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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.

DR. John G.. Torrey writes interest
ingly and informingly in the current
Harper's ON how preventive medicine
has prolonged life. He advances the
claim, and substantiates it, that dur
ing the past fifty years preventive
medicine has done far more to allie
viate suffering and to prolong life
than the average man Is aware 1t is
estimated that during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries the death
rate throughout the civilized world
ranged from 80 to perhaps so per 1000
Today.i in London, Berlin and New York,
the average lies between seventeen
and nineteen. This great decrease in
yearly mortality is due principally to
protection from infectious diseases
now afforded to children during the
first five years of life.
In New York City there has been
a reduction since 1873 of over fifty
per cent in the death rate of the in
fantile portion of the population 1t
is obvious that the probable lifetime
has increased coincidently with the
| prevention of diseases to which chill
dren of tender years are especially
| susceptible DR. Hermann M. Biggs,
j of the New York city health depart
ment, has estimated that "the ex-
! pectation of life at birth in this city
| in 1866 was only little more than
twenty-five years, while in 1903, cal
! culated on the death rate for that
( year, it had almost doubled. and equal
! ed about forty-two years" Such sta
tistics as these are certainly striking
commentaries on the advance and
triumph of medical research; for II
is true beyond cavil that this progress
has been dependent primarily upon
the knowledge gained in the laborator
les, the harvest Of persistent investi
CATION.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
Daddy Knows.

Too often the young men of today,
when they have reached the age OF
cigarettes. are heard to remark: dad
don't know it ALL" and sometimes the
girls when they reach the age Of rats,
powders and puffs, are equally ego
tistical But generally Daddy
knows" and William Allen White, the
Kansas Observation-Disclosures, uses
the Ruth Bryan Leavitt divorce case
for the following lay sermon:
"The moral for the Bryan girls
tragedy is that Daddy knows. He
sees men every day in all Of the as
poets. He sees good men. He sees
bad men who have some good in
them. He sees designing men and
weak men, and all sorts and condi.
tons of men. And he. knows. More
than that, his heart is just as soft as
yours, and If the man is any kind OF
a man you will be happy, but. Daddy
knows.
Trust him. Believe that II there
is any show for you at all, Daddy
won't object. Daddy is not the crank
he seems. Daddy wants you to be
| happy. He has all the high hopes fol
you that you have for yourself, and
wlen Daddy says so-Daddy knows
If girls would only remember that, this
would be a brighter, happier world
! For Daddy, who isn't Of much use
around the house, and is generally
supposed to be considerable of an 1T
one way or another, at home Daddy
who seems to have forgotten all abou
the golden land Of true romance II
which youth lives-old Daddy's mem
DRY is long, and his soul Is wrapped
up in you, my dear-Daddy knows
Mr.. Whites sermon is particular,
applicable to the Leavitt case, in tina
Mr.. Bryan opposed the match and
sought to prevent it. but his daughter
was headstrong, and the elimination
of her romance has been the divorce
| court, an end which more than al
others the fatler would have prevent
led, had it been in his power. Yes
Daddy knows but sometimes we hav'
to climb the steps of sorrow and dc
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
The Daily Gate City
When the Mississippi Was the Great

When the Mississippi Was the Great
Highway.
dedicated to the Memory OF Cap
tain David Upton and read at the
Lincoln Day Banquet Of the Rock Is
land Club.)
I'm guest on shore with you gents
tonight,
Where the smoke is thick and the
wine is bright,
But my thoughts go back to the long
ago,
And the river that sings to the sea
below!
oh, I'll tell the story as best l can,
For I'm only weather-worn river
But the world is sweet and it's joys
are real,
To the men who stand at the steering
wheel;
And I've not forgot how 1t used to be,
In the good old days that are gone for
me,
For the pulse beat fast and the heart
was gay
When the Mississippi was the great
highway!
If 1 sigh sometimes for the vanished
years.
And my eyes grow dim with the mist
of tears,
It's not because of the changing ways,
And it's not regret for the river days;
But / miss the friends who have gone
| to sleep,
Where the hill dips down to the
waters deep;
And mourn for one who in life was
For old Davy Tipp who is anchored
there.
He was true to me as the stars are
true,
And his smile like sunshine sifted
through.
To brighten the gloom of a stormy
day
When the Mississippi was the great
highway
So, / dream tonight DER my pipe ani
glass,
A dream of the boats as they USED
to pass;
The song Of the rivers in everything
AS the whistle blows for the bridge
to swing,
And I see the lights as we're driftiu,
down,
The lights of home in Rock Islan'
town!
Oh, 1 miss the crews that will sal
no more,
And / miss the laugh of lass OF
shore;
, But l pledge them all in the spark
ling wine,
AS memory singeth of auld lang syne
And I drink to years ere the head wa
gray
When the Mississippi was the grea
, highway!
Robert Rexdale.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

The courts are rapidly upsetting the
ideas of people who believe that for
mer employees can interfere with the
operations of an establishment in
which they were formerly engaged,
and setting up further than they must
pay for whatever damages they may
cause. Construction News tells of a
decision to this effect which was
handed down few days ago by JUS
tice Mills in the supreme court in
White Plains, N. Y, who holds that
labor organizations which picket a
factory and thereby put the owner to
expense for guards for his property
and employees must pay for such ex-
pense. The decision was rendered in
a suit brought by Joseph Jones, presi-
dent of speedometer company,
against George NJ Maher, president of
the local lodge of the machinists'
union, and several members of the
union. Justice Mills further finds
that the lodges involved and the men
directly concerned by giving and tax
ing pecuniary support aided and abet-
ted the unlawful acts of pickets
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

get-rich-Quick schemes about which
they have no authoritative informa-
ton. There are also some wonderful-
~ fine short stories in this number.
Let the buyer beware!" John Parr
says is the watchword of the Wall
street manipulation. His article in the
March Everybody's is called "The
Stock Yards Of New York." and is the
second shot fred against the ruinous
practice of margin gambling. 1t shows
by the citing of actual cases how the
big spectators beat each other out
of money that they have wrested from
the unsophisticated outsider.
The air OF the jungle, the breath
less mystery Of the haunt of lion and
rhinoceros, are in G. Bryson Taylor's
article, THE Africa that Roosevelt
will See" 1t is illustrated by very
remarkable photographs. Richard
Washburn Child describes sterner
form of sport in stalking the Biggest
og Big Game"-the human animal. 1t
is striking study. DR.. William Han
ma Thomson writes CAS- to Ourselves
what We are and what makes us
men and women instead of some 9TH
er kind of beasts. THE Woman's In
vasion" is continued by William Hard
al Rheta Childe Dorr, and The
Players" contains some specially
posed photographs of those who have
made this seasons theatrical sue
cesses.
Another feature of this issue is The
frontispiece-a portrait of President
elect Taft with IAN Appreciation by
James P. Brown; and Professors Will
liam James and Hugo Munsterberg
give their views upon the lately com.
pleted series. THE Shadow World"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
The Huns and vandaIs Of Legislation

Burlington Saturday Evening Post:
Much unrest is felt by the business
men and property owners in Iowa be-
cause of the provision or some OF the
measures which misguided persons
are endeavoring to procure through
the legislature. The alarm is accentu-
ated by the disposition of that body
to accept and enact the measures in
question. When a law-making body
becomes a scourge, when business OF
all kinds waits in idleness and unrest
for it to adjourn, plainly it is time
that the people should rise to their
iprerogative as masters of the situa'
ton. Iowa long ago had all of the
laws she ever. will have any need of
The state passed the borders of sane
Legislation twenty years ago. OF late
years the legislatures have approach
ed the solemn and responsible task
of law-making in either spirit OF jest
or in one Of reprisal 1t is a humiliat
ing fact that many laws to-day in
force in Iowa are revenge laws and
spite laws, procured into the code by
zealots of one kind and another. 1t is
surprising that the few sensible mer
in the general assembly do not recog
nize these facts and force az early ad
iiournment SO that business In Iowa
can be resumed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
keokuk, Iowa $50. February %, 1909.
TO THE FLEET

TO THE FLEET.
Old Moro and Corregidor
And Santiago's rugged height
Commune through shadows with the
sea,
Their the,.lc the triumphs of thy
might,
OF wars alarm and crashing guns,
The storms beneath them shout
again,
OF battles that the sea winds know
OF crumbling hulls that long have
Upon the oceans sanded floor,
Brought by thy righteous, iron arm,
To dire distress and helplessness
To save thy children from their
harm.
Now sing the seven seas in joy,
Thy journey done, thy errand run,
Thy track unsplotched by human
blood
For cause of peace triumph won,
Giving the world, in globe-girt tour,
The message that the wars shall
cease,
Leading the nations farther on
To reign of universal peace.
Long may thy arm admonish such,
And justly deal if must be war,
Returning proudly as today
With flag borne high, without a
scar
Perry C. Ellis in Quincy Wing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

The New York Lunacy Commission
has ordered study of methods for
the prevention of insanity as it found
that so per cent of the insane in that
state have hereditary tendencies. 1t
is believed that much may be done in
modifying the environment SO as to
defeat the tendencies in certain fam
lilies in which lunacy runs The head
of the commission says taat they pro-
pose to make such Improvements in
the food, occupation and education of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

The clergymen engaged in the
work of curing the sick by the sug-
gestive process known as the EN-
manuel movement have now adopted
new set of rules to meet the crit
icism of the public in general and of
the doctors in particular. The chief
points are: That no one shall be re-
ceived for treatment without having
first been examined by physician
who approves of the mental treatment;
that the consent of persons own
physician must be obtained before he
can be assigned to religious special
list; that all patients not under the
care of a physician must choose one
before receiving instruction in the
new movement On this basis the
movement asks the moral and mater
ial support of the medical profession.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
that brazen looking woman that,u 4.
fellow" Aa Long
Look out for Flood.

Maquoketa Republican.
weather forecaster of La Motto wal VA
diets that Iowa as well as other pre- ~,
mediate states will be visited hy eoa nv
this year. the reason given being thus tpas
we VIII get east standard wind against inst
west February IS. for the whole S vaas
the wind direction being with tho .r.
to shutdown. This he says. will hr san
freshet rains and floods befora ''lng
after the 21st of June, when the Gnu
Will again reach standard time e W.
warns people living in hollows aa ~
along creeks and rivers Of the dansa au
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
The intellectual Age.

Harper's Weekly: The women of
an Indiana town 'ecently organized a
literary club, and for while every.
thing was lovely.
Alice asked the husband Of one
OF the members, upon her return home
from one Of the meetings, what was
the topic under discussion by the
club this afternoon?"
Alice couldn't remember at first
Finally, however, she exclaimed:
"Oh, yes, recollect! We discussed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
Small Quarters for Moses

Donald is fond Of Bible stories ~.
auntie was relating to him the storv
OF Moses IN the basket of bulrusbes
when he earnestly inquired ''S'
Did he ever grow to be man~
Eyes" he was told.
"A great big MANI"
YES"
Donald remarked incredulous,v
"Well-I'd thought he'd busted ~,
basket. "-Delineator.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

A bill has been introduced In the
legislature providing that no candi-
date in a rmary election shall ex-
pend as campaign expenses more than
per cent of the salary for one term
of the Office to which he aspires. Pros
poctive candidates would do well to
take notice of this threatened restric-
ito. of their privileges
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

Peoria boasts of the first sign of
spring in the shape of robin with
rubber boots on. 1t is probably a rel
alive of the one seen in Keokuk the
first of last week wearing fur over
coat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

The Burlington Hawk-Eye of Sun.
day morning contained portraits and
sketches of three people-Mrs. Emily
Collins. DR.. G. Walter Barr and Law
renee Reiner. The first named has
won fame as a singing evangelist, the
second as a medical man and pop
ular author and the third as an alter.
nate to the naval academy at Annap-
oils.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
Holidays Enounh

Baskerville indicator: An effort
is going to be made to make Good
Friday legal holiday in this state
The prospects are, however, the pe.
tition will not be granted. Iowa ha,
enough holidays already.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

The supreme court of Illinois has
decided that majority of the stock
holders in an independent telephone
company can not sell out the inter
ests of the minority to tne trust. The
ruling is a righteous one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

A California man was not awak-
ened by his wifes screams, which
frightened away burglar Which
leads contemporary to say that some
men have presence of mind in their
sleep.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
Curt Dramatic Criticism.

Dow City Correspondence Denison
Bulletin: The show in Dow City last
Friday evening entitled Down Devils
Canyon" ought to have been left down
in the canyon. 1t was bum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

Waterloo Reporter: The Des
Moines mothers club with its twenty
babies in one year deserves special
message to congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

Some Excellent Enemies.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The state
board of health appears to have some
excellent enemies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22

Geronimo lived to be eighty six
The good die young.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-30
UTAH FUEL
COMPANY
GUILTY
OF FRAUDULENT ACQUISITION
OF COAL LAND.
Pays Fine Of Eight Thousand also One
Hundred NInety-two Thousands
for Coal Extracted.

Salt Lake City. Utah, March %
A notable victory was won by the
United States government In the dis
trict court this afternoon, when the
Utah Fuel company paid into court
100000 and pleaded guilty TO the
charge OF obtaining coal land by
fraud.
The company, a subsidiary corpora
ton of the Rio Grande railroad. tc-
gether with Henry G. Williams. Rob
liam D Foster, Elroy N. Clark and
Alexander H. Cowie, officers and en-
ployes. was indicted by a federal
grand jury in April, 1907, for obtain
Ing title to LAO acres OF coal land
in Sevier county. Utah, through dunn
my entrymen.
The validity Of the Indictment was
attacked as was the copstitutionality
Of the law under which It was
brought. Both law and Indictment
were ultimately sustained by the su-
preme court OF the United States and
the defendants were on the verge OF
tr1al by jury when the surrender took
place.
The plea OF guilty was entered to-
day by J. F. Vale, general counsel
for the fuel company. The court as
sessed a fine of $4,000 and Judgment
for $4,000 in favor OF the govern
ment for coal taken from the ground.
The land roverts to the public domain
and the company loses the Sl4 400 fee
originally paid. as we'll as the further
sums paid to the dummy entrymeu,
through whom It was taken
The indictments against the indi-
yidual defendants were dismissed, as
were five suits In equity involving
many thousands OF acres taken up by
dummies as agricultural land and al
terward turned over to the fuel COM
pany Special Attorney Fred A. May
nard. who has prosecuted the coal
cases for the government, explains the
dismissal of the equity cases by say
Ing that the land involved had been
bonded and the bonds sold through
the Morton Trust company or New
York to innocent purchasers. Rather
than reimburse these purchasers to
the amount of s2,000,000, it was deem
ed advisable to accept the plea OF
guilty In the criminal case. and let
the title to the bonded property re-
main undisturbed.
An indictment for perjury against
Thomas A Moore. which grew out OF
the testimony before the grand jury,
was also dismissed.
In reacauirlng the LAO acres in
volved In today's action, the govern
ment Is enriched to the amount OF
100000 that being the appraised
value of the Sewer county land at the
present time.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-30
SUPREME COURT
ON CLYDE CASE
Opinion Holds Secretary Of interior
Had Right to Lease Withdrawn
Lands.

In an opinion handed down Monday
by the supreme court, II is held that
the secretary OF the interior has
right to lease land for grazing pur-
poses which has been withdrawn from
entry while improvements are being
made. This decision af1rms the low
er court In the case or James W.
Clyde. ct al. respondents. against
John ]. Cummings. ct al. which gave
q verdict OF s711.60 in favor OF the
plaintiffs.
The action was brought to recover
S1.164.75 for grazing privileges which
they claimed we're enjoyed by the de-
PENDANTS upon land leased by the
plaintiffs from the United States. The
land involved constituted the Straw
berry valley and its drainage area.
The secretary OF the interior withdrew
the land from entry on March Is, 1907.
under the reclamation act in order TO
begin construction Of the Strawberry
valley irrigation project.
Later. sealed bids were asked for,
stating that the land was to be leased
Tor grazing from June ! TO December
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-30
occIDENTALS SIGN TEAM.
CoIorcd Players From All Over the
Country Coming to Join Team.

Salt Lake March 3o-The Occiden-
tal baseball team held a meeting yes
terday and elected Fred Salesman as
manager for the coming year. The
colored players are already lined up
and declare they will present strong
er lineup than they had last season.
Tickets have been sent Hawkins. the
crack shortstop of last year. and Billy
Lane, q third baseman Of Los Anges
lee. and Robert Langley, last years
catcher. Captain Middleton says he
has signed Haynes, the lert-handed
pitcher OF the Leland Giants or Chi
cago; Duke White. catcher from
Denver. and Walter Hargran, an in
fielder who played with the Durango
(whitc) team last year. These men
will report within a week, says Mid
dleton. Langford, the big colored
pitcher of last year, and Cans, the
first baseman, are both at Pocatello.
and are anxious to get back to Salt
Lake this season. Middleton. Claude
and Joe Burns are now In the city.
The Occidentals favor the state league
plan and are working toward the or
ganization Of one
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-30
EmERYvlLuE RESULTS.

Oakland, Cal, March 29.-Light
Wool scored an easy victory in the
seven furlongs event. the feature OF
the card. at Emeryville today. The
Thomas horse was an odds-on choice,
end revealed In the muddy going.
Cloudlight beat Jeanne D'Arc for sec
ond place. Rosevale proved a sur
prise by winning the first race. She
was quoted at 20 to l, Results:
First race. futurity course. selling
Rosevale, "a (Ross) 20 TO l, won. Tom
Shaw, 100 &C. Miller) IL to S. second:
Fred Mulholland, 10 (McIntyre) Is to
1, third. Time, 1:14.
Second race. four furlongs. selling.
purse-Penn, 104 (Taplin) to /,
won; Redeem, 104 tImes) 10 to l,
second, Fire, 1o7 (Walsh) 8 to 1. third.
Time, so SO.
Third race. mile and seventy yards,
selling-Steel, SO (Deverich) Is to 5,
won; Yankee Daughter, 9S (Coburn)
23 to 5. second: El Picaro. l03 tSco-
ville) to l, third. Time, 1:5O 1-5.
Fourth race. seven furlongs, purse
Light Wool, 10S (McIntyre) 3 to 4.
won; Cloudlight. 102 (Deyerich) 81 to
5. second; Jeanne D'Arc, sS (Ross) 8
to l. third Time. 1870 1-5.
Fifth race. mile and quarter. sell
ing-Fantastic. 104 tBu1ton) to l,
won; Mendon. 106 &c. Miller) II to L.
second; Milford, los (Walsh) 9 to 5.
third. Time, 2:13 rs.
Sixth race. futurity course. selling
Bon Homme. SO tRice) s to 5, won,
ST. Francis. 11S tMcntry) 9 to 2. sec
ond; Cotytto, SO tUpton) 10 to l, third.
Time, lib