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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

| In his latest cartoon in the Des
Moines Capital Ding makes it plain
that we could live just as cheapiy as
our fathers did if we would do as they
did The first picture represents the
interior of country store. A farmer
seated on a barrel of soda crackers,
with one hand full of the latter, is say
Ing to the store-keeper: Say. Ezr-ry,
you can wrap me UP nickers worth
of Goldfish if you'll take it out in trade =
a second picture represents the in
terror OF an office occupied by bust
ness man and his stenographer He
has telephone transmltter in his
hand and is saying: Send up about
four pounds of porter house steak
and, say, none of that tissue paper
kind. l want it cut thick-Too late
for delivery? Me carry it? Well. r
should say NOT! Call a messenger.
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parrow and Company.

Sioux City Tribune: attorney Da..
row, speaking Of the Mcnamara case,
now says: From the first there was
never the slightest chance to win
And yet he encouraged the collec-
ton of money from the laboring men
and he and his assistants absorbed
$4,000 of it. These laborlng men
were induced, partly through his atti-
tude, by what he, barrow. said and
did, to believe the McNamaras limo
cent, to believe they would he cleared
and to believe that barrow, their at
tcrney was sincere and honest
It is not strange that the whole
matter should now turn, az 1t seems
to, into a trial Of barrow and OF the
labor leaders before public opinion and
with as little chance OF their winning
as there was for the McNamaras in
the court trial.
There's an upheaval In the labor or
carnations that ought TO heave out
the leaders who betrayed the laboring
men and brought their organization
into disgrace.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

which such business is carried on. a
tax of one hundred dollars per an.
mum to be collected at the same time,
and in the same manner, as the mule,
tax. And the city clerk is hereby
ordered to certify such tax to the
county auditor on the first of each
year.
Sec. 8. Each drug store, person,
firm or corporation dealing In al
coholic liquors capable of being used
as beverage, for medicinal or other
purposes except those enumerated in
the two preceding sections, shall on
the first day of January, 1919, secure
from the city council permit to car,
ry on such business, which shall be
granted upon the following conditions:
There shall be paid into the city
treasury a license fee OF twenty dol
lars (s20.00) per year, payable quar-
terly at the first of each quarter, al
the Office Of the city clerk OF the City
OF keokuk. A failure to pay this fee
or q sale OF alcoholic Hquors contrary
to the provisions of the state pharm
acy permit. shall cause a revocation
Of this permit without further action
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The soclALlsTlc pRIEr.

At the Knights Of Columbus ban
quet in Sioux City last Sunday evening
Judge A. Van Wagenen served as
POSTMASTER, and in that office intro
duduced Bishop Garrigan. Speaking
of socialism, the bishop said: THE
purpose is TO establish an information.
al, industrial, cooperative social demo-
cracy, through the instrument Of uni
yersal political power, and then TO
substitute public ownership of land
and capital in order to bring about and
control public production and equal
distribution OF all incomes" In the
bishops view it Is proposed TO create
a social and political condition "bv
changing or subverting our present
economic system into 2. cooperat tive
( commonwealth and substituting athe-
ism for Christianity" The bisbop
quoted from the leaders to establish
his contention and he said: These
creams and theories of socialism are
ifnpracticahle and impossible until we
nave a new world and new creation
from new Creator" Much more the
pishop said in most impressive man.
ner In defense of organized society.
.he rights OF the individual. the wei.
rare OF the family and the vital con.
1 I OF the church. The Sioux City
9ouihal IN commenting upon his Mt.
'er 81 found occasion to say:
dea u is clear the bishop has given
G NE ~, study TO dangerous drift max.
. ing i.s way in the name OF noliticg
anu under pleas that are misleadine
. eats " ~ ny lnlm'eal to the best inter.
es.s OF the common people "a the
If of t ese runs runs IN the careless language
e ebo Iie stump. The bishops address
$ not nntu ~, receive thoughtful attention
a no only among his parishioners -'i h,,,
ny an who are disposed to sind, wv y,
ioies OF the time that they NAV
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except proof of same, and any sale
contrary TO the said state pharmacy
permit, or made subsequent to viola
ton thereof is misdemeanor and
shall be punished as provided in the
following section.
Sec. 4. Any person, firm, or cor
poration selling or keeping for sale In
toxicating liquors IN the City of Kee-
kuk, without complying with the three
preceding sections hereof shall be
guilty OF misdemeanor and shall be
subject to fine of one hundred dol
lars for each sale made prior to the
compliance herewith, or after failure
to comply
Sec. 5. Al, permits granted by the
CITY council shall specify the time for
which they are granted and shall be
subject to revocation at any time By
RESOLUTION of the city council.
Sec. 6. ALI ordinances and parts OF
ordinances in conflict with the provi-
sioas hereof are hereby repealed.
Passed and adopted this Ri day Of
December. 1911.
]. = ELDER, Mayor.
Attest: Q. W. sandberg, Clerk.
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Strengthening the Des MONIES

! il 5
Ottumwa Courier: Increasing tn
value of the low lands of Iowa b,
strengthening the Des Moines rive
: and building banks and levees is ad
vocated by Captain e. H. Thomas ii
a letter to the Courier Mr.. Thomas
who has made a deep study of tn,
stream, its possibilities and its de
4 fects. points a way to reclaim many
acres in Iowa, and states that the
4 state should get busy at once and de
something Captain Thomas letter fol
4 lows:
Il have read your editorial in ref
erence to Strengthening or taking the
kinks out of the streams OF Iowa
and as you suggest think our state
officials should show some interest in
the matter of retaining the low
lands. For a period of about twenty
years, made a study of the streams
and the action of the water. NY
business made it necessary for me to
acquire knowledge or these things.
learned this. That the natural course
of all streams Is from point to bend;
that the main channel Is In this direc-
ton and at no place under the points
All short bends hold the water or car
ry a head. Such head OF water var
les from few inches to several feet,
owing to the shape of the bend. From
levels and measurements taken at
Ottumwa when the river was at flood
stage, | am convinced that the bends
between the Ottumwa boat house and
the south of Village creek carries a
head of not less than two feet.
The velocity of the discharge is
checked and the points acting as ST.
many wing dams, back the water up
in the bends. l am also satisfied that
If the river was Strengthened between
the two points named, there would be
two feet less water at Ottumwa,
when the river Is at its usual high
water stage Of fourteen feet.
The only place to get correct
water mark is on stretch OF straight
river. One does not notice it in pass
ing down with a boat, but the river
between the packing house and the
mouth of Village creek is as
crooked as snake in motion. From
the top of Monkey mountain one can
get good view OF It. 1t is all short
bends to the right and to the left,
what we river men call letter S
bends Here in these bends the cur
rent is checked and the water held
piled up. If there is a fourteen foot
rise above Ottumwa it is safe to say
that it will gather a head of two feet
in passing the South Ottumwa bend
and hold the sixteen feet until it
passes the mouth of Village creek.
This is an easy problem for those who
have investigated the matter, but not
SO plain to those who have not. Be
tween the mouth of Village creek ana
Eldon, where there are no Short
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
THE -FAvoRlTE SON. DODGE.

A special telegram from washington
to the Omaha Bee, under date of the
18th inst, Was to the following effect:
Senator A. B. Cummins left for
Iowa tonight and those who pretend
to know say that on his arrival in the
Hawkeye state he will announce his
candidacy for President.
"And thereby hangs a tale. For some
days past forces antagonistic to the
denominations of President Taft have
been throwing bouquets at the man
from Iowa They have been saying
complimentary things about his
achievements, not only as governor
of great state, but as governor with
the result that Iowa's picturesque
statesman. possibly recognizing that
Ia Follette's boom is growing gradu-
ally weaker and weaker, finds in the
situation an opportunity to slip over
the delegates from Iowa for himself.
THE same interesting game is be-
ing played in Indiana with ex-senator
Beverage as the rallying cry for
those opposed to the present occupant
of the White House and it is intimat-
ed that several other favorite sons in
addition to La Toilette will be COM
mandeered to break down Taft's
strength III the so-caIled insurgenr
states 70 the end that if there should
re a stampede away from Taft one OIL
the GALAXY of intrepid warriors might
become the beneficiary and the nomi-
nee
TO bark back to Senator Cummins.
Ii is generally conceded that If he
hould indicate when in Iowa he
would liEe to have delegation from
the state it would be hard to beat him,
even though Senator Kenyon is pro-
nounced Taft man. It shows, how
ever the desperation in which La Fol-
lette's followers are placed and that
they are playing the honored 'favorite
son racket to beat the generally ac-
cepted and logical candidate.
President Taft in the meantime is
putting things over for the honor and
glory Of the entire people, wholly
oblivious seemingly to politics being
played against him"
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bends, the river will again take it's
proper level of fourteen feet. or
course il the banks along there should
be but twelve feet there would be
two feet of water on the bottom
4 farms, as water when it has a
chance seeks its level, and finds 1t;
SO that it appears to be very plain
that what is needed to reclaim, OF
/ Keep the water off the $4,000 acres Of
low lands along the Des Moines river
is to first straignten the stream, take
all Of the short bends out of it; then
to put all banks above the high water
mark.
| The highest water ever known in
ottumwa was twenty-one feet This
| has come but once since the white
man settled in the valley. But what
mas happened once may happen again,
60 we must figure the high water
mark at twenty-one feet although it
is usually but fourteen to sixteen
feet To thoroughly protect the low
lands all banks should be at least
tWenty-three feet high. This would re.
quire levee on top of the bank in
South Ottumwa of three and one-half
feet, to raise the bank two feet above
the twenty-one foot mark where. H.
should be. At some other point
where the bank may be but twelve
rect 1t would require levee of elev-
en- feet. Whatever may be the height
of bank, all should be put twenty
three feet above the bed of the river.
The work would not be an expert
ment. There are hundreds of miles of
1t along the Mississippi and other
streams Just above Burlington the
west bank of the Mississippi has
been raised for distance of twenty
five miles. Through this work, strip
of rich bottom land has been reclaim.
ed and Is now producing enormous
crops. Before the levee was built |
this land was valued at from $40 to /
SIS per acre. Now 1t is worth and |
selling at from 800 to $3.50 per acre. |
have a friend down there who clean
ed up 100000 by purchasing large
body of the land just before the bank
was raised. There are many thous.
ands of acres of these lost lands |
along the Cedar, Iowa and Skunk riv-
ers and other streams which can be
brought under cultivation, made to
produce large crops every year
through this system of work. About
two years ago A. G. Miller, president
of the Iowa Waterway commission. in
his report called the attention of the
state officials to this important mat
ter, but no action was taken by the
legislature. The Strengthening of the
stream and the raising of the banks
where they need it will do the work.
There is no doubt about that and the
rich state of Iowa can afford to take
up this proposition and push it along
as other states are doing.
E. H. THOMAS"
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means of saving Taft and preventing
the selection of q La Toilette delega-
ton from this state. The filing of the
Roosevelt petition makes the Nebras
ka situation serious, and unless Roose-
welt takes steps to withdraw the petit
ton, Taft and La Foi.ette leaders
frankly admit that Roosevelt would
win in canter in the primary. The
La Toilette managers are plainly
nervous. Many of the Wisconsin SEN
ator's followers would support Roose-
welt in preference to all others but
they insist that the Roosevelt candi.
dacy be in good faith and not inspired
by the Taft machine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
ORDINANCE NO. ssz.

BE 1T ORDAINED, BY the the city
council Of the City Of Keokuk, Iowa
Section /. That beginning with Jan.
uary /, 1912, there shall be, and there
is hereby, levied against each person
dealing in alcoholic liquors as bev.
erage. at retail, and against the pro.
erty in which such business Is carried
on, tax Of six hundred dollars per
annum, payable quarterly, at the same
time and in the same manner, as the
mulct tax. And the city clerk is here
by ordered to certify such tax to the
county auditor on the first OF each
year
Sec. 2. That beginning with Janu.
tary !. 1912, there shall be, and there
/ Is hereby, levied against each person
firm or corporation dealing in alcoho
lie liquors as 3 beverage. but no. at
retail, and against the building IN
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However poor you chance to be.

However poor you chance to be,
Or young or old, or weak or strong
Your servant will gladly be,
So that you, too, may help along.
] help to rid the world of dread
To darkened places ! give light;
| lift up many a wearied head,
] am a Waterman in the night.
bring message of good cheer,
preach the creed of brotherhood !:
show the way and make it clear
My object is the common good.
lift the fallen, aid the weak
| watch beside the infants cot;
/ bring the color to his cheek
Who languishes where hope is not.
] swing the gates of gloom ajar,
| help to make the future bright;
I'm little, but travel far;
/ am Waterman in the night.
IS. E. Kiser.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
FRESH AIR sEATiTupes

With the advice that the people
get the habit the health depart
ment Of Chicago has just issued
seven fresh air beatitudes,'' which
apply with equal force TO the people
everywhere, as well as u the PEG
pie OF Chicago. Here they are:
J. Fresh air means resistance to
disease.
2 It aids efficiency and effective
3. 1t sharpens the wits.
.. 1t assures health and happiness.
.. 1t promises long life.
G. It guarantees restoration to
health.
Z. 1t increases the earning power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

A financial expert who has been TAX
ing a look over the business field in
the United States, with especial rela-
ton to presidential years beginning
with 1908, and who has written book
on the subject, says that at no time
except in 1896 and 1900. have indus
trial depressions come in those years.
This ought to be consoling intelli-
gence to the business men of the
country, who are watching the trade
revival which is under way, and who
are uncertain as to whether it will be
checked or not in 1912.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

gain understanding, strengthen their
faith in righteousness and assist in the
service of the state and the church.
There are those who call them
selves progressive in their relation to
one political party or another who are
in fact reactionaries. Possibly Judge
Van Wagenen, who has been conspicu-
Gus as an advocate of government
ownership of railroads, and incident
ally of government ownership of much
more, might find profit in weighing
well the bishops words"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
THIS GOOD Old woRLp.

World was never as sweet as now,
Men are better each day, we live;
So many efforts to lift men now
And SO much wisdom is what WI
give.
World was never as sweet before,
Men we're never SO prone to do
Things for helping the weak and poor
Things for making our lives more
true
World was never in such good shape
Swinging on higher plane,
Warfare fading, and want and woe.
Suffering, sadness and grief ana
pain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
HOLIDAY FIRE HAZARDS AGAIN.

F1OEtOAI TINE TAZAhDS A0AlN.
4 Fire insurance hazards multiply
during the holiday season, owing to
Especial electrical displays, Christmas
trees in stores and show windows and
a liberal use Of cotton-snow and 9TH
/ er inflammabe decorations Every
merchant should be especially careful
about fire hazards at this time, not
only because of the danger of Interior
ing with his trade at the most profit
able season of the year, but because
OF his responsibility to the public
through endangering the lives of the
holiday throngs The most serious
hazard at holiday time is the Christ
mas tree filled with lighted tapers
and likely to be overturned, and cleo
trio wiring put up for special displays.
Trees should be installed so that they
cannot possibly be overturned, and
electric lights should be used in place
of candles. The latter are always
dangerous, especially after the tree
gets dried out in warm room.
Electric lighting fires are due al
most invariably to the practice of al
lowing employees not familiar with the
electric hazard to install displays in
show windows and other places. The
wires are frequently run over nails,
which wear off the insulation ana
start blazes, cotton batting and tinsel
is allowed to come into contact with
lamps and their receptacIes, and cir
cults are frequently overloaded by
special displays and thus made dan
gercus. The boards of underwriters
are glad to pass upon all holiday cleo
trio lighting plans in order to dimin-
ish the losses from fire, and mer-
chants generally should confer with
their insurance men and SHOULD be
certain that the electric wiring is done
by competent men Otherwise they
may impair their fire insurance pro-
lection, as the policies provide that if
there is a material increase in haz.
ard. without permission. the insurance
shall be void. The holiday season is
a good time for merchants to begin
to enforce mo smoking" rules. and to
be especially careful about the prompt
removal of boxes, paper and all in. I
flammable rubbish.
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LINES TO THE pEs MONIES

Eugene Parsons has written some
/ lines TO the Des Moines river that dc
credit alike to author and stream
They are reproduced herewith and
will be generally appreciated by Gate
/ City readers:
Stream. meandering through the
Wreathed with woods and fields of
grain.
Now in sunshine, now in shade,
Over pool and wild cascade
Through ravines and pleasant dells
HCeaselessly thy cadence swells.
Still By day. thy evening roar
Sounds far distant from the shore.
Mirrored in thy face are seen
Rocky bluffs and banks of green:
Trees their way outlines throw.
Arches into circles grow.
IN thy .quivering expanse
Sunlight plays and moonbeams dance
Skies repose in thy embrace,
Clouds and ripples interlace.
Floods of sparkling. sunlit wine,
Mark in thee the DAYS decline:
Hues of heaven richness lending
With the tints Of sunset blending.
Boats with splash of oars glide by
Echoes in the gloom reply;
Shore-lights glow like fiery streams
In thy depths mid starry beams.
Fiercely eddying. softly playing.
Onward rushing. never staying
River, restless day and night.
Emblem thou of times long fight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

Does farming in Iowa pay? Well.
there is the case Of e. L. Harding of
Cloyerdale, fer instance, Mr.. Hard.
ing sold wagon load of timothy seed
the other day for s1,G53.13 One hun.
dred acres Of land netted him $4,000
Tor seed, aside from fifty tons of hay
and pasturage. He Is not the owner
OF the farm. but tenant, and he
says that during the last ten years he
has saved $4,000 from income of his
rented place, besides having had {
Eood living for himself and family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
BLOODY THUMB
LED TO DEATH
Negro Convicted on This Evidence ia
Sentenced to Pay the
Penalty.

United Press Leased Wire Service, ]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Dec, 22.-Con-
yiction on the evidence OF thumb
print alone was Sustained by the
Illinois supreme court in the
case OF Jennings, alias Jones, negro.
VINO was convicted Of murder largely
on evidence OF bloody thumb print
left on the wall CT the home where the
murder occurred, Jennings was ar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
Mountain Top Fell.

DENVER. Colo, Dec. 22.-The top
of Mount Lizard Head, 14,1c0 feet
high. twenty-three miles southwest OF
Telluride, Colo. toppled over during
the night with crash that was heard
Tor miles around. Millions of tons OF
earth and rocks rolled down the noun
tain.
Upon arising in the morning, people
in that district saw that about 1000
feet of the top of the mountain was
gone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22
CHARGES MAYOR
WITH CROOKEDNESS
Councilman Makes Demand for War
rant for Arrest Of City
Official.

United Press Leased Wire Service j
BUFFALO. n. Y, Dec. 22.--C harg
ing that Mayor Louis P. Fuhrmanr
made use Of $1,000 of the city's mon
ey, Councilman Henry A. Bull reiter
ated his demand on Justice Cnas. B
Wheeler OF the supreme court for 6
warrant for the arrest of the city's
chief executive. The information
was first laid before the justice 8
week ago
Justice Wheeler informed Bull that
he has the matter under considera
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

Before the recent meeting OF the
American Civic association, Prof. C.
f. Hodge of Clark university. suggest
ed in an address: Don't swat the flv.
swat the man who permits the fly 10
breed A contemporary endorses
this as the right way to handle the
proposition. Maybe It is. but why
not swat both the fly and the man?
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rested in the immediate vicinity short
~ after the crime had been committed
and was heavily armed. comparison
of his thumb print with that on the
wall OF the house was instrumental
in his conviction and sentence to
death.
His attorneys contended there is no
statute in Illinois allowing the use OF
the thumb. print evidence in court.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

Political responsibility, or credit,
as the case may be, for the Moon law
is pretty evenly divided. The meas.
ure was written by Democrat and
passed by a Republican legislature.
The important fact is that it is Law
and should be obeyed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

Secretary Wilson asks but fails to
answer a question that interests most
OF US. The farmer, he says, gets but
30 cents for what the ultimate CON
sumner pays s for. Who gets the rest?
That is the real cost of living prob
'em.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-22

keokuk should be able to worry
along with fourteen saloons, all
right. That will be an average OF
enc to the block on Main street, which
will involve no great hardship to any
one