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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-18
Reports Of OFFICERS.

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From clerk of the council, showing
the number and amount of warrants
issued during the month of February.
1910:
Sab Charles Off, mayor. jan
uary salary ..........S oo.uV
3414 H T. Moore, clerk, jan
uary salary ........... 125 90 7
3415 James Breheny, January
salary 1890. ....... bU w 7
3416 Geo. Markle, January
salary ...... 1880. so 90
3417 J. Ross Robertson jan
uary salary .......,.. 100 w
341S A. t. Marshall, January
salary .I-... 10 w
3419 Paul Luedtke, January
salary ..... bu w
1920 Charles Forman, January
salary ...... 20 w
3421 VIM. Mclaughlin, Janu-
airy salary ........ 80 90
3422 Jas. II. Farrell, January
salary $500. 1870. 70 90
3423 Thomas Dunn, January
SdldIy ~ w
1924 John ]. Dunn, January
salary ...... ....... 90
1925 H. T. Moore, clerk, jan
uary police department
pay roll .......... 500 90
1926 H. T. Moore, clerk, jan
uary police department
pay roll ..... $40. 10 90
3427 H. T. Moore, clerk, jan
uary fire department
par roll .......... 500 90
342S H. It Moore, clerk, Jan
uary fire department
pay roll ..... 1S5 90
1929 Bowman Boyer Co.,
weighing ......... AZ 50
1890 James Bremen. salary
sidewalk inspector - 80 90
3431 Ed. NJ. Robertson, Janu-
airy salary ............ 80 90
1892 H. t. Moore, clerk, office
expense ..... .... 10 90
3433 Hunnewell Soap Co,
Klenzall 1890. ....... 0C
3435 S. Hamill Co., matches 81
3437 Albert Azinger, ice -. "a a;
3438 L. NJ. Coffey, NJ. D. sal
airy and expenses . % q
3439 j. r. Dimond, part salary 100 OF
3440 A. T. Marshall, office ex-
penses $500. ...... 26 0,
} 3441 The Daily Gate City Co,
printing ...... ........ 10 g
I 3442 G. S. Abel, electrical
supplies ....... 9 8
/ 3443 Keokuk Electric Railway
and Power Co, lights in
park ...... ...g....... 13 0
e 3444 William Angel, shoeing 10 6
S 3445 William Sinton, drayage 5
e 3446 Cameron, McManus &
Fruin, cement cutters 291 0
3447 The Constitution-Demo-
crat Co, printing ...... 256 /
s 3449 F. T. F. Schmidt, weigh
e ing and feed .. 81 4
t, $3.50 Sam c. Westcott, sup
plies ........ ....,.. 80 {
3451 Leake Printing company,
printing ......
1852 Frank Oertel, meat -. "a
III 3453 Gate City laundry, laun-
ut dry ........... j
It. 34o5 McGrath Bros, drugs !. 81
IS 1856 e. l.. 1ngersoll, oil $50. 8
to 3457 Henry Scharfenberg, har-
is ness ..... ............ IL
~ 3458 Joe D. Samuels, repair
1f- ing lantern ............
,e. 3459 John W. Bland, shoeing. G
an 1850 Iowa State Insurance
er CO., insurance . 8
lie. 1851 Wilkinson & CO.. sup
he plies ........... ......
hit 3462 Gate City Carriage Co,
or supplies and repairs 49,. AZ
MS 1863 Blake G. Lowe, shoeng 4
he 3464 James McNamara's Sons,
RS. coal ........ ......... 16
use 1865 w. P. Sutton, repairs :. Q
ME 3466 A. Weber Co, hardware IS
The 1857 Peter Wolf, shoeing 49,. 4
rec 1858 Blom-Collier Co, salt -. Is
= ~ ran -. -
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The Burlington Hawk-Eye declares
that Iowa does not wish TO be classed
with the Central American states as
in condition of perpetual insurgency.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-18

1t must De admitted that an auto
show brings more business than a
teachers convention. philosophers
the Sioux City Journal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-18
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Waterloo Reporter says that
what Is needed al Mitchellyille is an
Official spankeT.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-18

The Burlington Gazette observes
that the girls at the MitchellYille re-
formatory are getting to act almost
as obstreperously as Iowa Republi-
cans.
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3470 c. A. Dimond, NJ. D., sur
gical attention ........ 2 90
3471 Henry Kesselring, office
expense $500. ......... II q
3472 Bowen & Scott, drugs. 10
3473 t. R. j. Ayres & Sons,
batteries and bulbs -. 10 10
3474 c. NJ. Laubersheimer,
soap ......... Ou
34To Vollers-Ewing Co., groc-
cries .......... IL Az
BATS The Central, towels -. so
3477 Keokuk Milling Co., feed SO so
347S James McNamara's Sons,
coal ........ .......... y W
3479 James Cameron & Sons,
coal ......... ........ 20 81
$3.50 Glen Scofield, boarding
prisoners 1855. ....... II 90
34S1 James McNamara's Sons,
material ..... ...... bV
1882 Keokuk Electric Railway
and Power CO., street
lights ........... 900 00
34S3 Keokuk Electric Railway
and Power Co., street
lights .... ....... 35s GA
34S4 Keokuk Water Works
Co., water rent ........ 500 90
34S5 Keokuk Water Works
Co, water rent ........ 21o 81
1886 H. T. Moore, clerk, emer-
gency allowance $500. .1s1 rs
S4S7 George S. Tucker, AFRO
neous assessment $500. OF
Total ........ S5,274.2s
Received and fled
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II seems 10 the Monmouth Atlas
that there must be moments when
Peary is tempted to go hack and take
the flag OF the north pole
The Burlington Hawk-Eye declares
that Iowa does not wish TO be classed
with the Central American states as
in condition of perpetual insurgency.
The Burlington Gazette observes
that the girls at the AiitchellYille re-
formatory are getting to act almost
as obstreperously as Iowa Republi-
cans.
Governor Burke OF North Dakota
and Shallenberger of Nebraska are to
speak at the banquet OF the Jefferson
Democratic club of Des Moines next
month
The Waterloo Times-Tribune is will
/ ing to wager, since his announcement
that he has saved $4,000, Congressman
Jameson is on the mailing list of
numerous mining stocks and cheap
land sales companies.
The Kansas supreme court says the
saloonkeeper is beyond the pale of the
/ law as regards protection in that
state, despite which," remarks the
Jacksonville Courier, most saloon
keepers have the highest regard for
the law of the pail"
| An Ohio country paper printed the
item, There was a light in Joe
| Culps kitchen one evening last week.
The ST. Louis Globe-D emocrat see:
in this another explanation Of thu
rush to the cities where public inter
est in your affairs is not so piercing.
? A girl graduate thus described tn
8 manner in which goat butted DO,
: ont of the yard: He hurled the pre-
vious end OF his anatomy against tn
boys afterwards with an earnestnes
and velocity which backed by tn
s ponderosity of the goats avoirdupoi
n impaired a momentum that was not r.
d Taxed until he had landed on teri
d firma beyond the pale of the goat
q jurisdiction
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Report of caIaboose Keeper.

Report of caIaboose Keeper.
Recapitulation-
Whole number fed from February.
to February %, inclusive. 121; whole
number meals from February / to Feb
ruary IS, inclusive, 297: 297 at 20
cents per meal, being s5940. Whole
number locked I'm 112
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keokuk. Iowa ....... March 10, 1910
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-18

Governor Burke OF North Dakota
and Shallenberger of Nebraska are to
speak at the banquet OF the Jefferson
Democratic club of Des Moines next
month
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-18

Resolutions.
BY AID. HICKEY:
Resolved. That the rules be suspend.
ed and that general ordinance NO. aef
be placed upon its passage.
Adopted by the following vote:
Ito be Constinued)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
Roosevelt Shocks the BritOns.

The British people needed to hear
some of the things former President
Roosevelt said on the subject of Brit
ish rule in Egypt, but the advice would
doubtless have been better received by
Britons had 1t come at some other
time and in some other place. 1t is
not at all surprising that the British
newspapers generally censure the for
mer presidents action in taking ad-
vantage Of his position as the guest of
the kingdom to condemn one of its ma
tional policies. The London papers
are a unit in criticizing Mr. Roose-
Welt for what they regard violation
of amenities. but divide on sharp party
lines as to his conclusions, the con-
seryatiye press approving and the lib
eral disappearing them.
This speech will stand out really as
the most picturesque phase of the dis
tinguished Americans European visit,
SURPRISING the Vatican episode In in
terest as much as it does in actual
moment. In passing 1t is interesting
to consider the possible course OF
events had King Edward survived Col
onel Roosevelt's visit, which was, pri'
marily, to confer with the king In The
interest of world peace. Whether
such q speech, IL made, would have
impaired his influence with the BRIT
ish throne is an interesting query ever
as speculative.
But whatever may be said of thu
timeliness OF the speech, 1t cannot b
denied that It puts up squarely to thu
British crown and ministry PROPOSE
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
PERSONAL NOTES.

A Chinese who desired to protest against
a foreign loan cut off a finger and wrote
with blood. He might have kept the finger
on and used 1t Just as effectually to point
with scorn.
Andre d'Fouquieres, announced as
Frances model of correctness in fashions,
is to honor this country with q visit, as
enterprising merchants In need OF q dummy
may be interested to know,
Homer Folks, secretary of the New York
State Charities Aid association, succeeds
Jane Adams of Hull House as president
of the National Conference of Charities and
Correction. Mr.. Folks was commissioner
Of public charities of New York City when
Seth Low was mayor.
George II. Chase of Roxbury, Mass,
known as "old Seth" one Of the most ia
nous sharpshooters OF the civil war, is
dead. He was 76 years old He was a
member Of Berdans sharpshooters and Is
believed to have killed more confederates
than any other man In the war.
The will Of Miss Rebecca Coke, Which
was filed at Wilkes-Barre the other day
bequeaths more than 100000 to charita-
BILE institutions? Among the beneficiaries
is the st. James Industrial School and
Mission of Philadelphia, which gets $780,
900. Besides these gifts to charity all the
servants Of Miss Coke are to receive pen
sionS?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
No Rate Raising Yet.

The vigor and promptness with
which the government has taken hold
with the shippers to prevent a general
increase in freight rates should give
as much concern to the railroads as
it does encouragement TO the people.
The common carriers have argued in
vain that the high cost of living with
its reflex action in greater wages and
cost of operation has cut down their
earning power below a reasonable
point and made larger freight rates
imperative. The one exhibit that de-
feats all this is that, though railroads
have had to raise wages and pay more
for rolling stock and equipment. theiI
net earnings continue to show heavy
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
JUNE.

Oh, frost benumbed mortal, tits time to
revive; '.L ~
oh, comet-struck souls, "cut OUT all that
For the robin annoupces the glad days
to be ..., -... $751;.
Go, bury your pains and your aches for
Go, take off that long, long face, YOU loon;
Go meet with a smile the sup's glad
Don't you know it's Juno?
There's scent on the breeze that We
For comet-tal gas-'tisN the breath Of the
clover; ..-- a.-.,.,.f ... 81,
And the thrush keeps telling how happy
Yes-oyer and over: e a
And the sweet-faced bride IL tryir' on toys
For the great event that lie coming off
And the man In the case Is on needles and
For he knows 1t is June.
The robin looks wise as he struts on the
Could he utter his thoughts he would
And the voice OF the graduate thrills thro'
Spreading awe all around US:
The masculine senior doth sternly crate.
Rehearsing his wisdom at night to the
moon; ~ ...
But that stately orb with forbearanee
smiles down. q % ''t' 'Nn
She knows II is June.
The catbird has a secret SO rare
He'd tell-but tits part of his wisdom to
doubt us; ..
And the orioles notes from the elm, slft-
ing down, .'' -
Scatter joy all about us;
The humble bees buzz where the clovers
are white
They're awaiting the first bare foot-let
'em sting 1t; ~ -.r# 81 s.
For it adds to the Joy of the genuine boy
In Junetlme-ding I'll
-BAYOLL NE TRELE.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

ton that calls for their best considera-
ton. The political conditions in Egypt
as reflected in the assassination of
Premier Boutros Pasha are not what
they should be and not what they
would be IL Great Britain cared to ex-
ert its power of correction. 1t may
be that Theodore Roosevelt, a private
American citizen, is not the proper
person, as one of the London papers
declared, to point out England's duty
in this connection, but the fact re-
mains that England, itself, admits
that it has not completely performed
its duty and, as the former president
suggested, unless II awakes soon to
the necessity of more popular system
of government in Egypt it may find
its right to control there some day
challenged by other powers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
Talks for people who sell things

Do People Read Newspaper Adyer-
tisementsP
The answer to this question is
obvious. 1t would be impossible to
publish the newspaper of today and
sell it for less than 5 cents per copy
If the average newspaper reader did
not read the advertisements regularly
and were he not influenced in his pur-
ehases, by the advertising. Merchants
do not advertise as charity to the
newspapers. With them, advertising
is a business proposition, and whether
it pays, or not, is not guess work.
Every now and then we meet q
person who claims that he does not
read newspaper advertisements.
Mr.. Lord, at the time he was head
of the Lord & Thomas advertising
agency, had a caller one day, who in
troduced himself as the senior partner
of a large manufacturing concern,
stating that his partners were very
much in favor of advertising their
product, but that he could not see the
matter in the same light that they did.
II have come TO you, Mr.. Lord" he said,
because you probably have had as much
experience in the advertising business as
any man in Chicago, OF course, while
don't believe in avertising. l am not al
all pig-headed about It and haven't any
prejudices. II a man can state the case
strong enough, am willing to be convinced
Personally, l newer read any advertising.
am not in the least influenced by advertis
ing When / make purchase don't know
whether the goods are advertised or not
! simply buy what, in my own judgment
think is best Naturally, l believe tina
everybody else is the same way, and can
not see what good an advertising campaign
will do for us, anyway"
Mr. Lord very adroity turned the subjee
to more personal matters and In the eours
OF his conversation, II appeared that Mr.
Berry, the manufacturer. and Mr.. Lord haa
a common bond Of sympathy in the fact
that at home, there was strike In tn
kitchen" and Mr., Berry, particularly com
planned about having 10 do the marketing
something he had never done before In al
his life
you must have a nice time buying mea
and groceries," said Mr.. Lord. II dom
believe you know ham from bacon. Why
II your wife asked you to buy can Q
baking powder you wouldn't know wha
kind TO ask for"
Sure / would" said Mr.. Berry, 'Pd as
for Royal, or DIR. Prices"
A smile spread over Mr.. Lords face;
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

increases and their dividends keep
right on growing. Even though the
cost of operation had doubled, it
would not justify these rate increases
SO long as the net earnings hold up
as they are.
Railroad men have represented that
the necessity of making enormous ex-
penditures to handle the trade of the
future warrants them in demanding
more revenue now, but that argument
is evidently not regarded as tenable,
much less conclusive, by the govern
ment. OUTLAWS for better facilities are
always to be reckoned on and improve
ments are permanent, but the expendi-
lures must go down as investment and
should not be figured up against cur
rent revenue or allowed to control the
matter of rates.
The Department of Justice, with the
attorney general himself directing the
fight, has taken up the Sherman anti
trust law as the cudgel against the
twenty-five railroads accused of COM
bining to raise rates simultaneously.
In no other way could the railroads
expect TO succeed and in this way they
cannot hope to run the gamut of the
court rulings on the antitrust law. II,
therefore, the shippers, through the
government, are able to prove their
contention the railroads will have to
desist from what is plainly an illegal
combination in restraint of trade.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

dawned on Mr.. Berry that the bottom had
dropped out OF the statement he had made
a few minutes before, that he never was
influenced by advertising,
You can see for yourself" said Mr.. Lord,
after the laugh had died away, that with
even as busy a man as you, who probably
bolt your newspaper the same as you do
your breakfast, that advertising has given
you knowledge Of what to buy and where
to buy, although you are not conscious
of It. You have never bought q can Of
baking powder, but the first time you do,
the fact develops that you can't think Of
any other brands than the advertised
brands and that you have been uncon-
seiously convinced that these are also the
best In quality"
Mr.. Berry started successful ad-
vertising campaign. But that, as Kip
ling would say, is another story.
"Yes," says the skeptical business
man, this may be true enough, but
the question that interests me is, will
people read my advertisement if ! put
1t in the newspapers?"
The newspaper reader, when he
looks over paper, must read
whether he wishes to or not, any line
that is printed so that the eye catches
1t at a glance. 1t is self-evident that
he cannot help reading it If the line is
one which the eye reads involuntarily
and the mind grasps without effort
That much of an advertisement, the
newspaper reader must read whether
he will or no. If there is a picture
connected with 1t, the picture also con,
veys an idea to the readers mind, re
CARELESS whether this act is voluntary
or involuntary, on the part of the
reader.
People do not shun reading news
paper advertising. They do not have
to be fooled into reading advertise
ments. They do so because they ar,
as much interested In This feature Of (
daily newspaper as anything else Il
its columns. What can be more inter
esting TO men and women than hoy
they can get the most good out OF tn,
money they have worked hard to earn
People Work--not for dollaTs--bu
what the dollar can be turned inte
Nothing interests people more thai
stretching dollars, or knowing wher
/ and for what to change those dollars
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
A SIDEWALK
FULL OE PIANOS
Bennett Go. Is Taxed to Care
for Constantly Arriving
Exhibition Instru- ~
Inents.
FROM RICHMOND, va.
A sidewalk full of planosI

A sidewalk full of pianosl
A barrier of brightly illuminated,
label bedecked piano boxes, each laden
with some melody producing instru-
mentl That was the sight that today
confronted passers by at The Bennett
Co.'s establishment at Sixteenth and
Harvey streets,
And the boxes bore. huge posters
upon which, were printed In scarlet let
tiers, the mystic symbols: N. A. P. D.
of A., Richmond. Va,
To the initiated this means! ma
tional Association of Piano Dealers
Convention, Richmond, Va. the
sole means of identifying pianos thai 4
were last month exhibited at this
famed southern city. by manufactur-
ers who take a pride In their pro-
auctions.
The Bennett Co, was particularly
fortunate in securing a number of
these instruments from the exhibitors
at a considerable reduction in price,
and on Saturday las this concern in
augurated a special selling of Tex
hibit" pianos that viva go down into
local music lovers history as an event
of Importance.
The Bennett Co. was also fortu-
nately able to secure a second and
larger shipment of these exhibit"
pianos-bought them tusS as advant-
ageously as the first lot--and will re-
tall the instruments at still greater
reductions II that is possible.
Cases that are maryels of the cabi-
net makers ATTRACTIONS that embrace
| ne newest thoughts of mechanical ca
perts-tonal capacity that the born
musical artist will rave over-such are
the features that lift these "exhibl-
ton" instruments above the ordinary
taken-from-stock pianos
Many of today's arrivals were prize
winners at various national and inter
national exposltions and "Blue Rib
bons" are promiscuous in the piano
display windows and on the third
floor of The Bennett Co.'s establish
ment, wherein Is situated the depaTN
ment devoted to the selling OF this
line,
If you must have q plano why not
have a prize winning "Blue Ribbon"
plano II 1t costs no more-eYen less
than the other kind.
OF course, 1t will be q mere matter
Of days before all OF these exhibition
pianos from Richmond are disposed
Of. 1t behooyes one we'll to hasten his
{ selection II one desires to get the
benefit OF the reduction offeredN
At any rate II you love beaut4Aln
3 the form OF pianos-see tho Blue
; RibboneTs."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
Our Birthday Book
June 2. 1910.

John c. SAKE, the American humorist
who sang of Omaha Where rolls the deep
Missouri down." was born June 2, 1876 and
died In 1887. He was newspaper man, who
visited this city in the early days and put
his impressions into poetry.
DR.. Ewing Brown, practieing physician
in the Brandeis building, is 81 years old
today. He was born at Monmouth, ILL.,, and
educated at Monmouth college, studying
medicine later at Jefferson college and
Johns Hopkins He is now emeritus pro-
fessor Of gynecology in the medical depart
ment OF the University of Nebraska.
Arnold s, BOrglum OF the Darlow Ad-
vertisIng agency In The Bee building, Is
Just A. He was employed for some time
with the Union Pacific. and Is now secre-
tary OF his present firm.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

When a man loses Flaw suit which
he thinks he ought to win he usually
is, at least, not happy over it. But
here we have the members of the
Water board already telling how glad
they are that the city has been beaten
in the water works case. 1t looks a
little as If the job were set up that
way, and that they were in with it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

Ex-Governor Pennypacker of Penn
sylvania is still insisting that there
never was any capitol graft in his
state. If the governor only could
have convinced the people and courts
of this some time ago he might have
saved several of his fellow citizens and
official compatriots from going to the
penitentiary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02
Reaching for "Higher Ups"


The usual order has been reversed in
the case of the sugar trust now on trial,
The little fish have been permitted 10
escape, the efforts of the law being
turned toward catching the big ones in
the net. This policy in dealing with the
bad trusts will reach the seat of the
trouble the ones really responsible being
no longer able to escape by offering up
the sacrificiary goat.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

1t is to be noticed that our fran
ehised corporations are not particu-
larly downcast over verdict against
the city for $6,26S, 295.49. which they
will have to help to pay. They are
all willing to have municipal owner
ship tried first on the water works at
an inflated appraised price if it gives
them indefinite immunity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

So Slason Thompson, publicity
agent for the railroads, thinks Presi-
dent Taft has not thoroughly studied
the railroad question or the govern
ment's policy would be less radical"
Too bad, too bad! Wonder If Mr..
Thompson's view would be altered any
should he lose his job tomorrow.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

Omaha's trade boosters are collect
ing all the publicity notices given them
by local papers in towns visited on
their recent excursion. Good as far
as it goes, but do not forget that
Omaha papers are boosting all the
wear around.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-02

Union Pacific officials will proceed
to shake hands with themselves. For
once twenty-five western railroads
have been enjoined for advancing
rates, and the Union Pacific is not
marty to the suit.