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Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-15
AGREE ON PRICES FoR LIGHT

Beatrice City Council and Electric
Light COmOany Get Together.
BEATRICE, Neb.. June 14.-(special) D.
At the regular meeting OF the city council.
the fight between the city council and the
Beatrice Electric company over the rate to
be charged for electricity was practically
ended. The city attorney was instructed
to draft an ordinance making the rate u
and cents. Minimum. = with - cents
meter rent
q. A. Culver has purchased a half In
terest in the Beatrice Automobile com
pany's plant, and win assume charge
Thursday.
At meeting Of the Board OF Education
Monday evening the expense bill Of So, l7O
for the running Of the city schools for the
coming year was adopted
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-15
Fight for saloon Licenses.
Conservation of Bishop Then.

Word reached here today that the con-
secration Of Father ]. Henry Then,
bishop-elect OF the diocese Of Lincoln and
successor to the late Bishop Bonacum.
would be held at Wichita. July g. Bishop
Hennessey Of the Wichita diocese will con-
duct the conservation services All the
priests Of this city with one exception will
attend the services.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-15

school OF Pharmncys
Pharmaceutical Chemist
Loren G. Taylor, Carl r. Rogoseh,
Henry q, BeckfoTd, Berta II. Thorpe,
Herbert c. Harden, Frank w. Gchwake.
John Il, Neumann. Miner H WhAley, jr
Henry M. Prouty,
College of Agriculture.
Bachelors OF science:
Home Economics-Alico Miranda BirRe
Mary Ellen Brown. Kate Field, Alta May
Gooden: Jessie Genevieve Greene. Berna
Forestry-John Shaw Boyca, Wade Ran
dali Martin, Maurice ferdinand Paulson.
OTTO Frederick swenson. David George
Technical Agriculture-Tyler MenRel
Edsecombe, Howard John Gramlich. Ivan
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-15

Here comes the bride.
While the groom with
bis banner.
shows he'll provide
In . liberal manner"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-15

VICE. IN the St0maoh
Is dyspepsia. complicated with liver and
kidney trouble. Electric Bitters help all
such cases or no pay. 500. For sale by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
The BULK SALES BILL.

The bulk sales bill requiring a mer-
chant selling his stock in bulk to give
five days notice to his creditors is
again before the legislature and
should become law. Most states
have such legislation, and wherever
the law has been enacted its operation
has been satisfactory because it works
hardship on no one and gives merely
fair and just protection to wholesale
and manufacturing houses that sell
goods on credit to retail merchants.
It has heretofore been defeated in
Iowa through the opposition of country
members The Dubuque Times-Jour-
nal we'll says of the bulk sales bill
now before the general assembly:
There should be no opposition. The
law proposed would hurt nobody ex-
cept the merchant who wishes to
cheat his creditors and he has no
claim to the legislatures considera-
ton. 1t would not hurt the man who
is making sale in good faith and not
for the purpose of swindling those
who have trusted him. His creditors
from motives Of self-interest. if no
other. would allow him to complete the
transaction without protest from them.
If the protection of the law az Il
stands today were withdrawn from
the crook honest business men who
intend to nay their debts would be
better OF"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
III MIGHT BE WELL.

|ss s5 SAss New York woman thinks that it
would be good thing for woman
once IN a while to see her husband at
work and to get better idea OF what
be is striving to do and the difficulties
that surround him. and against which
he has to contend. In other words,
& to get into the current in which he
has to battle. She thinks that this
might broaden her sympathy and that
1t might result in greater co-opera-
ton.
The Galesburg Republicans egister
suggests that there may be some
thing in this 1t wonders how many
women in that city know much if
anything of what their husbands
daily undergo. of what they have to
meet, of what is continually confront
ing them, OF their temptations in
business or work, of their trials and
burdens. 1t is probably true that
most men do not speak much OF these
things at home. The Chicago Record
Herald also has word on the sub
iect, as follows:
mere is no doubt that the aver
age woman's idea of the range and
capacity of her husband may be ex-
tended by an occasional view of his
business face A man-slightly
varying certain pointed lines of
Browning-is fitted out with two dis
tinct countenanceS-One to show to
the world and one to show to the do
mestic circle. That there is differ
ence between them the judges wife
plainly perceived
$50, then, ladies, if you like. go
down town and see how things are
run. studying the makeup of the ma
chine that turns out the .wherewithal'
and the methods of the man in charge
of it. Like the lady in fine print at
the head, you may get altogether
different view from what you see at
home
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

prise will be benefited by the aban-
donment of the tax on securities. sub
stituting therefor the mortgage reg
istration fee, as practiced in some
states, or some other form of revenue
II the federal government win keep its
hands off, the inheritance tax can be
made to yield the state considerable
revenue. And there are other meth
eds. to one of which 1t refers as fol.
lows:
Iowa already has a plethoric ac-
cumulation-oyer one hundred thous-
and dollars-from very small hunt
.er's license fee That kind of rev.
enue is tangible and the beauty of it
is that everybody stands upon plane
of equality: no discrimination, no con-
cealments no difficulty in ascertaining
values or collecting the tax
The difficulty with legislation here
tofore has been that lawmakers have
dealt too much with theories and lost
sight of the tangible and practical
The tax on moneys and credits is
thoroughly impractical and unfair. 1t
ought to be abolished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
TO REDUCE The TAX.

Senator Gilliland has introduced a
bin in the general assembly provid.
ing Tor q reduction of the tax on
moneys and credits to 40 per cent of
their actual value, and removing
taxes entirely from stocks and bonds
of corporations organized under the
laws of any other state. Iowa. 1T APP
pears, is the only state in the Union
that taxes the bonds ct foreign cor
rorations, which makes double tax
alton. Senator Gilliland is quoted as
saving in support of the measure
Reduction of the tax on monies
and credits to the 40 per cent basis
is intended to put them on the basis
now actually operative as to lands.
The reason they have been withheld
from taxation in such large volume
is because they have had to bear.
when assessed at all, more than
their proper share. Lands worth from
500 to $3.50 an acre are usually val
ued at from $40 to SEQ for purposes
of taxation. while monies and credits
have re ularly gore in at their actual
value.
This change will bring enough adj
ditional monies and credits into the
sunlight to afford as much revenue
as we now obtain from that source
and it will certainly bring relief to
those now compelled to carry more
than their share of the burden OF
taxation
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

home Of her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Menke, in Kahoka last Thursday, aged
IS years.
Mrs. E. R. Hickerson is the guest of
her son in Memphis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Matlick left
Tuesday for visit at Kansas points.
I. The correspondent wrote hastily in
a recent article concerning the danger
of Representative Turner at jefferson
City in regard to the fact that there
was move on foot to marry off all
single members of the assembly. We
forgot for the moment that We had
reinforcements here in the person of
one Colonel N IT. Cherry. The colonel
has fought many gallant battle along
these lines and always came out vic
torious. If matters take on a really
serious nature the colonel will be sent
down post haste.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
PREVENTING FIRE LOSS.

According to report to the state
department by the American consul at
Prague, the average annual fire loss
in that capital of Bohemia has been
less than $4,000 and not life has
been lost by fire there in the last fif-
teen years In the ordinary city in
this country with 100000 population
the fire loss would, we are told by an
architectural authority. be at least
100000 a year, while the deaths
from fire would be numerous.
Prague's freedom from fire losses is
explained by the superior building
construction required by law, together
with the careful habits OF the people
and the responsibility that fire dam
age entails upon the owner of the
property. In Prague most of the
buildings are built of brick or stone
with tiled roofs, the Railways are
usually of concrete and the stairs of
stone, and the kitchen floors are built
of concrete with tile wainscoting The
erection of hazardous buildings is not
permitted, and when a man is so un-
fortunate as to have a fire he is looked
on as an offender in the eyes of the
law and is held responsible for any
damage that may be done to adjoin-
ing property.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXATION

The action of the Commercial Ex-
change of Burlington in uniting with
the commercial bodies OF other cities
in the movement for the abolition of
the tax on moneys and credits in
Iowa is warmly commended by the
Hawk-Eye on the ground that cen
fury OF failure in the taxation of
moneys and credits ought to be a
long enough period of experiment to
satisfy the most exacting and skep-
teal It is folly for the state TO go
on any longer committing great in
justice to the large majority of it's
citizens and depriving itself of rev.
enue it ought to have. Wherefore
the Hawk-Eye says:
IF Iowa wants to go forward BY
leaps and bounds in commercial, agri-
cultural and industrial development,
it ought to take off the tax on moneys
and credits 1t is passing strange that
our people have not realized before
this time the injustice TO taxpayers
ard the loss to the state By the pres
cnt archaic and negotiable system
The objection usually raised to the
removal OF the tax is that all prop
erty ought to be taxed alike. and that
everybody ought 10 be made to paw
the personal tax the same as a tax
on realty But what people ought to
Go. and what they ougii 10 be com
PEELED TO do, IS one thing, and what
is practicable is another. Every in
genious device has been exhausted
to list all personal property and Sc
cure equal taxation thereon. The eff
fort is an utter failure, always has
been and always will be. The result
is to deprive the state of revenue and
10 work great injustice to innocent
persons, poor and rich alike. 1t is
folly to continue a system that bene-
fits no one and Is harmful to the
community as whole,
The effect in Iowa Is TO drive
capital from the state. TO deter 1t
from coming in from elsewhere seek
ing investment; to cripple industrial
and commercial enterprises; to make
money scarcer and dearer to the bor
rover, and to discourage thrift and
economy. The people of Iowa are
suffering from these serious draw.
backs, which affect every class There
ought TO be wisdom enough to recog.
nlze tne hlndrances TO Iowa's growth
ana prosperity and to provide immed-
late remedies for the ailments
The Hawk-Eye believes the state
can increase its revenues by radi-
cal change in its tax laws and at the
same time greatly increase the con
ditions favorable for general pros.
perity and growth in population. II
foresees that the, farmer, the mer.
chant the manufacturer, and every
person engaged nSproductive enter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

Another failure on the part of
trades unions to compel the adoption
Of the union or closed shop by manu-
facturers and contractors Is reported
in the law journals. In the case in
question the plaintiffs are copartners,
engaged in the manufacture of fine
interior woodwork, which they erect
"a Dlace anywhere throughout the
United States. Objections to juris-
dicticn against the brotherhood were
sustained on the ground that it was a
voluntary, unincorporated association,
snd could not be a citizen OF any
state. The bill was, however, sus-
tanned as against the individual de-
PENDANTS. The proofs went to show
that the business agent OF defendant
brotherhood had ordered the mon
enployed by complainant on cathed-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
SALEM.
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Mrs. AID. Myers has SO fully recoy-
cred from her illness, following a
surgical operation at the hospital at
Ottumwa, as to be able to return to
her home last week. Her many
friends hope that she will soon re-
gain her normal health.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. v. Davidson and
son, Dale, are at home after a visit
with relatives at Hamilton, ILL.,. and
at Centerville and Moravia, this state.
Irwin Feldman and his sister, Miss
Ina Feldman, who have been guests
at the home of their brother. Fred
Feldman, have returned to Wyaconda,
Missouri.
Mrs. N. F. Weeks of Garden City,
Kansas, is visiting her brother
Frank Knight west of town and rel
atives here.
The Wales Concert company will be
at Salem opera house on the evening
OF January 3d.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the M. K. church met with Mrs. S. G..
Merrill Friday afternoon.
Hiram Pickard and daughter, Clara.
of Cottonwood, were shopping at
Salem Thursday.
&. Miss Anna Cramer came from New
London and spent Saturday with
home folks.
Phillip Brody made business trip
to Ottumwa Saturday.
Walter Pickard and family have
moved to their new home in Kansas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
kAHokA, MO.
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Dr. o. 7. Murphy attended a meet
ing Of the Missouri Valley Veterinary
Association in Keansas City this week.
Three of Kahoka's citizens suffered
from falls on the ice last Friday. w.
e. Bell. the north side grocer stepped
off the step in front of his store, fall
ing backward and striking his head on
walked into the store and fell into a
faint. Restoratives were applied and
he was conveyed home He Is now
able to be about. Attorney T. L. Mont
gomery was another victim. He
slipped and fell near the Hume resi-
dence. He sustained broken tooth
and badly iacerated cheek John A.
Myers fell on the walk at his home,
cutting a cash in the back of his head.
All are able to be out and at their re-
spectiye vocations.
The Gardiner Bros. have been Civ
ing some creditable shows at the OPP
era house the past week. Mrs. Chas.
Gardiner, member of the troupe,
has been confined to the house most
of the week by sickness.
Judge E. r. Mckee. of Memphis,
was a Kahoka visitor Monday. He is
interested in having the number of
circuit court terms for Scotland and
Clark counties changed from three to
two terms year. He says the people
and the bar of Scotland county are in
favor of the project. and his visit to
Kahoka was for the purpose of feel
ing the sentiment OF the people here
in the matter. The courts seem to
grind slow enough as 1t is, and If the
terms are heightened, it would seem
to the average citizen that they would
grind still slower; and in consequence
it would seem unwise to make any
any change in the program.
The Missouri legislature voted to
GUST Republican who had been duly
elected to office and seat democrat.
The contest came from Pettis county.
The Clark county representative voted
to GUST the republican. Comment I'M
necessary. County republicans please
take notice.
The city collector of Kahoka re-
ports the following collections for
December Real estate, s2,457.96, per-
sonai, s7T4.4S; bank stock, $654O1:
merchants tax, $371.S5; license, SIS;
back taxes, 1861. Total, $4,249.67.
Mrs. Laura McNally OF Keokuk was
a Kahoka visitor Monday.
Miss Mary Sloan. county superinten-
dent Of schools, departed Saturday for
Mobile. Alabama, to attend an educa-
tionaI meeting. She wifi also visit
other points In the south before her
return.
e. Hit Stewart attended meeting
OF the A. II. T. A. in Keokuk last FRI
day night. Mr.. Stewart was reelected
az president OF the association, and is
reported to have made fine address
before the assembled ants.
The ice harvest is over and Kahoka
dealers have on hand fine quality OF
the cooling product.
Mrs. Margaret Schneider died at the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

Very shortly, the interstate com
merce commission will begin an in
yestigation of the affairs of the ex.
press companies operating in the
United States. a report. the first an
iual one, on statistics of these com
panfes, is ready to be issued. 1t shows
the value of the properties and equip
ncnts of the thirteen operating com
ranies. Their total book value is
sa5,S13,5T5 The net operating ex-
ptnses for the year ending June 80,
1909, which is as far as the report
covers. was s11,37S.4S9. Of about so
per cent profit. to which must he add
e6 s5,232,467 income from the secur.
tiles owned. Deductions from all this
for interest and miscellaneous ex-
pelises leave corporate income of
s15,SS3,1as. Or nearly SO per cent on
the hook value and equipment invest
n,enl, Consider in connection with
this tina: the express companies pay
something like half their gross in.
come to the railroads for service and
It is readily apparent that their
charges 10 the public ara so cnor-
nous as to be confscatory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
No Great Chance Noticed.

No Great Change Noticed.
"Of course, this was said In 1908
but has anyone noticed any great
change that might reverse these facts
in 1911?
IF special session Of the legisla
Eture and special primary was neces
sary in 1908 the special primary is
necessary now. In other words, if we
needed the voice OF the people then
we need that voice now, I would sug
gest that every member or the legisla-
ture, at least every member who
claims to be progressive Republi.
can, read the message of the COVER
nor to the special session of the
Thirty-second general assembly. In
this message Senator Cummins to
be- said: 1t is my abiding conviction
that the privilege OF choosing
United States senator by primary
thus accorded to the people is as
deeply cherished as any political
right which they now enjoy Well, sir,
that abiding conviction found lodge
ment in my mind, and / want to pre-
serve it to the people. 1t seems to me
that any member of the legislature
that would think of taking this cher
ished political right from the people
would be several kinds of reaction
airy.
We ought to get this primary ma
chinery in shape SO we can use it,
and the progressive Republicans ought
to help, or we will have to conclude
that lot of these same boys have
been Joking the people of the state
about mighty serious matter.
The progressive Republican who
is opposing the fixing of the primary
law now. and then using it for the oc-
casions as they may arise, is in about
the same fix as the old colonel's
rooster. The old colonel's rooster had
one short and one long leg, and when
he stood on the long leg and tried to
scratch his leg was too short, and
when he stood on the short leg and
tried to scratch his other leg was too
long,
The tactics of the Democrats will
be to hold the bill in the committee
as long as possible. The, house can
compel the return OF the bill to the
house by majority vote.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
CARTHAGE, ILL.
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Senator James F. Gibson. left Sun
day evening for Chicago, where the
legislative committee is in session at
the LaSalle Hotel, investigating the
garment makers strike.
Miss Besse, stenographer for the
Hancock County National Bank, visit
ed over Sunday with friends in Quin-
cy.
Bernard Byers is i'll with pneumonia.
Andrew Jellinger of Burlington, was
visiting Mr.. Joe Johnson and other
relatives in the city the first OF the
week.
Mr.. e. L. Brya, OF Tolono, ILL.,, was
a business visitor to the city the first
of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl DeHaven of Burn.
side, visited over Sunday with the
lady's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ.
Nair. Mrs. Nair is just recovering
from an attack of the lagrippe.
Mrs. Frank Gray and daughter, Miss
Minnie, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. J. E,
Brown, at Augusta,
Mrs. D. C. Barber, of Denver. H.,
was business visitor to the city yes.
terday.
T. N. Carroll was in Chicago the
past week
Mr.. 7. B. Griffitts, one OF the old
est residents of this city, died at his
home in this city at 10 o'clock p m,
Monday evening. aged "a years.
The body OF Mrs. Carrie Bush,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Rand.
Of this city. arrived here on the S:SH
G. B. & Q. train this morning. funeral
services to be held in this city on
Thursday.
Mrs. Bush leaves one daughter and
her husband, besides many relatives
In this city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25
keokux, Iowa ......... Jan. IS, 1911
THE MAN TO MAKE THE MOTION

THE MAN TO MAKE THE MOTION.
There's man to make the motion
when. the meetings under way
II takes the humblest members, tho, to
win the golden day.
man to make the motion,
And man to carry out
Oh, those who do the things are not
The ones that raise the shout. &
There's man to make the motion
when city wants to grow
But those who do the building are the
fellows in the row.
They're ready at the summons,
When the motions passed they're
there
They do not join the shouting,
But they help to face the care.
There's man 10 make the motion in
The conference of life.
Its those who rive the second meet
the conflict and the strife
man to make the motion,
But the workers down below
LAY nandS upon the lever
And they make the engine CO.
There's a mar to make the motion and
q man to do the deed.
The one the ornamental and the one
The human need.
a man to make the motion,
But the fellow in the aisle
Is the one to take the shovel
And TO dig and delve and smile.
There's q man to make the motion,
but there's other work to do
The race is TO the ready and the
trump to the true.
a man 10 make the motion,
But the man to carry t out
Has other business waiting
Than to stamp his feet and shout.
Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

Carl ,Gehrke, residing four miles
east of kirksyille, Mo-, has nine grade
Jerseys that produced during the
year just closed an average of $40 gal-
Ions of milk TO the COW, or a total of
7,290 gallons. From this milk 2.943
pounds of butter were churned,
which brought ss12.33. averaging
81 is cents per pound. Mr.. Gehrkes
experience is convincing proof that
dairy farming pays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

raj to stop work on the ground that
the materials were furnished from an
open shop. Threats were also made
that If non union work should be re-
sumed all union men Of all trades
would be Withdrawn from work on
the building. Other instances of in
reference with compliments rights
were shown. and tie court ordered
the continuance OF restraining order.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever was made is Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They do the work whenever you re-
quire their aid. These tablets change
weakness into strength, listlessness in
to energy. gloominess into ioyousness.
Their action is so gentle one don't
realize they have taken a nurgative.
Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

Every county superintendent will
be compelled to hold an annual nor
nal institute in his county if bill in
troduced in the house at Des Moines
by Harvey of Osceola county becomes
law, The bill provides that each
county superintendent must hold an
annual normal training institute for
teachers and those who desire to
teach.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

Senator-eiect Pomerene of Ohio
doesn't drink, smoke or swear. If he
wasn't a Democrat he would be good
company for our First district rep
resentative
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-25

Abe Martin calls attention to the
TACT that nobody ever says anything
about who paid for the coffee mother
used to make.