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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

NJ. +. Morris, formerly associate
justice OF the court of appeals Of the
District OF Columbia contributes an
article To one Of the leading magazines
in which he insists upon the inyalidity
OF the Fifteenth Amendment The
ground upon which Judge Morris de-
clares the Fifteenth Amendment 10 be
null and void IS that il was not. n
any true sense Of the term. an amend
neut Of q material par Of the consti-
tuition. but that il was az addition 10
the cons titution He holds that an ad-
dirion 10 The constitution requires for
It's adoption, not the acceptance OF
,nree-four7hs Of the states but the
unanimous consent OF all the states
such as was essential when the CON
stitution was originally adopted. But
some Of the states did not consent 70
The so-called Fifteenth Amendment.
and Judge Morris intimates that if the
question were submitted 10 the su-
Dreme court the finding Of that court
would PROBABLY be that the Fifteenth
Amendment. not being an amendment
at all. is entirely without force.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

Friends of the President elect say
that during his sojourn at Augusta
Ga, he is working out the details OF
a plan for more efficient regulation OF
interstate corporations. Mel. who
have talked with him say that its
chief object will be the quick enforce
ment of laws already on the statute
book, and that it will require legisla-
ton decreasing the powers CT the In
terstate Commerce commission and
greatly increasing powers of the Blu
reau of Corporations which viii have
the duty of Investigating complaints.
A new bureau of the Department OF
Justice will be required to cooperate
with both the Bureau of Corporations
and the Interstate Commerce commits
zion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

Walter r Cooley of Chicago told the
Archaeological Society of Chicago
last Sunday that Father Adam was
descended from The Great Hog,
meaning Taurus, the bull of many
Species whose picture may be found
in any patent medicine almanac as
one of the signs of the zodiac. The
missing link" sought by Darwin was
declared to be cross between hui
man being and pig. Furthermore
it was eNpounded by Mr. Cooley Jhat
the Great Hog was descended from
serpent. Therefore, it became APP
parent that the grandfather OF Adam
was none other than snake. In the
exploitation of wild and woolly theo-
ries Chicago is second only to Okla
homa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
POSTAL PROGRESS.


Patrons OF rural mail routes are
learning rapidly to use the pcstoftice
money order which may be had
through carriers at their doors A re-
cent compilation by the third assist
ant postmaster general of the amount
Of money order and registry business
transacted BY rural delivery carriers
shows that the last TWO years have
developed marvellous increases in
tfese branches Of the postal service
During the fiscal year. 1903, 7.425s750
money orders were issued through
rural delivery letter carri ers, repre-
senting yalue of s37.2S7697, which
the department construes as indicat-
ing that the patrons of rural delivery
fully appreciate and utilize the adYan-
tages Of the rural service
1t is fuhrrte shown that one-tenth
OF the entire number Of money orders
issued ny all postmasters throughout
the United States during the period
cited were upon applications received
through rural letter carriers and that
the money value represented thereby
was one-ffteentl of the entire amount
OF money transmitted in the mails By
money orders,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
B. & N. to St. Paul The Beacon

b. & N. to st. Paul. The Beacon
states:
1.-TWO of the finest trains in the
world to be operated jointly by the
c., b. & O., Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railroads, are to be run be-
tween Chicago and Seattle, WASH ac.
, cording to stories heard by Aurora
railroad men.
"Rumor has it that an order of six
ty of the finest passenger coaches
built for a railroad has been placed
with the Barney & Smith Car Works
of Dayton, O., and work has already
been started on them. The cost of the
two trains will be more than $1,000
/ 600, it Is said
! For years it has been the ambition
! of the Hill roads to run trains through
! from Chicago to Seattle and it was
/ this plan in view that No. Al, at that
time one of the most magnificent in
the world, was put on by the com
pany
With the new trains, 1t will be pos
| sible to travel from lie Union station
/ in Chicago to Seattle without chang
/ ing cars
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
A Sensational Enisode.


The celebration of the diamond jub-
lice of ST.. Luke's Methodist church
of Dubuque recalls to the memory of
old residents the most sensational ep.
isode in the early history of eastern
Iowa. Among the organizers of st.
Luke's church, the first one estab-
llshed by Methodism on Iowa soil.
was Woodbury. Massey. He was the
first trustee chosen, and his name, fol-
lowed by $50, the amount of his dona-
ton toward building the log chapel,
is found at the head OF the original
subscription list preserved by the Iowa
historical society. One year after thus
ably assisting at the advent of Metho-
dism in Iowa this same Woodbury. Mas
sey was implicated in a feud which
resulted in the murder of himself and
| two other men, the proclaiming of his
l6-year-old sister as heroine and the
naming of one of Iowas most populous
counties.
Mrs. Reuben Noble, of McGregor,
who as child lived on the farm adj
joining that of Mr.. Massey on Otter
Creek, Jersey county, Illinois, gives
the facts of the tragedy as follows:
Mr.. Massey, with his wife, two chill
dren and younger brother, left the
farm in Illinois in 1888 and came to
/ Iowa to prospect in the mining region
| about Dubuque. No sooner had the
! two brothers staked out a claim than
/ their right to it was disputed by one
/ Smith and his SON The case was car
| j ed into court and decided in favor of
! the Masseys. They returned to take
possession next morning. The elder
| Smith Immediately appeared and shot
! Woodbury. Massey, killing Linn instant
! ly. The younger Massey retaliated by
shooting Smith
"a few days after this dual tragedy,
Louisa Massey, the 16-year-old sister
I of Woodbury., came to Dubuque. On
4 finding one brother dead AID hearing
that the son of Mr.. Smith had threat
ened to kill the other on sight, she
i secured pistol and went in search of
the young man. She found him in
/ grocery store, stepped up in front OF
/ him as he sat on counter, and with
the words, if you are, Smith, defend
yourself, fired. The ball struck
against a bundle of papers in his peck
ct and his life was temporarily saved
/ He died as the result of the wound
two years later.
THE young girl had no sooner thus
avenged one brothers death and pro-
4 tected the life of the other than the
upper river country went wild with her
I praise No returning war hero ever
received a more enthusiastic home
coming than she received from the
Iowa and Illinois settlers on her return
by boat to the old home at the mouth
c. the Illinois river. Some years ait
erward a new county was organized
in southeastern Iowa and its founders
named it Louisa in her honor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
THE sTRANe MOTOR CAR.

keokuk and southeastern Iowa have
a keen and abiding interest in the de-
velopment of successful motor ear
for use on branch lines Of railroad.
The most promising car OF
the kind now in use is what
is known as the Strang
Gas-Electrc car, with which the Alton
and Glover Leaf roads have been eN-
perimenting for some time. So sue
cessful have been the tests that the
roads named have placed orders for
number of such cars for service on
branch lines where the traffic is not
sufficient to justify the running Of
more than a train Or two day.
Yesterday a car named the Irene
was placed in service on The line be-
tween Bloomington and Dwight on a
schedule calling for two trips a day
between the two cities. The Irene is
the fourth car that has been built by
the Strang company and is the result
of improvements on cars which had
been used for two years on an inter
urban line out of Kansas City and in
test runs elsewhere. After having
spent, it is said, nearly a million dol
lars in experiments, w. B. Strang be-
lieyes he has perfected a car W, .ch
will fill the want of the railroads for
branch service in sparsely settled COM
munities
Similar to a modern interurban car
in appearance it is operated by an cleo
trio motor like that of an ordinary
trolley car, except that it carries its
own power house" in small engine
room located at the front of the car.
The electric power is furnished to the
motors through a generator which in
turn is operated by a six cylinder l5o
horse power gasoline engine. The
surplus of power over that required for
ordinary running is accumulated in
storage battery placed beneath the car
frame and may be drawn upon when
required to negotiate a grade or to put
on additional speed. a storage tank.
also placed underneath the car, carries
a supply of gasoline sufficient to take
the car zoo miles.
According to representations, the
car is capable OF maintaining speed
of fifty miles an hour easily and has
been run at higher speed. In case
of accident TO he gasoline engine the
power accumulated in the storage bat
terry is sufficient to run it from ten TO
fourteen miles TO a siding or other
place OF safety.
The car is built with an all steel
frame and is attractive, both inside
and out The Interior is divided into
TWO compartments. the first an engine
room. and the second the passenger
compartment provided with ordinary
+ leather upholstered cross seats and
handsomely furnished. 1t is sixty-two
( feet long weighs fifty-seven tons. and
runs with an average consumption OF
six-tenthg of gallon of gasoline per
mile. The cars to be built for ordi-
nary service will be less ornamental.
I Gasoline cars. in the opinion of rail
road officials, would add TO the con
venience of the public and also re
duce their own empty car mileage and
operating expenses, especially where
railroad commissions for franchise
Z conditions require the running of a
stated number of trains day. 1t is
to be hoped that a successful car OF
the kind has at last been perfected.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
The Daily Gate City

of the paddle was hole to allow the
charge of powder to go out in the air.
The other side was solid. Instead of
aiming at the victim with the solid
side, he was struck with the opposite
side and the cartridge tore itself into
the flesh
Mr.. Beveridge said that he nor any
other of the men here from Council
Bluffs had been informed officially OF
the accident. He says the press re-
ports is all that he has heard.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
Dragging the Roads.

In the interest of improving the
highways of Iowa, p Ransom OF OW-
asa has sent to the press a circular
which he recently issued in which Is
given some of the practical experience
he has gained through the position OF
road Superintendent. Mr. Ransom is
thoroughly convinced that it is pos
sible to drag all the roads in Iowa N
three hours, and that belief is made
the caption of the article referred to,
which is as follows:
To those who have never given this
matter much thought it may seem inn
possible to drag the roads OF great
state in three hours, but 1T can be
done and is being demonstrated in
Jackson township. Hardin county,
Iowa If one township can drag Its
roads in three hours another can and
if the two townships can county can,
and If a county can the state OF Iowa
can. My method is to employ farmers
throughout the township to drag the
roads and am particular to employ
those who are most interested III Soou
roads. Then put them out on stations
of equal distance as near as can be
and direct the stations so that one
drags to meet another all over the
township Each one has telephone
and when the roads are in condition
| to need dragging ! call them up and
/ start them all out at about the same
! time, and in three hours the roads OF
! the township are dragged complete
4 Each one receives from the TOWNSHIP
I so cents per mile for dragging.
4 nave followed this system for three
years and never failed but once OF
rwice to drag the roads of the town
ship after every storm. invite roat
supcriniendems WAC nave not system
! atiAed their road dragging to try thi
system and believe they will find thu
result very satisfactory.
This article Is written in the interes
of good roads. After reading 1t thos
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
Mo REGULATIONS There.

Il cannot state what action the
board of education will take said
Mr.. Beveridge. because | know moth
ing of the affair officially 1t was prob
ably just case of not knowing when
to quit with the boys. The fraterni-
ties have never made much trouble
in Council Bluffs and the board has
no regulations in regard to them as
far as l know. They are independent
of school affairs and never make a
loud noise.'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
The IOWA POULTRY PRODUCT.

When Judge William Logan of this
city was in New York City recently in
tae interest of the Keokuk and Ham
ilton water power project one Of the
Wall street magnates sought to inn
press him with the magnitude of the
sum of money necessary TO finance the
enterprise. BY way Of illustration and
comparison he cited the S7,oo0000 and
over paid BY this country for Alaska
in 1868 The Judge did not seem 10
be particularly impressed by the fig
ures. and, having failed 10 elicit any
expression Of surprise the magnate
bluntly asked him if he did not consid
err this a large sum. Not as We fig
ure things out where live, responded
the Judge calmly why the farmers
wives in Iowa every year gather eggs
to the value of twice that amount while
the coffee is boiling for breakfast
The magnate did not think this pos
sible but reference to the official fig
ures convinced him that the poultr,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

product for Iowa for the preceding year
insread of being only about s14,000,OO
as modestly claimed by Judge Logan,
was S21 900, 000-three tines as much
as the United States paid for Alaska.
The returns for 1908, now available,
show that the Iowa poultry product
last year was s22,5O0,000. If Judge
Logan should have occasion to revisit
Wall street he can add s1,5O0,000 to
the figures he previously gave.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
No Official information.

J. H. Beveridge, superintendent of
the Council Bluffs schools and Prof.
e. X. Jackson Of Council Bluffs, were
approached on the fraternity question
and asked particularly about the feel
ing of Council Bluffs educators In re-
gard to the injury to Thomas Harvey
1t was learned that Harvey was in
jured by slap stick. The two boards
constituting the apparatus were SO ar
ranged that when bounced off some
portion of the initiates anatomy. q
cartridge would explode. In one side
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

Henry Clews calls public attention to
the fact that the United States has
given another striking demonstration
of its extraordinary recuperative pow
ers. A year ago We We're in the very
abyss of depression. suffering from
the memorable October panic Bust,
ness had contracted fully - per cent
and more in volume. and securities had
suffered a depreciation Of over $3.50
100000 Today business is gradually
approaching normal conditions, while
securities have not only recovered all
previous loss, but in many cases are
selling above the boom prices OF 1906
{ Mr.. Clews declares that such an
emphatic and widespread recovery is
beyond all precedent The chief fac.
tor of course has been the continued
prosperity of the American farmer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
'IAILY. GATE. CITY
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T14n CATE CITY is on sale at the fol-
lowing news stands: Johnson.
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Ward Bros, 525 Main Street
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
COSTLY TRAIN
TO PACIFIC COAST
Burlington Road Expects to Place Two
Fine Trains In Operation
From Chicago.

According to the Aurora Beacon the
Burlington road expects to place two
fine trains in operation running from
Chicago to the Pacific coast at Seattle.
These trains would be run via the c.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
No Doubt Of II.

Des Moines Tribune: A minister
has announced his intention OF going
west disguised as a tramp, preaching
his way. Before he gets very far he
may find out that the west is getting a
it tired of all tramps and some kinds
of preaching.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

The experiment of using automobiles
for the collection of mail was tried at
Milwaukee and it was found that the
same force of collectors can DO twice
the work under this system as when
using horse-drawn vehicles, and that
the collection of mail is expedited Dur
ing the current year further expert
ments Will be conducted at Washing
ton, D. c. and Indianapolis Ind AS
soon as it is in position TO do SO the
postoffice department will report 10
congress upon the advisability of using
automobiles in all the larger cities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

Iowa IFS wear produced 3oaS73,i 5A
bushels OF corn of a farm value OF
sf53 .a553o6 The next largest source
of revenue was pastures and grazing,
which aggregated s1oo,o00ooQ oats
was third with a farm value Of s4S,517,-
10, and dairy products fourth with a
value Of s4450oo00 These four items
alone added s346,972,41G 10 the wealth
of Iowa in 1908 Ii is evident from
these figures hat Iowa is getting its
share of the good things incident to
Republican times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

1t is quite possible that Theodore
F. Burton's contest for the mayorslty
of Cleveland, though a losing one.
helped him to gain the Ohio senator
ship. All OF politics isn't On the sur
face OF things,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

A Philadelphia paper speaks of
Bryan as a national asset Il seems
absolutely impossible for some people
to acquire a correct knowledge Of
bookkeeping.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

A California man has been san
fenced 10 eight years in jail for steal
ing eight pennies. # he had taken a
dollar he would probably have re
ceived life sentence. and then some
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

mo more the solid South. says
President-elect Taft. no more the
liquid South say the Prohibition pa
pers. Just where does the South get
off?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

The commissioner OF Immigration IL
of the opinion that tiio tide Of imnl-
grafton to this country has not vet
turned in orr favor 10 any extent 1he
total number OF neN eomers during
1903 was about 100000 as against
1,l70,2 S5 III 1897 The commissioner
does not look for the big thrush Until!
next April.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

They are seeing robins in Chicago
Well, anyhow, robins are better than
snakes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

The water wagon is a bit crowded
just now, but there will be plenty OF
o room on it in a few days
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

Read The Daily Gate City. 1
cents per week
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

The French budget for the coming
year exceeds sSoo,Ooo,ooO, though the
population of France is but half that
of the United States,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

off on January /.
The French budget for the coming
year exceeds $S00,O0O,00O, though the
population of France is but half that
of the United States.
Editor Hardin. noted for his sar-
casm says: When it rains on his
birthday Emperor William regards it
as a personal insult"
The Des Moines Register and Leader
says it knows that some men are going
to b.eak one resolution the very first
time they come Eome and find that
dinner isn't ready
man has been arrested for going
to sleep in a st. Louis fat The Omaha
Bee declares that man who can sleep
in st. Louis fiat should be congratu-
lated rather than arrested
The average individual knows that
Idiii oduiHS is Tue country s greatest
business, but few realize how great it
is; employing 100000 men, with a
gross income of s2.6oO,OOO,OOO a year;
taking in for freight and passenger
rates $7,00U,000 day.
Professor Hnut, of Princeton univer-
sity says Esperanto may serve until
tartan purpose, but can never rise to
the plane of language as an expression
of thought for the highest ends The
New York World asks why not use it
/ for messages to congress?"
! The Council Bluffs Nonpareil insists
there is no use trying to cloud the
| vision of the people of this country
with reference to the present stric-
lures in the money market. The cur
rency is good enough and the system
| is good enough. The remedy lies in
the manipulation of the funds"
! The Methodist, Presbyterian and Luz
1 theran churches of Parkston, S. D.,
have entered into an agreement to use
/ the Methodist church building as a
/ common place of worship and to en-
ploy only one pastor, thus saving the
salaries of two preachers and the main
! tenance of two church buildings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05
NOTES AND COMMENT.

1t is evident to the Omaha Bee that
the base ball rumor did not swear
off on January /.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

keokuk, Iowa. January 5, 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

Editor Hardin noted for his sar-
casm says: When it rains on his
birthday Emperor William regards it
as a personal insult"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

The Des Moines Register and Leader
says it knows that some men are going
to b.eak one resolution the very first
time they come Eome and find that
dinner isn't ready.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-05

A man has been arrested for going
to sleep in st. Louis fiat The Omaha
Bee declares that man who can sleep
in St Louis fiat should be congratu-
lated rather than arrested
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-27
MONDAY LAST DAY FOR TAXES
Penalty of IS Per Cent Will Attach
if Not Paid by That Day.

Though Governor Hay has made
Monday a holiday, yet it is not what
is called a legal holiday nor is it
necessary for county offices to be
closed at that time. In Spokane
county the county commissioners have
made Monday legal holiday in the
courthouse and all the offices will be
closed. but here nothing has been
done along that line. The last day
of May is the last day on which real
estate taxes can be paid without pen
atty and all taxes not paid by Monday
night will become delinquent.
A penalty of Is per cent will attach
to realty taxes not paid by Monday
unless one-half the amount has pre-
viously been paid, which will extend
the time of payment on the last half
until the last day of November.