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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
nutlnn to California.

IOWA CITY, Oct 3.-An automobile
party passed through here enroute for
Los Angeles, Cal In the car, suspend
ed in a hammock was 6-months-old
babe that had been on the road many
days, and gone hundreds of miles.
Travel seemed to benefit it. The
mother, Mrs. G. f. Hicks, of Fort
Dalhousie, Ont. was enthusiastic over
the idea of babies travelling in autos,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
CRAP GAMEsTERS
CAUGHT IN ACT
Five Negroes and White Arrested by
Officer Shepherd, Shooting
Bones In Rag Alley.

Six crap shooters were arrested in
Rag Alley this afternoon at 2:1o by
officer Shepherd, who in patrolling
past the place, saw the five negroes
and one white, shooting dice on the
open ground The players were much
engrossed in the game and the bones
were rolling about as well as they
could in the mud when the police Of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
Pensions for Iowans.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 3.-The
following Iowans were granted pen
sions: charles Bates, SIS; Thomas
Benson, 500 Robert c. Brainen, $40;
Solomon Cavenee, SIS; Franz Gutsche
SIT; Luke B. Perkins, s17; Frank E
Klingman, SIC; Amelia Neal, SIP; Ed
ward Philips, So; William D. Rey
nolds, SIS; William NJ. Schmitt, $40
Casper Snyder. $40.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
Are Drinking Beer Now.

PARIS. Oct. Statistics for the
present year show that the French
are no longer wine drinking peo-
ple. Since last January they drank
131 $50, 900 quarts of beer in excess OF
nreyious years. Probably the heat
wave is to blame, Beer is taxed in
France. and the government has taken
in the eight months of his year $4oo,-
600 more in beer tax than 1t ever col
lected in any whole year in the past
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
PERSONALS.

Rev. Robert E. Lilley has gone to
Des Moines to attend meeting OF
the state board of the Christian
church.
Mrs. j. II. Ellsworth and Miss Ger
trude Ellsworth left last evening for
visit with relatives and friends in
Cleveland and Mansfield, Ohio.
Miss Maymie Dunnan Of TT. Wayne,
Ind, is visiting in the city with Miss
May Tumelty
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
sues For 500. 600.

FORT DODGE. Oct. 3.-webster
county may be compelled to pay $780,
600 to Ward brothers, drainage con-
tractors, and $4,000 as costs in case,
If the district court decides in favor
of the contractors when the case is
retired here
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
Was An Old Timer.

IOWA CITY, Oct. 3.-The remains
of Michael Dryer, Johnson county
pioneer, who died in an Iowa City
hospital, were taken to Nola settle
ment for interment Sunday. Mr.. Dwy-
er was 81 years old.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

f,cer stepped up and surprised the
open air gamblers
information will be filed against the
following some time this afternoon
or tomorrow, who were taken to the
notice station and locked up for crap
shooting: Frank Johnson, Howard
Hagens, James Taylor. Thos. Harris,
pert Bramble and John Wheatley. Jr.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
IOWA EDITOR FLAYS
EDUCATION BOARD
owner of Farm Paper Says State
Board Has Proved Miserable
Failure.

THE new state board of education
in the two years and four months OF
its existence has stamped itself
miserable failure
This statement is made in an art
icle appearing in the October issue OF
Successful Farming, a farm paper
published by E. T. Meredith, presi-
dent of the Des Moines Commercial
club.
The article charges that the board
lets "one man. run things, that EN-
ployes of the institutions are fired
and relatives and friends substituted,
that President Storms and President
MacLean were snubbed numerically,
and that the board decides on policies
in a highhanded manner without any
consultation with faculty members
James n. Trewin of Cedar Rapids is
president of the board.
1t is stated in the article that "H
F Ellsworth. superintendent OF
ground at the state university, was
dismissed by the board through Presi
dent MacLean in the spring of 1910
for no other reason, so far as Mac
I can or Ellsworth knew, than that
Mr. Fisk, who succeeded Ellsworth
was a relative of Boyd. Boyd, of the
finance committee, is Cedar Rapids
friend of Mr.. Trewin."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
ALSO A Cow
WITHOUT HAIR.
ii. Doing on the Carnival Pike Last
Night with a Clean Exhibition
Of Free and Pay
Shows.
GOOD
LOOKS
Shows Are Up and Doing Business
This Afternoon-oueen Con-
test Counting Place to
Be Named.

eon the pike" is a dizzy-headed
aypression whict calls up barrels OF
nm already and more to come. Good,
clean shows, amazing exhibitions and
Measure wheels free exhibitions and
aneach of band" are the main
things to say about the carnival.
The first night of the big Owls
show opened up with large crowd at
tending, many outsiders as well as
townspeople.
Among the numerous free things to
look at is the high diver, Daredevil
Darnell,' at Eighth and Main, who
dives head foemost from ladder
eighty feet high and lands on his
chest on a board, The daring man
performs at $3.50 and $50 p. m. daily.
In front of the Airdome theatre
there is plenty of free vaudeville and
at Fourth and Main, dogs. ponies and
elephants are on free exhibition.
Pay Attractions.
Among the many to be seen are:
The Wild Animals, Crazy House, Pha-
raohs Daughter, The Vision of the
Cross, vaudeville at the airdome,
which includes ten acts, Freak Show.
which has the largest horse and the
smallest horse on earth, also the larg
est mule, COW without hair and a
horse which is part elephant and
partly COW. There is the merry-go-
round, Ferris wheel. Buffalo Bill show,
The Bandits Johnstown Flood, Delmar
and Her Coterie of Beautiful Maidens
and others.
Many of the shows and attractions
were open last night and every one
was completed by this afternoon.
The Queen Contest.
There is only one day more in
which to vote for your choice among
the many popular ladies of this vicin-
Ny for queen Of the big Dam car
nival, which is now being held and ex-
plotted by the Independent Order of
Owls and the merchants of Keokuk.
In tomorrow evenings issue we will
state at the request of the queen of
the carnival committee where the
final votes will be cast There are
"a hours or more left in which to cast
your vote for the lady you consider
the most popular in this vicinity
therefore If you have any interest
whatever in the different ladies' whose
names appear below, it is advisable
for you to do everything in your
power to assist them. At the request
Of the committee, having this contest
in charge, we publish below as we
have done for several days past the
names and standing of the differen'
candidates.
Miss Myrtle Butcher, Keokuk 22,s5'
Miss Delephine Beller, Keokuk 21.Sl'
Miss Dot Bell Keokuk ....... 9,o3t
Miss Stella Lewis, Warsaw :. 4,2o'
Miss Mary Brassil, Keokuk All,
Miss Ruby Green, Warsaw 1,75'
Miss Clara Barnum, Hamilton 1,4o'
We are instructed by the committee
to state that this contest does no
close until tomorrow night and tina
It is not too late to nominate an.
candidate that you see fit, providin'
the nominee is a respectable persol
and that tomorrow afternoons issu
Of this paper we will give complete
details regarding the closing OF thl
contest
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
PERSONALS.

Harry Nigren has returned to his
home in Needles, Cal, after weeks
visit with relatives In this city.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Halbeck OF Ka-
hoka are visiting their children in this
city
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
Denies Manipulation.

Il claim the history of coffee az
and other produce which grows out OF
the ground, proves that nobody in the
world is able to successfully manipu-
late and advance the market unless
conditions favor it. All the wheat.
deals, all the cotton deals and all the
sugar deals failed when conditions
of supply and demand were against
them. The coffee world has accustom-
ed itself to base the values of the cur
rent crop on the outturn of the grow
ing crop, and as long as that Is the
case the coffee merchants and specu-
lators will buy on future prospects or
discount probable large crop by sell
/ ing, and either of them is doomed TO
failure, unless the prospects calcuiat-
ed upon turn out as predicted.
THE best informed exporters and
experts in Brazil, with whom l have
friendly and intimate relations, are
now advising that the current crop
will be below 10,600,000 and some say
not more than 100000 for Santos
and below for Rio. AS to the growing
crop, no figures, SO far, can be men
toned until we have a substantial
Towering, which has not yet taken
place; but everything points to
a small crop. My personal belief is il
will be below 100000, but have nt
L figures to go on except the reports o
the conditions of the crop since Feb
J ruary.
"Asfthe Santos crop decides the III
ture, we are likely to have prolong
ated season Of higher prices. The .eX
= act advance can only be measured .!
the exact size of the probable inquire
of both Rio and Santos, and before re
!, liable figures can be named we vii
have to wait at least six or elgh
weeks. The 1906-u7 crop, the RECORD
: .crep, started in Towering in July ant
lconfiflued until November and TO
: harvesting there was an apsoiutel.
5 dry season the next year from May t.
: October. SO that every bean which hat
: grown could be collected and sent t
: the market In 1911 no further sal
: from the government stocks can tax
a place. as the contract provided TO
J, 100000, with maximum OF douol
y the quantity, which has been sold.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

CHICAGO FIRM Opening distributing
office desires competent executive;
will allow $3.50 monthly and extra
commission; permanent; $500. Deposit
required General Manager, Dept. A
%, 226 West Huron St, Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
stealino Ride.

FORT DODGE, Oct. 3.-Lloyd Bux-
ton. Ia years old, fell under the wheels
while alighting from moving freight
train and his left foot is crippled for
life. He was stealing ride.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

FOR sALE-Eight room house in first
class repair, with street and side
walk improvements complete; water
and sewer and good cistern. 142S
Blondeau. Here's a bargain. See j. R.
Roberts & Company. 722 Main. Bell
'phone, Haired.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

Local Live stock.
KEOKUK, Oct. 3.-The following
live stock market furnished today By
Joseph Haubert:
Hogs-Good butchers, S5.7b.
Sheep Butchers. s350@4.00.
Lambs-$6 to $3.50.
Caives-S5.00 to 5000.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The pro
duce markets are as follows:
Butaer-Creamery, 26hc.
Process-Special, 23c.
Eggs-Western firsts. S0@21c.
Iced fowls-13@14Ac.
Iced springs-13@13kc.
rigin creamery butter. 26c.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
How MacLean Was "Fired.'

What is alleged to be the inside
story of the request for President
MacL cans resignation is made public
as follows;
THE story was an open one in
Iowa City last spring that DR.. Mac
can never received notice of the
resignation except through the news
papers He called up President Ire
win of the board about a week after
the first story appeared 1t is report
ed that the arbitrary executive of the
board asked him to come to Cedar
RAPIDS, which was impossible for
President MacLean to do at that time.
In a few DAYS he went He told Ire
win that he had had no notice of his
retirement. 1t is said the reply was
well. YOU have it now, then Mac
.ean was compelled to remain the
rest of the school year, after thus be
ing snubbed.''
Editorially the magazine explains
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

FOR SALE-Twenty-three good build
ing lots. One eight-room house with
four lots, three porches, cistern on
porch, good living well, cement walks.
grape arbor, pears and cherries, good
shade around house, new barn 24x72,
buggy shed, work shop, hen house
with good poultry fences. Poor health
reason for selling. Inquire Mrs. Grace
Rebo, 3137 Cherokee St, Fort Madi-
son, Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
MISCELLANY ous.

FIRST CLASS rooms and meals at
COL High street. Bell phone $50
Black.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03
Estimated Cars Tomorrow.
Wheat, 80; corn, 215; oats, $50.
CHICAGO Live Stock.

Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, Oct 3.-U. S. Yards re-
ceipts today 10000; left over 2.472;
market steady to shade higher. Light,
$6.15@6,S23a; mixed, $6.10@6.90;
heavy, $5.SO@6.s5; rough. s5.So@6.10.
Cattle Receipts 1900; prospects
weak to shade lower.
Sheep-Receipts 10000.
Second Hog Market Market steady
to shade higher. Bulk. $6,20@6.7b;
light, s62O@6s5; mixed, $6.10@6.so;
heavy, S5.S5@6S5; rough, S5.S5@6.1O;
Workers, S6.75@6S5; good. $6.10@6.s5,
pigs, s4.5O@6.45.
Cattle-Market steady to 10c lower;
beeves, $4.7O@S.15; Texans, $4.25@
600; westerns, s4.2o@7oo; stockers,
rsS S0@56O; COWS. s2.O0@615; calves,
s5.75@9O0.
Sheep-Market steady. Native 1925
$3.50; western, $2.75@4.00; yearlings
s3.65@450. Lambs, native, $4.00@6.oO;
western lambs $4.25@6.10.
| Close: Hog market good steady;
others weak at opening prices Bulk,
i s6.2O@6.75; light, $S.20@6.S5; mixed
s6.1O@6.9o; heavy, $6.20@6.s5; rough
$5S5@610.
Cattle-Market weak to top sS.15.
Sheep Market steady, top $500;
| lambs, 500.
Cattle-Market weak; top. $S15
Estimated Hogs $4,000; cattle 49,,
900; sheep 10000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

Read The Daily Gate City. 100
per week.
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FOR SALE.

FOR sALE-Quick meal range with
or without waterback. w. H. Carter,
$40 N. Eighth st.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

FOR sALE-2oo acres located in
Union county, five and one-half
miles north of Ellston, la. Good road,
good market. 65 acres in cultivation,
rest seeded. Barn new 40x4S; good
hen house, double corn crib, spring
and two wells, never failing water,
near school, price $50 per acre. Adj
dress Sumner Mcclure, Ellston, Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

FOR SALE Square piano in good
condition. Also soft coal burner, SlS
Morgan street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

FOR sALE-A rs foot three-quarter
glass cabin launch, double cylinder
Ia h. p. Fox engine. Canopy and
curtains over back deck. Nearly new
and in fine shape. Owner going away
and launch left with me for sale. Sea
me If you want bargain. T. w.
Santen, No. 2 Water street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-03

FOR sALE-Chalmer 30" auto, equip
ped with top, windshield and speed
ometer. $500 Tri-state Auto and Ma
chine Co.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-08-11

Girls Who Pretend.

The girl who ''shams" is very much in our midst
today. Whether she is happy or not is, how
ever open to question. 1t is not easy tokeep up the
appearance of 81, 600 Il year on dress allowance of
something under $780, and yet that is what countless
girls are trying to do. Now girl with 500 year
pocket money can have a really good time and dress
WE'LL if she realizes and accepts the limitations of her
purse
But if she shams she has wealth and plays to
gallery above her position, her joys few and her
pleasures nil! The keynote of popular girls sue
cess is be natural she does not pretend riches,
assume position to which she is not entitled and
people admire her pluck and want her for pal.
The girl who pretends seldom finds lover. Men
fight shy of ostentaton, and see visions of exceeded
incomes and debt and difficulties in wedded-years
when they contemplate her wife.
She may while away tedious hour by her boast
ing pratte but she does not inspire love, and youth
fades into middle age leavingher still on 'the shelf"
1t is the girl who frankly owns she not afford to
Join the suggested trip; the girl who wears frock
for two seasons and a coat maybe for three, that
wins admiration; she is sham and is therefore, to
be appreciated.
Ifby any chance the girl who pretends does get
engaged, she has fine scope to indulge her shams
She can boast, as she will, of her possessions, brag
of her powers and talk Of all she to do when
she is married, but she deceves no one, save, per-
chance her lover, in whose eyes she is perfection.
Her friends know exactly her income and her posi-
tion and secretly laugh at her pretensions If the
engagement is protracted, the chances it will ne
YER find consummation at the altar, fer when the gilt
edge of novelty wear off, and every day common
places obtrude on love, mans eyes bound to be
opened and his idol shattered forever
Avoid all extremes of fashion, unless your purse is
sufficiently elastic to permit of your garments being
worn few times only. business girl in 'hob-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-08-11
Knockers, Grafters, &c,

Some Of our brother editors compla n that it is a
hard matter to conduct country newspaper without
trampng on somebody's toes about every week. Of
course that is true but it is only hafa truth. In
addition to trying to please the people and make
your paper In reality business institution, there is
the party you happen to belong to to contend with.
1t is getting to be so that independence is treason
for no one except the local newspaper man. He
must fight all republicans, commend all democrats,
bow to the whims of ward heelers or bar room can
ddates, and then get hi because he doesn't dig up
a lot of lies about opponent candidate to please
your own candidate who very often has been or is a
regular adviser of your competitor. The fellows who
vote the ticket when it pleases them, who knock
the local newspaper and who run the party to
which they belong in the same class with those
saints who are always ready to step up and prevent
the people from committing hara kari whenever the
atters interests are at stake. North Vernon Sun.
The Sun has told the truth as it is, unvamished
and uninfluenced by designing politicians. The JAS
PER COURIER will lust add to the foregoing that it
does not believe that the people the party news
paper is under any obligations to vote for or to sup
port any man who is known to be unfit to have the
place he seeks. Grafters should be shown up and
every means used to defeat them. Grafters knowno
party They would sell out their own party if by SO
doing, they could fill their pockets. They
would support the most thieving institution in CON-
munity of the party opposite to the one they repre-
sent, if it meant dollars in their pockets And they
are the first fellows to howl if line is printed that
seems to point toward them.
If the newspapers do not inform the people a.
bout these things how are the people to be informed
upon the subject? The average citizen knows very
little about the public business is conducted, and
it may be good thing he does not know for other
wise there would be revolution or cleaning out Of
the Offices at every opportunity.
There are so many ways to work graft and it
seems to be very fascinating to otherwise real
good men. Some times stock will be issued to a
county officer in order to give him reason for push
ing large volumes of business to the institution ssu
ing the same and then other cheay Devices plans and
schemes are worked. The Sun seems to believe that
the newspaper should be in degree independents of
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-08-11
Big Red Tomato Comes TO Aid OF
Housewives.

Despite Tales Of Destruction, Crop Outlook Is Good
and Gives Promise Of Bostcring Up Entire Canned
Goods Market
Gamers and wholesale grocers have new conun-
drum: why is q tomato like cat?' You probab-
y think it has something to do with catsup. Wrong
1t lS because the tomato has nine lives. Dealers say
that the drought and pessimisc dopesers have kill
ed about tx of these lives but that with good wealth
cr ater, the remaining three will )bably flourish
and wax hearty
largely upon the tomato, as the output will deter
mine the demand made upon other vegetables.
With the tomato crop failure, corn would have to
bear the entire burden OF supplying the canned
goods demand With fair crop prices should hold
steldy, if packers will hold off buying futures Barr
ing frost, the tomato crop should be large.
An unusual condition Exists in the canned goods
market this year Usually dealer has a surplus on
his shelves which he carries over for the next year
The quality is as good and by Wiping the dust off
the labels he sells the old stock readily as he does
the new pack But this yesr all dealers will start
out with clean shelves, as last years stock was
cleaned up.
The pea pack all over the country this year was
not exceed 800 600 cases. where it should be twice
that amount. The 1O-cent can of peas will be prac
caly done away with, good stuff selling for 10 and
20 cents
Corn will remain in the To- cent class On account
of the shortage of peas many people will turn to
that vegetable instea1. With fair tomato crop to
relieve part of the demand for corn there will be
plenty to 90 around
Dealers say that in their quest for lower priced
foodstufs people have entirely overlooked one of the
best of them ALL This is rice. The price Of this
staple is cheap as it has been in the last ten
years. Three or four pounds may be bought for %
cents enough to supply a family for week. The
trouble with most people is that they do not know
haw to prepare rice. Insteaa of wide range of
combinations their knowedgeis is limited to the SIM
pie pudding or boiled rice.
Next week the first of the new rice crop will reach
the local market. 1t is known as the Honduras var
iety and is grown in Louisiana and Arkansas. For
merly large amount of rice was imported from the
far east, but now the Japan article is grown with
complete success in the southern states
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-08-11
Cooperative Tests Of Varieties Of Winter
Wheat For Indiana Farmers

The Purdue University Agri-
cultural Experiment Station is
prepared to furnish to a limited
number of interested farmers in
Indiana. ten pounds of each of
four or five leading varieties of
winter wheat to test on their
own farms this season.
The quantity of seed of each
variety sent is sufficient to SOW a
tenth acre and will be furnished
without cost on condition that an
honest effort be made to conduct
the test according to instructions
and report the results at the end
TO the season.
Past experience shows clearly
that these local tests may be of
great value, as through them,
many farmers are made acquaint-
ed with varieties which better
suits their conditions, than those
now in use.
Those applying first will be
given first con sideration, fair
distribution of course considered.
Address, Soils and Crops De-
partment, Agricultural Expert
ment Station, Lafayette, Ind.