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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

Figures compiled by the Interstate
Commerce commission show that
fifteen persons day, on the average,
are killed while trespassing on the
right-of-way of railroads in this coun-
try. And as the ratio is increasing it
is probable that the current years to-
tai will amount to more than 5000.
This is an appalling and utterly need
less loss of life The remedy is for
people to keep off of the railroads
right-of-way, as is generally required
by law. Such rights-of-way are private
property, and those who enter them
without permission, and, indeed, Of
ten in the face of conspicuously posted
warnings, are trespassers in the full
sense of the word
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
but this uncertainty will not be re-
moved until next spring when the OBJ
jectionable clauses go into effect.

Senator Eikins has a proposition of
his own regarding ship subsidies. He
proposes to introduce a bill reducing
tariff rates per cent on all goods i'm
ported in American ships. The Bur
lington Hawk-Eye endorses the idea
to the extent that the Advantage Of
the arrangement would be that it
would let the insurgents back into
camp without compromising their dig
nifty and it would knock the props
from under the anti-subsidyists
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

Henry Clews reports that CONNER
cial and industrial conditions are gen
orally favorable. There is, he says, a
strong undertone of confidence. Bust
ness activity is general, and the prey.
alent opinion is that we are in for a
period of continuous growth and
activity. Some modification. however
is necessary of the extravagant optim-
ism which characterized last summer
The reason for this is thus stated:
The feeling of citation following set
Element of the tariff has some
what subsidized and is being sue.
ceeded by apprehension in some
quarters that the maximum and
minimum clauses of the new bill may
cause serious International friction un
less handled with great care by Presi-
dent Taft. AS our gifted President is
fortunately endowed with q high de-
gree Of tactfulness, it is probable that
we shall escape serious difficulties;
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
,ordance with the laws and ordinances

cordance with the laws and ordinances
governing such improvements.
Payments for the above described
work shall be made in assessment GER
tificates, which shall be accepted by
the contractor in full payment of all
the work to be done under the con-
tract, except that part to be paid by
the city of Keokuk, Iowa, such certifi-
cate to be issued after the completion
of the work and it's acceptance by the
street committee and the city en-
gineer.
Said work shall be completed on or
before the 7th day of December, 1909,
and the sum of $500 per day shall be
paid to the city of Keokuk, Iowa, by
the contractor as liquidated damages
for each and every day used for the
completion Of said work after the
above specified date.
The city engineer is hereby ordered
to advertise for bids in the name OF
the city for the making of said i'm
provement, as therein ordered, in the
manner prescribed by law:
All bids shall be filed with the
clerk of the council at or before noon
of the 18th day of October, 1909. Said
bids shall be sealed, and shall be ac-
companied, in separate envelope,
by certified check. payable to the
city treasurer, for $500, on any bank in
the city OF Keokuk, Iowa. as guaran-
tee that the bidder will enter into a
contract with the city in accordance
with the terms of his bid, If same is
accepted. Said bids shall be opened
by the street committee and city en-
gineer, compiled by them and report
ed to the city council at the next reg
ular meeting, to be held on the 18th
day of October. 1909, at which meeting
the said bids will be acted upon, the
city reserving the right to reject any
or all bids.
Adopted by the following vote:
Yeas-Annable. Butler, Christy, De
Yong, Hickey, Johnson, Kiefer, Lind
strand, Roberts, Tigue.-Total 10.
Nays-None.
Absent-McCormic Swanson
Total 2.
CHARLES OFF,
Attest. Mayor.
H. T. MOORE, Clerk of the Council,
City of Keokuk, Iowa.
BY AID. TIGUE:
Resolved, Section /. In pursuance
of a resolution of intention passed by
the city council of the city of Keokuk.
Iowa, at it's meeting held on Septem-
Der 7, 1909, for the construction of an
eight-inch tile sanitary sewer COM
mencing at a connection with the
sewer in the alley of block 1877. about
fifty feet east of the east line Of Thir-
teenth street, thence westerly in the
alley between Main and Blondeau
streets to the easterly side of Four
teenth street, all in the city of Keo.
kuk, Iowa, and due publication having
been made of such intention, and writ
ten objections having been made to
same, and the city council, after con.
sidering said objections, having de.
termined that no changes should be
made in the plans of same as shown
by the plat heretofore filed with the
clerk of the council, 1t is hereby or.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
Bad Place for quincy Preachers.

Wyaconda News: A preacher from
Quincy who was attending the Keokuk
street fair paid a visit to a levee sa-
loon and lost his religion. He also
lost his watch, he lost his "wad," he
lost his ordination papers and some
other junk and lost consciousness and
the police put him up. When he So
bered up he reported to the Chief that
he had lost quart of whisky in adj
dition to his other loss. A saloon is
not a good place for Quincy preach
err during the street fair
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

dered that public sanitary tile sewer
as above described shall be constructed
In accordance with the plans and spec
ifications that have been prepared by
the city engineer and which are now
on file in the office of the clerk OF
the council, the said work requiring
approximately the following quanti-
ties.
400 cubic yards excavation and re-
filling.
415 lineal feet of eight-inch sewer.
2S four-inch inlets
inspection head.
flush tank.
Resolved, Section 2. The total
cost of the construction of said sewer
shall be assessed against the lots and
ting on said sewer in proportion to
the benefits conferred and not in ex-
cess Of % per cent of the actual value
of said property nor in excess of SO
per lineal foot.
Section g. The payment for the
above work to the contractor shall be
by sewer assessment certificates,
which shall be accepted by the con-
tractor in full payment for said work
and shall be delivered after the COM
pletion of said improvement and it's
acceptance by the sewer commit
tee and city engineer
Setcion A. The said work shall be
completed on Or before the 18th day
of November, 1909, and the contractor
shall pay to the city tae sum of $500
per day for each and every day used
for the completion of said work after
the above specified date The con-
tractor shall be required to keep said
improvement in good repair for one
year after its completion.
Section 5. The city engineer is
hereby ordered to advertise for bids
for the construction of said work as
herein ordered in the manner pre-.
scribed by law.
Section 6. All bids shall be filed
with the clerk Of the council before
noon of the 18th day of October, 1909,
and shall be accompanied in sep
arate envelope, by certified check
payable to the city treasurer for $50
on any bank in the city of Keokuk,
Iowa, as guarantee that the bidder
VIII enter into contract VITA the city
in accordance with the terms of his
bid If same is accepted. Said bids
shall be opened by the sewer commit
tee and the city engineer, compiled by
them and reported to the city council
at it's next regular meeting, to be held
on the 18th day Of October, 1908, at
which meeting the said bids will be
acted upon, the city reserving the
right to reject any and all bids.
Adopted by the following vote:
Yeas-Annable, Butler Chrisry, De
Yong, Hickey, Johnson, Kiefer, Lind.
strand, Roberts, Tigue.-Total 10.
Nays-None.
Absent Mccormick, Swanson-To.
tai
CHARLES OFF,
Attest. Mayor
H. T. MOORE, Clerk of the Council
City Of Keokuk, Iowa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

mas already advanced has been unex-
pected. First OF all there has been a
rapid advance of land values. Land
which in the closing years of the sec
ond period could not be disposed of
for ten or twenty dollars an acre now
sells readily for hundred dollars.
Large sums have been spent and are
being spent for the improvement of
the land directed almost wholly to the
rendering of the land more produc-
tive"
But farming has been commercial
lied" In spite of the fact that drain
age has now become matter of pub
lie enterprise, that main roads and
minor highways have been improved,
that telephone lines connect the farm
houses with each other and with the
market towns, Landlord cultivation
has given place to cultivation by
tenants"
The "agrarian revolution" is in its
most advanced stage in the northeast
ern portion of the Mississippi valley;
in other parts of the middle west it
has scarcely begun; some of the states
west of the Mississippi are still in
the second period, while in the south
west the first stage has not yet been
passed. The causes of the present
agrarian exodus" are briefly stated
thus:
1.-THE increased value of their farm
holdings and the augmented produc-
tiveness of the soil have made the
landowners discontinued with their
comfortable homes and to long for the
social life of the city. The farm is
now an investment and Is to be test
ed by its capacities for income produc--
ton. The interests and purposes OF
those who now occupy the farms are
distinct from those who preceded
them. And it is probable that the re-
suit will soon be an entirely new adj
justment of social. political, and
economic life"
Mr. Ross is of opinion that the re-
movals from the country to the city
were twice as numerous between 1880
and 1898 as in the previous decade,
and that this rate of removal has more
than doubled within the past five
years The results in the country are
seen in the decayed condition of the
churches and church organizations, in
educational conditions, and in the
rural home itself, which is now
tenement of few rooms situated on
corner of the farm or else few
rooms in the rear of the great mansion
devoted to the use of the tenant and
his family"
This "agrarian revolution" is spread
ing rapidly throughout the Mississippi
valley, and Mr.. Ross confesses that It
is not easy to forecast what its ulti-
mate consequences will be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The Sioux City Journal points out
that any way you look at it you will
find difficulty in making out an adj
mirable character for Mr.. Barrill.
Either he was bought four years ago
to allow Cook to pose as an impostor,
or he has been bought now to make
Cook appear like an impostor 1t fol.
lows that either horn of the dilemma
must be sharp for Barrill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
Recent utterances by Rev. W. A.

Recent utterances by Rev w. A.
Sunday:
Some people put great store in their
morality and culture. That does not
cut any ice with God.
Some people spend whole life
time building family tree, but no.
tice sorae of them are particular to
leave off the limbs on which their an
cestors were hung for horse stealing
We are making money by car loads,
and we are going to he'll at excursion
rates.
The gambler who bet and wins is a
thief. The man who betl and loses is
a fool. A gambler Is always either a
thief or a fool.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The Dubuque Times-Journal con-
cludes that Iowa has too many legal
holidays. "a festival should be given
legal recognition, says the Times
Journal, "only when its observance is
so common that it involves a general
suspension of business" On this theory
the Times-J ournal believes that Meth
er Washington's nor Lincoln's birth
day should be legal holiday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The commission plan of city govern
ment continues to make gains. Ia
coma has adopted it by vote of fcvr
to one. The new charter provides
for the election of a mayor, four coun-
cilmen and a comptroller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

During the demonstration against
Spain in Paris the mob stopped and
burned several taxicabs. 1t isn't en-
tirely clear what the taxicabs had to
do with the matter, but if the mob had
stopped to reason there wouldn't have
been any mob.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

No tears need be shed over the so.
called passing of the noble red man
In twenty years the number of Indians
In the United States has increased
from 100000 to 100000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
DAILY BY MAIL.

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pers promptly will confer favor "
giving notice of the fact.
Address all communicatfons to
THE GATE CITY COMPANY.
No. 1R North Sixth St.. keokuk, Iowa
THE GATE CITY Is on sale at the fol-
lowing news stands:
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third and Johnson.
C, H. Rollins & Co., 62s Main street
Ward Bros, SIS Main street.
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

All reports agree that there was a
bumper crop of possible governors on
exhibition at the recent Illinois state
fair. That is one crop that never fails
in our neighboring state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
NOTES AND COMMENT.

NOTES AND COMMENT.
Ten to one" says the Coon Rapids
Enterprise, Roosevelt will approve of
Taft's course
If Cook ever again gets those Eski-
mos alone near the pole, the Omaha
Bee predicts he'll make them blub-
be-.
The Fontanelle Observer says that
Cook and Peary, at any rate, are en-
titled to public gratitude for having
put the lid on Walter Wellman.
The fund for a monument to the late
Governor Johnson of Minnesota now
amounts to $4,000. Contributions are
limited to 81 and the total to $4,000.
The original manuscripts of Iowa
authors will be placed on file in the
Iowa historical department as fast
as Curator Harlan can collect the
same.
THAT little fellow standing on a
stool looking over Uncle Sans
shoulder and smiling broadly and with
profound satisfaction at the Crane
mess-that's Japan says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil. isn't he cunning
little cuse?'
The Chicago Tribune has dim. neb-
ulous suspicion that Booth Tarking-
tons purpose in going into agriculture
is to demonstrate that high class lit
erary man, burning with lofty am
bition, can succeed in raising good
canteloupes.
Everybody doesn't know that Tom
Upton first came to this country when
he was sixteen. The boy was father
to tae man. He earned months lodg-
ing at hotel by persuading forty of
his fellow passengers to go there for
their first meal.
1--WE cannot believe that any sensi-
BILE man will give Mr., Peary's state
ment any consideration" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican TT does
not appeal to one as meeting the stu
alton. He has called DR.. Cook a liar
and faker upon the flimsiest evil
dence that ever was presented to the
world in case of such Importance"
The state convention of cement-us-
ers of which George H. Carbon OF
Oskaloosa is president, will be held in
Cedar Rapids, March 9, 10 and l..
An attendance of four or five hundred
members of the association is expect
ed in addition to about as many sales
men, representatives of cement max
ing machinery, ETC.
A statue of General Lew Wallace of
Indiana, statesman, author and patriot,
is ready for installation in Statuary
hall in the capitol and will be placed
beside that of Indianas war governor,
Oliver P. Morton. The dedicatory ex-
ercises will be held in January, with
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, de-
livering the eulogy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

A Chicago man complains that the
trouble with explorers is that they in
sist on discovering things in such in
accessible places.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
TELEeRAPHs AND TELEPHONES


The report of the tenth annual as
sessment of telegraph and telephone
property in Iowa, as fixed by the ex-
ecutive council, just received from
Secretary Davidson, contains some
figures of local interest The Ameri-
can District Telegraph company has
two miles of line in. Lee county as
sessed at 500 mile The Postal's
Lee county mileage is on the poles OF
the Iowa Telephone company and
amounts to ninety miles, assessed at
$40 mile. The Western Union has
160.08 miles in the county, with to-
tai assessment of s12,806.40. The
American Telephone and Telegraph's
mileage aggregates 51.62 mi,es and its
assessment $4,129.60. The figures for
the telephone companies il Lee coun-
ty are as follows:
German-American Telephone
company, 92.75 ........$1, 692. SO
Iowa Telephone Company,
III. .-.... ......... .lz'ooo.oo
Mississippi Valley Telephone
Company, 74.75 ........... 4,633T5
Northwestern Telephone Com
pany. 1875 ........... 2,311.5S
John G. Sanders Telephone
line, 1926 ........... 2,SO1. 80
Burlington Rural Telephone
Company, 100 ............. 5000
Denmark Independent Tele-
phone Company, 74.75 -. 1,12125
Lee County Telephone Com
pany, ....... 1920
viele Independent Telephone
Company, 80. .......... $4,000
vincennes and Wayland Tele-
phone Company, no report filed.
According to the foregoing returns
there are in Lee county total Of
303.70 miles of telegraph assessed at
$1S,93600 and total of 673.25 miles
of telephone lines assessed at $685.
20S.07. The largest mileage in the
county is owned and operated by the
Northwestern Telephone Company, a
rural system with headquarters at
Mt. Hamill The Iowa company is
second in point of mileage, with the
Sanders company at Houghton close
third.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

1t is now in order for some one to
write an epoch-making article ON
whats the Matter with William AL
len White?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

A news item says that New York IS
facing a pie famine. But then, as a
contemporary points out, it would face
the pie if there was no famine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

If the proposed central bank isn't to
be controlled either by the govern
ment or the moneyed men of the coun-
try, by whom is it to be controlled?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

Speaking of shock absorbers, Repub-
licans who are criticising President
Taft will be in urgent need of one
when Roosevelt returns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The Waterloo Reporter concludes
that Des Moines needs religious re-
vival of the vigilance committee OF
frontier time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The Peoria Herald Transcript OBJ
serves that Crane accepted like a
parrot" And chartered like maybe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20
Advice as to Halloween: Don't.

Thought for the day: The only sure
things are those that have already
happened.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

keokuk, Iowa ...... October 90 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

Continued on page ~
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

Ten to one" says the Coon Rapids
Enterprise, Roosevelt will approve of
Taft's course
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The original manuscripts of Iowa
authors will be placed on file in the
Iowa historical department as fast
as Curator Harlan can collect the
same.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The fund for monument to the late
Governor Johnson of Minnesota now
amounts to $4,000. Contributions are
limited to 81 and the total to $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

THAT little fellow standing on
stool looking over Uncle Sans
shoulder and smiling broadly and with
profound satisfaction at the Crane
mess-that's Japan" says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil. isn't he cunning
little cuse?,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

BY AID. HICKEY:
Resolved, That warrants for the
following amounts be drawn in favor
of H. T. Moore, clerk to pay over
drafts in clerk of council accounts,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The Chicago Tribune has dim, neb-
ulous suspicion that Booth Tarking
tons purpose in going into agriculture
is to demonstrate that high class lit
erary man, burning with lofty am
bition, can succeed in raising good
canteloupes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

The Fontanelle Observer says that
Cook and Peary, at any rate, are en-
titled to public gratitude for having
put the lid on Walter Wellman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-20

Everybody doesn't know that Tom
Upton first came to this country when
he was sixteen The boy was father
to tae man. He earned a months lodg-
ing at hotel by persuading forty Of
his fellow passengers to go there for
their first meal
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-18

all in the reputation. When the Uin-
tab basin gets a railroad to haul her
surplus to the big markets, there are a
number of crops we can produce that
will bring in the millions for our farm
ers also.
Rich County News: II don't like
this valley said a man in the store
the other day. There is nothing in
spring, nothing to see, nothing swell,
no clubs nor anything. Why" said he,
you get on the stage and pass a big
| field, then a bunch of COWS, then an
cat field, then some hay stacks, and so
on all down this cussed route" You're
drummer, you live in Ogden" said a
rancher in the store. I'm no judge of
| calicoes nor children's shoes, but l
know good stock and good produce, and
raisin' crops to feed people is about as
| important as peddlin' it off, any way.
/ As for pictures, look straight before
/ you, see that face hill of rocks, cedars
and pines; see the river at its base.
Note the herds of Durhams and white
| faces. Then look the other way at the
pretty homes, which, by the way, be-
| long to the occupants. See the taber-
nacle. with its tower into the skies; the
school and its hundreds of beaming
students. See the sky, with its ever
shining sun. Drink from the springs
of the crystal brooks at your right.
| Nothing to see, did you say? You're
! not a sightseer, you're a burned fool"