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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Fatal Hunting Accident.

Sioux City, Dec. 27.-Guy C. Moore
of Otto accidentally shot and instantly
killed himself while out hunting. His
body was found near barb wire
fence, and the presumption is that
his rife was discharged while he was
trying to crawl through the fence.
The bullet went through his left tenn
pie. He was assistant station agent
for the Illinois Central railroad. Is
years OF age and unmarried. His par
ents live at Winthrop.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

There IL school district In Reno
county. Kan. in which there is .
school house and teacher, but not .
solitary pupil. Miss Mary Scroggins.
The teacher. opens school every morn
ing, and holds herself In readiness to
instruct any children who may come,
but she Il the sole occupant Of the
building. There are plenty OF chill
dren In the district, but they attend
Z parochial school. g...-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

Mr.. J. 8. Moffat, who has been &C
lively connected with the country i'm
mediately to the south Of the Zambesi
for over forty years, first as q mis-
sionary and latterly as an Official. is
about to return to Rhodesia after a
holiday in Europe. He first went out
under DR.. Livingstone. He was resi-
dent magistrate at Taungs when the
Jameson raid took place. Mr.. Moffat
10 now sixty-flve. but he has work left
In him yet ...-.-., ..,.-. .-..
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

A certain minister In Denver occa-
donally plays havoc with his words.
IN closing . very impressive sermon
On DEATH" he said: Ere long We
viii all be called upon to shud1s OF
this cortAl moil; or. should say,
nufae on this-that Is Guile OF this
mortal-pardon me; shufne OF this
rt-{AhemD Let US rise and sing
The doxology."
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Celebrates 1o1st Birthday.

Des Loines, Dec. 21.-Noah Brock
wayB Bacon celebrated the hundred and
first anniversary of his birth Wednes-
day. Many Of his friends called on
him to congratulate him on his good
health and spirits. Mr.. Bacon was
born in Westmoreland, Oneida coun-
ty. y. z, December 10. 1899. In 1921
he married Charlotte York, and in
lS43 moved west. Most of his life he
has been a farmer. Mr.. Bacon is a
small, co1npactiy built man. His
habits have always been good.
Don't brood; a gnat of troubles
soon Becomes d cIend Of calamity. ..
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
II Il said that Formosan savages

II IL said that Formosan savages
are puzzled by an extremely simple
arithmetical problem. II two Of Their,
are to share five articles OF food, they
divide by taking two apiece and throw
Ing the fifth away. But that is not
90 bad, after all. It even shows that
they have made progress. In earlier
times, the stronger Of the two would
have dis posed of Els unesteemed con.
temporary, and appropriated the
whole. It is a movement onward and
upward when the rights OF others are
recognized aud respected.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
RUSSIA is TO SECURE THEM.

Mancllurian Railroads Will he TakeD
.,-. Over. It 10 Reported.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2S.-The Novoe
Vremya's Vladivostock correspondent
stands by the story that the Russian
government is about to take over the
Manchurian railroads. He says Com,
mander Keller has left Vladivostock
to formally deliver the roads to the
governments Representatives.
The correspondent also says the
Chinese caused losses amounting to
ONLY four million roubles.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Didn't Vote for Mckinley.

Atlanta, Co., Dec. ga contro-
versy having arisen between two At
ianta newspapers over the charge by
one of them that former President
Cleveland had voted for Mr.. Mckinley
ut the last election, the Atlanta Jour
nal today received, in reply to tele-
gram, an autograph letter from Mr..
Cleveland. in which he. says he did not
vote for President Mckinley.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
NEW PARTY IS LAUNCHED.
Meeting Attended by All the Loyal


Meeting Attended Dy All tho Loyal
Filipino Leaders.
Manila, Dec. 25.-The recently or
ganized autonomy party was
launched Sunday at a meeting attend
ed by virtually all the loyal Filipino
leaders in Manila. The declaration of
principles was read, and after some
discussion adopted by vote of 1913,
less than half dozen declining to
vote. All signed Endorsement of the
platform, including Senior Pattern, one
of the most influential of the former
insurgent leaders, whose real atti-
tude toward American authority had
been much questioned. sew.
The principal discussion was with
reference to the organiza ton of the
government of the party. A council
of twenty-five members was elected,
together with an executive commit
tee.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
CONGRESS-.

Washington, Dec. q. Senat @
business was transacted ny tlaS (
ate today. The news OF the DE- i!
Mrs. William r. Frye, wife
president pro tenn of the sens T. \
conveyed officially to the bod a. N
out of respect to her memory N
date ndiour nmcnt was taken s ~
January 8, 1901 s3 wv N
House-No business OF impOEl
was transacted and adjoqrnmen sS$|
taken till January 8. Ss5l VI
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Big Failure at 10 Mars

Sioux City, Dec. 27.-News has
reached Sioux City of the financial
failure of Barron Bros. at LeMars,
with liabilities of $4,000. The Bar
ron Brothers for several years were
i'll business in Sioux City. 1t is I'M
derstood several Sioux City and Des
Moines firms were caught in the
c;ash
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
BRIroNs PRAISE WEST POINT.

sny 1t Is Ahead of Amy Similar School
In England. .....
London, Dec. 27.-At conference
of the head masters of the great pub
lie schools one of the speakers Sc
verely arraigned the irritating edu-
cational methods the schools were
forced to employ in order to pass
boys as officers into the service. \
military correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette, criticising the Sand
burst and Woolwich methods, de-
clares the British authorities admit
that West Point is in advance of any
thing in England.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Preliminary NOTE DELIvEKEDE
Now Up to the Chinese Com mlssionsra
E-.,5...s to Make Answer. SsS

Pekin, Dec. 26.-The preliminary
Joint note was delivered yesterday
to the Chinese. Ii Hung Chang
found that he was unable to attend
the meeting of the ministers, and
his credentials and those Of Prince
Ching were presented by the latter
to the foreign ENJOYS. Prince Ching,
replying to the Spanish minister
Senior Z. J. De Cologan, who present.
ed the note, said he would immedi.
ately communicate it's contents TO
the emperor and assured the minis.
tiers that speedy reply was the de-.
sire of the court, as it felt that all:
China wants, peace and prospective.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

u. The thoughtful mother Of = little
Chicago boy sent the following note
with him 20 his school teacher: Miss
v1txxSerald: Adolph swallowed .
'Srass paddock last night. and II he has
any pain in school this morning % .
result, win you please excuse him, and
Obligs his mother"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Iowa Absconder In Canada.

Sherbrooke, Que, Dec. 2s.-W. I.
Dean, alias w. H. Carr, who, it is al
legged, is wanted at Hinton, Iowa, on
the charge of absconding agent for
the Northern Express company. is
under arrest here. A representative
of the company is expected here to
push extradition proceedings. ~
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
BRITISH CONSUL BEATEN.

Turkish Soldiers Maltrest Mr.. ID.
.--- Bunsen.
Constantinople, Dec. 2s.-Some
Turkish soldiers have grossly assault
ed and maltreated the British charge
d'affaires Mr.. de aBunsen, and other
members of the British embassy in
the vicinity of the powder magazine
at Makrike in Shapr. Demands for
redress have been made to the porte.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Mrs. Ho.sack at Liberty.

1ndianola, Dec. 2s.-Mrs. Margaret
Hossack, who is charged with the
murder of her husband, was admit
ted to bail in the sum of $4,000. The
bond has been approved and Mrs.
Hossack was able to spend Christ
mas with her family at the scene.
of the tragedy. - -. ~.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
victim Of . Dance Row.

Mason City, Dec. 22.-Tom Edmond
son, living near Clear Lake, went to
q brothers home to attend dance.
He was intoxicated and in a general
row was pretty severely punished.
Later he was found near by on a
barb wire fence, dead. The coroner
is investigating.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
HEAVY FIRE AT MASON CITY.

Explosion OF Gasoline Causes Lose OF
$4,000.
Mason City, Dec. 27.-This city suf-
fered loss of $4,000 by fire yester-
day. 1t originated in a tailor shop
by the explosion of gasoline stove.
The business blocks owned by II. f.
Francisco and j. f. Knutson were
badly damaged. Mitchell Bros. &
Cherry suffered heavily on clothing,
and J. W. Adams on drugs. A dozen
firms and Offices suffered losses. The
insurance will cover the loss.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
EMPEROR NOT WELL PLEASED.
Kwang So Wants to Retain tho Taku
Forts.

Picking, Dec. 2s.-Li Hung Chang
and Prince Ching, the Chinese peace
commissioners, have heard from the
emperor, Kwang Su. Prince Ching
called OH the former for consultation,
remaining over an hour. The court
objects strenuously to reducing the
forts, and also to allowing permanent
legation guards, which it seems to
think could be made sufficiently large
at any time it was desired to menace
the court itself. =
After the conference it was decided
to hold further communication with
the court before seeing the ministers.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
Engineer will Die.

Marshalltown, Dec. 27.-Engineer
John Norton of the Iowa Central was
strucEpn the head by blunt instru-
ment while in the cab of passenger
engine at Eldora before daylight yes
terdav. his skull was fractured and
the injury will probably prove fatal.
It is supposed to he the work of an
n,onov
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
THE COURTEOUS BOERS

Released tho British Yeomanry After
Disarming Thorn. '.
London, Dec. 2S.-The Evening
Standard says it understands that
the squadron of Yeomanry which. as
announced in a dispatch from Cape
Town, was entrapped and captured
by the Beers, whom they were follow
ing from Britstown, was released
after the men had been relieved Of
their - horses and other equipment.
len of the Yeomanry, the paper adds,
were wounded.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
$4,000 Plague victims.

Calcutta, Dec. 26.-Lord Curzon OF
Kedleston, the viceroy of India, in
the course of speech yesterday said
that, since the appearance OF the bu-
bonic. plague in 1898, $4,000 deaths
from the disease have occurred IN
the Mysore state.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
RooseveIt I.emoves an AttorneYl. q

Albany, N. Y, Dec. Ex-Governor
Roosevelt has removed from offico
Col. Asa Bird Gardner, district attor.
ney of New York county, on charges
preferred by Deputy Attorney j. H
Hammond, and appointed Eugene j..
Philbin, of the state county charities,
to fill the vacancy Mr.. Philbin is
a democrat.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
EnglIsh Again Entrapped.

Cape Town, Dec. IA squadron of
Yeomanry, which had been following
The Beers from Britstown,. is reported
to lave been entrappcd3 and captured,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28
RED.LE1rER DAY IN JOURNALISM
A Memorable Anniversary Of the Dos
MOines News.

MOines News.
Des Moines, Dec. 24.-Five years
ago tomorrow the Des Moines Daily
News celebrated it's attaining to
10000 circulation by firing ten can
non on the Des Moines river front
and feasting two hundred newsboys.
Since that time it has increased to
about 10000 circulation and doubled
its size, still retaining it's remarkably
low price to subscribers of 81 a
year, Is cents for six months. so
cents for three months. The News
Is now one of the most prosperous
newspapers in the west.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

Don't pull up on the road to sue, !:
cess and wait for the other fellow
to go ahead. #
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

When dealing withsSa crank on1
good rundown deserves another.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-28

The more shiftless the person the
greater the calamity it seems to him
to fail to see circus. --,-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01
BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING.

No man who has ever been a candi-
date for president has pandered more
directly to the vicious classes of the
United States or has given any broader
hints to the vicious classes that they
would be exempt from punishment in
case of his election, than has Mr..
Bryan
The micrOcephalous idiot who wrote
the foregoing is unworthy to loosen
Mr.. Bryan's shoes. There never was
more honest man in public life than
William Jennings Bryan, nor a man
more devoted to principle and the well
fare of his country. All the vicious
classes, all the corruptionists and all
the subsidized newspapers of the coun-
try are arrayed against him. None can
swerve him from the path of honor, and
whether he wins or loses he will ever
be remembered as an upright, con-
scientious, brilliant statesman. All the
ISLANDERS of hired character assassins
and professional blackguards in the en-
ploy of Mark Hanna cannot injure him
in the estimation of the American peo-
pie"
These are two opinions from the
editorial pages of the Salt Lake
Tribune.
Mark Hanna pays his money and
takes his choice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01
ALL ABOUT THE WEATHER.

Everybody has been talking about
the weather for a week or more. 1t
is not only a topic of conversation in
Utah, but all over the United States.
Records and thermometers are broken
every day by the sun, and the death
rate from excessive heat in eastern
cities is constantly lengthening. Here
in Utah we have the hottest June ever
experienced in the state. In other
places they are having the hottest days
ever known in any month.
An Oriental traveller in New York
the other day said he couldn't under
stand why, in a climate like this, men
should risk sunstroke in straw hat
and sWelter to death in cloth clothing.
In the Orient, men and women are
accustomed to heat and dress and
live accordingly. They have discov-
cred that a straw hat is no protection
from the suns rays and they wear
solar topis, or helmets of cloth and
cork. They wear white cotton suits
and dress for comfort in the hot sea-
son. They are not slaves to fashion.
at least. They sleep in the open air or
on top of a fiat-roofed house. protected
from the dew, perhaps, with an avn
ing. but breathing the best air stirring
and rising refreshed in the morning.
Another reason one feels the heat
more in this country than it is felt by
the inhabitants of much warmer chimes
is that the business hours are not suit
ed to hot weather. In Naples, Cairo,
Bombay and all the southern countries
the busy merchant takes his midday
siesta. Here the business man works
hardest while the sun shines hottest,
and when business lags because of the
heat he redOubles his efforts or length
ems out his days for the accommoda-
ton of customers and clients more
wise than he is
Women show more sense in facing
hot weather than men do It is a re-
lief to turn from the dark suits and
thTee-ply arm coverings of the sum-
mer man TO the refreshing picture of
the summer woman, with pink flesh
showing through gauzy sleeves as she
trips along tn. sUn-baked streets in
a light muslin gown with a portable
shade over her head and a cool disdain
for weather croal1ers in every move
and look.
When men will condascend to learn
something from experience with the
weather they will have less occasion
to complain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01
REACHED ITS FIGURE.

european newspapers and statesmen
have derived considerable amusement
for many years from the tone of the
French press in the early part of the
century toward Napoleon as regulated
by its fear of his displeasure or it's
hope Of reward. Extracts from the
Moniteur have been quoted frequently
in this connection illustrative of how its
conditions changed" and its head
lines, beginning with the announcement
of his escape from Elba, keeping pace
with his movements, and his entry into
Paris. afford laughable example of the
newspaper which claims to be indie
pendent but is in reality trucker.
The Moniteur's headlines from day to
day were as follows:
The cannibal has left his den.
The Corsican wolf has landed in the
bay of San Juan.
The tiger has arrived at Gay
The wretch spent the night at Grenoble.
The tyrant has arrived at Lyons
The usurper has been seen within fifty
miles of Paris.
Bonaparte is advancing with great ra-
pidity, but he will not set his foot inside
the walls of Paris.
Tomorrow Napoleon will be at our gates.
The Emperor has arrived at Fontaine-
bleu.
His Imperial Majesty Napoleon entered
Paris yesterday, surrounded by his loyal
subjects.
A morning contemporary surrender
to Mark Hanna furnishes an example
of histOry's repetition. Four years ago
Mark was 1.-The worst enemy of the re-
public" AT irregular intervals he was
described as follows:
The embodiment OF all that is brutal and
corrupt in politics.
The ring-ieadel' of gang of thieves and
imbecileS.
The incarnation of all that is vicious in
public life.
The slave driver who would put the
letters on 100000 people.
The uncompromising enemy of free coin
age.
The shrewdest political boss the country
has even seen.
The most practical politician in the
Republican party.
The leading statesman of the day; a
much abused man.
The greatest benefactor of the human
race.
The personification of all that is good
and great and generous.
The ideal American, the author of
Americas grandeur.
Step by step, as the French tyrant
neared Paris the humility and admira-
ton of the French press increased, and
step by step as the great Mark neared
this contemporary figure" he gained
it's support.
Long live the king"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01
The Battle of Dunbar.

In describing the battle of Dunbar, in
the July instaiment of his Cromwell study
III the Century, Mr.. Morley borrows the
pens of Cromwell and his secretary:
The English and the Scots faced one
another across brook with steep banks,
only passable at a narrow ford, and here
the fight was. The rout of Dunbar has
been. described once for all by CARLYLE
In one OF the famous masterpieces of
modern letters. with a force OF imagin-
alton, faithfulness in detail, a moral
depth, poetic beauty. that help to atone
for the perpleXing humorS and whimsical
PHILOSOPHERS that mar that fine biog-
raphy- 1t is wise for others not to at
tempt to turn into poetry the prose
OF politics and war The battle opened
with cannOnade from the English guns
followed by a charge of horse under Lam
bert The enemy were in a good posi-
ton, had the advantage of guns and foot
against IambertS horse and at first had
the best OF il in the struggle. Before the
English foot could come up, Cromwell
says, the enemy made a gallant resist
ance, and there was a very hot dispute
at swords point between our horse and
theirs" Then the first line of foot came
10, and after they had discharged their
duty (belnS OVerpOWered with the enemv)
received some repulse which they soon
recovered. For my own regiment did
come Seasonably in, and at the push of
pike did repel the stoutest regiment the
SlCiiS AdU lllSAcs WHICH proved a great
amazement to the residue of their foot
The horse in the meantime did. with a
great deal OF courage and spirit beat
back all opposition, charging through the
bodies of the enemy'S horse and of their
foot; who were, after the first repulse
given, made by the Lord of hosts as
stubble to their swords. The best of the
enemyS horse being broken through and
through in less than an hours dispute
their whole army being put into confusion
II became total roUt, our men having
the chase and execution OF them near
e5-ht miles"
such is the whole story of this mem
0rable hours fight as told by the victor
RuShWorth, then CromWeil's secretary. is
still more summary. About twilight the
general advanced with the army and
charged them both in the valley and on
the hill The battle was very fierce for
the time; one part of their battalion stood
very stiffiy to 1t. but the rest was present.
ly routed. I never beheld a more terrible
charge of foot than was given by our
army, our foot alone making the Scots
foot give ground for three-duarters of q.
mile together.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01
At the Paris Fair.

katharine De Forest, in Harper's BaZar)
This day Of the opening, SOusa's band
is installed on platform by the side Of
the pavilion. Half of the United States,
10 speak raShly, you would say, is group
ed around it. l cannot imagine more
amusing crowd. Perhaps fifty invitations
at the most have been issued Those who
came early got into the building Every
body else, with true republican simplicity,
stands and waits, and l hear one eX-
patrlated pair of cOloniStS, father and son,
wondering whether they viii recognize
the ''Star-Spangled Banner when they
hear IL. A woman next US evidently has
friends at court. Ii you see the United
States consul" she says every time any
one of the elect with a ticket goes by,
please tell him I'm here and he must
find some way of getting me inside. >"
Time passes, but she still stands there A
stout female at my right is not pleased
with the pavilion of the United States.
Just look at that little bit of an Italy,
she says. 'Buildin' three times as big
as ours. Now, don't ours just look mean
by the side of itI' The Colony" IS there,
Longing, laughing, banteTing. as though
1t were a garden party; and New York.
at once SOusa's band strikes up that
thrilling, magnetic air, La MdrseillaiSe.''
Then, as by one impulse, all the men IN
cover and the women slightly bow their
heads. What and where is that strange
chord in all of US, born of whatsoever
nation we may be, or under what sky,
which never fails to vibrate when any
one sounds to IL the note ''father-land" +?
There is a moments hush, and then as
Sousa'S band breaks into 'Oh, say can
you see, by the daWn'S early light" there
is a half-suppresSed "Ohr' of emotion.
pavilion OF the United States is inaugu-
rated.