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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15

purchase at this time. Tie declared
the park would cost nearly S3,000,0oo
before the last payment was made,
The park problem, however, was
only one of group Of questions
which the socialist majority faced
at last nights session of the council,
which threatened to last till morning.
The socialists took up the case of
the city clerk who was rebulSed by
the majority at a recent meeting for
continued absence from his office,
it being charged that in nine months
he had spent only forty days in the
city, the rest of the time being devo-
ted to lectures on socialism else
where. The council measure requir-
ing officials to get permission from
the council to leave the city vas
vetoed by the mayor, and the socialist
majority then reversed its vote and
approved the veto last night.
A problem which took up much OF
the session was that of caring for the
unemployed. The socialists before
taking office, in the 1907 panic com
| planned because the city did not give
work to the idle. Now the socialists
are accused OF failing to do what
/ they formerly criticised the old par
1 ties for not doing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
MRS. FORMAN FUNERAL
SERVICES HELD TODAY
Rev. James r. Sanders officiated al
obsequies This Afternoon For
Departed Citizen.

At three o'clock this afternoon SER
vices were held for the late Mrs.
Chas. Forman at the family residence,
500 Blondeau street The Rev. ]. F,
Sanders of the First Baptist church
officiated. A large number of friends
of the deceased were present. The
choir of the Baptist church sang dur
ing the service which was appropri
ate to the life and memory of Mrs.
Foreman.
Those who assisted as body bearers
We're the following gentlemen: Judge
w. l.. Mcnamara, A. J. Hardin, Paml
-Luedtke, S. B. stahl, Edw. Walsmith
III. r. Jacobs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15

In spite of the unexpected proceed
ing, the administration will purchase
the park and draw on the contingent
fund for the first payment and for the
$4,000 interest which will fall due
in six months. The payments in the
future will be made through mortgage
certificates.
On account Of the condition of the
contingent fund it is possible that
some other undertaking which has
been planned will be abandoned for
this year. Payments will be abandon
ed for this year. Payments are to
extend over period of twenty years,
with interest at AZ per cent.
That the purchase should not be
made without submitting it to the
people was the contention of Alder
man Bogk, democrat, who denied that
Milwaukee was behind other cities in
the number of its parks. He said he
did not care to embarass the finances
of the city with the burden Alder
man Wittig took the same position.
Alderman Szcerbinski made a plea
for more parks on the south side, de
claring that the east side was favored
with $50 out of 900 acres of the park
land owned by the city. He SAID
parks should be placed in the con
gested districts. He wanted the 9th
er parks improved first,
That the owners of the property
were trying to unload something or
the city was the view of Alderman
Corcoran, democrat, who said he hac
not found one person in favor of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
THE CITY DRUG STORE AND VIII.
klNsoN 6 CO., SUCCESSFUL.
Induced DR.. Howard Company to Make
Special Prices.

After a great deal of effort and cor
respondence The City Drug Store and
Wilkinson & Co., the popular drug
gists have succeeded in getting the
Dr.. Howard Co. to make special
half-price Introductory offer on the
regular fifty cent size of their ceie-
brated specific for the cure of consti-
patton and dyspepsia.
This medicine is a recent discovery
for the cure of all diseases of the
stomach and bowels. 1t not only gives
quick relief, but it makes permanent
cures.
DR.. Towards specific has been so
remarkably successful in curing con
stipation, dyspepsia, and all liver
troubles that The City Drug Store and
Wilkinson & Co., are willing to re-
turn the price paid in every case
where it does not give relief.
Headaches, coated tongue, dizziness
gas on stomach, specks before the
eyes, constipation, and all forms Of
liver and stomach trouble are soor
cured by this scientific medicine
So great is the demand for this spe
cific that The City Drug Store and
Wilkinson & Co., have been able tic
secure only a limited supply. and
every one who is troubled with dys
pepsia, constipation or liver trouble
should call upon the nee, OF
send 20 cents, and 81 aoses o
the best medicine q JADE, on thi,
special half price I .ler with thei,
personal guarantee to refund the mon
ev II it does not cure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
A pearth of siIverware.

Dozens of silver knives. forks, tea
spoons, and table spoons belonging to
the Kellogg-Birge Company, were
found at the same time with the 9TH
er articles, and large desk in the
private office of the chief was laden
with the articles OF cutlery and plated
ware.
The discovery of the stolen goods
was made at 4::S0t after the three
boys had been locked up at police head
quarters. Several nights before they
had been put through the sweating
ordeal and had confessed their limo
cense to having knowledge Of any
more stolen articles other than those
found in possession of two OF them
the end of the week.
One of the boys informed the police
Tuesday morning that the suit case
that had been used by the trio in ped
ding was in an empty boathouse on
the levee. Later, in the afternoon, he
phoned that the case was at the water
power office where it could be gotten
When taken by an officer the suit
case was empty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
Warning to Railroad Men.


Look out for severe and even dan
gerous kidney and bladder troubles
resulting from years OF railroading.
Geo. E. Bell, $50 Third ST., Fort
Wayne, Ind, was many years con-
ductor on the Nickle Plate. He says:
Twenty years Of railroading left my
kidneys in terrible condition. There
was continual pain across my back
and hips and my kidneys gave me
much distress, ard the action OF my
bladder was frequent and most pain.
full. got supply OF Foley Kidney
Pills and the first bottle made won
derful improvement and four bottles
cured me completely. Since being
cured | have recommended Foley
Kidney Pills to many of my railroad
friends" Wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
LADY SMOKERS
OF new YORK
Practice is Becoming More General
Among the Women OF Amerl.
cas- Greatest
City.
ARE THREE CLASSES
ARE THREE CLASSES
Some Really Want to; Others to be
obliains and Still Others in
Spirit of
Bravado.

NEW YORK, March 1o.--lt wasn't
so very long ago that the only place
hereabout where woman could be seen
smoking in public were in the cabins
of incoming liners. And these wom-
en- devotees of the weed were most
ly foreigners.
Today half the women in one of the
public dining rooms of a big New
York hotel, lately opened, puff non
chantly-or nervously as the case may
beat their cigarettes, without Great
ing more than passing notice. Cigar
cites, specially made for lady smo-
kers, are even listed on the menus.
AS this change in the public atti-
tude has taken place with unusual
duct on more severe lines are wonder
ing how long it will be before women
smoke on the streets and at the
theatres; the big stores have smoking
rooms and the cars be assailed with
such expressions as:
Glare dear, won't you give me a
light, | haven't match in my chate-
! lame
/ The granting to women of the right
/ to smoke in the hotel in question
practically amounts to another case
! of "class legislation" There isn't a
place in town where the poor girl
or the social outcast csn enjoy a
coffin nall in public. Even the cheap
] dance halls, against the evils of which
SO many virtuous TRADES are aimed
smoking. One or two of the favorite
drinking resorts.yclept cafes, of actual
and would-be FOUNDERS, permit theil
women-or rather girl patrons te
4 smoke in the early morning hours Nc
such restrictions, however, hedge the
befurred and bejeweled women tina
gather at the Madison avenue hostel
ry.
woman writer who sat amons
these feminine smokers divided then
into three classes: Cosmopolitan
women who smoked because the.
really wanted to, those who smoked
out of bravado and those who smoked
simply because they wanted to b
I good fellows"
OF the second class, the write
says They held their cigarettes a.
though they We're darning needles ant
cast furtive glances toward the doc
lest their not conventional broke
husbands catch them uESwares. On
knew that these ladies suDsequehsi.
went to the Mushroom and lathere'
their fingers well with scented soal
and held their breath when the.
kissed their children at home
The good fellows are described a
women who can hold as much a
any man, and who calls the gentle
men of their acquaintance pals
These mad always smoked whereve
they were allowed and signitied thel
Joy over a public Endorsement o
their private indiosyncracies b
sprawling their elbows on the table
and putting their smoke like old Sc
salts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
Sugar Shells Missing.

Although dozens of other silver plas
ted articles have been found. the of
fcers have reason to believe that
there is much more of the stuff here
and there in the city. A half dozen
or more sugar shells which we're sto
len have not yet been accounted for
by the young thieves. Active search
is being made for more goods and
evidence and police findings which
are expected to implicate others who
have been stealing from wholesale
and retail business houses here, are
expected to be sprung shortly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
Retail People to Blame.

In unearthing the robberies by
Youngsters. the chief finds that a
number of retail stores, hotels and
business places have unwittingly aid.
ed the theft of articles from whole
sale houses by purchasing stolen
goods from boys.
One place bought stamps, another
cigars. silverware and the like. En-.
couraged by this custom, stealing has
reached an cnormity that is almost
surprising in belief.
The police say that if they We're no
tified in each instance by those visit
cd by peddlers, the practice could be
Immediately broken up
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
Foley kidney PiIls.

Neutralize and remove the poisons
that cause backache, rheumatism. ner-
vousness and all kidney and bladder
irregularities. They build up and re-
store the natural action of these vital
organs. Wilkinson C Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
Restaurant open.

The union restaurant located on
Chestnut street was opened this noon
and small numbers of workers and
others took their first meal there.
Several women button workers assist
ed in the serving.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
Boys Caught in Wholesale Thefts,
Have Been Selling to Retail
Merchants and
Others.
GOODS FOUND TUESDAY
Suit Case Of Tobacco, Gum, Socks and
Large Amount Of Spoons, Knives
and Forks Under
a Floor.

. 81 d. i 4
The police soundly denounce the
practice of retailers and others buy.
ing peddled articles from boys and
suspicious persons, and believe this
to be a cause for further instigating
the wholesale robberies lately going
on.
The more the Keokuk police search,
the more alarmed are they becoming
at the stupendous thieveing that has
occurred in some of the business
houses of the city.
After following clue on which
Chief Schevers has been working for
the past several weeks, to the end
yesterday, Officer Jake Park found a
suit case filled with enough tobacco
and other Injuries, including chewing
gum, smokers supplies, chewing to
bacco and various articles, to start &
small store.
The travelling case, which belonged
to one of the three lads who was
arrested Saturday night, was secretei
in a hole in the floor and covered over
at the old Mosley-Horne building a
Water and Blondeau streets. TIKI
stolen articles were taken from tn.
SmithHamill Grocery Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15
cofps CAUSE HEADACHE

LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine, the
world wide Cold and Grip remedy re-
moves the cause. Call for full name.
Look for signature E. w. GROVE.
CSC,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-15

Cypress Defies Decay.
Cypress water tanks havs been
known to defy decay for moro than .
quarter of century.
The evening world., 1911-08-17
DEMOCRATS PLAN
TO G0BBLE FIVE
new DISTRICTS
Legislative Leaders Will CON-
plete the Congressional Re-
apportionment This Week.

Democratic leaders Of the Senate and
Assembly who have been seeding TO re-
apportion the congressional districts
throughout the greater city with q View
OF creating five new ones % aid out
as to make them Democratic will COM
plete their work this week. In this kind
OF mapping out for political reasons the
Democrats are following in the foot
steps OF the Republicans who. since the
Civil War have had all to say about
the ~rearranging Of congressional baili-
wlcks.
1t Is now proposed to divide the Ave
new districts among anhattan, Brook
lyn and the Bronx. giving one to the
Bronx and two to each Of the other two
boroughs. II It Is found impracticable
to create In this city a NTH district
which will be democratic the political
geographists will make sure of one by
laying 1t out somewhere up the State.
In this respect It has tentatively been
suggested hat a pair of Erie County
near Buffalo and a part of Allegheny
County could be apportioned so as to
make the fifth additional district. This
question will be decided when the big
bosses OF the State are consulted.
The basis of representation under the
new apportionment act which was re-
Gently signed by the President is on .
population of :.:,oC cor each congress
sional district. Queens may. under this,
be accorded q congressional district
The evening world., 1911-08-17
THERE WAS THE SWORD RIGHT
ON THE JOB.

Then the sword fish came into sight.
1t was jumping around doing right and
left volts about the whale, thrusting IN
prime. seconde, fierce and quartz when
ever the thrasher worried the whale
into making an opening. The whale
was evidently listening to the reading
OF its dissolution decision and preparing
TO 20 out OF the oil business for good.
IL iabored and jumped through the
water like a wounded snake.
Thar she breaches" shouted one OF
the crew who had read the old New
bedford classic.
Just why the whale was called she
IL not germane to this story. But by
preaching he meant that the whale was
lunging out OF the water, breaking as
much as possible from the SURROUNDING
enarS and trying to snap out of the
way. But the thrasntr kept 1n he JoO
with the hail-l!he La. and then the
svordfsh dived and sent It's stilleto deep
into the whale.
The last D"utus thrust did the job.
The whale turned It's great head in
that agony that marks Senator La Fol-
lette when the previous question Is or
dcred. and sent a red stream spouting
f,om It's spout hole at the regulation
sperm whale angle. u was sending up
its last rocket OF agony and distress.
The two hold-up men OF the sea had
finished their task,
The evening world., 1911-08-17
DEATHS LAID TO OFFICIAL.
COroner's Jury II Jersey Trolley
Crash BIames Pilgrim,

Coroner Tracey last night held an IN.
quest In the Hackensack Court House
on the death of william Hutchison, a
motorman on the North Jersey Rapid
Transit line. who was killed with two
others In a head-on collision July q
near Ridgewood.
The jury returned the following YER
dict:
William Hutchison came o his
death through a collision OF two cars
OF the North Jersey Rapid Transit
Company on July Il, 1911. occasioned
by the defective hearing and disre.
gard Of signals OF Supt. Pilgrim, Of
the aforesaid company.
Witnesses testified that warnings had
been shouted 20 the superintendent
which he seemingly ala not hear.
The evening world., 1911-08-17
SEE BOY DIVE TO DEATH.
Hundreds watching Graceful Lad
Taking Fatal Plunge.

Several hundred bathsrs. who Q few
minutes before were praising his grace
fui dives, saw an unidentified boy
drown OF the foot Of the Ocean Park
way. Coney Island. yesterday After
noon.
The boy, about thirteen years Of aga
and 4 feet 2 inches tall. had been div
Ing so gracefully from a stringpiece
extending far out into the ocean at
that point that the other bathers
stopped to admire him for half an
hour.
The last time he leaped from the
stringpiece he did not reappear and
John McMonisle. a life-guard en-
ployed at the new municipal baths, was
called. After fifteen minutes Of div.
ing he recovered the body.
There was nothing in the boys
clothing to identify him.
The evening world., 1911-08-17
PART or THE ROLE.

From the Louisville Cou1er-Journal.)
shall we pose as millionaires, or as
foreign dukes at the hotel?"
AS the latter, my boy. Az million
aires we might be expected to display
some evidences of wealth. But as
dukes, nobody can possibly take Il
amiss II We skip"
The evening world., 1911-08-17
C~HIRCMGOER.

From the Kansas city Starr
A Sixth District editor prints this
parable: "A cent and a quarter hap
.ened TO rub together. lie Of the laurel
.,rE,th said 81 l'r of the f''th.cs. go
away, you horrid red heather Don't
ou call me a heather; ! 20 to church
nrtener than you do replied the In
diam"
The evening world., 1911-08-17
SOMETHING WAS WORRYING
THAT WHALE.

The ship was making about sixteen
knots. The whale as making only ten.
but that was evidently no fault OF the
whale. There seemed to be some reason
for all the forced draught q whale can
command. and 1t was plain that soms-
thing wouldn't let the whale go along
about It's ell business In a reasonable
way without harrasslng it to death.
Sooa the ship overhauled the whale
and took a chance On the Oceanic by
slowing down to watch the fight. The
captain saw a thrasher hammering
awny at the whale like a damage suit
lawyer with a personal injury case
against a rich corporation. Now. q
thrasher Is l5 feet over all and fights
with his tail. lie is the pal OF the
sworlhsh and goes along to stall! for
his better armed partner so the latter
can run his stlletto blade home while
the victim is lodging the swings OF the
thrasher's tall.
So the captain knew at once hat that
whale had more troubles han the Dis
trict-Attorney at C~oatesville. Pa. He
knew that the thrashcr wouldn't he
worrying about the whale unless he
had his armed and predatory partner
along to turn the croak trick at the
proper time. so he wiped the glasses
again and took a fresh glue to the
The evening world., 1911-08-17

send ninety delegates to the next ma
tonal convention.
The men working out the new plans
rave been holding frequent conferences
IN this city since the adjournment OF
the Legislature. When the Legislature
meets In September the reports will be
ready for fnal action.
The evening world., 1911-08-17
BIG SPERM WHALE
DIES FIGHT WITH
SMALLER ENEMIES
Thrasher and Swedish Put
Deep-Sea Oil Magnate
Out of Business.
BATTLE OF THE DEEP.
Steamer Bermudian Reports
Exciting Sight AS Miles
Southeast of Sandy Hook.

Fol- the first time In the history OF
local marine reporting. there came TO-
day the tale Of h hold-up and murder
OF one OF the original oil magnates OF
the deep seas by two fnny conspirators.
Capt. Frazer of the Bermudian was an
eyewitness to the desperate struggle.
When his ship came In from Bermuda
to-day he was stu excited over the de.
tails OF the ocean encounter.
The Bermudian was coming alon =
rinding her W business. but wonder
di.g at the same time whether the Oceanic
would beat her to New York or not.
This VIA at AS O'Clock yesterday morn.
irs and the scene was somewhere about
~ miles southeast OF Sandy Hook.
Then to starboard the captain saw
there was a sufrragette meeting or a
canadian discussion over reciprocity. or
something OF the sort going on. ANY,
way, the whole neighborhood was asi-
tated. He got his big glasses and
searched the mgr sea. soon he found
that . Golf sperm whale was the centre
Of the disturbance.
It was AL active young whale, sixty
Feet long and carrying along about fifty
barrels Of oil upon which Nj. Rookie
Teller had never aid his Allowing
hand. From time to time there came
the short. bushy spout that DISTINGUISHES
the sperm. For u sperm whale, like a
wisconsin politician, always spouts at
an angle and scatters his ~spoutlng like
a Chatauqua lecturer talking by the
word.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-04

Gratis influenced to vote for a Republican,?
How were they tempted to ignore the evidence
in the case?
The suspicion gr0ecs that the money Of the
Lumber Trust acas used IN Washington, as 1t
had been used IN Springfield.
But be that as it may, the whole country
rings with the Lorimer scandal. It is re
garded as national stain and disgrace. It
is cited as the most convincing argument in
favor of direct election of Z. S. Senators by
the people,, 1t is quoted as the most revolving
illustration of the manner in which legisla-
lures disgrace themselves, and foist upon the
republic Senators who belong to the Trusts.
IN Georgia zoe are drifting toaoard the same
condition. A Senator is to be chosen and
the Executive Committee refuses to allow the
people to elect him. This Committee is
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-04

The benefits conferred on the world
by the guilds were, the skilled work
man, the enduring architecture which COM
mands admiration to this day, the stalwart
mlddle-class that stood between nobility and
the proletarlate- miscellaneous poor. Be
sides, each guild was not only a Pure-food
and Honest goods law, in active operation, but
was charitable association, taking care of
the WORKOUT, or disabled workman, his wife
and his child.
1t was the widening scope of the corpora
ton, and the rapid development of machine
manufactures that cut the ground from under
the guilds. Besides life began to 90 at
faster gait. Young men were not willing to
serve a seven-year apprenticeship at a trade
And the eXtorhOnate prices fixed by the
guilds caused outsiders to offer other wares
''Just as good, at much lower figures Hence
the guild, like Knight-errantry and the hand
loom, served its day, and then passed into the
limbo Of things that cannot ''come back"
Modern tariffs began in France, and with
Charles TX. In the very year of the St.
Bartholomew Massacre, this crack Drained
monarch affixed the royal signature to de-
cree which forbade the importation of all
woven fabrics, and some other manufactured
goods. He also forbade the expectation of
wool, flax, hemp and yarn. This was the be-
ginning of the 'Mercantile theory''-lts pre-
decessor having been the ''Bullion theory"
The crude idea of the earlier nations was
that the prime object of commerce and the
true success of international trade was the
accumulation OF the precious metals. To eX-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-04
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. J

dominated by politician of inordnate am
bitiOn. This time last year, he was violently
assailing ring-rule; and was vehemently de-
handing that everything be referred to the
people.
But things have changed. He no longer
dares to face the people. He knows that they
have found him out. He is conscious of the
fact that. he is now supported by none out
side the ranks of the politicians, and the i'm
placable few who hate to admit that they
have been fooled.
Consequently, his hopes have dwindIed to
the Lorimer level. He knows that he cannot
reach the Senate by popular choice. Log
rolling in the Legislature, is his only chance.
Shall re haze @ LOrinaer case IN Georgia?
The issue is up to the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee