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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
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Mr.. T. r. Sawyers was in Farming
ton Tuesday on business
Mrs. j. l.. Johnson and Mrs. Bertha
Johnson, Mr.. Charley Grow and sister
OF Des Moines, spent Wednesday with
Mrs. E. J. Watts.
Mrs. Glen Cox and little daughter
left Tuesday for d visit with relatives
In Chicago.
Miss Mary McOmber is the guest of
Miss Lula Fox in Alexandria this
week.
Miss Blanch McOmber entertained
n few of her friends Wednesday even
ing in honor OF her sixteenth birth
DAY Light refreshments were serv.
ed.
Miss Grace Hassior OF Harrington
spent Wednesday evening with Miss
B;anch McOmber
Mrs. Jane Camp has returned home,
after spending TIE winter with her
son, Jesse Camp
Miss Audrey Batten left Monday sor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Bank exchanges continue to make
a satisfactory comparison with both
preceding years. The total last week
at all leading cities in the United
States amounted to $3.50, 65S, SOS, an
increase of 17.3 per cent over the
same week las. year and of so per
cent over the corresponding week in
1910. Stock market operations were
on a considerably reduced scale, bat
nevertheless. New York City reports
gain over last year of 20.G per cent
and over two years ago of so pei
cent, which undoubtedly indicates
that business in ordinary commercial
channels continues to make satisfac
tory progress. The exhibit by cities
outside the leading center is also very
.asofanle, the total showing an in
Ease OF lis per cent and of 1910
pei cent, respectively, over the two
u a y, years, while the large gains
number of the more important
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

ly how it was the nations duty to
take care of the remnant. less than
20 per cent of the men who had say.
ed the union. and who were now old,
broken in health, suffering from dis
ease and crippled in body The stand
ard that would satisfy the Judgment
and conscience of the members OF
congress was such provision that will
prevent, as far as possible. that he
role remnant from being subjected to
charity and suffering and deprivation
of the ordinary comforts of life in
their old days. More than this |,
not contemplated, and less than this
is not Justice
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Ieers in the volumes that have been
written about the Titanic disaster.
Just those three words, but volumes
could not say more. No fame for
them--no picture in the papers, no
eloquent record of splendid act to
go down the ages. It was theirs 10
die. and have three words said about
it. But those three words are poem
ii one thinks moment. The enSi-
neers are not explaining anything
They are net filled with discomfort
and uneasiness. They are at rest
They will be honored forever. They
are all dead.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
CHAIRMAN THOMAS, ADDRESS.

CHAIRMAN THOMAS ADDRESS.
The address of Temporary Chair
man Thomas before the Republican
Estate convention at Cedar Rapids last
Wednesday was in the main an at.
tempt to pacify both factions then and
there striving for the mastery.
Some of the points he made were as
| follows:
The Republican party is for him
who believes in the principle of pro.
lection. for him who is willing to en-.
list in the fight for human rights.
He who cannot honestly abide by
the majority decision marks himself
unfit to belong to the party of prog
ress.
Four years ago the Republican
rarity chose as its standard bearer
the present President, William H.
Taft, and during this period it has
not failed to follow the forward trend.
He who deserts the principle of
protection deserts the party, and he
who deserts the party deserts the
principle of protection.
The continued agitation concerning
tariff revision is Injurious and pernic-
ious to all business.
The solution of the trust questions
is through government control and
regulation.
A leader who quarrels with the
friends of a measure and entrusts its
passage to its enemies. blindly con-
signs that measure to its grave and
brings meritorious suspicion upon
himself.
The Republican principles are
greater than any one man or set OF
men, Or clique of men. and the leader
who isschosen at Chicago is Your
leader and mine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
cRIMlNALTY AS a DISEASE.

Prof. Jesse H. Holmes of Swarth
more College has started movement
among the Friends Society to sc
change the criminal code and practice
that Imprisonment will be based OF
the assumption that the criminal is
the victim of moral disease and thai
in most cases it is capable of cure
under right treatment and with ade
quate incentives.
Hence he would have the period OF
confinement made wholly indetermin
ate with the idea of setting the pris
oner free whenever in the Judgment
of experts he has proved his worth
and his aspiration to do right, whether
that period be month or term OF
years. Every one of us is a potential
criminal says DR.. Holmes, only
hedged by the safeguards of hered-
ity and environment and with habit,
of self-control.
And he asks, speaking of the crimi-
nal in prison: rs it the safest plan
to turn him loose because his speci-
fled time is up, or when he is pro-
nounced safe,' when the criminolo-
gists all say that under existing con-
ditions in our prisons most of the in
mates come out more confirmed in
bad ways than when they entered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

called to extinguish a blaze. Eliza.
beth Doyle. IA. who lives with her
father in the room below that of Mus.
SO told the police she had heard two
shots fired in his room, and saw a
man running from the place about
two a. m. Musso and his wife quar-.
relied last Sunday SO violently that
the police were called to stop them,
and theory today is that some friend
or relative OF the wife sought ven.
geance by shooting Musso and at.
tempted 70 hide the crime by firing
the house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
To the Editor Of The Gate city:

A half century has passed since the
i tragic battle Of Shiloh, and critics
continue to dispute over the manage
ment of the conflict. In 1862 there
will be in existence scores of fault
findings concerning the Titanic dis
aster in that Hateful April night in
1912.
The winter of 1911-1912 began with
serious storm with rain, sleet and
snow, and change of sixty-five de
grees In a few hours, Saturday after.
noon, November 8. There came a
/ great population of Eskimos and polar
bears to Iowa and north Missouri and
The arctic circle moved southwark and
rested between forty-one and forty de
grees for a space of six months.
/ In Clark county the winter wheat
comes out in an exceedingly thin bat
| tie line, a kind of skirmish. force
(which could scarcely repel visit OF
Sherman's boomers or Hoods forag-
ers
VIII Sage presents to me a copy OF
1.-THE Electric Power Bulletin No. Five,
and this is very handsome and In
structive publication which presents
in good plain language ample descrip-
ton OF the mechanical completeness of
the great power enterprise. The pub
LEGATION in general is an honor to the
management and great ADVERTISE
ment and credit to the city of Keo-
kuk. Lee, Clark and Hancock coun-
ties are near neighbors to each other,
and neighbor is best defined by the
parable of the Good Samaritan.
DR.. George F. Jenkins states to the
writer that he is inclined to favor the
y. S, authorities in the great enter
prise of building levees all along the
Mississippi on both sides from st.
Paul to the Gulf of Mexico. Very well
said. And this is reasonable and a
reform which is quite appropriate and
progressive. During the passing OF
scores of years permanent settlement
of the vast flood plains of the great
river has been hindered and delayed
by the periodic invasion of floods
which have caused immense losses
to property and weakened confidence
in all the overhowed territories. Quite
surely the building of the Panama
canal will arouse interest in placing
the Mississippi in good condition for
navigation, and this will be accompan-
led by higher and heavier levees. All
the Mississippi frontage of Clark coun-
ty, extending from the delta Of the Des
Moines southwark to the Lewis coun-
ty line and thence to Canton,
should have good levee built and
maintained by federal control. A levee
and drainage system which is built
and maintained by local authority
and support usually assumes the form
of dissensions and heavy taxation
Then, again, a local levee or canal
system is too expensive for the few
who are benefited by the protection
The Mississippi is national ele-
ment, and its flood plains are parts of
the immense avenue of water.
The motto for the farming classes
should be vigorous campaign day
and night for bounteous crops of corn
potatoes. onions and other delicacies
and dainties.
The few tin1id peach flowers which
arrived through their voyage of six
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
Jasper Blincs' Observations

/ months OF winter should have their
portraits placed in the Hall OF Fame.
| After Scion had revised the laws OF
Greece he went into other Kingdoms
and visited some of his friends. On
Saturday and Sunday visited some OF
my friends in q district and q city
which is named in honor Of q great
chief of the Sac Indians. And Il have
thought that it was happy idea and
a just tribute to historic character that
the title was SO well chosen. Friends
E. F. Tibbs and merchant Garrett
kindly entertained me for the time,
and on early Sunday morning visited
the crystal palace of Will Sage, who
welcomed the writer and gave him per-
mission to explore all the cofferdam
district and take as many specimens
of the great Burlington limestone and
the Keokuk formations as cared for.
Having in view companion for the
scientific excursion, went out to the
hospitable home of that veteran news
paper writer and editor, Richard B, B.
Wood. For some years / have been
aware that Richard is relative of
that generous character, Great Heart,
in Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. In
our walk eastward, we met Observer
Gosewisch who entertained us for
some moments. including an invitation
to visit him at his home. Sometimes by
way OF pleasant recollections Of Mr..
Gosewisch respectfully refer to the late
summer day after three months of
floods on our valley, when the Keokuk
observer placed me on the Witness
stand and asked me to tell all about
the floods and their damages and loss
es to our district The area where the
water is excluded is large territory.
Years ago when coming down the river
on the great Steamer Andy Johnston
the wheels of the steamer would oc-
casionally strike the rock bottom
mile or SO above the bridge. We could
feel a grinding sensation or tremor OF
the powerful river ship as it slowly APP
preached the city district, and a great !
uneasiness prevailed among the many
hundreds Of passengers. The Andy |
PooScu tuiou6H Tie uTdW span IN
drifting fashion, somewhat at an angle, I
and for some moments the steamer
and its precious cargo seemed in great
peril
Here on some of that historic terri
tory over which the Andy Johnston
leisurely floated that summer day,
Richard Wood and the writer walked |
on the rock bed of the great stream
whose waters for centuries and cen
turtles had SO slowly worn down the
floor of the massive limestone.
On that summer day, with the multi |
tude upon the fine river ship, little |
knew that at some future time | would |
visit this district and make explora-
tons and studies of the rock forma-
ton thirty feet below the current
where the unnamed river pursued It's
journey to the Gulf, during the pass
ing of the ages unrecorded AS an af- |
fair of fine generosity, Editor Wood ac-
comranied the writer in mutual walk
all the way from his home in north !
Keokuk, down the line OF the pioneer
Des Moines Valley railroad and across
the bridge at Buena Vista and a mile !.
south on Missouri land
JASPER BLINEs.
Seven Pines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

A few delegates to the Cedar Ran.
Ids convention were instructed for
Roosevelt. The former President re
ceived no votes in the Cedar Rapids
convention. The Sioux City Journal
well says of the situation thus pre-
sented:
1T is explained that they were re-
leased by the colonel But they were
not instructed from that source. They
were instructed at home The assump
ton that they could be released b.
Roosevelt involves denial of the
right of the people to rule.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
BUSINESS is BECOMING BETTER.

BUSINESS 10 6GSOMiNI BE Eh
AS seen by Henry Clews all indica
lions point to more active business
season. He comedies that values, par
ticularly of merchandise, are high, and
situation; but he declares that the
Whole world, is adjusting itself some
what painfully to the new high Level
of prices. The most vital feature OF
the situation is the crop outlook, The
| damage to winter wheat was an ur
welcome but not serious occurrence, as
Mr.. Clews thus points. out:
There is ample time to replant with
other crops. and grain that was only
partially injured has a good chance
for recovery. Of course. big wheat
crop would be highly beneficial the
world over as an important aid to
lowering the cost of food This coun-
try. however, is more interested in
corn than in any other crop. The out
look in this respect is encouraging for
larger acreage, and soil conditions,
1t is worth remembering, are in many
respects ideal. The season, however,
is late, and it is altogether too early
to form any positive opinions about
crops. The planting of cotton has been
much delayed, so that it is premature
to believe that there will be any inn
portant decrease in acreage. Consid-
ering that cotton Yielded handsome
profits to the south last year in spite
of lower prices, it is hardly to be sup
posed that there will be any import
ant shrinkage in acreage. Every grow
er would like to see a cut of 10 to 30
per cent, but as usual each one will
expect his neighbor to curtail so
that he may plant little more. AZ
ter all has been said. temperature and
rainfall are more important elements
in the final yield than any ordinary
fluctuations in acreage"
Monetary conditions are generally
favorable, loanable funds being abund.
ant and cheap. The industrial situa-
ton is promising. The coal strike has
been practically settled without any
serious disturbance. There is reason
to hope that the engineers strike vii.
also yield to reason and sober seconG-
thought. All things considered, there
is basis for taking a cheerful view of
the situation in the long run.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Editor Payne of the Nevada Repre-.
sentative got off rather cute thing
the other day in speaking of Senator
kenyon's attitude and activities in the
pre-conyention campaign Just ended
in this state. The Junior senator's
position appears to be- said Payne,
that he supports Cummins without as
sisting him, and eulogizes Taft with.
out supporting him F"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
Mexican EIopement.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. j
MEXICO CITY, April So.-Diplo.
matte circles in Mexico City were
stirred when 1t WAS learned that Mrs.
Eugenio Motz, wife of the Chilean
consul general, had eloped to Europe
with wealthy Mexican 1t is under.
stood Motz will make no effort to
intercept the fleeing couple.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
Murdered and Burned,

limited Press Leased Wire Service j
CHICAGO. April 30. Firemen early
today discovered the body OF Peter
Musso, 49, with two bullet wounds,
either of which. it was said, would
have proved fatal, when they were
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
"EnoIneers All Dead,

New York Mail: There is enc
laconic sentence In the official report
of the white Star people to the Of
fee Of the company in England: En-
gineers all dead" That is about all
that has been said about the engi.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

The real author of the houn' dawg
song has been found at last. Senator
knute Nelson doesn't remember his
name or business address, but is Ger.
tain that the masterpiece of the
ozarks is an ancient Viking ballad
written at least 1900 years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Rumor hath it, and the same is
given currency in the Omaha Bee,
that Colonel BRYAN has set Brother
Charley to work on new steam roll
er. one with long, sharp teeth in the
cylinder.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

manufacturing and Industrial points
endorse the reports of expanding
business that have been received
from many different sources.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Speaking of Kipling's Forty North
and Fifty West" the exact spot where
the Titanic went down was ALAG
north and sofa west.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

It has been well said that the only
bright spots on ocean disasters are
the heroes they produce,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

tailor has discovered that auto
MODELLING enlarges the chest. What
about the effect on the head?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

It oughtn't to be difficult for spring,
when it finally arrives. to live up to
the samples it has sent in advance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Fit floats to the breeze; to SO guide thu
affairs and intercourse of our nation
that each one of us may be proud at
all times to say: I am an American =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

The 'phossy jaw is connected with
the match industry. The fussy jaw is
political disease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30
THOUGHT FOB The DAY.

1t is not as important to put men
into heaven as it is to put heaven
into men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

Use The Daily Gate City Want
for results.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-30

keokuk, Iowa 1890. April 80, 1912
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Murder Suspect Jumps Bail.

Poison, Mont.-William Nawham'
who was recently arrested for the
murder of his brother at Big Fork
and who was under 100000 bail fur
nished by relatives, has jumped his
bail and taken to the woods with a
1920 Winchester. The state authori
ties have offered a reward of $500 for
him. 1t is rumored that he is in hid
ing in the timber between Poison and
Big Arm. Officers are on the lookout
for him. 1t is believed that NEWMAN
is insane.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Learn Loyalty.

Loyalty does not imply unqualified en-
dorsement. You may be loyal to your
church or commonwealth, to your bust
ness, association, or your political party
without endorsing all it's tenets or the
acts of it's members, but you cannot
publicly condemn and be loyal, says
National Hay and Grain Reporter.
Let us learn the lesson of loyalty.
Man is a creature of ingratitude-to me
an "unpardonable SIM Ingratitude is
an attribute of disloyalty.
Render loyal allegiance to those insti-
buttons with which you are affiliated,
whether they be domestic, civic, re-
ligious or commercial.
Most institutions of a public nature
harbor the hector. The Merchants Elk
change of st. Louis, Missouri, had one
the Board of Trade of the city OF
Chicago has one-plus.
If the association to which you be-
long is not worthy of your moral sup
port, and does not measure up to your
standard of ethics, then, according to
the laws of the decalogue and common
sense, endeavor to bring about those
reforms within your institution, or else
sever your connection with it.
Be good or begonel
All growth is from within, from the
minutest microscopic ~animacule, giant
oak of the forest, leviathan of the sea
to the wayside daisy.
It's a primary law of nature that
whatsoever grows must develop from the
inside, outward, and we learn from ma
ture that if you desire to reform those
institutions of which you are a member
you must do SO among the membership
and not by carrying your message Of
reform to the laity and the disinterest
ed, in a superficial and sensational way
Members of the grain exchanges o:
the United States, and the grain asso
Citations within, the states, and the ma
tional for all the states, should eithe,
get right or get out-then, having es
capped the bonds of membership allegi
ance, you may blatantly below like un
to Bashan's quadruped.
This editor has only words Of sin
cerest commentator for the director,
of the Merchants Exchange OF st
Louis, which suspended one of it's mem
bers because he lacked judgment enougl
to take his troubles to the Directory, in
stead of the press, when they were pure
ly of a local nature and, in our opinion
imaginary.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
DROPS DEAD DANCING JIG.
Aged SpirituaIist Hay Prayed for End
to Come.

Los Angeles, Cal.-While dancing a
jig at a dance given by the White
Dove class of the Bible Spiritual
Church of Truth in Mammoth hall here
Sunday night A. M. Smith, a spiritual
list, 70 years old, who for the last
three months had been praying to die,
dropped dead.
Immediately following his death and
while the others present were waiting
for the coroner to arrive there was an
unusual scene, in which Mrs. M. E.
Kratz, a public speaker, delivered a
b~enediction and declared that Mr.,
Smith was entering upon a new and
better life. A number of spirit medi'
ums who were present were said to
have asserted that they saw his spirit
separated from his body.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
JOHN LUNDQUIST KILLED and
S. JARDLY WAS FATALLY
WOUNDED.
John Louma, Rancher, Macs Attack
With Rifle on Men When They Come
From Socialist Meeting-Had Just
Returned from AIaska-Has Always
Borne Good Reputation.

Enaville, Idaho.-John Lundquist, a
miner, aged 48, is dead and his son-in-
law, Sylvester Jardey, aged %, is in
the hospital with a bullet In his
shoulder, both having been shot by
John Louma, a rancher, aged so, short
ly before 6 o'clock Sunday evening.
Louma is ~barricaded in his cabin in
the hills, about two miles northeast
of town, and two posses, consisting
Of six men each, are considering how
best to effect his capture. Sheriff
Michael Maher heads one posse and
Deputy Sheriff Charles Lefevre the
other. Louma has a rifle and is well
provided with ammunition.
Lundquist and Jardey were shot
| shortly after they had come out of a
socialist meeting. AS they came out
accompanied by Ben Jardey, a brother
of Sylvester Jardey, Louma was stand
ing on the sidewalk with a rifle in his
hand.
"Ill get all of you fellows if 1 have
to kill so Of you," Louma is declared
to have said, adding "and I've got the
drop on you now" With that he is
said to have fired at LundQuist, killing
him instantly. He next shot at Syl
vester Jardey, knocking him down
Three shots were next aimed at Ber
Jardey, none taking effect.
Lundquist returned from Alaska
only a week ago. Mrs. Louma report
ed to the officers that her husband
was barricaded in the cabin. Loum;
has always borne a good reputation
heretofore. He is the father of fou.
children.