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are ravening wolves, we then plead

are ravening wolves, We then plead
guilty also.
And we say also that the election of
Foss is not the election of Democrat.
He is merely a disgruntled Republi-
can. He is a sorehead, who could not
run the Republican party. and he
sulked and walked out and off the
reservation and the other sore heads
in his party and the Democrats elect
ed him. There is no Democratic VIC
tory about it.
We urge Democrats to avoid en-
tangling alliances. This was the adj
vice given by Washington in his fare
well address when he was talking to
a newly conceived, struggling coun-
try that was in the experimental state
but it was good advice. 1t is good adj
vice for us as Democrats. There is a
good time coming but it will not come
till we quit chasing after the gods of
Belial.
We must quit following false
prophets who wear sleeps clothing
but within are ravening wolves. if
you will allow us to repeat the figure
of speech. Stand by Democratic
democracy as promulgated by Jackson
and then we will win and we shall
deserve to win
We are glad Foss was elected but
we do not believe it indicates any
thing as to this falls elections. 1t is
not even a straw showing which way
the wind is blowing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31
pavenport,s Water power.

Davenport Democrat: 1t means A
great deal to Davenport, that work
has actually commenced on the Dav-
export Water Power company's pro.
ject, Monday Men and teams are
busy now with the grading prelimj-
nary TO blasting, at the upper end of
the proposed canal, the mouth of
Duck Creek. For half century, or
perhaps since the white man FIRST
found his progress up the Mississippi
nearly barred by the current of the
rapids al the foot of which the city
OF Davenport is located men have
had visions of the mighty power that
flowed embarrassed past this spot.
and the wonders it might accomplish
when held in leash The city felt
that it might congratulate itself when
enterprising Davenport men secured
the right to develop the water power
here. Now that work has been actual.
~ commenced on the project. we
have double cause for qualification,
The completion of their task will
later be the cause of general re-
joicing What it will mean to the FIJI.
ture of Davenport is beyond estimate
incidentally, the ordinance of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31
THE LESSON OF THE WRECK.
The Combination Of Mistakes and Bad
Judgment That Cost SO Many
Lives of loWarls.

Marshalltown Times Republican,:
The cause of the wreck is not located.
Perhaps the most plausible explana-
tion is that light tender, intended to
be hauled, not pushed, rose under the
pressure behind, buckled jumped. or
Whatever way its wheels We're lifted,
high enough to swing the fiange over
the rail, and leave the track.
The technical cause of the wreck
is Incidental to this particular case
The reasons for the awful loss OF hui
man life appear to be evident. The
enormous death rate among the pas
sengers of that Inflated Rock Island
train seems directly attributable to
the make UP of the train, the doubled
engines and the fact that these en-
gines were backing. The rate of
speed was normal, about twenty-five
miles an hour, but the train was so
arranged that serious accident meant
a holocaust. When the derailment
came the steel mass of two heavy
locomotives, supplemented by a solid
Pullman damned across the cut and
made an imnnovable barrier. Between
/ it and the heavy Pullmans in the rear
the smoker, ladies coach" and mail
cars were ground as between upper
and neither millstones. There was no
possibility of escape for these fiimsier
cars. They broke like egg shells be-
tween the steel dam of locomotives
and the irresistible rush of the heavy
steel constructed Pullmans. The
wonder Is, not that the dead outnum-
bered the wounded, but that any
lived.
Had the make up of the train been
carefully arranged against the con,
tingency of wreck on a strange road;
had the engines been faced as they
should have been; had this train
/ been run in sections, each with its
engine, the probabilities are that no
wreck would have occurred, or in
event of wreck few lives would have
been lost. The conclusion is inevita-
BILE.
The officials know what happens
when trains made up like this one
was made up go in the ditch or pile
up in cut. But the trains were late
passengers must be sent on, the mails
Were delayed. They took a chance
Chance won the cast of the die and
the ditch along the right of way RAJ
ankle deep in blood.
/ Morally, a crime has been commit
4 ted. for the carelessness which juggles
4 with human lives Is criminal. The
telegraph operator who carelessly
throws trains together is indictable;
the conductor who misreads or care
ilessly neglects train orders come:
within the scope of the criminal code
The manufacturer whose machinery
has by reason of neglect or careless
ness or greed become mankilling i:
morally. If not legally. A criminal.
i The make UP of that wrecked trai,
is the main reason for the terrible
death rate, It was careless. moral,
at least. il was criminal IF no statut
covers it then TIE code of Iowa need
amplification.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31
Theatrical Superstition.

An umbrella opened on the stage Is
supposed to bring bad luck. and many
actors would hesitate about wearing
new shoes on the first night Of play
The evil effects Of new shoes are said,
however. to be 'ayerted by wearing
them on the wrong feet; in fact. any
player who makes this mistake In the
hurry of dressing regards it as good
omen not to be disturbed. Whistling
on the stage dLring rehearsals is be-
lieved to Insure a frost on the night
of production. and In operate circles
q yellow clarinet in the orchestra II
held to bring about the same dire re-
suit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Mr. and Mrs. Chris. seyb Saturday
evening.
Mrs. Charles Krehbeil and children
visited with her parents near Frank
lin Friday.
Mr. and Mr.. e. G. seyb visited at
the Chris. Seyb home several days
the past week.
Miss Mary Fisher Of FIT Madi-
son was an over Sunday in our city.
Mr. and Arthur Hirschler and son
David visited in Burlington and ut
Pleasant Sunday and Monday.
B. II. Ketchum Of Pennington and
P. N. Funk of Ottumwa came to our
city in an automobile Thursday.
George Lutz left for North Dakota
"wednesday where he has home
stead. His many friends here wish
him success
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald
having claimed that the rule uptllrned
in the house at Washington chad ap-
piled for twenty years. and that. al
though not until recently had any Re-
publican voice been heard against it,
the Democrats in the house had IKE t
up eternal protest against IT, the
Sioux City Journal calls She turn on
it very promptly and effectively.
Let's see, ruminates the latter
paper:
Twenty years ago this fall the
Democrats elected majority in the
house of representative Judge Crisp
was elected speaker in 1891 and again
in 1893 The Democrats had at least
two chances to upturn the rule. but
their eternal protest was not heard
They did upturn the rule concerning
the counting of a quorum, but they
turned it back again when they found
themselves also in possession of the
presidency of the senate"
The Journal concludes that nc
Telegraph-Herald is simply practicing
on the art of talking through its hat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Congressman Crumpacker of In.
diana has the right idea of the Payne
tariff law. In accepting denomination
he told his constituents that the law
in question has already shown its
capacity as revenue raiser, and time
and experience will vindicate it's wis
dom as prosperity producer. The
Taft administration was endorsed by
the convention, as was also the new
tariff law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Statistics show that there are 1885,
600 employees in the automobile plants
against 1920 in 1898, while the parts
makers give employment to 10000
more Not even the giant Standard
Oil and Steel trusts can quote figures
which will compare with those of the
automobile industry; that is, in sc
short period of time. 1t is Americas
most wonderful business in many re
spects.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

BEYOND The GATES.

We often wondered, she and |,
What thing might lie behind the
wall,
Whose gate stands open when we die.
Then sudden, shuts beyond recall.
We longed and looked, and dear ones
past
AS if on wings in viewless air.
No path they left, nor shadow cast,
They sailed and sailed, we knew not
where
sometimes when twilight gathered
round,
Each spake to each when lamps
We're low,
And never yet Gods answer found;
We only said, We do not know.
Then came a promise each to each,
Our thoughts still on the gate di-
vine.
Beyond the wall, if one has speech,
Who enters first shall give sign.
One summer day she left my side,
A struggle and the angels won;
And that sad gate that stood so wide,
] heard it close and all was done.
And then l waited for the sign;
If love could pierce the mighty wall,
Then she would speak, this lost of
mine;
/ listened, but no word at all;
Till once, with Nature all in tune,
/ walked beneath the myriad stars;
The breath of night was on the June,
And God seemed letting down the
bars.
And all at once seemed to hear
Celestial music in the sky,
And her sweet voice, so soft and
clear;
And then I knew we do not die.
Major S. H. NJ. Byers in New York
Independent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

company. permitting it to use the
streets and as'eys of the city under
ample restrictions, will be Submitted
to the voters of Davenport. 1t should
not lack full and hearty endorse
ment by all who want to see Daven-
port put in position where it can
offer inducements to factories to To-
cate here such as have never been in
the power of the city before.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

The Virginia house of delegates, by
vote of "a to 81 refused to ratify
the income tax constitutional amend
ment. The membership Of the house
comprises eighty-six Democrats and
fourteen Republicans, so that the
Democrats are at fault This is tire
first defeat of the amendment, three
other states having ratified it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

DR.. j. w. Kline of Fort Dodge favors
abolition of the state board of health
and the appointment instead of one
health commissioner with full power.
The suggestion has rocky road
ahead of it. For one thing, there is
"a suspicion abroad among the doctors
of the state that DR.. Kline would like
to be that commissioner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

There is talk to the effect that the
Pennsylvania railroad intends buying
the Santa Fe, and by combining it
with its own lines. torn an entirely
independent transcontinental system
that will be al active competitor OF
the Hartman roads. In such event
there will be some lively bidding be
tween the two great systems for the
trade of the Pacific coast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

The Wisconsin college of mines has
abolished the towel because it is I'M
sanitary and now the pupils dry
themselves with large sheets of paper.
There is something more than posi-
bility that the rage for asepsis will be
carried to ridiculous lengths
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Analysis of the Council Bluffs city
election returns discloses the fact
that large number of Republs cans
there voted for Tom Maloney. the
Democratic candidate for mayor. 1t
Is strongly suspected that. in the
language of Mr. Post. there's a rea,
SON in addition to the fact that Mr..
Maloney halls from Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31


Little Willie wore his stocking
Inside out. habit shocking.
To correct his naughty within.
Mother turned the hose Ga him.
-Woman's Home Companion
Willie didn't seem to care;
Smeared some roof paint on his hair
Father, though his right hand tingled
Merely had the ais hair shingled.
Chicago Tribune
Willie managed then to lose
His three dollar pair of shoes.
you won't need them now Pa cried
As he tanned the youngsters hide.
Peoria Herald-Transcript
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DoNNELLsoN IOWA
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Mrs. Kate Taylor was a Keokuk
visitor the fore part CT the week.
Henry Mehl is visiting his son
CLYDE and wife at Agency, Iowa.
Ed Slicher of Centerville is visiting
home folks.
Mrs. William Grant and daughter
Madeline were Pennington visitors
Wednesday.
Miss Alma Bank and her friend,
Miss Goldie Busch Of Mt Pleasant,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

After all that has been said in
abuse Of Uncle Joe Cannon. he is the
only man in the history of the country
to be honored with an election to the
speakership of the national house
twice in one term. The presumption
runs in favor o. his ability and WORTH
ness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

The Harvard boy wonder has
evolved the idea that radium is the
proper motive power for air ships and
would propel them at tremendous
speed This paper is inclined to agree
with the st. Louis star that with
$100,000,e00 worth of radium behind
1t most anything would get UP pretty
tolerable speed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Mary had a little lamb--because, as
q writer in the st. Louis GlGoe-Demo-
Graf explains. she couldn't afford to
order more at the price quoted on the
bill of fare.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Mr. John L. Kendall of Des Moines
and the Lee county board of super
visors were permitted to have their
say in these columns yesterday. Here
with the regular gospel is resumed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31
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There We're thirty bright, sun
shiny days in March March, mind
you. And vet there are number of
Republicans doing the insurgent act.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Carnegie is said to be contemplate
fng starting newspaper. He is eM
IDENTIFY sincere in his desire to die
poor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Those who want TO put Roosevelt
in Speaker Cannons place would bet
ter wait until he comes home and
picks out his place himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Z It seems to one of the aippant
photographers that that hen play in
Paris wouldn't be so attractive if it
didn't have good setting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

In the view of the Omaha Bee. what
the Pittsburg council chamber really
needs is a liberal application of the
most powerful disinfectant known to
criminal science.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

I According to George Fitch, good
authority. patriot is man Who
thinks of his country even when he
might be thinking about himself
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Chicago has discovered that its
chop suey houses are dens of vice.
1t should chop suey out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

A man advertises in london IA
per: For Sale-Old violin nearly
new And yet they say the English
have no sense of humor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

There may be other guns in the
house as big as Cannon but they lack
his effective qualities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

They have been praying for rain
in Kansas which may account for
the long dry spell
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

l 1t will soon be the time of year to
decide once more what you will do
take vacation or make your will.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

1t would seem to be the logical
thing to wear chanticler hats at hen
parties.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

Colonel Watterson sagely remarks
that TO one who has read a little his
tory, and Witnessed the making of a
great deal of it, in point of fact. has
attained to years of discretion-may-
be, in his own conceit, to years of re-
fiectlon-dog fights seem, somehow,
less important than they were.p
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

A belated pun. with Andrew Car
negie as the victim, is being circulated
at Washington. The iron master was
on board a ferryboat at Norfolk on
the day the President visited that
port, Something went wrong with
the compass. The captain appealed
to the mate. The mate examined the
compass and said: 81 guess it must
be attracted by that steel magnate
over there"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

If the Quincy Herald is to be believ-
ed, the average man isn't as good as
girl thinks he is before she marries
him, nor as bad as she thinks he is
afterward.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

The Creston Advertiser says that
whatever else can be said. of Cannon,
it is at least true that he is strong
and courageous and honest
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

DR.. J. F. Clark of Fairfield has taken
out nomination papers as Democratic
candidate for congress in this district
at the primaries to be held in June.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

And then I knew we do not die.
S. H. NJ, Byers in New York
Independent.
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NOTES AND COMMENT,

It is the observation of the Quincy
Herald that some people act twice be.
fore they think.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

A Galesburg lover is said to have
written to his sweetheart: I would
rather listen to you chewing gum
than hear Caruso sing"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-31

And all at once seemed to hear
Celestial music in the sky,
And her sweet voice, so soft and
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-04-28

will transfer at Seldovia, and will then
run up the Sushitna and Chulitna riv-
ers to a point about forty miles from
the base of Mount Mckinley, where
the first base will be established. They
will then go to the east Of the noun
tain, establish another base and at
tempt the ascent over the eastern
ridges. If they fail here they will
then go to the west and try it from
that side. From the 1906 expedition
they know that the southern slope Of
the mountain is impossible. They
could not attempt it from the north
because of the wide detour necessary
to get through the range and the
amount of valuable time that would
thus be lost. One of the chief factors
on which Professor Parker depends
for success is that they will reach the
base of the mountain in June and will
thus have the entire summer for their
work.
There are several peculiar features
to the trip. One is that no horses will
be used. The 1906 expedition employed
horses and found them an actual i'm
pediment in the difficult trips over the
ice and through the gorges about the
foot of the peak. On the present trip
men will pack all the burdens. Be-
tween the two bases is a distance of
sixty miles over a glacier, and here the
going will be hard even for men on
foot. 1t would be we'll nigh impossible
FOR horses.
Another interesting feature is that
the party will go over the same ground
that Cook traversed in 1906 Not only
so, but they purpose climbing the same
peak that Cook is said to have photo
graphed and claimed to be Mount Nc
Kinley. Professor Parker intends to
photograph it from the same position
and thus furnish indisputable evidence
that will settle for all time the Mount
Mckinley controversy.
Professor Parker spoke most posi-
lively at this point. I'VE do not
think but know where Cook went"
he said. and Mr.. Browne. who was
present at the interview. confirmed
him. I'VE did not depend on what
Barrill said. We rather expected Bar
rlll to support DR.. Cook, as he had
= -. 49, A. .sS
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-04-28

dition will be Belmore ii. Browne, an
artist and mountain climber of Seattle.
who was also member Of the Cook
party in 1906; Professor J. H. Kuntz
Of Stevens institute. who will be the
topographer; Waldemar Howard Gras-
81. Il Columbia student, who has done
some climbing in the Swiss Alps. and
II. Il. Tucker of Boston, member of
the Appalachian club. who has recent
ly been in the forestry service in Mis-
soula. Mont. There will also be an en-.
gineer and several packers in the par
ty. Barrill. the man who accompanied
Cook on his Mount Mckinley trip
and who afterward swore that Cook
was, like Sheridan, twenty miles
away" was offered place in the Par
ker expedition. but he has not been
heard from in some time, and Belmore
Browne expresses the fear that Barrill
has "cold feet" Now, cold feet are
quite in keeping with mountain climb
ing in Alaska. where the slopes are ice
most Of the way up. but Barrill seems
to have got them little early in the
game.
1t was early morning-at least early
by New York standardization l
sought out Professor Parker recently
in his Brooklyn home. He was born In
Brooklyn. by the way. and the fact
that he has lived there ever since, a
period of approximately forty-three
years. shows something of the heroic
fortitude Of his nature.
A Lover of Pictures.
The first thing one notices on enter
ing Professor Parker's home Is the
large number of original paintings and
pastels that adorn the walls. Many OF
them are Of mountains that Professor
Parker himself has climbed. Mr.. Bel
more Browne. by the way, intends do
ing painting Of Mount Mckinley
while on the present trip. and this
will doubtless be added to the Parker
collection. Parker himself talks of art
as though he knew about It, He Is a
member Of the Salmagundi club. and
only the true art lover Is supposed to
break in there The impression Pro
lessor Parker conveys Is that he Is n
thoroughbred In whatever field he en-
ters. He has shown the world that he