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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
The Case of Muscatine.

Iowa City Republican: So far as the
public is concerned, it is not ques-
ton of union or no union in Musca- (
tine 1t is question OF supremacy of /
law. The mobs have attempted to sub |
vert government from its lawful form
and institute anarchy. So far as the
mayor who seems TO be a trucking
coward, is concerned, the city is in a
state of anarchy. The mayor showed
the white feather, his police took TO
the woods and they have done nothing
to maintain order or to restore 1t
when the mobs have taken possession.
The sheriff is doing his duty.
Muscatine man who was here a
few days ago said that the sheriff
more honor for the sheriff and the
more shame for Muscatine. The sher
if is not elected to determine the
merits of labor controversies, but 10
enforce the laws and to preserve a
civil government Even grant that the
workingmen are In the right so far
as their controversy with their en-
/ ployers are concerned, the duty Of
4 the mayor, the police and the sheriff
| is to preserve order and protect prop
erty and people. When they fail to dc
that they either fail because they are
powerless or because they neglect
duty There is no question but the To-
cal authorities could preserve order
and protect persons and property II
SO disposed, but when the mayor
takes to the woods and his police
skulk down the alleys, and others
prove to be equally cowardly, the state
must step in and do for Muscatine
what it should do for itself.
The Republican believes in justice
for workingmen. They should have
the benefit of doubts. for they are
not as independent as the manufactur-
: ers, but they should not bring upon
: themselves discredit such as attaches
to lawlessness. 1t Is very likely that
! thugs who have no connection with
, the button workers make much of the
! trouble, but 1t must be confessed that
aside from talks at public meetings
and cards published, the labor leaders
have not done anything to discourage
lawlessness. If they are for the law
they could not do better thing thar
2 to police the city and preserve order
i But there is something hack OF al
r this. Years ago residents in Musca
a tine were dynamited. Several muir
ders have been committed there In re
cent years. For years its saloons knew
s no law, but ran day and night witt
Il wine rooms and gambling halls in con
g nection, and now when the people re
y fuse to give old Muscatine saloo!
thugs permits TO operate, the city !
full of dens and liquors are sold b
Is boat and car loads.
W For year past Iowa City ha
s been RECALLED by reformers telling tn
IL blissful conditions in Muscatine. w
If were told how prosperous were tn
If workingmen and how manufacturer
Re was growing, but 1t seems that Oh
y Cain is there about as he was whe
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

Sioux City has raised ss25,ooo in
two weeks, in the form of guaranty
fund for Industrial development. They
followed, in general way, the Will
Transport (Pa.) plan. The committee
may loan the credit of the committee
to new industries. and only in the
case of bankruptcies on the part Of
the concerns assisted will any of the
pledges have to be made good and
then only IN proportion to the sub
scription. 1t will be interesting to
note how the arrangement works in
actual practice.
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BELFAST.
: >~~e $3.50 80 : : :


We are having some nice weather
again and everybody is busy making
gardens and ploughing for corn.
Charley Johnson made business
trip to Croton Monday
Quite few attended church Sun
day.
Harmon Seth is visiting homefolks
over Sunday.
Harold Moline and mother were at
the cemetery at Croton Monday.
Emma Nelson visited homefolks
over Sunday.
to her home in croton after spending
the winter with her sister, Mrs. i@
Smith.
Mrs. Horsey is very i'll with heart
trouble.
Clarence Felt and Charley South
visited at Luther Beldenss Sunday
Mrs. Minnie Surena visited Mrs.
Horsey, who is very sick.
Miss Anna Nelson visited hone-
folks one day last week.
Miss Nora Dehart is able to be
up and around again
Mr.. Glad Sawyers was a Farming
ton caller one day last week.
Earl and Estel Wells were sunday
! visitors at Mrs. p. Moline's.
Mrs. Scheevers and daughter, kaih.
crime, returned Monday after weeks
visit with relatives at Keokuk.
Wayne Johnson visited at p. Mo-
lines SUNDAY
Miss Ella Nelson visited the Misses
Surena one day last week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

complish much practical good. The
physicians of Keokuk would doubt
less be willing to cooperate in
making Tuberculosis Sunday a real
and lasting benefit to the community.
There are no more publfc-spirited and
self-sacrificing men and women on
the face of the earth than those who
compose the medical profession, and
they are never appealed to in vain in
any movement looking. to the preser-
walton of the public health.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
NEWSPAPER CHANGE

An important and desirable change
has taken place in the newspaper sit
uation at Fort Madison. The Gem City,
daily and weekly. published as a Dem-
ocratic paper ever since it was es-
tablished twenty-six years ago, has
been purchased by representative
business men of Fort Madison and
will be conducted henceforth as in
dependent in political matters affect
ing the city and county and Republi-
can in state and national affairs.
The gentlemen forming the company
now in control of the paper are among
the best men in Fort Madison and
Lee county and their Identification
with it is sufficient assurance that
interests of the community, county
and state. 1t is believed that the
time is now ripe for the advancement
Of our sister city, and the best efforts
of the Gem City will be directed to
making the most of the opportunities
as they present themselves. The new
management in announcing its pro-
gram says, among other things:
Every indication points to the fact
that Fort Madison is to be one of the
few cities that will interest manu-
featuring enterprises that are being
attracted to the Mississippi valley
by the gigantic water power develop
opment under way at Keokuk. The
city should be in shape to take ev-
cry advantage of this state of affairs
and at the proper time prosper in
due proportion to the other locali-
ties to be benefited by this great
undertaking. This can be accom-
plished if the proprer energy is placed
behind the desire to bring this pur-
pose out
'The retiring management wish to
thank all the patrons of the paper
for past patronage and the new man
agement will endeavor to merit
continuance OF the same.
1T is the desire to have all the old
friends of the paper stand by the
establishment and help make the
Gem City representative spokes
man of the city and county
In this and in every other good work
the Gem City will have the cordial
endorsement of The Gate City and all
its many friends in the county and
elsewhere. The paper is to be i'm
proved and new presses and material
added to the equipment of the plant
as business justifies and demands.
The good people of Fort Madison
the business community in particular
cannot promote the interests of that
place more directly, speedily and sure
ly than by giving the Gem City gem
erous support.
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he dynamited homes and murdered
the defenseless,

he dynamited homes and murdered
the defenseless.
There are enough good people in
Muscatine to restore lawful condi-
lions. 1t should not be dependent up
on the military. 1t should show the
state that it is law abiding and has a
sentiment in favor of law and order
which asserted would remove the
necessity Of interference by the state.
Anything less will leave stain upon
the city aand reproach which will
be attached to it for years to come. If
Muscatine really understood the i'm
portance of the situation, 500 men
would volunteer to act under the sheI
iff and relieve the city from the dis
grace of having to be controlled by
the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
In Columbus, Ohio, number OF

In Columbus, Ohio, number OF
prominent men and women have
bought two houses, one to be used as
q girls club and the other as boys
club. The object is to give the young
folks a meeting place, where they
may conduct themselves after the
manner of grown-ups, and yet have
good time, without loafing on the
streets in bad company.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

not and can not do the same work;
and, secondly, teaching as a temper
airy occupation for young women is
more desirable among the occupations
open to women than it ID for young
men among the occupations open for
men. Hence the supply OF women Is
larger than that of men for teachers
places
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

The commission plan of municipal
government has been adopted in 129
cities, located in twenty-four differ
ent states of the union. Twenty-nine
of these cities have adopted the plan
since the first of the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
ITCHING RASH ON
FACE AND NECK
Cured Scratched Until Face was
Mass Of Raw Flesh Used Gu
ticura and had First Good
Nights Sleepin 8 Months.
IAN itching rash broke out on my
face and neck, SO bad that scratched

u uiltil lily ldCe was u
mass Of raw flesh which
kept me re all
night, After going to
my family doctor, he
not helping me, I tried
another doctor but
without success. After
doctors failing, a friend
recommended the Cu-
ticura Remedies. That
night, after washing
my face and neck with
Cuticura Soap. I ap-
piled some Cuticura
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
SALEM.
- - . - $50 =

A Jolly time is reported by the
large number present at the April
shower social given by the ladies Of
the NJ. E. church with Mr.. Fred Shell
ledy as hostess, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs j. T. Ingrim received a letter
from her uncle Isaac T. Gibson, of Big
Heart, Oklahoma. giving a graphic de-
scription OF the devastation by the re-
cent cyclone in that section of Okla.
homa.
Wednesday, Mrs. Keller entertained
Mrs. Chilcot of Fairfield. state pres-
dent of the w G. T. U. who was here
making arrangements for the district
association.
Friday Mr.. and Mrs. Scott returned
from New London where they attend
ed the wedding of their granddaugh-
ter, Miss Dell Scott, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Dudley Scott to Albion BY
ers, both Of New London
t Alex Fisher arrived from Loveland,
/ Colorado and will enjoy a visit with
relatives and friends. He reports the
r. E. Hoyt family well and prosper
Gus
Following two weeks visit at the
]. w. Hawkins home, Mrs. Frank
Hawkins ard son Ralph returned to
Hannibal. Missouri Friday
John Wesley Potter Of Keokuk, will
gave one OF his excellent lectures
Palestine" illustrated at the M. f
/, church on Tuesday evening, April 25
!, H. c. Cooper came from Brighton
, Tuesday and remained until Thursda,
, visiting with his mother, Mrs. Eliza
beth Cooper.
II The Missionary society OF the NJ. F
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

VIII wonders never cease? The
manager of the street car line in Des
Moines is named Harrigan, and he
has ordered all the cars painted or
ange!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

The Gate City renews its sugges-
1ion that Made in Keokuk'' should be
stamped or printed on all the prod
nots manufactured here The inscrip-
ton would advertise Keokuk far and
wide and be at the same time a
guaranty of quality.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

The Keokuk baseball club has made
q good beginning. The fact is impor-
tant, in view of the truth of the old
saying that well begun is half done.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

1t is remarked by a contemporary
that the Democrats in congress are
about to find out that it is one thing
to teach school and another to sit on
the back seat and throw peanuts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

The city government of Hartford,
Conn, is wholly Democratic for the
first time in thirty years. The dis
patches fail to state what the city did
70 merit such punishment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

One Camorrist threw his glass
eye at the Judge. There is hope that
the ends of justice will not be serious
ly interfered with as long as the wit
nesses and spectators refrain from
tbombarding the court with false
Teeth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

The state board OF education is
planning for the dedication of the new
library building at the state Teachers
College at Cedar Falls and this will
likely occur some time next month. If
it can be SO arranged the meeting Of
the board will be held at the same
time at Cedar Falls The new library
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

s The best that can be said of some
lot the work in the interest of Senator
I.orimer is that it was exceedingly
coarse
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

Abe Martin has noticed that no
body ever owned a touring car who
mixed checker-board UP with his
business.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

Foley Kidney Pills contain IN con-
centrated form ingredients OF estab-
lished therapeutic value for the relief
and cure of all kidney and bladder
ailments Foley Kidney Pills are anti
septic. tonic and restorative. Refuse
substitutes. Wilkinson & Co
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
.THE MISSISSIPPI JEWEL


New occasions" the poet tells us,
teach new duties" They do more
than that They bring developments
never dreamed of by Horatio in his
philosophy-no by anyone else In
his widest imaginings. A case in
point is the construction of the big
dam across the Mississippi river here
and some of the consequences al
ready in evidence. 1t was foreseen
by the average citizen that the great
enterprise would eventually make
Keokuk the industrial center of
the Mississippi valley. The most
prosaic among us has felt the thrill OF
expectation and the. inspiration of
prophecy, but the vision in every in
stance was directed toward material
things. Thus immersed in the gross
and materialistic no one anticipated
that the development of the keokuk
water power would stimulate literary
effort and result in giving to the
world composition that in point OF
uniqueness will stand alone for all
time. We print the production below
in order that all may enjoy 1T as We
have done and Judge personally of its
merits. AS even the most casual
reader will note, our Keokuk poet has
attained to such heights of fancy that
his effort defies both definition and
analysis. 1t is something quite worth
while to mount Pegasus with such re-
suits, as every appreciative admirer
of real genius will cheerfully testify.
Doubtless there will be some who
will see in the production nothing but
tumble OF words, without meter or
rhyme-a bald statement of facts that
could have been better expressed in
prose. The answer to all such carping
critics is that their early education
was neglected. What if the lines are
blank verse? Some or the finest poems
ever written are in that form. Go to.
The objection is over-ruled. In point of
literary construction as we'll as
thought The Mississippi Jewel"
speaks for itself 1t needs no
panegyIic at our hands. Some of the
lines, it is true, remind one of some
of the best efforts of Ballard, the
Red Oak poet of bygone times, and
others have the elusive quality char
acteristic of the sonnets of the
sweet singer of Michigan" but the
poem as whole is far superior to any
thing they ever produced. Neither
Byron nor Shelly nor Keats, Tennyson,
Lowell, Whittier nor Bryant ever
wrote anything like it. The nearest
approach are some verses by kipling,
of which it reminds one because they
are SO different The author would
doubtless be willing to pose as a
modest violet but we have taken the
liberty of appending his name His
unparalleled production is as follows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Mr.. Bryan's Commoner says the
editor of the Richmond Dispatch is
tool of the interests. Hammer or
monkey wrench" inquiries the Omaha
Bee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

The Des Moines Tribune predicts
that some day the d. A. RS will pull
off session marked by absolute
peace and harmony, and the country
won't get over the shock for year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
THE MISSISSIPPI JEWEL.


THE MISSISSIPPI JEWEL.
They have formed in keokrk an or
ganization which they named
Commercial Club,
They aim to show the world Keokuk
is place for factory enterprises.
They have made some honest efforts,
members of this club,
And the world has read their ads in
Papers about Water-Power at
keokuk
Keokuk will be a town like a jewel
They are building now in Keokuk
what will be the Mississippi Dam,
Thus to produce cheaply electricity
for the Worlds and Keokuk' S
The Keokuk Water power Company
is working for completion of the
Dam,
They made efforts successfully for
this object grand.
Keokuk will be a town like jewel!
They have formed in Keokuk also
what they named Industrial AS
ISOLATION.
They aim to improve everything re
garding outside. and looks il
Keokuk.
Bound to succeed and to renovate ole
Keokuk is this association,
AS they have the money and Intend
to spend it for a greater Keokuk
Keokuk will be a town like a jewel
Different Manufacturers from OUTSIDE
of Keokuk took advantage of tn
situation,
They did come to buy the land 70
locating here their factory
I With the view. as you can notice, Z
build here their factory.
] SO they will he nearer to the vel
the electric well this is here tn
( situation.
4 Keokuk will be town like Jewel
RUDOLPH DINNER.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

Heaven is to feed
On your chiefest need,
Be your need of work or rest,
And the God who knows
Why he barbed the rose
He plans your heavens best.
Strickland Gillian in the Royal
Blue.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

Heaven is smile
From soul worth while
And a handclasp full of trust;
TITS a tender word
From heart love-stirred
When your spirits trail in dust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27

Keokuk, Iowa 1880. April 81, 1911
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-27
HEAVEN.

Heaven is a bed,
With a light at the head,
And an uncut magazine;
Or a crust of bread
To the long-unfed
Whose hunger-pangs are keen.
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ROOSEVELT DESTROYED
by A LANDSLIDE
Site Of What Was Prosperous Mining
Town Now Covered by
Lake. -

Spokane, Wash, Nov. l1,-Roose.
welt, the principal town in the Thun.
der Mountain district in central Idaho
in 1902, today is covered with lake
500 yards in length and 200 yards in
width and of an average depth of %
feet. 1t was the scene of gold strike
nine years ago, and thousands braved
the hardships and hazards of the trail.
1t proved a disappointment, though
much pay ore was developed nearby.
The circumstance which wiped the
town of Roosevelt from the map was
peculiar. 1t resulted from a landslide
two years ago, starting near the
source of Mule creek mile and a
half from the settlement. The great
avalanche of earth and stone ploughed
its way through a virgin forest with
& roar that was heard for miles.
Twenty-six hours after the break oc-
cured the mass stopped abruptly
across the lower part Of the town,
forming a dam for Monument creek
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COLLEGE Will Not Ston.

While the fire was reaching its end
there was a hurried call of the faculty
to consider the situation. 1t was ne
cided to leave everything to special
committee. This committee was ap-
pointed with President Miner, chair
man; Dean Charles Puryear, Prof. d
w. Spence, Prof F. +. Giesecke and
Lieut. c. l.. Fenton. The committee
conferred with Steward Sbisa and al
engagements were made to serve break
fast to the corps at 1890 O'Clock in
the open air. The breakfast was cc.-
fee. crackers, cheese, milk and sev-
eral other things which were saved
from the commissary. The armory
was opened and under the direction
of the staff of the commandments office
the haversacks, cups, knives, forks,
plates. spoons. etc, which are a par
OF the annual hike equipment and
which is furnished by the United
States army. was issued to the stu
dents. They were organZed in com
panies and sent to their places where
the rations were ready and each man
got his rations.
1t was arranged for another meal
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which has now formed a lake where

which has now formed lake where
the townsite stood.
There were few residents in the
town at the time of the slide and all
escaped with their possessions, owing
to the slowness Of the avalanche. A
log schoolhouse and two cabins, out of
its path, now stand as silent sentinels
to mark the vanished town. The
buildings are situated above the water
line and as the lake has risen TO
point that It has an outlet, 1t is not
likely the water will become deeper
Roosevelt camp today is deserted,
the residents having moved to other
holdings. The mines are closed and
the prospectors and miners have
sought newer and more promising
fields in the tributary country, which
is rich in mineral resources. II Is
hardly probable that the camp ever
will be resurrected, as it is isolated
and of the line of transportation, W
sides which it would take fortune 10
drain the water off 10 make it fit for
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COMMERCIAL CLUB TO HELP.
Secretary Hewitt Calls on Ladies Of
Bryan for 1900 Biscuits.

As soon as the news of the burning
of the A. & NJ College mess hall was
received in Bryan this morning Secre.
tary l.. NJ. Hewitt of the Commercial
Club. proceeded at once to the college
and rendered to the college authori
ties an offer from the people Of BRYAN
generally, and the Commercial Clu9
in particular, to assist the college in
meeting the situation in every way
pos 5ible. The offer was accepted VII,
the kindest thanks on the part Of The
college people.
Mr.. Hewitt announces through The
Eagle that on Tuesday morning he VI'
meet the A. & \. special trains from
Houston upon their arrival ar Colle'e
Station with 1000 biscuits He call
on the patriotic ladies' of Bryan to pre-.
pare these biscuits and send them ~
the office of the Commercial Club ser
rotary. He will see to them getting t.
the college and direct their distribu'
ton in person.
Let every lady telephone Mr.. Hewitt
Just what she will do.
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Board Of Directors Notified.

James Hays Quarles, secretary Of
the board of directors, got in COM
munication with Walton Peteet, chair
man of the board; DR.. ]. Allen Kyle
of Houston and Charles Davis o.
Steeles Store. members of the board,
and advised them of the loss of the
mess hall Chairman Peteet imme-
diately took the matter up by wire
with Governor Colquitt with a view to
having an emergency fund created for
the rebuilding of the structure. In
the meantime he instructed the facul-
ty committee to prepare estimates on
a temporary building to use as a mess
hall and kitchen, and to report to the
meeting of the board to be held in
Houston next Monday. at which time
arrangement swill be made to 90 to
work at once.