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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
FOR RENT.
AGENT WANTED.

LIVE MAN or woman wanted for
work at home paying s200 to $500
per day. with opportunity to advance.
Spare time can be used. Wor,. not
difficult aud requires no experience
Universal House, S52 Wabash Ave
nue.. Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Daily Grain Letter.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Wheat trade is
resting. No appearance as yet OF the
cent and over rallies that marked the
end of the serious break, but the sell
ing pressure is removed. The general
conditions are unchanged. On the
basis of average February wheat
changes, May wheat due to operate
at 951h to CSC. January corn receipts
at primary points 22,Ooo,o00-l1 per
cent over last year. Big noise made
by influential coarse grain bears has
terrified outhold, but will evidently
have little effect on corn. Very little
regard in selling at this level There
is more fear of large hog receipts
but the winter hog run is over and the
country is still SOW crazy. This does
not suggest plenty of swine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
w ant Col umn
WANTED.

WANTED Boys and girls, steady en,-
ployment, good wages. Apply at
Shoe Factory.
WANTED To rent small house on
the north side of town. Address c..
G. c., care Keokuk and Hamilton Wa
ter Power Co., city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
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Price Current.

CHICAGO, Feb. Price Current
says the weather generally is mild
over the winter wheat area and very
little snow protecting the plant. In
an event of an extreme freezing con-
dition TIL plant is generally good
but little of the area is not promising
Fairly free marketing of grain II
the interior and expected increase
when the roads are in better shape
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02

The Play of the Water at the
Villa D'Este ............, List
Das Nicer Nicode
Violin Group.
Romance in f major !. Beethoven
Hungarian Dance Brahms-Joachim
Rhapsody ... William Lester
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02

Chicago Live stock-openins.
CHICAGO, Feb. Receipts $4,000;
left over 6,1oO; market opened 5000
lower. Mixed. $7.S0@T.70; good, s7.45
OTIS; rough, s72o@7so; light. s7.45
@7.75.
Cattle Receipts 5000; market
weak.
Receipts $4,000; market
steady
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Aaentine Receipts
Chicago Car Lots.
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis stocks Wheat. Inc.
zoe, 600 for days against an increase
of $4,000 last week
Kansas City Receipts and Shipments.
ReceiDtS Shipments
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02

Stocks.
NEW YORK, Feb. Low priced
issues are selling on panic basis.
Katy at any figure under forty is
bargain.
steel business is improving. The
Illinois steel Co. has received orders
from the Rock Island road for 10000
tons of rails, and The Grand Trunk
Pacific is opening bids for $1,000 tons
of eighty pound rails.
Keep long of steel stocks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02

Chicago Live stock-close.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Hogs Market
steady to shade stronger than early.
Good, s7.25@7.5o: rough, s7.05@7.2o;
light, s7.40@7.7o.
Market slow and weak.
Sheep-Market steady.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
Additional Forty Rooms.

Summarily the proposition piaced
before the hotel directors was this:
President Christian said that with an
investment of $4,000, forty addition
al rooms could be constructed on the
present property OF the hotel COM
pany. In return for this invested mon
ey. the directors and owners OF the
building would receive ten percent,
the entire Indebtedness to be lifted
by the lessees in a period of ten
years. The Des Moines men state
that this arrangement and money per
cent is the best proposition OF Its
kind that has ever yet been placed
before body engaged in like bust
ness-that the stockholders in the
new Burlington hotel are now receiy-
ing six per cent per Gnnum on their
money. the new hotel at Joplin, Mo-,
is paying four percent, at Quincy, six
percent and SO on.
The owners Of the hotel building
here, however. lael that they are not
in position to accept these terms,
even considering the fair proposal OF
investment so the matter was drop
ped with may" vote from the stock
holders and directors.
Messrs. Christian and Hedricls are
paying $500 a year for the building
at Third and Johnson streets. They
have ten years lease on the build
ing and nearly seven years of that
time has expired.
The past year has shown. they
claim. that much larger hosiery is
needed to care for the patronage
which is sure to increase with con
tinued progress on the construction
of the water power dam and as the
city becomes larger and more recog
nized as a commercial center.
viii Promote New Hotel.
Automatically 1t was learned this
morning that both of the Des Nome:
hotel operators, Mr.. Christian ant
Mr.. Hedrick, are at the present tins
comforting with outside parties t.
construct new hotel here and tina
within a year and a half. new
building will likely take Its place
among the several other hotels Of tn
city.
If accommodations for the travelling
public are to be obtained, an en-
larged Hotel Keokuk, or new hota
TO care for the overflow and heavy In
flux Of outsiders who will come, az
pears at the present time as an I'm
peratiye need.
Public Sale Of Hotel keokuk.
The plan OF putting the Hotel kee
kuk up for public sale was presenter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
ron SALE.

FOR SALE Black Langshan cocker
els, scored and unscored, s1.00,
st.5o G. B. Beckett, Vincennes. Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02
RroomhaII Cables.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 2.-Wheat mar
ket opened firm. Shorts covered on
the firmness in Winnipeg yesterday,
forecast of smaller Argentine ship
ments than were expected and the
colder weather in the United Kingdom.
The official estimates of the Argentine
surplus is maintained at small fig
ures.
During the morning there was some
disposition to take profits and values
declined one-half from high.
Argentine offers continue on lib.
eral scale, with poor demand, and es'
Inmates are for larger Indian ship
ments this week, and free Russian Of
| fers. At midday market firm and
fve-eighths higher than yesterday.
Corn market opened firm, one
eigth higher, and further advanced
one-eighth to flve-eighths, with the
principal strength in American grade
1 Shorts covered on the unfavorable
Argentine crop news improved shoult
command the firmness of America.
! That Canadian Reciprocity and Oats
4 Galesburg says a big Canadian lant
owner in here this morning and says
"The reciprocity agreement will no
hurt the oats. They average As to 81
pounds to the bushel and do not rais'
enough for export.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-02

Public Sale Of Hotel keokuk.
The plan OF putting the Hotel keo-
kuk up for public sale was presented
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
THE WARNING.

Current comment upon the typhoid epidemic in Torrington is strong only in sympathy for the sufferers. Of suggestion for the future the com Some of them regard the epidemic as "an a~t of God" like an earthquake, or thunderbolt. Others have dim idea that protective devices ought to be used to prevent future epidemics, but they are uncertain as to what devices, One we'll meaning newspaper thinks that the reseryoirs ought to be carefully watched to see that the quantity of contamination they re- ceive is as small as possible Another one believes that the water ought to be "doped' with some germicide chemical. But the art of water sup ply is better understood. Neither patrol, TOT doping are sufficient rem edies The sand filter is. The moral every water supply, public or private,
 derived from surface drainage, should be filtered before it is transmitted to the consumer. An unfiltered supply is likely to become a poisonous bev- craze at any time. On the other hand it may go long without receiving a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
HUDSON FOR HILLS PLACE.

Senator Jeremiah Donovan be- lieves that E. J. Hill cannot be re- nominated for Congress in Fairfield county and that if renominated he cannot be elected. Senator Donovan thinks that the Republican nom- ination may go to Senator Stiles Jud- son of Stratford, who would then be the next congressman from Fairfield county in the event. of course, of the usual Republican majority making its appearance. Senator Donovan Is an experienced observer of the political trend and his opinion may be correct. In the event of Senator Judson being a congressional candidate an intelligent campaign would be insured. Judson is more representative of existing Re- publican thought in Connecticut than Hill is, and would be more accept able to the majority of Republicans" '" Bridgeport Farmer.
 The Farmer is Democratic and so is Jeremiah and they may not be able to tell as we'll as those in that fam fly what is best for Republicans Tn Fairfield county, but it is Very inter- esting to note even a Democratic view of the field. The Courant felt that the state should not be re-districted lest Congressman Hill fail of re-elec- tion and the government machinery cease to work and now comes advice from the largest city in the county that the only safe course for the par ty to adopt is to nominate Senator
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27

his work has appeared in nearly all the current periodicals, including Har- per's, the Century, St. Nicholas, At lantic, Life, Puck, the Philadelphia Post the Outlook, the Independent and the Ladies Home Journal. He ..The Four-Masted Cat-Boat," "Yan- in Magic" Cheerful Americans" More Cheerful Americans I've Been Thinking and "Minerva's Ma noeuvres," and many other works. His last work was the completion of the third of a series of Irish fairy stor-' ies for the Saturday Evening Post. the first one having already appeared in that magazine. The accomplish ment of this under the painful CIT cumstances of his illness was typf- cal of his remarkable cheerfulness and optimism of character. Unable to sit long at his typewriter, he thought tine entire story out before writing and when completed sent the first draft to his publishers. its ready acceptance giving him much pleasure.
 MT. Lo6mis' style was sparkling, fresh and distinctly individual. His method of working was quick and spontaneous and accounted for great deal of the charming spontan- city of his writings. His ideals were high, and not even for the sake of raising laugh would he descend to the slightest touch of vulgarity nor to unkind sharpness of wit. His humor was kindly and his satire de- lightfu1 if keen. He was perhaps as well known by his platform readings as by his books as he addressed au- dienceS all over the United States and also in England. His gloomy coun- tenance was in such contrast to the fun of his remarks that he counted his looks an asset in his work, Mark Twain having once told Mrs. Loomis that he envied her husbands face and wished. he had it. He was a mem Der of the New York Salamagund Club, of the New York Authors Club. and nonresident member of the London Authors Club.
 He leaves his wife: two sons, Chas. Battell Loomis, Jr., of this. city, state editor of the American and Alfred Loomis; one daughter, Edith Wo stil- ington LoomiS; and a brother. Har- vey w. Loomis the well-known com
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
A GOOD NEWSPAPER.

The New York Press has earned the right to be called "the most ad- vanced" of Republican newspapers. Its economies are soundest. It is not always right, nobody is, but it tries to be right as hard as newspaper can. It ,is, the only journal of its species thathh sraspede the connection be- tWeeh high prices and dull times.
 In discussing this important sques- ton recently it says:
 Control of markets, wage increases. restriction of supplies, can force ex- can force consumers to pay more money for commodities and service than they have money to pay.
 How simple true! High prices, continually increasing while wages remain stationary, or about so. will as certainly cause a panic as that the sun will rise and set. If nation could dispose of it's entire surplus product, (anything it cannot sell at honel to foreigners it could keep busy. TRe. workers 1AigFt, or might
 [ not, have a low standard of living, but they could be kept at work and would be.
 The competition for foreign trade is ieteEsa. The manufacturers of the world are struggling for the business awayIfrpm home. The home markets are the importa nt markets. The home markets are glutted. It is the glut that causes panic. which means that people have no work when there is much to do and that they are hungry because they have produced too much.
 The manufaetprer ANAo drives the price of his prydlct hisher and high CT without correspend dlAgly increasing the purchasing power of his men is as certainly decreasing the market as
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
Uhf 3. Al. Rrah Unttpa1t1J.

contamination sufficient to cause an epidemic.
 A few years back New Haven had it's trial by typhoid. Some hundreds of persons were afflicted with the disease. Several score died of it.. There was a great agitation. It end ed in filter being built to care for the particular supply that was affect ed. New Haven continues to be sup piled in part by unfiltered surface water. Someday another typhoid cpl dennic will come. other hundreds will have the disease and other scores of men, women and children will die. There will be the same naive surprise on the part of the owners of the wa ter monopoly, the same melancholy defense of the greed which will be another installment of the remedy.
 The danger to Bridgeport has been repeatedly pointed out by this news paper. Bridgeport's water supply s rom the SurIdcG. FOTIlOQS OI tuS water sheds supplying Bridgeport are popu]ous. The water always shows traces at least of contamination. A dangerous contamination may occur at any time. Then will come the hun dreds of. cases of typhoid and the many deaths.
 Filtration esta blished now will pre- vent all this. The city has been made aware of the danger. It's expert has reported the remedy, costly expert who received a large compensation for his services. There the matter rests. Now the question is this, should typhoid epidemic occur in Bridgeport, would those who have been made aware of the danger, and of the means by which it might be prevented. and who have the respon- sibility, be guilty of manslaughter, in the tribunal of morals or in the tri- bunal of justice? Is it not the duty of those who furnish public water to take every reasonable measure for the protection of the public from the dan ger of an infected supply?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
: MuDPUDDLE HEROISM.

Tn a moment of responsiveness At torney General Wickersham gave out an interview which reflected great credit upon him. He said that he WI d law officer. that it was his duty to$Snforce and not to Interpret the law, that there were certain law de- lying trusts, that it was his duty to prosecute the men behind such trusts, that some of these men ought to gn to jail, that he would put such men in -tail and that especially the men in the Beef Trust ought to go to jail.
 This interview, sent broadcast tfiloughout the nation. was read with approval It sounded like the hon. eetiy stated indignation of an honest man determined to correct what he had the power to correct. Opinion of tho Attorney General went up at-least 200 per cent.
 Now coTnes the hour of awaken in l! MT. wickersham says the in- tal fi$w is not his, that the interview eF wrcte it. Assuming MT. Wicker sham Is not mistaken, and that the interview was not the transient mood of Ia passing but better attorney gen. eraI, the best that may be hoped is thnt he will resign and that the re- pz& may get his job;
 Mem tastes are strange indeed. Here is a man set upon a pedestal and made to look like hero. His own notion of heroism is to come down and roll in the mud.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
:, PRINCES AND FREEDOM.

"No man above can free you, no prince or ruler, no Hearst or LaFol- lette; you must free yourselves" The language is that of Eugene Wood, a prince of humorists, whose humor is more serious than the tr,. gedy of smaller men. It is from a speech which he made in Greenwich, recently. What he says is true, more accurately, has truth in it. But the truth is two.s three, or five sided; it may be octagonal, or polygon.
 Princes and rulers, Hearsts, LaFol- lettes' woodrow Wilson's, Hunters. poets, preiates, preachers and press men may not be able to free the peo- pie, but they can make the, job cas- fer.
 Few men have genius. But most men have the capacity to recognize the completed work of genius. MT. Bells telephone is above the grasp of millions while it is merely in his mind. But when the telephone talks the same millions comprehend the truth without difficulty. The prince of inventors hAs made it easy for these less well endowed to be free from the thralldom of writing or go- ing.
 One would say that the chattel slaves of our nation contributed not materially to their own freedom. by aspiration or consciousness of their degraded condition. This liberty was the work of princes in morals like Garrison, Phillips and John Brown.
 Do social inventions differ so much in essence after all. from telephones. telegrapfs and aeroplanes?
 What are direct primaries but a labor saving device through which the collective will may be more read fly, expressed The initiative and referendum, the vote direct to the LaFollette, Hearst or Governor of New Jersey, may not be able to free the people, but they can turn a hard job into nickel plated cinch. The people. want freedom. They are busy with their own affairs. They are not inventors of improved social mechanisms. Here is where the princes" come in. with plans for collective ownership of water, gas, electric light and many other things, the most improved of profit sharing plans, giving the community in fact full value for it's expenditure, both those who labor and those who use the commodities.
 Let us boom the collectivity, stim- ulate it, stir it and reverence it. The hive is bigger than the queen bee. But the queen bee is pretty important individual in the hive and should re- ceive proper consideration. We shall continue, if MT. Wood. please, to have Ia great respect for princes" even for princes among humorists, and must insist that their services are very valuable in securing freedom.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
GOVERNOR WILSON'S DUTY.


 woodrow Wilson thinks he should reign because it has been discovered that votes were bought in New Jersey while he was running for office and that some of those votes were cast for him. Perhaps he should, but, on the other hand. he may do more good in oflice, where ha may exefeise much power to check. prevent, punish and extinguish the gross offense of vote buying. Signs are not lacking that this wrong Is about to cease. Public opinion is more conscious of it's exist ence ond more intoierant. z Groups of citizens have begun to employ de- teetives and cause arrests, The busi- ness of vote buying is no longer safe. 1t never was safe excepting that pret- ty nearly the whole political world declined to see what was going on under its nose. A single prosecutor who iis1 minded ton do his full duty. one iddge. af .assoEiation Of citizens willing to shoulder the burden. are enough. There is no longer any as- surance that one of these agencies will not appear in any particular because such agencies have appeared in other communities. Corruption of ballot bears the same relation to a nation that a worm does to a chestnut. The thing is fair on the surface. but rotten at the heart. Governor Wilson should stick to his job. He should make war on cor ruption the biggest part of what he sticks to.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
RproRzoM PAGE OF THE EVENING FARMER
if he cut wages.

II he cut wages.
 It makes not the slightest differ enee whether wages are decreased by increasing the cost of living, or by direct cut.'' The result will be a diminished market. American indus- tries mostly exist to manufact cture goods for the American people. No more can be sold to the American people than they are able to buy. The higher prices and the smaller wages the less they can buy. The lower prices are and the higher wages are the more the people can buy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27

Judson with the assurance that an intelligent campaign would follow. Jeremiah likes the senator and that may have influenced him in making his prediction. There will certainly be much woe if anything happens to MT Hill He is in training for Sen ator Brantiegee's place and a licking in his own county next year might re- move him from the list of senatorial eligibles in 1915.-New Britain Her aid
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27

STEREOPTICON VIEWS TONIGHT.
 At the First Methodist Episcopal Church, this evening, in connection with the mid-week service there will b ca series of lantern slides shown, il- frustrating the Moslem world These pictures are beautifully colored and very interesting. The meeting is open to everybody. The meeting begins at 7:45
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
CHARLES B. LOOMS
 DIES IN HOSPITAL
WELL NKOWN HUMORIST AND
 AUTHOR PASSES AWAY
Man of Solemn COuntenance, Whose Heart Was Full of Mirth and Gen. tleness-Widely Known as a Writer and As Lecturer-Had Suffered Long.
Waterbury American.>

Charles Battell Loomis, author and humorist, died in the Hartford Hos pital, Saturday evening shortly before II o'clock. Cancer of the intestlnes caused his death Since last Decenl- Der MT. Loomis has undergone four operations. On Saturday it was ex- pected that another operation would be performed, but it was found that his condition would not permit it. His illness really dates back 13 years, when a growth appeared upon his arm, which he had removed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. At that time in- vestigatlon disclosed the fact that 1t was probably a cancerous growth. The funeral took place at Trinity Church, Torrington, Monday afternoon, upon the arrival of the 1:02 D. m. train from New York. The interment was in Torrington Cemetery, where his pa ternal grandmother is buried.
 Charles Battei Loonis was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1861, the son of Charles Battell and Mary Worfhington Loomis. He received his education in the Polytechnic In stitute of Brooklyn, although he did not remain to be graduated, but en- tered business. He engaged in bus mess for some years before devoting his time wholly to literature. He married Mary Fullerton on February IA, 1888, in Brooklyn
 About the year 1891, he began to devote hiss entire time to writing and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
RHEUMATISM RELIEVED

Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rheuma tism usually relieves severest cases in a few hours. It's action upon the system is remarka ble and effe j. tive. It removes the cause and the disease quickly disappears. First dose benefits, 75c and $1.00. Sold by Curtis Pharmacy, 1149< Main St., Cor Elm. l IS *3tf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27

This is a large new lot of very fine Long Cloth that we have bought to sell at $1.25 piece or 121ac per yard. Will let our customers have it one day at $1.05. We took all the mill had so hope to have some left to sell at regular price.