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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
STILL STICK TO SUBSIDY.
Backers of the Old bill Will Open
the Campaign with q
New One.

OF course, Senator Frye is still con-
WINGED that the ship subsidy principle
is sound, and that it was wisely en-
bodied in the bill introduced in the
last congress. But we believe that
there are more people who disagree
with him than there ever were be-
fore. The Hanna-Frye-Payne bill is
admittedly dead. And the men who
drafted it and pressed it as vigorous
ly as they knew how have been forced
to lay it aside in favor of another
one that they hope may be less OBJ
jectionable to the people. So the
campaign will begin again with the
opening of congress. What the new
bill is we do not know, but it is safe
to say that if it is satisfactory to
the interests that have been so clam
orous for subsidy it will be objec-
tionable to the people. More and
more they are coming to oppose the
whole subsidy principle, and to OPP
pose It strongly. And their opposi-
ton is something that the republic
an leaders had better look out for.
That there will be vigorous fight
against the new bill is of course
clear. Republican senators and rep
resentatives and able republican
newspapers throughout the west are
known to be hostile to the proposed
gift. Anyone at all familiar with the
feeling in this region realizes the
danger involved in pushing this
subsidy scheme on an unwilling and
protesting people. It is known that
there would have been a very respect
able republican vote against the sub
sidy bill in the last congress If it had
ever come to a vote. And there is
reason to believe that it would have
been acted on in the senate had it
not been for the fact that the bills
republican enemies almost openly
countenanced the democratic flibus-
ter against it. We think that the
situation is growing steadily worse
for the subsidy people. Senator Frye,
who seems disposed to judge public
sentiment by the sentiment of the
people of Maine, is apparently I'M
able to understand that the OPPOSE
ton to his measure throughout the
west II almost as strong among re-
publicans as among democrats. Yet
such is the fact.
The popularity of reciprocity, the
belief that the tariff must come down
and the favorable view of the move
ment against imposing tariff duties
for the benefit of trusts are all SO
many indications of the growth of
the opposition to the policy of tax
ing one set of men for the benefit OF
another set. Thus the ship subsidy
proposition is in direct antagonism
to the prevailing tendency of the
times in the matter of taxation. In
stead of more subsidies and discrim-
mating taxes, the people want fewer,
and they are convinced that the time
has come to tighten tax burdens
rather than to increase them. And
when they belieye-and on the best
of evidence-that the ship subsidy is
demanded by few rich men who are
already doing a large and profitable
business without 1t, there is little
chance Of converting them to the Frye
y;au -Indianapolis News (Ind.).
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
A SOLEMN AFFAIR.
such Was the State Dinner Given by
the First President of the
United States.

William H. Egle, of Harrisburg, Pa,
has an interesting manuscript written
by his great-gra ndfather, William
Maclay, who repre- sented Pennsylvania
in the first senate of the United States,
writes the Washington CORES pondent
of the Chicago Record-Herald. 1t gives
an amusing description of a state dim
ner at the executive mansion when
George Washington was president and
New York city was the capital of the
United States. Mr.. Mac,ay says:
"The company were: President and
Mrs. Washington, Vice President and
Mrs. Adams, the governor and his wife,
Mr.. Jay and wife, Mr.. Langdon and
wife, Mr.. Dalton and lady, perhaps his
wife; and Mr.. Smith, Basset, myself,
Lear and Lewis, the presidents two
secretaries. The president and Mrs.
Washington sat opposite each other,
in the middle of the table. The two Sec
retaries one at each end. n was a
great dinner, and the best of the kind
that ever ! was al. The room, how
ever, was disagreeably warm. First
was SoaPs AiSHs anu DOl1C0s
meats, game, fow,, etc. This was the
dinner. The middle Of the table was
garnished in the usual tasty way with
small images, flowers (artificiaD, etc.
The desserts were, first, apple pie, pud-
dings, etc, then iced creams, pud-
dings, ETC.; then watermelon, musk
melon. apples, peaches, nuts.
"It was The mos; solemn dinner that
ever sat at. Not health drank,
scarcely a word said until the cloth was
taken away. Then the president, taxi
ing glass of wine, with great formal
ity, drank to the health of every in
dividual round the table. Everybody
initiated him, charged glasses, and
such buzz of health, sir, and health,
madam, and thank you, sir, and thank
you, madam, never had heard before.
Indeed, i had liked to have been thrown
out in the hurry, but got little wine
in my glass and passed in the cere-
mony.
"The ladies sat good while, and the
bottles passed about, but there was .
dead silence almost Mrs. ashington
at last withdrew the ladies. Iexpected
the men would not remain, but the
same stiffness remained. The presi-
dent told of New England clergyman
who had lost wig and hat in passing
river called Brunks. He smiled and
everybody else laughed. He now and
then said sentence or two on some
common subject, and what he said
| was not amiss. There was Mr.. Smith,
who mentioned how Homer described
Aeneas leaving his wife and carrying
his father out of burning Troy. He
had heard somebody Il suppose) wit
ty on the subject, but if he had read 1t
he would have said Virgil. The presi-
dent kept fork in his hand when the
cloth was takenaway, 1 thought for the
purpose pickingnuts. Heate no nuts
but played with 1t. We did not sit long
after the ladies retired. The pre- side n
rose, went upstairs to drink coffee, the
company followed. Itook my hat and
came home"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
wealthy Bachelor suicides.

St. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 2.-An Esther
vile (Ia.) special to the Dispatch
says: Henry Bouck, a wealthy bach
elor farmer, committed suicide at
Gruver, Iowa, early in the day by
hanging himself. Twelve thousand
dollars in bank drafts and $55 in
money were found on the body. It
is estimated that Bouck was worth
over 100000. No cause is known for
the deel
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Cost of ohio Campaign.

Columbus, o., Dec. 2.-The state
ment filed by Treasurer Burdell, of
the republican state campaign COM
mittee, in compliance with the Gar
field law, shows the cost of the late
campaign to have been $62,304.54. The
receipts of the committee were $780,
500, of which amount $1,000 was con-
tributed through Senator Hanna and
$1,000 through Senator Foraker. The
chief items of expense were $16,o9S.94
for printing, $11 ,25s.s2 for clerk hire,
$4,000 for plate matter and $500 for
postage. The report of the treasurer
of the democratic state committee
shows expenditures amounting to $12,-
mn
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Noted scuIntor na,a

Reading, Pa, Dec. DIR. Herman
Strecker, sculptor and entomologist
of worldwide fame, died here Satur-
day, aged 65 years. He was so years
in gathering his superb collection of
butterflies, which contains 100000
specimens, the largest collection in
America and upon which he expended
500 OOn
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

that alternate Fridays be set apart
to consider pension legislation instead
of every Friday, as at present. Mr..
Hepburn, of Iowa, offered as an
that the rules be adopted
for 40 days, when they shall be brought
before the house for consideration.
This started debate, which lasted dur
ing the afternoon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Amount of Defalcation.

st. Louis, Dec. &C. G. Knox. presi-
dent Of the stock yards bank at
East ST. Louis, stated Saturday that
he was satisfied from he che cking up
OF the banks books. as far as the
process had goae, that The discrepancy
in the accounts Of Theodore Duddles-
ton, Jr.. HE assistant cashier, would
come within $4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
LATEST SPEECH OF Mckinley.
The conr.e of Ohio Democrats VIII
Make Things Warm for
Republicans.

The last speech Of President McKin-
ley-the speech ne delivered in Buffalo
created sensation In free trade Eng
land that was remarkable. The read
ers of the Observer have been told
how it was printed in full and COM
mented upon by English journals.
Ohio democrats have taken up the
Mckinley utterance. What repub-
licans choose to call reciprocity" is at
least departure from the high tariff
protection theory. It is a retreat, 80
far as it goes.
In the opening Of the Ohio campaign
in Bucyrus, Col. James Kilbourne, the
democratic gubernatorial candidate,
declared that the democratic principle
of tariff for revenue only had been
adopted by the republican party, too,
by the late President Mckinley. He
made the declaration while arraigning
the republican party for trust legisla-
tion. His words were:
1.-THE death knell of the high protective
tariff. which is robbing the many for the
benefit Of the few, was sounded by Pres
ident Mckinley in these words: The Pc
Rod of ,exclusiyeness is past The Amer
ican people will proceed In the direction he
pointed out, and will continue to go for
ward until the true and perfect reciprocity
advocated by the democracy is established
in trade with all the nations of the earth,
unhampered by tariff restrictions, except
ing such as may be necessary for the pur-
pose Of revenue only"
Ohio will be hot state during the
next campaign.-Utica Observer.
Undismayed Subsidy Grabbers.
The statements which have just
seen the light that American capital
lists are negotiating for the purchase
OF another whole feet of merchant
steamships in England and that every
shipyard in this country is as busy
as it can be and that nearly all of
them are preparing to increase their
capacity and that many of them are
building ocean liners for the foreign
trade will in no degree lessen the
activities of Payne, Frye, Hanna and
the rest of our great statesmen who
are so oocksure that there will not
be ships enough to do our carrying
If congress does not vote some &c.
100000 year from the public treas
ury to secure them. They expended
all their sweat and eloquence last
year after Commissioner of Naviga-
ton Chamberlain had reported that
our shipyards were more busy than
they had been before since the be-
ginning of the civil war and that
they were building steamships for the
foreign trade without receiving any
bonus from American taxpayers.-Chi-
nago Chronicle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Robbers Plans Fail.

Lima, o.. Dec. 2.-Saturday morning
about one o'clock robbers broke into
the Lake Erie g. Western ticket office
at Button, IA miles east of here, and
attempted to kill Night Operator
Greer. AS the robbers broke through
one door the operator ran through
another to the freight house. The
thieves fired number of shots at him,
then made their escape before cracking
the safe, which was undoubtedly the
object of their visit.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Leave. Popu1i.t Party.

Boise, Idaho, Dec.2.-United States
Senator Henry Heitfeld, of this state,
has addressed a letter to d. H. An
drews, of this city, chairman Of the
populist state central committee, an
nouncing his withdrawal from the pop
ulist party and his utilization with the
democra tic party.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Saved HE lite

81 feel owe my life to Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure" wrItes H q. ChreSten-
son, Haytield, Mimi. ''For three years
| had dyspepsia so bad that / coulo
hold nothing on my stomach. Finally
was confined to my bed. Doctors
aid could not live. l read your ad.
er,isement on K0dol Dyspepsia Cure
ed thought it lit my case aud com
aenced it use. ] began to improve
rom che first bottle Now | am cured
md recommend it to all Shuttle
Vnrtl DRUG Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Woman Given Life sentence

Ithaca, Mich, Dec. 2.-NIrs. Elmer
Quimby was Saturday found guilty
of numbering her two children by ad-
ministering poison and sentenced to
life imprisonment. The woman and
her husband planned to rid themselves
of the children and poisoned them
both. The husband was last week con
victed and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
S ociety wedding at London.

London, Dec. 2,-The wedding Of
Baron Tweedmouth's son, Dudley
Churchill Mari orite, and Marie, daugh-
ter of the war secretary, Mr.. Brod-
rick, at St. Georges church, Hanover
square, Saturday afternoon was a
smart society function, There were
seven bridesmaids, including Muriel
White, daughter of the United States
charge d'affaires, Mr.. White. The
presents were unusually numerous and
costly
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
James w. Allen Dead.

Bordentown, N. j., Dec. Flames
w. Allen, who was postmaster here
under President Harrison and who
was at one time postmaster of the
United States senate, died here Satur-
day, aged rs years,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
PRESIDENT As A ROO|ER.
Enthusiastic Spectator Of the An
napolis-West Point Game at
Philadelphia.
LATTER WINS GAME SCORE OF 10 TO S
Contest Between the Naval and Army
Cadets n Most Exciting One, and Is
Witnessed by n Large Party of
Distinguished officials from the
National Capital.

Franklin Field, Dec. 2.-After
most exciting contest Saturday in
which it was proven that the teams
of Annapolis and West Point were
very evenly matched the latter won
the game by score of II to S.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

ELY's LIQUID CREAM BALM is q,
II friend II d new fora. II is n.t.
.srea Tor The particular benefit -
Iierers from nasal c..afIh WHO ar,
I'd 70 an atonoizer il SPRAYING t,...
ceased tnempers. Al the healt ).
I'd soothing properties Of Cream Rat;
u. retained in the new pre- naratioG
does net CRY lp Inc secrel:ons
r!ce, incll,d;ng spraying tabe, 75u
y your druggiat's CT 1sly Brothers, II
arTen Street, lNeW York, will mall !.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Must Explain Matter..

Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 2. Mayor
Diehl has notified Philip Gerst, the
city treasurer, now under suspen-
sion pending the investigation of his
books, to appear before him on De-
cember Z, and show cause why he
should not be removed from office,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Sentenced for Robbery.

La Crosse, Wis. Dec. 2.-Dan Cron-
in was sentenced to one year in states
prison Saturday morning for admin
istering knockout drops to one John
Leonard, in saloon, and then rob
bling him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Little Girl burned to Death.

Guthrie, Okla, Dec. 2.-Near Still
wafer the five-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hollihan was
burned to death by her clothing ignit-
ing from spark from the stove, in
front of which she was playing.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Played with Mntche..

Philadelphia, Dew. e.-Nellie Kelly,
aged five years, and her ten-months old
sister, Ella, were burned to death as
the result of playing with matches
while Mrs. James Kelly, their mother,
is in hospital severely burned.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Dependent Woman Suicides.

Terre Haute, Ind, Dec. Mrs. SUI
san Mullinix, aged 30, living at Asher
vile, near here, comitted suicide at
night by jumping into a cistern. De-
spondency because of ill-health is sup
posed to be the cause.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
An Evaneeiist,s Story.

Il suffered for years with bronchiai
yrouble and tried various remedies bni
lid not obtain permanent relief unit
commenced using One Minute Coug 2
ure," writes Rev. James KirkmaG
VaDgeiisto of Belle River, I'll. Cus
&.nute Cough Gnre affords immed,.
sia relief for coughs, colds and al.
hr0at and lung troubles. For crou,
+ is unequalled. Absolutely safe. Nev.
: fails and a favorite with the chi.
.rcn. Shuttleworti Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
New Monitor Launched.

New York, Dec. 2.-The new mont
tor Florida was successfully launched
Saturday at the shipyard of Lewis
Nixon, Elizabethpcrt, N. j. The chris
tening was by Mrs. Nixon, who is ma.
tive Of Florida, .
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Received by the Pope.

Rome, Dec. 2.-The pope Saturday
received in audience Mgr. Sbarretti,
the apostolic delegate to the Philippine
islands.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
OF R.nef,r IL Won.

D. S, Mitchell, Eultord. sd: "D.:,
ng a long illness / VS. troubled viii
- sores. tried DE Wins Witch IaAr
;'ye ana was cri.d cures nil
s, an0 barns Beware OF couutei
ts.-Shnttleworth Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
Representative Richardson Nominate
ed for Speaker of the
House.


Washington, Dec. 2.-The demo-
cratic members of the house of repre-
sentatives met in caucus in the hall
of the house at II o'clock Saturday.
There are Isl democrats and eight fu-
sionists, silverites and populists in the
house. OF these members of the mi
nority 1876 were present, including Mr..
Shafroth, of Colorado, and Mr.. New
lands, silverites. Mr.. Neville and Mr..
Stark, populists of Nebraska, declined
to enter the caucus. Mr.. Hay, of Vir-
GINA, chairman of the democratic eau
Gus, presided.
Without opposition the following Sc
lections were made for officers of the
house, to be presented at the meeting
of the house next Monday: Speaker,
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee; clerk,
Representative James Kerr, of
Pennsylvania; sergeant-at-arms, ex-
Representative E. v. Brookshire, of
Indiana; doorkeeper, Charles Edwards,
of Texas, and pos tmaster, James K.
Jackson, of Alabama. The selection
of Mr.. Richardson as candidate for
speaker clothes him officially with the
minority leadership. The four places
on the house roll allowed the minority
will be filled by Isaac Hill, of Ohio,
assistant ergeant-at-arms, and James
F. English, of California; FELTON, B.
Knight, of Georgia, and Ewing Bland,
son of "Silver Dick" Bland, special en-
ployes.
Resolution offered.
The interesting portion of the eau
Gus followed. Representative McClel-
land, of New York, at the direction
of the democratic members of the
New York delegation, who had met
lust prior to the assembling of the
caucus, offered the following resolu-
ton as an expression of the sense of
the caucus:
'Resolved, That we shall promote to the
utmost of our power the removal of the
oppressive. restrictive and often-prohib-
itory features of the existing tariff. 1t has
been truly de clared to be the mother of
trusts. The tendency to create combipa-
tions of wealth establishing practical mo-
nopoles In the manufacturing and COM
mercial Industries of the United States,
ual manufacturers and merchants and
tradesmsS OF moderate or small means.
''That the tendency must undermine the
sturdy Independence of large bodies Of
American citizens and may well be deemed
the most serious menace to the moral and
political welfare of the country. The
time has come when our industries, manu-
featuring as well as agricultural, which
practically enjoy no protection for the
reason that their products are exported,
and because, whether or not duties be
levied in their favor, no competing prod
ucts can be probably imported, should be
permitted to avail themselves Of foreign
markets to the fullest extent. as they can
not do under existing restrictions Highly
protected Industries should no longer be
permitted to sell more cheaply to foreign
ers than to their own countrymen. Fit
and thorough relief can be had only by
amendment of/the present tariff act But
we shall favor such reciprocity treaties as
will reduce, even If they do not altogether
r.,'',v.. shs .sssA,E. eia4 sa1Rxaagixa AAIesF
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Decisive.

$780," said the young man who was
disposed to linger, I'VE must part for
ever!"
"oh, no." answered the fair girl,
with cold look in her eye; mot for
ever. We will part now once for all,
and have 1t over with."--Washingtou
I'm, ...., 4.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06

Candy Catharttc, cure constipation forever.
~ oSe il O. g, 9. tRils druggists refund aonsE
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-12-06
Gen. Miles Has His Own Car.

Washington, Dec. 2.-Lieut. Gen.
Miles, commanding the army, left
for the football field in a private car
attached to the regular 7:57 train
over the Pennsylvania Saturday
morninp
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-01-21

sufficient Evidence has come to
the surface concerning the oomaHc
OF the county commissioners AMI pub
fishers of The Durango Democrat to-
convince several taxpayers OF La
Plata county that proceedings should
he commenced against the commls'
sioners for malfeasance In Office,
The Herald has evidence that the
combine was talked of before bids
for the supplies We're opened or even
placed in the hands OF the commis'
sioners and from the manner in which
the bids were received. was a plain
case of intention to carry out arc-
vious understanding. No time in
the history OF the past fifteen years
have the commissioners passed H..
cal printing bid for further considera-
tion when II was plain that one bill
was lower than another. The com
missioners will be called upon to show
the people that there was no com
binc before the matter is settled
In the language OF the chairman
II would be d fool to award any
printing to the Herald II could help
H." 1t is the old story over again
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-01-21

What is said to be one of the
most sweeping freight rate reductions
ever made in the United States has
been brought about by the action of
Carnegie company in planning an iron
pipe mandatory at Conneaut, Ohio.
Tho proposed mandatory besides be-
ing the completest in the world for
manufacturing pipe is to be accessible
10 the lake system of transportation,
thus being Independent of the rail-
roads so far as obtaining iron ore is
concerned. Coke will be conveyed
ia the new works over the Carnegie
Ccmpany's own road. The finished
product Of the factory can be deliver
ed to the cities on the great lakes and
TO the Atlantic coast and foreign ports
without tho aid of railroads. The re
duotion in railroad rates Is made at
this the presumably to give the pipe
trust, which relies on the railroads
to distribute its product, an advantage
that viii deter Mr.. Carnegie from at
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-01-21

Among the interesting things dealt
with by the Wisconsin state tax com
missions report is the matter OF de
tcrminine and equalizing assessments
OF real estate. The commission has
found that the assessed value OF real
estate throughout Wisconsin averages
i.i per cent of its actual value,
Under the Wisconsin law the register
of deeds in each county y required TO
transmit to the secretary of state an
abstract OF the records of sales of
real estate. This shows the price NJ
which propery was sold and also its
assessed valuation.