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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

An interesting fact disclosed by the
investigation is that the lower the
grade of beef the greater the percent
age of profit. The rule is quite. gener-
al that low-priced beef is marked up
twire as high relatively as high-priced
beef That is to say that the poor
er classes of people pay twice as
much profit to the market men on
meat that they buy as the richer
classes. 1t is also true that the per-
centage of profit is lower on all the
good cuts than it is upon the least de-
sirable. It will be noticed from the
above table that as rule the prices
are lower in large than in the small
towns, which is probably due to COM
petition.
Secretary Wilson has word in de-
Tense of the retailer. He reminds the
meat-eating public that city consum-
ers insist upon the prompt delivery of
their purchases and this requires a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

The postoffice department, in an of.
fetal circular, urges people contem-
plating mailing Christmas packages
for delivery in rural communities to
post them as early as possible in
order to avoid congestion and sub
sequent delay at the postoffices sup
plying carriers on the rural routes.
1t is suggested that packages contain
ing presents be marked, mot to be
Opened Until Christmas Day" and be
sent several days in advance. One
delivery will be made on all the
rural routes on Christmas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Nikola Tesla is said to have prac-
tically perfected a new system OF
wireless telegraphy and telephony
which will virtually eliminate the
element of distance, making it as easy
to communicate with the other side
of the world as with the man next
door. The trouble with Mr.. Tesla is
that he is a four-fusher. He can be
depended on to come to the front at
stated intervals with a tremendous
idea, but somehow or other it never
seems to get into actual operation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
The Sherman Law.

Sioux City Journal There can be
consultations that will work only for
good. 1t is to the public interest that
such consultations shall be permit
ted. It is well enough TO publish
trusts that have done evil and to ar
range our laws to prevent others from
following their example. But a law
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The city of Des Moines Is to he
divided into forty-eignt voting rle
ciacts with an average of 333 voters
each
The ar-philosopher of the Sioux
City Tribune explains that 1t is called
'linen shower" because the rain
comes in sheets.
Everything is ready for the recon
vening of congress" remarks the
Cedar Rapids Gazette. Walter Well
man has returned to Washington and
taken his pen in hand"
From a perusal of the papers now
in Des Moines it seems to the dis
passionate critic II the Mason City
Globe-Gazette that there is no need
of a Democratic weekly there.
Judge Smith Mcpherson of the
United States district court of south
ern Iowa has been summoned to sit
dS d HuSllDET VI u1C NhlJCu SoIptSo
circuit court of appeals at st. Louis
next week.
To the Sioux City Tribune the story
of the probable withdrawal of Nate
Kendall from the congressional race
in the Sixth district resembles the re-
port of Mark Twain's death. 1t is
greatly exaggerated.
! This pretense of joking about the
turkey hash is only lame bluff, in
the view of the Mason City Globe
Gazette which declares that there
4 isn't an editor in Iowa who would not
/ jump at ule chance of standing up
to the turkey remnant counter.
Relieve city officials OF partisan and
ward obligations and fix responsible
/ ity directly on them, and the same men
will give the city comparatively goot
government. who before We're looked
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
What We viii see.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: II we see
butter famine as early as November,
what shall we see in midwinter? asks
The Keokuk Gate City. The Hawk
Eye would say, without taking mucn
time to mediate upon the proposition
that in midwinter you will see lively
campaign in Burlington to fill tne
offices under the new charter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

preventing all consolidation is an alb.
surdity. The Sherman law as it
stands Is just such law. 1t will not
be generally enforced. 1t cannot be,
1t ought to be modified to apply only
to what is intrinsically bad and uh-
desirable in our commercial fabric.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
Circulating Petitions.

Donnellson Review: Petitions Of
consent are now being circulated for
the reopening of the saloons in this
county What the outlook is for sue
cess, we do not know, as we are not
familiar with conditions in different
sections Of the county. The only safe
thing to predict is fiat II the neces-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

In other words, in Secretary Knox's
view, the execution of Cannon and
Groce by zelaya in Nicaragua was a
plain case of murder and will be pun
ished as such. That is the talk with
the bark on-and the bark right side
out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Foster, the weather prophet, pre-
diets warm winter. That's too bad
Everybody except the coal men were
hoping it would be that kind OF a
winter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

The Kansas baby crop is reported
1000 short this year Is the circula-
ton of statements like this part of
the scheme to induce Colonel Roose-
welt to return from Africa and become
a candidate for PRESIDENT
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
HERE'S RICHNESS.
A Correspondent Pays Respects to
w. j. Roberts and His Views
on Woman Suffrage.

The following spicy correspondence
explains itself:
To the Editor of The Gate City:
To show that all tho narrow-con-
tracted Smart Alecs are not dead, I
ask you to publish letter l received
through the mail this morning. OF
course it was written by pair OF
pants containing means of locomotion
only.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Judge Mcpherson is quoted to the
effect that the Iowa City interurban
case has no bearing on the Iowa two
cent railroad law as regards ule steam
roads. The case before the court
applies only to interurbans.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Wellman brands DR.. Cook as an i'm
poster, which leads the Knoxville
Express to remark that the doctor
may be the biggest liar out of Jail,
but he is certainly lucky in his de-
tractors
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
Hurraa for Secretary Knox.

Hurraa for Secretary Knox. His
note to Felipe Rodriguez, charge
d'affairs of the Nicaraguan legation, in
handing him his passports has the
right ring to 1T. Every loyal American
will endorse the state departments
policy as to Nicaragua and the strong
words in which it was announced and
defined.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
The Keosauqua Democrat saws.

IF the Democrats of the First dis
trict should nominate for congress
Judge Smyth of Burlington. Judge
Bank of Keokuk. Henry M. Eicher of
Washington, or j. A. 8. Pollard of FIT.
Madison they will have a walk.
over
In other words, they wouldn't be in
the running at all.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

The Des Moines Capital believes
uaat when Mr. Roosevelt returns srom
Africa he will be the first to take UP
the cudgels for President Taft. There
is no doubt of that" says the Cedar
Rapids Republican. THE men and the
papers who have been trying to dis
count the President will find that they
will receive no aid or comfort from
the former President.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

sary 65 per cent are secured, one of
the saloons will open up; II they fail
to secure the necessary names we will
continue to quench our thirst with
copious draugths of aqua or cold tea,
or contract the Peruna habit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Some men are so whole-souled as
to have very Indifferent half-soles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

People with a proper conception OF
Christmas and thoroughly imbued with
its spirit never spell it Xmas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
cllnu TO Funeral Dinners.

OtII8 20 = ufICT al ES'IfTIcTS'
Giving dinner to those who attend
a funeral is custom that shows little
sign of early disuse in Lancaster
county. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
THE GATE CITY
PUBLISHED By
THE GATE CITY COMPANY
= :. sKIRvIN Manager
DAILY BY MAIL.

DAILY BY MAIL. ). =.
One year ....... .S3. 00IFour Months ...SLM y
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Entered in Keokuk postoftice a. secono
olAss matter.
Postage prepaid: terms In advance.
All subscription orders should s,sa si,V y ia "a
new or renewal order. II change OF aa
dress IL desired. state both the ola anu
new address. -.
Remit BY postoffice money order. ea-
press money order. registered iette
draft at our risk.
The date printed on the address OF eacn
paper notes when the subscription
Subscribers failing to receive their pa e.
pers promptly will confer lasol -
diving notice Of the fact.
Address all communications 70
THE GATE CITY COMPAN l..
No. IL North Sixth St.. keokuk. low
THE GATE CITY IS on sale at the fos>
Hotel Keokuk, cor. Third and Johnson
8, H. Rollins & Co, 629 Main street
Ward Bros, SIS Main street.
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
His New Brother.

His New Brother.
Yes, I've got a little brother,
Never asked for him from mother,
But he's here;
But S pose they went and bought him,
For last week the doctor brought him:
Amt it queer?
When | heard the news from Molly,
Why, ! thought at first twas jolly;
Cause you see
/ just imagined could get him
And our dear mamma would let him
Play with me.
But when once had looked at him.
cried out, "Oh dear! Is that him,
Just that mite?''
They said, Yes, and you must kiss
Tim!
Well, I'm sure I'd never miss him.
He's fright!
He's so small it's just amazing.
And you'd think that he was blazing,
He's SO red,
And his nose is like a berry.
And he's bald as Uncle Jerry,
On his head.
He's no kind of good whatever, y
And :he cries as if he'd never,
Never stop,
Won't sit up-you can't arrange him.
Oh, why doesn't father change him
At the shop?
Now we've got to dress and feed him.
And we really didn't need Fin,
Little frog!
And can not think why father
Should hive bought him, chen I'd
rather
Have a dog!
London Daily News.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Keokuk, Iowa ~. December 3, 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03
Savings Depositors

itably, for home use or for market,
must come to it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

upon as hopelessly bad and incom-
petent,' declares lie Des Moines
Register and Leader.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-03

Concerning Pups.
Who is 1t wakes you UP in the night
With awful howls and shrieks of
fright
And sends you 11ustling for light?
The pup.
Who is it in the coal bin sleeps
Till black as forty chimney sweeps;
Then slyly in the coal bin creeps?
The pup.
Who is 1t scratches at the door
Each day for seven hours or more
And make you paint it DER and DER?
The pup.
Who is it dimes on shoes and sox,
Newspapers, matches by the box.
Likewise ON fine imported sox?
The pup.
Who gets ais fill of kicks and blame
And makes the whole house blush for
shame
Yet is a favorite just the sames
The pup.
George Fitch in Peoria Herald
transcript
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22

tie was cast and the vessel which
picked it up. as well as dates and the
latitude and longitude of the starting
and finishing points of the voyage.
If man finds a bottle on the beach
and follows directions, he mails the
paper to the photographic office, whose
experts trace the path followed by the
bottle, delineating this path on the map
which forms part of the regular pilot
chart given to navigators who furnish
marine data to the office A star on
the map marks the point at which
the bottle was cast adrift, a circle the
point of recovery, and a number is at
tached to indicate the order in the ac-
companying chronological list. The
drift is shown as following the short
est possible route. except in the case
of bottles whose path is made to con-
form to certain extent to the ac-
cepted knowledge of ocean circulation
North of the fortieth parallel. or
to be more explicit, north of the lati-
tude of New York. bottles are driven
by prevailing westerly winds in an
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
BOTTLES TELL OF
OCEAN CURRENTS

line, sometimes zig Tagging across the
green water. at other times travelling
sin a Semi-circle
- Ordinary bottles they are. corked and
sealed with wax or pirch. Beer, vine-
gar, or catsup they may have contained
Tor there are no official bottles Ike
those the Prince of Monaco used to
throw into the sea years ago They
are dropped into the ocean by mari
lers and contain forms furnished by
the United States photographic office
which seeks enlightenment on all sub
jects dealing with the science of nayi
cation. These bottled papers. as they
are called. are printed in seven lam
Suages. AID have blank spaces for the
name OF the vessel from which, the bot
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22

gig, and to be won by the same own.
a. and horse two years in succession
to be won finally.
Others of the attractive specials
which make appeal to the fashionable
patrons of the show are the Challenge
cup for ladies' pairs, shown to phae.
ton; the Brooklyn Riding and Driving
club prize, for harness tandems, and
the Hyde cup, for fourth hand road
teams, to be driven twice around the
assoc iat;on half-mile track.
In preparation for the summer show
extensive improvements have been
made on the club grounds and the
equipment has been greatly enlarged
Two new stables, glass inclosed, have
been constructed for the convenience
of exhibitors who may wish to QUAR-
ter their horses on the show grounds
Tn addition to the half-mile track a
fine new steeple- chase course, about
a mile in length. has been laid out for
the Jumpers, and the jumping CLASSES
will be a marked feature of the ex'
hibition.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
Good TempIars Meet.

EVERETT. July 22.-The state con-
vention of the Independent Order of
Good Templars met here today. and
will continue till Friday. Over $50
delegates from all parts of the state
are in attendance. and more are arriv-
ing by each train and boat. Today
the grand lodge degree was conferred
upon a class of so. The report of
Grand Chief Templar Berringer, of
Custer, shows that twelve new lodges
have joined the order dt'ing the past
year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
bay SHORE HORSE
SHOW OPENS TODAY
With Longest and Most Attractive
Program Il Has Ever Given, Asso-
citation Opens Ninth Annual
Exhibition.

NEW YORK, July 22.-With the
longest and most attractive and ambi-
tiOus program in it's history, the Bay
Shore Horse Show association opened
it's ninth annual exhibition, and racing
meet today at the associations
grounds at Bay Shore. The show will
extend through today, tomorrow and
Saturday.
There are forty-four classes at the
show, % being for horses in harness,
single, double and tours, twelve sad
die classes, five jumping classes, and
one ring for roadsters. The list in
cludes many specials the most con-
spicuous of which is the new feature.
the Prightwaters cup. a trophy pre-
sented by T. b. Ackerson for competi-
ton last year. the trophy having been
won finally by Miss Emily Bedfords
Hildred. the winner in 1907 and 1908.
The Brightwaters cup is open to anna
tours only, for the best gig horse. Is
hands or over, driven by the owner to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
aonoao1o 2 81 = 4 q % . . . ! q

to show to the farmers in systematic
way the possibilities and opportuni-
ties which are in store for them and to
awaken them to a keener sense of ap-
probation of the lavish gifts which ma :
ture has bestowed upon this highly ia
vOred region.
The program will consist of an
unique parade, addresses, basket pic
mic at noon in the Lakeside park and
a rainbow banquet at the evening
hour. AS a rule these special events
and festivities are confined to indus
trial, financial and commercial organ
izations but the A.-Y.-P. management
very properly considers the farming
industry as one of the potent factors
in the development of the great north
west and in keeping with that idea will
strive in every possible way to keep
the agricultural interests of the region
well up towards the front Of the pro-
cessiOn.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
MEET WILL
Be FIRST CLASS ONE
Associations From All Parts of the
United States Are Making Pre-
parations for Taking Part
In Contest.
J. F. CROPP,
Administered tor,

SEATTLE, July 22.-The Y NJ c. A.
associa ton. of all of the cities of the
coast are energetically training teams
for the National Y. M. c. A. track
and field meet at the Stadium of hte
Alaska Yuko Pacific exposition next
Saturday
The Seattle organization has a num-
Der of good men, who are confident
in their ability to make a showing in
the big meet Especially in the Junior
and handicap events will the northwest
clubs be strong.
Reports from Los Angeles say that
strong team is in training in that
city and that the men will leave for
the exposition in a few days. San
Francisco will also be well represent
ed. ~ "
The -NeM York association. is send
ing a team which includes some of the
best athletes in the country. The 9TH
err large cities of the east will also be
entered in the contest.
1t is expected that the eastern ath-
letes will have the advantage in the
scratch meet. In that section of the
United States, Y. M. G. A. athletics
have attained greater Importance than
in the west and more of the prominent
men are enrolled in their ranks.
Next Saturdays meet will be the
first National Track and Field meet of
the Y. M G.. A. ever competed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22

SEATTLE, July 22.-The farmers OF
the Pacific northwest will have their
inning at the Alaska Yukon Pacific eX-
position, on Wednesday. September 8.
G. d. Wilson of Poag. Ills. has been
appointed director of the day, and is
now busy in the preparation of the
program Mr. Wilson officiated in a
like capacity at the st. Louis expos
ion with marked So cess. 49,
The object of tt special event is
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
Theft of Skins Causes Arrest
hibitiOn.

CENTRALIA, July 22-S. Dawson
was today bound over to the supe1oi
court from Justice Flewellings court
on the charge of grand larceny. 1t IS
charged, he stole three mounted SKINS
from the taxidermist shop of l.. r. n
choldt. Mr.. Richoldt detected MN III
the theft of the third skin and gave
pursuit, calling in the services Oh aH
officer on the way.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22

easterfy or east by northeast direction
on the western shores Of Great Brit
ain or the cost of France. Between
the two main drifts, or between the
Florida peninsula and New York, ac-
cording to explanatory notes of the
bottle chart Lies a debatable region,
crossed by many sailing and steamship
routes, and within which in all prob
ability are cast as many bottle papers
as in other portions of the ocean. The
recovery of such bottles is, however,
rare, the records of the photographic
office furnishing but fourteen since
1885,
CONTINUATION of ( the circulatory
movement was obtained through the
courses taken by bottle papers Ncs.
t122 and las, with drafts of 1920 and
{, $3.50 miles in 4S9 and S96 days, re-
spectively, at the rate of GA and miles
a day. No 122 was case loose by the
German steamship Parangua not far
from Cape Finisterre, travelled down
the Portuguese and West African
coasts to about the twentieth parallel,
and then moved across in half circle
to the Caribbean, landing on one of the
West Indian islands. No. las started
about midway between Nova Scotla
and France The bottle took a circu-
lar course. which cried it southeast
to Africa, thence westward TO point
north of San Domingo.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
HISTORY Of THE U.S..

CONTINUED From Page Seven)
partment; by act of August 8, 1888. all
judicial officers, marshals and United
States attorneys were ordered to be ap-
pointed under the seal of the depart
ment of Justice; and by an executive
order of June 16, 1898, President CleVe-
land directed that all warrants of par
don and communications of sentence
granted to offenders convicted In the
courts of the United States should
therea after he made out under the seal
of the department of justice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

For sale at private sale, three lots
on Whitman and Division streets. One
lot, 90x115, has large modern house
with gas, electricity and furnace. Ad-
Joining City Park Will sell lots to-
gether or singly. For terms, etc, in
quire
J. F. CROPP,
Administrator.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-22
VALUABLE INFORMATION GIVEN
sv iMANiMATE OBJECTS ~
.e&
SET ApRiFT
Some Take Other Lines of Travel
through the Water.

Valuable information regarding ocean
currents is obtained by means of bot
that dri---with the fiotsam of the North
ktaEt.c. sometimes following straight
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-03-12
An Ideal Cough Medicine.

AS an ideal cough medicine |
regard Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in a class by itself, says
DR.. r. A. Wiltshire, of Gwyn-
vile, Ind. Il take great pleas.
ure in testifying to the results of
Chamberlain'S Cough Medicine.
In fact, | know of no other prep.
aration that meets so fully the
expectations of the most exact,
ing in cases of Group and coughs
of children. AS it contains no
opium, chloroform or morphine
it certainly makes a most safe,
pleasant and efficaciouS remedy
for the ills it is intended For
sale by City Pharmacy.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-03-12
City Election Notice.

1t is hereby ordered that an
election be held on Tuesday, the
9th day of April, 1909, at the
Court House in Canyon City,
Texas, at which time and place
the qualified electors of said city
will elect the following named
officers to serve said city as such
for the succeeding two years,
viz; One mayor, one marshal,
(who will be an assessor and COL
lector of city taxi, one city sec.
rotary, (who will also discharge
the duties of city attorney and
one alderman for each of the
three wards of said city. Each
voter regardless of the ward he
resides in may vote for one alder
man for each of the said three
wards.
The following named persons
will as presiding officers hold and
conduct said election and may
two judges and two
clerks to assist them, viz; Z. a.
Uphold, ward No. /; Sam Hyser,
ward No. ,; Sam Shotwell, ward
No. 3. JASPER y. HANEY,
49.4t Mayor.