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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
Boys Nobby Wash Suits
CITY NEWS.

Dodge's; good songs; big crowds.
-Ewers' Grand Leader. best SC cigar.
The Air Dome. the place tonigh.
Let's go to Dodge's tomorrow
night.
Where you see them first
Dodge's.
Your shoe work will receive
prompt attention at J. c. Karle's. S14
Main.
The United States Fish Commits
sion boat Illinois passed the local port
yesterday on her way south.
-We-Chok-Be, the Sioux Indian
girl, novelty singing and dancing
act at Keokuk big Air Dome tonight.
The government steamer David
Upton is laid up at the lock for re-
pairs and will go on up the river as
soon as the repairs are completed.
The commercial trade reports are
that business conditions have improv
ed. due to the adjustment of the rail
road rate schedule and warmd
weather.
Special for the week: Regular
s1.5o and $500 per yard Administer.
velvet and brussels border and carpet,
samples of l yd. Ia yds, 1k yds
lengths at 7Sc each Limit of p to a
customer. Duncan-Schell Furn Co. ;
-Asaph Buck will build double
frame house at Ninth and Franklin
street on the ground now occupied
! b,r II, l. Lv-,a
dences are to be modern in every
way
Word has been received in this
city of the birth of boy to
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Smith, who
are living at Lodge Pole. Neb. Mrs.
Smith was formerly Miss Charlotte
Vermillion of this city.
For almost five months candidates
for the various political offices will be
circulating among the voters soliciting
support. The primary certainly starts
the campaign sufficiently early. There
is widespread discomfort over the law
from all political parties.
The tug. c Brusso, with three
barges of shells went through the
locks on her way TO Burlington. yes
terday morning. She had ESQ tons
OF shells on board, taken from the Hi
nois river. They will Re used in the
plants of the Burlington Button com
pany.
James Cruikshank, president, has
called meeting of the executive com
mittee Of the Lee County Old Soldiers
Association, for June % at 2 p. M, at
Donnellson. to select the time and
place for holding the fortieth annual
reunion.
-Colvin, Martin and milestone,
with another big song hit at Dodge's.
Friday is a lucky day for boat
rides. Columbus landed in America
on Friday. The Unitarian excursion
is to be given on Friday of this week,
and everybody is going.
-Keokuk obtained considerable
favorable advertising last week from
the visit to the dam site OF the more
than one hundred bankers who com
prised Group . of the Illinois Bank
ers' association. Their meeting was
held at Carthage and the concluding
feature was trip to the water power
site. They were able to get an idea
OF the physical conditions and their
report to their home towns will be
beneficial
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
CITY NEWS.

oh, you Dodge's.
Sherwood for harness repairing.
Hear the song hit at Dodge's; it's
worth while.
Harvey Hull is singing and the
band is playing at the big Air Dome
tonight.
Mrs. Henry E. Payton, who was
operated upon for appendicitis few
days ago. is improving.
La Moure Bros. in the burglar
and clown comedy acrobatic act is
the best ever seen in Keokuk See
them at the big Air Dome tonight.
NO wonder they all go to Dodge's.
Hear the new song hit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
When Friends

1t will take but a minute to pre-
pare dainty lunch, If YOU have an
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
Sunday Is Missouri Day
CITY NEWS.

For monument and cemetery
work. see John T Crotty, No. 81 s.
Twelfth street, Keokuk.
The Unitarian excursion on the
steamer ]. s. will be given next Fri
day When all of your friends intend
to go, how can you resist it and stay
at home? Get ready now.
You'll not be satisfied unless you
make plans to go on the Unitarian
excursion Friday on the steamer j
S. 1t will be the nautical event o.
the season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
TO PROPERTY OWNERS.

You are hereby notified to cut, re-
move or destroy all weeds, thistles
and noxious plants now growing on
your property or the sidewalk space
adjoining same within five days of the
publication OF this notice or the same
will be done by the city and the cost
assessed against your property.
HENRY SCHEVERS,
City Marshal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-12
CITY NEWS.

lod mas No &c regular meeting Hardin
evening, eight O'clock y. tomorrow
o order ar1 Of va invited to attend By
tary. ~ Nogier, secre
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
WILL FIGHT THE TIMES
PLOT TO BITTER END
A. F. of L. Pledges Financial Aid to Los Angeles
Battle for Liberty--English Delegates
Tell Worth of Socialism

St. Louis. Mo-. Nov. 23.-ASreeing
10 support the Los Angeles strikers
on the ground that the fight has be
come one of national Importance, the
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor appointed special
committee to raise funds and con-
sidering plans for combating the
declared intention of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association 10
make this Southern California city Il
model open shop"
Sent by the Los Angeles unions
to present in detail the inside his
tory of the Times explosion and the
attempt at Wholesale persecution OF
union men now going on in that
city, JOB Hartman, attorney for the
unions. made an address to the
convention which aroused the dele
gates to repeated applause. Harri-
mans speech was ordered printed in
full in the proceedings of the con
vention.
Tratcrnal delegates from Canada
and England spoke of conditions in
their countries. Fraternal Delegate
Pcttipiecc Jassertetl that the great
menace to all the workers on tho
Pacific coast. in the United States
AS well as Canada. is Asiatic labor.
I'm British Columbia continued
Pettipiecc, "21 per cent of the voters
vote the socialist ticket. For man:
years we have vainly begged for Ia
Dor legislation. but the moment So.
cialists are elected to the legisla.
turc the laws that we demanded are
enacted ...
Ben Turner. president OF the Gen.
erdl Union OF Textile Workers ..
Great Britain. made the following
outspoken declaration of his princf
pies:
Twenty years ago was ridicuieh
for being socialist. Today we
nave socialists in parliment and our
union men cooperate with them in
political work Conditions have
forced US to take an active part in
politics. and in parliment today we
have a strong independent labor rep
rcscntation whereby we have accom-
plishcd much good. England has
100000 trade unionists. In North
crn England there is hardly city
or town without direct labor repre-
sentation. We can learn from each
other. and l hope that intcrnationa;
relations will be strengthened.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
A POKER AND A CLUB.

Initiative-If the lawmakers of Il
city or state fail to enact laws de-
manded by the public. n petition sign.
ed by a certain percentage of voters
is filed and the proposed law is SAT-
tc be initiated. The people then
vote on it at the next election, or at
a special election. and if it carries. Il
is law. in spite of the legislature.
Rcferundum-If the legislature or
council enacts law which is not
liked. a petition may be filed and the
operation OF the law is suspended until
il can be referred to the people at a
general election. 7 hen. unless a ma.
jority vote for it, the law is q dead let
ter.
The initiative. cures the bad habit
of letting coed laws die in pigeon.
holes. 1t is a good poker for use Or
lax law makers.
The referendum ruins the business
of the lobbyist and CRATER, because
a crooked legislature cannot deliver
the goods" 1t is fine club for use
on crooks
These two weapons of popular gov.
eminent are especially useful on the
matter OF franchise grabs and crooked
tax laws
They would result in untold benefit
to the tax Payers of West Virginia
WHO are yearly robbed by political
prostitutes
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
MINERS IN
BONDAGE
In Alaban a Where They
Are Victims of Con-
tract System.

birmingham, Ala. Nov. 5O.-The
position of the miners in the cpaI dig.
gings of this state is the most pitibie
alter by contractors who work tho
miners as hard as possible and pay es
little as they can. Men who are un-
der sentence by the courts are work
ed il the mines too.
In addition to the fact that >thc
Alabama miners are the victims of
fierce exploitation, their lives arc
less secure than are other coal pro-
ducinG states, due to the nature OF
the coal and the poor method of ven
tilatlns the mines. The coal is OF o
volatile quality and generates gas
in explosive quantities.
Add to this cheap. inexperienced
workmen and ineffective mining
laws, and the practical, miners can
appreciate the dangers of mining in
Alabama. or. Inerhaps the hazards
may be better known from the know
ledge that during the year 1909, oft
of 1920 men employed below. twenty
/ SIX were killed and eighteen terribly
injured by dust and gas explosions
alone.
There figures are made more sig
nificant by the fact that during the
year 1909 Alabama fortunately, had
no single holocaust of men, those
VINO were killed and injured by vir-
tue OF explosions were picked off here
and There in small numbers from
time to time. which indicates the
dangerous conditions of the mines,
and that explosions of greater magnI-
tude are likely to occur at any time.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
HARDLABOR
FOR WARREN
While in Jail in Addition
to the Heavy Fine
Imposed.

Girard. Kan. Nov. 3O.-Warren has
been officially notified by the clerk
OF the United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals at st. Paul. that an opinion
By Judge Hook was announced and
filed at ST. Paul on November 81. in
the case OF Fred d. Warren vs. the
United States. in which the sentence
of the district court is affirmed and
the defendant is ordered to surrender
himself to the custody Of the United
states Marshall for the district OF
kansts within thirty days from and
after the date of the filing of the man.
date in the district court.
Warren has not been advised of the
III obable date of the filing of the man.
date.
1t now developeS that Judge Pol
locks sentence was six months in
the county Jail at hard labor in adj
ultion TO the fine and costs
The unusual condition of hard la
Dor attached to d Jail sentence is evil
IDENTIFY designed to prevent Warren
doing any work for the Appeal Iu:
ing his six months of imprisonment
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION
Will Ask for Law to Put
Trades Unions Out
of Business

New York. Nov 0.-DemanCing
that laws be passed making the
closed shop illegal in order tina:
ness, world, Henry Harrison Lewis
writes the leading article in the De-
cember number of American InduSt,
ries under the caption, What is the
matter with business"
The 5000 members of the National
Association of Manufacturers nave
Deen canvassdd as to their sales and
collections during the last year with
the result showing that business as
whole is slow, certain industries
are stagnant and few are enjoying, a
satisfactory degree of prosperity. The
average is below the normal.
In summing up the hundreds of sus-
gestions received from the manurac.
turers, Mr.. Lewis presents their Ge.
mands as follows:
Less legislative Interference with
business Less political activity. a
speedy and equitable settlement OF
the railway rate question. More con
and individual confidence Take the
tariff out of politics. Give equal opDor
tunities to all workmen by making
the, CLOSED shop" illegal. Reform OF
the currency and banking systems
Prompt decisions in the important in
dustrial questions now before the L
S. Supreme Court. More attention
to foreign trade and rehabilitation oil
the merchant marine.
Commenting on the program of tn:
National Association of Manufacture
erS, union leaders in this city point
out the deadly intent expressed to
! wards organized labor in the matters
OF the ':closed shop" and the prob
ability that attempts will be made
to Interpret the Sherman An.i-trisl
law to this end. The demand of tn,
manufacturers for prompt decision:
on industrial questions from the Uni
ted States Supreme Court along the
lines suggested in American Industries
would mean the conviction OF Presf
dent Gompcrs, Secretary Morrison AMI
John Mitchell on January 16, 1911.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01

Washington, D. c. Nov. 3o.--The
Central Labor Union is preparing an
active campaign for Votes for Wash
ington" 10 be carried on in conjnnc C.
ton with the officials of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor as instruct.
ed by the resolutions passed at the
ST. Louis Convention
AS the Capital is now ruled by
three commissioners. appointed by
President Taft. the voteleSS citizens
OF Washington are as helpless as
children to bring about any reforms
in this most misgoverned city in the
United States
Washinston's slums nave been the
subject. of repeated Scandalous expo
sures- In one district white babies
die at the rate of 21S per thousand,
and in the same death trap over 50
per cent of the co1ored babies fail
to live twelve months
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
NoTlcETo HUNTERS.

There seems 10 much dispute
throughout the State, as to whether
or not the can De transported out OF
the State.
The rabbit is not protected under
the law, except in the counties OF
Brooke. Hancock, Ohio. Marshall, Har.
rison and Marion. between the goth
day of December and the LIST day OF
November, following. Neither is the
rabbit considered game amman
under. our law, and may be bought
and sold, or shipped out of the State
J. A. VIQUESENEH
State Warden.
Smoke the Noupareil Cigar. A
union made and home made product
On sale at all cigar stores.
SEE SPECIAL OFFER ON PAGE :
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SEE SPECIAL OFFER ON PAGE a.
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THE LABOR ARGUS
SOME OLD TRICKS.

We are in receipt of communica.
ton from miner who was lured 10
Sharon on Cabin Creek upon tn prom
Use OF job at $3.50 per day He says
that after he got there ne received
s2.pc per day.
He also says the miners are load
ing cars which are supposed to hold
long ton that in truth run from
3: 10 40 hundredweight, and besides
this get all the trimmin gs that exist
in non-rnion fields with the guards
thrown in for good measure.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
State of West Virginia.
kanowha county. So.

NObily, 81.
At rules held in the Clerks Office of
on the first Monday in the month of No
vembcr, 1910.
Groscup Myers Realty Company. cor
poration, plaintiff,
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SEE SPECIAL OFFER ON PAGE
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I In Chancery, No. 1855
Robert l.. Smith and Harrison B. Smith
Trustee, Defendants

Robert l.. Smith and Harrison B. Smith.
Trustee, Defendants
The object of this suit is to enforce a
vendors lien expressly reserved in those
two certain deeds of conveyance from
the said Grosscup-Myers Realty Com
Pany, corporation. to the said Robert
l.. Smith. granting and conveying that
certain parcel of land, situate on the
south side OF the kanawha River, op-
PosIte Charleston. West Virginia. and
designated as Lot No. a. part of the old
ferguson property on Ridgwav and
Stanton Drive.
The said Lot No a contains abo,,t two
acres more or less, and was conveyed to
the said Robert L. Smith by the said
Grosscup-Myers Realty COMPANY a cor
Poratlon, by two deeds, the first bearing
GATE January 18th, 1906. and recorded in
tne Office of the Clerk of the County
Court of kanawha County. West VIRGINIA
IN Deed Book 1O3. page SIS. and the
second, bearing date on the 2lst of No
venber, 1908. and recorded in the ssid
clerk Office in Deed Book lis, page PAS
This day came the Plaintiff by Rrr,,-
mel q Hlgglnbothan, its attorneys and
on their motion. and it appearing Nv sf.
hdavit filed. that the Defendant Robert
l. Smith. is a nonresident of th;s So
1t IS ordered that he do apnear vy;+b;-,
one month after the date of the first ,,,,bi
licatIon hereof, and do what is necesssr-,,
o protect n IS interest in this suit.
Teste:
Ira H Montteshcard, Clerk
Nufflrnell d HIgglnbothan Sol
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
CURSE
FOURTEEN MINERS KILLED

M'Alester, Okla. Nov. 2S.-Four-
teen miners have been killed in an
explosion in the Jumbo asphalt mine
of the Choctaw Asphalt Company,
fourteen miles northwest OF Antlers,
according to message received by #
w. Church, state mine inspector. The
cause OF, the explosion is not known.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
CARPENTERS ARE GROWING

At the recent biennial session OF
the United brotherhood of Carpenters
AT Des MONIES. Secretary Frank Dur
~ In his report shows that the mem
bership of the order increased from
1850" on June 80. 1908. 70 20O,712
on June so. 1910. 1t also shows con
solidation of small locals in thirty
seven cities. eighty-two locals being
involved.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01

ington lawyers, conversant with the
tendencies of the United States gu.
preme Court decisions. to presage "A
series of convictions IN labor cases
which will. in all probability. include
the heads of the American Federation
of Labor. Samuel Gompers. Frank
Morrison andn John Mitchell.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01
WILL THE LABOR LEADERS
BE JAILED BY THE COURT?

Washington. n. c.. Nov 2O.-TEe
hnal decision of the T. s. Circuit
Court OF Appeals that Fred D. War
rem. editor of the Appeal to Reason.
must 20 to Jail. is believed by Wash
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01

The Jumbo mine is the largest in
this section. All OF the men reported
killed were Americans
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01

.wANTEO:-Ten Pick Miners, Ap.
ply to v. & o. Red Ash Coal Co.
Clay, w. Va.
The Marshall republican., 1910-09-30

reputation.
In 1871 there was held what was
known as the Kansas City exposition.
Kersey Coates was president, John w.
Reid, vice.president: Theo. 8 Chase
corresponding secretary; e. A. Allen,
recording secretary; Thps. H. Mastin,
treasurer. and Edward F1eischer, SUI
~oerintend mt. The fair opened Octo.
Der Is and continued one week. The
weather was exceptionally fine and
the attendance large, II being esti-
mated that there were $4,000 or 40,-
900 people on the grounds on Thurs
day. The total cost to the associa-
ton of buildings. premiums and man
agement was O little over $4,000.
There have been other expositions,
district and county fairs galore, great
live stock shows and greatest Of all
worlds falrs-the Louisiana Purchase
exposition-all-in-all making Missouri
a foremost fair state.
With the seed that had been sown
and the SHOW me" spirit of the peo
pie, 1t was very natural that Mis-
sourians, seeing the start that other
states had made, should determine 20
have a great state fair of their own
Accordingly, a bill establishing the
Missouri state fair and vesting its
management and location in the state
board of agriculture, was passed by
the FortieSh general assembly. On
the tenth day of October, 1899, aftel
an examination Of all the sites CT,
fered, the institution was located IA
Sedalit or 100 acres of land Gcnatet
by that city and adjacent to its lin
its. At the session of the legislature
at which me state fair bill was passed
no appropriation from the general
revenue fund was made for the equip
ment of the grounds, but the Forty.
first general assembly made an APP
preparation of $4,000 for that pur-
pose. The bill was signed by Govern.
or Dockery and the money became
available April II, 1901. The date for
the first annual exhibition was fixed
for September S-13. only a little over
four months remaining in which to
convert a Missouri farm into the Mis-
souri, state fair grounds. The time
was short, but in spite Of devastating
drought and many discouragements,
the work was done and the fair held.
From that beginning of only a few
years ago The Missouri state fair has
grown until it takes favorable rank
with the oldest and largest state fairs
In the country.
The Marshall republican., 1910-09-30
New Woman's Building

The Woman's Building at the
Fair Grounds at Sedalia has been
completed at a cost OF more than
$4,000, and for the first time in
the history OF the State Fair, the
women of Missouri will have a
building devoted entirely totheir
use and pleasure. II is not design
ed for any one class alone, but for
all-the women from the country
ha wing equal rights and privileges
with her town and city sisters.
Miss Louise Cornman, Secretary OF
the Woman's Missouri Develop
ment Association has been chosen
hostess and will extend a glad
welcome to all visitors.
The Building will be dedicated
on Wednesday by Governor Had
ley and on Thursday a reception
will be given to State Fair Sis
tiers by Mrs. John H. curran, pres
dent OF the Woman's Missouri De-
velopment Association assisted by
The Marshall republican., 1910-09-30
cent exposition OF the states live
stock and agricultural resources.

cent exposition Of the states live
stock and agricultural resources.
The present Missouri state fair,
while the first of such magnitude and
the only n having extensive i'm.
provements, suitable grounds and all
those things that make for perma-
nency, is not the first to be known
as the Missouri state fair" BY an
act of the legislature. approved Feb
ruary "a, 1853, the Missouri State Ag-
ricultural society was Incorporated, 1t
being the first society ever organized
within the limits Of Missouri and I'M
der the patronage Of the state. The
first fair conducted under the aus
pieces OF this society was held at
Boonville in the fall Of 1853. The
premiums appropriated amounted to
S1,351.5O. The annual address, pro-
nounced by c. ID. Bent, corresponding
secretary OF the Missouri State Board
Of Agriculture for the year 1865, to be
"a valuable and appropriate address
well worthy Of preservation" was de-
livered by Uriel Wright Of st. Louis.
The secretary Of the fair was Joseph
L. Stevens, founder of the old Cen
trail bank at Boonville, and father OF
ex-Gov. Lon v. Stevens, a native Of
Cooper county, but now residing In st.
Louis. The second annual state fair
was held at Boonville in 1854. In 1856
the third and last annual fair of the
State Agricultural society was held.
On December Z, 1855, the st. Louis
Agricultural and Mechanical associa.
ton was chartered by the Missouri
legislature. At the annual exhibition
OF this association, held In 1860, the
receipts reached the sun Of $47, 231. 80,
and it was estimated that 100, 900 per.
Sons were on the grounds ON the day
OF the visit of the Prince of Wales,
the Duke Of Newcastle and other
members Of the royal party. II will
never be known Just what the st.
tendance was on that ~eventful day.
for SO large wss the crowd, and 30
great the rush at the gates that the
fences inclosing the grounds were
eroken Town, the authorities being
unable to stop the great sea Of people
that surged In. Dinner on the grounds
was served to the distinguished
guests. At this dinner the char acc:
ond from the late King Of England
was occupied by Hon. Norman J. Col.
man, now 80 years OF age, a director
OF the old St. Louis fair, a national
commissioner of agriculture under
Grover Cleveland. and now an active.
member OF the present board OF direc.
tors Of the Missouri state fair. 1t
was Governor Colman who offered the
resolution making the frst Monday in
October as the fixed date for the open
Ing Of the st. Louis fair each fall.
The old st. Louis fair fiourlshed for
many years and attained q worldwide.
The Marshall republican., 1910-09-30

Len D~ickerson, OF Eastwood Az
has been quite low this week.