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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
For the Common Benefit.

Davenport Democrat: The South
western Editorial association in ses-
sion at Council Bluffs the other day
passed a resolution censuring the ma
tional government Think OF tina. The
particular offence of the government,
as it is pointed out, lies in the post
office department It is announced by
circular which goes .nto the hands of
newspapers and business houses. that
the government will print return
card on orders of 500 and more. just
ed envelopes at very low price, just
enough to cover the cost. The post
office circular also urges persons to use
stamped envelopes with retur' caid
saying that everyone who uses gov
eminent stamped envelopes is aiding
tie postoffice department in improving
the service"
The Southwestern Iowa editors do
not take notice of this. They do not
appear to care whether the mail ser
vice is helped or hurt What they
want is the printing of the envelopes.
This is one of those cases where the
g.eatest good to the greatest number
will have to be taken into acco mt.
The Democrat has much sympathy
with the job printers as it has been in
the business for many years. But the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

swarming to the sugar. falling into
y''lr eeFfee hrzzing till you car t hear
yourself think. They are scavengers
and their feet are constantly shod
with a preparation OF all sorts of dis.
ease germs, and they are common car.
riers of cholera, typhoid and other
deadly germs-why should people
catering to the public be suffered to
expose custom to contagion and infec.
ton? There have been some of the
nastiest eating places in this town
ever, but they are not peculiar to
Washington. All one wants to know
ABOUT feeding place is to see hun
oreds OF flies rise when he sits down
and fiirts napkin. The public has
stood this dirty insult, imposition and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
Concerninu Flies.

Fl. A. Burrell in Washington Press
Peterson Of the Iowa senate, deserves
medal for his bill requiring all rest
aurants, bakeries, confectioneries, ho-
tells and public eating places whatso.
ever, so to screen their doors and win
dows as to exclude all flies. Appro.
priating $4,000 to enforce it. More
work for sheriffs ard county at
torneys, and If they don't do 1t. why,
pile it onto the state attorney general,
who hasn't much to do.
But it is just the thing, all right.
1t is perfectly disgusting to sit down
in public place to eat, and have
four million nasty flies, that have
been sampling manure heaps, go for
you. contesting every mouthful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

A freak" bill introduced In the Mis-
souri, legislature requires the person
who drinks to pay license fee of SIS
yearly for the privilege, the license to
be good anywhere in the state Deal
ers who sell person without license
are to be fined $500, whether the per-
son be direct purchaser or the guest
of the person licensed No license is
to be issued to a married man if his
wife, in writing, sends remonstrance
to the county clerk. County clerks
violating the act are to be fined 500
to $500 for each offense 1t isn't
likely that the measure will be favor
ably or even seriously considered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Lawyers and physicians in New
York and elsewhere are trying to
bring about legislation which will do
away with. or at least minimize, the
evils of so-called expert" testimony
at trials. Experience shows that ex-
pert evidence practically serves no
other end at present than to impede
justice and cause delays, at once use
less and expensive to the state, as
both sides can provide experts" to
give Numerically opposite testimony,
until the practice has become legal
nuisance, If not something of scan
dial in the administration of Justice
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
A bill introduced in the legislature

A bill introduced in the legislature
by Senator Moon of Ottumwa abol-
ishes the present method of report
ing jury eligibles by the election of
judges. and establishes a commission.
The bill was drafted by Des Moines
lawyers, but is in no respect similar
to the McHenry commission ILL just
killed by the house judiciary commit
tee. The Moon measure provides that
the county clerk, county auditor and
county recorder shall constitute a
commission for the drawing of jurors.
1t further provides the commission
shall place into revolving box the
names of every voter, eligible to jury
service registered at the preceding
election. These names are to be thor
oughly mixed and jury venire drawn
by commission from the box.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

One of the functions of the public
schools, and most important one,
is to take children of all nationalities
and classes of parentage and weld
them into homogeneous mass i'm
bued with the principles of American
citizenship. The public schools are
the great equalizers, or should be-
They are purely democratic in char
acter and purpose and stand for equal
ity in rank and opportunity Fra
ternal societies in the public schools
stand for favoritism and inculcate
suobbery and are therefore directly
antagonistic to the purposes for which
the schools were founded and for which
they are maintained at public ex-
pense. The "frats" must go if the public
schools are to fulfill their mission in
the proper training of future Ameri-
can citizens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

1t is announced from Washington
tnat President Roosevelts program
for the next seven days is simply to
sit still and keep steady the big ship
of state, undertaking nothing new.
The President, following his policy of
making no more political appoint
ments, leaving these and nearly all
other pending important matters to
his successor, will have practically
nothing to lay before his advisers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
The recent rains have swept a large

The recent rains have swept large
amount of refuse and filth and disease
germs into the streams and it is i'm
for drinking and culinary purposes be
boiled before 1t is used. Boiling will
nj remove impurities from water, but
it will kill disease germs and lessen
the danger of sickness from that
source. The objection to boil
ed water Is that it is in
sipid and fiat, but this can be
remedied by agitating it vigorously or
by pouring it from a height.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The result of the Chicago primar.
les was triumph for the ma
chine candidates." says the Tribune.
Naturally. Organization usually wins.
That's what it is for.
Conditions are bad enough here, but
they might be worse. Out in Colorado
trains are seventeen days late, instead
OF two hours as was the morning mail
from the north yesterday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

A bill introduced in the legislature
contemplates that the state itself shall
set good example in the matter OF
building highways at the state farms
and 1t requires that the state shall i'm.
prove the highways adjoining the var
ious farms. The state has about 1000
acres at the institutions. The work
done by the state has been largely by
the inmates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

ern themselves accordingly. They
don't worry, they dom rush. 1t is a
city in which citizen will go city
block to do favor to the stranger
within its gates. 1t is city of mag
nif1cent Republican majorities, and IT
the Shaws are to leave the best state in
the Union they are sensible In choos-
ing the best city in the Union for their
future home. Good by, Leslie and
Mrs. Leslie and the childer. May you
live long and prosper"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Senator Ream has introduced a bill
in the legislature providing for the
support of families of men convicted
of crime. The bill provides that all
prisoners shall be compelled to labor
at remunerative work and that the in
come, less the cost of their keep,
shall be turned over to their families.
The idea is not original but is no less
worthy of endorsement on that ac-
count.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Five more counties of Indiana,
some of them large and with populous
cities, have added their expression to
that of thirteen counties previously
voting dry under the county unit,
AMI have declared against the licensed
saloons. One hundred and forty-three
saloons are put out OF business by this
action. The chance are that the re-
sr!t opens up an inviting field for the
bootlegger
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The State Sanitarium near Iowa
City claims so per cent of cures among
the incipient cases it admits for treat
ment for tuberculosis Such cases are
said to yield readily. During the first
year of the institutions history. end
Ing February l, 246 patents were adj
mltted, but of this number only thir-
1y-three, or IA per cent, proved to be
ihcipient Curing the same time
more than 400 were turned away as
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
PHILADELPHIA AND THE sHAws.

Former Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw
is closing out his holdings in his old
home town of Denison, this state and
will become a resident of Philadelphia
where he is president of big trust
company, The incident causes dear
old Major Rathbun to exclaim in his
Marion Register:
Philadelphia. Seems we have heard
of it before. The Declaration of hide
pendence was signed there. 1t is the
home of the old Liberty Bell 1t is
the home of more than 100000 lib
ierty loving people.
II Is the one big town in this coun-
try Of ours where the inhabitants
think that life is worth living and gov
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
The Des Moines Capital observes

The Des Moines Capital observes
that
"The Nebraska sob squad got there
on time Friday to prevent the hanging
of the man who beat wOman's brains
out with monkey-wrench and robbed
her of SITS. Wouldn't 1t have been
too bad to have sacrificed the life OF
so precious a brute!"
1t would, indeed. He should be sent
to the Fort Madison penitentiary
where he can enjoy baseball and have
music with his meals.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

why are the bills taxing bachelors
never enacted into laws?' The Omaha
Bee says it is because their authors
have failed to insert provision that
the money thus raised should be di-
vided among the married men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The house at Des Moines has decid-
ed that the law requiring township
trustees to put up guide boards and
signs at every mile is of no use, and
has changed the law SO that the plac-
Ing of such signs shall be merely
optional. The statement was made
that the law is not now enforced
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

too far advanced to be received. The
capacity Of the hospital is ninety-seven
patients, and this was reached In No
vember. The annual report shows
the need of enlarged facilities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The report that prominent Ken
tuckian was killed by drinking imita-
tion whisky is canard on its face.
No prominent Kentuckian could be
fooled into drinking the imitation
article.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

A st. Louis newsboy has just built
$4,000 apartment house Being a
newsboy in st. Louis must be almost
as profitable as editing a newspaper
in Keokuk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Senator Tillman says he will keep
right aft the President" He will be
mighty careful, though, not to catch
up with him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Ottumwa has been wide open"
town for many years until quite re-
Gently. 1t isn't difficult in such cases
to couple up cause and effect.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
keokku, Iowa. February IS, 1909.

March l has been named as orange
d;y," but of course no Hibernian
would think of celebrating it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25


abomination long enough. That h,,,t
ought to pass.
The medical corps of the army
adopts vaccination as a preventive .,
typhoid fever, but it is voluntarily
Ought it not to be compulsory,
About one-fifth Of the soldiers IN
national encampments in 'ss deveIop.
ed typhoid, and the deaths from i
were 81 per cent of the total for all
causes. Flies carried the infection as
proved by medical commission re,
port.
Gatun dam the flies!
Read The Daily Gate CITY 10
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

duce a bill making it a felony for a
married man to pass himself off as a
bachelor. The women have been COM
planning that from the standpoint of
status, all Mrs" look alike to an
unsuspecting and confiding maiden.
Hence. they want them tagged.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Vice President Fairbanks is going
to start on a trip around the world as
soon as his term of office ends.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

While there are comparatively few
women wyers, the sex is said to be
in great demand as clerks in law of
fees. These clerks have finer grasp
of detail than many OF the men clerks
and for that reason are preferred in
many officers where neatness and &C.
curacy are Of the greatest Importance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The Peoria Herald-Transcript has
noticed that the more young people
learn about popular songs the less
they learn about good grammar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Alex Miller says that nothing causes
folks to talk as quickly as for WON
an to be seen on the streets too much.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The Baltimore Sun says that Sen
ator Knox is the only man on record
who ever had his salary reduced as
an act of friendship.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

The indications are that March will
come in like lion and the chances are
that it will go out the same way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

According to the Washington Dem
ocrat, a man who is always wondering
if his employer is good pay is mighty
likely to find himself frequently idle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-25

Alex Miller says that nothing causes
folks to talk as quickly as for a WON
an to be seen on the streets TOO much.
The Peoria Herald Transcript has
noticed that the more young people
learn about popular songs the less
they learn about good grammar.
The Baltimore Sun says that Sen
ator Knox is the only man on record
who ever had his salary reduced as
an act Of friendship.
According to the Washington Dem
ocrat, man who is always wondering
if his employer is good pay is mighty
likely to find himself frequently idle.
1t is remarked by the Chicago Trib-
une that 1t would not be so bad, per-
haps, If they were merely smoking
cars, but they are also chewing cars
Approximately seventy men met a
horrible death by fire or drowning in
the Chicago water works crib and the
coroner's jury modestly ,ecommends
that an improved method of thawing
dynamite be discovered.
The legislature of Illinois is called
upon to settle a problem which goes
down deep into the very roots of So
ciety The maidens of that state want
distinctive title. sue. as women
have, to distinguish bachelors from
married men, as Miss" distinguishes
the maid from Mrs" the matron.
When this distinction is made.
sympathetic senator proposes to intro.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05
PROGRAM OF THE
TRI-COUNTY FAIR

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER eTH.-oPENING DAY.
900 m.-The Fair
Exhibits
Womans Department
Department
Department
m-Thrillng Performance the High Wire
p. m-Band
D NH Nosdck
$3.50 p m.-AIadame Marantettes Society High School
p. m.-B
u
D. Ms Aerial Wire Ma
WEDNESDAY,, NOVEMBER 10TH.-REGATTA DAY.
a
a
200 p. inland Concert.
Judging n Department
Comp etiono of Judging in Departments
Motor all the Afternoon front of Fair grounds
800 p. m-Band Concert
p. IL
soc mSenor Nosidick Madame Marantette and her
Famous Hunter, St. Patrick
1000 a. m--SenOr NOsidich Aerial Wire
1900 a. m.-Madame Marantette her Arabian
"SUnfOwer" Champion High of the World
200 p. m-BaRd Concert
p. on
Madame Maraneete and her Horses Kruger Champion
High jumping Pony
m.-Ff
II
Illuminated Parade
ROadsters
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH.-cLosING
III
p. ms NOsidick Ind adame
Roadsters, Sadders Combination
Grand Parade of all Prize Winning Live Stock
D. II
p. m--Madame MarPntette
Something doing the Board Walk all the time
This subject to minor changes if found
advisable.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05
TO
SAVE 4 WOMAN
DRAMATIC SITUATIONS IN THE
TRIAL OF NINE. STEINHIEL ON
TRIAL FOR MURDER OF HUS-
BAND AND sTEP-MoTHER.
az AssoeIated Press.

Paris, Nov. 4.-There were drama
tic situations in the trial today 0f
Nine. Marguerite Steinhiel, accused
of numbering her husband and step
mother. Although only a few We're
allowed in the court room, hundreds
remained just outside during tOday'S
proceedings. Nine. Steihiel was on
the witness stand, and in the midst
of her inquisition her attorney, NJ.
AUbin, presented a man who said he
wished TO confess tc participation in
the murders.
After the man had stated he was
dressed as a woman and helped 10
commit the murders, Nine. Steinhiel
declared she did not identify him as
one of the murderers she previously
described.
The mans arrest was ordered and
an investigation OF his statement
will be made The police are inclin-
ed to believe he is demented.
Much interest in the trial lies in
the friendship that existed between
Nine. Steinheil and Felix Faure,
former president of France.
The evidence today failed to shake
the original story of Nine. Steinhiel.
She admitted intrigue, but denied
she sent her mother to solicit money
from her lovers.
The man who confessed later ad-
mitted his name was Rene Colla-d,
and that he was not connected with
the crime, but acted on the impulse
to save Nine. Steinneil.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05

". S. Reeve, who has done much
towards developing the section ada
cent to Cottage Hill, and who is one
Of the prosperous fruit growers of
that section, has returned from three
months spent in the North, and IS very
optimistic, after viewing conditions
there, OF West FlOrida's future. Re
garding his trip he says:
"A recently completed three months
trip North furnishes much latitude for
thought.
IN that fast moving country one
sees progress and development on
every hand, and with the approach OF
another winter, the rush and drive in
ali lines is something fierce. Whether
1t be the construction of a block of
buildings, storing the crops on/buying
load of coal, everyone seems bent
on beating the other fellow.
IF there's an idle able-bodied man
in that region, it must be from choice
But as usual, the facilities for spend
ing money are fully apace with the
earning possibilities, and few indeed
Of the wage earnerS seem the net
gamers in the race.
With the return Of prosperous
times farm land values in those thick
" populated sections have advanced
unit, even with the exOrbitant grain
and livestock prices, the income from
the lands can hardly be regarded as a
consideration. 1t seems more a ques-
ton of getting the land for further ad-
vances, than for what It viii yield.
A COMPARISON MADE.
"Since from farming lands wherever
they may be, the crowning values are
reached through stock growing and
feeding, il truly does seem absurd
that r@.esa West Florids lands, with
near double the grazing season-fulIy
double the forage yielding abilities
and comparatively no climatic expos
ure-shouid be on the open market at
around One-tenth the selling values of
those North.
1T is q safe estimate that Escambia
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05
Day is Remote When Farmer
Cannot Care For Population

prove his methods in accordance with
the needs OF the people.
The secretary is in an optimistic
mood Just now and he points to the
figures OF the crop production show
ing that the value of the American
farmers output for one single year
aggregated the enormous total OF
seven and a quarter billion dollars.
That was for the calendar year of
1908, but the secretary was confident
that, having in mind the higher prices
of the present, the total for this year
would certainly be as large or per-
hapS larger
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05
THE SEABOARD
ISTRANSFERRED
RECEIVERS TRANSFER THE PROP
ERTY TO THE DIRECTORS, AND
THE LATTER WILL RETAIN ALL
EMPLOYEES.
ex Associated Press.

Baltimore, Nov. 4.-The transfer of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway from
the receivers to the directors of the
company took place at $50 tonight.
A circular was issued by the directors
today saying all employees will be re-
tanned.
The railroad went into the hands Of
a receiver in January. 1908, because
1t was unable to meet it's obligations.
AS 1t has settled with all creditors the
property is returned.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05
PREST TAFT TOURING GEORGIA,
HEADED TOWARD WASHINGTON
New York s $2,OOO,OOO Court
Building i'm Imminent Peril

morning and the passengers were
made to aIight two square above or
below the building. Traffic in the sub
way was allowed to continue, but in
structions were given to pass the
threatened spot at reduced speed.
The city prison, Familiarity known
as the Tombs, which adjoins the Grim
inal courts building was visited by
building inspectors today on the re-
port that it, too, was settling. Exami-
nation revealed a small assure in the
outer wall of the structure, but no
preparations to abandon the prison
were made.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-05
OLD FEUD is RENEWED
BY Associated Press.

New Orleans. Nov. Gable mes
sages received here this afternoon by
Consul General AItschuI of Nicaragua,
signed By President Zelaya, state that
the government forces have fought
their way through Paso de Iajas, near
FL Chile, and are now advancing to
ward Rama. one Of the principal bases
Of the revclutionists.
The receipt of these cable mes
Sages created much surprise among
the many members Of the large Cen
Cral American colony here. nearly
every one of whom IS q partisan OF