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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
THE TRANSPORTATION INDUS
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The vastness of the transportation
Industry of the United States is re-
fected by some figures given in the
report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. On the 234 ,S6S miles of
road in the country are 1,502.S23 en-
ployes. The par value of the railway
property is s17,4S7.86S,935. and during
the last fiscal year there were car
ried S91,472,425 passengers and 1,556,-
559,T41 tons Of freight. The gross
earnings of all the roads for the year
ending June 30. 1909. were approx
mately s2.400,0o0000. OF this i'm
mense sum Al per cent was paid out
for labor. Fuel, oil, materials and
supplies took up 17.3 per rent, while
4.25 per cent was used for better
ments and improvements. Dividends
absorbed 7.23 per cent, or less than
one-ffth the amount that was paid for
labor
It is estimated that, counting the
families of the employees, more than
1000 GOO persons are dependent upon
The railroads, while hundreds Of thous-
ands of others in the mines and mills
and forests are indirectly dependent
upon the railroads, as their labor is
made profitable largely by reason Of
the Transportation facilities offered
for their product The close relation
between the prosperity of the rail-
roads and of the country generally Is
thus made apparent at a glance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
MARRIAGE AND LukAcY.

A penitent pastor OF church in
Arkansas. arrested in Louisiana on a
charge Of passing worthless checks,
begs a lenient Judgment on the ground
that Tor year past he has been
mentally disordered. AS evidence of
the brainstorms that affect him, he
says. although he has a wife and six
children in Arkansas. yet he married
a girl in Texas and then went over to
Louisiana and married another. he
may indeed. have married few more
here and there in the course of his
wanderings, for he says in his con-
fession: God knows that part of this
last year | cannot remember some
things that passed" His case Ia
made the subject OF readable com.
ment by the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
which suggests that
This line of defense is interesting.
because for the first time in our his
tory 1t puts forward marriage. re.
marriage and reiterated marriage az
an evidence of moral responsibility
Inc ratio OF exemption implied in the
NUMBER OF marriages will have to be
| worked out by the criminal courts
But II three marriages be found suf
4 fici2nt to relieve man from nenalty
for passing worthless checks thaT
plain bigamy ought to give exemntior
for murder, and one marriage ahsolye
man from responsibility for grocer,
bills. Hcwrvar tha CAGE r,o,, H., a.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
GALLAND.
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| Miss Grace Noonan OF Keokuk,
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Noonan.
Miss Wenona Gill of Quincy, Ill,
enjoyed few days visit with her
aunt, Mrs. Timothy Boyle, last week.
Messrs George Hemingway and
Fred Johnson. who are employed by
the hurry Iron Works of Burlington,
spent Sunday with home folks.
Mrs N. p. Johnson and little son,
Alvin, spent Sunday with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Silvers OF
near Montrose.
Mrs T. ]. Harrington and daugh-
ter Anna, departed for Chicago, We'd
nesday morning where they will visit
Mrs. Harrington's brothers, Messrs.
Brunnens for few weeks.
Miss Blanche Osburn entertained
her friends, Miss Rosa Blackburn OF
Keokuk and Miss Flo Andrews oil
Sandusky, Sunday.
Miss Lula Denmire was caller IN
our village one day last week
Mr.. Bryan Harrington was bust
ness caller In Montrose, last Wed
nesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

Interment In German cemetery. The
funeral obsequies were conducted BY
Rev. Reichle and were largely attend
ed. thus attesting the high esteem in
which she was held &
Robert Cameron and daughter de-
parted Saturday for a visit with rel
atiyes in Kansas, Oklahoma and Cal.
ifornia.
Elmer Cutting has been stepping
some since Saturday, and well has he
cause to, for on that day an eleven
pound son arrived at his home.
Herman Killers, of Keokuk and
Miss Frances Voltz, of Kahoka, were
united in marriage at the house of the
brides parents Monday.
Mrs. Ollie Yallon and daughters, Of
La Crosse, Wis, are guests OF her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. e. F. Scott
Charles McAfee died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. John Buschltng,
near Wayland, Monday, aged rs years.
He was member of Co. F, 21st Mo.
Funeral was held Tuesday afternoon.
Pat Mahoney, of vinita, Okla. is
the guest OF Kahoka relatives and
friends.
Chautauqua opens next Saturday.
The 21st Missouri Infantry will have
a reunion in Kahoka, Sept. IA and Is.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
Just Surprising.


Sioux City journal: II William
Howard Taft had told Albert Baird
Cummins that he would recognize the
Cummins party as the Republican
party Of Iowa when the question was
put to him In the famous document
alleged to have been written by Ora
Williams prior to the 1905 conven.
ton, do you suppose everything
would have happened just as 1t has
happened in the Cummins Campaign
In support of essential principles of
popular government?
II the old guard in the senate had
given Senator Dolliver that vacant
place on the finance committee that
prepared the senate tariff bill, do you
suppose Senator Dolliver would now
be using tooth and nail against the
Payne tariff?
! II Speaker Cannon had insisted on
the enactment of a special tariff bill
reducing the duties on print paper
and wood pulp, IN advance of the gen
eral tariff revision. do you suppose
all the uplift newspapers would now
be gouging the political stuffing out
of him?
II Taft had left Jimmie Garfield at
the head of the interior department
and allowed Gift Pinchot to run
amuck with his conservation ideals,
do you suppose these eminent re-
formers would now be denouncing
Taft as the blind tool of the Guggen-
helms?
II Robert ]. Collier found that
roasting Ballinger hurt circulation,
do you suppose Golfers would now
be roasting Ballinger?
II you feel the slightest inclina-
ton to answer all or any of these
questions affirmatively, you are but
a child grown tall in politics The
inside baseball OF the great game
is wholly beyond your comprehen-
sion. You should go on reading the
uplift magazines and newspapers and
voting for the men you believe to be
right, as you are given to see the
right. Maybe some good will come of
all the ferment, regardless OF the
rottenness of the yeast that set 1t
going.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
THE AERoPLANE IN WAR.

Glenn III. Curtiss, winner OF the
$4,000 prize for fight from Albany
to New York. writing in the Column
bian Magazine for September, gives
his ideas as to the value OF the aero
plane for military purpose. He says
the recent demonstrations of the value
Of the aeroplane for naval purposes
follow along the line OF action taken
almost from the first Of present.day
flying machine development by mill
tary authorities. These demnostra-
tfons have long since quite sufficiently
proved the present undoubted value
Of the acroplane for military pur-
tary maneuvers, for purposes of OBJ
servation, for making maps of the
country. for carrying messages and
packages-th are only few of the
practical uses already acknowledged
after demonstration. But much re-
mains to be done by the army before
the aeroplane takes its place in the
new warfare of the world-many ex-
periments that will determine It's
usefulness as an element OF attack.
Then. too, an entirely new line of mill
tary training must be entered upon
not only must men be taught so as to
become skillfui In handling machines
in the air, but the man on the ground
must be trained to estimate correctly
the altitude and speed of a flying ma
chine and other data obtainable from
the ground. If anything were needed
to convince the world that the aero
plane really does usher in a new era.
it is a glance into the manifold activ-
tiles developing, one from another, In
the great systems OF modern warfare
on land and sea, offensive and defen-
sive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
The Fertilization Problem.

Davenport Democrat: 1t costs more
to grow cotton than 1t does to produce
corn. And what is true of cotton
is likewise true of the fruits and the
truck that are chiefly grown over a
large section OF the country. 1t Is
stated by Southern college professor
whose specially Is the soil, that six
adjoining Southern states spend annu-
ally more than $50.O00,0o0 for CONNER
cial fertilizers. The amount steadily
grows rather than DECREASES, and the
cost Of this stimulant and food Is all
the time going higher. The area to
which IT is found advisable to fertil-
fze is extending rapidly. Which makes
fbe onestjon an absorbing one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
THE WESTERN PACIFIC.

The new Western Pacific railway,
the Pacific coast extension of the Den.
yer & Rio Grande from Salt Lake
City, will i1augurate through passen-
ger service between Denver and San
francisco next Monday. The new line
is 921 miles long and has been In
course of construction since Septem-
Der, 1905. The work was carried on
actively from both Salt Lake and San
Francisco ends, and the rails were
connected In November, 1909, since
which time freight trains have been
operated continuously over the new
line In order to prepare the roadbed
for passenger train service.
With the completion of the line and
the Inauguration of passenger service
by the Western, Pacific, Salt Lake
City and San Francisco become the
termini of a new and most important
transcontinental line, this being the
third to enter the Golden Gate City.
BY reason of this new and direct ex.
tension of the Rio Grande, Denver, all
Colorado and Utah become nearer and
more intimately connected than ever
before in all social and trade rela-
tions with the Pacific Coast, and the
important systems of the Burlington,
Rock Island and Missouri Pacific are
furnished a direct and independent
outlet through the trans-montane
country to the Pacific Coast.
The new line is one of the most
notable examples of engineering in
the world, and is especially distinctive
in its uniformly low grades and elm
nation of curvature. East or west
bound the maximum grade is l per
cent or fifty-two feet to the mile, and
in west-bound movement for so per
cent of its entire length from Salt
Lake City to San Francisco the heavi-
est gradient to be overcome is only
40 of ! per cent or about twenty
feet to the mile. The maximum curve
is 10 degrees, and in only few cases
do the curves exceed 6 degrees.
Another remarkable feature about
this new line is tie fact that 1t crosses
the Sierras at an elevation of SIP
feet, which is 2,535 feet. or approxim-
ately half mile, lower than the Sierra
crossing of any other railroad An
feature, which will be
by travellers and railway
men alike, is the fact that because
of the low altitude and the conse-
luent absence of snow there Is no ne
cessity for the use of snow sheds,
and not one exists on the entire line.
From scientific standpoint the
Western Pacific is said to rival its
sponsor, the we'll known Rio Grande.
The Scenic Line of the World" A
portion of the line is
through the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
and in one place the railroad follows
the Feather River through a pictur-
esque canon for distance of more
than ninety miles. Coincident with
the Inauguration of through passenger
service on August %, will be opened
at Salt Lake City the magnificent new
passenger station, recently construct
ed at a cost of s75o,000.
The Western Pacific. in connection
with the Denver & Rio Grande, will
become a most important factor in
the transcontinental situation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
keokuk ard = Military Company

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Keokuk Is
making an effort to get into the
Ffty-fourth regiment. in place of
Newton, which dropped out recently.
Years ago, Keokuk was wont to point
with pride to an excellent military
company, and no doubt, with little
effort, she will be able to get com
pany that will be credit to the city
and the regiment. It all depends upon
the citizens. They will get exactly
the company which they deserve and
which they want. If they ignore
their company, II they fall into the
habit OF making slurring remarks
about their company, If they fail to
give the company moral and financial
support. II they do not take the prop
er pride in the company, 1t would be
useless to expect the lads who will
form the organization, to take proper
pride in the company. Keokuk can
have one of the very best companies
in the state If she really wants 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

According to statistics furnished by
the department of commerce and la
Dor, each person in the United States
consumed eighty-two pounds of sugar
during the fiscal year just closed. on
the supposition that each got his
share The statistics show further
that the American sweet tooth de
manded more sugar than at any pre-
vious time in the countrys history
for there was consumed during the
twelve months, 7,500,o00,OoO pounds
Foreign countries supplied about 81
per cent of the sugar consumed II
this country in the year. the suga,
fields of continental United States
about "a per cent and the non-con
tiguous territory of the country q
per cent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
Tho Assassin.

Always so low the one, the other high;
Always 30 true the one, the other lie;
Always the noble at the dastard's
blow
In one quick flash amid the throng
laid low;
Horror. confusion, then tottering
form.
And one dark figure s..ulking meath
the swarm.
Always the vile to level at the clean
The knife or bullet of his vampire
spleen;
Always the cringing to sneak up be-
hind
Times chosen servants Of impartial
mind,
Sickening the world with some dark
billet's thud
Where a, loved ruler falls amid his
blood.
Out Of our wears Of forward flight and
g HJtyength.
Only to- breed this spawn Of hate at
length?
An anarch creature. fed on gamboge
Tuned to reach down into the peoples
heart,
But yellowing, rather, with its shiny
spew
In the poor craniums of the ignorant
few.
Bow, oh. my country, in one moments
shame,
Out Of whose flush may lift sacred
fame
Guiding thee onward to more subtle
care
In gifts OF freedom to the horde that
waits
The word Of welcome at your golden
gates.
At every door the bastard crew be-
ware,
For every era-if we fail to learn
They'll riddle down the laws they dare
to spurn.
Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

They Will fight Taft Just the Same.
1t is quite evident that Secretary
Ballinger is going out Of the cabinet.
He has been driven out by the news
papers and magazines.
1t has been known for many months
that Senator Aldrich intended to re-
tire from the senate. Lately he has
reitereted the statement.
All we'll posted men know that
Speaker Cannon Will no longer be
speaker. The insurgents had chance
to depose him and refused to do II.
Now, after all these things have
happened, does anyone suppose that
the men who are at present opposing
President Taft will become his
friends? If they do, they will be mis-
taken.
The opponents of Taft are in great
measure free traders. The opposition
ito Taft is backed by rich importers
and the agents for foreign manufac-
turers who desire free entrance for
their goods into the American market
iC lice lIduST lS thC liOSI pei BIOL
ent standpatter in the world. He is
always at work. He never sleeps.
He never dies. If he dies, some more
radical free trader springs UP In, his
place.
The free traders have it In for Taft.
They don't like to see the money pill
ing up in the United States treasury.
They prefer direct taxation as a
means of revenue. They oppose bat
tleships. They oppose standing
army, because all these things cost
money and make a protective tariff
necessary.
The free traders have the public at
a disadvantage. The public has not
really discovered their purpose. The
public may not discover their purpose
until free trade and soup houses are
again established.
For nearly century the free trad
ers had to work through the Demo-
cratic party. Then they. did not pros
per so we'll. Recently they are in
the Republican party and are meet
ing with grand success.
Verify. politics is great game!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
kAHokA, MO.
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Prof. Roth was in Des Moines the
first of the week, attending to chau-
tauqua matters.
VIM. Ackland. of Hugo, Colo, is the
guest OF his son, George. in Kahoka.
Many old friends are glad to see
him.
T. L. Montgomery and A. G Trump
are in Chicago this week on business.
Miss jessie Watson is in Granger
this week, the guest of her friend,
Miss Mildred Evans.
c. G. Lang is a st. Louis visitor
this week
Conrad Stutz and two nieces left
Tuesday for visit in Boyer, Colo.
Tuesday, at the home of the brides
parents, near Rolla, Mo-, occurred
the marriage of Miss Nettie Donart
to Frank Turner, OF Kahoka. The
bride is well known to Kahoka people,
having resided here many months, and
was one Of the graduates from the
kahoka High school in the spring.
The groom is the eldest son OF the
late Ben q. Turner, and is engaged In
farming He Is capable and indus
trious young man. Full particulars
of the wedding are not at hand, but
1t Is safe to say that when "Dannie'
arrives in town with his bride he will
be given hearty welcome. They
will reside on farm just on the west
end Of town. May they be happy ever
afterwards.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Kuntz died at
her home west OF Kahoka. Sunday
morning, aged "a years Deceased
was born in Lee county. Iowa. She Is
survived by the following children,
the husband having passed away about
nine years ago: Chas. Kuntz, OF
Granger. Mo-: William, omer, Joseph,
and Walter, of Kahoka; Daniel Kuntz,
OF Nauvoo, ILL.,; Mrs. Clara Wright,
Mrs. Emma Golden and Mrs. Ina VOL
ham, OF Kahoka; Misses Minnie and
Carrie, of Keokuk; and Misses Ida
and Eta, Of Kahoka. Funeral serv-
Ices were conducted from the German
church in Kahoka Monday afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
The Prize Performer.

The Prize Performer.
Used to love the tiny bird
Sittin' on the limb.
Used to think I'd never heard
Singers fine as him.
Now his song don't reach my heart
AS it's lightly tossed.
Wish't Miss Katydid would start
Singin' bout the frost.
Mockin' bird an robin, too.
Carol all in vain
Underneath the sky so blue
And untouched by rain.
Where's that real songster hid?
Hope she isn't lost!
Lemme hear Miss Katydid
Singin' bout the frost,
Washington Evening Star.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

The epidemic of infantile paralysis
at Mason City and vicinity appears to
have been checked by sanitary care.
From July 80 to August s there were
no new cases. But the disease seems
20 be spreading in other parts of the
state. Rockwell has had three cases
TO date. one of which is recovering;
Newton two, both fatal; Liscomb one
case: Waterloo one case-fatal; Sid
ney. Carroll. New Hampton and North.
wood the same; Clarion two cases. 1t
is believed there are number
more cases over the state which the
doctors have failed to report.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
LET US HOPE so.

Senator Cummins said in his state
convention speech:
1.-THE Republican party was not
born to make men rich, but to make
them free
The Sioux City Journal endorses
this as profoundly true but goes
on to say:
And yet If men are free some OF
them will accumulate property. and
others will prefer to hold Office and
win applause. At the same time.
moreover, there is good deal OF
boast that the country has gained
nightly in wealth since the Repubi.
can PARTY was born. 1t is to be hoped
the party will not be damned on that
account"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
Intolerance Of Reformers.

Springfield Republican: If Mrs.
Alice. Long worth has replied to the
jealous reformers In the west, who
have begged her to stop smoking Gig
arettes, the fact has not been an
nounced. but the letter addressed to
her has been published, and is enough
to drive spirited woman to Pitts
burg stogies. The passion for re-
forming other people is craving that
needs to be held sedulously in check;
1t easily develops into worse vice
than smoking tobacco, which at least
does not breed self-righteousness In
tolerance, and the habit of meddling
with other peoples private affairs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

Oysters grow on trees, fruit trees
at that in Porto Rico, according to q
report to the bureau OF insular af-
fairs from San Juan. Usually, we are
told. they are attached to the lower
branches and roots of the mangrove
trees on shore. and are said to be
plentiful on the south side OF the is
land and of good flavor. On the same
authority fish Of hitherto unknown va
rieties viii eat out Of the anglers
hand in Porto Rico. AS hot weather
stories these should pass muster all
right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

The country north of Keokuk was
visited by a fine rain Monday even
ing. AT Davenport the precipitation
amounted to 5000 OF an inch. There
was also a down-pour south Of here
between Quincy and Hannibal. Last
Friday night at the little town OF I'll,
lott in Montgomery county six inches
of rain fell. with the result that the
Nishnabotna overflowed it's banks
and submerged the lowlands along its
course. Further upstate in western
Iowa a soaking rain did great gooc
to vegetation on Saturday mornin
Practically all parts of the. state have
had refreshing showers recently.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
Intoxicated by Tobacco.

Giving evidence against man on
charge Of disorderiy conduct at BOW
street police court, a constable saia
that the accused behaved In very
violent and disorderly manner In Lei-
cester square on Tuesday evening. he
quarreled with cabman, and event
uaIly the witness took him into Gus
toby, believing him to be drunk a.
the police station. the prisoner denieo
that he had been drinking, and IN,
doctor who examined him reportea
that he had chewed tobacco to sucf
an extent that 1t had had the SAM
effect upon him as alcohol Pail MAJ
Gazette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17
THE DAILY GATE CITY

and that the national administration
is fraudulent and the majority OF the
party as represented In national
councils scoundrelly."
Senator Cummins,' says the Ce-
dar Rapids Republican, will lind 1t
hard to follow such Wild Indian as
Bristow in the Wisconsin campaign.
He cannot possibly keep up with the
Kansas man when It comes to shout
ing calamity and stop thief. I"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

A price of four cents hundred
has been placed on the heads of flies
in the District of Columbia, and as a
result Washington City boys are en-
gagged in wholesale destruction of the
typhoid-carrying pests. The arrange
ment should work equally well in
other cities and towns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

1t develops that DIR. Sumner of the
state board of health was misquoted
concerning the mortality OF Iowa
of them under one year old had died
this year What he said was that one
third of the cases of infantile paraiy-
sis reported among such children had
resulted fatally.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

And II she does not really want that
kind, then It WOULD be better for her
to keep out of the game. But 1t is to
be assumed that the reawakened Keo-
kuk would not be satisfied with any
thing less than the best company in
the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

The corn in this latitude has six
weeks in which to mature and should
be wholly out of danger by that
time. Present indications are that
the crop viii be the largest in recent
years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-17

A Streator, H., woman shot her
husband five times to cure him of
drinking. The coroner's verdict
leaves no room for doubt that he will
stay cured.