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The Dolores star., 1909-05-07

r. NJ. Willard has sold his eight tn
street property TO W. W. Byers.
The Dolores star., 1909-05-07

]. B. Bryant was in from Lebanon
Wednesday showing Hugh Gubbin of
Pueblo, d. G. Conway Of Newton,
Kansas, and w. J. Conway of Melrose,
New Mexico, about town. These
gentlemen spent few days the first of
the week looking over the Lebanon
country and came In to take the train
for their respective homes.
The Dolores star., 1909-05-07

By special act of congress large
portion Of the Southern Ute Indian
reservation will he opened to settle
ment, the lands to be disbursed by
drawing on July Is, at the town of
Jgnacio, under supervision of the
Colorado State Land Board. The
lands are located along Pine river some
twenty miles east of Durango.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
reasons, but because the avenues OF
industry are closed against him.
LEssENED SALES OF BEER.

The United States Brewers assoc
ciation has issued table of statistics
giving Il comparison by states of the
beer sales for the past two fiscal
years, showing the decrease in manu-
featuring states having little or no
dry territory varies from OIL per cent
Tin nlinois) to 6S6 per cent lin Penn
sylvania). The decrease in local op-
ton sales varies from 229 per cent
Gin Connecticut) to 7.79 per cent Tin
Ohio.
The table is offered as showing that
more than half the decrease was caus-
ed by industrial conditions, and that
the loss from both state and local pro
hibition was probably not over 1,000,-
900 barrels. In the table Iowa is given
credit for an increase in sales In 1909,
over 1908, of 25.722 barrels. Pennsyl-
vania led the states in total decrease,
of 519,295 barrels, while Kansas led
in proportionate decrease, the dropping
off in sales there amounting to 70 per
cent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
RAILROADS SOPHISTICATED.

In one OF his late letters a popular
newspaper correspondent tells how
the PENNSYLVANIA Railway company
had the opportunity many years ago
to start in the building of refriger-
ator cars. The man who made the
first car of this character used an old
car that had been loaned him by that
road, The company. however. did not
see the utility of the idea and would
not venture into making such cars.
But the beef companies did, and as
the outcome the beef trust TODAY owns
most OF such cars. Such possession
gave them the opportunity to demand
the rebates out of which developed an
evil that was nation wide.
The companies also had the chance
to lay pipe lines for oil and to build
tank cars, but could not be induced
so to do, and the oil combine went
into the business and put the rail.
roads to serious disadvantage. The
missed a number of suca opportunities
because of their lack of sagacity and
are now paying for it. Such eouin.
ment is not in their hands.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The Carroll Herald, not willing 10
concede that Governor Carroll will be
re-nominated without opposition as
has been the second term custom in
Iowa, says "all this talk about party
precedent is without avail. There is
no precedent under the primary sys-
tenn" The Waterloo Reporter admits
that this is correct and declares that
by the same token it is quite easy to
see the finish Of the Republican party
in Iowa unless there can be devised
some safeguard that viii protect the
blooming primary from the assistance
of voters who merely want to help the
Republican party to a fine beating
That's one precedent that the primary
law seems to have developed adds
the Reporter. 1t viii be recalled that
The Gate City has maintained from
the first that the direct primary is an
ideal arrangement for disorganizing
the Republican party and ensuring its
defeat Things is workin'"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
FOURTEEN MISTAKES IN LIFE.

Jentoul, in speech before the
members of the Bartholomew club in
London recently gave the following
list of the fourteen mistakes of
life" remarking that he had COM
mitted every one of them again and
again:
To attempt to set UP your own
standard of right and wrong, and ex-
pect everybody to conform to it.
To try to measure the enjoyment
of others by our own
To expect uniformity Of opinion in
this world.
To look for judgment and expert
ence in youth.
To endeavor to mould all DISPOSE
tions alike.
Not to yield in unimportant tribes.
To look for perfection in our own
actions.
To worry ourselves and others
about what cannot be remedied.
Not to alleviate if we can all that
needs alienation.
Not to make allowances for the
weaknesses of others.
To consider anything impossible
that we cannot ourselves perform.
To believe only what our finite
minds can grasp.
To live as if the moment, the time
the day were SO important that IL
would live forever.
To estimate people by some outside
quality when it is that within which
makes the man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

Considerable i'll feeling has been
nsefdered at Des Nine S over the
manner of the dedication of the new
Coils cum there, A strong effort was
made by the musicians of the city to
hav' the committee srrange a great
concert and they are inEca chagrinea
to discover that announcement has
beer made that on January 5, the ded-
ication will take place with a series
of prize fights and wrestling matches
"Des Moines does things" in a rather
peculiar way sometimes. Prize fights
and wrestling matches are all right
in their place. perhaps, but they seem
queer things with which to dedicate q
public building.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
BOUQUET FOR POSTAL EN-.
PLOYES.
E: M.

Here is a handsome bouquet of an.
probation of the employees of the post-
al system from the pen of that prince
OF newspaper correspondents, William
E. Curtis. Best of all, every word of
it is deserved. Mr. Curtis writes in
the Chicago Record. Herald:
The honesty of our postal service
is worth talking about. and it is sub.
Ject of which everybody ought to be
proud. During the fiscal year with
out including the unknown values of
registered letters and packages. the
postal employees of our government,
handled more than a million dollars fn
cash and yet the total loss by franz
by theft. by fire and all other causes
was only S3S,050. do not believe any
other business is handled so carefully
and so honestly. Notwithstanding the
carelessness Of the public The dead
letter office receives between 10000.
900 and 14,000,000 letters every year.
which either bear an incorrect or in.
suiilclent address, or are left in the
( street letter boxes without hostage
/ stamps. The amount of money found
iE these letters varies from S35 600 to
$4,000 q year, and it is increasing an.
nually Taking into consideration the
i increase in population the careless.
ness of the letter-writing public is
] growing rapidly. During the last
4 ten years the number of dead letters
has more than doubled, while the non.
ulation has not increased more than
4. 10 per cent and the amount Of money
found in dead letters was three times
as great as it was ten years aga. Not
wlthstandins all orr public schools
COLLEGES and universities. and our
boasted advance in civilization. tie
nnblic grows more and more careless
/ in its CORRESPONDENCE. and the lqrges.
number If dead letters are those
which are incorrectly addressed"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

John L. Mathews, the sensational
magazine writer who put such a silly
and absurd lie in the mouth of Sec
rotary Ballinger that it carried its own
refutation, has now made an affidavit
that he told the truth. The Creston
Advertiser hits the nail squarely on
the head when it says;
His affidavit will bring conviction.
of the truth of his statements no more
than did his original story. A man en-
gagged in the assassination of other
mems characters for the sake of the
dollar he gets for his stories would MOI
hesitate at perjury"
Mathews is facile princeps among
the muck-rakers OF the day. If there
is any truth in anything he writes the
fact is Yet to be established.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
TEST WILL BE EASY ONE.

census Director Durand has let it be
known that any person of good judg-
M Mt, who has received an ordinary
common school education, can readily
and easily pass the test to be given
applicants for census enumerators'
places On Saturday, February 9Th This
viii be a comforting assurance to the
several hundred thousand who are be-
lieved to BE- contemplating application
for the places
1t is ernphatically stated that the
test will be an eminently reasonable
and practical one similar to that ap
piled to applicants at the twelfth cen.
sus. 1t will consist of filling-out a
sample schedule of population from a
descril ton, in narrative form, of typic-
al families; and, in the case OF
enumerators whose work will be in the
rural districts, they will be called up
ON 10 FL OFT an additional sample
schedule OF agriculture, from informa-
ton furnished by the census bureau
All persons, whether women or men,
who may desire to become census
euuHleIdtOTS must De CltlZ6US OF ING
United States; residents of the super
visor's district for which they wish to
be appointed; must be not less than
eighGet nor more than seventy years
of age; must be physically able to do
the work; must be trustworthy, honest
and of good habits; must have at least
an ordinary education and must be
able to write plainly and with reason
able rapidity.
Those who can comply with these
requirements are invited to put in
their applications, as there will be at
least $4,000 enumerators' places to be
! filled by the middle Of March in prep
aration for the enumeration beginning
1 April 18th.
Application forms, with full instruc-
( tions for filling-in and complete In
/ formation concerning the test and ths
method of appointment, can be secur.
ed by writing to the supervisor OF cen.
! sus for the supervisors district In
which the applicant lives The super.
I visor for this district Is Hon. John w.
< Rowley, Keosauqua, Iowa All appli.
cations, properly filled-in must be fled
with the supervisors not later than
! January 25th as any received after
4 that date cannot be considered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

A bill to permit the mailing OF
Christmas packages at any time, with
instructions to postmasters to hold
the same for delivery a day or two be
fore that holiday, will be introduced in
congress by Representative Mann OF
Chicago. There has been considerable
confusion because packages with de.
livery instructions have been returned
to the senders or sent to the dead
letter ONCE. With such a law as he
will propose in force, Mr.. Mann be
lieves that large proportion OF
Christmas packages would be sent a
week or two in advance of that day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

Mark Twain is disposed to defend
the suffragettes. He told an interview
err the ether day that he has been in
savor of woman suffrage for the last
fifty years, and excused the militant
sufffagettes with the statement that
"the cause of freedom can not be won
without vigorous fighting" That way
seemed the only way to the women
who used it he thinks, and therefore
was excusable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The Iowa supreme court holds that
man who permitted a case of beer
to be left in his room over night for
a third party, is guilty of violating the
liqurr law when he turns it over to
the party for whom it had been left
The court must have neglected to put
on its thinking cap when it decided
that case. Violation of the liquor law
consists in selling or keeping with in
tent to sell. Where there is neither
sale nor intent to sell there can be, no
Tense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in it's annual report recommends
that there be passed a law regulating
the capitalization of railroad compan-
les. That is well, but why not en-
large the scope of the proposed meas
ure to include all corporations doing
an interstate business? Railroads are
not the only corporations SO engaged
and the law should apply to all alike.
What is sauce for the goose ought to
be the same kind of dressing for the
bird of the male persuasion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The Gate City is in accord with the
Springfield Register that if DR. Cook
knowingly faxed his pole finding
report, he deserves first niche in the
Hall of Fakes He has made neces-
sary that a Hall of Fakes be erected
beside the Hall of Fame. The Regis
ter also proposes. him for unanimous
nomination and election to the presi-
dency of that interesting organiza-
ton known as the Ananias club form.
ed by a recent President of the Unit.
ed States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

E. N. Bailey, better known as
Bailey of Britt has contracted to
conduct a department in the Iowa
Homestead, published in Des Moines,
to be known as Wheat and Chat. .
He is Iowa's leading and best loved
humorist and is sure to make hit
with Homestead readers The report
that he would remove to Des Moines
was erroneous. He says he intends
TO stay in Britt as long as his feet
track.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

A minister in Chicago wants COM
pulsory marriage by the state just
as it cnforces compulsory education.
He also advocates women's proposing
when the men hesitate 1t is easy to
foresee that If such radical legisla-
tion was enacted a good many men
would take to the woods. Another
objection is that too many men who
are unfit and unworthy marry without
being compelled to do So Anyone
who knows enough to pass muster as
a minister ought to have more sense
than to propose such a thing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
REAL TEMPERANCE PERFORMERS

The real temperance reformers in
this country are the great railroad
corporations and other large employ
ers of labor. One after another the
railroads have posted notices warn
ing employees Of instant dismissal If
they are known to drink. Such rule
has more practical effect than a thous-
and temperance lectures. Frick's
great iron and steel works at Home
stead are under an absolute total
abstinence regime Marshall Field
Company enunciated rule which has
been followed to less or greater ex-
tent by other mercantile establish
ments: I'VE viii not, to our knowl.
edge, place a young man who drinks
in our business
The United States labor depart.
ment, using percentages based on sew
eral thousand reports, found that 80
per cent Of the railroads. 10 per cent
of the manufacturers, SO per cent OF
the trades and 70 per cent of the agri.
culturists discriminate against drink
ing employees.
The day of the drinking man is
past.-not because Of sentimental
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

A contemporary calls attention to
the fact that the gas explosion in the
Topeka Capital Office took place in
the press room, not in the editorial
sanctum The event deserves a
place in the list under the heading
Strange Occurrences of the Year
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

1t would clear the situation a lot If
Senator Aldrich would announce his
attitude toward the central bank
scheme All the Democrats and num-
Der of Republicans would then prompt
ly range themselves on the other side.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

A good deal of this chatter about the
Increased cost of the necessities of life
is all poppycock. Strawberries are SELL
ing in the St Louis market as low as
a dollar a quart.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

Governor Folk says ''ninety-nine
men out of hundred are honest when
they have no selfish reasons to be
otherwise. The qualification leaves
the main statement as limp as last
years dish-rag.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

Frank Gotch, the champion wrestler,
made s52 1000 on the mat the past year
and invested most of it in Iowa real
estate. 1t is evident that Mr.. Gotch
has brains as well as Drawn.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

1t was quite thoughtful of the Danes
to hand DR.. Cook his package in ad-
vance of the Christmas holidays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

Things have come to a pretty pass
when Cook finds himself in the con
somme
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

What Dir. Cook really discovered, it
appears was hole, and he seems to
Gave pulled it in after him,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Sioux City Journal observes
that it is no trick at all to get a
chicken show to follow corn show.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that Mr.. Roosevelt probably would
have had the whole American navy
anchored in Nicaragua waters to
avenge the two Americans who were
killed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The supreme court Of Nebraska has
upheld the Sibley act, which makes a
cut of 25 per cent in express rates in
that state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

Keokuk, Iowa -. December &c, 1909
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

The report that the stork has ar.
other engagement at the King Alfonso
residence in April leads the Des
Moines Tribune to believe that 1t
must make the Longwcrths feel a
bit bored
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-26

A Monmouth man was arrested for
being in very close proximity to an
other mans coal pile at an unseason.
sble hour in the night. His plea was
that he was merely looking for piece
of coa' to throw at dog that was
disturbing his sleep.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-04-02

South Pelham St. Rhinelander, Wis.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-04-22
liINESBUkGH.

The funeral of Otis Bessey, an aged
resident of this town, was held at his late
home in the east part of the town Satur-
day. Burial was In the McEwen cene-
tery.-TIenry Durand died Saturday, April
II. Ills head was injured last summer
by falling from load of hay and he
never fully recovered from tho accident
He was q member of Cummings Post
No. 81, G.. A. r., and had been a resi-
dent OF this town for many years. He
leaves n wfc and q daughter, Mrs.
Green of Fitchburg, Mass. The funeral
was held at his late residence Monday
ut one O'Clock. the Rev. Frances I<imball
of Richmond ofIiclating.-'The Rev Mr..
Hafer, State evangelist, will preach the
first of series CT ten sermons at the
BAPTIST Church tonight at 7:30.-
n. NJ. Hull. who Is Ill with bronchitis.
remains about the same.-Most of tho
sugar makers have gathered their
buckets. It has been a short season.
Charles North, Jr.. was before Justice
Davis Friday and fined $500 for in
toXication.-MIss May Murray is quite
i'll with pneumonia. willis Jodoin IS
taking her place as teacher in her school.
Mr. and Mrs Clarke Pierce have gone
to North foTrisburEh, where he has n
| position with j. i. st. Peters.-Miss May
Murray is seriously i'll with pneumonia
| Willis Jodoin Is substitute In Miss
Murrays school during her illness.-Miss
! Sylvia Beecher Is confined to her bed by
illnoss.-Miss Celia Sprague Is at the
Mary Fletcher hospital III with APP
pcndictis.-Or ison Kenyon Is very Ill AZ
the home of his son. Charles-The chill
dren OF John Quinn and r. Lyman are
! III.
S. Bushnell Is Justly proud OF the hero
Ism of his nine-year-old grandson, Ira
bushnell Of Thompsonville, Conn, whc
week ago sunday saved the life Of q
Greek. Tho latter and q companion whC
persisted had been swept over the fall.
in the river and their boat capsized
| Young Ira showed n long pole to thu
drowning man and held him up unit
stronger hands came to his aid. Ira 4
The son of g. +. Bushnell. native o
Ste rkshoro.--Mrs. Hodges and daughte
of FitChhurg. Mass. are visiting Mrs
rrranG, called here by the death of Mr.
Durand-Janes Bird has had his pen
sion increased to $50 per month.-Roa'
Commissioner James Cassidy was throw
from his road machine Monday and in
iured so that he has been confined t
his bed since.
Otis Bessev. aged ST years, died Thurs
day, April ~. from old age. He was
mason and had worked until few year
Ego at HIS trade. lie died at the HON
Of his only son. Emerson Bessey, wit
whom he had lived for three years. III
funeral was held at 100 p. m. Saturday
-Four daughters besides his son surviv
him, Mrs. Edwin Weller CT South Bun
llngton, Mrs Susan Zeno OF North Fer
risburgh. Mrs Horace Tomlinson {
Hlnesburgh and Mrs. Ieine of st. JOIN
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-04-22
CHII1EEDEN COUNTY.
HUNTINGTON.

Mr.. ana MrG. Henry Russell are visit
ing in Lincoln and Stark sboro-Rolla
Sargent spent the past week with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. V. r. Sargent
from his school in Winooski.-Mr and
Mrs. r. f.. Gorton visited her sister
Mrs. ~ Partchei, in St. George over
Sunday.-The stage was unable to make
either trip April II and only one trip
Thursday on account Of the high water.
Miss Mary Spaulding went to Rut-
land Tuesday to spend some time with
her sister, Miss Moore.-C. l.. Wyman re-
turned 10 Vergennes Monday after q
week I'm town.-The Rev. Mr. Pease OF
Waterbury center preached here Sunday
Mrs. j, w. Fargo entertained the
Kings Daughters Wednesday.-M
Kate Thompson went to Lebanon, n. H.
Friday for an indefinite stay.
The funeral Of Fred G. Norton. who
died Saturday evening after week 4
Illness with pneumonia, was held nj
his late home Tuesday afternoon
II. T. Kemp. Mrs r.. II. Falby sang
three beautiful selections The de
ceased has been n lifelong resident
here where he held the high esteem
Of all who knew him. A wreath %
beautiful flowers we're given by kind
friends Ills aged mother has tn
great sympathy of the community "a
,, her anlicticn as it took from her Sh'
last member of her family