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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
COURT DEFINES TAX
POWERS OF CITIES
Duty Of Outlining or Defining the Dis
trict is. With the City
Council.

The supreme court has ruled that
as the law makes 1t the duty Of a
city council to define taxing districts
the inclusion within district of any
given piece of property cannot be
questioned in an action to abate or
yacate the tax.
The case arose in Pottawattamie
county where the Dubuque & Sioux
City railroad company refused to pay
its taxes on mile of railroad which
lay beyond the fire protection and
light district of the city. The tax was
levied to pay for these projections.
The railroad company secured an In
junction preventing the county treas
urer, J. W. Mitchell, from COLLECTING
the fire protection and lighting tax
on the mile of track lying along the
north line of the city but beyond the
protection district.
The supreme court made the follow.
ing sweeping rules in reference to
taxation by city councils:
The duty of outlining or definine
the district is with the city council
and when it has acted we are OF the
opinion that the inclusion within q
taxing district of any given piece oil
property cannot be questioned In &
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
English Are DreadfuIiy Shocked When
They Hear Of Bribery In Amer
lea But They do 1t
Also.
REGULAR THING THERE
Make Sure Of Delivery Of the Goods
by Using Regular Ballot
Marked by the
Candidate.

by Charles P. Stewart, London Cor
respondent of the United Press
LONDON, May 5-Ever since the last
English national election there has been
an almost uninterrupted series of con.
tests going on In the courts. as a re-.
suit OF charges of corruption at the
polls, sometimes by Liberals and
sometimes by Conservatives. Indiy,d-
ually the Liberal-Irish-Labo alliances
majority In Parliament Is too large
70 be affected by the unseatine Of a
rev OF Its members. and besides, the
unseat1ng has been SO evenly divided
oetWeen the two big parties that it
mas practically balanced up. What
the contests have done, however. is to
reveal an immense amount of crooked
ness In English elections.
The English are queer neonla
They are dreadfully shocked when
they hear about bribery of voters In
the United States. They are always
drawing comparisons, very much in
their own favor, between political con.
d1tions in England and America Ther
honestly believe that politics are per
fectiy pure in the former country And
yet they read every day OF doines at
the polls all over Great Britain that
Tammany ward heller would shrink
from, and it doesn't seem to make
any impression on them. In fact II
is no uncommon thing for an English.
man to turn from perusal of news
paper account OF the prevalence OF
corruption, say at Exeter, where u. e.
Duke has been trying to get Harold
st. Maur's seat away from him on the
ground that he won 1t by bribery. to
discussion of the purity Of British
election methods.
In the west of England. in particu-
lar, II is commonplace that few mem
bers get into Parliament by any means
but the purchase of their seats from
The voters. 1t is SO well recognized
that this is the case that the losing
candidate seldom complains about it.
He wouldn't consider it "sportsman-
like to do so. H. E. Duke. for in
stance, got himself heartily disliked
Tor contesting Harold St Maur's VIC
tory.
OF course, there was vote buying"
an Exeter man told me the other dey.
There always is. Both sides do it.
So there's nothing unfair about 1t. A
candidate shouldn't go into an cleo
ton In place like Exeter unless he's
willing to conform to local customs.
And If he can't stand being beaten he
oughtn't to run. Duke couldn't be
elected to anything-not in Exeter, at
any rate-after the way he's acted"
It has been shown, over and over
again, Just how the election agents
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
DISORDERED
DIGESTION
If Neglected May Develop Into a
Severe Form Of Stomach
Trouble.
The Bes. Safeguard l. to Keep the Stomach
Toned Up and the Treatment Should
Be Begun When the First
Symptom |. Noted.

Palpitation OF the heart does not
imply that the vital organ is diseased
Pain in the back does not necessarily
mean kidney disease
Headache does not often indicate that
there is anything wrong with your head
All OF these symptoms are caused by
stomach trouble and when thisis righted
the alarming symptoms disappear. If
you have them look to the condition of
your stomach for the cause before YOU
start to treat the symptoms rather than
the disease.
Mrs. George E. Shields, of No. lIS0
Pierre street, Manhattan, Kans, says:
"Dr. Williams Pink Pills effected q
remarkable cure for me nine years ago.
For four or five years previous to that
time had suffered at intervals of from
six weeks to two months from what the
doctors called acute Indigestion. My
OF all precautions those spells came on
just the same and my suffering was
most intense. could not eat anything
at all without distressing pains. 1t
seemed as if there was knot in my
stomach and it was being twisted
around. My stomach was so sore that
even the pressure of my clothes kept
me In constant misery and at times it
was hard for me to breathe
Then | was persuaded to try DIR.
Williams Pink Pills and when / had
taken only about half box saw that
they were helping me. / continued to
take them until had used three boxes
and in the meantime ventured to eat
things which had never dared to eat
before and suffered no i'll effects.
DR. Williams Pink Pills cured me
and I have never had spell of indiges-
ton during the nine years which have
elapsed. I have gained in weight from
scarcely one hundred pounds to one
hundred and thirty-eight and feel per-
fectly we'll Words cannot express the
gratitude and confidence I have in DR..
Williams Pink Pills. ,,
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid,
on receipt of price, 90 cents per box;
elk boxes for So. so, by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, n. Y.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
Rushing for Trains.

Mrs. Charles Whitney, who lives in
Overbrook and whose husband comes
to town every morning, called the
maid yesterday with rather excited
direction.
"Oh, SARAH" she said, II hadn',
noticed how late 1t is. Go upstairs
and tell Mr.. Whitney to hurry or
he'll miss his train"
Il have called him." Sarah answered
proudly. "and he says, ma'am. that
II puts the grapefruit Just outside
the door and the chops on the ton
step and the rolls and coffee on tho
landing he can catch the $40 train .
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
In the Wake Of the Measles.

The little son of Mrs. O. r. Palmer
Little Rock, Ark, had the measles
The result was a severe cough which
grew worse and he could not sleep.
she says One bottle Of Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound completa,v
cured him and he has never been
bothered since" Group, whooping
cough, measles cough all weld ia
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
The genuine is In the yellow package
always Refuse substitutes. Wilkin.
son & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05

ton after administration out OF office,
completely tie up legislative business,
stop supplies. put an end to taxation,
raise cain generally.
OF course this is based on the as.
sumption that the Liberals and Con.
servatives are pretty evenly divided
and that the Socialists have comfort.
able representation. Everything indi.
Gates that this will be the case In
the last two Parliaments, though the
Liberals have had a big majority
through their alliance with the Irish
and Laborites, the difference between
the respective strengths OF the
straight Liberal and straight Con
servative group has only been two or
three members.
And the next election promises to
bring in considerably greater num-
Der OF Socialists than there are Labor
members at present The reason for
this is quite clear. In the past the
Laborites have refrained from nomi-
mating candidates In Liberal consti-
tuencies. The Socialists will be able
to retain all the constituencies which
the Laborites now control and they
are tolerably certain to get some of
the Liberals constituencies away from
them,
AS the initial step in their campaign,
the Socialists have already chosen
Editor Harry Quelch of Justice" o
oppose Postmaster General Sidney
Buxton, the Liberal candidate in the
popular division of Tower Hamlets
where bye-election Is to be held
shortly Inasmuch as Mr.. Buxton can
not keep his cabinet seat unless he al
SO has Parliamentary seat. Social
list victory over him would be an ex-
tremely black eye for the Liberals.
The Socialist argument is that the
Liberals are not really liberal. Chan
ceilor of the Exchequer Lloyd George
and Home Secretary Winston Church
hill are, of course. Indeed, liberal is
hardly strong enough word to des-
cribe them They are radicals Lloyd
George verges on being Socialist
But the rest of the cabinet is con-
sidered Just about as conservative as
the Conservatives. Between Liberals
and Conservatives practically the only
difference, as the Socialists see it, is
that the former believe in free trade.
and most though not all of tn !, latter
in protection, and that most but not
all of the former are little army and
navy men, while the latter are out
and-out jingoes and imperialists.
Nor are the socialists the only peo-
pie who take this view. There are
some advanced liberals who are also
beginning to mutter The London
Star is their most important organ
A recent issue of this paper points out
in the most emphatic language "the
urgent need of democratising our
Tory bureaucracy from top to bottom
Liberal ministers must be forced to
dominate their departments and put
the fear of democracy into their of
ficials.
Minister of Education Runciman,
like Minister of thu Navy McKenna, is
the tool of officials who treat him
with DESTINATIONS contempt without
being whipped into obedience. And
there must be drastic reforms in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
Warning to Railroad Men.

e. s. Bacon, II Bast St., Bath. Me.
sends out this warning to railroaders
"A conductor on the railroad, my worl
caused chronic inflammation of thu
kidneys, and | was miserable ant
all played out. A friend advised Fole,
Kidney Pills and from the day com
menced taking them. began to re
gain my strength. The inflammation
cleared and am far better than
have been for twenty years. Tht
weakness and dizzy spells are thin;
OF the past and / highly recommend
Foley Kidney Pills" Wilkinson G Co
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05

collateral proceeding or in an actio j
to abate or vacate the tax
Justice Evans dissented
The court reversed the district
court which gave the Injunction to
the railroad company.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
Toledo, Peoria and western Railway
c., 3. & Q. RAILWAY CO.

Trains leav. from Union Depot
Berths and tickets. Fifth and John.
son streets.
South Bound.
NO. 8, st. Louis and south,
ieAveS -. .............. IZ:45 an
NO. IL. st. Louis and KAN
sas City and west. south.
leaves .............. $50 an
NO. 4. Quincy. Hannibal &
st. Louis. arrive -:16 r. N.
leaves ........ ........ 1920 pm
mo. 10, Quincy and Hanni-
bal. arrives .............. s:26 pm
No. 10 leaves .....e.... 8:e6 pm
Moth Bound.
NO. Z, Chicago. st. Paul
and points west. leaves 2:s5 I'm
NO. Is. Chicago, st. Paul
and points west, arrives -. 1885 pm
NO. IL, leaves ......... 1885 IN
sNo. 3, Burlington, Chicago
and east, leaves .. 1875 pm
No. 1. Burlington, leaves 1888 an
'No. 81. Donnellsen, c., B. &
X. c., and North Road
leaves ......~.... $3.50 pm
No. 80, from Donnellson,
c., B. & X. c.. q North
Road, arrives ........ 1880 an
sNo. !. X. & W lest, leaves sos an
ssNo. 5. Centerville. leaves !. 7.s5 pm
EMO. 4, from Centerville and
points intermediate, arrives 1:15 pm
EMO. 2, from Centerville and
west. arrives ........... $50 pm
no Centerville, leaves 9:1n pm
s'No 8, from Centerville. ar
rlves ................. 11:55 an
-Daily.
'Daily except Sunday.
''Sundays only
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05

The splendid work Of Chamberlain
Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily
coming to light, No such grand rem
edy for liver and bowel troubles was
ever known. Thousands bless them
for curing constipation, sick head
ache, biliousness, iaundice and indi-
gestion. Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05

CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
John w. Young, Builder, Superin-
tendent and contractor for all kinds
o. construction. Also general repair
work. Prompt and careful attention
given to plans and estimates. Your
patronage solicited Office sos Blon-
deau. Iowa pLone. office 2143: resi-.
dence, 3342.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05

DR.. BRUCE L. aILFILLAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once. 6211s Main street, over
Crooks & Cox Millinery store. Bell
Phone 100 Black.
Residence 81 North Fourth stree-.
Bell Phone 1880 Red.
Hours: 1912 a. M; "a p. M: rs
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05

DR.. EATON JOHNSTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
The only physician practicing Oste
opathy in the county. The Smithsoni,
an truss fitted and guara iced, the
only truss that holds. Office. North
side Of Main street, third door above
Fifth. Phone SO. Residence, Ninth and
Webster. Phone 1874. p o. Lock Box
Al. Warsaw. III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-05
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22
NO CkSCARET USER
EVER HAS HEADACHE
A 1o-Cent Box Will Keep Your Liver,
Stomach and Bowels Clean, Pure
and Fresh for Months.

Sick headache. biliousness. dizziness.
coated tongue, foul taste and foul
nreath-always trace them to torpid
i1Ver, delayed fermenting food in the
bowels or sour. gassy stomach.
POISONOUS matter clogged in the in
testines. instead of being cast out Of
the system is re-absorbed into the
ROOD. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue It causes congc s.
ton and that dull, throbbing sicken-
ing headache.
Salts. cathartic pills, oil and purga-
tive waters force a passageway for
day or two-yes-but the don't take
the poisons out and have no effect
upon the liver or stomach.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse and
regulate the stomach, remove the sour,
undfgested and fermenting food and
foul gases, take the excess bile from
the liver and carry out of the system
all the decomposed waste matter and
polsons in the intestines and bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten You out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a Decent box
from Your druggist means inside clean
illness and - clear head for months.
Ask any % 81 yzillions of Cascaret
users if they ever heve AeadachA
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22
Where Competency
Is Needed.

Those of us who would offer the
poorest kind of excuses to keep from
doing jury duty have no right to criti-
else the decisions reached by any body
of men doing jury service. The lack
of competent men to serve on the trial
juries and on the grand juries mill
tates against the WELFARE of communi-
ties, just how much cannot be con
templated.
Lawyers art given credit for ex-
cusing on various pretexts business
men and wholly competent ones simply
because they prefer men not as cap
able of sitting out the facts shown in
the evidence. but the lawyers are not
altogether to blame for the judges are
too easily persuaded that business men
ought to be excused from serving on
suries. This is bad practice for no
matter how important ones every
day business happens to be there is
nothing SO important to any man as a
thorough execution of the laws of a
commonwealth.
Recently Judge Call. while conduct
ing circuit court in St. Augustine. put
the people on notice at the beginnin .
Of court that persons would not be ex-
cused from doing jury duty on excuses
other than absolute and apparent ne
cessity.'
II would seem that few persons
realize the Importance of service in
the jury box. The integrity of the
courts depend altogether upon the
faithfulness and the intelligent action
CT the jurymen. The laws of the
country and the states are withou,
value if the jury does not do its duty
toward law enforcement, and the very
best way to secure competent and
honest juries is to have them COM
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22

posed of the men who now trump up
excuses to shirk an unpleasant, yet a
very important, duty of citizenship.
The judges mean no harm by their
Willingness to excuse SO many men
from jury service. In fact, it is usually
a desire to accommodate, but this
willingness to accommodate others
works to the detriment of whole
people.
Judge Call did a great, deal In the
right direction and since he has set a
precedent other judges will no doubt
realize that he is doing something that
viii improve the juries of the Florida
courts.
IF the courts retain the confidence
of the people too much stress cannot
be placed upon the competency of jury
men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22
ENJOYS EVERY MEAL
Since Taking VinoI-Eating Was
Punishment Before.

There are hundreds, even thousands.
of people right around here who have
had no appetite for a long time and
eat only because they must.
A Brooklyn man, Thos. J. Sinclair,
says in a letter: For nearly five
years 1 was tormented with stomach
trouble. / had no appetite and 1 suf-
fered so much and so long that it
seemed as if / never would get any
relief. VinOl proved to be just what
l needed. 1t brought back my appe-
tite. relieved the painful symptoms
and now my digestion is perfect.
enjoy every meal now, where former
ly eating was almost a punishment"
This delicious cod liver and iron
remedy without oil is wonderful to
stimulate the appetite and build UP
the body. All who are weak and run
down from stomach trouble or other
causes should try Vinol on our pos
tive guaranty to refund the money
if they are not perfectly satisfied.
Whites Pharmacy, Pensacola, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22
VOX POPULT.
MOVING PICTURES SHOULD
SHOW THE PRESENTATION
Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 21, 1911.

Pensacola, Fla, Nov. p, 1911.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
1t is on the cards that not only the
warship Florida, but also her sister
ship, the Utah, will be here on the
occasion of the presentation of the
silver service, December 18th to the
18th.
Many of us have seen both of these
great fighting ships in the motion pic
lures, but only for a few brief mo-
ments, but even at that they are a
noble and inspiring sight. One of the
leading MT Aon pictures companies
has forsome time been showing us a
weekly pictured epitome of the notable
events throughout the world, and
every one of them is worth seeing.
Now, it would be hard to imagine
a more notable event. than the
Pensacola. 1t will certainly be grand
and noble sight to see, a sight to
make every Pensa colian, every Flo
ridian, swell with pardonable pride.
Now what's to hinder somebody from
urging the Pathe Freres people a man
down here with his machine and
shoot" this event into one of their
inimitable films? There. will be no
finer subject the world over than this
will furnish, no sight more imposing
than these two newest leviathans of
the deep coming majestically into this
grand harbor. With fancy's eye I can
see these noble peace makers" loom
ing upon the southeastern horizon of
the gulf. crossing the bar, coming 70
anchor in this beautiful bay. 1 can
feel the hot breath from their mon
ster stacks, hear" the hot air that
will evolve and revolve about that
splendid silver service. And what is
more than all, what finer demonstra-
ton shall we ever have of this unsur-
passed harbor than to show the world
these two monsters sailing without
halt or hesitation over the bar, straight
to a land-locked anchorage. and where
Uncle Sans whole bunch of peace
makers" could find plenty of elbow
room and have plenty more for those
of two or three other great powers.
Now let's get busy with these
French American picture people at
once. If the Chamber of Commerce
can't do it. why not you? II not YOU,
then I nominate Mr.. Leo Marzoni to
do it. This is not an original idea
with me. 1t has been suggested be-
fore by my young friend Julius Daniels
Isn't it a good one?
J. o. WALKER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22
Get the Most Out
Of the School Plant.

The man and woman OF middle age
or more fondly remember the oldtime
school house as the center of the So
cial and intellectual life of the COM
munity. The memory is as fragrant
with gratefulness as with tenderness.
The old school house was the happy
scene OF spellingbees at a time when
people learned how to spell. It was
the seat of literary societies and de-
batting clubs through a period when
this land was producing the greatest
orators and the cleanest statesmen in
the world. II was place for public
entertainments for generations to
whom public entertainment meant
elevation Of ideals and the quickening
of wholesome human sentiment.
Times change, and old customs pass
away. But not all changes are for the
better, and not all old customs should
be allowed to pass.
The investment in the school plant
of city is very large; and it is poor
system to leave it idle two thirds of
the time for three-fourths of the year,
and wholly idle the rest. No business
enterprise representing so much in
ivestment could succeed by this method.
Strenuous efforts are being made these
days to apply social interests to big
business methods. 1t would not be
out of place to think of applying some
of the methods of big business 10
social interests.
There is no growing city that does
not suffer a lack of meeting places for
social, literary, economic and indus
trial societies. The school houses,
commodious. comfortable at the CEN
ter of communities, and idle most of
the time, should be thrown open for
wider public use.
No organization by meeting in it can
lower the tone of the school.
No meeting can fail to feel the uplift
Of such atmosphere.
Even political meetings would won
derfully change in character and re-
suits. if measures and principles were
discussed in school houses, rather than
candidates and policies craped over in
the hall above saloons.
There is a forceful movement back
TO the school house. No particular
change is needed to open these public
buildings to more general public use,
except turn of public sentiment in
j that direction.
1t is not merely cold question of
utilizing waste.
The subtle cleansing and inspira
tional influence of the school house,
where the air is sweet with the inno-
cence of our children and of our own
childhood, will put a better, broader,
truer spirit into any public meeting
there, and bigger, purer, more virile
purpose into any public movement
that is there discussed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-22
THE TIME, THE
PLACE. AND
THE GIRL. SEE?
AT NINE O'CLOCK TONIGHT, AT
THE SAN CARLOS BALL ROOM,
YOU AND YOUR LADIES ARE IN
VITED TO DANCE IN HONOR OF
PRISCUS.
Tonight at nine O'Clock.

Tonight at nine O'Clock. a. .-.. .Ime.
The san Carlos bail room will be
the place. ana the girl-well, if you
haven't yet asked the giri-well, you're
not the sort of public spirited citizen
that you ought to be-that's all!
This is the night, in short, that a
lot of people will dance, at the invi-
tation OF the Carnival Association, in
order that the carnival fund may be
helped along, so that Pensacola may
witness the largest Mardi Gras cele-
bration this year that has ever before
marked the reign of the royal house
OF PrisCus.
Everybody, OF course, knows the
main details of tonight's affair. The
time is nine o'clock; the place the San
Carlos hotel; the girl-but pshaw!
You know the girl
BEiaS hsn