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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
SAFEGUARD THE BABIES.

An appeal to American mothers. to
women's clubs and to all who may be
interested in the nations social well
fare for aid in the movement to safe
guard the lives of babies, is made by
Miss Julia C. Lathrop. chief of the
Federal Children's Bureau, in her
first annual report to Secretary Wit
son, of the labor department.
Infant mortality is subj set now
challenging the attention OF the whole
civilized world says Miss Lathrop.
1T is impossible to state with accur-
acy the infant death rate measures
because tbs United States differs
from other civilized countries and
provides no general system OF birth
registration. Estimates obtained by
the government statisticians, based
upon CENSUS reports, however, show
/ that last year the actual loss was
/ about 100000 babies under one year
OF age. OF these at least half would
4 now be living had we. as individuals
and communities, applied those meas
ures OF hygiene and sanitation which
are known and available. This vast
and unmeasured loss of infant life is
due solely to individual and civic
/ neglect"
1 lnadequacy Of funds and the limit
ed number OF workers provided by
the statutes creating the Children's
Bureau, the report said has greatly
hampered the prosecution OF the
work.
ut is obvious, " the report contin.
ues, that even the most superficial,
survey of the bureaus great field is
impossible with the present force. and
that in order to accomplish anything
at all it was n -csssary that the stan
should be composed OF specially quail.
fed persons"
Baby-saving campaigns In nnmer.
Gus cities and the efforts now being
put forth through them to prevent
infant mortality were highly com
msndei by Miss Lathrop. The Bn-
reau proposes to co operate wherever
possible with such movements.
4 series of pamphlets dealing wi,h
the home care of young children. be
ginning with one on prsnatal care
are now being distributed BIZ tho I'm.
reau. In these it is shown ,nat
slightly more than 40 per cent az tba
infants dying undsr one year OF ape
. In the registration area in 1911 I'D
mol I'VE 70 complete the first month
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
CEDAR RAPIDS SIGNS
WARD AND HOFER
Last Seasons Stars to Report for
Trainine-Will Hold Places in
Box and at Third.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Feb. tt
Manager Hill has announced more
additions to the list of exhibition
games to be played in this city dur
ing the training season, and the sign
ing up of two of last years stars.
The two men whose contracts for
the coming season have beer. received
by Manager Hill are Pitcher Lyle
Hofer and Third Baseman al H. Ward.
Hcfer's condition this year is reported
to be better than it was last year and
Manager Hill stated that be expects
Hofer to develop into enc of the best,
if not the best pitchers in the Central
Association this year-that is, provid-
ing he gets to going properly.
Ward is completing his course in
the Concord;a seminary OF st. Louis
and in the letter accompanying his
contract stated that he hopes to b.
able to join the team at the opening
Of the training season in April. hui
mav not be able to get here until the
eleventh Of June. Ward is engaged as
basket ball and baseball coach fol
the academy which he is attending
and this fact in addition to the fac,
that this Is his last year in the
school, may make 1t impossible fol
him to get here at the opening Of
the season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
THE RUSH OF IMMIGRANTS.

In the last ten years nine million
three hundred and seventy thousand
immigrants have been admitted to
the United Stats, and of this num-
Der more than eight millions arrived
at the port of New York. says Howe's
Monthly. The government collects a
head tax of 81 from each immigrant,
and this fund has accumulated until
there is now surplus OF eight mil
lion dollars.
The immigrants arriving at the port
! Of New York are taken TO Ellis IS
land, where the government main
tains a great establishment for their
I accommodation. Certain persons are
excluded as immigrants. The feeble.
minded, the physically unfit. Grimm
ais, etc, and others who may become
a charge on the government. or harm
4 it in various possible ways. Immi
grants are fed while being held fol
inspection, and the food is fairly good
but the sleeping quarters are bad
First cabin passengers in arriving
ships are not bothered much. excep,
by customs inspectors, but there is a
stricter examination of second class
passengers. and very strict one o.
immigrants. Ths bulk OF the arrivins
immigrants are OF strong peasanr
stock. and do not have much trouble
in passing the inspectors. Many O
=. them are recruited In sora,o, -
tries by agents of the steamship com
panies, who visit villages and tell tn,
; people of fortunes to be made in pros
porous America. The business o
bringing immigrants 10 this country
!. even at the low rates, is very prof,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
ELECTRIC RATES
WERE DISCUSSED
Burlington Men Say They Have as
Cheap Tariff as
ANY.

At a meeting in Burlington yester-
day OF the Commercial Exchange
further discussion of electric rates
was resumed The question was dis
cussed freely and Keolzuk rates were
discussed at this meeting In compari-
son with Burlington tariffs. The fol-
lowing is from the Gazette:
A question was raised as to wheth-
CT II would be sale to state publicly,
that the rates in vogue in Burlington
were as cheap az in any Of the other
river cities and 1t was stated positive
IL that 1t could be so advertised. The
Burlington rate is cheaper than the
rate in Buffalo and is exactly the same
as the Keokuk rate with the single
exception that here there is cheap
er minimum.
Milton BIaul inquired as to the
truth OF the statements that the rate
in Keokuk was cheaper before the in.
staliation OF the power dam than aft
er. He was answered by the secre.
tary reaeing the two rate cards show
ing the old rate - have had maxi
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
THE MATTER OF CANAL TOLLS

THE MATTER OF CANAL TOLLS.
Notwithstanding the express decla.
ration In the Baltimore platform that
the Democratic party favored canal
tolls exemptions for American coast
wise ship lines, the official head of that
party, and likewise chief executive of
the nation, President Wilson, has let
| 1t be known that he now believes it
the duty of the United States not to
give such favor to its own trade. but
on the contrary It is In honor bound
to insist that all nations are placed on
the same trade basis with reference
to the use OF the great waterway at
the 1sthmus Of Panama. To this end
ne would have congress at once re-
peal the existing Law providing the
coastwise exemptions. AS vet his
reasons for taking this stand. incon.
sistent with his party's prediction
pledge, have not been officially stated
and are the subject Of mere surmise
That serious foreign relations that
might involve the peace OF the world
have to do with his stand is int;mat.
ed by some OF his defenders. How
ever that may be, 1t remains to be
seen whether majority can be found
In congress for the repeal of the cana,
tolls act
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
|PROPONENT TAKES
STAND IN CASE
Mrs. Mathilda Wright is Questioned
In Will
Case.

The Laumann will contest case
continued today with the proponent.
Mrs. Matilda Wright, on the stand.
Mrs. Wright occupied the stand most
of the time.
Mrs. Wright's testimony was inter
rupted to hear the testimony Of Ole
Nelson. He told that he remembered
a conversation with Squire Laumann
in which he remarked that his son
had received all that he was going to
get, that there would not be another
cent coming to him.
Efforts on the part of the contest
ants attorney to have Mr.. Nelson re
peat other parts of the conversation,
were met with the answer that the
witness could not recall or did not re-
member what else was said at the
time. He also admitted thst some of
knowledge as to certain events was
from hearsay.
The case may not be completed be-
fore Thursday Judge Hamilton sum-
moned the remainder of the jury not
serving in this case this afternoon at
s::45 o'clock, and at that time prom
Used to tell them when to report
again.
The case of William Baynard was to
have come up this afternoon at 200
O'Clock. 1t was necessary to postpone
the trial. however, owing to the Lau-
mann case.
The Laumann case is attracting
quite a crowd. A number of the spec
itators are from the rural districts and
lneighbors of the participants in the
suit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
FLOWING az HORSEPOWER.

The growing use of mechanical
horsepower is gradually driving the
faithful Dobbin from the farm. 1t al
so is doing great deal to solve the
hired man problem. Two. three and
four wheeled gasoline machines. most
of them operated by one person, are
no longer seyen-day wonders in farm
ing communities AS yet, however.
they are not common sights, and
changes and i'm. ,rovements are con-
stantly being made
A number of motor p'ows are now
on the market. All of them do the
work of one horse and some are the
equal of a four horse team The
plowman rides on Tome as the plow-
ing proceeds, while with others he
has to walk behind, just as he had to
do with horses. Motors from five to
thirty horsepower are in use. These
mechanical plows. being smaller.
lower and more tractable. have proved
great improvement over horses in
stirring the soil In orchards, where
Gre must be taken not to scrape the
sides or break the limbs of trees.
The disk, the harrow and all other
attachments are hooked up off the
ground while the motor plow is en-
route to the field, and the operator
rides as matter of course to and
from work. The new horseIess plow
never goes where it ought not to go.
as in the days Of horses. the motor
does not get tired and it can be left in
with sense of security during the
dinner hour.
Then there are various makes OF
gas tractors. One is controlled by
reins. just like a horse, and some
times the farmer forgets and shouts,
Whoa" A certain ball tread tractor
which has motor Of fifty-five horse
power does the work of eighteen
horses.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

able, and ship managers frequently
quarrel over it, and cut rates.
Some days the arriving immigrants
at Ellis island number more than I'VE
thousand In case an immigrant IS
refused admission to the country for
any reason, the steamship company
bringing him ovsr is compelled to
take him back. Immigrants are close
ly Inspected by the steamship Off
Gals before they are accepted as pas,
sengers. as they are always confront
ed with the possible necessity OF
carrying them back. and feeding them
during the voyage. Formerly great
many Germans came to the United
States, but now the immigrants main
ly come from the Italians.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

mum charge of fifteen cents and a
minimum OF ten cents and the new
card as having maximum OF ten
cents and minimum of two cents.
The reason for doing away with the
commercial rate here was explained
by comparison with the two charges
that we're once made for gas. Gas
used for Illuminating purposes was
costlier than gas for cooking. The
reason for the difference was given
to be that the light is used at night
and the cooking gas is used in the
day time.
With electricity It is different. Both
the home lights and the lights in the
business houses are used at the same
time and there was said to be no de-
Tense for the difference in the rates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
s1zssT lS an s5EsiD
sEoKUKlh
xeokus, Iowa February II, 1914
THE FIRST VALENTINE.


took a nickel that earned an bought
valentine,
The incest one that could buy an
Gee, but 1t was fine,
All fixed with lacey paper an with lit
tie hearts an things,
An cupid in the center with pretty,
gauzy wings.
/ hid it In my 'rithmetic. SO no one
wouldn't see,
An slipped upstairs when ! got home,
as still as could be.
practised for half an hour, / guess.
to write her name,
For when / use pen the letters never
look the same.
Cause some stands straight an other
ones is always on the slope
But by-an.by copied 1t upon the en-
velope.
It. was a fancy envelope an 1t looked
awful pretty,
When had written Helen Brown" an
her address, an City"
An then | stamped and sealed it, an
quiet as a mouse,
slipped down to the mail-box on the
corner near our house.
An though the pudding cook had made
was just my fav'rite kind,
couldn't eat my dinner with that Sc
cret on my mind.
An | was so excited after dinner,
daddy said.
II think that boy has played too
hard-he'd better go to bed"
didn't go to sleep. ! guess, for most
an hour or so,
But laid there l. the dark an Kept a.
wondering: will she know"
Next day most everything vent wrong,
y RI was so fidgety
In school my teacher shook her head
hundred times at me!
But afterwhile our spelling ar 'rith-
metic was done,
An 1t was noon an ran home as fast
as I could run
hen | got there my mother she Just
grabbed me at the door,
An Rugged an kissed me harder than
she ever lid before;
Her cheeks was pink as they could be,
an how her eyes did shinel
She laughed an cried an whispered,
Mother got her valentine,n
i wonder how she knew twas me
next year I'll send another,
For there amt any sweetheart good as
just a fellows mother!
National Magazine
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

This is an age of wonders. Scarce
| ~ anything seems impossible now
adays. In London one day last week
Marconi. the wireless inventor, made
the announcement that he had sue
ceeded in lighting an incandescent
lamp at distance of six miles by the
use OF a wireless current. The bulb
was connected to the receiver of an
ordinary wireless station. He hopes
that his success may be the forerun-
ner of the application of wireless for
the transmission of lighting, heating
and power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

being sought by the Santa Fe TO Va
set this or to pay for the damas0
which will accrue. Should thu Wa'e.
AFFECT the foundations 1t would mean
an expense OF thousands OF dollars y
rebuild the foundations and sink them
down to bed that would insure :
solid basis for them About sow
has been spent In making tho MI ~.
the new main lines and the site -.
the new reading room. and put iol
thu above reasons the filling OF th'
entire yards would start this sprins.
With tbs filling Of the yards all ne
buildings Will have to be raised roil'
three to four feet, which will invoiss
considerable money and labor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
BIG UNDERTAKING
TO FILL YARDS
Power Company Pays Santa Fe
Large Check for
Work.

That the filing of the Santa Fe
yards will be an enormous undertake
ing is evident by the large sum OF
money paid to the Santa Fe by the
Power Co., to defray the expense of
the work, says the FIT. Madison Demo-
crat President Ripley OF the Santa
Fe made the statement to a represen-
tative of the power company in Fort
Madison short time ago that check
for $53T 900 had been received by the
Santa Fe and that all the arrange
ments had been completed for the
work.
Since this transaction took place It
has been found that the seepage
watsr, after the stage OF the river is
raised to the highest level, will in ali
probability affect the foundations of
the buildings and some provision y
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

France is considering the enactment
of law prohibiting the reception or
emission of wireless telegraph signals
by amateurs. whose activities are par
ticularly disturbing because the tele-
graph is a government monopoly. The
operation of private machines is con-
stantlv gaining. Perret Maisoneuve.
who has written an important work on
the subject, says 1t will be impossible
to enforce such law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
How IL Your Boiler?

Il has been stated that a mans
stomach is his boiler. his body is his
engine and his mouth the fire box. Is
your boiler (stomach) in good working
order or is 1t SO weak that it WIFI not
stand full load and not able to sup
ply the needed energy to your engine
body? II you have any trouble with
your stomach Chamberlain,s Tablets
viii do you good. They strengthen and
inylgorate the stomach and enable 1t
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

| The Sioux City Tribune has issued
what it is pleased to term a 100000
edition. 1t is a special worthy of a
city of 100000 population. 1t is re-
markable to what expense the daily
newspaper goes to issue special edi-
tons that will attract people and
which go to fifty represent their COM
munities. The work on the Tribune's
special was most excellently perform
ed and the business men of that city
certainly supported the effort in
most worthy manner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

Mr.. Borah may not be the greatest
statesman that ever lived, but he has
q grasp OF the political situation so
far as the progressive party is con
eerned, that is as impregnable as
Gibraltar, says the Quincy Wing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

The Adams express company has
announced its quarterly dividend at
S.5o share, reduction from SO.
The decrease was charged to the act.
I've competition Of the parcel post.
IN one Connecticut town, winsted,
this company obtained the contract
70 carry the mails from the station
20 the postoffice, opening new feld
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

A total of 2,s27,eo7 head of hogs, or
"a per cent Of all the hogs In the state
of Iowa, persisted of cholera last year
According to reports to the iowa state
college the money ,oss was nearly
s40,00o,00O
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
non,t You Believe II.

Some say that chronic constipation
cannot be cured. Don't you behe'e
1t. Chamberlain's Tablsts have cureu
9th rs-why not you? Give them
trial. They cost only a quarter. fos
sale nv all dealers. Advertisement
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

The treasury department has recoy-
cred s1,25 lost thirty years ago. This
will partly Offset the loss of revenue
caused by the change in tariff partly
but not altosether There will stll
be a balance of hundred million or
so to make UP.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

The Saint Louis Globe-Democrat
says; Since the new tariff law went
into effect fully 25.ooo,o0o pounds of
meat have come into the United
States from Australia, and the price
has not been reduced on a single
pound of it"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
THE ONE THAT WON

The Des Moines Capital has FIST
closed what the editor is pleased to
term a Walt Masonism. contest the
prize being awarded to the one who
composed the best prose poem IN Tho
Walt Mason style. The followinp hy
1aeA rewards was awarded first prize !.
AfRoPoS OF THE WATER WAGON
NY wife has quit her naggin. The
reason, you know. I'm on the hip
wnlte wagon that's filed with Hao
no more now am placing INV elbow
on the bar; instead my frame is grac.
ing some goodly church bazaar Wban
comrades yell. Lets liquor,. to me
across the way my eyes dom even
Kicker as | walk DER and say: "Old
scouts. I've cut out boozing.. no more
am bum. Each night now | am
snoozing unoccupied with rum. No
more will go sneaking up alleys 10
my home with breath that's fairly
Ireeking and whiskers full OF foam. No
more you'll see disclosing itself upon
my map an optic black reposing. Ny
wife and don't scrap. I've quit the
brimming bucket, I've cut the foaming
can; to save the shining ducat hence
/ forth will be my plan. No more will
old Judge Binkler consign me unto
jail, I'm on the big white sprinkler
that's filled with Adams ale.
JACK EDWARDS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

The weather OF the past few days
is APPLY characterized by the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil as real "he" winter
weather.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

Where there IL life there is hope,
and Kin Hubbard has noticed that
where there is hope there is a quack
specialist
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

A Photographer has suggested that If
this radium agitation does not end. the
name OF the state will hav, to be
changed to Coloradium.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
THOUGHT FoR The DAY,

For as the heavens are high above the
earth,
So great is his loving kindness toward
them that fear him.
Psi. 103:11.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

Trains leave from the Union dem.
Berths and tickets. Fifth and Jobn.ss
streets.
sOUTHBOUND.
xNo. IL. st. Louis, west and
south, leaves ........ s.a,,r
xNo. 8. st. Louis west and
south, leaves 1a.as..
mo. 40. K. & W. to Sedan, G.
B. & K. G. to Carrollton
ases .................... 8:lsan
xNo. 4, st. Louis. west and
.,, noa,n' leaves ............ l:s,pa
Kansas City. st. Louis.
raves .:............. s:4oDu
NORTHBOUND.
xNo- Z. st. Paul and points
WesI. leaves ............. 2:3sau
xNo. 1S. Burlington, Chicago
and points west. leaves -. .7:4spu
NO. 8. Burlington. Chicago
ana cas-. leaves .......... l:4opn
mo. /. Burlington and Chi.
cage. leaves ............. 7:26an'
mo. 81. Mt. Pleasant branch
leaves 3:3opn
No. 5. 4. & W.. Sundays only.
leaves 7:a5pm
no. s. 4. & W., leaves...... s:1opm
mo. 4. from x. & W.. arrives l:l5pn
No. 90, from Mt. Pleasant
branch, arrives ........... IL: 45am
NO. 2, from K. & W., arrives s:1opm
No. s. from K. & W.. Sundays
only. arrives .......... 1:55am
xDaily. Daily except Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

to do its work naturally. Many very
remarkable cures Of stomach trouble
have been affected by them. For sale
by All sre.-Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17

Read The naily Gate CRY.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-17
Toledo. Peoria and Western R.Il.,s
6. q. 4 Q. RAILWAY co.

Trains leave from the Union o4,,.
Berths and tickets. Fifth and Joaa.s. y.
streets. \
The Newark journal., 1914-08-21
TEST WELLS MAY
 SOON STRIKE OIL
Interest in Oil Prospects in Sul- phur Rock Region Grows as
 Drills go Deeper

The work of sinking the two test wells for oil a few miles west of here in the Sulphur Rock neighborhood is progressing rapid ly. One of the wells is now about 800 feet deep, while the other is about 1000 feet deep. Both wells are being sunk in the same neigh borhood, but by different parties.
 A company was organized near ly three years ago financed by To- cal parties and three or four citi- zens of Little Rock. This com pany is now sinking its second well, the first hay ing been wreck ed when about 1900 feet deep by an inexperienced man attempting to shoot 1t with nitroglycerin.
 Substance taken from this well for several days prior to the time when 1t was wrecked would burn readily when lighted with a match producing a blaze similar to the ignition of tar. Geologists who came here made a favorable re- port and work was commenced on the second well, which is now about LOGO feet deep.
 A few months ago a company of Indiana people became interest ed and before 1t was generally known that another company was in the field the Indiana people had secured leases on about 10000 acres of land. In a few days an- other and a much better outfit of drilling machinery was unloaded and drilling was commenced by the new company. This we'll is now about 500 feet deep. Many believe this company Is owned and financed by the Standard Oil Go.
 Both companies are reticent concerning their operations, but 1t IS believed that the next 50 days will bring decisive developments.