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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
keokuk, Iowa. -. February II, 1909.

Cheer up! The mud will he knee
deep as soon as the present cold snap
ends.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

Everything goes with hop, skip and
jump and so it ~oes from one weeks
end to the other. Did it ever occur
to you that the city is the most lone.
some place in the world, unless you
are busy This farmer found 1t Just as
every other man does, who is not used
to town or the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

The Chicago Tribune suggests that
when Il man asks to be permitted to
pay a heavier tax than the assessor
has charged up against him and his
request is coldly refused it is time
to pause and inquire what this coun-
try is coming, to anyway. 1t is also
time to put such man on exhibition
without a moments delay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

George Fitch appears to have about
the right idea of banquet. He says
It is a place where lot of people
who don't care to eat go to hear
speeches and lot of people who don't
care for speeches go to get something
to eat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

It is said that bottle of cham
payne passes through forty-five hands
before it is ready to be put on the
market. Some champagne must pass
through an equal number of hands aft
erward. judging from the price
charged for it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

of valuation, different measure of
the rate of .rogress than that CT the
per cent of dividends. Personality,
not only in its earning power but also
in it's purchasing power is the final
init by which progress and prosperity
are to be gagged
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

If the esteemed Springfield Register
is correctly informed, "the hornlesss.
hoofless, tailless devil of modern times
is just as busy as when in the me-
dieval period he wore these append
ages" He ought to be buster. There
are more people in the world ready
to meet him half way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

Colonel Bryan announces that he is
much encouraged by the spread of De-
mocracy. He seems to lose sight of
the fact that the more it spreads the
thinner it becomes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

A Connecticut man swallowed car
pet tack the other day. Possibly he
felt it was the only tack available in
view of the high price of beef.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

The Marsha, own s-Republi-
can tells it's readers that to break an
egg they must first break a bill. Egg
-egg-what's that?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
Red rasnberries were a novelty OF

Red raspberries were novelty Of
fered for sale in Chicago recently. A
fruit dealer last August put three
crates of the berries in cold storage
and had them frozen solid. Lately
they were thawed out and offered for
sale at 25 cents quart. 1t is said
that, though the red raspberries could
be kept fresh in frozen state for
three years, the black raspberry, treat
ed in the same way last August, has
come out of the ordeal entirely lifeless
and tasting like cork.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
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THE GATE CITY is on sale at the tol-
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Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
NOTES AND COMMENT.

An authority on the subject claims
that sausauges We're compounded as
far back as s97, Some of them look
it.
Iowa has so far got off easy, ap-
narently. with the primary nominal
ing system says the Mt. Vernon
Hawkeye.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
that good roads legislation is the most
important subject before the general
assembly
The Winterset Reporter says the
action of the senate in voting every
member of that body clerk is graft"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

A French scientist predicts earth
ouakes in 1912. More trouble for Mr..
Bryan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

A birthday celebration lasts one
day, centenary celebration whole
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

''The annual loss by fire in Iowa
said ]. w. Warnshuis, president OF the
State Fire Prevention association rs
in excess of s4,000,OOO. OF this sum
at least s1,OO0,0oO falls upon owners
o. properties who neglect to protect
themselves by taking out insurance.
While the losses paid by the fire in
surance companies are approximately
So, 100000 1t is apparent that they
are not the only sufferers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

The Spirit Lake Beacon says the
work before the legislature by no
means least in Importance is the put
ting to sleep Of many raw or half
baked measures.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

because it is done for the purpose Of
paying off political debts at t1e pub
lie expense. We are surprised" the
Reporter adds, that a Republican
should vtoe for such measure, and
we will be still further surprised if
those Republicans do not hear from
it in the futrue."
The Washington Democrat observes
that lots of people get into houses at
funerals that never get there any
other time.
A hermit is defined by the Peoria
Herald Transcript as man who has
never been introduced to bath tub
or a steady job.
The Scranton Journal predicts that
any attempt to make people Christians
by an act of the legislature will prove
a sweeping failure.
A New York woman who is mem
Der of seven card clubs estimates that
every day in New York city there are
four thousand playing bridge.
According to the pointed paragraph
er of the Chicago News woman is
willing to admit a mans superiority
when it comes to translating rail-
way time table.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-02
SALE OF LIQUOR UNLAWFUL IN
OVER HALF OF THE
SOUTH.
WILL CONTINUE FIGHT
GOOD RESULTS REPORTED, BUT
OBSTACLES TO ENFORCE
MENT ARE MANY.

Washington.-A wave of prohibition
has swept with such remarkable eff
feet over the South that the New Year
opens upon a vast stretch of territory
absolutely bereft of liquor, while the
area where anti-prohibitionists have
triumphed, marks the battle ground for
impending fights on the question.
More than half the South's territory
is dry" absolutely, and in the remain
ing area the sale of intoxicants is re-
stricted. 1t is evident that the cities
are the only remaining strongholds for
the saloons, and 1t is unlikely that this
condition will be modified except
through a radical change in political
thought, through failure to enforce the
laws against the liquor traffic. failure
to solve the problem growing out of de-
ficits in county, municipal and state
treasures from a loss of the whisky
tax, or inability to cope with the Illicit
sale Of whisky, and perhaps other OBJ
stacles which follow in the wake of
prohibition. Georgia for a year has
been experimenting with a near pro
hibition" law forbidding the sale of
liquors containing more than 4 per
cent. alcohol. Statewide prohibition
laws become effective on January list
in North Carolina, Alabama and Missis
sippi. Prohibition advocates in Louis
lana have suspended their fight to test
the new GayShattuck law for the reg
uIation of the liquor traffic.
Tenne ssee is the chief center of in
terest among the other states where
statewide prohibition fights are in
progress. The Prohibitionists also as
sert that statewide bill will pass the
Legislature, which they expect to or
ganize and control. Kentucky, the
second largest distilling state in the
Union, with 119 counties, has but
four in which the sale of liquor is not
prohibited. Virginia presents string
of victories for the anti-saloon element
as prohibition now extends in eighty
of the states hundred counties.
In Texas, where more than half the
counties have accepted prohibition,
the voters soon will be called upon to
vote upon a constitutional amendment
for prohibition.
In Arkansas two-thirds of its area,
or seventy-five counties, are dry" sod
the question of statewide prohibition
will be presented to the voters for de-
cision.
The results of prohibition generally
are cleaned from reports indicating
a great decrease in the record of ar
rests for drunkenness, an increase in
the bank deposits of laborers, fewer
cases of wife abandonment, and de-
crease in criminality generally. The
difficulty of enforcing the prohibition
laws, however, is conceded to be one
of the chief obstacles to its absolute
success in many states.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-02
Taft Opposes pisfranchisement.

Baltimore, Md.-Collector of Gus
toms Stone of this city recently wrote
Mr.. Taft on the subject of a proposed
amendment to the constitution of
Maryland which is to be submitted to
the voters at the next election and
which is popularly known as the dis
franchising amendment. Mr.. Stone
has received permission to make pub
lie Mr.. Taft's reply, which concludes:
THE whole law ought to be con-
demned 1t is not drawn in the spirit
of justice and equality having regard
for the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, and l sincerely hope that
no Republican and no Democrat who
desires equality of treatment to the
black and white races will vote for it."
The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-02
eompers piscontinues Blacklist.

New MISUNDERSTANDING he
unanimous protest against the Jail SEN
tences imposed on Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, the
Central Federated Union here received
Monday from Mr.. Gompe~s a letter in
which he notified the unions that he
had discontinued on the advice of
counsel the I'VE Don't Patronize" list
in the future issues of the Federation
alist, the labor organ. Upon hearing
this, the Central Federated Union also
decided, upon the advice of the chair
man, to suspend its unfair list for a
while.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-02
Denver Italians in Mourni,,

Denver.-There is much anxiety in
Little Italy" that section of North
Denver where live the Italians, for
practically every resident in that con-
gested district of the city has rela.
tives in the devastated section of
Italy and Sicily. Eighty-five per cent.
of the Italians, or 10000, our of the
$4,000 Italians in Denver, and envi-
rons. are from Calabria and Sicily.
Calabria forms the toe Of the boot"
or Italy and is province about the
size OF New York state and subject to
earthquakes and volcanic disturbances
since history began.
The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-02
Fleet Reaches suez Canal.

Alden, Arabia.-The sixteen battle
ships comprising the American battle
ship fleet, under command of Rear
Admiral Sperry, which is cruising
around the world, passed this port
Monday, bound for Suez. The fleet
left Colombo, Ceylon, December Goth.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
eussenheim'. Forest Service Bill.

Washington.-Senator Guggenheim
on Monday introduced in the Senate
his resolution providing for a careful
inquiry and report concerning the op-
Grafton and administration of the ma
tional forest service. He proposes n
commission of three persons. having
special knowledge of forestry laws.
two of whom shall be appointed by
the vice president and one by the
speaker of the House.
The resolution requires the commits
sion to make complete investigation
OF the laws relating to the control and
administration of the national forests.
sale OF timber therefrom, granting Of
rights.of-way, mining, water and cleo
trical power concessions. issuance of
grazing permits and similar matters.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
State School Consolidation.

Sen d. NJ. Campbell has introduced
a bill to place all the state educational
institutions under one board of con-
troll, the consolidation to be called
The University of Colorado" The
principal provisions of the bill are as
follows:
Article 1.-The University of Colo
RADIO is hereby created and established
with its chief administrative office To-
Gated at Boulder, Colorado, in the
buildings of the present State univer-
sity, and shall be composed of the fol-
lowing institutions of learning:
"First-The College of Liberal Arts
and Scientific Departments at Boul-
der.
Second-The Agricultural College
and College of Mechanic Arts at Fort
Collins, Colorado.
"Third-The State Normal School
and Department of pedagogy at Gree
ley, Colorado.
''Fourth-The State School of Min
ing Engineering and Metallurgy at
Golden Colorado.
"Fifth-All such professional schools
of law and medicine as the board Of
regents may deem proper to establish
in the city of Denver, when, in their
judgment, such schools should be es.
tablished to serve public welfare"
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
Some of TUESDAYS Bills,

Following are some of the more i'm
portant bills read first time by title
and referred to the committees named:
II. b. No. 225, by Mr.. McCoy-Re-
quiring all railroad companies running
live stock trains to have attached
thereto car or cars for the conven-
ience Of passengers, with toilet equip
ment: railroads.
III. B. No. 226, by Mr.. William Weis-
er-Bridge across the Grand river in
Mesa county; roads and bridges.
II. B. No. 227, by Mr.. McCoy-Road
running from Vernon to Idalia across
the Arickaree river in Yuma county;
roads and bridges.
H. b. No. 22S, by Mr.. McCaskill--To
fix the classification of Otero and Bent
counties, concerning the salaries to be
paid to the county commissioners of
said counties and other county Off
GERS; fees and salaries.
H. B. No. 229, by Mr.. Lubers-To
provide for the partial defraying of ex-
penses incurred in entertaining the
delegates and guests of the TRANSMITS
sissippi congress; appropriations and
expenditures.
H. B. No. 230, by Mr.. McCoy-To
regulate the time within which demur-
rage may be charged by railroad COM
panies for baggage left at depots in
towns with population of $500 in
habitants or less; railroads.
H. B. No. 233, by Mr.. Wheeler-To
amend an act to regulate common car
riers in this state, to create a state
railroad commission; railroads.
H. B. No. 235, by Mr.. Metz-To re-
quire corporations organized under the
laws of Colorado to file lists of stock
holders with the secretary of state;
corporations.
H. B. No. 236, by Mr.. Ashby-Wood
bridge across the canon of Maroon
creek, in Pitkin county; roads and
bridges.
H. B. No. 237, by Mr.. Ashby-To fix
the classification of Pitkin county con-
cerning the salaries to be paid to the
county commissioners of said county
and other officers of said county; conn
ty and county lines.
H. B. No. 239, by Mr.. Hayden-Fix-
ing the salary of county judges; Judi
ciary.
H. B. No. 240, by Mr.. Walbridge-
Bridge across Bear river, near the
mouth of Snake river, in Routt county;
roads and bridges.
H. B. No. 241. by Mr.. Rubin-To pro-
tect same and fish; fish, forestry and
game.
II. B. No. 242 by Mr.. Rubin-Public
and private parks, lakes and reser-
voirs; fish forestry and game.
H. B. No. 243. by Mr.. RuDin--Hunt-
ing licenses; fish, forestry and game.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
REALLY HAD NO KICK COMING.
According to Expert Opinion, Play.
wright Had Got OFF Easy.

That Beerbohm Tree, the player.
has caustic wit is evidenced by an
incident wherein he and an unknown
playwright figured
The writer had obtained permission
to read his offering to Tree. The actor
evinced no great degree Of enthus-
isam, either during or after the read
ing; but he did take the manuscript,
upon which he scribbled hastily few
suggestions for it's betterment
See here, Mr.. Tree" was the indig-
nant ejaculation of the ambitious play
wright, Its hardly fair of you to dis
pose of my work in this summary and
nonchalant fashion. I'd have you
Know that this play cost me a years
hard labor!'
"So?" queried Tree. MY dear fel-
low, any impartial judge would give
you at least five!"-Harper's Weekly.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
Pacific Railroad Bond Claim Nil.

San Francisco-An effort to reopen
legal proceedings against the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company involv-
ing approximately s50,O00,000. was
rendered fruitless Monday by the dis
missal in the United States Circuit
Court of the suit filed by John A. Kuy-
kendall, administrator of the estate of
Charles Durkee, to compel the rail
road company to redeem $9.000.00o
worth of Union Pacific construction
bonds purchased by the deceased while
governor of the territory of Utah in
1865. Suit was dismissed on the
ground that none of the parties to it
were residents of this district Kuy-
kendalls action named the Central Pa
cific Railroad Company, the Central
Trust Company of New York and the
Farmers Trust Company of New York
as co-defendants. Previous action OF
a similar nature was brought in Utah
shortly after Durkee's death in 1870,
and judgment was rendered against
Kuykendall. Recently he attempted
to reopen the matter here. With ac-
cruing interest the total of the claim is
$4,000, 900.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
Stringent Sanitation Bill.

Senator Twining has introduced, at
the request of the State Board of
Health the bill prepared by that board
giving the pure food commissioner all
the power that he has found he lacked
under the operation of the existing law.
The bill proposes that the Board Of
Health shall have absolute jurisdiction
over any kind of establishment or We
hicle in which food is handled, even to
the extent of controlling the fashion
of dress Of employees and inspecting
them as to personal cleanliness.
Besides tubercular and consumptive
sufferers, those put under the ban are;
Victims of smallpox, diphtheria, scar
let and yellow fever, bubonic plague.
leprosy, measles and mumps, whooping
cough and chicken pQx, as well as other
virulent and contagious diseases.
The law applies to bakeries, Gamer
les, packing and slaughter houses,
dairies, creameries. cheese factories.
confectioneries and meat markets.
TO insure against the employment of
any diseased person, the State Board of
Health is authorized to conduct fire.
quent Investigations and order
changes. "a
Baseflients or cellars must be paved
with scme nonabsorbent flooring and
flushed with water daily. All utensils
used iii the manufacture and prepara-
tion of food must be washed daily.
Toilet rooms must be separated from
places where food is manufactured
and prepared. Personal cleanliness
must be observed by employees. Any
food stuffs which suffer from dust or
exposure to the air, must be kept in
closed receptacles. Screens must be
provided during seasons of the year
when flies are busy.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
Much Snow on Marshall Pass.

Denver. - special from Salida
dated Monday night says: Trainmen
on the narrow gauge over Marshall
pass report more snow than in the
last ten years. Passenger train 316,
due to leave Salida at 6.45 this morn
ing, did not leave until o'clock to-
night because the pass is blocked and
the rotary snow plough was put out Of
commission last night and was brought
here for repairs. No trains have
reached Monarch, mining camp twen-
ty miles west of here, for nearly a
week. Telephone reports say that the
snow is from five to twenty feet deep.
There is no snow in the valley.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
Proposed Bounty Bill.

The Boulder Fish and Game Club is
having bill prepared to be introduced
in the Legislature providing for a boun-
ty on liens, wolves, coyotes, foxes, bob
cats, lynx and all game destroying an
imals. Later bill will be introduced
providing that 1t shall be unlawful to
kill either does or fawns for ten years,
and permitting the killing of bucks for
only fifteen days each year. The club
is cooperating with similar organiza-
tions throughout the state and the
members are hopeful that both bills
will become laws.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
Editorial Verdict.

From a serious-minded jester the
editor received this note, together
with consignment of humor that was
heavy enough to go by freight:
Dear Sir: l read all these jokes TO
my wife, and she laughed heartily.
Now. have it on good authority that
when a mans wife will laugh at his
Jokes they are bound to be very good
or she is. Yours, etc"
The editor slipped them into the re-
turn envelope with the letter, after
writing on the margin: She is"
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
For Land Office investigation.

Investigation of the office of the
state land board was the most live mat
ter Monday presented to the House of
Representatives of the General Assem-
bly,. The resolution was drawn in the
office of the attorney general of the
state. and was presented by Mr.. Wheel
er. 1t provides for probing the af-
fairs, manner of doing business, man
uer of making leases, the acts of its
officers and all matters appertaining
to the office or the lands of the state.
The committee provided for is to be
OF two senators and three representa-
tives, and it may go back as far as'the
year l, if, in the judgment of the men,
bers of the committee, any fraud or ir-
regularity may be uncovered.
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
AN IMPROVEMENT.
A s,Ioht Misunderstsndino.

Little Helen Bentley of Los Angeles.
aged five. dearly loves her grandma,
who has been living with her and her
parents. Recently grandma went to
Seattle for visit, and caught cold
on the way. When she arrived there.
she wrote back to Helen's parents that
she had reached Seattle, but had had
hard fight with the grip. Helen
wanted to hear what grandma had to
say, and the letter was read to her.
Soon afterward she saw one of her
neighbors. and exclaimed: "Oh, Mrs.
Smith. we've had a letter from grand
ma. She got to Seattle all right, but
she had a terrible fight with her vn-
lise"
Gilpin observer., 1909-01-28
OREGON EXPRESS ON U. p. GOES
INTO DITCH NEAR
RAWLINS.
I KILLED, 9 INJURED
VICTIMS ALL WESTERN PEOPLE,,
ONE BEING FROM
COLORADO.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Cheyenne Tuesday night says: The
Oregon express was wrecked at Dana
near Rawlins, on the Union Pacific this
evening. Nine cars went into the
ditch. One woman was killed and
many persons injured. A relief train
with physicians, nurses, wrecking out
fit and many laborers was rushed to
the scene from Rawlins and the divls-
ion wrecking train with number of
surgeons and trained nurses was hur-
ried out from Cheyenne.
The dead
Miss Emma Clingenpul Danbury,
Iowa; en- route to Caldwell, Idaho
The injured:
Mrs. Olive Clingenpul, Danbury,
Iowa, mother of the dead girl; wrist
twisted, suffering from severe shock
Miss Rose Clingenpul, left leg
broken.
Everett Friedley. Rising City, Neb.,
legs and head bruised, seriously
U. s. Smith, McAlester. Okla; right
arm fractured.
Miss E. NJ. Hickox. Grand Rapids,
Wis; shoulder fractured
T.. +. Barber, junction City, kas.:
arm and shoulders wrenched.
John Pfeiffer, Akron, Colo: back
injured.
Celia Nelson, Omaha: shoulder in
jured, back sprained.
These nine We're seriously injured
and were taken to a Cheyenne hospi-
tai The dead body of Miss Clingenpul
was also taken to Cheyenne. About
twenty others received injuries. but
all were able to resume their journey.
The cause of the wreck is not defi-
nitely known. One report says it was
due to broken flange on a wheel un-
der the mail car, and another has it
that broken rail ditched the train.
The Oregon express is heavy train
and ordinarily does not make fast
time. 1t is composed of mail car,
baggage, car. day coach, chair car,
diner. three tourists and three stand
ard sleepers.