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The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-03-12
Try Murine Eye Remedy

Try Murine Eye Remedy
For Red. weaE, Weary, Walery Eyes.
Conforms 10 the Pure Food and Drugs
Law. Murine Doesn't Smart. Soothes Eye
Pain. Try Murine for Your Eyes.
Every woman takes 1t for granted
that she would be queen in society
II ii wasn't tor the fact that she has
more sense than beauty.
In the race for wealth the average
man acts like a horse of the long.
cared breed.
Gee Win r. 100 per cent pure sugar syrup
Those who are innocent because
never tempted have about the same
virtue as IN oyster
HIDES TANNED ron ROBES Z COATS.
Taubert Tannery. Minneapolis. Minn.
A cross man would be worth at least
dollar a day more II he would be-
come good natured.
DR.. J. II. RiN0LAUs. tspeeiaiist).
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Fargo, N. D.
Ask man how his sick wife Is. and
lie will not be as fluent as II you re-
mark that doctors charge too much.
We buy cream. Write desk No for pricea
The Crescent Creamery Co.. St. Paul.
Necessity will make the dumbest
men eloquent. When dog gets hun
cry he can as good as talk
PILES CURED IN Q TO IL DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed TO cure any ca
q Itching. Blind Bleeding Protruding Piles in
Ito u days or money rrfunded. boc.
1t doesn't take girl long to catch.
husband after she begins to pose as
a man hater.
4. = ss-se e'p e~iS -. pER GALLON
n. W. Hide & Fur Co.. Minneapolis. Mimi.
'.The milk of human kindness
comes from bigger dairy than most
people supposed.
Take me home 10 pan cakes. says Canada San.
When lovers quarrel their words
cut deeper than a knife
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Miss Harriet Wood of Cedar Rapids
made a good recommendation in her
address to the Iowa Library Associa
ton at its recent convention in Des
Moines She suggested that concerts
and art exhibits be held as a part of
library work in order to stimulate the
culture of a community. In support
of this proposal she quoted artists as
saying that what we need in America
is not more musicians who can play
the piano and artists who can paint pic
lures, but more people who can ap-
preciate the music and the paintings.
This is true beyond a doubt, and Miss
Woods suggestion as to how it can
be brought about is both timely and
practical.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

The most enjoyable book of the
season has just been written by
George Fitch, humorist of the Peoria
Herald Transcript, and published by
Doubleday Page & Company under the
title "The Big Strike at Siwash." 1t
isn't a large book as books go, but it
contains more pure fun than any 9TH
er offering Of the year regardless of
size. There is a broad smile in every
sentence and a hearty laugh in every
paragraph, and they aren't long par
agraphs, either. The makeup of col
lege football teams, their relation to
the college curriculum. the Greek let
ter societies and the incidents Of
closely-contested football games are
all admirably hit off during the pro-
gress of the story. The hero is a big
Swede named Skjarsen whose ex-
ploits. on and off the field, as related
by Mr.. Fitch are highly entertaining
No fit of the blues. however severe
could possibly Withstand perusal of
the book 1t is in Mr.. Fitch's best
vein and does great credit to his fine
reputation as humorist.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
Complete House Built in One Day.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Oct. 1S.-On what
was a bare plot of ground early in
the morning, carpenters at half-past
8 o'clock in the morning wero erect
ing the first joists of the roof Of a
$1,000 cottage of three rooms, brick
layers were clanking into place the
middle rounds Of two chimneys,
plumbers were putting the finishing
touches to system of gas pipes and
fathers were swarming over the in
terror with flying hammers.
At noon the roof was finished the
front porch completed the walls
athed and the chimneys topped"
the inside of the house was delivered
over to the plasterers, and on the
outside the carpenters were swiftly
attacking. with hardly more than
blow of hammer to each nail, the
long weather boarding, which force
Of helpers and painters had already
cut into proper lengths and painted
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, ac-
cording to schedule, the work was
completed and the workingmen given
a dinner within the house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Attorney General Byers complains
that his decision given to State Audi
ton Bleakly respecting insurance
against automobile accidents has been
misinterpreted. He held that it would
be Illegal to insure an automobile
owner against suits for damages for
accidents which were result of his
own carelessness or negligence, but
that automobile accident insurance
was legal and allowable in many in
stances under the employers liability
accident insurance law. The attorney
general says in his letter to the state
auditor that "the automobile owner
may be Unidentified against almost
every possible liability except in the
case of accidents occurring while the
owner is. operating his machine for
pleasure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
A BETTER UNDERSTANDING

ne mSulUeFS or the American AS
ISOLATION of Travelling Passenger
Agents are going to try to educate the
public to appreciate the railroads and
to appreciate the difficulties under
which railroads labor. They believe,
according to the retiring president,
H. H. Bohrer, there should be better
understanding between the two inter-
ests. At the closing session of the
convention, which was held in Chfca-
go on Wednesday, the travelling men
pledged themselves to assist in cut
ting down much of the red tape which
surrounds transactions between the
railroads and their patrons. They will
FAVOR simpler forms of tickets teach
ing agents and clerks to be courteous
TO the public, telling patrons when
trains are late and why they are late.
telling the public all about railway
wrecks, giving the people the best
rates at all times and doing every
thing possible to promote good feeling
between the interests concerned AS
an earnest of the good intentions of
the railroads we would like to see the
ROCK Island get it's train No. % from
minneapolis to Burlington through on
time. That would be one of the very
best beginnings they could possibly
make.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
The coMMIssl PLAN.

The Sioux City Journal recently
sounded the warning that the commits
sion plan should not be considered a
cure-all; that unless better men were
elected there is no advantage in a
change to the commission form of city
government Replying to this the Des
Mcines Register and Leader admits
that no government can be very good
that is not administered by good men,
but it insists that by fixing RESPONSE
bility and putting every man up where
the people can look at aim and take
note of exactly what he is doing, a
condition is brought about under
which the commonest man viii not
shirk. The right of the people to re-
call a member at any time is held as
another guaranty of the best service
the commissioners know how to give.
No man, it says, is too low in public
morals that he wants to leave a rec
ord of recall to his family AS to the
question of lettering the personnel of
an administration by the adoption of
( the commission plan the Des Moines
paper holds the old system of govern
| ment permits shirking. A fairly good
man will dodge when he knows the
responsibility cannot be located On
the other hand the new system makes
it impossible to shirlt and even
a fairly bad man will not dodge when
| he knows the whole commnnit,, ;s
| looking at him
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

One Herbert Parsons, of New York,
charges that Speaker Cannon entered
into an unholy alliance with Tammany
to promote his interests. Parsons is
the man who arranged a conspiracy to
trade the Republican organization of
the city to William Randolph Hearst.
The comment of the Mt. Ayr Record
News is quite apt and telling. The
R.-N. observes that Satan is always at
disadvantage in rebuking sin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
THE IOWA ROOSTER AND HOG

PC tOWA ROOSTER AND HOG
Mlssourian at a banquet said:
III all the chickens in Mis-
souri, We're one rooster, he
could straddle the Rocky noun.
tains like great Colossus. and
crow until he shook the rings from
the planet Saturn. If all the hogs
raised in Missouri were one hog he
could plant his hind feet on the
lsthmus of Panama and with one root
OF his huge snout dig sea-level canal
from ocean to ocean" The showing
which the orator made for Missouri is
not poor by any means. But if Iowa
chickens had been merged into one
rooster what do you suppose would
nave happened to the rings from the
planet Saturn. The Waterloo Re-
porter makes answer in brief as fol-
lows:
There wouldn't have been a frag-
ment left of it If that combined rooster
crowed. And for all those Iowa hogs
combined into one hog! Well. it
passes thinking capacity to try to com.
prehend the upheayal if that monster
should ever be moved by the inclina-
ton to root. Iowa can show Missouri
few fancies when it comes to chick
ems and pigs, and the estimate of the
Missouri orator has no terrors at
that"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Trackless trolley systems are now
in successful use in Vienna. Austria
Each car is able to carry twenty-one
passengers. They run on the surface
of the road with the trolley wire over
head, but without tracks. The Mer-
celestial system most used in Ger
many, calls for but couple of
overhead wires, one for the current
from the power house to the motor on
its car, and the other a return wire to
complete the circuit. The cost of
operating the system is said to be at
minimum of the ordinary trolley
line.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
in the city of Keokuk was referred to

in the city of Keokuk was referred to
the county attorney.
The petition of w. w Wright ct
al, for removal of certain distractions
in the public highway leading from
the old plank road, commencing at the
S. e. cor. S. w. n S. w. n Sec. 81,
Twp. Sc, R. West, thence westerly
to point north Of the Oak Grove
school house and Lutheran church at
the S. e. cor. of S. E. n of Sec. 49,
Twp. &c, r. 5 West, was referred to
the full board during vacation for in
vestigation.
On motion the following resolution
was adopted:
Whereas, Pursuant to the resolu-
ton and order made by this board in
regular session on March 5, 1907, the
petitioners in the M. Kilbride ct al.
road case have opened and placed IN
satisfactory condition for public trail.
Ell the relocated highway forty feet
wide, commencing at the S. E. corner
of the N. E. n of the N. w. n of Sec.
ton 10, Twp. 60 R. West, running
thence north so rods, thence running
west to intersect the Lowell and Den
mark road as 1t now runs, and have
vacated the old road commencing at
the 5. b. corner of the N. e. u N. w.
n Section 10, Twp. 50, r. 5 West run.
ming thence in northwesterly direc-
ton until it intersects the section line
between Sections and 10 In said
township, be it
Resolved, That the petition of M
kilbride ct al for highway commenc.
ing at the S. e. corner of the N. q. "
Section 10, Twp. SO, R. West, run.
ming thence north 80 rods, thence run
ming west to intersect with the Lowell
and Denmark road as 1t now runs. Is
hereby granted, and the same Is here
by established forty feet wide, and the
old road commencing at the S. e.
corner OF the n. E. " N. w. ", Sec
ton 10, Twp. 50, r. West running
thence in northwesterly direction I'M
I'll 1T intersects the section line be-
tween sections and 10, in said town
ship, is hereby vacated and aba doned
and the county auditor is hereby or
dered to plat the said relocated high
way as established, and to notify the
township clerk of Pleasant Ridg town
ship of said relocation.
The petition of Alex. Fairlie ct al,
for consent highway forty feet wide.
beginning at point on the public
highway running from Fort Madison,
Iowa, to West Point, Iowa, further
known as the Middle Fort Madison
and West Point Wagon Road, as now
located in Section IS, Twp. 6S, R.
West. about so rods southwesterly
from the northwest corner of said Sec
ton 49, and running thence in south
westerly direction about 1876 rods, and
terminating at point on the south
line of Section IA, Twp. 6S, r. 5 West,
about 30 rods east of the southwest
corner of the S. p. "A of said section
IA, was referred to the full board dur
ing vacation
The petition OF w. DeHart ct al. OF
Van Buren, township for assistance IN
the present road which
follows the creek running west from
Mr.. Enos Reeds to Croton, Iowa,on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
The following Hypothetical question

The following hypothetical question
is propounded by contemporary:
IF an autoist can drive car a
mile minute; and if the general
aspect of the landscape and of social
conditions is about the same at both
ends of the mile; and if the time of
the autoist is not especially valuable,
and no great demand exists for his
presence at the hither end of the
mile in question, is there adequate
reason for him to risk his own neck
and lot of rubber-necks, in getting
there?"
Is there?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
A correspondent writes from Dr.

A correspondent writes from Des
Moines that there is a wide difference
of opinion between State Veterinary
Surgeon Koto and the live stock men
of the state in regard to how far a
state quarantine official can go in de.
termining under what conditions live
stock in quarantine shall be kept
The state veterinarians position is
thus defined:
DR.. Koto holds that state quarah,
tine officer has absolute power over
ock quarantine under state laws and
that if in the judgment of the quarap-
tine officers the breeding Of such stock
should not be permitted to go on, then
that could not be done without VIC
lation of the quarantine such as would
subject the owner Of the stock to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

The petition of Bertha Nelson for
rebate Of $500 taxes overpaid on err
roneous assessment in Des Moines
township was granted.
The petition of j. P. Kennedy of
Montrose for cancellation of $780,
actual value personal property for
1908. on account Of erroneous assess
ment, was cancelled on recommends
ton of the assessor
On motion the petition of C. G.
Barth for rebate OF $15.84 on account
of soldiers exemption, on 1907 and
1908 assessments, was granted.
The petition for the cancellation of
the tax sale Of lot 5, block 1877 Keo-
kuk. for 1907 taxes was granted on
account OF double assessment.
The resolution Of the town council
OF West Point authorizing the cancel.
lation OF certain sidewalk taxes was
approved, and the county treasurer Is
hereby ordered to make cancellations
requested
The petition OF Chas. Johnson for
refund Of $32,2b penalty on personal
taxes for Johnson Bros. Montrose
iowa, for the year 1904, 1905 1906
and 1907, was rejected.
Tho petition OF Sarah II. Harrington
for cancellation of certain mulct taxes
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

1t now appears that the late James
H. Eckles was possessed of more
nerve than cash or its equivalent.
When he retired from the office Of
comptroller of the treasury he branch
ed out as one of the leading bankers
and financiers of the country. At the
time of his death he was rated as a
millionaire several times over. His
estate is being settled and viii fall
short of paving out by many thous-
ands of dollars 1t seems that oppor.
tunity and audacity gave him the
reputation he enjoyed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

The state veterinarians department
is about to establish factory for the
manufacture of hog cholera serum in
Des Moines. The legislature appropri-
ated $4,000 for the purpose 1t is pro-
posed to furnish the serum direct to
the farmers of the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Billy Sunday seems to have made a
hit with the Cedar Rapids newspapers.
There may be something in the sus-
picion voiced by the Marshalltown
Times-Republican that perhaps he is
saying some things to and about
church members that the newspapers
have wanted to say themselves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

prosecution under the state laws. He
also holds that it rests entirely with
the quarantine officer to say whether
or not the stock shall be quarantined
under the Bangs quarantine or the
Iowa quarantine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

A Chicago judge advises women
who have husbands who insist on
making whisky barrels of themselves
to kick them out and go down to the
grocery store and buy a barrel for
ninety cents. He declares the latter
will be more useful about the house,
and will cause less trouble.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Governor Carroll will go to Shiloh
battlefield to ascertain the damage to
the Iowa monument in The recent
storm which swept over Tennessee.
The legislature once set aside $4,000
as providential fund out of which
repairs to the shaft will be paid.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

We have it on good agricultural
authority that an Iowa farmer is ex.
perimenting along the line of crossing
some of the best kinds of fish with
mosquitoes. His object is to get the
fish to bite better.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

The Chicago Record-Herald an.
nounced in a recent issue that a man
in that city had been sent to the
penitentiary for stealing 'nickle-
plated babys bank" The punishment
was not as severe as it should have
been. Anyone who would thus wrong
nickle-plated baby ought to be hung.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Replying to critics at Cedar Rapids
BILLY" Sunday said:
Sister. any night you think you can
preach etter than l, just butt in and
show me, I'm from Missouri. will
sit down and listen''
That's fair.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

That Los Angeles attorney who
turned highwayman in Chicago was a
disgrace to his profession. The crude
ness of his method cannot be too
severely condemned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

It remained for the Sioux City
Journal to remark that Immediately
upon being decapitated Mr. Crane lost
his head
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

An English authoress rails at mar.
riage because in her opinion It i
"only a trade The chances are that
she got the worst of the bargain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Those Eskimo boys" are nothing if
not obliging. They are willing to tes.
tify on both sides in the Cook-Peary
controversy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Mr.. Crane must be quite a linguist
It is said that he talks several lam
guages just as fiuently as he does
English.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

The worst things about the "Des
Moines Plan are some of the men
administering it in that city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

It is Sunday every day at Cedar
Rapids now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Nevertheless, as the Sioux City Trib-
une remarks, Mr.. Crane is the kind
of a man newspaper reporter likes
to meet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

keokuk, Iowa -. October 10, 1909
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Billy" Sunday told his auditors in
Cedar Rapids that it's downright hypoc-
risy to pray for thing you won't
work for.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Quincy Wing explains that it is
only case of diplomat being hoist
ed by his own Crane.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

only case of diplomat being hoist
ed by his own Crane.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ.
serves that President Taft is now eat
/ ing his way back toward the Atlantic.
| Nevertheless. as the Sioux City Trib-
une remarks, Mr.. Crane is the kind
of a man a newspaper reporter likes
/ to meet.
Billy" Sunday told his auditors in
Cedar Rapids that it's downright hypoc-
risy to pray for thing you won't
work for.
All will agree with the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil that any corn that
didn't get across the line was so tardy
as to deserve nipping.
Doctors found two lacks in a New
York woman's lungs. The Baltimore
News suggests that they were doubt
less there to help her hold her breath.
BE patient" counsels the Waterloo
Tfmes-Tribune 1T will take some time
for the average person to realize,
again, the Importance of shutting the
door,
October has had its regular wealth.
er blow off" says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, now for some of the really
invigorating climate for which octob-
er Is so famous"
According to the Marshalltown
/ Times-Republican a man is more elise.
ly sized up by watching what things
he fights than by listening to what
things he praises.
The woman who stops to examine
the furs in the show windows is cited
by the philosopher of the Sioux
City Tribune as another sign of ap
preaching winter.
John w. Wright of the Knoxville
Journal received the following tele-
gram from his son-in-law the other
day: Isaiah 9-6-Qctober 81 He Inn
mediately wired back: Job 1872"
The Des Moines Tribune says that
if you want any further evidence that
winter is on the way, just notice how
hard it is for woman to walk past
a display of furs in show window.
Whisky is now said to be a sure
cure for the disease called pellagra.
"Of course" explains the Valley juno
ton Express, "as the country becomes
older, snake bites have nearly ceased
to occur, and something had to be
done"
Miss Cicely Hamilton. a1thor and
playwright, declares marriage is a
sell. It occurs to the Waterloo Re-
porter that perhaps the fact that the
prefix to her name continues to be
Miss-spelled has something to do with
her ideas of the matrimonial game.
The Ida Grove RecordEra thinks It
is not too early for the Democrats to be
considering guberatorial candidates,
and it dominates "that brilliant young
orator, banker, lawyer and farmer OF
Swaledale, Hon. E. G. Dunn, /. man
whose personal popularity would bring
him so 900 more votes In Iowa than
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ.
serves that President Taft is now eat
ing his way back toward the Atlantic
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

All will agree with the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil that any corn that
didn't get across the line was SO tardy
as to deserve nipping.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

Doctors found two tacks in New
York woman's lungs. The Baltimore
News suggests that they were doubt
less there to help her hold her breath.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-18

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