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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

tenn of contract employment. We es-
innate that We have on an average
about 600 able bodied men serving
sentences in this state, whose term is
a year or more; assuming that this
work could be thus used, for six
months of each year or for 156 days,
we have $4,000 days work, valuing
this work at S1.50 per day, we have
an aggregate Of s14o,4O0 for use an
nually.
1--WE hope this question may receive
your consideration and Endorsement in
your next message to the legislature.
I'VE presented to that body what
has been done in connection with the
river-to-river road in Iowa. There
was manifest a lively interest in
that project. There were number
Of other gentlemen present who men
toned other routes across the state.
1t Is pleasure to us to know that
since the river-to-river road was pro-
jected, many others have sprung up,
and that now there are several lines
of good roads across the state. The
projectors of the river-to-sver road
are not Knockers they welcome
with delight every effort made in
Iowa for the improvement of the
highways. The river-to-river road is
not rival or competitor of any other
good road. 1t strives to be, as it is, a
leader and an example for others to
follow and initiate"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

traction will be presented troop OF
from twenty to twenty-five dogs of all
breeds and from all nationalities which
will perform with evident pleasure,
seemingly impossible feats.
They will also have troop of the
cutest and wisest of Shetland ponies
ever exhibited to the public and as a
fitting climax to this show, there will
be presented to the public for their
approval, seemingly impossible act
Of an elephant and pony and dog,
showing the public how well animal
life is linked, and the many other acts
that will please everybody.
At great expense, The Owls and
the merchants have secured an i'm.
mense elephant las tame and docile
as kitten) which will be used to
carry the public through the streets.
1t seems that the Owls and the mer
chants of this city are sparing no ex
pense and effort to make this one
grand gala week in the history Of Keo
kuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
ENVELOPES GIVEN
OUT TOMORROW
Block Day Money Holders Are to Be
Distributed About the City In
Every Home.

Every home in the city will be given
a Block Day envelope tomorrow and
these envelopes will be gathered up
on Thursday by the collectors who will
start out at a certain time when the
signal is given by the ringing of the
fire and church bells and the toot OF
the whistles of the city.
Contributions for the Benevolent
Union are to be placed in the enve-
lopes.
The reason for designating the day
as. Block Day, is because the city is
divided into blocks, with collector
for each block In order to add inter.
est to the occasion, nobody knows
just what time the collector is to call
waiting for the signal and it Is ex
pected that all Of the envelopes will
be gathered up in ten minutes time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Burlington Road Will Make Num-
Der Of Changes IN Small Iowa
Town, According TO Re-
cent Announcement.
BIG MONEY EXPENDITURE
New Coal chutes VIII be Built and
steel Water Tank Erected
Steel 10 Already
Arriving.

NEW LONDON, Iowa, Sept. rs
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railway are planning on extensive i'm
provements for New London.
Early in the summer some of the
officials were here looking over the
grounds and the feasibility OF erecting
new coal chutes and making other ex-
tensive improvement for the better.
ment of the road and this station
The officials again visited New
LONDON this week and it was decided
to begin operations next Monday The
water tank will be moved to the
north side Of the tracks temporarily
and the new steel, automatic chute
will be erected about the same place
where the water tank now stands.
1t is also understood the company
purposes to erect a new steel water
tank, both the coal chutes and wa
ter tank are to be after the very lat.
est and modern types, and will cost
the Burlington people thousands OF
dollars. Some of the steel for struc
1 tural work arrived today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
CARTHAGE, ILL.
; . . /. . : = . . . . !. .

Mrs. NJ. G. Wheeler and little son,
of Warsaw, came up last week to
spend few days with Mr. Wheeler.
Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Ritchey go this
week to Canton to visit their sons, Hi
ram and Jamison.
Miss Maud Marshall OF Keokuk is
the guest of Mrs. w. z. Boswell
Miss Mergie Sweeney, who has been
visiting her parents the past week, re-
turned to Kansas City Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin La Monte, of
Winnebago, Mimi, are visiting rela-
tives in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Snair, of Ores.
ton, Iowa, are visiting the lady's sis
ter. Mrs. Jos. Helfrich, Sr.
Mrs. Ella Waggoner and daughter,
of Burlington. are visiting the former
sister, Mrs. o. H. McMinimy.
Mrs. A. NJ. Garrick, Of La Grange,
Mo. is visiting Mrs. Park Cutler.
Mrs Laura Wilson of Stillwell, visit.
ed her brother, j. M. Owen, the past
week.
Paul Jamison, of Abingdon, Mrs. J.
S. Barker of La Harpe, Mrs. F. M
/ Henderson, of Stronghurst, Mrs. B. F
Elsea and Mrs. D. ]. Elsea, both oil
Ottumwa, Iowa, have been the guests
of DR.. and Mrs. H. ]. Elsea, the past
week
Homer Garvin, travelling out of ST
Louis, was visiting friends here the
past week.
S. E. Williams of Ursa was the guest
of Geo. v. Helfrich the past week.
The reunion of the 1lSth Init. Ill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Use Convict labor.

Following paper read by Governor
John F. Shafroth of Colorado, it de-
veloped, the report comments, that in
all of the states and countries that
are taking advanced ground upon the
question of establishing and improv-
ing rural traffic, convict labor is util-
lied.
The following quotations are taken
from the report Of the delegates:
Convict labor on roads has proven
a great success in the state of Colo
RADIO. In that state the convict, while
thus employed, is not clothed in the
usual prison garb, and he is allowed a
liberal reduction upon the time of his
sentence. The camp is easily guard
ed. In four years with 800 to 400 in
the camp, but four escaped, two OF
those voluntarily returned, the others
were recaptured. The prisoners work
with a snap and vim not so manifest
in contract labor, and show good re-
suits, both in volume and quality of
work done.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

practically be eliminated and might
be the means Of not only saving lives
but would doubtless save the railway
company, far more than the cost Of
Installing the much needed safe
guards at the grade crossing in the
city.
New London has grown to that pro-
portions of city that she really
needs such projections for her citi-
EMS, and it is believed that could the
Burlington officials be led to see the
need of the signals at the crossings
they would be Forthcoming.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

Vols, to be held in this city next Tues
day and Wednesday, promises to be
of great interest to old soldiers.
Mrs. John Culkin is in st. Louis,
called by the serious illness of her sis
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Lomax of Burl-
ington, visited at the DR.. j. A. James
home the past week.
Miss Jessie Bell is visiting her sis
ter, Miss Emma Bell, of this city.
Mrs. E. B. Hinson is visiting her
sisters in Hamilton and Keokuk.
Clyde Walker of Ft, Madison, visited
a part of last week with home folks
DR.. E. M. Robbins was in Kankakee
the past week
Clint Cutler of Fort Morgan, Colo,
is visiting relatives and friends in this
city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Iowa Representatives at Good Roads
Convention Urge Governor to
Recommend This
Action.
REPORT ON THE SESSION
Declare That Method Recommended
viii Prove Solution Of Problem
System Successful In
Other Places.

Iowa delegates to the International
Good Roads congress, which opened
in Chicago Sept. IS, want the state
to employ convict labor on its high
ways.
John w. Foster and e. w. Weeks
of Guthrie Center. delegates commits
stoned by Governor B. F. Carroll, fl
ed report of the convention work
with the state executive.
The delegates urge Governor Car
roll to press the question of building
good roads by convict labor in his
next message to the state legislature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
The Mistake Lies Here

d
You who buy scent cans don't get
the full good OF Van Camps,
You use it for coffee and cereals.
perhaps But you probably use raw
milk in your cooking.
That is a great mistake.
Van Camps is fully twice better for
cooking than the average run OF raw
milk.
Raw milk always separates, for the
butter fat rises and the solids fall. So
raw milk used in cooking is rarely
whole milk.
In Van Camps you get the whole
milk--all of the butter fat and all of
the solids belonging to the richest
milk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
FEATURE SHOWS
FOR CARNIVAL WEEK
coulters Trained Dogs, Ponies and
Elephants Will Give Free
Exhibitions.

Among the feature attractions that
will be presented to the citizens
of Keokuk and vicinity during the
week commencing Monday, October
2. will be Coulter's trained dogs, pom
les and elephants shows.
This is. without doubt, one of the
finest exhibitions of the master mind
over brute creation that was ever
presented to the public. In thiss at
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

Foley's Kidney Remedy {Liquld).
Is great medicine Of proven value for
both acute and chronic kidney and
bladder ailments. 1t is especially rec
commended to elderly people for its
wonderful tonic and reconstructive
qualities, and the permanent relief and
comfort 1t gives them. Wilkinson &
Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
The New Traekaae.

The new coal chutes will necessar-
fly call for no little new trackage for
the convenience of the company. 1t is
quite probable that another passing
track will be laid, although there is
nothing authentic regarding this lat
ter statement.
1t is hoped that the Burlington peo-
pie will see fit to place gates at the
railroad street crossing for this is a
most dangerous crossing and especial
~ is this true when it comes to the
passing of the fast eastbound trains,
as it's practically impossible to see the
approaching trains until they are al
most upon those who are crossing
Only last week an accident was mar
rowly ayerted y. {.
With gates, at this crossing and
bells at the other crossings in the
city accidents of this nature would
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
His Only Chance.

The man who has never become
sufficiently important to lift a first
shovelful OF earth or lay corner
stone or drive last spike may as
well try to become reconciled to the
fact that posterity will have to honor
him. If he Is to be honored.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Common Cold. Must BE Taken Ser

For unless cured they sap the vitality
and lower the vital resistance to more
serious Infection. Protect your chill
dren and yourself by the prompt use
Of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
and note its quick and decisive re-
suits. For coughs, COLDS, Group,
whooping cough. bronchitis and at
fections OF the throat, chest and lungs
it is an ever ready and valuable rem
edy. Wilkinsor & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Another Mistake


Then some people think that evaporated
milk doesn't keep when the can is opened.
1t will keep if you get Van Camps In
usual weather it keeps "a hours and it keeps
4S hours or longer on ice.
Keep it in the can until you use it up, for the
can won't hurt it any.
In the long run, what is best for you is
also best for us. That's why we publish
these facts.
Get the most for your money.
Buy the pint cans-the Decent cans. Then
ask your grocer to quote you his discount
by the case.
You save money by buying 4s cans at
time. And you save all of the trouble of
buying from hand to mouth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

1t matters not how much the milk is reduced
by evaporation. 1t may be reduced as much
as Van Camps. or only partly as much.
All charge five cents for six ounces.
So you get just as much of Van Camps for
five cents as you get OF the poorest brands on
the market.
But you get but six ounces of any.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Work is Needed,

1--WE urge upon the people OF Iowa
the use of prison labor upon our
highways. This work is needed, it
would be noncompetitive, it would be
better work, it would be far more
remunerative than the present sys-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Advantaqe Of Advancing Years.

Advantage Of Advancing Years.
One of the advantages of becoming
old is that one becomes Indifferent to
hatred, insult, and calumry. while
ones capacity for friendship and good
will are increased. Bismarck
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
How Money Is Wasted
On Scent Cans
When the right brand Of Evaporaed Milk wasting
onehrd Please read these

If you will try Van Camps in only one milk
dish you will never use any other Note the
favor, the richness you get from it.
Van Camps is fine on the table of course.
But it is also fine in the kitchen. 1t has twice
the worth of raw milk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25
Sixteen Ounces, 10 Cents

he 10-cent can of Van Camp tall
you get sixteen ounces OF evaporated
That means an even pint.
1t means exactly one-third more for
the money than you get IN the scent
cans.
In Van Camps you get per cent of
butter fat about % per cent total solids.
That is because we use rich, Holstein
milk. And because we evaporate by
far the larger part of the water.
If you put back the water which we
take out. you get about three pints of
very rich milk out of l0-cent can.
And that rich milk will cost you. if
YOU buy Van Camps by the case, just
about six cents per quart.
That's what you ought to pay.
But the same milk in 5-cent cans
even when bought by the case-costs
you over eight cents per quart.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

MARIETTA:
Order Gold Medal Flour If your folks are
nernickity about their victuals, SALLY ANx-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-25

Let US say at the start that every grocer has
Scent cans of Van Camps.
They are just as large as the Scent cans Of
vastly inferior brands.
And we sell more than of the l0-cent cans,
because of mistaken ideas
So, we don't give these facts to attack COM
petition. They are simply to show how to get
the most for your money.
Six Ounces for S Cents
All makers give six ounces of Evaporated
Milk for FIVE cents.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-09-01
SHERIFF'S NOTICE OF DELIN-
OUENT TAXES. 1910.

Complying with Chapter 275 of the
General Session Laws, enacted by the
State Legislature at the 1911 session,
notice is hereby given that any time
after the first Monday in October,
1911, Certificates of Delinquency may
be issued upon any OF the following
described parcels of real property re-
naming delinquent Taxes will be due
in the amounts set opposite each par
eel of property plus penalty of ten
per cent and interest at the rate of
twelve per cent per annum from the
first Monday in April, 1911, to which
will also be added the cost of adver-
tising. Certificates of Delinquency
draw interest from date OF issuance
until redeemed at the rate of fifteen
per cent per annum.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-09-01

William Gorton, N. w. "a N.
w. "a section II, 10 acres......... 210
August Waltenburg, E. u N. E.
"a section II, 50 acres ............. 420
S. c. Buster, N. E. "a section
II .............. ......................... $40
Henry Kantto, S. E. "a section
10, 100 acres ....................... 9.44
Wesley D. Horner, S. E. d S.
E. "a N. w. a S. "a S. E. "a
5. L. a N. w. a n. E. "a
S. Z. "a N. E. a S. w. a
n. w. d S. E. "a S. w. a
n. E. "a section "a, 100 acres 984
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-10-13
'ACCUsER IS TANGLED
ADMITS he HAD NO PROOF
AGAINST STEPHENSON.
lnstlaa tor Of Wisconsin investigate"
Says He Acted From sense OF
puty-Had No Facts.

Milwaukee. - Senator Stephenson
chief accuser. State Senator Jonn y.
Blaine, failed signally to make good'
when called before the senate inves'
tigating committee Confronted Win
his own is specific charges that Stepn.
enson had spent the major part OF
S107,793 corruptly to influence voters.
Blaine admitted he had only newspa-
per editorials, political speeches ana
hearsay to back his accusations.
And upon such information you
were willing to make allegations
which might jeopardize United
States senator and which, If proved
true, might send him to the peniten-
tlary, is that true?" asked Senator W..
B. Hepburn. the chairman.
Blaine made no answer other than
that he thought he was performing q
public duty by having an investlea'
ton of current report.
do you think it is public duty
to bring charges against a United
States senator without facts to SUD-
stantiate them?" asked Chairman
Hepburn.
al thought so,' replied the witness.
so when the Investigation is be-
gun you have to give to this comm.
tee no facts whatever which couid
be admitted in court oil law as
proper and pertinent to challenge the
validity either of Senator Stephen
sons nomination or his election?"
II had tEdmonds' word that ne re-
ceived certain sums for campaign
purposes. The words 'corrupting and
bribing electors were put in to meet
the requirements of the law in max
ing specific charges in such IN
stances"
"You had no facts of your personal
knowledge upon which to base them!
None"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-10-13
BIG DITCH IN 1913
TAFT SAYS CANAL WILL BE
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
Presidential Party Narrowly Escapes
Spe nding Night Among Glaciers on
Mt. Rainier-Machines Mired.

BeIlingham, Wash.-Fresident Tart
in a speech here predicted that the
Panama canal would be ready for
use on July 1, 1918.
1.-THE canal" he said, us the great.
est constructive work since the Chris
tian era. g.. g..
If nothing untoward happens you
can count on that canal on July l.,
1918. It's been promised for July l..
1915, but I'll let you into the little Sc
cret when tell you. you may see the
first ship go through the canal on July
1, 1913"
Tacoma, Wash.-President Taft
elm bed up to the foot of the glaciers
on Mount Rainier and narrowly es-
capped spending the night In the noun
tain fastness.
The presidential party made the as
cent in automobiles. and when near
ing the highest point reached by the
roadway some of the machines be-
came mired in the mud up to the huhs
of the Wheels ...... ....
LII tlc uSoAliiuS ioio l"h6Si
pulled several of the stalled automo-
biles from the mire. and they were
turned back for the return trip before
the presidents car reached them on
its downward trip.
The president completed the jour.
ney as planned and arrived safely at
his train. which had been taken to
Ashford. near the mountain. and
passed through here en- route to Bel
lingham
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-10-13
CHINESE REBELS TAKE CITY
WI Chang, Capital Of Hupeh Province
In Hands of Observation-Disclosures
elan Residents Unmolested. ~

Hankow, China.-The Chinese revo-
lut1onaries. in consequence OF the
feeling aroused by the execution OF
four of their members, ended day OF
rioting at WI Chang. capital OF the
province of Hupeh. by capturing the
commander of the troops there and
forcing the viceroy to fee for his life.
The battle between the loyal troops
and the revolutionaries, who have as
their primary grievance objection to
the governments use OF foreign money
in financing the building Of new rail-
roads. lasted over twelve hours.
Foreign residents have not been
molested. according to advices re-
ceived here The revolutionary com.
;mittee at WI Chang issued procla.
nation exhorting its followers not to
harm the citizens of other countries
During the riot fires were started
all over the town. the headquarters
of the viceroy and of the provincial
treasurer were bus1ed, the military
commander was killed by dynamite
bomb and the viceroy himself was
compelled to run to the river and
take refuge on yacht which steamed
away with him.
twenty-five American missionaries
in WI Chang are known to be safe.
The fear Of the Chinese officials
now is that the disaffection will spread
to this city and every precaution is
being taken to ward off this danger.
The foreign consuls have tele-
graphed their governments asking
that warships be sent to the scene at
once. The United States cruiser
Helena has been ordered here from
Ku kiang. .,,.
All loyal troops fed across the
river from WI Chang with the .revo-
Iutirnaries firing upon them from the
river front
J. is believed that almos. the en-.
tire army in the province Of HupeE
has gone over to TIC levo]ut'onaries
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-10-13
LOR|MER PROBE ON
NEW TESTIMONY INVOLVES FIVE
FORMER ILLINOIS LEGisLAT.
ORS IN ELECTION SCANDAL.
MENTIONED. FOR FIRST TIME.
Former Senator Hopkins Private Sec
rotary Names Men Whom He sus-
pected Of Being Bribed In One Way
or Another.

Chicago.-The committee OF the UNI
ted States senate which Is investigat-
ing the election of William Lorimer,
senator from Illinois, resumed Its
hearings in this city after a recess OF
eight weeks.
Four witnesses were heard. They
were: State Senator Frank A. Landee
of Moline; Jacob Groves, member For.
ty-sixth Illinois assembly; Thomas
Campbell, member Forty-sixth Illinois
assembly. and John M. PETERS. for
merly private secretary to former
United States Senator Albert j. Hop.
kins OF Illinois.
The four witnesses were adherents
OF Hopkins, who was candidate for
reelection against Lorimer in the
spring of 1909.
Accordingly, sensation was Gre
ated when PETERS, who was intimate
with Hopkins affairs and practically
managed his campaign against Lori
mer, tolled of the names Of five Re-
publicans-deserters from the Hop
kins camp-whom he suspected of be-
ing bribed In one way or another to
cast their votes, for Lorimer.
These men are: Senator B. F.
Downing, Dixon, Ill: Senator George
M. Mccormick. Alton. ILL.,; Representa-
tive Carl S. Burgett, Newman. ILL.,;
Representative johnson Lawrence,
Polo, ILL.,; Representative Charles l..
Fieldstack, Irving Park, Ill
The names were obtained from Pei
fers on cross-examination by Attorney
Elbridge Hanecy. counsel for Lori
mer.
On direct examination PETERS said
he had conversation with McCor-
mick about week before the election
of Lorimer.
Mccormick told me he had been Of
fered money to change his vote from
Hopkins to Lorimer." said PETERS
He specified the amount as $500.
He said he had refused the money.
and had then been asked to name the
amount for which he would change
his vote. He didn't say who made
the Offer"