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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
NOTICE or INTENTION.

Notice of intention to put In curb
and gutter:
Curb alongside of lots and I, block
So. and
Gutter ESQ feet alongside of lots 6
and Z, block Al. and
Gutter 100 feet alongside of lot /,
block so, also
and IL. block SO, also alongside of lot
az in block 43, and alongside of lot Z
in block A.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the city council of the
city of Keokuk held on the 22nd day
lcf May, 1913. there was introduced
tho resolution hereinafter set forth,
and that by resolution of the city
council duly passed on the said date.
the said resolution hereinafter set
council for passage. at meeting to
be held in the council chamber in said
city at 9 O'Clock a. m. on the twelfth
day of June, 1913, at which time the
owners of property subject to assess
ment for the cost Of the Improvement
contemplated by the said resolution.
may appear before the said council
and make objection to the contemplate
ed Improvement and the passage OF
the said proposed resolution, II any
they have; said resolution being as
follows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
investigating Levees.

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CAIRO. ILL.,, May PA sub-cor.
mittee of the state legislative appropri-
aticn committee headed by D. E..
shanahan and J. NJ. o'Conner, are IL.
Cairo today going over the entlrc
levee system investigating the need
of higher levees here. The commit
tee will report back to the Illinois
assembly next week. There are ff-
teen members of the legislature here
with the committee. The committee
will advise the passage OF the bill.
appropriation of s25o,00o by the state
for building Cairo levees here and
also $4,000 for Mound City levees.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23

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CHAMPAIGN, H.. May 23-Two
year old Tommy Branch, of Bondfille.
went out in the back yard today to
play in the sand pile, unmindful OF
the fact that an eight penny nail,
lodged in his stomach, may cause his
death.
Tommy swallowed the nail while
his playmates looked on in admira-
ton Physicians located the nail with
an Xray, but refused to remove it IN
til the boy shows signs of distress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
Railroad Men Strike.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 23.---
In an all-night meeting of the strik-
ing boiler-makers, machinists, tamil.
men and helpers of the Pere Mar
auette railroad, it was decided to re-
main firm in the demand for an in
crease of ~ cents an hour. Although
about 400 men are out, U. s. Marshal
Whelan expects no trouble. The Pere
Marquette railroad Is in receivers,
hands. Whelan has fifteen deputies
guarding property.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
Potatoes Going Up.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHICAGO, May 23-Potatoes made
another advance OF five cents today
and the market quoted them at so to
IS cents. Diminishing receipts made
it probable, according to local COM
mission houses, that the price would
60 to 81 per bushel early next week.
New potato receipts increased today
and new potatoes were quoted at s1Go
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
Sentenced to sina Sing.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, May 30 Attorney
John n Anhut, convicted of offerin.
a bride of $4,000 to DR.. John Russell,
former superintendent of the Mattea,
wan asylum, for the release OF Harry
X Thaw from that institution. was
today sentenced to serve a term ..
not less than two years nor mors
than four in Sing Sing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23

Johnson, the Trafford school girl. put
the detectives and stare troops at
work on new clue today when she
told of giving cast-off shirt to a
man on last Monday, the day OF the
murder, when he appeared at her
door, representing that he had fallen
down an embankment and injured
himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
Was a Dull Session.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 23.-The
session Of the legislature today was
perfunctory. The house had no quo
rum and the senate made no effort
to hold a session. Two hours were
spent in the lower branch advancing
senate bills on first reading and a,
tending to other routine matters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
May %, 1913, 8 a. m.
Resolution 343.

Be IT resolved. BY the city council
of the city OF Keokuk:
That it is deemed advisable and
necessary to make improvements 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23

For rheumatism you will find moth
ing better than Chamberlain Lini-
ment. Try 1t and see how quickly 1t
gives relief. For sale by Wilkinson &
Co. Pharmacy and ]. F. Kiedaisch &
Son.-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
Report City
Mtra

sS.65@8.T0; pigs, $7.S0@S.4o.
Sheep receipts 500; market steady.
Sheep and mutton, s5.o0@5.75; lambs
$7.00@7.65.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, May 23.-Cattle receipts
2,245; market steady to lower Steers,
ss.00@s.3o; cows and heifers, 1920
1855; stockers and feeders, $740@
7.70; calves. $70o@1o.oe; bulls and
stays, s5.so37.1o.
Hog receipts 7,42l; market steady.
Bulk, ss.25@S.35. Y
Sheep receipts est: market steady
to 15@25c lower. Yearlings, $1,000
7.25; wethers, s6.5o@6.65: lambs,
ss.o0ds.4O: ewes, ssoo@6.a5.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY May 23.--Cattle re-
ceipts 1000; market steady. Steers,
s7.25@S,65; cows and heifers, $4,000
s25; stockers and feeders, $500
$40; calves. ss.5o@1o.0o.
Hog receipts 1000, market 5@10c
lower Bulk. ss.25mS.5o: heavy. ss.o,
@S.45; medium, ss.406S.50; light,
ss.4o6S.5o.
Sheep receipts 5000; market steady
to strong. Lambs, s7o0@s.s5; ewes,
s4oo66.oo; wethers, s4.5o170o.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, May Butter-Extras
2Tkc: frsts. 26Gz6kc: dairy extras,
CSC; dairy firsts, 24c
Eggs-Firsts, 1sNc; ordinary nrsts,
1890.
Cheese TWINS 13h1f3%c; Young
Americas, lax @14kc.
Potatoes, s06S5c.
Live poultry Fowls, 16n161sc:
ducks. l6c: geese, 9@1oc; spring
chickens, 30@S5c; turkeys. $50.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, May 2s.Flour mar.
ket quiet
Pork market quiet. Mess, se1.5o@
1900.
Lard market easier. Middle west
spot. s11o5611.15.
Sugar. raw. market steady Centrifu-
gal test. s3.27Gs.3o; Muscayado SO
test. $2.7T62s0.
Sugar, refined, market firmer. Cut
loaf, s5.o5: crushed s4.95; powdered,
S4.20m4.30; graduated, s420@4.a0.
| Coffee Rio No. I on spot, 11%c.
Tallow market inactive. City, &c;
country. 5M @6ssc.
Hay market easier Prime. $f.02h1
I07ta; No. 3, 65@s5c; clover, 50@
500.
Dressed poultry market firm. Tur-
keys, 15@26c; chickens, 1s12Sc;
fowls. 15@19kc; ducks 1870.
| Live poultry market unsettled.
Cheese market firmer. State milk
ommon to special, 12@17c; skins
common to specials, 5@10c: full
skins. 25a@4c
Butter market quiet. Receipts 1922
Creamery extras. 2sK @2skc; dairy
tubs, 25@2sc; imitation creamery
flrsts, &c.
| Egg market quiet. Receipts 29,125
nearby white fancy. 22@25c; nearby
mixed fancy, 2o@22c; fresh. 2O@2sc.
New York Money Market.
| NEW YORK. May %. Money ON
! call, 2A percent.
Six months, Az percent.
| Mercantile paper, 5a percent
Bar silver London. 2Tssd.
Bar silver New York $3.50.
Demand sterling, s4.ss.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
ICE PLANT FAST
Being COMPETED.
Arteaian Well Drill is now IFS Feet
Below the Surface After
Digging for
Week.
CONSTRUCTION SIMPLE
Method of Making 400 Pound Cakes
Effective and Assures
Ice Of Splendid
Quality.

In less than month. one OF the
best equipped artificial ice plants in
this section of the country will be
completed and in operation in Keo-
kuk. The plant now being construct.
ed by local interests at the corner of
Eighth and Johnson streets is taking
form rapidly and steel workers have
about finished the huge steel tank
construction This vat or tank.
more than fifty feet in length and
over thirty feet wide. 1t is built Oh
quarter inch steel and is five feet
high.
The same principle that applies to
the freezing of Ice cream In cans e~
plains the method employed in freez-
ing the artificial ice product. Cans
or containers, four feet long, twelve
inches deep and two feet wide will
hold the water which is congealeu
during the twelve hour process. The
cakes will be of the same dimensions
as the cans and will weigh 400 pounds
each The capacity Of the plant per
day will be seventy-flve tons. 1t takes
| half day to freeze the water and
| during the process, both salt ano
ammonia are employed to some extent.
Well Getting Deeper.
The artesian we'll at the rear of the
| ice plant is being dug by Hagerty and
Skog, contractors. Since commencing
the drilling operations week ago
yesterday. the plunger has reached
IT'S feet below ground level. 1t viii
be several weeks yet before the well
is completed as it is necessary to go
seven or eight hundred feet below
the surface before the right quality
of water Is struck.
| The steel vat which will contain
the water cans and coils, is being
constructed by workmen from the
/ Missouri Boiler and Sheet Iron Works
OF st. Louis, Mo. The carpentry work
/ is under contract of Emil Lindstrand
OF this city.
| When completed, the ice plant will
be one and one-half times the size OF
the plant at Ottumwa. The artificial
ice plant in that city is said to be
| one of the best industries in the
place and the Keokuk concern will be
even better.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
St. Louis Live Stock.

EAST ST. LOUIS. May 23.-Cattle
receipts 900; market steady. Texas re-
ceipts 400; native beef steers. $3.50
800; cows and heifers s4.50@S. so:
stockers and feeders, $5.25G7. so;
Texas steers, s5.25@7.75; COWS and
heifers, s4.0oG7oo; calves Gear lo.s)
$5.00@6.50.
Hog receipts 10000; market SC low
err Mixed and butchers. sS.550s.70:
good to heavy, ss.65@s.7o; rough,
$79odS,1o; light sS.60@S.7O; bulk,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
Peoria Grain.

PEORIA, H.. May 2s-Corn Mar
ket unchanged. No. 2 yellow. 5sc;
No. 3 yellow, 57s4c; No. mixed, 5sc;
No. 3 mixed, 57%c.
Oats Market AGhc higher. No.
3 white, 39c: No white, ss@ss4c;
standard, $500.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO, May 30. Hog receipts
$4,000; market slow and lower. Mixed
and butchers. ss.s5@8.s2; good heavy
sS.20@S.55; rough heavy, sS.05@S 20;
light, ss.4oGS.e2; pigs, s6.50@S.3o.
Cattle receipts 1900; market
steady. beeves, $7.106s.s5; cows and
heifers, s3.s0@T9o; stockers and feed.
ers, s5.s0@s.oo; Texans, ss.75@7.7o;
calves, $7.25@1o.00.
Sheep receipts 5000; aearket
strong. Native, s5.25@S.o0; western,
s5.so@s.oo; lambs, s5.7S0Iso; west
ern, s5.75@765.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-23
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK. May %. Money
call, 2a percent.
Six months, 41s percent.
Mercantile paper. 5h percent
Bar silver London. 2Tssd.
Bar silver New York, $3.50.
Demand sterling, $4.s6.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
NEW CURRENCY SOON HERE.

The new currency act is so nearly through the
Senate that it is as good as through. The final vote
may come early today. 1t will not take long for
Senate and House differences to be roned ont in
conference; and then President Wilson may enjoy
his holiday which he has deferred until his big tariff
and money programs should be out of the way.
Some statesmen seem to be sincere in their pes
smistc attitude that after the currency goes
into operation there will not be pleasant holiday
for business men as for Mr.. Wilson. But the new
currency law isn't going to ruin the country. It isn't
perfection and nobody would seriously maintain that
it is. But anybody could seriously maintain that our
present currency system is in many ways the per-
fection of badness. Yet even that system hasn't
ruined the country.
We are going TO weather the faults OF the cur
rency measure, the faults Of the tariff and other
faults of political policy and principle Even poll
tcans with both feet in the grave ought to b. able
to remember what good old weather ship ours is.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
ovERsHOoTING THE MARK.

The manner in which our Congressional over
lords are reforming the District, is deciously sug-
gested in rider that was attached to the District
appropriation bill, dealing with the public schools.
Il reads:
in connection with the public cshools to solicit
receive, permit to be solicited received on any
public school promises any subscription or donation or
money other thing of value from pupils enrolled
in such public schools for presentation of testimonials
or for any other purposes.
On its face, proper provision But the school
authorities construe it to forbid members of the
faculty supervising and aiding in the activities by
which the pupils raise funds for athletics, for the
vacation Fairgrounds, and like interests Without
the cooperation, supervision and administration of
the faculty, these activities would be impossible.
This is the testimony of teachers, principals and
pupils alike, and is demonstrated by experience of
the past
Several thousands of dollars are raised annually
through these efforts, for various purposes none of
which could reasonably be criticised. The people
are glad to help. On the highest public school
authority it is said that to make this provision into
law would probably put an end to athletics in the
schools as now conducted in an organized way. and
also would end the raising of the Thanksgiving fund
which is raised by the schools and turned over to
the Associated Charities. Most of the money in
this fund is devoted to purchase of shoes for poor
children in the schools.
1t is difficult to believe that our Jealous Con-
gressona supervisors intended to go so far. But
that is what their proposal would actually do.
In the small as well as the big business of Dis
trict legislation, if would be well to have some mod
crate understanding of effects before causes are
put into operation
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
INEQUALITIES THAT DEMAND ATTEN.
TION.

The discussions of the inequities of political rep
resentaton, during the sessions of the Republican
national committee, brought out little that new,
but great deal that needs iteration and reteration
until receives attention The patry conventions are
not representative of the party strength at all, and
have not been for many years. The distribution of
representation is arbitrary, and will merely be less
so under the plan that the national committee had
adopted.
Mr. Warren of Michigan stated it as monstrous
thing that certain State sent delegate for each
LOSS Republican voters and another State sent one
for each 103o3. This equivalent to saying that
in one State Republican voter had about ten times
as much voice as voter in another State.
Maryland give this record a rub for honors.
In the nomination of State officers and in the nom
inaton of United States Senator'S if the county unit
system is also applied to that, voter in Calvert
county will have eight times as much voice as
voter in Baltimore city; voter in Charles or ST.
Mary, six times much; voter in Somerset or
Talbot, four times, and one in Caroline three times
as much.
These are the conditions which, in State as we'll
as National affairs, make it plain that the real reme
dy is in the primary election. New York's legsla
ture has recognized the situation by passing a pr-
mary law which eliminates entirely the nominating
convention 1t will be good deal harder to elimin-
ate the national nominating convention; yet Pres
ident Wilson favors going so far as that and there
is good deal of support for him. The primary in
which the individual voter gives expression of his
opinion without any delegation of authority to
Intermediary delegate, IS the system that insures the
people direct action and exact results in line with
their purposes. That is why the primary is going TO
be made the national method of party expression.
Most of the States which have no primary laws now
will get them between now and 1916. That is more
apparent as result of the national committees meet
in even than was before. Two-tirds of the State
legislatures will be in session this winter, and the
primary will be at the front in every one that has
not heretofore passed satisfactory statute of this
kind.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
CRISP BILL AND SELF-GOVERNMENT.

The Times is in receipt of number of letters,
of which the subjoined one is typical. These COM
munications, bearing the current discussion of
District fiscal relations with the Federal Government
indicate that the writers somewhat misunderstood the
provisions and purpose of the Crisp measure Here
is one such communication:
December 1s 1918
Editor Washington Times: 1t. is my under
standing that the Crisp Bill" would repeal the Organic
Act Snch being the case it would become necessary
for Congress to give the D. of c. permanent form of
government. IT, therefore, the Crisp BilI will secure
to sef-goyernment, property owner of the
District of Columbia, am willing to pay increased
rate of taxation Further would like to add that rents
ir the n OF g. have been lower a result of low
rate and will be higher result OF increased
most cities An Overwhelming majority OF the people
OF the L. c. renters who wish for sefgovernment
feel that The Times is therefore entirely out OF SYM
paty with majority of the people Of this District in
criticsing the Crisp Bill" Very truly yours,
FRANK Z. MANNING,
2134 FIagler place. n. W
Mr. Manning assumes that the passage of the
Crisp bill would make it necessary for Congress to
provide new form of government for the District,
and that that form would be sef-government, which
he believes the public wants.
But the Crisp bill doesn't do that. 1t takes away
the Federal contribution, without providing for self
government There is nothing in it to assure tnat
any further change would be made.
Passage of the Crisp measure would simply mean
that Congress would go on controlling the expenditure
of District revenues while it would cease contributing
any of them. The people of Washington would have
double burden to carry, and no voice in determining
how their money should be spent.
Perhaps Mr.. Crisp has in mind to propose some
selfgovernment project in future; it is understood
thai he has But the plan has not been brought for
ward as yet Nobody knows whether it will be good
or bad, or such as the community would desire, or
such as Congress would pass.
The only thing in sight is the Crisp bill to double
- rden Of District taxation. l'G0uld be hard to
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
CHARACTERISTIC ASSAULT.

Congressman Mann was entirely right when he
declared that in the last two years he had no
piece of constructive legislation for the District of
Columbia formulated, pressed and passed by the Dis
trict Committee, but on the other. hand had OBJ
served it devoting its time and energies to negative
and destructive measures.
That of course has been the grievance of Wash
Johnson became head of the District Committee.
The Crisp measure is typical piece of destructive
legislation without the promise of reconstruction
to follow. ..s...... ..
Whatever may happen in the initial considers
ton of the Crisp bill by the House. the measure will
not become law without having appended to it some
fiscal plan that will take the place Of the now
in force. President Wilson has been quoted as fa-
vorable to very generous participation by the Ma
tional Government in the maintenance and appro-
pirate development of Washington. If the present
method of getting at that participation and fixing its
measure seems arbitrary, there is yet to be urged in
its favor that has been tested by the experience Of
a generation, and been found on the whole the most
satisfactory plan the Capital has ever known
Washington has had good many experiences
with shifting forms of government and changing
processes of administration. Under the present sys-
TEN, it has enjoyed the one long, continuous and
notable era of development and improvement that
its whole history has seen.
That, assuredly, ought to be weighed well be-
fore change shall be careslessly or nconsiderately
made. 1t may be conceded that the fundamental
scheme of Washington's Government is not ideally
American. Yet the Federal Government cannot we'll
make itself subordinate to sovereignty that is
really subordinate to it. That would happen if the
Federal Governments physical establishment were
in State The Federal District plan
makes the nation supreme here.
But among the different plans which can con-.
sttutonally be undertaken in Washington the pres
ent one has produced the best results. There
will be no dissent on this proposition The regime
of legislative assembly and Shepherd brought i'm
mense debt and reckless administration. Things
were started in the right way of physical improve
ment but at frghtful cost. The actual development
has been wrought under the present SYSTEM and that
system deserves to be judged by its fruits 1t has
made Washington of the most beautiful cities
in the world. Compared with the costs of accom-
plishing anything like comparable results in other
cities it has been done very cheapy in Washington.
The light that is brought to bear on that state
ment, the more manifest will be its fairness.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19

conceive more dangerous performance than to pass
that BILL a,a trust to luck, the future, and the
certain processes of legislation to supplement it with
something that might be expected somewhat to take
the sharp edge off the injustice.
Mr.. Crisp is proposing to empty the Districts
pocketbook. He may intend to hand us back the
empty wallet later, but he hasn't thus far made plain
that he intends to do even that much
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
Most Any Time.

- HE scene is set.
A country road. trees. sky,
! summer homes, a lake In the
distance. A steam railway line
crosses the road at right angls.
Enter, up the road. an automobile.
well loaded and running at high speed.
Enter at the far right an express
train.
Both automobile and train are rush
ing toward the crossing.
Owner Of automobile. to chauffeur.
"Can you make it?'
The chauffeur. speeding up: Sure /
can make it!' II
He aSesn't-Cley1lAnd Plain peaIer,
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
oUIBBLING OVER TRIFLES.

\ contributor writes in inquiring
whether the expression 'the hen sits
is correct English. He thinks it should
be "the hen sets"
That is merely splitting hairs. The
really big question is tchen yoH hour
the hen cackle, tohether it has "Luit' or
simply "lied."
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
ELEVEN
A Widow.

widow with four small children. the oldest .
rosycheeked little girl Of years. youngest
fine, healthy baby boy. This IL q splendid mother.
devoted to her children. to whom she has given
cellent care. The mother is not able to earn much
toward the support Of the children, they all
80 young and Eeed her constant care Three brothers
who are all haTd-working with large families,
are taking from their meager incomes TO pay rent
and buy fuel for their needy sister. To keep this
dtions. IS week. or $3.50 year 10 necessary. S10o
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
TWELVE
White Plaque,

Is family stricken with tuberculosis The father
u i'll that the ply sicans he only live q
few weeks. He has been hard working man. and
always took good Of his family. There sre Ave
children only two Of whom are old enough to work
Friends and relstives rallied around the sick man.
and they were getting on all right until the eighteen
year.oid girl had to stop work, having symptoms OF
her fathers disease The doctors say with and
proper care she recover She get the and
care. but her mind can only be free from anxiety
she feels sure her family will ret suffer Four dollars
OF saving the young girl and helping the family. xsos