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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
TURNING DOWN
HIS AMENDMENTS
Senator cummtns is Only Able TO
Muster Handful of Votes for
His Ideas on Reel
proclty.
SIDE ISSUE COMEDY
Smith Declares the Country Is Being
Gold-BrIcked and Cites an Ex-
ample Of What VIII
Follow.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE SEN
ates record vote on the amendments |
of Senator Cummins to the Canadian |
reciprocity measure served only to
increase the majority against them by
twenty over the vote taken Saturday. |
Saturdays vote was 81 to Ia against
the free meat clause, and this was In
creased to 5S to 12 when Senator Cur
It's of Kansas voted against the
amendment to place agricultural Inn
plements on the free list. When q
vote was taken on the clause prov1d-
ing for free lumber the figures were
81 to 12. Other amendments offered
by Cummins and Simmons of North
Carolina we're defeated by vive voce
votes.
Senator Thornton of Mississippi,
who voted for the free meat amend
ment. announced that he would not
take a part in comedy, since every
one realized that no side issues"
would be adopted, and said he would
abstain from voting. He said he had
no intention Of lodging" and if the
democratic free list bill was offered
as an amendment to the bill he would
vote for 1t.
Several earnest speeches against
| the reciprocity bill were made by
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
democrat Senator Clapp, of Mime
sofa insurgent republican: Senator
Dixon of Montana, republican who
lis an insurgent on this measure, and
II Senator William Alden Smith of Mich,
j igan, regular republican, who declared
he would not Join the raiders" or try
to seek revenge through amendments
to the bill. but would not vote tc
tear out one brick Of the tariff wal
between this country and Canada.
He said the country was being "golt
bricked,' and told Of a recent inciden
wherein a Michigan newspaper pub
Usher was solicited for business by ;
Canadian news print paper salesman
: In anticipation of the passage of tn
reciprocity bill the publisher aske
the salesman to knock off the differ
ence in tariff which would be deduc,
ed when the law goes into effect Th
salesman declined. He then asked tha
one-half the difference be deducted
but the salesman declined, adding tha
when the new law became effectiv
the Canadian paper manufactures e,
pected to sell their produce in th
United States at American price
"This was an illustration of how th
Americans are to profit by the wipin
e out of the tariff a sample of Canada
u reciprocity" said Senator Smith.
7 Forecast of Passage.
" WASHINGTON. July 11.-Friends
Is the reciprocity bill in the senate t
rs day were iubilant over what they b
It. lieved was a definite prospect of a
y journment of congress by the fir
IT. week in August.
Is- The defeat Of the Cummins al
". Simmons amendment measure by
er majority of more than 3 to was /
is lieved to forecast a similar fate f
Nv other amendments to the measure al
tit the early passage Of the bill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Four crazy Women.

NEW LONDON, Iowa, July IL
Four women patients from the hos
pital at Mt. Pleasant caused some ex-
citement here. They had walked down
from Mt. Pleasant and expected to
take the train here for Monmouth.
They were detected by their peculiar
actions and were gathered in by the
marshal and placed in the city hall.
The authorities at the hospital were
notified and they came down after
them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
BALLOON FLOATS
OVER KEOkUK
plo White Gas Bag From Kansas
city Goes Over the City This
Morning Headed for
tho East.
BIG RACE IS STARTED
seven Aeronauts Left Last Evening
In Elimination Race to Select
TWO Representatives Of
America.

One balloon passed over the center
Of Keokuk, going east, this morning
at 10 o'clock.
Balloon reported at Montrose this
morning at 6 o'clock, going north.
Two balloons reported from Kahoka
and wayland this morning, shortly
after 9 o'clock.
Three balloons passed over Fort
Madison during the night at 10:30 p.
m. and 2:3o and 500 O'Clock this
morning.
OF the seven balloons which left
Kansas City last evening in the elm
nation race, at least one of them had
the courtesy to come sailing majestic
ally over Keokuk this morning and
every one had an excellent chance Of
seeing it.
It came from the west and was
visible for about half hour, soaring
4 high in the sky right over the heart
Of Keokuk and. disappearing at last
over the hills of Hancock county, Ill.
It was too high up for the watchers to
distinguish any name Or number upon
It. even with powerful glasses but
later on it will be learned which one
1t was.
At about 9.40 o'clock the big white
round ball was noticed In the sky
coming slowly out of the west and a.
10 o'clock 1t was directly over the
postofice Thousands of people were
watching it by this time
It made pretty sight, the balloon
being perfect sphere and snow.
white. 1t was high in the air and ap
peared about the size Of football. |
was too high to distinguish even tn
basket. but the anchor rope could b
plainly seen hanging down from tn
gas bag.
It swept over the city slowly an
was soon lost to view
short time before it was sighte
from Keokuk, reports came from ia
hoka and Wayland that two balloon
had been sighted there, headed fo
Keokuk .aontrose reports havin
seen balloon this morning at
O'clock, floating north.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
America Lost Meet.

LONDON, July 11.-With five firsts
against four to their credit. the
athletes representing Oxford and
Cambridge universities of England,
won the grand international athletic
meet here today, against Harvard
and Yale representing the United
States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
MEXICO rs NOT
PACIFTED YET
Reports of Dissentlon In the New Cab
met Indicates That Crcis Is
Approaching.

MEXICO CITY. July 11.-Persistent
rumors of dissensions and reports that
a cabinet crisis is approaching, indi-
cate that all is not working smoothly
in the new Mexican government. An
attempt, 1t is declared, is being made
by the Madero group to oust the Ciet-
tifco element from the cabinet. the
charge being made that they are re-
dictionaries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
LITTLE GIRL
KILLED BY HORSE
Only Lived Twenty Minutes After Be-
Ing Stepped on by the
Animal

WAPELLO, Iowa, July 11.-Cora,
one of the twin children of Mr. and
Mrs. Jos. Schmeiser, residing west of
Wapello, was trampled to death by a
horse. The father arose earlier than
the rest of the family, and went to
the pasture to drive the horse into the
barnyard, and the little girl followed
him Coming in with the horses, the
father saw the child and called to
her to leave by another gate. But she
was too late, and the horses snr-
rounded her and she was stepped on
by one of them. Doctors from Wapel-
10 were summoned, but the child lived
only about twenty minutes after the
accident.
She was aged about 31s years, ard
her death is shock to the entire com
munity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
TOO HOT TO
COMPLETE TRIP
AvIators Going From Baltimore to
Washington, Stop on the
Outskirts.

WASHINGTON, July 11.--Aviators
Atwood and Charles K. Hamilton ar
rived at the army aviation field at Col
lege park near this city this morning
from Summers Rock near Baltimore.
The intense heat and holes In the
atmosphere prevented them from COM
ing on into the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Railroad Rates.

WASHINGTON, July 11.--A decis-
ion ordering $50 railroads to re-estab-
lish their previous tariffs on products
of southern tanneries, destined to
northern markets and declaring the
present rates to be unreasonable
was handed down today by the inter
state commerce commission.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
pauol,,tInn In haYti.

PORT Au PRINCE, Hayti. July
11-severe fighting between insurg-
ents and government troops under
Gec. Antoine Simon, president OF OF
Havt, who is personally directing his
forces. is reported today from Fort
J,,berte. The uprising is spreading
and the government troops at several
noints are reported to have been re-
pulsed today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Farmers In Convention.

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, July LITTLE an
nual three days session of the state
farmers institute opened here today
with several hundred Illinois farmers
in attendance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
One Seen at Downing.
rsnec,al 70 The Gate City.1

ESPECIAL TO The IHte OINy.J
DOWNING, Mo-, July 1i.-A large
balloon travelling northeast passed to
the north of Downing at eight-thirty
this morning.
stilesville, Iowa. reports another
one passing to the west OF that place
at four-twenty this morning Stiles
vile is an inland village twelve miles
northwest of Downing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Headed for Lakes.

ST. LOUIS, July 11.-At midnight
the seven balloons which left Kansas
City yesterday evening were believed
headed for the great lakes.
Four Of the balloons passed over
Hamilton, Mo-. seventy miles from
Kansas City, shortly after s O'Clock
last night. sailing low. One was go
Ing east and three northeast. w. f.
Jacobs. in the Topeka No. !. non
contestant, landed at s o'clock last
night near Polo, Mo-, sixty miles from
Kansas City. Three other balloons, 5W
feet high, passed over Polo later, sail
Ing northeast. Jacobs reported hve
air craft punched near Excelsior
Springs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Weather Conditions.

The field of high pressure remaining
in the southeastern states, and the
depression from North Dakota moving
to the Upper Lake Region. is attended
by high temperature from the Upper
Mississippi Valley to the northeastern
states, and there have been scattered
local showers over portions OF this
territory.
The northwestern field of high pres,
sure is extending eastward along the
northern boundary, and it is cooler
In Montana and the Dakotas, while
the pressure Is low In the southwest
and there has been heavy local rain
in western Texas.
Conditions indicate unsettled wealth
er, and probably local thunderstorms,
for this section this afternoon or to.
night, and generally fair, somewhat
cooler weather Wednesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Utah Ridicule.

WASHINGTON, July 11.-Ridicule
of the initiative. referendum and re-
call was voiced in the senate today by
Senator Sutherland (rep. Utah.)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity Unset
fled weather with probably local
thunderstorms this afternoon or to-
night. Wednesday generally fair with
somewhat cooler.
For Illinois-Unsettled weather
with probably local thunderstorms
this afternoon or tonight. Wednesday
generally fair with somewhat lower
temperature.
For Iowa-Unsettled weather with
probably local thunderstorms east por-
ton this afternoon or tonight Cooler
tonight and east portion Wednesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
start Of the Race.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. July 1.-THE
seven balloons which ascended from
Kansas City, between and 6 O'Clock
last evening, competing in the thifd
national balloon race and for two va
cant places on the team to represent
the United States In the internatlonai
balloon race from Kansas City, Octob-
er s. are believed to be travelling in
a northeasterly direction, with tne
great lakes and the Canadian WHO'S
before them. Two other balloons, non-
contestants, also started, but IT Is pe-
lieved there will land today. me
others probably will be in the air a
day or two.
Weather conditions were compare
lively good when the airmen got away
but the starts we've hindered by tne
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Air Racers Were
in This Vicinity

crowd of 10000 persons that surged
on the field, tearing down the wire
netting fence after the start of the
non-contestant.
Every balloon was SO well balanced
that 1t would rise to high altitude
and in each case the balloon
lists encountered a downward rush of
air half mile from the starting point,
which forced the aeronauts to discard
from one to three sacks of ballast to
avoid landing. The gas proved to be
all that was claimed for it.
The official representative Of the
Aero club OF st. Louis, balloon st.
Louis No. 4, started with forty-two
sacks Of ballast, and the other bal
looms were proportionately we'll sup
piled. This should enable them to re-
main in the air twenty-four hours,
and some may stay aloft for nearly
two days. A brisk ground wind did
not prove to have any connection with
the upper current, except that its
direction was apparently the same,
coming from the southwest. While
on the ground the wind was twenty
miles an hour, 1t was apparently less
than ten miles an hour at an altitude
of 500 feet and upward.
How They Started.
The order and time of start follows:
No. / balloon, Kansas City; Honey
we'll. pilot; Watts, aid Time. Sic
p. m.
No. 2, Miss Sophia; Assmann, pilot;
O'Reilly, aid. Time, 5:19 p. m.
| No. 3, Topeka No. 2; Jacobs, pilot
Emerson, aid. Time, 5.26:1o
No. 4, Million Club; Berry, pilot
| Mccullough, aid. Time, 5000
No. 5, Buckeye; Wade, pilot; Hitch
cock, aid. Time, 5:43.
No. 6, st. Louis, No. 4 Lahm, pilot
Hart aid. Time, 5:49:30.
No. Z, New York; Harmon, pilot
/ Post, aid. Time, e:o2.
Noncontestant, Topeka No. 1, N. {
! Jacobs, pilot: F. w Stern, aid, Car
Dienstbach, passenger. Starting time
4 4:47:30.
i Missouri, j. Cowan Hubert pilot
Henry Weber, aid Time, sos.
Virtually every participant in tn
i race started with the determinatio
! to remain in the air until the la!
! ballast is used, including clothing an
, euuinment For this reason, and b.
cause nearly all the pilots are vel
seasoned balloon men, old timers pr
dicted after the start that 1t woul
be the greatest national race eve
held.
Three Balloons at Fort Madison.
Especial to The Gate City.l
FORT MADISON, Iowa, July IL
Three of the balloons that left Ka
: sas City last night passed over tn
t CITY during the night and early tn
g morning. The first one was disco
e cred last night about 10:30 sailing
9 a northerly direction and the secol
one was seen about 2.30 this nor
d ing, sailing northeast. 1t remained
sight for a long time. The last b
d loon showed up at O'Clock this MOI
ing and was about 1000 feet high.
s remained about the same altitude I
" I'll directly over the city when balla
g was unloaded and the balloon took
. shoot upward. 1t was Impossible
distinguish the numbers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
UNCLE SAM
WARNS GERMANY
Does Not Like the Idea Of the New
Naval Base on the Soutr-
western Coast Of =
Morocco. -
is TOO NEAR - ANA
London Newspapers Tell tho News
Which Meets With Prompt Denial
7 From state De-
partment.
IS TOO NEAR 2: ANA

LONDON. July 11.--That Germany
has received notice from Washing
ton that the establishment of Ger
man naval base upon the southwestern
coast of Morocco would be consider
ed by the United States as threatening
American interests and be menace
to the Panama canal, is the statement
printed today by several London after
noon papers.
The newspapers affirm that the
United States has advised the
German government that it would sup
port England in the latters protest
to Germany's action in sending war
snip to Agadir.
We Deny It.
WASHINGTON, July 11.-Positive
denial of cable reports from London
that the United States had protested
to Germany against the establishment
of a naval base at Agadir, Morocco
was made at the state department to
! day. This denial was followed with
4 the statement that the United States
/ is holding no communication what
ever with Germany on the subjec
4 OF her action in the Morocco situation
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Read The Daily Gate City.
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Daily River Bulletin.

River Forecast,
The river will fall slowly during
the next 4S hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11

The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-11
Local Observations.

Highest temperature. "a.
Lowest temperature, 60.
Lowest temperature last night,
FRED 2. GOSl-WISCF
Observe
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01

changes the form and till this is done
the plant cannot be nourished. The
plant would starve to death on the
crude materials that enter it through
the roots and the leaves. A plant
lives on carbohydrates, proteids and
fats but none of these ever enter the
plant but are manufactured in the
leaves by the chlorophyl grains. aided
by sunlight and heat. Where there
are no leaves there can not be any
food and where the leaves are scarce,
the food will be scarce. SO in prun-
ing in the summer be sure to leave
plenty of leaves to carry on this work.
Any thing that Injuries the leaves like
fungous growths will tend to cut short
the elaborated food and the plant
suffers. The lower orders of plants,
such as the fungi and the bacteria do
not manufacture any food because
they are destitute of chlorophyl.
They live on the food elaborated by
other plants, hence, are called para
sites.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01

casionaI attack of some fungous. He
wanted me to show him how to prune
his trees properly and did so to the
best of my ability. He is also in the
chicken business. He has one of the
finest lots of White Leghorns, about
half grown, that l have ever seen.
am making mention OF his snug little
place and its prosperous owner for
the benefit of many who are shut up
in the city in few stuffy rooms.
Mr.. Rarig's life is princely compared
to such people. [ am firm believer
in "back to the farm when it is
properly undertaken and carried out
in the same spirit. Many try to carry
out this now somewhat famous motto
who have very erroneous ideas of
what is involved in "back to the
land. "Their idea seems to be that
of a picnic in the country where
people go just to have good time.
But running a farm is not picnic in
the sense in which we usually employ
the word. There are many delightful
things connected with country life
but to properly run even small farm
so as to make money out of the ven
ture, requires hard work and judi
cious planning. 1t is not all fun to
get up early every morning and milk
the COWS, clean out the stables and
edo the chores" before breakfast and
then spend the day hoeing in the
garden, pulling weeds while down on
your knees and doing lots of similar
things. real farmer will find out
before long that "there's lots of back
ache to the acre. in many OF the jobs
on the farm. But with all these things
counted in. it is grand thing to live
in the country and run farm, if We
have the pluck to stand by it.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01
SCHOOL TEACHER FARMER.

Mr.. Arthur Rarig who lives on
Mercer Island, on Lake Washington,
invited me to come out and see his
trees, mostly apple and pear trees.
He met me near the boat landing and
conducted me to his little farm which
is but a short distance from the
Parental school. Mercer Island seems
to be a good place for such a school
for the boys can not run away unless
they could secure a boat or swim
nearly mile to the main land. l am
told that the boys are we'll treated by
the managers of this school and are
being greatly benefited by the par
entail treatment they receive there.
Mr.. Rarig is a school teacher connect
ed with one of the schools in Seattle.
He has a coy little place to which he
can retreat each night. He has some
nice bearing apple trees that appear
to be doing very we'll except an oc-
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01
CURRANT WORMS.

Geo. Heath, Bellingham, Wash,
contributes some valuable suggestions
relative to the currant worm con-
troversy which l am pleased to lay
before our readers. Under date of
June Goth, he says,
81 read the articles in The Ranch,
of June l, and June 10, on currant
worms, and although it is too late for
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01
Horticulture

on fine gooseberries that is, berries
that grow nice and large but they
have this moldy coat which is very
hard to wash off. | lay it to a row
of shade trees which are on the west
of the gooseberry row. -
This mold is fungous growth and
comes from the spores being carried
there by the wind or insects. The
shade trees may produce a favorable
condition for the growth of the spores
but is not the cause. The treatment
of these fungous growths is being
pretty thoroughly discussed in The
Ranch, and [ do not believe that |
can add any thing that would make
the matter any palmer.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01

SUMMER PRUNING OF GRAPES.
w. G. Yeager, Central Point, Ore
gon writes:
care grapes given summer pruning!
Our Mission and Tokay grapes are
we'll set with fruit but are putting on
an immense amount OF new wood.
Would it not be beneficial to the grow
ing crop to remove part of this heavy
wood growth"
Most of the pruning given grape
vines is during the dormant season.
Some prune in the late fall and others
in the early spring before the sap be-
comes active. 1t this is thoroughly
done, there is usually no need of
summer pruning. There is, however,
no objection to removing some of the
new growth in the summer time. But
we must be careful not to make the
leaf surface too small. Let it never
be forgotten that the leaves of all
green plants constitute the work
shop where food materials are worked
over into such forms as will nour1sh
the plant. This working over does
not create anything, but merely
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-01
THE HIGH
COST OF
LIVING

can be materially reduced by
planting an assortment of trees
and berries for home use.
Why buy your fruit and ber-
ries when you can raise them
yourself and enjoy the luxury of
having them freshly picked.
There is hardly farm garden
or city lot where space cannot be
found for these, greatly enhanc-
ing the value of the property
and adding to the enjoyment of
life.
Our large catalog is free for
the asking. It's a beauty and
should be in every home.
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