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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-04-24
AUTOMOBILE LAW TO CHANGE
PLAN OF REGISTERING.

Pleasure Cars-minimum, SIS, with
additional VI per cent on value in ex-
cess Of 900.
Trucks-(Those operating wholly in
city one-third less than those operat-
ing over country roads.)
Motor trucks equipped with all
pneumatic tires:
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-04-24

l ton or less capacity, S Is year
IL ton or less capacity, rs year
2 ton or less capacity, As year
21a ton or less capacity, GO pear
3 ton or less capacity, rs year
49, ton or less capacity, 95 year
4 ton or less capacity, 115 year
Az ton or less capacity, 140 year
S ton or less capacity, 1865 a year
For each additional ton capacity
above five tons add $4,000 to five
ton rate.
Motor trucks equipped with two or
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-04-24
BASKET STORE NO. 81
Missouri Valley. Iowa
Opens Friday, April 25th. You Are Invited
ening Of This, Our Latest Store

We feel as if we were bringing some
thing worth while to your city. A live city
and an enterprise like yours which breaks
new ground only where growth, thrift and
prosperity make the pace we're bound to
join hands sooner or later.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20

work at the Y. w. c. A. recently.
The class books cost fifty cents and
the entire course of sixteen lessons
but one dollar. 1t is really an expen-
sive course of instruction. but is
being dispensed by the government
at this nominal fee as gift to the
people to help them avoid disease.
The members of the class at the
mission are enjoying the work and
feel themselves highly benefited al
ready. Miss Itchy reports this class
to be on the average with other
classes in its progress.
Miss Itchy is very accommodate
ing teacher and makes every lesson
within reach of all. The mission
class has sought to reach for most
part, the mothers of small children
among It's membership, but all other
women who may be interested are
welcome to this class. Any woman
who can read and write can join the
class. The mission is afford
ing heat and light and is proving a
very comfortable place TO meet. The
class meetings are at night, Mon.
days and Thursdays of each week.
The meeting tonight will be in room
one, on the second floor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
CITY NEWS.

An velvet pattern hats at So. IS
and $3.50. Miss O'Brien's shop.
Dance Woodman hall Friday
night Agnes 7-piece orchestra
A marriage license has been
issued to Hubert l. BoFre and Edith
IL. DeYong.
For kindling wood telephone 1s7
Keokuk Box Co.
I'm the district court T. A. Ryan
has brought suit against J. ]. Dee
gan for dissolution of partnership
and for an accounting.
COOPERATIVE Farmers Union
meeting N. ". A. hall Summitville,
Friday evening. Nov. 81. 1919. All
farmers welcome.
Dance Woodman hall Friday
might. Agnes 7-piece orchestra
Fresh and picked fish all kinds.
VIM. Ewers, 1922 Main.
Regular meeting OF Keokuk lodge
No. 106. B. P. o. E., tonight at 5
o'clock, E1ks' hall, Sixth and Bion-
deau streets Visitors invited.
The viii of the late William
Jewett Fulton has been opened and
read in the district curt. Mrs. Full
ton and the Keoiuk Savings bank
have been named joint executors.
-Puckecnetuck iodge No. 43 meets
every Friday evening at 500 o'clock
Otto Oehmingen. N. G.; W. L. Utley.
recording secretary. First initiatory
degree.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
HOME NURSING
CLASS MEETS
Young Woman's chistian Industrial
Mission Having Classes
for Colorcd Women
of City.

The class in home hygiene nursing
under auspices of the Red Cross
being conducted at the Young
Women's Christian Industrial Mis-
sion, 20 North Fourth street, will
hold its regular meeting tonight at
500 O'clock at which time visitors
are invited and enrollments for new
memberships will be received. This
class is being taught by Miss NJ.
Zichy, the government training nurse
who taught two classes in the same
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
APPOINTED TO
LIBRARY BOARD
Hubert sehousen is Choice Of City
Council to Take the Place Made
Vacant by Death Of w. }.
Fulton.
HE WILL ACCEPT PLACE
Appointment Meets With Approval OF
the Board and With General
Approval Of the
Public.
HE WILL ACCEPT PLACE

Hubert Schouten was named yester
day as trustee of the Keokuk public
library, to succeed the late ". ]. Full
ton
Mr.. Schouten's appointment was an-
nounced by the mayor and members
of the city council who made the ap-
pointment. late yesterday afternoon
Mfr Schouten agreed to accept the
place.
The appointment meets with the ap-
proyaI OF the board OF trustees. and
win meet with the general approval
OF the public Mr. Schouten is young
and progressive, and is interested In
Keokuk's institutions. OF which the
library is one Of the most important
The new trustee is member of the
Schouten Bakery company. He is a
graduate of the Keokuk high school
and is felt to be qualified in every res
pect for the office totwhich he has
been appointed.
Mr. Schouten viii take the place on
the board Of trustees which has been
made vacant through the death OF W.
]. Fulton. who has so efficiently and
painstakingly discharged the duties of
library board member during his life
time. Mr.. Schouten viii qualify in
time to take his seat at the December
board meeting.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
DIVORCE DECREE
is GRANTED
Fife Lee Cameron Becomes Free
From All Matrimonial Bonds
With Ruben Cameron-Gets
Custody Of Child.

4 divorce decree has been granted
ia the district court 20 Effie Lee
Cameron from Ruben Cameron on
the gTouuds Of cruel and inhuinan
treatment. The plaintiff has been
gfven fgII possession OF their child,
Vera Irene, and the right to remarry
within year
The petition stated that the defen-
dznt had threatened several times to
XII the plaintiff, and that he was a
cruel n3sD, and unfit to care for the
child Trey we're married at Fulton,
No, IN 1911
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
FUNERAL NOTICE.

BINDEL-Funera of the late Adam
Bindel will be held from the resi-
idence 1419 Timea street, Friday after
noon 2:30 o'clock. Burial private.
Please omit flowers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20

NOTICE TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.
The unprecedented price for pl int
paper compels The Gate City to re.
turn to the former subscription price
for short time subscriptions for mall
subscribers and the price will be
effective at once, as follows: Ore
year, $500; six months, $3.50: three
months, s1.25.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
I. O. o. r.

Members OF Herman lodge No. us
are requested to meet at Odd Eel
lows hall Friday. Nov. 81. at I:30
O'Clock to attend the funeral of our
brother, Adam Bindel Keokuk and
Puckechetuck lodge invited to attend
H j. Hit, n. G.
JOHN EISENHUTH, Sec.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20

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The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
AUDITOR PREUS
URGES ROADS
ELY TO LAKE SUPERIOR ROADS
FOR FIRE PREVENTION.

The first meeting of the new state
relief board, created by the legisla-
ture during the recent special session
and authorized to issue 100000 of
certificates of indebtedness and to
spend the proceeds, had its first meet
ing late Tuesday behind closed doors
in Governor Burnquist's Office. Pro-
posals requiring annual outlays of
more than 100000 a year toward
preventing forest fires in Northern
Minnesota were presented and may
be acted upon at an adjourned ses-
sion at $3.50 a. m. today.
The board is made up Of the gov
ernor, State Auditor ]. A. o. Preus
and State Treasurer Henry Rines.
An emergency budget of $4,000
year was submitted by w. T. Cox,
state forester. 1t included $4,000
year to pay salaries under plan to
increase the permanent number of
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY.

Matt Pertulla, farmer residing
about four miles west of town on the
Ely-Tower road, was hailed into court
Wednesday on the charge of killing
moose. The arrest was made by
Warden Heikkila who also confscated
all the meat he could discover. Per-
tulla plead guilty to the charge and
was bound over to the grand jury.
The moose was a three-year old
and has been frequently seen this
summer near the Pertulla farm by
motorists and others. He seemed to
be quite tame and seemed to make
his home near there. Several shots
were heard Tuesday evening by
someone in passing and the warden
was notofed. The meat was dis
covered hidden under some grass and
Pertulla was caught in the act of car
rying it away.
Warden Heikkila placed the meat
in storage at the Brownell meat mar
ket and on orders from headquarters
sold the same. 1t had a ready mar
ket and was sold in short time 1t
brought Is cents per pound.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

forest patrolmen to ninety-fve from
sixty-fve men: $4,000 a year for
temporary employment of 1876 patrol
men; $4,000 for pickup" labor
and other expenses of actual fire.
fighting, and $4,000 year for fire.
fighting crews. Also he recommend
ed additional allowances for extern
sion of telephone lines, improving
strategic roads, making trails and
clearing portages.
State Auditor Preus urged immedi-
ate consideration by the board of the
necessity as fire protection meas
ure of making passable two arterial
roads through the greatest remaining
timber ~belt in the state, located in
Cook and Lake counties. Favorable
action will enable fire-fghting crews
to get into those wooded districts in
two hours, whereas the trip now takes
two days, he said, and may result in
saving $10,OO0,000 of timber between
Ely and Finland and Grand Marais
and Gunfint lake.
Encouragement of telephone ex-
tensions that settlers may summon
fire-fghters with less delay was in
dorsed by the auditor.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

Herbert Hoover, the dollar-a-year
man is going home to rest. Herb is
the BIG man of this country. He
says that the cost of groceries is
coming down and in short time will
adjust themselves. And he says it
is now up to us-you and Ito bring
down the prices of shoes and clothing,
He says: Don't buy for three months
and the prices will drop" Get along
with what you have. Keep the old
clothes and shoes working until the
police warn us off the streets. But,
we will do no such thing. We will
not even ask how much but pay the
bill and then go out and strike for
more wages and shorter hours. And
60 about and howl our heads off at
the profiteers and the robbers and
the highwaymen and the get-rich-
quick cusses and all that. We can
fix our own bed and lie in it if we
viii. IN
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
NO TRAPPING IN
SUPERIOR FOREST
STATE WILL HIRE WOLF HUNT.
ERS HEREAFTER AND KEEP
THE FUR.

Carlos Avery, state game and fish
commissioner, has announced plans
to close the Superior national forest
to trappers.. State permits have been
issued during the last three years to
trappers agreeing to pay special at
tention to the killing of wolves on the
reserve. This system did not procure
satisfactory results, however, Mr..
Avery said, and will be discontinued.
Wolf hunters will now be hired and
paid for according to the number
of wolves killed. The hunters will re-
ceive the bounty money, but the pelts
will go to the state. Thus no game
or fur-bearing animals will be taken
in the national forest. The wolf
bunting will be under the joint super
vision of Federal and state wardens
How this will work out is hard to
guess. It is the opinion of the writer
however that the scheme will not
prove as popular as anticipated. There
are several Indian families residing
on the forest who make their living
during the winter trapping wolves
and other open season fur bearing
animals and during the summer act
as guides for tourists on the trips
through the forest and over canoe
routes. If their livelihood is re-
moved BY the order, these men win be
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

If capital should decide to take a
vacation, labor would take one as
well-but under far different con-
ditions. And, judging by some of
the demands made upon capital by
labor, the former could not be CEN
sured much if it failed to operate.
Capital can buy the last loaf of
bread, and labor must eat that it may
labor. What, with strikes and walk
outs the country over, small wonder
that capital is timid for it knows that
it is responsible, while all of us know
that labor is not. Capital can be
held for its acts, but labor cannot.
Capital must stand by it's contracts,
while labor can lay down its tools at
any time-and does, many times to
the great embarrassment of the cap
ital which employs them. 1t would
seem on the face of things that labor
would try to be friendly with cap
ital, for without capital there would
be no pay checks. Labor follows
where capital leads. Capital pro-
duces that which labor must have to
exist. Therefore the two should be
amicably disposed towards one an
other.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
40 men GO. OUT
AT Zenith Mine
LOCAL DISTURBANCES CAUSE
STRIKE AT THE ZENITH
PROPERTY.

Forty Bulgarian miners out of
crew of over hundred laid down
their tools and walked out at the
Zenith Monday at noon. The mine
was closed and no effort has been
made to resume operations since al
though deputy sheriffs and the local
police were on hand each morning
to furnish protection to those who
wished to go to work. Sufficient
numbers of men failed to appear
however and the mine has been
closed. The pumps have been kept
running and the water kept out.
Contrary to expectations the strike
is not connected in any manner with
disturbances in the east but is pure
ly of local nature. The men when
seen yesterday morning, said they
had no fault to find with the wages
although they were little miffed
over the contract system, but that
their main grievances were over the
bosses. Charges have been made by
the men against three of the bosses
and their desire is that these three be
removed, after which, they say, all
will be well.
Robt. Whiteside and other owners
of the property were in the city yes
terday and met with those in charge
at the mine. What the outcome of
the meeting is has not been learned
but it is the impression that the COM
pany will stick by their bosses.
Investigation has shown that all
those concerned in the strike are
young and single Bulgarian miners
all imbued with l. w. w. ideas and
possessors Of cards in the order. They
belong to the bunch that has been
meeting in one of the buildings in
the east end and to whom was sent a
grip filled with red literature short
time ago. Aided and abetted by
sundry presidents and secretaries"
of locals here and at Winton, they de-
cided to strike.
The outcome will probably be that
the mine will remain closed and the
strikinga40 will seek new fields. No
trouble Us anticipated.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
TRAIN MAKES KILLING.


The passenger train leaving here
at l 30 Monday ran into herd of
young cattle at 10 killing eighteen
of the herd. The cattle were on the
track near a curve and engineer Lou
Blake could not see them until he
was in their midst. To save the train
from being ditched he opened the
throttle and plowed through the herd.
VIM. Vuoti and John E. Porthan We're
the owners of the cattle and were
feeding them for market at their
property near ITO. The cattle were
butchered and the meat brought to
this city where it was disposed of.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

The letter of Representative r. W..
Hitchcock in another place in this
issue is concise expression of one
who was on the ground and knows
whereof he speaks regarding the re-
cent tonnage tax fiasco in the M'n5
nesota legislature. Mr.. Hitchcock,
like many others, feels that the time
is coming when the northern end of
the state must cut loose from the
southern end if for nothing more
than for self protection. We sent
our boys to Europe to fight for prin-
ciples which were a direct counter
part of the principles being advocated
and worked for by the Hun element
in the legislature from the southern
end of the state. The Miner moves
that we take immediate steps to have
the state divided. Congress is now in
session and something along this line
might be accomplished. AS long as
we are expected to pay the entire
running expenses, and all extra ex-
pensees of this great state, why, let
us cut down the territory. Less ter
ritory, less expense. If this cannct
be done, let US get busy and see that
the granger in the south end pays
some taxes for it is notorious fact
that this body of people is by far the
biggest tax dodger on the books OF
the state. "Soak the mining dist
rict" is the continuous cry of the
south end. So strong has this cry
become, that the sectional prejudiced
southern end forgets its individual
obligations to the state and the ma
ton. Look at the valuations in st.
Louis, Itasca and Crow Wing counties
as compared with the valuations in
the exclusive farming counties. One
years. taxes on mining property
nets as much money as does about sc
years of taxes on farm. Ten years
gives the mine start of about 29O
years on the farm. Let's cut the
state in two just north of the Twin
Cities.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

forced to seek other fields and the
guide proposition will become very
acute. It is to be hoped the COM
missioner will see to it that these
natural trappers and woodsmen Sc
cure chance to make living on the
forests so that their services and
woodcraft can be put to use during
the summer months as guides for the
large number of excursionists and
tourists. With the placing of Ely on
the principal highways of the country
the tourist travel will be immense
from now on and guides are neces-
sity. Along with the effort being
made to develop guides for the north
country, an effort should also be
put forth to keep what we have.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
GLEE CLUB MEETS.

The first meeting Of the Ely High
School Glee Club was held Monday.
The officers elected for the first SEM
ester were as follows:
Lillian Kannianen, president.
LaVerne Burley, secretary.
Nanny Nichols, treasurer.
Elcey Trezona, publicity.
Alice Berglund, acompanist.
Two committees were appointed by
the president, the refreshment COM
mittee and the entertainment COM
mittee. The refreshment committee
consists Of LaVerne Burley, Alice
Harri and Grace Patterson. The en-
tertainment committee is composed
Of Corrine Leino, Gertrude Porthan,
Lillian Rosenbloom and Nanny Mich
oils.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

Most certainly the workingman has
right to strike-strike for another
job if he is dissatisfied with his pres
ent one. But, in striking he has no
right to so conduct himself as to ne
cessitate the calling sout the state
troops with which to quiet him He
can 60 home like man and human
being should and not hang around
and create mile of riot and murder
on the streets. When he has struck
and quit his job, the job is no more
his. His place is not to stand with
q club or gun and intimidate one
who is satisfied to work under the
conditions the striker objected to.
Just why is it that when strike is
called, the police force is at once
doubled? Why should there be a
need for extra policemen and dep
uty sheriffs? Why does the neces-
sity come for the calling out of the
militia and the mob guns? Why
are bricks thrown and buildings and
property destroyed? Labor is SIM
ply disgracing itself and getting far
ther and farther away from its hon
orable objective. The great steel
strike now on will end with murder
and riot. Many will be shot down.
Innocent people will be killed and for
why? However labor may decry
capital, not laborer but what wants
to be numbered in the capitalistic
class. Each is striving his best to
become rich. And because of their
failure to arrive in the 12-cylinder
class, they rip up seven miles of the
plant which gives them chance to
feed their families and to hve-and
then when the -four barrel gets low,
or the walking delegate goes back to
his gilded Office, they go back to work
at the old scale and conditions and in
time breed another strike. Such fool
actions makes honest labor ashamed
Of itself.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26
TOOK EXAMINATIONS.

Merritt Helm of Tower was in the
city Wednesday for the purpose of
taking the examinations before Miss
Ellen Nelson of the local civil serv-
ice commission, for the Tower post
Office as postmaster. Mr.. Helm re-
ports that the examination was rather
stiff but that he thinks he made
good. Only one candidate has ap-
Piled for the place.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

Chief l. G. Cox and Jack Sera-
phine of the Miner force are in st.
Paul this week in attendance of the
School for Firemen and the Fire Pre-
vention Congress. They were del
egated by the Ely City council at
the last meeting to attend the con-
vention.
The Ely miner., 1919-09-26

Our sister city of Cook is just
bound to be on the map. What, with
q fine farming country on all sides of
it, now comes the word in the Cook
Newsboy that drills are after an as
bestos formation said to exist in
that section. Isaac Goodwill, the
proprietor of Goodwill's Summer
Home on Lake Vermilion has set the
drills at work on his land near Cook
, to search for the formation believed
to lie thereabouts. Mr.. Goodwill
some time since had drills on his land
looking for iron ore and it was while
drilling for iron that the asbestos was
brought to light. Cole & Mcdonald,
the well known Range diamond drill
/ men have carload or so of drilling
machinery on the ground and before
long it is believed that an asbestos
! property will be developed. The
Vermilion Range has developed about
every known mineral, save perhaps a
few. From gold and silver to graph
ite have been found and no country
in the world as we know can beat us
! in iron ore. Asbestos is most val
liable asset for any community to
! possess. 1t is a mineral product that
resists fire and has hundreds of other
uses in the arts and sciences and ev.
cry day uses where heat is concerned
Ely will wish Mr.. Goodwill and his
drills every success, for his success
will not be confined entirely to him.
self. The Range will share in any
good fortune like this coming to him
and Cook will no doubt be boosted
should any great body of this mineral
be found.