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Arizona republican., 1914-03-17
HAS A PARTNER

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Arizona republican., 1914-03-17
CRESSWELL IN TOMBSTONE

O. N. Cresswell, state inspector of weights and measures is now in Co., chise County conducting his quarterly inspections. Tombstone, the county seat was under the eye of the inspec- tor Vasterdav
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
First TOWNSHIPS IN IOWA.

The county Of Dubuque as original
" established In 1884 comprised all
that territory to which the Indian title
had been extinguisned, lying west OF
the Mississippi river and north of a
line drawn due west from the lower
end of Rock Island. All the territory
south Of this line, north OF the state
OF Missouri, and extending westward
to the Indian country was included in
the original county OF "Demoine." The
peculiar feature about these counties,
however, is the fact that their bound
aries conceded with those of the frs.
townships established in the Iowa
country. Dubuque county contained
but one township, which received the
name of Julien" while "Demoine"
county was identical in area with a
township known as Flint HILL"
while these townships of Julien
and Flint Hill have occupied an i'm
portant and interesting place in Iowa
history says Dr. c. A. Aurner in a
History Of Township Government IN
Iowa." recently published by the
State Historical society OF Iowa,
they appear 20 possess the dfstinc-
ton also Of being the first townships.
established west Of the Mississippi
river.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
GREAT RUSH TO IOWA.

In looking through old newspaper
files a member of the research staff
Of the State Historical Society OF Iowa
found in a paper published in Wis
consin the following account OF the
great rush OF settlers to Iowa during
the summer of 1854:
There Is a ferry across the Mis-
sissippi some i've miles below here
called Junction Ferry and ferry
plying between the lower town OF
Prairie du Chen and MacGregor.
There is still another ferry here
which plies between our upper steam
boat landing and point below the
mouth Of the Yellow river, called the
Upper ferry. Each Of these ferries
employs horse boat, and is crowded
all the time with emigrants for Iowa.
Sometimes the emigrants have to en-
camp near the ferry two or three
days to await their chance OF cross
ing in the order of their arrival. They
come in crowds a mile long; they
come with wagon-loads Of house1tx-
ings, with droves Of cattle and focks
of sheep-they come from every land
that ever sent adventurers westward.
and the cry Is. still they comet"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
sALT,Nc TIMBER.

It was found in replacing recently
burned railroad trestle along the
north shore of Great Salt Lake, Utah.
that the piles were sound after 43
years Of service. These were Of local
pine and Ar, but were found to have
been impregnated with salt from the
lake.
The result of this investigation is
what started the U. S. forest service
on its recent examinations of the use
of salts as a preservative of timber.
At another point on the lake, some
1sin. piles, 20 years old, have been
similarly preserved with salt which
has penetrated to the center. Tim
hers in the. Southern Pacific R. R.
trest1es across the lake, placed in
1902, appear as good as when driven
and have been preserved above the
water line by salt cspray dashed upon
them. The first transcontinental tele-
graph line which was built before
the first railroad. extended west from
Salt Lake City through the then pros
porous mining camps of Eur ska, Aus
tin and Virginia City. When the rail-
road was built the telegraph line was
transferred to this right-ofway and
the old poles were sawed off at the
ground. A recent examination of the
butts left in the ground in the salt
desert near Fish Springs, Utah, show
ed that after the SO years, since the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
ELECTRIC FLASHES

Electricity handles the milk from
400 cows in dairy near Columbus.
Ohio.
Among improvements to be carried
out soon on the harbor OF Newcastle.
n. 8. W., Australia, is the building OF
an electric power plant to supply new
coal-loading machinery and also the
tramway system when it is electrined-
A searchlight has been installed on
an observation train Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad so that
tourists can view the country during
the night. The lamp operates from
the regular train lighting dynamo
and is effective up to two miles.
During the past summer the teie
phone company at Temple. Texas.
placed a transmitter in the band
stand at the city park and 80 arrang-
ed that its subscribers might listen 70
the evening concerts given there by
calling central and getting telephone
connection.
The extent to which wireless tele-
graph has been taken up by amateurs
is disclosed in list OF radio stations
in the United States issued by the
Commerce Departments Bureau OF
Navigation. Almost 1900 amateurs
had been granted licenses UP to July
1.
The largest electrical Matching
plant in the world is owned ana
operated by Frott Brothers. Ply
mouth, England. They have ninety
four incubators, each of about 50O-egg
capacity, and the average output Is
about 5000 chicks week. The hatcn-
ing is all done by electricity.
At recent International conyen-
ton of the Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers at Boston, Mass, resoiu-
ton for devising means to establish
home for disabled members was ap-
proved, and committees from severai
sections of the country were named
to work out recommendations to be
submitted to the general convention.
1t was announced at the recent In
ternational congress Of refrigeration
! held in Chicago that DR.. Kanerlfngh
Onnes had produced temperature pf
temperature it Is declared metals
lose their electrical resistance so that
minute wires can carry any distance
all Of the energy generated at Nj
agara Falls.
The Turner's Fall Power Company
is planning to build a $4,000 h.. p.
hydro:electric station at Montague
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

Bridge contracts let in The state OF
Iowa since January now total more
than ss50.O00. This includes only
the bridges let by contract at competi-
tive bidding, not including great
mass of work costing less than $1,000
not lie. by contract or competitive bids.
or bridges and culverts built by day
labor. BY the end OF another month
enough bridge lettings are in sight to
run the total Of contracts passing
through the hands OF the commission
20 more than 81 ,000, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
JUNE.

JUNE.
There are sweet fee. upon the earth
Tonight in silver dance of mirth,
The lovely young feet of the moon
In the high dawn and JOY Of June,
Who argent on her hills of sweet
Hath felt the Jingle In her feet
And down through silver streets OF
dew
Brings moon and stars and mirth 70
you.
What wings are so Of floss and spun
In looms of laughter and of sun,
But hers, who on ner aerial fight
Puts back our darkness with her light,
And all our earth SO fair and green
Turns into such sudden sheen
OF mystic beauty that we say
Please God, tits first of June today!
Oh, IL she be maid or no.,
Or mistress, mad with dreams forgot,
/ ask no hour more fine than when
She sails the silver moon to men,
And brings from back of moon and
sun
The joys Of Edens just begun,
So fresh, so fair, so sweet, SO fine
Miss June. delicious and divine.
Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
NEW HOUSES AND HEALTH


New houses are constantly offered
for rent in large numbers In the
United States and real estate agents
are naturally anxious to fill the
houses on their lists with tenants as
soon as possible. Probably little
investigation would show the desir-
ability In this country Of requiring q
certificate that a new house will not
endanger the health Of its occupants
bsfore families are allowed to move
into it. Such municipal regulations
are proving valuable In Englind. To-
ward the close OF 1912 the Portsmouth
(England) corporation decided that
thereafter no new building intended
for human habitation in that borough
should be occupied until it had been
certified as sanitary in every respect.
DR.. A. Mearns Fraser says: 1.-THE
principal eyfl that It will prevent IL
the occupation Of houses before they
have had time to dry" He adds: Il
would far sooner live in house with
defective drainage than in damp
house; the results from the latter are
more insidious in their onset and
more difficult to overcome. Dampness
undoubtedly greatly favors the Incl
dence of consumption. bronchitis,
rheumatism, heart disease and 6fph-
iberia Probably children are more
susceptible to the i'll effects OF damp
houses than adults" The depart
m .nts of health of our cities might
well take up this question, says the
Journal OF the American Medical as
ISOLATION. Probably most American
municipalities already have the legal
power necessary to require such GER
tifcatas and the question is only one
of making the regulation and estab-
fishing the custom.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

City, Mass, within the next few years.
The initial development will total
90, 900 h. p. and is to be completed
early in 1915. The plant will cover
half an acre Of ground and will
utilize water from a canal 1.5 miles
in length, requiring the excavation OF
soc, 900 cubic yards Of material, OF
which 100000 cubic yards Will be
rock excavation from ledge 30 feet
to so feet deep. William B. Durant
is in charge OF the engineering for
the Turner's Falls company.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
THE CHINESE ECO.

Since, under the democratic tariff
law, Chinese are shipping eggs into
this country to compete with the
American farmer, great interest has
been manifested in the activity among
Chinese egg shippers.
The egg business in China mas tax
en- on such activity under the demo
cratic tariff law that United States
consuls are making reports on 1t to
the United States government. Al
bert w. Pontius, American consul al
Marking, reports officially that a big
egg factory at Marking is about to De
completed so as to begin operations
this year. He says that Chinese eggs
are either sold in open market OF
collected by interior agents ana de-
livered to the factory or to the ex-
porter.
The important egg producing dis
trict of China, he reports, comprises
the yellow river and the Yangtze
river provinces and that the season
OF greatest production is from Feoru-
ary TO May. He says there Is local
desiccated egg factory at Marking
which purchases eggs much below the
market price He says this factory
paid from efgh. to ten cents dozen
for eggs last October.
For local shipping. Mr.. Pontius
reports that eggs are packed IN bam-
hoo crates with sawdust or straw DE
asys they are canned at Nanking ana
Hankow by foreign corporation ana
shipped to Europe. He says he Is
informed that all grades OF eggs ana
Iii kinds OF domesticated fowls are
used for this purpose Refrigeration
service. he says, can be obtained from
CHINA to the United States The
Hankow factory mentioned above
Teens in operation through the year
nv handling game. poultry feathers.
beans and skins.
The American consul reports tnat
workmen in these egg factories re
ce,ve about ten cents day. thus max
inc Il clear how the Chinese are able
- ahfp eggs to America and compete
r,ttb American farmers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

Louisville and Cincinnati papers
have posted on the front pages pic
lures OF George H. Alexander OF Paris,
Ky, prosperous looking person,
gloved, tiled and tailored. The occa,
sion for the display is the fact that
Mr.. AlexanGer's private bank is closed
Mr.. Alexander is under arrest and the
depositors are out at least $250.00O.
Pictures of bankers are very enter
tanning to depositors under such cir.
cumstances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
DIRECTORY OF USEFUL MINER


Every city has a directory of its in
habitants, giving the names OF wage
earners, and the addresses where each
may be found. II you do not know
persons name but do know that he is
paperhanger, the classified business
directory will locate him for you. A
directory Of the useful minerals In the
| United States, on much the same
| plan, has jus. been published by the
United States geological survey. IL
you want to know where any one of
| the 400 useful minerals occurs, this
directory gives the list of localities In
each state where your mineral will be
found. If you do not know that it ia
an ore of silver or manganese, or car
ries asphalt or radium, The glossary
will guide you to it.
! The material in this bulletin is in
two distinct parts. The first part con-
sists of lists of the occurrences of
minerals in each OF the states, begin
ming with Alabama and ending with
Wyoming Under the name of each
state the minerals found in that state
are given in alphabetical sequence,
and after each mineral name is given
la list of the places where the mineral
is found The second part is a CLOS
sary of more than 425 names. Each
ifefinition is followed by list of the
states in which the mineral occurs.
The glossary is therefore virtually
an index to the first part.
Some mineral aggregates, such as
clay, granite, limestone, sand, and
sandstone, are included because they
iconstitute very considerable part OF
the mineral production Of the country
This publication should be useful to
many classes of people in many ways.
| IF some one wants to sell you stock
in a Texas oil company the report will
tell YOU in what counties in Texas oil
is produced and in what other coun
ties i. may eventually be found. II
YOUR wife wears blcodstone cavalier
the report gives you the only locality
in the United States where that stone
;s known to occur. If you want to
manufacture plaster Of Paris or neec
lime for your back pasture, this re
lport viii tell you where to find the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
The Presidents Influence a Menace

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The latest
issue OF the New York Independ snt
contains an able and timely article by
Albert Baird Cummins. 1t has direct
bearing upon the remarkable but dan
gerous success of President Wilson in
compelling congress, like an obedient
servant instead of a coordinate
branch OF the federal government, to
enact any and all legislation the pres
ident demands. This strange condi
ton of affairs is SO generally known
that senator Cummins renders a pub
lie service In directing attention to It
as a menace. It is 80 utterly at vari-
ance with the fundamental principle
OF the popular government, and SO
void OF precedent to tone down its
glaring phases, that the senator's ar.
| ticle deserves more than passing
thought
The threshold structure OF our form
of government never contemplated
that one branch should be subordin-
ate to the others, or either OF them.
They are coordinate. President Wash
ington was one Of the principal fram.
ers of the constitution. He certainly
fully comprehended the functions, the
scope and prerogatfves Of each
branch, During his eight years OF
administration neither the executive,
the legislative nor the judicial
branches attempted to infringe upon
the functions Of the others. Succeed
ing administrations down to the close
of President Taft's term, observed
the constitutional limitations. !.
But now comes q great change.
Senator Cummins says:
The presidential Office is capable Of
exercising an influence in directing
legislation which, II forseen by the
constitutional convention, or by the
colonies which adopted the work of
that convention, would have resulted
in the instant rejection OF the whole
plan. The statesmen OF the conven-
ton recognized even more clearly
than we do the necessity OF separat-
ing the three branches OF the govern
ment and of preserving, in SO far as
it was possible, the complete indepen-
dence Of each, The members Of the
convention were deeply concerned
lest the president might fall under
the influence OF congress and become
the mere tool Of that body
They fully succeeded in protecting
the president, but recent events DEM
onstrate that the rights Of congress-
were not SO well safeguarded.
/ did not conceal my apprehensions
OF the dangers that are involved in
tho complete subordination OF the
legislative to the executive power. 1t
lis full OF peril. The overthrow OF
Representative government does not
seem to have excited alarm, but the
day will come when the people OF the
country will understand better than
they do now how vital it Is to pre-
serve independence OF legislative
authority. l have neither the inten-
ton nor the desire to disparage the
president. He Is strong, determin-
ed man, and believe that he has at
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

neart the welfare or the people, Uue
unfortunately he seems to be OF the
opinion that he alone is competent to
promote the public interest. and
therefore he must exercise all the
p..erogatiyes of organized society.
So that IL mistakes have been made
they are his mistakes, and when the
voters are reckoning this year with
democratic senators and members OF
the house of representatives, they
should remember that these senators
and these representatives are not re-
sponsible for the laws they have
passed Their only responsibility lies
in their abject surrender of the pow
Iers and privileges which the consti-
,, tuition they have sworn 20 observe be
slowed upon them. and their unpatri-
otto and indefensible evasion of the
duties they have sworn to perform.
The president passed the tariff law.
The president passed the currency
bill. The president is now summoning
| all his power 20 compel congress to
repeal SO much of the Panama canal
act as exempts our coastwise trade
from the payment of tolls Tor passage
through the waterway. It is highly
probable that he will succeed In &C
complishing his purpose, for while
there is some independence still left
In the democratic majority, 1t is not
strong enough to resist the power OF
the presidential Office.
The senator discusses the remedy
He finds it in taking from the presi-
dent the tremendous volume OF public
patronage now at his disposal.
Congress will never again be az
free as it should be until we devise
some other plan for the appointment
OF the officers and agents OF the gov
eminent who are to carry INTO ef1ect
the laws which congress enacts. Tle
patronage OF any president has be
come a menace to legislative indie
pendence and gives tho executive
a power over legislation that no exc
cutive ought to possess.
The constitution gives to the presi
dent the sole authority to appoint
the officers who are to administer fed
eral affairs. Originally this was not
considered a serious matter. The
people who adopted the constitution
had no conception of our future
growth and development. The mere
physical transformation of 125 years
bewilders the most comprehensive
mind, but multiplied population
wealth and commerce do not half tel
the story of the increased activities
and powers OF the government. ! can
not even suggest the expansion which
this generation has Witnessed It has
not only added and added again to the
number of officers and employees, but
| has in geometrical ratio added to theil
importance and influence in the lives
| of the people. With the exception Of
minor employees the president selects
all these aides, and every member Of
congress, for reasons which need moi
be named, Is highly concerned In tbs
selections that are made.
To use the familiar term, it Is pat
Tonnage, and 1t has become a menace
20 the free action of the congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

Save all the dimes you get and when
you have ten OF them, go and start a
savings account. Then keep right on
saving. and every time you have ac-
cumulated ten dimes, put them in the
bank. Don't just think about i, do it.
Be game, don't spend your dimes,
save them and put them where they
will draw interest, They will count
up faster than you think they will.
Try it. This is the good sensible ad-
vice given by The Ottumwa Courier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

Saturday. June 9Th, 1914, the Bur
1ington Hawk-Eye was seVenty-nVe
wears old We do not know what
mind of newspaper it was before we
were born or for considerable time
after we arrived, but within our recof
lection it has been one OF the best IN
the state and ranks high in Journals
tic ranks. Under its present manage
ment It has prospered and deseryedly
so: II is clearly printed, cleaniy
edited and clearly managed. Here's
wishing the Hawk-Eye seventy-fire
years more of the same Kind OF eolt-
sing and managing as it is receiving
today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

Even Democratic papers are admit
ting that business is bad and men are
idle. The New York Times has made
the statement that Sin the middle
states there are a million idle men
with an average loss of $4,000 day
An wages As an instance of this,
lin Chicago, i. has been proposed to
,nnr,nriate million dollars to re
nieve idle wage earners.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

| Nicola Marschall, said to have de
signed the flag of the confederacy
and the gray uniform as well, is still
hale and hearty at the age of 81. AT
the time the war began he had a
studio at Marion, Ala, and on re-
quest painted flag design, following
which came the details for the uni
!. form. He is still a resident OF the
soutll
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

Before her marriage to Vincent
Aston, Miss Helen D. Huntington re-
nounced her dover rights in the vast
Astor estate, which has been the Gus.
tom in every instance when an Astor
marries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

!, The primary is just another means
FOR splitting up parties into cliques
land factions which are lead by one or
two men and when these one or two
oct toeether. they can accomplish
everything in the way OF graz that th'
supplanted nominating plan was
capable of. The old plan at least
didn't leave the soreness that IS ap-
narent after a primary, says the Ut
tumwa Courier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

gypsum. and gives the location Of your
nearest limekiln.
All this information has been COM
piled by Samuel Sanford and Ralph
w. Stone and condensed into $50
pages. A copy Of this report, Bulletin
SIS, may be obtained free on applica-
ton to the director OF the United
States geological survey, Washington,
10. CT
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

A distinguished foreigner tarrying
in New York does the customary gal
liant act by pronouncing New York
women very beautiful II the d. T.
would move into the middle west and
observe the charmers of Omaha and
Council Bluffs, Dundee and Florence,
South Omaha and Benson, his stock
OF superlatives would be unequal to
the demand. says the Omaha Bee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

4 1t is said that there is an old man
in North Adams, Mass, named Bur-
dick, who was drafted in the civil
war, who was never discharged from
the service and is now entitled from
the government to fifty years pay,
(which, including rations, would
amount to $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07
senior yictoriana Huerta,

Senior victoriana Huerta, wife OF
/ the, present ruler of Mexico, comes of
one of the most prominent families in
lt.,e republic, the Aguila family. She
lis said to be very wealthy, and all
fwho have met her in her own home
I have been charmer with her grace
and affability.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-07

F. r. Peabody of New York, is as
tonishfng Santa Barbara. CAL, by
moving 15-year-old orange grove,
tree by tree from that city to his
new home on the summit of Eucalyp-
tus Hill. five miles distant.