman who
made the greatest fasco in polar ex-
petitions in recent years
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

A contemporary has an article on
"How to Fatten Turkey" What is
really needed just now is reliable in
formation as to How to Digest a
Turkey.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Champ Clark says the next congress
will have Democratic majority of
100. In that event Heintz' "57 varie-
ties" will look like thirty cents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

What goes up must come down.
doesn't hold good in all cases There
Is the cost of living, for instance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Mr.. Bryan has taken out hunting
would do well to take to cover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

This is the open season for turkey
hash. Also for the turkey hash joke.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

The Mars alltown Times-Republican
declares that no Iowa town is too
small to work for local interests, and
that the town that thus organizes will
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

Well, turkeys, anyway, have gone
down
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-28

ksokuk, iowa -. November %, 1909.
The oasis., 1909-12-04

employe appear at his Florence ranch. He is over seventy years of age but walked all the way from Montana to Florence and did not seem to have suffered any physical discomfort from his long walk. He had $10 in his pocket when he arrived.
 Yuma Sentinel: Dr. Felix Muel. Ter, father of Mrs. B. L. Mecden, has been in Yuma for the past week and will be joined later by his wife and MT. and Mrs. Waldomar Muel- Ter, his son and daughter-in-la who will reside here permanently, Mr. Mecden and the younger Mir. Mueller having leased the Molina dewelling at Main and Third streets for use as boarding bouse. Dr. Mueller plans to go to Sinaloa, Mexico, in the near future to prac- tice as physician, in which pro- fession he has an enviable standing, particularly in the southern re- public, of which he has been an honorary citizen for many years.
 Cochise County Press: Contracts for two more additional four-inch wells have been let to H. o. Carr, to be sunk near the other wells in the vicinity of the company's roundhouse. This will give the company seven wells at this point and will insure an abundance of water for years to come. An aver age of 350,000 gallons of water are used every day at his point, and the contract for the additional wells gives rise to the report that the rail- road company is planning other improvements at this point for the coming year. Sinking of the wells will begin shortly.
 Arizona Republican: The Mesa department of the Republican will not vouch for the following story but gives the circumstances exactly as told by the estimable joweler San Barnett. MT. Barnett claims that he went out to his hen houses
The oasis., 1909-12-04

Wednesday evening, having heard the fowls making a disturbance, and found a big rattlesnake fully five feet long. He promptly dis. patched Mir. Snake with a rake, but in doing so broke the rake handle This was all quite likely, and Mir. Barnett has snake skin for proof. But he ayers that next morning when he went out to the chicken yard, he found that the rake handle had become wagon tongue, as the snake bit the handle during it's fight for life.
The oasis., 1909-12-04
ARIZONA NEWS.

Arizona Republican: Leo Gold Schmidt of Tucson has bought out the interest in the Mesa flour mills formerly owned by w. A. Mo- Donald. MT. Goldschmidt is the owner of the Eagle mills in Tucson, and is thoroughly competent mill man. The Mesa mills manage. ment contemplates the building of new warehouse on the pro- perty in the .near future, which will be 100 feet by 150 feet.
 Yuma Sun: The site of the siph- on under the Colorado river on the Arizona side is the busiest place in Yuma these days. Roads are being built, grading done, houses erected, machinery unloaded, and there is a general air of business and hustle. Those who have pre- dicted that the siphon would never be built should go over and take a good look at the work as it is going on. It will do them good.
 Yuma Enterprise: The first ostrich wire for fencing that ever came to this valley was brought in yesterday by Jim Meadows for his farm. It is funny looking stuff, for the wire is No. g and the meshes are one foot by three. There are five miles of it in this shipment. It is to be stretched one foot above the ground and will make fence four feet high on which there is no danger of the birds getting caught, crippled or cut.
 Tucson Star: Meeting in this city his 6ancee, who travelled across the entire continent in order to meet him, J. J. Powers yesterday was one of the principals in the first wedding of Americans ever held in the historic old mission of San Xavier. His bride was Miss Ada Adams of Rowley, Mass. MT. Pow CTS is a resident of California, and arrived here Saturday afternoon shortly after the arrival of hi: bride, in order to meet her. They will make their home in Coronado California, where MT. Powers nov resides, in the future.
 Yuma Sun: R. c. Stitt shipped out Friday carload of alfalfa seeC containing 30,000 pounds. The seed was shipped to Fresno anC brought l2 1-2 cents per pound f O. b. Yuma. This seed was growr by P. D. Sargent, Henry Hansber ger and w. NJ. Lawler. The aver age yield per acre of alfalfa seeC in the valley is between 800 anC 800 pounds. The growing of alfal ia seed is one of the most profitabl' industries in the valley. It takes but one of the seven or eight cropi of alfalfa each season and practi cally represents net profit.
The oasis., 1909-12-04

Florence Blade: Chas Stewart, in conversations with the editor of this paper few days since, stated that his chickens had paid, on an average, $1.50 each per year, notwithstanding the fact that he has paid no attention to them aside from feeding them. But be has now turned them over to an old son of the ever green isle to take care of them in systematic and scientific manner and expects that under these conditions they will yield a much larger profit. The old gentleman referred to had been herding sheep for MT. Stewart in Montana for two years or more when the latter sold out and moved to this valley. Last week Mir. Stewart was surprised to see his old
The oasis., 1909-12-04

Pullman Sleeping Cars run through between MaZatlan, Sinaloa and Los Angeles California. H. LAWTON, GEO. F. JACKSON,
 Agente General Vice-Agente General de Pasajes. de Pasajes.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-09-14
JUDGE REI1ER
ANNOUNCES NEW RULES
Superior Court Judge Wants
More Facility Shown in
Handling Cases.

Judge Virgil 5. Reiter of the Lake
superior court toady announced a new
set of rules which he expects will faciI-
itate the handling of the enormous
business of the local courts.
Hereafter every Monday will be de-
voted to motions, the setting of cases
and the making up of the issues in the
cases that are to be tried later in the
week
The jury will not be called until
Tuesday, and this viii do away with
the necessity for having the jury idle
while these preliminaries are going on.
The county will be saved the ex-
penses of the jury for the first day of
the week and that will be at least 500
The work of the court will also be
greatly facilitated. and it is expected
that better results viii be secured.
Another innovation will be the re-
serving of Friday afternoons for de-
fault divorce cases. This will be bet
ter for the attorneys in that they will
know better when these cases can be
heard.
Today the court was engaged in the
setting of the cases, and there were fif-
" or more lawyers from all over the
county present in the court ooom
A jury will be called tomorrow and
the first of the criminal cases will be
taken up. Most of the criminal cases
for the first three days of the week are
from Gary.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-09-14
SWELTEBS UNDER
SEPTEMBER'S SUN
Hammond Not Prepared for
Excessive Heat; Weather
Man Explains.

Hammond was hardly prepared for
the superabundance of heat which Old
Sol streamed down yesterday. AS late
as o'clock yesterday afternoon the
mercury had crawled as high as 80
degrees and rain would have been a
welcome relief Such heat is unusual
for this season, and the indications
are that it will continue for a time
longer.
Yesterday, however was by no means
the hottest day for this time Of the
year. Even last year, on Sept. II. the
mercury reached 90 degrees. And on
the first of September of 1907 we had
80 degrees also. While way back in
1899 9S degrees was the maximum heat
in September.
The weather man in Chicago gave
the following explanations:
"A warm wave is usual at this time
of the year. 1t is due in a great meas
ure to the absorption of the radiation
of heat from the earth which is gen
orally dry over the plains in the latter
part of September. In Chicago. while
the winds keep a southwesterly and
western direction. we have a land
breeze as you would observe this aft
ernoon. Large cumulo strata Of clauds
prevailed. yet no rain fell This proxi-
nifty of the storm that has spread from
from Wisconsin TO Texas makes MS
breathe the airs moisture and this
brings the feeling of extreme heat"