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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04
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WARREN.
:

Miss Edna Brandes OF Fort Mao.
son visited the past week with MISS
Alma Reitz.
A. A. Wirsig and family transacted
business in Donnellson Tuesday,
Miss verga Wilson is on the SICK
list.
Mrs. Aug. wirsig Of Pennington
was calling In this neighborncoa
Thursday. ),
Miss Edna Brandes, Edwin ana
Alma Reitz, spent Sunday with WIN
Reitz and family, OF near Clay Grove
Mrs. Wilson was Croton caliel
Tuesday. q
Mrs. w. Philips and children 9.
Montrose were visiting with MI anu
| Mrs. Meinhardt and family SUNDAY.
!, Mrs. Richey and daughter, Rosa
/ visited with Miss Mary Richey Tues
! day afternoon. &,
/; Edward Mcvay was business car
er in Croton Saturday. 4.
C. o. Schoene and wife visited WIN
Adam Knabe and family Sunday ai'e''
noon.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Roah ana SOU,
4 Kenneth. spent Sunday with Cnafle'
4 Heron and family. !,
t Otto and Lily Meinhardt, Edwin any y,
4 Alma Reitz, and Edna Brands spen .
Saturday evening with Mr.. ana ME
O. D. Wirsig. !.
John Schoene spent Sunday VIII
Oliver Reitz.
! Hazel Gillispey is among those !
b ported sick.
: Mr.. Isom Hufford was busine'
9 caller in Pennington Friday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04
The Word "crowd..

Do you know how many words in
the English language mean "croWd?''
To foreigner, anxious to master
the language, it was explained that
a crowd of ships is termed feet,
while feet of sheep is called flock,
Further, a flock of girls is called a
bevy, bevy OF wolves Is called Q
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

The course of the Nebraska Repub-
lican convention in avoiding all ref
erence to Canadian reciprocity re-
minds the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
of boat going over rapid shoals in
low water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

The Chicago minister who says the
scripture indicates an "after-life" for
the horse possibly has in mind the
livery of heaven" This Is the con-
ceit INDUCED in by the Jacksonville
Courier, and it W have to be admit
ted that more improbable suggestions
have been advanced from time to
time. 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

and you know what happened. W.T. n
got home carelessly peeled thous-
and dollar bill off roll as big as 2
cabbage and tossed it over to dad.
Just little pipe money for you
father / said. Fathers grin began AZ
the corners and kept on expanding.
His eyes twinkled.
All, Jimmie, BY said he, At
the rowing bee that gets the honey.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04
The nanennort Times saws.

Nevertheless, it is amusing to see
how Senator Kenyon has appropriate
ed all of Senator Young's thunder
The presumption is that it is good
thunder, or Senator Kenyon wouldn
have made it his own.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04
Seemed TO Give Him New Stomach

Seemed TO Give Him a New ston,asn.
Il suffered intensely after eauas y
and no medicine or treatment ! tliss
seemed to do any good writes = =.
Youngsters, Editor OF The Sun, Ian,
View, Ohio. THE first few doses =
Chamberlain's Stomach and L'ss,
Tablets gave me surprising relief sns
the second bottle seemed to give ~ y
new stomach and perfectly sO0'
health" For sale by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Twenty-one citizens OF the little
town of Milton in Van Buren, county
own automobiles, costing s25,ooo, and
there is said to be lots of money there
notwithstanding this large investment.
It goes without saying that Milton is
prosperous
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

DR.. Wiley is endeavoring to solve
the riddle What is beer?" and the
newspaper boys are shouting in uni
son, Foam, doctor, mostly foam!"
But how do they know?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

controversy over the matter as It
now stands least of all on the eve
of a great presidential contest when
party unity is most essential and
every vote the party can command
will be needed. Iowa Republicans
can well afford to follow the example
of their brethren in Nebraska and
pass up" the whole matter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

AS the st. Louis Democrat
remarks General Bixby has not yet
determined whether the battle ship
Maine was blown inside out or outside
in.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Million dollar rains" are becoming
almost an everyday occurrence. For
tunately Iowa people are Injured to
prosperity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Speaking of Illinois politics-but
Illinois politics isn't subject to be
mentioned in polite society.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04
THE GATE CITY
PUBLISHED BY
THE GATE CITY COMPANY
: akIrvIN Manager
DAILY BY MAIL

DAILY By MAIL - A.
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Entered in Keokuk postonice 40 seooa'1
Postage prepaid terms .h IN sdy gps the
p 8. address and state whether ~ 10 =. :
new or renewal order. no. fha ths old ID
and new address. order.
Remit By postoffice money letter letter
or draft. Al our risk. adraa. Of
The date printed. on the aoooa resSt
each paper notes when the supscrip.io'.
expires. ..,vA their
papers promptly will CONFER AasoA
giving notice of the fact.
Address all communications " NY
THE GATE CITY COMFAETo ~ !,
No. IS. North Sixth st., keoKuA'
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the
following news stands: Y.n.on.
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third ano list.
q. II. Rollins & Co., 629 MaAn SsioSs
Ward Bros SIS Main street.
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04
THOUGHT FOR The DAY.

The great thing in this world is not
80 much to seek happiness as to earn
peace and self-respect
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Invention Of Danish Scientist.
An instrument for measuring the
nocturnal terrestrial radiation OF heat
has been invented by Danish scient-
let.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Motto for Keokuk: s'Do 1t Now and
Z Keep INCREASINGLY at It."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Paradoxical as 1t sounds, reckless
railroad is not wreckless one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

factions of the party. But there are
other candidates and this issue prom
ises to become as important as who
will be nominated by the democrats
for president.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Keokuk. Iowa August 4, 1911
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-04

Some Consolation. ,,..,.
He who has little wealth has NV
cares.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

coal gas end does not lose its illuminat-
ing power by compression. a pipe line
system is employed for conveying the
compressed gas from the storage tanks
to various points in the railroad YARDS
or terminals convenient for supplying
Gas TO the cars Large tank cars are
also used as transports for the gas by
which points distant from the gas works
can be supplied for local service.
The tanks underneath the cars are
designed to hold sufficient gas with one
Glling for several nights burning. The
essential features Of the equipment for
lighting car by the Pintsch system or
gas illumination are the tanks or holders
the regulator for reducing the gas press
urc 10 that point necessary for the
lamps the system of gas piping and the
lamps. One Of the most important
features of the Pintsch system is the
regulator by which the pressure supplied
by the lamps is maintained constant. no
matter how high or low the pressure Of
tho gas is i'm the tanks underneath the
car.
Since tho Introduction a quarter Of a
century ago of Pintsch gas as sue
cessful illuminant for railway use, the
travelling public has witnessed many
improvements in car lighting. These I'M
provements have been brought about by
careful and systematic study of the
processes Of oil gas manufacture and the
design and manufacture Of the lamps
burning Pintsch gas. by improved
methods Of manufacture Pintsch gas to-
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

nes were completed. amounting TO dis
tance OF 9is miles; "a huge dams were
either i'm operation or under construction
while the drilinss for dam foundations
was equivalent to IA road miles long.
Artesian wells were tried as a means Of
getting water. but proved too expensive.
The damming of rivers and creeks has
proved the best means Of storing UP water
Tor irrigation, while an effort is now being
made 10 preserve the spring foods and
utilize them when needed. The Forestry
Department has helped to preserve the
forests and materially aid the work OF
nay igation by protecting the watersheds.
Perhaps one Of the greatest engineering
feats accomplished in this country was the
so-caled Gunnison- Uncompahgre project.
These two rivers flowed ten miles apart
and were separated by a chain Of noun
tains. The Gunnison was large river,
which was always likely 10 he in flood
conditions duo 20 the fact that II took It's
rise In tho mountains while the Cncom-
rahsrc vas q shallow stream. which nearly
always dried up i'm the summer months.
A big engineering firm offered to take the
contract to build tunnel through The
mountains and connect the two rivers,
turning the waters Of tho Gunnison into
the smaller stream. The work was driven
with Ceverish energy. records for tunnel
ing were broken. 2 river was reached by
tanning beneath q mountain and. as
result. the Gunnison has become q sub
terraneau stream for six miles and the
once desert valley OF the uncoWpahgre has
blossomed like q garden. More than $4,000
,oroe o1,,e wore reclaimed bv this one
feat
Statistics of Increase in population and
land value show What irrigation has done
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

for tho West In ifteen counties where
irrigation was carried on from 1889 10 1900
the population increased from S6i,552 10
l9o2,9lo In the eleven counties most inter
ested in irrigation the Increase was 75S per
cent, some OF the cities going as high as
295 per cent In decade.
There are still 65O.coO0Oo acres Of arid
land in the United States. Of which 4S,c3-
900 arc reclaimable. These lands sell to-day
at 50 an acre and can be reclaimed at a
cost Of 81 an acre. Through irrigation II is
believed that once reclaimed they will be
worth $50
No figures can he given on the amount
Of water used, as II varies so with seasons
and various sections. Some lands are
flooded to q depth of from to 20 feet.
In California II is estimated that 1850
gallons i'm tWenty-four hours will irrigate
ten acres. while another agriculturist says
that one cubic foot OF water flowing for
season of ninety days will irrigate one hum
dred acres.
I'm 1908 the United States had spent Sio,-
O00.Goo on irrigation, 7297 miles of canal
had been built a distance nearly tho diam
ctcr of the earth: 2l6 miles Of tunncllinS
had been carried on, and the work is only
in the beginning.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

healthy progress covering a quarter oI
a century. The remark often heard, "A
satisfied customer is the greatest asset
I'm business has never been lost sight
OF in the policies Of that company.
Resting on their laurels' has their sim
cerest disapproval TO better analyze
their past and present success, let us
briefly review one of their products
the Pintsch Light
The Pintsch system Of car lighting is
the production of an oil gas for storage
under compression on railway carriages
or ears. The gas is manufactured at
various plants located throughout the
United States. Canada and Mexico. The
gas is made at central stations and COM
pressed in receivers, from which it is
pped into cylindrical steel tanks placed
underneath the car. From these it is
drawn as needed for use in the lamps.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

1t was found that immense tracts of land
amounting TO millions of acres were to-
tally useless, but easily reclaimable such
states as Arizona. California. Colorado
Idaho. Jtah and New Mexico were found
TO nave great belts of arid deserts which,
IN many cases, nearly cut the state in
two and left fertile regions isolated on
either side
METHODS of Irrigation Used.
With tho government investigation IN
progress and contracts being let. the eyes
Of the nation were attracted to see what
methods Of reclaimng the desert land
would bc employed. Several ways, among
them three which are still used, were tried.
They were flooding. furrowing and sub
irrigation. Flooding consists OF nundating
the land from A depth of few inches TO
several feet. allowing the water to remain
there until the soil is thoroughly filled.
Furrowng, which Is still the popular meth
od. was carried on by means of running
small troughs. or bitches all over the field
TO be irrigated. with a certain number Of
furrows of tho ploughcd land Intervening.
Sub-irrigauon, il il should over he per-
fected. would guarantee the most equal
distribution Of water. II is carried on by
laying sections Of pipe underneath the
fields and forcing water through these
pipes to the undersoil, thus making great
saving in overcoming the loss due 10 oyap-
Grafton. Tho method has many faults IS
yet. the pipes become clogged with dirt
and arc. therefore. useless and IT Is eN-
rensiVe.
Under President Roosevelt irrigation
really got its great start and claimed the
attention due 10 IT, The President early in
his administration aWoke 70 the fact that
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

seen the candle power is increased al
most threefold. with even less consump-
ton &C gCs.
Corresponding improvements haVs
been made i'm the mechanical construc-
tion of the equipment, fixtures. etc.
which can be but briefly reviewed here.
New fixtures having a pleasing variety
Of artistic lines and constructed for M
stallation on steel cars as we'll ss wooden
cars are fast displacng the old fixtures,
which. although a great improvement
over the heavy and awkward oil lamps.
still left much room for improvement
artisticallv. Glass shades. designed par
ticularly for car scrvice-easily cleaned
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

through artificial IRRIGATION alone could We
reclaim our deserts and conserve our nat
Ural resources LAUNDERING was being car
ried on TO so great an extent that orr
watersheds were being robbed of their
greatest reservoir. the forests, which
shaded the streams. retained their moisture
and prevented huge snowslides from carry
ing down into the plains dirt and soil III
fitted TO aid agriculture.
Roosevelt pushed through both houses
the national reclamation act. which pro-
yided that i'm fourteen states the sales from
tho public lands should be devoted to ad-
vencins irrigation. 40 man was allowed
TO occupy more than l60 acres, and the
system Of paying pack 10 tho states money
spent on tho land insured a never ending
fund to carry on tho work of developing
l1CN land
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

dav is supplied of quality which ad-
mits Of scarcely any further improve
ment. IT is due TO the superior quality
Of this gas as an illuminant and to Its
acknowledged purity free from hydro-
carbon and other injurious foreign in
crcdients, that the present use OF an
inverted gas mantle has been so sue
ccsstu
The inverted mantle is without doubt
the greatest step forward in car illu-
rination since the change from oil to
gas. Everybody is to-day familiar with
the incandescent gas mantle used lor
house lighting and also with the tact
that two general forms are used. The
earlier tvpe was the upright mantle
which has been partly superseded Dy
the small inverted mantle. BY the use
of sneciaI material and careful methods
or manufacture an inverted mantle mas
been used for more than five years Oh
railway cars i'm this country.
The assertion that mantle coulu DC
made sufficiently strong to burn Plh'sch
GAS on railway cars was at first ridiculeu'
THAT cost of renewals would not be COM
nensated by the increased quality OF inc
illumination was the argument OF those
"a apil,ar with railway service. From
raraf,Il observations made i'm service on
twentv.six cars operating on one rall-
.oad over a period of 351 consecutive
davs during the year 1910, II was found
the average life of the NANTES used IN
the cars was over four hundred days the
exact figures being 40S7 days. Many
housewife or merchant would Welcome
such a duration OF lie Tor the sds
nontles used In their homes stores or
Offices. . ..,
The Old style Hat flame burners used
with Pintsch gas lamps gave an illuml-
nation much improved over the old OIL
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

the Bowery. above Bayard street ana inc
park Theatre at No. q Park street TO"
Park Row.
There we're only seventeen publications.
of all kinds Five OF these were morhins
newspapers and three were afternoon news
papers
Lower Broadway. Eastbroad"aS-apeh'
as one wOld-Grecne street AhIhony
Warren street-Bleecker. Barclay ana se'-
eraI others now far downtown, we're iarsc-
" residence streets. The directory gives
tho addresses Of many persons VINO lVeh
in Broadway in. numbers below lp. tew
Of the numbered streets are mentloneo'
Third fth. 7th and other streets up TO lft1
are mentioned occasionally. but 10 nunoetS
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

and producing a soft. comfortable light
with a wonderfully ingenious and practi-
cable shade holding device, are among
the many improvements made IN car
lighting equipment by the Safety Car
Heating and Lighting Company.
There have been equipped with the
Pntsch system a total OF approximately
200. 900 cars in the world, OF which APP
rroximately 10000 have been equipped
I'm the United States. Canada and Mexico
by the safety Car Heating and Lighting
Company
There are now located at convenient
roints throughout this country, Canada
and Mexico over ninety plants engaged
it tho manufacture of Pintsch gas
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
THE PINTSCH LIGHT
Wbaf 1t Is and egsbv 1t Is the Most 80
fuf Raffs0ay Car UJasn7snanf.

lamps, which many of us remember anf
which can yet be. found on a rev olo cars
etiIl. in aervice Four OF these burners
we're used in most Of the old style
Pintsch lamps. giving approximately 30
candle power 10 each lamp Of four burn-
ers and burning 3.25 cubic feet OF gas per
hour With the use Of the Pintsch mantie
the light has been increased 70 100 candle
power for each lamp, with but one
burner. or mantle, and the gas CON
SUMPTION is lowered to 212 cubic ieeC
per hour. 81,
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

There are few products of manufacture.
confined to one field Of usefulness. that
have experienced the steady growth OF
the gas lighting system for railway cars.
There arc few industrial companies that
can show the same uninterrupted career
of prosperity and success as The Safety
Car Heating and Lighting Company.
The success achieved by this company
has not been spasmodic nor alone Of re-
cent years. but has been steady
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

incz. Churches. incorporated Societies
etc"
There were forty-ive churches in the
citv of which twelve were Pres byterian'
ten Methodist. twelve Dutch REFORMED
three Roman Catholic, eight baptsI ana
two Jewish.
The theatres were Castle Garden, the
Chatham Theatre, at No. ~ Chatham
street. now Park Row; the New Pit Circus
ian Grand street: the New York Theatre, in
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Greatest impetus in 1907.

I'm 1907 the government set out to reclaim
g .f9S.olD acres. The increase i'm the value
of the crops in this district was @O,Goj,
while the increase I'm taxable property was
SO. 100000 Homes for 5000 persons were
thus provided. In that year statistics
slowed that since the government had
taken The matter into its hands 1851 miles
OF canal and bitches had been built Il tun-
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

Thus the Panama Canal acquisition
marks the latest territory obtained by our
government. What will tie next seventy
years bring forth? Already murmurs OF
annexation OF Canada have been heard
Mexico, on the south is IN a state OF SEMI
lawlessness, and our interests arc yearly
becoming more. closely connected with 10th
countries
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
uhat Is reciprocity?'.

Tom. what is reciprocity?
ms this way, Mabel: 1 give you hug
and Won give me a kiss. That's reciprocity.
VIII you do IT,
Il fear 1t might lead to annexation. anu
don't know that I'm prepared for that
Washington Herald.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

Crude petroleum is used instead of coal
for the manufacture of Pintsch gas be
cause the resulting product Is much
richer i'm illuminating properties than
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

Alaska and found that land which she III
tie realized was worth much except for lts
fur trade was too far from the home co'ul-
try. In Buchanans administration nego-
tiaticns were opened for the purchase OF
Alaska. and Russia, little dreaming OF the
untold mineral wealth she was losing, sold
10 the United States the 5s6, 400 square miles
which make up Alaska Through this pur-
chase the finest salmon fisheries I'm the
world the gold fields which rival those of
California days and rich fur land came
into our possession.
I'm 1872 the German Emperor settled the
claims of this country and Great Britain
TO San Juan Island, in Puget Sound, in our
favor.
The little kingdom Of Hawaii after bc-
ing torn for many years by internal dis
senslon and strife, consented to become u
part Of this country. and in 1898 the flag
OF IN, United States was raised above tho
palace and Governor appointed in Wash
ington sent To take over the rcins Of power
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
just LIKE CANADA.

are given. The residences are designate
by their nearness to certain avenues.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
C|TYS FIRST DIRECTORY

Continued from Hfth page.
under the general heading: Public Build
New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Country Divided on Philippines.

Admiral Dewey's victory IN tho Philip
pines and the utter absurdity Of return
ing the islands 10 Spain gave this govern
ment something to think about in the way
Of increasing our few possessions in the
Pacific We needed coaling station there.
Would not the Philippine Islands serve the
purpose? Annexation was decided on amid
a storm Of protest and mUrmurs Of impe-
rlalism, and by the treaty of ls9S the ISL
ands became ours.
The Spanish-Americau War left other
territory 10 us-Porto Rico. The island Is
tropical and fruitful, and has about a,i"'
square miles Of TERRITORY.
There has probably been ~ possession
Of ours 10 which the eyeT Of tho entire
world have been turned with 50 much ih-
tcrest as tho little strip Of land. hitv miles
long by ton miles wide, in the Republic
of Panama. where we are digging the Dl+
canal The Spanish american War taught
the Coycrnment the advisabilitv of being
able 20 transfer or w9rships from the At
lanuc TO the Pacific Coast without their
go.ng around Cape Horn. and negotiations
were immediately begun for strip of
land across the narrowcst part Of -'ha
Isthmus Of Panama
Finally. ir 1896. q treaty was sisneG with
the government OF .rc 'itra repJblic which
gave to the United states tho required land
for tho canal. ai a rrile Of sloGp90o). with
an annuity Of $50 90 after ter years. Tie
United States is 10 have absolute sovereign
~ over the land about the caral. and X
to have tho privilege Of fortifying it ~ it,
pleasure.