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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20
Throwing sIop in a cistern.

~ OW'ii9 0iOP III q SiSlCFH.
Legal action in the matter of Mrs.
Mary Happs throwing "slop' or to
speak in more pleasing terms, garb-
age, In the cistern of her tenant,
Sherman McGovern was expected to
have come up this afternoon, being in
the jurisdiction of the city attorney.
1t is said that Mrs. Happs greatly an-
noys her renters by throwing refuse
into the cistern used by the McGovern
family, who occupy the front part OF
the house of which Mrs. Happs occu-
pies the,rear, the place being located
at Nineteenth and High streets. After
the slop had been thrown into the els
tern it is said the landlady had it
cleaned out and now there is neither
water or garbage in the drinking
place.
Just what action will be taken has
not been determined as the attorney
of Mrs. Happs could not be located up
to noon today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

the survey made at Quincy's harbor,,
concerning which he invited sugges.
lions, which invitation was gladly ac-
cepted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

DR.. w. J. HARTER
Especially equipped TOR the Treatment
of Chronic Diseases.
Office 500 Main street, over Sixth
Street Drug Store.
Residence, HOS Concert street.
Onice hours-10 to IL a. M; 2 to 5
p. NJ. Pnones-Office, Iowa 21S-B;
residence, Iowa 9S5-B, Hub. 900.
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PHYSICIANS.
DIR. w. 8. La FORCE

DR.. w. g. LA FORCE
Practice limited to General Surgery
and Diseases OF Women.
ONCE at No. 80 North Fourth street.
Both phones.
Office hours: 10 to IL a. M; 2 to
p. III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

DRs. oCHILTREE G. BROWN
Over City Drug Store, 700 Main Street.
Both Phones.
V. B. OCHILTREE. M. D., General
Practice.
w. FRANK BROWN. NJ. D.. Surgery
and Diseases of Women.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

The Dubuque will be UP from st.
Louis this evening. A continued fall
ing of the river may cause her to
turn here and not make the trip to
Burlington although she has expert
enced no trouble yet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

Both the packets out of Keokuk
are making their regular trips. The
Keokuk has experienced no trouble
yet which is due largely to the skill
of Pilot McKensie.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

A firm in Pittsburg have organic
ed company that is reported to
have several millions behind it to
establish freight line between St,
Louis and New Orleans. They have
new style packet steamer that they
think is a great improvement on the
boats used at present on the river.
The new boat Is to be stern
wheeler. with two pairs of high pres
sure engines, tandem or cross-com-
pound type, working two independent
wheels. The length is 275 feet deck,
with a 66-foot beam, 6-foot hold
and feet sheer forward. The freight
capacity is 900 tons on a 3-foot draft,
and a full capacity of 1000 when
loaded. The boat can be made to car
ry 1000 tons when heightened and
deepened and still be no wider than
the ordinary side-wheeler.
Capt. Thomas Rees, the builder,
was at one time the builder and half
owner of the Kate Adams of Mlssis-
sippi fame.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20
Negro Thought he Was Jack john
son Shaping the Dark Feminine
Members Of His Own
Race. 49,.
CHEROKEE SLIPPED OUT
Wife Was in Court Room This Morn
ing-Action in the Stop Mat
ter Slated for This
Afternoon.

Joe Harrison, tall negro, was SEN
fenced to ten days in jail this morn
ing for being drunk and disturbing the
peace of the neighborhood at Four
teenth and Johnson streets, before 6
o'clock last evening. Harrison created
little excitement between Fourteenth
and. Sixteenth on Blondeau street ear
ly yesterday in the afternoon and in
a wordy war with several colored wo-
men, slapped Mrs. Matte Russ and
Mrs. Buckner. Both of them signified
their intentions of appearing in the
superior court this morning and filing
informations against Harrison, but
neither showed up and Marshal Sche-
vers filed an information against the
black, charging him with being drunk
and disorderly. On the payment of
1885 the ten days sentence was sus-
pended.
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Luder Pleads Not Guilty.

-1uS' IS0uS NV 6UHtys
John Luder plead not guilty to the
charge of being drunk and disorderly,
early yesterday morning, in South
Third street. His bond was fixed at
500, which he furnished and the de-
PENDANT will appear later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20

The Red Wing, a trim little launch
in the shell trade, tied up at the To-
cal wharf last evening.
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The Quincy chamber of commerce
is anxious about the work to be done
in the Quincy bay. No sooner had the
river and harbor bill passed congress
than a letter was sent to the secre-
tary of war, asking for an allotment
for the Quincy harbor. A reply stated
that the bars in the harbor would be
examined and If necessary the work
will be ordered.
Quincy is in the district which is
in charge of Major Meigs. Major
| Meigs informed the delegation at the
river convention that he had ordered
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20
Indians Wife Pleads.

TTfuId'F WIZ TFCdUS.
Mrs. Lillian Fulton, wife of Louis
Fulton, the half-breed Cherokee Indi-
an, familiarly known as Cherokee,
plead not guilty in the superior court
this morning to the charge of threat
tening to commit public offense by try
ing to do Mrs. Matilda belong bodily
injury, night before last at their home
on the canal. The case will be con-
tiDued until the return of Cherokee"
from the harvest fields of Illinois,
whittier he went yesterday to secure
employment.
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"coLD PRODUCTION AND FUTURE
 PRICES"

Is the title of very interesting work of 146 pages from the pen of Harrison H. Brace, we'll known financial writer, which has come to the book table of THE OASIS, and the work has been read and re- read with much interest. As the title implies the work places to great extent credit for the marked rise that has taken place in prices of nearly all commodities during several years last past to the enor- nous increase in production of the standard money metal of the great commercial nations-gold-and the consequent tremendous increase in the worlds stock of that metal, al though it does admit that in the United States there may be other factors, such as trust mani pulatiCn, protective tariff, etc. What the relative importance of the various factors the author leaves to the discretion of the reader to great extent. Yet the tenor of the work and the treat. ment of the subject show that he considers the increase in gold pro- duction the chief factor.
 Production of gold among the ancients and its effect upon prices of other commodities are given scant attention by MT. Brace for the reason that the data attainable are very meagre and but slightly illuminative; but the period since the discovery of America, affording
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nd Santa Cruz County Depositary

reason, that the appreciation in prices is world wide. For instance we may take garbansos, Ia large peal, staple article of diet in Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, and many South American countries, all of which have to import their supplies as England imports wheat. The garbanso is a great product of the fertile lands along the West Coast of Mexico. Buyers go into those regions, just as go buyers of wheat into the Dakotas, and pur- chase the crop for exportation. Five years ago garbanzo buyers paid nine pesos (Mexican dollarsl per fanega, delivered at the town near. est the ranche, in the Mayo and Yaqui river deltas. (The fansgG is 300 pounds). This year--1910- the price paid is fourteen pesos per fanega. Notwithstanding large and abundant crops the advance in price has been more than 55% in five years. There is an apprecia. tion that may be laid fairly to the great enhancement in the worlds visible supply of gold. Any other factor that should be instanced- such as a cheaper freight via the Tehuantepec route-would be slight and should cut no figure.
 Upon another commodity-meat products in the United States-the fact is demonstrable that the mark ed advance therein is due in part to other factors, as we'll as to the great addition to the visible supply of gold. Particularly is this true of beef. In the United States there has been a marked advance in the prices of that commodity. No doubt a part thereof may be des-
 
 cribed to the increase in gold pro- duction. Another factor is the diminishing supply of cattle and the increasing population. In ten years population has increased from about 70,000,000 to more than 90,0O0,000; while in two years last past the total number of cattle has fallen off more than 4,00OOW- Reduction of free range by expand ing agriculture is accelerating the decrease in cattle, while population is advancing rapidly. More mouths to fill each year and less beef to fill them. The rise noted in the price of beef was inevitable from this factor had there been no ln- crease in gold production Bu' neither of the two factors men, toned can account for the rise ID the price of beef in the United States; there is third-manIpola' ton by the beef trust.
 A part of the beef supply ID 'n0 United States comes from lmpor'a' tion of cattle from Mexico. up 'o the time of enactment oI 'l0 Payne-Aldrich tariff the duty upon
 Continued on page 0)
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 other great gold discoveries, con. tinued until the former balance was reached, or even passed; and there prices remained stationery through long periods-until other great discoveries of gold.
 But it is with the present period that we have to deal. With the last years of the Nineteenth Gen. tury and the opening decades of the Twentieth, there have been vast increases in gold production due not only to great gold discov- cries in all parts of the world, but to invention of methods and pro- cesses for extraction of the metal that have diminished the cost of production so that ores that could not be touched formerly are worked now and yield their values at profit
 The figures given in the work of recent gold production are astound- ing. In the first half of the Nine- teenth Century the worlds produc- tion of gold did not equal the demand, and it was an era of fall ing prices. The worlds accumu- lated stock of gold in 1850 was estimated by competent authority to be $1, ,606, 100000, and the pro- duction, from California and Aus tralia, in the decade between 1850 and 1860, was $1 ,332,981 ,000- equalling 029o of the stock at the beginning of the decade. That was a decade of rising prices. During nearly forty years thereafter the stock of gold accumulated slowly, and until 1898 there had been added to the former accumulation but$l ,675,219 900, making the total visible supply of gold $4,614,6 GOO. During the next ten years the addition to the accumulation reached the enormous sum of $3,- 420,1 ,000-72% of the entire volume in 1898, and it is not vio- lent assumption that the other 26% has been added in 1909.10. (The assumption is by THE OAsGs).
 It goes without saying that the enormous increases noted in the worlds stock of gold have out stripped the expansion of agricul- ture and manufactures, and of some varieties of mining. Conse- quently there was due great rise in prices, and it has come. Silver, lead and copper mining seem to have expanded in output to a greater degree than gold-taking as indices the lower prices com manded in the marts by those metals as expressed in gold.
 It would be a pertinent question, but difficult to answer no doubt, as to how much of the appreciation in prices has been due to the tremen- dous accretions noted hereinbefore to the worlds visible supply oi gold, and how much to other fac.
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century supplying a vast array of accurate statistics, has supplied the gentleman with broad premises from which to draw his conclusions. He finds that in that time there have been three great periods of en- oFmous production of gold and tre- mendous accretions to the worlds accumulated stocks thereof, caus- ing rises in prices of all other com. modities. Those periods are first the conquest of Mexico by Cortez in 1519 and Peru by Pizarro in 1539, and the seizure and shipment to Spain of the vast accumulations that had been made by the rulers of those nations, whose people had failed to invest the precious metals with the intrinsic values that had been bestowed upon them in Europe; second the California and Australian output of gold in the middle decades of the last century; third the present period of marked discoveries of gold in nearly all parts of the world. All the periods noted saw thrown into the volume of the worlds exchanges great quantities of gold, which dis arranged the pre-existing propor- ton between the worlds stock of that metal and all other commod- ities, necessarily forcing a re- adjustment of the ratio upon which given quantities of each were exchangeable in the marts of trade. As the proportion of gold I
 to all other commodities had risen, those who had the gold were com pelled by the unerring law of ex- change to part with more gold than formerly for a given quantity of any other commodity. That was the rise in prices, and in each period it was world wide and uni- versal; although in the present period the effect has followed the cause much more quickly, and has been more greatly widespread, owing to the vast improvement in the methods and means of com munication between all parts of the world. In each case-except the one operating now-the violent increase in production of gold, and the corresponding violent Increase in prices of other commodities hay. ing spent their force, and the worlds stock of the money metal remaining stationery practically, there set in that gradual annual increase in production of other ommodities, due to increase in 1 population, extension of civiliza- tion over lands formerly unoc- cupied, expansion of agriculture, commerce, manufactures and min ing of the common metals, that diminished the relative proportion of the money metal, increased it's importance and exchangeable value and started prices upon descend
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ALLEN T. BIRD. Managing Editor.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

Nonumsnts-sIsN&ast Center O.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

that every business man in the city
will give the new Commercial club
all help within his power. All ref
erences made to this question at the
Tuesday evening meeting indicated
that the Marion merchants will unite
in maintaining a Commercial club Of
great strength and aggressiveaess.
The annual meeting of the Mer-
chants association was attended by
about sixty members and much busi-
ness was transacted during the time
that it lasted. from until IL o'clock
IL was one of the most interesting
meetings that the association has ever
held and gave indication of the pros
porous condition prevailing in all lines
of business.
The president, Earl T. Smart, was
in charge until the election of the
new officers, when he was succeeded
by James Il. Phillips. The meeting
was opened with the secretary's re-
port, which was duly approved, fol-
lowing which the business of the ev-
ening was Immediately taken up by
the election of officers.
on a motion filed by E. *. Uhler,
the president appointed the following
to serve as nominating committee:
Il. X. Uhler, b. Il. Kleinmaier, j. b
Layton and A. j. Myers. on a mo-
ton from w. II. Jones, the, report of
the committee was adopted by a unan-
imous vote The list of the new Of
ficers follows:
j. Il. Phillips, president; Morgan
RnTEn gGrrpfQTN Il II Wnnnal1
treasurer; w. b. Denman, NJ. Hess,
ID. A. Frank, Henry Strelitz and Frank
Schaffner, vice presidents; r. Il
Lewis, ]. B. Layton, S. G. Kleinmaler,
Harry Haberman, c. u, Zachman, w
l.. Warner and T.. 4. Smart, executive
committee.
State Senator r. l.. Cameron, OF
Marysville, was a guest of the asso-
citation and gave an address dealing
almost exclusively with the new Ohio
taxation law. Mr.. Cameron spoke for
about forty minutes and gave a very
interesting and lucid explanation of
the new law, which reduces the tax
limit to one and one-half per cent.
on all property and provides that ey-
erything taxable shall be placed on
the duplicate at its real value.
Mr.. Cameron believes that while the
law will not cure all of the many Ills
now existing in the states taxation
system, 1t is a decided step in the
right direction and Will do a great
deal toward equaliaing matters. 1t
will lessen the burden on the small
property owner and shift 1t to the
larger interests, which, under the old
arrangement, did not pay their just
share Of taxes.
As one who was a member of the
legislature which passed this import
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

that every business man in the city
will give the new Commercial club
all help within his power. All ref
erences made to this question at the
Tuesday evening meeting indicated
that the Marion merchants will unite
in maintaining a Commercial club of
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13
Merchants Want CONNER
cial Club a Success.
ANNUAL MEETING IS HELD
Retail Dealers Association
Gathers at Y. M. G. A.
Senator Cameron Speaks on Taxation
--Chautauqua Discusscd-Officers
EIected-AnnuaI Excursion 10
Cedar Point Is Planned.

Hearty cooperation with the newly
organized Marion Commercial club
by the merchants OF the city was
urged throughout the annual meeting
of the Marion Retail Merchants as
sociation, held in the gymnasium of
the Y. NJ. c. A. building. Tuesday ev-
ening. Recognizing the need of a
progressive, virile organization with a
sole purpose of building up the in
dustrial side of the city of Marion,
many of the speakers at the mer-
chants meeting expressed the hope
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13
MAY GO BEFORE
TAXATION BOARD
State Commission May
Make Revision.
HERE ARE Low
A ccaccnY,c Eioe,,non I.iahlo
Assessors Figures Liable
to be Considerably
Boosted.
A Duplicate of 10000, 900 Needed
Lower, State Tax Commission
Must be Called I'm to Make Up the
Difference-Returns About all In.

That the tax duplicate of Marion
county will fail considerably below
the figure necesAary for securing suffi-
Client funds to pay current expenses
seems now almost an assured fact.
With this a practical certainty there
is strong probability that the ques-
tion of raising valuations so as to
make possible the required revenue
will be submitted to the state tax
commission for consideration. This
commission, according to authorities,
not only has power to increase proper
ty valuations, where they are re-
garded as being too low, but has the
authority to order the furnishing of
assessors who have been guilty of
turning in property at less than its
actual value.
According to the present incomplete
figures at hand in the office of the
quadrennial land appraisers, who are
still busy finishing up their work, ii
is estimated that the duplicate in the
city of Marion will reach something
like $11,OO0,000. Personal property will
boost the duplicate several millions
but the total of the two, it is said,
will be much less than will be neces-
sary.
In the county auditors Office 1t IS
figured that the total duplicate should
run at least $20,OOO,OOO and that If It
is less than this the state tax COM
mission will be asked to take a hand
for the purpose of making up the
difference.
There is no question but that the
land appraisers in the rural districts
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13
Women save Money.

Women are natural money-savers
no matter how much is said about
what they spend for dresses and hats.
They always know how to make a
dollar go the farthest. That's why
thoughtful women discover that by
using Hewitts EasyN Task soap In
their laundry work they save fuel and
time and trouble and health and
more than that, they sang the clothes
that are washed. Hewitt's Easy
Task has no rosn in it to stay in the
clothes and hold the dirt with it
and rot the fabrics.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13
TAX COLLECTIONS
ARE VERY TARDY
Receipts at County Treasurer's OFFICE
Backward.

Collections at the county treasurer's
office are unusually slow. not much
more than one-third Of the taxes be
ing in despite the fact that the end
of the time for paying June taxes is
only a few days away. At the close
of business, Tuesday, there had been
collected at the treasurer's office, $780,
350.22, while the total to be collected
Is $4,000. However, there has been
about $4,000 collected at the various
country banks outside of the city or
Marion. The collection Is one of the
ever on record at this time
Of the year
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

have fixed the valuations of country
real estate much befowsftssreatrvalue
and 1t is there that the greatest In
commission be called in. At noon to-
day the returns from all but two OF
the country assessors were returned
and were in the hands Of the printer
who is compiling lists to be sent to
every property, owner in the country.
The two precincts still out are Clari-
don and Marion townships. At this
rate IL will not be many days until
the lists are finished and ready for
distribution among the tax payers.
G.. T. Everett, assessor in Grand
township, sent In his report, Tuesday
Mr.. Everett had submitted his report
some time ago but was required TO
take 1t back for corrections. His fig
ures show that the value CT lands
and buildings in Grand township is
$2ss,9sO, or $45,52O more than the pre-
vious appraisement.
Practically all that the city board
Of appraisers is doing now is the work
OF hearing complaints from disgrunt.
leu property owners who claim that
their belongings are rated too high.
These complaints are many and the
board is having plenty of trouble ad
justing the differences.
II wouldn't take job on this boarc
again for $40 day" is a declaration
made today by one of the appraisers.
The fact that a few people under
stand the taxation laws is making the
way of the board of appraisers all
the harder.
The board has discovered much
property that has not been listed for
taxation for years. The total valuation
of this hitherto untaxed property will
run i'm the neighborhood of 100000
An example is piece of land 1.55
acres near the site of the old Erie
eating house. The records showed that
this land had not been on the dupli
cate for many years.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13
POLICE NEWS

The local police were asked to be
on the lookout today for horse be-
longing to Harley Smith which ran
away last night about eight o'clock
near the Canaan church; threw out
smith, injuring him slightly, and then
made wild dash down the road
and has not been seen since. The
buggy was overturned and the top
knocked off. 1t is not know whether
the horse was able later to rid him
self of the rig. A search was insti-
tuted last night and this morning
along country roads southeast and
east of the city but the animal was
not located. Smiths injuries are not
serious.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13
At Green Damn.

There will be preaching services at
the Methodist church at Green Camp
Sunday evening at 7;46 o'clock. Sub
ject, The Fighting Man" All ara
welcome TO theSe services.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

II you wear shoes bought. here your
feet will be comfortable and attractive
w. G.. Kraus, 7-12-3t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

Robert Boyd left this morning for
Cleveland to visit relatives for two
WeekS
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-13

Buy BeattN& Longs best wearing
Elk skin shoesfor men and boys. /