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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

this purpose Is Sl.oc 900 an additional
bulky of sl2.a0o.cQo. unless Unforeseen
demands should come. would suhstan-
italy take the nail every day to every
door in The lana.
Philippines and Cuba.
In the Phi ippins islands the condi-
tions have remained unchanged. The
service is ca.Y.i,d ON s reported 4 year
ago, and fortunately ii has thus fa.
been more than self sustaining.
The postal system established in ('u-
ba following American occupation has
given the people OF the island better
mail service than they had ever bfore
enjoyed, together with some valuable
facilities, like the money order branch,
which they had never possessed at all.
Free Delivery Service.
During The fiscal year sixty offices
We're added to the list of free delivery
offices, making the total number 195. at
which 1922 carriers were employed,
an increase of LOGS over the previous
fiscal year. The total cost of the SER
vice amounted to S14.512,l9O.
Statistics given in the report of the
second assistant postmaster general
show that at the end OF the fiscal year
the total number of inland mail routes
Was s55,329, having a length of 50o,9S9
miles. on which the annual travel
amounted TO 459. 205. l13 miles. AS COM
pared with the preceding fiscal year. an
increase is shown of l031 ROUTES. 1910
miles i'm length of routes, and 13,46O.927
miles in annual travel The total cost
Of this service vas $50, fl6,05976, ain in
crease of S2,1Ge.bl5.Ss.
.:,,s;san Nails.
Thc GueEtion OF providing postal fa-
tilities fnr the population of Alaska
which shifts ard sxatters With each
neW gold discovery. has been the sub
ject of constant consideration by the
aspal tneEt ard TIE result has been
sEat, while for obvious reasons it has
its shortcomings Il reasonable satisfac-
tory service is being furnished tine peo-
PIE of thai Territory. and the number
If complaints is surpiisingly small.
Hy reason of the discovery OF gold
fields At Cape NnWe. and the conse-
puen, influx Of regulation TO that point,
Il t3oE.;t4tt ing inpfn from Eaton to Nome
has bean estasllislsott'bS which SEMI
monthly Service is provided. .--, $500
Railway aIails.
At the close of the fiscal year there
We're 1,2Gs lines of travelling posto1i, es
in operation throughout tie country
having q total length of 11S,930 miles
and rraullils l.e services of S.T94
clerks, who in crews Travelled a dis
lance of 2o0.612.fs5 miles. The demands
upon the railway mail services required
the ure of s.65s cars and parts of cars,
twenty-five street railway cars in cities
and seventy-two apartments OH steam
boat lines III is estimated that 13.7S2-
go 160 pieces of ordinai! mail were
bundled, together With t9.s5O,1sS pack
ages. cases and sacks of registered
matter and the errors of all kinds
amounted to but one in every 1915
pieces distributed.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
SUICIDE OF A POET.
Canadian Bard Ends His Life Because Of
Fathers Disgrace

Sai"uissia baTu Ends Ills Life Because Of
Fathers Disgrace.
Quebec. Dec ll.--Arthur Weir. au
Thor OF The Snowflake, ana Other
Poems, and one of Canada's leading
poets. whose parody on "Our Lady Of
the SHOWS" brought him hattering
letter from Rudyarl Kipling, called his
VIE INTO his room the other day and
lhe: taking up a pistol, blew our. his
pfains IN her presence.
ie was a young man of great prom
IS? and a high sense of honor but of
acute sensibility, ;nd il is believed
ltiat the cause of his rash act was q;
Keen sense of the family disgrace
caused by the recent Imprisonment in
Montreal of his aged father for irreg
uiarities in the bank of which he vas
president. His own writings showed
an adherence OF anything like the de-
spalr OF the suicide. In his poem, mil
Desperandum, occur the lines:
Face the strife
,Nlld i've Your life.
We lilo coward il distra.s
u is said that among his rap.rs was
found an extract from Professor Cold
WIN Smiths recent essay OIL suicide, in
which 1t was contended that in allow
ing lrrcmediable and intoleroble shame
as an excuse Plato had perhaps named
the one thing which map pailiate real
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Brooklyn. the bedroom of New
York is to have the largest family
hotel in the world to be erected at the
corner of Clark and Willow streets,
James Breslin. who has managed the
Auditorium in Chicago and other large
hotel properties, is to run the Brook
lyn. as the new house will be called.
The building is to be twenty three stor-
les high, Will have more than LOCO
rooms. and in it 80 families can be
housed. Work will be begun the first
OF the year and the contract calls for
the completion of the hotel by October.
Its site is Brooklyn heights.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
PALeFACE HUSBANDS WANTED.
inducements Temporarily offered by I'll.
Malungeons Indians.


Nyalungeons Indians.
Cincinnati Enquirer: An edtct has
been issued by the Malungeons Indians.
who live in the mountains of Hancocx
county Tennessee, sixty Or more miles,
from Middlesbero, Ky, giving lhe
maidens of the tribe the right to choose
their husbands from the palefaces. For
merly this was violation OF one of the
sacred laws of the tribe, and the girl
that married white man was BAN
ished from Indian society. But now the
chief men have decided that the daugh-
ters of the tribe should secure pale
faced husband, and, as an induce
ment, they are offering to every white
fifty tosone hundred acres of mountain
land. The number of acres, of course,
depends on the quality of the hus-
band, and the man who comes We'll rec
commended will get a better wife and a
better farm than the man who does not
But the Malungeons only want tho
best of whites, and hoboes need not APP
ply. The applicant must be honest and
Industrious and of good character Ha,
must also give a solemn promise that
he will forever eschew the daughters OF
the palefaced nation. (which, in effect
is that he will love aid protect his In
dian wife as faithfully as he would ono
of his own race.
The Malungeons made this offer be-
cause they came TO the conclusion that
their race was.doomed and that tho
only way to save 1T was by amalgama.
ton. Continuous intermarriage among
the Indians lis fesulting in inferior
progeny. After few years. it is said
the Malungeons will return to their old
law of marriages only among their OVID
race.
The Malungeons number about $50.
They are the last of once numerous
and powerful race older than Tennes-
see itself. A tradition among them Is
that they are descendants of colony
OF Portuguese, who amalgamated with
the Cherokee Indians hundreds of years
ago. Another legend is that they are
descendants of the lost colony Of Roa
noke and the redskins. The lost colony
of Roanoke was composed of English
settlers, who made their home ON the
eastern shore of Virginia. The NAHUM
geons are thrifty farmers, and honest
and upright as a general rule. They
are brown skinned and black-haired
and have regular features.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
m'kINLeY AND HARRISON MEET
President and Ex- President Guests of .y.s-
tice Harlan,

Washington, Dec 1s.-President Nc
kinley and ex-President Harrison met
at dinner given by Justice Harlan of
the supreme court. II WAS the first
dinner the president has taken in
Washington outside of the White
House for some time past. The fact
OF his accepting the invitation to a
dinner where he would meet ex-Presi-
cent Harrison is taken To effectively
dispel reports in circulation that the
relations between the TWO have been
strained Of late.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

An old sailor, mcapaci1ated for sea
duty by age and long years of rough
service, was recently appointed sexton
of the chapel at the Naval academy at
Annapolis. The bureau of equipment
and supplies at the navy department
in Washington furnishes books as we'll
as coal and salt horse to the sailors,
and the new sexton applied there for
bible. There We're plenty of them in
the pews of the chapel. but lie wanted
one for his personal use. and specified
in iiis application that ii should be a
religious bible
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

tums, and no woman should allow
herself to reach such perfection OF.
misery when there is absolutely no.
need of it. The subject of our porass
Englishtown, Nj, has been entirely
Lydia 2. PinShams Vegetable Com
pound, and the guiding advice Of Mrs.
Pinkham of Lynn, Mass.
No other medicine has such a record
for absolute cures, and no other mcdi-
cine is ssiust as good Women who
want cure should insist upon getting
Lydia q. Pinkham's Vegetable Cons
pound when they ask for it at store.
Anyway, write q letter to Mrs. Pink
ham at Lynn, Mass, and tell her all
your troubles. Her advice is free.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Miss Rockefeller, the daughter of the
oil magnate, whom some persons esti-
mate TO be the richest man in the
world, has confessed to London In
terviewer that she is not happy, and
she told him. as he Cor she) reports,
that he might tell it to all and sum
dry who envy me-. When the as
tonished Interviewer remarked that
she was a philosopher, she said. Not
a philosopher. only thinker. 1t is pow
erty which, perhaps -aught others to
think. learned it through wealth. .
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
MRS. HossAcK WAVES EXAMINATION
Murder Case Will Go to the Grand Jury
In January.

Des Moines, Ia, Dec. 13-Mrs. Mar
garet Hossack, accused of arising
from the side of her husband, John
Hossack, and killing him with an AK on
ne n na1a Of De @a1ned l. yGsrday ct
and the case will go TO the
Warren county grand jury at the Jam
uary term of court.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
doom ELEVATOR BURNS.
Forty Cars of Grain Are Saved by Pa
ri

Forty Cars of Grain Are Saved by Pas
scnger Engine.
Doom, Ia, Dec. 13.-The grain clean
ing and Smelling house of j. Q. Adams
& Co., of Minneapolis, was entirely
consumed by fire yesterday, large
quantity of grain being burned. The
loss is several thousand dollars. fully
insured. 1t happened that just when
the flames We're spreading to house
track, where forty cars of grain We're
stored, Il passenger train came along
and pulled the scorched cars out OF the
way Of danger.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

The bishop of Liverpool has issued
new code of rules for confirmation. He
desires that girls should refrain from
the use OF long pins in the hair, as the
presence of such pins frequently re-
suits in the bishops fingers being lac
Grated during the laying on of
hands"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
COLlis tOig IN KANSAS.
a BOY Killed and a Half Dozen Men Ar

10y Killed and II Half Dozen Men Ar
injured.
Oathc, Kan, Dee. i3-,rhe norlhbounl
passenger train on the .atchison. r ..'a
and santa Re crashed into tlr rear eud
81 =. freight train 1T Clare this morning
Noble Thomas. aged lG. OF EnIioria l<ue
Was burned 10 death in the c;lDoose Tha
"hsiao"r aud fireman Of The passenger
train were seriously Injured Half Il
dozen passengers in The cahoosc werr
slightly hGrt.
Wreck in Kentucky.
Paducah, ny, Dec 1$.-The Illinois
Central, Cincinnati and New Orleans
south bound passenger train was
wrecked at Iilsiey, Ky. fifty-four mile,
above here. at 2 o'clock this morning.
Six cars were ditched. The tender
jumped the track while the train was
going fortH-fve miles ain hour. causing.
wreck. Eight passengers and train
men were hurt, two. Ed Menifee of
CoSington, Tenn, and G. H. Summons
of greensboro, Ky, seriously.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

| Des Mones. la, Dec. 13.-The con-
vention of Iowa mine operators dem
onstrated that this organization, all
though young, is. vigorous and ag-
gressive and that the Iowa operators
| feel that they have coal field and q
market such as to make them indie
pendent of other fields The Iowa OPP
| orators We're shut out of the national
association last year on the protest of
| Illinois. and this matter was one of
the first to come up when the operators
got together yesterday, although it
was discussed informally and net
brought before the convention for ac-
operators would not go TO the national
meeting, but If asked to send dele
gates would do so. The Iowa people
| do not care now whether they are rec-
ognfzed or not, since they have shown
their ability. to care for themselves.
The following officers We're elected
President-C.. H. Morris, Des Moines.
Vice PRESIDENT. r.. Rosebrook, Os-
kaloosa.
Secretary-L. L. Lodwick, Willard.
Treasurer-W. Il. Phillips, Oskaloosa
State Executive Board; First Dis
trict-Alexander Dargover, Center
willie; alternate, David Lodwick, Mys-
tic. Second District-H. l.. Waterman,
ottumsa; alternate, I. j. Phillips. Of
tumwa Third District-L. II. Rose
brook, Oskaloosa; alternate. j. NJ
Timbrell. Oskaloosa. Fourth District
j. NJ. Topper. Colfax: alternate, b. u.
Fleming. Des Moines. Fifth District
Frank Wilson, Lehigh; alternate, IT.
III. Garfield, Boone.
This board will also constitute the
scale and grievance committees to set
T tie by arbitration differences which
may arise between operators and min
| ers. The board will also act as a dele
cation to the Ottumwa state meeting
of miners ill February to fix the scale
for the next year. This meeting is to
be held in February instead of Janu-
| AIRY to await the action taken by the
national association and the Illinois
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
Child Badly scaldcd.

LeNlars, Ia, Dec. 1s-Nora, the
S-year-old daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Henry Fielder, was badly scalded by
the upsetting of a kettle of boiling
water She was near the stove when
another sister spilled the water over
her. scalding her limbs.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Political buttons cannot be worn In
'ynsda during the heat of a ca,nGpa1gTi.
This is due to ca]use In the dominion
franchise act which says that no. rer-
son shall exhibit any sign of his politi-
al faith after the official nominations
are made. If
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
sn,peryi!Io G-an,cd q niyorc.

London, Dec. II. George John som.
eryillc was today granted "a decree of
divorce against Marion s;o7,erviile and
! 80 damages against Earl Russell,
Win whom the defendant was accused
81 having committed adultery. No de-
Tense was entered.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Recent estimates are to the effect
that asphalt is being dug out of the
famous tar lakes of Trinidad the most
notable existing souce of the MAJ
'erial in the worltl-at the rate of
20 900 tons per ;annum. There are stiil
a,opo,ooo tons In sight but AT this rate
me supply could not last long were it
not that the lake of bitumen referred
to is receiving constant secretions
from the bowels of the earth.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Seventeen colokea men of Chicago
organized and haze conducted for a
year cooperative meat market and
grocery store with such success that a
cooperative department store is to be
established under their auspices. While
the patronage is largely from the coll
ored pedpsF, there are also many pat
rons Of the white race.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Long lines of Bcrnhardt- Coquelin
New York admirers or their messen-
ger boys stood patiently in drizzling
rain Tuesday for the chance to get an
early choice of single seats for that en-
gagement. The subscription sale was
success, two fiNe-seat boxes netting
$1,000 each and many blocks of the
ctusiae seats sold for the entire forty
performances. Fancy prices were paid
without a 'nrurmur
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

\ recently printed paragraph am
nonnced that the daily population of
The Equitable building in New York is
:s.l00 and that the mail averages about
1900 pieces 4 day. This record is out
stripped by several buildings in chica-
go. notably the Monadnock block
Which AT present has !, daily popula
zion of close ia If not quite 5ooo. So
vast is the postal business ut this hui
man bee hive that is was found neccs-
sary to establish on the floor branch
postofficc with four mail carriers. The
Monadnock block is 400 feet long. sew
enty feet wide. sixteen stories high at
one end and seventeen at the other and
has in all l.200 offices: In one day over
10000 persons passed through the jack
son boulevard entrance alone.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
ASKS FOR ARREST or
STATION AGENT DEAN
Representative Of Great Northern a,
Hinton Locks Up Depot
and Disappears.
is AN EMBezzLER AND FoRGER
Charged With shortage amt With Issuing
Bogus American Express Company
Orders-suppbsed to lie In the
East-Iowa News

LeMars, Ia, Dec IA warrant was
sworn out before Justice Jones In this
city by r. b. Babcock, travelling aud
itor of the Willmar and Sioux Falls
Railroad company, for the arrest of w.
l.. Dean who until few weeks ago
was agent for the company at Hinton
station. in this county. Dean disap-'
peared on November 8, locking up the
office one night and has not since been
seen. The information places the
amount of his shortage al $f1.ea. Sit ia
stated that Dean alto forged money
orders on the American Express COM
pany Ee is supposed to be in the
east, as one of the orders was recently
cashed in New Jersey.
DIES MONIES GNANDsTANDs BURNS
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

The eagles cause for thankfuIness 1.
that IT Is the national bird of freedom
instead Of being an edible fowl.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
Wreck in Kentucky.
STANDARD Oil VICTORY.

Contempt Proceedings Dismissed by Obi,
Supreme Court.
Columbus, o.. Dec. l3.-The supreme
court today dismissed the contempt pro-
ceed!ngs against the Standard Oil com
any 1he court was equally divided.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

The population OF Massachusetts in.
creased in the last ten years % per
cent, while in Maine the increase was
only per cent.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
Objection to it Being Rebuilt in Heart Of

Des. Moines, Ia., Dec. 1s.--The burn-
ing of the grandstand at the baseball
park caused loss of $4,000 to various
parties, with insurance amounting to
$l2, 200. 'fhe new auditorium, dire4,:
~. i'm front of the baseball park, nar :
fowly escaped u second destruction.
Strong objection is being made to the
rebuilding of"the cheap wooden gPai1d-
stand. bleachers, ETC., in the present
location in the heart of the business
portion because of the fire danger.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
Great Invention.

Great Invention.
Puck: THE Tammany machine is a
great laborsaying invention
Yes, indeed! 1t saves many teeley
from having to go TO work.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
c. W. FORD.
err.
IOWA
PLUMB
BICYCLE REPAID
''"ye' HAVE ). ;:

>nen. One case in particular
~aught my attention-that of an En-
glishman named aones. let us say. His
father is an evangelist, who came over
60 America several years ago. This
follow poses as misanthrope of the
most pronounced type. He associates
With nobody. and his only companion
is q little black dog. He will live for
days on bread and milk In order that
he may buy meat for his dog
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
POS MASTER GE:sE9AL
on RURAL DELIVERY
M, Smith Enthusiastic Over tie
Success Of Experiments
Made.
WOULD TAKE in WHOLE COUNTRY
Can BE Extended to All Parts of the United
states for an Annual Cost of si.,-
GOo.0no--rustnl Affairs iii
New Possessions.
WOULD TAKE in WHOLE COUNTRY

Washington, Disc. ~ Postmaster
General Smith submits his annual re-
port of the postoilicc department tc
the president for tne fiscal year end
ing Juno 30, 1900.
The iinancial operations of the dc
partment for TIE last fscal year airs
shown briefly in the following state
ment:
Ordinary restal reverue -. sloo 500 1875 A
besiness .........ss.4.... ,.,55.li5s;
acta receipts IRON an
year s..s.5 ......s..4....s..... 100 II, ~ IS
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13
National Association Shut Out Does Not
Iniurc Coal Bustness.

IOWA OPERATORS INDEPENDENT
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

Net annua, cost of rural free
delivery ...............s l3 $50 os4
II thus appears that rural free de-
iNcry can be extended practically over
the whole country ut an annual cost of
less than $l4,oo0,oo0 As the appropria
ton for the current fiscal vear for
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-12-13

this purpose Is sl,7oc. 100 an additional
bulky of Sl2aoe.cQo. unless Unforeseen
demands should come, would slhstan-
italy take The nail every day to every
Nuur IN lh.. ln,s.l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-10
THE KING OF ALL COOKS" DEAD.
From The London Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle
Another "reminiscences of the palmy days of
Napole-n III. has, says cur Paris correspondent
been cffared by the death of NJ Claude Boujat,
tie chief Of the imperial cuisines. At the Tuil-
leTies, St Cloud and COmpiegne the CheValier
B0ujat. who was described by Soyer the king
Of all cooks followed the great French tradi-
tons Most Of his pupils found their way to the
London clubs the fins becS' of the Eng
nsh aristocracy. Boujat himself cared for NTH
ing but boiled fresh beef with a little rock salt
slice 81 very UNDERGONE grilled or roast
meat. The Emperor loaded him with presents
end his later Years were spent in wealthy retire
Ient al Eitry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-10
4 DANGEROUS MACHINE.

from The Chicago Tribune.
You know / ride a very old fashioned bicycle.
rs such A good and trusty machine that / hate
Il give il up, but | think ! shall have to lay it
6side now and get a modern one"
Whats the matter with it nOW?"
An automobile took fright at it this morning
and away"