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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17
IN EXPRESS RATEs.

The Iron Age calls attention 10 q
! fact generally unknown, that for The
carrying Of small packages the express
companies have two rates one regu-
lar. which is paid By the man VINO
simply hands ever his parcel and leaves
the fixing of The charge 10 the COM
ranys clerk, and another, considerably
lower. which can be obtained hy any
body who knows of its existence and
simply asks for it
Packages CT merchandise worth less
than $40. if the fact be stated at ship
mens and prepayment made, VIII be
carried TO any point in the United
States OF Canada. regardless of dis
tance, for enc cent an ounce. with .
minimum charge OF ten cents. The rate
for advertising matter is still low
one-half cent an ounce with 3
minimum charge of ten cents.
Illustrating how the method works,
the Iron Age, says thar parcel weigh
ing sixteen ounces and valued az SO
was recently left at New York office
Of one CT the large express companies
for shipment to a rowa in that state.
The regular rate was one dollar per
100 pounds, and twenty-five cents
minimum Tor one pound or less. The
rate given By the CLERK was twenty
five cents, but when request was made
for reduced late, sixteen cents was
given While IN his case the pack
age was 10 be carried only 800 miles,
he charge for 5000 miles would have
been no more To the shippers crit
cisrn Of him Tor quoting the higher
-ate. the clerk answered that the low
T rates were given when called for,
md not Otherwise.
TIE Iron Age notes that in this case
he penalty for lack OF knowledge
you'd be so Per cent. which leads it 10 |
ay that after all this is only another
xample. Of which the woods are full,
f the penalties which are enforced on
arelessness or ignorance in business
latters-" Another would be-" SAYS
he House Furnishing Review, s.tlat
ne express companies, while willing
make concessions to those who send
mall packages, make up for it by
harging the occasional customer a
much higher rate which some might
az has perilously close likeness to
chatting. 1t would be well for the
interstate commerce and the state
abroad commissions to look into this
natter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17


Judge NJ. j. Wade o. Iowa CITY a
leading Democratic politician. is not
ed for injecting lot OF good stories
into his campaign speeches. Here is
one he told in last years campaign:
An old friend of mine, named Hen
nessey, was being taken home in a
wheelborrow by a faithful friend one
night. This friend vas giving Hen
nessey some good advice. saying:
There's no use your trying, Jerry,
you can't drink all the whisky in the
world
They were passing a brilliantly.
lighted distillery at the time, and as
Jerry opened his heavy eyes and be-
held it, he replied
We'll, begorrah. have them
worKin' nights
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

Sitting as chairman of the arbitra-
ton beard which was trying to pre-
vent street car strike in Scranton,
Pa, Judge Gray of Delaware expressed
his Indignation when told that grocers
who would not sign their names to a
statement that foodstuffs had not in.
creased in three years because of their
tear OF the unions. He said: Il am
very much in favor of labor unions
but nothing has acted SO much to the
discredit of unionism as that miser
able, cowardly un-American system
of boycotting. Tie American people
will never submit to it. / viii never
submit to it. would die in my tracks
first"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17
BUSINESS STEADILY IMPROVING.

According to facts and figures SET
forth By Dun & Co, records OF bank
ciearings and railroad earnings com
tinue 10 speak loudly of an increase
Ia trade and an augmented business
confidence During May railroad
earnings gained I5.l per cent over
1905. while the decrease as compared
with 1897 was ls.S per cent Bank
ciearings for the week increased 2s-s
per cent over last rear and s-s per
cent over 1866, outside of New York.
while In New York. owing In part To
widening speculative activity. the gain
vas as great as 76.5 per cent over
1898 and S6-s per cent over 1906. m
stances of increased business ia
specific lines are cited as follows:
The reports from tie iron and
steel trade are all Of a growing eager
ness of demand and with keener soIici.
iation for prompt delivery. The con-
per trade begins to report better
progress with material reduction in
stocks on hand The railway supp1v
manufacturers. after twenty months Of
extreme depression, are now reporting
that orders are being booked. An
increased activity is noted III the cot
ton goods trade The zdrices from
the principal cities continue to be en-
couraging- Thus further progress is
making toward business confidence
and activity. and even the yexatious
delay in the treatment of the tariff
and the somewhat disappointing June
St "a - ~
check the Improvement The growing
feeling is that. with this revision of
the tariff finally concluded, that, in
spite Of the lower condition OF the
winter wheat crop. this country will
harvest fair average yield of the
principal grains, and be able 10 sell
them at high prices. thus insuring
agricultural prosperity, which would
seem sufficient, in connection with the
complete transformation In the char
acter of the iron and steel trade, 10
inspire the courage necessary for
general advance movement And this
courage is not diminished By the con-
trast with conditions elsewhere, for
while we are emerging from depres-
sion. other countries are still per
picked by home problems, and are
confronted by generally inferior crops
The foreign commerce statement for
the mort Of New York during the
latest week shows gain in the move
ment in and out of s5,2S4,43T over
1eoS and a decrease of s2.191,915 as
compared with 1907.
Everything points to restoration
Of the prosperity of 1907 at an early
day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17
MODERN COLLEGE METHODS.

Not in many year aave the Ameri-
can educational circles been so deeply
stirred as at present by the radical
utterances of President Woodrow vii.
son OF Princeton in criticism of exist
ing college methods, and BY the replv
of President Schurman of Cornell In
defense of those methods. DR.. VIII
sons first utterance occurred in an
address at luncheon at the closing
day exercises of st. Paul's School.
Concord, n. H. He declared that
schools like that and universities like
Princeton must cease TO exist unless
they adapt themselves to modern con-
ditions." He continued: "a danger sur
rounding our modern education Is the
danger of wealth. / am sorry for the
lad who is going to inherit money.
fear that the kind of men who are go
ing to share in shaping the future are
not largely exemplified in our schools
and colleges. So far as the colleges
go, the sideshows have swallowed mn
the circus and we in the main tent
do not know what is going ON. And
do not know that want to continue
under those conditions as ringmaster.
There are more honest occupations
than teaching il you can not teach .
He explained In later interview that
the evils to which he referred were as
follows: The complete dissertation o.
the life of the student when beyond
the classroom doors from the work
done within them, tie absence of ser
ious purpose on the part of majority
Of the students, the indifference of
parents whether their sons acquire
an education or the mere surface mol
fsh and other outward evidences by
which "college-bredn nan is to he
distinguished from his less fortunate
fellows" DR.. Wilson insists that the
university must connect the life of the
student with the classroom.
A few days later in his farewell adj
dress to the Cornell seniors, before sail
ing for Europe, President Schurnan
fade answer to the aspersions of DR..
Wilson against American colleges.
While he could not speak with author.
ity of the condition of the older east
ern universities, he said that the views
of Wilson and other eastern edu-
Gators to the effect that intel.
lectual life iE the universities is decay.
ing, totally misrepresented the con.
ditions in the new or peoples uni.
versities like Cornell and other institu-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

copper mine. Twenty women have
farm grants Ia Manitoba, TWO have II
censes to run. taxscabs in Chicago'
and one woman IN Canada has staked
out silver mine
Prof. George B. Foster has been
charged b. his ministerial brethren
With being an atheist and Unitarian,
He cannot possibly be both com,
nlents the Chicago Tribune.
Several days have passed since
Bxana Turnbo has been heard OF in
his endeayor 10 depopulate the jungies
Of Africa Can anything have hap
pened to JACK Elliott :. inquiries the
Waterloo Reporter
Waterman. what of the night" In
quires Mr. Bryan in his new lecture
This query. the Council Bluffs Nonpa-
rel believes. gives rise te the snspic-
ion that the ex-candidate is afraid to
90 home In the dark
Y
a Kansas preacher who said the G.
A r. ought to go out OF business. has
been requested to resign his pastorate.
II strikes the Cedar Rapids Gazette
that his congregation showed marvel
Gus grace in that they were so polite
as to give him a chance to resign.
4 Is reported that the interstate
commerce commission is to be called
upon to formulate uniform rules for
the sportation of dogs. Some of
the roads charge regular fare. while
Others carry them as baggage, and
stil Others have no rules at all. The
roads in the Western Passenger asso-
citation have a uniform rule providing
Tor the handling of dogs as excess
baggage. providing they are Grated or
chained and the passenger under
takes to look after them. 4
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Thought for the day: Swat the fly

The Omaha Bee predicts that the
real call of the wild will be heard
when the summer resort boarder gets
his bill.
The Oskaloosa Herald declares that
there is only one thing better than
Iowa strawberries, and that is more
Iowa strawberries.
It is remarked by the Atlanta Con-
stitution that no matter how the Afri-
can rhinoceros charges, he will not
get dollar word
The Washington Democrat does not
believe that old soldiers want to be
told that they will soon make their
last march, even if they are old.
The Toledo Blade thinks 1t must be
a great comfort to the men operating
airships and balloons to feel that the
bystanders can not tell them how to
do it.
Statistics say that one ont of every
twenty greenhouses in the United
States is run by woman. There are
in the United States 1870 postnis-
tresses and some Of them are paid
$4,000 a year Six towns and cities
in Colorado have women treasurers
and one woman in that state operates
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

The state of Washington has a new
law which requires a medical exam
ination OF all applicants for marriage
licenses. The Waterloo Reporter has
been keeping tab on the practical re-
suits Of the enactment and reports
that it has caused rush of business
over in British Columbia, where they
don't care whittier the bride is squint-
eyed, bowlegged or left handed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
who has Just returned to Washington
from visit to Iowa. reports that he
had never seen Iowa farms in better
shape, and seldom had seen them look
Ing as well. He looks for magnifi-
cent crop in the state this year. He
remarked on the many evidences OF
prosperity he had seen and prices got
for produce. He said the scarcity of
farm help was notable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

japanese trade reports show imports
from the United States of $50. 0po. 900
and exports to this country OF sS1 Co.,
Goo. In both exports and imports the
United States leads ali other nations
There are no signs OF war IN this ex-
hibit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

compares favorably with both these
products. and our commissioners prop
'erly Insist that It would be difficult
e md meal at once simpler aah
more nutrttive than Il crust 81 bread
and cheese, or bread and butter. OF
both. and bcer.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-17

A fellow feeling should make Sena-
tor Aldrich wondrous kind toward the
baseball umpire.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
nav FUNERAL PARLORS OF EBER w. HAL.

Three times twelve has AR Eb
seek commodous and
Temple funeral paors az complete ousoao ape
~ ia fact puo,a-
lions OF no
The general appearance the peng soothing as It
certainly should be- Ferns flowers cusput
trance while the general decorative
of
environments The capacity OF 800 choir room
'} room ana arch glass window representing OF
beautiful
easDet-c1nopy OF tinted six gauze is used n
mortuary apliueut--frs
general room 300 which all OF the bodies
quiet secluded
mourn over their dead without having
unknown What uI1
Aa" born" te more trying experience
Besides he ,au m
protection OF an corpses thoroughly ombamug
dust proof SHOW In the exquisite
caskes thc
equipments mat am can devise Everything designed
sequ@s wiz" tenderness consolation and
way Dit h deserves praise tho dignity soothing
TO the home
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
OFFICIAL INSPECTION
OF STREET CAR LINES
Extensions and Car Barns Are Visited
BY Hallway Men and
Party.

4 tour OF the street car lines a. the
city including the new limo up to Fort
Douglas and other extensions. was
made by a party Of street railway Of
ficials and newspaper men this after
noon. Among the points of interest
visited were the recently completed
car barns, occupying the block between
SlNth and Seventh East and Fifth and
Sixth South streets; the extension OF
the Third avenue line TO Fort Douglas,
and other places where new extensions.
switches, heavy rails and new track
had been laid during the last year.
Many improvements have been made in
all parts OF the city. eutailing eXpendi-
turc OF vast sums OF money. Improve
ment has been the watchworu OF the
company all along the line, and the
service now offered the public with
we'll hallasted track and modern equip
ment is unsurpassed by any city OF the
size OF salt Lake I'm. the country.
in the party wero Joseph O.. Wells,
general manager Of the Utah Light &
Railway company; r. J.. Hunt. assist
ant general manager. j., l.. Dagron,
engineer IN charge OF construction; ..
A Honnoid. electrical engineer IN
charge Of transmission lines and power
plants; D. s. Spencer. assistant general
passenger agent Of the Oregon Short
line: Frcd IT. Knickerbocker. private
secretary 20 General Manager W, H.
Bancroft. and the newspaper represon-
tatives.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
YELLOWSTONE TRAVEL
INCREASES EACH YEAR
Major H.. &. Benson. superintendent
OF the Park, Confers With
Traffic Officials.

Mai. H. G. Benson, superintendent OF
the Yellowstone National park. Is IN
salt Lake today ON route FOR california.
While here Mai. Benson met F,unK
Pierce, first assistant sec. etary OF the
interior department al Washington
and together these gentlemen conf rrc-
with the Officials az the oregon Short
limo railroad with re-. crenCs 10 hanI.
ling tho tourist travel in the national
park tho coming season. IN speaking
90 conditions In the park Mai. Benson
said As the attractions of the para
become more widely known aud the fa-
cutles Tor reaching Il Increase, the
matter Of handling the rapidly M
crcasng number of tourists each yea.
has become a. problem. New arrange
ments are now made necessary % take
care Of the traffic ana the establish
uent Of additional accommodations
will doubtless d. authorized by the
government for handling this Increased
travel.
Tho suowfan iu the park the past
winter has been unprecedented con-
tiuued Mai Benson. There is So muen
snoW in the mountains that tho suf-
eminent has had engineers iu the park
taking measurements of the fam md
the probable volume OF water which
will De produced as "a result ana its
possible utilization in the various aI1
land reclamation projects now being
carried on in Idaho aud Wyoming As
You know, We are on tho very ba B.
lone of the American continent ami "a
person can stand on one SPIT in tho
park and see one stream flowing elst-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
MEAT ORDINANCE
IS RECOMMENDED
Sanitary Committee Of the Coun-
Gil Reports Measure for
Passage.
SLAUeHTERERS ARE ON HAND
They Attcmpt 60 Excuse Themselves,
but the CounCilmcu severely
score Them Nevertheless.

Although threats were made by tlc
slaughter mon and butchers that they
would raise The price ur meat q the
ordinance VAS passed compelling thom
90 clean up their aba t,oirs, the sanitary
committee OF tho council l8st night rce-
commended tho passage ot the ordiu-
ance. Since the exposure % Tho filthy
conditions o. the slaughter houses last
Wednesday The consumption OF meat
has dropped or considerably, and the
Retail Gro,crs & Butchers association
has become alarmed. Tho ordinance
provides for government Inspectors,
which means that tho slaughter houses
viii have Co De kept in 90 safi any cone
dit.ou and that diseased meats cannot
be sold iu Salt Lake city,
John H. White, ropreseutirg the
Wholesale butchers. was the inst 10
speak ou the question. he said that
the cuuuci.mcn were not competent 20
judge tho condition of the slaughter
E1uecs. IIo argued that government In
spoetion vouIi increase the price or
meat and that iJ would deprive the
city Of certain kinds ct meat.
file committee showed White that
vhelc 80 would he impossible 10 get
government inspection that a city in
spcctor would bc appointed under Chs
same rules carried out boy tho govern
mont.
Councilman RayboulI took up the
condition OF tho slaughter houses In
which they were found the other day
and told Of the desperate effort OF sew
erai places to clean up before the in
vestigatng committee reached there.
Councilman Black said that Do Was
criminal act TO keep slaughter houses
I'm such q condition and went So fer
as 20 say that he would make DO warm
for the man who sold him such meat n
he over found II out.
MI HepRorth Of HepWorth a. sons
spoke for o. few minutes. and plead that
Doe be given time 10 get his place In
first class condition. Black said that
II the body did SIS duty by the people
that they would close UP his place
and make him move out OF The city.
on every hand the slaughter house
men were given severe lectures by the
CITY fathers and nearly every one Of
them agreed TO clean up their places
and have them iu good condition as
soon as possible.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
FINANCING CADET TRIP
Col. ID. 4. Jacl,ling VIII Head sub
scrlption list Win Three
Thousand Dollars.

Tho movement for the purpose OF
sending the high school cadets 90 the
-Yukon-paclic exposition al.
seaule o. meeting with moto FAVOR
svery day COL ID a.. Jtcklag has
agreed 90 head a subscription list 40
enable tho boys o. &C., with $500 thla
was announced al "a moetlrg of mo
Utah fair commissioners held last eNon-
mR. Other contribution have alsp
aocn offered. aud tho commits ion.rs an
toirate no difficulty ln ai-ing Che tl5.-
200 necessary 90 send the boys on inc
,rip. THE matter of .c ur.ns the co4-
ont of the board uf education t1 toe
ftep wac left go Commissioner a.. J..
Oycrndd and Thomas HUI.
~. u Rowe, director so1eiol of t1h
Utah cXhibiL win leave at once f1r
seuttlc 40 Fuparntand the erect ou oi
the Utah building ana in" in. o. laA3n
OF one exhibit after the building o.
completed Airs a.. ID. stevenson lu
charge 90 thc ladle.' hospitality depart
mrut niil go tu Seattle Mat NJ.
The cadets ulii he given the u.n nt
thc al niGta az solttle and ui ina ia-
dipm az the exposition grounds lot
,araoe grouud.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
GORDON ACADEMY WINS.

s. large audience was iu attendance
last night at the Concreqatl 1naI church
20 hear tho debate between pupils 90
the Gordon academy and representa-
lives Of the Park city high school.
The question discussed was Resolved,
That the United States should porma-
nently retain tho PHILIPPINES" Tho de-
cisiou was unanimously iu favor or tho
Gordon academy boys, Wallace Ncazle,
Jack Allen and Burton Clay. who had
the affirmative. The Park city team
was composed OF Ira Woeru, Ira Sher-
man and Rodgcr Mcdonald. The
meeting was presided over by presl-
dent Joseph n kingsbuiy OF the IT, Of
L., and the judges were NJ L. Richie.
George q. Armstrong and John g..
Bowman.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17

in the case. According TO her testimony
they were married in Denver ON Jan.
-, 1884 When she came d SAT- Lake
TO visit her folks about "a year after
their marriage, Jamison Gisappc T.
She went back 90 Denver but when She
could not ind him returned 60 salt
Lake.
Nine years later che met him on che
street in Salt Lake. Then he d.sIp-
Feared again and she has not seen him
since. II the service by publication is
irregular she VIII have Tea die another
complaint
Mrs Maud Ellis was granted d.
vorce from William Ellis on the
grounds Of deserti0u and was given
the custody of her daughter Henrette.
II years old. They were married IN
jamestown New York ON Aug o.
1895 Ellis deserted her there six years
ago. She came TO salt Lake two years
later
AN EXPERIENCED DIVORCE.
Mrs Emma Arnold Matthews secured
her second divorce yesterday She IS
stil receiving alimony from her first
husband but her second husband ct
away owing her mother. Mrs. Mary
Ellis, six months board and lodging lie
has not been seen for the last year and
Mrs. Matthews knows nothing OF his
whereabouts They We're married at
Pennington ON July O., 1905. She al
legged cruelty IN her complaint chang ny
her husband with beating her on sew
cral occasions Matthews was q solicit
tor By occupation.
For the last four years Henry Shim-
min has not supported his WIFE Mrs
Ruth Ella Shimmin. so she was granted
q divorce. They were married Aug g.
1905 There are no children as an issue
Of the marriage.
JOHNSON NOT IN CONTEMPT
on a showing that he was unable, by
reason Of illness, TO pay his divorced
wife alimony past due, John L. q.
Johnson was declared not % be On con-
tempt. Tho complainant i'm the case
is Helea j johnson, who accuses hor
aN-husband OF having transferred prop
erty to the amount OF several thousand
dollars 90 his relatives.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
WORDS TO FREEZE THE SOUL

Your son has Consumption His
case ia hopeless" These appalling
words were spoken 10 Geo. +. Bleveus.
a leading merchant OF Springfield. y.
c., by two expert doctors-onc a lung
specialist Then was shown the Won
dtrful power OF DR. Kings New Dis
cOvery. After three weeks use"
writes Mr. Bleveue, che was as well
as ever. I would not take an tho
money in the world FOR what it did
for my boy Infaliblc Cor Coughs
and Colds, its tho safest surest cure
OF desperate Lung diseases on earth.
Joc and 500. =. g. VI. T. Drug Dept.
112-t1f So. Main ST.. Salt Lake CITY.
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle
free.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17
SWEPT ovER NIAGARA.

This terrible calamity often hap
pens because q careless boatman ig-
nores the rivers warniugs-growing
ripples and faster current--Nature'e
warnings are kind. That dull pain or
ache in the back warns you the Kid
neys need attention n you would es-
cape fatal maladies-Dropsy. Diabetes
or Brights disease Take Electric
Bitters at once and sec Backache fly
and al your best feelings return
After long suffering from weak kid
neys and lame back. one s 90 bottle
wholly cured me- writes J. h. Blan-
kenship, OF Belk. Tenn. Only soc al
2. 9. NJ. J. Drug Dept. ll2-I14 SO.
Main St., salt Lake City.