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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
SEVENTY YEApe AGO

Seventy years ago Iowa was a
frontier country with only narrow
strip of settlement along the eastern
border Fierce and warlike tribes of
Indians dwelt to the north and west.
and SO companies Of dragons were
stationed at various points to patrol
the Indian country and prevent out
breaks In the April number of "The
Iowa Journal of History and Politics
published by the State Historical So
ciety of Iowa, there is a report of the
expedition of company of dragons
under Captain Sumner into what ia
now Minnesota in 1S45.
The United States government
wanted to preserve order on the from.
tier, to prevent clashes between rcd
men and whites, and to nunisb tho a
tribes which made incursions into tha
lawful settlements of American Mon, H..
GERS says Mr. Jacob Van dor 10
in an Introduction to the report !,
this EXPEDITION In the Territory .,
Iowa, fol- instance, Fort Atkinson
I
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
INSUFFICIENT POSTAGE ON FOR.
EIGN ETTERS

Postmaster General I,arleson has
directed the postmastefs throughout
the United States to canton the pa
irons OF their offices of the penalty
imposed when sufficient hostage is
mot affixed to letters mated for deliv-
cry in foreign countries. When post.
age attached is insufficient, letters
are delivered to the address only on
the payment of a charge equal to
double the amount of the deficient,
postage.
The postoffice department has been
advised of many letters mailed in the
United States addressed for delivery
in France and other foreign countries,
which are subject to the postal union
rates, with only cents postage pre-
paid. These letters were evidently
mailed by people who were under the
was applicable.
The only countries to which the 2
cent rate applies are Canada, Cuba
Mexico, the republic of Panama. New.
foundland, the Canal Zone, Germany
0by direct steamer, England, Scot
land, Wales and ireland, and the city
Iof Shanghai, China. To all other coun-
tries the rate is 5 cents for the first
ounce. which must be fully prepaid
or the letters become liable to the de-
fieient postage charges.
For instance, single rate letter
prepaid oniy 2 cents would be snort
paid cents, and consequently sub
ject on delivery to an additional post
age charge of 6 cents.
! As charges for postage due on short
paid letters cause much complaint,
postmasters are directed to do every
thing possible to educate the public to
4 the foreign rates of postage
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

lungs have either remained the same
or become worse.
Only one case was mentioned yes
terday in which the lungs had I'M
proved and that was case in the in
cipient stage. Other patients in the
same wards with the Friedman pa
tients have done just as we'll If rot
better than those treated by Dr.
friedman. The lungs and kidney
cases treated have remained the
same.
It was also said that at the Mount
sinai hospital the patients have not
made progress aud that the disease is
running it's own course. This has
made the head doctors OF the hospital
anxious to make public statement.
The same is understood to apply TO
the Monteflore home, where DR.. Friei-
mann also treated a great number Of
tubercular sick Though it is too early
to expect cures, disappointment Is ex-
pressed over the failure of the treaf
ment as yet to arrest the disease.
The Hospital for DeforInities, where
DR.. Friedman gave injections in
many surgical cases of tuberculosis,
is the only place where good is said
of the treatment. And even here
things are not what they were ex-
pected to be, it is said. for the initial
improvements have been affected by
failure of the patients, mostly chill
dren, to take proper care Of them
selves after they left the hospital
Because of this information, which
has been circulating among the rpedl
cal men interested, there is now a
strong feeling that some definite
stand should be taken by them before
the various Friedman Institutes are
opened to the public. Men of high
standing, who refused to have their
names used yet. said yesterday that
the public should be protected.
The information was obtained yes.
terday from the head Of one OF the 10.
cal hospitals that a patient who came
here from Michigan with her doctor
for the friedman treatment was told
by some one who represented the
doctor that the injection could be ar
ranged for If $4,000 In cash were paid
over In advance. That caused the
physician in the case to make investi
cations about the various hospitals
with the result that he advised
against the treatment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Agent to Visit Shoe Faetor,A.

WASHINGTON, May 1s.secretarv
OF Commerce William c. Redf,eld
stated today that Arthur b. Butman
a commercial agent OF the depart.
ment. who has Just returned to the
United States after two years snen,
in observation and investigation Of
the shoe and leather industries IN
most of the countries or Eurone i.
to be sent on tour OF the principa,
shoe and leather manufacturing cen.
ters of the country for the purpose ~
furnishing firsthand information d
regard to the conduct Of the indus.
tries in the countries which he visitad
In addition to the manufacturing
cities OF New England, his itinerary
VIII include New York, Philadelph,a
Chicago, and st. Louis. A number 4,
reports by Mr.. Butman regarding TIA
shoe and leather trade in Europe have
been published and distributed ~ ,he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

MMscMarlin and brought. to Kalloka on
the charge of stealing chickens. His
preliminary hearing will be held be.
fore Squire Seymour May 10.
]. T. Mckee, OF this city, celebrated
his seyenty-second birthday on last
Saturday. a number OF friends and
relatives we're invited In to partake
of a fine dinner in honor OF the oc-
casion.
Mrs. Laura McNally, OF Keokuk, was
la Kahoka visitor Tuesday
]. T. Townsend and S. w. Jester
returned Saturday from a trip to Mon
tana. They were well pleased with
the country.
Re Bridges & Bridges have installed a
fine soda fountain at their drug store.
Members of the d. "A. r. met Mon
day at the home Of Mrs. J. M. Dawson.
They were addressed by Mrs. Geo.
Mcfarland, the state regent. Re.
lfreshments were served
William Casey died at his home in
Kahoka, Sunday, May II. aged eighty
seven years, eight months and clever.
days, Interment In Kahoka cemetery
Tuesday Deceased 10 survived by
lseven children.
Another fine rain fell IN this local.
| ity Tuesday.
Miss May Rench returned Monday
to her home in South Dakota. She
was accompanied by her friend, Miss
Lola Miller.
Miss Kate barnes IL the guest OF
her parents at Barring. Nut Rausch-
Ter Is doing time" at the postofice.
DR.. J. R. Bridges has received his
new Mitchell car.
bunch Of Kahoka eagles Will be
on hand at the annual banquet Of the
Keokuk Eagles Thursday night.
The Homesteaders will probably
organize the first of the week Mr.
Rothchild, the organizer, was called
to Kirkville. to witness the gradua.
ton of daughter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Good Advice

Cedar Rapids Gazette: If one-tenth
of the advice which is being circulate
ed through the medium of the press,
is followed. this will be near-fyless
summer. The advice ought to be fol-
lowed. If breeding places OF the fly
are not allowed to exist there WIFI.
be few flies. Flies do not breed any,
where but in filth. If filth is not toler-
ated there will be no flies.
A proper attention to the rules ana
advice offered by civic authorities, wo.
mans clubs and varions organizations
interested In cleanliness. will decrease
the fly output and likewise lessen the
number of cases Of Illness. The NY Is
disseminatof Of disease
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
70 condemn friedman cure.

New York sun. The Friedman pa
itients in New York are not doing
well, in fact some of them are doing
Very i'll. This fact, combined with the
knowledge of the nature of the sale OF
L his treatment that DIR. friedman rs
Gently accomplished, has made all the
medical men connected with the Fried
mann tests here anxious not only for
their own patients but also for the
welfare OF the pHblic in general.
Before the week is out 1t is prob
able that three, and perhaps four, pub
tic statements will be made from pub
lie institutions, none of which will be
favorable TO Dr. friedman or his
treatment
The men who head several of the
hospitals where Dr.. Friedmann has
made his tests for the government
have felt for some time that the pup
lie ought to see the matter in new
light as one man put it yesterday
But they have hesitated to make pub
lie the actual results so far as seen
of the Friedman treatment in order
that the government doctors mere
might not be embarrassed. They DID
not wish to make 1t impossible for DR..
friedman to return to the various
HOSPITALS to complete the treatments
which he started.
Information has been placed in the
hands OF the health department tell
ing OF the poor showing which the
friedman patients, all OF whom
have been watched for the depart.
ment, have made. The statements
made are strong. One of them Is sup
posed to be that some Of the cases
treated would have been better off II
they had not had the Friedman in
lection, that the presence of the cul
ture in their systems seems to have
given tuberculosis bacilli chance te
work In places which they might moi
otherwise have attacked.
AS the result OF this information i
is only matter OF a little time before
the board OF health viii make pubic
it's first report on the friedman
case. 1t is understood that it will 81
into minute details, giving the histor,
and progress of each case The rea
son for making anything public before
the government makes its report was
said yesterday to be for the protec
ton of the public"
The heads OF Bellevue hospital have
been wanting for some days to reporf
the progress of the disease with tbs
Friedman patients there. They hays
held off because the time has seemed
short in which TO expect improve
rnent in the pulmonary cases. But !
was learned yesterday from the bes
of sources that the Friedman pun
monary patients there have not onl.
failed to show vital improvement
but that with many Of them the dis
ease is having its course uninterrupt
! ed.
1 At Bellevue many Of the pH!monar,
, sufferers treated by Or. friedman
I first showed gains, such as increase
weight. but they have since faiIe
back. The actual conditions Of tn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

was established in 1910 in the Neutral
Ground then set apart for the Win
nebagoes, who thereby became a sort
OF buffer nation between the Sioux
on the north and the Sacs and Foxes
to the. south. The trooIs kept all
these Indians within proper bounds
and did not a little to thwart the in
PRODUCTION of their worst enemy, lia-
uor in all Its forms. Fort Des Moines,
also, arose in 1913 to serve much the
same purposes"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
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Arch Caskey, a former resident of
Kahcka. now located near Lincoln, ILL.,,
is greeting old acquaintance here.
He is the same jovial fellow, and
usually spry for his age.
Some $50 was taken in at the play,
Pas Picnic presented at the opera
house for the benefit OF the public
library Those in attendance enjoyed
a fine program "a
B. ]. Kirch and VIM. Townsend
have purchased and taken possession
of the Dubois barber shop located
under the Clark County Savings bank.
The new proprietors need no introduc-
tion to the people of Kahoka, having
been connected with shops in the city
before. They enjoy a wide acquaint-
ance, and will command their share or
the patronage.
The Kahoka public schools Will
close on Friday. May %. The com
mencement exercises will be held at
the opera house. Mr.. Manley j. Mum
ford. Of Chicago. will deliver the ad-
dress. The baccalaureate aermon will
be delivered at the Baptist church
Sunday, May IS, by Rev. w. F. Laid.
ley at II o'clock.
The district w. G. T. U. conven-
tion will be. held at Wyaconda, June 5
and 6.
Miss Mary Nichols, of Keokuk, is
the guest of her friend, Miss Maud
Sherwood
Decoration Day will be appropriate
Nv observed in Kahoka this year. The
memorial sermon and other services
will be held at the Christian church on
Sunday, May o. The sermon will
be by Rev. Morgan Harris. The pro-
gram for Decoration Day, May 80, will
be similar to those held In former
years The program will begin at
$3.50 a. m.
Charles Klasing, of Alexandra, was
arrested Sunday by Constable VIM.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
GszsS 5 nj 5sgssjD
>REdYTg1k
THE COMMON ROAD.

THE COMMON ROAD.
And now for reaches of open road,
With sun and flowers and fragrance
abroad,
With sun and breeze, and birds in the
leaves,
And the year on the turn in yellow
sheaves.
Abroad not SO new it troubles the
mind,
Nor SO stored. memories limp be,
hind,
Where hoof and foot and tire unite
One large inseperate tale to write.
Each N5ird has voice and different
air;
Is it thrush or yellow throat? What
do I care!
The tree tell tales, and the hill
str cams shout;
do not. trouble to make them out.
L do not strain after clews that fail,
do not ca mp on the edges of the tale,
Nor teach my feet to falter and stray,
But hold to- the immemorial way.
hear but one great voice abroad,
Singing thessong of the common road,
8 When the seasons traffic burdens the
air
And the sun spreads blessings every,
where.
And its: Ever to keep on an even
way.
Never to hasten, never to stay,
Nor vainlF linger. nor backward
yearn
Onward and sunwari, and never turn.
Attuned to the one,great voice abroac,
Needing the call OF the common road
When the season s traffic burdens the
air
And the sun spreads blessings every.
where.
Martin schuetze in The Forum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Rot Open TO Debate

Des Moines Tribune: The Citizen is
making a hard fight for the commits
sion plan for Iowa city.
There should be no question what
ever over the outcome. The commits.
sion plan is Just as much ahead OF
the old plan as the university OF to-
day is ahead Of the university Of
thirty years ago.
In Mason City the vote was six 70
one. The vote in Iowa City should be
equally decisive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Bankers Try to Help.

"a meeting of the bankers was
held recently. Some of them agreed
to help out. Promises of something
like 10000 900 poems we're made. This
is but drop. None of it will go out
side to boost the national credit. /
bought exchange on Chicago today. il
cost me 23o. making a peso but 4S1k
cents. These pesos are worth 47A
cents as silver metal worth it In
any market means. The bankers
themselves can offer no explanation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Treason In the camp, bgoshl Mrs.
Frank A. Pattison of Jersey City, n.
~, at social science meeting the
other day remarked that II women
would give more attention to the
building of the household and spend
less time playing bridge, ATTENDING
club meetings and going to matinees
the cost of living would not be so
high. What do you know about that?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

r ] Haskins of North Adams has
collection OF handmade nails that
We're taken from the old Richardson
mouse The nails are all made OF
steel and are practically as good as
When firstsdriven into the wood They
are crude in shape and size and many
2, tnem have heads on but one side
q me SHAFT The nails have been
IN the building for $40 years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

When mother fixes up Is cents
worth OF wind pudding as dessert
for a sick neighbor, father always
talks about charity beginning at home
and goes down to the corner saloon to
spend So designating about the way
women run up expenses Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

To solve the high cost OF living Mrs.
John S. Flannery. president of the
Marketing club Of Pittsburgh, pro
poses to raise her own chickens and
vegetables on a tract of town lots
valued at 100000 Isn't that going
some?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Mrs. O. II. P, Belmont, the Ameri-
can suffragist who is getting point
ers on militancy in London. expects
to pull off a warm campaign on her
return to New York. Having millions
at her command Mrs Belmont can
start something any old time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Thirty granite markers will be
placed along the Santa Fe trail in
Missouri, the main exercises to be
held at Old Franklin on May II. The
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton will go over the trail and will
arrive at Old Franklin in time for the
main dedication.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Mrs. Anna Powless OF Alma, Calf.
will have the unique distinction of be.
ing graduated from the University of
Colorado on the twenty-ffth anniver-
sary of her marriage to w. H. Pow
less, a civil engineer Of Alma. She
started her college career at the age
of 40.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Reuben Winters man who was a
witness in court in Norristown, Pa,
fifty-three years ago, came to collect
his witness fee last week. He told
the clerk of court that he had left the
town right after the trial, and that it
was his first opportunity to return
and make claim.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Miss Elsa Scheel of Cornell was de-
signated the perfect woman and in
consequence has been so much an
noyed that she has to leave the town
of Scoville, L. 1 Z. where the newspa-
per constantly referred to the fact
that hers are the most perfect
physical proportions possessed by a
woman of today"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, physician
and author. has gone to Europe for
the summer. After spending several
weeks in Italy he expects to visit
Switzerland. Paris and London, re-.
turning to this country some time in
October.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

According to the 1910 census of the
United States there are 327,635 wo.
men teachers and professors; 77o.os5
women clerks, accountants and stem
osrapbers; 1.037 women architects.
and 427,497 women in the professions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Just to secure little exercise on
the side Philadelphians propose a
curbstone census to decide whether
Judge" is more popular title than
Mr."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Boston continues to show the inln-
ence Of progressive innovations. The
steeple of the Old South Meeting
house is to be repainted for the sec.
ond time In 1T2 years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

A firm OF milk dealers operating a
creamery at shanertown, N Y, filed
a petition in bankruptcy, being un-
able to pay a fine of s17.241 imposed
by the state for persisting in shipping
to customers unbranded skinned
milk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Mrs. Stephen f. Avres has resigned
as president OF the Woman's Nationa,
Democratic league of which Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson is honorary presi.
dent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Miss A. 2. Cruise, whose initials
suggest the alphabet, is a stenograph.
sr Of Kansas City, whose time Is said
10 be worth $4,000 year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

A princess likes to keep posted on
the new dances. but you can't get her
interested in The dish rag or the car.
pet sweep or the wash tub dip.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Daughter knows her beau Isn't a
common man like her father because
her besu always has clean shave
and doesn't eat onions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
bureau of foreign and domestic com
inerce Of this department.

Harsh physics react, wesken the
bowels. cause chronic constipation,
Doan's Regulets operate easily. tons
the stomach, cure constipation. 25c
Ask your druggist for hern.--Adver
tspe~e-t
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
What's the Answer?

Nothing but hard times and long
chances ahead. Nc one ventures q
guess how long we can hold out.
Everybody is waiting for something.
he doesn't dare say what. Mexico VII
degenerate until it is all poems and
revolutions and brigands and anar-
chy. All who can are leaving, Mexi-
cans and foreigners alike. National
credit it gone. It is desperate out.
look.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

Married men should not quarrel
with their wives. 1t costs too blamed
much to make mp.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16

At that women do not spend any
more time in front OF glasses than
men spend behind them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Government Income Mi.

Prices are climbing. Nothing IS
coming into the country. No duties
are being collected at the custom
houses. Disregard inspired dispatches
to the contrary. Daily the supply or
government cash is lesssning. Yon
cannot pay an army with promises;
nor can you work and feed them on
fresh air. These men have to eat
but how?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Americans Il specIa, Peril.

All Mexico is sore at the United
States. Wealthy Mexicans charge
Americans with backing the rebels.
Poems charge Americans with partial
ity to Huerta. Huerta blames the
United States for his financial straits
he can't borrow without Washing
tons recognition. The French and
Germans blame the United States for
everything When the upheaval comes
the eruption will be volcanic This
time the Americans will not escape.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Business Suspended.

Business is paralyzed. Nothing
doing in any line; no hopes for RELIEF.
God only knows how long we can
hang on. | am sending my wife TO
the states by the next steamer. No
one pretends to pay bills here nov.
Everybody is letting the other fell
low sweat. Rent is the only item we
attend to. so the Mexican landlord
can't throw you out on the street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Criminals for Troops.

Most of the Mexicans are street
corner and parlor patriots. They
awake in. the morning, grab news
paper and inquire: What is the gov.
eminent doing to bring about peace !!
No, one is doing anything himself to
help the government bring peace
about. Not 5000 volunteers can be
found in all Mexico at any price to
fight for the Huerta government. The
army is recruited entirely from Grim
mails and prisoners from the jails
and the penitentiary. If money can
be found to pay the army the troops
will have. to be forced into service.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
MuddIed by coanac.

'Huerta is in hot water. No one
expects him to pull through. He's a
fighter in the field. but in the palace,
with cognac on every side, he's up
against it-and so are we.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
LIVING ON "a VOLCANO

Terse phrases in struggled letter
Just received from Mexico's capital
describe conditions with startling EN-
phasis. The writer is a newspapers
man in close touch with official move
ments.
Dynamite This Time.
The; undercurrent here IS menae.
ing. We are expecting to see this
city the scene OF another breakup In.
side of thirty days. I'm afraid It's
coming. and this time 1t will be hell.
They didn't use dynamite before, but
they viii now. The destruction will
be terrific.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-16
Peon Outbreak Imminent.

THE murder Of Madero stunned the
poems. They looked upon him as
their Messiah and deliverer. Fear
has held them in check. At the first
visible sign of Huerta weakness they
will break out.